As an American Liberal who doesn't care much for central authority nor cradle to grave hand holding let me be the one of many who lets you know that we do not want that. Health care is not hand holding, it's a basic human right. Maybe where you (and Sarah Palin) are from treatment for a broken bone or chronic illness is "hand holding" but here in Montana its considered a basic necessity. Even if most people around here don't see the state as needing to take a role in health care, no one would consider that hand holding. Education is much the same way, though everyone around here does think that's a government function (though no one wants to pay the teachers...).
And having social programs doesn't inherently increase the power of the state. It's poor implementation that does that. Socialized health care should be handed off to a team of highly skilled and respected health care providers. The government just foots the bill. Maybe you take issue with that last part. But no one wants the government involved in how to best treat a migraine. So please leave the strawman at the door.
Not entirely. There are some who would rather have things spoon-fed, but around here I would doubt it. Its the Scientist in me that is annoyed that the character is too scared to go right back in there and figure out what exactly happened. If it were me, I'd have done it. Might have gotten a few thousand of my friends together first though... But the desire to understand is certainly not lazy.
Caveat, I've never played the game, perhaps there's some reason why tying up loose ends wouldn't be equivalent to scientific understanding. Also, I'm rather tired...
Ronald Reagan did what? I was pretty sure it was the failed policies of the Soviet Union coupled with emerging Capitalist powerhouses in the constituent Soviets that toppled the Empire...
What do you mean was? We're still fighting there. We might have less violence on our hands, but that's still more violence than in 2002. And more Americans died than had to thanks to the surge. I'm not suggesting we should have pulled out in early 2007. Frankly I don't know what would have been the best route at the time. However, if Petraeus had said "let's build up in Afghanistan" a couple of years ago, would that surge have worked? And if so, would that surge have "worked better" than the surge in Iraq? I still don't see a workable government sprouting in Iraq nor do I expect Iraq to be a better place than Saddam-led Iraq. So did this surge really work? Many Iraqis are grateful but when politicians say the surge worked they seem to be implying that American lives are better off. That I just don't see and will agree with Obama's judgment entirely.
Although the GP was a fool for dropping that line out of context, that line really bugs me. We don't want to be fighting where al qaeda claims the front of this culture clash resides. We want to be fighting behind the lines (ie Afghanistan and Pakistan). By continuing to fight in Iraq we not only legitimize al qaeda's claims (always bad to let the enemy be right) but that also means we're fighting to keep the status quo. That's not the way to fight this or to win this. Petraeus is smoking something (wish he'd share too) if he truly thinks Iraq is the place to win whatever it is we're doing at the moment. I'm pretty certain he's in the business of justifying his job or making his superiors happy, otherwise I'd just assume he's completely incompetent.
Since we're engineering minded people here, I would assume you realize that $ per mile is pretty useless as a comparison tool since prices can fluctuate per time, per region, per battery, per EV engine, etc. Yes much of the point of these vehicles is to give us a cheaper replacement for us normal folk. However, let's give them a chance to get the engineering right before we start talking about the dollar signs involved. Once we have something that works we can generally figure out a way to lower costs.
You would make a good PHB. Pay that existing developer a little more and send them to some training so they code their SQL correctly the first time. Then there's less server complexity, fewer servers to maintain (which means fewer admins you have to pay), less server farm being used, less power and need for HVAC. Bloat is bloat, whether its code or hardware. Bloat also leads to more bloat.
Since when is it common practice to only have 1 user set up for a database? We have a user account for ever developer, tester, and web app. The web apps are locked down to what they need and where they come from. Why wouldn't you do that? Its incredibly easy to set up.
The problem is that (and I assume this is true of many single tech oriented men like myself) there are very few women I care to talk to. There are very few men I want to talk to for that matter. And the set of women I want to get with and the set of women I want to talk to have a very small intersection that I am constantly trying to enlarge to no success. In fact, as I go along, I'm finding that a third set of women, those that I am not able to get with, is increasingly encompassing that intersection...and I'm only 24. Granted, where I live, there is a noticeable age gap from about 18-35...But my point is, the fun women rarely equal the attractive and non-taken women.
