Make it expensive to hire illegals and they'll stop coming. Then people will take jobs at a higher wage, things will get a bit pricier, and there's nothing to blame.
Who would we blame for the drug trade?
Remove the drug trade and there's noone to blame.
Who would we pay terrible wages to labor in our fields and in our kitchens -- they'd need to be paid a decent wage if we annexed Mexico!
Or, if we punish employers enough to remove the incentive, we'll pay better wages, and the CEOs will have to deal with just the one huge mansion.
Again, a hard drive is a component of a computer. Your example would be more relevant if people were running around calling every halberd and spear a partisan. You're unlikely to refer to someone using dagger politics, and partisan hasn't been used commonly for a century or two. Hard drive is contemporary.
Really: Cart Blanche to do any amount of illegal acts on the net without fear of having your use cut off? Really? Required car analogy: I can do anything in my car as long as I don't exceed the speed limit? Really? You've thought this thru, have you Paul?
Yes he has. Even a convicted felon should get access to the net. Try getting a job without that - won't happen. Sure, commit a crime online and you could go to jail, but you won't be banned from the net when you get out.
I've got a better idea - limit the letter of CP laws to punishing the production and distribution of exploitive CP. The current CP that isn't under that umbrella should still be illegal, but not to the absurd degree that is applied today. Basically, this acknowledges that most so-called CP is produced by teenagers for teenagers and should not be used to destroy their lives. At worst, you destroy the images/videos and write them a ticket.
When we call soldiers "boots on the ground" that is metonymy.
Difference here is that the guy saying 'boots on the ground' realizes that there's a difference between the boot and the soldier, and knows what a boot is.
Really the engine itself? Not a hose or maybe the radiator?
Maybe it is. If the hose going into the engine is leaking at the interface to the block, that looks like the engine leaking. Anyway, it's way more specific than saying there's a leak.
The issue isn't even that they are calling the computer by the wrong name. The issue is that some people call the whole computer by a name that is incorrect but is a valid name for a single component that is part of the computer.
So what you're [...] saying, [...] is that they are calling the computer by the wrong name?
No, not at all. They can call it a widget for all I care. The problem is that the wrong name is the right name for a component of the computer. It doesn't help that there isn't a real right name for the box on the floor I rest my feet on. I call it a box, usually.
Please find someone who drives a car and if they do not know the name of every part of the engine tell them to stop driving
Well, they should know what all the large pieces are - engine, battery, distributor, brake booster, tranny, etc. If they don't, they should expect to get fleeced whenever they take it in for maintenance (like the shop that wanted to replace my clutch when I brought it in for an oil change).
They are a user, they do not know, do not need to know, and do not care what is in the box!
So you tell them to reboot and they log off and back on, or they call saying that their hard drive is borken when the monitor is turned off. These people are illiterate, and that shouldn't be tolerated.
No, he built up the argument on the fact that the non-technical friend (NTF) would misinterpret a very basic technical term and end up doing something stupid as a result.
Which happens all too often. The basic bitch is that people use all sorts of stupid terms to refer to the computer as a whole, and that hard drive is one of them. My accountant friend used one that at least makes sense (mainframe), but it's still wrong in the sense that most people will misinterpret it.
I call them boxes for a reason - have yet to have someone misunderstand that.
Fact is, President Bush and the Republican Congress jacked up funding for a great many things that will likely be curtailed in this administration.
Yes, Bush certainly jacked a bunch of stuff up.
But President DUMB ASS killed that because he had to suck it up to his windmill worshipping anti-car crowd.
Or, you know, he did it because it wasn't showing results and he wanted to move the money somewhere that was.
Democrats think we are all safer when we are naked nuclear targets. So, in order make Democrats feel good, we lose all the experimental data for reactivity in hypersonic realm, which would certainly benefit civilian space flight.
Or the missile defense shield was either a joke or an excuse to deploy missiles where we shouldn't.
Any research into medical differences due to race and gender are going to be crushed
Yes. That is one potential downside, but I think it's a reasonable tradeoff to make sure insurance companies don't get ahold of it.
It was just a minor example. What bothers me more is the idea that one shouldn't have to pay the sources of the natural resources used to do one's job.
Why would you? The major value add is the research, not tissue donation. Anybody can do that.
Are they? Looking at CUDA, I'd say that this is debatable. More likely, the massively paralellizable problem space means they scale out instead of going for high clockrates, which also means less fancy crap with caches, as the speed differential is lower and memory access more predictable.
