He was president for 8 years. How could the government not grow if the country did? But in any case, Congress funds the size of government, and the deficit, not the President. And they beat him politically, a lot.
I was making minimum wage, $3.35 an hour, in 1983. Reagan's tax cut took my $125 weekly check to $135. That was a big deal for me. You guys can revise all you want about his 9 tax increases or whatever, I was there.
Cuba was in the process of taking over Grenada, and there were a lot of Americans there. But yeah, Reagan knew the difference between Grenada and Iraq.
Reagan knew enough to generally leave monetary policy alone. He didn't fuck it up like this current guy and one before him.
And also, his peed diaper was probably smarter than you.
"deciding to fire practically every air traffic controller"
Um, no. He didn't decide shit. It was the law, and the controllers broke it.
Reagan pissed off the union leadership by getting so many union members to cross over and vote for him. He beat Carter so very badly; it was embarrassing.
So, they put his back against the wall pretty much the moment he came in. It was a win-win for the union leadership and their Democrat bosses. Either Reagan would back down and issue some executive order delaying the mandatory firing of striking Federal employees, or; they would score political points against a mean old Republican for firing hard working patriotic Americans just trying to keep us safe.
They ended up getting option B, and the thousands of dudes that gave up good jobs for that bit of political theater felt a bit screwed afterwards.
It's not even logical to expect to prove God with science.
First off, If you created the universe, and the four dimensional space-time manifold that encompasses it; then you would necessarily exist/existed/existing outside of that four dimensional space time. How would you expect to detect something outside that manifold with rays and particles that are necessarily bound to it?
Second, love is real. From this armchair, I am a Scientist, and love is not in the Standard Model. It's not a particle or ray, nor is it quantifiable. But real means real; it's not a concept, or some construction of language. Much like, The Truth.
The truth is real. Many things are 'true'. The speed of light in a vacuum, the gravitational constant, the unladen speed of southbound swallows; are examples of the truth. There's two things that are real, yet not in the SM, and therefore are, what; supernatural?
Nah, I'm a scientist, remember? SM or no, truth and love are made out of something, and they come from somewhere. (I use 'where', even though outside our 4 dimensional space-time, there would be no such thing as 'there'. I admit, it is difficult to wrap one's head around.)
That's a pretty big overreaction for breaking the door hinges on the showroom models. The LG people might have only been 'testing' the Samsung model to LG standards. As in, putting a lot of weight on the door to simulate really heavy dishes.
There's an implication here: LG's door hinges are far stronger than Samsung's. If that is true, then the LG people have a viable defense, in that they didn't do anything that their own dishwasher couldn't handle. They are setup for demonstration purposes, and allowed to be touched and handled.
Also, leave it to the Koreans to make a dishwasher show exciting, and now I sort of want to go to one. Maybe next year some kung-fu will break out. That'd be awesome..
What about a platform for releasing steerable tungsten rods, able to impact in minutes within 1m of any target over 70% of the Earth's surface? The kinetic energy of a small nuke, with no pesky fallout. (Unless you hit a nuke plant.)
Well, I'm just sayin', that's more useful than a Tsar Bomba.
You used the word 'ripoff', and AC used that to try to pull us into his worldview. We didn't invent shit; we ripoff the world, so on and so forth...
Yeah, we took everything the Germans had, including rockets, after beating them in the war. Germans are pretty smart btw, so after that man had whipped them into a frenzy, they had the best rockets by far.
Which they got from Robert Goddard, an American. Of British descent though. So, who gets the credit?
AC misses the point of America. Everything we have is 'ripped off', from somebody, or somewhere. We've got nothing of our own. We don't even get to 'have' our own Native American culture. That belongs to them; we don't get to be a part of it. But that doesn't stop us from using it all the time and ripping it off. Same way we absorb everything else we have from every other immigrant.
By having nothing of our own, we get to have everything. That pisses you off, doesn't it, AC?
"self-described Nazi thugs which seized the elected government and drove it into the ground"
Anybody who was watching it unfold knows that is simply not true. The government abandoned their posts, and then your man Yanukovych fled like a pussy. It doesn't matter what Washington said, we were all watching on live video. The fact that the CIA also has plots and goals is largely irrelevant.
