Interestingly, this is one of the few places where the industry has responded to consumer demand in a reasonable way: that's exactly what cable systems' On Demand services are good for, catching up with a current cable show you just barely missed. Typically you'll have to wait until "the next day", meaning midnight -- but note that HBO Go, for instance, puts shows up the minute the broadcast slot is over (GOT goes up at 10 after a 9:00 broadcast).
(Substitute over-the-air for cable and your point is valid, but I thought I'd give props to the cable industry where it's due.)
"I wanted to send a note that...." should be followed by something like "...the refrigerators will be cleaned over the weekend", not "...you're all fired."
Because political parties aren't _entirely_ private clubs, in that election laws apply to them -- you can't have a whites-only primary, for instance. See also the open primaries referred to by other nearby posters. This all because, even though the two-party system isn't absolute, in 99% of the cases one of those two candidates is going to win the real election.
Discussing which players are, and are not, douchnozzles is actually a fair amount of what sports fans talk about. From the nerd point of view, most of the rest can be learning enough about to game to understand the strategy and tactics, and then argue whether the current manager is doing the right thing.
The actual, raw performance of the athletes is rarely what sports fans talk about.
For a start, suppose someone in the armed forces wants to order nuclear retaliation against, say, Iran, who they say "must be behind this". Who's in a position to order that, or depending on your point of view, who's in a position to STOP it? Suppose the leader of North Korea goes on the air and demands a "surrender" or more nukes will go off? -- ok, actually, in that case, having nobody who's authorized to do so might be an advantage, game-theory-wise. As long as the other side isn't, you know, crazy.
Careful, there are two ideas being conflated here. One, the classic "broken windows fallacy", is the idea that it's a good idea to break a lot of windows and then create jobs by hiring people to fix them. That's a bad idea because you have to account for the loss of wealth from the broken windows in the first place. The other idea, which you're defending (and I agree), is that if the window is already broken, metaphorically speaked, it's a good idea in some cases for the government to pay someone to fix the window. (And even in your example list: are you saying that the Tsunami was good for the Japanese econony taken as a whole?)
It's sort of marvelous that they've succeeded in making people need to have, right now, episodes of an adaptation of a book that has been out for 15 years (Clash of Kings is 1998).
The complaint, I guess, is that he used bitwise "and", where one might prefer short-circuiting (logical) "and" -- evaluating one side before seeing if you need to evaluate the other.
with a predilection for the first person singular that would make any communist or fascist dictator feel right at home
From the well-known linguistics blog Language Log:
As I've tediously explained tediously many times via tediously many actual tedious counts, President Obama actually uses "I" (and other first-person singular pronouns, like "me", "my", "myself", etc.) at a slightly lower rate, in a tediously wide variety of comparable circumstances, than other recent presidents.
(That piece is at this link, which helpfully contains links to 19 other entries refuting the business about how many times Obama says "I".)
Fine, but GP was explicitly complaining about being asked to write code directly onto the whiteboard, off the top of his head, which doesn't sound like what you mean by "whiteboarding". (Although I may not be one to speak, since I literally have never in my life heard that as verb.)
Becase if all primaries are at the same time, then in order to have a chance a candidate has to be able to fund and run a 50-state campaign right off the bat. This way, someone who shows they can win a small election can get funding from people who want to see them go further.
In case it really has to be said yet again: the poor often have no federal income tax liability, but if they are working poor, they still have to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, which are deducted from one's paycheck, which is why they're called payroll taxes. These taxes are deducible from gross income, but you don't get the taxes themselves back on April 15th. And it was these taxes that the current tax cut is about.
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Interestingly, this is one of the few places where the industry has responded to consumer demand in a reasonable way: that's exactly what cable systems' On Demand services are good for, catching up with a current cable show you just barely missed. Typically you'll have to wait until "the next day", meaning midnight -- but note that HBO Go, for instance, puts shows up the minute the broadcast slot is over (GOT goes up at 10 after a 9:00 broadcast).
(Substitute over-the-air for cable and your point is valid, but I thought I'd give props to the cable industry where it's due.)
"I wanted to send a note that...." should be followed by something like "...the refrigerators will be cleaned over the weekend", not "...you're all fired."
Because political parties aren't _entirely_ private clubs, in that election laws apply to them -- you can't have a whites-only primary, for instance. See also the open primaries referred to by other nearby posters. This all because, even though the two-party system isn't absolute, in 99% of the cases one of those two candidates is going to win the real election.
Discussing which players are, and are not, douchnozzles is actually a fair amount of what sports fans talk about. From the nerd point of view, most of the rest can be learning enough about to game to understand the strategy and tactics, and then argue whether the current manager is doing the right thing.
The actual, raw performance of the athletes is rarely what sports fans talk about.
Also, AMC only started having ads during movies in 2002, sez Wikipedia.
Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
--- Woody Guthrie, "Pretty Boy Floyd"
For a start, suppose someone in the armed forces wants to order nuclear retaliation against, say, Iran, who they say "must be behind this". Who's in a position to order that, or depending on your point of view, who's in a position to STOP it? Suppose the leader of North Korea goes on the air and demands a "surrender" or more nukes will go off? -- ok, actually, in that case, having nobody who's authorized to do so might be an advantage, game-theory-wise. As long as the other side isn't, you know, crazy.
Careful, there are two ideas being conflated here. One, the classic "broken windows fallacy", is the idea that it's a good idea to break a lot of windows and then create jobs by hiring people to fix them. That's a bad idea because you have to account for the loss of wealth from the broken windows in the first place. The other idea, which you're defending (and I agree), is that if the window is already broken, metaphorically speaked, it's a good idea in some cases for the government to pay someone to fix the window. (And even in your example list: are you saying that the Tsunami was good for the Japanese econony taken as a whole?)
Or buy it through the phone itself, which you have in your hand.
No, that's BoingBoing, home of the 3D-printer-article-du-jour.
Another possible reason: your two tuners are taken by other shows in that time slot. I hear.
It's sort of marvelous that they've succeeded in making people need to have, right now, episodes of an adaptation of a book that has been out for 15 years (Clash of Kings is 1998).
And, horrifyingly, if the stdio.h had had the conventional #ifndef _STDIO_H protection, he might have gotten away with it.
The complaint, I guess, is that he used bitwise "and", where one might prefer short-circuiting (logical) "and" -- evaluating one side before seeing if you need to evaluate the other.
That's possibly my favorite Asimov short story (although it might be more of a novella).
I don't see the objection to this one.
From the well-known linguistics blog Language Log:
(That piece is at this link, which helpfully contains links to 19 other entries refuting the business about how many times Obama says "I".)
+1 Awesome/Troll!
The building, not the company.
Fine, but GP was explicitly complaining about being asked to write code directly onto the whiteboard, off the top of his head, which doesn't sound like what you mean by "whiteboarding". (Although I may not be one to speak, since I literally have never in my life heard that as verb.)
Yup. It's been called the "dollhouse effect", or, more on-point to what you said, the "puppet theater effect".
Becase if all primaries are at the same time, then in order to have a chance a candidate has to be able to fund and run a 50-state campaign right off the bat. This way, someone who shows they can win a small election can get funding from people who want to see them go further.
Or, "They're going to have to struggle to walk around in the store, let's give them a break by not making them struggle just to get into the store."
Nope, total bullshit.
In case it really has to be said yet again: the poor often have no federal income tax liability, but if they are working poor, they still have to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, which are deducted from one's paycheck, which is why they're called payroll taxes. These taxes are deducible from gross income, but you don't get the taxes themselves back on April 15th. And it was these taxes that the current tax cut is about.