Errors crashing a bank website result in loss of dollars, a false negative (drunk but they let you go) reading from a Breathalyzer may result in a drunk driver killing someone.
U.S. Military, FAA, and other government organizations have coding standards for commercial products, why should a device intended to gather evidence and promote public safety be unregulated? Especially in this case, where the device can unrecoverable fail due to a logic-error, and not report that such an error occurred?
No, a false negative may result in someone blowing a.09 and walking. A real drunk has more against him than a magic box. Meanwhile, a false positive could mean that someone at.05 loses their job without cause.
And the Paris Hilton corollary: Never, ever, under any circumstance, allow yourself to be recorded while having sex, or even while displaying your naughty bits.
If she wasn't so drugged out, I'd say maybe she did it deliberately to get some exposure. Of course, she didn't look so stoned in 1999, so who knows?
You can't just take pictures where you want either. I understand the frustration of being hassled taking photos in a public place when there is no posted warning, but taking a photo of two strangers filling a cash machine with money in a private store is not exactly the same thing.
Mostly, you can. Taking photos of some guys filling a cash machine is just fine; if an employee kicks you out for doing it, then leave.
Anyway, at a more reasonable temp of 425F, a two inch steak will take like forever. No one cooks two inch steaks on a flattop grill. You'd blacken the piss out if it before the center hit room temperature. Instead, you sear them on a flame-broiler and finish them in the oven. It'd still take forever though. Probably two minutes a side on the broiler and ten minutes in a 450F convection oven.
This came up recently - what's the preferred method of cooking a thick steak on a grill? I can sear each side, but I figure that leaving it off to the side too long just dries it out; microwaving it works pretty well and doesn't screw up the flavor, but feels sinful. These are important things!
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the biggest downside of legalization would be that the cigarette companies would start selling mj cigarettes that are significantly cut with tobacco.
So start a company that doesn't do that. Jeez, you make it sound like the world is static. Not everybody drinks budweiser.
Who would we blame for taking our jobs?
Make it expensive to hire illegals and they'll stop coming. Then people will take jobs at a higher wage, things will get a bit pricier, and there's nothing to blame.
Who would we blame for the drug trade?
Remove the drug trade and there's noone to blame.
Who would we pay terrible wages to labor in our fields and in our kitchens -- they'd need to be paid a decent wage if we annexed Mexico!
Or, if we punish employers enough to remove the incentive, we'll pay better wages, and the CEOs will have to deal with just the one huge mansion.
I want to make a cattle joke here, but nothing seems appropriate.
Nah, land's cheap in wyoming.
How about nitrogen?
Unless Yahoo can disguise THEMSELVES to not be distinguishable from any other caller.
You can pretend to be yahoo - anybody can spoof callerId.
Again, a hard drive is a component of a computer. Your example would be more relevant if people were running around calling every halberd and spear a partisan. You're unlikely to refer to someone using dagger politics, and partisan hasn't been used commonly for a century or two. Hard drive is contemporary.
Really: Cart Blanche to do any amount of illegal acts on the net without fear of having your use cut off? Really? Required car analogy: I can do anything in my car as long as I don't exceed the speed limit? Really? You've thought this thru, have you Paul?
Yes he has. Even a convicted felon should get access to the net. Try getting a job without that - won't happen. Sure, commit a crime online and you could go to jail, but you won't be banned from the net when you get out.
I've got a better idea - limit the letter of CP laws to punishing the production and distribution of exploitive CP. The current CP that isn't under that umbrella should still be illegal, but not to the absurd degree that is applied today. Basically, this acknowledges that most so-called CP is produced by teenagers for teenagers and should not be used to destroy their lives. At worst, you destroy the images/videos and write them a ticket.
When we call soldiers "boots on the ground" that is metonymy.
Difference here is that the guy saying 'boots on the ground' realizes that there's a difference between the boot and the soldier, and knows what a boot is.
I use box simply because computer can also include the keyboard and monitor. A box is a ... box, and everybody understands shapes, right?
Really the engine itself? Not a hose or maybe the radiator?
Maybe it is. If the hose going into the engine is leaking at the interface to the block, that looks like the engine leaking. Anyway, it's way more specific than saying there's a leak.
The issue isn't even that they are calling the computer by the wrong name. The issue is that some people call the whole computer by a name that is incorrect but is a valid name for a single component that is part of the computer.
So what you're [...] saying, [...] is that they are calling the computer by the wrong name?
