Ron Paul's answer to just about everything is to bring the U.S. back to those euphoric times of the 1930's. How about the gold standard? The man is too stupid to realize there isn't enough gold in the U.S. or the world to return to that.
Paul would leave the Mid-East to those totally well-adjusted Mid-Eastern peoples. He wishes the U.S. wasn't dependent on oil, but he doesn't have the faintest of fuzzies on what would happen if that oil gets cut off, nor does he know how to defend U.S. access to it.
He'd turn the Pacific into China's pet poodles. You know the Chinese, they have America's best interests at heart. He'd also turn S. Korea over to the N. Koreans just 'cause, y'know, the war was over long ago, why should the U.S. care about a free and prosperous trading partner like S. Korea.
He is correct on pulling troops out of Europe, if the Euro-Weenies are not capable of defending themselves given their economy and no threats, then we cannot do it for them.
The man doesn't believe in any sort of public investment. The U.S. interstate system would never have been built if it were up to him. And you know what a boondoggle that's turned out to be.
What makes you think the Pakistanis are so well-adjusted that they see the situation as you do. By all accounts, they are not. Just look at the amount of their military is positioned to repel the Indian invasion they just know is coming because they believe India wants access to the untold...well...something but it isn't riches, of Pakistan.
Actually, the U.S. does care and would wish India would )&)(*^%$ stop it. The administration isn't saying that in public for probably trade reasons.
The reason the U.S. does care is because of missile and nuclear technology proliferation, and the fact that those crazy Pakistanis will now feel their manhood has been threatened and will attempt to build a bigger missile and similarly weaponize it with nuclear naughtiness. And the Pakistanis are not sheepish about spreading the technology around especially now that after their 67th or so year of mismanagement, the country is poor simply because they couldn't stand to live in peace with the Indians. Call it the Islam Tax.
Apple's argument (chicken vs. egg thing here) is that they cannot build their iStuff in the U.S. because there aren't companies of the size of Foxconn that can make much of what's necessary to go into the device. And, they claim the companies in the U.S. don't have the development engineers and production lines under the same roof which gives Foxconn a high level of quickness when Apple wants something.
Now, if American companies hadn't been shifting everything to China, then it might have been possible to stitch together a development industry for Apple here. I somewhat doubt that a company the size of Foxconn could exist here, though. First off, the Unions would think of it as a juicy canape. The local governments would be having a field day taxing it to death (see what happened to Bethlehem Steel in Western New York).
On a brighter note, Giorgio Tsoukalos predicts Aliens are responsible for, well, just about everything. I'm sure THEY'D know how to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.
No, there is a way, it is called the Board of Directors. However, if the Board is made up a patsies for management, well, then there's no adult watching over the management. It's disgusting how modern Corporate has distorted their environment make it guaranteed to produce massive screwups.
Being a psychopath doesn't qualify for being a CEO no matter how (dated) Brother Bill's tech background. Chief Software Architect my ass, software passed him by after he wrote his first 10 programs. And MS's current malaise is directly attributable to cesspool Gates left before he could get blamed for it.
You misunderstand Uncle Larry and His Amazing Self-Pumping Ego. Uncle Larry didn't think he needed to be prepped or because he wanted to be able to say he believed something that ultimately turned out to be false but believing something that is false without knowing that it is false is not lying. Uncle Larry is sleaze on a stick, he makes Gates look like a boy scout.
So, invading and knocking off a brutal dictator responsible for at least.5 million deaths means nothing? The U.S. handed Iraq back to the Iraqis free to choose what they wanted to do. It turned out what they wanted to do was kill each other. The U.S. tried to tell them to stop, that it was stupid, but it didn't matter. Their Islamic religion told them it was okay to kill those from that "other" Islamic religion, not to mention any Christians that happen to get caught in the middle. That was Islam that did that.
Just for giggles, tote up the number of atrocities attributed to Christianity since WWII and those attributed to Islam (hell, just take the one the Islamist attribute to themselves). Comparing one nutjob in Florida with what Islam has been generating is simply to admit you have no sense of proportion.
A programming language has a syntax and a semantics. The semantics is generally considered mathematics. The language itself is not math. There are no reduction rules telling you how to compute in the language as opposed to, say, the lambda calculus (note the name calculus).
