Good for you. You're a fine example of what makes this country great. The same idiots who whine and complain about all the problems in the word are the same ones who think they can protest or just wish it away, or worse, have decided its not their problem and our country should have nothing to do with it.
Like it or not, this is the most powerful country in the world and a model for how to run a free society. We have a responsibility to end some of the suffering that happens, and that's a long term problem. If not us, then who? There's not another nation in the world fit to handle that responsibility. I'd go proudly to end some of the problems you mentioned, knowing full well there's a lot of people right here back home that will disgrace our nation's efforts with their words, "journalism", and protests. And in some ironic twist, the country still owes it to them to fight for those very freedoms, because that's who we are. I say if you don't like it, Canada's always looking to expand its population and we won't miss you when you're gone.
God Bless America, and all for which she stands and fights.
According to a citation in Kaku's book, Nikolai Kardashev is credited with the Type I/II/III categories for civilization. Just an FYI. It's on page 277, second to last full paragraph.
Great read, by the way. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes popular science books.
Would be to take anything that's critical to our security OFF of the internet. Sure, host a website with public information, but keep anything critical on a private network, not accessible via the internet. That's far easier than trying to regulate who gets access around the world. This seems like common sense to me, but escapes Tenet. It's the same principle as not walking through a known dangerous neighborhood at night, rather than taking the risk and then complaining that you got mugged. Sure, what happened might've been WRONG, but you could've avoided the situation given the prior knowledge that you were walking into a bad area.
I agree with you 100%, but my degree is in economics and not CS. I learned a lot of theory and math, and when graduation rolled around, I got all sorts of calls from the financial industry, companies looking for statisticians, software developer, etc. Basically, hiring managers were considering me qualified for anything that required a good grasp of logic. If you can learn the theory and math, it shows you can learn and think analytically. That's going to lead to a job faster than someone who can simply "program". If the OP says he's learning at his school, has access to faculty, etc, there's no reason to leave. Remember, building those faculty relationships gets you letters of recommendation for grad school, employment, etc. If you transfer, you have to start building those relationships all over again (and at a bigger school, that might be impossible).
Well, there's a difference between audio and video on the PC and the consumer's perception:
Even the cheapest of CRT's these days is good enough to compare the output from a poor video source vs a near-perfect video source.
Audio, on the other hand, is often neglected. Most consumers don't have a great set of speakers connected to their PC, and even if they do are still listening to MP3's (which aren't the purest of audio sources). Low S/N, poor reproduction, etc is fine in a PC because most consumers don't demand better -- indeed, they cant even spot a difference in the sound quality.
FWIW, I agree with you, but we care and can discern good SQ vs bad, whereas just about everybody else doesn't care. It's easier to spot jaggies in a 3D game than it is to spot a "jaggy" in a sound file.
I reread your post and it's now apparent that you're suggesting *other* companies (those competing with Apple) cut their prices. I agree with you, it'd help them leverage against not having a store or software as good as Apple. Sorry about the confusion, I do agree with your post.
They're selling all they can produce at current pricing. What incentive do they have to make it cheaper? There's tons of players out there that sell at a lower price, and you've bought one, probably in part for that reason. I remember going out and trying to find a Mini to buy when it first came out. I finally found one, the ONLY one in about a 30 mile radius. If inventory is that tight, they might even be able to charge MORE and see a better profit.
That's the free market solution, and may I say, I agree with you.
The problem is, larger industries, recording included, tend to favor market intervention and spend a lot of money lobbying Congress to enact it. Rather than seeking to capitalize on an obviously good business model, they want to stick with what they know and try to get some laws passed that will support their ways.
Personally, I think 99 cents a track is a slap in the face to the consumer, because that's still $12-15 an album (and some full albums are good from beginning to end, not just two tracks and a lot of filler). At that price, I might as well go buy it and get the case, liner notes, higher quality recording, etc.
It's not the criticism itself, its the jump to a completely inane conclusion that would suggest simply being anti-American. I mean, it's a complete stretch to implicate the administration in a google censorship example.
I'm guesing that this is another case of our administration confusing "National Security" with "Politically Undesirable".
Such that this is the US administration's doing. I highly doubt our government has any hand in censoring google's results, especially when the other search engines are returning these images.
It seems anti-Americanism is so popular these days that people like the OP will pick and choose anything and blame it on our government. You accuse our country of being irrational, when you yourself have made a highly dubious claim.
I'm fucking proud to be an American. I'm glad my parents chose to come over here some 35 years ago. Of course, its now unpopular to be a proud American. Flame me all you want.
Because that's what good professors do. You're more likely to stay in the program if you get some exposure to the top names at the school.
I believe Richard Feynman was known to teach first years as well, and he's one of the most important names in physics this century. You think those freshman physics majors in his class were more or less likely to drop out of the program after meeting that guy? Man, I wish I had been college-age when he was still alive and teaching!
I'm going to have to believe that something endorsed by economists such as Friedman, Becker, and Prescott (among the others) is credible.
