There are only so many people who are ever going to get into heavy bass and recreational drug use.
You're right about the first part at least - I'm a bass player and I can't get into bass as heavy as a synth can put out in the "really LF" range (just doesn't sound or feel "musical" to me).
As far as recreational drug use - well, I haven't found many people who are really "straight-edge" (as they used to call them in the punk era) outside the Christian fundie communities. It's just that the drugs they use change due to accessibility and acceptability once they get on in years and the friends who supply them get out of the business.
Now IT people are just the work place bitches, a rung or two above the mailroom guys (unless you work for a technology company).
Well, at least the non-parenthetical part is true. For the parenthetical part, it all depends which technology company you work for.
Actually, I'd almost be willing to bet that he's above the 80'th percentile for intelligence in the Senate. You need to have some serious brain power to turn out comedy week-after-week for years, especially of the more cerebral stuff that he did.
Putting the pressure, money, and focus on such a goal will be a complete waste. Focus on making them good *people* first...
It's not clear that we're doing that bad of a job in education. Asian-American students (as a class) are scoring as well as students in Asian countries. White Americans are scoring as well as their counterparts in Europe. Yes, it's a tragedy that African-American and Hispanic students are falling behind. But lumping in their stats and comparing to other countries without adjustment for the sociological factors (familial disfunction, linguistic shortcomings, poverty, etc.) leads to mis-diagnosis of the problem. Plus, having all of these "innovative" people here still hasn't stopped the decline of our industrial base.
I say "f#$%" them, as a generation. They want to be able to default $500k mortgages and enjoy generous pensions and Social Security when they won't even let my generation discharge a few 10s of thousands of dollars in student loans **in bankruptcy court**.
First, most of us have not yet had the pleasure of "default[ing] $500K mortages". Check the percentages of defaults nationwide (it's under 20%) and my assumption is that it was not us boomers that did most of the defaulting - look a little closer upstream at the X'ers for that. Second, most boomers don't have pensions - just fairly crappy 401K's that are usually underfunded and insufficient to maintain a person in this country - not that relatively meager SocSec payments are much better. Finally, I don't really give a rat's ass whether or not you discharge your debts, as long as my tax dollars aren't backing them. Let the lenders take the haircut and I'd be fine with it.
As for the Congresspeople who don't seem to care about you, all I'll say is that you have a chance to vote, too. You're also young and energetic enough to run about banging on doors and getting your fellow young people elected. In my state, we have quite a few Gen X's in the state legislature (many with many Gen Y's on their staff), many of whom will probably be in the US legislature in a few years. Of course, not many of them go about spouting idiocy like "Take away Social Security and Medicare" and everything will be great for me!!!
In fact, as for your "modest proposal", if you did try to do that, remember that boomers are in generally better health than the elderly of previous generations, we outnumber you, firearms take away strength advantages, and I bet you'd taste really good, once roasted.
How can we out innovate when large corporations are selling technology to foreign countries?
Innovation has little to do with selling what you've already innovated. Being proprietary might increase the learning curve for a while to give you a bit more time but it's like security through obscurity - it's not a sustainable strategy.
The sad thing is that this is the same stuff (i.e., innovation and education) that's been said by each President since the days of RW Regan. We still don't have a coherent nationwide industrial or education policy to back the drive for either. The thing that's never mentioned is that "innovation" is not a sustainable advantage. And it's not clear that "innovation and education" leadership is a sustainable strategy either. To think it is, you have to assume that either (1) people not in your country are, for some reason, more stupid and less creative than your people are; or (2) that your particular country is a special little snowflake that is better than the 200+ other little snowflakes competing against it on the world stage and it has a way of keeping itself being special. I really don't see either of those being true at this point.
Not only US gov't has no authority under the Constitution to get involved into education, but also it has no competence to do any of it either.
