We can't imagine how bad FedEx and UPS service would get with no competition from the USPS.
Sure we can - UPS is much worse than USPS.
The inexpensive DMV fees escape our notice (since we don't realize what licensing or registration fees AllState or Geico would impose if these functions were "deregulated").
How exactly do you deregulate a government function?
The simple approach would be to mount the electric motors somewhat inboard and connect to the wheel by a cv joint. That way, you get to minimize the unsprung weight while avoiding most of the drivetrain.
I didn't say that, I said that they weren't necessary. I'm the guy in the back of the math class sleeping because math is easy, but I'm not that guy in history class. Sure, they can make things more interesting and expand my knowledge, but this is high school - the bar is kinda low.
The problem with gold-backed currency is that it doesn't accomodate increases in wealth - if I have 10 lbs of gold and the US manages to double its wealth through technology, I'm twice as rich.
The point, which you are studiously missing, is that you haven't provided any sort of expansion on what 300 level maths are. Also, I'm pretty sure that algebra is taught outside the US.
Teaching a vocational education sounds good in theory, but what happens when your job gets moved over to a cheaper country? You have been left with no skills to learn a new trade.
Ring me up when they outsource plumbing.
When my wife got pregnant my Biology came in handy, as it does when planting a garden and deciding the best types of plants and where to plant them.
Also handy if you want to breed certain, um, plants.
Teachers aren't necessary for top and bottom 10% (more or less). They're there for the middle 80% -the sooner they figure that one out, the sooner they can let the bright kids and the dolts sleep in the back and work on the people who need that instruction.
if this was college when you have an idea what you want to do with your life and realize it doesn't make sense to take calculus to finish out an art/language major.
Why not? I took shakespeare and comparative religion to round out my CS degree.
I learned from the Ann Coulter school of debate: when someone has proven themselves incapable of actually reading what you write/hearing your argument, mockery is acceptable. When then just repeat talking points, mockery is mandatory.
Are you a fucking idiot? The whole point is that mass of an object doesn't vary with temperature. The liter of water at STP gets bigger or smaller with temp, but doesn't change mass.
If the size changes(even a bit), why would that still be a liter?
Yeah, but if it started off as a liter, heating it up won't change the size. We're talking about the same stuff.
Where did it say that we would heat or freeze the same liter, we've being talking about one liter in different temperaturs. Not using the same original test sample, but using one liter of water in different temperaturs.
Well you have to use the same sample or else these things won't hold true. That's why most measurements specify standard temp and pressure.
ID says nothing about who created the universe, and it certainly says nothing about the Bible.
No, it talks about an 'intelligent designer'. Now who could that be?
It is a scientific argument that primarily contends that the observable evidence in biological systems is incompatible with the theory of them being created by random mutations combined with natural selection.
how would you falsify something like that? What predictions does it make? You have to be able to answer those questions or it isn't a theory.
any possible reduction in complexity of those systems would yield a non-functional system
Such as the appendix (look up 'vestigal organs'). It's entirely possible that observed complexity is a result of multiple systems merging and then simplifying down into the present state, which leaves us with a system that appears 'irreducible'.
Way to miss the point. You can't expect that every programmer is doing it for love - most likely, the majority are doing it because it's a job. Just wanting to make money isn't sinful, and you still have to address the rather screwed up attitude we have towards fresh grads.
I bet you say that to the chemical engineers - seriously, why is it only acceptable to tell that to programmers? Sure some people are passionate, but we also need the ones that aren't very passionate, but do want to do a good job and make decent money.
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Shit, maybe I should go there.
We can't imagine how bad FedEx and UPS service would get with no competition from the USPS.
Sure we can - UPS is much worse than USPS.
The inexpensive DMV fees escape our notice (since we don't realize what licensing or registration fees AllState or Geico would impose if these functions were "deregulated").
How exactly do you deregulate a government function?
The simple approach would be to mount the electric motors somewhat inboard and connect to the wheel by a cv joint. That way, you get to minimize the unsprung weight while avoiding most of the drivetrain.
I didn't say that, I said that they weren't necessary. I'm the guy in the back of the math class sleeping because math is easy, but I'm not that guy in history class. Sure, they can make things more interesting and expand my knowledge, but this is high school - the bar is kinda low.
