There are not "near-zero restrictions on firearm sales." As a gun-owner I know first hand. I live in NYS. I cannot even touch a side arm without showing my license. The gun store owner will not even take it out of the case.
Prime examples of things that are irrelevant to keep guns out of the wrong hands. Congratulations on being...
I would just caution you about "confirmation bias" and encourage you to carefully weigh what you are hearing and seeing and make sure you are not just confirming your own personal bias though standing in an echo chamber you agree with.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."
What's your point? You're cool with hate campaigns as long as the hate is consistent? No one should oppose organized hatred who didn't also say specific words at some arbitrary time in the past?
No, my point is that your outrage is inconsistent. I'm calling you a hypocrite.
You're responding to a call to cool off the hate campaigns with ad hominems?
No, I'm responding to you specifically saying it's a problem with "the left" when you have neo-nazis among your rank.
I'm not talking about the nut jobs with guns, but those who engage in irresponsible verbal targeting that encourage the nut jobs with guns and provide them targeting.
Wait... so you want to shut down Fox News?
Come on folks, all this hateful rhetoric needs to come to a full and final stop.
Wait... so you want to shut down Fox News?
Those on the other side of the isle are NOT (in general) trying to do harm to others or the country and it's way past time we stop trying to claim they are.
Wait... so you want to shut down Fox News?
Attach the principles, argue about what the country should do, discuss the issues, but leave the personal attacks and outlandish claims alone.
Exactly. A Left-Wing wacko purposely hunts down Republicans and the answer is "abolish guns."
I used to decry the statement "leftism is a mental disorder" but you know what? Maybe there is something there.
Simple common-sense measure could have prevented this shooting. Guess who decided not only to block such measures but pull the feed from a protest about them being blocked?
A person hunts down people who disagrees with (whether it's Republicans or Democrats, Christians or Muslims, Gays or Straights, Men or Women) your outrage ought to be at the person and those who promote such cause (Trump being killed and beheaded) as opposed to the availability of an inanimate object.
I'm not outraged because this is something I predicted would happen due to a lack of proper government representation combined with near-zero restrictions on firearm sales. Both need to be fixed, one is just kicking the can down the road.
This is what you get when you engage in hate campaigns. Is it what you wanted? If not, then find something to believe in besides hating people.
Where was this outrage when Senator Gabby Giffords was shot? Where was this outrage when a some guy shot up an abortion clinic because of "baby parts"? I find it disappointing that so many republicans only care when it's something that interferes with their own agenda.
What kind of quarterly gains are they going to get from a seed vault? How stupid are they?! When large bands of the Earth turn to deserts from climate change it will be money that everyone wants!;)
If it's faster overall, it wouldn't be a problem. If all else fails, put out patches for the AAA games that actually push the GPU that hard. It could be a completely alien architecture and you would be unlikely to notice.
So we're back to them not being extortion... or are you just ok with extortion?;)
understanding that taxes are regressive (all of them).
I'm not qualified to say they are all like that but in general, I agree US taxes are very regressive. What you haven't said is what needs to be done to reach a solution.
I think the solution is to protect our government from non-representative influence. The most basic of issues is campaign finance and the election system. Campaign finance should be obvious because the rich/corporations are funding the politicians they like and thus having a disproportionate influence. However, nobody can vote in somebody that will even attempt to address the issue because of the election system. With the current power structure, I only see one way to wiggle our way out of a non-representative government: ranked voting. The first-past-the-poll is what is preventing the most basic representation because of its reductive nature expressed as "tactical voting". The way to reform the system is for people to vote for their district to use ranked voting. I would suggest campaign finance reform at a district level but it seems too easy for parties to quash with the "free speech" argument whereas it's almost impossible to defend first-past-the-poll voting. Anyway, with a number of districts using ranked voting, there will be the support needed to change many things at a state level, including the current data-driven districting system that is locking the nation into the control of the dominant political party. Finally, with proper representation in congress, we can actually change federal tax laws to something sane.
I also think that taxes should be used as feedback loops to maintain society. Things that people need to survive should be paid for by taxes and the things that impede their health (thus needing more tax supported health care) should be taxed. This would also address climate change as it's a danger to everyone.
And for the record, we had police, fire, roads and schools LONG Before we had over burdensome taxes that takes a lawyer or three to decipher.
What you aren't mentioning is that crime was quite high and the initial tax code was 800+ pages. However, I agree that the tax code should be simplified. The problem we have is corporations that make tax software have a vested interest in its complexity. The simplest solution to this is to have the IRS release the tax law in a quantified algebraic form that could easily be used in a tax software engine and be updated without changes to the code. The harder solution is the government reform described above.
