I avoided the prequels; haven't read a single one. It's the two follow-ups to Chapterhouse that have me pissed off for all eternity. They took Frank's notes and shoved Brian and Kevin's fan-fiction into it. That, on top of the fact that the writing was high-school level next to Frank's.
The TZ novels were fine. I enjoyed them thoroughly. The rest is trash. In particular, I have special dislike for Kevin J. Anderson who, after ruining Star Wars Expanded Universe, went on to ruin Dune with his fan-fiction bullshit.
Actually, this is GOOD. Farmers that don't buy the missing ingredient won't have to pay Monsanto for cross-pollinated crops. Their own harvests won't be contaminated by unlicensed GMO.
for every dollar spent on the IRS, government takes in 5-7 dollars.
Just because it collects the revenue does not mean it generates the revenue. You need to demonstrate that reducing the IRS's budget will, in fact, mean that people pay fewer taxes, which is a specious argument.
it seems like having a functional government would be something to support.
Bolded the key word there for you. We currently have the most inefficient, nonsensically bureaucratic bloated warthog of a government in the western hemisphere. It's eating our capital to sustain its own largesse and that is stealing.
Hence my question: why did they wait until now? I don't think they had plans to upgrade until there was a crisis that could prevent them from doing so, loudly and publicly.
If these upgrades are so critical, why did they wait until THIS year, and especially during tax season, to do them? Sounds like PR, like the public park "closings" where they actually increased staff to keep people out.
I don't think that's an apt analogy. I agree that subing for an OS is idiocy (I thought the same back when my shop still rented HPUX for ungodly sums). But Adobe CS sub was a fantastic way of getting people like me, who want to be honest and pay for the software we need, to be able to do so without resorting to piracy. Even better, after a full year on my CS sub, they gave me a full license to the latest version that I can keep in perpetuity. I don't know if the new Creative Cloud pricing model continues that; probably not because they've dropped version numbers, but all told I am paying much less per year than I would have spent shelling out for the CS Master Collection.
Anecdotes aren't evidence, but they are data: every team I've been on where there is camaraderie and extracurricular activities and discussions was more productive than those where interaction was strictly business. Any sufficiently large project relies on successful communication to succeed, and having a good social dynamic is the best way to foster a team attitude that enables such communication. Also, teammates are more likely to root for, and push each other to success. A bad or missing social dynamic correlates (IMHXP) to office politics and under-bus-throwing.
There's a natural tension in conservative thought between "I don't want to pay for someone else's bills" and "I don't want the government to force people to buy something they maybe can't afford." In the debate over ACA, these two modes of thought are mutually exclusive, and a lot of republicans had to decide which was more important.
Not really, most of the ACA was recycled Republican ideas, complete with bending over for the insurance companies and using private contractors to build the web site.
This is said repeatedly, and yet the previous administration, with a Republican house and senate, never advanced a bill for it, and not a single Republican voted for it when a bill for it finally was.
The moon has ~10^-7 pascals of pressure, and Mars has ~.6 kilopascals of pressure. I leave computing the order of magnitude of difference to the reader.
Yeah, but it's different in Australia. By they time you're ten, you've survived dingoes, death adders, recluse spiders, great white sharks, and deadly post-apoc race-cars covered in spikes. To the average pedo, you're not low-hanging fruit.
I am sure there are a lot of "lefty partisans" who are enjoying this because they dislike Big Oil -- and to that extent, it more proves that it isn't about results with partisans, it is about their "team".
Schadenfreude is a hell of a drug. Many men will cut off their own nose to spite their face.
Notice the tag at the end: "Long-form submissions are welcome"? It's a cry for help from the Slashdot editors, "Dear God, someone else send us a long-form submission. Bennett is the only one who uses the damn link, please, please someone else use it."
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I avoided the prequels; haven't read a single one. It's the two follow-ups to Chapterhouse that have me pissed off for all eternity. They took Frank's notes and shoved Brian and Kevin's fan-fiction into it. That, on top of the fact that the writing was high-school level next to Frank's.
The TZ novels were fine. I enjoyed them thoroughly. The rest is trash. In particular, I have special dislike for Kevin J. Anderson who, after ruining Star Wars Expanded Universe, went on to ruin Dune with his fan-fiction bullshit.
