Bullshit, I only talked about my personal experience and then noted I only had a data point of 1. Reading comprehension, maybe you've heard of it, it would do you to learn it.
Assuming a Republican could even get elected after the party trashes the economy (yet again), it wouldn't be easy to unwind ACA. For one thing, they have time to fix the technical glitches. They'd have a shot at fixing the programmatic glitches if the Republicans would stop acting like spoiled brats. Every entitlement has always required programmatic fixes, this will be no different. And those fixes would happen were the Republicans not hell bent on screwing Obama. I don't recall the Republicans being so worried about the economy or the health care system before the ACA. Now all of a sudden they've had a come to Jesus meeting.
And their budget objections have nothing to do with the budget. They simply do not like what the Federal government does...especially supporting Science. Science prevents them from making shit up and spewing it out over the media...ok, so it doesn't stop them, but at least it clear they are full of shit.
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Well, technically, logic only shows you what follows from what. I does not teach you what is true and what isn't true. It might help you discern an untruth if that leads to a contradiction, but it doesn't help you know what is true simpliciter.
I learned when I was 20. I never felt that learning at a younger age would have done anything for me. Rather, I valued the emphasis on math and reading which gave me an attention span of days if it was a difficult problem instead of seconds and throwing my hands up.
I guess I don't see the utility of teaching kids programming while they are young, but then I only have one data point to go on. I know from teaching logic that I would much rather the students had a good math background and the ability to think hard with a mere paper and pencil without needing immediate feedback which only translated into hand holding.
The shooter tried to by an AR-16 which can be converted to full auto but was stopped because of a background check. Want to bet how many more people he'd be able to kill if he had that?
I'm similar, I have a cell but keep it off, I only want it for road emergencies. I have finally convinced everyone that I'm not about to reply to any voice mail they leave since I'll only hear it about a month after they sent it. Luckily I do not have a job where immediate communication is necessary. Now, I find it just a weird abstraction of someone's personality that I don't care to contribute towards.
You could use Texas as a another entity that should be keep far away from anything "education" seeing as most their legislators and certainly their governor have never met a scientific theory they liked. Word is they'll be gunning for the theory of gravity next, all that relativity is likely to warp the moral compass of their kids.
I don't believe there is enough profit for MS in software for tablets. The apps are cheap and there is no upward pressure on prices. MS still needs to make Windows profits, but it won't get those through OEMs because the price of the OS relative to the hardware is too high. So MS figures they need to make tablets as well. Except there's not a lot of money in just the tablets, they need Windows on those tablets figuring they could then command Apple-like prices. But now they are in the same position as the OEMs, there's not enough profit with the software + tablet because people don't care about Windows on a tablet. It doesn't do anything for them.
MS's response to this was to produce the FrankenTablet. It's not a laptop, it isn't a tablet, it's a FrankenTablet, faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, and who, disguised as mild-mannered Windows, ready to fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Except that they produced a FrankenTablet that no one cares if it runs Windows. With Windows, they get to shove a lot of expensive MS software down the user's throat because presumably that user bought the tablet to run MS software. Except that it's a FrankenTablet, and people already have decent computers and laptops to run MS stuff.
Hmmm...so what you are saying is that libertarians are a fragile species which might be on the brink of extinction due to political climate change and evolution of ideas. This is grave. Maybe we could enact a new government program to protect them as a species. We'll need to tag them and track their movements and observe their lifestyles. I doubt we could do this without significant increase in funding for science. Damn, I guess I'll have to stop shooting them too.
Jeezes, you have a depth of -1mm. Spying serves a very useful function. It prevents surprises. It was put to good use during the Cold War. The Soviet Union could see what the U.S. was doing and visa versa. It prevent stupid things from happening based on no information or false information. Who cares if Israel spies on the U.S. The U.S. spies on Israel. It helps both side calibrate their actions.
I don't believe that your opening premise. I think MS made them look like little computers because (1) that's all MS knows and (2) they think they must tie everything to Winders. So they see smartphones, see they have processors so (1) Robot MS: Must put Winders on it, and (2) Robot MS: With Winders on it, the world is ours...bwahahahahaha!!! That's it, MS isn't very deep. That's what Jobs really understood about MS. Mind you, he didn't get that from day one, but he learned. And Gates was just as simple minded as Ballmer, but then Gates was never a geek and always a salesman, he just didn't have the MBA to back up his pointy-haired decisions.
"What can be said is that the underlying reality (what GP is referring to as "the actual underlying physical geometry") is absolutely unknowable. This is evident from the logic: if there was anyone, call him IA, who could directly perceive reality, he would still be unable to talk about it because there can be no human languages that can adequately express that kind of perception."