Its funny how THOSE are the first thing Socialists proffer up as "cuts" when tax revenue goes down, and never their failed social experiments.
There are plenty of failed social experiments that they need to cut but which are you referring to?
Nicely done BTW.
Wait, how did this become my doing? I don't like the state of the nation any more than you.
We have a growing problem of people thinking we should just let people in need die of starvation rather than help them and I'm not even exaggerating.
Yes, you are. We have a number of people who think charity is not a government function and that private charity should be the fallback, not taxpayer funded ones.
And when private charity will not or can not sustain them, then what? They die of starvation or turn to crime, that's what. That is not an exaggeration, that's a point of fact.
You're right. It's absurd. We should say "taxes are legalized extortion".
Taxes are regressive. All of them. [...] taxing people for "redistribution" is nothing short of theft/extortion.
No, taxes are a payment to maintain society, part of which is law and order. I propose that people be able to opt-out of taxes and in return they are unable to utilize any part of society that are paid for by taxes. This means you cannot use the roads, neither the fire department nor police will respond to your calls for help and any sort of legal recourse is unavailable. If someone want to break into your house, murder you then take your things then the state won't lift a finger because state employees (the entire justice system) are paid for with taxes. However, tax paying citizens will be protected from you, so any crimes against them will be prosecuted. How many hours do you think you would last under those conditions?
don't expect "ThreadRipper" to be given away for free or to be a perfect chip given the latency issues that are inherent to AMD's architecture.
I don't think anyone is expecting any chips to be free. As for performance issues due to latency between cores, they have already fixed that issue in modern OSes. Also, running a chip out-of-spec is stupid and shouldn't be done by anyone that does real computing.
What we really need here is a clear display of how much bang you get for your buck. The prices alone are significantly higher than AMD Zen based chips and you get fewer cores to boot. So the question is, how well do they perform compared to AMD's offerings?
The press in the US is biased against the Right, and thus, calls the right out every time they fuck up.
To be fair, the politics in the US are the farthest right of any country on the planet. What's considered "left" in the US is very conservative in most EU countries. I keep hearing people repeating the line that "taxes are legalized theft" which is an absurd notion unless you are living in Somalia. We have a growing problem of people thinking we should just let people in need die of starvation rather than help them and I'm not even exaggerating. It's a total lack of faith in civilian government and the deification of the military that scares me because it will only lead to a totalitarian society. We spend so much money making weapons and waging war while refusing to spend money to help our own people.
Hey, I was born unsigned but my parents had the doctor make me signed by modifying my most significant bit. I can't help but be negative about the whole thing but that's because I'm signed.;)
Keep it up, and the Democrats will never get back in power. Which is fine by me. The Republicans too are proving just as inept. Which is fine by me. Perhaps we'll actually get a viable third party that doesn't whine like a bitch when they aren't in power, and actually is constructive when they are. -- Archangel Michael
So who has to win to make you stop whining like a bitch?;)
Just for comparison, Facebook knows who you are, where you live, what and where you like to eat, who your friends are, what your politics are, what websites you visit, what products you purchase, and everything else about you.
I can safely say that facebook knows very little about me. Everything they know about me is either from harvested public records or something someone else has written. Being uncool has been very easy and saved me a lot of money on electronics that spy on you.
That is incorrect. The Xbox GPUs are abstracted to Direct X interfaces, so all you need to do is implement Direct X. AMD and Nvidia GPUs are totally different, how do you think they can run the same games? -_-
But the real reason is, in almost all countries this tends to be "good enough" as no one will dare to attack you -- even if the attack itself can be easily anonymized, "cui bono" makes the attacker obvious (and a false flag operation would be pretty risky).
The problem is that this is no longer true due to the threat that climate change poses. Every person on this planet now has cause to disrupt operations at the vast majority of the world's power plants. The most disruptive they are to a polluting power plant/company, the greater the monetary incentive to use non-polluting energy sources or people to go off-grid with solar and battery systems. Now that attacks have been shown to be quiet feasible, they could be coming to every polluting plant, everywhere.
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There are not "near-zero restrictions on firearm sales." As a gun-owner I know first hand. I live in NYS. I cannot even touch a side arm without showing my license. The gun store owner will not even take it out of the case.
Prime examples of things that are irrelevant to keep guns out of the wrong hands. Congratulations on being...
