"You apparently don't realize that the wealthiest 1% of income earners pay a larger share of Federal revenues today than the same group did in the 50s."
Lol... thats really really a sad fact. Income distribution is a lot worse than it was in the 50s which is why that is possible.
I actually say that IT types use this as an opportunity. I think we have the tech to completely replace a co-pilot with AI. After that has been in place for a while and working well we could replace the pilot too. Really, flying a plane isn't terribly complicated, I hear landing requires skill but not smarts. And AI has unlimited skill. Emergency decisions could be controlled from the ground.
You'd gain valuable cockpit space for first FIRST class seats that get wall to wall windows which would help for costs. And we could market it to the paranoid government officials with the line: Hijack this, bitch.
"There's a reason why you're urged to keep up with traffic flow even if the traffic flow is going somewhat over the speed limit. It represents a risk to other vehicles to have people that aren't keeping up."
This is the important point. Laws around the world encourage you to flow with traffic. Different sets of rules will result in many deaths. The speed limit is hardly a concern in comparison. If Nevada decided to lower the speed limit to 55 and have the paid speed be 70 it would be bad. Even though the average speed would be lower, the incongruity of speeds would cause accidents.
I knew a crack whore that has since quit. And she misses the money and job freedom more than the crack. Pretty sure she wasn't what you'd call a high class escort. AND that is with it being illegal. If it were legal and crack weren't involved I'm certain she'd be at it until she was 50.
"How many fast-food workers are dependent on the turnout of the day for their salary?" This one was my favourite one. Hookers make tons more in a given week than burger flippers. They are only reliant on money in a given day if they spend all the money they get within hours of hooking.
Small OSS projects. It replaces irc, todo lists, websites, messenger systems....... If you've ever taken part in a small oss project you'll know the spread out mess I'm talking about.
Wave COULD fix that and have everything combined. Integrate a bunch of features that are needed... like something to do difs and small file/code uploads. I'm sure depending on the project you could think of more things. It could do the job very well without much effort on the coder's part.
A donation bar for every studio with the option to put it towards a specific game (i want a starcon sequel!). Then they build a game around the budget that they are given (by extrapolating from the first few weeks' donations).
There are some problems that definitely need to be worked out but it might be a viable option for some groups. Though I must say that it might make starting up even more difficult.
Subtlety doesn't work well over the internet. My apologies. I'll start over.
"Basically your argument amounts to, "I think right-wingers are crazy because I disagree with them." I don't care what you believe or agree with, but you should at least be aware of that."
That's why you would call anyone crazy. If I saw someone talking to an invisible figure. Clearly I disagree with them that someone is there and would call them crazy. Same with invisible men in the sky that tell them what to do and make people write books. Or people thinking that Glenn beck is a good leader and that his 'god is the answer' speech is right. Or people that think 'anchor babies' are a real threat to the american way of life. They are wrong so utterly that I would say that they are crazy. Or mentally deficient in some way.
Immigration is a political issue that pertains to everyone. And there are likely people from either side supporting or opposing it. It covers a range of topics and specific issues. I think more left wing support and right wing against but that doesn't matter much.
'Anchor babies' on the other hand is a fake issue. It is FUD created by the right-wing and spread by people like Fox News. It is a politic issue in the same way the witch problem Salem had in 1690 was a political issue. Or more recently, like the Islamic cultural center a few blocks from ground zero. The Islamic center is tangentially related to terrorist funding, religious freedom and building permits as 'anchor babies' relate to immigration.
But it isn't a REAL political issue that people might/should vote on depending on which politician agrees with them. It is some meaningless bullshit that affects near-nothing to actually nothing at all.
I suppose that is true. I guess I'm thinking about math schools. At the top math school in Canada (Waterloo) I'd estimate that something like 20% or more of the math students have varying degrees of aspbergers / autistic spectrum. And double that figure have social anxiety of some form or another. So I would say that more than 50% of students in a math program in a heavy math/nerd school would have problems with this. It isn't rare or unusual at all. But I see your point.
Also, I guess I take issue to the idea of schools conflating different skills together. Seems pretty stupid. Public speaking and Sequential Calculus are as different as Bio-Chemistry and literature studies. People would raise hell if they were expected to know bio-chem in their shakespeare class. The only reason the same isn't true for presentations is because that's the way it has been.
