One of the interesting things to notice is how much wasteful packaging [time.com] we use compared to those [time.com] who still eat mainly for nutrition.
The packaging acts to *prevent* waste from spoilage and damage.
And I had a long debate argument with a friend about the whole canard that "just 10% of the cost is for the food." To get from grain growing in a field to become a box of cereal in a convenience store, there are hundreds of people who added a little bit of value at each stage of production. They each take their cut, and that's what reflects the price on the sticker.
However, when a libertarian answers a question, liberty will almost certainly come up; it is at the core of the libertarian ideal.
There is no "core" to the libertarian ideal. "We believe in liberty!" *Everyone* believes in liberty. And everyone is just as sincere as you are.
Real ideologies are opposed to other real ideologies, that is, they exist due to a conflict between people who are otherwise like minded. Conservatives and liberals agree on 90% of the issues but they have some fundamental disagreements. Libertarians have to invent counter-ideologies, like authoritarianism and populism, to try and pretend that they're not single-issue voters or members of the dominant ideologies. Most libertarians are really fiscal conservatives or watered-down anarchists.
The most disturbing thing about all this is that many libertarians are veering towards isolationism. (Not all, thankfully, the Objectivist crowd is still merrily pro-West. Well, merry by their standards, at least.)
Yeah, Ron Paul sounded just great when he blamed America for 9/11 on the Republican debates. Only delusional Ron Paul supporters think he won this exchange with Guliani. Here's a hint... listen to the crowd. If you think he won that, there's no point arguing with you.
well he's popular on the net.
Bullshit. The left hates him because he wants to eliminate all the handouts and the right hates him because he's a loony isolationist.
And the libertarians can't raise enough money to order pizza so no one cares about them.
Didn't the wireless providers / phone manufacturers / other evil conspirators ever notice that people don't use all their stupid "features?"
For example: I didn't pay for Internet access on my phone. So I don't want 3 of my main menu options devoted to it. And if they're going to put their stupid shopping pages on top of all the browser lists or even on the main menu, at least have something worth buying!
And then stuff like synchronizing my address book simply doesn't work. I don't think I have ever, from as early as Palm III to my latest smartphone, gotten the synchronizing software to move changes from the phone to the computer and vice versa without fucking it up.
Spare me the pretty interface and get the basics to work. *Then* you can worry about ringtones and wallpapers that show off everyone's bad taste in music and poor choice of sexual partners.
First of all, I don't think selling papers is _illegal_, though.
It should be. By claiming that someone else's work is yours, you're committing fraud. It might not be prosecutable since there aren't any monetary damages (well, only to yourself since you just wasted the money you spent on the class), but it is still illegal.
I think so. I'm biased, being enlisted in the military, but I've always assumed that we have an obligation to get our side of the story out there. People attach all kinds of sinister meanings to the word, but my understanding is that it means pretty much what you quoted.
I can live with propaganda just fine... censorship (by government of citizens) is what troubles me.
Coffee is *made* with boiling-hot water. It is *supposed* to be scalding-hot.
Hmm... I have two coffee makers, I've owned about four, I've drank coffee from at least a dozen different places and I have never had a cup of coffee that was boiling hot or even close. I've had plenty of cuppas that were too hot, but they were from places like McDonald's or Dunkin' Donuts that aren't generally considered good coffee.
I boil a kettle, immediately pour the water into the cup, add creamer and server.
I hate to break it to you, but that's not coffee you're making. That's "instant." Maybe instant is supposed to be scalding hot, but then you have to be a masochist to drink it so a little more pain isn't going to bother you.
Seriously, an accusation of murder doesn't mean that someone can't write good code. Hell, a conviction for murder wouldn't mean that.
Yeah, it's not like programmers are actual engineers who have to deal with other human beings. IEEE may as well scrap their code of ethics since programming is just math.
Someone with the icy logic needed to remove a threat permanently might find a career in the military - and the military has lots of programmers, and are the biggest murderers around.
And you're the recipient of the freedom to talk about shit you don't understand thanks to our murdering people who would take it from you. Yes, that freedom is wasted on you, but then so is oxygen.
Our modern diet is very different from what we evolved to eat.
We only evolved to live to about 20 years old, typically, and only a few needed to live to 30. (You could argue it down to adolescence given that that's the age when genes are passed on, but mating depended on a functioning tribe or pack so there had to be older, experienced individuals present.)
So I'm skeptical that ancestral diets are a good guide to longevity.
And general relativity takes a similar position, it describes how matter/energy curves spacetime, but makes no attempts to explain why that would happen.
