Interesting! The thing about such debates is that all arguments are based on assumptions, assumptions which are difficult to verify. I'd be interested to see anything close to a graph showing the distribution of offsprings depending on household income/education btw!
So you vote libertarian because you think the world would be such a better place if all the rich people (i.e. not you or anyone you know) like Paris Hilton or Bill Gates got to keep all their fucking money instead of paying their taxes which can then be spent into giving you better healthcare or broadband connection?
If you ask me I think you're a dumbass. A dumbass by principle. Actually, that's funny to want fairness for rich people, when it's hardly fair that these people got this rich to begin with (unless you think douchebags on Wall Street really do deserve their 7 figure salaries), and often enough they didn't give a crap about fairness for the rest of the people when they got rich the way they did (there's a reason why "robber barons" are called that, but it's not even just about them).
The key to building wealth is to always live below your means.
Nope, although that's the key to not going broke, which many rich people even fail at doing. No one gets rich by saving money, you get rich by making money, tons of it. Because someone who goes for the riches will make 100 times more money than you could save.
First, thats not entirely correct. I do know legal Mexican immigrants.
The question is, did they get their visa from the lottery? No? Wikipedia says Mexico is ineligible for it. I'll trust Wikipedia for that.
The illegals are ruining it for everybody else. If they weren't cheating, the system for legal immigration would be much more open.
No, that's utter bullshit. The system created the illegals, the illegals didn't indirectly create the system. That's just some bullshit justification to keep Mexicans, legal or not, out. Cause we don't like them, that's the real reason. Lou Dobbs will never tell you he doesn't like Mexicans, he'll make some bullshit reasons like "illegal immigrants = crime" when everybody knows the real reason is he's sick of seeing his country "invaded" with brown people who don't speak good English.
Yeah but I mean, more like historically, like, anytime since the dawn of mankind, meaning that throughout most of the process there wasn't much of anything like an education, or at least not much educational differences between people of the same group. Given that, wouldn't the biggest sluts get the most kids? Seems to make sense to me, even though you're probably right about STDs.
One of the principal lacts of their evil is to sponsor a media-culture that gets ordinary schmucks like yourself to identify emotionally with them, aspire to their condition, and to assume an attack on the values of the truly rich to be a personal threat to your own status and mobility.
You are also trained to revile those perceived as less fortunate/gifted as yourself - never suspecting that to the real rich, the difference between you and the homeless doesn't amount to a rounding error.
Hallelujah. Which yields weird and amusing behaviours from middle class nowhere-near-rich people. They're against taxes on the rich as if they ever were going to make it one day (this being said I can relate to that delusion, I always believe that I'm about to make it big and picture myself in ten years with more money than I could need), and they don't want any "handouts" to poor people, even though that's tens of millions of Americans we're talking about.
The American lower-class doesn't even exist, if you pay attention to political debates. I wonder if it's because no one wants to hear about the poor, even those who are on their way to poverty, or if because there's so many poor, and so little difference between the poor and the middle class compared to the upper class that the lower class is now part of the middle class.
Middle class/rich people usually have no desire to come here, at least not the ones I've talked to.
No wonder we don't. Emigrating to the USA is such a hassle, given that we most likely live in a decent situation wherever we live it gives us little incentive to want to go ahead with all that immigration PITA to begin with. So all the USA attract are really poor people with no qualifications, while the better people fail to even see the point of trying.
Dude, I'm French and even by trying the legal way (visa lottery) I didn't get anything. Even if I had the chance to be picked by the computer, it would have taken two years before I would have been allowed to move to the USA. Fortunately being European if I want to move to a decent country I can just move to some place like Ireland (which I did).
Mexicans aren't even eligible to that visa lottery thing. That doesn't leave them a lot of solutions, unless they've got close family in the USA. Immigration law in the USA is completely absurd, and it makes illegals because it leaves so many people without any legal solution.
Think about it, a hundred years ago all you had to do was show up at Ellis Island and if you didn't have tuberculosis you were in. Now you can be Australian or English and if you manage to get in you live under the permanent threat of deportation for no good reason.