No, because if nothing was ever done to these embryos, they would never survive. They have to be implanted into a womb for anything greater than a 0% chance of survival. You can't draw this parallel in an abortion debate because abortion is an active choice destroy something (either an embryo or a clump of cells, depending on your outlook), whereas what you describe is an active choice NOT to do something.
Remember that you are supposed to be treating that embryo as a full-fledged human. Maybe you approve of euthanasia, but I sense you don't see that you are suggesting just that.
I agree with your comment on communism, but disagree with what you said about fascism. You better described National Socialism (or at least what I have read about it). I know most people lump the 2 together, but it seems they have different hierarchies even if roughly the same in operation.
But then there is no copyright infringement. The owner of the copyright can't grant permission to the downloader but not the uploader. That makes no real sense outside of trying to screw the uploader, which I hope our court system is able to see and disallow.
GP's list: mandatory (minus the deny/allow stuff, but it is on by default)
Your list: optional
That's the difference. You can check the installer logs and find out where everything in your system was stored. Or you can install with a liveCD and put everything in the system exactly where you want it. You can open up any rpm/deb and find out exactly what and where things are being installed. Or you can get the tarball and install manually (though that is sometimes one of the most 'hostile' things out there, I'm glad its not necessary anymore). The hassle isn't the hostility. It's the hassle caused by no choices and inconsistency by Microsoft that's the hostility. The only choice MS has ever given me was to use a different OS, and I still have to use Windows boxes here and there to inter-operate.
not only does one lead to the other, I would personally say that its a matter of opinion which is the better tyranny. And suggest that you're just splitting hairs since either tyranny is a travesty and needs remedying.
Yep, except the part where it isn't their faith that demands the destruction of Israel. It's their survival. Don't think this is a religious war, its a cultural/national war. Religion just happens to be involved.
You seem to be very sure on your "facts" about China. But your "facts" differ greatly from what I've seen. Such as the Chinese being very proud of their homes which are not shit-holes. They are not up to Western standards sure, but that is not a binary quantifier. I have actually been to Southern China and seen how the tremendous growth is affecting the population. 20 years ago these people were living in shit-holes. Not so much anymore though. Of course, many live in factory provided dorms that eats the majority of their paycheck. But they were happy, were proud of their work, and actually had decent working conditions. I know I could never be happy doing what they were doing, but there are many many jobs in this country I want no part in. And frankly, I would say a factory worker here has a shittier life than the factory workers I was surrounded by. No need to worry about most of life's essentials or the large amount of bills and debt we have here for our poor. And that makes them happy citizens.
Take an uninformed and happy citizen and inform them. They may no long be happy. And many Chinese actively prefer to be backwards. Same reason we have people in the West trying to stop technological advances and using reasoning. I would say the movie "Expelled" comes from the same line of reasoning. The Chinese do not have an Orwellian system because they don't need one. The citizens are aware of the censorship and are just fine with it.
I do not approve of the Chinese system any more than you do. But you're mistaking intellectual reasoning for the approval of the masses. I much prefer democracy than totalitarianism. But I do not like the US's current administration any more than I like China's current administration. And the Chinese government IS looking out for its citizens. They're not killing/relocating Tibetans because its fun. They're doing it because they see the need of spreading out the population of their country.
Yes they are harsher on petty crimes than I believe is right, but even in the major city I was in, the poor people didn't seem worried about crime. And no one had a bad word to say about the government. I even timidly asked one of the educated guys who is from Hong Kong. Didn't have a problem and he didn't know anyone who did. There are quite a few in Hong Kong who have a problem, but that's because they expect a much more Western government.
Again, I prefer my Western style system. But if we're talking "better", I would actually say China has the "better" government right now.
