Tax revenue raises itself, when the economy grows, and is more likely to do if the economy isn't being bled by government and kept from growing. It isn't a zero-sum game. That's something that people like you will never figure out, though.
Just rely on the people in Washington. They'll fix everything.
Well, it would be sort of a sad day. In a contrasty sort of way. Because the next day Biden would be President, and that clown show would make anything that happened the day before seem less comical.
You just keep on thinking that. When they ask you to come in their office and close the door behind you, you can say to yourself "they're too stupid to do this" and be assured you are, umm, right.
If anything working on PCs belonging to those in all walks of life I've found that that rail on about family values usually have the largest porn collections.
Your neighbors and family members don't count as a statistically relevant sample group.
when 'spontaneous co-operation and yielding to others' is considered un-American.
Near as I can tell, that assessment was made by the metrosexual editors of this site, not the public in general.
No, we're not very euro-style. You can get shampoo that is, though. Maybe even peel off the "Euro-style" sticker off the shampoo bottle and stick it on the side of your car, if you wish.
Having moved to Indiana from the far more bike-friendly Minnesota, I have come to the conclusion that bikes are considered to be childrens' toys here. It's really sad. This is the land of the spark plug morons, unfortunately.
Don't say that. It embarasses the developers at Zynga to admit that the only thing they've come up with that has gone profitable is a Farm game for middle aged women.
They've tried so hard to 'push' their game development toward the metrosexual crowd that they think of themselves as belonging to. Every time you look, there's another fucking disco cow or Lady Gaga themed promotion going on there. Yoville is where they wanna live and it's a flop.
It must be really depressing to be a hip young developer, and know that the only customer base that gives a shit about your work is those middle aged hick women. It shows badly in the developments in the game. It's shrieking obvious the Farmville developers hate and despise their players.
How can you use such charged and emotional language and participate in a reasonable discussion. Your shrill tone makes it seem like you're a believer in the whole gaia thing.
It does sound like geekery to me, as well. However, they're generally terrible historians. People like that dwell incessantly on 'the good part' of history, meaning the memorable parts. So they re-enact the highlights of a famous battle. To be historically accurate, they would need to also re-enact the weeks or months months of drudgery leading up to the battle. And the days of gore afterward.
Also, people who 'collect artifacts' are often people who cherry-pick and generally trash historical sites. Which damages the historical record more than anything else.
My impression is that Microsoft is so big that it's gone rule-by-committee. Any organization that big does it. So it's a big fucking monster that nobody is really in charge of anymore. No total design, no adults in charge. Lots of little teams and middle managers poking around in Windows here and there to make their mark.
I looked at that cartoon, and the teeth on the file look coarse enough that I have to assume the eagle is blunting each claw with it. To sharpen the claws, the eagle would be using a hone.
Cartoonists who don't know anything at all about putting a sharp edge on anything should just blunt up the edge of their pencils with a file and go back to sleep.
Possibly even to the extent that said CEO will decide that it's just not profitable to roll out new Web-based features. Many businesses ran pretty well on old isolated LANs for decades, and many could continue to do so.
Sucks to be the guy who thought he was a web developer, but who better go put a new toner in the fucking LJet4 in accounting. Chop-chop now, IT dude.
What is the payoff? To whom? Who in the future will care about this, and why?
Why the scare quotes around the words investment and payoff? Did you really think I was challenging the idea because I didn't think it could be properly monetized?
You would have a point, there, if there were a reason why anybody would care about this clock 50 or 100 years from now anymore than they do now. This isn't a "make big investment, get long-term payoff" project. To put it crudely, it's dick-size stuff.
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Tax revenue raises itself, when the economy grows, and is more likely to do if the economy isn't being bled by government and kept from growing. It isn't a zero-sum game. That's something that people like you will never figure out, though.
Just rely on the people in Washington. They'll fix everything.
Well, it would be sort of a sad day. In a contrasty sort of way. Because the next day Biden would be President, and that clown show would make anything that happened the day before seem less comical.
You just keep on thinking that. When they ask you to come in their office and close the door behind you, you can say to yourself "they're too stupid to do this" and be assured you are, umm, right.
I'd rather the hackers' USB rights were revoked, and they were forced to revert to RS-232-C.
If anything working on PCs belonging to those in all walks of life I've found that that rail on about family values usually have the largest porn collections.
