Woz's design was genius level work, things like an RLL floppy controller while others were using FM or MFM, or FSK to tape (ack). Computer designs back then were dead simple, no reference designs needed for conventional work. Designing with the 6502 was particularly easy.
That Hillary still seems to be #1 is a horrid reflection of those who support her, and the primary indication of how badly the minds of Americans are screwed.
By comparison, every one of the 17 or so Republican candidates is better than Clinton, di Blasio, Sanders, Biden, Warren, or whoever else is being seriously considered for the Democrat nomination. Part of the Republican dithering is caused by Republican power brokers favoring Rino lackeys like Bush, while the party base favors people with substance and/or style. Bush's deep pockets aren't helping him enough; people with depth or flair will eventually get the attention that pulls in the necessary money. In any case, it's too early to be seriously complaining about indecision; it's 3 or 4 months until the field has to be considered the realm of no more than 4 people.
It's hard to say that US agencies don't have teeth, given examples of warrantless arrests, jailings, and seizures; also armed strike teams in the FDA and EPA. Where do you think all those billions of rounds of ammunition went that conservatives were complaining about, roughly 4 years ago?
Governments have a legal monopoly on force. It isn't a government if it doesn't have some sort of coercive agency. By your silly argument, "socialist" becomes a meaningless word, because all governments have some sort of state funded organization to perform at least some military functions.
As a side note, America has a particular hatred for mercenaries, due to the British use of Hessians in the Revolutionary War.
Women had the right to vote in New Jersey in 1776.
The founders did not think democracy was a good thing, properly understanding it to be equivalent to mob rule.
The founders were well aware that some people are better than others, and also that financially healthy people had the time to study history and politics in a serious manner. Madison in particular (too optimistically) supported indirect election to the highest offices, arguing that the good people in middle offices would elect their very best to the highest offices.
The focus of the founders was not "everybody regardless of merit should be a part of our wonderful plan", it was "let's make the most just and solid union we can."
Nonvoters: those in prison and those criminals released from prison who haven't had their ability to vote restored. The underage. The mentally defective. The disaffected. And the biggest group, those who don't care. What candidate wouldn't be proud to say "I was elected by people who don't give a damn!"
It could be because a person who thinks "add" is an abbreviation for "advertisement", doesn't understand how foul it is to force someone promoting good to spend an equal effort promoting evil.
To understand what's happening, you need to look at more numbers than the biased and dishonest Krugman will ever provide. The number of people receiving government money without working has exploded over the last 40 years, negating the benefit of the increased productivity of those who work.
1) Oh, ye of little understanding.
2) Yes indeed, although there are going to be many people who can't handle the idea. Better ideas stand a better chance of winning with a runoff mechanism
3) Most places, anyone with enough signatures can get on the ballot. Primaries serve a good purpose and polarization has its values. Primaries should be run by and paid for by either the parties or the candidates involved.
4) Randomly selected representatives? Like jury duty? Test it someplace already FUBAR, like California, before subjecting the whole country to chaos.
5) Campaign duration limits violate freedom of speech.
6) Computerized district drawing makes perfect sense.
7) Controlling ownership of news channels is an open invitation to tyranny.
8) Your political bias is obvious if you think Fox is the worst example. You don't deserve to be taken seriously.
9) Who teaches the teachers? Who guarantees that the teachers aren't propagandists?
10) "The people must demand nuance." Oh golly, this is so funny. I can just see protesters holding signs and chanting "We demand nuance!"... Nuance is a way to hide fundamental beliefs, and those fundamentals are far more important than the details.
Trump wants to increase the tax rate on a very specific group of financiers who are abusing a loophole in or misinterpretation of the tax code, to bring their taxes up to the rate that others of similar incomes pay. The headline on Trump's tax policy is deliberately misleading.
Did you even watch the last vice-presidential debate? When Ryan was speaking, Biden was babbling, laughing, and almost drooling. He hasn't gotten any less senile in the intervening years.
Trump knows how to deal with children, and Biden's not much different from a child.
The purported record of births and deaths in the Bible leads to the inescapable conclusion that the earth is about 6000 years old. If you define Christian as someone you believes, reads, and understands the Bible, anyone rejecting the young earth claim is not a Christian.
On the other hand, if the Bible is just a collection of allegories, then any conclusion is possible by suitably "interpreting" the text. In that case, Christianity means nothing. You can't have it both ways.
The reality? Most people don't bother examining their beliefs carefully, don't see the contradictions and don't worry about it when contradictions are pointed out. They try to live their lives reasonably and otherwise don't agonize over things that don't really affect them. It's not a bad way to live, but it's not how mankind advances.
The compressed firefox download is 47 megabytes. Sure, a program that size is easy to write. Many years ago they did a complete rewrite, and the effort almost bankrupted them.
And when the movie production companies have all been driven out of business, and when nobody wants to excel at acting because there's no money in the business, will you still be whining?
The Fed is private because its activities are prohibited to the government by the Constitution. It's a trick to evade the law.
The Middle East is a hellhole of murderous thugs, and has been for many centuries. We fight "offensive" wars there to limit their capacity for destruction, when it's in our best interests to do so.
The healthcare system: A. Under Obama, deliberately messed up to encourage people to agitate for an even worse system, B. Before Obama, the tax code encouraged a system (untaxed employer-provided insurance) that disconnected costs from care.
The gun crime rate among white second-or-higher generation Americans is comparable to many other 1st-world countries. The disproportionally murderous groups are blacks, illegal and legal new residents.
If I don't like what the government is doing, I can vote for change...
Vote all you like, it's not going to make any difference.
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One more critical item: VisiCalc. Without the "killer ap", Apple's story would have been much different.
