"Not a record low" might make sense if data was limited to the boomer generation, which it clearly isn't since they're (per TFS) reliable since 1920. In the context of a --widely documented-- plummeting of birthrates during the industrial revolution, I'd be hard pressed to think this is anything but the lowest record ever for the US. 1920, in case it needs reminding, was a year after the Spanish Flu pandemic, and in the midst of the economic depression that followed WWI -- shit tons of bad debt got liquidated almost overnight, so it didn't last like the current one. In a country that never say a battle on its soil after it entered the latter in 1917, at that.
FWIW, that birthrate seems to have "little prospects for a better economic future" written all over it. Probably for good reasons, too.
On a separate note, it might be time to open the immigration floodgates with Mexico. Oh wait!
Most exams are there to gauge a student's level of knowledge, judgement or analytical skills, not their data processing ability.
You mean multiple choice tests allow to gauge any of that? Wow, who knew?
On a more serious note, two things that most aren't taught in school, or not well anyway, relate to data processing.
One is how to find with the data in the first place. Aka "Here's a tub; What's its volume?" -- leaving the student explain what he needs to measure to come up with the answer, and why.
The other is identify useless data. For instance, "Three customers give the $10 they each owe to their waiter. His boss hands $5 back to the waiter, saying it's on the house because they're regulars. The waiter pockets $2 as a tip, and gives $1 back to each customer. How much did each customer pay? Isn't it weird that 3 * $9 + $2 != 3 * $10?
It would be fun if extraterrestrial life were to be found on Mercury before or in addition to Mars. This would make the probability of extrasolar life skyrocket, no?
"All of life’s problems can be solved with two things—duct tape and WD40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, you need duct tape. And if it doesn’t move and it should, you need WD40."
In retrospect, wouldn't free and open source software have been better off if the FSF had actively been promoting the use of the (New) BSD and MIT licenses? Or better yet, the use of unlicensed software?
If a troll decides to libel you all over the internet, the first thing you'll do will likely be to go to Google and kindly request that they strip out the results because, duh, it's libel. Google can argue all it wants that they're not responsible for the content on the sites that post it. And rightly so, as a matter of fact. Regardless, they link to it -- complete with abstract -- meaning they actively participate in the libel campaign. They're thus potentially as liable as the guy who posted the libel in question. If a troll was spamming trash at you all over the internet and Google (or Bing) wasn't linking to it, you simply wouldn't care.
It's about damn time a judge finally gave a decision in favor of the victim here.
This additionally has nothing to do with free speech, either. Libel is libel -- free speech doesn't allow you to spread outright lies about someone or some entity. You can argue whether it's libel or not in court; but once it's established it's libel, Google should be just as liable as the source for merely linking to it.
People don't change browsers much if those I know are any indicator. When they do, it typically is because one or more of three events occurred. The first is when they're actively shown an alternative by a preacher. The next is when they compare a site in different browsers and notice a material difference, eg when designing it. The last is when intense frustration leads them to actively seek alternatives.
In my (non-representative) sample, FF has been hemorrhaging irate users for several years now. And the list of thinga that irritated them seems unending. So this feels like too little, too late.
+1. The OP argument is specious. Twitter doesn't provide any intelligence on Hamas. S if you're only reason for letting Hamas post on twitter is intel, don't worry about shutting them out: it's not a source of intel.
You mean apart from a list of twitter followers? Surely many of them are journalists and intelligence agency officers, but there has to be a couple of actual among them.
The other conclusion could be that movies were less desirable to see this year or that the avengers was so disable it effected other ticket sales.
Ok, I'll bite this one...
Who else boycotted movie theaters this year because the stuff that went out was absolute garbage? FFS, Hollywood, get your act together because this year was crap to no ends.
Or then what movie did I miss? And no, I definitely won't take Avengers or Batman or James Bond for an answer. They were mediocre at best.
What you'd theoretically end up having, bitcoin or not, with an absolutely fixed amount of money and credit in circulation, is deflation if the population grows. The operating word here is money and credit.
The real question is whether bitcoin will get an kind of banking system from this or that point forward. If not, then deflation it will be, because more goods will be chasing less money; if so, then expect booms and busts like with any other fiat money, because bankers will be creating and destroying money in cycles.
