Owning property is a cornerstone of capitalism. If I write a book or make a movie, that's a form of property and I'm gonna copyright it to prevent people like you from usurping it. And there's plenty of competition - have you noticed how many books and movies are released all by different companies.
I was raised poor and lived around poor people, and I've seen what makes people stop being poor and what makes people raised in wealthier households become poor. Typically I find that poor people are poor because they make bad choices, even when they are educated enough to know better.
Take smoking for example; before people even start smoking, they already know it's addicting, they already know it ruins your health, they already know it's expensive, they already know that most people don't like to be around cigarette smoke, they already have been told by existing smokers to not start...And yet, they decide to start smoking anyways.
But let's not stop there.
They know it's stupid to drop out of high school, and face a lot of resistance on the way before doing so, but they do it anyways.
They know it's stupid to get pregnant before they have a stable job, but they do it anyways.
They know it's stupid to buy a new TV on a credit card and and even more stupid only make the minimum payment, but they do it anyways.
They know it's stupid to live beyond their means and drop a shitload of money on interest instead of saving and investing, but they do it anyways.
Argh. Wish I had some mod points left because this is a valid argument and you've been modded down because someone disagrees.
Some people just never learn from their bad decisions and they're stuck being poor while others learn, move on and up. It's human nature. There are many leftists that want equality of outcome for everyone despite these human failings. It won't work. All it will do is drag everyone, except for the anointed elite, to the lowest common denominator.
Despite the infuriating nag reminders, I rarely update my iphone for this reason. When the stuff I use doesn't work right, new functionality I want gets added, or there's a newsworthy security update will I go through with it. And it's not just Apple that has these issues. Nearly all manufacturers do. At least with the iphone, I can control when updates occur. Other devices update automatically no matter what my wishes are.
As a leftist, i can tell you what i want: poor people to have as much access to and education about healthy choices--in food, finance, and their future--as rich people. Merry Christmas.
You may be shocked to find out that those to your right would agree with that statement. Equality of opportunity is very important.
The Norwegian in me sneers when you mention 60 cm thick walls. Why would you do that when you could have that wall contain a double layer insulation of Glava(glasswool) and Isopor(polystyrene foam). And still combine that with the extra thick walls?
The entire point of "zero energy houses" as they exist in Norway is to use proper insulating materials to do exactly as you talked about, except this can be applied to any type of home.
I didn't mean rammed-earth would work in Norway. With a high desert climate and 300 days of sunshine in New Mexico, it does work. And, if it matters to you, you get some renewable points by utilizing dirt from your own property as the main ingredient. In any case, if you are fortunate to have a bigger lot and can orient your home to take advantage of the winter sun at that latitude, you can design a floor plan that requires very little mechanical heating/cooling. Here's a link that describes such a home in the Albuquerque area.
High heat capacity in the rammed-earth walls (which are from 18- to 36-inches thick) regulates interior temperatures. In winter, the walls work with the slab to retain and radiate the sun’s heat into the home overnight, meaning the gas-fired, in-floor radiant heat is seldom used. Conversely, because the night air cools the walls in summer, the home has no air-conditioning—though daily highs often rise into the mid-90s and above.
I've heard the most cost--effective place to live, energy-wise, is the desert. It cools off in at night, so you can open up windows and cool a building off, then seal it up during the day and take advantage of swamp cooling, or geothermal, when absolutely required.
Have you ever seen modern rammed-earth homes? I used to have a neighbor in New Mexico with one. It was made by combining dirt on his property with cement and compacting the mixture into forms that created 24 inch think walls. The sheer thermal mass of it all kept the interior at a temperature that was nearly the average during the day. So a high of 95 F and a low of 60 meant the inside stayed below 80 without any additional A/C. The rest of the home was thoroughly modern and with walls that thick, was very quiet inside.
Cuba has never been communist any more than China or Russia. They have always been ruled by a moneyed power elite. That's not Communism, it's capitalism dressed up as Communism. It is essentially jumping straight to late-stage capitalism without enjoying any of the benefits of the early or middle stages.
Complete horseshit. And before you can say, citation needed, here it is:
Cuba has had a communist political system since 1959 based on the "one state – one party" principle. Cuba is constitutionally defined as a Marxist–Leninist socialist state guided by the political ideas of Marx, one of the fathers of historical materialism, Engels and Lenin. The present Constitution also ascribes the role of the Communist Party of Cuba to be the "leading force of society and of the state" and as such has the capability of setting national policy.
