And you didn't think this one out very well either. What do cruise missiles do very well that causes them to be classified as CRUISE MISSILES? Perhaps flying low among terrain where you can't get line of sight on it, which any weapon based on FUCKING LIGHT would require?
They demostrated being able to take out a fairly slow traveling mortar round on a purely ballistic flight path, but say nothing about a 1970's designed Tomahawk flying 5x as fast, and able to change it's flight path, much less any newer weapon design.
Because clearly a dollar bill contains a dollar worth of cotton and ink. But somehow a $20 note contains 20x as much cotton and ink while having the same approximate mass and volume, right?
Your argument is the dumbest thing I've read in this thread, and that's really saying something.
Now only if the Republican-controlled house had passed several budget bills and sent them to the Senate, where one man prevents them from ever even getting debated, much less voted on. Oh wait, that's exactly why we haven't had a budget in over 1,000 days and counting.
Remember when Obama's budget received a unanimous NAY vote from everyone in the Senate, regardless of party affiliation? That was a hum-dinger, wasn't it?
While your basic point is valid, it has been repeatedly pointed out that government budget balancing is nothing like a family budget. A family cannot expect to improve finances by borrowing and investing into infrastructure. Moreover, family income will not shrink (recession) if said family buys fewer things. If government income was constant (i.e. salary-like) regardless of what happened to economy, you would have a better argument.
This is what separates macroeconomics from microeconomics. Unfortunately, it's very hard to clean it up into a 10-word zinger for Sunday morning news shows.
However, there is this: if I print my own money, it's called a felony. If the Fed does it, it's called Quantitative Easing.
So how about instead of passing laws raising the debt ceiling, we stop passing laws authorizing the executive to spend money we don't have, and probably never will?
Or, it could be because of the incredibly stupid and insensitive comments that some Republican candidates made during the campaign, which caused even the national party to run away from those individuals as fast as they could.
But no, I'm sure it's because of some sinister redistricting plan. Never mind that some states have laws that re-draw the districts by way of a non-partisan commission, and yet they still have Republican districts too...
If there's one thing that can bring congress critters together, it is uniting against the President overstepping constitutional ambiguity and limiting Congress's ability to be a pain in the ass to the Executive branch in the future.
If this bill passed the House, and actually came to a vote in the Senate that passed, I have no doubt that if the President used the veto, it would face an override vote within 24 hours. The only thing that makes a bigger statement about a policy than a veto, is an override of that veto.
The payment card industry negotiates rates based on many things, including what your card handling practices are, if your entire network and organization is PCI compliant, volume, average transaction size, etc.
For example, I work for a company that does about $100B in retail revenue annually. Our holy IT mantra is to not do anything that even remotely would run afoul of the PCI audit, because losing certified compliance would cause the transaction fees to go up, which is literally a billion dollar mistake.
Until the nations with a heavy emphasis on air power just hit all of your frikin' lasers with cruise missiles, and then bomb the shit out of you with their superior air power...
I have no problem with the Metric system; but for Congress to adopt the metric system, there will be an amendment on the bill that mandates that the meter be renamed to the Freedom Foot, and that there be a grandfather clause for the oil industry because oil is measured in barrels that contain 40 US gallons, and not 151.416 litres. Oh, and an amendment that requires the highway department to continue to place mile markers alongside of kilometer markers, even though the miles will not be whole numbers, requiring twice as many signs to be printed.
So what's the point of having a version number on your standard, if you don't increment the number when you change the standard?
Customer: "This computer has USB 3, but my 10Gbps device only connects at 5Gbps!" Support Tech: "Oh, that's because you have USB SuperSpeed 3.0 Revision 1 rather than USB SuperSpeed 3.0 Revision 2."
I never understood the studded tire thing. Everyone gets these things put on their vehicle and then tear up the roads in the Willamette Valley for 5 months on the off chance that it might snow one day out of the winter, and that one day everyone just stays home anyway while the local news stations have non-stop coverage of empty freeways while some asshole stands on top of the hill on the Sunset Highway in front of a camera van saying how treacherous the road conditions are.
