It's my understanding that physical editing of a defective chip is very expensive (hours of labor) and is only done in the development process to avoid the hundreds of thousands of dollars required to make a new set of masks. It's not a normal production process.
Furthermore, if nobody is proclaiming that taxation is theft, then the idea will not be spread. By repeating, defending, and expanding upon the idea, it's strength and usefulness grows. It is a useful and intellectual endeavor, hardly childish.
If you don't use words in a consistent and widely accepted manner, your gibberish communicates nothing. In this case, a country is an area under the control (for lack of a better word) of a government. Somalia doesn't qualify.
Costs are not necessarily financed by taxing incomes, and income taxes are in fact one of the worst methods of taxation/finance. If justice is your goal, user fees are the best method. What is more just than "you get what you pay for, you pay for what you get"? If a vibrant economy is your goal, property taxes help insure that resources are used to help generate enough economic activity to cover the taxes. If you want to punish the production of goods that humans value enough to pay for, an income tax is your best bet.
In the end, physical goods are made by producing them (duh), and kept by not destroying them or having them stolen. Your standard of living is measured mostly (and properly) in the quantity and quality of your physical goods. A country with productive people where people's property is not being stolen (mostly by the government) will have a high standard of living. Scandianvia's high standard of living is due to an extraordinary work ethic, and both the work ethic and the high standard of living are falling because of the erosive qualities of the Scandinavian welfare states.
"Get involved in defining the policies that govern where the money goes" is a fool's game. There are too many people who refuse to work, who spend their lives as protestors-for-hire and lifelong professional leeches, who have nothing better to do than lie and thwart my every effort. I have to spend most of my time doing other things, and even if I did spend time "getting involved", I would be unlikely to achieve lasting success.
It is the first responsibility for a government to protect its residents from foreign and domestic violence and threat of violence. It is the second responsibility of government to identify the actual rights of its residents and arrange for a mechanism to protect those rights. Those are the only responsibilities of government, and the only things that a government can charge for, without the damage caused by charging for its actions exceeding the good caused by its actions (assuming that the actions are actually good).
If what you have is "pretty pieces of colored, printed paper" then what you have is an IOU or a fiat currency, not money.
Money is a store of value, good money is divisible, fungible, and relatively scarce. Gold is an example, possibly the best. Paper doesn't qualify.
A word on value: nothing has intrinsic value; all things are valued in relation to the needs and desires of human beings. In that context, paper currency has value only as a medium of trade, gold and other precious materials have additional value in their utility as ingredients in a variety of products. This utility helps (but does not guarantee) money keeping its value with respect to other objects.
I've been to both union and non-union schools. Union schools are better for teachers who have no desire to do a good job. The volume and quality of material learned in the non-union school was about 4/3 of the unionized school, for the best students. For the worst, well, anything over zero puts the ratio at infinity.
No community college or trade school will provide the top level of technical education that MIT provides, and it's important that technically oriented colleges exist. When I was there, the humanities department was mostly a (sometimes disgusting) left-wing indoctination camp. History wasn't taught, except military history (meant for the ROTC).
A "well rounded education" is something that should be complete by the end of high school. There's too much knowledge available for any but the supergenius to try to be an accomplished generalist. Universities should train towards excellence in a specialty.
About a quarter of my time at MIT was wasted fulfilling bullshit requirements for my bachelor degrees. In the time wasted, I could have achieved the learning equivalent of a masters degree or more. There are only so many hours in a day, and only so many hours in a life, and using them to pump up an English teacher's ego is a vice.
It does make a difference that in some cases things are paid for through the government, and not only because I can't opt out. In some cases the government takes my money to teach others that I am evil for earning a good living, and to teach them how to injure me and steal from me. In all cases where a method not involving force or the threat of force to reach a good goal is possible, it is superior.
