I've listened to and watched BBC news (radio, TV, and web). My own impression is that they have a problem in covering anything in depth. Important facts are left out, obvious questions go unanswered. I still listen and watch them, but I never rely on them for the full story. American news isn't all that different but they do drop the ball in different areas, and they are much more slanted when they aren't doing one-on-one interviews. The BBC one-on-one interviewers are much too enamored with themselves, and that translates into a sort of snarky slant that the interviewee must be lying because it isn't confirming the interviewer's oversized ego.
Really? Let's take social security. It would be okay if Grandma came and lived with you, right? Her meds are a bit on the expensive side but as you say, time will solve the problem...one way or another.
How about clean air and water? It took the EPA cracking the whip before the U.S. made an attempt to fix the problem. Of course capitalism and time would have solved the problem....eventually...maybe when no life could survive any longer.
Maybe we should let the FDA get out of the way and allow Joe's Bait and Body Shop put those magic pills on the market...you know the ones, that over time will cure you of everything...because you won't feel any more pain six feet under.
Carbon dioxide is warming the planet and acidifying the oceans. How long must we wait for capitalism and time to solve that problem? If the Earth tips into run away greenhouse effect 30 years from now because of what we did over the next 10 years, would that be too late for capitalism to ride to the rescue because time will only allow us to see more hotness.
Government came in handy when Japan and Germany decided the world needed to bow to their loving embrace.
So, put quickly, maybe it would help if you thought out the consequences of your thought before you write it down for the rest of us to point out the weird little world you wish to live in.
Yes, well, maybe. Might it be that where you live matters when it comes to voting time? If most blacks live in higher density areas rather than out in the country (with respect to whites), then there is going to be a longer wait. How about you track blacks and whites that live in the country and then blacks and white in the cities. But then that would obscure the conclusion you were aiming to draw.
That does appear to be changing now that Michigan finally got pissed off enough to pay attention to the problem. And the grand parent is (in my view, incorrect). Detroit's biggest problem was corruption and the stupidity of the car companies, not racism.
"Very few of them are actually very intelligent." How do you know this? There are thousands of CEOs in the U.S. Somehow, very few of them are intelligent yet the U.S. is THE country in economic clout in the world?
There is a little read Mark Twain book, Puddin'Head Wilson. Two babies were swapped at birth, one raised "white" and one raised "black". Neither could escape the culture they were raised in.
Correcting for economic status and family structure, Asians who are here 3 generations or more do no better or worse than other generations of Americans who have been here at least that long.
The reason seems to be that to come to the U.S., you have to really want to succeed and hence the kiddies are pushed harder, and they feel they have make up for their immigrant status by trying harder.
And this makes affirmative action even trickier to make work. The problem, in my eyes, are we are pushing at the wrong end. Starting by fixing grade school and high school education. That's easy to say, it is not easy to do. Some cultural pressures denigrate scholastic success by labeling it "white". Think about that, how perverted is the notion that scholastic success is associated with a racial group. That's racism.
I see the results of a single course in philosophy. You are aware that Newton was a philosopher...had something to do with calculus, maybe you've heard of it.
Ever hear of Jon Barwise. Did seminal work on philosophy of language. Helped develop non-wellfounded set theory which we use to produce models of security for....get this, security problems in engineering systems.
I think it is more accurate to say, "...because some men, allegedly holy, interpret a 1700 year old book to say a sky man created the earth in 7 days".
One thing that religious people fail to recognize is that society didn't lock up or medicate people 4000 to well under 1000 years ago for hearing voices. One aspect of these people (yes, even today) is that frequently they are very "religious" and fixated on the holy book du jure. Hearing voices from unseen entities could only mean for these societies that they were hearing angels, devils, saints, G-d, but not Allah...apparently Allah is so "other" that he doesn't communicate directly, he's got himself an escape clause (isn't is always the way) that allows him to use angels as intermediaries. And let's face it, which nice Muslim wants to be stoned for claiming to hear Allah on the line, an angel though is acceptable.
