Counterexample.
Currently there are 270 implementations of the communist ideology without suppression of free people to the extreme of mass murdering the dissenters. In Israel alone.
So regardless of capitalism, communism is a dead end, and makes no mathematical, much less economic, sense. There is a kind of 'communism of the rich' which is analogous to what techies do with open source, and what Star Trek assumed due to the Replicator technology. It's basically, "to each according to his needs, there's plenty to go around."
Indeed, so you've identified a particular scenario in which communism can work. If supply greatly outpaces demand, it makes sense.
Now, in this "rich" scenario, how does capitalism work out? And isn't automation technology bringing us ever closer to this "rich" scenario?
But I just love how the greenies want to fuck everybody with price hikes because THEY can afford them while ignoring that even a 40c a gallon gas hike raises the cost of food enough that more Americans will be going hungry.
So you're saying we can stop global warming and fix the obesity epidemic all at once?!?
i assure you that if you were in the class, you would understand the test.
Isn't the whole point of Common Core to create a general basis for education, independent of which class you were in?
If "number sentences" and "pennies in your coffee" are actually written into Common Core, then sure, this test is great. If, on the other hand, they're inventions of Pearson, then this test is a perfect example of failing to buy into Common Core.
stop assuming you understand the best way to teach a child.
China, Russia, or any other country that actually has successful outcomes for mathematics education... Do they rely on "number sentences" and "pennies in your coffee" to teach math? Do they "apply our knowledge of child psychology" to achieve outcomes that leave their children 5+ years ahead of ours in terms of math education?
Based on my personal experience, I can say no, they don't. They don't water down their math classes. They don't cater to the lowest common denominator. They don't worry about having a child left behind. They don't give a fuck about child psychology. They just teach math, and if the kids don't learn, the parents beat the shit out of them.
Of course, that shit won't fly over here, so we fumble around with child psychology and talking about how complex our little snowflakes are. Take a look at international math rankings and then come back here to talk about how our approach is yielding better results.
And similarly, we should be fighting harder the notion that immigration contrary to the established laws is not "illegal".
Note, GP didn't say anything about illegal people. I don't see what's wrong with the expression "illegal immigration" with respect to immigration that is not legal.
But please, continue your efforts to redefine the English language. What do I know, I only became a naturalized citizen in 1989. Legally.
As someone that lives (and grew up in) NJ, I can only say that you're misattributing the cause of this situation.
Follow the money. In February of 2011, school superintendent salaries were capped (depending on district size) at $125k-$175k, because they were previously in excess of $200k in many instances. These "jobs" are quite awesome. The pay is great (especially compared against other gigs in education). The benefits are great (you get to keep rolling over sick days [because you work from home when you're actually sick], eventually cashing out literally years worth of paid time off when you retire). Many greed-motivated teachers (a minority among teachers) see the position of superintendent as the only way to "win" in their career track. Even now, with the cap in place, the median district superintendent salary is $176,505, with the highest salary being $264,579. This issue was even more ridiculous pre-cap.
But there's only a fixed number of these positions! How terrible! Well, at least there's ~550 of them. Do you think people vying for these truly enviable positions will allow their chances of getting one to be cut? Of course, consolidating districts would mean axing superintendents. While this would be amazing for the education budget in this state, freeing up shitloads of cash to actually, you know, educate kids, there's no way it will happen. There's too many people with a vested interest in having as many districts as possible. You'll see districts being split up even further before you seem them being merged together.
But blame it on racism, in a state where "as of 2011, 56.4% of New Jersey's population younger than age 1 were minorities(note: children born to white hispanics are counted as minority group)", according to Wikipedia. Based on my anecdotal experience, the citizens here have no race-based aversion against merging districts. I'm not sure how being in the same "district" as a poorly performing school (or "blacks", as you suggest) would have any impact on anything. I mean, they're already in the same "state" as these undesirable schools, sometimes in the same "county", and yet things keep chugging along just fine. I'm not sure why people would think that rearranging administrative boundaries would have any actual impact on their own town's schools. If anything, having your district include shittier inner-city schools could be a boon to you, as districts with the poorest-performing schools are the ones that get the lions share of the funding.
