While the money has been allocated the total NASA budget has not been increased, in fact it has gone down. That means that the money for it is coming from somewhere.
In some cases, neither. "Left" and "right" are overly simplified ways of summing up someone's political persuasion. It hides the fact that there are philosophies that are neither "left" nor "right" such as libertarianism.
The libertarian would argue that taxpayers shouldn't have been forced to pay for this telescope at all.
BUT "your_scripting_language_there" only outputs HTML.
Not necessarily. It you're using a framework like ExtJS, then the server most likely fishes up JSON or XML which is parsed by the Javascript on the browser and the DOM in manipulated directly. I can't see Google doing anything to speed that up.
Programming *is* a science - one that deals with the abstract. The scientists referred to in the article deal with the physical. I'm a software engineer. When people ask me what I do, I say that I design, architect and build things that are not real. The sad thing is that most of it is for companies to find better ways of extracting money from people.
So people should have their money forcibly taken from them to fund things like NASA because if they didn't, they wouldn't choose to fund them voluntarily? There's a word for that: unethical.
I recommend shifting to a policy of "if you like what NASA does, then enter your credit card details on this site to donate" which would leave people free to choose whether the money they earn is used in this way. Surely choice like this would be a good thing?
I live in a metres and km based system, feet are hardly ever used. Metres and km seem more "real" to me because I can visualise exactly how long each are. With feet, not so much. Especially not 30,000 of them.
As a NZer myself, we don't use "feet" as a measurement except, oddly enough, when referring to altitude. Not sure why. Perhaps to remain standard around the world in aviation circles. When in an aeroplane, 30,000ft seems a lot less scary than 10,000m, which my mind instantly translates to "10km".
Pollution? I suppose that depends on how your electricity is generated. If using a lot of power is a problem for the power companies, then they should charge more for higher usage.
For all of those except for a justice system you would charge based on usage. Making someone pay for something they do not use is unjust. The government is supposed to protect us from the initiation of force, and yet to do do they insist on using force against us - the very thing they're supposed to protect us from. It's contradictory. You do not protect people by harming them. Everything should be either "user pays" or funded via voluntary means (e.g. insurances, donations etc). Forcing someone to hand over a portion of their wealth is just plain unethical.
Couldn't agree more. I'm in my mid 30s and have only ever been self employed (as a developer/architect). When I think of upping my skillset it never occurs to me that this is a client's responsibility. It's mine and only mine. One of the biggest advantages of contracting is the ability to work for more than one client at once, with varying responsibilities and roles. It strengthens your position at all of your clients, not just the one you're working for at the time.
I think contracting is the default and natural position for trading effort for money. It's by far not the most popular position though.
There is a big difference between using force in general, and using force as a means of defense. All the state (i.e. the police) should be interested in is protecting people from the *initiation* of force. That means they'll use force to stop someone else from hurting you. It also means they should not be able to use force to go into your bank account and take your money from you. As is the case with socialism.
Freedom is very important, but alas Stallman is concentrating on a less important freedom - that of software. A much more important freedom is that of people. If only he would put his efforts and publicity into that goal - of us as people being free. Then he would be worth listening too. How do we become free? Libertarianism.
"Among the bottom fifth, 32% had an annual income below approximately $15,000, while only 10% of the top fifth fell into that low-income bracket. Just 26% of the top-fifth's offspring were raised in single-parent homes, compared with 58% of those in the bottom fifth."
Well, that may very well be the problem right there.
It says the study subjects offspring were raised in single parent homes, not that the study subjects themselves were raised in a single parent home.
It also says an annual income of below $15000. Given this was in New Zealand, I doubt very much this is true. $15,000 NZD is not much at all. Perhaps they converted it to some other currency?
Yes indeed. Any IT job that requires travel, and while away you need access to email or remote desktops, the IPad is very useful. Especially when coupled with a bluetooth keyboard.
As a software developer, it's more fun to look at Sudoku as a different sort of puzzle: how do I get a computer to solve it? Even if it's just using a brute force approach there is something satisfying about writing software in a low level language that solves these kinds of puzzles.
This issue isn;t just about porn though. It's about any content that a parent doesn't want their children to see. This could be anything to do with war, with religion, with particular political views or just websites that criticise whatever superstitions they adhere to.
If parent want to control what their children have access to, then it's up to the parents to control that, not the companies that distribute such content.
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While the money has been allocated the total NASA budget has not been increased, in fact it has gone down. That means that the money for it is coming from somewhere.
Taxpayers.
Enough said.
Because it's "completely mental" to cancel something that is 1700% over budget and 11 years late.
...paid for by people who don't want to, have no choice in the matter, and have families to feed.
I forget, is slashdot left or right leaning?
