But it's a lot easier to teach good design to a legitimate HTML "coder" than to teach HTML and CSS to a design loser. Because a decent coder is way more creative (and intelligent) than you design types. He just took a different path.
Unless you're selling braille birthday cards or work on site mandating government accessibility rules, you can pretty safely ignore doing the anything that caters to the blind population. If you have compelling content, the majority that use screen readers will endure the occasional "picture of blank" at the start of each paragraph. Or they'll have someone else read it for them.
If you are selling braille birthday cards online, good luck to you, but I wouldn't pay too much for a sock puppet commercial.
Surprise! Environmentalism is just a thin verneer for political partisanship. Next time Ribbentrop and Molotov get together, we'll be hearing how Ahmadinejad shouldn't get the nuke and we should run over baby seals with our SUVs to save the environment from those pesky Republicans who want to keep us from increasing Global Temperatures and making Canada a nice vacation spot.
Wait, you're saying trees make it rain more? Or is it that sugar cane makes it rain less? This is up there with steam causing earthquakes and believing in God makes you stupid on the silly superstition scale.
It's only that the "sweet spot" of energy consumption is something like 99 times the current level of your typical Bill Gates type with a 50,000 square foot house, the entirety of which is kept at exactly 72 degrees all day, year round. Except the indoor swimming pool, the sauna, the ice skating rink, etc. which are kept at comparably appropriate temperatures. Even taking a helicopter to work (a couple miles), riding around in inefficient European sports cars, tooling around in your 20,000 ton yacht, and flying around the world all the time, you'd still wish for a faster boat & plane & car. And the only thing keeping you from having a suction tube elevator like at the drive through at the bank is that the energy to power it would be too expensive.
All of your numbers are pretty good estimates, about1.3 million students receive Pell grants. About $13 billion goes into the Pell Grant program. Only the number per student averages close to $2500. Where does the other $10,500 per student?
There's a nice graph here:
http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/press/cost06/pell_grants_06.pdf
Your grandfather would have (or could have) gotten a job if it weren't for the New Deal. And he could have gotten food and housing cheaper. The New Deal was all about protecting the Wall Street speculators from losing wealth with a depreciating dollar. That's why they paid farmers to dump milk, burn fields, and slaughter cattle.
If you believe in evolution, you have no choice but to prefer a welfare system for the rich over the a welfare system for the poor. The rich (in this country) have, by and large, either attained the wealth through their own merit or that of their ancestors. The poor are --at least statistically-- less likely to have good genes and therefore a peaceful and non-discriminating eugenics system would favor supporting the rich over the poor. Of course, if you think evolution is a silly notion, or that something that's at least as complex as a weather system or the political interaction of hundred of millions of people is too complex (or even inherently chaotic) to try to manage, then even if you believed in evolution or History with a capital "Das", then you'd probably just leave well enough alone and try to be nice to your neighbor and a good Christian, or let Brahma and Pat Sajak sort them out with their big wheel in the sky that Ezekiel mistook for a UFO from the Bermuda Triangle.
Speaking of which -- hi Jenna, how's the beach?
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The Federal Reserve doesn't loan the government money, it loans private banks money. The government gets it's money from taxes and bonds. And when that's not enough, it prints it. The Federal Reserve doesn't print the money, that's the US Mint. It just says Federal Reserve note, because that's the organization that backs it. Backs it with what, you say? With US Treasury Bonds.
China buys T-bills because they're better than gold. The world banks on the stability of the US government, because the dollar is more stable than gold. While the dollar has dropped some 25% in the past 4 years, gold has almost doubled, making it almost twice as volatile. It doesn't matter that it's gone up, unless you have more gold than other assets.
In other words, finding someone who's willing to take gold for payment is riskier than finding someone who's willing to take an IOU from Uncle Sam. People still reckon (by almost 2 to 1) that the IRS will still be collecting taxes long after gold has lost its value.
The money the Federal Reserve loans to private banks is loaned at interest, with the backing of the US Treasury. And private banks and individuals do own stock in the Federal Reserve. Dividends used to be fixed at 6%, but I think it's been a long time since that.
The Federal Reserve Bank chairmen are appointed by the President, with the consent of the Congress, for a term of 4 years. It used to be 10, to prevent political appointments, but that's been done away with.
I think there's a bigger problem with Californians moving into other states, even South Dakota, than vice versa. And it's not the weather, making them want to leave. Of course it could be at least partially from the overcrowding from all the girls from South Dakota, et al, that came to Califoria before it switched from being paradise to a workers paradise.
No, they shouldn't be heard. We have a little thing in this country called the First Amendment, and among other things it includes the right to free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly. That means I don't have to hear Ron Paul or any other Libertarian if I don't want too. And that goes double for Republicans and Democrats. When compulsory indoctrination by one political party is enforced (outside of the public school system), I'm leaving -- and I'm taking Richard Gere with me.
