Also, to follow up to my previous post, consider the considerable power that a President Ron Paul would have over the military. Him scaling back our foreign military adventures would precipitate a political earthquake.
You are most definitely correct that the President cannot reduce funding by fiat. It does say here that the President gave his assent to a spending bill that appropriated this money to the TSA.
The President does wield considerable power over the legislatiave process by virtue of his possession of the power of veto. I believe that even though a new President wouldn't be able to change everything right away, he could put considerable pressure on Congress to move in a certain direction by using the veto and the bully pulpit. Consider that if it became apparent that Americans have chosen a new direction by electing, say, Ron Paul, Congress-critters would receive a clear message that if they did not co-operate with the new President, they might be replaced with someone who will.
Oh really? I think that what Obama advocated for will lead to crony capitalism, plain and simple. We will be made to turn our money over to health insurance companies, who will direct us to the doctors who will direct us to the pharmaceutical companies, and all of whom will be shaken down for PAC contributions from time to time, just to remind them who is feeding them.
I have been advocating amonst my associates for my Presidential candidate of choice for the upcoming election.
Among the people standing for election, which candidate do you believe would most likely vetoed this, had he been President instead of Obama:
Romney, Gingrich, Paul, Santorum, Bachmann, Huntsman, or some other candidate?
I keep hearing that they're all the same, but as I hear about all the bullshit that has happened for the past four or more years, there is only one candidate who seems to constantly stand on the side of common sense. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
I am a lapsed Catholic. As a child and as a young adult, I attended church frequently and I also attended Presbyterian school where my beliefs were re-inforced.
Intellectually, I understand that my Catholic associates who remain faithful are atheists with respect to almost all gods any man has ever believed in. I have simply taken that atheism one god further.
However, I will confess to you that on an emotional level, I am afraid of death and afraid of being punished in Hell for all eternity for my lack of faith. I can't explain exactly why, but it seems as if the years upon years of believing and having that belief reinforced have instilled an emotional fear of God that can't be intellectually reasoned with.
So, as an atheist, I fear that when it comes time for me to face death, the experience will be emotionally terrifying even though I believe that death being the final end is the best explanation.
Well, examining your poo isn't that far out, considering that the government already encourages our employers to have our pee examined. No, it isn't that far out at all.
I prefer high unemployment for teens. Can't we let kids be kids these days?
Outside of school, I never worked a day in my life until I graduated university, and I think I turned out fine.
Another is food. Capitalism always has cycles of shortages and gluts. A shortage of hard drives because of a flood in Thailand is one thing, a shortage of food is quite another. Capitalism will never solve this problem, because constantly producing a glut of food would drive farmers out of business which of course leads to a shortage. One solution is for the government to come in and buy the glut and then destroy it - unless of course there is no glut! Then you get to use the food and thank the usually wasteful food program. Not the only solution, but it's a common one. The point is, capitalism won't work on it's own when it comes to staple foods.
As an American, I would like to make a minor correction for you:
The "major politician" who said that he wants Obama to fail is Rush Limbaugh. Rush is a talk-radio host who discusses politics at length. He is not a politician in any capacity. He clarified that his remark "I hope he fails" by saying that Obama's policies are doomed to failure and that he (Rush), therefore, hopes that Obama fails to have said policies enacted.
This is not entirely true. 30 years is a log time to consider paying off a mortgage.
If I buy a house for $100,000, then the payments on the loan must theoretically add up to a present-day value of $100,000.
If a dollar depreciates to 95 cents with each passing year, then a dollar that I promise to pay on my last payment has a theoretical present-day value of only about 20 cents.
Working things out in the future, a dollar 50 years from today is worth about 7 cents, and a dollar 80 years from today is worth less than two cents!
Oh, and for the record, I'm an employee who sees it is totally unacceptable to spend every penny I'll come across for the next 30 years on my next house!
This! I work with.net and am looking forward to getting into the new F#.net language. If we had some sort of Intermediate Language for client-side scripting the way.net provides one for server-side scripting, it would greatly extend the logical paradigms we could write client-side scripting in!
I am a web developer. I used to hate JavaScript. Then I read Douglas Crockford's papers about JavaScript. I realized that I just wasn't using it the way it was designed to be used.