Angel: I command you to perform jihad against apostates. Guy: Err....why? Angel: (Allah, what'll I tell this guy....tell him, tell him, it is Allah's will) It is Allah's will. Guy: Well, that settles it! Allahu Akbar, praise Allah and pass the ammunition, gonna kill me some apostates!!!
Guy: Are you an apostate? Guy 2: Who wants to know? Guy: Allah. Now are you or aren't you? I gotta kill me an apostate. Guy 2: Nope, not me...but that fellar down the street who I think nicked my camel, he's definitely an apostate.
Who's worried about the birds, it's the bears I worry about. Ever see one of them piss? Niagara Falls would blush. And they are pissing in our reservoirs.
Before we absolve the sainted American people of medication, who's taking the illegal drugs, binge drinking, etc.? A good segment of the American people is predisposed to self-medication for whatever they think ails them.
He's a funny G-d!! Men pee out of the same organ they use to have sex. Yeah, it might optimize the plumbing but I rather think quite a few Heavenly jokes get cracked about that one. The Universe periodically tries to kill us. Gamma ray bursters, asteroids, comets, Madonna...these are not the acts of a vengeful G-d, this guy has a sense of humor. Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, Paris Hilton...c'mon, it's a dead giveaway. Shopping malls AND Karl Marx, the mind boggles, G-d is funny guy.
Yep, and where would this water come from? The Great Lakes perhaps...not on your grandmother's grave. The Great Lake states will not allow you to decrease the water level of those lakes because they need them for shipping. Aquifers? The farmers in Nebraska, Oklahoma Arkansas, and Texas are already draining the Ogallala Aquifer. And due to the drier conditions in those states due to increased temperature lately, the aquifer is not getting replenished as it should. The Mississippi River, see the Great Lakes.
Hey, cut him some slack, he's evolving. One doesn't evolve overnight, it requires mediation time, time to kick the can down the road, time to figure out how to procrastinate in the hopes the current problem will go away all by itself due to magical influences such as pixie dust and clicking one's glittering slippers while uttering "We're not in Chicago anymore".
Self-correcting is relative to time. Many make the assumption that the time base is short and so destructive policies will have relatively immediate consequences. This is what confuses the global climate debate and the argument that when it gets hot enough, we'll switch to something non-carbon based. If the time base is short, that might work. However, if what we pump now means a runaway greenhouse effect 20-30 years from now, then we're screwed 20-30 years from now and no amount of "market forces" will fix that.
Clint Eastwood had it right, "Do ya feel lucky...?"
If I had to guess, it the problem isn't selling the used grain to farmers that the FDA is worried about. There's nothing stopping the breweries from selling it to anyone.
That said, it is rather stupid. Presumably, there are rules and regs for the breweries to use the grain. Those are sufficient to protect the beer swilling population. Given the heating process, it is probably safer after use than before. So this sounds like there is a use not captured in an FDA rule, and hence the regulators feel the need to fill the vacuum.
This is probably another aspect of the current state of the U.S. where every misdeed must be regulated to that it can be litigated. I heard a program on NPR that seriously considered micro-slights. Those are slights where some one inadvertently says something like "you people" when referring to one of the sanctioned victim classes. Everyone don their mental condoms now and head for the home on the range...where nary is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day. Soon, Garrison Keillor will be President and we'll all be above average.
Yes and no. If you aren't careful, you'll wind up with a dirty snowball which wasn't so much designed as it was congealed. Modularity will not save you. If your site won't scale, then you are going to need a new design.
I agree with starting small though, as long as the tradeoffs are understood and management doesn't cough up a hairball when a redesign is necessary.
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I've listened to and watched BBC news (radio, TV, and web). My own impression is that they have a problem in covering anything in depth. Important facts are left out, obvious questions go unanswered. I still listen and watch them, but I never rely on them for the full story. American news isn't all that different but they do drop the ball in different areas, and they are much more slanted when they aren't doing one-on-one interviews. The BBC one-on-one interviewers are much too enamored with themselves, and that translates into a sort of snarky slant that the interviewee must be lying because it isn't confirming the interviewer's oversized ego.
Stick a straw in it. Presumably if you can eat it, it is rather easily punctured.
Everett Dirksen, is that you?
Really? Let's take social security. It would be okay if Grandma came and lived with you, right? Her meds are a bit on the expensive side but as you say, time will solve the problem...one way or another.
How about clean air and water? It took the EPA cracking the whip before the U.S. made an attempt to fix the problem. Of course capitalism and time would have solved the problem....eventually...maybe when no life could survive any longer.
Maybe we should let the FDA get out of the way and allow Joe's Bait and Body Shop put those magic pills on the market...you know the ones, that over time will cure you of everything...because you won't feel any more pain six feet under.
Carbon dioxide is warming the planet and acidifying the oceans. How long must we wait for capitalism and time to solve that problem? If the Earth tips into run away greenhouse effect 30 years from now because of what we did over the next 10 years, would that be too late for capitalism to ride to the rescue because time will only allow us to see more hotness.
Government came in handy when Japan and Germany decided the world needed to bow to their loving embrace.
So, put quickly, maybe it would help if you thought out the consequences of your thought before you write it down for the rest of us to point out the weird little world you wish to live in.
Yes, well, maybe. Might it be that where you live matters when it comes to voting time? If most blacks live in higher density areas rather than out in the country (with respect to whites), then there is going to be a longer wait. How about you track blacks and whites that live in the country and then blacks and white in the cities. But then that would obscure the conclusion you were aiming to draw.
That does appear to be changing now that Michigan finally got pissed off enough to pay attention to the problem. And the grand parent is (in my view, incorrect). Detroit's biggest problem was corruption and the stupidity of the car companies, not racism.
"Very few of them are actually very intelligent." How do you know this? There are thousands of CEOs in the U.S. Somehow, very few of them are intelligent yet the U.S. is THE country in economic clout in the world?
There is a little read Mark Twain book, Puddin'Head Wilson. Two babies were swapped at birth, one raised "white" and one raised "black". Neither could escape the culture they were raised in.
Correcting for economic status and family structure, Asians who are here 3 generations or more do no better or worse than other generations of Americans who have been here at least that long.
The reason seems to be that to come to the U.S., you have to really want to succeed and hence the kiddies are pushed harder, and they feel they have make up for their immigrant status by trying harder.
And this makes affirmative action even trickier to make work. The problem, in my eyes, are we are pushing at the wrong end. Starting by fixing grade school and high school education. That's easy to say, it is not easy to do. Some cultural pressures denigrate scholastic success by labeling it "white". Think about that, how perverted is the notion that scholastic success is associated with a racial group. That's racism.
Yeah, 'cause science and tech hasn't advanced in 50 years.
I see the results of a single course in philosophy. You are aware that Newton was a philosopher...had something to do with calculus, maybe you've heard of it.
Ever hear of Jon Barwise. Did seminal work on philosophy of language. Helped develop non-wellfounded set theory which we use to produce models of security for....get this, security problems in engineering systems.
I think it is more accurate to say, "...because some men, allegedly holy, interpret a 1700 year old book to say a sky man created the earth in 7 days".
One thing that religious people fail to recognize is that society didn't lock up or medicate people 4000 to well under 1000 years ago for hearing voices. One aspect of these people (yes, even today) is that frequently they are very "religious" and fixated on the holy book du jure. Hearing voices from unseen entities could only mean for these societies that they were hearing angels, devils, saints, G-d, but not Allah...apparently Allah is so "other" that he doesn't communicate directly, he's got himself an escape clause (isn't is always the way) that allows him to use angels as intermediaries. And let's face it, which nice Muslim wants to be stoned for claiming to hear Allah on the line, an angel though is acceptable.
Angel: I command you to perform jihad against apostates.
Guy: Err....why?
Angel: (Allah, what'll I tell this guy....tell him, tell him, it is Allah's will) It is Allah's will.