While not technically a science app, I've yet to find a kid who didn't like Cut the Rope. The physics engine in it is a nice introduction to the likes of gravity, elasticity, etc.
Another good game, albeit for when she gets older, is Fat Birds. It puts you in charge of making birds cross a bridge of your making. It's fun for the parents too. (I've an architect friend who miserably failed to 3-star the couple of levels I tossed at him.)
Coal reserves are much higher than oil and gas reserves, and it's dirt cheap to extract when strip mined. The only real question is whether we'll make coal plants cleaner by using all sorts of filters.
The other is just shifting money around. (...) This *IS LEGAL*. A person or a company doing so is just cleverly playing the system.
Actually, this is only legal on paper. In practice, what's legal isn't so much about what the law says than it is about how a court sides on a case.
If you're convinced otherwise, I suggest that you put your money where your mouth lies. Specifically, create a company in a tax haven, and a subsidiary thereof in the country you live in. (If you're an employee, tell your employer that, in order to optimize your respective tax bills, you'd like to work as a consultant.) Pay yourself a reasonable salary through the local subsidiary, and then funnel the remaining profits back to yourself as dividends through the tax haven company. This is all legal on paper as long as you dutifully declare everything properly.
Tax authorities, as you might expect, see things in a very different light. When individuals and small businesses do this, they get slammed in court. Larger corporations, by contrast, get away with it in the name of keeping jobs around or of keeping financial markets alive. Or rather, did until now.
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Give it a try. Raising a kid likely is the most fulfilling thing you'll ever do in your lifetime.
Honest question: Do the misinformed leaders who advocate this in the US really represent a material segment of the population?
I'm curious to know this as well.
"Not a record low" might make sense if data was limited to the boomer generation, which it clearly isn't since they're (per TFS) reliable since 1920. In the context of a --widely documented-- plummeting of birthrates during the industrial revolution, I'd be hard pressed to think this is anything but the lowest record ever for the US. 1920, in case it needs reminding, was a year after the Spanish Flu pandemic, and in the midst of the economic depression that followed WWI -- shit tons of bad debt got liquidated almost overnight, so it didn't last like the current one. In a country that never say a battle on its soil after it entered the latter in 1917, at that.
FWIW, that birthrate seems to have "little prospects for a better economic future" written all over it. Probably for good reasons, too.
On a separate note, it might be time to open the immigration floodgates with Mexico. Oh wait!
but hopeless for working on while carrying them around. (...)
until you start typing with the device onto your lap.
Make that $$2, even. Writing on a Friday evening is challenging.
$$4? :-)
Most exams are there to gauge a student's level of knowledge, judgement or analytical skills, not their data processing ability.
You mean multiple choice tests allow to gauge any of that? Wow, who knew?
On a more serious note, two things that most aren't taught in school, or not well anyway, relate to data processing.
One is how to find with the data in the first place. Aka "Here's a tub; What's its volume?" -- leaving the student explain what he needs to measure to come up with the answer, and why.
The other is identify useless data. For instance, "Three customers give the $10 they each owe to their waiter. His boss hands $5 back to the waiter, saying it's on the house because they're regulars. The waiter pockets $2 as a tip, and gives $1 back to each customer. How much did each customer pay? Isn't it weird that 3 * $9 + $2 != 3 * $10?
It would be fun if extraterrestrial life were to be found on Mercury before or in addition to Mars. This would make the probability of extrasolar life skyrocket, no?
"All of life’s problems can be solved with two things—duct tape and WD40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, you need duct tape. And if it doesn’t move and it should, you need WD40."
Then again, sentencing its executives makes a lot of sense too.
There should be a fine and jail time for the execs who were responsible in the case of BP.
The same for banksters, for that matter.
In retrospect, wouldn't free and open source software have been better off if the FSF had actively been promoting the use of the (New) BSD and MIT licenses? Or better yet, the use of unlicensed software?
Note that Slashdot is in no way exceptional here:
http://ipv6-test.com/validate.php?url=apple.com
http://ipv6-test.com/validate.php?url=microsoft.com
http://ipv6-test.com/validate.php?url=yahoo.com
http://ipv6-test.com/validate.php?url=oracle.com
http://ipv6-test.com/validate.php?url=twitter.com
In light of the above bad examples, I was actually surprised that Internic, ICANN and the White House were IPv6-ready...
