But.66?? who thinks like that... unless they are lazy and using a calculator. Even.666 puts it over 137, but "666" is a bad number;-)
A grade school kid would quickly come up with "137 or more" without even getting into decimal places...
(206 X 2) / 3
Doing the long division, by hand yields 137 with 1 left over (e.g. 137 1/3) no arguing over decimal points. OTOH, this is law we are talking about, not math.
That's the funny thing about currency... currency that you consider valid has somewhat of a relative quality about it, since none of it has intrinsic value.
Bitch and moan about the USD all you want, and the apparent inflationary actions of "making up" an extra trillion here and there, it is holding its own against, say, the Euro, since the Eurozone has their own over-spending habits that are possibly worse.
Most true hoarders just end up wasting stuff... it is neglected and decays in its piles.
I have a relative who is a hoarder, mostly books, and they end up rotting in leaking sheds and patio covers, if not just being bug eaten in the stuffed house and garage.
Tech stuff is no different. Sticky old cable sheaths that are gross to the touch, old mechanical items with dried out bearings and drive components. Corroded connectors. Just plain old shit that doesn't work anymore, and is long past the point where it can be put to use.
How about they just publish a list for each department, stating the number of tax dollars they collect (spend). Then a brief summary of the public benefit provided by those dollars and the address where you can go to see all the gory public record details.
I agree the privacy issues of public records is something to be considered before dumping it on the Internet, but there should be no reason for not publishing high-level meta data about public spending... except the spenders might not want thousands of arm-chair amateur investigative journalists stirring up "trouble".
In the US, the main complaint isn't that many of these functions of government are not needed, it is just that they are not needed at a Federal level, with the extra overhead, inefficiency, and distancing of control from "the people" that are being served.
A computer analogy; The Founders thought they were setting up a heterogeneous distributed network with minimal centralized control (the Constitution) and each State was supposed to have the leeway to operate the best way for each.
To bring it around to something Slashdotters can grok, the US Federal governement is acting more and more like a Microsoft monopoly (ignoring the rules) and adding a lot of taxes for shit many do not want... and pretty soon there is no Apple store to go to since the same thing is forced on all States.
The way things are going the mono-culture is going to get one nasty (fiscal) virus that nobody will escape from.
FTA: Those low-tax countries are almost anywhere but the U.S. "When you add in state taxes, the U.S. has the highest tax burden among industrialized countries,"
So, to attract tax payers, just lower the US taxes and those same companies (and maybe even non-US corps) will pull the same "shenanigans" to not pay the lower foreign taxes, but, rather, would make their earnings declaration in the US... whatever is cheaper, right?
Single-bit errors shouldn't send the car out of control... there should be some checksum that shouldn't add up. When a fault is detected, it should go to a backup program about safely shutting down the car.
See, here's the problem with random errors that happen in the hardware from an outside source; It might happen after you did you sanity check...
You can live here quite legally and not be a citizen. You still get representation.
What? For the sake of argument you mean the "USA" for "here". Logically, you cannot get representation, since you cannot vote.
Again, with a different analogy - who were the Canadian representatives of all the non-Canadians visiting British Columbia for the Olympics? None. Foreigners don't need representation, since, by definition, they have a home to go back to.
If you visit China, are you represented?
If you are talking about legal non-citizens, I suspect it is statistically insignificant. Even so, I can stipulate a different question - "are you legally in the USA?" That would seem to satisfy all aspects of the question by counting only folks who have a right to cause Congressional districts to be created/shifted.
The census form doesn't ask if one is a citizen or not.
Constitutionally, isn't the census required only for determining how many and where congressional districts are to be?
I find it odd that they don't ask how many citizens live in each location. Seems to me just counting people would be like giving an extra congressional seat to a city just because they happened to have 100,000 visitors (say, for a super bowl game) on the day you counted...
Nobody would argue that your list of bad things weren't bad. That is not what people are talking about when they opine that "things are getting worse".
Does anyone know how the typical "table wine" of old compares to today's wines, as far as alcohol content goes? Same, more, less... just water it down?
I assume a lot of wine was used in lieu of a municipal water works, as far as making the water safe to drink.
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I often VNC/RemoteDesktop/etc into machines that have 1024 vertical resolution, so, yeah 1200 native is a MUST for me.
Scrolling around a virtual screen sucks if you don't HAVE to.
ok - 206 = total of yeas and nays.
.66?? who thinks like that... unless they are lazy and using a calculator. Even .666 puts it over 137, but "666" is a bad number ;-)
But
A grade school kid would quickly come up with "137 or more" without even getting into decimal places...
(206 X 2) / 3
Doing the long division, by hand yields 137 with 1 left over (e.g. 137 1/3) no arguing over decimal points. OTOH, this is law we are talking about, not math.
That's the funny thing about currency... currency that you consider valid has somewhat of a relative quality about it, since none of it has intrinsic value.
