That's the basic point. The problem is that policy generally requires proof - the problem being that by the time we have proof, we're screwed. So they're trying to spin the existing models as being more solid than they are.
As a scientist, it's abhorrent to see such a melding of advocacy and science, but as an advocate you'd almost encourage them to keep lying...
1) The middle class got a tax cut, as did the lower classes. I'm in it, I do my own taxes, they were less after the cuts. We may not have gotten the cut we "deserved" but it was greater than 0. 2) Inflation has been quite low for some time now, outside of housing in certain markets. 3) I'm not really buying that chain of events. Downsizing and outsourcing are happening for a number of reasons, but tracing them back to tax cuts (for individuals) through a convoluted link structure isn't all that believable. 4) Are you trying to support a family on your salary in a high cost of living market? Because that can be tough in any event.
In any event, if your problem is that you're having trouble finding a job in IT, good luck (and I don't mean that sarcastically). If your problem is that you feel you're underpaid...thank a growing mass of IT workers here and worldwide driving down salaries through supply and demand. These days a diverse skillset is absolutely necessary to compete in the market.
Um, how did the tax cuts reduce your standard of living? They may be contributing to the deficit/debt, but I'm having a hard time seeing how the tax cuts have you in the poor house.
As a scientist, the problem I have isn't the idea, it's some of the research. Much is being claimed as fact, and these facts often contradict each other. Extrapolations are being taken as gospel among the policy community. There's a lot of dogma on all sides of the debate. It's gotten extremely political, to the point that even questioning the "established" conclusion makes one a pariah in the academic community. There is too much integration between policy and science here, and a lot of people are using policy goals and their beliefs to drive their research.
To disclose, I'm a chemist/statistician, and I drive a prius. I'm in favor of hedging our policy on the side of safety - but purely as a scientist, claiming any sort of accuracy in terms of climate prediction seems ridiculous given the current models.
You say "all us scientists" as if you have 100% consensus, and as if you're a climatologist. Are you?
with firefox being open source we stand a better chance of finding most all of the vulnerabilities over a period of time
That's true in the ideal case of millions of users poring over the code, but I question it in reality. I'd like to see how many Mozilla hackers are poring over the code full time compared to the same within MS for IE, and normalize by the number of lines of code in each product.
The number might be in Mozilla's favor, and it might not. But this blanket "It's open source so people are looking at it" statement is usually only "true" in theory. In reality, very few people possess the necessary skills to do so.
People need to drink a little less kool-aid, because the real world doesn't care about our ideology. We need to be able to show demonstrable proof, and that comes from studies of the amount of time that each product spends in a compromised state, where Mozilla kills IE.
Christ on a motorcycle, it doesn't matter what machine he runs, that doesn't solve his problem. Goddamn, at least keep the evangelism moderately relevant.
A bit of a blanket statement, unless you're making the ignorant contention that every single non-atheist on the face of the planet is pushing these issues. In which case you are empirically wrong. Most do mind their own business; you encounter the vocal few.
You, yourself, do appear to be equally intolerant as the "whack-jobs" you criticize. Congratulations on bringing yourself down to their level.
I've been using Linux for many years, and the problem of obtaining software packages drives me to the end of my nerves. Every single time I try to get a package that isn't something extremely common like Apache, I run into major, major problems.
No kidding. You'll find some decent looking project, and it's no big deal, the developers just require this neat toolkit that they consider standard, and all the 133! distros have it, just not the old ones like RedHat, Slackware, and SuSE. Of course, the most recent build is two years ago, because after a year of development all the kids got egos and couldn't stand each other.
Of course, then you find out that the neat toolkit they use depends on an old version of Python, and naturally it's built to do a hard-coded check for a specific version of python in the configure - not the current one of course. And naturally the references to the old version of python are strung throughout the config file. And as it turns out, if you fix all the references in the config, that will break the calls somehow. So you can either install yet another version of python, or forget about this neat little program.
I really prefer compiling from source, but it's getting to the point where it's just not worth the crap.