Environmental economics is a pretty cool field, though. I have a degree in env econ, although I don't work in the field. Are you working in the private sector with that? Any job I was offered in th field was in DC (some public, some private sector) and I'm just not ready to make the move yet.
And please don't try and say that corruption and economic growth aren't inversely correlated. They sure are. If you want to argue that, I'll put up some sources there too.
Treisman, Daniel. "The Causes of Corruption: A Cross-national Study." Journal of Public Economics 76 (2000) 399-457.
"corruption will be lower in democratic countries and those with a freer press and more vigorous civic associations, [will also] be lower in more economically developed countries, where populations are more educated and literate, and where the normative separation between 'public' and 'private' is clearer.... Corruption will be lower in countries with higher relative salaries in public office... [and] will be higher where political instability is greater."
I didn't say the rest of the world doesn't see it at home nor did I accuse anyone of being cowardly. However, anyone else's efforts to curb it haven't exactly worked well. The train wreck before Spain's election is a very prime example of such. I really believe the rest of the world needs to work with the US a bit more on this issue. I know our actions haven't been completely right, but I also don't think we're completely wrong either.
The idea behind taking out governments like those in Iraq and Afghanistan is to give the country a chance at electing its own leadership. Democratic goverments do show better economic growth, personal income, and education than those that are not democratic. This has been studied in many economic journals. I'm optimistic about the futures of the two countries I mentioned. It's rough going there now, but I happen to believe they will turn it around. Change is never easy, and never instantaneous.
I'm curious, though. Everyone is all over my terrorism comment, but nobody can refute my statement on economies?
Besides, we were already in a recession when Clinton left office. The surplus was dissipating as the tech bubble burst and the market took a dive. The subsequent accounting scandals didn't help. 9/11 didn't help. I'm not saying Bush didn't overspend, he did. What I'm saying is, he's planning to spend less than Kerry. To be quite honest, that's the main issue I voted on.
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Good for you. You're a fine example of what makes this country great. The same idiots who whine and complain about all the problems in the word are the same ones who think they can protest or just wish it away, or worse, have decided its not their problem and our country should have nothing to do with it.
Like it or not, this is the most powerful country in the world and a model for how to run a free society. We have a responsibility to end some of the suffering that happens, and that's a long term problem. If not us, then who? There's not another nation in the world fit to handle that responsibility. I'd go proudly to end some of the problems you mentioned, knowing full well there's a lot of people right here back home that will disgrace our nation's efforts with their words, "journalism", and protests. And in some ironic twist, the country still owes it to them to fight for those very freedoms, because that's who we are. I say if you don't like it, Canada's always looking to expand its population and we won't miss you when you're gone.
God Bless America, and all for which she stands and fights.
Congratulations on your apparently very successful brainwashing.
Is the OP brainwashed because he doesn't agree with you? I think of all the things not worth defending or fighting for, you're a prime example.
The world would be a much more peaceful place if people and countries stayed out of each other's god damn business.
Think you can count on Iran or N. Korea to stay out of ours once they've developed the weapons to make a big impact? I sure don't.
Careful. Being proud of the US will get you modded down and flamed here. I happen to agree with you 100%, though.
According to a citation in Kaku's book, Nikolai Kardashev is credited with the Type I/II/III categories for civilization. Just an FYI. It's on page 277, second to last full paragraph.
Great read, by the way. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes popular science books.
Yeah, these things definitely don't understand those of us who speak New Jersey.
Would be to take anything that's critical to our security OFF of the internet. Sure, host a website with public information, but keep anything critical on a private network, not accessible via the internet. That's far easier than trying to regulate who gets access around the world. This seems like common sense to me, but escapes Tenet. It's the same principle as not walking through a known dangerous neighborhood at night, rather than taking the risk and then complaining that you got mugged. Sure, what happened might've been WRONG, but you could've avoided the situation given the prior knowledge that you were walking into a bad area.
I agree with you 100%, but my degree is in economics and not CS. I learned a lot of theory and math, and when graduation rolled around, I got all sorts of calls from the financial industry, companies looking for statisticians, software developer, etc. Basically, hiring managers were considering me qualified for anything that required a good grasp of logic. If you can learn the theory and math, it shows you can learn and think analytically. That's going to lead to a job faster than someone who can simply "program". If the OP says he's learning at his school, has access to faculty, etc, there's no reason to leave. Remember, building those faculty relationships gets you letters of recommendation for grad school, employment, etc. If you transfer, you have to start building those relationships all over again (and at a bigger school, that might be impossible).
Yeah, I corrected myself in a subsequent post. It was a long day :)
Well, there's a difference between audio and video on the PC and the consumer's perception:
Even the cheapest of CRT's these days is good enough to compare the output from a poor video source vs a near-perfect video source.
Audio, on the other hand, is often neglected. Most consumers don't have a great set of speakers connected to their PC, and even if they do are still listening to MP3's (which aren't the purest of audio sources). Low S/N, poor reproduction, etc is fine in a PC because most consumers don't demand better -- indeed, they cant even spot a difference in the sound quality.