I now live in the midwest where we've had snow on the ground since the day after Christmas, and NOBODY has studded tires, and very few people use chains. People that don't know how to drive in it, or don't have 4WD / AWD stay home or carpool with someone who does. The highway department plows the highways, and there are private citizens that have plow attachments for their trucks that do their neighborhood streets and make money plowing parking lots for local businesses.
Studded tires are fucking stupid and should just be banned. Get some chains and keep them in the trunk if you need traction devices.
So because they produced Android, they get a free pass on doing assholish things? Why do I have a feeling that you're the type of person to use the label "fanboy" when replying to someone else who's equivocating as much as you are?
An asshole is an asshole, no matter what came before.
So you're suggesting that I install a package of free software on my "fucking privative closed machine not being able to interact with free software" in order to interact with free software?
I would mostly agree with you, except that the incumbent competition just released an expansion filled with beer crazed pandas, where you can literally farm vegetables every day.
If there was ever a time to launch a competitor to WoW in order to siphon off people still interested in the MMO format, now is that time.
There probably was once someone who said that the telephone could never be improved, because a human can only talk so fast. Then digital communications happened.
Just because you and I can't think of it, doesn't mean it won't happen.
Slashdot Mirror
And you didn't think this one out very well either. What do cruise missiles do very well that causes them to be classified as CRUISE MISSILES? Perhaps flying low among terrain where you can't get line of sight on it, which any weapon based on FUCKING LIGHT would require?
They demostrated being able to take out a fairly slow traveling mortar round on a purely ballistic flight path, but say nothing about a 1970's designed Tomahawk flying 5x as fast, and able to change it's flight path, much less any newer weapon design.
Because clearly a dollar bill contains a dollar worth of cotton and ink. But somehow a $20 note contains 20x as much cotton and ink while having the same approximate mass and volume, right?
Your argument is the dumbest thing I've read in this thread, and that's really saying something.
If you or I print money, that's called a felony.
If the Fed prints money, that's called monetary policy. Or "Quantitative Easing."
Now only if the Republican-controlled house had passed several budget bills and sent them to the Senate, where one man prevents them from ever even getting debated, much less voted on. Oh wait, that's exactly why we haven't had a budget in over 1,000 days and counting.
Remember when Obama's budget received a unanimous NAY vote from everyone in the Senate, regardless of party affiliation? That was a hum-dinger, wasn't it?
While your basic point is valid, it has been repeatedly pointed out that government budget balancing is nothing like a family budget. A family cannot expect to improve finances by borrowing and investing into infrastructure. Moreover, family income will not shrink (recession) if said family buys fewer things. If government income was constant (i.e. salary-like) regardless of what happened to economy, you would have a better argument.
This is what separates macroeconomics from microeconomics. Unfortunately, it's very hard to clean it up into a 10-word zinger for Sunday morning news shows.
However, there is this: if I print my own money, it's called a felony. If the Fed does it, it's called Quantitative Easing.
So how about instead of passing laws raising the debt ceiling, we stop passing laws authorizing the executive to spend money we don't have, and probably never will?
Or, it could be because of the incredibly stupid and insensitive comments that some Republican candidates made during the campaign, which caused even the national party to run away from those individuals as fast as they could.
But no, I'm sure it's because of some sinister redistricting plan. Never mind that some states have laws that re-draw the districts by way of a non-partisan commission, and yet they still have Republican districts too...
So because California, Florida, Illinois, and New York vote one way, the other 46 get dragged along?
There's a reason why some very smart people in the 18th century set up the US House of Representatives and the US Senate the way they did.
If there's one thing that can bring congress critters together, it is uniting against the President overstepping constitutional ambiguity and limiting Congress's ability to be a pain in the ass to the Executive branch in the future.
