The rich can do this - they have enough wealth elsewhere to live for those 3 years. The rest of us actually need each years earnings to live.
Only because you're an ignorant moron who spends all his energy bitching about the rich, instead of making himself rich. Capital gains investments aren't reserved for the rich, stupid ass, they are accessible to anyone with 5 or more brain cells. (Do you qualify?) How about learning some financial discipline and make yourself rich, instead of bitching and moaning about how you "need" to be a wage slave in order to survive? Your SHITTY ATTITUDE is why you are a FAILURE, not the machinations of the "rich."
There is a simple solution to this. If the American people 'demand' that he disclose his finances, and he doesn't, don't vote for him! What could be simpler.
Sure! And we just get the other dictator instead.
No, this was a blow struck for the PEOPLE. I just hope those Secret Service assholes are unable to catch these thieves. I hope Romney is stupid enough to not pay the random, and I hope they succeed in releasing these tax returns for us all to see. Yep, I'm rooting for the criminals, because Romney is a 10x bigger criminal who needs to be EXPOSED.
Like it or not, prosecution of crime (like everything else we do) is going to have priorities assigned.
That sounds like a really, really thin and convenient excuse for those in power. You sound like a tool for saying it.
When was the last time the police helped me with ANYTHING? Imagine calling in and reporting you were being extorted or your tax returns would be released....do you think the Secret Service let alone the local police department would even give you the time of day? Hell, they probably would sigh loudly if you insisted on filing a report. You're taking them away from giving out speeding tickets and setting up DUI checkpoints, comrade.
Wait, you don't think a crime done for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the election for the POTUS is more serious than one that is done just to annoy someone or for financial gain?
By releasing tax returns, in the name of transparency?
No, of course I don't think that. Why would anyone who has a brain?
You haven't confirmed shit, other than you're a moron. Looking back in 20 years you'll feel stupid when it turns out that DNA actually does have a use after all.
Wow, considering we have nothing that could even come close to what you propose, you might as well be howling naked in the subway. You're insane. You're going nowhere. You're staying right here.
By the time those kids grow up, programming as an idea would be obsolete. Not just the language/s, but only used in specialized cases.
That's like claiming we shouldn't teach kids calculus because it will be obsolete by the time they're older.
What if you're wrong?
To get to the point, computers could be cognitive and perhaps self-aware. "Programming" would but nothing more than holding a conversation with it. It would turn your ideas and concepts into real work to render the results for you.
And who will program it to do those things? Not your little brat, clearly. Maybe they can apply for a manufacturing job at my sons' company for a while, until one of your sons' peers programs the fully automated assembly line and your brat is out of a job.
Perhaps we should be teaching these kids history and philosophy instead. Let the computers do all the logical grunt work for us.
Or maybe we should teach them to become dependent on the government, so they're guaranteed to be unable to accomplish anything without help from someone else.
Sorry, I don't buy the modern day hype about how kids need to learn programming and typing and hardware at the age of six.
Well, then I guess your kids will remain dumbasses while everyone else's are writing their own operating systems. Good luck with that evolutionary strategy.
Then I demand that a full four year medical course be taught in grade school, because students will some day need to know about medicine and health care in this modern society.
Well for instance I once worked at Jack Henry and Associates, a company that writes banking software. The folks who worked in my section often had to manipulate hard drives full of thousands of files. These dumbasses would go through there selecting files individually by hand, thousands of them, because they had no concept of what a wildcard is or how to write scripts. With an hour's work I had Linux set up in a VM and scripts written to automate everything. Judging by these folks reaction you would think I was God or something. No, I just learned BASIC at 8; why didn't everyone?
Really? In all my years of holding conversations with six-year olds on every topic imaginable, I've yet to leave the table thinking "wow, that kid really knows his shit."
Sounds more like a reflection of your intelligence, not the kid's.
Children are designed to learn. It comes naturally to them.
Let's avoid turning everything into a vocational school so we can pump out bots.
A moronic statement, because programming is an extremely general purpose learning activity whose benefits extend far beyond just programming the damn computer. Try to have some imagination.
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The rich can do this - they have enough wealth elsewhere to live for those 3 years. The rest of us actually need each years earnings to live.
Only because you're an ignorant moron who spends all his energy bitching about the rich, instead of making himself rich. Capital gains investments aren't reserved for the rich, stupid ass, they are accessible to anyone with 5 or more brain cells. (Do you qualify?) How about learning some financial discipline and make yourself rich, instead of bitching and moaning about how you "need" to be a wage slave in order to survive? Your SHITTY ATTITUDE is why you are a FAILURE, not the machinations of the "rich."
Or do you just want to force anyone running for office to dance to whatever tune you decide to hum today?
Yes.
There is a simple solution to this. If the American people 'demand' that he disclose his finances, and he doesn't, don't vote for him! What could be simpler.
