I want the exact same thing that the previous generation got. No more, no less. That's not entitlement, but I guess you can't see that from your vantage point of the inside of your lower intestine.
Guess us black people shouldn't have demanded our "entitlement" to freedom, same as whites, right? After all, we weren't demanding the negatives like scurvy, so obviously it was entitlement.
Actually, no it doesn't - you're making a fallacious argument. He said the tax burden moved, which it did, towards the lower earners, which it has. All that's wrong with what you say is that you're claiming people in their 20s are earning as much as you, in your 40s, which isn't true. Nothing about how much tax they pay or how the burden has moved.
Exactly - all the guy's asking for is the same deal that his parents generation got. They refuse this to him and to add insult to injury, call him spoiled in the process! If that's entitlement, then god help us all for being so "entitled" as to demand equal treatment.
Not entirely true - my dad failed the joke that was the 11+ exam (based on entirely bogus twin studies - look it up!) and went on to get a degree at Liverpool university.
Maybe not food, but it's pretty hard to get quality health-care in the USA without one of these jobs, especially when you have children who need it too...
So his generation is people born 1970-1995, say, and the generation before would be 1945-1970 (post war generation = 'baby boomers'). When you do the math right, you find that he could have entered university after 1988 up to and including now (and for a few years). Hence previous generation. There isn't one generation for every year, you know.
Well this was, as I'm guessing your reply is, meant to be tongue in cheek. I'm just finding this little debate quite amusing, and in all reality I associate with the disaffected (and violently swearing) OP.
Oh, I've got a solution (not the OP though I'm sure he'd agree). Euthanize the baby boomers at 65. They don't want to pay back what they took? Good, no healthcare for you, no pension, nothing. Take your big cars and arrogant lifestyles with you into oblivion. It's you scared pricks that mean I have to go through hours of airport security. You arrogant assholes got free university education and then refused it to the next generation. So get into the fucking blender because I'm not taking care of you after the shit you did to me. GTFO my planet. We don't want you anymore, and we'll be the ones with their fingers on the buttons to your life support.
You fuckers started wars of convenience, you fuckers are causing global warming and you don't care because you'll be dead before the consequences hit. So go die. Please die. The sooner you shits are off the planet, the better.
"I think it may be the opposite in the US, more financial aid and such stuff for lower income people (ie: you can be poor, go to a top grade university and not spend 10 years paying it off)."
Thank you. I haven't laughed this hard in months. Thank you so much.
Oh, wait, you're not serious are you? Oh dear. The money pays for SOME of your expenses. The rest you have to do on loans. Your parents are poor? Oh, bad interest rate for you! The whole "poor people get a free ride" thing is an absolute joke. About 0.01% get a good deal, and the middle class complain about those people. The rest get wrung dry for every penny they have and will earn for the next few decades.
Another point would be the performance difference. I'm certainly no expert here, but what's really stopping me from going over to Linux is the performance hit you take. Like a lot of gamers, I really max out my machine when I play games - as big a resolution, shiny graphics as I can get whilst maintaining a playable FPS rate on the hardware I own. If Linux were as fast as windows for TF2, CSS etc etc, I'd switch over, go through all the hassle, but as it is, I'm playing games my system can hardly handle, so taking a further hit just isn't an option.
Read the comment I replied too and read my reply... I was merely pointing out that our relative motion to other galaxies has no bearing on the applicability of Newton's laws.
Indeed. In fact, GPS is one of the first instances where general relativity is needed for precision. Most other places you can get away with using special relativity coupled with Newton's gravity. SR is needed when you're dealing with most things electromagnetic in nature.
How DOES this tripe get modded informative? The whole point of relativity is that only relational quantities matter (going all the way back to Galilean relativity here - the original GR;-) ). The statement "our velocity could indeed eventually approach the speed of light" makes no sense here - with reference to what?
