Robin Hood would steal from the rich to give to the poor. Was this a moral act? Is it only when the rich originally stole from everyone else that it is moral? And what of the poor who were given wealth? Can they save any for a rainy day, or would that make them no longer poor and ineligible for the next payout to the poor from Robin Hood? If poor people constantly spend every cent they receive, whether from assistance or earned to remain poor, is that moral behavior? Can they be faulted if that is how the system works?
Found this somewhere on Slashdot before I believe:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes,it would go something like this:
* The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. * The fifth would pay $1. * The sixth would pay $3. * The seventh would pay $7. * The eighth would pay $12. * The ninth would pay $18. * The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers,' he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.' Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?'
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
* The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings). * The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings). * The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings). * The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings). * The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings). * The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
'I only got a dollar out of the $20,' declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, 'but he got $10!' 'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!' 'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!' 'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier. David Kamerschen, University of Geogia, Professor of Economics.
There is a great need for something tangible to apply the skills you learn in all the math and science courses. What are the practical applications? Why should one simplify any equation? Why should I do anything "with respect to the y axis"? Sometimes it is helpful to see the actual results of this knowledge as it is applied to something practical and closer to the real world we live in. Computers provide enough raw "abstract material" to build things that are very much real and practical. There needs to be something at the top of the learning curve to justify the climb. Computer Science is the tangible result of all the academic study.
While some people claim the undead just hate the living and need to be nerfed and dismembered, this is not always the case.
Many undead were just done with the rat race we call "life" and them BAM! (Apologies to Emeril) they are the walking dead. Some abuse this status and give the others a bad name. Most are just glad to have this second chance and just want to be left alone.
So enters the arrogant nerf toting lifers (griefers) who won't leave these poor undead alone. They just want to nerf them left and right indiscriminately. This is so wrong. The undead could be reintegrated into society. They could be used in slaughter houses to find cows with Mad Cow Disease, swiss brains are a zombie delicacy after all.
Well enough of a rant, time to go hide from the Evil Day Star.
Soon patients will be properly conditioned to "drool" for the doctor when he rings a bell. All the research has been done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov/
I have to say that the English spoken by my math instructor was near flawless. Which only made it more painful to hear the phrase, "You should have learned this in high school!"
What kind of idiot would drink something that was harmful them just because it was sweet and tasted good?!? *POP* Damn this Coca Cola is good, gotta get my fix of this... Okay, back to my rant... I mean really, that has to be the definition of stupid!
You can create a runas link with a/savecred flag. You manually type the password once, and it remembers the passwor d for later use. No need to include it in the cmd line or in a bat file.
Scene: blind guy in a bar ( no not a tavern, this isn't D&D )
AI Interface: Middle age woman, moderately attractive. blind guy: More details on attractive. AI Interface: Brown hair, blue eyes, medium build. blind guy: Is she a candidate for a romantic encounter? AI Interface: Calculated value for romantic encounter: "I'd do her!" blind guy: Are you calculating in my current blood alcohol level? AI Interface: Yes. Besides your blind, all she has to do is feel pretty. blind guy: Damn vicarious slashdot reading AI coders!
I think you meant non-destructive. See the casualties will all be virtual and tallied up by computers on both sides. The people who were "killed" in each attack, even if from a third neutral party starship, will be expected to report to the disintegration chambers at their designated time.
This is absolutely necessary to ensure our respective infrastructures remain intact. It is better that our wars are fought in cyberspace. Wouldn't you rather the front lines be Second Life and WOW servers than say, NY state?
I still have my old AMD K5 166 mhz, my AMD K7 750 mhz, and my "more modern, laugh* AMD 1.4 ghz computer.
Each has a purpose and a place in my computer eco system. Each one was my main computer rig for a period of time, and each was tweaked until very stable. The oldest even saw use with my younger brother for a good time after I was on to my next computer.
Sometimes it is nice to pull out the old Dungeon Keeper or even Betrayal at Krondor and Doom I & II and remember the good times from the past. Gameplay over graphics.
