Do your argument is that as stupid as theUS left are, they are still less stupid than the rest of the world? Dumber than Maxine Waters, Bernir, or Ocasio-Cortez? That's quite an argument.
Europe has been parasitic on the world since WW I, and heavily so since WW II. Partly because the world powers have long since learned that they cannot be trusted with any significant power, otherwise, they start killing each other over trivia. The EU in particular is a failing social experiment, this is just the latest symptom.
If you actually believe this, I despair for the future. Jerry Brown is another in a long line of dope-smoking hippie morons that we now have infesting American life. This plan has as much likelihood of happening as being struck be a meteorite while on the way to pick your winnings with your new girlfriend Natalie Portman on a unicorn.
"Marketer"? I was editing the page on the Lotus Esprit from 1977! What, I am trying to ruin the market for a run of 511 cars, most of which burned up in 1978?
Nothing should be trusted to Wikipedia, some nitwit was reverting my changes *line by line* the other day, and then deleted stuff that I hadn't entered. The reported me to the "authorities" for asking what the hell he was doing. Assholes sit on pages or looking for edits. I have had grammar fixes reverted because they were *not referenced*, when the issue was obvious subject-verb disagreement that would have gotten you an F in 3rd grade reading class.
This is also why public transportation is still prevalent and highly utilized in the denser urban city centers in the U.S., but mostly absent in the less dense surroundings and suburbs. Even when it's present in those areas, you're usually looking at 30-45 minute wait times for the next bus. Increasing funding for public transport doesn't solve any of these issues (unless you're willing to accept increased waste - more buses and subway cars traveling empty).
Of course. But they keep building them because building mass transit systems is a way of extracting subsidies from the federal government. San Jose Light rail is a prime example, trains to nowhere with virtually no riders on most of the routes. No one cares much about the operational cost or whether it works or not - the vast majority of the money that local governments can scam out of the taxpayer have already been gotten once it's built, so anything after that it just gravy.
California's supertrain, same thing, it's not there to solve a transportation problem, it's there to get money for a make-work project, and it's irrelevant whether it is going to ever function as a viable transport system. As of a year ago, the allegedly 25-ish or so billion dollar system sold to the taxpayers was up around 98 billion as of about a year ago (if you read the fine print, which was below a much more optimistic estimate in large letters at the top) and if ever completed, will be about 250-300 billion.
The goal is not to build a train line, it's to *spend money building a train line". The way thing are lining up, it's going to be a 50-year long version of the WPA, unions, politicians, hangers-on, all get their beaks wet, and the rest of the taxpayers get screwed.
Of course, all the leftists love these pointless train projects, because they check all the boxes - collectivist (no more individual travel, everybody follow a schedule set by the authorities), they permit payoffs to all the constituent groups like unions (which all then kick it back through campaign donations, effectively a money-laundering scheme like Solyndra), a promise of future endless taxpayer bailouts, and the need to form conspiracies to explain why they all, ultimately, fail (Koch Brother, GM, other evil mysterious forces).
Note that it doesn't really turn into a liquid - it turns into individual particles that as a group and flow and appear to act much like a liquid. TFS (and TFA) slightly confuse the issue by suggesting or implying that the water turns it into something like mud. The same thing is possible in materials that are effectively free of water, it's just vanishingly unlikely.
The same effect can happen during earthquakes on "landfill" like most of the land around the edges of the SF Bay area.
What sort of program might a kid write where security is an issue? You care about security in web-connected systems where the consequences are relevant, but nothing a kid writes is going to interact with the internet or be used in a production environment.
You woudn't teach any sort of programming by starting with these "pull crap from a library" programming in any case, or do system-level programming. So, what can he do? Write a FFT program - that presumes that you know what an FFT is in the first place, and you don't learn that by typing at a keyboard. Write a closed-loop simulation of something - have to understand at least the concept behind calculus, if not the details. Write some sort of a database program? Why, what for, and who would abuse a kid with that kind of task?
