But you claim the Republicans are better because they put the government in debt so they can "shrink" it. The truth is, that's bunk. It's putting the cart before the horse.
If they had any principles, they would refuse to ever support any deficit spending, even if it means that taxes have to go up drastically. Then if peoples' taxes were to high, the people would support cutting government spending until the taxes become acceptable. The republican's purported goals would then be achieved in a fiscally responsible way.
Underneath everything, economics is nothing more than group psychology. Math, algorithms, and rates are irrelevant in the long run; what matters is peoples' frame of mind. No amount of theoretical short-term stimulus from some people inexplicably believing that they're on the left side of the Laffer curve is going to overcome the overwhelming nationwide psychological gloom of seeing the country suffocating under an insurmountable mountain of debt.
However, the past 30 years have shown that the truth is Republicans don't give a shit about any of that. They're happy to borrow and spend any amount of money at all, as long as they can claim that they haven't raised taxes, damn the consequences. It's this bald-faced hypocrisy is what makes them worse than the democrats.
They generally think they're shrinking government and giving the economy a chance to grow.
The problem is, the're DEAD WRONG!
By refusing to either (a) collect revenues that cover the government's obligations, or (b) do the hard work to convince anyone to actually reduce those obligations, they sentence this nation to drown in a vast pit of debt.
it doesn't take huge logical leaps to deduce your underlying conditions.
If we had a sane healthcare system in this country, nobody would care what conditions you might have.
As it happens, in the current US system healthcare coverage is inexplicably all entangled together with your employment. So your boss, (the one party that you would probably be least happy knowing about your health status) not only knows all about it, but is also in a position to cut you off from both your income and your healthcare coverage.
I meant they are useless to carry around. When was the last time you dug coins out of your pocket to pay for anything? Even vending most vending machine purchases are simpler to do with the bill reader.
Of course, they could choose to make coins useful again if they updated the US currency as I suggested so the values correspond with historic usage (i.e., you should be able to buy a beer with one or two coins, and the smallest coin should be able to buy at least one of *something*).
I would NOT pick one up off the ground, they're worthless little pieces of trash. I throw pennies the hell away -- that's right, in the trash bin. Yeah, it costs me a few million times the counter-inflationary "benefit" I acheive, but the rest of you benefit for free, and I benefit by NOT HAVING FUCKING PENNIES CLUTTERING UP MY GODDAMN LIFE. You can thank me by telling your congressman to GET RID OF THE MOTHERFUCKING PENNIES -- if you don't, I'll assume you're a miserly, penny-pinching (literally) asshole.
I agree that pennies and nickels should be eliminated. (Also, $1 bills should be dropped, and $1 and $2 coins should be introduced that don't look or feel like quarters.)
However, taking your valuable time to sort out pennies so you can throw them away IS idiotic. All of the current US coins are too small valued to bother carrying around. I just throw every coin I get into a jar when I get home.
About once per year, I bring it into my credit union and dump it in their convenient coin sorting machine, pennies and all, and in seconds it spits out a receipt I can deposit like a check. This way, I save time, and I'm not wasting valuable metals or costing the taxpayers the money it takes to replace the useless coins.
There's another advantage to setting up shop in Detroit these days: The city is much safer now that an angry Clint Eastwood is out there roaming its streets.
Luckily, Sergey Brin didn't report that contrary to protocol, he was forced by Soviet commanders to attempt hasty launch pad repairs on the upper stages a rocket while it was still fully fueled with volatile hypergolic propellants.
Even luckier, more than 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, his secret potential demise hasn't become one of the most widely known no-longer-secret episodes in the history of the cold war.
In 1983, a Soyuz rocket exploded on the launch pad. The crew was lifted to safety by the launch escape system, and there don't seem to be reports about any casualties on the ground due to this this incident.
How exactly am I going to open gullwing doors in my garage? SUVs are already taller that a regular car.
From the looks of the picture, I'd say this automobile is more of a slightly jacked up hatchback than an SUV, so I'd bet it will fit.
At any rate, gullwing doors were originally invented because of the ridiculously high door sills associated with the spaceframe chassis of the Mercedes 300SL. It seems like most SUVs have the opposite problem to solve: the sills are low, but the floor itself is too high.
So fitting in with the typical aggressive SUV marketing stance, I'd think it would be better to have doors that open vertically *downward* as loading ramps. That way, you could imagine that you're boarding an amphibious assault vehicle whenever you go out to get a gallon of milk.
