i.e., power should devolve to the lowest level of government capable of handling the problem.
Federalism and local control are great ideologies, but they suck hard in practice. Why? Because you end up with hundreds of thousands of slightly different sets of laws, regulations and agencies. Take a look at North Jersey to see what happens. It's said that we have the most government per area in the world. We also have, from what I know, more local control than anywhere in the US. Each town has it's own zoning/planning boards, health dep't, tax dep't, town council, school board, dpw, rec dep't, etc., etc., etc.
It's so bad, Verizon won't even update the phone lines enough for me to dial in to any service provider at a speed higher than 26.4k. You read that right. And that, my friends, is why government should be allowed to provide internet.
Your argument doesn't follow at all! The government is the one that has forced Telcos to install phone lines in areas like yours, and funded it by taxing those of us who wisely choose to live near enough other people, where it is economical to provide services.
I think the city would do better to spend the people's tax dollars on free water/gas/electricity
I really don't think this is a good idea at all. Water, gas, and electricity are all finite resources. Providing them free to citizens would encourage massive waste of these resources. For example, the only thing stopping most people from getting A/C is the cost of the energy. We already have enough problems in the summer with a lack of energy due to A/C units.
The problem is that the city can bury it in other taxes. You never actually know the "cost" of something because you're not paying on an individual basis.
In most areas, the government, or watchdog groups, release reports on taxes and spending. These generally have titles like "Where does $1 of your taxes go?" and has a breakdown of the spending. All of the information to compile these reports is public. If there isn't enough info in these reports, you can always calculate a rough "cost" of a government service by a simple equation: (cost of program)/(total budget)*(your taxes).
You have to remember, the U-2 and SR-71 were extremely high tech and secret planes. We would not boast about their achievements. To do so would unnecessarily give information to the Soviets about the capabilities (unless one was lying about the achievements, but I won't get into CoIntelPro...)
If Feingold didn't support the entire act, why did he put his name one it?
Legislatures are funny bodies. If you hold to an ideological line in a legislature, you'll get nowhere. Compromise is the name of the game. Furthermore, sponsors of the bill are declared when it is submitted for consideration. Long after this occurs, an amendment to the bill can be submitted by any member of the legislature (putting aside open and closed rules). To associate a sponsor of the bill with every proposed amendment and every line of the bill is fairly ludicrous. To associate the sponsor with the general aim of the bill, in this case to limit various campaign related spending (which some consider a form of speech), is completely correct.
I still have yet to see a cite for the original assertion. Assuming that this provision was in the bill at one time, it's my bet that Feingold assumed it would be ruled unconstitutional and did not want to jeopardize the rest of the bill by pulling his sponsorship.
I would vote for Stalin[1] over Feingold just because of that! (not that there is much difference, either did their best to shut people up)
And yet only one was mainly responsible for the death of 20 million people... but I guess that's just a minor detail to you.
Yes, I understand that. However, with amendments, committees and everything, that doesn't mean that Feingold supported that specific provision. I asked for a cite that Feingold supported banning talking about an incumbent's record 60 days before an election.
Wrong! You're believing in the fallacy that torture works. It is, according to most experts, not an effective interrogation method. As the siblings note, the tortured will say anything to make it stop.
Tell that to Senators McCain and Feingold, and their attempted Incumbent Protection Act, er, Campaign Finance Reform. (Inability to talk about the incumbent's record within 60 days of the election.)
Got a cite for that? Feingold was the only person to vote against the PATRIOT ACT.. so I doubt that he would be in support of such an obviously stupid and illegal measure.
No they're not. I don't know if you watch any sports, but I assure you that you'll see a lot of beer ads if you do.
That's true, but the GP is incorrect on another level. IIRC, there was a self-imposed ban on spirits ads, but recently the networks have been getting desperate for ad money and have stopped enforcing this ban for 10pm and later.
or that we can't demand that landlords take precautions to safeguard against their property being used as crackhouses
Dunno what state you live in, but around here, there's pretty much no precaution a landlord can take. Landlords cannot just drop by and demand to see the premises. When you decide to rent your property as a residence, you give up a lot of your rights as a property owner.
5) IIRC, recordings of oral arguments are now released by SCOTUS.
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As part of my CIS degree, I was well over half way (close to three quarters) to a Business Management degree. It is absolutely useless for all of the business software I have to write.