Consider the type system for a compute language. Where do the types exists? In the language? Nope, they are in a mathematical system into which the language must be interpreted.
That said, Oracle can suck eggs, Java isn't copyrightable because languages shouldn't be copyrightable. Their implementation may be, but language is an abstract thing. Being an abstraction does not make something mathematics, i.e., love.
"Catholics may be many things (cough*child molesters*cough)", I see. So a bunch of never married priests have bad sexual predilections makes Catholics pedophiles? That's some reasoning you have there. Maybe you could have it checked at your neighborhood logic clinic.
"as evidence that their deity is almighty and powerful enough to fake evidence really well" I knew it, G-d's been lying to us. I guess He gets to be sneaky whenever He wants.
Yes, and George Clemenceau was also one of the authors of the Versailles Treaty. You remember, the one that more or less guaranteed a re-militarization of Germany to regain their "honor" and start WWII. So you'll forgive me if I fail to take his opinions seriously.
Yes, and Abbas claimed any peace deal with Israel was only interim until they were powerful enough to take over. When Israel turned Gaza over the Palestinian Authority, the missiles from Gaza soon followed. The Palestinians couldn't even run a strip of ground peacefully without using it to attack Israel. This only confirmed what Israel thinks of the Palestinians in general, i.e., they are incapable of running a peaceful state that is not dedicated to Israel's destruction.
There's no whitewashing the fact that Muslims hate Jews; the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a Gruppenfuhrer in the Third Reich. He raised his own SS division in the Balkans from Bosnian muslims and rather thought Hitler should get on with job of wiping out the Jews. He also wanted the Third Reich to set up shop in the Middle East, ovens and all. Arafat was his nephew. He idolized the Grand Mufti.
You mean someone in Saudi Arabia can decide to run for a few small potatoes offices and then only if they get approval by the central government which just happens to not approve very many women.
It doesn't matter what's in the law if most men in Saudi Arabia will not allow their women to leave the house unescorted.
That fact that face covering demanded by men is permitted is ridiculous, honor killing is winked at, child brides are aok, the whole region seethes with inhuman customs. Stop trying to white wash them.
Where the West has one Westboro, in the Mid-East it is the norm. Trying opening a Jewish temple or a Christian Church in Saudi Arabia. Try telling them Muhammad was wrong on anything, see how reasonable they are towards you. In the West, that sort of freedom is enshrined, in the Mid-East, killing you for insulting Islam is considered a good thing.
The only reason Turkey doesn't yet have those problems is because for generations it was run by secularists. The Islamic party currently running the joint has been slowing re-establishing Islamic control of society. I give them another 10 years before they too sink into the human rights abyss that is Islam.
Taxing Android does not imply they are focusing more on delivering a quality product. To me, they are still up to the same old tricks Gates burned into their DNA. The ODF scandal was only a few years ago.
"Apple is always launching new gizmos and the media eats it up like a child on Christmas morning."
My count: iPod, iPhone, iPad. You make it sound like it was one a month. And the press widely panned Apple's coming out with the first two claiming they'd never be able to compete against established players. It was their sales that made the press think again. I will admit the press had orgasms over the iPad, but then they had see MS screw it up and in a sense were primed for someone doing it right in hitting a sweet spot that customers would actually buy into.
Reminds me of joke. A fellow pays a visit to his buddy. His buddy tells him he has a talking dog in the bedroom. The fellow is incredulous and so his buddy tells him to go in and see for himself. So the guy goes in and lounging on the bed is large dog. The fellow says "hi", the dog says "hi ya, how ya doing!" The man cannot believe it and asks the dog what he's been doing, how come he's never heard of him. The dog says that well, he spent some time helping save people during 9/11. Then he went over to the Iraq and helped defeat the insurgents there. Lately, he was instrumental in killing bin Laden and personally said the Koranic prayers before pushing him overboard. The man runs out to his buddy and tells him he could be rich with a dog like that. The buddy looks into the bedroom and in a loud voice says, "NO I WOULDN'T BECAUSE HE'S A BIG LIAR!"
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Ron Paul's answer to just about everything is to bring the U.S. back to those euphoric times of the 1930's. How about the gold standard? The man is too stupid to realize there isn't enough gold in the U.S. or the world to return to that.
