However according to Price is Right rules your bet is the closest without going over, so you win!
Your prize today is 9 shiny new windows patches! And a new car!
<game show music>
But that's not all, Funkdid! Bob Barker is also going to come to your house and personally neuter your dog! Actual retail price of Bob neutering your dog, $129.99!
Only if your income is vastly higher than the lower end of that tax bracket.
What does that have to do with anything? "Because they can afford it" is no excuse to taking the vast majority of the fruits of someone else's labor as your own. Like I said, only sticking it to those better off than you doesn't make it right.
"A well regulated Militia,...,the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Malitia!!!!!
While I'm sure this post will be modded into oblivion as offtopic (as it should be, because it is) I feel compelled to post anyway.
Seeing the little "Freak" icon next to your name, I imagine that I'm the inspiration for your sig. This being so, perhaps you could explain to me just who "the people" referred to in the 2nd amendment are? Are they the same "the people" mentioned in the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments? If not, who the heck are they?
Income tax can tax the rich- until Kennedy, the top income tax bracket was 91%. The fact that its been lowered so much and given so many loopholes it no longer does is a sign of the corruption in our government.
I would argue that a 91% tax bracket is the sign of a corrupt government. At that tax rate, you work 332 days out of every year for the government, and 33 days for yourself. So all of your income from January 1st until November 28th goes to the government.
The ONLY word to describe that is "slavery." Just because you're only soaking those better off than you doesn't make it right.
Whoever came up with the the VIN system as it stands needs to be drawn and quartered. I assure you that had any engineer worth his salt been given the plan of VIN back in 1981, he wouldn't have allowed there to be the imminent shortage we face now.
It was designed in 1981 to last 30 years. If we run out at the end of this decade, it will have lasted 30 years.
I fail to see why this is poor engineering. You could argue that it was stupid to design for ONLY a 30 year lifespan, but that would hardly be the fault of the guy that implemented it.
How the hell do we get from 'Flanker' (SU-27), 'Badger' (TU-16) and 'Fishbed' (Mig-21) to 'Satan' 'Havoc' and 'Foxbat'?!
First off, the "Fobxbat" designation of the MiG-25 actually predates the "Flanker" designation of the Su-27 by a significant amount, so we haven't "progressed" from one style of name to another.
Secondly, the NATO naming convention for Soviet aircraft/missles was fairly straightforward. Codenames for bombers start with "B" (badger, backfire, bear, etc) fighters with "F" (foxbat, fishbed, fulcrum, etc) helicopters with "H" (hind, hip, havoc, etc) SAMs with "G" (Grail, Gecko, Gainful, etc) AAMs with "A" (Atoll, Aphid, etc) and SSMs with "S" (Scarab, Scalpel, and yes, even Satan.) It's like Huricane naming--there's no overt political meaning to any of them (at least that I'm aware of.)
How the fuck does any incumbent senator lose to a dead challenger?
It's easy: When the state governor, who is of the opposite party, states that he will appoint the widow in the stead of the deceased.
Now you end up with all of the benefits of an actual candidate, and none of the liabilities. It's not possible to respond in kind to any attack ads (only a real son of a bitch could say not nice things about a widow mere days after she became such) and you really can't talk about her record or stances on issues either (because she's not an official candidate.) There's also the matter of the SIGNIFICANT sympathy vote.
Long story short, incumbant loses. It's worth noting that Jean Carnahan lost when she was forced to run for re-election two years later. But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of your rant.
How much do you want to spend? Amazon has one for $1,799
The FAQs on the website provided by the original poster say that the one you found for sale at Amazon is good for 16,000 sqft of lawn, and it will cut between 4-6,000 sqft of lawn on a charge (about 3 hours) then need to recharge for 24 hours.
I've got a 26hp, 50" craftsman garden tractor that can cut the above mentioned 6,000sqft of lawn in about ten minutes, and do the work the entire machine is rated for in about half an hour. Beyond that, I've got about an acre of cuttable lawn, so I'd need to buy three of these things.
I agree with you: it seems expensive. Triple the cost of my currently existing solution, just to save 90 minutes a week, and the result is a lawn that's not even CLOSE to evenly cut, because the entire process takes three days?
Maybe some people just want to be able to get work done efficiently, instead of having the latest version of Clippy ask them where they want to go today, or wait six years for OpenOffice to finish opening the document they're trying to edit.
Spam is fundamentally identical to telemarketing and direct postal mail.
With the minor exception that direct marketting postal mail generally doesn't come "postage due," and telemarketers usually don't call collect. With spam, significant cost is incurred by those receiving the spam--more so, in fact, than it costs to send it in the first place.
