By law, Social Security invests that surplus in Treasury securities, which it deposits into a reserve known as a trust fund, which now holds more than one and a half trillion dollars.
This is a perverse use of the word "holds."
Here's a quiz. Money invested in Treasury bonds:
A: Is "held" in G.W. Bush's mattress. B: Is "held" in private investment (i.e. stocks). C: Is "held" in gold at Ft. Knox. D: Is spent, down to the last penny, by Congress.
My primary investment is Pete-Classic bonds. I give myself all of my "surplus" money to invest. I issue myself a bond, and then use the money to buy rims for my car and stereo equipment. When I need the money I will cash out the bonds by selling myself more bonds and/or raising taxes on myself.
Because most people have no idea how to save money for retirement.
Elitist much?
everyone else blows their money on late night infomercial products
Any chance that the cause and effect is the other way around? Is it possible, just possible, that people act irresponsibly because someone else takes responsibility for them?
You're pretty thick, aren't you? Nobody is saying that it doesn't matter at all. We're saying that you don't get any better results once you have met the bare minimum requirements for reliable communication.
Contrast this with analog communications, where quality continues to improve (whether you can perceive it or not is another question) until you achieve an ideal conductor (and perfect impedance matching, etc).
Contrast it, also, with what know-nothing, dickhead salesmen will try to tell you in order to pad their commissions.
If your digital cable is not working well, it should be very obvious in the audio/video output.
You replied:
Individual bits can be dropped without loosing the entire signal, and it's blatantly obvious with a video signal.
I think you misunderstood tji. I think that he meant "As long as all the bits are getting through reliably, you don't get more fidelity from an expensive cable." Which is, of course, true.
I loved physics and i can assure you that 90% of my high school classmates concurred that it was better than chemsitry or biology or social "science". The experiments make it fun.
It would have been pretty cool to look inside of some of my classmates in Biology . ..
Oh, and I like your use of quotes in Social "Science." The sock monkey in Penn Jillette's book "Sock" says that any study that includes the word science in its name isn't a science.
You stole my post. My position is identical to yours (including the "IP" bit), and I too would like to know how TuringTest justifies his position.
Two other notes.
1. I assure you that I don't need government to intervene on my behalf to "give" me a right to private property (or the property itself).
2. The State produces nothing.
Any pre-school teacher (or Freudian psychologist for that matter) can tell you that people with no concept of government still identify the existence of private property.
The nice thing about FLAC is you don't have to commit to a lossy codec or particular encoding settings. I can re-encode from the same rip every time a new lossy codec comes out, or if I decide I want more music at lower quality on my portable player, or whatever.
How are we supposed to come up with a coherent policy when we are warned of the horror of global cooling, then the disaster of global warming, and now the menace of global climate change?
Can we pick a doomsday scenario and stick with it?
Or could we, perhaps, come to some reasonably certain conclusion before we start making major policy decisions?
The first Congress passed the Militia Act of 1792, which said, in part:
[. ..]That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia[. ..]
So you see, militia was only meant to restrict who possessed firearms on a basis of race and sex, not based on military service.
-Peter
PS: This was snarfed from the answer page of my political quiz.
Re:Not hard to figure out why LoTR is #1.
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gratuitous 2 : not called for by the circumstances : UNWARRANTED
I'm not trying to sell you on the movie (which ties with "Chasing Amy" for my all time favorite), but all of the violence in "Fight Club" was integral to the plot; none of it was gratuitous.
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Try "su - oracle". The dash (or "-l") makes it a "login shell" the upshot being that it imports all your environment stuff.
-Peter
I thought that it would be hard to smoke pot and muster the aggression this game seems requires.
Just goes to show what I know.
-Peter
You'd think a game with a name like "Burnout" would have more pot-smoking-friendly game-play.
-Peter
I thought the "disilusioned" face would convey that.
-Peter
This is a perverse use of the word "holds."
Here's a quiz. Money invested in Treasury bonds:
A: Is "held" in G.W. Bush's mattress.
