"f you look at the statements of the Libertarians during the Bush administration I think you will find that we criticized Bush for many of the same reasons that we now criticize Obama."
This is obviously me being an optimist.. but let's hope they're putting up that argument just so it can be officially destroyed.
the realist in my recognizes now (as i did before i voted for him) that the president isn't perfect, and that sometimes information you learn after you say something changes your opinion - even if that change is for (what everyone else sees) the worse.
it's called system upgrades. there are B-52's flying around with modern GPS units replacing their old radio-based positioning system. the rest of the aircraft's hardware knows nothing about the change, just sees more accurate data
Simple solution to the land line problem. they have a GPS device.. use it's time! IT requires accurate time to get a location fix.. accurate time with even more sensativity than the missile system
and seriously... 32 bit signed floating point? have they never heard of a "double" in C++..every compiler i've ever seen does 64bit doubles.
that statement is neither necessarily true nor necessarily false - corporations and the government are bureaucracies. Sometimes one is better, sometimes the other is.
For example the National Weather Service kicks the living crap out of every private company trying to do the same thing. They pay well, the recruit the best and brightest, they are managed by professionals with experience doing what their underlings do [something you often only can DREAM of in the corporate world or the government world].
Medicare is another example - it's operating overhead is 4%. The operating overhead of private "insurance" (sorry, it's fraud, not insurance anymore) is a whopping 30% MINIMUM.
On the other hand there are some things private industry IS better at doing, and the government quite often contracts out to these people - construction comes to mind, software development, etc.
The government, when run by skilled people, tends to be much better at private industry than doing things that are "natural monopolies" (police, fire, roads, water, etc) or things the profit-motive would harm [like insurance].
You remind me of a 14 year old boy trying to sound all deep and wizard talking while standing in the kiddie pool of a subject shouting at the guys surfacing after a deep sea dive.
evolution is just the change in allele frequency in a population over time.
or more detailed: mutations happen
some mutations help, some harm, some don't have any immediate effect
logically those with mutations that help them survive/reproduce better will - over time - have more offspring causing a statistical shift in allele frequency in that population.
over (vast) time isolated (physically, socially, whaterver - non-interbreading) populations of what was once the same species may become difference species.
that's evolution. full stop.
you are indicating more that you have a problem with the data being dug up [ha ha] from the fossil recording detailing the meandering course of that process over million to billion year timescales.
What exactly is your problem with the evidence available? can you cite a specific logical problem you have with it?
as an environmentally conscious person i headdesk when other self-described environmentally conscious people flip about genetically modified crops.
yes there are some valid concerns about it outcompeting wild populations, etc. and it is a good idea to preserve older generations of the crops in the world seed vaults. but this "OMG GMO! EVIL! BAD! TURN YOUR SKIN PURPLE WITH PINK POLKA DOTS" stuff is just stupid.
I mean.. sometimes genetic modification is the only viable option.. these same people if presented with pictures of the vast tracts of forest killed by the Pine Beetle would probably scream "YES!" if they were asked "Should we replace these stands of forest with trees of the same species but given the ability to resist the pine beetle?".
The environmentalists have their idiots like any other group - like the people who simultaneously complain about carbon emissions and nuclear waste. Nuclear waste is a LOT less harmful to the environment [and a lot easier to safely contain] and would offset many magnitudes more carbon.. but to these people nooo ANY negative byproducts that must be dealt with are too much.*
* don't get me wrong - solar, wind, hydro > nuclear.. but nuclear is entire orders of magnitude > fossil fuels.
sorry.. yes they are.. look at the minnesota map. see all the awesome shoreline on lake superior north of duluth? starting about 45 minutes north of duluth on US63 you no longer have data service reliably... starting 90 minutes north you pretty much don't have it at all. except for a couple of pockets - grand marais being one of them. ely being another.
that's the outdoors.
even in iowa.. a place SATURATED with signal i don't get EVDO or 1X in many of our state parks due to line of sight issues [hills exist in iowa. i know it's hard to believe, but they do].