The problem with gold-backed currency is that it doesn't accomodate increases in wealth - if I have 10 lbs of gold and the US manages to double its wealth through technology, I'm twice as rich.
The point, which you are studiously missing, is that you haven't provided any sort of expansion on what 300 level maths are. Also, I'm pretty sure that algebra is taught outside the US.
Teaching a vocational education sounds good in theory, but what happens when your job gets moved over to a cheaper country? You have been left with no skills to learn a new trade.
Ring me up when they outsource plumbing.
When my wife got pregnant my Biology came in handy, as it does when planting a garden and deciding the best types of plants and where to plant them.
Also handy if you want to breed certain, um, plants.
Teachers aren't necessary for top and bottom 10% (more or less). They're there for the middle 80% -the sooner they figure that one out, the sooner they can let the bright kids and the dolts sleep in the back and work on the people who need that instruction.
You'd prefer that the gub could just print money itself? Most senators are products of our education system themselves - don't think they won't.
if this was college when you have an idea what you want to do with your life and realize it doesn't make sense to take calculus to finish out an art/language major.
Why not? I took shakespeare and comparative religion to round out my CS degree.
I learned from the Ann Coulter school of debate: when someone has proven themselves incapable of actually reading what you write/hearing your argument, mockery is acceptable. When then just repeat talking points, mockery is mandatory.
Are you a fucking idiot? The whole point is that mass of an object doesn't vary with temperature. The liter of water at STP gets bigger or smaller with temp, but doesn't change mass.
That's the fucking point. It starts as a liter, you freeze it, it still weighs the same, but it's a bit bigger.
If I freeze a liter of water, it doesn't change weight, though.
If the size changes(even a bit), why would that still be a liter?
Yeah, but if it started off as a liter, heating it up won't change the size. We're talking about the same stuff.
Where did it say that we would heat or freeze the same liter, we've being talking about one liter in different temperaturs. Not using the same original test sample, but using one liter of water in different temperaturs.
Well you have to use the same sample or else these things won't hold true. That's why most measurements specify standard temp and pressure.
if a theory has to be falsifiable, then String Theory (and variants) aren't theories either,
No arguments there. I'm still waiting for something testable.
neither is much of neodarwinism, for example the claim of "random" mutation.
That stuff is testable via experimentation on bacteria - you can use penicillin to breed PCN resistant bacteria.
If we could ever completely simulate something like a bacterium down to the molecular level, we could answer a lot of these questions, I think.
We don't have to nail things down precisely, just be better than the next guy and make useful predictions.
Needs alien emoticons: ~*^*~
If one liter(volyme) doesn't change its weight depending on the temperature, why one weight (one kg) can change its volyme(in liters)?
If you take a liter of water and freeze it or heat it up, it changes size (a bit), but weighs the same.
Ever seen an apple? Your eye is a machine, so no, you haven't. We could just be brains hooked up to computers for all we know.
ID says nothing about who created the universe, and it certainly says nothing about the Bible.
No, it talks about an 'intelligent designer'. Now who could that be?
It is a scientific argument that primarily contends that the observable evidence in biological systems is incompatible with the theory of them being created by random mutations combined with natural selection.
how would you falsify something like that? What predictions does it make? You have to be able to answer those questions or it isn't a theory.
any possible reduction in complexity of those systems would yield a non-functional system
Such as the appendix (look up 'vestigal organs'). It's entirely possible that observed complexity is a result of multiple systems merging and then simplifying down into the present state, which leaves us with a system that appears 'irreducible'.
No, that's exactly opposite the point. The point of insurance is to spread risk around and mitigate the effects of large negative events.
Way to miss the point. You can't expect that every programmer is doing it for love - most likely, the majority are doing it because it's a job. Just wanting to make money isn't sinful, and you still have to address the rather screwed up attitude we have towards fresh grads.
I bet you say that to the chemical engineers - seriously, why is it only acceptable to tell that to programmers? Sure some people are passionate, but we also need the ones that aren't very passionate, but do want to do a good job and make decent money.
They were applying to be the most experienced sales guy at Best Buy and asking for a salary that the full store manager makes.
Which would be fine. An effective salesguy is worth more than a retail manager.
You want 3 pawns or 1 knight?
Bad example. I'll take 1 pawn and a king vs your 1 knight and a king and I'll win.