How about we not create so much unnecessary jargon in the first place? Is it really necessary to say "Mr.Smith, you have a serious condition called 'pneumothorax'", followed by an explanation when you could simply say "Mr.Smith, your lung has collapsed."? If there already is a simple descriptive term that adequately expresses what you wish to say, stop inventing argot just so you can look smart. Yes, people tend to think you are smart when you speak of things they don't understand. When you take advantage of that, you're just being a pompous jerk.
When I interviewed at Microsoft, I spent most of the time in windowless cubicles. How come I didn't get to see this great waterfront villa? On the other hand, I got the job. Of these contestants, all but one will get nothing but a view of the waterfront. Maybe I got the better deal after all...
And in the mean time, Linux still offers no way to draw smooth animations by synchronizing them to vblank. Xsync was supposed to solve that problem 30 years ago, and yet, it still hasn't.
What will they name releases when they run out of cats? I mean, "10.10 Housecat" just doesn't sound like a product people would be enthusiastic about...
People are not being driven away, they are just being discouraged from posting comments. Considering their current quality, I'd say that's a good thing.
It's kind of hard to miss a flood when you live in your parents' basement. It gets damp and the sump pump wakes you up at night. But temperature? I'd have to actually go outside to know what it is. Otherwise, all I have to go on is my belief in global warming.
I don't know about them, but I wouldn't touch any health care related project with a ten foot pole. In this country, it is a sure road to lawsuits and financial ruin. If you're lucky, you might first make just enough money to pay the lawyers.
In the spirit of Independence Day, there's an article on WSJ about what life was like in 1776, in case you want to see just how much has changed since Jefferson's times and why we no longer have Jeffersons.
So can somebody here tell us just how much it costs to lay a 100ft run of underground power wire? I've seen internet cables laid around here, and they do it by digging a hole every 100ft or so, using a horizontal drill to connect them, and then pull the wire through. This way the wire can go under any surface pavement and the amount of digging involved is very small. I have a really hard time believing that this costs more than wires on poles, even without considering the different maintenance requirements.
Yes, especially when the government (AKA "we the people") wants you to stop freeloading on the health insurance system we're paying for.
If that's what you wanted, you've picked a bad way of accomplishing it. In 2009, the average individual health insurance plan cost $4824/year (sorry, I can't seem to find more recent figures). If we guess that the premiums will increase by the same amount in the following eight years as the ones before, we are looking at doubling that to $9000. The penalty for not having insurance is $695/year or 2.5% of income, whichever is greater. With a $9000 premium, you break even when you earn $300000/year. If you are making minimum wage, $8000 is a humongous chunk of disposable income to waste on health insurance, so you most likely wouldn't have bought it before either. Since you can buy and sell insurance at any time, there is no benefit whatsoever to having it when you are healthy.
In fact, getting rid of your insurance now makes a lot of financial sense. Most serious diseases do not strike suddenly. Cancer takes years to grow. Heart attacks may be sudden, but you usually know when you're succeptible. Although anybody can get a heart attack, most of them happen after 65, at which point you are on Medicare anyway. Theoretically, you might even be able to apply for insurance while having a heart attack, and then dump it a few months later.
As a right-winger myself, I'll tell you that I find this particularly amusing because it is all done by raising the taxes on the poor. Now all those welfare freeloaders finally have to pay more taxes. If you're making minimum wage at $15000/year, you would have previously paid 10% after deductions, or something like $600 in federal income tax. With the mandate penalty (which you'll pay, because minimum wage jobs are not the ones providing health insurance), you'll pay more than twice that. Of course, this minimum wage worker might have been paying even less, due to earned income credit, food stamps, or whatever. The mandate penalty may thus increase the tax rate on the poor manyfold.
Example: The newest motherboards don't need the ability to disable trusted boot. Heck, it'd have been easier to not include it! Worse, we have no real power other than social pressure.
You have the power to not purchase locked down motherboards. And while it is true that most motherboards are made for mass-market packagers like Dell, the margins on those are not nearly as good as the high end motherboards from companies like Asus and Gigabyte. You can be sure that both of them are paying attention to what the hobbyists want and would not disable TPM modification capabilities. If they do, only their low-end stuff will sell and they would have to make a lot of volume to make up for smaller margins.