But I actually agree that Crimea belongs to Russia (unless you want to discuss giving it back to Turkey). While Ukraine and Russia were practically the same country it didn't much matter. When Ukrainians wanted some distance, Russia should have just said fine, we'll take back Crimea, and paid for it. Not the whole value of course, but some compensation for infrastructure and lost assets would have been in order. Given that Ukraine was/is deeply indebted to Russia, it seems a deal could have been stuck easily.
The length of the civilization bugs me. It's one of the variables. It's measured in some thousands of years. The only one we know of is around ten thousand years, but as far as aliens listening to radio waves are concerned, it's closer to a hundred years.
But having a number there also places an upper bound on the timespan, and that does not reflect reality. As far as we know, civilization lasts forever, once started.
That's a big infinity in the equation. I'm just sayin'.
Presumptuous maybe, but TFA is flawed as hell; planets move after they have formed, and generally inwards. They make no mention of this fact anywhere.
In our case, we had the Jupiter - Saturn duo that stabilized things, and prevented Jupiter from crashing into the Sun, taking the inner 4 planets with it.
It's entirely plausible that decent planets with atmospheres exist within the habitable zones of small stars, with crazy shit like 50 day years, and the dark side of the moon melts a little when it swings close to the sun. Heh.
But, a planet that formed close in to a star early on, and has remained there the whole time the system has cooled down, is likely to be a barren rock. Agreed. And a bit obvious...
Yeah I was wondering if the kids were allowed to share and over what timespan the project ran. If there was downtime between sessions, the girls are more likely to collaborate and text and share good stuff. The boys are more likely to guard a good secret, because they want to 'win'.
A group of girls is always going to be less competitive with each other than a group of boys, unless, of course, they are competing for boys...
True. My point was though, that those have the potential to melt down like a merf if not properly attended to. Not a turn-key type of black box delivery. That is true, no? I believe the Russians have similar subs, and without a similar Navy, they ran at least two into the ground pretty badly. I bet we had similar situations, that were handled and we never heard about. Not because our plutonium or even scientists were better, but because our Navy was better.
I don't think running those types of super hot instant on reactors is easy, nor something I'd want in my backyard. A molten salt reactor reactor, on the other hand, would be okay. As long as there was some nice shrubbery...
That's not really fair, to Mitt Romney I mean. He ran a business junkyard; that's what that investment company was/is. Companies were already broken and failing by the time his group touched them. The closest he came to taking over a company and running it, was the Salt Lake Olympics, which turned out to be a decent entry on his resume.
I'm not saying Romney would have done a better job running HP, although it's hard to imagine him doing any worse. But to his credit, he never tried. He seems to stick to his core competency pretty well.
Yep. I've lived in two places like that, and both were wonderful, cheap, good service... One was city owned, the other was a rural co-op. The co-op was dirt cheap; the city was not so cheap, just reasonable, but had excellent and instant service. The mayor saw to it personally.:)
Now I have Duke; I reset my clocks one or more times a month, and it's the most expensive power I've ever had.
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Obviously you weren't there.
He was president for 8 years. How could the government not grow if the country did? But in any case, Congress funds the size of government, and the deficit, not the President. And they beat him politically, a lot.
I was making minimum wage, $3.35 an hour, in 1983. Reagan's tax cut took my $125 weekly check to $135. That was a big deal for me. You guys can revise all you want about his 9 tax increases or whatever, I was there.
Cuba was in the process of taking over Grenada, and there were a lot of Americans there. But yeah, Reagan knew the difference between Grenada and Iraq.
Reagan knew enough to generally leave monetary policy alone. He didn't fuck it up like this current guy and one before him.
And also, his peed diaper was probably smarter than you.
"deciding to fire practically every air traffic controller"
Um, no. He didn't decide shit. It was the law, and the controllers broke it.
Reagan pissed off the union leadership by getting so many union members to cross over and vote for him. He beat Carter so very badly; it was embarrassing.
