Smart enough to know that advanced degrees in the hard sciences are considered an impressive acheivement, but dumb enough to think that you can get the equivalent knowledge from reading online PDF slideshows and watching online lecture videos on the weekend. (Look mommy, I can be condescending too!)
I and most of my colleagues routinely work on equipment that costs more than your house, bro, because we've proven we can be trusted to and that we're smart enough to actually do something with it.
Because cutting taxes during boom times when people no longer need social services, then raising them during recessions when people end up out of work, is not the exact opposite of what you want to do. It will in no way turn the business cycle into a cycle of alternating wild booms and depressions.
I see the lie about how the poor "pay no taxes" is out in force.
Guess what? Between Social Security, FICA, sales taxes, gas tax and other local taxes, the poor pay quite close to as large a fraction of their income in taxes as the rich do. Sure as hell more than the 15% rate on the capital gains that aren't hidden in Switzerland or Grand Cayman.
And unlike someone born rich, who has never been deprived of anything in their entire life, who goes around thinking about what a self-made-man they are and how they personally earned everything they have (while quietly not recognizing the hundred dozen government services that keep them safe and make their wealth possible), seeing 20% or 30% of my $20K/yr grad student salary disappear off the check stub actually hurts. So please spare us the tears about how you hate "funding" the people who do all the society-enabling tasks that are beneath your notice - often enough two or three of them at once since the days of a blue collar job reasonably supporting a family are Grandpa's fading memories - because you might have to light your cigars with jacksons instead of benjamins.
$UNSUBSTANTITED_ANECDOES. My unsubstantiated anecdotes cancel yours.
The NY Post very recently had one of these types of pieces. We were supposed to be outraged - OUTRAGED - that out of the one hundred million welfare transactions they obtained under FOIA, they found dozens of cases of money being withdrawn in places that sell cigs, booze or lapdances (no proof it was spent there, mind, just withdrawn from ATMs that happened to be there).
But keep blaming the poor. I'm sure that all the money the rich save from having the estate tax eliminated and their capital gains tax reduced even further below the lowest income tax rate will trickle down any day now. I mean, we've been waiting 30 years, there's got to be a ton of it up there, just waiting to rain down on us in a shower of gold. And then supply-side jesus will return, and the nasty poor people will have no more excuses.
You see, that's the unavoidable problem. We've been doing what the right wingers want to do economically for 30 years... And it's failed, catastrophically. Time to go back while we can still recover.
If the area currently devoted to making feed for ruminants weren't needed for that, we wouldn't be farming grass and alfalfa on it now would we?
Regardless, you can't deny that the biological growth process is staggeringly inefficient from an energy in / energy in biomass standpoint. There's a reason why prey:predator biomass relationships tend to fan in something like 100:1 per level. It's possible given a large effort to farm a whole bunch of meat, but we're doing severe damage to water tables, river systems and everything within 100 miles of the Mississippi river delta due to farm runoff, a significant part of which is making feedstock for animals.
And no, I'm not confused about why I have sharp front teeth and I enjoy a good steak'n'taters as much as anyone. I simply see a situation whose energy/resource consumption is a Bad Idea (tm) in an era of imminent resource constraints. We should eat meat, but a whole lot less would be much healthier.
Because the resource consumption rates needed to make it the natural way cannot continue.
People have no idea the absolutely unbelievable amount of agricultural and hydrological resources the world pours down a veritable black hole to make meat. Put it this way: The amount of grain and water it takes to raise the meat eaten by Americans alone could feed everyone in the entire world.
"If you are looking for a low stress profession you may as well choose the academic career and opt to avoid any stress within it. Chances are you will succeed, which cannot be said about mostly everything else you decide to work at."
Know how I know you've never, ever worked in academia? If you "avoid stress" you will (1) never get the grades to be admitted to grad school, (2) never succeed in getting your PhD, (3) never find a postdoctoral position, (4) never pass any faculty's interview process for a tenure-track position and of course (5) never be granted tenure.
Maybe my advisor is going "low-stress" though. He's not too many years from retiring, and I'm fairly sure he's working less than 10 hours a day every day...
I'm not quite sure where the voices in your head are trying to go with this, but concrete roads will last some decades instead of a few years like asphalt, which might possibly explain why most highways in America are concrete.
But the sandy bridge shooter didn't play violent video games... He played star craft.. His brother was the one who did, so the media thought he did the shooting. They blamed the shooting on the wrong person because the media is retarded.
