I wonder how many of those 53% actually go to church or synagogue more than twice a year. As my Grandma says of lapsed catholics, "God loves 'em, but they're in my parking spot."
God-fearing politicians seem to have no qualms about starting wars, graft, spying, and lying to get their way, so maybe it's time we tried an ethical atheist for once.
I imagine that it would take another 350 pages of that crap before any of it starts to make sense. While I appreciate you having the balls to dis Dune, possibly the best selling science fiction novel of all time, on slashdot, I have a much different opinion. The in medias res start of Dune is a well-respected strategy for keeping the beginning of the book interesting. If it had started like Dune: House Atreides, you'd have a legitimate complaint.
Skip ahead if you must, but the read will be worth your time.
I got a 42" plasma TV at Fry's for a 1000 bucks. They had 6 more, and I had to wait until after 7 to go down there. Yeah, I bought an overpriced stand so I still got screwed.
In my experience, most salespeople use FUD tactics relating to the failure rate and difficulty to receive manufacturer's service for the covered device A good salesperson wouldn't tell you what he was selling you is a piece of crap, especially if it's actually not. However, I think best buy lost all those when they stopped paying commissions.
Besides, can a beta even get a rating??? I dunno, but in any case you get the "game experience may change whilst playing online," since it's a multiplayer-only demo. I mean, even if the game play itself was more akin to Hello Kitty Roller Rescue, you still run the risk of having some 13-year-old troll teach you some new slang for women's body parts.
Your situation should have illustrated the primary reason why teachers don't get paid well. Women will do it for cheap because they can do it and still be a stay-at-home Mom for the most part. As a professional, a mother of four would barely make enough to pay for day care. Okay to be honest I have no idea what day care costs, but you get the idea.
I'd bet dollars to pesos you're living on a coast. Same here, but if I had a wife and kids, I'd have to think long and hard about it, just like my parents did. Sucks that those morons, combined with more income disparity (which also drives up prices because the rich can afford to overpay for 3 or 4), are forcing us to change our lives though.
Also, $50 to 60K isn't a good enough salary to pay off the student debt anymore Talk about living beyond your means. If you went to a ass-expensive private school and you couldn't afford it then and you can't afford it now then tough luck -- you should've gone to law school. By graduating from the private system on the public dole (government pays your interest for you while you bong a bunch of beers), you're basically asking for a lifetime of servitude to the man, unless you are the man. I know because I did it. If you are truly and desperately broke then you can always file for bankruptcy.
University is not vocational school. Your main goal may be to get a job, but the university does not see it that way. If you graduate school and you do not know what you want to do, then you're just like most everyone else. Even the people who "know" often change their minds a few years out.
Instruction sets are fairly compiler friendly As a guy who works on compilers frequently (as in it's my job), I got a kick out of that. You're right though -- they're certainly more friendly these days to the compilers than they are to us people. If you want a good example, dump some assembly from a cross-compiler targeted at Analog Devices Blackfin series (gcc supports it.) One look and I thought, when I am replaced by a robot, this is like the language it will speak.
Well of course taxes are necessary. The argument was whether or not higher taxes spur growth in the economy. Higher taxes spur growth of the public sector, which is known to be less efficient. You ever work for a government contractor? You ever wonder why highways stay under construction for years at a time? Simultaneously public spending displaces work which could have been done in the private sector.
I thought of a good example during the day. I live in California where we have high taxes. I can't think of one thing the government here does that the government of Texas, which has no state income tax and only marginally higher sales tax, does not do. I will state without proof (although it has been proven) that state taxes correlate not with the services the state provides but to real estate prices, a proxy for the desirability of living there. Kind of makes you wonder what they do with the money. Wrt california, I haven't been able to find an answer yet.
You are right about taxes being high in the 1950s. The United States economy was also in a growth position not unlike the Asian tigers in the 60s.
Referring to the 60s and 70s however the U.S. Treasury, certainly not the most anti-tax organization in the world had this to say
During this time, the income tax was not indexed for inflation and so, driven by a rising inflation, and despite repeated legislated tax cuts, the tax burden rose from 19.4 percent of GDP to 20.8 percent of GDP. Combined with high marginal tax rates, rising inflation, and a heavy regulatory burden, this high tax burden caused the economy to under-perform badly, all of which laid the groundwork for the Reagan tax cut, also known as the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981.
Unfortunately I can't find a good quote for why taxes are negatively correlated with growth today by someone we would both respect right now, but I have stacks of Economist magazines at home that are full of good statistics, if you want to continue discussing later.
[T]hey can find out exactly which aisles you were in, what you looked at, and what you bought for the past 5 years unless you pay in cash without the "loyalty card". Not if you never send in the form that has your name and address. They could spy on you with CCTV I suppose, but that'd be no different than paying in cash, and good luck finding a retailer willing to sacrifice CCTV to protect your theft... err privacy.
I'd like to take things back to the good old days of 90% tax rates and a booming economy When has that ever happened? I was gonna give you a lecture on economics, but IANAE. You aren't either unless you're just the best undiscovered one ever because I've never heard one argue that taxes are good for the economy.