Before you start flaming about DRM and TPM taking over your computer and all, please remember that all TPM chips currently available allow you to install your own keys. This hardware root of trust allows you to verify that your Linux installation has not been tampered with. It also is a good place to store hard disk encryption keys, because the TPM chip makes it extremely difficult to do brute force attacks on your password. I simply can not imagine why anybody would intentionally buy a modern computer without these wonderful capabilities.
Unless you are one of those people who thinks that converts are not really "Jews"
If I remember correctly, God made his covenant with Abraham and his descendants. If you did not descend from Abraham you can not be a Jew; God's covenant was not made for you. This does not stop you from believing in the Jewish God or following Jewish practices, of course, but I don't think that's enough to get you to the Kingdom of Heaven. Any Jews want to confirm or deny this?
My family has been in North American for over 300 years, and it would be astonishing if I didn't have some African, Jewish and Native American ancestors.
Not at all astonishing. Until 1967 miscegenation was a crime in most states, and interracial offspring were highly uncommon, so most white people now living in the US are unlikely to have black ancestry. In addition to those laws, interracial relationships were very much frowned upon until the sixties, so there were social barriers as well as legal ones.
Jews do not generally marry non-jews. The Bible discourages the practice (I don't remember if it's actually God's law in there somewhere). And as for the native americans, they didn't marry whites much either. Kinda hard to love people who work hard at exterminating you. So as you can see, racial purity really does have something going for it. You can, of course, question whether it has any relevance on what a particular person's abilities or character would be, but I would generally expect to find strong racial affiliation in the majority of the population.
As an example of the lack of genetic distinction between "races": both Irish and Eastern European immigrants to Canada were once considered racially distinct from Anglo-Scottish immigrants. They were literally considered "not white" (which you allude to.)
This is irrelevant. In every subpopulation like this there would be a unique set of genetic markers. A genetic analysis would statistically assign each individual to a set of races, with each membership quantitatively defined. This mapping will be a fact of nature. The only arbitrary judgement that will be left for society to make is how much % anglo-saxon you have to be to be called "white". For science, such questions are uninteresting.
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How about we not create so much unnecessary jargon in the first place? Is it really necessary to say "Mr.Smith, you have a serious condition called 'pneumothorax'", followed by an explanation when you could simply say "Mr.Smith, your lung has collapsed."? If there already is a simple descriptive term that adequately expresses what you wish to say, stop inventing argot just so you can look smart. Yes, people tend to think you are smart when you speak of things they don't understand. When you take advantage of that, you're just being a pompous jerk.
And this is a funny point request attached to a response to a comment on a post about a review of a review of a review.
- Jack
Patent holders win.
Consumers lose.
Where's profit?
When I interviewed at Microsoft, I spent most of the time in windowless cubicles. How come I didn't get to see this great waterfront villa? On the other hand, I got the job. Of these contestants, all but one will get nothing but a view of the waterfront. Maybe I got the better deal after all...
I guess we can't sequence any women then...
And in the mean time, Linux still offers no way to draw smooth animations by synchronizing them to vblank. Xsync was supposed to solve that problem 30 years ago, and yet, it still hasn't.
What will they name releases when they run out of cats? I mean, "10.10 Housecat" just doesn't sound like a product people would be enthusiastic about...
People are not being driven away, they are just being discouraged from posting comments. Considering their current quality, I'd say that's a good thing.
It's kind of hard to miss a flood when you live in your parents' basement. It gets damp and the sump pump wakes you up at night. But temperature? I'd have to actually go outside to know what it is. Otherwise, all I have to go on is my belief in global warming.
For some reason, this constant could only be seen by big endian users... Little endian users received "access denied" instead.
Build a Pius! Because you are geeeat!
I don't know about them, but I wouldn't touch any health care related project with a ten foot pole. In this country, it is a sure road to lawsuits and financial ruin. If you're lucky, you might first make just enough money to pay the lawyers.
In the spirit of Independence Day, there's an article on WSJ about what life was like in 1776, in case you want to see just how much has changed since Jefferson's times and why we no longer have Jeffersons.
So can somebody here tell us just how much it costs to lay a 100ft run of underground power wire? I've seen internet cables laid around here, and they do it by digging a hole every 100ft or so, using a horizontal drill to connect them, and then pull the wire through. This way the wire can go under any surface pavement and the amount of digging involved is very small. I have a really hard time believing that this costs more than wires on poles, even without considering the different maintenance requirements.
