Why should people who never use the Highways pay for them? If they only take the bus and use trains or airplanes for longer trips then why should they pay for highways with their taxes?
You'll pay for it anyway because everything you touch in your life has something to do with road transportation.
1. Produce company needs to ship vegetables to the market 2. Their trucks need to use, and pay for, private road use to get their produce to market. 3. They mark up their prices accordingly. 4. You pay higher price, which includes road use.
Name a commercial transaction that doesn't have someone driving somewhere as a previous step. Since everyone will need to pay for it anyway, just make it a tax. Problem solved, and without funneling (more) of your money into the hands of private individuals, who will take a big 'ol chunk of profit out, making the whole thing more expensive in the long run.
How was the student's algebra education? That's the introduction to the abstraction of variables. The computer scientist who doesn't deeply grok abstraction gets precisely nowhere.
I have to take a moment to recount (or brag about) something I did in 3rd grade (8 years old or so) that I remember very distinctly. We were working some kind of xeroxed workbook sheet (late 80s) and I was supposed to write several words in some tiny little box (forgot the reason, maybe matching items?). Since I didn't have room to actually write in the box, I remember putting an "ABC" in the box, and where I had more room at the bottom of the page wrote "ABC means..." and then whatever words were supposed to go in the box. At this point the only computer experience I had was playing with a Mac Classic for a bout 4 years, games only. So it's not like I knew about abstract symbolism from programming or anything. Always makes me wonder if anyone else in my class thought like that.
I get the feeling that better prenatal care of the mother would prevent a lot of those premature births. A lot more than better incubators, I'm sure.
Then again, maybe those premie babies wouldn't have made it at all if it weren't for good prenatal care. Kind of like the statistic that the US ranks like 37th in the world in terms of infant mortality. It's probably not because of poor care, but because of exceptional care. All those infants that died after birth probably would have been stillborn/killed the mother by dying in the womb. The babies would be just as dead, but not classified as "infant mortality".
Yeah, but when you're talking about a data stream over a network, does a measurement of bytes per second refer to payload only, or total number of possible bit transitions divided by eight? Consider that the overhead/payload ratio is going to vary based on high-level protocol, even when the physical & data link layers are identical (eg HTTP vs FTP). That's why communications links are generally rated in bits per second rather than bytes per second.
You could say exactly the same thing about bits per second. Does that include headers/CRC/overhead, or is it just data? Mbps/8 = MBps, so long as you keep your definitions the same.
5 people ask 50,000 questions, and the other 250,000 people who ask 1 question are ignoring them. They're over-represented because they're rabid.
Just like how a huge majority of complaints to the FCC about indecency on TV are from the Parent's Television Council, or whatever the hell they're called. It's a small organization, certainly not more than tiny tiny fraction of 1% of the population. They're just "pumped up" and rabid.
I wrote a recursive descent parser (for a subset of PASCAL), with fully functional lexical, syntactic, and semantic analyzers, all without the benefit of LEX, YACC, Bison, etc. The grammar we were given wasn't even LL1, and we had to remove recursion by hand. Hell, everything was by hand.
Of course, I implemented it in Java, so at least that part was easy.
Same thing goes for the United States having a much higher rate of infant mortality than some less developed countries...it's because more high-risk pregnancies in the US make it to term, thus more high-risk babies are born. If the baby had died in-utero or been stillborn, or the mother died before the birth, the child would be just as dead but not classified as infant mortality.
Same thing with high cancer rates in the US. That's because *everyone* gets some kind of cancer if they live long enough not to be killed by something else.
If you're restricting your argument that far, the only difference between 2 of ANYTHING is time.
Only difference between me being employed and unemployed? Time! Only difference between a hotdog and a pile of poop? Time! Only difference between
Give me a break. The only difference between me being alive today and being dead from natural causes in 50 years is time. So may as well kill me know since it's going to happen anyway?
Or how about getting in a fight with someone? Is me beating up a 32 year old the same as beating up a baby? They're only seperated by time!
IIRC, the way to tell is if the word is Latin or Greek rooted.