No, not at all. They can call it a widget for all I care. The problem is that the wrong name is the right name for a component of the computer. It doesn't help that there isn't a real right name for the box on the floor I rest my feet on. I call it a box, usually.
Please find someone who drives a car and if they do not know the name of every part of the engine tell them to stop driving
Well, they should know what all the large pieces are - engine, battery, distributor, brake booster, tranny, etc. If they don't, they should expect to get fleeced whenever they take it in for maintenance (like the shop that wanted to replace my clutch when I brought it in for an oil change).
They are a user, they do not know, do not need to know, and do not care what is in the box!
So you tell them to reboot and they log off and back on, or they call saying that their hard drive is borken when the monitor is turned off. These people are illiterate, and that shouldn't be tolerated.
In short, it's an unreliable mechanical device which will crack and take water in or just wear out or foul up at the worst possible time.
Luckily, you can replace it with an electronic version in most cases.
No, he built up the argument on the fact that the non-technical friend (NTF) would misinterpret a very basic technical term and end up doing something stupid as a result.
Which happens all too often. The basic bitch is that people use all sorts of stupid terms to refer to the computer as a whole, and that hard drive is one of them. My accountant friend used one that at least makes sense (mainframe), but it's still wrong in the sense that most people will misinterpret it.
I call them boxes for a reason - have yet to have someone misunderstand that.
Fact is, President Bush and the Republican Congress jacked up funding for a great many things that will likely be curtailed in this administration.
Yes, Bush certainly jacked a bunch of stuff up.
But President DUMB ASS killed that because he had to suck it up to his windmill worshipping anti-car crowd.
Or, you know, he did it because it wasn't showing results and he wanted to move the money somewhere that was.
Democrats think we are all safer when we are naked nuclear targets. So, in order make Democrats feel good, we lose all the experimental data for reactivity in hypersonic realm, which would certainly benefit civilian space flight.
Or the missile defense shield was either a joke or an excuse to deploy missiles where we shouldn't.
Any research into medical differences due to race and gender are going to be crushed
Cite?
Yes. That is one potential downside, but I think it's a reasonable tradeoff to make sure insurance companies don't get ahold of it. It was just a minor example. What bothers me more is the idea that one shouldn't have to pay the sources of the natural resources used to do one's job.
Why would you? The major value add is the research, not tissue donation. Anybody can do that.
get a quadro 240 (I think) passive heatsink, 25W power dissipation.
Are they? Looking at CUDA, I'd say that this is debatable. More likely, the massively paralellizable problem space means they scale out instead of going for high clockrates, which also means less fancy crap with caches, as the speed differential is lower and memory access more predictable.
Errors crashing a bank website result in loss of dollars, a false negative (drunk but they let you go) reading from a Breathalyzer may result in a drunk driver killing someone.
U.S. Military, FAA, and other government organizations have coding standards for commercial products, why should a device intended to gather evidence and promote public safety be unregulated? Especially in this case, where the device can unrecoverable fail due to a logic-error, and not report that such an error occurred?
No, a false negative may result in someone blowing a .09 and walking. A real drunk has more against him than a magic box. Meanwhile, a false positive could mean that someone at .05 loses their job without cause.
maybe it did - the seals aren't that rigid, and that would explain the bugs.
And the Paris Hilton corollary: Never, ever, under any circumstance, allow yourself to be recorded while having sex, or even while displaying your naughty bits.
If she wasn't so drugged out, I'd say maybe she did it deliberately to get some exposure. Of course, she didn't look so stoned in 1999, so who knows?
You can't just take pictures where you want either. I understand the frustration of being hassled taking photos in a public place when there is no posted warning, but taking a photo of two strangers filling a cash machine with money in a private store is not exactly the same thing.
Mostly, you can. Taking photos of some guys filling a cash machine is just fine; if an employee kicks you out for doing it, then leave.
Anyway, at a more reasonable temp of 425F, a two inch steak will take like forever. No one cooks two inch steaks on a flattop grill. You'd blacken the piss out if it before the center hit room temperature. Instead, you sear them on a flame-broiler and finish them in the oven. It'd still take forever though. Probably two minutes a side on the broiler and ten minutes in a 450F convection oven.
This came up recently - what's the preferred method of cooking a thick steak on a grill? I can sear each side, but I figure that leaving it off to the side too long just dries it out; microwaving it works pretty well and doesn't screw up the flavor, but feels sinful. These are important things!