Let's say the GP gets 5 miles in his 8 minutes. My work reimburses me about $.49 per mile. That makes the GPs commute worth 4.90. I'm not quite sure if he meant 3.10 (bus fare) one way or 2 so the value will depend on that.
$.49 a mile seems a bit much. Let's do a calculation for my car:
Gas=.17/mile Car Depreciation=.12 [(12000 - 6000) / 50000 for my 2000 Civic) Maintenance=.04 [2000/50000 -- Kind of made up but definitely achievable on a new car for 5 years if you can change your own oil and you don't blow through tires] =.33/mile
The bus fare works out to.62/mile (assuming that's a one-way fare). So it'd be slightly cheaper if you could get a really cheap bus ride.
Now, I'm not including fees that you have to pay for just having a car, which would include parking (somewhere, we'll assume work is free), insurance, bullshit state fees and all forms of state-sponsored graft (smog checks, parking/speeding tickets, etc).
According to this a similar car would cost 25k to drive for 5 years, not new, and that's all-inclusive I mean down to the financing if you borrow your car from a bank. Let's try to own a bus pass for 5 years:
Bus: 3.10 * 2 (each way we think) * 240 (working days a year otherwise we stay in the dank cave and guard the precious) * 5 years = 7440 .
Seems to me the only way to achieve dramatic savings using public transport is to not own a car at all. YMMV if you live in a crowded city. I mean clearly most people in NYC have done the math and realized driving isn't worth it.
Is the argument then that military recruiting is a detriment to society? Would you prefer conscription?
Yes. As long as it includes the children of the rich and powerful.
Jenna and Barbara with M16's, valuable.
Letters to home, priceless.
Ahh but you're not fully getting it. We want the commander-in-chief as fully reasonable about war as possible. It makes sense not to conscript his relatives. The leader should be invested enough in his troops to make proper decisions but not so invested as to make irrational decisions or so detached as to make callous choices.
You do realize most of those laws require you to attempt to help out? Sure, if you have no conscience and you can get away anonymously then you're free to leave the man dying on the road, but if anybody else sees you see the guy you better at least half ass it.
Well that's the most interesting idea I've seen in this thread yet. Nobody's ever successfully sold the "network is the computer" idea yet, but it's always had potential. My question is this: what does the MBA have to offer that makes this paradigm any more workable than it was before? And where's the built-in wireless WAN (EVDO/GPRS/etc) support? -- that would seem to be a key feature for a modern network computer to me.
Backwards compatibility has always been MS's killer app. At one moment, people complain about all the problems it creates, but they positively freak out when old cruft doesn't work. I'm not even convinced Apple makes an attempt. Case in point: the switch from 68k to POWER to x86.
As another person pointed out there's a few domestic flights that long (poor google folks eh:). More importantly, my experience is that the battery life quoted by makers is for when you're doing nothing with your laptop but it's not in sleep or with anything turned off ('cept wireless, they always quote it with those devices turned off). This that there's hardly a current laptop that could last a flight, especially if you're doing software dev.
Yet again, the FAA has screwed us for no apparent reason. My belief is that this is on purpose. Their making our lives difficult convinces a certain paranoid subset of the population that they're doing their job.
That's hilarious. I understand that conspicuous consumption is vital for certain people's self-esteem, but I mean Jeebus go buy yourself another suit or something.
I like ThinkPads, but I'd much rather they work on improving the existing design than making this joke.
And their website's an inaccesible, unnavigable giant flash app too. My eyes!
The MBA is a computer for people with smooth hands. I have no idea what that means but if it has anything to do with exfoliation I totally agree.
I understand that the MBA can't fit an ExpressCard slot. Just like the lack of an optical drive this is a drawback that one should take into account. I agree it's not a great dull work notebook. It'd be really nice if I could afford one without corporate help, though.
What business does the *federal* government have funding universities in the first place, much less telling them what to do? I don't recall any United States university (military academies aside).
A related note: maybe the Unis will now learn their lesson about suckling at the federal teat.
That happened to me, too. They offered to replace it. Instead I took it apart attempting to recover my valuable data (seriously the number of hours I put into oblivion is worth a hundred bucks easy, although I realized fixing it was a long shot and would void my warranty), so I didn't actually get it replaced. This was a good while ago, just after I bought the unit, though.