I hope my daughter will enjoy these computers in the future, and have a better appreciation of how far computers have progressed in a relatively short time.
Oh someone will send a robot sooner or later. And if they want to keep sending them, they will most likely be programmed to do as much damage as possible before self destructing for further damage and to avoid capture and forensic analysis to track it back to its owner/creator.
If we are lucky, their self destruct will be as touchy as that probe in the Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Way to easy for Han to pop it once when Chewie distracted it for a moment. Kaboom!
So these "fabs" won't come with scanners to measure/model "original objects" then.
Remember how bad Diablo economy, in the original game, became once "duping" was common? No one respected your hours of hard work down in the catacombs and caverns any more. It was all "Godly Plate of the Whale" for all!
Someone else who saw the potential could have stepped in, linked it to all the right sites, and took all the advertising revenue for themselves.
This would be almost as wrong as leasing an operating system to IBM for a large amount of money, then buying the previously leased operating system from a third party for a much smaller amount of money. Or maybe it would just be good business sense.
I am already reading books to my daughter. She will be born in about 3 months.
So far is has been small children's books, but I keep telling my wife that if we start her early on The Wheel of Time series now, she can be ready for when the last book comes out, post Robert Jordan!
The reading is fun, but I also rub lotion on the wife's ginormous, my new favorite word, belly while one of us reads.
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I to..err... know this poor bastard who took all his compsci courses in C++. How hard would it be for a C++ coder to dig into this book?
Robin Hood would steal from the rich to give to the poor. Was this a moral act? Is it only when the rich originally stole from everyone else that it is moral? And what of the poor who were given wealth? Can they save any for a rainy day, or would that make them no longer poor and ineligible for the next payout to the poor from Robin Hood? If poor people constantly spend every cent they receive, whether from assistance or earned to remain poor, is that moral behavior? Can they be faulted if that is how the system works?
Found this somewhere on Slashdot before I believe:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes,it would go something like this:
* The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
* The fifth would pay $1.
* The sixth would pay $3.
* The seventh would pay $7.
* The eighth would pay $12.
* The ninth would pay $18.
* The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers,' he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.' Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?'
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
* The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
* The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
* The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
* The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
* The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
* The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
'I only got a dollar out of the $20,' declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, 'but he got $10!' 'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!' 'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!' 'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
David Kamerschen, University of Geogia, Professor of Economics.
There is a great need for something tangible to apply the skills you learn in all the math and science courses. What are the practical applications? Why should one simplify any equation? Why should I do anything "with respect to the y axis"? Sometimes it is helpful to see the actual results of this knowledge as it is applied to something practical and closer to the real world we live in. Computers provide enough raw "abstract material" to build things that are very much real and practical. There needs to be something at the top of the learning curve to justify the climb. Computer Science is the tangible result of all the academic study.
While some people claim the undead just hate the living and need to be nerfed and dismembered, this is not always the case.
Many undead were just done with the rat race we call "life" and them BAM! (Apologies to Emeril) they are the walking dead. Some abuse this status and give the others a bad name. Most are just glad to have this second chance and just want to be left alone.
So enters the arrogant nerf toting lifers (griefers) who won't leave these poor undead alone. They just want to nerf them left and right indiscriminately. This is so wrong. The undead could be reintegrated into society. They could be used in slaughter houses to find cows with Mad Cow Disease, swiss brains are a zombie delicacy after all.
Well enough of a rant, time to go hide from the Evil Day Star.
Soon patients will be properly conditioned to "drool" for the doctor when he rings a bell.
All the research has been done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov/
It could be much worse than hellfire missiles. Just hope the drone doesn't use "helicopter batteries"!
Best of both worlds can be had with the right use of ODBC as a database abstractor.
Use Access for the forms and user interface, keep the data in whatever DB floats your boat.
I have to say that the English spoken by my math instructor was near flawless. Which only made it more painful to hear the phrase, "You should have learned this in high school!"
