A sense of proportion matters. The most expensive version of the F35 costs about $115 million. The last year I could find figures for on Afghanistan was 2011 and it cost $123.9 million...per year. So, now that you have pulled stupid figures out of your ass. The space program has turned out many benefits, enough to cover its costs. I won't bore you with the details since it is clear google searches to prevent you from talking out of your ass do as well.
Sounds okay. Now let's figure out what we'd like to cut from Government. Defense? That's part of the constitutionally limited responsibilities (CLR). That's roughly half of discretionary spending (about $600 billion). The other $500 billion is things like EPA, NiH, FDA, NSTA, etc. Those are the agencies we use to protect us from those Americans which would not feel bad about making a buck off soiling America, sickening America, killing Americans, etc. The roads and bridges are in disrepair, we'll want those, we find them useful by and large. Science budgets are useful too, they help create the industries so your sproggs can have a shot at being employable in the future.
That leaves 2/3 of the budget for entitlements. Grandma doesn't really need her SS, she can come and live with you. By the way, her meds are expensive, you'll be wanting to pay for those as well. That's part of Medicare. In fact, the Blue Haired are now the Me Generation and they will demand you pay your fair share to support their Depends and other needs. Not a chance of cutting that back. Oh, we could privatize it. Sheesh, we can trust Wall Street to administer those funds without making off with the loot like they did in the last bubble.
There's Medicaid. That's for poor people so they don't die on your front lawn. They clearly can die anywhere without medical attention so we'll chop them off. Unemployment is popular, it turns out what Corporate America hates most of all is...err...us. So let's whack unemployment payments because it is your own damn fault if Corporate America disowns you. There's wellfare. Your sister who had 5 kids from 5 different fathers can simply raise them herself and keep them educated and out of gang-related activity, drug dealing, etc.
Okay. Now tell us again about all the untold savings we'll be realizing by restricting Government to CLR activities.
You don't get it. Oracle's cloud is Uncle Larry's ego. It has infinite storage capacity, able to out-lie even Trump, and is more irritating than Jeff Bezos.
And the fact that it takes quite a bit longer to get there. People do not live on science alone, they require food, water, entertainment, exercise, and quite a bit of shielding from those nice, energetic cosmic rays. Sunglasses are optional.
Generally speaking, the government should turn a (small) profit. The alternative is the mountain of debt the U.S. has built up over the years. A well-functioning government of a well-functioning society should be slightly in the black. However, the American people somehow think that someone else should pay and fail to pay their income taxes to the tune of about the yearly deficit. Added to legislators treating the government laws, rules, and regs like a candy story for companies and their own re-election, the U.S. is in its current predicament.
I doubt this as well. I know people who know programming but cannot reason their way out of a paper bag. I'm unsure what causes this but it would seem that programming encourages "reasoning in the small" where everything can be controlled. In most real world problems, conditions cannot be controlled and competing interests must be evaluated as well as the end goal. Also, process matters out there, in the closed world of programming, it does as well but at the level of baby programming, that is not going to be apparent.
In that case, we should be filthy in VOIP companies and apps. Oh, we aren't. I guess it is time for you to start one since you seem to have a clear understanding of what's involved.
The coup displaced a Russian lapdog. Eastern provinces were invaded by Putin's little green men, the same ones that stole the Crimea back again and shot down that airliner.
Why should Syria be run by a two-bit dictator who only has the allegiance of about 15% of the country, Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia? That's a cast just as bad as Al-Nusra.
Cats? Tamed? Are thinking of the same little furry creatures who wait until you go to bed to throw a party? You should set up a web cam sometime. Cats swinging from the chandelier, cats with lampshades over their heads, etc. They are certainly not tame.
And here we were only discussing rats and their plagues. I think if they are going to control the media, we will need some new dry ice factories for the revolution.
Maybe. I think, rather, he's merely worried about one of his home-videos appearing there and him not looking as "manly" as the fellows in the other videos. He's worried he's too short.
"Certainly"? You do understand that mathematics is man's "contrived" creation...well, a lot of women helped as well. In case you haven't gotten the memo, the GUT has not yet been realized.
You make the same mistake many make: mathematics is not physics. Physics is written in the language of mathematics and as such, not everything is properly expressible. Hell, it isn't even clear the mathematics has the right concepts to express all of physics. Quantum mechanics should give anyone pause that it does. BTW, quantum mechanics is mathematics, not physics.
Brief language lesson: languages generally have syntax and semantics. The syntax is what tells you which statements are in the language. The semantics is a map from the language to a model, the model is generally expressed in...mathematics. See anything circular there. One needs verification of the mathematics in the corporeal world. And verification is only good up to an epsilon.