And, while idiot Libertarians like you are yelling about "constitutional authority", macro-economic "angels dancing on pinheads" crapola, and other moonbattery, foreign governments are doing things like supporting education, funding research, and promoting industrial policies that are kicking our asses. You can see government as an assistant to reach our goals or as a problem. Those of you who see it as only a problem will never win as the common man is too afraid of anarchy to ever let your ideas hold sway. You'll also never be able to compete with those who use shared resources to aid progress to all.
That probably easily covers the costs of any sports scholarships, and there is probably plenty left over to help finance the university.
Uh, no. The University of Oregon (I live in Oregon) for the past ten years has been subsidizing the sports program to (almost) make it to #1 in football (American-style for you non-USians), building new stadia, gyms, training facilities, etc. This is in addition to what the large contributors (mainly Nike founder Phil Knight) has been giving. It has been a net loss to a school which has seen tuition costs rise and rise steeply for the past twenty-five years.
And it's good for the university image, and keeps it in the limelight.
This.
And, with this, the top administrative staff can demand higher salaries for themselves, because about twenty-five-to-thirty-five years ago, the role of a university president seemed to shift from providing education to providing press releases. And they've found it easier to make noise about the releases by winning championships in football and basketball, rather than by doing mundane things like running a good school and keeping tuition rates down.
No! Jughead was always the gay one. Remember how he always had that girl that looked like him run after him and he was always running away from her? Now he can declare his undying love for Moose and Moose can stop hanging around with that annoying Midge just to cover...
So why not use it in a current-switching logic like ECL? Yeah, the power consumption might be a bit high, but you only need to make the cache and cores run faster.
This pattern allowed them to find a finite, algebraic formula...
Yeah, but looking at the paper, still not that simple. Eventually someone will be able to program it into a function and I'll be able to call it in Matlab, but until then, I'd still be worried about making calculation errors. On the other hand, that may be saying more about my calculation skills than about the work...
The idea that government spending creates "growth" is, at best, arguable... Notable exceptions would be in infrastructure and other items that the people can't themselves provide...
Then the proposition is not "at best arguable", you actually state that it's true. The only thing you're quibbling over is the price tag. Say what you mean, dude...
... putting the chipmaker on a collision course with Microsoft...
How? Last I heard, Microsoft controlled the licensing of Windows. If Microsoft doesn't want a particular version of Windows on a device, they can revoke licensing for it. And, frankly, Intel would be stupid to ship their products with unlicensed software. They're not that dumb.
Is it the case that if you happen to be ambivalent about Palin or *gasp*, even be a supporter, that your statements, which normally everyone would agree with, suddenly become inoperative?
Yes, because you've demonstrated your stupidity by doing so.
I'd mod you up, but I already posted on this thread. And, yes, I should have written that in lower case, without punctuation to try to be seen as funny.
All CD's are compressed hard (audio compression, not data compression) so all the life is sucked out of it.
This is a choice. CD's have a usable dynamic range of 93+dB and many bands (especially those who self-produce, -promote, and -sell) have gone back to having CDs that use 10-14dB of dynamic range (as opposed to 3-6dB for the "major"'s CDs). This is enough to allow the dynamics of the music to come through well while still having enough "loudness" to make them play above the noise floor of a car or other high-noise environment. They sound better on the radio, too. I agree that major commercial releases suck in this regard, but that doesn't necessarily mean that everything on CD sucks.
The energy, food and beverage, agricultural, mining, banking, and manufacturing industries (and everyone else in the private sector except trial lawyers) could use a little fair-minded consideration.
I agree!
energy
An industry that mines coal in often unsafe manner, destroying landscape and environment without proper mitigation, and ignores governmental regulations that were put on them only because they were shown not to be able to carry out their business in a way that did not endanger workers and the environment. Oil spills and their environmental damages are just a bonus. Besides, the Deepwater Horizon disaster was so long ago... Show some "fair-minded consideration".
mining
See energy above for coal. For other minerals, leach mining often pollutes local groundwater and in many cases, the companies "go bankrupt" after the minerals have gone and after having absorbed the profits for years,while sticking the government (read, you and I) with the cleanup costs.
banking
Yeah! They were just making money. God knows they did nothing to contribute to the largest financial disaster in seventy-five years. And they've been picked on so much...