Locally there will be no problem with Newtonian physics still describing exactly what it did before. Locally, with reference the earth, Newtonian physics will remain a good approximation REGARDLESS of how we move relative to other planets (let alone galaxies!) You can keep dropping apples and watching them fall to the ground, keep pushing and object with a force and seeing a momentum change described by F=dp/dt.
Rule for the class: Homework to be done individually. Student starts group asking others to post answers. Open and shut case of breaking academic integrity.
Yes, yes, you can complain all you like about whether or not it's a good idea to do homework alone, but if you break the rules, claim something is your own work done with no help (ie by submitting homework and not telling the professor you broke the rules), then you're in the wrong. Headline should really read "Student openly violates rules of class, gets caught, now whines about it." If you don't like the rules, ask the prof. to change them, or petition the department. Homework is a valuable indicator of where students need more attention and help in class - if the ones having trouble just copy the answers this tool becomes useless.
OK, I know what you're saying, but really, Newton takes too much credit here. In his early work he even credited Leibniz then in a later edition of his work removed the statement.
Too true - anyone who's ended up in a new continent with no change of clothes can tell you that from that moment forward they're taking a bunch of essential stuff in carry on. Guarantee I'll have my luggage when I get there, and I'll check it. Until then, I'm taking 2-3 days worth of stuff carry on.
I enjoyed the views expressed here and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Seriously, we all know flying is a PITA, and to be honest when I hear kids screaming the first thought I have is one of empathy - on a long flight I feel like screaming and bawling too!
To all the damned baby-boomers: The world does not revolve around you. Sometimes you're going to have to suck it up and deal with the fact that someone else's needs outweigh yours. Yes, those of us without kids can often find them annoying, but you were a kid too, once and the generation before had to put up with you.
Well, here we're going to have to agree to disagree - I see nothing wrong with telling someone where to get free mp3s. It's only wrong if they down/upload them without the rights to do so. It's not splitting hairs, it's a clear and obvious distinction. Again and again you conflate the issue with that of much more serious crimes such as murder - a pretty weak argument at best.
No because once you talk about "intent" you're into thought crimes. As for "Hitmen Yellow Pages" - you're again conflating two issues here - one is a crime, the other is copyright violation. You can get all sorts of material on how to make bombs, how to kill people, etc etc, all protected by the first amendment and for good reason - I believe that there is nothing wrong with knowing these things, what's wrong is how they are used. What's more, Hitmen Yellow Pages would be rather a boost for the police, wouldn't it? Here's a list of people you might want to keep an eye out for... but I digress. TPB does not do anything that is wrong IMO. Maybe some of its users do, but the site itself I cannot fault.
Because of the manner in which it is being done. You're conflating two completely different things here. All TPB does is tell you IP addresses through a tracker. That's ALL. They don't give you anything illegal, they don't host anything illegal. And if just knowing about this type of thing, or even telling someone, about how to infringe copyright is illegal then you're in a thought-crime state.
It is right that I can be told where to buy weed, or how to rip DRM from music. Yes, it's morally justified to have or pass on that knowledge. The wrongdoing (if any) occurs at the point of using the knowledge, but just knowing or passing it on is fine. Here the company actually used the photograph. Had they just said "Hey, you can get a photograph at...." they wouldn't be in the wrong. See the difference yet?
Absolute crap. It's not "technically" at all. In fact, you're as guilty of this as they are - you've just told the world they can download mp3s at the pirate bay! All the pirate bay does is tell them other IP addresses through a bittorrent tracker.
Now if the pirate bay said "Here is an MP3, that'll be $0.50 please" or even used an MP3 they had not rights to in their advertising, you'd have a point. Otherwise they're doing something about as illegal as me telling you that 45th St is the place to get bootleg CDs in town.
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I want the exact same thing that the previous generation got. No more, no less. That's not entitlement, but I guess you can't see that from your vantage point of the inside of your lower intestine.
Guess us black people shouldn't have demanded our "entitlement" to freedom, same as whites, right? After all, we weren't demanding the negatives like scurvy, so obviously it was entitlement.
