If the only people who had kids were those who really give enough of a shit to take the responsibility seriously (like it sounds like you are) rather than just every dipshit who wants to be a part of something or wants something to love them then that problem would dissipate
Nice idea, too bad the premise is wrong. I know many bad parents who have kids because they wanted to have sex without responsibilities (Including thinking about birth control). Then she gets pregnant, and they still don't want responsibility so they do the minimum required to keep the kid alive.
That isn't to say you are fully wrong. There are clear indications that after welfare became easier for single mothers to get, single mothers become much more common. However it isn't clear if there is a cause/effect relationship. (The sexual revolution was taking place at the same time, single mothers may have increased anyway). Yes single mothers are automatically bad - children need a father as much as a mother.
Actually the word "moose" has no plural at all. This makes talking about a group of them difficult, so native speakers tend to avoid it. We will say "herd of moose" or other such things when we must, but that doesn't make it correct, only that we have no other choice. Natives will go out of their way to avoid talking about more than one moose at a time.
If you don't use resources you have, why have them?
If I was working at Apple (I don't) intending to leak secrets (which I wouldn't), and knew that they monitored everything, but never looked at those monitors to see what happened, you bet I'd use company resources to leak things. When I send something from an anonymous source, I'm not trustworthy. Anyone can say anything, if I can make my leaks come from apple, I'm not just anyone, I'm clearly an Apple insider, and thus more trustworthy.
If Apple isn't going to do the checks at home, then they should quit wasting shareholder's money having the ability to do those checks.
I would, but it is a bad neighborhood. If I lived in the same city I work in, my neighbors would not allow me to put up a clothsline. I would not be allowed to keep my classic car on blocks in the driveway while I rebuilt the engine in the garrage. In fact I wouldn't be allowed to keep my regular car in the driveway overnight (I wouldn't need it often, but something needs to get me to church or whatever)
My favorite trees would not be allowed in my yard (even though it is native to the state, while some of the allowed trees are not). They restrice my garden to useless flowers. (As anyone who has tried it knows, you cannot buy tomatoes or sweet corn, you have to grow it yourself).
Thus I live in an area what I can live a reasonable life, and work whereever I can find a job.
No problem. Snip all the computer cables, bolt an a carburetor from a junk yard. Engines just need compression, air/fuel, and spark to run. (I only drive sticks, so they can't mess with the tranny) Since I own the car, it won't me hard for me to bypass anything they try to do.
My lawyer will have a fun time suing them if they disable the breaks or something. A DMCA violation is nothing compared to attempted murder.
GM wants to advertise that their cars go 100,000 miles between a tuneup. Nevermind that some of your fluids are bad, they just re-define the spec to accept worse fluids as normal. You can go 100,000 miles, but if you want to get 300,000 out of the car you should be flushing the radiator (for example) more often than that. I'm sure they are looking for 100,000 mile engine oil, but so far they don't have it.
Car dealers want you to come in often because they only make money when you car is in the shop. So they suggest service intervals more often than required, but still much closer to what is reasonable (if you want to car to last 300,000+ miles).
Sadly that isn't true if those idiots vote. Then common sense will not prevail, they will instead vote in welfare for them because they cannot work, and those of us smart enough to listen to loud music will support those idiots who ruined their own life.
Or worse yet, they could vote to make hearing illegal, and then surgically remove our ear drums so we can't hear any better than them.
Remember, democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding on what is for dinner.
I know what redshift means, but I have never heard of spectroscopy before.
To be accurate, have no clue what units that 6.29 is in. I have no clue it means 13 billion light years away, as opposed to really close, but moving away fast (which could happen for small red shifts up to whatever moving at C would be). It is Doppler shifts, same as a train whistle moving away, only with light.
Not exactly. By the theory of relativity you would correct, except the theory of relativity predicts that it does not work in conditions like the big bang. You have to get into quantum mechanics, and other theories that do no exist yet to understand what happened to space time within a few seconds of the big bang.
Of course since we don't have all the theories needed, we cannot be sure what happened to space time "before" the big bang.
