Did you expect them to just donate the relevant patents for the betterment of humanity? I mean, in the nation's current intellectual property regime? You've got to be kidding.
Mozilla may not be the driving force of it, mind you, but it's a real phenomenon. Places like, oh, Facebook? with monolithic application-like interfaces are really taking over the original notion of a "world wide web" of hyperlinked documents. That philosophy has been seriously undermined. Not that you need to be stupidly ideological about it, but we'll pay the price sooner or later.
My point, of course, is that any historical assignment of a gender to a being that is by its very nature not completely comprehensible to humans is likely mere convenience of language. If you're going to argue theology, spend the time arguing something that is important and provably matters, because whether or not the being Christians refer to as God is male or not is pretty much irrelevant.
Well, perhaps it is relevant in order to say that men are more godly than women are and further the agenda of the patriarchy.
Is it? I'm going to quote here some Christian thought presented by C.S. Lewis in That Hideous Strength.
[T]he suspicion dawned... that there might be differences and contrasts all the way up, richer, sharper, even fiercer, at every rung of the ascent... [not] merely a relic of animal life or patriarchal barbarism, but rather the lowest, the first, and the easiest form of some shocking contact with reality which would have to be repeated - but in ever larger and more disturbing modes - on the highest level of all...
"Yes," said the director. "There is no escape.... You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing -- the gold lion, the bearded bull --... [T]he masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it."...
You will also note that this particular presentation does have significant theological implications, but also does little to "empower the patriarchy" as such.
(Incidentally, the book is also a pioneering novel of dystopian sci-fi literature. You might be forgiven for thinking that Lewis was cribbing from Orwell's 1984. In fact, it was the other way around.)
We now return you to your regularly scheduled clambake.
Okay, I'll bite at your "only buy or sell stocks four times a year". That wouldn't shoot capitalism dead, but it would be a hindrance. The market helps perform price discovery: no one really knows how much a company is worth (since it's all about future earnings), but if you have information about it that the rest of the market doesn't, you have a financial incentive to exploit it and your exploitation will help bring the price closer to what it should be. This affects how much people are willing to invest in an enterprise: can AOL really buy out Time Warner? The market is bad enough at these things already; we don't need people throwing money down the drain like that when they could be investing in something good for them and good for the economy at large. (For another example, look at the pricing of Google trying to buy Groupon, or the valuation of Facebook. Is that the way to run an economy?)
Other trouble would be the fact that it's a lot harder to get or unload stocks in a 4-times-a-year market. This will make stocks less attractive to a lot of ordinary investors. Only the really rich with high risk tolerance need apply.
Anyway. This trading doesn't take place on the millisecond level because it needs to, though. It takes place on that level because it can. High frequency trading is silly, but really the net effect on long-term demand for the stock is about zero... if you buy the stock, you need to sell it again really really soon, otherwise you're just a buy-and-hold investor like the rest of us. So let them play at it; big deal, who cares?
I have bad news for you. If you disguise your THC so that it acts like a different chemical compound, it probably won't actually make you high anymore.
I'm pretty sure nuclear weapons (you know, dealing with the nucleus of the atom) already are much more energetic than anything that merely chemical can hope to muster, whether it be electrons or muons in your atoms' orbitals.
(Also, muons generally decay in a couple of microseconds, which has the potential to complicate the weapon delivery system).
As I recall, the poor muon has an average lifetime of something like 2 microseconds. We might see some interesting theoretical chemistry come out of this (the reaction-rate question) but it looks like we'll end up a little light on practical applications of muons in chemical compounds.
Your dollar bill is legal tender for all debts, public and private. Not all sales, all debts.
Handling cash isn't free, either. My local economists note that handling pennies alone costs the US economy half a billion dollars a year (they're kind of bulky obnoxious coins that you need to keep around to give as change, but no one will come back with them to replenish your stock). And if you have a big enough business that you need large numbers of bills and coins you're not just dealing with a bank; you're possibly looking at an armored car. Is that expense "taxation without representation" to you, too?
Well, you can take a bus, or a ferry. So there are two reasons. Revenue, and the fact that San Francisco totally hates cars.
(Some of it is justified concern about overloading the place with traffic, but some of it is definitely philosophical. If they had a choice between making things easier for traffic and a punch in the face, I'd expect the government to take the punch in the face every time.)