Actually, no it doesn't - you're making a fallacious argument. He said the tax burden moved, which it did, towards the lower earners, which it has. All that's wrong with what you say is that you're claiming people in their 20s are earning as much as you, in your 40s, which isn't true. Nothing about how much tax they pay or how the burden has moved.
Not very many according to the stats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom
With both median and mean for those in their 40s being between double and triple those in their 20s.
But don't let facts stand in the way of your hysterical right-wing rants.
Exactly - all the guy's asking for is the same deal that his parents generation got. They refuse this to him and to add insult to injury, call him spoiled in the process! If that's entitlement, then god help us all for being so "entitled" as to demand equal treatment.
Not entirely true - my dad failed the joke that was the 11+ exam (based on entirely bogus twin studies - look it up!) and went on to get a degree at Liverpool university.
Maybe not food, but it's pretty hard to get quality health-care in the USA without one of these jobs, especially when you have children who need it too...
So his generation is people born 1970-1995, say, and the generation before would be 1945-1970 (post war generation = 'baby boomers'). When you do the math right, you find that he could have entered university after 1988 up to and including now (and for a few years). Hence previous generation. There isn't one generation for every year, you know.
Well this was, as I'm guessing your reply is, meant to be tongue in cheek. I'm just finding this little debate quite amusing, and in all reality I associate with the disaffected (and violently swearing) OP.
Oh, I've got a solution (not the OP though I'm sure he'd agree). Euthanize the baby boomers at 65. They don't want to pay back what they took? Good, no healthcare for you, no pension, nothing. Take your big cars and arrogant lifestyles with you into oblivion. It's you scared pricks that mean I have to go through hours of airport security. You arrogant assholes got free university education and then refused it to the next generation. So get into the fucking blender because I'm not taking care of you after the shit you did to me. GTFO my planet. We don't want you anymore, and we'll be the ones with their fingers on the buttons to your life support.
You fuckers started wars of convenience, you fuckers are causing global warming and you don't care because you'll be dead before the consequences hit. So go die. Please die. The sooner you shits are off the planet, the better.
"I think it may be the opposite in the US, more financial aid and such stuff for lower income people (ie: you can be poor, go to a top grade university and not spend 10 years paying it off)."
Thank you. I haven't laughed this hard in months. Thank you so much.
Oh, wait, you're not serious are you? Oh dear. The money pays for SOME of your expenses. The rest you have to do on loans. Your parents are poor? Oh, bad interest rate for you! The whole "poor people get a free ride" thing is an absolute joke. About 0.01% get a good deal, and the middle class complain about those people. The rest get wrung dry for every penny they have and will earn for the next few decades.
Another point would be the performance difference. I'm certainly no expert here, but what's really stopping me from going over to Linux is the performance hit you take. Like a lot of gamers, I really max out my machine when I play games - as big a resolution, shiny graphics as I can get whilst maintaining a playable FPS rate on the hardware I own. If Linux were as fast as windows for TF2, CSS etc etc, I'd switch over, go through all the hassle, but as it is, I'm playing games my system can hardly handle, so taking a further hit just isn't an option.
Flamebait? How is this "flamebait"?
Read the comment I replied too and read my reply... I was merely pointing out that our relative motion to other galaxies has no bearing on the applicability of Newton's laws.
Indeed. In fact, GPS is one of the first instances where general relativity is needed for precision. Most other places you can get away with using special relativity coupled with Newton's gravity. SR is needed when you're dealing with most things electromagnetic in nature.
How DOES this tripe get modded informative? The whole point of relativity is that only relational quantities matter (going all the way back to Galilean relativity here - the original GR ;-) ). The statement "our velocity could indeed eventually approach the speed of light" makes no sense here - with reference to what?
Locally there will be no problem with Newtonian physics still describing exactly what it did before. Locally, with reference the earth, Newtonian physics will remain a good approximation REGARDLESS of how we move relative to other planets (let alone galaxies!) You can keep dropping apples and watching them fall to the ground, keep pushing and object with a force and seeing a momentum change described by F=dp/dt.
