Weird how when the RNC is hacked, no one discovers any evidence of any wrong-doing.
Yet when the DNC is hacked, we discover that their primaries are a sham and that the results are pre-determined.
And yet I keep on hearing the left claim that the right is as corrupt as they are...
We already knew this about the DNC -- That was the entire purpose of the superdelegates. All you saw was behind the scenes arm twisting of them, which everyone also knew was happening because that's how politics works.
[Good value] for students? Not when you consider the fact less than half the money that students pay in tuition fees is actually spent on teaching. The rest of the money from tuition fees goes into other services and parts of the administration.
That's kind of a dumb argument. Educating a large student body inherently comes with a lot of overhead. Let me use an analogy closer to the heart of many people here. Only about 10-25% of the cost of developing a piece of software is the actual engineering and code writing. The overwhelming majority of the cost to the company is in sales and administration. This isn't a good or bad thing, it's just how the numbers fall out. When you have a student body of 50,000 students, you need a lot of administrative staff to manage that. There is a lot more to teaching students than just doing a few lectures. That's not to say all schools manage their money effectively but the notion that administration isn't going to be pretty substantial at a large university is absurd.
It's not that dumb of an argument. Decades of double-digit increases are for hiring positions not needed before. Your argument only holds true if no, or almost no, new positions are added.
Much of the increase has been traced to sinecure positions, a word coming from the old school church where the church created paid positions "without care" to the core mission of soul saving. I.e. graft.
Here, it is without care to the core mission of teaching.
And schools can get away with it because annual increases are softened by the fact it is a loan. People don't wanna pay $2000 for a fancy nav radio, but an extra $30 a month, who cares?
Government guarantees the loans, or will be forced to make them good, if it all goes to shit, so lending is easy and universities have no incentive not to have big increases every year.
Congress can stop these increases overnight by refusing to guarantee any loans for universities that increase spending more than inflation.
Whether it is overkill is irrelevant -- if that's the cheap standard, that's what you use, like terabyte thumb drives (if even us anymore) vs. 256 meg ones.
Computers will not get much faster. You can get more cores and less power usage, but that is essentially it.
Single thread problems and cores to solve them, sure, but we've moved into the thousands of cores era, just by way of GPU.
The first time I switched to a CUDA implementation of Seti@Home, I doubled my previous 10 years of calculations in 2 weeks. Hence (bonus unpredictable value of discovery aside) we might as well have not bothered.
And the upgrades I made doubled and tripled the rate again, with no end in sight.
The Seti guys would probably do better designing a proper product that automatically didn't interfere with 3D games and Netflix framerates rather than relying on manual fine tuning, which doesn't really work, and many are not capable of, or the clumsy "only when computer not in use" setting which, being a wrapper around an internal setting and not a defined feature, cuts out surfing with browser but leaves in Netflix, where you don't touch the compterand hence it is "not in use."
He realized that he needed to raise taxes to protect US from a debt which at the time had just begun ballooning. No president since has given more than lip service to the debt crisis and that's why your great grandchildren will all be speaking Chinese in 100 years.
Not to defend Bush or attack Clinton as all presidents are asses on this, but one of the things Clinton ran on in 1992 was how Bush had done the biggest tax increase in history, how awful.
Then he, himself, looks at the still-ballooning deficit and throws up his hands and gives up on balancing the budget himself, as far into the future as the eye can see.
Then does an even bigger tax increase.
Then bass ackwards into the Internet boom where private investment loosens trillions in effort to jump on the bandwagon, the budget is briefly balanced as taxes to government skyrockets (fed and state) and the legislatures can't keep up.
But they rise to the challenge and soon spend it all and start borrowing more, because that's how the system is designed.
All are asses on spending because no matter how much comes in, they realize they can borrow more to spend with no voter consequences, and often rewards.
Buffoon, Clinton wouldn't have gotten that far had Perot not dropped out the day of Clinton's acceptance speech to give him a huge boost by his lost supporters looking for a new candidate.
Then he jumps back in later to divert all those who didn't want to support Clinton, just in case.
There's infinitely more than just looking at who might have voted for someone else instead, after the end, itself questionable given people look more fondly on the winner.
Perot was responsible. Bush had it in the bag as recently as just before the Democratic convention. Then Perot drops out the day Clinton is to give his acceptance speech, saying the Democtratic party is invigorated, so all eyes turn to Clinton that night to see what he will say.
Later he jumps back in to seal the deal.
Perot didn't want to win. He wanted Bush to lose. God only knows why but when Bush was CIA director and Perot helped bail out the NYSE in the 1970s, the sky is the limit.
Continue with your fantasy if you like, but US history is rife with split tickets causing the main guy of that party to lose. 1912, or 2000 with a very minor split ticket.
And the future...is going to be some kind of warped Black Mirror episode with Bryce Dallas Howard, where the government watches all you do, then shuts off your access to loans and whatnot if you don't kowtow and your communist social score drops too low.
It's kind of sad they need to use the argument poorer people without bank accounts are left out, a perfectly valid and important concern.