Bitch and moan about the USD all you want, and the apparent inflationary actions of "making up" an extra trillion here and there, it is holding its own against, say, the Euro, since the Eurozone has their own over-spending habits that are possibly worse.
Just remember, money != wealth.
About 65 percent of subscribers have a broadband connection that's based on DSL, compared to 20 percent for cable
My cable is made out of copper...
Most true hoarders just end up wasting stuff... it is neglected and decays in its piles.
I have a relative who is a hoarder, mostly books, and they end up rotting in leaking sheds and patio covers, if not just being bug eaten in the stuffed house and garage.
Tech stuff is no different. Sticky old cable sheaths that are gross to the touch, old mechanical items with dried out bearings and drive components. Corroded connectors. Just plain old shit that doesn't work anymore, and is long past the point where it can be put to use.
Take your pick of images, there seem to be plenty.
I wonder what you could get, on eBay, for an image of The Prophet, if it just showed up on a piece of toast?
It wasn't frustration, it was a security measure. Secure Erase
You will still get pushed off the subway platform by the crowd, or hit by a bus that doesn't see you!
If you are trying to point out how fucked up the USA is about this kind of stuff, just remember there are worse prudes in the world.
How about they just publish a list for each department, stating the number of tax dollars they collect (spend). Then a brief summary of the public benefit provided by those dollars and the address where you can go to see all the gory public record details.
I agree the privacy issues of public records is something to be considered before dumping it on the Internet, but there should be no reason for not publishing high-level meta data about public spending... except the spenders might not want thousands of arm-chair amateur investigative journalists stirring up "trouble".
And accept defeat?
Apparently they can only defeat their own customers. So I win! (Or at least I don't lose.)
heh, what's less "green", an erupting volcano for a few years or all the airplane pollution in the world for the same time?
In the US, the main complaint isn't that many of these functions of government are not needed, it is just that they are not needed at a Federal level, with the extra overhead, inefficiency, and distancing of control from "the people" that are being served.
A computer analogy; The Founders thought they were setting up a heterogeneous distributed network with minimal centralized control (the Constitution) and each State was supposed to have the leeway to operate the best way for each.
To bring it around to something Slashdotters can grok, the US Federal governement is acting more and more like a Microsoft monopoly (ignoring the rules) and adding a lot of taxes for shit many do not want... and pretty soon there is no Apple store to go to since the same thing is forced on all States.
The way things are going the mono-culture is going to get one nasty (fiscal) virus that nobody will escape from.
Most blind people didn't see that movie.
invent something new
That's like the old joke on how to carve a ship... "Start with a block of wood, and carve away anything that doesn't look like a ship".
Good to know Apple has their priorities right.
They do. Have you seen their profit margin? You do know they are a for-profit company, right?
FTA: Those low-tax countries are almost anywhere but the U.S. "When you add in state taxes, the U.S. has the highest tax burden among industrialized countries,"
So, to attract tax payers, just lower the US taxes and those same companies (and maybe even non-US corps) will pull the same "shenanigans" to not pay the lower foreign taxes, but, rather, would make their earnings declaration in the US... whatever is cheaper, right?
he educated the Hispanic poor community
Technically he educated some individual students, not a community. Now, apparently, his techniques have been abandoned.
Single-bit errors shouldn't send the car out of control... there should be some checksum that shouldn't add up. When a fault is detected, it should go to a backup program about safely shutting down the car.
See, here's the problem with random errors that happen in the hardware from an outside source; It might happen after you did you sanity check...
What's wrong with a simple box like the WDTV Live?
You can live here quite legally and not be a citizen. You still get representation.
What? For the sake of argument you mean the "USA" for "here". Logically, you cannot get representation, since you cannot vote.
Again, with a different analogy - who were the Canadian representatives of all the non-Canadians visiting British Columbia for the Olympics? None. Foreigners don't need representation, since, by definition, they have a home to go back to.
If you visit China, are you represented?
If you are talking about legal non-citizens, I suspect it is statistically insignificant. Even so, I can stipulate a different question - "are you legally in the USA?" That would seem to satisfy all aspects of the question by counting only folks who have a right to cause Congressional districts to be created/shifted.
The census form doesn't ask if one is a citizen or not.
Constitutionally, isn't the census required only for determining how many and where congressional districts are to be?
I find it odd that they don't ask how many citizens live in each location. Seems to me just counting people would be like giving an extra congressional seat to a city just because they happened to have 100,000 visitors (say, for a super bowl game) on the day you counted...
Nobody would argue that your list of bad things weren't bad. That is not what people are talking about when they opine that "things are getting worse".
Why are we not funding this Who's "we". If you are a Wal-Mart shopper, you probably are funding it.
Actually, they might have. Sort of.
Does anyone know how the typical "table wine" of old compares to today's wines, as far as alcohol content goes? Same, more, less... just water it down?
I assume a lot of wine was used in lieu of a municipal water works, as far as making the water safe to drink.