There is no real comparision between traditional forms of direct marketting and spam. A far better example is unsolicitied advertisements sent to your fax machine (which, by the way, is illegal.)
...commercial, for-profit ventures going into space, the sooner it will become accessible to the common man. Just not in any of our lifetimes.
While I don't expect it to happen in our lifetimes either, it's worth noting that the time elapsed between the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, and the flight of the first Jet aircraft was only 40 years. 20 years after that saw the birth of the SR-71 Blackbird, which is still one of the most amazing aircraft ever produced by man.
I'm not betting on it, but it's possible I'll be around another 60 years. Sometimes things just take off (no pun intended.) I hope this is one of those times.
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press... How much simpler could it be?
Seems pretty clear cut to me. Just like "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infinged" seems pretty clear cut to me.
Of course, it's not ABOUT the clear meaning of the words or the legislative intent behind them. It's about ideology--and how to support that ideology that you believe in--and the Constitution be damned. The number of 5-4 decisions that come out of the Supreme Court should be ample evidence of that. The executive branch claiming that it has unfettered power to imprison people without judicial oversight--and the judiciary bending over backward to avoid contradicting it--should be ample evidence of that.
Personally, I believe that we're already a long way down the slippery slope that leads to the end of our Republic--and not only does a significant portion of the US population not care, but an even bigger portion (from both the liberal and conservative camps) are actively cheering it on.
My understanding is that most of them believe they're dying for God, and NOT "freedom." Some cases differ, of course--I imagine a significant number of Palestinian suicide bombers believe they're dying for freedom from Israel--but on the whole, your average middle-eastern terrorist is just some poor fool lead astray by someone claiming to be a man of god.
When shooting through cover, there is no comparison between the two rounds, the 7.62 wins hands down. The 55 grain.22 bullet is so prone to deflection, that a simple twig can deflect the round
Sure, but neither I nor the OP were talking about that--it was an issue of penetration.
BTW, even heavy rounds can be deflected fairly easily by intervening objects like brush.
Inside of 100 meters, give me that heavy slow slug anyday.
I actually agree with you. My carry guns are.40 and.45 for that reason.
The top of the heap in weapons is the 50 cal, for long (and I mean LONG) range shooting.
I've been hearing about people playing with 20mm necked down to.50 (to avoid problems with the NFA and having their rifles labelled a destructive device) for REALLY long range shooting. There's always something bigger and better.:)
the DOD decided to switch to a cheaper gunpowder which left a greater residue behind.
It's been a while, so I might be misremembering this, but IIRC it wasn't DOD but rather congress that mandated both the powder changes (not to something cheaper, but something that had already been purchased and was sitting in warehouses) AND the original 1:12 twist rate of the barrel.
It's a good object lesson that people who don't understand a subject shouldn't be making critical design decisions (sounds alot like IT, doesn't it? )
The Kalishnakov on the other hand, never needed cleaning. And would continue to fire even when it got extemely dirty.
While the latter is true, the former is not. EVERY rifle needs to be cleaned in order to remain functional. Sooner or later, you'll have some sort of failure.
I'm pretty sure that the reason the American soldiers weren't cleaning their rifles is because they were too busy being shot by AK's that never had to be cleaned.
Mostly it was morale, leadership, and training--or the lack of any and all of the above.
Tell someone slogging through a jungle or desert that they have a choice: Clean their gun daily (or more) to prevent it from jamming during a firefight, or steal an enemy gun and never have to worry about cleaning it and see which one they choose.
Professional soldiers (or professionals in any field, actually) maintain their equipment properly. Part of the problem was, of course, that a fairly low percentage of troops in Vietnam were professionals--the vast majority were draftees who just wanted to go home.
Given that fact, I'd have to agree that something like the AK-47--designed for poorly trained conscripts--would certainly have been a better choice.
I will, however, also offer a counter-example: Somalia. Instead of draftees, well trained troops using well maintained M-16s against untrained "conscripts" using AK-47s...
Simply put an M16 soldier shooting at an AK47 soldier behind wood cover would be very likely to only hit wood. The AK47 soldier on the other hand would shoot straight through the wood and kill the M16 soldier or at least wound.
You're misinformed.
While the 7.62x39mm cartridge will penetrate more than the 5.56x45mm, the difference is not THAT great (the 7.62 bullet is generally heavier at 122 grains, vs the 5.56's 55 or 62 grain weight, but the 5.56mm is a much higher velocity cartridge, which offsets the weight difference.)
Both rounds are fairly wimpy as far as rifle rounds go. When fired into wood, they will perform similarly.