And then there's the Samsung engineering organization that put out leaking refrigerators, SSDs that slow over time (840 EVO), and exploding phones among other things. I unfortunately am the owner of said refrigerator and two of those SSDs. Sometimes I wish I could slap a JDAM kit on my fridge, drop it from 20kft, and guide it right into the window of the CEO's office.
Anyone can turn on the TV and watch people getting shot, beaten, raped, etc... and there are very few people who say anything about it. Sure, it's all acting and fiction, but it sure looks real.
And the actors who make millions with the fake shootings are the first ones on the megaphone waxing philosophically over why the 2nd amendment hasn't been repealed every time there's a shooting in real life.
However, given the federal government has effectively usurped most state powers/rights, it feels like one giant state, doesn't it? This is what happens when we abandon the freedoms our once-great country was founded on.
And much of that usurpitation is due to a big giant carrot the feds hang out to the states in the form of money. For example, states are free as to how they implement education, but to get federal money, they need to follow a mega-crapton load of regulations.
Funny you bring up Nazis because they looked at the Progressives in the US and thought "isn't their brand of eugenics interesting". For a more thorough reading go here: Nazi eugenics
An excerpt:
In organizing their eugenics program the Nazis were inspired by the United States' programs of forced sterilization, especially on the eugenics laws that had been enacted in California.
Nazis were inspired by a key Progressive policy. Ouch.
You imply left-leaning people are more likely to support eugenics/modification than right-leaning people. Do you have any statistically-valid evidence for such a preference, or is that just a personal guess?
No statistics, but from a historical perspective, eugenics was all the rage with Progressives in the early 20th century. The Progressives of that time wanted to replace random natural selection with purposeful social selection. For example, sterilizing black women without their consent would reduce the number of "imbeciles" being born. I don't think the Progressives of today think like that now, but the way they treat others that don't have the same opinions makes me wonder sometimes, and I'm sure there are plenty who wish DJT's mom was sterilized before he was born.
Or it will attract a different butterfly species like some of my milkweed did this year. We do have the milkweed monarchs like, but they didn't bloom this year. I have no idea why because the plants got pretty big. Maybe because our summer in TX was pretty hot and/or I over-watered those plants.
Which jurisdiction pays felon firefighters $1-2/day? Let me guess, none. These are felons currently serving their prison sentence where the non-violent ones get to go out and work under guarded supervision. Some of them you see alongside the road picking up trash. Others apparently get to fight fires.
As someone who has not been responsible with 401k savings, I can attest that it is not the rest of the country that is responsible for my retirement, and I do not care to hand more power over to clueless politicians and bureaucrats, which they will just use to garner more power. History has clearly shown they will badly mishandle any money that are given. Thank you, but no. Keep your so-called social security. I'll worry about me and mine.
Yup. And the facts prove it. The Social Security "trust fund" contains nothing but IOUs because politicians spent it all on other things. When I retire I fully expect SS to be gone or drastically reduced. I've planned accordingly by maxing out my 401K and investing it in safer instruments.
Sure you have to learn a new system but your experience will be highly useful - you were hired based on that, right? For many moving on to a new position means opportunities to learn new stuff and that makes you better. For others, they just want to get out of a crappy situation. The only issue I have is if an applicant has switched jobs every two years for their entire career. While that's not disqualifying, it is something I'll ask about in a job interview.
A long time ago in high school, I mounted razor blades to the chassis of my car stereo. And one day it happened. From the skin left behind, I could tell you the race of the person who tried to steal it. Cleaning up the blood was a pain but I didn't care, I was too busy patting myself on my back. Then the cops told me I could be the one in trouble. That was the end of my vigilante streak.
The comment block was descriptive and necessary, but it should also include processor errata info to trace back to published documentation. Perhaps this was something newly discovered and the processor and software engineers were in close communications.
"Less than three weeks later, the INVD instruction was commented out," writes Chen. "But the comment block remains.
I don't like seeing commented out code. If it's commented out then it has no business being in the source code file - even if there's an explanation in the comment block. The code's removal along with its comment block should be documented in whatever revision control system is in use. Maybe I'm bias because I worked in safety critical environments where commented out code is a no-no.
I prefer ddg'ing to googling. Pick your poison. So the majority of the links on the 1st page show prison time and the rest indicate like you said - so I stand corrected as those links are more recent. But I don't believe for a second the law's sponsor ever intended on for the penalties to be reduced. Only through nation-wide ridicule, did the reduction come about.
The fact is that CA is becoming an authoritarian state with, like you said, silly laws like this.
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Owning property is a cornerstone of capitalism. If I write a book or make a movie, that's a form of property and I'm gonna copyright it to prevent people like you from usurping it. And there's plenty of competition - have you noticed how many books and movies are released all by different companies.