So, they put his back against the wall pretty much the moment he came in. It was a win-win for the union leadership and their Democrat bosses. Either Reagan would back down and issue some executive order delaying the mandatory firing of striking Federal employees, or; they would score political points against a mean old Republican for firing hard working patriotic Americans just trying to keep us safe.
They ended up getting option B, and the thousands of dudes that gave up good jobs for that bit of political theater felt a bit screwed afterwards.
AMD not having a superior cpu since Athlon is the direct result of Intel's illegal monopoly abuse.
Didn't this just happen? Or maybe you are very young...
I do have a starting assumption. That the universe is perfect. And probably one other; that there is no such thing as magic.
My personal opinion: God has been dead for 13.6 billion years. The big bang did him in. Work of a lifetime and all that.
I got no proof though...
"sometimes they tell you to kill gay people"
You made that shit up. Not one of the big 3 guys said to kill gay people. And I'm pretty sure Buddhists are okay with gays so there's 4.
Perhaps you or I are confusing who 'they' are. If by they, you mean zealots and people who make war, then yeah; fucking people. Gotta hate 'em.
It's not even logical to expect to prove God with science.
First off, If you created the universe, and the four dimensional space-time manifold that encompasses it; then you would necessarily exist/existed/existing outside of that four dimensional space time. How would you expect to detect something outside that manifold with rays and particles that are necessarily bound to it?
Second, love is real. From this armchair, I am a Scientist, and love is not in the Standard Model. It's not a particle or ray, nor is it quantifiable. But real means real; it's not a concept, or some construction of language. Much like, The Truth.
The truth is real. Many things are 'true'. The speed of light in a vacuum, the gravitational constant, the unladen speed of southbound swallows; are examples of the truth. There's two things that are real, yet not in the SM, and therefore are, what; supernatural?
Nah, I'm a scientist, remember? SM or no, truth and love are made out of something, and they come from somewhere. (I use 'where', even though outside our 4 dimensional space-time, there would be no such thing as 'there'. I admit, it is difficult to wrap one's head around.)
That's a pretty big overreaction for breaking the door hinges on the showroom models. The LG people might have only been 'testing' the Samsung model to LG standards. As in, putting a lot of weight on the door to simulate really heavy dishes.
There's an implication here: LG's door hinges are far stronger than Samsung's. If that is true, then the LG people have a viable defense, in that they didn't do anything that their own dishwasher couldn't handle. They are setup for demonstration purposes, and allowed to be touched and handled.
Also, leave it to the Koreans to make a dishwasher show exciting, and now I sort of want to go to one. Maybe next year some kung-fu will break out. That'd be awesome..
What about a platform for releasing steerable tungsten rods, able to impact in minutes within 1m of any target over 70% of the Earth's surface? The kinetic energy of a small nuke, with no pesky fallout. (Unless you hit a nuke plant.)
Well, I'm just sayin', that's more useful than a Tsar Bomba.
You used the word 'ripoff', and AC used that to try to pull us into his worldview. We didn't invent shit; we ripoff the world, so on and so forth...
Yeah, we took everything the Germans had, including rockets, after beating them in the war. Germans are pretty smart btw, so after that man had whipped them into a frenzy, they had the best rockets by far.
Which they got from Robert Goddard, an American. Of British descent though. So, who gets the credit?
AC misses the point of America. Everything we have is 'ripped off', from somebody, or somewhere. We've got nothing of our own. We don't even get to 'have' our own Native American culture. That belongs to them; we don't get to be a part of it. But that doesn't stop us from using it all the time and ripping it off. Same way we absorb everything else we have from every other immigrant.
By having nothing of our own, we get to have everything. That pisses you off, doesn't it, AC?
But that's our fault. We'll sic lawyers on them in a heartbeat and soak the shit out of them, or possibly break them.
But in any case, terrorism now works. I guess that's our fault too.
Yeah, I go.
Fuck 'em.
I won't be bullied.
Kids.
They overran Ars, and sort of ran me back here. I, also, am glad.
Mmm, no, you look stupid.
First, he posted under his username, and you as AC.
Second, he's right; that's not what you were saying 10 years ago.
