He did specify indoor antenna. It may be an old solution, but damned if it isn't better quality signal than cable and free to boot. You can actually get a fair amount of decent programming as well, IMHO. I don't watch a lot of TV, but there are sports , cooking shows, weather, news, crappy sitcoms, plenty of mind numbing entertainment if you are so inclined.
Funny, I think just the opposite. Since people seem to find a way to gamble one way or another (case in point, the current state of online poker), the profits may as well go to something useful and be run by a group that is ostensibly accountable to the public. I think the government would be much better suited to take a holistic view of gambling and encourage it less than a private entity.
I fled from sprint because of god awful customer service, then AT&T for an absurd amount of dropped calls from my then downtown apartment. I've been with t-mobile for just over 2 years now, and they've managed to not completely piss me off. The my only complaint has been the lackluster coverage when traveling, but @ home (in Austin, Tx.) I've been quite happy.
You said you bought an iMac because of the form factor and only mentioned the handle and speed of boxing, so I'm just going on the data you presented. If there are other reasons, that's great, I'm just suggesting that you made a poor economic decision if you bought the iMac for this seemingly insignificant and rectifiable difference.
My snarky hipster comment was questionable, but your defensive characterization of the GP justified it to me, and your comment reminds me of the comments I hear from some folks who make unnecessarily expensive purchases then try and rationalize them, like: "Little Tommy will need this Porsche 911 turbo when he goes to college so he can quickly get his groceries and have more time to study."
What about those of us who bought an iMac because of its form factor?
I wanted Unix under there, but I also wanted to be able to unplug it from the wall and box it up in under 2 minutes (its box has a carrying handle) so I can move it easily between places.
So your criteria was portable unix box, and it was the handle of an iMac that sold you? making any computer case mobile is a $5 investment. Plenty of systems are just as mobile as an iMac and way cheaper. You sound like a hipster desperately looking for something to justify himself by.
What I'd rather see is a feedback mechanism where a moderator could moderate a post and issue a response to the poster.
Totally agreed, this is a big problem with the current system. I typically only moderate when I feel like I have enough knowledge of the subject make a moderation, and as such would love to opportunity to at least justify why I'm making a moderation to the poster, even if it were only a private message.
Look,budgeting less for inflation _is_ a cut in spending. To pretend otherwise is to ignore a fundamental mechanic of our economic system. Every year you don't get salary increase or revenue growth your purchasing power goes down at the rate of inflation, and compounds over time. It's true for you, it's true for the govt.
The population issue is more nuanced but if population growth affects your budget and you don't factor that in then your budget is flawed. When the govt cuts that pop. growth budget item they are cutting spending. This isn't rocket science.
Variations over "fined into bankruptcy" are essentially just the financial equivalents to either death sentence or life imprisonment, depending on how you look at it.
I don't think so. Many companies get a second life when they reanimate: IE: Blackwater->Xe. I'd liken it more to, well, bankruptcy.
When did a-theists become a-deists? Agnostic is widely regarded as being a weak position, as it is only saying what cannot be known. A-theists, should be able to say affirmatively that they do not believe in an intervening God without having to deal with the deistic argument, as those positions are not incompatible. This debate requires a little more nuance than we're allowing for the overarching positions.
If we knew how He wanted us to act, we wouldn't be having this debate. You have faith in your guidebook, but I don't see how living by those guidebook notions will "prove" anything with regard to God's existence.
I can't think of a job that needs a degree in an absolute sense. However, when you're hiring, it makes sense to pare down the pool to folks that fit a general mold of what you need. X years experience is in a particular skill set is just the same sort of exclusion, let's not pretend otherwise. Labeling folks who make the effort and commitment to get a degree as debt-burdened carrot chasers because the job market is bad in the field they hoped to work in is an unfair and callous thing to say. But hey, go ahead and hire your way, leaves more qualified applicants for me:)
that's a convenient explanation I suppose, but it doesn't really justify the amorality of a willingness to sacrifice your child because of a perceived voice from God. I'd rather a story where Abraham meets God who says Twas Satan from whom such ideas whence came, flee from thoughts against what is good, I would but not ask thee to sacrifice thy blood.