Your valid point is somewhat undercut by the fact that over time better understanding has lead to clearer explanations, which makes learning a given body of information easier. Also, old errors, false leads, and extraneous information have been removed from the path to a particular goal. Certain areas once thought important aren't even taught anymore. Try finding a course on theory of equations.
As an aside, geometry was hardly state-of-the-art math in Washington's time.
If the good books exist, a bright student can teach himself anything, and the only time a teacher is needed to speed things along is when the student comes to a sticking point. The average student will never understand the most advanced math, good teacher or no teacher. It's just too difficult.
And alas, there is also a tendency to change names from one satisfactory bunch to an entirely new bunch. On one side is monomorphism, epimorphism, and isomorphism, on the other is injection, surjection, and bijection, and I don't even remember which in in vogue these days.
My high school charged admission to football and basketball games. Football in particular was quite popular, pulling in 500 to 1000 paying fans for each of 10 games, at a school with 1700 students. I wasn't privy to the finances, but I don't think it was a burden.
Leaning an assembler is a good place to start, but for a beginner to learn the x86 thoroughly is a bad idea. The principles of an assembler and its relation to hardware is important, the minefield that is the x86 design is discouraging.
Learning K&R C, which is now obsolete, is a mistake. Learn ANSI C and something of the best extensions.
When you say "we should be investing a lot on solar in the form of subsidies" you are saying that I should have my money stolen at gunpoint by government thugs to improve your fantasies. Your morality needs to be improved first.
While I agree with the principle behind your argument, your examples are not comparable. Pollution from power plants (and I'm talking about genuine polution, not this carbon bullshit) directly hurts everyone downwind. Drug use and indiscriminate sex directly hurt only participants, and drug use indirectly hurts user's children only if they have them, which is the result of a separate bad choice. The damage to society at large is due to government meddling, such as AIDS research and the "drug war".
Occam's razor states that the simplest explanation that agrees with all the relevant facts is the correct explanation. If it does not agree with all the relevant facts, then Occam's razor does not apply, by definition. If it does agree with all the relevant facts, then YOU have no basis to say the explanation is not correct.
The only way to attack Occam's razor is on a historical basis, when new facts become available to prove the simple explanation wrong. However, an explanation based upon any method can be proven wrong when newly discovered facts provide a counterexample.
The purpose of Occam's razor is to help advance human understanding, by helping to prevent filling our minds with useless cruft.
"Pedal misapplication" has been going on for a long time. I've done it at least twice, but I realized what I was doing and quickly corrected the problem. It wasn't the manufacturer's fault. The mother of a friend of mine did it with a Pontiac Bonneville in 1963. Being a fat old fool, she didn't realize what she had done wrong. Any person who does it and blames the manufacturer is either self-deceived or a nasty, dishonest person.
There's only so much the manufacturer can do to prevent this sort of problem, and most of that consists of moving the accelerator and gas pedals further apart and putting them at different levels. Both of those things make it harder to apply the brake quickly when the foot is currently on the accelerator, and that's hardly a safety feature.
The idea that plants in a given region are best for the people living there is romantic bullshit. There are well-documented cases of whole populations damaged generation after generation by the limitations of their tribal diets.
If their GM crops didn't produce sterile seeds you'd be complaining that they're contaminating the world with their GM offspring. Your hatred is pathological.
"flops" is a poor measure of integer or encryption performance; floating point operations are not a good tool for integer math or the bit operations inherent in codes.
the US surely has some spare desert to make useful.
Good luck with that. The federal government owns most of the desert land, and it is for all practical purposes under the control of wacko environmentalists. They'd complain that we're killing trees if we put up solar panels in the petrified forest.
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It's my understanding that physical editing of a defective chip is very expensive (hours of labor) and is only done in the development process to avoid the hundreds of thousands of dollars required to make a new set of masks. It's not a normal production process.
Well, he wasn't CEO of a Fortune 500 company but he could have been. Things didn't turn out too well for Mr. DeLorean.
