Remember in Short Circuit 2 when Johnny 5 was able to repair himself by grabbing parts from a Radio Shack? You go in there now looking for electronic components and you find a dusty pack of alligator clips and maybe a sun damaged 4xAA battery holder. It's sad.
He said "spent quickly OR lost to corruption" yet you chose to ignore the first half of his assertion. If you look at his overall point and take more than a second to think about it instead of simply reacting you'll see that he's absolutely correct: this proposal doesn't contribute to a solution of the overarching problem: the government is bankrupt.
This was my first thought as well. Even if the tax was at 100% and the feds took in $2 trillion it'd just be a drop in the bucket. As they say, the government doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. Cut the budget first if you want to fix the mess the US federal government is in.
How is the comparison valid? Well it's right in the sub: "The iOS App Store distributed $10 billion to developers in 2014, which, Deidu points out, is just about as much as Hollywood earned off U.S. box office revenues the same year." To make a comparison only one element has to be common to each element. In this case it's the amount of money that was earned. It's a perfectly valid comparison.
App is just short for application and application has always been the preferred word to describe end user software. A program is just a list of instructions.
Oh yeah. I play this variant of chess called "One Pawn On One Square." The opening position is a white pawn on a white square. I coded a version of it in 2 bytes. Guess I broke the record for "Smallest Chess Program."
What do specs matter in the overall experience? An iPhone 6 has only 1GB of RAM but what does that matter to me when iOS runs smoothly and makes TouchWiz running with 3GB look like a pig?
I don't need to give Google anymore access to my data thanks. Whoever dreamed up this scheme at Google must've earned a bonus or two. "Hey guys, it won't matter which OS or web mail service or social network users use if *we* own the ISPs!"
"How do you get probable cause when everything up to the actual act is planned and discussed over the internet."
The same way the cops did it before the Internet existed. Look, the police didn't listen to every single phone call between 1920 and 1995 to try to find crimes that were being planned on the phone. They didn't even listen in to every conversation in every pool hall and dive bar trying to find people planning crimes. What you do is you work off tips from the public, you solve crimes that have already been committed, and you get out on the street and patrol and know your neighborhood and create an environment that isn't conducive to crime. You seem to think that the job of the police is to prevent every crime from ever being committed. This isn't Minority Report son. We can't stop them all before they happen. Personally, I'd rather have a few crimes occur and not live in a surveillance state thanks.
"Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room."
Interacting with things going on in a room? It's hard to imagine.
First it was "The Greenhouse Effect" but people love greenhouses because they're full of beautiful plants and flowers so that was out. Then it was "Global Warming." But the globe wasn't warming so that had to go. Then it was "Climate Change." But the climate wasn't actually changing so had to dump that one too. Now it's Climate Justice because who doesn't want justice?
"“In real time here means, ‘as soon as the burst radiation arrives on the Earth,’” astronomer Daniele Malesani, co-author of a new paper about the discovery, told me over email. "
So, not in real time then. "Astronomers record mystery signals" isn't as exciting though is it?
So true. Best of both worlds. I tell people how tall I am in feet and inches, express my mass in pounds, measure my bike tires in psi and give photo sizes in inches but I have no problem buy 500mL of chocolate milk or measuring my bike rides in kms. Use whatever. It doesn't matter.
Base 12 is actually much easier to "bring calculation...within the arithmetic of every man..."
12 has 6 factors. 10 has 4. Divide 12 into thirds and you get a nice and neat "4" instead of.33333333....
That's a failure on Lockheed's part to use NASA's measuring system of choice. In other words, Lockheed knew what the customer operated in but for some reason delivered a product using Imperial. It's not like Lockheed couldn't deliver in metric. They just didn't. So the OPs point still stands. Why should the US convert? Does it really matter at this point?
To answer your question: "Who wants to "afford" a Mac?": Some of us actually use computers for working. Besides, I'm on a computer 12 hours a day and I'm quite entertained but I never play a "game" on it.
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Remember in Short Circuit 2 when Johnny 5 was able to repair himself by grabbing parts from a Radio Shack? You go in there now looking for electronic components and you find a dusty pack of alligator clips and maybe a sun damaged 4xAA battery holder. It's sad.