In some cases, neither. "Left" and "right" are overly simplified ways of summing up someone's political persuasion. It hides the fact that there are philosophies that are neither "left" nor "right" such as libertarianism.
The libertarian would argue that taxpayers shouldn't have been forced to pay for this telescope at all.
BUT "your_scripting_language_there" only outputs HTML.
Not necessarily. It you're using a framework like ExtJS, then the server most likely fishes up JSON or XML which is parsed by the Javascript on the browser and the DOM in manipulated directly. I can't see Google doing anything to speed that up.
Programming *is* a science - one that deals with the abstract. The scientists referred to in the article deal with the physical. I'm a software engineer. When people ask me what I do, I say that I design, architect and build things that are not real. The sad thing is that most of it is for companies to find better ways of extracting money from people.
The "social contract" is a socialist myth, dreamed up as s way to excuse confiscating wealth from people.
So people should have their money forcibly taken from them to fund things like NASA because if they didn't, they wouldn't choose to fund them voluntarily? There's a word for that: unethical.
I recommend shifting to a policy of "if you like what NASA does, then enter your credit card details on this site to donate" which would leave people free to choose whether the money they earn is used in this way. Surely choice like this would be a good thing?
Boycotting traveling by plane would do it.
My passphrase WOULD actually increment me
It would make you get bigger?
Why do find 10km scary.
I live in a metres and km based system, feet are hardly ever used. Metres and km seem more "real" to me because I can visualise exactly how long each are. With feet, not so much. Especially not 30,000 of them.
As a NZer myself, we don't use "feet" as a measurement except, oddly enough, when referring to altitude. Not sure why. Perhaps to remain standard around the world in aviation circles. When in an aeroplane, 30,000ft seems a lot less scary than 10,000m, which my mind instantly translates to "10km".
Pollution? I suppose that depends on how your electricity is generated. If using a lot of power is a problem for the power companies, then they should charge more for higher usage.
Why? So long as they pay their power bill what's the problem?
No regulation? Ever heard of the "great firewall of China"? Falun Gong? Tienanmen Square? No regulation indeed.
For all of those except for a justice system you would charge based on usage. Making someone pay for something they do not use is unjust. The government is supposed to protect us from the initiation of force, and yet to do do they insist on using force against us - the very thing they're supposed to protect us from. It's contradictory. You do not protect people by harming them. Everything should be either "user pays" or funded via voluntary means (e.g. insurances, donations etc). Forcing someone to hand over a portion of their wealth is just plain unethical.
Couldn't agree more. I'm in my mid 30s and have only ever been self employed (as a developer/architect). When I think of upping my skillset it never occurs to me that this is a client's responsibility. It's mine and only mine. One of the biggest advantages of contracting is the ability to work for more than one client at once, with varying responsibilities and roles. It strengthens your position at all of your clients, not just the one you're working for at the time.
I think contracting is the default and natural position for trading effort for money. It's by far not the most popular position though.
There is a big difference between using force in general, and using force as a means of defense. All the state (i.e. the police) should be interested in is protecting people from the *initiation* of force. That means they'll use force to stop someone else from hurting you. It also means they should not be able to use force to go into your bank account and take your money from you. As is the case with socialism.
Freedom is very important, but alas Stallman is concentrating on a less important freedom - that of software. A much more important freedom is that of people. If only he would put his efforts and publicity into that goal - of us as people being free. Then he would be worth listening too. How do we become free? Libertarianism.
"Among the bottom fifth, 32% had an annual income below approximately $15,000, while only 10% of the top fifth fell into that low-income bracket. Just 26% of the top-fifth's offspring were raised in single-parent homes, compared with 58% of those in the bottom fifth."
Well, that may very well be the problem right there.
It says the study subjects offspring were raised in single parent homes, not that the study subjects themselves were raised in a single parent home.
It also says an annual income of below $15000. Given this was in New Zealand, I doubt very much this is true. $15,000 NZD is not much at all. Perhaps they converted it to some other currency?
Yes indeed. Any IT job that requires travel, and while away you need access to email or remote desktops, the IPad is very useful. Especially when coupled with a bluetooth keyboard.
As a software developer, it's more fun to look at Sudoku as a different sort of puzzle: how do I get a computer to solve it? Even if it's just using a brute force approach there is something satisfying about writing software in a low level language that solves these kinds of puzzles.
The performance of VNC over even "normal" broadband connections can be abysmal. NX runs rings around it for performance.
Unless you consider "Safari" to be an app.
This issue isn;t just about porn though. It's about any content that a parent doesn't want their children to see. This could be anything to do with war, with religion, with particular political views or just websites that criticise whatever superstitions they adhere to.
If parent want to control what their children have access to, then it's up to the parents to control that, not the companies that distribute such content.