The Russians have enough nukes to destroy the world three times over, while the US only has enough to destroy the world two times over! The US is behind, we need to catch up!
Or was it the other way around? I was pretty young when the cold war ended. Either way, most people understood that it didn't matter much.
US snakes are deadly enough to kill anyone stupid enough to get bit. It doesn't matter that snakes elsewhere don't need as much venom to do it, if you are stupid enough to get bit by a poisonous snake you die.
$200,000? Thats peanuts to a real business. Frankly I'm surprised it is that low. Many small startups burn through more than that per month, and they end up just fine.
Now he has been in business for 10 years, so I would hope that he has a plan to make money. It wouldn't take that many sales to pay off the dept. However that doesn't mean it is easy.
I'd suggest that he needs salesmen, but I'm not sure who they sell to. If they don't have a business plan, they need that. If they have a plan, then it is just a matter of not going bankrupt before the sales kick in. (When and if they will kick in I don't know)
In fact, I am suprised to not yet have seen systems like Gnome and KDE fire up a stripped down PostgreSQL process or something similar to provide applications with an excellent database for whatever their needs might be.
It called SQLITE and KDE has been debating making it a part of core for years. Qt provides an excellend database abstraction layer though, so it seems pointless to enforce sqlite when some users might prefer mySql or Postgresql.
I'm guessing GNOME does much the same, but I don't follow that desktop.
A better idea would be to just let the fire burn. Nature intended to have a forest fire every few years[1], not allowing them just make the fire worse.
[1]In forests that have forest fires. Rain forests do not depend on fires, and never have them. Other forests do.
That is because you looking in places where people who don't like George Bush hang out. Get out in the UN in general, and you will find many smart people who think George Bush is smart. You don't get into Yale if you are an idiot, no matter who your family is. Of course if you are smart enough that you could get in, family will get you in over someone else who could get in but doesn't have the family.
George Bush looks like an idiot only because people want to see an idiot, so they pick on every mistake he makes. Republicans did the same to Bill Clinton, or have you forgotten already? Maybe you weren't paying attention Bush fans tend to be less well represented on the internet.
Actually you are both almost right. Maximum efficiency comes with the engine at the peak of the torque curve (between 1500 and 6000 rpm depending on the design, fuel, temperature, etc), with maximun throttle. Any other RPM or throttle setting results in an efficiency loss. (If the throttle is not wide open the engine has to "work against a vacuum" to get air in, and that causes loss). Actually getting this is really hard though.
The US is a representative republic. If they didn't like it they should have voted for someone else who wouldn't have supported a moon launch.
Anyone who was watching social security in the 60s would have realized that it was a house of cards that could not possibly stand. Maybe they were not of voting age when social security was started, but they were of voting age back then, and they didn't care to fix it.
If you don't believe, then why say it? Your only point seems to be that you want to renege on promises made to people who already paid into the system through no choice of their own. They didn't have the option of using that money for a retirement account. It was taken from them.
Because it needs to be said. They made a promise to themselves that I (who was not even born yet!) would pay for their retirement, so they didn't need to save for it. They had a choice about it: vote to end the system then. They didn't, so I blame them.
If you are healthy, and didn't save for retirement, then get off your butt and work. I don't mind helping the disabled, and bodies do fail as you get older (though if you work they don't fail as fast as when you do nothing). The vast majority of retired people could support themselves (this is different from supporting themselves as well as when they were in their prime), yet they don't.
It takes hours to go 3 blocks out here too. However our blocks are a lot bigger than yours. Where you only travel 1/4mile when going 3 blocks, we have gone as much as 30 miles. (On a tractor with no suspension, in theory we can go 15mph, in practice few can stand bouncing that much so we go slower)
Engineers do not know things to an arbitrary narrow range. There are too many variables. If the contractor decides to add extra water to the concrete (which makes it seek a level, like water does, and thus there is no need to move the trucks to fill your forms), the concrete is much weaker. A contractor with no oversight can cause a order of magnitude reduction in strength. Even if there is oversight, there are many variables which could all combine to the worst. (that is a substandard mix could test fine because you test the one OK part, and your test overestimates) The only way to know perfectly how any given construction will behave is to do destructive testing. Anything else leave uncertainties, and some will weaken as a result.