Regardless of what you think of him as person, he's been a very important figure in this country, and he's fighting on our side. Too bad for example there isn't a "Jens of the United States" that can do the same for the Americans.
We have Patricia Santangelo, http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/01/22 10219&from=rss, the mom standing up to the RIAA. We don't have ane enforced tax on CD media or iPods that I know of. This is one of the examples where our Legiscritters seem to have given away a bit less of our rights than those of some other countries.
The RIAA may be suing people who have allegedly broken the law - or whose computers were used to break the law - but to my knowledge, there's no "reimbursement" tax on the bulk of law-abiding citizens.
Now, how was that Grokster case going again...doh!
Some of you have probably heard of burning man, but most of those who haven't gone probably don't know that saying that it's just a bunch of naked hippies meeting in the desert to smoke pot, is a very unfair description of the event.
OK. Considering the page is nuked (and consisted of the image equivalent of 1.4E+6 words anyway), what would be a fair description in 100 words or less?
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Yes, but now it has a pretentious name like "Social bookmarking" to make it new and catchy.
1) those aren't diamond, and 2) they're sheets, not individuals as you point out. The connections between tubes are incredibly weak compared to the tubes themselves, so this solution isn't even close to being usable in anything like a space elevator.
They need to get a lot longer for use in a space elevator, on the order of between 1000 and 1000000, before this is remotely viable. There hasn't been much success in that direction to my knowledge.
I imagine because you can find a black and white TV for $10, that I shouldn't be suspicious when I find someone selling a big screen for $5?
And you accuse me of using strawmans.
ooh kay... Can you even consider it a strawman if it is so blindlingly stupid?
Really? It was exactly the same as your original "logic." If it's so stupid, you should certainly be able to express why.
Your insistence on using ad hominem attacks and insults in the place of logic to attack people for no particular reason on a message board smacks of a lack of intelligence and some sort of social pathology. I'd seek some counselling, that sort of thing really isn't healthy.
And you're deliberately being a douchebag. I imagine because you can find a black and white TV for $10, that I shouldn't be suspicious when I find someone selling a big screen for $5? Just because you can find some piece of shit laptop for $300 doesn't mean that every laptop has a similar value. Good Christ, use some damned logic.
Is the guy who bought it an idiot, he paid 4x as much as the fence bought it for! The fence in this question knows what market value for a laptop is, and I do not believe there was no way he could have figured this thing was stolen.
Feel free to yell "fence, fence!" and apply that label to everyone who sells "hi tech" stuff online, but perhaps you should Try Thinking (TM).
Fuck off moron, take your condescending, insulting bullshit and strawman arguments elsewhere. Or are you so sensitive because you sell stolen goods online too?
No, it's real, and if you find a better place, let me know. If you feel destructive or vengeful, there's always anti-slash.org, but I haven't gotten involved with that.;)
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As a scientist, it's abhorrent to see such a melding of advocacy and science, but as an advocate you'd almost encourage them to keep lying...
In any event, if your problem is that you're having trouble finding a job in IT, good luck (and I don't mean that sarcastically). If your problem is that you feel you're underpaid...thank a growing mass of IT workers here and worldwide driving down salaries through supply and demand. These days a diverse skillset is absolutely necessary to compete in the market.
Seriously, what are you trying ot do?
Um, how did the tax cuts reduce your standard of living? They may be contributing to the deficit/debt, but I'm having a hard time seeing how the tax cuts have you in the poor house.
To disclose, I'm a chemist/statistician, and I drive a prius. I'm in favor of hedging our policy on the side of safety - but purely as a scientist, claiming any sort of accuracy in terms of climate prediction seems ridiculous given the current models.
You say "all us scientists" as if you have 100% consensus, and as if you're a climatologist. Are you?
That's true in the ideal case of millions of users poring over the code, but I question it in reality. I'd like to see how many Mozilla hackers are poring over the code full time compared to the same within MS for IE, and normalize by the number of lines of code in each product.