Paul would leave the Mid-East to those totally well-adjusted Mid-Eastern peoples. He wishes the U.S. wasn't dependent on oil, but he doesn't have the faintest of fuzzies on what would happen if that oil gets cut off, nor does he know how to defend U.S. access to it.
He'd turn the Pacific into China's pet poodles. You know the Chinese, they have America's best interests at heart. He'd also turn S. Korea over to the N. Koreans just 'cause, y'know, the war was over long ago, why should the U.S. care about a free and prosperous trading partner like S. Korea.
He is correct on pulling troops out of Europe, if the Euro-Weenies are not capable of defending themselves given their economy and no threats, then we cannot do it for them.
The man doesn't believe in any sort of public investment. The U.S. interstate system would never have been built if it were up to him. And you know what a boondoggle that's turned out to be.
What makes you think the Pakistanis are so well-adjusted that they see the situation as you do. By all accounts, they are not. Just look at the amount of their military is positioned to repel the Indian invasion they just know is coming because they believe India wants access to the untold...well...something but it isn't riches, of Pakistan.
Actually, the U.S. does care and would wish India would )&)(*^%$ stop it. The administration isn't saying that in public for probably trade reasons.
The reason the U.S. does care is because of missile and nuclear technology proliferation, and the fact that those crazy Pakistanis will now feel their manhood has been threatened and will attempt to build a bigger missile and similarly weaponize it with nuclear naughtiness. And the Pakistanis are not sheepish about spreading the technology around especially now that after their 67th or so year of mismanagement, the country is poor simply because they couldn't stand to live in peace with the Indians. Call it the Islam Tax.
Apple's argument (chicken vs. egg thing here) is that they cannot build their iStuff in the U.S. because there aren't companies of the size of Foxconn that can make much of what's necessary to go into the device. And, they claim the companies in the U.S. don't have the development engineers and production lines under the same roof which gives Foxconn a high level of quickness when Apple wants something.
Now, if American companies hadn't been shifting everything to China, then it might have been possible to stitch together a development industry for Apple here. I somewhat doubt that a company the size of Foxconn could exist here, though. First off, the Unions would think of it as a juicy canape. The local governments would be having a field day taxing it to death (see what happened to Bethlehem Steel in Western New York).
On a brighter note, Giorgio Tsoukalos predicts Aliens are responsible for, well, just about everything. I'm sure THEY'D know how to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.
No, there is a way, it is called the Board of Directors. However, if the Board is made up a patsies for management, well, then there's no adult watching over the management. It's disgusting how modern Corporate has distorted their environment make it guaranteed to produce massive screwups.
Being a psychopath doesn't qualify for being a CEO no matter how (dated) Brother Bill's tech background. Chief Software Architect my ass, software passed him by after he wrote his first 10 programs. And MS's current malaise is directly attributable to cesspool Gates left before he could get blamed for it.
Fall guy. Axing the CIO cuts meat, axing the CEO cuts fat.
You misunderstand Uncle Larry and His Amazing Self-Pumping Ego. Uncle Larry didn't think he needed to be prepped or because he wanted to be able to say he believed something that ultimately turned out to be false but believing something that is false without knowing that it is false is not lying. Uncle Larry is sleaze on a stick, he makes Gates look like a boy scout.
No, the problem is a religious culture where somehow someone can claim to know the will of G-d and thereby countenance all sorts of stupidity.
So, invading and knocking off a brutal dictator responsible for at least .5 million deaths means nothing? The U.S. handed Iraq back to the Iraqis free to choose what they wanted to do. It turned out what they wanted to do was kill each other. The U.S. tried to tell them to stop, that it was stupid, but it didn't matter. Their Islamic religion told them it was okay to kill those from that "other" Islamic religion, not to mention any Christians that happen to get caught in the middle. That was Islam that did that.
Just for giggles, tote up the number of atrocities attributed to Christianity since WWII and those attributed to Islam (hell, just take the one the Islamist attribute to themselves). Comparing one nutjob in Florida with what Islam has been generating is simply to admit you have no sense of proportion.
Because some of use have to use Oracle's webapps and those require java.
A programming language has a syntax and a semantics. The semantics is generally considered mathematics. The language itself is not math. There are no reduction rules telling you how to compute in the language as opposed to, say, the lambda calculus (note the name calculus).