I left my statistics degree in my other pants... is 4.3 sigma a good thing? How many sigmas is "certainty"?
It's not good enough. They've got a good way to go before they achieve Six Sigma.
To make that goal, these scientists should probably go on a retreat, spend some time on team building exercises, and practice dynamic solution strategies, so that they can build up the synergies they need to deliver agile, customer-facing world class results that deliver a genuine Six Sigma experience.
Thanks for the heads up. I was thinking of buying one of those discounted Windows 7 phones to run my PDL plasma confinement simulations for my tokamak, but it looks like that won't work out. I guess I'll look into an Anroid-based solution instead.
They're testing 70 TB of storage, so with current hard drive quality, the odds of an unrecoverable read error are probably close to 100%. It would be simpler to write a two-line fsck utility to report it:
We could easily lift regulations that prevent businesses from creating facilities wherever, however and whenever they want. We'd just have to adopt the Chinese attitude, and be willing to wear masks every time we step outside to filter out the pollution.
This badboy would make thoe pictures much, much clearer.
Actually, those pictures are fuzzy partly because the orbitals themselves are fuzzy. You probably can't get much more detail than that; the detail doesn't exist.
At any rate, X-rays interacting with a single molecule like this one would likely knock electrons right off of it, thereby disrupting the very thing you're trying to image. Crystal X-ray diffraction imaging doesn't have that problem because of the countless copies of molecules available.
We're not discussing C-style segfaults in this case.
The main meaningful difference between references and pointers is that pointers allow pointer arithmetic, and references don't. As far as I can tell (the spec seems rather vague), this Rust language doesn't allow pointer arithmetic, so it's using "references" (unless explicit unsafe constructs are used).
From what I gather skimming the spec, unlike languages like Java or Lisp, Rust doesn't allow the creation of null references; this is an attempt to avoid errors like (cdr '()) or "java.lang.String foo = null; foo.length();". This is a significantly stronger restriction than most other languages.
Pointers, references, whatever. Lisp still has a null value, like Java and most other languages.
If you run (cdr '()), you get an error.
Lisp let you create a null value, and it didn't stop you from feeding it into a function that couldn't handle it, and it raised an error. That's exactly like every other language that has nulls.
An "empty list" in lisp is usually implemented as a null pointer. Lisp knows where lists end because the cdr field of a pair is null. So lisp has null pointers, they just hide it behind some S-expression terminology.
You seem to say that the people in a company have rights, but if they act together, they lose those rights.
That's how it should be. And that's how it was until activist judges concocted laws to the contrary.
Or how about this: if a company is going to be allowed bribe politicians with money (oh, I'm sorry, I should have termed it as "speak their minds"), how about requiring that all of the employees vote on each issue one man per vote? I mean, if a corporation is a proverbial "voluntary assembly of citizens", then its political activities should reflect the desires of the group as a whole, not just the asshole CEO, right?
(btw, your middle section is rebutting some other guy's post)
So, you don't think that the people who are the dry cleaning business are protected by the first amendment?
The people who are IN the dry cleaning business are protected by the first amendment. I don't believe that the business itself is a "person", so that's not really relevant.
In either case, money =/= speech, regardless of what certain activist judges have recently declared. Neither individual people nor any set of people should be able to bribe politicians with campaign contributions.
Corporations (and unions, for that matter) shouldn't be able to "give campaign support" to them in the first place. That's what makes the system exactly equal to bribery, regardless of your semantic nit-picking.
I gather from the posts here defending our system of legalized corruption that you're a member of the 9%. (The 9% who approve of the performance of the US Congress.)
There were plenty of female connectors on VGA cards without a hole in the key position. I have a couple in my basement.
In fact, I had forgotten all about this issue until I recently tried to see if one of my old machines still works. The connector could not physically be plugged in, much to my annoyance.
VGA is not quite that different from USB as far as changing the pinouts. Try plugging a recent VGA monitor into a suitably old vintage computer. It doesn't fit because they stuck a new pin where a blank key position used to be.
At least with USB, I can just fish a different USB cable out of my desk drawer and I'm ok. With the VGA incompatibility, you're more likely SOL.
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But you claim the Republicans are better because they put the government in debt so they can "shrink" it. The truth is, that's bunk. It's putting the cart before the horse.
