I note you're careful to say "federal taxes". Good talking point.
You might want to look at what percentage the poor pay in sales taxes (in those states that have them) and other taxes. As a proportion of salary, the poor pay more in those taxes than the rich. And as there are so many more poor than rich, they par more in aggregate as well.
Where you start to put words in my mouth is the part about snapping off baby heads. (A minor aside; contrary to popular opinion, babies do not have milky insides.)
Come on. Have you ever squeezed one? Milk everywhere.
What additional weight? In my Prius the regenerative braking uses the same motor-generator that moves the wheels. I need to make the wheels go anyway, so the generator aspect is not additional weight. It's just an added feature of using an electric motor; otherwise the electric motor wouldn't be used at all during braking.
The extra weight I see is the traditional friction brakes. At some point those can be dispensed with (once the other systems are as consistently safe as the friction brakes).
A solved problem since 1995? The Morris worm dates from 1988. I believe that supports, rather than refutes, posters' point: the Morris worm put stack smashing (and other buffer overflows) on the radar screen.
Ignoramous.
And please don't tell me about getting O2 from mineral oxides; that takes a huge amount of energy (and more oxygen than you'll get back, if you're burning anything to heat your rocks). If there's one thing the moon has, it's energy. No annoying weather (or atmosphere) to stop 2 weeks of direct sunlight from hitting whatever you want to generate energy with. Photovoltaics work just fine, but for raw heat energy all you need is a slightly curved mirror.
Each letter is ordered by usage (in English) on the keys, and the arrangement is as close to QWERTY as you can get given that there are only 9 keys and the goal is to put the most common letters earliest on the keys. It's as QWERTY-like as possible while still being useful. Looking at it I find most of the letters near where I'd expect them given familiarity with the standard QWERTY layout.
It's almost as if you didn't follow ANY of the links....
What sort of crack are you smoking? They did no such thing. uio are all on different keys. O and I are first on their respective keys; U is second on its key.
The layout has ETAOINSHR all as the 1st letter on the 9 keys; DLUP and 5 others I don't remember as the second letter. This puts the 9 most common letters with a single key-press, then the second 9 most common letters needing 2 keypresses, and then the 8 remaining take 3 keypresses.
The problem lies in the fact that electricity, cable, phone services, water, garbage collection are luxuries.
Water?
Water is a "luxury"?
Surely you're going a bit too far there. Just try living without water. Especially healthy, unpolluted water.
Cable is certainly a luxury, but the others are arguable. Some people do manage to live without electricity, phone service, and garbage collection, but it's quite a bit harder. Think of what would happen if there were no garbage collection, for instance: everyone would be driving to the dump with their garbage; the dump would need to be open day and night to handle the volume; there would need to be many local dumps (instead of large regional ones); etc.
Originally phone service was not a monopoly. Bad effects were: vendor lock in; each business customer needed multiple phone lines to accept calls from the different phone systems of their customers. The volume of wires grew to more than the infrastructure could support, due to the duplication of effort. These issues are ameliorated today (a phone on one company's system can call phones on another's system), which is why we're seeing the monopoly slowly dissolve; there is some competition at the local service level. But for that competition to exist, there need to be rules mandating the interconnection, otherwise no one will sign up for a service that can't reach the rest of the world.
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Yours wasn't made by IMB.
I note you're careful to say "federal taxes". Good talking point.
You might want to look at what percentage the poor pay in sales taxes (in those states that have them) and other taxes. As a proportion of salary, the poor pay more in those taxes than the rich. And as there are so many more poor than rich, they par more in aggregate as well.
A moose once bit my sister.
Where you start to put words in my mouth is the part about snapping off baby heads. (A minor aside; contrary to popular opinion, babies do not have milky insides.)
Come on. Have you ever squeezed one? Milk everywhere.
The extra weight I see is the traditional friction brakes. At some point those can be dispensed with (once the other systems are as consistently safe as the friction brakes).
A solved problem since 1995? The Morris worm dates from 1988. I believe that supports, rather than refutes, posters' point: the Morris worm put stack smashing (and other buffer overflows) on the radar screen. Ignoramous.
That's "pretentious twaddle", you ignorant twit.
Electronic Funds Transfer (at the) Point Of Sale.
I'm guessing....
Tele-commuting didn't kill my career. Slashdot killed my career!
It should give a compile time error, of course. Run-time exceptions that pop-up in little used code paths are evil.
Look, the layout is:
EWQ TUY OP
1 2 3
ADZ RFV IWJ
4 5 6
SCX HGB NMK
7 8 9
Each letter is ordered by usage (in English) on the keys, and the arrangement is as close to QWERTY as you can get given that there are only 9 keys and the goal is to put the most common letters earliest on the keys. It's as QWERTY-like as possible while still being useful. Looking at it I find most of the letters near where I'd expect them given familiarity with the standard QWERTY layout.
It's almost as if you didn't follow ANY of the links....
What sort of crack are you smoking? They did no such thing. uio are all on different keys. O and I are first on their respective keys; U is second on its key. The layout has ETAOINSHR all as the 1st letter on the 9 keys; DLUP and 5 others I don't remember as the second letter. This puts the 9 most common letters with a single key-press, then the second 9 most common letters needing 2 keypresses, and then the 8 remaining take 3 keypresses.
Both are great books. So is his Cyptonomicon. Really, 3 of my favorites of all time from just one author.
Water?
Water is a "luxury"?
Surely you're going a bit too far there. Just try living without water. Especially healthy, unpolluted water.
Cable is certainly a luxury, but the others are arguable. Some people do manage to live without electricity, phone service, and garbage collection, but it's quite a bit harder. Think of what would happen if there were no garbage collection, for instance: everyone would be driving to the dump with their garbage; the dump would need to be open day and night to handle the volume; there would need to be many local dumps (instead of large regional ones); etc.
Originally phone service was not a monopoly. Bad effects were: vendor lock in; each business customer needed multiple phone lines to accept calls from the different phone systems of their customers. The volume of wires grew to more than the infrastructure could support, due to the duplication of effort. These issues are ameliorated today (a phone on one company's system can call phones on another's system), which is why we're seeing the monopoly slowly dissolve; there is some competition at the local service level. But for that competition to exist, there need to be rules mandating the interconnection, otherwise no one will sign up for a service that can't reach the rest of the world.