Yep, 10 years ago, 16-year olds would listen and enjoy whatever was on the radio. Now you've got 16-year olds listening to every album by Booker T. & The MG's or The Animals, and enjoying it much more than the Top 40 crap.
This will probably have an effect we can't see very clearly yet on music making : anything goes. Think about it, until now you couldn't get a record deal if you wanted to make some kind of music that no one plays on the radio anymore. Now, it's like the whole world jumped in the giant ball pit of all the records ever made, and listening to whatever they like indiscriminately of how popular or how old it is. I think that means that a musician in any genre has now the potential to find his following, even if no one touched the genre in question for the last 40 years.
But it doesn't stop at just a new increased demand in the more obscure genres of music. If today a 16-year old's favourite musician is Miles Davis and the likes, if ten years from now he must become a musician, what are the odds he'll want to join a rock band, and what are the odds he'll want to blow into a trumpet? That's right, he's more likely to grow into the second coming of Miles Davis, and if he's anywhere near that good, a lot of people will listen.
This is what the mysterious future of music holds. You heard it here first!
Here's another one for you. Genetically slutty women had more children than genetically prude women. Therefore, women are now genetically easier to get with than they used to be. Discuss.
Genetics understanding fail. Diet doesn't change your genes.
Well actually... if everybody has a fattening diet, making people genetically predisposed to obesity more likely to become obese out of proportions, and that such obscenely obese people are more likely to die alone (without any offsprings) (wild assumption, I'm not sure that's true), then wouldn't that be an evolutionary pressure to get rid of people who get fat easily?
Why you could still have a third boob right dead in the middle. Still symmetric. If that didn't work that way, imagine that, we'd probably have two penises and women would have two vaginas.
Although now that I think of it it does sound good!
Give that idiocracy shit a rest. It's not genetically dumber people who make more children, it's people lower on the social scale. As in, people in ghettos and immigrants. Poor education and poor nutrition (both which cause lower IQs) aren't genetically hereditary.
So-called smart people always confuse uneducated people with less intelligent people. Maybe they're not that smart after all.
Sure, because hardly having any showers and eating toxic-smelling cheeses full of mold and live worms makes people with weak immune systems. Enjoy your daily shower and teeth flossing, sissy!
Yeah sure, the solution to the problem isn't something that's possible but something that doesn't exist yet and might never exist. I say we beam up some strong AI hard-light holograms!
If you really have to use 24 bits counters with 0.1s precision, you *know* that your timer will wrap around every 466 hours, just issue a warning to reboot every 10 days or auto reboot when it overflows.
Or better yet if you're worth your salt make sure the rollover is no problem, and make sure the rollover is tested.
Really, there's nothing hard about this problem. Don't keep try to directly keep track of the seconds, keep track of the ticks, then convert them into the time units you need when needed. This way it doesn't matter what impossible fraction of a second each tick represents, no errors will creep in except your usual non-cumulative rounding error when converting (but at this point it's really trivial to make sure you get enough precision out of it).
Or simpler yet, count the ticks, and every time run a ticks_to_time() function. Arguably less efficient than that Bresenham thing, although at that point that's peanuts we're talking about, and this simpler way it's more robust and less error/confusion prone.
People associate being nerdy with being Jewish or Asian
Hallelujah!
This should not mean that you use "jewy" as a slur to mean "nerdy".
I didn't use "jewy" as a slur, and I didn't use it to mean "nerdy" but to mean "Jewy", as in, the guy was a Jew. I used "loser" to mean nerdy.
No one's anti-Semitic, it's all in your head. And no one said all Jews were nerds, I said that Jews were picked for nerd roles in movies because people associate Jews with nerds, and you agreed with that.
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Interesting! The thing about such debates is that all arguments are based on assumptions, assumptions which are difficult to verify. I'd be interested to see anything close to a graph showing the distribution of offsprings depending on household income/education btw!