If they had any principles, they would refuse to ever support any deficit spending, even if it means that taxes have to go up drastically. Then if peoples' taxes were to high, the people would support cutting government spending until the taxes become acceptable. The republican's purported goals would then be achieved in a fiscally responsible way.
Underneath everything, economics is nothing more than group psychology. Math, algorithms, and rates are irrelevant in the long run; what matters is peoples' frame of mind. No amount of theoretical short-term stimulus from some people inexplicably believing that they're on the left side of the Laffer curve is going to overcome the overwhelming nationwide psychological gloom of seeing the country suffocating under an insurmountable mountain of debt.
However, the past 30 years have shown that the truth is Republicans don't give a shit about any of that. They're happy to borrow and spend any amount of money at all, as long as they can claim that they haven't raised taxes, damn the consequences. It's this bald-faced hypocrisy is what makes them worse than the democrats.
High school students are taught to balance a checkbook.
As I said, Republican borrow-and-spenders FAIL this task.
They generally think they're shrinking government and giving the economy a chance to grow.
The problem is, the're DEAD WRONG!
By refusing to either (a) collect revenues that cover the government's obligations, or (b) do the hard work to convince anyone to actually reduce those obligations, they sentence this nation to drown in a vast pit of debt.
Idiots.
it doesn't take huge logical leaps to deduce your underlying conditions.
If we had a sane healthcare system in this country, nobody would care what conditions you might have.
As it happens, in the current US system healthcare coverage is inexplicably all entangled together with your employment. So your boss, (the one party that you would probably be least happy knowing about your health status) not only knows all about it, but is also in a position to cut you off from both your income and your healthcare coverage.
I meant they are useless to carry around. When was the last time you dug coins out of your pocket to pay for anything? Even vending most vending machine purchases are simpler to do with the bill reader.
Of course, they could choose to make coins useful again if they updated the US currency as I suggested so the values correspond with historic usage (i.e., you should be able to buy a beer with one or two coins, and the smallest coin should be able to buy at least one of *something*).
I would NOT pick one up off the ground, they're worthless little pieces of trash. I throw pennies the hell away -- that's right, in the trash bin. Yeah, it costs me a few million times the counter-inflationary "benefit" I acheive, but the rest of you benefit for free, and I benefit by NOT HAVING FUCKING PENNIES CLUTTERING UP MY GODDAMN LIFE. You can thank me by telling your congressman to GET RID OF THE MOTHERFUCKING PENNIES -- if you don't, I'll assume you're a miserly, penny-pinching (literally) asshole.
I agree that pennies and nickels should be eliminated. (Also, $1 bills should be dropped, and $1 and $2 coins should be introduced that don't look or feel like quarters.)
However, taking your valuable time to sort out pennies so you can throw them away IS idiotic. All of the current US coins are too small valued to bother carrying around. I just throw every coin I get into a jar when I get home.
About once per year, I bring it into my credit union and dump it in their convenient coin sorting machine, pennies and all, and in seconds it spits out a receipt I can deposit like a check. This way, I save time, and I'm not wasting valuable metals or costing the taxpayers the money it takes to replace the useless coins.
There's another advantage to setting up shop in Detroit these days: The city is much safer now that an angry Clint Eastwood is out there roaming its streets.
Luckily, Sergey Brin didn't report that contrary to protocol, he was forced by Soviet commanders to attempt hasty launch pad repairs on the upper stages a rocket while it was still fully fueled with volatile hypergolic propellants.
Even luckier, more than 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, his secret potential demise hasn't become one of the most widely known no-longer-secret episodes in the history of the cold war.
In 1983, a Soyuz rocket exploded on the launch pad. The crew was lifted to safety by the launch escape system, and there don't seem to be reports about any casualties on the ground due to this this incident.
How exactly am I going to open gullwing doors in my garage? SUVs are already taller that a regular car.
From the looks of the picture, I'd say this automobile is more of a slightly jacked up hatchback than an SUV, so I'd bet it will fit.
At any rate, gullwing doors were originally invented because of the ridiculously high door sills associated with the spaceframe chassis of the Mercedes 300SL. It seems like most SUVs have the opposite problem to solve: the sills are low, but the floor itself is too high.
So fitting in with the typical aggressive SUV marketing stance, I'd think it would be better to have doors that open vertically *downward* as loading ramps. That way, you could imagine that you're boarding an amphibious assault vehicle whenever you go out to get a gallon of milk.