Now we do know things close enough that we just build in margins of safety. That just means we assume the worst cases that we can, and make things stronger. The margin of safety varies. For things where failure isn't a big deal (freight elevators where no humans will ride), we can make things cheap by using tiny margins. For things where humans are involved we tend to design for double or even triple loads. (that is a human elevator rated for 1000 lbs will have a 3000 lbs cable. Or more likely 3 1000 lbs cables) Unfortunately this costs money so we often use a smaller safety factor to make things affordable, particularly when things are big (a 60,000 lbs elevator may have cables rated for 70,000 lbs)
In fact there was a written evacuation plan. It might have even worked if it was followed, but it was ignored. I'm not sure if nobody knew it existed, or if it was too complex for them to understand. Not that this matters as the decision to do anything wasn't made until it was too late.
People from high levels did in fact urge an evacuation, far enough in advance, but their advice was ignored by those who have the power to make the decision.
Conservatives talk show host love to talk about this, because the local governments are responsible for activating the plan, not the federal government[1], and the local governments are mostly Democrats.
[1]This is very different from how countries such as Holland works. In the US the federal government isn't all powerful over local governments. President Bush cannot order an evacuation.
Perhaps without spending all the money on space those UHF channels would actually be used. A old TV could get ~ 70 channels without needing cable. Most areas didn't have more than a handfull total though. Even if we subtract a lot of stations to account for interference (that is there is nothing on the channel at your home, but if there was it would get in the way to the channel elsewhere, where it is now strong), there was always a large lack of stations.
For that matter, the investment in space would write the entire country for fiber to the curb, even rural areas. That is the entire investment, direct TV doesn't have to pay for the entire development costs of the first rockets.
What technology do we not have because the nation was focused on Space? The question cannot be answered, but it is interesting to consider.
You write about English being written at a 6Th grade level as if that is bad. What is there to learn about reading past 6Th grade? Nothing important is the answer. You know how to figure things out from context, and enough words communicate effectively. Levels beyond 6Th grade are just substituting long words where a short one would do.
After 6Th grade reading becomes specialized. Sentences like "Big-Oh n factorial" make perfect sense to me, but would mean nothing to a medical doctor. The MD however knows many words that I don't understand.
The Japanese wright their newspapers at a 9Th grade level, but that is because they insist on using symbols to represent words, instead of sounds. It takes longer to learn to read in Japan because reading is that much harder, not because they are communicating better. (I suspect that languages like Spanish can get by with newspapers written at a 4Th or 5Th grade level, but I don't know where to verify that)
True, but only about half that number actually do anything at all that would give them away as a Christan, so long as you don't look on Easter or Christmas (and even then you won't find evidence for many).
Most of the people in the US consider themselves christian. About half that number actually attend church on any regular basis. Many of those do nothing more (that is they don't read their bible, attend bible studies, church camps, or any of the other activities that religions do).
So what percentage of the country is really christian?
The above is all ignoring the many different sects of Christianity, which do not agree. So even if someone is attending church regularly, reading their bible, praying daily, or whatever their particular sect teachers, if they are in the wrong sect is it fair to call them christian?
Go a little closer to New York City and look. Preferably right inside the city. There are people who never leave cities in their entire life (so long as you count a crowed airplane at 30,000 feet as a city - these people will travel to cities in Europe and such).
The Network Nazi was right. Computers should be secured much more than they are. It is not his fault that the typical Microsoft Windows program won't run unless given far more access than a user should need.
Note that I blamed the typical Microsoft Windows program? The typical UNIX/linux/OSX program does not have this problem. Unix users are happy working in a very restriced environment because the programs they use are designed right. In short: blame your vender's for being idiots. The users shouldn't need or want lots of abilities, but if the system is designed so that they cannot get their work done without it, they will demand those abilities, not realizing they are demanding the wrong thing.