Assume sentence one, let sentence two restate sentence one. QED. Damn, you are some kind of logician.
"Actually, our planet has a whole industry telling poor people it's their fault for being poor and misdirecting their justifiable anger."
No fair bringing the Libertarians into this; none of them or their friends ever get sick, lose jobs, or suffer any of the calamities that can take a once prosperous and productive person and reduce him/her to a government funded liability.
Well, some, yes, but that is beside the point. I rather think they are doing it because there are likely to be more Linux sys. admins available than AIX. So, in that sense, some the money would be going to people who support Linux thus increasing the pool of Linux admins. Surely that is preferable, yes?
"increases Russian influence in the Middle East"? Syria is a failed state, now it will become Russia's tar baby because those Sunni rebels and their Arab backers aren't going to give up. And Russia just managed to piss off all the Sunni regimes in the Mid-East. The only group they look like they have a big dick to is Iran, but they aren't technically in the mid-east. This doesn't change their relationship at all.
Wow, influence in Syria, that's just worth its weight in gold isn't it. Supporting an Alawite government despised by 80% of its pop. which are Sunni is going make it big friends in the mid-east. Maybe they are doing it because Iran and their lapdogs Hezbollah are so dear to their hearts.
Lessee, say you are a basic Syrian rebel, maybe with Al Qaeda or not. You get some really fancy chem weapons (and these were upgraded weapons carrying Syrian developed upgrades). Do you (a) kill your own supporters and their women and children thereby antagonizing the lot keeping you in business in the vague hope to draw in the U.S. (recognizing that Assad has used them frequently before and nothing bad happened to him), or (b) knock of a bunch of Syrian soldiers which would gain you battlefield advantage and demoralize Assad's troops. Decisions, decisions...
Russia may give him more tanks, but they'd just give them to him anyway if that is in the cards. Assad's problem is that he cannot pay for them, and Russia wants paying now for just about everything. Putin probably realizes the biggest problem with Assad's chem. weap. is that they may not remain Assad's. Last we checked, Russia had its own share of Islamic terrorists to contend with and they'd have no problem using them against Russian civilians. That would make Putin look bad, well, even worse than he currently looks.
What upsets Putin and China is that the U.S. taking a swing at Syria leads them to think that the U.S. wouldn't mind interfering in their own relations with other countries. Putin has the Soviet Empire he's trying to put back together, and China is busy threatening its neighbors and has every intention of taking Taiwan just as soon as it can get away with it, i.e., with a weakened U.S. that cannot or will not respond.
What Assad was doing was scaring the opposition shitless with the chem. weapons. According to intelligence from several different countries, he's done this over 10 times. It was just that he happened to do it in close where there were (a) people with cameras, and (b) medical facilities to record the casualties. He was simply upping the ante because the West didn't do anything after his previous gas attacks and he knows Russia and China don't have the ethics or morals to stop him. Iran certainly won't mind a few more dead Sunnis, and neither would Hezbollah.
Who is this "they" that shipped the jobs overseas. The unemployed older workers deemed too old to "fit" into what companies have become?
The biggest problem there wasn't generational, it was cultural in a perverted sense. MBAitis took over the corporate suite. Simultaneously, open trade was also promoted by the government through trade agreements, mind you the economy would have stagnated without it. The result though was that jobs moved to the least cost producer...that is if you counted cost like yer basic dickless MBA, i.e., cost is the means of production NOW. It didn't account for experience, the ability of the company to be a company 5 years from now, happy workers willing to go above and beyond the call because the company was willing to go above and beyond the call, etc.
In short, MBAitis means getting yours now because you are more important than any cogs in the wheel, your company means nothing to you because you'll find another, your company's product means nothing to you, pride of workmanship means nothing to you, you are merely a cost-benefit analysis abstracted into a shell of a person with a depth of near nothing.
After working with youngins and oldins for nearly 40 years, there isn't a generational problem (in general), but there is a management problem.
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Bullshit, I only talked about my personal experience and then noted I only had a data point of 1. Reading comprehension, maybe you've heard of it, it would do you to learn it.
Assuming a Republican could even get elected after the party trashes the economy (yet again), it wouldn't be easy to unwind ACA. For one thing, they have time to fix the technical glitches. They'd have a shot at fixing the programmatic glitches if the Republicans would stop acting like spoiled brats. Every entitlement has always required programmatic fixes, this will be no different. And those fixes would happen were the Republicans not hell bent on screwing Obama. I don't recall the Republicans being so worried about the economy or the health care system before the ACA. Now all of a sudden they've had a come to Jesus meeting.