"self-described Nazi thugs which seized the elected government and drove it into the ground"
Anybody who was watching it unfold knows that is simply not true. The government abandoned their posts, and then your man Yanukovych fled like a pussy. It doesn't matter what Washington said, we were all watching on live video. The fact that the CIA also has plots and goals is largely irrelevant.
But I actually agree that Crimea belongs to Russia (unless you want to discuss giving it back to Turkey). While Ukraine and Russia were practically the same country it didn't much matter. When Ukrainians wanted some distance, Russia should have just said fine, we'll take back Crimea, and paid for it. Not the whole value of course, but some compensation for infrastructure and lost assets would have been in order. Given that Ukraine was/is deeply indebted to Russia, it seems a deal could have been stuck easily.
Putin obviously has other goals...
No, that's what happened. And when you don't have that random plane, you let your friends and allies die.
Or give up the only weapon you have that is working, when your ships and planes and soldiers are losing. That's how you lose a war.
I'm just glad I wasn't one of those 20 people. Dang. Because they did a good job, I don't have to know what that feels like.
You're right, but all those lifeforms you describe, if they are intelligent; I don't want to meet them.
The length of the civilization bugs me. It's one of the variables. It's measured in some thousands of years. The only one we know of is around ten thousand years, but as far as aliens listening to radio waves are concerned, it's closer to a hundred years.
But having a number there also places an upper bound on the timespan, and that does not reflect reality. As far as we know, civilization lasts forever, once started.
That's a big infinity in the equation. I'm just sayin'.
Obviously, that wouldn't work. You would have to carry your local region of space with you.
You assume the gravitational constant of a relative, local region is unchangeable by any conceivable science.
You are in error.
Presumptuous maybe, but TFA is flawed as hell; planets move after they have formed, and generally inwards. They make no mention of this fact anywhere.
In our case, we had the Jupiter - Saturn duo that stabilized things, and prevented Jupiter from crashing into the Sun, taking the inner 4 planets with it.
It's entirely plausible that decent planets with atmospheres exist within the habitable zones of small stars, with crazy shit like 50 day years, and the dark side of the moon melts a little when it swings close to the sun. Heh.
But, a planet that formed close in to a star early on, and has remained there the whole time the system has cooled down, is likely to be a barren rock. Agreed. And a bit obvious...
You know, something else just occurred to me. This was an already existing computer class, that I bet is an elective course.
In that case, girls that choose to enter a more advanced computer class are more likely to be hotshots than the more common boys. Skewed sample?
Yeah I was wondering if the kids were allowed to share and over what timespan the project ran. If there was downtime between sessions, the girls are more likely to collaborate and text and share good stuff. The boys are more likely to guard a good secret, because they want to 'win'.
A group of girls is always going to be less competitive with each other than a group of boys, unless, of course, they are competing for boys...
True. My point was though, that those have the potential to melt down like a merf if not properly attended to. Not a turn-key type of black box delivery. That is true, no? I believe the Russians have similar subs, and without a similar Navy, they ran at least two into the ground pretty badly. I bet we had similar situations, that were handled and we never heard about. Not because our plutonium or even scientists were better, but because our Navy was better.
I don't think running those types of super hot instant on reactors is easy, nor something I'd want in my backyard. A molten salt reactor reactor, on the other hand, would be okay. As long as there was some nice shrubbery ...
That's not really fair, to Mitt Romney I mean. He ran a business junkyard; that's what that investment company was/is. Companies were already broken and failing by the time his group touched them. The closest he came to taking over a company and running it, was the Salt Lake Olympics, which turned out to be a decent entry on his resume.
I'm not saying Romney would have done a better job running HP, although it's hard to imagine him doing any worse. But to his credit, he never tried. He seems to stick to his core competency pretty well.
Yep. I've lived in two places like that, and both were wonderful, cheap, good service... One was city owned, the other was a rural co-op. The co-op was dirt cheap; the city was not so cheap, just reasonable, but had excellent and instant service. The mayor saw to it personally. :)
Now I have Duke; I reset my clocks one or more times a month, and it's the most expensive power I've ever had.