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If the only people who had kids were those who really give enough of a shit to take the responsibility seriously (like it sounds like you are) rather than just every dipshit who wants to be a part of something or wants something to love them then that problem would dissipate
Nice idea, too bad the premise is wrong. I know many bad parents who have kids because they wanted to have sex without responsibilities (Including thinking about birth control). Then she gets pregnant, and they still don't want responsibility so they do the minimum required to keep the kid alive.
That isn't to say you are fully wrong. There are clear indications that after welfare became easier for single mothers to get, single mothers become much more common. However it isn't clear if there is a cause/effect relationship. (The sexual revolution was taking place at the same time, single mothers may have increased anyway). Yes single mothers are automatically bad - children need a father as much as a mother.
Actually the word "moose" has no plural at all. This makes talking about a group of them difficult, so native speakers tend to avoid it. We will say "herd of moose" or other such things when we must, but that doesn't make it correct, only that we have no other choice. Natives will go out of their way to avoid talking about more than one moose at a time.
Clearly you didn't have the same English teach in 7th grade that I did.
If you don't use resources you have, why have them?
If I was working at Apple (I don't) intending to leak secrets (which I wouldn't), and knew that they monitored everything, but never looked at those monitors to see what happened, you bet I'd use company resources to leak things. When I send something from an anonymous source, I'm not trustworthy. Anyone can say anything, if I can make my leaks come from apple, I'm not just anyone, I'm clearly an Apple insider, and thus more trustworthy.
If Apple isn't going to do the checks at home, then they should quit wasting shareholder's money having the ability to do those checks.
I would, but it is a bad neighborhood. If I lived in the same city I work in, my neighbors would not allow me to put up a clothsline. I would not be allowed to keep my classic car on blocks in the driveway while I rebuilt the engine in the garrage. In fact I wouldn't be allowed to keep my regular car in the driveway overnight (I wouldn't need it often, but something needs to get me to church or whatever)
My favorite trees would not be allowed in my yard (even though it is native to the state, while some of the allowed trees are not). They restrice my garden to useless flowers. (As anyone who has tried it knows, you cannot buy tomatoes or sweet corn, you have to grow it yourself).
Thus I live in an area what I can live a reasonable life, and work whereever I can find a job.
No problem. Snip all the computer cables, bolt an a carburetor from a junk yard. Engines just need compression, air/fuel, and spark to run. (I only drive sticks, so they can't mess with the tranny) Since I own the car, it won't me hard for me to bypass anything they try to do.
My lawyer will have a fun time suing them if they disable the breaks or something. A DMCA violation is nothing compared to attempted murder.
GM wants to advertise that their cars go 100,000 miles between a tuneup. Nevermind that some of your fluids are bad, they just re-define the spec to accept worse fluids as normal. You can go 100,000 miles, but if you want to get 300,000 out of the car you should be flushing the radiator (for example) more often than that. I'm sure they are looking for 100,000 mile engine oil, but so far they don't have it.
Car dealers want you to come in often because they only make money when you car is in the shop. So they suggest service intervals more often than required, but still much closer to what is reasonable (if you want to car to last 300,000+ miles).
Sadly that isn't true if those idiots vote. Then common sense will not prevail, they will instead vote in welfare for them because they cannot work, and those of us smart enough to listen to loud music will support those idiots who ruined their own life.
Or worse yet, they could vote to make hearing illegal, and then surgically remove our ear drums so we can't hear any better than them.
Remember, democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding on what is for dinner.
I know what redshift means, but I have never heard of spectroscopy before.
To be accurate, have no clue what units that 6.29 is in. I have no clue it means 13 billion light years away, as opposed to really close, but moving away fast (which could happen for small red shifts up to whatever moving at C would be). It is Doppler shifts, same as a train whistle moving away, only with light.
Not exactly. By the theory of relativity you would correct, except the theory of relativity predicts that it does not work in conditions like the big bang. You have to get into quantum mechanics, and other theories that do no exist yet to understand what happened to space time within a few seconds of the big bang.
Of course since we don't have all the theories needed, we cannot be sure what happened to space time "before" the big bang.