What happened to Windows Mobile. I don't particularily give a crap what the phones running as long as it works
Oh and I have a tethering "work around". ICS+program that starts it up as an adhoc node in a wireless network and exposes the shared network connection.
be like google - hardware redundancy and software handling the failover.
take down the node with a bad drive, swap the drive, rebuild that pod's RAID (preferably i would RAID6 them as it has better error recovery than RAID5 at the expense of storage size being [drive size]*[number of drives - 2] instead of [drive size]*[number of drives - 1] of RAID5). when it comes back up it syncs to it's other copy.
i would also get LARGE write cache drives and any databases would be running with LARGE ram buffers for performance.
for the same price as you'd shell out for "professional grade hardware" you can get 5x the "consumer grade hardware" and that's more than enough to facilitate hot data redundancy and failover.
your IT guy might even have something to do other than play World of Warcraft.
adding to my last post.. of course someone who was complicit in that 30 year assault on our education system would also be exactly the type of person to use the term "postmodernist" in that fashion..
assuming that i am correct in that then...
you're blaming postmodernist for the results of the campaign against public education that you waged - you're complaining about the exact affects you WANTED to have biting you in the ass and displacing that blame on the group you constantly attack.
Assuming that i'm correct in making an educated guess at your beliefs based on your pulling a term out of thin air to demonize.
history is that evidence. time and again every time a capitalist economy becomes unbalanced with too much money concentrated an economic collapse occurs just as i described. we're living through the middle of one of those collapses.
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some of them are still honest. and by some i mean 10%. some are semi-honest. they're not ALL outright crooks, but the majority of them are.
so while some congresscritters are crooks, not all congressscritters are crooks, neither are all crooks congresscritters.
equivalence fail.
which is the inevitable result of "private funding of campaigns"
a more accurate term for "private funding of campaigns" is "buying votes of congresscritters".
"f you look at the statements of the Libertarians during the Bush administration I think you will find that we criticized Bush for many of the same reasons that we now criticize Obama."
Bullshit
This is obviously me being an optimist.. but let's hope they're putting up that argument just so it can be officially destroyed.
the realist in my recognizes now (as i did before i voted for him) that the president isn't perfect, and that sometimes information you learn after you say something changes your opinion - even if that change is for (what everyone else sees) the worse.
people listen, and take seriously, his invalid points every single day. apparently you've never met a Dittohead
hint: they gave THEMSELVES that name.
it's called system upgrades. there are B-52's flying around with modern GPS units replacing their old radio-based positioning system. the rest of the aircraft's hardware knows nothing about the change, just sees more accurate data
Simple solution to the land line problem. they have a GPS device.. use it's time! IT requires accurate time to get a location fix.. accurate time with even more sensativity than the missile system
and seriously... 32 bit signed floating point? have they never heard of a "double" in C++..every compiler i've ever seen does 64bit doubles.
that statement is neither necessarily true nor necessarily false - corporations and the government are bureaucracies. Sometimes one is better, sometimes the other is.
For example the National Weather Service kicks the living crap out of every private company trying to do the same thing. They pay well, the recruit the best and brightest, they are managed by professionals with experience doing what their underlings do [something you often only can DREAM of in the corporate world or the government world].
Medicare is another example - it's operating overhead is 4%. The operating overhead of private "insurance" (sorry, it's fraud, not insurance anymore) is a whopping 30% MINIMUM.
On the other hand there are some things private industry IS better at doing, and the government quite often contracts out to these people - construction comes to mind, software development, etc.
The government, when run by skilled people, tends to be much better at private industry than doing things that are "natural monopolies" (police, fire, roads, water, etc) or things the profit-motive would harm [like insurance].
you don't have theories, you have cognitive feces
You remind me of a 14 year old boy trying to sound all deep and wizard talking while standing in the kiddie pool of a subject shouting at the guys surfacing after a deep sea dive.
just a pet peeve here.
it's spelled GOD
English letter G, followed by English Letter O, followed by English Letter D
Short vowel.
"G-d" is not valid English.