JavaScript is a useful tool once you get used to it, but I believe that it would be great if there were some alternatives to choose from. The problem is the browser. Even modern browsers don't fully implement HTML5 and it will be years before we can trust that "most" of our clients will have HTML5 compliant browsers.
It reminds me of what Robert Kiyosaki wrote in "Rich Dad Poor Dad".
If you do the things that make you rich, you will be rich. If you do the things that make you middle-class, you will be middle-class. If you do the things that make you poor, you will be poor!
Can you please elaborate on what you think is wrong with JavaScript syntax?
The only thing I find wrong with it is that its seeming similarity to Java and C# makes it easy to expect something in JavaScript to act like something in C#.
We have a trillion dollar per year deficit forecast for the forseeable future (Bush's biggest deficit was 1/2 trillion). You want to convince politicians to make 1/2 trillion dollar payments on the debt per year. That would be a net difference of 1.5 trillion dollars per year. Considering the handwringing over supposedly cutting 1 trillion dollars over ten years....
I have rather fond memories of programming on handheld TI-86 "Graphing Calculator". I hate to see that they haven't been producing a new line.
Once it got approved by the College Board for use on the SAT, that was about the end of it.
As a web developer, I recently used some Javascript magic to... drum roll please... make a box with text in it appear in a corner of my application display. Of course, the contents of the box have to be saved to the web session so that the box can be re-drawn and then the text in the box re-written from the web session. This took a while. Even after all these years, a dialog beyond [Confirm] [Cancel] has to be custom built using Javascript (or you can import one from the libraries such as jQuery).
I would say that the number one thing that makes web development challenging for the wrong reasons is the disconnect between the browser state and the server state. The browser can remember "cookies". The server remembers "session". They cannot be counted on to agree. Furthermore, I have to be concerned that a hacker can manipulate my Javascript client-side code in any way imaginable (since the Javascript is transmitted as raw source code).
I've never been involved in "native" application development, but I imagine it to be decades ahead of web development. That being said, I don't want to come off as being totally sour. It took me a while to bootstrap the web development skills that I now posses, and knowing how to tackle these challenges helps me come out ahead.
At least my SQL database is maintained by a competent professional.
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Also, to follow up to my previous post, consider the considerable power that a President Ron Paul would have over the military. Him scaling back our foreign military adventures would precipitate a political earthquake.
You are most definitely correct that the President cannot reduce funding by fiat. It does say here that the President gave his assent to a spending bill that appropriated this money to the TSA.
The President does wield considerable power over the legislatiave process by virtue of his possession of the power of veto. I believe that even though a new President wouldn't be able to change everything right away, he could put considerable pressure on Congress to move in a certain direction by using the veto and the bully pulpit. Consider that if it became apparent that Americans have chosen a new direction by electing, say, Ron Paul, Congress-critters would receive a clear message that if they did not co-operate with the new President, they might be replaced with someone who will.
Oh really? I think that what Obama advocated for will lead to crony capitalism, plain and simple. We will be made to turn our money over to health insurance companies, who will direct us to the doctors who will direct us to the pharmaceutical companies, and all of whom will be shaken down for PAC contributions from time to time, just to remind them who is feeding them.
I have been advocating amonst my associates for my Presidential candidate of choice for the upcoming election.
Among the people standing for election, which candidate do you believe would most likely vetoed this, had he been President instead of Obama:
Romney, Gingrich, Paul, Santorum, Bachmann, Huntsman, or some other candidate?
I keep hearing that they're all the same, but as I hear about all the bullshit that has happened for the past four or more years, there is only one candidate who seems to constantly stand on the side of common sense. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
No, I believe you are wrong about the doubt issue
I am a lapsed Catholic. As a child and as a young adult, I attended church frequently and I also attended Presbyterian school where my beliefs were re-inforced.
Intellectually, I understand that my Catholic associates who remain faithful are atheists with respect to almost all gods any man has ever believed in. I have simply taken that atheism one god further.
However, I will confess to you that on an emotional level, I am afraid of death and afraid of being punished in Hell for all eternity for my lack of faith. I can't explain exactly why, but it seems as if the years upon years of believing and having that belief reinforced have instilled an emotional fear of God that can't be intellectually reasoned with.
So, as an atheist, I fear that when it comes time for me to face death, the experience will be emotionally terrifying even though I believe that death being the final end is the best explanation.
