However, Romney has no credibility on budgets... he claimed that he left MA with a $20 Billion "Rainy Day Fund" when actually that was $20 Million in a debate just before the NH Primary that was televised by CNN.
================= I received a recent "attack ad" in which the mayors and legislators in Mass, indicated that Romney was oblivious to the ongoings of the state. He had a blue ribbon across his doorway, and he had no part in the design or implementation of the Mass Healthcare plan -- a plan that appears quite successful and which, via Obamacare, would be implemented federally, allowing for portability as people relocate from one state to another.
Obamacare will allow the USA to catch up with the rest of the world, where UNIVERSAL medicare has been the norm since WorldWar 2 or before.
For that to be true MSFT would have had to plan that 1.- Nobody would buy WinPhone...okay I see that one, 2.- Nokia would leave them with a product to sell in that gap...which if they wouldn't buy WinPhone on Nokia a change of brand name sure as hell isn't gonna help move units, and 3.- The gap wouldn't just be absorbed by Google, with the CCC Android 2.x phones taking the low end while the more expensive Android and Apple units take the high.
So you see this is the problem I have when people describe Bill Gates kind of evil moves at MSFT....Ballmer just ain't that smart. I mean who was on stage bragging about his squirting Zune and not getting why he was being laughed at? Who spent a fuckton of money on products like Zune, Kin, Sidekick, etc, with no real plan on how to monetize the purchases? Who fucked over what few loyal WinPhone customers they had by not giving them Win 8 on their Win 7 phones and thus burnt the brand with many a customer? Who was fucking retarded enough to let IE get horribly fragmented in the vain hope that they could pretend its 2003 and they can actually get people to upgrade the OS just for a new version of IE?
Hell I could write a post the length of a Harry Potter book just pointing out the fucking DUMB moves that has gone on under Ballmer, his mobile "strategy" is a trainwreck, he is taking a shit on one of the few remaining cash cows MSFT has in order to push Windows onto...ARM? WTF? Are you shitting me? WTH would ANYBODY want Windows on a chip that...won't actually run Windows programs? Why, because they think the Win 3.x color scheme of Metro is just too damned sexy?
Actually I think one could argue that Nokia and MSFT are the same company, its just that MSFT has...for the moment at least..a couple of cash cows to keep its head above the water ATM but the simple fact is both companies seem directionless, completely devoid of any real innovation inside, waited until the market was already in the middle of a huge shift before simply reacting with half assed products, and both are acting like they have no real competition when in reality they have to bring their AAA game or get curbstomped which even Ray Charles could see the latter is exactly what is happening.
================== The difference is that MS has deeper pockets and can afford to lose, MS may in the end hire away Nokia's top performers
People crave sugar because it kept their ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors alive. Those who sought and consumed high energy foods when they were available stored up energy to last them through the harsh times. This continues into modern times. Humans are genetically programmed to desire foods laden with fat and sugar above all else. All that has changed is the availability - where those ancestors would have had to search for unpicked fruit or brave the bees to steal honey, modern man just guzzles down coke whenever he wants to. He always wants to.
============= So NY state is right to limit the sizes of cups. One extra reason could be that smaller cups take up less landfill. Who pays for the diabetes, kidney failures, etc due to overconsumption of larger than necessary drinks? Ans: It is the family, the individual, and the medical costs that are or are not covered by insurance.
In Montreal, the cups are of 12 oz size, and the bigger fast food restaurants allow free refills. Those who want to be pigs with more than two refills are allowed to be pigs.
We reduced the size, not to punish the sryup manufacturers, but
a) to combat the onset of diabetes, heart problems and kidney damages, from too much sugar consumption and
b) To allow the fast food guys (BK, MacD, Subways, etc) to distribute more reasonable sized portions. without the intention of them to save some syrup refill costs.
c) To cut Universal health care costs , which covers the costs of pigs attempting slow suicide.
The fast food outlets like it, the syrup manufacturers don't. And I wish New York State wins.
And I'd be really fucking pissed off if my Linux PC required a user present at the console to reboot. Seriously, how is this a fix?
I thought the preloader would have a 1024 byte key which for the next foreseeable future would be good enough for it to run. But if the preloader software suggested by Linux Foundation is just about the 1k size, why not just have it as a boot loader extension. It will be protected in the TPM memory.