They blamed the shooting on the wrong person because the media is retarded.
The media is retarded.
Sadly, all that needs to be said about the media's handling of this. And most of everything else.
You realize America is trying to run a first-world state with taxes that are around half of what they are almost anywhere else in the developed world?
This is the horrible thing about the current Republicans operate... Break program X, whatever X was going continues to coast on inertia in the short term, they brag about how we obviously didn't need X. Then of course the fallout lands, but by then it's too late, because X is Big Gubbermint Soc'lisms now.
Well, 30 years of "the wealth will trickle down" are now coming back to haunt us. 30 years of "if we only cut taxes enough we'll be more prosperous" is now coming back to haunt us. 30 years of blind faith in the Invisible Hand are haunting us. Starting two land wars, and then cutting taxes instead of passing a war tax (the first time in American history any administration has been so staggeringly foolish) are coming back to haunt us.
We may not like it, but taxes are the price of civilization.
Corporations once threatened any US state or country that did anything about improving the lives of its workers with moving the factory out of town. This was a central argument of Theodore Roosevelt calling for national regulatory laws.
Now they threaten any (developed) country that attempts to protect its workers in exactly the same manner, and we're supposed to just suck it up as we're reduced to poverty and the.1% go from controlling half the wealth in the country to controlling three quarters of it?
In France today they have decided to tax the rich to support the government - a futile policy that Mr. Obama seems to be leaning towards.
Now let's be honest: Hollande's proposed confiscatory 75% tax (which was just ruled unconstitutional) is in no way comparable to President Obama saying that we should let the top income tax bracket rise a few percent as a result of the profoundly ill-advised Bush tax cuts expiring.
*the White House and 10 Downing Street are vaporized by terrorist nukes*
The CIA/NSA/MI6/etc: "My god, we brought this on ourselves by taking actions that made other people hate us! We have to immediately restore the bill of rights tenfold, dismantle the illegal spying programs, and recall our troops from around the world!"
Were you dropped on your head as a child, by any chance?
The problem is that if there is no New Physics in the Higgs, the next stage where we predict New Physics is the strong force unification scale that would require an accelerator a trillion times more powerful than the LHC to explore. We're talking a particle accelerator the diameter of the asteroid belt.
But there's still hope in the TeV-per-parton scale the upgraded LHC will be able to reach in terms of finding what keeps the Top mass in check. Plus, dark matter's got to be made of something goddamnit, and it's hopefully not just cold neutrinos.
And of course, there may be new shit that we haven't even considered yet!
You really think algorithms that feed off of and fight each other on microsecond timescales, placing and then shorting more orders for shares of companies than exist in the entire world, reduce volatility?
It truly pains me to see so many people who should've been my colleages some day, contributing to society's knowledge of the world, doing this instead.
MTBF of N independent identical units in parallel scales as 1/N. Why do you think that in order to perform huge tasks engineers design a small number of giant things?
"The other position." Is that the one when they start talking about a person who's simultaneously a socialist fascist stalinist nazi, empty suit evil manipulative genius, god-hating atheist antichrist with an Angry Black Man for a pastor, who (despite being an empty suit) will surely crush America under social security administration tyranny with an iron fist after duping the entire American legal system into covering up his Kenyan past (despite having held no government position that would remotely give him such power at the time) but (despite being an evil genius) can't speak without a teleprompter, who's surely coming for your guns (And if anyone points out he hasn't made a single move to, it's proof he's planning to)...
One would think that it's obvious that no one else defends this viewpoint because this viewpoint is manifestly insane, bringing to mind the delusional/hallucinating aspect of psychosis.
Your thesis is irrelevant. Do you think it would get better if China, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia were given a hand in the matter?
And I must also point out that this is part of the irritating "I have absolutely no idea what so ever how good I have it in the US and how bad it is in a lot of other places, but I'm going to point out every failure of the US as proof of how horrible it is" horse-shit that gets pureed into a fine mist and coats everything in these kinds of threads. That attitude is what makes it so pitiably easy for a lot of people to dismiss otherwise legitimate left leaning arguments as "hating America" because that's exactly what it sounds like when you bend over backwards to point out that America is exactly equally as bad as $OTHER_BADDIE.
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I'd just like to say, I would totally buy an automatic transmission which had "drive" and "drive more" on it.
Nope, there's absolutely no other nasty incurable sexually transmitted diseases except for AIDS.