It says enough about the M16 that a lot of american troops in vietnam switched weapons when they had the change. If the soldier in the field prefer the weapon of the enemey (wich has the risk that your own side might identify you as the enemey in confused situations by the sound of your gun) then you done something badly wrong.
Sadly, most of the early problems with the M-16 were due to troops not properly caring for their weapons. The M-16 wants to be nice and clean, and almost dripping wet with oil. Because the oil actually attracts dirt and debris, the M-16 has to be cleaned often in order to remain functional. The troops weren't doing that, so their weapons malfunctioned, usually at the most inoportune times, with bad consequences for all involved.
actually, you could be fscked after loosing only 2, if it were the right 2
Yes, there is that--I did say "potential" to survive the failure of four drives. If both drives of an individual mirror pair die, it's all over. That's why we keep good backups.:)
Anyone with even the most basic understanding of RAID (such as someone who read the short guides that come with their RAID cards) would agree that if you have more than two hard drives, the way to go is RAID-5.
That is, unless the additional costs of something like RAID10 is justified based on the performance penalty of RAID5.
My ERP box has 8 15kRPM 18GB disks in a RAID10. The usable disk space is only 90GB, but that's enough for our purposes. The ability to potentially survive the failure or four individual drives is also a plus.
And this quantum computer simulator contained the whole answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything...
Until somebody went and looked at it.
You're modded "Funny" but I actually found the post interesting. And here's why:
There's a bit on THHGTTG that goes
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
I can't help but wonder exactly what Adams knew about quantum physics...:)
People go there because they've been going since they were children. There's a reason that the bulk of McD's advertising is directed at kids. Beyond that, McD's is everywhere--in the town of 20,000 where I live, we have four of them. If you don't want to cook, there's ALWAYS one on the way home.
Personally, I avoid them and have been doing so for a couple of years. If I want to eat unhealthy (heh, and I DO eat unhealthy anyway) I'd much prefer it was something I cooked or, at the very least, somewhere with edible food.
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However according to Price is Right rules your bet is the closest without going over, so you win!
Your prize today is 9 shiny new windows patches! And a new car!
<game show music>
But that's not all, Funkdid! Bob Barker is also going to come to your house and personally neuter your dog! Actual retail price of Bob neutering your dog, $129.99!
</game show music>
Only if your income is vastly higher than the lower end of that tax bracket.
What does that have to do with anything? "Because they can afford it" is no excuse to taking the vast majority of the fruits of someone else's labor as your own. Like I said, only sticking it to those better off than you doesn't make it right.
"A well regulated Militia,...,the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Malitia!!!!!
While I'm sure this post will be modded into oblivion as offtopic (as it should be, because it is) I feel compelled to post anyway.
Seeing the little "Freak" icon next to your name, I imagine that I'm the inspiration for your sig. This being so, perhaps you could explain to me just who "the people" referred to in the 2nd amendment are? Are they the same "the people" mentioned in the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments? If not, who the heck are they?
By the way, "militia" is not spelled "malitia."
Income tax can tax the rich- until Kennedy, the top income tax bracket was 91%. The fact that its been lowered so much and given so many loopholes it no longer does is a sign of the corruption in our government.
I would argue that a 91% tax bracket is the sign of a corrupt government. At that tax rate, you work 332 days out of every year for the government, and 33 days for yourself. So all of your income from January 1st until November 28th goes to the government.
The ONLY word to describe that is "slavery." Just because you're only soaking those better off than you doesn't make it right.
Whoever came up with the the VIN system as it stands needs to be drawn and quartered. I assure you that had any engineer worth his salt been given the plan of VIN back in 1981, he wouldn't have allowed there to be the imminent shortage we face now.
It was designed in 1981 to last 30 years. If we run out at the end of this decade, it will have lasted 30 years.
I fail to see why this is poor engineering. You could argue that it was stupid to design for ONLY a 30 year lifespan, but that would hardly be the fault of the guy that implemented it.
How the hell do we get from 'Flanker' (SU-27), 'Badger' (TU-16) and 'Fishbed' (Mig-21) to 'Satan' 'Havoc' and 'Foxbat'?!
First off, the "Fobxbat" designation of the MiG-25 actually predates the "Flanker" designation of the Su-27 by a significant amount, so we haven't "progressed" from one style of name to another.
Secondly, the NATO naming convention for Soviet aircraft/missles was fairly straightforward. Codenames for bombers start with "B" (badger, backfire, bear, etc) fighters with "F" (foxbat, fishbed, fulcrum, etc) helicopters with "H" (hind, hip, havoc, etc) SAMs with "G" (Grail, Gecko, Gainful, etc) AAMs with "A" (Atoll, Aphid, etc) and SSMs with "S" (Scarab, Scalpel, and yes, even Satan.) It's like Huricane naming--there's no overt political meaning to any of them (at least that I'm aware of.)