I was raised poor and lived around poor people, and I've seen what makes people stop being poor and what makes people raised in wealthier households become poor. Typically I find that poor people are poor because they make bad choices, even when they are educated enough to know better.
Take smoking for example; before people even start smoking, they already know it's addicting, they already know it ruins your health, they already know it's expensive, they already know that most people don't like to be around cigarette smoke, they already have been told by existing smokers to not start...And yet, they decide to start smoking anyways.
But let's not stop there.
They know it's stupid to drop out of high school, and face a lot of resistance on the way before doing so, but they do it anyways.
They know it's stupid to get pregnant before they have a stable job, but they do it anyways.
They know it's stupid to buy a new TV on a credit card and and even more stupid only make the minimum payment, but they do it anyways.
They know it's stupid to live beyond their means and drop a shitload of money on interest instead of saving and investing, but they do it anyways.
Argh. Wish I had some mod points left because this is a valid argument and you've been modded down because someone disagrees.
Some people just never learn from their bad decisions and they're stuck being poor while others learn, move on and up. It's human nature. There are many leftists that want equality of outcome for everyone despite these human failings. It won't work. All it will do is drag everyone, except for the anointed elite, to the lowest common denominator.
What's the most severe sentence for flying your drone at the wrong time/place. I'm thinking hanged, drawn and quartered.
Despite the infuriating nag reminders, I rarely update my iphone for this reason. When the stuff I use doesn't work right, new functionality I want gets added, or there's a newsworthy security update will I go through with it. And it's not just Apple that has these issues. Nearly all manufacturers do. At least with the iphone, I can control when updates occur. Other devices update automatically no matter what my wishes are.
As a leftist, i can tell you what i want: poor people to have as much access to and education about healthy choices--in food, finance, and their future--as rich people. Merry Christmas.
You may be shocked to find out that those to your right would agree with that statement. Equality of opportunity is very important.
So your theory proves it. Chelsea Clinton's father really is Webster Hubbell.
At least Geocities sites sucked differently compared to Facebook.
So begins a new phrase: Vintage suckage
The Norwegian in me sneers when you mention 60 cm thick walls. Why would you do that when you could have that wall contain a double layer insulation of Glava(glasswool) and Isopor(polystyrene foam). And still combine that with the extra thick walls? The entire point of "zero energy houses" as they exist in Norway is to use proper insulating materials to do exactly as you talked about, except this can be applied to any type of home.
I didn't mean rammed-earth would work in Norway. With a high desert climate and 300 days of sunshine in New Mexico, it does work. And, if it matters to you, you get some renewable points by utilizing dirt from your own property as the main ingredient. In any case, if you are fortunate to have a bigger lot and can orient your home to take advantage of the winter sun at that latitude, you can design a floor plan that requires very little mechanical heating/cooling. Here's a link that describes such a home in the Albuquerque area.
High heat capacity in the rammed-earth walls (which are from 18- to 36-inches thick) regulates interior temperatures. In winter, the walls work with the slab to retain and radiate the sun’s heat into the home overnight, meaning the gas-fired, in-floor radiant heat is seldom used. Conversely, because the night air cools the walls in summer, the home has no air-conditioning—though daily highs often rise into the mid-90s and above.
I've heard the most cost--effective place to live, energy-wise, is the desert. It cools off in at night, so you can open up windows and cool a building off, then seal it up during the day and take advantage of swamp cooling, or geothermal, when absolutely required.
Have you ever seen modern rammed-earth homes? I used to have a neighbor in New Mexico with one. It was made by combining dirt on his property with cement and compacting the mixture into forms that created 24 inch think walls. The sheer thermal mass of it all kept the interior at a temperature that was nearly the average during the day. So a high of 95 F and a low of 60 meant the inside stayed below 80 without any additional A/C. The rest of the home was thoroughly modern and with walls that thick, was very quiet inside.
Hey, what's your problem? What do you have against Bruce? What did he ever do to you?
Brought me down.
Cuba has never been communist any more than China or Russia. They have always been ruled by a moneyed power elite. That's not Communism, it's capitalism dressed up as Communism. It is essentially jumping straight to late-stage capitalism without enjoying any of the benefits of the early or middle stages.
Complete horseshit. And before you can say, citation needed, here it is:
Cuba has had a communist political system since 1959 based on the "one state – one party" principle. Cuba is constitutionally defined as a Marxist–Leninist socialist state guided by the political ideas of Marx, one of the fathers of historical materialism, Engels and Lenin. The present Constitution also ascribes the role of the Communist Party of Cuba to be the "leading force of society and of the state" and as such has the capability of setting national policy.