It isn't at all clear that the concepts we express with mathematics are the correct concepts to describe the universe. We do our best and attempt for, at least, internal consistency. In that sense, we are well within David Hilbert's view of mathematics, as oppose to the earlier "interpreted" mathematics as espoused by Poincare.
Pretty much. Jethro Clampett was concerned early on but he's gone along with the rest of the Republican party and replaced his backbone with an overcooked spaghetti noodle.
I think "income" distribution is very hard problem if by that you mean "money" distribution. The problem isn't that people do not have enough money, it is that they do not have enough food, shelter, and other basic essentials. Money is only the barter system we use to grease the distribution network. There is no guarantee that the available pool of money taken from the people who make it is sufficient to cover the people who don't.
Put another way, the total economy can shrink even as the top 1% make out like bandits. Taking all their loot won't cover the other 99%.
" That's been a good thing for over 200 years and there is no reason to believe that it will cease being a good thing any time soon."
There's a lot of reasons to believe that this will cease to be the case. The alternative jobs for getting machined out of a job in the past were typically not that highly skilled and required a relatively large number of people to do. However, most of the low-skilled jobs are getting machined out of existence. Even Chinese companies are moving towards robotics. The legions of workers there will have nothing to turn to. There are not as many high-skilled jobs necessary for an economy...and some of those are being machined away as well.
Couple that with a propensity for the general pop. to not believe in working at educating themselves and for higher education to require a mortgage these days, there will be a large pool of unskilled workers with no work. We already see this in the U.S. Companies are complaining they cannot hire machinists or tool and die makers because those are not low skilled jobs any longer. Where they would have hired 5 workers in the past, they only need 1 to run the machines because the machines they use are so much more efficient now, but they also require higher skill levels. No coal miner can move easily into these jobs without the will and the resources for retraining. No amount of "that's never been true" argumentation will circumvent this.
Your argument sounds like the argument against cutting down a tree limb over a house. Gee, it's never fallen in the past 200 years, it won't fall now. Economic conditions fundamentally change over time.
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A sense of proportion matters. The most expensive version of the F35 costs about $115 million. The last year I could find figures for on Afghanistan was 2011 and it cost $123.9 million...per year. So, now that you have pulled stupid figures out of your ass. The space program has turned out many benefits, enough to cover its costs. I won't bore you with the details since it is clear google searches to prevent you from talking out of your ass do as well.
"If you want a more general purpose computer which can run Linux, you certainly still have that option."...for now.
Sounds okay. Now let's figure out what we'd like to cut from Government. Defense? That's part of the constitutionally limited responsibilities (CLR). That's roughly half of discretionary spending (about $600 billion). The other $500 billion is things like EPA, NiH, FDA, NSTA, etc. Those are the agencies we use to protect us from those Americans which would not feel bad about making a buck off soiling America, sickening America, killing Americans, etc. The roads and bridges are in disrepair, we'll want those, we find them useful by and large. Science budgets are useful too, they help create the industries so your sproggs can have a shot at being employable in the future.
That leaves 2/3 of the budget for entitlements. Grandma doesn't really need her SS, she can come and live with you. By the way, her meds are expensive, you'll be wanting to pay for those as well. That's part of Medicare. In fact, the Blue Haired are now the Me Generation and they will demand you pay your fair share to support their Depends and other needs. Not a chance of cutting that back. Oh, we could privatize it. Sheesh, we can trust Wall Street to administer those funds without making off with the loot like they did in the last bubble.
There's Medicaid. That's for poor people so they don't die on your front lawn. They clearly can die anywhere without medical attention so we'll chop them off. Unemployment is popular, it turns out what Corporate America hates most of all is...err...us. So let's whack unemployment payments because it is your own damn fault if Corporate America disowns you. There's wellfare. Your sister who had 5 kids from 5 different fathers can simply raise them herself and keep them educated and out of gang-related activity, drug dealing, etc.
Okay. Now tell us again about all the untold savings we'll be realizing by restricting Government to CLR activities.
In the hopes that caring might give you back your soul?
You don't get it. Oracle's cloud is Uncle Larry's ego. It has infinite storage capacity, able to out-lie even Trump, and is more irritating than Jeff Bezos.
And the fact that it takes quite a bit longer to get there. People do not live on science alone, they require food, water, entertainment, exercise, and quite a bit of shielding from those nice, energetic cosmic rays. Sunglasses are optional.
Generally speaking, the government should turn a (small) profit. The alternative is the mountain of debt the U.S. has built up over the years. A well-functioning government of a well-functioning society should be slightly in the black. However, the American people somehow think that someone else should pay and fail to pay their income taxes to the tune of about the yearly deficit. Added to legislators treating the government laws, rules, and regs like a candy story for companies and their own re-election, the U.S. is in its current predicament.