Your neighbors and family members don't count as a statistically relevant sample group.
when 'spontaneous co-operation and yielding to others' is considered un-American.
Near as I can tell, that assessment was made by the metrosexual editors of this site, not the public in general.
No, we're not very euro-style. You can get shampoo that is, though. Maybe even peel off the "Euro-style" sticker off the shampoo bottle and stick it on the side of your car, if you wish.
As opposed to the rest of the US, which was modeled on Native American cities? Or where?
Washington was a 'planned city' as in central-government designed. The only kind of city that Jefferson wanted to see develop here.
Fortunately, we have a bit more freedom than that, for the most part.
Having moved to Indiana from the far more bike-friendly Minnesota, I have come to the conclusion that bikes are considered to be childrens' toys here. It's really sad. This is the land of the spark plug morons, unfortunately.
Don't say that. It embarasses the developers at Zynga to admit that the only thing they've come up with that has gone profitable is a Farm game for middle aged women.
They've tried so hard to 'push' their game development toward the metrosexual crowd that they think of themselves as belonging to. Every time you look, there's another fucking disco cow or Lady Gaga themed promotion going on there. Yoville is where they wanna live and it's a flop.
It must be really depressing to be a hip young developer, and know that the only customer base that gives a shit about your work is those middle aged hick women. It shows badly in the developments in the game. It's shrieking obvious the Farmville developers hate and despise their players.
the other is being paid to be whores.
How can you use such charged and emotional language and participate in a reasonable discussion. Your shrill tone makes it seem like you're a believer in the whole gaia thing.
You didn't *want* to be a nerd in the 1980s. You hated yourself for it.
That's a complete crock of shit. Really. It is.
Any self-respecting nerd in the 1980's didn't give a flying fuck what anybody else considered them.
People who were socially aware about being a nerd enough to worry about what other people think were at most kinda-sorta nerds.
Whenever I hear someone use 'spectrum' and 'autistic' in the same sentence, I want to break their nose.
I mean, buy into the fucking terminology. Be what the doctor tells you to be. His fee depends on it.
Or fucking grow up. Really.
That sounds like prime history geekery to me,
It does sound like geekery to me, as well. However, they're generally terrible historians. People like that dwell incessantly on 'the good part' of history, meaning the memorable parts. So they re-enact the highlights of a famous battle. To be historically accurate, they would need to also re-enact the weeks or months months of drudgery leading up to the battle. And the days of gore afterward.
Also, people who 'collect artifacts' are often people who cherry-pick and generally trash historical sites. Which damages the historical record more than anything else.
A real geek would have done it from an HP-42.
My impression is that Microsoft is so big that it's gone rule-by-committee. Any organization that big does it. So it's a big fucking monster that nobody is really in charge of anymore. No total design, no adults in charge. Lots of little teams and middle managers poking around in Windows here and there to make their mark.
The problem with the example you gave is that Kerry swiftboated himself in Vietnam. All his political opponents in 2004 did was draw attention to it.
It's not programming at all to strut about making pronouncements about this programming language or that....
I looked at that cartoon, and the teeth on the file look coarse enough that I have to assume the eagle is blunting each claw with it. To sharpen the claws, the eagle would be using a hone.
Cartoonists who don't know anything at all about putting a sharp edge on anything should just blunt up the edge of their pencils with a file and go back to sleep.
Possibly even to the extent that said CEO will decide that it's just not profitable to roll out new Web-based features. Many businesses ran pretty well on old isolated LANs for decades, and many could continue to do so.
Sucks to be the guy who thought he was a web developer, but who better go put a new toner in the fucking LJet4 in accounting. Chop-chop now, IT dude.
Indeed. People like that need to be heavily sedated. They could screw up the whole reimbursement model for treatment of the disorder.
So you have the 'People Magazine Reader' plug-in installed, I take it.
Well, then, let's add some perspective.
What is the payoff? To whom? Who in the future will care about this, and why?
Why the scare quotes around the words investment and payoff? Did you really think I was challenging the idea because I didn't think it could be properly monetized?
Better education, actually. They get on a plane and come to the US. Voila. Lower tuition than the pupils in California.
Now all they have to do is start using 80% of its capacity to pass the same top-40 mp3s and anime videos back and forth on it incessantly.
You would have a point, there, if there were a reason why anybody would care about this clock 50 or 100 years from now anymore than they do now. This isn't a "make big investment, get long-term payoff" project. To put it crudely, it's dick-size stuff.