I left my statistics degree in my other pants... is 4.3 sigma a good thing? How many sigmas is "certainty"?
It's not good enough. They've got a good way to go before they achieve Six Sigma.
To make that goal, these scientists should probably go on a retreat, spend some time on team building exercises, and practice dynamic solution strategies, so that they can build up the synergies they need to deliver agile, customer-facing world class results that deliver a genuine Six Sigma experience.
Thanks for the heads up. I was thinking of buying one of those discounted Windows 7 phones to run my PDL plasma confinement simulations for my tokamak, but it looks like that won't work out. I guess I'll look into an Anroid-based solution instead.
They're testing 70 TB of storage, so with current hard drive quality, the odds of an unrecoverable read error are probably close to 100%. It would be simpler to write a two-line fsck utility to report it:
The government has already invested a lot of taxpayer money into developing a computer language: Ada. You could take advantage of that.
We could easily lift regulations that prevent businesses from creating facilities wherever, however and whenever they want. We'd just have to adopt the Chinese attitude, and be willing to wear masks every time we step outside to filter out the pollution.
Remember how fuzzy they were?
This badboy would make thoe pictures much, much clearer.
Actually, those pictures are fuzzy partly because the orbitals themselves are fuzzy. You probably can't get much more detail than that; the detail doesn't exist.
At any rate, X-rays interacting with a single molecule like this one would likely knock electrons right off of it, thereby disrupting the very thing you're trying to image. Crystal X-ray diffraction imaging doesn't have that problem because of the countless copies of molecules available.
We're not discussing C-style segfaults in this case.
The main meaningful difference between references and pointers is that pointers allow pointer arithmetic, and references don't. As far as I can tell (the spec seems rather vague), this Rust language doesn't allow pointer arithmetic, so it's using "references" (unless explicit unsafe constructs are used).
From what I gather skimming the spec, unlike languages like Java or Lisp, Rust doesn't allow the creation of null references; this is an attempt to avoid errors like (cdr '()) or "java.lang.String foo = null; foo.length();". This is a significantly stronger restriction than most other languages.
Pointers, references, whatever. Lisp still has a null value, like Java and most other languages.
If you run (cdr '()), you get an error.
Lisp let you create a null value, and it didn't stop you from feeding it into a function that couldn't handle it, and it raised an error. That's exactly like every other language that has nulls.
An "empty list" in lisp is usually implemented as a null pointer. Lisp knows where lists end because the cdr field of a pair is null. So lisp has null pointers, they just hide it behind some S-expression terminology.
You seem to say that the people in a company have rights, but if they act together, they lose those rights.
That's how it should be. And that's how it was until activist judges concocted laws to the contrary.
Or how about this: if a company is going to be allowed bribe politicians with money (oh, I'm sorry, I should have termed it as "speak their minds"), how about requiring that all of the employees vote on each issue one man per vote? I mean, if a corporation is a proverbial "voluntary assembly of citizens", then its political activities should reflect the desires of the group as a whole, not just the asshole CEO, right?
(btw, your middle section is rebutting some other guy's post)
So, you don't think that the people who are the dry cleaning business are protected by the first amendment?
The people who are IN the dry cleaning business are protected by the first amendment. I don't believe that the business itself is a "person", so that's not really relevant.
In either case, money =/= speech, regardless of what certain activist judges have recently declared. Neither individual people nor any set of people should be able to bribe politicians with campaign contributions.
Corporations (and unions, for that matter) shouldn't be able to "give campaign support" to them in the first place. That's what makes the system exactly equal to bribery, regardless of your semantic nit-picking.
I gather from the posts here defending our system of legalized corruption that you're a member of the 9%. (The 9% who approve of the performance of the US Congress.)
There were plenty of female connectors on VGA cards without a hole in the key position. I have a couple in my basement.
In fact, I had forgotten all about this issue until I recently tried to see if one of my old machines still works. The connector could not physically be plugged in, much to my annoyance.
VGA is not quite that different from USB as far as changing the pinouts. Try plugging a recent VGA monitor into a suitably old vintage computer. It doesn't fit because they stuck a new pin where a blank key position used to be.
At least with USB, I can just fish a different USB cable out of my desk drawer and I'm ok. With the VGA incompatibility, you're more likely SOL.