In other countries, there is a fixed amount of capital gains before taxes start. I am not sure of the thresholds, in some countries the first $10k of capital gains is tax free, but then the excess is taxed at between 25% to 50%. (Geared to the small investor)
In Canada, the mortgage interest on your home is not tax deductible, but there are no capital gains taxes on the sale of your principal home. There is no inheritance tax as far as I know. I paid $12,500 for my home in 1968, and sold it in 2009 for $320,000. That gross amount after commissions was and is my pension money that I will consume over time. The rule did not apply to cottages that are not principal residences, and to investment homes that you could move to to circumvent the system. In moving to a home bought as an investment, the property was deemed to have a value based on the city's tax role at the time you moved into it.
Spot on. I half intended to make a sarcastic post about how all we need is to get everyone to be willing to drive a plastic car with a 40 hp engine, but truly for a lot of people including me, a small (but safe) car is sufficient.
I actually sold cars briefly. One customer who stuck in my mind was a little old lady who really wanted an 8 cylinder engine. This was about 1990. She might have settled for a 6, but a 4 was no sale, no way. Blew my mind. My own 4 cylinder car sitting in the parking lot, barely out of econo-box class, would do 120 mph. What the hell did she think she needed an 8 cylinder engine for?!? She would not be swayed. A lot of us, me included, are not so different from that old lady.
===== When you live alone, a widower and you are not a car buff, you rely on peers. The cars prior to 1990 where all about length, chrome, safety (?) and power. Her advice was... get a V8. And she valued that advice more than a salesman's.
Micronations are a pipe dream for libertarian morons. Your nation is only as strong as your ability to defend it. And that goes for whether it's on an oil rig or half of an existing country. If you're going to declare independence, you're going to need an army that's as least as strong as the army of the country you're declaring independence from. Otherwise, you're just a nutball clown (like "Prince Roy" here).
Really/ You had better jump in your tardis back to 1776 and tell those 13 American colonies that they will fail because the only have a handful of militia men and are challenging the strongest military on the planet at the time.
A cat can not attack and kill a dog but it can injure it enough that the dog will leave it alone.
============ Didn't the 13 American Colonies convince the Native Indians to ally with them? And the long bow and Indian accuracy with it was more frightening than the rifle that made noise and pin-pointed your location.
When you reach age 50, you start forgetting small things, like peoples names, and doctor appointments. When you reach 55, you cant remember that the piece of code you are writing, you did a few months ago, and all it needed was a small tweak. When you reach 60, you begin to realize that your knowledge is great, your experience is great, but that you cannot compete with youth. They can do work 16 hour days for long periods. At 60 you can only do it once a week. At 65, you realize that there are other things in life, and you want to turn over the reins to that youth that you coached five years ago. Linux, you are moving into my space.
And yet the Internet is still safer in American hands than being handed over lock, stock and barrel to the UN. As bad as the US may be on occasion, it's still better than handing the keys over to the likes of China and Saudi Arabia.
======= Lets hope that the Clandestine monitoring will not be discovered. After the election, we could hear about a reversal in the monitoring, to where it will be deemed as open.
So essentially, they have openly stated that because the practice is useful to the government ut should not be subjected to judiciary review, despite clear concerns from privacy advocates, and seemingly legitimate legal challenges to the validity of the practice?
Since when did the judiciary stop doing its job and become rubber stampers?
======= Is it time for a tit-for-tat? Do unto others as they do unto you.
Microsoft is a software development and licensing company.
At least that's where all the money comes from. The Devices and Services aspects are huge money losing hobbies they've started.
I hope this means the end is near.
================= Your definition of near may be 3 years from now, or 20 years from now. Or even further into the future. Like IBM, MS could be around for a long long time. Except.... If MS shuts out vendors because they will build their own devices, Vendors will shut out MS. Linux, or its successor, here we come... I bet you the successors to MS Windows are in R and D now, and ready to hit the market for December, if need be.
Perhaps you haven't put the line through all the dots yet... that is the plan. Crush the internet as we know it, and replace it with something that resembles phone service. You pay for their service, they give you what they feel like, you pay what they demand, and you shut your mouth and enjoy it, or do without. This wild anything goes hippy-fest, communist plot that we currently call the internet is an unending pain in their collective sides and they must do anything they can to kill it, so when you say you hope it dies, you're in fact serving their interest.