Install DD-WRT. Many Cisco routers are supported.
I think most Slashdotters would oppose this opinion. Most of us know that HOTS is a very desirable way to get educated.
If that's what you wanted, you've picked a bad way of accomplishing it. In 2009, the average individual health insurance plan cost $4824/year (sorry, I can't seem to find more recent figures). If we guess that the premiums will increase by the same amount in the following eight years as the ones before, we are looking at doubling that to $9000. The penalty for not having insurance is $695/year or 2.5% of income, whichever is greater. With a $9000 premium, you break even when you earn $300000/year. If you are making minimum wage, $8000 is a humongous chunk of disposable income to waste on health insurance, so you most likely wouldn't have bought it before either. Since you can buy and sell insurance at any time, there is no benefit whatsoever to having it when you are healthy.
In fact, getting rid of your insurance now makes a lot of financial sense. Most serious diseases do not strike suddenly. Cancer takes years to grow. Heart attacks may be sudden, but you usually know when you're succeptible. Although anybody can get a heart attack, most of them happen after 65, at which point you are on Medicare anyway. Theoretically, you might even be able to apply for insurance while having a heart attack, and then dump it a few months later.
As a right-winger myself, I'll tell you that I find this particularly amusing because it is all done by raising the taxes on the poor. Now all those welfare freeloaders finally have to pay more taxes. If you're making minimum wage at $15000/year, you would have previously paid 10% after deductions, or something like $600 in federal income tax. With the mandate penalty (which you'll pay, because minimum wage jobs are not the ones providing health insurance), you'll pay more than twice that. Of course, this minimum wage worker might have been paying even less, due to earned income credit, food stamps, or whatever. The mandate penalty may thus increase the tax rate on the poor manyfold.
Only if he agrees not to play Mafia Wars.
You have the power to not purchase locked down motherboards. And while it is true that most motherboards are made for mass-market packagers like Dell, the margins on those are not nearly as good as the high end motherboards from companies like Asus and Gigabyte. You can be sure that both of them are paying attention to what the hobbyists want and would not disable TPM modification capabilities. If they do, only their low-end stuff will sell and they would have to make a lot of volume to make up for smaller margins.
Before you start flaming about DRM and TPM taking over your computer and all, please remember that all TPM chips currently available allow you to install your own keys. This hardware root of trust allows you to verify that your Linux installation has not been tampered with. It also is a good place to store hard disk encryption keys, because the TPM chip makes it extremely difficult to do brute force attacks on your password. I simply can not imagine why anybody would intentionally buy a modern computer without these wonderful capabilities.
That's all true of the PCI-E slots you already have on your motherboard. Do you hot glue those too?
If I remember correctly, God made his covenant with Abraham and his descendants. If you did not descend from Abraham you can not be a Jew; God's covenant was not made for you. This does not stop you from believing in the Jewish God or following Jewish practices, of course, but I don't think that's enough to get you to the Kingdom of Heaven. Any Jews want to confirm or deny this?
Not at all astonishing. Until 1967 miscegenation was a crime in most states, and interracial offspring were highly uncommon, so most white people now living in the US are unlikely to have black ancestry. In addition to those laws, interracial relationships were very much frowned upon until the sixties, so there were social barriers as well as legal ones.
Jews do not generally marry non-jews. The Bible discourages the practice (I don't remember if it's actually God's law in there somewhere). And as for the native americans, they didn't marry whites much either. Kinda hard to love people who work hard at exterminating you. So as you can see, racial purity really does have something going for it. You can, of course, question whether it has any relevance on what a particular person's abilities or character would be, but I would generally expect to find strong racial affiliation in the majority of the population.
This is irrelevant. In every subpopulation like this there would be a unique set of genetic markers. A genetic analysis would statistically assign each individual to a set of races, with each membership quantitatively defined. This mapping will be a fact of nature. The only arbitrary judgement that will be left for society to make is how much % anglo-saxon you have to be to be called "white". For science, such questions are uninteresting.
Now we know whom not to vote for in the next election. Such mismanagement never happens in my games...
Wow! Emacs now has more features than BSD!