I agree that food and beverage, agriculture, and manufacturing industries have occasionally gotten a bum rap (although the latter not so much recently, since they learned to live withing OSHA regs and stopped killing so many workers), but I'm sure that the quest for profit makes sure that there are sins that need to be atoned for (I'll let others cover them). But for the other industries you mention, fair-minded consideration shows that their rapacious, sociopathic behavior to an extent that is breath-taking makes their bad reputation completely justified.
And, you know what? If these companies did not behave so badly, trial lawyers wouldn't be nearly as wealthy as they are.
But there are experts you CAN turn to (your family doctor, for one) for advice...
Many of the people who listened to Jenny and Oprah were also the type who distrust medical science in the first place and see naturopaths and homeopaths rather than relying on a real "family doctor".
And the problem is that these idiots didn't simply keep their children unvaccinated. They also went to state legislatures, teaming up with fringe religionists to pass legislation that made it ridiculously simple to get an exemption for required immunization before little River, Moonbeam, and Pondscum went off to school. And, they continued to publicize their idiocy far and wide and they still do, even though the link between vaccination and any childhood malady (other than potential allergic reaction and minor side-effects) has proven non-existent. And, they were backed by their naturopathic and homeopathic "doctors".
A lovely conflation, all brought about because some jackass decided he wanted to make money. Thanks, capitalism! And, before you say "It's greed, not my precious capitalism", ask whether or not this idiocy would have spread so far and so virulently had so many people not had the opportunity to grow their personal fortunes on the back of this fraud and the increased desire due to capitalism's sway. If you take the good of capitalism, you have to take the bad, too.
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You're right about the first part at least - I'm a bass player and I can't get into bass as heavy as a synth can put out in the "really LF" range (just doesn't sound or feel "musical" to me).
As far as recreational drug use - well, I haven't found many people who are really "straight-edge" (as they used to call them in the punk era) outside the Christian fundie communities. It's just that the drugs they use change due to accessibility and acceptability once they get on in years and the friends who supply them get out of the business.
Now IT people are just the work place bitches, a rung or two above the mailroom guys (unless you work for a technology company).
Well, at least the non-parenthetical part is true. For the parenthetical part, it all depends which technology company you work for.
Actually, I'd almost be willing to bet that he's above the 80'th percentile for intelligence in the Senate. You need to have some serious brain power to turn out comedy week-after-week for years, especially of the more cerebral stuff that he did.
Putting the pressure, money, and focus on such a goal will be a complete waste. Focus on making them good *people* first...
It's not clear that we're doing that bad of a job in education. Asian-American students (as a class) are scoring as well as students in Asian countries. White Americans are scoring as well as their counterparts in Europe. Yes, it's a tragedy that African-American and Hispanic students are falling behind. But lumping in their stats and comparing to other countries without adjustment for the sociological factors (familial disfunction, linguistic shortcomings, poverty, etc.) leads to mis-diagnosis of the problem. Plus, having all of these "innovative" people here still hasn't stopped the decline of our industrial base.
I say "f#$%" them, as a generation. They want to be able to default $500k mortgages and enjoy generous pensions and Social Security when they won't even let my generation discharge a few 10s of thousands of dollars in student loans **in bankruptcy court**.
First, most of us have not yet had the pleasure of "default[ing] $500K mortages". Check the percentages of defaults nationwide (it's under 20%) and my assumption is that it was not us boomers that did most of the defaulting - look a little closer upstream at the X'ers for that. Second, most boomers don't have pensions - just fairly crappy 401K's that are usually underfunded and insufficient to maintain a person in this country - not that relatively meager SocSec payments are much better. Finally, I don't really give a rat's ass whether or not you discharge your debts, as long as my tax dollars aren't backing them. Let the lenders take the haircut and I'd be fine with it.