Woz's design was genius level work, things like an RLL floppy controller while others were using FM or MFM, or FSK to tape (ack). Computer designs back then were dead simple, no reference designs needed for conventional work. Designing with the 6502 was particularly easy.
A phobia is a fear. Fear is not the same as disdain.
Most of the women I see her age (45+) are working on their third chin. She looks good, though perhaps prematurely gray.
Nice random number generator you have there. Please stop using LSD.
Incidentally, interracial marriage is already legal throughout the US.
That Hillary still seems to be #1 is a horrid reflection of those who support her, and the primary indication of how badly the minds of Americans are screwed.
By comparison, every one of the 17 or so Republican candidates is better than Clinton, di Blasio, Sanders, Biden, Warren, or whoever else is being seriously considered for the Democrat nomination. Part of the Republican dithering is caused by Republican power brokers favoring Rino lackeys like Bush, while the party base favors people with substance and/or style. Bush's deep pockets aren't helping him enough; people with depth or flair will eventually get the attention that pulls in the necessary money. In any case, it's too early to be seriously complaining about indecision; it's 3 or 4 months until the field has to be considered the realm of no more than 4 people.
It's hard to say that US agencies don't have teeth, given examples of warrantless arrests, jailings, and seizures; also armed strike teams in the FDA and EPA. Where do you think all those billions of rounds of ammunition went that conservatives were complaining about, roughly 4 years ago?
Thank you. That's one of the most brilliant things I've ever read.
Governments have a legal monopoly on force. It isn't a government if it doesn't have some sort of coercive agency. By your silly argument, "socialist" becomes a meaningless word, because all governments have some sort of state funded organization to perform at least some military functions.
As a side note, America has a particular hatred for mercenaries, due to the British use of Hessians in the Revolutionary War.
So you're saying that if officeholders can't steal enough while in office to live the rest of their lives, they should starve to death.
Women had the right to vote in New Jersey in 1776.
The founders did not think democracy was a good thing, properly understanding it to be equivalent to mob rule.
The founders were well aware that some people are better than others, and also that financially healthy people had the time to study history and politics in a serious manner. Madison in particular (too optimistically) supported indirect election to the highest offices, arguing that the good people in middle offices would elect their very best to the highest offices.
The focus of the founders was not "everybody regardless of merit should be a part of our wonderful plan", it was "let's make the most just and solid union we can."
Nonvoters: those in prison and those criminals released from prison who haven't had their ability to vote restored. The underage. The mentally defective. The disaffected. And the biggest group, those who don't care. What candidate wouldn't be proud to say "I was elected by people who don't give a damn!"
The joke's on you. Racism is almost entirely owned by the Democrats, the party of slavery for 187 years.
It could be because a person who thinks "add" is an abbreviation for "advertisement", doesn't understand how foul it is to force someone promoting good to spend an equal effort promoting evil.
To understand what's happening, you need to look at more numbers than the biased and dishonest Krugman will ever provide. The number of people receiving government money without working has exploded over the last 40 years, negating the benefit of the increased productivity of those who work.
1) Oh, ye of little understanding. ... Nuance is a way to hide fundamental beliefs, and those fundamentals are far more important than the details.
2) Yes indeed, although there are going to be many people who can't handle the idea. Better ideas stand a better chance of winning with a runoff mechanism
3) Most places, anyone with enough signatures can get on the ballot. Primaries serve a good purpose and polarization has its values. Primaries should be run by and paid for by either the parties or the candidates involved.
4) Randomly selected representatives? Like jury duty? Test it someplace already FUBAR, like California, before subjecting the whole country to chaos.
5) Campaign duration limits violate freedom of speech.
6) Computerized district drawing makes perfect sense.
7) Controlling ownership of news channels is an open invitation to tyranny.
8) Your political bias is obvious if you think Fox is the worst example. You don't deserve to be taken seriously.
9) Who teaches the teachers? Who guarantees that the teachers aren't propagandists?
10) "The people must demand nuance." Oh golly, this is so funny. I can just see protesters holding signs and chanting "We demand nuance!"
Trump wants to increase the tax rate on a very specific group of financiers who are abusing a loophole in or misinterpretation of the tax code, to bring their taxes up to the rate that others of similar incomes pay. The headline on Trump's tax policy is deliberately misleading.
Did you even watch the last vice-presidential debate? When Ryan was speaking, Biden was babbling, laughing, and almost drooling. He hasn't gotten any less senile in the intervening years.
Trump knows how to deal with children, and Biden's not much different from a child.
Are you sure he wasn't Murdock?
Worse than that, they come back as lawyers.
The purported record of births and deaths in the Bible leads to the inescapable conclusion that the earth is about 6000 years old. If you define Christian as someone you believes, reads, and understands the Bible, anyone rejecting the young earth claim is not a Christian.
On the other hand, if the Bible is just a collection of allegories, then any conclusion is possible by suitably "interpreting" the text. In that case, Christianity means nothing. You can't have it both ways.
The reality? Most people don't bother examining their beliefs carefully, don't see the contradictions and don't worry about it when contradictions are pointed out. They try to live their lives reasonably and otherwise don't agonize over things that don't really affect them. It's not a bad way to live, but it's not how mankind advances.
The compressed firefox download is 47 megabytes. Sure, a program that size is easy to write.
Many years ago they did a complete rewrite, and the effort almost bankrupted them.
Lois Lerner is one of the more recent and egregious counterexamples.
And when the movie production companies have all been driven out of business, and when nobody wants to excel at acting because there's no money in the business, will you still be whining?
The healthcare system: A. Under Obama, deliberately messed up to encourage people to agitate for an even worse system, B. Before Obama, the tax code encouraged a system (untaxed employer-provided insurance) that disconnected costs from care.
Vote all you like, it's not going to make any difference.