Because the goal of math class is to teach social skills now? And no, your class will cause aspbergers students to fail, not learn. I imagine they will be aiming for jobs where they do not have to speak in front of a group of 20-300 people.
Funny that you think you have some waterproof system for catching cheaters. All that you know is that some people ARE cheating and that you can catch some people. You have no idea the number of people cheating and no idea what % of those you are catching. On top of that there could be false positives. Truthiness and trust is what you are going on and I can guarantee that students in your class are cheating and getting away with it. GUARANTEE.
Funny that you'd mention that teaching style on/.. Not only does it force students to come to class, effectively marking attendance which irritates many/most of us. But in front of class on the fly answers would FAIL a large number of us regardless of math ability. And to top it off, the other thing you mark is homework? Which is hilariously easy to cheat on and therefore no indicator of intellect or understand, it only harms those that are honest and won't cheat/work together.
Your system effectively destroys the average/.er even though many of them may be a LOT better at math than the average. Oh goody.
I didn't say it was the ONLY way to find stupid people. Goodness no. There are tons of stupid people out there, dems and rep.
As for the people that voted for MR.Greene I can only assume they got trapped in a 'dont blame me, I voted for kodos' type situation, but no I'm not familiar with it. That or as you said, they are stupid.
Thats stupid... 35% of americans support the teaparty, the vast majority of whom support glenn beck. What chunk of people do you think support the discover channel crazy fuck?
This isn't even partisan. Glenn Beck is just stupid and the people that think he makes a good leader are equally stupid.
(if you do find people that support the DISC guy then they are worse than stupid but I doubt you will find them in very big numbers)
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Non-Christians have a centralized leader? And meet on a rigid schedule for instruction? And so on...
The premise was 'group a has been brainwashed by people to believe this...'
Then you come in 'hey! I'm from group a and thats not true.'
It does seem sort of silly. Not that I think you are put in a very fair position.
Lol... how would the drama over extra-marital affairs work if marriage didn't exist?
Also, if there were groupings of adults more like clans than nuclear families one missing parent would be LESS of an issue. Seriously.
"You apparently don't realize that the wealthiest 1% of income earners pay a larger share of Federal revenues today than the same group did in the 50s."
Lol... thats really really a sad fact. Income distribution is a lot worse than it was in the 50s which is why that is possible.
I actually say that IT types use this as an opportunity. I think we have the tech to completely replace a co-pilot with AI. After that has been in place for a while and working well we could replace the pilot too. Really, flying a plane isn't terribly complicated, I hear landing requires skill but not smarts. And AI has unlimited skill. Emergency decisions could be controlled from the ground.
You'd gain valuable cockpit space for first FIRST class seats that get wall to wall windows which would help for costs. And we could market it to the paranoid government officials with the line: Hijack this, bitch.
Bravo~
My old alarm clock PC doubles as a web server.
By keeping it at home you are one failure from losing it all.
"There's a reason why you're urged to keep up with traffic flow even if the traffic flow is going somewhat over the speed limit. It represents a risk to other vehicles to have people that aren't keeping up."
This is the important point. Laws around the world encourage you to flow with traffic. Different sets of rules will result in many deaths. The speed limit is hardly a concern in comparison. If Nevada decided to lower the speed limit to 55 and have the paid speed be 70 it would be bad. Even though the average speed would be lower, the incongruity of speeds would cause accidents.
Looking at other control rooms is helpful. This is what BP's crisis center may or may not look like: http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/100722/GAL-10Jul22-5223/media/PHO-10Jul22-239820.jpg
I knew a crack whore that has since quit. And she misses the money and job freedom more than the crack. Pretty sure she wasn't what you'd call a high class escort. AND that is with it being illegal. If it were legal and crack weren't involved I'm certain she'd be at it until she was 50.
"How many fast-food workers are dependent on the turnout of the day for their salary?" This one was my favourite one. Hookers make tons more in a given week than burger flippers. They are only reliant on money in a given day if they spend all the money they get within hours of hooking.
I imagine that the algorithm that is to expire is meaningless looking at present Google's algorithm.
Google 'recursion'.
Small OSS projects. It replaces irc, todo lists, websites, messenger systems....... If you've ever taken part in a small oss project you'll know the spread out mess I'm talking about.
Wave COULD fix that and have everything combined. Integrate a bunch of features that are needed... like something to do difs and small file/code uploads. I'm sure depending on the project you could think of more things. It could do the job very well without much effort on the coder's part.