B: Is "held" in private investment (i.e. stocks).
C: Is "held" in gold at Ft. Knox.
D: Is spent, down to the last penny, by Congress.
My primary investment is Pete-Classic bonds. I give myself all of my "surplus" money to invest. I issue myself a bond, and then use the money to buy rims for my car and stereo equipment. When I need the money I will cash out the bonds by selling myself more bonds and/or raising taxes on myself.
I should run for office.
-Peter
How about the same thing for airplanes? :-/
-Peter
Elitist much?
Any chance that the cause and effect is the other way around? Is it possible, just possible, that people act irresponsibly because someone else takes responsibility for them?
-Peter
I shouldn't have said you are thick, I should have said that your reading comprehension skills are pathetic.
Every single fucking post in this thread has made the same statement WITH the caveat that we are assuming the data get through.
tji said, "As long as the digital data is there".
I said, "As long as all the bits are getting through reliably".
Don't blame others for your inability to read.
YOU FUCKING MORON.
-Peter
You're pretty thick, aren't you? Nobody is saying that it doesn't matter at all. We're saying that you don't get any better results once you have met the bare minimum requirements for reliable communication.
Contrast this with analog communications, where quality continues to improve (whether you can perceive it or not is another question) until you achieve an ideal conductor (and perfect impedance matching, etc).
Contrast it, also, with what know-nothing, dickhead salesmen will try to tell you in order to pad their commissions.
-Peter
You replied:
I think you misunderstood tji. I think that he meant "As long as all the bits are getting through reliably, you don't get more fidelity from an expensive cable." Which is, of course, true.
-Peter
Restraint? What's that like?
Smagruder's message above got me all wound up for a reply. Then I read your reply. You left me nothing to say. Nicely done!
-Peter
That statement is demonstrably false. You have neglected genocide.
I would agree, however, that there is nothing good that government can do better than the private sector.
-Peter
shure. ass lang ass U rekognize it wutz da prablem?
On second thought, perhaps mere recognition doesn't make something sensible.
-Peter
Broken bread makes for a shitty sandwich.
-Peter
It would have been pretty cool to look inside of some of my classmates in Biology . .
Oh, and I like your use of quotes in Social "Science." The sock monkey in Penn Jillette's book "Sock" says that any study that includes the word science in its name isn't a science.
-Peter
You stole my post. My position is identical to yours (including the "IP" bit), and I too would like to know how TuringTest justifies his position.
Two other notes.
1. I assure you that I don't need government to intervene on my behalf to "give" me a right to private property (or the property itself).
2. The State produces nothing.
Any pre-school teacher (or Freudian psychologist for that matter) can tell you that people with no concept of government still identify the existence of private property.
-Peter
Brilliant.
-Peter
The nice thing about FLAC is you don't have to commit to a lossy codec or particular encoding settings. I can re-encode from the same rip every time a new lossy codec comes out, or if I decide I want more music at lower quality on my portable player, or whatever.
-Peter
This is starting to really upset me.
How are we supposed to come up with a coherent policy when we are warned of the horror of global cooling, then the disaster of global warming, and now the menace of global climate change?
Can we pick a doomsday scenario and stick with it?
Or could we, perhaps, come to some reasonably certain conclusion before we start making major policy decisions?
-Peter
So you see, militia was only meant to restrict who possessed firearms on a basis of race and sex, not based on military service.
-Peter
PS: This was snarfed from the answer page of my political quiz.
gratuitous 2 : not called for by the circumstances : UNWARRANTED
I'm not trying to sell you on the movie (which ties with "Chasing Amy" for my all time favorite), but all of the violence in "Fight Club" was integral to the plot; none of it was gratuitous.
"I wanted to destroy something beautiful."
-Peter
Yup. That doesn't sound as close to me.
-Peter
How about Tirion on Túna?
-Peter
Actually, that's a myth.
But it is a proven fact that ACs have no balls.
-Peter
How so?
I'm not exactly Captain Blogsphere, but why not just link from the old blog to one on a service that sucks less?
-Peter