You really shouldn't comment on things about which you have no knowledge. It's Democrats in NJ that passed the "poison pill" law that has held back "smart" guns in the U.S.
Democrats pass a law that says the first to market smart gun eliminates all current guns in the NJ market. Because we all know the first to market in technology is always the best, right? Besides the fact that it's only available in one caliber (.22lr) which is not considered suitable for self-defense (how many police departments issue.22s for their officers?).
But hey, it's on the market, it's electronics might suck, and it's a calibre that's mostly useful for training, but in 3 years it's the only gun proles (not police) can buy in NJ.
Make sure the people who passed that law don't get any of the blame for the obvious, predictable consequences of their actions, and blame the gun-nuts (who opposed the law). Life is good for Democrats.
How can anybody with any mathematical literacy believe this? Especially the crap about it being bipartisan?
In the 2007-2008 election cycle, there was around $8 billion spent on ALL campaigns (local to federal). About what Americans spend annually on potato chips.
The federal budget now is over $3.5 trillion, with discretionary spending at nearly $1.2 trillion.
With the amount of money under the control of the congress every year being so many orders of magnitude larger than campaign spending, what sane person can actually believe that campaign finance reform is actually going to do anything substantial to "remove money from politics"?
So let's throw away the 1st Amendment, and maybe improve the alleged problem by.002%. Great plan.
How dare you suggest that housing people want and need to buy and economic growth are more important than Jeff Reifman's delicate architectural sensibilities. You insensitive clod.
Exactly. We're not enemies with Mexico, but it's not a perfectly safe and stable relationship given the amount of violence on both sides of the border. If the US wants to check for drug cartel influence at the highest levels of the Mexican gov't, I don't care. NSA can spy outside our borders all it wants - go for it.
Creating a Mac-only scripting environment in the 1980's, then complaining because users are so stupid that the market chose Javascript instead is nothing more than Mr. Whiner [sic], well, whining that cross-platform, open, networked standards won over his proprietary precious inventions. Wah, wah.
Yeah, I know Frontier is GPL now, but that wasn't always the case. Open sourcing failed proprietary products doesn't guarantee their success unless being proprietary is their only flaw. And maybe not even then.
I don't see anybody mentioning it yet, so I'll just say my first exposure to programming was a CARDIAC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_Computation
My science teacher in 8th grade (1977) asked me to look at it. I spent an hour doing a tutorial multiplying two integers using iterative adds. I then told the teacher she didn't want to use these in class.
Later I programmed a Sinclair programmable calculater, BASIC on UGA's Cyber, and finally in 1982, my own Atari 400 (Basic, forth, Action!, assembly).
Krugman is loud-mouth idiot. Having said that, I think he's correct that the tech revolution still has a lot of gains to make. I think he's dead wrong that it will kill poor people unless the government steps in.
In the 1980's, I was told I was stupid to major in computer science because CASE tools were going to replace programmers. In the 1990's Indian programmers were going to replace American programmers. And manufacturing jobs were supposed to disappear by in the 1970's (replaced by robots). Liberal control freaks will use any excuse to claim that there will be armageddon unless the government takes control. Yeah, some jobs have been eliminated by automation, but overall that has grown the economy and the job market. So I don't see any reason why it's been essentially wrong for 30+ years, but suddenly it's right now because Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (tm) said it.
It's all about biologically implanted software/hardware and malware. I've watched a handful of episodes and it looks like it was made to be an advertisement for Free software (Know what's running in your own head!).
Or maybe that's too much on the pragmatic side and I should ask Eric S. Raymond.
'We need to do something new,' he said. 'We need to try something different.'
Since education spending has tripled or quadrupled (depending on who you ask) over the past 30 years, and and educational outcomes have been virtually unchanged, yeah, dumping more money into a crumbling educational bureaucracy is really new and different. That'll probably work.
Until we do something about this, more money is not going to help any more than it already has: graph
Crime will go up everywhere, disease will start to spread, and education will plummet.