Troll? Mods have lost it. :/
A donation bar for every studio with the option to put it towards a specific game (i want a starcon sequel!). Then they build a game around the budget that they are given (by extrapolating from the first few weeks' donations).
There are some problems that definitely need to be worked out but it might be a viable option for some groups. Though I must say that it might make starting up even more difficult.
Stronger - Kanye West
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
Cola Bottle Baby - Edwin Birdsong
I'm sure someone can think of a longer chain but that is the most famous one I think.
I'm seriously worried that they'll be taking out the strippers porn and dirty jokes. To open it to a wider audience.
Subtlety doesn't work well over the internet. My apologies. I'll start over.
"Basically your argument amounts to, "I think right-wingers are crazy because I disagree with them." I don't care what you believe or agree with, but you should at least be aware of that."
That's why you would call anyone crazy. If I saw someone talking to an invisible figure. Clearly I disagree with them that someone is there and would call them crazy. Same with invisible men in the sky that tell them what to do and make people write books. Or people thinking that Glenn beck is a good leader and that his 'god is the answer' speech is right. Or people that think 'anchor babies' are a real threat to the american way of life. They are wrong so utterly that I would say that they are crazy. Or mentally deficient in some way.
Immigration is a political issue that pertains to everyone. And there are likely people from either side supporting or opposing it. It covers a range of topics and specific issues. I think more left wing support and right wing against but that doesn't matter much.
'Anchor babies' on the other hand is a fake issue. It is FUD created by the right-wing and spread by people like Fox News. It is a politic issue in the same way the witch problem Salem had in 1690 was a political issue. Or more recently, like the Islamic cultural center a few blocks from ground zero. The Islamic center is tangentially related to terrorist funding, religious freedom and building permits as 'anchor babies' relate to immigration.
But it isn't a REAL political issue that people might/should vote on depending on which politician agrees with them. It is some meaningless bullshit that affects near-nothing to actually nothing at all.
Hope that cleared my position up a bit.
I suppose that is true. I guess I'm thinking about math schools. At the top math school in Canada (Waterloo) I'd estimate that something like 20% or more of the math students have varying degrees of aspbergers / autistic spectrum. And double that figure have social anxiety of some form or another. So I would say that more than 50% of students in a math program in a heavy math/nerd school would have problems with this. It isn't rare or unusual at all. But I see your point.
Also, I guess I take issue to the idea of schools conflating different skills together. Seems pretty stupid. Public speaking and Sequential Calculus are as different as Bio-Chemistry and literature studies. People would raise hell if they were expected to know bio-chem in their shakespeare class. The only reason the same isn't true for presentations is because that's the way it has been.
Because the goal of math class is to teach social skills now? And no, your class will cause aspbergers students to fail, not learn. I imagine they will be aiming for jobs where they do not have to speak in front of a group of 20-300 people.
Funny that you think you have some waterproof system for catching cheaters. All that you know is that some people ARE cheating and that you can catch some people. You have no idea the number of people cheating and no idea what % of those you are catching. On top of that there could be false positives. Truthiness and trust is what you are going on and I can guarantee that students in your class are cheating and getting away with it. GUARANTEE.
Funny that you'd mention that teaching style on /.. Not only does it force students to come to class, effectively marking attendance which irritates many/most of us. But in front of class on the fly answers would FAIL a large number of us regardless of math ability. And to top it off, the other thing you mark is homework? Which is hilariously easy to cheat on and therefore no indicator of intellect or understand, it only harms those that are honest and won't cheat/work together.
/.er even though many of them may be a LOT better at math than the average. Oh goody.
Your system effectively destroys the average
I didn't say it was the ONLY way to find stupid people. Goodness no. There are tons of stupid people out there, dems and rep.
As for the people that voted for MR.Greene I can only assume they got trapped in a 'dont blame me, I voted for kodos' type situation, but no I'm not familiar with it. That or as you said, they are stupid.
Thats stupid... 35% of americans support the teaparty, the vast majority of whom support glenn beck. What chunk of people do you think support the discover channel crazy fuck?
This isn't even partisan. Glenn Beck is just stupid and the people that think he makes a good leader are equally stupid.
(if you do find people that support the DISC guy then they are worse than stupid but I doubt you will find them in very big numbers)