For instance, eating behind the wheel is legitimately dangerous... but it has nothing to do with cell phones, it must be alright! Changing the station/CD/song in your car? Messing with the AC? Shaving? Messing with the GPS??? How about talking to someone in the backseat?!? That's more dangerous than talking on a cell phone!
Just to repeat, I'm not saying that the sequester isn't being milked for all its worth by all sides.
I agree that a lot of this "sky is falling" stuff is crap. But it's disingenuous to claim that there are not a lot of ordinary people who are being negatively affected. Whether that's a side-effect of political posturing or not (hint: it is), it's real, contrary to your stated view.
BTW, my little world is also being one of the people who is paying for all of this. Also my little world is closely associated with someone who is about to take a 20% pay cut because the legislative branch of our government refuses to do its job.
Every quote I've ever gotten from them has been massively inflated by speccing higher end equipment than is necessary. They always give the big pitch for the bigger product - usually to upper mgmt, whether it is overkill or not. Everyone wants to believe they are "the enterprise", so Cisco talks them into enterprise-grade equipment.
Not to say that the state employees shouldn't have questioned the quote. But odds are that the only technically knowledgable people involved were Cisco's people, and they are the pros at fleecing the sheep.
Well it must be a pretty elaborate hoax because a -lot- of people are getting furlough notices. 1 day per week - 20% less pay. Maybe in your little world it's not real, but for the hundreds of thousands of people who are taking a 20% pay whack it's as real as the day is long.
I'm not saying that the sequester isn't being milked for all its worth by all sides, but there are a heck of a lot of people that are facing a significant pay cut. And the politicians who are "forgoing" their pay get it back when/if they come to a resolution. The federal workers do not.
Tell that to the federal employees who are preparing for furloughs - a 20% effective pay cut. It's real. Whoever modded you insightful is smoking crack.
Actually, their pay (Congress/Senate) is supposed to be withheld until the sequestration ends.
Unlike the rest of federal employees who won't get their pay back after sequestration ends, congressmen/senators will.
If this is the end of the civilized world, as some are fearmongering it, why was Obama out on a golf vacation instead of working on the budget?
It is the legislative branch who has failed to act, not the executive.
Does this show how seriously he takes it? Sequestration was his idea after all.
Though Obama proposed the idea, 174 House Republicans, a majority of the majority, joined 95 Democrats to pass the plan. So Republicans arguably own the sequester as much as Obama, if not more so, since Obama never wanted to link spending cuts to the debt ceiling.
You find a high-value bit of work, distribute the product of that work as widely as you can, and you can have billions too. But are you capable? Most aren't. THAT is why there is such a disparity of income.
Not everyone can be the entrepreneur/investor, there -have- to be workers to make the goods. There -has- to be a middle-class to buy the goods. Otherwise, your capitalist utopia is just another utopian ideal.
I doubt anyone here begrudges the entrepreneur their due. However, if you look at recent trends in worker productivity vs. worker wages vs. CEO compensation, it's clear that the system is moving horribly out of balance.
I just started experimenting Pure Data, and it is an example of an environment that does this quite well. Although it can be very complex when you dig down into it, it's very easy to get started with and create useful objects without the "fuss" that TFA talks about.
Consider only the first one. All you have to do is get out of the way, OK things like the pipeline. That's all it takes for item (1) to happen and bring us a lot of home-brewed energy very quickly.
It doesn't make any difference where the oil comes from, it's a world market. The Keystone pipeline is designed to get oil to -China- more efficiently because that's where the market is.
Producing more oil domestically does nothing to increase energy independence because any domestically-produced oil goes on the world market.
Offtopic??? That was classic, should have at least been modded as Funny.
The problem is that lately all you see for the first half of a discussion is an endless stream of jokes ("classic" and "not so classic"). Believe it or not, most people don't come here for the jokes, they come here for technical discussion.
The problem is that slashdot has the "funny" mod, and as far as comment visibility, treats it the same as the "insightful" or "interesting" mod.
To hack around this shortcoming in the mod system, some mods choose to mod down the jokes to try to improve the S/N ratio.
That, and every discussion is dominated by wannabe "comedians". Sure wish we could eliminate the Funny mod. Half of every discussion is a series of half-assed wisecracks...
It's interesting how much gravel got kicked onto the top of Curiosity by the landing sequence. I know they used the sky crane to keep it from getting totally buried, but I hope they were counting on how much/the size of what they got.
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For instance, eating behind the wheel is legitimately dangerous... but it has nothing to do with cell phones, it must be alright! Changing the station/CD/song in your car? Messing with the AC? Shaving? Messing with the GPS??? How about talking to someone in the backseat?!? That's more dangerous than talking on a cell phone!
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Frist Sale!
Cisco ASDM (configuration/management software for ASA firewalls) doesn't work on Java 7...
Just to repeat, I'm not saying that the sequester isn't being milked for all its worth by all sides.
I agree that a lot of this "sky is falling" stuff is crap. But it's disingenuous to claim that there are not a lot of ordinary people who are being negatively affected. Whether that's a side-effect of political posturing or not (hint: it is), it's real, contrary to your stated view.
