There's a host of POSIX tools out there for windows. In 2004, they were still all substandard to those available with any other POSIX compliant system I'd used up to that time, and some were faulty. (not saying findstr is, just that on windows POSIX tools have tended to be less than fully reliable, for various reasons including a sub-standard file system)
A constitution by its very definition expresses what the government can do and what the people cannot do. Any legislation that is passed either gives the government powers or restricts the people from doing something. The government is only allowed to do what the laws say it can do. The people can do anything they want that is not explicitly against the law. To protect the people from 1 or 2 branches of the government from getting out of control the Judicial Branch was given absolute authority over all laws.
The Constitution was designed to explicitly state what the federal government could do. It left everything else to the states and the people, with the exceptions that there were certain things that even the states could not overrule, namely, those enumerated in the Bill of Rights. Within those constraints, the government should have no additional powers without an amendment. Collecting all data is an expansion.
There is no restriction to the right to copy. Copyright is about the right to distribute copies. With that out of the way, you lose your right not to distribute something after distributing it yourself. At that point, it is on track to be public domain, according to how the original contract was written. Steps can, and should, be taken to save items for posterity once they are published. No such obligation exists for things not published. This was the original intent of copyright law, and there was even a requirement to register works. That should be brought back, IMNSHO.
I would disagree - we do, in fact, face real inflationary pressures. Our currency's value goes up and down on the market. The market going up means nothing if the value of the dollar drops. The market is priced globally, only represented in dollars. The two are in a nice lock step. Once you remove the dollar's variance, you'll see the true market and inflationary picture.
Dealing with the fed gov issue - there would be inflation, but the unemployment level is so high and pay dropped so low, that inflationary pressures are kept at bay by instant drop in demand should prices rise. There has been an effective drop in real wages for decades, and at this point the bulk of the population can no longer accept increased prices. So your simplistic model does not account for enough variables to draw any meaningful conclusions.
2) Do you assert that the United States currently faces specific real resources shortfalls, even given the current large output gap? If not, can you propose a specific, realistic mechanism why the United States would currently face fiscal constraints, even given persistently low inflation?
The deficit would be fact #1 - definitely a resource shortfall there. The real problem is we tax income including worker income, and our imports greatly outweigh our exports. Imports do not add to the tax revenue, meaning that those left working the in US subsidize taxes for all imports. A shift to a GAT applied universally to all transactions, including at all borders, no exceptions, would quickly set things right with the revenue picture, and have the benefit of encouraging domestic production. 10% might be a good starting number. That means imported goods would have a 21% tax, minimum, as they are taxed at the border and again when sold to the end user.
I'd be willing to bet that the "horrible environmental load" of building those sub 40mpg motorcycles may not be that much less than the Prius, especially when you add in the 2+ of them you'll need to ferry around the average family of 4, plus the extra cargo arrangement for carting home groceries etc, as AC mentioned. Then tally the human cost of even the most minor wreck on a motorcycle, all of a sudden they don't look so appealing by any metric.
Yes, I'm aware you can get a 100 mpg moped that'll do tops 30-40 mph, and that's great. Once you get out in the real world, and have to work at a real job, that might take you 40+ miles from where you live, 2 wheels just doesn't cut it. Some people require face time, and no, you're not going to move every 6-18 months. Get over yourself. If you want to ride a motorcycle, no one's stopping you, no matter how stupid you might be. Denying facts doesn't change them.
Show your data where "most motorcycles use more fuel than cars", or shut the fuck up.
Interestingly enough, a Prius gets 51/48 est. mpg, which is significantly better than the average for motorcycles, meaning that the Prius uses less gas than most motorcycles. (Simple statistics) For all passenger cars, the average is over 35mpg. It appears that motorcycles on average aren't much better than cars. Sadly.
The proper answer would have been "We cannot discuss matter of national security" to all questions. The problem with this answer was that there was already an increasing chorus rising about their true activities, so the only thing they could do was lie in an attempt to discredit those telling the truth or attempt alleviate concerns of those worried about NSA violations of the 4th amendment.
And yet, I can easily hook up a camera and video the TV and hook directly into the sound pickups, and voila - a copy is made without circumventing anything. Depending upon hardware, it may actually be a reasonably good copy. And if I wish to go one step further, I can hook into the screen's display and record the raw video directly too, resulting in a perfect copy. Again - no circumvention required of anything the DCMA protects digitally. IOW, it's ineffective and only causes harm to those that wish to use things legally anyways. Those that wish to do illegal things will never be stopped by something like the DMCA, and as just stated, the DMCA doesn't even need to be circumvented to create a perfect digital copy. That implies that the DMCA itself is ineffective.
