No they fucking don't boil down to "bribe the umpire." It includes shit like dumping chemical waste out back because "Who's going to know?" That needs to be explicitly illegal because it doesn't result in immediate, identifiable harm, but still fuck-tons of net harm. Cooking the books, ponzi schemes, company stores, racketeering, and other things that represent ways to abuse a libertarian paradise also apply. We could be here all day listing the regulations that are good ideas.
Which makes sense, as long as you're talking about the libertarian platform as it exists in libertarian fantasy land, instead of the actual published one. Corporations will continue to exist, and be provided with laxer regulations.
That ignores the fact that the corporate team has developed thousands of sneaky ways to cheat that we've spent years developing rules to protect against. When you tell the ump to stop watching for that, the corporates will start winning, and the regular people will end up "accidentally" beaned in the face with the ball a few too many times.
I've never really sat down and assessed how slowly I type on a phone, but 9.3 wpm is more than a factor of 10 from my keyboard typing speed. Why have we decided that stupid tiny keyboards are a good idea?
Eh, I've seen some biases come in quite a bit later than that. But I do like that Einstein quote. Einstein was pretty much on the ball for everything except how to treat wives who helped you make your major discoveries.
That's completely fair. Any political opinion justified on "common sense" is not worth acknowledging. I'm personally not in favor of "common sense" gun control because it's effectiveness is essentially nil. There's some data driven viability to the outright repeal of the 2nd amendment, but since that will never happen, I have a hard time caring.
The most viable third party, the libertarians, really really really are pro-corporate in their actual published platform. The lack of money in that regard seems to just be and artifact of their lack of electoral potential.
See, that comes down to who's making the decisions. There's some dumb VP in Microsoft who pushed for all the changes in Windows 8 to make a name for himself in the company. He still works there, but if he acknowledges that his changes were a bad idea, he'll be fired. If it's "market conditions", and his changes were still "good ideas", then he keeps his job. Microsoft doesn't make decisions that benefit them. They make decisions that benefit the decision makers in the company.
Really? Other than Xbox(which I guess is a loss-leader, but fuck them anyways), I've never seen a double-dip Microsoft product. Which one are you referring to?
Perfectly accurate. Somehow we went from developing ad-aware and such to deal with this shit, to making it a fundamental part of new operating systems. At some point we just stopped fighting back, then we started losing.
Well, it was a friend who's not as into tech news as I am, but I trusted them anyways. What they asserted in particular was that non-verified code wouldn't run at all, so everything had to come from the store, or a "trusted" vendor.
Trying to convert a general purpose computer to a phonelike environment has an inherent failure, that users recognized, then later advertisers recognized that users recognized it. I've heard windows 9 is planned to cede even more ground on the general purpose front. That would actually make me, a windows developer(currently), switch to Linux on as my main platform.
But we're talking about something tiny, irregular, and virtually impossible to determine the angular momentum of. Deorbitting would be a nightmare.
My hypothesis is that we won't be able to handle individual space junk in a proactive manner without first developing artificial gravity(probably impossible).
What exactly makes you think the vaporized chunks aren't capable of doing similar levels of damage? When you're going 10-20 times the speed of sound, it isn't the rigidness of the body that does damage, but the sheer kinetic energy.
Again, the bullet analogy applies. Can you focus a laser pointer on a bullet before it hits you? Your only real hope is to get the target an entire orbit before it reaches you.
Sort of? We have a project to identify and track all the space-junk we can, but the library is far from complete. Once we know where one is and how fast it's going, it doesn't deviate much from that.
We make a practice of avoid the junk we know about. Intercepting it, on the other hand, is a fools errand. You're talking about shooting a bullet down with a gun. Hypothetically: sure, but in reality, it's not gonna happen.
Look, I think Bitcoins are a mentally deficient concept appealing only to fiat currency haters who don't really understand their own arguments, but even I have to acknowledge that this was part of the design of the system. It would get more expensive to mine, and people would stop mining due to lack of profit, and eventually scarcity would drive the price up again to allow more mining.
Complaining about it now just reflects badly on you.
If you could provide data to support that assertion that this is just a reversal of fortunes, I'd love to see it. The numbers I gave here represent an absolutely absurd subversion of democracy for the sake of political power. A minority of votes should never turn into a super majority of power. Ever.
1. Yes, I'm in NC, and I'm in a snake-like district clearly designed to capture minorities in the state. 2. The rest of your email jumps from point-to-point too quickly to even have a semblance of meaning. I can't really address it all in a cogent manner, suffice it to say you're a bit crazy.
"We don't live in a true democracy" != "Let's literally elect the opposite of what our constituents want in net."
"We" didn't. My state voted 54% to 45% for democratic representatives, due to gerrymandering in 2010, that resulted in 9 republican reps and 4 democratic ones.
They have power because they have power, and use that power to maintain power.
Pssshaw, haven't you heard of this "Common Sense" thing. It's apparently a powerful portent, because any time I share research I've read about with conservatives, they tell me Common Sense has predicted its falsity. Clearly this magic crystal ball will also show you everything about guns and their sociological implications without any of that expensive research nonsense.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by I'll benefit from it. I already had health benefits, but I do gain some protection from being unfairly dropped by my insurance company, net effect though is that I pay a hundred bucks more per year(split with my employer) than my youth would have required prior to enactment. I consider that worth it.. It sounds, actually, like you'll benefit(more so than your nephew), because your employer will be required to provide medical benefits in 2014.
