Yes there is. You see... society functions dependent on mutual altruism, and we reserve the right, collectively, to punish those who don't act sufficiently altruistically for own needs. Evolutionary models support this as not just more efficient than greed based societies, but natural too.
With one withdrawl you can be charged: $1-$5 by your bank for using an external network +$1-$5 by another bank for using their network +$2-$5 by an ATM vendor(like at a gas station)
Usually, but not always, 2 and 3 are mutually exclusive. This can result in fees as high as 50% of what you take out for small sums.
Regarding the x86 thing: It only breaks programs that were written incorrectly in the first place. If you had your principle hard drive on any disk but C: those same lazy programs wouldn't work. Environmental variables exist for a reason. Furthermore, I think that may actually be one of the things compatability mode fixes automagically.
Because human beings are quite vicious and horrible, and bin Laden was at least a few milli-hitlers of evil. I refuse to celebrate human beings dying, even if it really does protect other people in the future.
To be completely fair to the US, it's fairly reasonable that if someone commits an act of war from inside your country, you wash your hands of them immediately, otherwise there's a kind of tacit acknlowedgement that said act of war falls within your jurisdiction. Not the best excuse ever, but better than the excuse Iraq got.
That's an extraordinary claim, we'd like some extraordinary evidence please. The general basis for education level yeilding a stronger economy is pretty well understood pheonomenon amongst sociologists and economonists. It also has a common sense attachment. For an example citation, I give you the oh-so-liberal wallstreet journal. The reason education, particularly science/mathematics/engineering education is important is because modern problems are quite complex and simple work can be done by machines. Now, if you honestly believe the energy crisis will never be resolved, I can understand the argument for having more unskilled labor, but basically you're decieving yourself if you think that some advanced(subject focused) understanding by our workforce won't strengthen the economy in the long run.
Free primary education created the middle class.
Free primary education created the industrial revolution
Widely available secondary education created the tech boom.
Widely available secondary education is driving China's and India's emerging position as world powers.
Your argument is generally unsupported, poorly structured, selfish, and I'd personally say (literally)astoundingly short-sighted. Please give me something less absurd than subjective annecdotes too.
It's worth noting that the GP didn't claim that high IQ was useful for solving real world problems, but that school curricula organized around memorization(especially in mathematics) are actually pretty useless for people with strong reasoning skills. It's not an unreasonable point, really.
It's not "horseshit." There's philosophical possibility to what he's saying. The problem with his argument is that it's uncited and unproven, but not inherently unbelievable. The potentially biases that allow for this to be possible are trivial to note, as you have, but that doens't make the argument demonstrably wrong. I take issue with your debate style, and hope that you're willing to entertain the possibility of his statement being accurate, while discounting any certainty of it.
or maybe it will be accomplished with minimal deaths? We have a much better understanding of human health and medicine these days, and risking life and limb is not nearly as necessary on an individual basis.
that depends on if they're assessing a standard speeding fine, or something more signifigant. I agree that if there's a number the law specifies, your equipment should have a margin of error at least as large as its actual error. Given that the parent said they only got a fine, I'm guessing they did something technically illegal, then were offended when it was deemed technically illegal.
I understand that speed limits are too low, but you're comlaining about getting a ticket for doing something illegal, because the exact extent to which you were violating the law was off by a fraction?
"I'm sorry your honor, I only stole $320 from the victim, not the alleged $350 you're going to have to let me off."
Well, I can see the basic point of your argument. Either way though, the fault lies with (U.S. style) conservatives. Their fiscal wing is anti-regulation, making proper regulation hard, and their social wing is anti-gambling, making them ban it. Quite the obnoxious pairing.
I agree with you that banning gambling is ridiculous moralizing that serves no purpose but to arbitrarily restrict the freedom of citizens. Especially in this case because the gamblers aren't even all U.S. residents. However, if these gambling establishments aren't regulated somehow, they tend to become, essentially, fraud engines. Either by the owners or enterprising players. And that level of laisez faire shouldn't really be allowed either. It's a false dilemma, but if I had to choose between no gambling and unregulated gambling, I'd likely choose the former.
Why does anyone still use shell scripts anymore?
Every major(and most minor) distro ships with python, ruby, and perl either built in or a trivial statement away.
These languages give you access to basic OS functions and much more sane syntaxes. Shell scripting is something I haven't felt the need to do in 5 years.
The focus fusion guys aren't. They believe they can use high energy helium nuclei can be used to create net-positive electricity induction. It would be cool to go off of steam.
Right, but the problem has been recently that we've been suffering "stag-flation." Things that are important to living: shelter, transit, food, and medical care have had their prices rising above commodity inflation and wage inflation for approaching a decade now. This is unsustainable, and will result in the choking off of a middle class in the united states.
The importance of a middle class is not just a consumer base(as we have been told), but the creation of a broad range of educated people capable of understanding the world well enough to make strides in innovation. We're not losing current GDP, we're losing the next generation's GDP.
Are you reffering to the middle class or the wealthy. This opinion exists on both(as if there were only two) sides, but widely strongly disagree about the basis of American strength.
The reality is that the U.S. is already in second(or lower) place for every major assessment of power, except military strength.
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Yes there is. You see... society functions dependent on mutual altruism, and we reserve the right, collectively, to punish those who don't act sufficiently altruistically for own needs. Evolutionary models support this as not just more efficient than greed based societies, but natural too.
Yeah, I can see how an investment firm can drop your net worth 30% like it has done to Gates and his friend Buffet.
