In other news, I bought a fork, and attempted to stab minorities in the eye with it. Nothing the fork manufacturer did prevented me from stabbing minorities in the eye with the fork they made. Therefore, the fork manufacturer needs to give me millions of dollars.
No, it just means we need to pass bi-partisan "Sensible Fork Laws"....
c'mon, man...the phrase they use in their narrative is "common sense fork laws"...
While I agree something needs to happen in order to keep skyrocketing tuition under control, I do have a couple comments that struck me immediately about this particular idea:
1. This is just another ponzi scheme predicated on the economy continually growing
2. Specific to STEM degrees (?) - how will you force US employers to hire these new graduates instead of H1Bs/offshoring in order to pay the tax to keep a system destined to fail alive as long as possible?
Are you really comparing the level of threat the president is under to the level of threat the average citizen is under?
I believe inner city Chicago is a bit more dangerous than 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The law-abiding citizens that live there don't deserve to have the capability to protect themselves and their families stripped away.
Having a North Korean satellite crash into my home would not make the North Koreans' day, once Washington got involved.
Dude, if it landed on a public company's headquarters then D.C. would be pissed and invade but landing on a private citizen's home? Not so much. In fact, they'd probably write retroactive legislation so your insurance company didn't have to pay you and suffer the loss of profit.
They don't think they know how stupid we are; they know it. They know this will all blow over and they'll be allowed to merge.
I am hoping from the bottom of my heart that this merger doesn't happen, but at least if it does I'll have a way to back out of my contract with T-Mobile. I will not be an AT&T customer. Never again.
That's not it, at all. They know that even if the the merger is blocked, T-Mobile is screwed. It's unverified by T-Mobile but customers appear to be leaving in droves, customer service is starting to suffer since the reps know they won't have a job in a year, and network improvements will stagnate leaving them so far behind the competition they'll look like Danica Patrick in a Sprint Cup race! Back to being serious, this will be just like what happened to Sun after the Oracle buyout was stretched out into eternity. The only difference is that T-Mobile was viable before buyout talk started and Sun was a zombie.
No matter what happens, buyout blocked or not, AT&T has one less competitor. No matter what happens, we (and especially T-Mobile employees) lose.
I would be extremely surprised if Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and just about any other ally of the United States were not also spying on the US
So your defense is "they do it too"[1] which somehow makes it ok in your mind.
[1] Bare assertion without supporting evidence
I think gknoy was probably going for the "Trust, but verify" angle.
After all, you wouldn't want me to profile you as a racist due to a single post that seems to indicate you believe that certain people can only be hired for their "stylish" qualities and those "stylish" attributes mean they are not qualified or skilled to perform a job.
Actually, I believe that.
Racist? I believe a lot of people in government and NGOs get hired because of their race or their sex. If that makes me a racist in your eyes, then so be it.
No it's not. If it was possible to do in a million lines of code, it would have been done by now.
That's silly. He's not claiming that just any million lines of code will do. You need to understand how the brain works in order to write the right million lines of (probably ridiculously compact and completely unreadable) code.
How much of a temperature difference do you think you can find within the human body across a machine of a few micormeters (or even millimeters) in length?
That's what the 12" heat sink sticking out of your chest is for. That, and impressing the ladies.
I think they'd be more impressed if that 12" "heat sink" was closer to waist height.
I write code on sticky notes, tape them together, scan them in, OCR, email it to my machine with my dev environment and then use a hex editor to manual compile it. I WIN!!!
Oh yeah! I do that while walking uphill, both ways, BACKWARD! Now get off my lawn!
What exactly am I supposed to figure out? I reacted to excessive forces from my parents by lashing out, simple fact and it would have been much better if it had never come to that.
Obviously if they had let you do whatever you wanted you would have turned out a lot happier than you are now...you might even be dead or in jail!
When I was young I thought I knew more than everyone else, too. Don't worry, eventually you'll realize you don't know it all (hopefully).
Perhaps the problem was your incessant arrogance and the continued stress you brought to your parents by "lashing out". You do realize most parents only want what's best for their children, right? Maybe your parents were trying to prevent you from making the same mistakes they did? Perhaps they cared about you so much that they were willing to "make you hate them" in order to instill the discipline/self control you would need to become a well adjusted adult?
But, of course, you knew that already because you were a worldy teenager and had, through some miracle of evolution, obtained 50 years of wisdom in a mere 16 years.
If you have a factory up-stream of me and you're making the water toxic, I get people from further downstream together and we first ask you to stop. If you refuse we take it to the media and hurt your profits.
You're obviously making the assumption that the factory and media outlet don't have the same owner. If they do your story will never be seen by anyone else, right?
To wake the US up I think it will take someone we can firmly identify as an enemy very visibly besting us in technological innovation. And terrorists getting nukes isn't cutting it, so I can't imagine one. Anyone have any ideas?
In the end the technology will hit a wall, F1 is already pretty regulated as to what you are and arn't allowed to put in your car and other sports are probably similar or will bring in more rules, so eventually everyone will have pretty much the same car because they just cant tweak it any more under the rules and it will be all down to the drivers.
Not disagreeing with your post, but I just wanted to point out that the stock car sanctioning bodies (NASCAR, ARCA, CASCAR, etc) figured this out about 30 years ago. The rules exist - primarily - to make the cars as even as possible.