Sure! And we just get the other dictator instead.
No, this was a blow struck for the PEOPLE. I just hope those Secret Service assholes are unable to catch these thieves. I hope Romney is stupid enough to not pay the random, and I hope they succeed in releasing these tax returns for us all to see. Yep, I'm rooting for the criminals, because Romney is a 10x bigger criminal who needs to be EXPOSED.
Like it or not, prosecution of crime (like everything else we do) is going to have priorities assigned.
That sounds like a really, really thin and convenient excuse for those in power. You sound like a tool for saying it.
When was the last time the police helped me with ANYTHING? Imagine calling in and reporting you were being extorted or your tax returns would be released....do you think the Secret Service let alone the local police department would even give you the time of day? Hell, they probably would sigh loudly if you insisted on filing a report. You're taking them away from giving out speeding tickets and setting up DUI checkpoints, comrade.
Wait, you don't think a crime done for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the election for the POTUS is more serious than one that is done just to annoy someone or for financial gain?
By releasing tax returns, in the name of transparency?
No, of course I don't think that. Why would anyone who has a brain?
If you're going to criticize us, at least use proper grammar. Asshole.
Is there some reason we shouldnt be going after someone committing this kind of blackmail:
The last time my tax return got stolen, the Secret Service didn't swoop in to help me.
Not sure if serious
More like, "it's not understandable by human limited brains
Speak for yourself, peon.
You haven't confirmed shit, other than you're a moron. Looking back in 20 years you'll feel stupid when it turns out that DNA actually does have a use after all.
Humanity and its arrogance. Jesus Fucking Christ.
Wow, considering we have nothing that could even come close to what you propose, you might as well be howling naked in the subway. You're insane. You're going nowhere. You're staying right here.
Stop projecting...and have some fucking vision.
We're not going to get by fundamental physics with improved engineering.
I like 'Trek and SF as much as the next Slashdotter, but certain facts remain facts, and must be faced.
Your can't do attitude is why YOU will fail, but thankfully it won't stop humanity as a whole.
We'll be lucky to get a man on Mars in the next 100 years,
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By the time those kids grow up, programming as an idea would be obsolete. Not just the language/s, but only used in specialized cases.
That's like claiming we shouldn't teach kids calculus because it will be obsolete by the time they're older.
What if you're wrong?
To get to the point, computers could be cognitive and perhaps self-aware. "Programming" would but nothing more than holding a conversation with it. It would turn your ideas and concepts into real work to render the results for you.
And who will program it to do those things? Not your little brat, clearly. Maybe they can apply for a manufacturing job at my sons' company for a while, until one of your sons' peers programs the fully automated assembly line and your brat is out of a job.
Perhaps we should be teaching these kids history and philosophy instead. Let the computers do all the logical grunt work for us.
Or maybe we should teach them to become dependent on the government, so they're guaranteed to be unable to accomplish anything without help from someone else.
What is to stop programming jobs from being off-shored and sucked into a race-to-the-bottom?
Thankfully, offshoring isn't a problem in Estonia, because their nation isn't run by fucking morons.
Sorry, I don't buy the modern day hype about how kids need to learn programming and typing and hardware at the age of six.
Well, then I guess your kids will remain dumbasses while everyone else's are writing their own operating systems. Good luck with that evolutionary strategy.
Programming isn't hard if you are wired correctly.
Estonians are basically Finns combined with Germans and Russians. Do you think they might have a shot?
Thousands of MILLIONAIRES have been created thanks to the iPhone and OS X ecosystem
LOL. Name one, troll.
Times are always changing...the irrelevant part is determining if it's for the better or not.
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Then I demand that a full four year medical course be taught in grade school, because students will some day need to know about medicine and health care in this modern society.
What a retarded analogy
Programming uses math? Well some arithmetic, surely, but usually not much else.
Wrong. Programming is math. A higher level math, at that.
Well for instance I once worked at Jack Henry and Associates, a company that writes banking software. The folks who worked in my section often had to manipulate hard drives full of thousands of files. These dumbasses would go through there selecting files individually by hand, thousands of them, because they had no concept of what a wildcard is or how to write scripts. With an hour's work I had Linux set up in a VM and scripts written to automate everything. Judging by these folks reaction you would think I was God or something. No, I just learned BASIC at 8; why didn't everyone?
Really? In all my years of holding conversations with six-year olds on every topic imaginable, I've yet to leave the table thinking "wow, that kid really knows his shit."
Sounds more like a reflection of your intelligence, not the kid's.
Children are designed to learn. It comes naturally to them.
Let's avoid turning everything into a vocational school so we can pump out bots.
A moronic statement, because programming is an extremely general purpose learning activity whose benefits extend far beyond just programming the damn computer. Try to have some imagination.
Where is the research that says children of six have the requisite cognitive capacity to program?
In the minds of those who have common sense, and/or know anything about children.