The quality of education has declined every year since Carter created the Dept. of Education. It started declining before that, but the Dept. obviously has done very little good, and likely, more harm.
The vast majority of public housing is NOT slums or ghettos.
Even if that is true (and I don't think it is), almost all slums and getthos are public housing, and federal intrusion virtually always ruins the neighborhood.
How many research appears have you read? studies? ever compare agency's waste to corporate waste? inefficiency? no?
Actually, I've never read a research appear, whatever that is. Corporations don't spend my money or force me at gunpoint to donate to them. I don't care how private individuals spend their money, it's none of my business. Your analogy has no validity.
STFU
Well, there it is. I bow to your impeccable logic and persuasive prose. How could I possibly disagree with such eloquence and rational discourse.
OMG! No more ethanol boondoggles! No more Solyndra investments! Whatever shall we do!??
no more low income housing
Now who will create more slums and ghettos?!?!
no more parks, no more public education, , no more roads & bridges.
Ron Paul called for abolsihing all state, county and city governments! Lynch him right now!!
So, are you actually a Ron Paul supporter, or did you think listing mostly craptacular failures of fedzilla and responsibilities of local governments would actually scare people into throwing away the constitution?
No, it really happened. They CCW'er was convicted. It happened a few years ago, and I can't remember the guy's name, so I can't find the link. Just because you don't like the outcome doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Eh, no, he was just a cop doing his job trying to arrest a prostitute. IIRC, there were other under-cover cops around, also. The prostitute was just trying to get out of getting arrested. The point is, if you don't know for damn sure who the bad guy is and you intervene, you're very likely to get it wrong. She was in no danger of being raped despite the Internet Armchair Quarterback protestations otherwise.
I read an article about a delusional criminal and kept waiting for a hero to show up. I never saw one.
Now, I've been called lots of names because I carry a gun every day, but I'm not a vigilante. Intervening in that situation was just plain stupid. No, criminal. And it could have been much worse. There's the story of the guy who heard a woman screaming rape, so he came and shot her assailant. Turned out she was a prostitute and the guy he shot was an undercover cop.
I will defend myself and my family. Intervening when you have no idea who is the good guy and who is the bad guy is a good way to end up in jail or dead. For no good reason: http://www.stoppingpower.net/commentary/comm_dangers_in_intervention.asp http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2010/09/robert-farago/dont-shoot-three-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-sav-a-stranger/
.30-06, 7.62x54r,.243 Win,.223/5.56 are all good reliable data wipes. Pistol calibers, maybe, but it's more fun with a rifle at 50-100 yards. Clean-up is easy, too.
Git works great as a centralized server. We switched from CVS and the only problems have been Windows or GUI related.
Mercurial is also great, but if you don't immediately break all ties to the past and go completely de-centralized be prepared for castigation and lack of support from the hg "community."
Git considers centralised SCM a subset of distributed, and just one of the many workflows it supports.
Unless you want to use mercurial. You'll get nothing but grief on the mailing list. But git does work very nicely with a central server, and the community will still accept you and even support you.
Yes it is. You got the analogy wrong. With junk mail, mailers pay for production and deliver costs. That is nothing like spam. Not even close.
A better analogy is junk faxes. And correct the ratio. Your fax machine is constantly getting junk faxes, so you have to add lines to get the real faxes.
You and your ISP pay for the bandwidth, mail servers, etc (not the spammers). Plus all the spam filtering software and hardware.
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You really shouldn't comment on things about which you have no knowledge. It's Democrats in NJ that passed the "poison pill" law that has held back "smart" guns in the U.S.
Democrats pass a law that says the first to market smart gun eliminates all current guns in the NJ market. Because we all know the first to market in technology is always the best, right? Besides the fact that it's only available in one caliber (.22lr) which is not considered suitable for self-defense (how many police departments issue .22s for their officers?).
But hey, it's on the market, it's electronics might suck, and it's a calibre that's mostly useful for training, but in 3 years it's the only gun proles (not police) can buy in NJ.