Furthermore, if nobody is proclaiming that taxation is theft, then the idea will not be spread. By repeating, defending, and expanding upon the idea, it's strength and usefulness grows. It is a useful and intellectual endeavor, hardly childish.
If you don't use words in a consistent and widely accepted manner, your gibberish communicates nothing. In this case, a country is an area under the control (for lack of a better word) of a government. Somalia doesn't qualify.
Costs are not necessarily financed by taxing incomes, and income taxes are in fact one of the worst methods of taxation/finance. If justice is your goal, user fees are the best method. What is more just than "you get what you pay for, you pay for what you get"? If a vibrant economy is your goal, property taxes help insure that resources are used to help generate enough economic activity to cover the taxes. If you want to punish the production of goods that humans value enough to pay for, an income tax is your best bet.
In the end, physical goods are made by producing them (duh), and kept by not destroying them or having them stolen. Your standard of living is measured mostly (and properly) in the quantity and quality of your physical goods. A country with productive people where people's property is not being stolen (mostly by the government) will have a high standard of living. Scandianvia's high standard of living is due to an extraordinary work ethic, and both the work ethic and the high standard of living are falling because of the erosive qualities of the Scandinavian welfare states.
"Get involved in defining the policies that govern where the money goes" is a fool's game. There are too many people who refuse to work, who spend their lives as protestors-for-hire and lifelong professional leeches, who have nothing better to do than lie and thwart my every effort. I have to spend most of my time doing other things, and even if I did spend time "getting involved", I would be unlikely to achieve lasting success.
It is the first responsibility for a government to protect its residents from foreign and domestic violence and threat of violence. It is the second responsibility of government to identify the actual rights of its residents and arrange for a mechanism to protect those rights. Those are the only responsibilities of government, and the only things that a government can charge for, without the damage caused by charging for its actions exceeding the good caused by its actions (assuming that the actions are actually good).
You've been taught lies.
If what you have is "pretty pieces of colored, printed paper" then what you have is an IOU or a fiat currency, not money.
Money is a store of value, good money is divisible, fungible, and relatively scarce. Gold is an example, possibly the best. Paper doesn't qualify.
A word on value: nothing has intrinsic value; all things are valued in relation to the needs and desires of human beings. In that context, paper currency has value only as a medium of trade, gold and other precious materials have additional value in their utility as ingredients in a variety of products. This utility helps (but does not guarantee) money keeping its value with respect to other objects.
Although your sentence might be technically correct, I doubt that its meaning matches yours.
If you meant that your 11th grade English literature teacher taught you to write well , then she didn't.
I've been to both union and non-union schools. Union schools are better for teachers who have no desire to do a good job. The volume and quality of material learned in the non-union school was about 4/3 of the unionized school, for the best students. For the worst, well, anything over zero puts the ratio at infinity.
No community college or trade school will provide the top level of technical education that MIT provides, and it's important that technically oriented colleges exist. When I was there, the humanities department was mostly a (sometimes disgusting) left-wing indoctination camp. History wasn't taught, except military history (meant for the ROTC).
A "well rounded education" is something that should be complete by the end of high school. There's too much knowledge available for any but the supergenius to try to be an accomplished generalist. Universities should train towards excellence in a specialty.
About a quarter of my time at MIT was wasted fulfilling bullshit requirements for my bachelor degrees. In the time wasted, I could have achieved the learning equivalent of a masters degree or more. There are only so many hours in a day, and only so many hours in a life, and using them to pump up an English teacher's ego is a vice.
It does make a difference that in some cases things are paid for through the government, and not only because I can't opt out. In some cases the government takes my money to teach others that I am evil for earning a good living, and to teach them how to injure me and steal from me. In all cases where a method not involving force or the threat of force to reach a good goal is possible, it is superior.