(yes i know why people type it like that THAT'S RETARDED)
evolution is just the change in allele frequency in a population over time.
or more detailed:
mutations happen
some mutations help, some harm, some don't have any immediate effect
logically those with mutations that help them survive/reproduce better will - over time - have more offspring causing a statistical shift in allele frequency in that population.
over (vast) time isolated (physically, socially, whaterver - non-interbreading) populations of what was once the same species may become difference species.
that's evolution. full stop.
you are indicating more that you have a problem with the data being dug up [ha ha] from the fossil recording detailing the meandering course of that process over million to billion year timescales.
What exactly is your problem with the evidence available? can you cite a specific logical problem you have with it?
weren't rigged? that's possible
impossible to determine if the results they gave were accurate? oh you betcha.
as an environmentally conscious person i headdesk when other self-described environmentally conscious people flip about genetically modified crops.
yes there are some valid concerns about it outcompeting wild populations, etc. and it is a good idea to preserve older generations of the crops in the world seed vaults. but this "OMG GMO! EVIL! BAD! TURN YOUR SKIN PURPLE WITH PINK POLKA DOTS" stuff is just stupid.
I mean.. sometimes genetic modification is the only viable option.. these same people if presented with pictures of the vast tracts of forest killed by the Pine Beetle would probably scream "YES!" if they were asked "Should we replace these stands of forest with trees of the same species but given the ability to resist the pine beetle?".
The environmentalists have their idiots like any other group - like the people who simultaneously complain about carbon emissions and nuclear waste. Nuclear waste is a LOT less harmful to the environment [and a lot easier to safely contain] and would offset many magnitudes more carbon.. but to these people nooo ANY negative byproducts that must be dealt with are too much.*
* don't get me wrong - solar, wind, hydro > nuclear .. but nuclear is entire orders of magnitude > fossil fuels.
sorry.. yes they are.. look at the minnesota map. see all the awesome shoreline on lake superior north of duluth? starting about 45 minutes north of duluth on US63 you no longer have data service reliably... starting 90 minutes north you pretty much don't have it at all. except for a couple of pockets - grand marais being one of them. ely being another.
that's the outdoors.
even in iowa.. a place SATURATED with signal i don't get EVDO or 1X in many of our state parks due to line of sight issues [hills exist in iowa. i know it's hard to believe, but they do].
KOA is also shiat and charges like they're the best thing on the planet.
What happened to Windows Mobile. I don't particularily give a crap what the phones running as long as it works
Oh and I have a tethering "work around". ICS+program that starts it up as an adhoc node in a wireless network and exposes the shared network connection.
be like google - hardware redundancy and software handling the failover.
take down the node with a bad drive, swap the drive, rebuild that pod's RAID (preferably i would RAID6 them as it has better error recovery than RAID5 at the expense of storage size being [drive size]*[number of drives - 2] instead of [drive size]*[number of drives - 1] of RAID5). when it comes back up it syncs to it's other copy.
i would also get LARGE write cache drives and any databases would be running with LARGE ram buffers for performance.
for the same price as you'd shell out for "professional grade hardware" you can get 5x the "consumer grade hardware" and that's more than enough to facilitate hot data redundancy and failover.
your IT guy might even have something to do other than play World of Warcraft.
n/t
adding to my last post.. of course someone who was complicit in that 30 year assault on our education system would also be exactly the type of person to use the term "postmodernist" in that fashion..
assuming that i am correct in that then...
you're blaming postmodernist for the results of the campaign against public education that you waged - you're complaining about the exact affects you WANTED to have biting you in the ass and displacing that blame on the group you constantly attack.
Assuming that i'm correct in making an educated guess at your beliefs based on your pulling a term out of thin air to demonize.
blaming postmodernism for the results of a 30 year assault on the education system in this country is simply intellectually dishonest.
what's confusing about three eighty and three alpha tango? :P
yes, mandatory when coming up to a crossing.
US Bureau of Labor ... as cited by CNN last week.
history is that evidence. time and again every time a capitalist economy becomes unbalanced with too much money concentrated an economic collapse occurs just as i described. we're living through the middle of one of those collapses.