Really, you're looking at this from the wrong angle. You're looking at it as an outsider, as a citizen not directly involved in the education industry here. I can tell you that there are only two groups of people that have significant sway when it comes to education-related issues in NJ: the teachers [union], and the old people [that don't want to pay property taxes for education services they don't personally need]. They're the ones that go battle at the polls. They're the ones that actually get policy crafted. They're the reason we spend close to $100M every year on school district superintendents alone. I can assure you, there is no organized racist movement to keep districts from being consolidated.
Unlikely. They're already calling his weapon an "assault rifle", despite the fact that "a dozen" shots were fired.
An assault rifle fires "a dozen" shots in about one second (automatic) or at most 4 trigger pulls (3 round burst).
Unless the fire selector is set to single-shot. In which case I'd have to wonder why someone would go through the trouble of procuring an illegal firearm for themselves (assault rifles have been illegal since at least 1986) simply to use it in a manner that any legal (and easily obtained) semi-automatic rifle would suffice for.
Maybe he's military, and it's his service weapon. Or maybe the news outlets are in a race to see who can offer the most hysterical coverage.
And the individual is forced to buy the power from the utility at the same rate they sell power to them... which means they cannot recover distribution costs or make at least some profit. Individuals need to be able to buy the power at a lower price than they sell it.
Why is it that utilities "need to be able to" profit, but not individuals?
I find it amazing that some of the same folks who complain about the very wealthy are so willing to give them money in this manner.
I'm always on here lambasting the ultra-rich, but this is just disingenuous. While it's true that you won't see poor people putting solar panels on their house (mainly because they don't have a house), you don't have to be "very wealthy" by any reasonable person's measure to afford a PV installation. My parents have panels on their house, and they immigrated to this country with no money and no English, didn't have any higher education, worked clerical and truck driving jobs, and didn't win the lottery. They're nowhere near upper middle class, let alone "very wealthy" by American standards.
Can we stop arguing over what "fair" means and instead focus on what's best for the country and its population, both socially and economically?
Disparity of wealth distribution is near an all-time high in this country. We should be asking ourselves not "is this fair", but "is this good".
If you can think of a way to remedy this situation without getting into tax policy, I'm open to suggestions. Until then, we should consider how to redistribute wealth from the wealthy to the poor, in an effort to improve this country both socially and economically, by progressive taxation.
I would say that the wealthy don't need another tax break. Only a tiny proportion of their money would ever go towards tax, since only a tiny proportion of their money ever gets spent on taxable goods or services.
They're already rich enough. I don't think it's in society's best interest to further increase the current disparity in wealth distribution. If you feel that greater disparity in wealth distribution is better for society, feel free to explain the basis for that belief.
1) Left foot forward, quickly.
2) Right foot forward, quickly.
3) Left foot forward, quickly.
4) Right foot forward, quickly....
Any development process that's saddled with extremely frequent planning meetings sounds like the exact opposite of the traditional meaning of the English word "agile".
I feel for you. My workplace is transitioning to agile. I will refuse to participate in "stories" and "scrumming" for as long as I can before they fire me.
Disclaimer: I only briefly glanced at the diagram. Basically, it's only two ICs: a 555 timer and a counter.
If you're not familiar with the 555, it's little more than a chip that goes "high, low, high, low, etc." on its output pin. Not as accurate as a crystalline oscillator, but we're not building a stopwatch here. The speed at which this "clock" runs is determined by the capacitors and resistors wired up to it. In this circuit, one of the resistors is variable (a potentiometer), which allows you to adjust the clock speed by turning a knob instead of swapping out components.
Now, this clock signal feeds into a 4017 Johnson counter. This IC has 10 output pins that go high one at a time, in sequence. For every clock cycle, an output pin goes low, and the next one goes high.
Your circuit only has 8 LEDs though. That leaves you with 2 extra output pins. Once the counter gets past the 8th output pin, you want it to reset to the first pin, and then continue operating as before. An easy way of doing that is to wire the 9th output pin directly to the reset input. That way, when the 9th output goes high, the counter automatically resets. I'm guessing that this is where your circuit is failing.
Make sure pins 9 and 15 are shorted on your 4017. Pin 9 is the 9th output, and pin 15 is the master reset input. That's likely to be where this is failing. That, or the clock stops running.
If you love liberal use of apostrophes, you'd love the character Gopher from Ambrose Bierce's The Haunted Valley.
Bonus: It's a great story for 'Hallow'e'en'!
'W'isky thought a lot o' that Chink; nobody but me knew how 'e doted on 'im. Couldn't bear 'im out of 'is sight, the derned protoplasm! And w'en 'e came down to this clearin' one day an' found 'im an' me neglectin' our work -- 'im asleep an' me grapplin' a tarantula out of 'is sleeve -- W'isky laid hold of my axe and let us have it, good an' hard! I dodged just then, for the spider bit me, but Ah Wee got it bad in the side an' tumbled about like anything. W'isky was just weighin' me out one w'en 'e saw the spider fastened on my finger; then 'e knew 'e'd make a jackass of 'imself. 'E threw away the axe and got down on 'is knees alongside of Ah Wee, who gave a last little kick and opened 'is eyes -- 'e had eyes like mine -- an' puttin' up 'is hands drew down W'isky's ugly head and held it there w'ile 'e stayed. That wasn't long, for a tremblin' ran through 'im and 'e gave a bit of a moan an' beat the game.'
My first car (in 1999) was a 1984 Ford Thunderbird that I bought for $500. I was 17 years old, and I didn't expect it to last long.
While an otherwise awful car, this T-Bird did have one awesome feature: the gas pedal would regularly get stuck when depressed fully (which, for a 17 year old guy, was almost all the time). And of course, this being America, it was an automatic (with a steering-column shifter). Well, even as a 17 year old with little to no driving experience, this awesome feature never once caused me any problems. The first time it happened, I was quite surprised. I tried jiggling the pedal around with my foot, but within seconds of that not doing anything, I had shifted into neutral and turned off the engine. After that, it became second nature.
Even inexperienced drivers ought to be able to handle something this simple. I wasn't some sort of gearhead and I didn't find it particularly difficult to handle.
Epilogue: The engine seized after 3 months of 17-year-old-madman driving. I topped off the oil daily (it was burning quite a bit), so it wasn't for lack of regular maintenance. During those 3 months, I went on countless road trips and random adventures, even taking my TBird offroading through woods and swamps. Best $500 I ever spent. It's a wonder that I didn't kill myself or anyone else.
They did stand for it, until they started Falling Down.
Bill Foster: What are you doing to the street?
Construction Worker: We're fixing it! What the Hell does it look like?
Bill Foster: Two days ago it was fine. Are you telling me the street fell apart in two days?
Construction Worker: Well, I guess so.
Bill Foster: Pardon me, but that's bullshit. You see, I don't think anything's wrong with the street! I think you're just trying to justify your inflated budgets! I know how it works! If you don't spend the projected amount this year, you don't get the same amount next year! Now, I want you to admit, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STREET!
Construction Worker: Hey, fuck you, pal.
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Counterexample.
Currently there are 270 implementations of the communist ideology without suppression of free people to the extreme of mass murdering the dissenters. In Israel alone.
So regardless of capitalism, communism is a dead end, and makes no mathematical, much less economic, sense. There is a kind of 'communism of the rich' which is analogous to what techies do with open source, and what Star Trek assumed due to the Replicator technology. It's basically, "to each according to his needs, there's plenty to go around."
Indeed, so you've identified a particular scenario in which communism can work. If supply greatly outpaces demand, it makes sense.
Now, in this "rich" scenario, how does capitalism work out? And isn't automation technology bringing us ever closer to this "rich" scenario?
Okay, so neutrons are beyond the scope of this field of study, since they're subatomic particles. You're only dealing with atoms and molecules, fine.
So let's not talk about neutrons, or any other subatomic particles. Except electrons... Is that an exception that one ought to memorize?
But I just love how the greenies want to fuck everybody with price hikes because THEY can afford them while ignoring that even a 40c a gallon gas hike raises the cost of food enough that more Americans will be going hungry.
So you're saying we can stop global warming and fix the obesity epidemic all at once?!?
anywhere you have a dearth of electrons is positive
Except neutrons, which contain no electrons but are not positive... Is that an exception that one ought to memorize?
I tutored math, physics, compsci, chem, and circuits for six years.
Everyone called it orgo. It seems to be a regionalism most widespread in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
Apparently my county college was for some reason packed with stuck up rich ass students?
i assure you that if you were in the class, you would understand the test.
Isn't the whole point of Common Core to create a general basis for education, independent of which class you were in?
If "number sentences" and "pennies in your coffee" are actually written into Common Core, then sure, this test is great. If, on the other hand, they're inventions of Pearson, then this test is a perfect example of failing to buy into Common Core.
stop assuming you understand the best way to teach a child.
China, Russia, or any other country that actually has successful outcomes for mathematics education... Do they rely on "number sentences" and "pennies in your coffee" to teach math? Do they "apply our knowledge of child psychology" to achieve outcomes that leave their children 5+ years ahead of ours in terms of math education?
Based on my personal experience, I can say no, they don't. They don't water down their math classes. They don't cater to the lowest common denominator. They don't worry about having a child left behind. They don't give a fuck about child psychology. They just teach math, and if the kids don't learn, the parents beat the shit out of them.
Of course, that shit won't fly over here, so we fumble around with child psychology and talking about how complex our little snowflakes are. Take a look at international math rankings and then come back here to talk about how our approach is yielding better results.
And similarly, we should be fighting harder the notion that immigration contrary to the established laws is not "illegal".
Note, GP didn't say anything about illegal people. I don't see what's wrong with the expression "illegal immigration" with respect to immigration that is not legal.
But please, continue your efforts to redefine the English language. What do I know, I only became a naturalized citizen in 1989. Legally.
As someone that lives (and grew up in) NJ, I can only say that you're misattributing the cause of this situation.
Follow the money. In February of 2011, school superintendent salaries were capped (depending on district size) at $125k-$175k, because they were previously in excess of $200k in many instances. These "jobs" are quite awesome. The pay is great (especially compared against other gigs in education). The benefits are great (you get to keep rolling over sick days [because you work from home when you're actually sick], eventually cashing out literally years worth of paid time off when you retire). Many greed-motivated teachers (a minority among teachers) see the position of superintendent as the only way to "win" in their career track. Even now, with the cap in place, the median district superintendent salary is $176,505, with the highest salary being $264,579. This issue was even more ridiculous pre-cap.
But there's only a fixed number of these positions! How terrible! Well, at least there's ~550 of them. Do you think people vying for these truly enviable positions will allow their chances of getting one to be cut? Of course, consolidating districts would mean axing superintendents. While this would be amazing for the education budget in this state, freeing up shitloads of cash to actually, you know, educate kids, there's no way it will happen. There's too many people with a vested interest in having as many districts as possible. You'll see districts being split up even further before you seem them being merged together.
But blame it on racism, in a state where "as of 2011, 56.4% of New Jersey's population younger than age 1 were minorities(note: children born to white hispanics are counted as minority group)", according to Wikipedia. Based on my anecdotal experience, the citizens here have no race-based aversion against merging districts. I'm not sure how being in the same "district" as a poorly performing school (or "blacks", as you suggest) would have any impact on anything. I mean, they're already in the same "state" as these undesirable schools, sometimes in the same "county", and yet things keep chugging along just fine. I'm not sure why people would think that rearranging administrative boundaries would have any actual impact on their own town's schools. If anything, having your district include shittier inner-city schools could be a boon to you, as districts with the poorest-performing schools are the ones that get the lions share of the funding.
Really, you're looking at this from the wrong angle. You're looking at it as an outsider, as a citizen not directly involved in the education industry here. I can tell you that there are only two groups of people that have significant sway when it comes to education-related issues in NJ: the teachers [union], and the old people [that don't want to pay property taxes for education services they don't personally need]. They're the ones that go battle at the polls. They're the ones that actually get policy crafted. They're the reason we spend close to $100M every year on school district superintendents alone. I can assure you, there is no organized racist movement to keep districts from being consolidated.
Assault rifles have been illegal in all 50 of the United States since 1986 at the very least.
Unlikely. They're already calling his weapon an "assault rifle", despite the fact that "a dozen" shots were fired.
An assault rifle fires "a dozen" shots in about one second (automatic) or at most 4 trigger pulls (3 round burst).
Unless the fire selector is set to single-shot. In which case I'd have to wonder why someone would go through the trouble of procuring an illegal firearm for themselves (assault rifles have been illegal since at least 1986) simply to use it in a manner that any legal (and easily obtained) semi-automatic rifle would suffice for.
Maybe he's military, and it's his service weapon. Or maybe the news outlets are in a race to see who can offer the most hysterical coverage.
And the individual is forced to buy the power from the utility at the same rate they sell power to them ... which means they cannot recover distribution costs or make at least some profit. Individuals need to be able to buy the power at a lower price than they sell it.
Why is it that utilities "need to be able to" profit, but not individuals?
I find it amazing that some of the same folks who complain about the very wealthy are so willing to give them money in this manner.
I'm always on here lambasting the ultra-rich, but this is just disingenuous. While it's true that you won't see poor people putting solar panels on their house (mainly because they don't have a house), you don't have to be "very wealthy" by any reasonable person's measure to afford a PV installation. My parents have panels on their house, and they immigrated to this country with no money and no English, didn't have any higher education, worked clerical and truck driving jobs, and didn't win the lottery. They're nowhere near upper middle class, let alone "very wealthy" by American standards.
Again, I think the person behind the camera makes a big difference as well.
And that's why you're arguing against the claim that the Nexus 5 has a better camera? Because iPhone owners are better photographers?
That's just, like, your opinion, man.
Can we stop arguing over what "fair" means and instead focus on what's best for the country and its population, both socially and economically?
Disparity of wealth distribution is near an all-time high in this country. We should be asking ourselves not "is this fair", but "is this good".
If you can think of a way to remedy this situation without getting into tax policy, I'm open to suggestions. Until then, we should consider how to redistribute wealth from the wealthy to the poor, in an effort to improve this country both socially and economically, by progressive taxation.
I would say that the wealthy don't need another tax break. Only a tiny proportion of their money would ever go towards tax, since only a tiny proportion of their money ever gets spent on taxable goods or services.
They're already rich enough. I don't think it's in society's best interest to further increase the current disparity in wealth distribution. If you feel that greater disparity in wealth distribution is better for society, feel free to explain the basis for that belief.
Condolences. My girlfriend's gramps just beat the game a week ago as well.
Consider also that it's that time of year where many flavors of mysticism encourage people to remember and honor their fallen ancestors.
Sprint planning
1) Left foot forward, quickly. 2) Right foot forward, quickly. 3) Left foot forward, quickly. 4) Right foot forward, quickly. ...
Any development process that's saddled with extremely frequent planning meetings sounds like the exact opposite of the traditional meaning of the English word "agile".
I feel for you. My workplace is transitioning to agile. I will refuse to participate in "stories" and "scrumming" for as long as I can before they fire me.
Disclaimer: I only briefly glanced at the diagram. Basically, it's only two ICs: a 555 timer and a counter.