And their budget objections have nothing to do with the budget. They simply do not like what the Federal government does...especially supporting Science. Science prevents them from making shit up and spewing it out over the media...ok, so it doesn't stop them, but at least it clear they are full of shit.
User: Computer, could you please open MS Pooperpoint?
Computer: Pooperpoint? I don't have control of the toilet, would you like me to arrange that?
User: No! Okay, open MS Powerpoint.
Computer: Too late, I now have control of the toilet.
User: Please open MS Powerpoint.
Computer: I cannot do that, Dave, I flushed all your Powerpoint presentations, that's what you requested, yes?
User: Please go stick your head in the toilet.
Computer: ** burble bubble bibble ** Wow, that was refreshing, Dave. We here at MS Voice Control and Command Center wish to compliment you on your choice of commands.
Well, technically, logic only shows you what follows from what. I does not teach you what is true and what isn't true. It might help you discern an untruth if that leads to a contradiction, but it doesn't help you know what is true simpliciter.
I learned when I was 20. I never felt that learning at a younger age would have done anything for me. Rather, I valued the emphasis on math and reading which gave me an attention span of days if it was a difficult problem instead of seconds and throwing my hands up.
I guess I don't see the utility of teaching kids programming while they are young, but then I only have one data point to go on. I know from teaching logic that I would much rather the students had a good math background and the ability to think hard with a mere paper and pencil without needing immediate feedback which only translated into hand holding.
The shooter tried to by an AR-16 which can be converted to full auto but was stopped because of a background check. Want to bet how many more people he'd be able to kill if he had that?
I'm similar, I have a cell but keep it off, I only want it for road emergencies. I have finally convinced everyone that I'm not about to reply to any voice mail they leave since I'll only hear it about a month after they sent it. Luckily I do not have a job where immediate communication is necessary. Now, I find it just a weird abstraction of someone's personality that I don't care to contribute towards.
You could use Texas as a another entity that should be keep far away from anything "education" seeing as most their legislators and certainly their governor have never met a scientific theory they liked. Word is they'll be gunning for the theory of gravity next, all that relativity is likely to warp the moral compass of their kids.
Wow, you have a different idea of sad than I do.
I don't believe there is enough profit for MS in software for tablets. The apps are cheap and there is no upward pressure on prices. MS still needs to make
Windows profits, but it won't get those through OEMs because the price of the OS relative to the hardware is too high. So MS figures they need to make tablets as well. Except there's not a lot of money in just the tablets, they need Windows on those tablets figuring they could then command Apple-like prices. But now they are in the same position as the OEMs, there's not enough profit with the software + tablet because people don't care about Windows on a tablet. It doesn't do anything for them.
MS's response to this was to produce the FrankenTablet. It's not a laptop, it isn't a tablet, it's a FrankenTablet, faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, and who, disguised as mild-mannered Windows, ready to fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Except that they produced a FrankenTablet that no one cares if it runs Windows. With Windows, they get to shove a lot of expensive MS software down the user's throat because presumably that user bought the tablet to run MS software. Except that it's a FrankenTablet, and people already have decent computers and laptops to run MS stuff.
Maybe that's where preachers go to get inspired, "Ah can see the light!!!" Oh who am I kidding, they get their inspiration from the collection plate.
Hmmm...so what you are saying is that libertarians are a fragile species which might be on the brink of extinction due to political climate change and evolution of ideas. This is grave. Maybe we could enact a new government program to protect them as a species. We'll need to tag them and track their movements and observe their lifestyles. I doubt we could do this without significant increase in funding for science. Damn, I guess I'll have to stop shooting them too.
Jeezes, you have a depth of -1mm. Spying serves a very useful function. It prevents surprises. It was put to good use during the Cold War. The Soviet Union could see what the U.S. was doing and visa versa. It prevent stupid things from happening based on no information or false information. Who cares if Israel spies on the U.S. The U.S. spies on Israel. It helps both side calibrate their actions.
I thought I'd repeat what Desier said since there was no reason to piss on his karma:
"Has anyone else verified that the suppose hack really does work? Isn't a bit premature to claim Apple is lying off a single youtube video?"
I don't believe that your opening premise. I think MS made them look like little computers because (1) that's all MS knows and (2) they think they must tie everything to Winders. So they see smartphones, see they have processors so (1) Robot MS: Must put Winders on it, and (2) Robot MS: With Winders on it, the world is ours...bwahahahahaha!!! That's it, MS isn't very deep. That's what Jobs really understood about MS. Mind you, he didn't get that from day one, but he learned. And Gates was just as simple minded as Ballmer, but then Gates was never a geek and always a salesman, he just didn't have the MBA to back up his pointy-haired decisions.