But there's a bigger picture concern -- the feedom to transact business without the government panopticon tracking you. We're not talking tracking illegality with a warrant but stopping the removal of yet another roadblock by denying another dictatorial tool as prophylactic against the future loss of freedom.
We also lead in greasy, cheap food and sedentary lifestyles. Much of the death increase is a result of success, including opiod addiction in a perverse way.
These grandmas are the same ones targeted by scammers on Disney. Whenever Disney releases a new movie based on a public domain property, a scam animation company whips out their own story on it, shoves it out on blue ray or dvd, and hopes grandma going to buy "Pochahontas" or "Little Mermaid" or something for dear little one buys the wrong one.
The government should provide a public access interface to their panopticon of facial recognition, gait, and automobile trackers so you can punch in a name and track whoever you want live.
There is no putting the Genie back in the bottle, so the only thing to do is neuter the government's advantage by letting all in on it.
If i reply to this, the bot generator will take the random phrases it posted as mildly successful, and use them to help generate the next round of slightly less random technobabble.
Here is an outrageous statement: The real purpose of these laws is to force people who want to get things done to make political donations. Whether it actually achieves any reasonable goal is beside the point.
In this it is no different from a corrupt country where you are expected to pay 10% of the cost of a new building to the building approver, or an immediate fee to the officer who pulled you over, or a few hundred to the DMV person so you don't need to mysteriously wait 5 years for a license.
I reiterate: "valid" regulations, even if granted as good, end up being misused this way.
Working as designed -- getting in the way of people who get things done. It has taken longer to clear regulatory hurdles to dredge a bay 5 feet deeper to handle superpanamax ships than it took to dig the original Panama canal.
The European Union says it is aiming to become the first major economy to go 'climate neutral'
You mean first major country. The EU is a federal government with member states, and by 2050 will have grown enough in power will be similar to the Unites States government, with member countries little more than anachronistic states like New Jersey and Idaho.
It took 150 years for this in the US, and that's with a constitution in theory granting the government limited powers and no others. 30 more years for the EU is very doable.
Telephones? Back in my day we didn't have no stinking telephones! All we had was telegraphs, and the receiver could live chat read each letter as it was typed!
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Weird how when the RNC is hacked, no one discovers any evidence of any wrong-doing.
Yet when the DNC is hacked, we discover that their primaries are a sham and that the results are pre-determined.
And yet I keep on hearing the left claim that the right is as corrupt as they are...
We already knew this about the DNC -- That was the entire purpose of the superdelegates. All you saw was behind the scenes arm twisting of them, which everyone also knew was happening because that's how politics works.
[Good value] for students? Not when you consider the fact less than half the money that students pay in tuition fees is actually spent on teaching. The rest of the money from tuition fees goes into other services and parts of the administration.
That's kind of a dumb argument. Educating a large student body inherently comes with a lot of overhead. Let me use an analogy closer to the heart of many people here. Only about 10-25% of the cost of developing a piece of software is the actual engineering and code writing. The overwhelming majority of the cost to the company is in sales and administration. This isn't a good or bad thing, it's just how the numbers fall out. When you have a student body of 50,000 students, you need a lot of administrative staff to manage that. There is a lot more to teaching students than just doing a few lectures. That's not to say all schools manage their money effectively but the notion that administration isn't going to be pretty substantial at a large university is absurd.
It's not that dumb of an argument. Decades of double-digit increases are for hiring positions not needed before. Your argument only holds true if no, or almost no, new positions are added.
Much of the increase has been traced to sinecure positions, a word coming from the old school church where the church created paid positions "without care" to the core mission of soul saving. I.e. graft.
Here, it is without care to the core mission of teaching.
And schools can get away with it because annual increases are softened by the fact it is a loan. People don't wanna pay $2000 for a fancy nav radio, but an extra $30 a month, who cares?
Government guarantees the loans, or will be forced to make them good, if it all goes to shit, so lending is easy and universities have no incentive not to have big increases every year.
Congress can stop these increases overnight by refusing to guarantee any loans for universities that increase spending more than inflation.
Nerds have a tough time knowing the context, getting neither hugs nor the other thing.
Whether it is overkill is irrelevant -- if that's the cheap standard, that's what you use, like terabyte thumb drives (if even us anymore) vs. 256 meg ones.
Computers will not get much faster. You can get more cores and less power usage, but that is essentially it.
Single thread problems and cores to solve them, sure, but we've moved into the thousands of cores era, just by way of GPU.
The first time I switched to a CUDA implementation of Seti@Home, I doubled my previous 10 years of calculations in 2 weeks. Hence (bonus unpredictable value of discovery aside) we might as well have not bothered.
And the upgrades I made doubled and tripled the rate again, with no end in sight.
The Seti guys would probably do better designing a proper product that automatically didn't interfere with 3D games and Netflix framerates rather than relying on manual fine tuning, which doesn't really work, and many are not capable of, or the clumsy "only when computer not in use" setting which, being a wrapper around an internal setting and not a defined feature, cuts out surfing with browser but leaves in Netflix, where you don't touch the compterand hence it is "not in use."