It is time for Americans, to build a completely free and unregulated internet. One not subject to government control, and for the luv-o-jebus utterly inaccessible to large corporate interests. It should be free, open and paid for by donations from users who want to circumvent the increasingly pay-per-screw models being inflicted on the users by the monolithic service providers of the world. Most important, it should route around existing systems of control and manipulation. There is no sane argument against having a free and unrestricted system of communications among people. We've been fed lies and hyperbole by people whose interest is that we keep the masses in line. This isn't about stopping a handful of predators, and it never has been. You don't destroy a $50,000 vehicle to get at a 10 cent fuse. Our entire society has become a means by which wealthy powers have concentrated wealth and power to give them control and authority over the groveling masses. Its about time for the masses to tell the powers to kiss their collective asses, we'll take care of ourselves thanks.
The fact is taxes have to go up for the middle class if he is going to be revenue neutral. So, either he is lying about being revenue neutral, or lying about not raising taxes on the middle class. Can't have it both ways.
And, you do need to raise taxes in the middle of a recession to grow an economy. The GDP is the sum of all spending, and it/the economy only grows when everybody spends more.
If people do not spend more (for whatever reason, maybe they fear for their future and want to save, or maybe they're now turned off by products produced by sellers, such as Samsung Galaxy's or real estate) then it is up to government to increase that total spending, in a way that causes money to flow through the economy. Normally that's done by lowering interest rates, but they can't possibly go any lower, and now government has to directly spend - take money from the public, spend it.
Economically, the government is just another person, that's really really rich. This person can cause the economy to jumpstart, by influencing the economy's spending habits directly, instead of indirectly through interest rate reduction.
The worst thing you can do in a recession is NOT SPEND. This is why conservatives are fucking clueless at growing an economy, because they like to do the exact opposite of what you need to do.
Additionally, conservatives are horrible at influencing others to spend money. When was the last time a conservative made you WANT to buy something? Liberals do it all the time - and they magically produce value out of nothing. Entertainment, fashion, higher-education, and the arts are industries that actually cause people to WANT to spend money, and produce value from nothing, because liberals have the power to produce value intellectually that conservatives do not.
Conservatives can never produce value intellectually - they're conservatives after all, and are incapable of pushing the state-of-the-art in intellectual fields. They're always stuck with industries that are based on NEED, such as real-estate, energy, etc, and can only produce value from physical resources.
================== What bothers me is that he only paid $13k taxes in a year for the recent past years. I bet if you go back further, he paid no taxes.
Furthermore, I bet his secretary pays more taxes than he has paid.
Actually, I have been listening to what Romney is saying, and he isn't saying much. He will cut the rates across the board 20%, and he will make it revenue neutral by closing some mythical loopholes.
The problem with what he is saying is that cutting the base rate = $5T over 10 years. Even eliminating the mortgage deduction, the employer's tax credit for providing health care, it barely begins to scratch that loss of revenue. Hell, cutting all foreign aid, including to Israel is barely noticeable. (Foreign aid is ~ $23B a year, over 1/3 goes to Egypt and Israel) http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/politics/us-foreign-aid.htm
The fact is taxes have to go up for the middle class if he is going to be revenue neutral. So, either he is lying about being revenue neutral, or lying about not raising taxes on the middle class. Can't have it both ways.
============= Everything out of Romneys lips are dreams, not based on facts or on reality. Read the past weeks Doonsbury comics to show you what you are dealing with.
Why do vehicles have to remain on gasoline when there is ample natural gas or other ways to power cars? If we adopt new technologies, such as doing away with the mechanical transmission, to replace it using electric motors on the drive shafts, powered by a generator that receives its power from a gas motor. This exchange of transmission, differential and gearing etc., for electric motors on the axles, may be an efficiency improvement and a cost effective improvement at that. Going with public transportation is another way to gain efficiencies.
In many urban areas, people are moving into the city to Condos, in order to get away from the urban scrawl. Working from home makes for more efficiency. (total # licensed car miles driven)/(total number of gallons of fuel sold)
With UEFI, we read that every external software must be certified. This approach harms the small entrepreneur. Do you see more and more software being delivered as source, with installation being a compile and move to target locations?
This site you link to is mostly gibberish. Linus is more concise and a much better writer.
This author views it as a logical fallacy for Linus to say that C++ is terrible because terrible programmers use it. I think to call that a "logical fallacy" misses the point - the point that in practice, it's actually true.
