Stop agreeing so hard with GP. Small businesses tend to be less rationalized and hyperefficient than megacorps, so they need more labor to make less profit. That doesn't make them the "backbone of the economy", that makes them the inefficient backbone of employment.
Frankly, the chances of a randomly-selected American child becoming a permanently-employed scientist are about as good as becoming a professional football player or a rock star, but science is harder and pays less.
Bicycle commuting to work can burn 400-700 kcal/day.
Ok, but now add on snow, ice, and broken glass in the road. I tried biking to work in the Boston area, and quickly learned that I would be paying a lot of money quite regularly for new bike tires:-(.
I'm sorry, but you just can't do Thorgirl. The whole point of Thor was that it's a bro movie to watch with your bros about a really cool bro and his manly exploits -- preferably while quaffing ale. Making Thor a woman completely ruins it.
You mean kind of like how The Last Airbender didn't suck?
You just don't adapt anime into live action. It's just not done (no matter how much I'd love to see a full-scale Hollywood-grade photorealistic CGI rendering of the Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann).
And, let's face it, the sheer fact that most standard-issue Pokemon video games are fairly decent turn-based party-battle RPGs, completely aside from any Pokemon-specific aspects.
I did my Google Summer of Code project under Sam. He's a great guy, and he basically wrote SDL from nothing. Hell, as far as I'm aware, he's possibly the only living person who understands its autotools-based build system;-).
He won't just be able to port games. If the rumors are true and Valve is building their own full-scale gaming platform (a Valve console, say), then putting Sam Lantinga with the Source engine for starters will be a great start to their platform's API.
They can't support themselves because we keep manipulating their markets, overthrowing their governments, and burdening them with "debts" from "loans" they didn't want to take.
You're right. I'm right. They're not mutually exclusive. The Dems are "incompetent" (scare-quotes because I swear they're doing it deliberately) and the Repubs are evil. Sum the two and you get 90% evil.
East Coast Ivy League? That's what they're throwing at Obama? Didn't Romney go to freaking Harvard?
In 2004 we had Yale versus Yale. In 2008, Harvard versus US Naval Academy. Now, Harvard versus Harvard. Now I like my academic elitism, but if you don't, I recommend voting for someone who didn't go to the Ivy League, ever.
Admittedly, the Democrats basically had about 9 months (out of 6 year Senatorial terms and 2-year Representative terms in a 4-year Presidential term) when they actually controlled enough seats in both the House and the Senate to pass their agenda over the filibusters (which have become routine, against all prior wish and Constitutional intent) of the Republican minority. So blaming Republicans for their open and professed obstruction tactics makes a lot of good sense, actually.
Now, whether the Democratic agenda really would have helped the country all that much, that's another question. Personally, I feel like having the center-right in power instead of the far-right isn't much of an accomplishment.
That has an easy fix: just require a living wage for everyone employed full-time, as compensation for the fact that a full-time worker can't afford the time to just get another job.
I'm not saying you personally should stay in debt. I'm saying we need to fix our damned currency system. If I can only make an honest living because the public sphere is going ever-deeper into debt to create the cash I'm paid in... that's a problem.
The problem is that paying down debts now deflates the currency. The principal you pay back vanishes in a puff of smoke as it meets the promissory note and annihilates.
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Or in other words, you need to acquiesce to labor arbitrage being used to beat down your wages.
Stop agreeing so hard with GP. Small businesses tend to be less rationalized and hyperefficient than megacorps, so they need more labor to make less profit. That doesn't make them the "backbone of the economy", that makes them the inefficient backbone of employment.
No, we can't. Moving too many times as a kid damaged my life and my ability to get along with others. Kids need a stable community.
Frankly, the chances of a randomly-selected American child becoming a permanently-employed scientist are about as good as becoming a professional football player or a rock star, but science is harder and pays less.
People are different from each other. That's where the "libertarian" model of uniform preferences breaks down.
Slashdot is not majority left-leaning, though thank God it manages to be better than Reddit most of the time.
Like most of the internet, Slashdot unfortunately leans mostly "libertarian" (ie: proprietarian anarcho-capitalist).
Because Snow Crash is the first piece of science-fiction I've ever read, and then reflected that it actually predicted its future pretty well.
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Ok, but now add on snow, ice, and broken glass in the road. I tried biking to work in the Boston area, and quickly learned that I would be paying a lot of money quite regularly for new bike tires :-(.
Actually, yeah. "Oceans Unmoving", definitely. Self-contained, and one of the most downright original pieces of science-fiction I've seen in my life.
I'm sorry, but you just can't do Thorgirl. The whole point of Thor was that it's a bro movie to watch with your bros about a really cool bro and his manly exploits -- preferably while quaffing ale. Making Thor a woman completely ruins it.
I'd laugh my butt off at a Sluggy Freelance film.
Let me check my notes...
You mean kind of like how The Last Airbender didn't suck?
You just don't adapt anime into live action. It's just not done (no matter how much I'd love to see a full-scale Hollywood-grade photorealistic CGI rendering of the Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann).
You mean Office Space?
And, let's face it, the sheer fact that most standard-issue Pokemon video games are fairly decent turn-based party-battle RPGs, completely aside from any Pokemon-specific aspects.
You may saaaay I'm a dreeaaameeeerrr....
I did my Google Summer of Code project under Sam. He's a great guy, and he basically wrote SDL from nothing. Hell, as far as I'm aware, he's possibly the only living person who understands its autotools-based build system ;-).
He won't just be able to port games. If the rumors are true and Valve is building their own full-scale gaming platform (a Valve console, say), then putting Sam Lantinga with the Source engine for starters will be a great start to their platform's API.
They can't support themselves because we keep manipulating their markets, overthrowing their governments, and burdening them with "debts" from "loans" they didn't want to take.
You're right. I'm right. They're not mutually exclusive. The Dems are "incompetent" (scare-quotes because I swear they're doing it deliberately) and the Repubs are evil. Sum the two and you get 90% evil.
East Coast Ivy League? That's what they're throwing at Obama? Didn't Romney go to freaking Harvard?
In 2004 we had Yale versus Yale. In 2008, Harvard versus US Naval Academy. Now, Harvard versus Harvard. Now I like my academic elitism, but if you don't, I recommend voting for someone who didn't go to the Ivy League, ever.
Admittedly, the Democrats basically had about 9 months (out of 6 year Senatorial terms and 2-year Representative terms in a 4-year Presidential term) when they actually controlled enough seats in both the House and the Senate to pass their agenda over the filibusters (which have become routine, against all prior wish and Constitutional intent) of the Republican minority. So blaming Republicans for their open and professed obstruction tactics makes a lot of good sense, actually.
Now, whether the Democratic agenda really would have helped the country all that much, that's another question. Personally, I feel like having the center-right in power instead of the far-right isn't much of an accomplishment.
That has an easy fix: just require a living wage for everyone employed full-time, as compensation for the fact that a full-time worker can't afford the time to just get another job.
I'm not saying you personally should stay in debt. I'm saying we need to fix our damned currency system. If I can only make an honest living because the public sphere is going ever-deeper into debt to create the cash I'm paid in... that's a problem.
The problem is that paying down debts now deflates the currency. The principal you pay back vanishes in a puff of smoke as it meets the promissory note and annihilates.
To quote a popular Slashdot sig, "I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization."