That's good to hear, since here I've been thinking that I was locked into At&T because they are the only company that provides cellular coverage in my county. But since I can buy phones from other companies (that won't work) they don't have a monopoly at all!
Frankly, that'd be a hell of a lot smarter than attacking random countries for no reason at all, and then claiming we did it for their own good -- which has been our policy for 40 years or so.
According to the internets, they're tied at about $850 billion either way. The difference, of course, is that the way generates hatred and terrorists, while the stimulus generates jobs and socialists.
I'll reserve judgement on which is a bigger waste of money.
Until we start electing outside of this imaginary two party bullshit, we get the government we deserve.
The problem is that the two-party system is not imaginary. The government pays for democratic and republican primaries. It's two federally funded parties vs. everyone else funded by donations, and you wonder why those two always win?
Look, I'm sure your friends are very nice guys and all, but that'd be the exception rather than the rule.
American doctors are heavily pressured not to take the time to treat patients properly. Since that's the reality, most either give up or get out.
This careful weeding process leads to doctors that don't give a shit. Not all doctors, just the ones who perform c-sections so they can get to a golf game on time. Y'know - the majority.
Most doctors still do not prefer to do a C-section out of convenience - it's a safe surgery, but what I've read indicates that surgery of any kind is still more dangerous and leads to a longer recovery time than drug-assisted natural birth.
Have you actually met any american doctors? They don't give a shit about you.
Not to mention the fact that in a number of cases the operation saves the mother; the child was not at risk.
In the majority of cases the mother and child both would have survived.
See Ina May Gaskin for a 99.9% survival rate in over 2000 cases, with zero c-sections. Compare that with 31% c-section rate, and you realize 99.99% of c-sections are unneeded.
If the police are following you than you are probably suspected for a crime. Aside from your truism, I agree with your sentiment.
Although this makes apparent sense, it is in fact false. To use an obvious example, a cop following a man because "he looked like a nigger," does not in fact suspect that man of a crime. I don't mean to imply that all (or even most) cops are racist, merely that suspicion can itself be suspect.
Then he picked the wrong term, but his point still stands. Maybe he should've said that they failed to consider existing physical capital: You've already got the network, discarding the sunk cost means that using it is now free.
Not to be overly pedantic, but Elizabethan is closer to Southern than to the current British dialect. And American (if you must speak of it as one dialect) is generally more phonetic, which makes it superior in its own right.
You bring up a good point, where lojban is a far superior language for practical purposes, and should be required learning for anyone calling themselves a coder. And so I wouldn't mod you down for your evangelism, though this is a tech site rather than a religious one.
I find saying "think of the women and children" is inefficient when "think of the subhumans" covers the same people without having to list as many groups.
If 1 disc is likely to fail, the likelihood of all the other discs to fail goes up exponentially.
No. Say the likelihood of a disk failing is 50% and you make two copies. The likelihood of at least one disk failing is 75%. But since both disks are identical, we don't care if one fails, we only care if both fail. The likelihood of both disks failing is only 25%.
The risk does not go up exponentially, it goes down logarithmically.
Unless you are referring to external failures, such as the building burning down. Those do not change from one disk to a million disks, if you store them all in one place.
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That's good to hear, since here I've been thinking that I was locked into At&T because they are the only company that provides cellular coverage in my county. But since I can buy phones from other companies (that won't work) they don't have a monopoly at all!
Frankly, that'd be a hell of a lot smarter than attacking random countries for no reason at all, and then claiming we did it for their own good -- which has been our policy for 40 years or so.
According to the internets, they're tied at about $850 billion either way. The difference, of course, is that the way generates hatred and terrorists, while the stimulus generates jobs and socialists.
I'll reserve judgement on which is a bigger waste of money.
You sound confused. Cheney was in charge of policy for the last 8 years, not Bush.
whoosh
Until we start electing outside of this imaginary two party bullshit, we get the government we deserve.
The problem is that the two-party system is not imaginary.
The government pays for democratic and republican primaries.
It's two federally funded parties vs. everyone else funded by donations, and you wonder why those two always win?
Lego bricks are True Lego (tm). Those star wars toys you reference are simply that. If you followed directions, it's not Lego.
Look, I'm sure your friends are very nice guys and all, but that'd be the exception rather than the rule.
American doctors are heavily pressured not to take the time to treat patients properly. Since that's the reality, most either give up or get out.
This careful weeding process leads to doctors that don't give a shit. Not all doctors, just the ones who perform c-sections so they can get to a golf game on time. Y'know - the majority.
you assume incorrectly.
distilled water lacks essential minerals and will cause health problems eventually. Unless you eat, of course. Sometimes that'll help.
Since it all tastes like piss, the variations don't matter much.
Most doctors still do not prefer to do a C-section out of convenience - it's a safe surgery, but what I've read indicates that surgery of any kind is still more dangerous and leads to a longer recovery time than drug-assisted natural birth.
Have you actually met any american doctors? They don't give a shit about you.
Not to mention the fact that in a number of cases the operation saves the mother; the child was not at risk.
In the majority of cases the mother and child both would have survived.
See Ina May Gaskin for a 99.9% survival rate in over 2000 cases, with zero c-sections. Compare that with 31% c-section rate, and you realize 99.99% of c-sections are unneeded.
whoosh
If the police are following you than you are probably suspected for a crime. Aside from your truism, I agree with your sentiment.
Although this makes apparent sense, it is in fact false. To use an obvious example, a cop following a man because "he looked like a nigger," does not in fact suspect that man of a crime.
I don't mean to imply that all (or even most) cops are racist, merely that suspicion can itself be suspect.
Then he picked the wrong term, but his point still stands. Maybe he should've said that they failed to consider existing physical capital: You've already got the network, discarding the sunk cost means that using it is now free.
more expensive, and super lame using hardware to fix a software problem.
English is unnecessarily difficult. It will take years to get all coders up to speed, if we ever do.
Lojban is consistent and relatively easy. It would take months to get all coders up to speed, no matter what their starting language.
English is only superior if you only speak English.
Not to be overly pedantic, but Elizabethan is closer to Southern than to the current British dialect. And American (if you must speak of it as one dialect) is generally more phonetic, which makes it superior in its own right.
You bring up a good point, where lojban is a far superior language for practical purposes, and should be required learning for anyone calling themselves a coder. And so I wouldn't mod you down for your evangelism, though this is a tech site rather than a religious one.
The ugly American thinks that Americans only speak English.
Fixed that for you.
I find saying "think of the women and children" is inefficient when "think of the subhumans" covers the same people without having to list as many groups.
Women are NOT men, so really they have no rights at all.
/just sayin'
If 1 disc is likely to fail, the likelihood of all the other discs to fail goes up exponentially.
No.
Say the likelihood of a disk failing is 50% and you make two copies. The likelihood of at least one disk failing is 75%.
But since both disks are identical, we don't care if one fails, we only care if both fail. The likelihood of both disks failing is only 25%.
The risk does not go up exponentially, it goes down logarithmically.
Unless you are referring to external failures, such as the building burning down. Those do not change from one disk to a million disks, if you store them all in one place.
And yet you're posting as AC. :p
Well, he did say his boss doesn't care what he does outside of work hours.