Consider the type system for a compute language. Where do the types exists? In the language? Nope, they are in a mathematical system into which the language must be interpreted.
That said, Oracle can suck eggs, Java isn't copyrightable because languages shouldn't be copyrightable. Their implementation may be, but language is an abstract thing. Being an abstraction does not make something mathematics, i.e., love.
"but seem to fail at budget and logistics of construction." And to which space agency doing these things marvelously are you comparing them?
"Catholics may be many things (cough*child molesters*cough)", I see. So a bunch of never married priests have bad sexual predilections makes Catholics pedophiles? That's some reasoning you have there. Maybe you could have it checked at your neighborhood logic clinic.
"as evidence that their deity is almighty and powerful enough to fake evidence really well" I knew it, G-d's been lying to us. I guess He gets to be sneaky whenever He wants.
Yes, and George Clemenceau was also one of the authors of the Versailles Treaty. You remember, the one that more or less guaranteed a re-militarization of Germany to regain their "honor" and start WWII. So you'll forgive me if I fail to take his opinions seriously.
Well reasoned. And how come you believe the nutjobs running Mid-Eastern countries are similarly disposed to such reasoning?
Yes, and Abbas claimed any peace deal with Israel was only interim until they were powerful enough to take over. When Israel turned Gaza over the Palestinian Authority, the missiles from Gaza soon followed. The Palestinians couldn't even run a strip of ground peacefully without using it to attack Israel. This only confirmed what Israel thinks of the Palestinians in general, i.e., they are incapable of running a peaceful state that is not dedicated to Israel's destruction.
There's no whitewashing the fact that Muslims hate Jews; the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a Gruppenfuhrer in the Third Reich. He raised his own SS division in the Balkans from Bosnian muslims and rather thought Hitler should get on with job of wiping out the Jews. He also wanted the Third Reich to set up shop in the Middle East, ovens and all. Arafat was his nephew. He idolized the Grand Mufti.
Oh, you mean the countries that lick Iran's asses support Iran. Wow! Film at 11!
You mean someone in Saudi Arabia can decide to run for a few small potatoes offices and then only if they get approval by the central government which just happens to not approve very many women.
It doesn't matter what's in the law if most men in Saudi Arabia will not allow their women to leave the house unescorted.
That fact that face covering demanded by men is permitted is ridiculous, honor killing is winked at, child brides are aok, the whole region seethes with inhuman customs. Stop trying to white wash them.
Where the West has one Westboro, in the Mid-East it is the norm. Trying opening a Jewish temple or a Christian Church in Saudi Arabia. Try telling them Muhammad was wrong on anything, see how reasonable they are towards you. In the West, that sort of freedom is enshrined, in the Mid-East, killing you for insulting Islam is considered a good thing.
The only reason Turkey doesn't yet have those problems is because for generations it was run by secularists. The Islamic party currently running the joint has been slowing re-establishing Islamic control of society. I give them another 10 years before they too sink into the human rights abyss that is Islam.
Taxing Android does not imply they are focusing more on delivering a quality product. To me, they are still up to the same old tricks Gates burned into their DNA. The ODF scandal was only a few years ago.
"Apple is always launching new gizmos and the media eats it up like a child on Christmas morning."
My count: iPod, iPhone, iPad. You make it sound like it was one a month. And the press widely panned Apple's coming out with the first two claiming they'd never be able to compete against established players. It was their sales that made the press think again. I will admit the press had orgasms over the iPad, but then they had see MS screw it up and in a sense were primed for someone doing it right in hitting a sweet spot that customers would actually buy into.
Reminds me of joke. A fellow pays a visit to his buddy. His buddy tells him he has a talking dog in the bedroom. The fellow is incredulous and so his buddy tells him to go in and see for himself. So the guy goes in and lounging on the bed is large dog. The fellow says "hi", the dog says "hi ya, how ya doing!" The man cannot believe it and asks the dog what he's been doing, how come he's never heard of him. The dog says that well, he spent some time helping save people during 9/11. Then he went over to the Iraq and helped defeat the insurgents there. Lately, he was instrumental in killing bin Laden and personally said the Koranic prayers before pushing him overboard. The man runs out to his buddy and tells him he could be rich with a dog like that. The buddy looks into the bedroom and in a loud voice says, "NO I WOULDN'T BECAUSE HE'S A BIG LIAR!"