"What can be said is that the underlying reality (what GP is referring to as "the actual underlying physical geometry") is absolutely unknowable. This is evident from the logic: if there was anyone, call him IA, who could directly perceive reality, he would still be unable to talk about it because there can be no human languages that can adequately express that kind of perception."
Assume sentence one, let sentence two restate sentence one. QED. Damn, you are some kind of logician.
"Actually, our planet has a whole industry telling poor people it's their fault for being poor and misdirecting their justifiable anger."
No fair bringing the Libertarians into this; none of them or their friends ever get sick, lose jobs, or suffer any of the calamities that can take a once prosperous and productive person and reduce him/her to a government funded liability.
Nah, I'd rather see a realtime interpreter for the boy.
Linus: You stupid motherfucking, shit-eating bastard, I vomit on your code!!
Translation Linus: You are misguided and I can help you fix your code to become a better person!!
Well, some, yes, but that is beside the point. I rather think they are doing it because there are likely to be more Linux sys. admins available than AIX. So, in that sense, some the money would be going to people who support Linux thus increasing the pool of Linux admins. Surely that is preferable, yes?
"increases Russian influence in the Middle East"? Syria is a failed state, now it will become Russia's tar baby because those Sunni rebels and their Arab backers aren't going to give up. And Russia just managed to piss off all the Sunni regimes in the Mid-East. The only group they look like they have a big dick to is Iran, but they aren't technically in the mid-east. This doesn't change their relationship at all.
Wow, influence in Syria, that's just worth its weight in gold isn't it. Supporting an Alawite government despised by 80% of its pop. which are Sunni is going make it big friends in the mid-east. Maybe they are doing it because Iran and their lapdogs Hezbollah are so dear to their hearts.
Lessee, say you are a basic Syrian rebel, maybe with Al Qaeda or not. You get some really fancy chem weapons (and these were upgraded weapons carrying Syrian developed upgrades). Do you (a) kill your own supporters and their women and children thereby antagonizing the lot keeping you in business in the vague hope to draw in the U.S. (recognizing that Assad has used them frequently before and nothing bad happened to him), or (b) knock of a bunch of Syrian soldiers which would gain you battlefield advantage and demoralize Assad's troops. Decisions, decisions...
Russia may give him more tanks, but they'd just give them to him anyway if that is in the cards. Assad's problem is that he cannot pay for them, and Russia wants paying now for just about everything. Putin probably realizes the biggest problem with Assad's chem. weap. is that they may not remain Assad's. Last we checked, Russia had its own share of Islamic terrorists to contend with and they'd have no problem using them against Russian civilians. That would make Putin look bad, well, even worse than he currently looks.
What upsets Putin and China is that the U.S. taking a swing at Syria leads them to think that the U.S. wouldn't mind interfering in their own relations with other countries. Putin has the Soviet Empire he's trying to put back together, and China is busy threatening its neighbors and has every intention of taking Taiwan just as soon as it can get away with it, i.e., with a weakened U.S. that cannot or will not respond.
What Assad was doing was scaring the opposition shitless with the chem. weapons. According to intelligence from several different countries, he's done this over 10 times. It was just that he happened to do it in close where there were (a) people with cameras, and (b) medical facilities to record the casualties. He was simply upping the ante because the West didn't do anything after his previous gas attacks and he knows Russia and China don't have the ethics or morals to stop him. Iran certainly won't mind a few more dead Sunnis, and neither would Hezbollah.
So, what was in it for Assad? In a word, Fear.
Who is this "they" that shipped the jobs overseas. The unemployed older workers deemed too old to "fit" into what companies have become?
The biggest problem there wasn't generational, it was cultural in a perverted sense. MBAitis took over the corporate suite. Simultaneously, open trade was also promoted by the government through trade agreements, mind you the economy would have stagnated without it. The result though was that jobs moved to the least cost producer...that is if you counted cost like yer basic dickless MBA, i.e., cost is the means of production NOW. It didn't account for experience, the ability of the company to be a company 5 years from now, happy workers willing to go above and beyond the call because the company was willing to go above and beyond the call, etc.
In short, MBAitis means getting yours now because you are more important than any cogs in the wheel, your company means nothing to you because you'll find another, your company's product means nothing to you, pride of workmanship means nothing to you, you are merely a cost-benefit analysis abstracted into a shell of a person with a depth of near nothing.
After working with youngins and oldins for nearly 40 years, there isn't a generational problem (in general), but there is a management problem.