My sister-in-law uses it for one reason only: parental filters. Nosy parents are probably the #1 business driver for AOL now.
OR your sister-in-law cares enough about her kids to monitor them and make sure they're not being harassed/stalked by a pedophile or otherwise getting into a situation the kids can't handle.
Letting kids have free-reign on the Internet is NOT in the child's best interests.
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No, it just means we need to pass bi-partisan "Sensible Fork Laws"....
c'mon, man...the phrase they use in their narrative is "common sense fork laws"...
Humanity needs to be good at engineering if it is to have a future.
So...get rid of management? Because the two are mutually exclusive.
Where can we contribute to prevent this idiocy being pursued?
http://www.nra.org/
Are you really comparing the level of threat the president is under to the level of threat the average citizen is under?
I believe inner city Chicago is a bit more dangerous than 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The law-abiding citizens that live there don't deserve to have the capability to protect themselves and their families stripped away.
Dude, if it landed on a public company's headquarters then D.C. would be pissed and invade but landing on a private citizen's home? Not so much. In fact, they'd probably write retroactive legislation so your insurance company didn't have to pay you and suffer the loss of profit.
They don't think they know how stupid we are; they know it. They know this will all blow over and they'll be allowed to merge.
I am hoping from the bottom of my heart that this merger doesn't happen, but at least if it does I'll have a way to back out of my contract with T-Mobile. I will not be an AT&T customer. Never again.
That's not it, at all. They know that even if the the merger is blocked, T-Mobile is screwed. It's unverified by T-Mobile but customers appear to be leaving in droves, customer service is starting to suffer since the reps know they won't have a job in a year, and network improvements will stagnate leaving them so far behind the competition they'll look like Danica Patrick in a Sprint Cup race! Back to being serious, this will be just like what happened to Sun after the Oracle buyout was stretched out into eternity. The only difference is that T-Mobile was viable before buyout talk started and Sun was a zombie.
No matter what happens, buyout blocked or not, AT&T has one less competitor. No matter what happens, we (and especially T-Mobile employees) lose.
Somehow I'm thinking the need to be bailed out with taxpayer funds means you did "crap work" and don't deserve a bonus.
You should put that on a t-shirt...
I would be extremely surprised if Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and just about any other ally of the United States were not also spying on the US
So your defense is "they do it too"[1] which somehow makes it ok in your mind.
[1] Bare assertion without supporting evidence
I think gknoy was probably going for the "Trust, but verify" angle.
Woo! Man I sure hit some button of yours!
I'm not a racist - I hate EVERYONE.
After all, you wouldn't want me to profile you as a racist due to a single post that seems to indicate you believe that certain people can only be hired for their "stylish" qualities and those "stylish" attributes mean they are not qualified or skilled to perform a job.
Actually, I believe that.
Racist? I believe a lot of people in government and NGOs get hired because of their race or their sex. If that makes me a racist in your eyes, then so be it.
Technically that makes you sexist, too.
No it's not. If it was possible to do in a million lines of code, it would have been done by now.
That's silly. He's not claiming that just any million lines of code will do. You need to understand how the brain works in order to write the right million lines of (probably ridiculously compact and completely unreadable) code.
I always knew perl was good for something.
How much of a temperature difference do you think you can find within the human body across a machine of a few micormeters (or even millimeters) in length?
That's what the 12" heat sink sticking out of your chest is for. That, and impressing the ladies.
I think they'd be more impressed if that 12" "heat sink" was closer to waist height.
Oh yeah! I do that while walking uphill, both ways, BACKWARD! Now get off my lawn!
He has a number of photos posted at Cloudy Nights in the "Planetary and Solar System Observing" forum.
When I was young I thought I knew more than everyone else, too. Don't worry, eventually you'll realize you don't know it all (hopefully).
Perhaps the problem was your incessant arrogance and the continued stress you brought to your parents by "lashing out". You do realize most parents only want what's best for their children, right? Maybe your parents were trying to prevent you from making the same mistakes they did? Perhaps they cared about you so much that they were willing to "make you hate them" in order to instill the discipline/self control you would need to become a well adjusted adult?
But, of course, you knew that already because you were a worldy teenager and had, through some miracle of evolution, obtained 50 years of wisdom in a mere 16 years.
We keep finding new ways to celebrate mediocrity!
- Mr. Incredible
Funny, I'm working on my resume right now. ;)
So am I...because my PROFESSION was offshored...
Sanjaya Malakar winning American Idol?
I joke, but you know it's true...
Yeah...student loans can be a real bitch sometimes.
4) Being able to turn off the station ID that takes up the bottom half of the screen.
That already exists...it's called stock car racing (primarily NASCAR for those of you unfamiliar with autosports).
Not disagreeing with your post, but I just wanted to point out that the stock car sanctioning bodies (NASCAR, ARCA, CASCAR, etc) figured this out about 30 years ago. The rules exist - primarily - to make the cars as even as possible.
OR your sister-in-law cares enough about her kids to monitor them and make sure they're not being harassed/stalked by a pedophile or otherwise getting into a situation the kids can't handle.
Letting kids have free-reign on the Internet is NOT in the child's best interests.