If you're not familiar with the 555, it's little more than a chip that goes "high, low, high, low, etc." on its output pin. Not as accurate as a crystalline oscillator, but we're not building a stopwatch here. The speed at which this "clock" runs is determined by the capacitors and resistors wired up to it. In this circuit, one of the resistors is variable (a potentiometer), which allows you to adjust the clock speed by turning a knob instead of swapping out components.
Now, this clock signal feeds into a 4017 Johnson counter. This IC has 10 output pins that go high one at a time, in sequence. For every clock cycle, an output pin goes low, and the next one goes high.
Your circuit only has 8 LEDs though. That leaves you with 2 extra output pins. Once the counter gets past the 8th output pin, you want it to reset to the first pin, and then continue operating as before. An easy way of doing that is to wire the 9th output pin directly to the reset input. That way, when the 9th output goes high, the counter automatically resets. I'm guessing that this is where your circuit is failing.
Make sure pins 9 and 15 are shorted on your 4017. Pin 9 is the 9th output, and pin 15 is the master reset input. That's likely to be where this is failing. That, or the clock stops running.
Bonus: It's a great story for 'Hallow'e'en'!
'W'isky thought a lot o' that Chink; nobody but me knew how 'e doted on 'im. Couldn't bear 'im out of 'is sight, the derned protoplasm! And w'en 'e came down to this clearin' one day an' found 'im an' me neglectin' our work -- 'im asleep an' me grapplin' a tarantula out of 'is sleeve -- W'isky laid hold of my axe and let us have it, good an' hard! I dodged just then, for the spider bit me, but Ah Wee got it bad in the side an' tumbled about like anything. W'isky was just weighin' me out one w'en 'e saw the spider fastened on my finger; then 'e knew 'e'd make a jackass of 'imself. 'E threw away the axe and got down on 'is knees alongside of Ah Wee, who gave a last little kick and opened 'is eyes -- 'e had eyes like mine -- an' puttin' up 'is hands drew down W'isky's ugly head and held it there w'ile 'e stayed. That wasn't long, for a tremblin' ran through 'im and 'e gave a bit of a moan an' beat the game.'
My first car (in 1999) was a 1984 Ford Thunderbird that I bought for $500. I was 17 years old, and I didn't expect it to last long.
While an otherwise awful car, this T-Bird did have one awesome feature: the gas pedal would regularly get stuck when depressed fully (which, for a 17 year old guy, was almost all the time). And of course, this being America, it was an automatic (with a steering-column shifter). Well, even as a 17 year old with little to no driving experience, this awesome feature never once caused me any problems. The first time it happened, I was quite surprised. I tried jiggling the pedal around with my foot, but within seconds of that not doing anything, I had shifted into neutral and turned off the engine. After that, it became second nature.
Even inexperienced drivers ought to be able to handle something this simple. I wasn't some sort of gearhead and I didn't find it particularly difficult to handle.
Epilogue: The engine seized after 3 months of 17-year-old-madman driving. I topped off the oil daily (it was burning quite a bit), so it wasn't for lack of regular maintenance. During those 3 months, I went on countless road trips and random adventures, even taking my TBird offroading through woods and swamps. Best $500 I ever spent. It's a wonder that I didn't kill myself or anyone else.
Believe me, the residents did stand for it.
They did stand for it, until they started Falling Down.
Bill Foster: What are you doing to the street?
Construction Worker: We're fixing it! What the Hell does it look like?
Bill Foster: Two days ago it was fine. Are you telling me the street fell apart in two days?
Construction Worker: Well, I guess so.
Bill Foster: Pardon me, but that's bullshit. You see, I don't think anything's wrong with the street! I think you're just trying to justify your inflated budgets! I know how it works! If you don't spend the projected amount this year, you don't get the same amount next year! Now, I want you to admit, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STREET!
Construction Worker: Hey, fuck you, pal.
Nuclear
Non-nuclear
Have you been in Vermont recently? I'd love to live there, if there were any jobs.
ghey++
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I'm surprised nobody else is shedding crocodile tears over your word choice.