I always thought GR was better because it removed the "action at a distance" problem that Newtonian gravity has.
Ship a better search, a better advertising system than Google, a better hosting service than Amazon, a better cross-platform Web development ecosystem than Adobe, and get some services out there that are innovative (where's the video RSS reader? Blog search? Something like Yahoo's Pipes? A real blog service? A way to look up people?)
Why do right-to-lifer's support the death penalty?
Because if you really have a right to life, someone ought to pay the ultimate price if they take your life from you.
Why do liberals promote loss of liberty?
You threw that in to look neutral. Try this one: "why do liberals lionize the United Nations when it has never lifted a finger against genocide and actively promotes the worst human rights offenders?"
Why do those who dodge military service advocate preemptive war?
Ah, you loaded the last one the most. First off, if anyone is going to judge someone for lack of service, it should be a servicemember. Like me. So scan your fucking lane.
Second, this is a country of "we the people." It is not a military dictatorship. Given that our military actions greatly affect the lives of our citizens, they have every right to debate what course we take as a nation.
Third, you conveniently omit what we were preempting: nukes. Nope, the world intelligence community was wrong and he didn't have them. Hussein's actions are inexplicable in this context. All we know for certain is that he wanted them.
How hard is this to prove, anyways, to all the quantum physicists in the house?
IANAQP, but I think it's pretty hard to prove given that you can simulate a quantum computer with a classical computer. (Source.)
But, if you have lots of qbits then you can simply argue that it's running too fast to be a simulation:
"Take for example a system of only a few hundred qubits, this exists in a Hilbert space of dimension ~1090 that in simulation would require a classical computer to work with exponentially large matrices (to perform calculations on each individual state, which is also represented as a matrix), meaning it would take an exponentially longer time than even a primitive quantum computer." (ibid)
So I'm thinking that when they get to their 64 or 128 qbit device that we know for certain that it's genuine.
I wonder how long it'll be before Intel and Motorola are selling quantum computers and arguing about the qbit myth?
A smart boozer would realize that it would take only ~20 seconds to walk to the fridge, get two beers and return to the couch with half of one beer chugged by the time he returned.
If you plant yourself correctly you can send people flying across the room without moving an inch yourself.
I was thinking the same thing. The author is assuming that when you kick someone you're a. standing still and b. projecting force parallel to the ground. I've tried that, and it'll put you on your ass every time. If you are already moving forwards and kick upwards you'll be pushed down into the ground and have your forwards momentum cancelled out.
Oh for crying out loud! The accountants are whinging about 4.8 billion over twenty or more years?!
Have they LOOKED at the US budget? In 2006, 406 billion went to interest payments alone for the debt. And they're griping at a price that is 1/200th of that per annum. Absolutely unfuckingbelievable.
I'm pretty sure interest payments are mandatory spending. Personally, I've no idea how much we should spend on NASA's activities, or whether a monolithic government agency is the best way to spend that money. Total discretionary spending is about a trillion dollars right now... take out defense and foreign aid and you get $460 billion. (source, PDF or XLS)
So spending on science is going to be a chunk of that, and NASA has to compete with lots of different scientists. All of them, I'm sure, could argue quite passionately and eloquently why their research needs a bigger slice of the pie.
I think it would be more efficient if the people who go to the gym instead would just put on a pair of running shoes and would not have to exercise in a room that had not to be lit and heated for the purpose of them having a place to exercise.
Go to any military installation, you'll see people running around and doing PT outside. Most units even set up little outdoors gyms, with pullup bars, dip bars, climbing ropes and such. You can do a huge number of exercises outdoors using your body as resistance.
But an indoors gym is still necessary because it has high quality equipment that is vulnerable to weather and needs to be maintained by a staff. Also, sometimes the weather sucks and you're better off working out inside.
Fat people get it the worst. No other group of people are so easily attacked and mocked. Most people wouldn't dare say "look how black that guy is!" for fear of being labeled a racist.
They do say those kinds of things, and I seem to recall from American history this thing called "chattel slavery." Do you really think fat people get it the worst?
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One of the interesting things to notice is how much wasteful packaging [time.com] we use compared to those [time.com] who still eat mainly for nutrition.
The packaging acts to *prevent* waste from spoilage and damage.
And I had a long debate argument with a friend about the whole canard that "just 10% of the cost is for the food." To get from grain growing in a field to become a box of cereal in a convenience store, there are hundreds of people who added a little bit of value at each stage of production. They each take their cut, and that's what reflects the price on the sticker.