The idea that criticism of common practice in the C++ community comes from ignorance is also kind of amusing. I'm no stranger to C++ personally, there are things that are great about it. I dig that templates can generate good machine code while still allowing generics at the source code level (much better performance than doing generics with function pointers and void*, like libc's qsort for example). I think RAII is great and it's interesting that the technique replicates some of the practices I already do in my C code, but with less room for programmer error. That's all good. I'm a fan of some of what C++11 brings to the table, lambdas are nice, it's good to have the whole "move semantics" to fix those annoying issues with copy constructors getting called more than they ought to.
At the same time in my career I haven't worked with any programmers who understand these points and what they mean. I mean, I know that the "good" C++ programmers are somewhere, I see them occasionally make intelligent points on forums or hear them give talks about C++11. But I never seem to work with these people. Instead what I get are either (1) people writing C++ with a Java accent, or (2) people writing C++ with a C accent. In both cases they tend to do this poorly. The results are pretty crap to work with.
Yes there is bad C code out there, like there is bad code in every language. The mplayer example is fair. But I don't think that's as fundamental to the language as inefficient use of STL is. How many times have you seen a programmer introduce tons of heap allocations or copies without realizing it, due to un-careful use of STL? That's a problem that C has a lot less of. Sticking to a simple language to avoid those issues doesn't seem that unreasonable to me, especially in a development model where people contribute from all over, and being able to quickly audit for bad practices is important.
=================== I have been programming C for 25 years. I can program in C++, but find that its use normally changes the design of a program from functional execution to event driven execution. C allows event driven too. But my own experience is that C++ is great for gui interfaces, but is not that great for normal business processing or even for driver code.
Assume 400/week net, then add insurance, telephone, transportation, food, internet and children (1). I believe you will run a deficit.
What are you talking about? I lived on $10/hr for a few years. This is how I did it:
1: Shared a house with 4 other folks. Each one of us occupied a room we used as a bedroom. 2: Used public transit. 3: Prepared my own meals (in bulk, and froze the excess), took lunch to work and employed the fridge and microwave there. 4: Did laundry bi-weekly to save on costs. 5: Never "went out" on the town, or bought luxuries, ever... 6: Said "NO" to the fairer sex.
Things have changed now, [for the better], gladly. In fact, you wouldn't recognize me now. But please do not tell me one can't survive on minimum wage.
You do know that Apple recently opened up manufacturing in Brazil, right?
Apple only opened the Brazil plants because Brazil wouldn't let them sell iPhones in Brazil unless they did. Don't act like they did it out of the good of their hearts. If that law didn't exist they'd shut down the Brazilian plant faster than you can say "Saint Steve Jobs" and move it back to China.
======= I am let to believe that all Latin American countries are paralleling Brazil's rules. Chile, Argentina,Equador, etc. want 50% of the labor for a resell product to be done in their own country. Its time for the USA to do the same, and think then, about the jobs returning and the unemployment reduction. -- until robots take over
In the USA, and Canada, 15/hr is 450/week before taxes. Assume 400/week net, then add insurance, telephone, transportation, food, internet and children (1). I believe you will run a deficit. If however you are married, and your spouse adds her $15/hr, then you can live comfortably.
Many dinosaurs may be facing a new kind of extinction—a controversial theory suggests as many as a third of all known dinosaur species never existed in the first place.
That's because young dinosaurs didn't look like Mini-Me versions of their parents, according to new analyses by paleontologists Mark Goodwin, University of California, Berkeley, and Jack Horner, of Montana State University.
The documentary makes a compelling case that juvenile examples of various species have been misidentified as a separate species of dinosaur.
========== Did you ever consider that with global warming, with the seas rising, that we are facing another meltdown (or boilup), similar in consequences to the ice age?
can't believe you pay what, $3.60 per gallon. jesus we had such prices 20 years ago. Calculating from litres to gallons,and from USD to EUR, they charge $8.64 a gallon here, in germany. everyone excluding me stop complaining;)
In Montreal, Canada, the price was $1.51 a litre. 3.8 litres to a US gallon. $5.74 per US gallon. Whats the problem USA?
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However, Romney has no credibility on budgets... he claimed that he left MA with a $20 Billion "Rainy Day Fund" when actually that was $20 Million in a debate just before the NH Primary that was televised by CNN.
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I received a recent "attack ad" in which the mayors and legislators in Mass, indicated that Romney was oblivious to the ongoings of the state. He had a blue ribbon across his doorway, and he had no part in the design or implementation of the Mass Healthcare plan -- a plan that appears quite successful and which, via Obamacare, would be implemented federally, allowing for portability as people relocate from one state to another.