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As an American Liberal who doesn't care much for central authority nor cradle to grave hand holding let me be the one of many who lets you know that we do not want that. Health care is not hand holding, it's a basic human right. Maybe where you (and Sarah Palin) are from treatment for a broken bone or chronic illness is "hand holding" but here in Montana its considered a basic necessity. Even if most people around here don't see the state as needing to take a role in health care, no one would consider that hand holding. Education is much the same way, though everyone around here does think that's a government function (though no one wants to pay the teachers...). And having social programs doesn't inherently increase the power of the state. It's poor implementation that does that. Socialized health care should be handed off to a team of highly skilled and respected health care providers. The government just foots the bill. Maybe you take issue with that last part. But no one wants the government involved in how to best treat a migraine. So please leave the strawman at the door.
Not entirely. There are some who would rather have things spoon-fed, but around here I would doubt it. Its the Scientist in me that is annoyed that the character is too scared to go right back in there and figure out what exactly happened. If it were me, I'd have done it. Might have gotten a few thousand of my friends together first though... But the desire to understand is certainly not lazy. Caveat, I've never played the game, perhaps there's some reason why tying up loose ends wouldn't be equivalent to scientific understanding. Also, I'm rather tired...
Ronald Reagan did what? I was pretty sure it was the failed policies of the Soviet Union coupled with emerging Capitalist powerhouses in the constituent Soviets that toppled the Empire...
What do you mean was? We're still fighting there. We might have less violence on our hands, but that's still more violence than in 2002. And more Americans died than had to thanks to the surge. I'm not suggesting we should have pulled out in early 2007. Frankly I don't know what would have been the best route at the time. However, if Petraeus had said "let's build up in Afghanistan" a couple of years ago, would that surge have worked? And if so, would that surge have "worked better" than the surge in Iraq? I still don't see a workable government sprouting in Iraq nor do I expect Iraq to be a better place than Saddam-led Iraq. So did this surge really work? Many Iraqis are grateful but when politicians say the surge worked they seem to be implying that American lives are better off. That I just don't see and will agree with Obama's judgment entirely.
Although the GP was a fool for dropping that line out of context, that line really bugs me. We don't want to be fighting where al qaeda claims the front of this culture clash resides. We want to be fighting behind the lines (ie Afghanistan and Pakistan). By continuing to fight in Iraq we not only legitimize al qaeda's claims (always bad to let the enemy be right) but that also means we're fighting to keep the status quo. That's not the way to fight this or to win this. Petraeus is smoking something (wish he'd share too) if he truly thinks Iraq is the place to win whatever it is we're doing at the moment. I'm pretty certain he's in the business of justifying his job or making his superiors happy, otherwise I'd just assume he's completely incompetent.
Since we're engineering minded people here, I would assume you realize that $ per mile is pretty useless as a comparison tool since prices can fluctuate per time, per region, per battery, per EV engine, etc. Yes much of the point of these vehicles is to give us a cheaper replacement for us normal folk. However, let's give them a chance to get the engineering right before we start talking about the dollar signs involved. Once we have something that works we can generally figure out a way to lower costs.
You would make a good PHB. Pay that existing developer a little more and send them to some training so they code their SQL correctly the first time. Then there's less server complexity, fewer servers to maintain (which means fewer admins you have to pay), less server farm being used, less power and need for HVAC. Bloat is bloat, whether its code or hardware. Bloat also leads to more bloat.
Since when is it common practice to only have 1 user set up for a database? We have a user account for ever developer, tester, and web app. The web apps are locked down to what they need and where they come from. Why wouldn't you do that? Its incredibly easy to set up.
The problem is that (and I assume this is true of many single tech oriented men like myself) there are very few women I care to talk to. There are very few men I want to talk to for that matter. And the set of women I want to get with and the set of women I want to talk to have a very small intersection that I am constantly trying to enlarge to no success. In fact, as I go along, I'm finding that a third set of women, those that I am not able to get with, is increasingly encompassing that intersection...and I'm only 24. Granted, where I live, there is a noticeable age gap from about 18-35...But my point is, the fun women rarely equal the attractive and non-taken women.