Yes, we need to eliminate the pervasive bias. Here's some other ideas we need to give "equal time" in our discussions:
You should add the Kyoto protocol to your list, given that not a single US Senator voted to ratify it.
However, when a libertarian answers a question, liberty will almost certainly come up; it is at the core of the libertarian ideal.
There is no "core" to the libertarian ideal. "We believe in liberty!" *Everyone* believes in liberty. And everyone is just as sincere as you are.
Real ideologies are opposed to other real ideologies, that is, they exist due to a conflict between people who are otherwise like minded. Conservatives and liberals agree on 90% of the issues but they have some fundamental disagreements. Libertarians have to invent counter-ideologies, like authoritarianism and populism, to try and pretend that they're not single-issue voters or members of the dominant ideologies. Most libertarians are really fiscal conservatives or watered-down anarchists.
The most disturbing thing about all this is that many libertarians are veering towards isolationism. (Not all, thankfully, the Objectivist crowd is still merrily pro-West. Well, merry by their standards, at least.)
Yeah, Ron Paul sounded just great when he blamed America for 9/11 on the Republican debates. Only delusional Ron Paul supporters think he won this exchange with Guliani. Here's a hint... listen to the crowd. If you think he won that, there's no point arguing with you.
well he's popular on the net.
Bullshit. The left hates him because he wants to eliminate all the handouts and the right hates him because he's a loony isolationist.
And the libertarians can't raise enough money to order pizza so no one cares about them.
Didn't the wireless providers / phone manufacturers / other evil conspirators ever notice that people don't use all their stupid "features?"
For example: I didn't pay for Internet access on my phone. So I don't want 3 of my main menu options devoted to it. And if they're going to put their stupid shopping pages on top of all the browser lists or even on the main menu, at least have something worth buying!
And then stuff like synchronizing my address book simply doesn't work. I don't think I have ever, from as early as Palm III to my latest smartphone, gotten the synchronizing software to move changes from the phone to the computer and vice versa without fucking it up.
Spare me the pretty interface and get the basics to work. *Then* you can worry about ringtones and wallpapers that show off everyone's bad taste in music and poor choice of sexual partners.
Funny thing is, you start paying for the call as soon as you get the "answering machine" talking to you.
With my provider (CingularAT&T) I noticed that you start paying as soon as the phone starts ringing!
When will companies learn that nothing leads to more customer dissatisfaction than being nickled and dimed?
First of all, I don't think selling papers is _illegal_, though.
It should be. By claiming that someone else's work is yours, you're committing fraud. It might not be prosecutable since there aren't any monetary damages (well, only to yourself since you just wasted the money you spent on the class), but it is still illegal.
Isn't that called "propaganda"?
I think so. I'm biased, being enlisted in the military, but I've always assumed that we have an obligation to get our side of the story out there. People attach all kinds of sinister meanings to the word, but my understanding is that it means pretty much what you quoted.
I can live with propaganda just fine... censorship (by government of citizens) is what troubles me.
Coffee is *made* with boiling-hot water. It is *supposed* to be scalding-hot.
Hmm... I have two coffee makers, I've owned about four, I've drank coffee from at least a dozen different places and I have never had a cup of coffee that was boiling hot or even close. I've had plenty of cuppas that were too hot, but they were from places like McDonald's or Dunkin' Donuts that aren't generally considered good coffee.
I boil a kettle, immediately pour the water into the cup, add creamer and server.
I hate to break it to you, but that's not coffee you're making. That's "instant." Maybe instant is supposed to be scalding hot, but then you have to be a masochist to drink it so a little more pain isn't going to bother you.
Seriously, an accusation of murder doesn't mean that someone can't write good code. Hell, a conviction for murder wouldn't mean that.
Yeah, it's not like programmers are actual engineers who have to deal with other human beings. IEEE may as well scrap their code of ethics since programming is just math.
Someone with the icy logic needed to remove a threat permanently might find a career in the military - and the military has lots of programmers, and are the biggest murderers around.
And you're the recipient of the freedom to talk about shit you don't understand thanks to our murdering people who would take it from you. Yes, that freedom is wasted on you, but then so is oxygen.
If you stare at that button for a while you will realize that the circle-and-vertical-line symbol looks a bit like a hand that is flipping you a bird.
It also looks like a naked ass.
Our modern diet is very different from what we evolved to eat.
We only evolved to live to about 20 years old, typically, and only a few needed to live to 30. (You could argue it down to adolescence given that that's the age when genes are passed on, but mating depended on a functioning tribe or pack so there had to be older, experienced individuals present.)
So I'm skeptical that ancestral diets are a good guide to longevity.
