It's been pretty much normal since FDR's day for young people to (tend to) vote Democrat and older people to (tend to) vote Republican.
And yet the Republican Party hasn't disappeared. Probably because some of those young D's eventually grow up to be old R's.
Note that the reasons for that transition are manifold, but I suspect largely a matter of the definition of "conservative" and "liberal" (which definitions have been shifting as time passes - what is "liberal" today will be "normal" tomorrow and "conservative" the day after).
In WW2 we had analog computers that could aim guns at moving targets from moving platforms. This is actually a harder proposition than aiming a laser; bullets don't move at the speed of light and you've got to compute lead. They did it without electronic computers.
They also didn't do very well
Actually, they did quite well. Consider the Prince of Wales, sunk by the Bismark. The Bismark was using just such electromechanical analog computers for fire control.
Likewise every other modern (for the period) cruiser and battleship in the world.
and after WW2 we allowed the Nazis to remain in power under a different name where in Iraq we kicked out anyone in the Baath party and made them unemployable and then wondered why people began to shoot back at us
It should be pointed out that the people who decided to let the Nazis remain in power after WW2 were thoroughly castigated by pretty much everyone.
So perhaps the lesson learned from that episode was that letting the former government workers continue to work after we'd ousted the government was a bad idea....
Dropping costs have never caused prices to drop. Never.
Never?
The machine I'm typing this on cost less than the computer I was using twenty years ago. And has many times the memory, mass storage, and processor speed.
So MUCH better machine for rather less. Sounds like a price drop as a result of dropping costs to me. Or are you asserting that terabyte hard-drives are just as expensive as they were twenty years ago? Ditto 4gig of RAM, etc...
So, provide your interpretation as to the reasons for my current laptop to be cheaper than what it replaced, that doesn't include lowered costs....
Yeah, God knows we don't need any of that advanced technology crap!
Next thing you know, they might develop big machines to replace covered wagons and plows. Then where will we be, when all those teamsters and farmers are put out of work?
And what's with these "computer" things? Everyone knows a computer is a (usually) young woman who calculates (by hand) the numbers required by Real Scientists (tm). Replace them with machines? I say no!
I say we just destroy all that automation and go back to the tried and true ways we've always known! Ned Ludd Lives!
Say what you will of Democrats, at least they run on the policies they will implement.
Like ending US involvement in the Middle East? Seems to me Obama ran on that. Seems to me we're still there (and ignores that even his attempts to get us out of there were on Bush's timetable...).
For example, consider the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] The Nisour Square massacres and the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi were worse than the Boston Massacre, and yet none of those involved got the death penalty. Those responsible for the death of Dilawar didn't even serve jail terms.
Umm, those incidents all happened in places where US law doesn't apply (though US Military law (UCMJ) applied if US military personnel were involved).
No opinions as to whether any of those incidents merited the death penalty under the UCMJ (not even sure the UCMJ has a death penalty at this late date), since IANAL, much less a military one....
In the finest traditions of lobbyist-written laws, congress has declared anything to do with space-launches the be a exempt from any new regulations by the FAA for the next 10 years. That's called the SPACE act... .
In other words: it has tied its own hands for the next 10 years.
New law always supersedes older law. So all it takes to remove that ten year limit is a law passed by a later Congress.
All this does is prevent regulatory agencies (the Executive Branch, in other words) from making new regulations without Congress' express permission.
Hmm, by that logic, *I* can demand that the Greeks give me a metric buttload of money, and then insist in public that they're evil if they don't, right?
As a long time Democrat and coming from a staunchly, fiscal conservative Democratic family I can say unequivocally that the idea that individuals have no rights and only groups do is NOT a "far left wing" idea.
Hmm, isn't it the far left wing theory that the Second Amendment is NOT an individual right, but a "collective right"?
Or have the Dems finally decided that the Second Amendment is just as valid a right as the First? If so, why do they keep coming up with gun control laws?
It's not anything particularly new - we've known for decades that anyone that's had chicken pox still has the dormant virus in a number of nerve ganglia near the spine, and sometimes it reactivates and causes shingles.