I doubt this as well. I know people who know programming but cannot reason their way out of a paper bag. I'm unsure what causes this but it would seem that programming encourages "reasoning in the small" where everything can be controlled. In most real world problems, conditions cannot be controlled and competing interests must be evaluated as well as the end goal. Also, process matters out there, in the closed world of programming, it does as well but at the level of baby programming, that is not going to be apparent.
In that case, we should be filthy in VOIP companies and apps. Oh, we aren't. I guess it is time for you to start one since you seem to have a clear understanding of what's involved.
Yeah, well, Ballmer probably did his Monkey Dance for them...that's knock anyone off their feed.
The coup displaced a Russian lapdog. Eastern provinces were invaded by Putin's little green men, the same ones that stole the Crimea back again and shot down that airliner.
Why should Syria be run by a two-bit dictator who only has the allegiance of about 15% of the country, Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia? That's a cast just as bad as Al-Nusra.
Cats? Tamed? Are thinking of the same little furry creatures who wait until you go to bed to throw a party? You should set up a web cam sometime. Cats swinging from the chandelier, cats with lampshades over their heads, etc. They are certainly not tame.
And here we were only discussing rats and their plagues. I think if they are going to control the media, we will need some new dry ice factories for the revolution.
Cats are only crazy at night, they wait for us to go to sleep and then let loose.
Children are worse, they'll eat holes in your bank account as well, rats cannot type or drive to the ATM.
Oh, so no headphone jack then.
Maybe. I think, rather, he's merely worried about one of his home-videos appearing there and him not looking as "manly" as the fellows in the other videos. He's worried he's too short.
The poor pay very little income taxes in the U.S.
"Certainly"? You do understand that mathematics is man's "contrived" creation...well, a lot of women helped as well. In case you haven't gotten the memo, the GUT has not yet been realized.
You make the same mistake many make: mathematics is not physics. Physics is written in the language of mathematics and as such, not everything is properly expressible. Hell, it isn't even clear the mathematics has the right concepts to express all of physics. Quantum mechanics should give anyone pause that it does. BTW, quantum mechanics is mathematics, not physics.
Brief language lesson: languages generally have syntax and semantics. The syntax is what tells you which statements are in the language. The semantics is a map from the language to a model, the model is generally expressed in...mathematics. See anything circular there. One needs verification of the mathematics in the corporeal world. And verification is only good up to an epsilon.
It isn't at all clear that the concepts we express with mathematics are the correct concepts to describe the universe. We do our best and attempt for, at least, internal consistency. In that sense, we are well within David Hilbert's view of mathematics, as oppose to the earlier "interpreted" mathematics as espoused by Poincare.
Stop misunderstanding mathematics as physics.
Pretty much. Jethro Clampett was concerned early on but he's gone along with the rest of the Republican party and replaced his backbone with an overcooked spaghetti noodle.
I think "income" distribution is very hard problem if by that you mean "money" distribution. The problem isn't that people do not have enough money, it is that they do not have enough food, shelter, and other basic essentials. Money is only the barter system we use to grease the distribution network. There is no guarantee that the available pool of money taken from the people who make it is sufficient to cover the people who don't.
Put another way, the total economy can shrink even as the top 1% make out like bandits. Taking all their loot won't cover the other 99%.
" That's been a good thing for over 200 years and there is no reason to believe that it will cease being a good thing any time soon."
There's a lot of reasons to believe that this will cease to be the case. The alternative jobs for getting machined out of a job in the past were typically not that highly skilled and required a relatively large number of people to do. However, most of the low-skilled jobs are getting machined out of existence. Even Chinese companies are moving towards robotics. The legions of workers there will have nothing to turn to. There are not as many high-skilled jobs necessary for an economy...and some of those are being machined away as well.
Couple that with a propensity for the general pop. to not believe in working at educating themselves and for higher education to require a mortgage these days, there will be a large pool of unskilled workers with no work. We already see this in the U.S. Companies are complaining they cannot hire machinists or tool and die makers because those are not low skilled jobs any longer. Where they would have hired 5 workers in the past, they only need 1 to run the machines because the machines they use are so much more efficient now, but they also require higher skill levels. No coal miner can move easily into these jobs without the will and the resources for retraining. No amount of "that's never been true" argumentation will circumvent this.
Your argument sounds like the argument against cutting down a tree limb over a house. Gee, it's never fallen in the past 200 years, it won't fall now. Economic conditions fundamentally change over time.
Fired Ballmer.
i thought autism diagnoses spiked when some blond bimbo got significant TV airtime...I guess you learn something new every day.