Remember that you are supposed to be treating that embryo as a full-fledged human. Maybe you approve of euthanasia, but I sense you don't see that you are suggesting just that.
Might want to lay off the kool-aid for a bit, its affecting your thinking.
I agree with your comment on communism, but disagree with what you said about fascism. You better described National Socialism (or at least what I have read about it). I know most people lump the 2 together, but it seems they have different hierarchies even if roughly the same in operation.
But then there is no copyright infringement. The owner of the copyright can't grant permission to the downloader but not the uploader. That makes no real sense outside of trying to screw the uploader, which I hope our court system is able to see and disallow.
You want a bigger pipe to the internet? This is the place to start. Analog eats up that pipe that could be going to your upstream.
GP's list: mandatory (minus the deny/allow stuff, but it is on by default)
Your list: optional
That's the difference. You can check the installer logs and find out where everything in your system was stored. Or you can install with a liveCD and put everything in the system exactly where you want it. You can open up any rpm/deb and find out exactly what and where things are being installed. Or you can get the tarball and install manually (though that is sometimes one of the most 'hostile' things out there, I'm glad its not necessary anymore). The hassle isn't the hostility. It's the hassle caused by no choices and inconsistency by Microsoft that's the hostility. The only choice MS has ever given me was to use a different OS, and I still have to use Windows boxes here and there to inter-operate.
not only does one lead to the other, I would personally say that its a matter of opinion which is the better tyranny. And suggest that you're just splitting hairs since either tyranny is a travesty and needs remedying.
Yep, except the part where it isn't their faith that demands the destruction of Israel. It's their survival. Don't think this is a religious war, its a cultural/national war. Religion just happens to be involved.
No, assuming the politicians are lying is not the norm there.
You're mostly right. But that's a mute point since China does not have a Communist economy.
You do realize that ever Western government "decides what's best for the society" right?
You seem to be very sure on your "facts" about China. But your "facts" differ greatly from what I've seen. Such as the Chinese being very proud of their homes which are not shit-holes. They are not up to Western standards sure, but that is not a binary quantifier. I have actually been to Southern China and seen how the tremendous growth is affecting the population. 20 years ago these people were living in shit-holes. Not so much anymore though. Of course, many live in factory provided dorms that eats the majority of their paycheck. But they were happy, were proud of their work, and actually had decent working conditions. I know I could never be happy doing what they were doing, but there are many many jobs in this country I want no part in. And frankly, I would say a factory worker here has a shittier life than the factory workers I was surrounded by. No need to worry about most of life's essentials or the large amount of bills and debt we have here for our poor. And that makes them happy citizens.
Take an uninformed and happy citizen and inform them. They may no long be happy. And many Chinese actively prefer to be backwards. Same reason we have people in the West trying to stop technological advances and using reasoning. I would say the movie "Expelled" comes from the same line of reasoning. The Chinese do not have an Orwellian system because they don't need one. The citizens are aware of the censorship and are just fine with it.
I do not approve of the Chinese system any more than you do. But you're mistaking intellectual reasoning for the approval of the masses. I much prefer democracy than totalitarianism. But I do not like the US's current administration any more than I like China's current administration. And the Chinese government IS looking out for its citizens. They're not killing/relocating Tibetans because its fun. They're doing it because they see the need of spreading out the population of their country.
Yes they are harsher on petty crimes than I believe is right, but even in the major city I was in, the poor people didn't seem worried about crime. And no one had a bad word to say about the government. I even timidly asked one of the educated guys who is from Hong Kong. Didn't have a problem and he didn't know anyone who did. There are quite a few in Hong Kong who have a problem, but that's because they expect a much more Western government.
Again, I prefer my Western style system. But if we're talking "better", I would actually say China has the "better" government right now.
The part where copyright is never violated...