And speak of the devil. My chicken pox virus was apparently hiding in the nerves associated with my left hip. Two weeks ago, I woke up with my left hip hurting. Later that day when I bitched about it, the wife looked at my behind and said "you've got shingles". Doctor agreed.
It's almost done. Left hip only hurts a little, most of the pox is scabbed over or gone. Should be fine Real Soon Now.
And as soon as I'm over this, have to get shingles vaccine. Which they only give to people at high risk for same. Having gotten it at a relatively young age (young by Shingles standards), I now qualify as being "at high risk for Shingles" according to the Doc....
A bit more on-topic, Ebola has now established that it can establish a reservoir in a survivor, so ANY of the people who survived the latest round is a potential carrier.
Plus Ebola has now established that it can transmit sexually (ebola is now a VD), if only rarely.
So does this mean all ebola survivors need to be extremely careful about who they screw, and likewise anyone who might feel the urge to bang an ebola survivor?
The regulations are there for a reason, just like the driver's license is there for a reason.
Of course, in this case, the laws, bylaws, rules and regulations exist to maintain the monopolies held by the existing taxi companies.
If you think service is better with the entrenched monopoly, no problem. But don't make the mistake of thinking that the existing condition is anything other than a monopoly literally bought and paid for by the taxi companies....
Note, for the record, that I'm pretty much a disinterested third party in all this - I don't use Uber OR taxis, don't drive for either, don't even know anyone attached to either....
Machts nichts. Which isn't proper German, as I recall, but it's the proper spelling for a phrase that came back with the GI's stationed in Germany all those years....
Underwater front property valuations are in for a rather rude and sharp decline.
Considering that they're expecting Sea Level rise to be maybe two feet (0.6m) over the next 50 years, it's not going to be a big issue.
After all, a two foot floodwall can be built in any given summer, much less 50 years.
Note that I live in a place that's (slightly) below sea level. They have a regular cycle of upgrading and repairing the flood walls around the city, and won't even really notice an extra two feet of water outside (the current flood walls are rather more than two feet above sea level)....
Never make the mistake to think the deniers are disbelievers,
Nah, most of them just don't buy the "IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!1!1!!" hysteria they're hearing. A problem that won't do much until after most of them are dead is hard to get seriously concerned about....
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You jest, but I was in high school before there were TRS-80's. The TRS-80 hit the streets about the time I was graduating....
It's been pretty much normal since FDR's day for young people to (tend to) vote Democrat and older people to (tend to) vote Republican.
And yet the Republican Party hasn't disappeared. Probably because some of those young D's eventually grow up to be old R's.
Note that the reasons for that transition are manifold, but I suspect largely a matter of the definition of "conservative" and "liberal" (which definitions have been shifting as time passes - what is "liberal" today will be "normal" tomorrow and "conservative" the day after).
Interesting. My parents never talked politics. They never mentioned who they were voting for. Or even IF they were voting.
Come to that, I have no idea at all who my siblings vote for now, or even if they vote.
And I'm none too sure who my wife and child vote for, or if they vote....
Tennis shes? Pretty sure women were playing tennis long before NASA came along....
Hmm, I take it you missed the "infinite time" part that went along with the "infinite number of monkeys"?
Actually, they did quite well. Consider the Prince of Wales, sunk by the Bismark. The Bismark was using just such electromechanical analog computers for fire control.
Likewise every other modern (for the period) cruiser and battleship in the world.
Plus some of the better destroyers....
It should be pointed out that the people who decided to let the Nazis remain in power after WW2 were thoroughly castigated by pretty much everyone.
So perhaps the lesson learned from that episode was that letting the former government workers continue to work after we'd ousted the government was a bad idea....
What about the self-driving twice?
Never?
The machine I'm typing this on cost less than the computer I was using twenty years ago. And has many times the memory, mass storage, and processor speed.
So MUCH better machine for rather less. Sounds like a price drop as a result of dropping costs to me. Or are you asserting that terabyte hard-drives are just as expensive as they were twenty years ago? Ditto 4gig of RAM, etc...