It's a question of tourists versus residents, one of the long-standing San Francisco tug-of-wars that's only been escalating of late since the city's budget fell apart. San Francisco is very much a place of "soak the tourists for all they're worth". A one-way cable-car ride is $5. (Residents can get a monthly transit pass that lets them ride at no additional cost.) In Golden Gate Park, they just fenced in the Conservatory of Flowers last year so they could start charging money to people without a driver's license which says they live in the city... i.e. soak the tourists. There's complaints that the planned streetcar/subway expansion for the T-Third light rail line is all for the tourists.
Take a look at Locans and Tourists #3: San Francisco, a map of geotagged photos of San Francisco based on a 'tourist' vs 'resident' heuristic (tourists take photos all at once; residents take them over a period of months). San Francisco is a divided city.
Dismal scientists who look at happiness often contend that, beyond a GDP per capita of just $15,000 (measured at purchasing-power parity), money does not buy happiness. Up to that point the correlation between the two is strong, but thereafter it falls away. If this is true then some heretical conclusions follow: rich America is no happier than poorer Brazil, so what is the point in people who live in rich countries working harder to get ever richer? Politicians should concentrate on maximising the mental health of their voters, rather than the size of their pay cheques. But plot the data another way, on a logarithmic scale where each increment represents a 100% increase in income per head, and the relationship between wealth and happiness looks more robust.
I think this is reasonable. The economists have been generally aware of a diminishing marginal return for each dollar you get for a while now.
An engineer is a guy who works with engines. The guy on the train works with train engines. Scotty works with starship engines. Myself, I work with difference engines and the like.
It's all well and good that you have certified, chartered engineers and the like putting together bridges and the like, but honestly, you don't have a god-given right to ownership of the title, so when someone uses it who just doesn't quite need that level of rigor for their website, chill out, mmmk?:)
Sorry, it's too early to think. That is, you're expected to pull over if you're driving along a two-lane road (single lane in each direction) and you come to a marked turn-out.
You're legally obligated to pull over and pass if you're driving along a single-lane road and you come to a turn-out. If you run into this problem regularly on California State Route 198 out by Coalinga or something like that. For an eight-lane stretch of Interstate 280 on your morning commute when there's 3000 cars behind everyone, it doesn't exactly equate. In any event, my California DMV driver's handbook tells me to stay in the lane with the smoothest traffic flow and change lanes as infrequently as possible.
As for the "why don't you just get the fuck out of the way" attitude, I hope all you maniacs get in car crashes. Nothing overly serious, mind you, but I want your insurance rates to go up. Because you're a bunch of flippin' maniacs.
"Keep right except to pass", eh? Let's see what they have to say about that in the
California Driver Handbook:
Choosing A Lane
Traffic lanes are often referred to by number. The left or "fast" lane is called the "Number 1 Lane." The lane to the right of the "Number 1 Lane" is called the "Number 2 Lane," then the "Number 3 Lane."
Drive in the lane with the smoothest flow of traffic.If you can choose among three lanes, pick the middle lane for the smoothest driving. To drive faster, pass, or turn left, use the left lane. When you choose to drive slowly or enter or turn off the road, use the right lane.
If there are only two lanes in your direction, pick the right lane for the smoothest driving.
Do not weave in and out of traffic. Stay in one lane as much as possible. Once you start through an intersection, keep going. If you start to make a turn, follow through. Last minute changes may cause collisions. If you miss a turn, continue until you can safely and legally turn around.
Changing Lanes
Changing lanes includes:
* Moving from one lane to another.
* Entering the freeway from an on-ramp.
* Entering the road from a curb or the shoulder.
Before changing lanes, signal, look in all your mirrors, and:
* Check traffic behind and beside you.
* Glance over your left or right shoulder to make sure the lane you want is clear.
* Look for all vehicles, motorcyclists, and bicycle traffic in your blind spot.
* Be sure there is enough room for your vehicle in the next lane.
Passing Lanes
Before you pass, look ahead for road conditions and traffic that may cause other vehicles to move into your lane.
Never drive off the paved or maintraveled portion of the road or on the shoulder to pass. The edge of the main-traveled portion of the road may have a painted white line on the road's surface. Passing other vehicles at crossroads, railroad crossings, and shopping center entrances is dangerous.