Well if they didn't mandate a markup you could buy your gas at the car wash which is selling gas at a loss so you'll buy a wash, instead of the gas station guy which is selling you gas at a loss so you'll buy ho hos and smokes.
Oh, goodness not the agro subsidies threadjack again.
Let's outline why farm subsides are bad: 1) Give all the money to huge agro-businesses. 2) Raise prices screwing over the poor near and far, some of whom live on less than a dollar a day. "You too can sponsor a child for just cents a day (well it'd be free but we're ensuring the security of your food supply.)" 3) Require corresponding tariffs to work leading to great international gnashing of teeth. Farm lobby not withstanding, they might be gone if not for bickering over tariffs. 4) Contribute to pollution and global warming. 5) Subsidize the production of unhealthy foods. This way, you see, we can die of obesity instead of starvation. It's a lot more fun. 6) Ethanol. It's not even a good idea, much less a food, but we'll subsidize it anyways.
Oh noes we can't let the price of corn fluctuate like, my goodness, almost everything else.
High priced cigarettes only keep poor people from smoking. Worse, it just means that the poor have to spend a greater portion of their income on cigarettes.
Tobacco taxes have nothing to do with consumption and everything to do with lining politicians pockets. So it has been since the days of Columbus (or thereabouts.)
I would disagree and say that information (sometimes contained in books) is the core of the culture. The books themselves are just commodities.
It's completely unfair to Amazon. Now they can not only not discount books, but they also have to charge shipping, making books from there more expensive than books from the store (where they can pay for shipping but not charge it.)
Oh and I'm happy to support local businesses, by you know, going to them and appreciating the service, but I'd never suppose they had a right to my money.
You don't have to crazy to reject the theory of evolution, so long as you do it on a reasonable basis. I see no evidence that Paul's rejection is based on anything other than science. Remember it's a theory because nobody's proven it yet, and therefore a reasonable man is still entitled to his opinion based on the evidence.
You're just wrong about his supposed rejection of the separation of church and state. He simply has a different (read better) interpretation of the relevant parts of the constitution than some others. Compare him to most republicans who believe in this concept of church and state but support faith based initiatives, legislating morality, etc. RP who supposedly rejects the concept, merely supports allowing Christmas to happen as in the past. Most importantly Ron Paul supports the separation of the state and YOU. That's not crazy that's policy.
Repealing birthright citizenship has nothing to do with race and everything to do with immigration. This is the reason Paul opposes birthright citizenship. He calls it a "perverse incentive," a relic of the past, and a bad thing for modern America. As an American, I would be very sad to see such a noble principle go, BUT I understand the need for that sacrifice.
I don't know where you got the homophobic thing. The bill you linked appears to reduce taxes and reform or end the draft, which is probably why Paul supported it with no cosponsors. The alternative lifestyle bit sounds like a nasty rider. Moreover, why should the Fed. gov't provide funds to any organization which promotes any sort of lifestyle? Waaaay outside the bounds of what the gov't needs to or ought to be doing.
In your link about references to God, he's talking about the Declaration of Independence and the constitution, and it's unclear whether he means the drafters or the documents. The former is most certainly true, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, along with a scolding for poor sentence construction.
How is Ron Paul a nutjob? You're talking about a sitting US Congressman and a practicing doctor. Not to straw man you, but I will address a position that many people feel is crazy.
Gold standard: not a good idea IMO, but it's not crazy. Such a system has worked in the past. Would be really hard to implement in a single presidency, but he says he supports it not that he can enforce it immediately.
Dismantling the IRS: what have they done for you lately? A new organization for assessing taxes makes sense if you radically change taxation.
If you disable config over wireless you don't need a password at all. In that case, presumably no one can get to your router who is not plugged in, in which case (again assuming) they have physical access to your router and can do whatever they want to it. Also if you enable WPA, someone would have to crack it to reconfigure your router, in which case they've already pwnt your network. So, yes, the password can be another layer of security but it's not one you want an attacker to get to. Mostly good for keeping your roommate/wife/little sister from messing with things.
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Let's say the GP gets 5 miles in his 8 minutes. My work reimburses me about $.49 per mile. That makes the GPs commute worth 4.90. I'm not quite sure if he meant 3.10 (bus fare) one way or 2 so the value will depend on that.