Umm.. the point wasn't to take a business class so that you can write business software. The point is to take a business class to get an intro to business concepts, so that you might better understand where a manager is coming from. The inverse is the same argument.. management might take an intro to programming class to better understand the nuances of developing software.
The point here is not to turn the dev into a CEO and vice-versa. The goal is to help foster communication and understanding of the various issues, both business and technical, that are involved with commercial software development.
Granted, in practice this would probably not occur.. and as you state it may even be detrimental, but I think that the GP's idea has some merit.
Solver allows you to specify exactly which variables can be modified, specify constraints on your variables, and set your desired target value. So you can say, "I want this equation x*y*z to equal 5, but only modify x and y, and y can't be greater than 10."
Solver is very powerful, and to get the same functionality in Matlab is not as simple as one command as you assert.
The unix system of multiple workspaces is also incredibly usefull, windows doesn't include anything like this by default and the implementations i have seen were basically kludges to mass minimize apps and unminimize another set, it wasn't well integrated into the window manager and didn't work very well.
Windows does have multiple desktops integrated into the WM, as explained in a Dr. Dobbs about.. 2 years ago or so. However, I don't know if anyone has made a useful implementation of them. For example, when you hit alt+ctrl+del and all the apps disappear and you get the box with 6 choices, that is another desktop. IIRC, the Dr. Dobbs article gives the API for creating and managing these desktops.
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The USPS competes against UPS, FedEx, Airborne Express, and others.
The USPS receives no tax money. It is fully funded by postage fees (more accurately, junk mail).
it's not a proper function of government.
Well that's like, your opinion, man.
i.e., power should devolve to the lowest level of government capable of handling the problem.
Federalism and local control are great ideologies, but they suck hard in practice. Why? Because you end up with hundreds of thousands of slightly different sets of laws, regulations and agencies. Take a look at North Jersey to see what happens. It's said that we have the most government per area in the world. We also have, from what I know, more local control than anywhere in the US. Each town has it's own zoning/planning boards, health dep't, tax dep't, town council, school board, dpw, rec dep't, etc., etc., etc.
It's so bad, Verizon won't even update the phone lines enough for me to dial in to any service provider at a speed higher than 26.4k. You read that right. And that, my friends, is why government should be allowed to provide internet.
Your argument doesn't follow at all! The government is the one that has forced Telcos to install phone lines in areas like yours, and funded it by taxing those of us who wisely choose to live near enough other people, where it is economical to provide services.
I think the city would do better to spend the people's tax dollars on free water/gas/electricity
I really don't think this is a good idea at all. Water, gas, and electricity are all finite resources. Providing them free to citizens would encourage massive waste of these resources. For example, the only thing stopping most people from getting A/C is the cost of the energy. We already have enough problems in the summer with a lack of energy due to A/C units.
The problem is that the city can bury it in other taxes. You never actually know the "cost" of something because you're not paying on an individual basis.
In most areas, the government, or watchdog groups, release reports on taxes and spending. These generally have titles like "Where does $1 of your taxes go?" and has a breakdown of the spending. All of the information to compile these reports is public. If there isn't enough info in these reports, you can always calculate a rough "cost" of a government service by a simple equation: (cost of program)/(total budget)*(your taxes).
Remember, it was capitalism and not socialism that got us this far.
Actually, without FDR's socialist reforms of the 1930s, we would not be "this far". Rampant capitalism was killing us in the early 20th century.
This might also be the reason I pay half my income in taxes and with what is left I still have to cover my own health care, dental, collage, and 401K.
Health care, dental, college and 401K expenses are all tax deductible.
Maybe it's not a constructive comment, but it gives a taste of the public (or at least geek) opinion.
No, it gives a taste of that poster's opinion. To arbitrarily assume they speak for anyone else is silly.
You have to remember, the U-2 and SR-71 were extremely high tech and secret planes. We would not boast about their achievements. To do so would unnecessarily give information to the Soviets about the capabilities (unless one was lying about the achievements, but I won't get into CoIntelPro...)
If Feingold didn't support the entire act, why did he put his name one it?
Legislatures are funny bodies. If you hold to an ideological line in a legislature, you'll get nowhere. Compromise is the name of the game. Furthermore, sponsors of the bill are declared when it is submitted for consideration. Long after this occurs, an amendment to the bill can be submitted by any member of the legislature (putting aside open and closed rules). To associate a sponsor of the bill with every proposed amendment and every line of the bill is fairly ludicrous. To associate the sponsor with the general aim of the bill, in this case to limit various campaign related spending (which some consider a form of speech), is completely correct.