Thousands of years of starvation, death of teeth, and grueling butchery from an unforgiving environment can hardly be described as an accident. Besides, what the hell is an accident from an omnipotent God?
Theism is different from Deism, we really need to make this distinction more well known. It's perfectly legitimate to believe there could be a God of sorts and be an atheist, but you couldn't believe in an intervening God and call yourself an atheist.
Which makes no sense, since -theism is the non believe is theism, which is separate from deism (believe in God). The theist believes in an intervening (revelatory) god, which is what most atheists don't believe in. I like Christopher Hitchens distinction, he's an anti-theist. He doesn't believe in any theistic god, and doesn't wish it were true either. Sort of a strong non-theist but not a-deism.
Your ignorant rant annoys me. The fact that the state is almost 40% Hispanic doesn't play well with your caricature of the uneducated inbred racist Texan voter, and does little to bring any useful discussion of ideas to the table. What is needed is a government composed of individuals that can be trusted, as it's the well placed fear of government screw ups that feeds this anti-government sentiment.
Actually, that's not quite it. They did at least some due diligence.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees,[66] POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries[67] and BLS’s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.[68] All supporting data for this study are found in Table 1 and Appendices B through D.[69]
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees,[66] POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries[67] and BLS’s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.[68] All supporting data for this study are found in Table 1 and Appendices B through D.[69]
See the numerous other replies in this thread, or God forbid, RTFA, where the methodology is mentioned.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees,[66] POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries[67] and BLS’s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.[68] All supporting data for this study are found in Table 1 and Appendices B through D.[69]
I don't understand this criticism. Explicitly doing something that will be done automatically is more code, more chance for errors, more bulk. If it truly does not matter, then your criticism is unfounded. I think your issue is probably that it most likely does matter if you have an open file handle out there, and I would agree.
To you and the others speaking like you: tone down the rhetoric. You aren't "saving the world." Not everyone who disagrees with you in whole or in part is a "denier." Name calling like "useful idiots and wackjobs" doesn't become you. You have valid points to make, try and be civil.
I suppose you really believe nothing would get done without state financed universities.
I suppose you really believe that your straw man argument against universities has a place in the discussion.
History says others. Thomas Edison worked part time as a clerk to fund his research. Henry Ford worked his way up from machinist to create Ford.
Evidence of folks overcoming adversity is not evidence against universities providing a useful and productive place in society.
[tedious argument that governments are inefficient based on random made-up statistics]
Governments are inefficient, you are right, but to pretend that the private sector has a better solution waiting in the wings is unproven, especially for the sectors you mentioned (and I would definitely include at least basic education to be in the purview of government). I would make the argument just as easily: for every dollar spent on corporate R&D, 10 is spent on inflated private sector salaries, pensions, frivolous luxury jets, paper pushing middle managers, and golden parachutes. Corporations exist at the pleasure of the people in the same way governments do, so I think it's a fair argument. Just because it's "private" doesn't make it better.
I think your overarching point is that two educations better than one. Good point. I would suggest having the one education prepared you to learn even more from the other. I'm certain now that with some industry experience I could go back to school and truly appreciate what I was learning, even if it were the same material.
As for learning all the equations for a line at one time, how does that even work? Wouldn't you need the foundations of each mathematical style before you can make sense of the equations for it? It seems logical to try and not overload students with all of the different mathematical variations on a subject when trying to teach.
In regard to programming, I went to a much less prestigious school than Stanford and I was taught programming the same way as you describe; starting with memory management, registers, and assembly. Some of my other friends went to more prestigious schools than me and many focused more on the architectural aspects of programming rather than the nuts and bolts. Both styles have their merits.