If a troll decides to libel you all over the internet, the first thing you'll do will likely be to go to Google and kindly request that they strip out the results because, duh, it's libel. Google can argue all it wants that they're not responsible for the content on the sites that post it. And rightly so, as a matter of fact. Regardless, they link to it -- complete with abstract -- meaning they actively participate in the libel campaign. They're thus potentially as liable as the guy who posted the libel in question. If a troll was spamming trash at you all over the internet and Google (or Bing) wasn't linking to it, you simply wouldn't care.
It's about damn time a judge finally gave a decision in favor of the victim here.
This additionally has nothing to do with free speech, either. Libel is libel -- free speech doesn't allow you to spread outright lies about someone or some entity. You can argue whether it's libel or not in court; but once it's established it's libel, Google should be just as liable as the source for merely linking to it.
People don't change browsers much if those I know are any indicator. When they do, it typically is because one or more of three events occurred. The first is when they're actively shown an alternative by a preacher. The next is when they compare a site in different browsers and notice a material difference, eg when designing it. The last is when intense frustration leads them to actively seek alternatives.
In my (non-representative) sample, FF has been hemorrhaging irate users for several years now. And the list of thinga that irritated them seems unending. So this feels like too little, too late.
Adding to this, if anything, the literacy rate in Gaza is higher than it is in the US:
http://www.livescience.com/3211-14-percent-adults-read.html
+1. The OP argument is specious. Twitter doesn't provide any intelligence on Hamas. S if you're only reason for letting Hamas post on twitter is intel, don't worry about shutting them out: it's not a source of intel.
You mean apart from a list of twitter followers? Surely many of them are journalists and intelligence agency officers, but there has to be a couple of actual among them.
The other conclusion could be that movies were less desirable to see this year or that the avengers was so disable it effected other ticket sales.
Ok, I'll bite this one...
Who else boycotted movie theaters this year because the stuff that went out was absolute garbage? FFS, Hollywood, get your act together because this year was crap to no ends.
Or then what movie did I miss? And no, I definitely won't take Avengers or Batman or James Bond for an answer. They were mediocre at best.
What you'd theoretically end up having, bitcoin or not, with an absolutely fixed amount of money and credit in circulation, is deflation if the population grows. The operating word here is money and credit.
The real question is whether bitcoin will get an kind of banking system from this or that point forward. If not, then deflation it will be, because more goods will be chasing less money; if so, then expect booms and busts like with any other fiat money, because bankers will be creating and destroying money in cycles.
While not technically a science app, I've yet to find a kid who didn't like Cut the Rope. The physics engine in it is a nice introduction to the likes of gravity, elasticity, etc.
Another good game, albeit for when she gets older, is Fat Birds. It puts you in charge of making birds cross a bridge of your making. It's fun for the parents too. (I've an architect friend who miserably failed to 3-star the couple of levels I tossed at him.)
If AdBlock ever became illegal, wouldn't editing one's /etc/hosts file become illegal too? Seriously...
Coal reserves are much higher than oil and gas reserves, and it's dirt cheap to extract when strip mined. The only real question is whether we'll make coal plants cleaner by using all sorts of filters.
Never believe anything until it's been officially denied. (source)
The other is just shifting money around. (...) This *IS LEGAL*. A person or a company doing so is just cleverly playing the system.
Actually, this is only legal on paper. In practice, what's legal isn't so much about what the law says than it is about how a court sides on a case.
If you're convinced otherwise, I suggest that you put your money where your mouth lies. Specifically, create a company in a tax haven, and a subsidiary thereof in the country you live in. (If you're an employee, tell your employer that, in order to optimize your respective tax bills, you'd like to work as a consultant.) Pay yourself a reasonable salary through the local subsidiary, and then funnel the remaining profits back to yourself as dividends through the tax haven company. This is all legal on paper as long as you dutifully declare everything properly.
Tax authorities, as you might expect, see things in a very different light. When individuals and small businesses do this, they get slammed in court. Larger corporations, by contrast, get away with it in the name of keeping jobs around or of keeping financial markets alive. Or rather, did until now.
Try Wall Street and the City.
The day there's an unified tax law over Europe some non-European company will step up to replace Ireland.
Unlikely. They could tax capital before it enters or leaves the EU. They cannot do so between EU countries.