Well, examining your poo isn't that far out, considering that the government already encourages our employers to have our pee examined. No, it isn't that far out at all.
Capcha: feverish
I prefer high unemployment for teens. Can't we let kids be kids these days? Outside of school, I never worked a day in my life until I graduated university, and I think I turned out fine.
Another is food. Capitalism always has cycles of shortages and gluts. A shortage of hard drives because of a flood in Thailand is one thing, a shortage of food is quite another. Capitalism will never solve this problem, because constantly producing a glut of food would drive farmers out of business which of course leads to a shortage. One solution is for the government to come in and buy the glut and then destroy it - unless of course there is no glut! Then you get to use the food and thank the usually wasteful food program. Not the only solution, but it's a common one. The point is, capitalism won't work on it's own when it comes to staple foods.
How you not heard of the futures markets? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_exchange
As an American, I would like to make a minor correction for you: The "major politician" who said that he wants Obama to fail is Rush Limbaugh. Rush is a talk-radio host who discusses politics at length. He is not a politician in any capacity. He clarified that his remark "I hope he fails" by saying that Obama's policies are doomed to failure and that he (Rush), therefore, hopes that Obama fails to have said policies enacted.
This is not entirely true. 30 years is a log time to consider paying off a mortgage. If I buy a house for $100,000, then the payments on the loan must theoretically add up to a present-day value of $100,000. If a dollar depreciates to 95 cents with each passing year, then a dollar that I promise to pay on my last payment has a theoretical present-day value of only about 20 cents. Working things out in the future, a dollar 50 years from today is worth about 7 cents, and a dollar 80 years from today is worth less than two cents! Oh, and for the record, I'm an employee who sees it is totally unacceptable to spend every penny I'll come across for the next 30 years on my next house!
This! I work with .net and am looking forward to getting into the new F#.net language. If we had some sort of Intermediate Language for client-side scripting the way .net provides one for server-side scripting, it would greatly extend the logical paradigms we could write client-side scripting in!
I am a web developer. I used to hate JavaScript. Then I read Douglas Crockford's papers about JavaScript. I realized that I just wasn't using it the way it was designed to be used.
JavaScript is a useful tool once you get used to it, but I believe that it would be great if there were some alternatives to choose from. The problem is the browser. Even modern browsers don't fully implement HTML5 and it will be years before we can trust that "most" of our clients will have HTML5 compliant browsers.
have a nice day...
If you do the things that make you rich, you will be rich. If you do the things that make you middle-class, you will be middle-class. If you do the things that make you poor, you will be poor!
The only thing I find wrong with it is that its seeming similarity to Java and C# makes it easy to expect something in JavaScript to act like something in C#.
Did you mean to say he's ++Dubya with --(brain cells)?
Good luck with that!
Where are my mod points today?
The Tea Party Patriots will not be villified
They will be portrayed as clinically insane
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/msnbc-host-guest-call-tea-partiers-addicts-delusional_581987.html
What cuts?
Have a nice day.
I have rather fond memories of programming on handheld TI-86 "Graphing Calculator". I hate to see that they haven't been producing a new line. Once it got approved by the College Board for use on the SAT, that was about the end of it.
Douglas Crockford explains why you think JavaScript is a bad programming language: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html
Money can buy pussy.
Money can't buy love.
As a web developer, I agree with you.
As a web developer, I recently used some Javascript magic to... drum roll please... make a box with text in it appear in a corner of my application display. Of course, the contents of the box have to be saved to the web session so that the box can be re-drawn and then the text in the box re-written from the web session. This took a while. Even after all these years, a dialog beyond [Confirm] [Cancel] has to be custom built using Javascript (or you can import one from the libraries such as jQuery).
I would say that the number one thing that makes web development challenging for the wrong reasons is the disconnect between the browser state and the server state. The browser can remember "cookies". The server remembers "session". They cannot be counted on to agree. Furthermore, I have to be concerned that a hacker can manipulate my Javascript client-side code in any way imaginable (since the Javascript is transmitted as raw source code).
I've never been involved in "native" application development, but I imagine it to be decades ahead of web development. That being said, I don't want to come off as being totally sour. It took me a while to bootstrap the web development skills that I now posses, and knowing how to tackle these challenges helps me come out ahead.
At least my SQL database is maintained by a competent professional.