The Russians have enough nukes to destroy the world three times over, while the US only has enough to destroy the world two times over! The US is behind, we need to catch up!
Or was it the other way around? I was pretty young when the cold war ended. Either way, most people understood that it didn't matter much.
US snakes are deadly enough to kill anyone stupid enough to get bit. It doesn't matter that snakes elsewhere don't need as much venom to do it, if you are stupid enough to get bit by a poisonous snake you die.
$200,000? Thats peanuts to a real business. Frankly I'm surprised it is that low. Many small startups burn through more than that per month, and they end up just fine.
Now he has been in business for 10 years, so I would hope that he has a plan to make money. It wouldn't take that many sales to pay off the dept. However that doesn't mean it is easy.
I'd suggest that he needs salesmen, but I'm not sure who they sell to. If they don't have a business plan, they need that. If they have a plan, then it is just a matter of not going bankrupt before the sales kick in. (When and if they will kick in I don't know)
In fact, I am suprised to not yet have seen systems like Gnome and KDE fire up a stripped down PostgreSQL process or something similar to provide applications with an excellent database for whatever their needs might be.
It called SQLITE and KDE has been debating making it a part of core for years. Qt provides an excellend database abstraction layer though, so it seems pointless to enforce sqlite when some users might prefer mySql or Postgresql.
I'm guessing GNOME does much the same, but I don't follow that desktop.
A better idea would be to just let the fire burn. Nature intended to have a forest fire every few years[1], not allowing them just make the fire worse.
[1]In forests that have forest fires. Rain forests do not depend on fires, and never have them. Other forests do.
That is because you looking in places where people who don't like George Bush hang out. Get out in the UN in general, and you will find many smart people who think George Bush is smart. You don't get into Yale if you are an idiot, no matter who your family is. Of course if you are smart enough that you could get in, family will get you in over someone else who could get in but doesn't have the family.
George Bush looks like an idiot only because people want to see an idiot, so they pick on every mistake he makes. Republicans did the same to Bill Clinton, or have you forgotten already? Maybe you weren't paying attention Bush fans tend to be less well represented on the internet.
Actually you are both almost right. Maximum efficiency comes with the engine at the peak of the torque curve (between 1500 and 6000 rpm depending on the design, fuel, temperature, etc), with maximun throttle. Any other RPM or throttle setting results in an efficiency loss. (If the throttle is not wide open the engine has to "work against a vacuum" to get air in, and that causes loss). Actually getting this is really hard though.
The US is a representative republic. If they didn't like it they should have voted for someone else who wouldn't have supported a moon launch.
Anyone who was watching social security in the 60s would have realized that it was a house of cards that could not possibly stand. Maybe they were not of voting age when social security was started, but they were of voting age back then, and they didn't care to fix it.
If you don't believe, then why say it? Your only point seems to be that you want to renege on promises made to people who already paid into the system through no choice of their own. They didn't have the option of using that money for a retirement account. It was taken from them.
Because it needs to be said. They made a promise to themselves that I (who was not even born yet!) would pay for their retirement, so they didn't need to save for it. They had a choice about it: vote to end the system then. They didn't, so I blame them.
If you are healthy, and didn't save for retirement, then get off your butt and work. I don't mind helping the disabled, and bodies do fail as you get older (though if you work they don't fail as fast as when you do nothing). The vast majority of retired people could support themselves (this is different from supporting themselves as well as when they were in their prime), yet they don't.
It takes hours to go 3 blocks out here too. However our blocks are a lot bigger than yours. Where you only travel 1/4mile when going 3 blocks, we have gone as much as 30 miles. (On a tractor with no suspension, in theory we can go 15mph, in practice few can stand bouncing that much so we go slower)
As the other guy said...
Engineers do not know things to an arbitrary narrow range. There are too many variables. If the contractor decides to add extra water to the concrete (which makes it seek a level, like water does, and thus there is no need to move the trucks to fill your forms), the concrete is much weaker. A contractor with no oversight can cause a order of magnitude reduction in strength. Even if there is oversight, there are many variables which could all combine to the worst. (that is a substandard mix could test fine because you test the one OK part, and your test overestimates) The only way to know perfectly how any given construction will behave is to do destructive testing. Anything else leave uncertainties, and some will weaken as a result.