Obamacare will allow the USA to catch up with the rest of the world, where UNIVERSAL medicare has been the norm since WorldWar 2 or before.
For that to be true MSFT would have had to plan that 1.- Nobody would buy WinPhone...okay I see that one, 2.- Nokia would leave them with a product to sell in that gap...which if they wouldn't buy WinPhone on Nokia a change of brand name sure as hell isn't gonna help move units, and 3.- The gap wouldn't just be absorbed by Google, with the CCC Android 2.x phones taking the low end while the more expensive Android and Apple units take the high.
So you see this is the problem I have when people describe Bill Gates kind of evil moves at MSFT....Ballmer just ain't that smart. I mean who was on stage bragging about his squirting Zune and not getting why he was being laughed at? Who spent a fuckton of money on products like Zune, Kin, Sidekick, etc, with no real plan on how to monetize the purchases? Who fucked over what few loyal WinPhone customers they had by not giving them Win 8 on their Win 7 phones and thus burnt the brand with many a customer? Who was fucking retarded enough to let IE get horribly fragmented in the vain hope that they could pretend its 2003 and they can actually get people to upgrade the OS just for a new version of IE?
Hell I could write a post the length of a Harry Potter book just pointing out the fucking DUMB moves that has gone on under Ballmer, his mobile "strategy" is a trainwreck, he is taking a shit on one of the few remaining cash cows MSFT has in order to push Windows onto...ARM? WTF? Are you shitting me? WTH would ANYBODY want Windows on a chip that...won't actually run Windows programs? Why, because they think the Win 3.x color scheme of Metro is just too damned sexy?
Actually I think one could argue that Nokia and MSFT are the same company, its just that MSFT has...for the moment at least..a couple of cash cows to keep its head above the water ATM but the simple fact is both companies seem directionless, completely devoid of any real innovation inside, waited until the market was already in the middle of a huge shift before simply reacting with half assed products, and both are acting like they have no real competition when in reality they have to bring their AAA game or get curbstomped which even Ray Charles could see the latter is exactly what is happening.
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The difference is that MS has deeper pockets and can afford to lose, MS may in the end hire away Nokia's top performers
People crave sugar because it kept their ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors alive. Those who sought and consumed high energy foods when they were available stored up energy to last them through the harsh times. This continues into modern times. Humans are genetically programmed to desire foods laden with fat and sugar above all else. All that has changed is the availability - where those ancestors would have had to search for unpicked fruit or brave the bees to steal honey, modern man just guzzles down coke whenever he wants to. He always wants to.
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So NY state is right to limit the sizes of cups. One extra reason could be that smaller cups take up less landfill.
Who pays for the diabetes, kidney failures, etc due to overconsumption of larger than necessary drinks? Ans: It is the family, the individual, and the medical costs that are or are not covered by insurance.
In Montreal, the cups are of 12 oz size, and the bigger fast food restaurants allow free refills. Those who want to be pigs with more than two refills are allowed to be pigs.
We reduced the size, not to punish the sryup manufacturers, but
a) to combat the onset of diabetes, heart problems and kidney damages, from too much sugar consumption and
b) To allow the fast food guys (BK, MacD, Subways, etc) to distribute more reasonable sized portions. without the intention of them to save some syrup refill costs.
c) To cut Universal health care costs , which covers the costs of pigs attempting slow suicide.
The fast food outlets like it, the syrup manufacturers don't. And I wish New York State wins.
And I'd be really fucking pissed off if my Linux PC required a user present at the console to reboot. Seriously, how is this a fix?
I thought the preloader would have a 1024 byte key which for the next foreseeable future would be good enough for it to run. But if the preloader software suggested by Linux Foundation is just about the 1k size, why not just have it as a boot loader extension. It will be protected in the TPM memory.
It's going to happen some day. The world will be dominated by Islamic idiots because the rest of the world will do nothing but appease them.
One little tragic baby step at a time.
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If this happens, it will not only be the Muslims, but the political parties currently in power in every country on every continent.
I think it is already happening in Australia.
In other countries, there is a fixed amount of capital gains before taxes start. I am not sure of the thresholds, in some countries the first $10k of capital gains is tax free, but then the excess is taxed at between 25% to 50%. (Geared to the small investor)
In Canada, the mortgage interest on your home is not tax deductible, but there are no capital gains taxes on the sale of your principal home. There is no inheritance tax as far as I know.