Your valid point is somewhat undercut by the fact that over time better understanding has lead to clearer explanations, which makes learning a given body of information easier. Also, old errors, false leads, and extraneous information have been removed from the path to a particular goal. Certain areas once thought important aren't even taught anymore. Try finding a course on theory of equations.
As an aside, geometry was hardly state-of-the-art math in Washington's time.
If the good books exist, a bright student can teach himself anything, and the only time a teacher is needed to speed things along is when the student comes to a sticking point. The average student will never understand the most advanced math, good teacher or no teacher. It's just too difficult.
And alas, there is also a tendency to change names from one satisfactory bunch to an entirely new bunch. On one side is monomorphism, epimorphism, and isomorphism, on the other is injection, surjection, and bijection, and I don't even remember which in in vogue these days.
My high school charged admission to football and basketball games. Football in particular was quite popular, pulling in 500 to 1000 paying fans for each of 10 games, at a school with 1700 students. I wasn't privy to the finances, but I don't think it was a burden.
Leaning an assembler is a good place to start, but for a beginner to learn the x86 thoroughly is a bad idea. The principles of an assembler and its relation to hardware is important, the minefield that is the x86 design is discouraging.
Learning K&R C, which is now obsolete, is a mistake. Learn ANSI C and something of the best extensions.
When you say "we should be investing a lot on solar in the form of subsidies" you are saying that I should have my money stolen at gunpoint by government thugs to improve your fantasies. Your morality needs to be improved first.
While I agree with the principle behind your argument, your examples are not comparable. Pollution from power plants (and I'm talking about genuine polution, not this carbon bullshit) directly hurts everyone downwind. Drug use and indiscriminate sex directly hurt only participants, and drug use indirectly hurts user's children only if they have them, which is the result of a separate bad choice. The damage to society at large is due to government meddling, such as AIDS research and the "drug war".
That insurance is required in the first place is proof of unwarranted government interference.
It is an outrage that an industry based on cowardice exists at all.
The word you are looking for is "rationale".
Occam's razor states that the simplest explanation that agrees with all the relevant facts is the correct explanation. If it does not agree with all the relevant facts, then Occam's razor does not apply, by definition. If it does agree with all the relevant facts, then YOU have no basis to say the explanation is not correct.
The only way to attack Occam's razor is on a historical basis, when new facts become available to prove the simple explanation wrong. However, an explanation based upon any method can be proven wrong when newly discovered facts provide a counterexample.
The purpose of Occam's razor is to help advance human understanding, by helping to prevent filling our minds with useless cruft.
"Pedal misapplication" has been going on for a long time. I've done it at least twice, but I realized what I was doing and quickly corrected the problem. It wasn't the manufacturer's fault. The mother of a friend of mine did it with a Pontiac Bonneville in 1963. Being a fat old fool, she didn't realize what she had done wrong. Any person who does it and blames the manufacturer is either self-deceived or a nasty, dishonest person.
There's only so much the manufacturer can do to prevent this sort of problem, and most of that consists of moving the accelerator and gas pedals further apart and putting them at different levels. Both of those things make it harder to apply the brake quickly when the foot is currently on the accelerator, and that's hardly a safety feature.
Liar. Modern famine is a polical problem, deliberately caused by tyrannies.
The idea that plants in a given region are best for the people living there is romantic bullshit. There are well-documented cases of whole populations damaged generation after generation by the limitations of their tribal diets.
If their GM crops didn't produce sterile seeds you'd be complaining that they're contaminating the world with their GM offspring. Your hatred is pathological.
Professionals pay for their own TV service and don't watch TV during the time they're being paid.
"flops" is a poor measure of integer or encryption performance; floating point operations are not a good tool for integer math or the bit operations inherent in codes.
Gee, you looked in Wkikpedia and didn't see that Egypt is part of the middle East? Egypt's in Africa.
Good luck with that. The federal government owns most of the desert land, and it is for all practical purposes under the control of wacko environmentalists. They'd complain that we're killing trees if we put up solar panels in the petrified forest.