Exactly. At my college, a CS 101 class was for interdisciplinary programs, anyway (and was taught in VB). My CS degree started with 201, where we dove right into C++; classes, pointers and all.
In my shop, if a code review shows that you did not follow proper design standards, you redesign it (re-implementing, if need be). It's bitten me before, but in the long run, I'm thankful. I realize this is not SOP across the industry due to schedules and whatnot, but I think it should be.
From a guy on a forum. Not exactly a groundswell. Also note that from 2008-2010, congress, a filibuster-proof majority in the senate, and the presidency were all democrats. The time to prove that they aren't beholden to the same crony capitalism as the republicans has come and passed, and put a lie to their empty rhetoric.
Barney Frank isn't on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Defense. He's on the House Committee on Financial Services, which has more to do with the failing banks he helped fritter a few hundred billion on.
No, because that ones that do lose out on precious appropriations dollars for friendly lobbyists back home. Then they lose campaign dollars. Then they lose elections. And no one wants to lose an election.
Fact: democrats love pork just as much as republicans do. What free market? There is no free market here. A republican walks up to a democrat and says, "Hey, I got this company back home that wants to develop shitty trucks for $1 million a pop", and the democrat responds, "Really? Because I got a company back home that wants to develop ballistic armor made of Saran-Wrap. Let's do lunch." If you don't believe that, you are living in a fantasy world.
Note the list of Republicans: all of them are 00's-style big spenders, and perfect complements to their democratic counterparts. There is not a single voice on that committee for fiscal conservatism or budgetary restraint.
I agree that we need to slash and gut the military budget. We can run a better, cheaper army, but first we have to gut the appropriations committee (and the Senate Armed Forces committee). For my part, I have supported primary challengers to ever Republican on that list (to little effect). I urge democrats to do the same.
Unfortunately, it's a sad fact that the US military often does not have the option of choosing the best tool for the job: rather, politicians budget for them ridiculous pet projects (from the politician's own home turf, naturally) that is orders of magnitude more expensive than it has any right to be. The military industrial complex is crony capitalism at its worst: buying solutions in search of a problem, and hobbling military expediency in favor of political back-scratching.
As an aside, crony capitalism is not capitalism. It's closer to corrupt autocratic government monopolies. There is no free market involved. It's about which lobbyist can promise the most campaign funds.
The discernible benefit is no repeats of the September 11th bombings while still allowing random travel.
The TSA didn't have a damned thing to do with that. You can thank our intelligence and law enforcement agencies for most thwarted attacks in the last ten years.
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In liquid state, its real danger is ingestion, which I think most kids are smart enough not to do. But in vaporized form, it is very easy to breathe.
Especially since the mercury is in your home instead of at the coal plant.
Ironic, considering every CFL uses vaporized mercury as its filament.
Non sequiturs make me eat lampshades.
No, see, he's been flying west the whole time, so he gets more hours per day.
Exactly. At my college, a CS 101 class was for interdisciplinary programs, anyway (and was taught in VB). My CS degree started with 201, where we dove right into C++; classes, pointers and all.
In my shop, if a code review shows that you did not follow proper design standards, you redesign it (re-implementing, if need be). It's bitten me before, but in the long run, I'm thankful. I realize this is not SOP across the industry due to schedules and whatnot, but I think it should be.
I don't see how what you said is mutually exclusive with what I said. Lobby-provided retirement programs are also a feature of crony-capitalism.
So you're saying your politician of choice prefers reelection over principle? So either way, they're corrupt? Great defense.
This isn't an open source project. If anything, this exemplifies the dangers of vendor lock-in.
You're linking me press conferences.
Link me legislation.
And yet the budgets still go up.
From a guy on a forum. Not exactly a groundswell. Also note that from 2008-2010, congress, a filibuster-proof majority in the senate, and the presidency were all democrats. The time to prove that they aren't beholden to the same crony capitalism as the republicans has come and passed, and put a lie to their empty rhetoric.
Barney Frank isn't on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Defense. He's on the House Committee on Financial Services, which has more to do with the failing banks he helped fritter a few hundred billion on.
Excuse my double reply.
I forgot to ask you: What "ones who do?" I'm not aware of any such "ones".
No, because that ones that do lose out on precious appropriations dollars for friendly lobbyists back home. Then they lose campaign dollars. Then they lose elections. And no one wants to lose an election.
Fact: democrats love pork just as much as republicans do. What free market? There is no free market here. A republican walks up to a democrat and says, "Hey, I got this company back home that wants to develop shitty trucks for $1 million a pop", and the democrat responds, "Really? Because I got a company back home that wants to develop ballistic armor made of Saran-Wrap. Let's do lunch." If you don't believe that, you are living in a fantasy world.
Democrats don't want to cut defense spending either. The DoD is the easiest place to get pork-money for your favorite lobbyists back home.
The corruption of the military industrial complex is a bipartisan problem. To believe your favorite politician doesn't dip into that well is naive.
The Pentagon does not write its own budget. Our military is civilian led, which means the place to point fingers is at the Senate Defense Appropriations committee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Appropriations_Subcommittee_on_Defense
Note the list of Republicans: all of them are 00's-style big spenders, and perfect complements to their democratic counterparts. There is not a single voice on that committee for fiscal conservatism or budgetary restraint.
I agree that we need to slash and gut the military budget. We can run a better, cheaper army, but first we have to gut the appropriations committee (and the Senate Armed Forces committee). For my part, I have supported primary challengers to ever Republican on that list (to little effect). I urge democrats to do the same.
Unfortunately, it's a sad fact that the US military often does not have the option of choosing the best tool for the job: rather, politicians budget for them ridiculous pet projects (from the politician's own home turf, naturally) that is orders of magnitude more expensive than it has any right to be. The military industrial complex is crony capitalism at its worst: buying solutions in search of a problem, and hobbling military expediency in favor of political back-scratching.
As an aside, crony capitalism is not capitalism. It's closer to corrupt autocratic government monopolies. There is no free market involved. It's about which lobbyist can promise the most campaign funds.
The TSA didn't have a damned thing to do with that. You can thank our intelligence and law enforcement agencies for most thwarted attacks in the last ten years.
There was always a menu at the top. Now it's a different color, and has a new item. Not a big deal.
It's a fact until an animal speaks up in disagreement. Maybe we can have them file a formal petition.
Gaaah! I was gonna watch that this week! You bastard!
Oh... the irony.
Verbal, dramatic, or situational?