So you vote libertarian because you think the world would be such a better place if all the rich people (i.e. not you or anyone you know) like Paris Hilton or Bill Gates got to keep all their fucking money instead of paying their taxes which can then be spent into giving you better healthcare or broadband connection?
If you ask me I think you're a dumbass. A dumbass by principle. Actually, that's funny to want fairness for rich people, when it's hardly fair that these people got this rich to begin with (unless you think douchebags on Wall Street really do deserve their 7 figure salaries), and often enough they didn't give a crap about fairness for the rest of the people when they got rich the way they did (there's a reason why "robber barons" are called that, but it's not even just about them).
The key to building wealth is to always live below your means.
Nope, although that's the key to not going broke, which many rich people even fail at doing. No one gets rich by saving money, you get rich by making money, tons of it. Because someone who goes for the riches will make 100 times more money than you could save.
First, thats not entirely correct. I do know legal Mexican immigrants.
The question is, did they get their visa from the lottery? No? Wikipedia says Mexico is ineligible for it. I'll trust Wikipedia for that.
The illegals are ruining it for everybody else. If they weren't cheating, the system for legal immigration would be much more open.
No, that's utter bullshit. The system created the illegals, the illegals didn't indirectly create the system. That's just some bullshit justification to keep Mexicans, legal or not, out. Cause we don't like them, that's the real reason. Lou Dobbs will never tell you he doesn't like Mexicans, he'll make some bullshit reasons like "illegal immigrants = crime" when everybody knows the real reason is he's sick of seeing his country "invaded" with brown people who don't speak good English.
lol why?
Yeah but I mean, more like historically, like, anytime since the dawn of mankind, meaning that throughout most of the process there wasn't much of anything like an education, or at least not much educational differences between people of the same group. Given that, wouldn't the biggest sluts get the most kids? Seems to make sense to me, even though you're probably right about STDs.
One of the principal lacts of their evil is to sponsor a media-culture that gets ordinary schmucks like yourself to identify emotionally with them, aspire to their condition, and to assume an attack on the values of the truly rich to be a personal threat to your own status and mobility. You are also trained to revile those perceived as less fortunate/gifted as yourself - never suspecting that to the real rich, the difference between you and the homeless doesn't amount to a rounding error.
Hallelujah. Which yields weird and amusing behaviours from middle class nowhere-near-rich people. They're against taxes on the rich as if they ever were going to make it one day (this being said I can relate to that delusion, I always believe that I'm about to make it big and picture myself in ten years with more money than I could need), and they don't want any "handouts" to poor people, even though that's tens of millions of Americans we're talking about.
The American lower-class doesn't even exist, if you pay attention to political debates. I wonder if it's because no one wants to hear about the poor, even those who are on their way to poverty, or if because there's so many poor, and so little difference between the poor and the middle class compared to the upper class that the lower class is now part of the middle class.
Middle class/rich people usually have no desire to come here, at least not the ones I've talked to.
No wonder we don't. Emigrating to the USA is such a hassle, given that we most likely live in a decent situation wherever we live it gives us little incentive to want to go ahead with all that immigration PITA to begin with. So all the USA attract are really poor people with no qualifications, while the better people fail to even see the point of trying.
Dude, I'm French and even by trying the legal way (visa lottery) I didn't get anything. Even if I had the chance to be picked by the computer, it would have taken two years before I would have been allowed to move to the USA. Fortunately being European if I want to move to a decent country I can just move to some place like Ireland (which I did).
Mexicans aren't even eligible to that visa lottery thing. That doesn't leave them a lot of solutions, unless they've got close family in the USA. Immigration law in the USA is completely absurd, and it makes illegals because it leaves so many people without any legal solution.
Think about it, a hundred years ago all you had to do was show up at Ellis Island and if you didn't have tuberculosis you were in. Now you can be Australian or English and if you manage to get in you live under the permanent threat of deportation for no good reason.
Yep, 10 years ago, 16-year olds would listen and enjoy whatever was on the radio. Now you've got 16-year olds listening to every album by Booker T. & The MG's or The Animals, and enjoying it much more than the Top 40 crap.