And then there's the Samsung engineering organization that put out leaking refrigerators, SSDs that slow over time (840 EVO), and exploding phones among other things. I unfortunately am the owner of said refrigerator and two of those SSDs. Sometimes I wish I could slap a JDAM kit on my fridge, drop it from 20kft, and guide it right into the window of the CEO's office.
Anyone can turn on the TV and watch people getting shot, beaten, raped, etc ... and there are very few people who say anything about it. Sure, it's all acting and fiction, but it sure looks real.
And the actors who make millions with the fake shootings are the first ones on the megaphone waxing philosophically over why the 2nd amendment hasn't been repealed every time there's a shooting in real life.
However, given the federal government has effectively usurped most state powers/rights, it feels like one giant state, doesn't it? This is what happens when we abandon the freedoms our once-great country was founded on.
And much of that usurpitation is due to a big giant carrot the feds hang out to the states in the form of money. For example, states are free as to how they implement education, but to get federal money, they need to follow a mega-crapton load of regulations.
I disagree. Eventually the US still likely would have passed the 13th amendment.
Nazis were inspired by a key Progressive policy. Ouch.
Nazis were inspired by a key Progressive policy that led to the deaths of millions. Ouch. FTFM
An excerpt:
In organizing their eugenics program the Nazis were inspired by the United States' programs of forced sterilization, especially on the eugenics laws that had been enacted in California.
Nazis were inspired by a key Progressive policy. Ouch.
You imply left-leaning people are more likely to support eugenics/modification than right-leaning people. Do you have any statistically-valid evidence for such a preference, or is that just a personal guess?
No statistics, but from a historical perspective, eugenics was all the rage with Progressives in the early 20th century. The Progressives of that time wanted to replace random natural selection with purposeful social selection. For example, sterilizing black women without their consent would reduce the number of "imbeciles" being born. I don't think the Progressives of today think like that now, but the way they treat others that don't have the same opinions makes me wonder sometimes, and I'm sure there are plenty who wish DJT's mom was sterilized before he was born.
Or it will attract a different butterfly species like some of my milkweed did this year. We do have the milkweed monarchs like, but they didn't bloom this year. I have no idea why because the plants got pretty big. Maybe because our summer in TX was pretty hot and/or I over-watered those plants.
Which jurisdiction pays felon firefighters $1-2/day? Let me guess, none. These are felons currently serving their prison sentence where the non-violent ones get to go out and work under guarded supervision. Some of them you see alongside the road picking up trash. Others apparently get to fight fires.
As someone who has not been responsible with 401k savings, I can attest that it is not the rest of the country that is responsible for my retirement, and I do not care to hand more power over to clueless politicians and bureaucrats, which they will just use to garner more power. History has clearly shown they will badly mishandle any money that are given. Thank you, but no. Keep your so-called social security. I'll worry about me and mine.
Yup. And the facts prove it. The Social Security "trust fund" contains nothing but IOUs because politicians spent it all on other things. When I retire I fully expect SS to be gone or drastically reduced. I've planned accordingly by maxing out my 401K and investing it in safer instruments.
Sure you have to learn a new system but your experience will be highly useful - you were hired based on that, right? For many moving on to a new position means opportunities to learn new stuff and that makes you better. For others, they just want to get out of a crappy situation. The only issue I have is if an applicant has switched jobs every two years for their entire career. While that's not disqualifying, it is something I'll ask about in a job interview.
A long time ago in high school, I mounted razor blades to the chassis of my car stereo. And one day it happened. From the skin left behind, I could tell you the race of the person who tried to steal it. Cleaning up the blood was a pain but I didn't care, I was too busy patting myself on my back. Then the cops told me I could be the one in trouble. That was the end of my vigilante streak.
"Less than three weeks later, the INVD instruction was commented out," writes Chen. "But the comment block remains.
I don't like seeing commented out code. If it's commented out then it has no business being in the source code file - even if there's an explanation in the comment block. The code's removal along with its comment block should be documented in whatever revision control system is in use. Maybe I'm bias because I worked in safety critical environments where commented out code is a no-no.
I prefer ddg'ing to googling. Pick your poison. So the majority of the links on the 1st page show prison time and the rest indicate like you said - so I stand corrected as those links are more recent. But I don't believe for a second the law's sponsor ever intended on for the penalties to be reduced. Only through nation-wide ridicule, did the reduction come about.
The fact is that CA is becoming an authoritarian state with, like you said, silly laws like this.