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He did specify indoor antenna. It may be an old solution, but damned if it isn't better quality signal than cable and free to boot. You can actually get a fair amount of decent programming as well, IMHO. I don't watch a lot of TV, but there are sports , cooking shows, weather, news, crappy sitcoms, plenty of mind numbing entertainment if you are so inclined.
Funny, I think just the opposite. Since people seem to find a way to gamble one way or another (case in point, the current state of online poker), the profits may as well go to something useful and be run by a group that is ostensibly accountable to the public. I think the government would be much better suited to take a holistic view of gambling and encourage it less than a private entity.
I fled from sprint because of god awful customer service, then AT&T for an absurd amount of dropped calls from my then downtown apartment. I've been with t-mobile for just over 2 years now, and they've managed to not completely piss me off. The my only complaint has been the lackluster coverage when traveling, but @ home (in Austin, Tx.) I've been quite happy.
You said you bought an iMac because of the form factor and only mentioned the handle and speed of boxing, so I'm just going on the data you presented. If there are other reasons, that's great, I'm just suggesting that you made a poor economic decision if you bought the iMac for this seemingly insignificant and rectifiable difference.
My snarky hipster comment was questionable, but your defensive characterization of the GP justified it to me, and your comment reminds me of the comments I hear from some folks who make unnecessarily expensive purchases then try and rationalize them, like: "Little Tommy will need this Porsche 911 turbo when he goes to college so he can quickly get his groceries and have more time to study."
What about those of us who bought an iMac because of its form factor?
I wanted Unix under there, but I also wanted to be able to unplug it from the wall and box it up in under 2 minutes (its box has a carrying handle) so I can move it easily between places.
So your criteria was portable unix box, and it was the handle of an iMac that sold you? making any computer case mobile is a $5 investment. Plenty of systems are just as mobile as an iMac and way cheaper. You sound like a hipster desperately looking for something to justify himself by.
What I'd rather see is a feedback mechanism where a moderator could moderate a post and issue a response to the poster.
Totally agreed, this is a big problem with the current system. I typically only moderate when I feel like I have enough knowledge of the subject make a moderation, and as such would love to opportunity to at least justify why I'm making a moderation to the poster, even if it were only a private message.
Look,budgeting less for inflation _is_ a cut in spending. To pretend otherwise is to ignore a fundamental mechanic of our economic system. Every year you don't get salary increase or revenue growth your purchasing power goes down at the rate of inflation, and compounds over time. It's true for you, it's true for the govt.
The population issue is more nuanced but if population growth affects your budget and you don't factor that in then your budget is flawed. When the govt cuts that pop. growth budget item they are cutting spending. This isn't rocket science.
I'd wager they don't know what what Oracle and Berkshire Hathaway do either. Sell Sell Sell
Variations over "fined into bankruptcy" are essentially just the financial equivalents to either death sentence or life imprisonment, depending on how you look at it.
I don't think so. Many companies get a second life when they reanimate: IE: Blackwater->Xe. I'd liken it more to, well, bankruptcy.
When did a-theists become a-deists? Agnostic is widely regarded as being a weak position, as it is only saying what cannot be known. A-theists, should be able to say affirmatively that they do not believe in an intervening God without having to deal with the deistic argument, as those positions are not incompatible. This debate requires a little more nuance than we're allowing for the overarching positions.
If we knew how He wanted us to act, we wouldn't be having this debate. You have faith in your guidebook, but I don't see how living by those guidebook notions will "prove" anything with regard to God's existence.
I can't think of a job that needs a degree in an absolute sense. However, when you're hiring, it makes sense to pare down the pool to folks that fit a general mold of what you need. X years experience is in a particular skill set is just the same sort of exclusion, let's not pretend otherwise. Labeling folks who make the effort and commitment to get a degree as debt-burdened carrot chasers because the job market is bad in the field they hoped to work in is an unfair and callous thing to say. But hey, go ahead and hire your way, leaves more qualified applicants for me :)
that's a convenient explanation I suppose, but it doesn't really justify the amorality of a willingness to sacrifice your child because of a perceived voice from God. I'd rather a story where Abraham meets God who says Twas Satan from whom such ideas whence came, flee from thoughts against what is good, I would but not ask thee to sacrifice thy blood.