.12 [(12000 - 6000) / 50000 for my 2000 Civic) .04 [2000/50000 -- Kind of made up but definitely achievable on a new car for 5 years if you can change your own oil and you don't blow through tires] .33/mile
.62/mile (assuming that's a one-way fare). So it'd be slightly cheaper if you could get a really cheap bus ride.
$.49 a mile seems a bit much. Let's do a calculation for my car:
Gas=.17/mile
Car Depreciation=
Maintenance=
=
The bus fare works out to
Now, I'm not including fees that you have to pay for just having a car, which would include parking (somewhere, we'll assume work is free), insurance, bullshit state fees and all forms of state-sponsored graft (smog checks, parking/speeding tickets, etc).
According to this a similar car would cost 25k to drive for 5 years, not new, and that's all-inclusive I mean down to the financing if you borrow your car from a bank. Let's try to own a bus pass for 5 years:
Bus: 3.10 * 2 (each way we think) * 240 (working days a year otherwise we stay in the dank cave and guard the precious) * 5 years = 7440 .
Seems to me the only way to achieve dramatic savings using public transport is to not own a car at all. YMMV if you live in a crowded city. I mean clearly most people in NYC have done the math and realized driving isn't worth it.
Tolls in NYC are like $5 each way. Not pocket change any more.
Is the argument then that military recruiting is a detriment to society? Would you prefer conscription?
Yes. As long as it includes the children of the rich and powerful.
Jenna and Barbara with M16's, valuable.
Ahh but you're not fully getting it. We want the commander-in-chief as fully reasonable about war as possible. It makes sense not to conscript his relatives. The leader should be invested enough in his troops to make proper decisions but not so invested as to make irrational decisions or so detached as to make callous choices.Letters to home, priceless.
You do realize most of those laws require you to attempt to help out? Sure, if you have no conscience and you can get away anonymously then you're free to leave the man dying on the road, but if anybody else sees you see the guy you better at least half ass it.
Well that's the most interesting idea I've seen in this thread yet. Nobody's ever successfully sold the "network is the computer" idea yet, but it's always had potential. My question is this: what does the MBA have to offer that makes this paradigm any more workable than it was before? And where's the built-in wireless WAN (EVDO/GPRS/etc) support? -- that would seem to be a key feature for a modern network computer to me.
What's wrong with slocate?
Mac OS: $129
Vista OEM: $99-199
Carrera GT: 100k+?
Escort: 20k
Car analogy FAIL
Backwards compatibility has always been MS's killer app. At one moment, people complain about all the problems it creates, but they positively freak out when old cruft doesn't work. I'm not even convinced Apple makes an attempt. Case in point: the switch from 68k to POWER to x86.
As another person pointed out there's a few domestic flights that long (poor google folks eh :). More importantly, my experience is that the battery life quoted by makers is for when you're doing nothing with your laptop but it's not in sleep or with anything turned off ('cept wireless, they always quote it with those devices turned off). This that there's hardly a current laptop that could last a flight, especially if you're doing software dev.
Yet again, the FAA has screwed us for no apparent reason. My belief is that this is on purpose. Their making our lives difficult convinces a certain paranoid subset of the population that they're doing their job.
That's hilarious. I understand that conspicuous consumption is vital for certain people's self-esteem, but I mean Jeebus go buy yourself another suit or something.
I like ThinkPads, but I'd much rather they work on improving the existing design than making this joke.
And their website's an inaccesible, unnavigable giant flash app too. My eyes!
I understand that the MBA can't fit an ExpressCard slot. Just like the lack of an optical drive this is a drawback that one should take into account. I agree it's not a great dull work notebook. It'd be really nice if I could afford one without corporate help, though.
What business does the *federal* government have funding universities in the first place, much less telling them what to do? I don't recall any United States university (military academies aside).
A related note: maybe the Unis will now learn their lesson about suckling at the federal teat.
That happened to me, too. They offered to replace it. Instead I took it apart attempting to recover my valuable data (seriously the number of hours I put into oblivion is worth a hundred bucks easy, although I realized fixing it was a long shot and would void my warranty), so I didn't actually get it replaced. This was a good while ago, just after I bought the unit, though.
Fortunately, taxes often outweigh shipping on expensive items. I hear they're going to start charging though.