Smart enough to know that advanced degrees in the hard sciences are considered an impressive acheivement, but dumb enough to think that you can get the equivalent knowledge from reading online PDF slideshows and watching online lecture videos on the weekend. (Look mommy, I can be condescending too!)
I and most of my colleagues routinely work on equipment that costs more than your house, bro, because we've proven we can be trusted to and that we're smart enough to actually do something with it.
Because cutting taxes during boom times when people no longer need social services, then raising them during recessions when people end up out of work, is not the exact opposite of what you want to do. It will in no way turn the business cycle into a cycle of alternating wild booms and depressions.
I see the lie about how the poor "pay no taxes" is out in force.
Guess what? Between Social Security, FICA, sales taxes, gas tax and other local taxes, the poor pay quite close to as large a fraction of their income in taxes as the rich do. Sure as hell more than the 15% rate on the capital gains that aren't hidden in Switzerland or Grand Cayman.
And unlike someone born rich, who has never been deprived of anything in their entire life, who goes around thinking about what a self-made-man they are and how they personally earned everything they have (while quietly not recognizing the hundred dozen government services that keep them safe and make their wealth possible), seeing 20% or 30% of my $20K/yr grad student salary disappear off the check stub actually hurts. So please spare us the tears about how you hate "funding" the people who do all the society-enabling tasks that are beneath your notice - often enough two or three of them at once since the days of a blue collar job reasonably supporting a family are Grandpa's fading memories - because you might have to light your cigars with jacksons instead of benjamins.
$UNSUBSTANTITED_ANECDOES. My unsubstantiated anecdotes cancel yours.
The NY Post very recently had one of these types of pieces. We were supposed to be outraged - OUTRAGED - that out of the one hundred million welfare transactions they obtained under FOIA, they found dozens of cases of money being withdrawn in places that sell cigs, booze or lapdances (no proof it was spent there, mind, just withdrawn from ATMs that happened to be there).
But keep blaming the poor. I'm sure that all the money the rich save from having the estate tax eliminated and their capital gains tax reduced even further below the lowest income tax rate will trickle down any day now. I mean, we've been waiting 30 years, there's got to be a ton of it up there, just waiting to rain down on us in a shower of gold. And then supply-side jesus will return, and the nasty poor people will have no more excuses.
You see, that's the unavoidable problem. We've been doing what the right wingers want to do economically for 30 years... And it's failed, catastrophically. Time to go back while we can still recover.
If the area currently devoted to making feed for ruminants weren't needed for that, we wouldn't be farming grass and alfalfa on it now would we?
Regardless, you can't deny that the biological growth process is staggeringly inefficient from an energy in / energy in biomass standpoint. There's a reason why prey:predator biomass relationships tend to fan in something like 100:1 per level. It's possible given a large effort to farm a whole bunch of meat, but we're doing severe damage to water tables, river systems and everything within 100 miles of the Mississippi river delta due to farm runoff, a significant part of which is making feedstock for animals.
And no, I'm not confused about why I have sharp front teeth and I enjoy a good steak'n'taters as much as anyone. I simply see a situation whose energy/resource consumption is a Bad Idea (tm) in an era of imminent resource constraints. We should eat meat, but a whole lot less would be much healthier.
Because the resource consumption rates needed to make it the natural way cannot continue.
People have no idea the absolutely unbelievable amount of agricultural and hydrological resources the world pours down a veritable black hole to make meat. Put it this way: The amount of grain and water it takes to raise the meat eaten by Americans alone could feed everyone in the entire world.
"If you are looking for a low stress profession you may as well choose the academic career and opt to avoid any stress within it. Chances are you will succeed, which cannot be said about mostly everything else you decide to work at."
Know how I know you've never, ever worked in academia? If you "avoid stress" you will (1) never get the grades to be admitted to grad school, (2) never succeed in getting your PhD, (3) never find a postdoctoral position, (4) never pass any faculty's interview process for a tenure-track position and of course (5) never be granted tenure.
Maybe my advisor is going "low-stress" though. He's not too many years from retiring, and I'm fairly sure he's working less than 10 hours a day every day...
I'm not quite sure where the voices in your head are trying to go with this, but concrete roads will last some decades instead of a few years like asphalt, which might possibly explain why most highways in America are concrete.
But the sandy bridge shooter didn't play violent video games... He played star craft.. His brother was the one who did, so the media thought he did the shooting. They blamed the shooting on the wrong person because the media is retarded.
They blamed the shooting on the wrong person because the media is retarded.
The media is retarded.