Writing software is intended to serve a purpose, not just making programs for the hell of it. What the heck problem does a kid need to solve with software? Kids need to learn basic math and science, not screwing around with computers. Writing code is a trivial side issue related to solving other problems, not an end to itself.
It's time we also start looking at greedy colleges who continue to jack up tuition.
But you surely understand that the tuition is "jacked up" precisely because there are endless federal and state programs to "fund education", right? Like the ever-expanding Federal Student Loan program - the prices are raised to the point that they extract as much money as possible from the payer.
When it was from private student funds, or daddy's college fund, then it was necessarily limited. But when the source is the student loan program, the costs rise to take advantage of the extra money available.
It's just like the explosion of projects like urban "light rail" systems. They exploded because all of the sudden, federal matching funds were available, and every single one of them ended up existing primarily to extract these funds and have them spent locally.
You see the same effect everywhere, and it's a fundamental rule of human existence since the agricultural revolution - things cost what people are willing to pay for them. If the student loan program didn't exists, it wouldn't cost so much.
where they have listened extensively to many of the tapes, and transcribed and added explanations. If you want to know what was going on live, that is the place to start.
You don't really need that, with current-day levels of ISO performance, you can literally take hand-held pictures of stars at night with a F3.5 lens, and little degradation of the quality.
You may have needed F-.95 lenses in 1960, when Tri-X was as fast as it got, but not when you can easily operated at 5- and even 6-digit ASA levels.
Which is why it was long used as a "standard" to provide an absolute reference for value. This was eliminated in order to permit fiscially irresponsible government spending.
Riiight. As I said, quackery is not a new phenomenon, particularly when you can tap into conspiracies about "big pharma" that seem embarrassing on late-night infomercials...
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It's OK, get it all out, bunky, Feeling inadequate should feel very familiar by now.
Do your argument is that as stupid as theUS left are, they are still less stupid than the rest of the world? Dumber than Maxine Waters, Bernir, or Ocasio-Cortez? That's quite an argument.
Europe has been parasitic on the world since WW I, and heavily so since WW II. Partly because the world powers have long since learned that they cannot be trusted with any significant power, otherwise, they start killing each other over trivia. The EU in particular is a failing social experiment, this is just the latest symptom.
You just failed out of journalism school!
If you actually believe this, I despair for the future. Jerry Brown is another in a long line of dope-smoking hippie morons that we now have infesting American life. This plan has as much likelihood of happening as being struck be a meteorite while on the way to pick your winnings with your new girlfriend Natalie Portman on a unicorn.
Lunatics lynching people based on rumor destroyed a village.
In fact, if they do nothing at all, that's about what they would get by just hooking up to the same power line everyone else uses.
Unrepentant hippies now infest every area of human endeavor.
"Marketer"? I was editing the page on the Lotus Esprit from 1977! What, I am trying to ruin the market for a run of 511 cars, most of which burned up in 1978?
Nothing should be trusted to Wikipedia, some nitwit was reverting my changes *line by line* the other day, and then deleted stuff that I hadn't entered. The reported me to the "authorities" for asking what the hell he was doing. Assholes sit on pages or looking for edits. I have had grammar fixes reverted because they were *not referenced*, when the issue was obvious subject-verb disagreement that would have gotten you an F in 3rd grade reading class.
Exactly, but don't expect much support on /.
Of course. But they keep building them because building mass transit systems is a way of extracting subsidies from the federal government. San Jose Light rail is a prime example, trains to nowhere with virtually no riders on most of the routes. No one cares much about the operational cost or whether it works or not - the vast majority of the money that local governments can scam out of the taxpayer have already been gotten once it's built, so anything after that it just gravy.
California's supertrain, same thing, it's not there to solve a transportation problem, it's there to get money for a make-work project, and it's irrelevant whether it is going to ever function as a viable transport system. As of a year ago, the allegedly 25-ish or so billion dollar system sold to the taxpayers was up around 98 billion as of about a year ago (if you read the fine print, which was below a much more optimistic estimate in large letters at the top) and if ever completed, will be about 250-300 billion.