Pass traffic on the left. You may pass on the right only when:
* An open highway is clearly marked for two or more lanes of travel in your direction.
* The driver ahead of you is turning left and you do not drive off the roadway to pass. Never pass on the left, if the driver is signaling a left turn.
I also Googled "keep right site:dmv.ca.gov" and came up with precious little.
From a practical perspective, it's not a good idea to drive only the speed limit in the left lane when people are trying to go faster. There are probably safer ways to drive.
From a legal and moral perspective, though, I really do find it hard to see the outrage. "This vehicle in front of me has the nerve to obey the law and obey posted speed limits! Does he not realize that this lane of the road is, by ancient right, the proper and fitting domain of criminals such as myself? How dare they intrude!!! Curses! Foiled again!" Cry me a river.
I'm won't even get into the people who flash their high-beams aggressively when you're already going significantly faster than the speed limit and it's just not enough. (Not just a little "'scuse me plz" flash either, I mean the extended periods of blinkity-"I HATE YOU!!!" flashing.)
A company can get away with monopsonistic exploitation of its existing workers. That is, there's only one buyer of your work right now - your current employer - and if you want to switch to another employer, it's an expensive/obnoxious/risky process. As a result, they may be able to pay you significantly less than the value of your output. It's roughly equivalent to your landlord raising your rent because you don't want to go through the hassle of moving.
As others have observed, switching jobs is one way to kick your salary up a few notches, and just being able to switch jobs will also make your salary negotiations more favorable. If you're in an area with a lot of tech employers, that can help too.
Hey. I made $74,000 (Bay Area salary) right out of college in 2007, and was worth it. Of course, I had pre-professional experience out my nose (high-quality internships, website maintenance, etc). Also, I'm qualitatively good.
As for new developers making "minimum wage".... sure, as a euphemism. Even in high school I was making $9/hr (and the minimum wage was $5.15 back then). By the time I was interning at IBM I was making $18/hr and up. (None of those fancy full-time job benefits, though.)
Eh, we'll see how well the culture of conformity and top-down control which plagues China can face off against the disruptive innovation of America's best creative minds. Should be an interesting one.
You must have been asleep the day in your Intro to Economics class when they covered the idea that, basically, free trade is the greatest thing that ever happened to the world economy since agriculture, or thereabouts.
(I exxagerate. But only a little.)
(And I'd argue the position and try to be enlightening, but honestly, this is the Internet. Far be it from me to bore you with unwelcome facts.)
Weird decisions? Moving investments out of the US? Whatever could it be?
Could it be the deficit deficit deficit? The taxity tax taxes? Especially the ones to help deal with the deficit? Obamacare, which we all know will save us all money and definitely not increase the deficit at all no way Jose it's impossible? Oh, or an impending social security crisis? Honestly, it doesn't take much of a genius to see that's bad news to have a lot of wealth in the US. Heck, the sitting President campaigned on a platform of spreading it around.
Honestly, have all the moral outrage you want, but is this really a surprise?
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Fight the disease, not the symptom.
Mozilla may not be the driving force of it, mind you, but it's a real phenomenon. Places like, oh, Facebook? with monolithic application-like interfaces are really taking over the original notion of a "world wide web" of hyperlinked documents. That philosophy has been seriously undermined. Not that you need to be stupidly ideological about it, but we'll pay the price sooner or later.
When users can't tell the difference, bad software drives out the good.
Is it? I'm going to quote here some Christian thought presented by C.S. Lewis in That Hideous Strength.
You will also note that this particular presentation does have significant theological implications, but also does little to "empower the patriarchy" as such.
(Incidentally, the book is also a pioneering novel of dystopian sci-fi literature. You might be forgiven for thinking that Lewis was cribbing from Orwell's 1984. In fact, it was the other way around.)
We now return you to your regularly scheduled clambake.
Mac owners don't curse their computers. They curse at Steve Jobs, personally.
Other trouble would be the fact that it's a lot harder to get or unload stocks in a 4-times-a-year market. This will make stocks less attractive to a lot of ordinary investors. Only the really rich with high risk tolerance need apply.
Anyway. This trading doesn't take place on the millisecond level because it needs to, though. It takes place on that level because it can. High frequency trading is silly, but really the net effect on long-term demand for the stock is about zero... if you buy the stock, you need to sell it again really really soon, otherwise you're just a buy-and-hold investor like the rest of us. So let them play at it; big deal, who cares?