I would just caution you about "confirmation bias" and encourage you to carefully weigh what you are hearing and seeing and make sure you are not just confirming your own personal bias though standing in an echo chamber you agree with.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."
What's your point? You're cool with hate campaigns as long as the hate is consistent? No one should oppose organized hatred who didn't also say specific words at some arbitrary time in the past?
No, my point is that your outrage is inconsistent. I'm calling you a hypocrite.
You're responding to a call to cool off the hate campaigns with ad hominems?
No, I'm responding to you specifically saying it's a problem with "the left" when you have neo-nazis among your rank.
I'm not talking about the nut jobs with guns, but those who engage in irresponsible verbal targeting that encourage the nut jobs with guns and provide them targeting.
Wait... so you want to shut down Fox News?
Come on folks, all this hateful rhetoric needs to come to a full and final stop.
Wait... so you want to shut down Fox News?
Those on the other side of the isle are NOT (in general) trying to do harm to others or the country and it's way past time we stop trying to claim they are.
Wait... so you want to shut down Fox News?
Attach the principles, argue about what the country should do, discuss the issues, but leave the personal attacks and outlandish claims alone.
Wait... so you want to shut down Fox News?
Exactly. A Left-Wing wacko purposely hunts down Republicans and the answer is "abolish guns."
I used to decry the statement "leftism is a mental disorder" but you know what? Maybe there is something there.
Simple common-sense measure could have prevented this shooting. Guess who decided not only to block such measures but pull the feed from a protest about them being blocked?
A person hunts down people who disagrees with (whether it's Republicans or Democrats, Christians or Muslims, Gays or Straights, Men or Women) your outrage ought to be at the person and those who promote such cause (Trump being killed and beheaded) as opposed to the availability of an inanimate object.
I'm not outraged because this is something I predicted would happen due to a lack of proper government representation combined with near-zero restrictions on firearm sales. Both need to be fixed, one is just kicking the can down the road.
This is what you get when you engage in hate campaigns. Is it what you wanted? If not, then find something to believe in besides hating people.
Where was this outrage when Senator Gabby Giffords was shot? Where was this outrage when a some guy shot up an abortion clinic because of "baby parts"? I find it disappointing that so many republicans only care when it's something that interferes with their own agenda.
What kind of quarterly gains are they going to get from a seed vault? How stupid are they?! When large bands of the Earth turn to deserts from climate change it will be money that everyone wants! ;)
(nb4 "*whoosh!*" comment response)
If it's faster overall, it wouldn't be a problem. If all else fails, put out patches for the AAA games that actually push the GPU that hard. It could be a completely alien architecture and you would be unlikely to notice.
I have NO Problem with taxes
So we're back to them not being extortion... or are you just ok with extortion? ;)
understanding that taxes are regressive (all of them).
I'm not qualified to say they are all like that but in general, I agree US taxes are very regressive. What you haven't said is what needs to be done to reach a solution.
I think the solution is to protect our government from non-representative influence. The most basic of issues is campaign finance and the election system. Campaign finance should be obvious because the rich/corporations are funding the politicians they like and thus having a disproportionate influence. However, nobody can vote in somebody that will even attempt to address the issue because of the election system. With the current power structure, I only see one way to wiggle our way out of a non-representative government: ranked voting. The first-past-the-poll is what is preventing the most basic representation because of its reductive nature expressed as "tactical voting". The way to reform the system is for people to vote for their district to use ranked voting. I would suggest campaign finance reform at a district level but it seems too easy for parties to quash with the "free speech" argument whereas it's almost impossible to defend first-past-the-poll voting. Anyway, with a number of districts using ranked voting, there will be the support needed to change many things at a state level, including the current data-driven districting system that is locking the nation into the control of the dominant political party. Finally, with proper representation in congress, we can actually change federal tax laws to something sane.
I also think that taxes should be used as feedback loops to maintain society. Things that people need to survive should be paid for by taxes and the things that impede their health (thus needing more tax supported health care) should be taxed. This would also address climate change as it's a danger to everyone.
And for the record, we had police, fire, roads and schools LONG Before we had over burdensome taxes that takes a lawyer or three to decipher.
What you aren't mentioning is that crime was quite high and the initial tax code was 800+ pages. However, I agree that the tax code should be simplified. The problem we have is corporations that make tax software have a vested interest in its complexity. The simplest solution to this is to have the IRS release the tax law in a quantified algebraic form that could easily be used in a tax software engine and be updated without changes to the code. The harder solution is the government reform described above.