As for the Congresspeople who don't seem to care about you, all I'll say is that you have a chance to vote, too. You're also young and energetic enough to run about banging on doors and getting your fellow young people elected. In my state, we have quite a few Gen X's in the state legislature (many with many Gen Y's on their staff), many of whom will probably be in the US legislature in a few years. Of course, not many of them go about spouting idiocy like "Take away Social Security and Medicare" and everything will be great for me!!!
In fact, as for your "modest proposal", if you did try to do that, remember that boomers are in generally better health than the elderly of previous generations, we outnumber you, firearms take away strength advantages, and I bet you'd taste really good, once roasted.
Innovation has little to do with selling what you've already innovated. Being proprietary might increase the learning curve for a while to give you a bit more time but it's like security through obscurity - it's not a sustainable strategy.
The sad thing is that this is the same stuff (i.e., innovation and education) that's been said by each President since the days of RW Regan. We still don't have a coherent nationwide industrial or education policy to back the drive for either. The thing that's never mentioned is that "innovation" is not a sustainable advantage. And it's not clear that "innovation and education" leadership is a sustainable strategy either. To think it is, you have to assume that either (1) people not in your country are, for some reason, more stupid and less creative than your people are; or (2) that your particular country is a special little snowflake that is better than the 200+ other little snowflakes competing against it on the world stage and it has a way of keeping itself being special. I really don't see either of those being true at this point.
Our nation's colors are red, white, and blue. So what's with Boehner's tie?
I agree! It really clashed with his orange face.
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I respect them, but I also think that they should be respectfully killed for treason.
Yeah, but then who will you play baseball with?
Not only US gov't has no authority under the Constitution to get involved into education, but also it has no competence to do any of it either.
And, while idiot Libertarians like you are yelling about "constitutional authority", macro-economic "angels dancing on pinheads" crapola, and other moonbattery, foreign governments are doing things like supporting education, funding research, and promoting industrial policies that are kicking our asses. You can see government as an assistant to reach our goals or as a problem. Those of you who see it as only a problem will never win as the common man is too afraid of anarchy to ever let your ideas hold sway. You'll also never be able to compete with those who use shared resources to aid progress to all.
That probably easily covers the costs of any sports scholarships, and there is probably plenty left over to help finance the university.
Uh, no. The University of Oregon (I live in Oregon) for the past ten years has been subsidizing the sports program to (almost) make it to #1 in football (American-style for you non-USians), building new stadia, gyms, training facilities, etc. This is in addition to what the large contributors (mainly Nike founder Phil Knight) has been giving. It has been a net loss to a school which has seen tuition costs rise and rise steeply for the past twenty-five years.
And it's good for the university image, and keeps it in the limelight.
This.
And, with this, the top administrative staff can demand higher salaries for themselves, because about twenty-five-to-thirty-five years ago, the role of a university president seemed to shift from providing education to providing press releases. And they've found it easier to make noise about the releases by winning championships in football and basketball, rather than by doing mundane things like running a good school and keeping tuition rates down.
No! Jughead was always the gay one. Remember how he always had that girl that looked like him run after him and he was always running away from her? Now he can declare his undying love for Moose and Moose can stop hanging around with that annoying Midge just to cover...
So why not use it in a current-switching logic like ECL? Yeah, the power consumption might be a bit high, but you only need to make the cache and cores run faster.
This pattern allowed them to find a finite, algebraic formula...
Yeah, but looking at the paper, still not that simple. Eventually someone will be able to program it into a function and I'll be able to call it in Matlab, but until then, I'd still be worried about making calculation errors. On the other hand, that may be saying more about my calculation skills than about the work...
The idea that government spending creates "growth" is, at best, arguable... Notable exceptions would be in infrastructure and other items that the people can't themselves provide...
Then the proposition is not "at best arguable", you actually state that it's true. The only thing you're quibbling over is the price tag. Say what you mean, dude...
... putting the chipmaker on a collision course with Microsoft...
How? Last I heard, Microsoft controlled the licensing of Windows. If Microsoft doesn't want a particular version of Windows on a device, they can revoke licensing for it. And, frankly, Intel would be stupid to ship their products with unlicensed software. They're not that dumb.