I paid $12,500 for my home in 1968, and sold it in 2009 for $320,000. That gross amount after commissions was and is my pension money that I will consume over time. The rule did not apply to cottages that are not principal residences, and to investment homes that you could move to to circumvent the system. In moving to a home bought as an investment, the property was deemed to have a value based on the city's tax role at the time you moved into it.
Spot on. I half intended to make a sarcastic post about how all we need is to get everyone to be willing to drive a plastic car with a 40 hp engine, but truly for a lot of people including me, a small (but safe) car is sufficient.
I actually sold cars briefly. One customer who stuck in my mind was a little old lady who really wanted an 8 cylinder engine. This was about 1990. She might have settled for a 6, but a 4 was no sale, no way. Blew my mind. My own 4 cylinder car sitting in the parking lot, barely out of econo-box class, would do 120 mph. What the hell did she think she needed an 8 cylinder engine for?!? She would not be swayed. A lot of us, me included, are not so different from that old lady.
===== ... get a V8. And she valued that advice more than a salesman's.
When you live alone, a widower and you are not a car buff, you rely on peers. The cars prior to 1990 where all about length, chrome, safety (?) and power. Her advice was
Micronations are a pipe dream for libertarian morons. Your nation is only as strong as your ability to defend it. And that goes for whether it's on an oil rig or
half of an existing country. If you're going to declare independence, you're going to need an army that's as least as strong as the army of the country you're declaring independence from. Otherwise, you're just a nutball clown (like "Prince Roy" here).
Really/ You had better jump in your tardis back to 1776 and tell those 13 American colonies that they will fail because the only have a handful of militia men and are challenging the strongest military on the planet at the time.
A cat can not attack and kill a dog but it can injure it enough that the dog will leave it alone.
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Didn't the 13 American Colonies convince the Native Indians to ally with them? And the long bow and Indian accuracy with it was more frightening than the rifle that made noise and pin-pointed your location.
When you reach age 50, you start forgetting small things, like peoples names, and doctor appointments. When you reach 55, you cant remember that the piece of code you are writing, you did a few months ago, and all it needed was a small tweak.
When you reach 60, you begin to realize that your knowledge is great, your experience is great, but that you cannot compete with youth. They can do work 16 hour days for long periods. At 60 you can only do it once a week.
At 65, you realize that there are other things in life, and you want to turn over the reins to that youth that you coached five years ago.
Linux, you are moving into my space.
And yet the Internet is still safer in American hands than being handed over lock, stock and barrel to the UN. As bad as the US may be on occasion, it's still better than handing the keys over to the likes of China and Saudi Arabia.
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Lets hope that the Clandestine monitoring will not be discovered. After the election, we could hear about a reversal in the monitoring, to where it will be deemed as open.
So essentially, they have openly stated that because the practice is useful to the government ut should not be subjected to judiciary review, despite clear concerns from privacy advocates, and seemingly legitimate legal challenges to the validity of the practice?
Since when did the judiciary stop doing its job and become rubber stampers?
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Is it time for a tit-for-tat? Do unto others as they do unto you.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/10/10/2032244/us-supreme-court-says-wiretapping-immunity-will-stand#
Microsoft is a software development and licensing company.
At least that's where all the money comes from. The Devices and Services aspects are huge money losing hobbies they've started.
I hope this means the end is near.
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Your definition of near may be 3 years from now, or 20 years from now. Or even further into the future. Like IBM, MS could be around for a long long time. Except....
If MS shuts out vendors because they will build their own devices, Vendors will shut out MS.
Linux, or its successor, here we come...
I bet you the successors to MS Windows are in R and D now, and ready to hit the market for December, if need be.
Perhaps you haven't put the line through all the dots yet... that is the plan. Crush the internet as we know it, and replace it with something that resembles phone service. You pay for their service, they give you what they feel like, you pay what they demand, and you shut your mouth and enjoy it, or do without. This wild anything goes hippy-fest, communist plot that we currently call the internet is an unending pain in their collective sides and they must do anything they can to kill it, so when you say you hope it dies, you're in fact serving their interest.
