I'm in between Siamese terrorists. Of my last two, neither had any mousing instruction, I got them at 6 weeks old and unless the house was overrun with mice, there was never time for the Cat Mother to teach them. Ariel was a natural mouser, Tinkerbell not quite as good but she was the runt of the litter and deferred to Ariel when a mouse snuck into the house. My only complaint was they always left me the bottom half. After all that food and attention, I thought I deserved the top half every now and again.
That, indeed, was the advice of a cat behaviorist in, where else, California. I was channel surfing one day and was amazed that a person could have that amount of metal stuff sticking into and out of his body. I presume he thought they complimented his tats. Anyhow, he visited a home with a cat that was tearing up the place. After observation, he concluded the cat felt unappreciated and stymied in its effort to express itself physically...errr...or something. Anyhow, he instituted daily walks (on a leash) and then romp-o-rama time with the humans dragging the fake mice, feathers, and other sorts of items needed to train humans. Bingo, cat problem solved, he no longer tears the place up.
The humans do now have a need to lick themselves, but tradeoffs must always be made in life. The cat now figures to be living with his own.
You are not making the right distinctions, in some sense the gp wasn't either. The Tea Party is not the old right wing of the Republican Party in the sense of Reagan. The Tea Party is essentially composed of libertarians who really do want less government including the TSA, the military, no EPA, no OSHA, no federal money for schools, etc. The older right wing of the Republican Party believes in a strong TSA, a strong military, no EPA, no OSHA, no federal money for schools, etc. The Republicans in general in the country are probably somewhere in between...at least until the terrorists acquire real weapons (chem, an odd nuke or two). The current debate over NSA and its reach is also only applicable up until the terrorists get those weapons, then there won't be that much opposition from the Libertarians except the die head Paul supporters.
"The consolation is that few excessively ruthless leaders tend to rule for very long.", Ya, I think the calculation of the flunkies runs something like "this guy is a lunatic and I might be next, let's all make him next first."
Individuals are somewhat beside the point. The real threats are armed gangs. You can defend yourself against a teenager with a gun sometimes. When a gang decides that a well-armed citizenry includes their gang as an army, then the real problems start.
Almost guaranteed employment? Care to tell that to the rest of the industries gorging on H1 visa people? Other companies would be very leery of touching any but the best of them.
Yes, if you ignore the supplier and dealer networks which would have gone titsup and those are not easily established. Just consider the problems Tesla has right now. Starting a new car company is not easy, it takes years. In the meantime, all the pensioners and workers are SOL.
Yes, well, after a few years of the economy tanking, it managed to take out GM. The housing crisis and GM tanking were not simultaneous, regardless of your faulty memory. Both Iraq and the bailouts were hotly debated in Congress before being agreed to. Your problem is selective memory and the fact they didn't do what you would have done.
Catholic Charities is quite a good organization, as are most local parishes. Concentrating on the old men in Rome as being the Catholic Church is just stupid.
Nah, let the state and federal benefits continue. A two parent household is preferable to a single parent household regardless of the sex of the parents. Just economically speaking, the kiddies will do better with mo' money to send them to college. Let the benefits continue.
There are hearings and there are hearings. Congress doesn't necessarily call hearings to get to the bottom of something (Daryl Issa's shows are cases in point).
I recently saw a hearing where the committee was grilling the head of EPA. The nasty side was the Republicans this time. The Democrats only lobbed softballs. Then they go to the Emeritus Chairman from Texas who was old when the dinosaurs were young. His line of questioning went:
Dino: "Did you stop beating your husband yet, yes or no?" EPA Woman: "Congressman is isn't a simple yes or nor question...." (Ellipses are where the CongressDino interrupted her answer) Dino: "Just answer the question, yes or no?" EPA Woman: "Congressman, in all due respect, the research shows that..." Dino: (now in apoplectic rage) "YES OR NO???" EPA Woman: "Congressman, if you would turn to the research paper you asked us for..." Dino: (now swinging from the rafters for the voters back home) "LET THE RECORD SHOW SHE REFUSES TO ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION!!!!!"
Honestly, if it had been me in the EPA administrator's position:
Dino: "Did you stop beating your wife yet, yes or no?" EPA Me: "Are you really that stupid?" Dino: "Just answer the question, yes or no?" EPA Me: "Congressman, you are too stupid to understand a reasonable reply." Dino: (now in apoplectic rage) "YES OR NO???" EPA Me: "Congressman, respectfully, blow it out your Dinosaur Ass." Dino: (now swinging from the rafters for the voters back home) "LET THE RECORD SHOW HE REFUSES TO ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION!!!!!"