And general relativity takes a similar position, it describes how matter/energy curves spacetime, but makes no attempts to explain why that would happen.
I always thought GR was better because it removed the "action at a distance" problem that Newtonian gravity has.
Ship a better search, a better advertising system than Google, a better hosting service than Amazon, a better cross-platform Web development ecosystem than Adobe, and get some services out there that are innovative (where's the video RSS reader? Blog search? Something like Yahoo's Pipes? A real blog service? A way to look up people?)
Yeah! More useless web apps! That'll show 'em!
I read the claims... somebody submit a patent for insertion and deletion operations.
Why do conservatives disregard conservation?
They don't.
Why do right-to-lifer's support the death penalty?
Because if you really have a right to life, someone ought to pay the ultimate price if they take your life from you.
Why do liberals promote loss of liberty?
You threw that in to look neutral. Try this one: "why do liberals lionize the United Nations when it has never lifted a finger against genocide and actively promotes the worst human rights offenders?"
Why do those who dodge military service advocate preemptive war?
Ah, you loaded the last one the most. First off, if anyone is going to judge someone for lack of service, it should be a servicemember. Like me. So scan your fucking lane.
Second, this is a country of "we the people." It is not a military dictatorship. Given that our military actions greatly affect the lives of our citizens, they have every right to debate what course we take as a nation.
Third, you conveniently omit what we were preempting: nukes. Nope, the world intelligence community was wrong and he didn't have them. Hussein's actions are inexplicable in this context. All we know for certain is that he wanted them.
How hard is this to prove, anyways, to all the quantum physicists in the house?
IANAQP, but I think it's pretty hard to prove given that you can simulate a quantum computer with a classical computer. (Source.)
But, if you have lots of qbits then you can simply argue that it's running too fast to be a simulation:
"Take for example a system of only a few hundred qubits, this exists in a Hilbert space of dimension ~1090 that in simulation would require a classical computer to work with exponentially large matrices (to perform calculations on each individual state, which is also represented as a matrix), meaning it would take an exponentially longer time than even a primitive quantum computer." (ibid)
So I'm thinking that when they get to their 64 or 128 qbit device that we know for certain that it's genuine.
I wonder how long it'll be before Intel and Motorola are selling quantum computers and arguing about the qbit myth?
I call bullshit. Show me where in the act is says that.
A smart boozer would realize that it would take only ~20 seconds to walk to the fridge, get two beers and return to the couch with half of one beer chugged by the time he returned.
And a proper alcoholic would pipeline the system.
If you plant yourself correctly you can send people flying across the room without moving an inch yourself.
I was thinking the same thing. The author is assuming that when you kick someone you're a. standing still and b. projecting force parallel to the ground. I've tried that, and it'll put you on your ass every time. If you are already moving forwards and kick upwards you'll be pushed down into the ground and have your forwards momentum cancelled out.
Oh for crying out loud! The accountants are whinging about 4.8 billion over twenty or more years?!
Have they LOOKED at the US budget? In 2006, 406 billion went to interest payments alone for the debt. And they're griping at a price that is 1/200th of that per annum. Absolutely unfuckingbelievable.
I'm pretty sure interest payments are mandatory spending. Personally, I've no idea how much we should spend on NASA's activities, or whether a monolithic government agency is the best way to spend that money. Total discretionary spending is about a trillion dollars right now... take out defense and foreign aid and you get $460 billion. (source, PDF or XLS)
So spending on science is going to be a chunk of that, and NASA has to compete with lots of different scientists. All of them, I'm sure, could argue quite passionately and eloquently why their research needs a bigger slice of the pie.
I think it would be more efficient if the people who go to the gym instead would just put on a pair of running shoes and would not have to exercise in a room that had not to be lit and heated for the purpose of them having a place to exercise.
Go to any military installation, you'll see people running around and doing PT outside. Most units even set up little outdoors gyms, with pullup bars, dip bars, climbing ropes and such. You can do a huge number of exercises outdoors using your body as resistance.
But an indoors gym is still necessary because it has high quality equipment that is vulnerable to weather and needs to be maintained by a staff. Also, sometimes the weather sucks and you're better off working out inside.
Fat people get it the worst. No other group of people are so easily attacked and mocked. Most people wouldn't dare say "look how black that guy is!" for fear of being labeled a racist.
They do say those kinds of things, and I seem to recall from American history this thing called "chattel slavery." Do you really think fat people get it the worst?
At least they let him sleep in every morning.
If this standard is accepted by IE and Firefox, *then* it will be news. Until then it's just buzzword compliant crap.