I still have yet to see a cite for the original assertion. Assuming that this provision was in the bill at one time, it's my bet that Feingold assumed it would be ruled unconstitutional and did not want to jeopardize the rest of the bill by pulling his sponsorship.
I would vote for Stalin[1] over Feingold just because of that! (not that there is much difference, either did their best to shut people up)
And yet only one was mainly responsible for the death of 20 million people... but I guess that's just a minor detail to you.
Yes, I understand that. However, with amendments, committees and everything, that doesn't mean that Feingold supported that specific provision. I asked for a cite that Feingold supported banning talking about an incumbent's record 60 days before an election.
Wrong! You're believing in the fallacy that torture works. It is, according to most experts, not an effective interrogation method. As the siblings note, the tortured will say anything to make it stop.
Tell that to Senators McCain and Feingold, and their attempted Incumbent Protection Act, er, Campaign Finance Reform. (Inability to talk about the incumbent's record within 60 days of the election.)
Got a cite for that? Feingold was the only person to vote against the PATRIOT ACT.. so I doubt that he would be in support of such an obviously stupid and illegal measure.
No they're not. I don't know if you watch any sports, but I assure you that you'll see a lot of beer ads if you do.
That's true, but the GP is incorrect on another level. IIRC, there was a self-imposed ban on spirits ads, but recently the networks have been getting desperate for ad money and have stopped enforcing this ban for 10pm and later.
or that we can't demand that landlords take precautions to safeguard against their property being used as crackhouses
Dunno what state you live in, but around here, there's pretty much no precaution a landlord can take. Landlords cannot just drop by and demand to see the premises. When you decide to rent your property as a residence, you give up a lot of your rights as a property owner.
5) IIRC, recordings of oral arguments are now released by SCOTUS.
As part of my CIS degree, I was well over half way (close to three quarters) to a Business Management degree. It is absolutely useless for all of the business software I have to write.
Umm.. the point wasn't to take a business class so that you can write business software. The point is to take a business class to get an intro to business concepts, so that you might better understand where a manager is coming from. The inverse is the same argument.. management might take an intro to programming class to better understand the nuances of developing software.
The point here is not to turn the dev into a CEO and vice-versa. The goal is to help foster communication and understanding of the various issues, both business and technical, that are involved with commercial software development.
Granted, in practice this would probably not occur.. and as you state it may even be detrimental, but I think that the GP's idea has some merit.
Ground-level ozone is bad. It irritates the respiratory system. As you say, people with asthma and other ailments are especially prone.
Atmospheric ozone, which is the "ozone layer", is good. It blocks harmful UV radiation from the sun.
Ground-level ozone cannot replenish the ozone layer because it eventually breaks down.
Yep, the CLI is the most efficient interface. Its not the best for everyone, but it is definitely far more powerful than any GUI.
Yeah, editing photos and doing DTP on the CLI is so much better than a GUI. I don't know how those Adobe losers do it!
You have never used solver.
Solver allows you to specify exactly which variables can be modified, specify constraints on your variables, and set your desired target value. So you can say, "I want this equation x*y*z to equal 5, but only modify x and y, and y can't be greater than 10."
Solver is very powerful, and to get the same functionality in Matlab is not as simple as one command as you assert.
because I can't seem to find a good keyboard command or menu item for it. (If there are, Windows fails at making them easy to find.)
I know it's a novel idea, but did you ever try searching the help for "Keyboard Shortcuts"? If you use Office, try it in the Office apps, too.
WinXP BSOD is either bad drivers or massive spyware infestation
Or hardware failure. Sorry, but not everything is MS' fault.
The unix system of multiple workspaces is also incredibly usefull, windows doesn't include anything like this by default and the implementations i have seen were basically kludges to mass minimize apps and unminimize another set, it wasn't well integrated into the window manager and didn't work very well.
Windows does have multiple desktops integrated into the WM, as explained in a Dr. Dobbs about.. 2 years ago or so. However, I don't know if anyone has made a useful implementation of them. For example, when you hit alt+ctrl+del and all the apps disappear and you get the box with 6 choices, that is another desktop. IIRC, the Dr. Dobbs article gives the API for creating and managing these desktops.
I seriously hope, for your sake, that you're a troll. That is all.
Very true.