Sadly, all that needs to be said about the media's handling of this. And most of everything else.
You realize America is trying to run a first-world state with taxes that are around half of what they are almost anywhere else in the developed world?
This is the horrible thing about the current Republicans operate... Break program X, whatever X was going continues to coast on inertia in the short term, they brag about how we obviously didn't need X. Then of course the fallout lands, but by then it's too late, because X is Big Gubbermint Soc'lisms now.
Well, 30 years of "the wealth will trickle down" are now coming back to haunt us. 30 years of "if we only cut taxes enough we'll be more prosperous" is now coming back to haunt us. 30 years of blind faith in the Invisible Hand are haunting us. Starting two land wars, and then cutting taxes instead of passing a war tax (the first time in American history any administration has been so staggeringly foolish) are coming back to haunt us.
We may not like it, but taxes are the price of civilization.
Corporations once threatened any US state or country that did anything about improving the lives of its workers with moving the factory out of town. This was a central argument of Theodore Roosevelt calling for national regulatory laws.
.1% go from controlling half the wealth in the country to controlling three quarters of it?
Now they threaten any (developed) country that attempts to protect its workers in exactly the same manner, and we're supposed to just suck it up as we're reduced to poverty and the
Now let's be honest: Hollande's proposed confiscatory 75% tax (which was just ruled unconstitutional) is in no way comparable to President Obama saying that we should let the top income tax bracket rise a few percent as a result of the profoundly ill-advised Bush tax cuts expiring.
They have their own marks as well but yes, TI still make BB devices.
*the White House and 10 Downing Street are vaporized by terrorist nukes*
The CIA/NSA/MI6/etc: "My god, we brought this on ourselves by taking actions that made other people hate us! We have to immediately restore the bill of rights tenfold, dismantle the illegal spying programs, and recall our troops from around the world!"
Were you dropped on your head as a child, by any chance?
The problem is that if there is no New Physics in the Higgs, the next stage where we predict New Physics is the strong force unification scale that would require an accelerator a trillion times more powerful than the LHC to explore. We're talking a particle accelerator the diameter of the asteroid belt.
But there's still hope in the TeV-per-parton scale the upgraded LHC will be able to reach in terms of finding what keeps the Top mass in check. Plus, dark matter's got to be made of something goddamnit, and it's hopefully not just cold neutrinos.
And of course, there may be new shit that we haven't even considered yet!
If you actually need a CAS, don't putz around: get Mathematica.
Its error output is incredibly obtuse and it is frankly a PITA to learn to program, but it is the golden standard of CASes for a reason.
"virtual particles that are their own anti-particles"
You mean "bosons"? Like phonons, photons, and helium 4?
You really think algorithms that feed off of and fight each other on microsecond timescales, placing and then shorting more orders for shares of companies than exist in the entire world, reduce volatility?
It truly pains me to see so many people who should've been my colleages some day, contributing to society's knowledge of the world, doing this instead.
What. A. Tragic. Waste.
MTBF of N independent identical units in parallel scales as 1/N. Why do you think that in order to perform huge tasks engineers design a small number of giant things?
"The other position." Is that the one when they start talking about a person who's simultaneously a socialist fascist stalinist nazi, empty suit evil manipulative genius, god-hating atheist antichrist with an Angry Black Man for a pastor, who (despite being an empty suit) will surely crush America under social security administration tyranny with an iron fist after duping the entire American legal system into covering up his Kenyan past (despite having held no government position that would remotely give him such power at the time) but (despite being an evil genius) can't speak without a teleprompter, who's surely coming for your guns (And if anyone points out he hasn't made a single move to, it's proof he's planning to)...
One would think that it's obvious that no one else defends this viewpoint because this viewpoint is manifestly insane, bringing to mind the delusional/hallucinating aspect of psychosis.
Your thesis is irrelevant. Do you think it would get better if China, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia were given a hand in the matter?
And I must also point out that this is part of the irritating "I have absolutely no idea what so ever how good I have it in the US and how bad it is in a lot of other places, but I'm going to point out every failure of the US as proof of how horrible it is" horse-shit that gets pureed into a fine mist and coats everything in these kinds of threads. That attitude is what makes it so pitiably easy for a lot of people to dismiss otherwise legitimate left leaning arguments as "hating America" because that's exactly what it sounds like when you bend over backwards to point out that America is exactly equally as bad as $OTHER_BADDIE.
You mean the ones that were selling physical counterfeit merchandise? How very evil of them.
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