Is it the case that if you happen to be ambivalent about Palin or *gasp*, even be a supporter, that your statements, which normally everyone would agree with, suddenly become inoperative?
Yes, because you've demonstrated your stupidity by doing so.
I'd mod you up, but I already posted on this thread. And, yes, I should have written that in lower case, without punctuation to try to be seen as funny.
... a fan of Marx and Rand is certainly not a Tea Party Palinite.
Yeah - I don't think Palin has ever read a book, let alone books by those two...
Sorry, that's just "run-of-the-mill Canada" crazy. It's not even close to "over-the-top crazy old man Florida" crazy.
All CD's are compressed hard (audio compression, not data compression) so all the life is sucked out of it.
This is a choice. CD's have a usable dynamic range of 93+dB and many bands (especially those who self-produce, -promote, and -sell) have gone back to having CDs that use 10-14dB of dynamic range (as opposed to 3-6dB for the "major"'s CDs). This is enough to allow the dynamics of the music to come through well while still having enough "loudness" to make them play above the noise floor of a car or other high-noise environment. They sound better on the radio, too. I agree that major commercial releases suck in this regard, but that doesn't necessarily mean that everything on CD sucks.
The energy, food and beverage, agricultural, mining, banking, and manufacturing industries (and everyone else in the private sector except trial lawyers) could use a little fair-minded consideration.
I agree!
energy
An industry that mines coal in often unsafe manner, destroying landscape and environment without proper mitigation, and ignores governmental regulations that were put on them only because they were shown not to be able to carry out their business in a way that did not endanger workers and the environment. Oil spills and their environmental damages are just a bonus. Besides, the Deepwater Horizon disaster was so long ago... Show some "fair-minded consideration".
mining
See energy above for coal. For other minerals, leach mining often pollutes local groundwater and in many cases, the companies "go bankrupt" after the minerals have gone and after having absorbed the profits for years,while sticking the government (read, you and I) with the cleanup costs.
banking
Yeah! They were just making money. God knows they did nothing to contribute to the largest financial disaster in seventy-five years. And they've been picked on so much...
I agree that food and beverage, agriculture, and manufacturing industries have occasionally gotten a bum rap (although the latter not so much recently, since they learned to live withing OSHA regs and stopped killing so many workers), but I'm sure that the quest for profit makes sure that there are sins that need to be atoned for (I'll let others cover them). But for the other industries you mention, fair-minded consideration shows that their rapacious, sociopathic behavior to an extent that is breath-taking makes their bad reputation completely justified.
And, you know what? If these companies did not behave so badly, trial lawyers wouldn't be nearly as wealthy as they are.
But there are experts you CAN turn to (your family doctor, for one) for advice...
Many of the people who listened to Jenny and Oprah were also the type who distrust medical science in the first place and see naturopaths and homeopaths rather than relying on a real "family doctor".
And the problem is that these idiots didn't simply keep their children unvaccinated. They also went to state legislatures, teaming up with fringe religionists to pass legislation that made it ridiculously simple to get an exemption for required immunization before little River, Moonbeam, and Pondscum went off to school. And, they continued to publicize their idiocy far and wide and they still do, even though the link between vaccination and any childhood malady (other than potential allergic reaction and minor side-effects) has proven non-existent. And, they were backed by their naturopathic and homeopathic "doctors".
A lovely conflation, all brought about because some jackass decided he wanted to make money. Thanks, capitalism! And, before you say "It's greed, not my precious capitalism", ask whether or not this idiocy would have spread so far and so virulently had so many people not had the opportunity to grow their personal fortunes on the back of this fraud and the increased desire due to capitalism's sway. If you take the good of capitalism, you have to take the bad, too.
I find that a trackball and one of these work just fine. As an added benefit, it keeps most bystanders off your computer.
... the woman he "attacked" made him breakfast after her "rape"...
Yes, but if she gave him lutfisk for breakfast it might have been attempted murder via poisoning.
The "Bug, it's what's for dinner!" campaign...