All I need to know is there some way for lawyers to sue over it so they don't go hungry?
Because the tech is almost certainly better than humans right now, to say nothing of the near future, so any delays kill more than they save.
He realized that he needed to raise taxes to protect US from a debt which at the time had just begun ballooning. No president since has given more than lip service to the debt crisis and that's why your great grandchildren will all be speaking Chinese in 100 years.
Not to defend Bush or attack Clinton as all presidents are asses on this, but one of the things Clinton ran on in 1992 was how Bush had done the biggest tax increase in history, how awful.
Then he, himself, looks at the still-ballooning deficit and throws up his hands and gives up on balancing the budget himself, as far into the future as the eye can see.
Then does an even bigger tax increase.
Then bass ackwards into the Internet boom where private investment loosens trillions in effort to jump on the bandwagon, the budget is briefly balanced as taxes to government skyrockets (fed and state) and the legislatures can't keep up.
But they rise to the challenge and soon spend it all and start borrowing more, because that's how the system is designed.
All are asses on spending because no matter how much comes in, they realize they can borrow more to spend with no voter consequences, and often rewards.
Why yes, Bush, Sr., did fight against the Nazis!
Buffoon, Clinton wouldn't have gotten that far had Perot not dropped out the day of Clinton's acceptance speech to give him a huge boost by his lost supporters looking for a new candidate.
Then he jumps back in later to divert all those who didn't want to support Clinton, just in case.
There's infinitely more than just looking at who might have voted for someone else instead, after the end, itself questionable given people look more fondly on the winner.
Perot was responsible. Bush had it in the bag as recently as just before the Democratic convention. Then Perot drops out the day Clinton is to give his acceptance speech, saying the Democtratic party is invigorated, so all eyes turn to Clinton that night to see what he will say.
Later he jumps back in to seal the deal.
Perot didn't want to win. He wanted Bush to lose. God only knows why but when Bush was CIA director and Perot helped bail out the NYSE in the 1970s, the sky is the limit.
Continue with your fantasy if you like, but US history is rife with split tickets causing the main guy of that party to lose. 1912, or 2000 with a very minor split ticket.
That show is weird. I rarely watch it, but when I do I like it. Yet I have no desire to watch it.
Like Nazi Germany doing a trial run of blitzkrieg on Guernica, China is doing a trial run for this in Venezuela for the dictatorship there.
And the future...is going to be some kind of warped Black Mirror episode with Bryce Dallas Howard, where the government watches all you do, then shuts off your access to loans and whatnot if you don't kowtow and your communist social score drops too low.
It's kind of sad they need to use the argument poorer people without bank accounts are left out, a perfectly valid and important concern.
But there's a bigger picture concern -- the feedom to transact business without the government panopticon tracking you. We're not talking tracking illegality with a warrant but stopping the removal of yet another roadblock by denying another dictatorial tool as prophylactic against the future loss of freedom.
We also lead in greasy, cheap food and sedentary lifestyles. Much of the death increase is a result of success, including opiod addiction in a perverse way.
Go look at the reasons again.
These grandmas are the same ones targeted by scammers on Disney. Whenever Disney releases a new movie based on a public domain property, a scam animation company whips out their own story on it, shoves it out on blue ray or dvd, and hopes grandma going to buy "Pochahontas" or "Little Mermaid" or something for dear little one buys the wrong one.
You're only useful to the Glory of the Leader until you aren't.
The government should provide a public access interface to their panopticon of facial recognition, gait, and automobile trackers so you can punch in a name and track whoever you want live.
There is no putting the Genie back in the bottle, so the only thing to do is neuter the government's advantage by letting all in on it.
If i reply to this, the bot generator will take the random phrases it posted as mildly successful, and use them to help generate the next round of slightly less random technobabble.
Guarantee if you dig deep enough, this is pushed by some law firm looking to stir up a class action lawsuit.
Here is an outrageous statement: The real purpose of these laws is to force people who want to get things done to make political donations. Whether it actually achieves any reasonable goal is beside the point.
In this it is no different from a corrupt country where you are expected to pay 10% of the cost of a new building to the building approver, or an immediate fee to the officer who pulled you over, or a few hundred to the DMV person so you don't need to mysteriously wait 5 years for a license.
I reiterate: "valid" regulations, even if granted as good, end up being misused this way.
Working as designed -- getting in the way of people who get things done. It has taken longer to clear regulatory hurdles to dredge a bay 5 feet deeper to handle superpanamax ships than it took to dig the original Panama canal.
The European Union says it is aiming to become the first major economy to go 'climate neutral'
You mean first major country. The EU is a federal government with member states, and by 2050 will have grown enough in power will be similar to the Unites States government, with member countries little more than anachronistic states like New Jersey and Idaho.
It took 150 years for this in the US, and that's with a constitution in theory granting the government limited powers and no others. 30 more years for the EU is very doable.
Telephones? Back in my day we didn't have no stinking telephones! All we had was telegraphs, and the receiver could live chat read each letter as it was typed!
What does doing that buy you?
No, he is right and you are a Russian troll trying to dissuade intellectual discussion on western web sites.