The number might be in Mozilla's favor, and it might not. But this blanket "It's open source so people are looking at it" statement is usually only "true" in theory. In reality, very few people possess the necessary skills to do so.
People need to drink a little less kool-aid, because the real world doesn't care about our ideology. We need to be able to show demonstrable proof, and that comes from studies of the amount of time that each product spends in a compromised state, where Mozilla kills IE.
Or...how many of Firefox's bugs allowed root-level execution of arbitrary code?
I think it's implicit that they were thinking of switching from Firefox, not IE.
...to avoid functional social interaction. Wouldn't it be cheaper to actually make some friends?
Christ on a motorcycle, it doesn't matter what machine he runs, that doesn't solve his problem. Goddamn, at least keep the evangelism moderately relevant.
You, yourself, do appear to be equally intolerant as the "whack-jobs" you criticize. Congratulations on bringing yourself down to their level.
I think your ability to quote on the subject ad nauseum suggests otherwise, in your case at least.
So you practice blanket intolerance, then use a quote like...
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
...to criticize those people for their intolerance. I'm guessing irony isn't your forte.
It's like this:
Vi, vi vould I vant to learn emacs????
Aren't you guilty of that same mindset by belittling anyone who believes in a certain religion?
Yeah, I meant to say there's *effectively* no tax - bless whoever left that loophole open.
No kidding. You'll find some decent looking project, and it's no big deal, the developers just require this neat toolkit that they consider standard, and all the 133! distros have it, just not the old ones like RedHat, Slackware, and SuSE. Of course, the most recent build is two years ago, because after a year of development all the kids got egos and couldn't stand each other.
Of course, then you find out that the neat toolkit they use depends on an old version of Python, and naturally it's built to do a hard-coded check for a specific version of python in the configure - not the current one of course. And naturally the references to the old version of python are strung throughout the config file. And as it turns out, if you fix all the references in the config, that will break the calls somehow. So you can either install yet another version of python, or forget about this neat little program.
I really prefer compiling from source, but it's getting to the point where it's just not worth the crap.
We have Patricia Santangelo, http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/01/22 10219&from=rss, the mom standing up to the RIAA. We don't have ane enforced tax on CD media or iPods that I know of. This is one of the examples where our Legiscritters seem to have given away a bit less of our rights than those of some other countries.
The RIAA may be suing people who have allegedly broken the law - or whose computers were used to break the law - but to my knowledge, there's no "reimbursement" tax on the bulk of law-abiding citizens.
Now, how was that Grokster case going again...doh!
OK. Considering the page is nuked (and consisted of the image equivalent of 1.4E+6 words anyway), what would be a fair description in 100 words or less?
Yes, but now it has a pretentious name like "Social bookmarking" to make it new and catchy.
They need to get a lot longer for use in a space elevator, on the order of between 1000 and 1000000, before this is remotely viable. There hasn't been much success in that direction to my knowledge.
What's the longest diamond nanotube that's been developed to date? A few microns, probably?
Really? It was exactly the same as your original "logic." If it's so stupid, you should certainly be able to express why.
Your insistence on using ad hominem attacks and insults in the place of logic to attack people for no particular reason on a message board smacks of a lack of intelligence and some sort of social pathology. I'd seek some counselling, that sort of thing really isn't healthy.
Hey, not bad. Thanks.
Is the guy who bought it an idiot, he paid 4x as much as the fence bought it for! The fence in this question knows what market value for a laptop is, and I do not believe there was no way he could have figured this thing was stolen.
Feel free to yell "fence, fence!" and apply that label to everyone who sells "hi tech" stuff online, but perhaps you should Try Thinking (TM).
Fuck off moron, take your condescending, insulting bullshit and strawman arguments elsewhere. Or are you so sensitive because you sell stolen goods online too?
No, it's real, and if you find a better place, let me know. If you feel destructive or vengeful, there's always anti-slash.org, but I haven't gotten involved with that. ;)