... you posted enough... and for some reason I actually read all of it!
What kind of idiot would drink something that was harmful them just because it was sweet and tasted good?!?
*POP* Damn this Coca Cola is good, gotta get my fix of this...
Okay, back to my rant... I mean really, that has to be the definition of stupid!
You can create a runas link with a /savecred flag. You manually type the password once, and it remembers the passwor d for later use. No need to include it in the cmd line or in a bat file.
Maybe your shell/joke wasn't "korny" enough!
Ada is a wonderful language. You just need to make sure you get a strong type of developer to work on it.
Scene: blind guy in a bar ( no not a tavern, this isn't D&D )
AI Interface: Middle age woman, moderately attractive.
blind guy: More details on attractive.
AI Interface: Brown hair, blue eyes, medium build.
blind guy: Is she a candidate for a romantic encounter?
AI Interface: Calculated value for romantic encounter: "I'd do her!"
blind guy: Are you calculating in my current blood alcohol level?
AI Interface: Yes. Besides your blind, all she has to do is feel pretty.
blind guy: Damn vicarious slashdot reading AI coders!
cyber warfare can often be nonviolent
I think you meant non-destructive. See the casualties will all be virtual and tallied up by computers on both sides. The people who were "killed" in each attack, even if from a third neutral party starship, will be expected to report to the disintegration chambers at their designated time.
This is absolutely necessary to ensure our respective infrastructures remain intact. It is better that our wars are fought in cyberspace. Wouldn't you rather the front lines be Second Life and WOW servers than say, NY state?
I still have my old AMD K5 166 mhz, my AMD K7 750 mhz, and my "more modern, laugh* AMD 1.4 ghz computer.
Each has a purpose and a place in my computer eco system. Each one was my main computer rig for a period of time, and each was tweaked until very stable. The oldest even saw use with my younger brother for a good time after I was on to my next computer.
Sometimes it is nice to pull out the old Dungeon Keeper or even Betrayal at Krondor and Doom I & II and remember the good times from the past. Gameplay over graphics.
I hope my daughter will enjoy these computers in the future, and have a better appreciation of how far computers have progressed in a relatively short time.
... and the Mars engineers have some of the best experience in the world with smashing objects into objects in space.
It may work better if they don't tell them it is supposed to crash into the moon, just have them plan another mission to Mars.
and worse, those 1000 virgins are all teenager Jessica Alba look-alikes ... Even worse, they are Slashdot subscribers!
I think the part they leave out is that the virgins want to and will remain virgins for all eternity mocking their great martyr masters forever!
For more terrorist humor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neTsQng-70o Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist
Oh someone will send a robot sooner or later. And if they want to keep sending them, they will most likely be programmed to do as much damage as possible before self destructing for further damage and to avoid capture and forensic analysis to track it back to its owner/creator.
If we are lucky, their self destruct will be as touchy as that probe in the Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Way to easy for Han to pop it once when Chewie distracted it for a moment. Kaboom!
So these "fabs" won't come with scanners to measure/model "original objects" then.
Remember how bad Diablo economy, in the original game, became once "duping" was common? No one respected your hours of hard work down in the catacombs and caverns any more. It was all "Godly Plate of the Whale" for all!
Someone else who saw the potential could have stepped in, linked it to all the right sites, and took all the advertising revenue for themselves.
This would be almost as wrong as leasing an operating system to IBM for a large amount of money, then buying the previously leased operating system from a third party for a much smaller amount of money. Or maybe it would just be good business sense.
I almost have to agree with them AC's. And them low UID bitches, note free speech here, are the worst!
I am already reading books to my daughter. She will be born in about 3 months.
So far is has been small children's books, but I keep telling my wife that if we start her early on The Wheel of Time series now, she can be ready for when the last book comes out, post Robert Jordan!
The reading is fun, but I also rub lotion on the wife's ginormous, my new favorite word, belly while one of us reads.