If this bill passed the House, and actually came to a vote in the Senate that passed, I have no doubt that if the President used the veto, it would face an override vote within 24 hours. The only thing that makes a bigger statement about a policy than a veto, is an override of that veto.
The payment card industry negotiates rates based on many things, including what your card handling practices are, if your entire network and organization is PCI compliant, volume, average transaction size, etc.
For example, I work for a company that does about $100B in retail revenue annually. Our holy IT mantra is to not do anything that even remotely would run afoul of the PCI audit, because losing certified compliance would cause the transaction fees to go up, which is literally a billion dollar mistake.
Until the nations with a heavy emphasis on air power just hit all of your frikin' lasers with cruise missiles, and then bomb the shit out of you with their superior air power...
Except that Windows 7 does. See: any Ivy Bridge-based computer that shipped in 2012 previous to the release of Windows 8.
I have no problem with the Metric system; but for Congress to adopt the metric system, there will be an amendment on the bill that mandates that the meter be renamed to the Freedom Foot, and that there be a grandfather clause for the oil industry because oil is measured in barrels that contain 40 US gallons, and not 151.416 litres. Oh, and an amendment that requires the highway department to continue to place mile markers alongside of kilometer markers, even though the miles will not be whole numbers, requiring twice as many signs to be printed.
We Americans will not abide the pinko Communist metric system. We will use the US Metric system; which renames meters to Freedom Feet.
So what's the point of having a version number on your standard, if you don't increment the number when you change the standard?
Customer: "This computer has USB 3, but my 10Gbps device only connects at 5Gbps!"
Support Tech: "Oh, that's because you have USB SuperSpeed 3.0 Revision 1 rather than USB SuperSpeed 3.0 Revision 2."
Maybe call it USB SuperSpeed 3.1?
I lived in Oregon for about 25 years.
I never understood the studded tire thing. Everyone gets these things put on their vehicle and then tear up the roads in the Willamette Valley for 5 months on the off chance that it might snow one day out of the winter, and that one day everyone just stays home anyway while the local news stations have non-stop coverage of empty freeways while some asshole stands on top of the hill on the Sunset Highway in front of a camera van saying how treacherous the road conditions are.
I now live in the midwest where we've had snow on the ground since the day after Christmas, and NOBODY has studded tires, and very few people use chains. People that don't know how to drive in it, or don't have 4WD / AWD stay home or carpool with someone who does. The highway department plows the highways, and there are private citizens that have plow attachments for their trucks that do their neighborhood streets and make money plowing parking lots for local businesses.
Studded tires are fucking stupid and should just be banned. Get some chains and keep them in the trunk if you need traction devices.
Wait, so we'd use an actual usage fee for transportation?
Nope, can't do that - how else could we hide the pork spending for streetcars and light rail projects that no one uses?
Remember, the world's death rate stays steady at 100%.
So because they produced Android, they get a free pass on doing assholish things? Why do I have a feeling that you're the type of person to use the label "fanboy" when replying to someone else who's equivocating as much as you are?
An asshole is an asshole, no matter what came before.
So you're suggesting that I install a package of free software on my "fucking privative closed machine not being able to interact with free software" in order to interact with free software?
You are a very special person.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
Google is hard.
Don't worry, this is the "Good" China, otherwise known as Taiwan.
We'll get the money back when they buy guns and missiles from us to point at the "Bad" China.
So what you've said, is that the architecture, both software and hardware, that Apple is using, is better for this type of work.
Got it.
I would mostly agree with you, except that the incumbent competition just released an expansion filled with beer crazed pandas, where you can literally farm vegetables every day.
If there was ever a time to launch a competitor to WoW in order to siphon off people still interested in the MMO format, now is that time.
Because new ideas never happen, right?
There probably was once someone who said that the telephone could never be improved, because a human can only talk so fast. Then digital communications happened.
Just because you and I can't think of it, doesn't mean it won't happen.