Paying some guy with a turban on his head to drill a hole in the ground, and then paying another guy with an eastern European accent to drive a big boat halfway across the world, and paying everyone else in between, including paying the CEO of Exxon-Mobil to bribe the president of the United States into prosecuting a war and paying another guy with a turban on his head to pump your gas actually turns out to be cheaper, and will pay itself off a hundred times over in the typical day's commute. Oil is just chock full of energ isn't it? It would be a shame to throw it away for something as compatively inefficient as the rain-o-tran is compared to solar panels and wind turbines.
Almost everyone employed by local governments live in houses, eat food, and yes drive cars. That means that the government is making a profit. The idea of self-perpetuating government is as popular as perpetual motion machines these days.
Yes there is law that says that public records can't be copyrighted. West Virginia is in the United States. Or were you just trying to make a lame joke based on your lack of knowledge of geography?
Not only public record, but the information is "public domain" meaning devoid of copyright. Because it was collected with tax dollars for public use. So the West Virginia assessor is lying through his teeth on that account as well.
Exactly. The only reason they put it there in the first place is they wanted free advertising and the credibility that comes with everyone listing "their" site as the canonical source of the DTDs for HTML, etc. It just worked better than they thought. Or rather, the internet is much bigger than they were capable of imagining. People mentioned above the idea that (perpetual) caching of DTDs should be mandatory. While that's idiotic, even if it were the case. With billions of web pages and billions of users, even if everyone only ever loaded each DTD once, it would still tax their system far beyond their ability to handle.
No, the problem is a badly written spec which explicitly states that the URI should be included as part of the XML document and that looking it up is a perfectly legal (though optional) step in parsing it.
Do we use Newtonian physics or Einsteinian physics today? As soon as something is build (or measured) using relativity, let me know. In the mean time, the rest of us in the real world will keep building cars and bridges and telescopes with the good old fashioned simple math that a patent clerk from a small city in Germany supposedly turned on it's ear 100 years ago.
I'll give you 10000 to 1 odds, and you can place your bet at any time for any amount, even after it's been proven. Matter of fact, I'll give you the same bet if his device either produces energy or even makes $1 in marketable efficiency over existing technology. And I'll even take your word on it. You won't have to put your money up up front.
Pay me whenever you like.
You made the connection I hadn't yet. I just got through glancing through the Ron Paul thread, and felt a similarity. People use postgres because they believe the UFOs endorse it.
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But it's a lot easier to teach good design to a legitimate HTML "coder" than to teach HTML and CSS to a design loser. Because a decent coder is way more creative (and intelligent) than you design types. He just took a different path.
Unless you're selling braille birthday cards or work on site mandating government accessibility rules, you can pretty safely ignore doing the anything that caters to the blind population. If you have compelling content, the majority that use screen readers will endure the occasional "picture of blank" at the start of each paragraph. Or they'll have someone else read it for them. If you are selling braille birthday cards online, good luck to you, but I wouldn't pay too much for a sock puppet commercial.
Surprise! Environmentalism is just a thin verneer for political partisanship. Next time Ribbentrop and Molotov get together, we'll be hearing how Ahmadinejad shouldn't get the nuke and we should run over baby seals with our SUVs to save the environment from those pesky Republicans who want to keep us from increasing Global Temperatures and making Canada a nice vacation spot.
Wait, you're saying trees make it rain more? Or is it that sugar cane makes it rain less? This is up there with steam causing earthquakes and believing in God makes you stupid on the silly superstition scale.
It's only that the "sweet spot" of energy consumption is something like 99 times the current level of your typical Bill Gates type with a 50,000 square foot house, the entirety of which is kept at exactly 72 degrees all day, year round. Except the indoor swimming pool, the sauna, the ice skating rink, etc. which are kept at comparably appropriate temperatures. Even taking a helicopter to work (a couple miles), riding around in inefficient European sports cars, tooling around in your 20,000 ton yacht, and flying around the world all the time, you'd still wish for a faster boat & plane & car. And the only thing keeping you from having a suction tube elevator like at the drive through at the bank is that the energy to power it would be too expensive.
So you advocate taxing people who believe in one religion and giving some of that tax to people who believe in a different religion.
All of your numbers are pretty good estimates, about1.3 million students receive Pell grants. About $13 billion goes into the Pell Grant program. Only the number per student averages close to $2500. Where does the other $10,500 per student? There's a nice graph here: http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/press/cost06/pell_grants_06.pdf
Your grandfather would have (or could have) gotten a job if it weren't for the New Deal. And he could have gotten food and housing cheaper. The New Deal was all about protecting the Wall Street speculators from losing wealth with a depreciating dollar. That's why they paid farmers to dump milk, burn fields, and slaughter cattle.