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No they fucking don't boil down to "bribe the umpire." It includes shit like dumping chemical waste out back because "Who's going to know?" That needs to be explicitly illegal because it doesn't result in immediate, identifiable harm, but still fuck-tons of net harm. Cooking the books, ponzi schemes, company stores, racketeering, and other things that represent ways to abuse a libertarian paradise also apply. We could be here all day listing the regulations that are good ideas.
Which makes sense, as long as you're talking about the libertarian platform as it exists in libertarian fantasy land, instead of the actual published one. Corporations will continue to exist, and be provided with laxer regulations.
That ignores the fact that the corporate team has developed thousands of sneaky ways to cheat that we've spent years developing rules to protect against. When you tell the ump to stop watching for that, the corporates will start winning, and the regular people will end up "accidentally" beaned in the face with the ball a few too many times.
I've never really sat down and assessed how slowly I type on a phone, but 9.3 wpm is more than a factor of 10 from my keyboard typing speed. Why have we decided that stupid tiny keyboards are a good idea?
Eh, I've seen some biases come in quite a bit later than that. But I do like that Einstein quote. Einstein was pretty much on the ball for everything except how to treat wives who helped you make your major discoveries.
That's completely fair. Any political opinion justified on "common sense" is not worth acknowledging. I'm personally not in favor of "common sense" gun control because it's effectiveness is essentially nil. There's some data driven viability to the outright repeal of the 2nd amendment, but since that will never happen, I have a hard time caring.
The most viable third party, the libertarians, really really really are pro-corporate in their actual published platform. The lack of money in that regard seems to just be and artifact of their lack of electoral potential.
I really wish the alternatives in the recent elections weren't more in bed with corporate interests.
See, that comes down to who's making the decisions. There's some dumb VP in Microsoft who pushed for all the changes in Windows 8 to make a name for himself in the company. He still works there, but if he acknowledges that his changes were a bad idea, he'll be fired. If it's "market conditions", and his changes were still "good ideas", then he keeps his job. Microsoft doesn't make decisions that benefit them. They make decisions that benefit the decision makers in the company.
Really, android radicals? Like "DROID AKBAR"? Seems a bit crazy.
Really? Other than Xbox(which I guess is a loss-leader, but fuck them anyways), I've never seen a double-dip Microsoft product. Which one are you referring to?
As I replied earlier in the thread, I heard from a friend and not a reputable source.
Perfectly accurate. Somehow we went from developing ad-aware and such to deal with this shit, to making it a fundamental part of new operating systems. At some point we just stopped fighting back, then we started losing.
Well, it was a friend who's not as into tech news as I am, but I trusted them anyways. What they asserted in particular was that non-verified code wouldn't run at all, so everything had to come from the store, or a "trusted" vendor.
Trying to convert a general purpose computer to a phonelike environment has an inherent failure, that users recognized, then later advertisers recognized that users recognized it. I've heard windows 9 is planned to cede even more ground on the general purpose front. That would actually make me, a windows developer(currently), switch to Linux on as my main platform.
But we're talking about something tiny, irregular, and virtually impossible to determine the angular momentum of. Deorbitting would be a nightmare.
My hypothesis is that we won't be able to handle individual space junk in a proactive manner without first developing artificial gravity(probably impossible).
What exactly makes you think the vaporized chunks aren't capable of doing similar levels of damage? When you're going 10-20 times the speed of sound, it isn't the rigidness of the body that does damage, but the sheer kinetic energy.
Again, the bullet analogy applies. Can you focus a laser pointer on a bullet before it hits you? Your only real hope is to get the target an entire orbit before it reaches you.
Sort of?
We have a project to identify and track all the space-junk we can, but the library is far from complete. Once we know where one is and how fast it's going, it doesn't deviate much from that.
We make a practice of avoid the junk we know about. Intercepting it, on the other hand, is a fools errand. You're talking about shooting a bullet down with a gun. Hypothetically: sure, but in reality, it's not gonna happen.
Look, I think Bitcoins are a mentally deficient concept appealing only to fiat currency haters who don't really understand their own arguments, but even I have to acknowledge that this was part of the design of the system. It would get more expensive to mine, and people would stop mining due to lack of profit, and eventually scarcity would drive the price up again to allow more mining.
Complaining about it now just reflects badly on you.
If you could provide data to support that assertion that this is just a reversal of fortunes, I'd love to see it. The numbers I gave here represent an absolutely absurd subversion of democracy for the sake of political power. A minority of votes should never turn into a super majority of power. Ever.
1. Yes, I'm in NC, and I'm in a snake-like district clearly designed to capture minorities in the state.
2. The rest of your email jumps from point-to-point too quickly to even have a semblance of meaning. I can't really address it all in a cogent manner, suffice it to say you're a bit crazy.
"We don't live in a true democracy" != "Let's literally elect the opposite of what our constituents want in net."
"We" didn't. My state voted 54% to 45% for democratic representatives, due to gerrymandering in 2010, that resulted in 9 republican reps and 4 democratic ones.
They have power because they have power, and use that power to maintain power.
Pssshaw, haven't you heard of this "Common Sense" thing. It's apparently a powerful portent, because any time I share research I've read about with conservatives, they tell me Common Sense has predicted its falsity. Clearly this magic crystal ball will also show you everything about guns and their sociological implications without any of that expensive research nonsense.
I suppose if you buy transubstantiation, communion wafers would literally be Jesus, and thus believe in himself.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by I'll benefit from it. I already had health benefits, but I do gain some protection from being unfairly dropped by my insurance company, net effect though is that I pay a hundred bucks more per year(split with my employer) than my youth would have required prior to enactment. I consider that worth it.. It sounds, actually, like you'll benefit(more so than your nephew), because your employer will be required to provide medical benefits in 2014.