The ATM network predates the web here.
With one withdrawl you can be charged:
$1-$5 by your bank for using an external network
+$1-$5 by another bank for using their network
+$2-$5 by an ATM vendor(like at a gas station)
Usually, but not always, 2 and 3 are mutually exclusive. This can result in fees as high as 50% of what you take out for small sums.
Been to a middle school or high school lately? Pretty much the only places not under constant video surveylance are the bathrooms.
No, it's time time to invade space because look at all that black stuff, it's probably oil.
Why do you think they allowed all those Android jailbreaking apps?
Regarding the x86 thing: It only breaks programs that were written incorrectly in the first place. If you had your principle hard drive on any disk but C: those same lazy programs wouldn't work. Environmental variables exist for a reason. Furthermore, I think that may actually be one of the things compatability mode fixes automagically.
Because human beings are quite vicious and horrible, and bin Laden was at least a few milli-hitlers of evil. I refuse to celebrate human beings dying, even if it really does protect other people in the future.
To be completely fair to the US, it's fairly reasonable that if someone commits an act of war from inside your country, you wash your hands of them immediately, otherwise there's a kind of tacit acknlowedgement that said act of war falls within your jurisdiction. Not the best excuse ever, but better than the excuse Iraq got.
That's an extraordinary claim, we'd like some extraordinary evidence please. The general basis for education level yeilding a stronger economy is pretty well understood pheonomenon amongst sociologists and economonists. It also has a common sense attachment. For an example citation, I give you the oh-so-liberal wallstreet journal. The reason education, particularly science/mathematics/engineering education is important is because modern problems are quite complex and simple work can be done by machines. Now, if you honestly believe the energy crisis will never be resolved, I can understand the argument for having more unskilled labor, but basically you're decieving yourself if you think that some advanced(subject focused) understanding by our workforce won't strengthen the economy in the long run.
Free primary education created the middle class.
Free primary education created the industrial revolution
Widely available secondary education created the tech boom.
Widely available secondary education is driving China's and India's emerging position as world powers.
Your argument is generally unsupported, poorly structured, selfish, and I'd personally say (literally)astoundingly short-sighted. Please give me something less absurd than subjective annecdotes too.
Yeah, that whole 17th ammendment ship already sailed, AC. Let it go.
It's worth noting that the GP didn't claim that high IQ was useful for solving real world problems, but that school curricula organized around memorization(especially in mathematics) are actually pretty useless for people with strong reasoning skills. It's not an unreasonable point, really.
It's not "horseshit." There's philosophical possibility to what he's saying. The problem with his argument is that it's uncited and unproven, but not inherently unbelievable. The potentially biases that allow for this to be possible are trivial to note, as you have, but that doens't make the argument demonstrably wrong. I take issue with your debate style, and hope that you're willing to entertain the possibility of his statement being accurate, while discounting any certainty of it.
or maybe it will be accomplished with minimal deaths? We have a much better understanding of human health and medicine these days, and risking life and limb is not nearly as necessary on an individual basis.
that depends on if they're assessing a standard speeding fine, or something more signifigant. I agree that if there's a number the law specifies, your equipment should have a margin of error at least as large as its actual error. Given that the parent said they only got a fine, I'm guessing they did something technically illegal, then were offended when it was deemed technically illegal.
I understand that speed limits are too low, but you're comlaining about getting a ticket for doing something illegal, because the exact extent to which you were violating the law was off by a fraction? "I'm sorry your honor, I only stole $320 from the victim, not the alleged $350 you're going to have to let me off."
Well, I can see the basic point of your argument. Either way though, the fault lies with (U.S. style) conservatives. Their fiscal wing is anti-regulation, making proper regulation hard, and their social wing is anti-gambling, making them ban it. Quite the obnoxious pairing.
Free country with purchase of politician. Please see Citizen's United for offer details and limitations.
I agree with you that banning gambling is ridiculous moralizing that serves no purpose but to arbitrarily restrict the freedom of citizens. Especially in this case because the gamblers aren't even all U.S. residents. However, if these gambling establishments aren't regulated somehow, they tend to become, essentially, fraud engines. Either by the owners or enterprising players. And that level of laisez faire shouldn't really be allowed either. It's a false dilemma, but if I had to choose between no gambling and unregulated gambling, I'd likely choose the former.
Who ever heard of students sneaking into school?
Actually, you didn't because focus fusion's experiments require minimum temperatures of a half billion degrees kelvin to acheive z-pinch.
Why does anyone still use shell scripts anymore? Every major(and most minor) distro ships with python, ruby, and perl either built in or a trivial statement away. These languages give you access to basic OS functions and much more sane syntaxes. Shell scripting is something I haven't felt the need to do in 5 years.
The focus fusion guys aren't. They believe they can use high energy helium nuclei can be used to create net-positive electricity induction. It would be cool to go off of steam.
Right, but the problem has been recently that we've been suffering "stag-flation." Things that are important to living: shelter, transit, food, and medical care have had their prices rising above commodity inflation and wage inflation for approaching a decade now. This is unsustainable, and will result in the choking off of a middle class in the united states. The importance of a middle class is not just a consumer base(as we have been told), but the creation of a broad range of educated people capable of understanding the world well enough to make strides in innovation. We're not losing current GDP, we're losing the next generation's GDP.
Are you reffering to the middle class or the wealthy. This opinion exists on both(as if there were only two) sides, but widely strongly disagree about the basis of American strength. The reality is that the U.S. is already in second(or lower) place for every major assessment of power, except military strength.