Given that Star Wars was in any case not "cerebral" to start with
Oh, but it wanted to be. The places where it tried were solipsistic, cosmic-humanistic dreck, and the weakest dialogue in the original trilogy.
Actually, this is GOOD. Farmers that don't buy the missing ingredient won't have to pay Monsanto for cross-pollinated crops. Their own harvests won't be contaminated by unlicensed GMO.
for every dollar spent on the IRS, government takes in 5-7 dollars.
Just because it collects the revenue does not mean it generates the revenue. You need to demonstrate that reducing the IRS's budget will, in fact, mean that people pay fewer taxes, which is a specious argument.
it seems like having a functional government would be something to support.
Bolded the key word there for you. We currently have the most inefficient, nonsensically bureaucratic bloated warthog of a government in the western hemisphere. It's eating our capital to sustain its own largesse and that is stealing.
They aren't going to cut enforcement. They're going to cut the check-writing department.
Hence my question: why did they wait until now? I don't think they had plans to upgrade until there was a crisis that could prevent them from doing so, loudly and publicly.
If these upgrades are so critical, why did they wait until THIS year, and especially during tax season, to do them? Sounds like PR, like the public park "closings" where they actually increased staff to keep people out.
but you'd think the smart play would be to avoid obvious telltales like an overlarge amount of shipments to your house.
Perhaps Amazon Prime has gotten me under FBI surveillance, then.
Or perhaps they are simply scoring points on your demonic ignorance? :D
See, now it's a religious argument.
I dispute that being Mitt Romney's plan makes it conservative.
I don't think that's an apt analogy. I agree that subing for an OS is idiocy (I thought the same back when my shop still rented HPUX for ungodly sums). But Adobe CS sub was a fantastic way of getting people like me, who want to be honest and pay for the software we need, to be able to do so without resorting to piracy. Even better, after a full year on my CS sub, they gave me a full license to the latest version that I can keep in perpetuity. I don't know if the new Creative Cloud pricing model continues that; probably not because they've dropped version numbers, but all told I am paying much less per year than I would have spent shelling out for the CS Master Collection.
Anecdotes aren't evidence, but they are data: every team I've been on where there is camaraderie and extracurricular activities and discussions was more productive than those where interaction was strictly business. Any sufficiently large project relies on successful communication to succeed, and having a good social dynamic is the best way to foster a team attitude that enables such communication. Also, teammates are more likely to root for, and push each other to success. A bad or missing social dynamic correlates (IMHXP) to office politics and under-bus-throwing.
There's a natural tension in conservative thought between "I don't want to pay for someone else's bills" and "I don't want the government to force people to buy something they maybe can't afford." In the debate over ACA, these two modes of thought are mutually exclusive, and a lot of republicans had to decide which was more important.
Not really, most of the ACA was recycled Republican ideas, complete with bending over for the insurance companies and using private contractors to build the web site.
This is said repeatedly, and yet the previous administration, with a Republican house and senate, never advanced a bill for it, and not a single Republican voted for it when a bill for it finally was.
Well, *I* for one thought it was rather unsporting of the submitter to cut us off from potential (+5, Funny) Spaceballs references.
The moon has ~10^-7 pascals of pressure, and Mars has ~.6 kilopascals of pressure. I leave computing the order of magnitude of difference to the reader.
Yeah, but it's different in Australia. By they time you're ten, you've survived dingoes, death adders, recluse spiders, great white sharks, and deadly post-apoc race-cars covered in spikes. To the average pedo, you're not low-hanging fruit.
Your parents have been ready for long time, now.
I am sure there are a lot of "lefty partisans" who are enjoying this because they dislike Big Oil -- and to that extent, it more proves that it isn't about results with partisans, it is about their "team".
Schadenfreude is a hell of a drug. Many men will cut off their own nose to spite their face.
As it turns out, "Anonymous Coward" is an actual person with no job, a lot of time, and a lot of conflicting opinions.
"I am not left-handed."
...that Bennett Haselton has an account on Slashdot called Nerval's Lobster.
Notice the tag at the end: "Long-form submissions are welcome"? It's a cry for help from the Slashdot editors, "Dear God, someone else send us a long-form submission. Bennett is the only one who uses the damn link, please, please someone else use it."