FWIW, I agree with you, but we care and can discern good SQ vs bad, whereas just about everybody else doesn't care. It's easier to spot jaggies in a 3D game than it is to spot a "jaggy" in a sound file.
I reread your post and it's now apparent that you're suggesting *other* companies (those competing with Apple) cut their prices. I agree with you, it'd help them leverage against not having a store or software as good as Apple. Sorry about the confusion, I do agree with your post.
They're selling all they can produce at current pricing. What incentive do they have to make it cheaper? There's tons of players out there that sell at a lower price, and you've bought one, probably in part for that reason. I remember going out and trying to find a Mini to buy when it first came out. I finally found one, the ONLY one in about a 30 mile radius. If inventory is that tight, they might even be able to charge MORE and see a better profit.
They play both. I have both formats on mine. They also support some other formats, like ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) and others I cant think of.
Did you know 89% of all statistics are made up?
Think about THAT one!
That's the free market solution, and may I say, I agree with you.
The problem is, larger industries, recording included, tend to favor market intervention and spend a lot of money lobbying Congress to enact it. Rather than seeking to capitalize on an obviously good business model, they want to stick with what they know and try to get some laws passed that will support their ways.
Personally, I think 99 cents a track is a slap in the face to the consumer, because that's still $12-15 an album (and some full albums are good from beginning to end, not just two tracks and a lot of filler). At that price, I might as well go buy it and get the case, liner notes, higher quality recording, etc.
Oh, and while we're at it, a gui-based stats package along the lines of PASS or SPSS would be nice too.
I believe gretl is what you're looking for. It's more like eviews than spss, but it's good software.
But this particular example has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION!
It seems like the commenter dragged it in just to get in a cheap shot against the US.
It's not the criticism itself, its the jump to a completely inane conclusion that would suggest simply being anti-American. I mean, it's a complete stretch to implicate the administration in a google censorship example.
I'm guesing that this is another case of our administration confusing "National Security" with "Politically Undesirable".
Such that this is the US administration's doing. I highly doubt our government has any hand in censoring google's results, especially when the other search engines are returning these images.
It seems anti-Americanism is so popular these days that people like the OP will pick and choose anything and blame it on our government. You accuse our country of being irrational, when you yourself have made a highly dubious claim.
I'm fucking proud to be an American. I'm glad my parents chose to come over here some 35 years ago. Of course, its now unpopular to be a proud American. Flame me all you want.
Because that's what good professors do. You're more likely to stay in the program if you get some exposure to the top names at the school.
I believe Richard Feynman was known to teach first years as well, and he's one of the most important names in physics this century. You think those freshman physics majors in his class were more or less likely to drop out of the program after meeting that guy? Man, I wish I had been college-age when he was still alive and teaching!
I'm going to have to believe that something endorsed by economists such as Friedman, Becker, and Prescott (among the others) is credible.
Environmental economics is a pretty cool field, though. I have a degree in env econ, although I don't work in the field. Are you working in the private sector with that? Any job I was offered in th field was in DC (some public, some private sector) and I'm just not ready to make the move yet.
And please don't try and say that corruption and economic growth aren't inversely correlated. They sure are. If you want to argue that, I'll put up some sources there too.
Here's one for you:
Treisman, Daniel. "The Causes of Corruption: A Cross-national Study." Journal of Public Economics 76 (2000) 399-457.
"corruption will be lower in democratic countries and those with a freer press and more vigorous civic associations, [will also] be lower in more economically developed countries, where populations are more educated and literate, and where the normative separation between 'public' and 'private' is clearer.... Corruption will be lower in countries with higher relative salaries in public office... [and] will be higher where political instability is greater."
In English, it's spelled "sentence".
I didn't say the rest of the world doesn't see it at home nor did I accuse anyone of being cowardly. However, anyone else's efforts to curb it haven't exactly worked well. The train wreck before Spain's election is a very prime example of such. I really believe the rest of the world needs to work with the US a bit more on this issue. I know our actions haven't been completely right, but I also don't think we're completely wrong either.
The idea behind taking out governments like those in Iraq and Afghanistan is to give the country a chance at electing its own leadership. Democratic goverments do show better economic growth, personal income, and education than those that are not democratic. This has been studied in many economic journals. I'm optimistic about the futures of the two countries I mentioned. It's rough going there now, but I happen to believe they will turn it around. Change is never easy, and never instantaneous.
I'm curious, though. Everyone is all over my terrorism comment, but nobody can refute my statement on economies?
There's a lot of economists that tend to believe Kerry would be awful for the economy. Six of them are nobel laureates. Have a look at this:
Economists against Kerrynomics
Besides, we were already in a recession when Clinton left office. The surplus was dissipating as the tech bubble burst and the market took a dive. The subsequent accounting scandals didn't help. 9/11 didn't help. I'm not saying Bush didn't overspend, he did. What I'm saying is, he's planning to spend less than Kerry. To be quite honest, that's the main issue I voted on.