If it's Latin rooted, you do the "i" thing. If it's Greek rooted, you do the "ses" thing.
E.g. "octopus" is Greek rooted, so it's "octopuses", not "octopi". Quoth wikipedia:
"The Oxford English Dictionary... notes that octopi derives from the mistaken assumption that octps is a second declension Latin noun, which it is not. Rather, it is (Latinized) Greek, from oktpous (), gender masculine, whose plural is oktpodes ()."
So maybe "octopodes" is most accurate? Eh, I'm hanging up my amateur pendant hat.
A bunch of banks packaged mortgage products together under a very elegant (and beautiful imho) design that nicely divvied up the risk and reward based on the unique, individual needs of various parties.
Yeah, the military doesn't make a good police force, but the police usually don't do very well when their police stations are attacked by "criminals" with rockets, mortars, and machine guns.
I read an interview with some highway patrol/state police chief/captain (I can't find the link, someone help me out) that stated that driving the speed limit was considered a suspicious behavior, just like avoiding eye-contact with the officer and other behavioral cues are considered suspicious
Read that again and let it sink in. The law is violated so often that police TARGET law-abiding citizens because the police think the law-abider is trying to stay "under the radar". You can get pulled over for not breaking the law.
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Why should people who never use the Highways pay for them? If they only take the bus and use trains or airplanes for longer trips then why should they pay for highways with their taxes?
You'll pay for it anyway because everything you touch in your life has something to do with road transportation.
1. Produce company needs to ship vegetables to the market
2. Their trucks need to use, and pay for, private road use to get their produce to market.
3. They mark up their prices accordingly.
4. You pay higher price, which includes road use.
Name a commercial transaction that doesn't have someone driving somewhere as a previous step. Since everyone will need to pay for it anyway, just make it a tax. Problem solved, and without funneling (more) of your money into the hands of private individuals, who will take a big 'ol chunk of profit out, making the whole thing more expensive in the long run.
Only if everyone else doesn't know about the leap second. If they're all waiting that extra second, and you're not, you'd be the one to shout early.
How was the student's algebra education? That's the introduction to the abstraction of variables. The computer scientist who doesn't deeply grok abstraction gets precisely nowhere.
I have to take a moment to recount (or brag about) something I did in 3rd grade (8 years old or so) that I remember very distinctly. We were working some kind of xeroxed workbook sheet (late 80s) and I was supposed to write several words in some tiny little box (forgot the reason, maybe matching items?). Since I didn't have room to actually write in the box, I remember putting an "ABC" in the box, and where I had more room at the bottom of the page wrote "ABC means..." and then whatever words were supposed to go in the box. At this point the only computer experience I had was playing with a Mac Classic for a bout 4 years, games only. So it's not like I knew about abstract symbolism from programming or anything. Always makes me wonder if anyone else in my class thought like that.
I get the feeling that better prenatal care of the mother would prevent a lot of those premature births. A lot more than better incubators, I'm sure.
Then again, maybe those premie babies wouldn't have made it at all if it weren't for good prenatal care. Kind of like the statistic that the US ranks like 37th in the world in terms of infant mortality. It's probably not because of poor care, but because of exceptional care. All those infants that died after birth probably would have been stillborn/killed the mother by dying in the womb. The babies would be just as dead, but not classified as "infant mortality".
Yeah, I'm 5'7" and live in the US. I'm short, but not *that* short. 5'10" isn't bad at all, it's only 2 inches from being a full 6'.
I have an Indian friend (Dravidian/Tamil) who's 5'0". THAT's short. :)
Yeah, but when you're talking about a data stream over a network, does a measurement of bytes per second refer to payload only, or total number of possible bit transitions divided by eight?
Consider that the overhead/payload ratio is going to vary based on high-level protocol, even when the physical & data link layers are identical (eg HTTP vs FTP).
That's why communications links are generally rated in bits per second rather than bytes per second.
You could say exactly the same thing about bits per second. Does that include headers/CRC/overhead, or is it just data? Mbps/8 = MBps, so long as you keep your definitions the same.