The legislative branch could start by jailing Alexander and Clapper for contempt of Congress. No trial needed. They lied to Congress, it's on video recorded for the world to see. Then they can just start going down the list. The real problem there is there are a few Congress people that are on the NSA's side, and are in the committees that are supposed to have oversight. So they'll claim they knew, even when they didn't, neutering the rest of Congress. And everything keeps going the way it is.
Based on what's being responded to this post, it doesn't seem an isolated case. Granted, there's no proof, but given what we've all seen, it appears to be at least somewhat true.
The simple solution is simply using a "trash" browser instance that you can completely clear all cookies and local data from, you can avoid the personalization almost entirely, at least for a short while.
On this you are wrong. I have 3 recruiters I keep in contact with, and they've been there for 4-8 years now. Like your friends, you need to choose more carefully.
There is more truth to it than what you say. A host of companies don't want or need PhD's for 99+% of their jobs. A PhD will automatically be rejected at many of these. Sadly, PhDs seem to expect more and do less actual work from personal experience with quite a few PhDs, the entitlement problem. In general they don't take direction well from people that don't also have PhDs, especially if it's for "grunt" work that needs to be done. I personally wouldn't hire a fresh PhD.
Uh, 24 bit color covers greater than the visual sensitivity of the human eye. 32 bit color discards the top 8 bits, but it sends them; it's 8 x 8 x 8 x PAD.
This is true but irrelevant. In a screen shot that has shaped color gradients within a small color range, you can see banding in 24 bit color easily. (24 bit being RGB 8 bit color). You're only using a small portion of the available color, and the limitations of LCD/LED is painfully obvious here as there is no gradient between pixels that you get in other technologies.
You'll find that as you get older, with wife / kids, that those roommates are not going to cut it for you, nor will they like you and your family. This assumes that you join the large segment of society that follows this path. And once you break out of that acceptance mode of dealing with roommates, you find that you'd really rather not deal with them, your comfort level depends upon it.
That said you may be getting sharp lines in gradual tones because the LCDs you're using aren't true 24/32 bit colour. They are using 6 bits and not 8 bits for some or all colours.
24bit color isn't enough. 32 bit seems to work. But plasma still looks far better than LED/LCD, even backlit.
Brightness is not the primary problem with LEDs/LCDs. The issues with ghosting, even on 240Hz sets, is still there although much less noticeable than earlier sets. The biggest current issues I have is with color banding and jagged edges. There is no blur effect at the edges of the crystals, you get very sharp lines in gradual tone shaded images. Awful would be too kind a word for this type of picture, unless it's a Van Gogh or something similar. So I guess Panasonic is going to spur me to grab a set before XMas. I've been eying one already. I'm sure that's the entire purpose of this "announcement", since this is the first time any set has even entered the Kuro ballpark in 6+ years.
You are smokin something. $3K per year? A lousy studio in one of the cheaper cities to live in runs $600 per month, utilities included. If you're sharing rent with a bed-sharing partner, the first thing you'd be doing is moving elsewhere, if you can afford it. Food easily runs way more than $1500 / year, unless you like bread and peanut butter or bologna everyday. And for clothes, things that you wear to work will run you a lot more than $200 / year, especially if you have a $2K / year car + gas. Insurance is going to cost you $800 / year most likely, or more. Yes, you're going to have a car, because that $6K / year pad is going to most likely be 10+ miles from anywhere you need to be with no public transport. I knew one group of 5 that drove 70 miles each way, for crappy $20-45K / year jobs, because the cheapest non-leaded pads were going for $1K / month, nothing included within a 30 mile radius. This was many years ago and prices haven't gotten better.
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There's a host of POSIX tools out there for windows. In 2004, they were still all substandard to those available with any other POSIX compliant system I'd used up to that time, and some were faulty. (not saying findstr is, just that on windows POSIX tools have tended to be less than fully reliable, for various reasons including a sub-standard file system)
A constitution by its very definition expresses what the government can do and what the people cannot do. Any legislation that is passed either gives the government powers or restricts the people from doing something. The government is only allowed to do what the laws say it can do. The people can do anything they want that is not explicitly against the law. To protect the people from 1 or 2 branches of the government from getting out of control the Judicial Branch was given absolute authority over all laws.