My undergrad (and I think this is the way with most UK institutions) graded:
70+ First Class
60+ Upper Second
50+ Lower Second
40+ Third
30+ Pass
29- Fail
But then again, 10% of people got firsts, so I guess it's a little harder than the US (or we're stupider... nah)
Rule for the class: Homework to be done individually. Student starts group asking others to post answers. Open and shut case of breaking academic integrity.
Yes, yes, you can complain all you like about whether or not it's a good idea to do homework alone, but if you break the rules, claim something is your own work done with no help (ie by submitting homework and not telling the professor you broke the rules), then you're in the wrong. Headline should really read "Student openly violates rules of class, gets caught, now whines about it." If you don't like the rules, ask the prof. to change them, or petition the department. Homework is a valuable indicator of where students need more attention and help in class - if the ones having trouble just copy the answers this tool becomes useless.
I wish I could! I think Cambridge University Library has a copy, and it's talked about quite a lot in histories of the time (search the Google!)
Really? Leibniz invented physics?
OK, I know what you're saying, but really, Newton takes too much credit here. In his early work he even credited Leibniz then in a later edition of his work removed the statement.
Too true - anyone who's ended up in a new continent with no change of clothes can tell you that from that moment forward they're taking a bunch of essential stuff in carry on. Guarantee I'll have my luggage when I get there, and I'll check it. Until then, I'm taking 2-3 days worth of stuff carry on.
I enjoyed the views expressed here and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Seriously, we all know flying is a PITA, and to be honest when I hear kids screaming the first thought I have is one of empathy - on a long flight I feel like screaming and bawling too!
To all the damned baby-boomers: The world does not revolve around you. Sometimes you're going to have to suck it up and deal with the fact that someone else's needs outweigh yours. Yes, those of us without kids can often find them annoying, but you were a kid too, once and the generation before had to put up with you.
Well, here we're going to have to agree to disagree - I see nothing wrong with telling someone where to get free mp3s. It's only wrong if they down/upload them without the rights to do so. It's not splitting hairs, it's a clear and obvious distinction. Again and again you conflate the issue with that of much more serious crimes such as murder - a pretty weak argument at best.
No because once you talk about "intent" you're into thought crimes. As for "Hitmen Yellow Pages" - you're again conflating two issues here - one is a crime, the other is copyright violation. You can get all sorts of material on how to make bombs, how to kill people, etc etc, all protected by the first amendment and for good reason - I believe that there is nothing wrong with knowing these things, what's wrong is how they are used. What's more, Hitmen Yellow Pages would be rather a boost for the police, wouldn't it? Here's a list of people you might want to keep an eye out for... but I digress. TPB does not do anything that is wrong IMO. Maybe some of its users do, but the site itself I cannot fault.
Because of the manner in which it is being done. You're conflating two completely different things here. All TPB does is tell you IP addresses through a tracker. That's ALL. They don't give you anything illegal, they don't host anything illegal. And if just knowing about this type of thing, or even telling someone, about how to infringe copyright is illegal then you're in a thought-crime state.
...." they wouldn't be in the wrong. See the difference yet?
It is right that I can be told where to buy weed, or how to rip DRM from music. Yes, it's morally justified to have or pass on that knowledge. The wrongdoing (if any) occurs at the point of using the knowledge, but just knowing or passing it on is fine. Here the company actually used the photograph. Had they just said "Hey, you can get a photograph at
Absolute crap. It's not "technically" at all. In fact, you're as guilty of this as they are - you've just told the world they can download mp3s at the pirate bay! All the pirate bay does is tell them other IP addresses through a bittorrent tracker.
Now if the pirate bay said "Here is an MP3, that'll be $0.50 please" or even used an MP3 they had not rights to in their advertising, you'd have a point. Otherwise they're doing something about as illegal as me telling you that 45th St is the place to get bootleg CDs in town.