If you believe in evolution, you have no choice but to prefer a welfare system for the rich over the a welfare system for the poor. The rich (in this country) have, by and large, either attained the wealth through their own merit or that of their ancestors. The poor are --at least statistically-- less likely to have good genes and therefore a peaceful and non-discriminating eugenics system would favor supporting the rich over the poor. Of course, if you think evolution is a silly notion, or that something that's at least as complex as a weather system or the political interaction of hundred of millions of people is too complex (or even inherently chaotic) to try to manage, then even if you believed in evolution or History with a capital "Das", then you'd probably just leave well enough alone and try to be nice to your neighbor and a good Christian, or let Brahma and Pat Sajak sort them out with their big wheel in the sky that Ezekiel mistook for a UFO from the Bermuda Triangle. Speaking of which -- hi Jenna, how's the beach?
The Federal Reserve doesn't loan the government money, it loans private banks money. The government gets it's money from taxes and bonds. And when that's not enough, it prints it. The Federal Reserve doesn't print the money, that's the US Mint. It just says Federal Reserve note, because that's the organization that backs it. Backs it with what, you say? With US Treasury Bonds. China buys T-bills because they're better than gold. The world banks on the stability of the US government, because the dollar is more stable than gold. While the dollar has dropped some 25% in the past 4 years, gold has almost doubled, making it almost twice as volatile. It doesn't matter that it's gone up, unless you have more gold than other assets. In other words, finding someone who's willing to take gold for payment is riskier than finding someone who's willing to take an IOU from Uncle Sam. People still reckon (by almost 2 to 1) that the IRS will still be collecting taxes long after gold has lost its value. The money the Federal Reserve loans to private banks is loaned at interest, with the backing of the US Treasury. And private banks and individuals do own stock in the Federal Reserve. Dividends used to be fixed at 6%, but I think it's been a long time since that. The Federal Reserve Bank chairmen are appointed by the President, with the consent of the Congress, for a term of 4 years. It used to be 10, to prevent political appointments, but that's been done away with.
I think there's a bigger problem with Californians moving into other states, even South Dakota, than vice versa. And it's not the weather, making them want to leave. Of course it could be at least partially from the overcrowding from all the girls from South Dakota, et al, that came to Califoria before it switched from being paradise to a workers paradise.
So you're saying you think that the states have every right to restrict slavery and regulate the slave trade?
No, they shouldn't be heard. We have a little thing in this country called the First Amendment, and among other things it includes the right to free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly. That means I don't have to hear Ron Paul or any other Libertarian if I don't want too. And that goes double for Republicans and Democrats. When compulsory indoctrination by one political party is enforced (outside of the public school system), I'm leaving -- and I'm taking Richard Gere with me.
Paying some guy with a turban on his head to drill a hole in the ground, and then paying another guy with an eastern European accent to drive a big boat halfway across the world, and paying everyone else in between, including paying the CEO of Exxon-Mobil to bribe the president of the United States into prosecuting a war and paying another guy with a turban on his head to pump your gas actually turns out to be cheaper, and will pay itself off a hundred times over in the typical day's commute. Oil is just chock full of energ isn't it? It would be a shame to throw it away for something as compatively inefficient as the rain-o-tran is compared to solar panels and wind turbines.
Your typical rain falls from 2000-4000 feet, or approximate 1km about the surface.
Almost everyone employed by local governments live in houses, eat food, and yes drive cars. That means that the government is making a profit. The idea of self-perpetuating government is as popular as perpetual motion machines these days.
Yes there is law that says that public records can't be copyrighted. West Virginia is in the United States. Or were you just trying to make a lame joke based on your lack of knowledge of geography?
Not only public record, but the information is "public domain" meaning devoid of copyright. Because it was collected with tax dollars for public use. So the West Virginia assessor is lying through his teeth on that account as well.
Exactly. The only reason they put it there in the first place is they wanted free advertising and the credibility that comes with everyone listing "their" site as the canonical source of the DTDs for HTML, etc. It just worked better than they thought. Or rather, the internet is much bigger than they were capable of imagining. People mentioned above the idea that (perpetual) caching of DTDs should be mandatory. While that's idiotic, even if it were the case. With billions of web pages and billions of users, even if everyone only ever loaded each DTD once, it would still tax their system far beyond their ability to handle.
No, the problem is a badly written spec which explicitly states that the URI should be included as part of the XML document and that looking it up is a perfectly legal (though optional) step in parsing it.
Do we use Newtonian physics or Einsteinian physics today? As soon as something is build (or measured) using relativity, let me know. In the mean time, the rest of us in the real world will keep building cars and bridges and telescopes with the good old fashioned simple math that a patent clerk from a small city in Germany supposedly turned on it's ear 100 years ago.
I'll give you 10000 to 1 odds, and you can place your bet at any time for any amount, even after it's been proven. Matter of fact, I'll give you the same bet if his device either produces energy or even makes $1 in marketable efficiency over existing technology. And I'll even take your word on it. You won't have to put your money up up front. Pay me whenever you like.
as many ex-pat stem cell researchers now in Singapore would tell you Chex on Keyboard. Thanks, that made my day.
You made the connection I hadn't yet. I just got through glancing through the Ron Paul thread, and felt a similarity. People use postgres because they believe the UFOs endorse it.
PostgreSQL can't compete with Oracle on anything except price. And where it's good enough, so is MySQL.