The Constitution was designed to explicitly state what the federal government could do. It left everything else to the states and the people, with the exceptions that there were certain things that even the states could not overrule, namely, those enumerated in the Bill of Rights. Within those constraints, the government should have no additional powers without an amendment. Collecting all data is an expansion.
There is no restriction to the right to copy. Copyright is about the right to distribute copies. With that out of the way, you lose your right not to distribute something after distributing it yourself. At that point, it is on track to be public domain, according to how the original contract was written. Steps can, and should, be taken to save items for posterity once they are published. No such obligation exists for things not published. This was the original intent of copyright law, and there was even a requirement to register works. That should be brought back, IMNSHO.
I would disagree - we do, in fact, face real inflationary pressures. Our currency's value goes up and down on the market. The market going up means nothing if the value of the dollar drops. The market is priced globally, only represented in dollars. The two are in a nice lock step. Once you remove the dollar's variance, you'll see the true market and inflationary picture.
Dealing with the fed gov issue - there would be inflation, but the unemployment level is so high and pay dropped so low, that inflationary pressures are kept at bay by instant drop in demand should prices rise. There has been an effective drop in real wages for decades, and at this point the bulk of the population can no longer accept increased prices. So your simplistic model does not account for enough variables to draw any meaningful conclusions.
This is extremely simple - abolish the IRS entirely, remove income taxes, and go with a GAT. Done. Happy?
2) Do you assert that the United States currently faces specific real resources shortfalls, even given the current large output gap? If not, can you propose a specific, realistic mechanism why the United States would currently face fiscal constraints, even given persistently low inflation?
The deficit would be fact #1 - definitely a resource shortfall there. The real problem is we tax income including worker income, and our imports greatly outweigh our exports. Imports do not add to the tax revenue, meaning that those left working the in US subsidize taxes for all imports. A shift to a GAT applied universally to all transactions, including at all borders, no exceptions, would quickly set things right with the revenue picture, and have the benefit of encouraging domestic production. 10% might be a good starting number. That means imported goods would have a 21% tax, minimum, as they are taxed at the border and again when sold to the end user.
I'd be willing to bet that the "horrible environmental load" of building those sub 40mpg motorcycles may not be that much less than the Prius, especially when you add in the 2+ of them you'll need to ferry around the average family of 4, plus the extra cargo arrangement for carting home groceries etc, as AC mentioned. Then tally the human cost of even the most minor wreck on a motorcycle, all of a sudden they don't look so appealing by any metric.
Yes, I'm aware you can get a 100 mpg moped that'll do tops 30-40 mph, and that's great. Once you get out in the real world, and have to work at a real job, that might take you 40+ miles from where you live, 2 wheels just doesn't cut it. Some people require face time, and no, you're not going to move every 6-18 months. Get over yourself. If you want to ride a motorcycle, no one's stopping you, no matter how stupid you might be. Denying facts doesn't change them.
Don't forget that insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies are at odds with each other.
Wrong - insurance companies make a percentage, so the more things cost, the more they get.
But a cheap vaccine preventing any cancer would not.
It wouldn't be cheap for the first 17-20 years....
Never dropped this on anyone before, but:
[citation needed]
Average fuel economy of US passenger car fleet: 24.9 (a new record!)
Estimated average motorcycle fuel economy: 35 - 40 mpg. Many models get almost double that.
Show your data where "most motorcycles use more fuel than cars", or shut the fuck up.
Interestingly enough, a Prius gets 51/48 est. mpg, which is significantly better than the average for motorcycles, meaning that the Prius uses less gas than most motorcycles. (Simple statistics) For all passenger cars, the average is over 35mpg. It appears that motorcycles on average aren't much better than cars. Sadly.
The proper answer would have been "We cannot discuss matter of national security" to all questions. The problem with this answer was that there was already an increasing chorus rising about their true activities, so the only thing they could do was lie in an attempt to discredit those telling the truth or attempt alleviate concerns of those worried about NSA violations of the 4th amendment.
And if I wish to go one step further, I can hook into the screen's display and record the raw video directly too, resulting in a perfect copy.
Not easy to do.
HDMI Hack For those with the time and skills, not too hard.
