I have to agree. I recently replaced the recessed flood lights in my kitchen with high-quality LED lamps. I previously had a variety of CFLs and one incandescent straggler, and the new LEDs look better than *any* of them.
A "fan site" whose domain name is owned by some corporation
Corporations are just groups of people freely associating with each other.
in Panama?
Property rights are a fundamental human right. It doesn't matter where you are located; you have the right to your own property.
Spin it any way you like, the good doctor wants to use an arm of the UN to confiscate other peoples' property by threat of force.
A much better way to resolve the problem would be by using the free market: There are trillions of DNS names still available on the free market for only a couple of bucks per year. He should just pick one and be happy that he obtained this new property without resorting to coercion.
It's apparent that you don't know the answer to that question.
Ruby is a safely typed language. It happens to use *dynamic* typing, but it checks those types at runtime nonetheless. Static-typed languages try to do the same thing at compile time.
Type-unsafe languages, such as FORTH, do not check types at all before operating on them. If you provide the wrong type of operand to a call, you get garbage output, but no error is raised unless you cause a CPU-generated segfault.
That's the attitude that I'm talking about, and it's bankrupting this country.
Except in times of large-scale war or financial panic, the government needs to collect taxes to cover its expenditures. If balancing the budget raises taxes enough to be painful, then people will demand reductions in spending. That's the only way you're going to actually shrink the government.
Instead, people like you demand tax cuts first. Well, cutting taxes is easy; they've done it again and again in the past few decades. Cutting actual government spending is hard, because no matter what you cut, you're taking away someone's entitlement. So what we get is a stalemate that generates endless deficits, with no solution in sight.
There are two undisputed points on the Laffer curve 0% and 100% both return no money in the medium and longer run.
Whoa... that's a keen insight, Einstein.
The shape of the Laffer curve is in some dispute
You don't say!
As I pointed out, the problem is that those who believe in a mythical shape that only seems to have a right-hand side have set our tax policy for the last 30 years. With disastrous consequences for our nation.
We need millions of taxpayers, especially small businesses to not only refuse to pay their taxes
Not necessary. The system has already been rigged by propagators of the Laffer curve myth so that the government collects only a small fraction of the taxes necessary to pay for its operation. So you're already not paying most of your taxes.
Yep, one of the great things is that even though the US and Western Europe have decided they don't want you being productive in their country, there are still countries out there that are much more free.
It's easy to be "free" when the companies in question aren't actually IN your country. The government-provided services the freeloading companies depend on are paid for by the non-dodging taxpayers of the countries in which the business actually operate.
Businesses make money by charging people for scarce resources. IPV6 addresses are in no way scarce, so why would they invest any money in that?
With NAT, they can keep making money the way they always have with minimal additional investment, and they can make even more money by offering dedicated IPV4 addresses to people who pay extra for some kind of "platinum premium plus pro" plan.
People who really care about cockpit entertainment will go through the trouble to have aftermarket equipment installed. This was true 40 years ago and it's the same today.
That's true. Decades ago, I bought an old Ford pickup truck that had come factory equipped only with an AM radio. Some previous owner had addressed the problem by bolting a combination 8-track player/CB radio transceiver under the dash (I kid you not).
In one step, they had solved both the mobile communications and media storage deficiencies of the original model, while at the same time definitively reaffirming the that vehicle's legacy as a product of the 1970s. And no firmware upgrades were required.
It still can be extreme conditions, based on where you leave the car parked. You're expecting a cheap high capacity big-box-store-grade hard drive to operate correctly after being: Parked in the sun all afternoon in Arizona: that's probably +140F. Or parked overnight in an Alaska winter: that's probably -40F. Or parked for years on the Gulf Coast at near 100% humidity. Then you expect it to keep operating while the car's heating and A/C rapidly change those conditions.
That's a tall order. These drives already barely work in a climate controlled household environment.
I think your calculation is off. I pulled up one of my favorite utilites, GNU units, to figure out what performance level that is. (This program takes a lot of the guesswork out of dealing with measurements when you live in a country full of Luddites.)
You have: 3.3 mph/s You want: m/s^2
* 1.475232 <-- this is the actual number
You have: 3.3 mph/s You want: gravity
* 0.1504318 <-- That's about 1/6 G
You have: 60/3.3 You want:
Definition: 18.181818 <-- Zero to 60
You have: sqrt(.25 mi / ( 0.5 * 3.3mph/s)) You want: s
* 23.354968 <-- Quarter mile
When you're talking about chemical compounds, the term "organic" has a very specific meaning, regardless of whether you're currently inside a lab or who you're talking to. This is the meaning used in the article summary.
If you were talking about a head of cabbage, then "organic" would have a very different, specific meaning, once again regardless of lab setting or listener.
the only statesman willing and able to see past the next election was Ron Paul, and US voters fucked up their chances to vote him into the presidency multiple times'
That's because voters realize that while budget deficits are bad, putting crazed hard-core libertarians into power and turning this nation into a banana republic would be much worse.
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I have to agree. I recently replaced the recessed flood lights in my kitchen with high-quality LED lamps. I previously had a variety of CFLs and one incandescent straggler, and the new LEDs look better than *any* of them.
A "fan site" whose domain name is owned by some corporation
Corporations are just groups of people freely associating with each other.
in Panama?
Property rights are a fundamental human right. It doesn't matter where you are located; you have the right to your own property.
Spin it any way you like, the good doctor wants to use an arm of the UN to confiscate other peoples' property by threat of force.
A much better way to resolve the problem would be by using the free market: There are trillions of DNS names still available on the free market for only a couple of bucks per year. He should just pick one and be happy that he obtained this new property without resorting to coercion.
By your definition, Microsoft WIndows must not be an OS. After all, it can't compile itself, because it doesn't come with a compiler.