How the fuck does any incumbent senator lose to a dead challenger?
It's easy: When the state governor, who is of the opposite party, states that he will appoint the widow in the stead of the deceased.
Now you end up with all of the benefits of an actual candidate, and none of the liabilities. It's not possible to respond in kind to any attack ads (only a real son of a bitch could say not nice things about a widow mere days after she became such) and you really can't talk about her record or stances on issues either (because she's not an official candidate.) There's also the matter of the SIGNIFICANT sympathy vote.
Long story short, incumbant loses. It's worth noting that Jean Carnahan lost when she was forced to run for re-election two years later. But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of your rant.
(FYI: I'm anti-Bush, and anti-Ashcroft.)
I'm guessing that the "unrobbability" is the pantentable part of all this, but I could be wrong
As you noted earlier, the Vegas style cash cage is prior art on that score...
How much do you want to spend? Amazon has one for $1,799
:)
The FAQs on the website provided by the original poster say that the one you found for sale at Amazon is good for 16,000 sqft of lawn, and it will cut between 4-6,000 sqft of lawn on a charge (about 3 hours) then need to recharge for 24 hours.
I've got a 26hp, 50" craftsman garden tractor that can cut the above mentioned 6,000sqft of lawn in about ten minutes, and do the work the entire machine is rated for in about half an hour. Beyond that, I've got about an acre of cuttable lawn, so I'd need to buy three of these things.
I agree with you: it seems expensive. Triple the cost of my currently existing solution, just to save 90 minutes a week, and the result is a lawn that's not even CLOSE to evenly cut, because the entire process takes three days?
No thanks.
If you're using some ten year old word processor on top for windows XP, then you better have a good reason of doing so
How about usability?
Maybe some people just want to be able to get work done efficiently, instead of having the latest version of Clippy ask them where they want to go today, or wait six years for OpenOffice to finish opening the document they're trying to edit.
Spam is fundamentally identical to telemarketing and direct postal mail.
With the minor exception that direct marketting postal mail generally doesn't come "postage due," and telemarketers usually don't call collect. With spam, significant cost is incurred by those receiving the spam--more so, in fact, than it costs to send it in the first place.
There is no real comparision between traditional forms of direct marketting and spam. A far better example is unsolicitied advertisements sent to your fax machine (which, by the way, is illegal.)
...commercial, for-profit ventures going into space, the sooner it will become accessible to the common man. Just not in any of our lifetimes.
While I don't expect it to happen in our lifetimes either, it's worth noting that the time elapsed between the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, and the flight of the first Jet aircraft was only 40 years. 20 years after that saw the birth of the SR-71 Blackbird, which is still one of the most amazing aircraft ever produced by man.
I'm not betting on it, but it's possible I'll be around another 60 years. Sometimes things just take off (no pun intended.) I hope this is one of those times.
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press... How much simpler could it be?
Seems pretty clear cut to me. Just like "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infinged" seems pretty clear cut to me.
Of course, it's not ABOUT the clear meaning of the words or the legislative intent behind them. It's about ideology--and how to support that ideology that you believe in--and the Constitution be damned. The number of 5-4 decisions that come out of the Supreme Court should be ample evidence of that. The executive branch claiming that it has unfettered power to imprison people without judicial oversight--and the judiciary bending over backward to avoid contradicting it--should be ample evidence of that.
Personally, I believe that we're already a long way down the slippery slope that leads to the end of our Republic--and not only does a significant portion of the US population not care, but an even bigger portion (from both the liberal and conservative camps) are actively cheering it on.
Terrorists believe they are dying for freedom
My understanding is that most of them believe they're dying for God, and NOT "freedom." Some cases differ, of course--I imagine a significant number of Palestinian suicide bombers believe they're dying for freedom from Israel--but on the whole, your average middle-eastern terrorist is just some poor fool lead astray by someone claiming to be a man of god.
When shooting through cover, there is no comparison between the two rounds, the 7.62 wins hands down. The 55 grain .22 bullet is so prone to deflection, that a simple twig can deflect the round
.40 and .45 for that reason.
.50 (to avoid problems with the NFA and having their rifles labelled a destructive device) for REALLY long range shooting. There's always something bigger and better. :)
Sure, but neither I nor the OP were talking about that--it was an issue of penetration.
BTW, even heavy rounds can be deflected fairly easily by intervening objects like brush.
Inside of 100 meters, give me that heavy slow slug anyday.
I actually agree with you. My carry guns are
The top of the heap in weapons is the 50 cal, for long (and I mean LONG) range shooting.