This will probably have an effect we can't see very clearly yet on music making : anything goes. Think about it, until now you couldn't get a record deal if you wanted to make some kind of music that no one plays on the radio anymore. Now, it's like the whole world jumped in the giant ball pit of all the records ever made, and listening to whatever they like indiscriminately of how popular or how old it is. I think that means that a musician in any genre has now the potential to find his following, even if no one touched the genre in question for the last 40 years.
But it doesn't stop at just a new increased demand in the more obscure genres of music. If today a 16-year old's favourite musician is Miles Davis and the likes, if ten years from now he must become a musician, what are the odds he'll want to join a rock band, and what are the odds he'll want to blow into a trumpet? That's right, he's more likely to grow into the second coming of Miles Davis, and if he's anywhere near that good, a lot of people will listen.
This is what the mysterious future of music holds. You heard it here first!
Here's another one for you. Genetically slutty women had more children than genetically prude women. Therefore, women are now genetically easier to get with than they used to be. Discuss.
Genetics understanding fail. Diet doesn't change your genes.
Well actually... if everybody has a fattening diet, making people genetically predisposed to obesity more likely to become obese out of proportions, and that such obscenely obese people are more likely to die alone (without any offsprings) (wild assumption, I'm not sure that's true), then wouldn't that be an evolutionary pressure to get rid of people who get fat easily?
Why you could still have a third boob right dead in the middle. Still symmetric. If that didn't work that way, imagine that, we'd probably have two penises and women would have two vaginas.
Although now that I think of it it does sound good!
Give that idiocracy shit a rest. It's not genetically dumber people who make more children, it's people lower on the social scale. As in, people in ghettos and immigrants. Poor education and poor nutrition (both which cause lower IQs) aren't genetically hereditary.
So-called smart people always confuse uneducated people with less intelligent people. Maybe they're not that smart after all.
True, the clock might be unreliable. But you're supposed to know how unreliable.
I see what you did there.
Luckily, we have politicians who's only education is in English,
So, very little overlap with your own education I presume? ;-)
Sure, because hardly having any showers and eating toxic-smelling cheeses full of mold and live worms makes people with weak immune systems. Enjoy your daily shower and teeth flossing, sissy!
Meant by the fact that we (and our ancestors) were "built" to thrive in our Earthly environment and not in any other?
Yeah sure, the solution to the problem isn't something that's possible but something that doesn't exist yet and might never exist. I say we beam up some strong AI hard-light holograms!
If you really have to use 24 bits counters with 0.1s precision, you *know* that your timer will wrap around every 466 hours, just issue a warning to reboot every 10 days or auto reboot when it overflows.
Or better yet if you're worth your salt make sure the rollover is no problem, and make sure the rollover is tested.
Really, there's nothing hard about this problem. Don't keep try to directly keep track of the seconds, keep track of the ticks, then convert them into the time units you need when needed. This way it doesn't matter what impossible fraction of a second each tick represents, no errors will creep in except your usual non-cumulative rounding error when converting (but at this point it's really trivial to make sure you get enough precision out of it).
Or simpler yet, count the ticks, and every time run a ticks_to_time() function. Arguably less efficient than that Bresenham thing, although at that point that's peanuts we're talking about, and this simpler way it's more robust and less error/confusion prone.
All Jews ain't losers, but that one loser was a Jew.
Well it's true that some Jews you can't tell are Jews, and some non-Jews look Jewy, but you can't tell me that Jewdars don't exist or work.
If you don't believe me then play that game and see how you fare.
People associate being nerdy with being Jewish or Asian
Hallelujah!
This should not mean that you use "jewy" as a slur to mean "nerdy".
I didn't use "jewy" as a slur, and I didn't use it to mean "nerdy" but to mean "Jewy", as in, the guy was a Jew. I used "loser" to mean nerdy.
No one's anti-Semitic, it's all in your head. And no one said all Jews were nerds, I said that Jews were picked for nerd roles in movies because people associate Jews with nerds, and you agreed with that.