And I'd get nailed for contempt of Congress, a charge I'd agree with.
Now, now. In the past, the health insurance companies were there to supply the Death Panels which decide who and to what extent the proles get covered. This prevented the Tea Party from enabling the Federal Government to provide the same service and thus giving the Tea Party the necessary fig leaves to cover their intellectual nakedness. Now that the insurance companies are being told what to provide (to some extent) and not to lock out people with prior conditions, one must ask what function the insurance companies are really providing here. One must also ask what service the Tea Party is providing and shouldn't both be put out of our misery.
The health insurance companies and the Tea Party are more or less barnacles on the good ship America.
"Of course, the second you get a cyclic dependency, the whole thing blows up." Yes and no.
Think of a state machine with one equation:
s = a s
You can code that in Haskell because Haskell has lazy evaluation. The equation (actually we'd call this a co-equation) describes an infinite string of 'a's. There is even a set theory to go with it, non-wellfounded set theory. What you cannot execute is
s = s
It is "non-productive". Many process algebra expressions are stated with co-equations. They also come with their own proof method, co-induction. It is a theorem of most process algebras that any well-formed series of equations has solution. Stated this way, it becomes a way of axiomitizing non-wellfounded set theory.
I'd vote for moving on. Companies can be quite vindictive and screw you over with any future employers. They have even been known to sue whistle-blowers.
Pure capitalism generates monopolies. Monopolies are bad, just look at the railroads in past years and the oil companies in the early part of the 20th century...or MS today. Pure capitalism generates banks that are too big to allow to fail lest they take the entire economy with them, car companies that are too big fail lest they take unemployment to ridiculously high levels, insurance companies (AIG) that couldn't be allowed to fail without taking down the credit markets, etc. Pure capitalism generates unacceptable levels of pollution, i.e., smog in L.A. before the EPA cracked the whip, Love Canal, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, etc. Pure capitalism will put fake medicine on your pharmacy shelf without a whimper of remorse. Yes, it will get taken down again after enough people die, but not until.
Pure capitalism gave us the cigarette industry and their special form of scientific reasoning about how cigarettes don't cause cancer. It helps to generate tainted food (see China and the melamine in baby formula, or the fresh produce in the U.S. which kills a few yearly before U.S. health agencies get on the case and figure out how to stop it).
Pure capitalism means no social security for grandma, no medicare for grandma, no disability for workers broken in serving capital producing industries. It means shyster lawyers with no training, shyster doctors with no degree, oil companies drilling in your back yard and fouling your water supply with no recourse by you. It means coal companies dumping their waste anywhere they see fit, even upstream of your property, it means cars with no emission controls so you get to breathe their raw exhaust (mmmm, good).
And I'm a conservative Republican although I cannot stand the ignoramuses currently running the Republican party.
You do realize that until the 60's, the U.S. had a fair number of asylums. Then it was determined that the mentally ill had rights and they were promptly discharged with many finding the street life fit them better than anything else. It turned out the mentally ill had a right to be homeless.
What is needed is a more sane approach to mental illness, especially now with so many vets suffering from PTSD. The discrimination should stop, but for that to stop people would need to be educated about mental illness....well, I guess the mentally ill are screwed then.
The prisons are filled with people that simply run into the law enforcement system before they run into a mental health system. The law enforcement system cannot force one onto meds, so the poor souls get warehoused in the prisons. When they are let out, their neuroses are that much worse because mental illness frequently does not get better on its own. Left untreated, it gets worse. By that time, the mentally ill think of prison as a refuge, so they commit another crime to back.
If by music industry you mean "record companies", I don't think they can survive on tours because any decent band is going to keep the reins to themselves. There isn't enough easy money to skim off. Not so decent bands won't draw. Individual performers already are managed by sharks, they don't need music companies sponsoring their tours.
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I'm in between Siamese terrorists. Of my last two, neither had any mousing instruction, I got them at 6 weeks old and unless the house was overrun with mice, there was never time for the Cat Mother to teach them. Ariel was a natural mouser, Tinkerbell not quite as good but she was the runt of the litter and deferred to Ariel when a mouse snuck into the house. My only complaint was they always left me the bottom half. After all that food and attention, I thought I deserved the top half every now and again.