Nor is Android; I doubt that it even has a compiler. Even app development for Android is done with a cross compiler on a different system.
Of course, all of those dilemmas are false, because in reality, the definition of "OS" simply does not contain a requirement for self-compilation.
Ruby
What is type "safety" anyways?
It's apparent that you don't know the answer to that question.
Ruby is a safely typed language. It happens to use *dynamic* typing, but it checks those types at runtime nonetheless. Static-typed languages try to do the same thing at compile time.
Type-unsafe languages, such as FORTH, do not check types at all before operating on them. If you provide the wrong type of operand to a call, you get garbage output, but no error is raised unless you cause a CPU-generated segfault.
How many not type safe languages do you know?
If you exclude assembly languages they're not very common, but examples include FORTH and BCPL.
It's perfectly valid Lisp code. So it looks exactly like Lisp.
but more restrictions and unnecessary syntax
(so (that (can (understand (non dweebs) (your program)))) (is (necessary syntax)))
No can do.
Open sourcing the software would reveal the secrets of the technology behind their "uncopyable" install floppy disk.
That's the attitude that I'm talking about, and it's bankrupting this country.
Except in times of large-scale war or financial panic, the government needs to collect taxes to cover its expenditures. If balancing the budget raises taxes enough to be painful, then people will demand reductions in spending. That's the only way you're going to actually shrink the government.
Instead, people like you demand tax cuts first. Well, cutting taxes is easy; they've done it again and again in the past few decades. Cutting actual government spending is hard, because no matter what you cut, you're taking away someone's entitlement. So what we get is a stalemate that generates endless deficits, with no solution in sight.
There are two undisputed points on the Laffer curve 0% and 100% both return no money in the medium and longer run.
Whoa... that's a keen insight, Einstein.
The shape of the Laffer curve is in some dispute
You don't say!
As I pointed out, the problem is that those who believe in a mythical shape that only seems to have a right-hand side have set our tax policy for the last 30 years. With disastrous consequences for our nation.
We need millions of taxpayers, especially small businesses to not only refuse to pay their taxes
Not necessary. The system has already been rigged by propagators of the Laffer curve myth so that the government collects only a small fraction of the taxes necessary to pay for its operation. So you're already not paying most of your taxes.
Yep, one of the great things is that even though the US and Western Europe have decided they don't want you being productive in their country, there are still countries out there that are much more free.
It's easy to be "free" when the companies in question aren't actually IN your country. The government-provided services the freeloading companies depend on are paid for by the non-dodging taxpayers of the countries in which the business actually operate.
Just because people have stockpiled an item near you doesn't mean it's not scarce.
Go out in the wilderness and see if you can spot any loaves of bread.
uh, no. businesses make money by providing value which customers then pay for
And what is of value?
Things that are scarce.
Businesses make money by charging people for scarce resources. IPV6 addresses are in no way scarce, so why would they invest any money in that?
With NAT, they can keep making money the way they always have with minimal additional investment, and they can make even more money by offering dedicated IPV4 addresses to people who pay extra for some kind of "platinum premium plus pro" plan.
People who really care about cockpit entertainment will go through the trouble to have aftermarket equipment installed. This was true 40 years ago and it's the same today.
That's true. Decades ago, I bought an old Ford pickup truck that had come factory equipped only with an AM radio. Some previous owner had addressed the problem by bolting a combination 8-track player/CB radio transceiver under the dash (I kid you not).
In one step, they had solved both the mobile communications and media storage deficiencies of the original model, while at the same time definitively reaffirming the that vehicle's legacy as a product of the 1970s. And no firmware upgrades were required.
It still can be extreme conditions, based on where you leave the car parked. You're expecting a cheap high capacity big-box-store-grade hard drive to operate correctly after being: Parked in the sun all afternoon in Arizona: that's probably +140F. Or parked overnight in an Alaska winter: that's probably -40F. Or parked for years on the Gulf Coast at near 100% humidity. Then you expect it to keep operating while the car's heating and A/C rapidly change those conditions.
That's a tall order. These drives already barely work in a climate controlled household environment.
I think your calculation is off. I pulled up one of my favorite utilites, GNU units, to figure out what performance level that is. (This program takes a lot of the guesswork out of dealing with measurements when you live in a country full of Luddites.)
You have: 3.3 mph/s
You want: m/s^2
* 1.475232 <-- this is the actual number
You have: 3.3 mph/s
You want: gravity
* 0.1504318 <-- That's about 1/6 G
You have: 60/3.3
You want:
Definition: 18.181818 <-- Zero to 60
You have: sqrt(.25 mi / ( 0.5 * 3.3mph/s))
You want: s
* 23.354968 <-- Quarter mile
Did you find this stuff in some lost Charles Dickens manuscript?
The reason that aliens want to come here is that they need suitable hosts in which to insert their larvae.
We need legislation to restrict the sale of this laser scanner machine ASAP: It's obviously being used as a circumvention device.
When you're talking about chemical compounds, the term "organic" has a very specific meaning, regardless of whether you're currently inside a lab or who you're talking to. This is the meaning used in the article summary.
If you were talking about a head of cabbage, then "organic" would have a very different, specific meaning, once again regardless of lab setting or listener.
This is how words work.
so you think you're better off where you are headed now?
Than letting loony libertarians run the country? Definitely.
when your precious dollar is worthless you might change your mind
So don't keep your assets parked in cash.
1999 called
Did you warn them about 9/11?
NO! If you alter the past in that way, we could all poof out of existence.
the only statesman willing and able to see past the next election was Ron Paul, and US voters fucked up their chances to vote him into the presidency multiple times'
That's because voters realize that while budget deficits are bad, putting crazed hard-core libertarians into power and turning this nation into a banana republic would be much worse.