By the way, you are always free to move to a small farm or commune and practice subsistence agriculture, to consume nothing you didn't produce and die in no gutter, or even have a gutter for that matter. Some people do. I saw them on TV once.
So I do think dual core chips are useful. You're right, but how far can we scale this? I really think the 8-core chips of the future are worthless for the desktop. It's just so much easier to write efficient programs than it is to exploit that sort of parallelism. Then again, you could argue we don't even need all the cycles we have.
Ya know, I have just been making arguments about how easy it is to port to a new architecture, assuming you're not writing machine code and you've been writing decent code, and you ruined it for me.
Your mention of big grids made me think multi-threaded, and porting anything multi-threaded is going to require more than a checkbox. I can hear contrary responses about good code already, but I still think this is a non-starter for Apple supporting two architectures in the future.
That little player has loads of ASM and SIMD instructions to be able to pull off what it does in this size and this speed. I have heard of Apple fanboys, but I have never heard of a flash fanboy. You are the first person everm *EVER* to refer to flash as anything but bloated and slow.
If there's a lot of assembly in Flash, then Macromedia needs a new freaking profiler.
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I wonder how many of those 53% actually go to church or synagogue more than twice a year. As my Grandma says of lapsed catholics, "God loves 'em, but they're in my parking spot."
God-fearing politicians seem to have no qualms about starting wars, graft, spying, and lying to get their way, so maybe it's time we tried an ethical atheist for once.
Boom. Godwinned. I was waiting for that one.
Skip ahead if you must, but the read will be worth your time.
I got a 42" plasma TV at Fry's for a 1000 bucks. They had 6 more, and I had to wait until after 7 to go down there. Yeah, I bought an overpriced stand so I still got screwed.
They're making that up. Also, you know the 3 hour laptop shipped with a label that said up to 5 hours.
Sure, 14 hours... in sleep mode. Certainly not with the integrated wireless on.
A wonderful example of the market in action. Check it out ma, no nanny state.
And pretty soon all you (21-yr-old) Mexicans will be allowed to come over here and drink and play any game you want -- permanently.
Biology majors not in grad school are failed premeds at whom I laugh for being ambitious yet not wise enough to study anything as a backup plan.
Your situation should have illustrated the primary reason why teachers don't get paid well. Women will do it for cheap because they can do it and still be a stay-at-home Mom for the most part. As a professional, a mother of four would barely make enough to pay for day care. Okay to be honest I have no idea what day care costs, but you get the idea.
I'd bet dollars to pesos you're living on a coast. Same here, but if I had a wife and kids, I'd have to think long and hard about it, just like my parents did. Sucks that those morons, combined with more income disparity (which also drives up prices because the rich can afford to overpay for 3 or 4), are forcing us to change our lives though.
University is not vocational school. Your main goal may be to get a job, but the university does not see it that way. If you graduate school and you do not know what you want to do, then you're just like most everyone else. Even the people who "know" often change their minds a few years out.
Where I grew up, they would post cops at the doors to R-rated movies. I guess it varies by area.
Well of course taxes are necessary. The argument was whether or not higher taxes spur growth in the economy. Higher taxes spur growth of the public sector, which is known to be less efficient. You ever work for a government contractor? You ever wonder why highways stay under construction for years at a time? Simultaneously public spending displaces work which could have been done in the private sector.
I thought of a good example during the day. I live in California where we have high taxes. I can't think of one thing the government here does that the government of Texas, which has no state income tax and only marginally higher sales tax, does not do. I will state without proof (although it has been proven) that state taxes correlate not with the services the state provides but to real estate prices, a proxy for the desirability of living there. Kind of makes you wonder what they do with the money. Wrt california, I haven't been able to find an answer yet.
Referring to the 60s and 70s however the U.S. Treasury, certainly not the most anti-tax organization in the world had this to say
Unfortunately I can't find a good quote for why taxes are negatively correlated with growth today by someone we would both respect right now, but I have stacks of Economist magazines at home that are full of good statistics, if you want to continue discussing later.
By the way, you are always free to move to a small farm or commune and practice subsistence agriculture, to consume nothing you didn't produce and die in no gutter, or even have a gutter for that matter. Some people do. I saw them on TV once.
Interesting combination of you and the sibling post:
What do you think are the odds that Microsoft keeps a secret version of Windows that supports PowerPC?
If I could get something the size of an X60 tab with high-end graphics I would bow down and worship the future.
As is stands now, a decent graphics card would draw enough power to require a battery the size of that whole computer.
Ya know, I have just been making arguments about how easy it is to port to a new architecture, assuming you're not writing machine code and you've been writing decent code, and you ruined it for me.
Your mention of big grids made me think multi-threaded, and porting anything multi-threaded is going to require more than a checkbox. I can hear contrary responses about good code already, but I still think this is a non-starter for Apple supporting two architectures in the future.
If there's a lot of assembly in Flash, then Macromedia needs a new freaking profiler.