The goal is not to build a train line, it's to *spend money building a train line". The way thing are lining up, it's going to be a 50-year long version of the WPA, unions, politicians, hangers-on, all get their beaks wet, and the rest of the taxpayers get screwed.
Of course, all the leftists love these pointless train projects, because they check all the boxes - collectivist (no more individual travel, everybody follow a schedule set by the authorities), they permit payoffs to all the constituent groups like unions (which all then kick it back through campaign donations, effectively a money-laundering scheme like Solyndra), a promise of future endless taxpayer bailouts, and the need to form conspiracies to explain why they all, ultimately, fail (Koch Brother, GM, other evil mysterious forces).
So. the only way you think the left can compete is when they have laws forcing people to pay attention to them? Great idea, Josef!
The left *cannot compete* on a level playing field and letting people decide for themselves.
Note that it doesn't really turn into a liquid - it turns into individual particles that as a group and flow and appear to act much like a liquid. TFS (and TFA) slightly confuse the issue by suggesting or implying that the water turns it into something like mud. The same thing is possible in materials that are effectively free of water, it's just vanishingly unlikely.
The same effect can happen during earthquakes on "landfill" like most of the land around the edges of the SF Bay area.
What sort of program might a kid write where security is an issue? You care about security in web-connected systems where the consequences are relevant, but nothing a kid writes is going to interact with the internet or be used in a production environment.
You woudn't teach any sort of programming by starting with these "pull crap from a library" programming in any case, or do system-level programming. So, what can he do? Write a FFT program - that presumes that you know what an FFT is in the first place, and you don't learn that by typing at a keyboard. Write a closed-loop simulation of something - have to understand at least the concept behind calculus, if not the details. Write some sort of a database program? Why, what for, and who would abuse a kid with that kind of task?
Writing software is intended to serve a purpose, not just making programs for the hell of it. What the heck problem does a kid need to solve with software? Kids need to learn basic math and science, not screwing around with computers. Writing code is a trivial side issue related to solving other problems, not an end to itself.
But you surely understand that the tuition is "jacked up" precisely because there are endless federal and state programs to "fund education", right? Like the ever-expanding Federal Student Loan program - the prices are raised to the point that they extract as much money as possible from the payer.
When it was from private student funds, or daddy's college fund, then it was necessarily limited. But when the source is the student loan program, the costs rise to take advantage of the extra money available.
It's just like the explosion of projects like urban "light rail" systems. They exploded because all of the sudden, federal matching funds were available, and every single one of them ended up existing primarily to extract these funds and have them spent locally.
You see the same effect everywhere, and it's a fundamental rule of human existence since the agricultural revolution - things cost what people are willing to pay for them. If the student loan program didn't exists, it wouldn't cost so much.
Correct, in the same sense that an object's desire to release phlogiston causes it to catch fire.
Try here:
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/
and here:
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/
where they have listened extensively to many of the tapes, and transcribed and added explanations. If you want to know what was going on live, that is the place to start.
1934, in this case.
I am absolutely amazed (although I don't know why) at the almost inconceivable lack of knowledge of the "real world" continually exhibited here.
You be sure and tell them that down at the police station...
You don't really need that, with current-day levels of ISO performance, you can literally take hand-held pictures of stars at night with a F3.5 lens, and little degradation of the quality.
You may have needed F-.95 lenses in 1960, when Tri-X was as fast as it got, but not when you can easily operated at 5- and even 6-digit ASA levels.
Which is why it was long used as a "standard" to provide an absolute reference for value. This was eliminated in order to permit fiscially irresponsible government spending.
Riiight. As I said, quackery is not a new phenomenon, particularly when you can tap into conspiracies about "big pharma" that seem embarrassing on late-night infomercials...
Vitamin pushers, miracle cure snake oil salemen, and other quackery has been around everywhere, forever. It is not a uniquely American phenomenon.