Guy: Well, that settles it! Allahu Akbar, praise Allah and pass the ammunition, gonna kill me some apostates!!!
Guy: Are you an apostate?
Guy 2: Who wants to know?
Guy: Allah. Now are you or aren't you? I gotta kill me an apostate.
Guy 2: Nope, not me...but that fellar down the street who I think nicked my camel, he's definitely an apostate.
So you say you took a philosophy course and now you can damn the entire field? That's some high-powered thinking right there.
Who's worried about the birds, it's the bears I worry about. Ever see one of them piss? Niagara Falls would blush. And they are pissing in our reservoirs.
Before we absolve the sainted American people of medication, who's taking the illegal drugs, binge drinking, etc.? A good segment of the American people is predisposed to self-medication for whatever they think ails them.
He's a funny G-d!! Men pee out of the same organ they use to have sex. Yeah, it might optimize the plumbing but I rather think quite a few Heavenly jokes get cracked about that one. The Universe periodically tries to kill us. Gamma ray bursters, asteroids, comets, Madonna...these are not the acts of a vengeful G-d, this guy has a sense of humor. Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, Paris Hilton...c'mon, it's a dead giveaway. Shopping malls AND Karl Marx, the mind boggles, G-d is funny guy.
Yep, and where would this water come from? The Great Lakes perhaps...not on your grandmother's grave. The Great Lake states will not allow you to decrease the water level of those lakes because they need them for shipping. Aquifers? The farmers in Nebraska, Oklahoma Arkansas, and Texas are already draining the Ogallala Aquifer. And due to the drier conditions in those states due to increased temperature lately, the aquifer is not getting replenished as it should. The Mississippi River, see the Great Lakes.
Hey, cut him some slack, he's evolving. One doesn't evolve overnight, it requires mediation time, time to kick the can down the road, time to figure out how to procrastinate in the hopes the current problem will go away all by itself due to magical influences such as pixie dust and clicking one's glittering slippers while uttering "We're not in Chicago anymore".
I think he's saying Jesus will return to implement pre-existing conditions and be very involved with the health care debate.
Self-correcting is relative to time. Many make the assumption that the time base is short and so destructive policies will have relatively immediate consequences. This is what confuses the global climate debate and the argument that when it gets hot enough, we'll switch to something non-carbon based. If the time base is short, that might work. However, if what we pump now means a runaway greenhouse effect 20-30 years from now, then we're screwed 20-30 years from now and no amount of "market forces" will fix that.
Clint Eastwood had it right, "Do ya feel lucky...?"
If I had to guess, it the problem isn't selling the used grain to farmers that the FDA is worried about. There's nothing stopping the breweries from selling it to anyone.
That said, it is rather stupid. Presumably, there are rules and regs for the breweries to use the grain. Those are sufficient to protect the beer swilling population. Given the heating process, it is probably safer after use than before. So this sounds like there is a use not captured in an FDA rule, and hence the regulators feel the need to fill the vacuum.
This is probably another aspect of the current state of the U.S. where every misdeed must be regulated to that it can be litigated. I heard a program on NPR that seriously considered micro-slights. Those are slights where some one inadvertently says something like "you people" when referring to one of the sanctioned victim classes. Everyone don their mental condoms now and head for the home on the range...where nary is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day. Soon, Garrison Keillor will be President and we'll all be above average.
And it better have RPN, I still cannot use anything TI ever produced.
My HP-45 from 1974 still works fine.
Yes and no. If you aren't careful, you'll wind up with a dirty snowball which wasn't so much designed as it was congealed. Modularity will not save you. If your site won't scale, then you are going to need a new design.
I agree with starting small though, as long as the tradeoffs are understood and management doesn't cough up a hairball when a redesign is necessary.
If "glork" isn't an English word, it should be. The mean would be something like the contravariant meaning of "grok".
Programmer 1: did you grok that function?
Programmer 2: nope, it glorked any thought I had about the spec.