I've been hearing about people playing with 20mm necked down to
the DOD decided to switch to a cheaper gunpowder which left a greater residue behind.
It's been a while, so I might be misremembering this, but IIRC it wasn't DOD but rather congress that mandated both the powder changes (not to something cheaper, but something that had already been purchased and was sitting in warehouses) AND the original 1:12 twist rate of the barrel.
It's a good object lesson that people who don't understand a subject shouldn't be making critical design decisions (sounds alot like IT, doesn't it? )
The Kalishnakov on the other hand, never needed cleaning. And would continue to fire even when it got extemely dirty.
While the latter is true, the former is not. EVERY rifle needs to be cleaned in order to remain functional. Sooner or later, you'll have some sort of failure.
I'm pretty sure that the reason the American soldiers weren't cleaning their rifles is because they were too busy being shot by AK's that never had to be cleaned.
Mostly it was morale, leadership, and training--or the lack of any and all of the above.
Tell someone slogging through a jungle or desert that they have a choice: Clean their gun daily (or more) to prevent it from jamming during a firefight, or steal an enemy gun and never have to worry about cleaning it and see which one they choose.
Professional soldiers (or professionals in any field, actually) maintain their equipment properly. Part of the problem was, of course, that a fairly low percentage of troops in Vietnam were professionals--the vast majority were draftees who just wanted to go home.
Given that fact, I'd have to agree that something like the AK-47--designed for poorly trained conscripts--would certainly have been a better choice.
I will, however, also offer a counter-example: Somalia. Instead of draftees, well trained troops using well maintained M-16s against untrained "conscripts" using AK-47s...
Simply put an M16 soldier shooting at an AK47 soldier behind wood cover would be very likely to only hit wood. The AK47 soldier on the other hand would shoot straight through the wood and kill the M16 soldier or at least wound.
You're misinformed.
While the 7.62x39mm cartridge will penetrate more than the 5.56x45mm, the difference is not THAT great (the 7.62 bullet is generally heavier at 122 grains, vs the 5.56's 55 or 62 grain weight, but the 5.56mm is a much higher velocity cartridge, which offsets the weight difference.)
Both rounds are fairly wimpy as far as rifle rounds go. When fired into wood, they will perform similarly.
It says enough about the M16 that a lot of american troops in vietnam switched weapons when they had the change. If the soldier in the field prefer the weapon of the enemey (wich has the risk that your own side might identify you as the enemey in confused situations by the sound of your gun) then you done something badly wrong.
Sadly, most of the early problems with the M-16 were due to troops not properly caring for their weapons. The M-16 wants to be nice and clean, and almost dripping wet with oil. Because the oil actually attracts dirt and debris, the M-16 has to be cleaned often in order to remain functional. The troops weren't doing that, so their weapons malfunctioned, usually at the most inoportune times, with bad consequences for all involved.
actually, you could be fscked after loosing only 2, if it were the right 2
:)
Yes, there is that--I did say "potential" to survive the failure of four drives. If both drives of an individual mirror pair die, it's all over. That's why we keep good backups.
Anyone with even the most basic understanding of RAID (such as someone who read the short guides that come with their RAID cards) would agree that if you have more than two hard drives, the way to go is RAID-5.
That is, unless the additional costs of something like RAID10 is justified based on the performance penalty of RAID5.
My ERP box has 8 15kRPM 18GB disks in a RAID10. The usable disk space is only 90GB, but that's enough for our purposes. The ability to potentially survive the failure or four individual drives is also a plus.
Until somebody went and looked at it.
You're modded "Funny" but I actually found the post interesting. And here's why:
There's a bit on THHGTTG that goes
I can't help but wonder exactly what Adams knew about quantum physics...
Why not have #1 and #2 be Akami, and #3 & #4 be your own nameservers?
While I agree with you in principle, that would defeat the purpose of outsourcing to Akamai in the first place.
Why do people keep buying their food anyway?
Habit and convenience.
People go there because they've been going since they were children. There's a reason that the bulk of McD's advertising is directed at kids. Beyond that, McD's is everywhere--in the town of 20,000 where I live, we have four of them. If you don't want to cook, there's ALWAYS one on the way home.
Personally, I avoid them and have been doing so for a couple of years. If I want to eat unhealthy (heh, and I DO eat unhealthy anyway) I'd much prefer it was something I cooked or, at the very least, somewhere with edible food.
Seriously though I doubt that the tillers at McD will be logging transactions at a bash prompt anytime soon.
McD's runs SCO OpenServer on their POS terminals. So deep down inside of every cash register there already resides a bash prompt.