No, but it cuts short some of the circular arguments one might have with theists :)
Thousands of years of starvation, death of teeth, and grueling butchery from an unforgiving environment can hardly be described as an accident. Besides, what the hell is an accident from an omnipotent God?
Theism is different from Deism, we really need to make this distinction more well known. It's perfectly legitimate to believe there could be a God of sorts and be an atheist, but you couldn't believe in an intervening God and call yourself an atheist.
Which makes no sense, since -theism is the non believe is theism, which is separate from deism (believe in God). The theist believes in an intervening (revelatory) god, which is what most atheists don't believe in. I like Christopher Hitchens distinction, he's an anti-theist. He doesn't believe in any theistic god, and doesn't wish it were true either. Sort of a strong non-theist but not a-deism.
Your ignorant rant annoys me. The fact that the state is almost 40% Hispanic doesn't play well with your caricature of the uneducated inbred racist Texan voter, and does little to bring any useful discussion of ideas to the table. What is needed is a government composed of individuals that can be trusted, as it's the well placed fear of government screw ups that feeds this anti-government sentiment.
Actually, that's not quite it. They did at least some due diligence.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees,[66] POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries[67] and BLS’s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.[68] All supporting data for this study are found in Table 1 and Appendices B through D.[69]
They factored that in. Try again.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees,[66] POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries[67] and BLS’s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.[68] All supporting data for this study are found in Table 1 and Appendices B through D.[69]
See the numerous other replies in this thread, or God forbid, RTFA, where the methodology is mentioned.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees,[66] POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries[67] and BLS’s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.[68] All supporting data for this study are found in Table 1 and Appendices B through D.[69]
I don't understand this criticism. Explicitly doing something that will be done automatically is more code, more chance for errors, more bulk. If it truly does not matter, then your criticism is unfounded. I think your issue is probably that it most likely does matter if you have an open file handle out there, and I would agree.
To you and the others speaking like you: tone down the rhetoric. You aren't "saving the world." Not everyone who disagrees with you in whole or in part is a "denier." Name calling like "useful idiots and wackjobs" doesn't become you. You have valid points to make, try and be civil.
I suppose you really believe nothing would get done without state financed universities.
I suppose you really believe that your straw man argument against universities has a place in the discussion.
History says others. Thomas Edison worked part time as a clerk to fund his research. Henry Ford worked his way up from machinist to create Ford.
Evidence of folks overcoming adversity is not evidence against universities providing a useful and productive place in society.
[tedious argument that governments are inefficient based on random made-up statistics]
Governments are inefficient, you are right, but to pretend that the private sector has a better solution waiting in the wings is unproven, especially for the sectors you mentioned (and I would definitely include at least basic education to be in the purview of government). I would make the argument just as easily:
for every dollar spent on corporate R&D, 10 is spent on inflated private sector salaries, pensions, frivolous luxury jets, paper pushing middle managers, and golden parachutes. Corporations exist at the pleasure of the people in the same way governments do, so I think it's a fair argument. Just because it's "private" doesn't make it better.
I think your overarching point is that two educations better than one. Good point. I would suggest having the one education prepared you to learn even more from the other. I'm certain now that with some industry experience I could go back to school and truly appreciate what I was learning, even if it were the same material.
As for learning all the equations for a line at one time, how does that even work? Wouldn't you need the foundations of each mathematical style before you can make sense of the equations for it? It seems logical to try and not overload students with all of the different mathematical variations on a subject when trying to teach.
In regard to programming, I went to a much less prestigious school than Stanford and I was taught programming the same way as you describe; starting with memory management, registers, and assembly. Some of my other friends went to more prestigious schools than me and many focused more on the architectural aspects of programming rather than the nuts and bolts. Both styles have their merits.