BTW, my little world is also being one of the people who is paying for all of this. Also my little world is closely associated with someone who is about to take a 20% pay cut because the legislative branch of our government refuses to do its job.
I'm not surprised, this is Cisco's M.O.
Every quote I've ever gotten from them has been massively inflated by speccing higher end equipment than is necessary. They always give the big pitch for the bigger product - usually to upper mgmt, whether it is overkill or not. Everyone wants to believe they are "the enterprise", so Cisco talks them into enterprise-grade equipment.
Not to say that the state employees shouldn't have questioned the quote. But odds are that the only technically knowledgable people involved were Cisco's people, and they are the pros at fleecing the sheep.
Well it must be a pretty elaborate hoax because a -lot- of people are getting furlough notices. 1 day per week - 20% less pay. Maybe in your little world it's not real, but for the hundreds of thousands of people who are taking a 20% pay whack it's as real as the day is long.
I'm not saying that the sequester isn't being milked for all its worth by all sides, but there are a heck of a lot of people that are facing a significant pay cut. And the politicians who are "forgoing" their pay get it back when/if they come to a resolution. The federal workers do not.
Tell that to the federal employees who are preparing for furloughs - a 20% effective pay cut. It's real. Whoever modded you insightful is smoking crack.
Actually, their pay (Congress/Senate) is supposed to be withheld until the sequestration ends.
Unlike the rest of federal employees who won't get their pay back after sequestration ends, congressmen/senators will.
If this is the end of the civilized world, as some are fearmongering it, why was Obama out on a golf vacation instead of working on the budget?
It is the legislative branch who has failed to act, not the executive.
Does this show how seriously he takes it? Sequestration was his idea after all.
Though Obama proposed the idea, 174 House Republicans, a majority of the majority, joined 95 Democrats to pass the plan. So Republicans arguably own the sequester as much as Obama, if not more so, since Obama never wanted to link spending cuts to the debt ceiling.
Why can't the energy produced just be used to electrically split the CO2 into solid carbon and pure oxygen?
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
- Homer Simpson
You find a high-value bit of work, distribute the product of that work as widely as you can, and you can have billions too. But are you capable? Most aren't. THAT is why there is such a disparity of income.
Not everyone can be the entrepreneur/investor, there -have- to be workers to make the goods. There -has- to be a middle-class to buy the goods. Otherwise, your capitalist utopia is just another utopian ideal.
I doubt anyone here begrudges the entrepreneur their due. However, if you look at recent trends in worker productivity vs. worker wages vs. CEO compensation, it's clear that the system is moving horribly out of balance.
I just started experimenting Pure Data, and it is an example of an environment that does this quite well. Although it can be very complex when you dig down into it, it's very easy to get started with and create useful objects without the "fuss" that TFA talks about.
Probably not the book you're thinking of, but still an interesting take on time dilation effects is the Forever War by Joe Haldeman...
This one.
Require people to carry a pistol on flights is the answer.
I agree. Plus there's the bonus I can pop a cap in the next motherfucker who reclines his seat into my long-suffering knees!
<Gilda Radner>never mind</Gilda Radner>
There are no 100% solutions to our energy problems.
This is a 4% solution.
You only need 24 more 4% solutions to get to 100%.
Seriously? There have been what, 23 deaths so far? Out of a population of over 300 million people that is nothing.
Here's a helpful statistical hint for you. Only a very small subset of that 300 million got the injections.
If all 300 million people got injections and only 23 died, then you would have a point. But they didn't, so STFU, you're talking out your ass.
Why is it necessary to give my tax money to stupid insurance companies and a car company that makes cars that people don't want to buy?
Because it was a good investment? The portion of the bailout money that you refer to was all paid back with interest...
Pedestrian crossing?
You rang?
Consider only the first one. All you have to do is get out of the way, OK things like the pipeline. That's all it takes for item (1) to happen and bring us a lot of home-brewed energy very quickly.
It doesn't make any difference where the oil comes from, it's a world market. The Keystone pipeline is designed to get oil to -China- more efficiently because that's where the market is.
Producing more oil domestically does nothing to increase energy independence because any domestically-produced oil goes on the world market.
I wonder how much data can be transmitted with this technology.
None.
And groceries are about half the price that they are in the states...
Offtopic??? That was classic, should have at least been modded as Funny.
The problem is that lately all you see for the first half of a discussion is an endless stream of jokes ("classic" and "not so classic"). Believe it or not, most people don't come here for the jokes, they come here for technical discussion.
The problem is that slashdot has the "funny" mod, and as far as comment visibility, treats it the same as the "insightful" or "interesting" mod.
To hack around this shortcoming in the mod system, some mods choose to mod down the jokes to try to improve the S/N ratio.
That, and every discussion is dominated by wannabe "comedians". Sure wish we could eliminate the Funny mod. Half of every discussion is a series of half-assed wisecracks...
It's interesting how much gravel got kicked onto the top of Curiosity by the landing sequence. I know they used the sky crane to keep it from getting totally buried, but I hope they were counting on how much/the size of what they got.