That, indeed, was the advice of a cat behaviorist in, where else, California. I was channel surfing one day and was amazed that a person could have that amount of metal stuff sticking into and out of his body. I presume he thought they complimented his tats. Anyhow, he visited a home with a cat that was tearing up the place. After observation, he concluded the cat felt unappreciated and stymied in its effort to express itself physically...errr...or something. Anyhow, he instituted daily walks (on a leash) and then romp-o-rama time with the humans dragging the fake mice, feathers, and other sorts of items needed to train humans. Bingo, cat problem solved, he no longer tears the place up.
The humans do now have a need to lick themselves, but tradeoffs must always be made in life. The cat now figures to be living with his own.
Only in Kentucky according to the museum on early Earth history and other Biblical things.
It isn't just slashdotters, it happens with most technical forums. Ever go to a computer science conference? I'd rather play in my cats' litter box.
You are not making the right distinctions, in some sense the gp wasn't either. The Tea Party is not the old right wing of the Republican Party in the sense of Reagan. The Tea Party is essentially composed of libertarians who really do want less government including the TSA, the military, no EPA, no OSHA, no federal money for schools, etc. The older right wing of the Republican Party believes in a strong TSA, a strong military, no EPA, no OSHA, no federal money for schools, etc. The Republicans in general in the country are probably somewhere in between...at least until the terrorists acquire real weapons (chem, an odd nuke or two). The current debate over NSA and its reach is also only applicable up until the terrorists get those weapons, then there won't be that much opposition from the Libertarians except the die head Paul supporters.
No, not Turing complete, their memories were FINITE. To be Turing complete means to simulate (at least) an infinitely long tape.
"The consolation is that few excessively ruthless leaders tend to rule for very long.", Ya, I think the calculation of the flunkies runs something like "this guy is a lunatic and I might be next, let's all make him next first."
Sadly, missing the nuance of the English language a nuisance as well.
Individuals are somewhat beside the point. The real threats are armed gangs. You can defend yourself against a teenager with a gun sometimes. When a gang decides that a well-armed citizenry includes their gang as an army, then the real problems start.
Almost guaranteed employment? Care to tell that to the rest of the industries gorging on H1 visa people? Other companies would be very leery of touching any but the best of them.
Yes, if you ignore the supplier and dealer networks which would have gone titsup and those are not easily established. Just consider the problems Tesla has right now. Starting a new car company is not easy, it takes years. In the meantime, all the pensioners and workers are SOL.
Yes, well, after a few years of the economy tanking, it managed to take out GM. The housing crisis and GM tanking were not simultaneous, regardless of your faulty memory. Both Iraq and the bailouts were hotly debated in Congress before being agreed to. Your problem is selective memory and the fact they didn't do what you would have done.
Martinis!! Man, think martinis, it is the civilized way to view the spectacle.
Catholic Charities is quite a good organization, as are most local parishes. Concentrating on the old men in Rome as being the Catholic Church is just stupid.
Hear, hear, every man should have his own personal succubus. Let the fun begin!!
Nah, let the state and federal benefits continue. A two parent household is preferable to a single parent household regardless of the sex of the parents. Just economically speaking, the kiddies will do better with mo' money to send them to college. Let the benefits continue.
There are hearings and there are hearings. Congress doesn't necessarily call hearings to get to the bottom of something (Daryl Issa's shows are cases in point).
I recently saw a hearing where the committee was grilling the head of EPA. The nasty side was the Republicans this time. The Democrats only lobbed softballs. Then they go to the Emeritus Chairman from Texas who was old when the dinosaurs were young. His line of questioning went:
Dino: "Did you stop beating your husband yet, yes or no?"
EPA Woman: "Congressman is isn't a simple yes or nor question...." (Ellipses are where the CongressDino interrupted her answer)
Dino: "Just answer the question, yes or no?"
EPA Woman: "Congressman, in all due respect, the research shows that..."
Dino: (now in apoplectic rage) "YES OR NO???"
EPA Woman: "Congressman, if you would turn to the research paper you asked us for..."
Dino: (now swinging from the rafters for the voters back home) "LET THE RECORD SHOW SHE REFUSES TO ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION!!!!!"
Honestly, if it had been me in the EPA administrator's position:
Dino: "Did you stop beating your wife yet, yes or no?"
EPA Me: "Are you really that stupid?"