Make sure the people who passed that law don't get any of the blame for the obvious, predictable consequences of their actions, and blame the gun-nuts (who opposed the law). Life is good for Democrats.
How can anybody with any mathematical literacy believe this? Especially the crap about it being bipartisan?
In the 2007-2008 election cycle, there was around $8 billion spent on ALL campaigns (local to federal). About what Americans spend annually on potato chips.
The federal budget now is over $3.5 trillion, with discretionary spending at nearly $1.2 trillion.
With the amount of money under the control of the congress every year being so many orders of magnitude larger than campaign spending, what sane person can actually believe that campaign finance reform is actually going to do anything substantial to "remove money from politics"?
So let's throw away the 1st Amendment, and maybe improve the alleged problem by .002%. Great plan.
How dare you suggest that housing people want and need to buy and economic growth are more important than Jeff Reifman's delicate architectural sensibilities. You insensitive clod.
Yeah, call the wahmbulance.
Love my RT-N16. I've used dd-wrt and easytomato on it in the past 2 years or so. It's great for the price.
Exactly. We're not enemies with Mexico, but it's not a perfectly safe and stable relationship given the amount of violence on both sides of the border. If the US wants to check for drug cartel influence at the highest levels of the Mexican gov't, I don't care. NSA can spy outside our borders all it wants - go for it.
Creating a Mac-only scripting environment in the 1980's, then complaining because users are so stupid that the market chose Javascript instead is nothing more than Mr. Whiner [sic], well, whining that cross-platform, open, networked standards won over his proprietary precious inventions. Wah, wah.
Yeah, I know Frontier is GPL now, but that wasn't always the case. Open sourcing failed proprietary products doesn't guarantee their success unless being proprietary is their only flaw. And maybe not even then.
I don't see anybody mentioning it yet, so I'll just say my first exposure to programming was a CARDIAC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_Computation
My science teacher in 8th grade (1977) asked me to look at it. I spent an hour doing a tutorial multiplying two integers using iterative adds. I then told the teacher she didn't want to use these in class.
Later I programmed a Sinclair programmable calculater, BASIC on UGA's Cyber, and finally in 1982, my own Atari 400 (Basic, forth, Action!, assembly).
Krugman is loud-mouth idiot. Having said that, I think he's correct that the tech revolution still has a lot of gains to make. I think he's dead wrong that it will kill poor people unless the government steps in.
In the 1980's, I was told I was stupid to major in computer science because CASE tools were going to replace programmers. In the 1990's Indian programmers were going to replace American programmers. And manufacturing jobs were supposed to disappear by in the 1970's (replaced by robots). Liberal control freaks will use any excuse to claim that there will be armageddon unless the government takes control. Yeah, some jobs have been eliminated by automation, but overall that has grown the economy and the job market. So I don't see any reason why it's been essentially wrong for 30+ years, but suddenly it's right now because Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (tm) said it.
H+ Digital Series
It's all about biologically implanted software/hardware and malware. I've watched a handful of episodes and it looks like it was made to be an advertisement for Free software (Know what's running in your own head!).
Or maybe that's too much on the pragmatic side and I should ask Eric S. Raymond.
'We need to do something new,' he said. 'We need to try something different.'
Since education spending has tripled or quadrupled (depending on who you ask) over the past 30 years, and and educational outcomes have been virtually unchanged, yeah, dumping more money into a crumbling educational bureaucracy is really new and different. That'll probably work.
Until we do something about this, more money is not going to help any more than it already has:
graph
With oil running out, why would you want a car like the tesla that requires more of it than a regular gasoline car?
When I have a micro nuclear power plant in my neighborhood, then I'll be interested in a Tesla.
Sounds like shit.
Crime will go up everywhere, disease will start to spread, and education will plummet.
The quality of education has declined every year since Carter created the Dept. of Education. It started declining before that, but the Dept. obviously has done very little good, and likely, more harm.
The vast majority of public housing is NOT slums or ghettos.