It is time for Americans, to build a completely free and unregulated internet. One not subject to government control, and for the luv-o-jebus utterly inaccessible to large corporate interests. It should be free, open and paid for by donations from users who want to circumvent the increasingly pay-per-screw models being inflicted on the users by the monolithic service providers of the world. Most important, it should route around existing systems of control and manipulation. There is no sane argument against having a free and unrestricted system of communications among people. We've been fed lies and hyperbole by people whose interest is that we keep the masses in line. This isn't about stopping a handful of predators, and it never has been. You don't destroy a $50,000 vehicle to get at a 10 cent fuse. Our entire society has become a means by which wealthy powers have concentrated wealth and power to give them control and authority over the groveling masses. Its about time for the masses to tell the powers to kiss their collective asses, we'll take care of ourselves thanks.
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Bravo, I agree with you to 2000+%
The fact is taxes have to go up for the middle class if he is going to be revenue neutral. So, either he is lying about being revenue neutral, or lying about not raising taxes on the middle class. Can't have it both ways.
I think we can all agree that Romney is lying. That was his debate strategy, after all, to lie about his positions. He knows that his pro-CEO position is untenable if the public knew about it. Also, he's not a smart person anyways, if he was, he'd be worth far more than $250 million and into the billions that his capital management peers are worth, or he's lying about his assets. see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-is-worth-250-million-why-so-little/2012/10/05/64128882-0c20-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_story.html
And, you do need to raise taxes in the middle of a recession to grow an economy. The GDP is the sum of all spending, and it/the economy only grows when everybody spends more.
If people do not spend more (for whatever reason, maybe they fear for their future and want to save, or maybe they're now turned off by products produced by sellers, such as Samsung Galaxy's or real estate) then it is up to government to increase that total spending, in a way that causes money to flow through the economy. Normally that's done by lowering interest rates, but they can't possibly go any lower, and now government has to directly spend - take money from the public, spend it.
Economically, the government is just another person, that's really really rich. This person can cause the economy to jumpstart, by influencing the economy's spending habits directly, instead of indirectly through interest rate reduction.
The worst thing you can do in a recession is NOT SPEND. This is why conservatives are fucking clueless at growing an economy, because they like to do the exact opposite of what you need to do.
Additionally, conservatives are horrible at influencing others to spend money. When was the last time a conservative made you WANT to buy something? Liberals do it all the time - and they magically produce value out of nothing. Entertainment, fashion, higher-education, and the arts are industries that actually cause people to WANT to spend money, and produce value from nothing, because liberals have the power to produce value intellectually that conservatives do not.
Conservatives can never produce value intellectually - they're conservatives after all, and are incapable of pushing the state-of-the-art in intellectual fields. They're always stuck with industries that are based on NEED, such as real-estate, energy, etc, and can only produce value from physical resources.
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What bothers me is that he only paid $13k taxes in a year for the recent past years. I bet if you go back further, he paid no taxes.
Furthermore, I bet his secretary pays more taxes than he has paid.
Actually, I have been listening to what Romney is saying, and he isn't saying much. He will cut the rates across the board 20%, and he will make it revenue neutral by closing some mythical loopholes.
The problem with what he is saying is that cutting the base rate = $5T over 10 years. Even eliminating the mortgage deduction, the employer's tax credit for providing health care, it barely begins to scratch that loss of revenue. Hell, cutting all foreign aid, including to Israel is barely noticeable. (Foreign aid is ~ $23B a year, over 1/3 goes to Egypt and Israel) http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/politics/us-foreign-aid.htm
The fact is taxes have to go up for the middle class if he is going to be revenue neutral. So, either he is lying about being revenue neutral, or lying about not raising taxes on the middle class. Can't have it both ways.
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Everything out of Romneys lips are dreams, not based on facts or on reality. Read the past weeks Doonsbury comics to show you what you are dealing with.
Why do vehicles have to remain on gasoline when there is ample natural gas or other ways to power cars? If we adopt new technologies, such as doing away with the mechanical transmission, to replace it using electric motors on the drive shafts, powered by a generator that receives its power from a gas motor. This exchange of transmission, differential and gearing etc., for electric motors on the axles, may be an efficiency improvement and a cost effective improvement at that. Going with public transportation is another way to gain efficiencies.
In many urban areas, people are moving into the city to Condos, in order to get away from the urban scrawl. Working from home makes for more efficiency.
(total # licensed car miles driven)/(total number of gallons of fuel sold)
With UEFI, we read that every external software must be certified.
This approach harms the small entrepreneur.
Do you see more and more software being delivered as source, with installation being a compile and move to target locations?
This site you link to is mostly gibberish. Linus is more concise and a much better writer.