Dino: "Just answer the question, yes or no?"
EPA Me: "Congressman, you are too stupid to understand a reasonable reply."
Dino: (now in apoplectic rage) "YES OR NO???"
EPA Me: "Congressman, respectfully, blow it out your Dinosaur Ass."
Dino: (now swinging from the rafters for the voters back home) "LET THE RECORD SHOW HE REFUSES TO ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION!!!!!"
And I'd get nailed for contempt of Congress, a charge I'd agree with.
Now, now. In the past, the health insurance companies were there to supply the Death Panels which decide who and to what extent the proles get covered. This prevented the Tea Party from enabling the Federal Government to provide the same service and thus giving the Tea Party the necessary fig leaves to cover their intellectual nakedness. Now that the insurance companies are being told what to provide (to some extent) and not to lock out people with prior conditions, one must ask what function the insurance companies are really providing here. One must also ask what service the Tea Party is providing and shouldn't both be put out of our misery.
The health insurance companies and the Tea Party are more or less barnacles on the good ship America.
"Of course, the second you get a cyclic dependency, the whole thing blows up." Yes and no.
Think of a state machine with one equation:
s = a s
You can code that in Haskell because Haskell has lazy evaluation. The equation (actually we'd call this a co-equation) describes an infinite string of 'a's. There is even a set theory to go with it, non-wellfounded set theory. What you cannot execute is
s = s
It is "non-productive". Many process algebra expressions are stated with co-equations. They also come with their own proof method, co-induction. It is a theorem of most process algebras that any well-formed series of equations has solution. Stated this way, it becomes a way of axiomitizing non-wellfounded set theory.
Preventing needless death gets lower priority because we have more important things to worry about? Name one.
I'd vote for moving on. Companies can be quite vindictive and screw you over with any future employers. They have even been known to sue whistle-blowers.
Pure capitalism generates monopolies. Monopolies are bad, just look at the railroads in past years and the oil companies in the early part of the 20th century...or MS today. Pure capitalism generates banks that are too big to allow to fail lest they take the entire economy with them, car companies that are too big fail lest they take unemployment to ridiculously high levels, insurance companies (AIG) that couldn't be allowed to fail without taking down the credit markets, etc. Pure capitalism generates unacceptable levels of pollution, i.e., smog in L.A. before the EPA cracked the whip, Love Canal, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, etc. Pure capitalism will put fake medicine on your pharmacy shelf without a whimper of remorse. Yes, it will get taken down again after enough people die, but not until.
Pure capitalism gave us the cigarette industry and their special form of scientific reasoning about how cigarettes don't cause cancer. It helps to generate tainted food (see China and the melamine in baby formula, or the fresh produce in the U.S. which kills a few yearly before U.S. health agencies get on the case and figure out how to stop it).
Pure capitalism means no social security for grandma, no medicare for grandma, no disability for workers broken in serving capital producing industries. It means shyster lawyers with no training, shyster doctors with no degree, oil companies drilling in your back yard and fouling your water supply with no recourse by you. It means coal companies dumping their waste anywhere they see fit, even upstream of your property, it means cars with no emission controls so you get to breathe their raw exhaust (mmmm, good).
And I'm a conservative Republican although I cannot stand the ignoramuses currently running the Republican party.
You do realize that until the 60's, the U.S. had a fair number of asylums. Then it was determined that the mentally ill had rights and they were promptly discharged with many finding the street life fit them better than anything else. It turned out the mentally ill had a right to be homeless.
What is needed is a more sane approach to mental illness, especially now with so many vets suffering from PTSD. The discrimination should stop, but for that to stop people would need to be educated about mental illness....well, I guess the mentally ill are screwed then.
The prisons are filled with people that simply run into the law enforcement system before they run into a mental health system. The law enforcement system cannot force one onto meds, so the poor souls get warehoused in the prisons. When they are let out, their neuroses are that much worse because mental illness frequently does not get better on its own. Left untreated, it gets worse. By that time, the mentally ill think of prison as a refuge, so they commit another crime to back.
If by music industry you mean "record companies", I don't think they can survive on tours because any decent band is going to keep the reins to themselves. There isn't enough easy money to skim off. Not so decent bands won't draw. Individual performers already are managed by sharks, they don't need music companies sponsoring their tours.
Actually, Nicko McBrain did become a born again Christian about 1999. However, he doesn't find that incompatible with Iron Maiden.