Even if that is true (and I don't think it is), almost all slums and getthos are public housing, and federal intrusion virtually always ruins the neighborhood.
How many research appears have you read? studies? ever compare agency's waste to corporate waste? inefficiency? no?
Actually, I've never read a research appear, whatever that is. Corporations don't spend my money or force me at gunpoint to donate to them. I don't care how private individuals spend their money, it's none of my business. Your analogy has no validity.
STFU
Well, there it is. I bow to your impeccable logic and persuasive prose. How could I possibly disagree with such eloquence and rational discourse.
No more energy research,
OMG! No more ethanol boondoggles! No more Solyndra investments! Whatever shall we do!??
no more low income housing
Now who will create more slums and ghettos?!?!
no more parks, no more public education, , no more roads & bridges.
Ron Paul called for abolsihing all state, county and city governments! Lynch him right now!!
So, are you actually a Ron Paul supporter, or did you think listing mostly craptacular failures of fedzilla and responsibilities of local governments would actually scare people into throwing away the constitution?
No, it really happened. They CCW'er was convicted. It happened a few years ago, and I can't remember the guy's name, so I can't find the link. Just because you don't like the outcome doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Eh, no, he was just a cop doing his job trying to arrest a prostitute. IIRC, there were other under-cover cops around, also. The prostitute was just trying to get out of getting arrested. The point is, if you don't know for damn sure who the bad guy is and you intervene, you're very likely to get it wrong. She was in no danger of being raped despite the Internet Armchair Quarterback protestations otherwise.
I read an article about a delusional criminal and kept waiting for a hero to show up. I never saw one.
Now, I've been called lots of names because I carry a gun every day, but I'm not a vigilante. Intervening in that situation was just plain stupid. No, criminal. And it could have been much worse. There's the story of the guy who heard a woman screaming rape, so he came and shot her assailant. Turned out she was a prostitute and the guy he shot was an undercover cop.
I will defend myself and my family. Intervening when you have no idea who is the good guy and who is the bad guy is a good way to end up in jail or dead. For no good reason:
http://www.stoppingpower.net/commentary/comm_dangers_in_intervention.asp
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2010/09/robert-farago/dont-shoot-three-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-sav-a-stranger/
.30-06, 7.62x54r, .243 Win, .223/5.56 are all good reliable data wipes. Pistol calibers, maybe, but it's more fun with a rifle at 50-100 yards. Clean-up is easy, too.
I guess I'll have to stop calling Ubuntu "Chocolate Linux" now. Maybe Plum linux. In my best Gay Blade voice.
Freedom (his idea of it anyway) will finally be getting proper enforcement.
Do you invest in a 401k (socialist) or do you own your own investment firm (capitalist)?
So you're saying investing in the stock market is socialist? And you're claiming the previous poster has his definition wrong?
Digital broadcasts in the United States are much, much better than their analog equivalents.
Except where they're not. Which is a lot of places.
Personally, I don't see any compression artifacts at all on OTA digital broadcasts, HD or SD
You need a better television.
Git works great as a centralized server. We switched from CVS and the only problems have been Windows or GUI related.
Mercurial is also great, but if you don't immediately break all ties to the past and go completely de-centralized be prepared for castigation and lack of support from the hg "community."
Git considers centralised SCM a subset of distributed, and just one of the many workflows it supports.
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/CentralisedSCM
Unless you want to use mercurial. You'll get nothing but grief on the mailing list. But git does work very nicely with a central server, and the community will still accept you and even support you.
Spam isn't a bigger deal than junkmail
Yes it is. You got the analogy wrong. With junk mail, mailers pay for production and deliver costs. That is nothing like spam. Not even close.
A better analogy is junk faxes. And correct the ratio. Your fax machine is constantly getting junk faxes, so you have to add lines to get the real faxes.
You and your ISP pay for the bandwidth, mail servers, etc (not the spammers). Plus all the spam filtering software and hardware.
And there are FCC regs against junk faxes.