This author views it as a logical fallacy for Linus to say that C++ is terrible because terrible programmers use it. I think to call that a "logical fallacy" misses the point - the point that in practice, it's actually true.
The idea that criticism of common practice in the C++ community comes from ignorance is also kind of amusing. I'm no stranger to C++ personally, there are things that are great about it. I dig that templates can generate good machine code while still allowing generics at the source code level (much better performance than doing generics with function pointers and void*, like libc's qsort for example). I think RAII is great and it's interesting that the technique replicates some of the practices I already do in my C code, but with less room for programmer error. That's all good. I'm a fan of some of what C++11 brings to the table, lambdas are nice, it's good to have the whole "move semantics" to fix those annoying issues with copy constructors getting called more than they ought to.
At the same time in my career I haven't worked with any programmers who understand these points and what they mean. I mean, I know that the "good" C++ programmers are somewhere, I see them occasionally make intelligent points on forums or hear them give talks about C++11. But I never seem to work with these people. Instead what I get are either (1) people writing C++ with a Java accent, or (2) people writing C++ with a C accent. In both cases they tend to do this poorly. The results are pretty crap to work with.
Yes there is bad C code out there, like there is bad code in every language. The mplayer example is fair. But I don't think that's as fundamental to the language as inefficient use of STL is. How many times have you seen a programmer introduce tons of heap allocations or copies without realizing it, due to un-careful use of STL? That's a problem that C has a lot less of. Sticking to a simple language to avoid those issues doesn't seem that unreasonable to me, especially in a development model where people contribute from all over, and being able to quickly audit for bad practices is important.
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I have been programming C for 25 years. I can program in C++, but find that its use normally changes the design of a program from functional execution to event driven execution. C allows event driven too. But my own experience is that C++ is great for gui interfaces, but is not that great for normal business processing or even for driver code.
What are you talking about? I lived on $10/hr for a few years. This is how I did it:
1: Shared a house with 4 other folks. Each one of us occupied a room we used as a bedroom.
2: Used public transit.
3: Prepared my own meals (in bulk, and froze the excess), took lunch to work and employed the fridge and microwave there.
4: Did laundry bi-weekly to save on costs.
5: Never "went out" on the town, or bought luxuries, ever...
6: Said "NO" to the fairer sex.
Things have changed now, [for the better], gladly. In fact, you wouldn't recognize me now. But please do not tell me one can't survive on minimum wage.
Try doing it with two kids, for 20 years.
You do know that Apple recently opened up manufacturing in Brazil, right?
Apple only opened the Brazil plants because Brazil wouldn't let them sell iPhones in Brazil unless they did. Don't act like they did it out of the good of their hearts. If that law didn't exist they'd shut down the Brazilian plant faster than you can say "Saint Steve Jobs" and move it back to China.
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I am let to believe that all Latin American countries are paralleling Brazil's rules. Chile, Argentina,Equador, etc. want 50% of the labor for a resell product to be done in their own country. Its time for the USA to do the same, and think then, about the jobs returning and the unemployment reduction. -- until robots take over
In the USA, and Canada, 15/hr is 450/week before taxes. Assume 400/week net, then add insurance, telephone, transportation, food, internet and children (1). I believe you will run a deficit. If however you are married, and your spouse adds her $15/hr, then you can live comfortably.
When I clicked the tab, it did not indicate that I was not at the root level. How do you get to the root level anyway?
Every time I read about a new species of dinosaur I keep this documentary in mind:
A Third of Dinosaur Species Never Existed?
Many dinosaurs may be facing a new kind of extinction—a controversial theory suggests as many as a third of all known dinosaur species never existed in the first place.
That's because young dinosaurs didn't look like Mini-Me versions of their parents, according to new analyses by paleontologists Mark Goodwin, University of California, Berkeley, and Jack Horner, of Montana State University.
The documentary makes a compelling case that juvenile examples of various species have been misidentified as a separate species of dinosaur.
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Did you ever consider that with global warming, with the seas rising, that we are facing another meltdown (or boilup), similar in consequences to the ice age?
can't believe you pay what, $3.60 per gallon. jesus we had such prices 20 years ago. Calculating from litres to gallons,and from USD to EUR, they charge $8.64 a gallon here, in germany. everyone excluding me stop complaining;)
In Montreal, Canada, the price was $1.51 a litre. 3.8 litres to a US gallon. $5.74 per US gallon. Whats the problem USA?