Its funny how THOSE are the first thing Socialists proffer up as "cuts" when tax revenue goes down, and never their failed social experiments.
There are plenty of failed social experiments that they need to cut but which are you referring to?
Nicely done BTW.
Wait, how did this become my doing? I don't like the state of the nation any more than you.
We have a growing problem of people thinking we should just let people in need die of starvation rather than help them and I'm not even exaggerating.
Yes, you are. We have a number of people who think charity is not a government function and that private charity should be the fallback, not taxpayer funded ones.
And when private charity will not or can not sustain them, then what? They die of starvation or turn to crime, that's what. That is not an exaggeration, that's a point of fact.
You're right. It's absurd. We should say "taxes are legalized extortion".
Taxes are regressive. All of them.
[...] taxing people for "redistribution" is nothing short of theft/extortion.
No, taxes are a payment to maintain society, part of which is law and order. I propose that people be able to opt-out of taxes and in return they are unable to utilize any part of society that are paid for by taxes. This means you cannot use the roads, neither the fire department nor police will respond to your calls for help and any sort of legal recourse is unavailable. If someone want to break into your house, murder you then take your things then the state won't lift a finger because state employees (the entire justice system) are paid for with taxes. However, tax paying citizens will be protected from you, so any crimes against them will be prosecuted. How many hours do you think you would last under those conditions?
don't expect "ThreadRipper" to be given away for free or to be a perfect chip given the latency issues that are inherent to AMD's architecture.
I don't think anyone is expecting any chips to be free. As for performance issues due to latency between cores, they have already fixed that issue in modern OSes. Also, running a chip out-of-spec is stupid and shouldn't be done by anyone that does real computing.
What we really need here is a clear display of how much bang you get for your buck. The prices alone are significantly higher than AMD Zen based chips and you get fewer cores to boot. So the question is, how well do they perform compared to AMD's offerings?
The press in the US is biased against the Right, and thus, calls the right out every time they fuck up.
To be fair, the politics in the US are the farthest right of any country on the planet. What's considered "left" in the US is very conservative in most EU countries. I keep hearing people repeating the line that "taxes are legalized theft" which is an absurd notion unless you are living in Somalia. We have a growing problem of people thinking we should just let people in need die of starvation rather than help them and I'm not even exaggerating. It's a total lack of faith in civilian government and the deification of the military that scares me because it will only lead to a totalitarian society. We spend so much money making weapons and waging war while refusing to spend money to help our own people.
If you think it's just people on the left then you are blind to what is really happening.
Hey, I was born unsigned but my parents had the doctor make me signed by modifying my most significant bit. I can't help but be negative about the whole thing but that's because I'm signed. ;)
Keep it up, and the Democrats will never get back in power. Which is fine by me. The Republicans too are proving just as inept. Which is fine by me. Perhaps we'll actually get a viable third party that doesn't whine like a bitch when they aren't in power, and actually is constructive when they are. -- Archangel Michael
So who has to win to make you stop whining like a bitch? ;)
Just for comparison, Facebook knows who you are, where you live, what and where you like to eat, who your friends are, what your politics are, what websites you visit, what products you purchase, and everything else about you.
I can safely say that facebook knows very little about me. Everything they know about me is either from harvested public records or something someone else has written. Being uncool has been very easy and saved me a lot of money on electronics that spy on you.
What does you ISP know about you?
Far more than they should.
You write as if M2M communications is a brand new thing.
In the US, systems that control grid infrastructure are not connected to the internet.
Oh how little you know.
That is incorrect. The Xbox GPUs are abstracted to Direct X interfaces, so all you need to do is implement Direct X. AMD and Nvidia GPUs are totally different, how do you think they can run the same games? -_-
Did they say it's the same GPU? I didn't see that written anywhere.
But the real reason is, in almost all countries this tends to be "good enough" as no one will dare to attack you -- even if the attack itself can be easily anonymized, "cui bono" makes the attacker obvious (and a false flag operation would be pretty risky).
The problem is that this is no longer true due to the threat that climate change poses. Every person on this planet now has cause to disrupt operations at the vast majority of the world's power plants. The most disruptive they are to a polluting power plant/company, the greater the monetary incentive to use non-polluting energy sources or people to go off-grid with solar and battery systems. Now that attacks have been shown to be quiet feasible, they could be coming to every polluting plant, everywhere.
Why the fuck are these systems connected to the internet?
So what are you measuring the speed in, miles per hour?
No, that ridiculous! It's furlongs per minute. ;)