He said "spent quickly OR lost to corruption" yet you chose to ignore the first half of his assertion. If you look at his overall point and take more than a second to think about it instead of simply reacting you'll see that he's absolutely correct: this proposal doesn't contribute to a solution of the overarching problem: the government is bankrupt.
This was my first thought as well. Even if the tax was at 100% and the feds took in $2 trillion it'd just be a drop in the bucket. As they say, the government doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. Cut the budget first if you want to fix the mess the US federal government is in.
This morning I had broadband. Now I don't. Thanks Obama!
How is the comparison valid? Well it's right in the sub: "The iOS App Store distributed $10 billion to developers in 2014, which, Deidu points out, is just about as much as Hollywood earned off U.S. box office revenues the same year." To make a comparison only one element has to be common to each element. In this case it's the amount of money that was earned. It's a perfectly valid comparison.
App is just short for application and application has always been the preferred word to describe end user software. A program is just a list of instructions.
I'd rather see them take out the graphics and add the missing rules instead.
You're right if by 100+ you mean 100+(600). Castling was introduced in the 1300s. En Passant in the 1400s.
Oh yeah. I play this variant of chess called "One Pawn On One Square." The opening position is a white pawn on a white square. I coded a version of it in 2 bytes. Guess I broke the record for "Smallest Chess Program."
What do specs matter in the overall experience? An iPhone 6 has only 1GB of RAM but what does that matter to me when iOS runs smoothly and makes TouchWiz running with 3GB look like a pig?
I don't need to give Google anymore access to my data thanks. Whoever dreamed up this scheme at Google must've earned a bonus or two. "Hey guys, it won't matter which OS or web mail service or social network users use if *we* own the ISPs!"
"How do you get probable cause when everything up to the actual act is planned and discussed over the internet." The same way the cops did it before the Internet existed. Look, the police didn't listen to every single phone call between 1920 and 1995 to try to find crimes that were being planned on the phone. They didn't even listen in to every conversation in every pool hall and dive bar trying to find people planning crimes. What you do is you work off tips from the public, you solve crimes that have already been committed, and you get out on the street and patrol and know your neighborhood and create an environment that isn't conducive to crime. You seem to think that the job of the police is to prevent every crime from ever being committed. This isn't Minority Report son. We can't stop them all before they happen. Personally, I'd rather have a few crimes occur and not live in a surveillance state thanks.
I'm Canadian. I'm not British. And I take offense at the idea that I could be. Fuck the Queen.
There isn't an encryption scheme the NSA hasn't already secretly cracked.
"Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room." Interacting with things going on in a room? It's hard to imagine.
First it was "The Greenhouse Effect" but people love greenhouses because they're full of beautiful plants and flowers so that was out. Then it was "Global Warming." But the globe wasn't warming so that had to go. Then it was "Climate Change." But the climate wasn't actually changing so had to dump that one too. Now it's Climate Justice because who doesn't want justice?
Are you unfamiliar with carbon taxes? That is absolutely the claim!
"“In real time here means, ‘as soon as the burst radiation arrives on the Earth,’” astronomer Daniele Malesani, co-author of a new paper about the discovery, told me over email. " So, not in real time then. "Astronomers record mystery signals" isn't as exciting though is it?
Weed by the ounce is actually quite common.
So true. Best of both worlds. I tell people how tall I am in feet and inches, express my mass in pounds, measure my bike tires in psi and give photo sizes in inches but I have no problem buy 500mL of chocolate milk or measuring my bike rides in kms. Use whatever. It doesn't matter.
That's why no one would build a 4 foot 7 3/16 inch wall.
Base 12 is actually much easier to "bring calculation...within the arithmetic of every man..." 12 has 6 factors. 10 has 4. Divide 12 into thirds and you get a nice and neat "4" instead of .33333333....
Chinese engineers can't figure out imperial? Cool story bro.
That's a failure on Lockheed's part to use NASA's measuring system of choice. In other words, Lockheed knew what the customer operated in but for some reason delivered a product using Imperial. It's not like Lockheed couldn't deliver in metric. They just didn't. So the OPs point still stands. Why should the US convert? Does it really matter at this point?
To answer your question: "Who wants to "afford" a Mac?": Some of us actually use computers for working. Besides, I'm on a computer 12 hours a day and I'm quite entertained but I never play a "game" on it.