Now we do know things close enough that we just build in margins of safety. That just means we assume the worst cases that we can, and make things stronger. The margin of safety varies. For things where failure isn't a big deal (freight elevators where no humans will ride), we can make things cheap by using tiny margins. For things where humans are involved we tend to design for double or even triple loads. (that is a human elevator rated for 1000 lbs will have a 3000 lbs cable. Or more likely 3 1000 lbs cables) Unfortunately this costs money so we often use a smaller safety factor to make things affordable, particularly when things are big (a 60,000 lbs elevator may have cables rated for 70,000 lbs)
In fact there was a written evacuation plan. It might have even worked if it was followed, but it was ignored. I'm not sure if nobody knew it existed, or if it was too complex for them to understand. Not that this matters as the decision to do anything wasn't made until it was too late.
People from high levels did in fact urge an evacuation, far enough in advance, but their advice was ignored by those who have the power to make the decision.
Conservatives talk show host love to talk about this, because the local governments are responsible for activating the plan, not the federal government[1], and the local governments are mostly Democrats.
[1]This is very different from how countries such as Holland works. In the US the federal government isn't all powerful over local governments. President Bush cannot order an evacuation.
Perhaps without spending all the money on space those UHF channels would actually be used. A old TV could get ~ 70 channels without needing cable. Most areas didn't have more than a handfull total though. Even if we subtract a lot of stations to account for interference (that is there is nothing on the channel at your home, but if there was it would get in the way to the channel elsewhere, where it is now strong), there was always a large lack of stations.
For that matter, the investment in space would write the entire country for fiber to the curb, even rural areas. That is the entire investment, direct TV doesn't have to pay for the entire development costs of the first rockets.
What technology do we not have because the nation was focused on Space? The question cannot be answered, but it is interesting to consider.
You write about English being written at a 6Th grade level as if that is bad. What is there to learn about reading past 6Th grade? Nothing important is the answer. You know how to figure things out from context, and enough words communicate effectively. Levels beyond 6Th grade are just substituting long words where a short one would do.
After 6Th grade reading becomes specialized. Sentences like "Big-Oh n factorial" make perfect sense to me, but would mean nothing to a medical doctor. The MD however knows many words that I don't understand.
The Japanese wright their newspapers at a 9Th grade level, but that is because they insist on using symbols to represent words, instead of sounds. It takes longer to learn to read in Japan because reading is that much harder, not because they are communicating better. (I suspect that languages like Spanish can get by with newspapers written at a 4Th or 5Th grade level, but I don't know where to verify that)
True, but only about half that number actually do anything at all that would give them away as a Christan, so long as you don't look on Easter or Christmas (and even then you won't find evidence for many).
Most of the people in the US consider themselves christian. About half that number actually attend church on any regular basis. Many of those do nothing more (that is they don't read their bible, attend bible studies, church camps, or any of the other activities that religions do).
So what percentage of the country is really christian?
The above is all ignoring the many different sects of Christianity, which do not agree. So even if someone is attending church regularly, reading their bible, praying daily, or whatever their particular sect teachers, if they are in the wrong sect is it fair to call them christian?
Go a little closer to New York City and look. Preferably right inside the city. There are people who never leave cities in their entire life (so long as you count a crowed airplane at 30,000 feet as a city - these people will travel to cities in Europe and such).
The Network Nazi was right. Computers should be secured much more than they are. It is not his fault that the typical Microsoft Windows program won't run unless given far more access than a user should need.
Note that I blamed the typical Microsoft Windows program? The typical UNIX/linux/OSX program does not have this problem. Unix users are happy working in a very restriced environment because the programs they use are designed right. In short: blame your vender's for being idiots. The users shouldn't need or want lots of abilities, but if the system is designed so that they cannot get their work done without it, they will demand those abilities, not realizing they are demanding the wrong thing.