HACK THE PLANET!
Type "cookie", you idiot!
5 people ask 50,000 questions, and the other 250,000 people who ask 1 question are ignoring them. They're over-represented because they're rabid.
Just like how a huge majority of complaints to the FCC about indecency on TV are from the Parent's Television Council, or whatever the hell they're called. It's a small organization, certainly not more than tiny tiny fraction of 1% of the population. They're just "pumped up" and rabid.
I wrote a recursive descent parser (for a subset of PASCAL), with fully functional lexical, syntactic, and semantic analyzers, all without the benefit of LEX, YACC, Bison, etc. The grammar we were given wasn't even LL1, and we had to remove recursion by hand. Hell, everything was by hand.
Of course, I implemented it in Java, so at least that part was easy.
Man, grad school was awesome. :)
Excellent point.
Same thing goes for the United States having a much higher rate of infant mortality than some less developed countries...it's because more high-risk pregnancies in the US make it to term, thus more high-risk babies are born. If the baby had died in-utero or been stillborn, or the mother died before the birth, the child would be just as dead but not classified as infant mortality.
Same thing with high cancer rates in the US. That's because *everyone* gets some kind of cancer if they live long enough not to be killed by something else.
Yawn.
If you're restricting your argument that far, the only difference between 2 of ANYTHING is time.
Only difference between me being employed and unemployed? Time! Only difference between a hotdog and a pile of poop? Time! Only difference between
Give me a break. The only difference between me being alive today and being dead from natural causes in 50 years is time. So may as well kill me know since it's going to happen anyway?
Or how about getting in a fight with someone? Is me beating up a 32 year old the same as beating up a baby? They're only seperated by time!
IIRC, the way to tell is if the word is Latin or Greek rooted.
If it's Latin rooted, you do the "i" thing. If it's Greek rooted, you do the "ses" thing.
E.g. "octopus" is Greek rooted, so it's "octopuses", not "octopi". Quoth wikipedia:
"The Oxford English Dictionary ... notes that octopi derives from the mistaken assumption that octps is a second declension Latin noun, which it is not. Rather, it is (Latinized) Greek, from oktpous (), gender masculine, whose plural is oktpodes ()."
So maybe "octopodes" is most accurate? Eh, I'm hanging up my amateur pendant hat.
This argument is soooo easy to refute:
A baby is sentient. A 1st trimester fetus is not.
Do not kill sentient beings. Killing things that have the potential to become sentient beings is OK.
That's it. Simple enough.
A bunch of banks packaged mortgage products together under a very elegant (and beautiful imho) design that nicely divvied up the risk and reward based on the unique, individual needs of various parties.
A troll too far, sir. You give yourself away!
Yeah, the military doesn't make a good police force, but the police usually don't do very well when their police stations are attacked by "criminals" with rockets, mortars, and machine guns.
I see you've never visited download Los Angeles.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to loose. - Janis Joplin
Glaven!
More like this. What a great series that was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exo_squad
No way, it's "Cogito ergo spud":
I think, therefore I yam!
I read an interview with some highway patrol/state police chief/captain (I can't find the link, someone help me out) that stated that driving the speed limit was considered a suspicious behavior, just like avoiding eye-contact with the officer and other behavioral cues are considered suspicious
Read that again and let it sink in. The law is violated so often that police TARGET law-abiding citizens because the police think the law-abider is trying to stay "under the radar". You can get pulled over for not breaking the law.
That is fucking ridiculous.
I really like cool hacks like this, but I wonder how long it will be before someone starts to enforce it..?
Um, probably never?
I just watched Starship Troopers last night (in HD!).
Most people outside Alaska are unaware that he was literally named Alaskan of the Century. Think about that for a moment.
Yeah, there must have been, what, 3 other contenders?
I've read many dozens of good sci-fi books, but the Homecoming series has to be the MOST BORING series I have ever read.
More boring than the Wheel of Time (not sci-fi, but still). Yeah, that's right. Wanna fidabboudit? :)
That sort of sounds like "Kiln People" by David Brin. Fantastic book.