Well if they didn't mandate a markup you could buy your gas at the car wash which is selling gas at a loss so you'll buy a wash, instead of the gas station guy which is selling you gas at a loss so you'll buy ho hos and smokes.
Oh, goodness not the agro subsidies threadjack again.
Let's outline why farm subsides are bad:
1) Give all the money to huge agro-businesses.
2) Raise prices screwing over the poor near and far, some of whom live on less than a dollar a day. "You too can sponsor a child for just cents a day (well it'd be free but we're ensuring the security of your food supply.)"
3) Require corresponding tariffs to work leading to great international gnashing of teeth. Farm lobby not withstanding, they might be gone if not for bickering over tariffs.
4) Contribute to pollution and global warming.
5) Subsidize the production of unhealthy foods. This way, you see, we can die of obesity instead of starvation. It's a lot more fun.
6) Ethanol. It's not even a good idea, much less a food, but we'll subsidize it anyways.
Oh noes we can't let the price of corn fluctuate like, my goodness, almost everything else.
High priced cigarettes only keep poor people from smoking. Worse, it just means that the poor have to spend a greater portion of their income on cigarettes.
Tobacco taxes have nothing to do with consumption and everything to do with lining politicians pockets. So it has been since the days of Columbus (or thereabouts.)
I would disagree and say that information (sometimes contained in books) is the core of the culture. The books themselves are just commodities.
It's completely unfair to Amazon. Now they can not only not discount books, but they also have to charge shipping, making books from there more expensive than books from the store (where they can pay for shipping but not charge it.)
Oh and I'm happy to support local businesses, by you know, going to them and appreciating the service, but I'd never suppose they had a right to my money.
The French in the (French) movies do seem to do a lot more complaining and a lot less ass-kicking. Chalk it up to no money for special effects.
Dude you can rent an apartment in Houston for 400 bucks a month. What are you on, social security?
You don't have to crazy to reject the theory of evolution, so long as you do it on a reasonable basis. I see no evidence that Paul's rejection is based on anything other than science. Remember it's a theory because nobody's proven it yet, and therefore a reasonable man is still entitled to his opinion based on the evidence.
You're just wrong about his supposed rejection of the separation of church and state. He simply has a different (read better) interpretation of the relevant parts of the constitution than some others. Compare him to most republicans who believe in this concept of church and state but support faith based initiatives, legislating morality, etc. RP who supposedly rejects the concept, merely supports allowing Christmas to happen as in the past. Most importantly Ron Paul supports the separation of the state and YOU. That's not crazy that's policy.
Repealing birthright citizenship has nothing to do with race and everything to do with immigration. This is the reason Paul opposes birthright citizenship. He calls it a "perverse incentive," a relic of the past, and a bad thing for modern America. As an American, I would be very sad to see such a noble principle go, BUT I understand the need for that sacrifice.
I don't know where you got the homophobic thing. The bill you linked appears to reduce taxes and reform or end the draft, which is probably why Paul supported it with no cosponsors. The alternative lifestyle bit sounds like a nasty rider. Moreover, why should the Fed. gov't provide funds to any organization which promotes any sort of lifestyle? Waaaay outside the bounds of what the gov't needs to or ought to be doing.
In your link about references to God, he's talking about the Declaration of Independence and the constitution, and it's unclear whether he means the drafters or the documents. The former is most certainly true, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, along with a scolding for poor sentence construction.
How is Ron Paul a nutjob? You're talking about a sitting US Congressman and a practicing doctor. Not to straw man you, but I will address a position that many people feel is crazy.
Gold standard: not a good idea IMO, but it's not crazy. Such a system has worked in the past. Would be really hard to implement in a single presidency, but he says he supports it not that he can enforce it immediately.
Dismantling the IRS: what have they done for you lately? A new organization for assessing taxes makes sense if you radically change taxation.
I don't know what else you think makes him crazy.
If you disable config over wireless you don't need a password at all. In that case, presumably no one can get to your router who is not plugged in, in which case (again assuming) they have physical access to your router and can do whatever they want to it. Also if you enable WPA, someone would have to crack it to reconfigure your router, in which case they've already pwnt your network. So, yes, the password can be another layer of security but it's not one you want an attacker to get to. Mostly good for keeping your roommate/wife/little sister from messing with things.