I have bad news for you. If you disguise your THC so that it acts like a different chemical compound, it probably won't actually make you high anymore.
(Also, muons generally decay in a couple of microseconds, which has the potential to complicate the weapon delivery system).
As I recall, the poor muon has an average lifetime of something like 2 microseconds. We might see some interesting theoretical chemistry come out of this (the reaction-rate question) but it looks like we'll end up a little light on practical applications of muons in chemical compounds.
Your dollar bill is legal tender for all debts, public and private. Not all sales, all debts.
Handling cash isn't free, either. My local economists note that handling pennies alone costs the US economy half a billion dollars a year (they're kind of bulky obnoxious coins that you need to keep around to give as change, but no one will come back with them to replenish your stock). And if you have a big enough business that you need large numbers of bills and coins you're not just dealing with a bank; you're possibly looking at an armored car. Is that expense "taxation without representation" to you, too?
(Some of it is justified concern about overloading the place with traffic, but some of it is definitely philosophical. If they had a choice between making things easier for traffic and a punch in the face, I'd expect the government to take the punch in the face every time.)
Take a look at Locans and Tourists #3: San Francisco, a map of geotagged photos of San Francisco based on a 'tourist' vs 'resident' heuristic (tourists take photos all at once; residents take them over a period of months). San Francisco is a divided city.
Call me when they've built a commercial-scale reactor and are giving out free electricity.
I think this is reasonable. The economists have been generally aware of a diminishing marginal return for each dollar you get for a while now.
An engineer is a guy who works with engines. The guy on the train works with train engines. Scotty works with starship engines. Myself, I work with difference engines and the like.
It's all well and good that you have certified, chartered engineers and the like putting together bridges and the like, but honestly, you don't have a god-given right to ownership of the title, so when someone uses it who just doesn't quite need that level of rigor for their website, chill out, mmmk? :)
An engineer is someone who drives a train.
chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO CHOO!
Sorry, it's too early to think. That is, you're expected to pull over if you're driving along a two-lane road (single lane in each direction) and you come to a marked turn-out.
As for the "why don't you just get the fuck out of the way" attitude, I hope all you maniacs get in car crashes. Nothing overly serious, mind you, but I want your insurance rates to go up. Because you're a bunch of flippin' maniacs.
I also Googled "keep right site:dmv.ca.gov" and came up with precious little.
From a legal and moral perspective, though, I really do find it hard to see the outrage. "This vehicle in front of me has the nerve to obey the law and obey posted speed limits! Does he not realize that this lane of the road is, by ancient right, the proper and fitting domain of criminals such as myself? How dare they intrude!!! Curses! Foiled again!" Cry me a river.
I'm won't even get into the people who flash their high-beams aggressively when you're already going significantly faster than the speed limit and it's just not enough. (Not just a little "'scuse me plz" flash either, I mean the extended periods of blinkity-"I HATE YOU!!!" flashing.)
As others have observed, switching jobs is one way to kick your salary up a few notches, and just being able to switch jobs will also make your salary negotiations more favorable. If you're in an area with a lot of tech employers, that can help too.
As for new developers making "minimum wage".... sure, as a euphemism. Even in high school I was making $9/hr (and the minimum wage was $5.15 back then). By the time I was interning at IBM I was making $18/hr and up. (None of those fancy full-time job benefits, though.)
Eh, we'll see how well the culture of conformity and top-down control which plagues China can face off against the disruptive innovation of America's best creative minds. Should be an interesting one.
You must have been asleep the day in your Intro to Economics class when they covered the idea that, basically, free trade is the greatest thing that ever happened to the world economy since agriculture, or thereabouts.
(I exxagerate. But only a little.)
(And I'd argue the position and try to be enlightening, but honestly, this is the Internet. Far be it from me to bore you with unwelcome facts.)
Could it be the deficit deficit deficit? The taxity tax taxes? Especially the ones to help deal with the deficit? Obamacare, which we all know will save us all money and definitely not increase the deficit at all no way Jose it's impossible? Oh, or an impending social security crisis? Honestly, it doesn't take much of a genius to see that's bad news to have a lot of wealth in the US. Heck, the sitting President campaigned on a platform of spreading it around.
Honestly, have all the moral outrage you want, but is this really a surprise?