Don't worry... it won't be long before colleges-- even private ones-- will be forced to sandbag/nerf scores too. Then a degree will be meaningless, and the system will collapse.
This is a disgusting statement in a nation where two out of the last three presidents came out of poor or lower-middle class homes... broken homes, even. The most impoverished people in our nation are not the ones with the least wealth, but those who blame others and make excuses for their lack of effort.
(There is one error in the article. That fact did not silence critics of the nuclear phaseout. Nothing short of a gunshot will silence the hard-headed pro nuke fools. Not that I advocate that, mind you, just stating an empirical fact).
You forgot to wink.
You know what I'm tired of? Aggressively ignorant, homicidal cretins. This is only the FOURTH time this week I heard a leftist call for the death of their opponents (the other three were Obama supporters who apparently were sore WINNERS), and I won't stand for it. Go to hell.
The indigenous people had a very different lifestyle that is wholly unlike a modern industrialized society. So unless you're willing to give up your iPad, wear a loincloth and live in a pueblo, it's more than "uncomfortable".
Your electricity rate is double that of the highest rates available in the USA. You use about 1/3 of the power per household, but this is misleading because we have a surprisingly large number of people in climate zones where air conditioning must be used for more than three months out of the year.
The original objection was due to the fact that 1980s lowpass filters (necessary to ensure that no information above 22 KHz was run through the A/D converter) could not roll off steeply enough, so there would be a slight attenuation within the audible range of harmonics. Lowpass filters are better now.
Most of those were terrible not even because of 44.1/16-bit limitations, but because people who should not have been allowed near a mixing station decided to create digital masters from LP masters-- with the RIAA curve in it. Thus, no bass and a big spike at the high end.
He was famously working against the dominant Church of the time and definitely not in a "sola scriptura" manner. His ability to execute his wives for adultery, crime real or imagined, was rooted in a rather more nebulous "divine right of kings".
I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers from, but my salesman wouldn't lose only 3% of his income-- he'd lose FIFTY PERCENT of his income above wherever his boss set the cap. There's some exact point slightly above the cap where his loss will only be 3% or less, but that's not the concern so much that if he has an opportunity to make a tough sale with a large potential return, but that return would put him far above the cap, he might not bother. Your math is terrible.
I don't see anything in your response that indicates why it's preferable to be unfair and disproportionate. Morality demands that the successful be charitable; it doesn't demand that power-hungry governments, the greedy, and the envious get to take lawfully-earned money from them to redistribute.
My example is a good one-- the successful salesman is earning MORE because he earns the same percentage. If you, the boss, walk in and say, "You're going to earn only 3% commission on everything over $100,000 now," it dissuades you from working hard once you're reached that $100,000. Nothing you have said answers the question as to why we should take DISPROPORTIONATELY MORE from those who are more successful.
You, and the others who responded to me, are missing the point. We have people in the USA who have all those things, yet consider themselves "poor". When they talk about raising taxes, they don't mean themselves-- they mean the "rich". The truly poor are one thing-- but that number is not as high as the comfortable middle class that wants taxes raised on everyone but them.
Yes. Instead, we should praise the common wage slave for only occasionally stealing from the office supplies, sneaking out of work early only once a week, and occasionally tossing his pocket change in the Salvation Army kettle on the way out of the supermarket.
yet in the U.S. an 18-year-old having sex with a 16-year-old is considered rape
I'd like to clarify for those outside the USA that each state sets its own laws in this regard, and in many if not most of them this is NOT statutory rape.
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DOS was never 8-bit software. The 8088 and 8086 were 16 bit processors and DOS was written specifically for them.
Have none of these people read "Harrison Bergeron"? Embarrassing.
Don't worry... it won't be long before colleges-- even private ones-- will be forced to sandbag/nerf scores too. Then a degree will be meaningless, and the system will collapse.
This is a disgusting statement in a nation where two out of the last three presidents came out of poor or lower-middle class homes... broken homes, even. The most impoverished people in our nation are not the ones with the least wealth, but those who blame others and make excuses for their lack of effort.
You forgot to wink.
You know what I'm tired of? Aggressively ignorant, homicidal cretins. This is only the FOURTH time this week I heard a leftist call for the death of their opponents (the other three were Obama supporters who apparently were sore WINNERS), and I won't stand for it. Go to hell.
The indigenous people had a very different lifestyle that is wholly unlike a modern industrialized society. So unless you're willing to give up your iPad, wear a loincloth and live in a pueblo, it's more than "uncomfortable".
Your electricity rate is double that of the highest rates available in the USA. You use about 1/3 of the power per household, but this is misleading because we have a surprisingly large number of people in climate zones where air conditioning must be used for more than three months out of the year.
The original objection was due to the fact that 1980s lowpass filters (necessary to ensure that no information above 22 KHz was run through the A/D converter) could not roll off steeply enough, so there would be a slight attenuation within the audible range of harmonics. Lowpass filters are better now.
Most of those were terrible not even because of 44.1/16-bit limitations, but because people who should not have been allowed near a mixing station decided to create digital masters from LP masters-- with the RIAA curve in it. Thus, no bass and a big spike at the high end.
He was famously working against the dominant Church of the time and definitely not in a "sola scriptura" manner. His ability to execute his wives for adultery, crime real or imagined, was rooted in a rather more nebulous "divine right of kings".
What's yours rooted in? Xenophobia and mass murder by autocrats? Just a guess.
Does it bother you to wake up every morning and realize that you're an intolerant jackass?
Yeah, but the spider wasn't actually eating the chassis.
I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers from, but my salesman wouldn't lose only 3% of his income-- he'd lose FIFTY PERCENT of his income above wherever his boss set the cap. There's some exact point slightly above the cap where his loss will only be 3% or less, but that's not the concern so much that if he has an opportunity to make a tough sale with a large potential return, but that return would put him far above the cap, he might not bother. Your math is terrible.
I don't see anything in your response that indicates why it's preferable to be unfair and disproportionate. Morality demands that the successful be charitable; it doesn't demand that power-hungry governments, the greedy, and the envious get to take lawfully-earned money from them to redistribute.
My example is a good one-- the successful salesman is earning MORE because he earns the same percentage. If you, the boss, walk in and say, "You're going to earn only 3% commission on everything over $100,000 now," it dissuades you from working hard once you're reached that $100,000. Nothing you have said answers the question as to why we should take DISPROPORTIONATELY MORE from those who are more successful.
You, and the others who responded to me, are missing the point. We have people in the USA who have all those things, yet consider themselves "poor". When they talk about raising taxes, they don't mean themselves-- they mean the "rich". The truly poor are one thing-- but that number is not as high as the comfortable middle class that wants taxes raised on everyone but them.
We do still have freight trains in the USA, you know.
Thanks, Karl. But who determines need?
Yes. Instead, we should praise the common wage slave for only occasionally stealing from the office supplies, sneaking out of work early only once a week, and occasionally tossing his pocket change in the Salvation Army kettle on the way out of the supermarket.
So what you're trying to say is... Jobs didn't build that?
I don't know on what religion your statements are based, but it isn't Christianity.
I'd like to clarify for those outside the USA that each state sets its own laws in this regard, and in many if not most of them this is NOT statutory rape.
IMs have the advantage of not being ruined by some high-level wizard casting an ill-advised "summon" spell while you're chatting.
You're right; there really hasn't. Perhaps the short time period between the Civil War and the start of the Progressive Era in the 1890s.