And yet, I can easily hook up a camera and video the TV and hook directly into the sound pickups, and voila - a copy is made without circumventing anything. Depending upon hardware, it may actually be a reasonably good copy. And if I wish to go one step further, I can hook into the screen's display and record the raw video directly too, resulting in a perfect copy. Again - no circumvention required of anything the DCMA protects digitally. IOW, it's ineffective and only causes harm to those that wish to use things legally anyways. Those that wish to do illegal things will never be stopped by something like the DMCA, and as just stated, the DMCA doesn't even need to be circumvented to create a perfect digital copy. That implies that the DMCA itself is ineffective.
The legislative branch could start by jailing Alexander and Clapper for contempt of Congress. No trial needed. They lied to Congress, it's on video recorded for the world to see. Then they can just start going down the list. The real problem there is there are a few Congress people that are on the NSA's side, and are in the committees that are supposed to have oversight. So they'll claim they knew, even when they didn't, neutering the rest of Congress. And everything keeps going the way it is.
Based on what's being responded to this post, it doesn't seem an isolated case. Granted, there's no proof, but given what we've all seen, it appears to be at least somewhat true.
The simple solution is simply using a "trash" browser instance that you can completely clear all cookies and local data from, you can avoid the personalization almost entirely, at least for a short while.
On this you are wrong. I have 3 recruiters I keep in contact with, and they've been there for 4-8 years now. Like your friends, you need to choose more carefully.
There is more truth to it than what you say. A host of companies don't want or need PhD's for 99+% of their jobs. A PhD will automatically be rejected at many of these. Sadly, PhDs seem to expect more and do less actual work from personal experience with quite a few PhDs, the entitlement problem. In general they don't take direction well from people that don't also have PhDs, especially if it's for "grunt" work that needs to be done. I personally wouldn't hire a fresh PhD.
You live two lives. One is an ordinary, boring life that
...has a future....
Now if I could only buy a phone, computer, tires or car in such a market and get quality products that at least meet a minimum set of standards.
I'll believe they're people when Texas executes one.
I guess Texas did
Uh, 24 bit color covers greater than the visual sensitivity of the human eye. 32 bit color discards the top 8 bits, but it sends them; it's 8 x 8 x 8 x PAD.
This is true but irrelevant. In a screen shot that has shaped color gradients within a small color range, you can see banding in 24 bit color easily. (24 bit being RGB 8 bit color). You're only using a small portion of the available color, and the limitations of LCD/LED is painfully obvious here as there is no gradient between pixels that you get in other technologies.
You'll find that as you get older, with wife / kids, that those roommates are not going to cut it for you, nor will they like you and your family. This assumes that you join the large segment of society that follows this path. And once you break out of that acceptance mode of dealing with roommates, you find that you'd really rather not deal with them, your comfort level depends upon it.
That said you may be getting sharp lines in gradual tones because the LCDs you're using aren't true 24/32 bit colour. They are using 6 bits and not 8 bits for some or all colours.
24bit color isn't enough. 32 bit seems to work. But plasma still looks far better than LED/LCD, even backlit.
Brightness is not the primary problem with LEDs/LCDs. The issues with ghosting, even on 240Hz sets, is still there although much less noticeable than earlier sets. The biggest current issues I have is with color banding and jagged edges. There is no blur effect at the edges of the crystals, you get very sharp lines in gradual tone shaded images. Awful would be too kind a word for this type of picture, unless it's a Van Gogh or something similar. So I guess Panasonic is going to spur me to grab a set before XMas. I've been eying one already. I'm sure that's the entire purpose of this "announcement", since this is the first time any set has even entered the Kuro ballpark in 6+ years.
You are smokin something. $3K per year? A lousy studio in one of the cheaper cities to live in runs $600 per month, utilities included. If you're sharing rent with a bed-sharing partner, the first thing you'd be doing is moving elsewhere, if you can afford it. Food easily runs way more than $1500 / year, unless you like bread and peanut butter or bologna everyday. And for clothes, things that you wear to work will run you a lot more than $200 / year, especially if you have a $2K / year car + gas. Insurance is going to cost you $800 / year most likely, or more. Yes, you're going to have a car, because that $6K / year pad is going to most likely be 10+ miles from anywhere you need to be with no public transport. I knew one group of 5 that drove 70 miles each way, for crappy $20-45K / year jobs, because the cheapest non-leaded pads were going for $1K / month, nothing included within a 30 mile radius. This was many years ago and prices haven't gotten better.