So, provide your interpretation as to the reasons for my current laptop to be cheaper than what it replaced, that doesn't include lowered costs....
Literally????
Not very effective coercion, then, since I have NEVER found myself buying something based on an ad. Not once in the last half century....
Yeah, God knows we don't need any of that advanced technology crap!
Next thing you know, they might develop big machines to replace covered wagons and plows. Then where will we be, when all those teamsters and farmers are put out of work?
And what's with these "computer" things? Everyone knows a computer is a (usually) young woman who calculates (by hand) the numbers required by Real Scientists (tm). Replace them with machines? I say no!
I say we just destroy all that automation and go back to the tried and true ways we've always known! Ned Ludd Lives!
So, it's our fault that the Russians can't successfully launch a Russian rocket from a Russian launch site?
Interesting theory, that.
Like ending US involvement in the Middle East? Seems to me Obama ran on that. Seems to me we're still there (and ignores that even his attempts to get us out of there were on Bush's timetable...).
Umm, those incidents all happened in places where US law doesn't apply (though US Military law (UCMJ) applied if US military personnel were involved).
No opinions as to whether any of those incidents merited the death penalty under the UCMJ (not even sure the UCMJ has a death penalty at this late date), since IANAL, much less a military one....
New law always supersedes older law. So all it takes to remove that ten year limit is a law passed by a later Congress.
All this does is prevent regulatory agencies (the Executive Branch, in other words) from making new regulations without Congress' express permission.
Hmm, by that logic, *I* can demand that the Greeks give me a metric buttload of money, and then insist in public that they're evil if they don't, right?
I bet that'll work well....
So, the Greeks are blaming the Germans because the Greek government couldn't pay its bills? Interesting....
Third Base!
Hmm, isn't it the far left wing theory that the Second Amendment is NOT an individual right, but a "collective right"?
Or have the Dems finally decided that the Second Amendment is just as valid a right as the First? If so, why do they keep coming up with gun control laws?
Just curious - what's the US's 51st State?
And speak of the devil. My chicken pox virus was apparently hiding in the nerves associated with my left hip. Two weeks ago, I woke up with my left hip hurting. Later that day when I bitched about it, the wife looked at my behind and said "you've got shingles". Doctor agreed.
It's almost done. Left hip only hurts a little, most of the pox is scabbed over or gone. Should be fine Real Soon Now.
And as soon as I'm over this, have to get shingles vaccine. Which they only give to people at high risk for same. Having gotten it at a relatively young age (young by Shingles standards), I now qualify as being "at high risk for Shingles" according to the Doc....
A bit more on-topic, Ebola has now established that it can establish a reservoir in a survivor, so ANY of the people who survived the latest round is a potential carrier.
Plus Ebola has now established that it can transmit sexually (ebola is now a VD), if only rarely.
So does this mean all ebola survivors need to be extremely careful about who they screw, and likewise anyone who might feel the urge to bang an ebola survivor?
FTFY
Of course, in this case, the laws, bylaws, rules and regulations exist to maintain the monopolies held by the existing taxi companies.
If you think service is better with the entrenched monopoly, no problem. But don't make the mistake of thinking that the existing condition is anything other than a monopoly literally bought and paid for by the taxi companies....
Note, for the record, that I'm pretty much a disinterested third party in all this - I don't use Uber OR taxis, don't drive for either, don't even know anyone attached to either....
Machts nichts. Which isn't proper German, as I recall, but it's the proper spelling for a phrase that came back with the GI's stationed in Germany all those years....
Considering that they're expecting Sea Level rise to be maybe two feet (0.6m) over the next 50 years, it's not going to be a big issue.
After all, a two foot floodwall can be built in any given summer, much less 50 years.
Note that I live in a place that's (slightly) below sea level. They have a regular cycle of upgrading and repairing the flood walls around the city, and won't even really notice an extra two feet of water outside (the current flood walls are rather more than two feet above sea level)....
Nah, most of them just don't buy the "IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!1!1!!" hysteria they're hearing. A problem that won't do much until after most of them are dead is hard to get seriously concerned about....