I didn't conveniently leave it out, the picture is old. And I looked for (about 10minutes) something more up to date but that can't be found. And I fully agree that seeing who controlled what house through these periods in time would also be valuable and interesting. So would adding bits of historical timeline, wars and recessions and their causes, to give context. Anyways, I wasn't feeling energetic enough to make my own chart, You can feel free. However I do know that Bush improved greatly when the dems took the house (Aside from the depression fix at the very end).
Anyways that was full bi-partisan and occurred mostly before Obama controlled anything. I do think it will be interesting to see more information as it comes out and I welcome it.
Also I was saying that G.W. Bush was terrible (based on those stats) not Reagan. Reagan however created a type of economic ideology which was probably harmful, though hard to measure. Didn't mean to cherry pick at all.
That time period you mention also happens to be Bill Clinton. With Bush on either side creating all time record deficits. Reagan before that terrible as well (obviously...). Jimmy carter didn't make anything better or worse. Ford sucked. Nixon didn't fuck anything up. Lyndon Johnson broke a bit above even.
He was pointing out the rediculousness and you took it seriously... And Democrats of the last 50~ years are way better with money than Republicans so think of another meme.
Nice ideal, but amongst the average person there is not the will. If there was, why haven't... pretty much all cellphone companies been burned to the ground?
He's worked on open government. And he did seriously everything you could ask of him on the healthcare bill. He's done OK overall at making the change he promised happen. GITMO obviously isn't closed which sucks but he is still working on it at least, originally he got shot down by the senate when he tried to shut it down. Anyways, the options were Obama who has shown some progress in the right direction or McCain who promised to keep things the same or go in the wrong direction. I'm not sure how that would have been better... I know it is a a bit of "I voted for Kodos" moment. But you have a two party system in the States, what do you expect.
Canada too. Bell got all our lines and since the people paid for them they were forced to resell the lines so competition would happen. Recently the gov decided that bell doesn't HAVE to resell.... which is pretty clearly fucking evil and retarded.
I think Fox news getting a ruling saying that they are allowed to lie about whatever they want is kinda shitty. I wouldn't force them to give both sides or anything like that. But if you can demonstrate that a person lied factually on something being able to shut them down would be helpful. Or force a public apology for the error.
Yeah, I wasn't sure what specific technique he was using but since he will be running into fundamental physical limits either way it still stands.
It does sound like lab only uselessness that can't be used for storing data. Not just impractical, but doesn't work as data storage (readable/writeable with some degree of accuracy).
I'm technically 'strong agnostic'. Which is something that approaches atheism since the chances of God existing approach 0. So while I'm technically agnostic i'm infinitely close to atheist.
Morals can be easily explained by social darwinism without any need for God at all.
There are 100 cavemen in two tribes of 50. Tribe 1 is filled with people that are greedy the other with those that share. A harsh winter occurs. Tribe 2 share the one big kill and whatever food they have, they survive through the winter hungry but alive. Tribe 1 kills a mammoth or w/e as well. Instead of bringing it back they eat as much as they can since they shouldn't have to share. Then they go back to the cave, the ones inside feel they have been ripped off, a fight ensues they all die.
Next generation Tribe 2 teaches their kids about the dangers of greed. TADA, morals formed without any need for God. Yay for social darwinism.
(Also, Teaching people other things would be an example of horizontal meme transfer)
"Utimately, it comes down to individuals and their individual choices. I've known very good Chrisitans and very evil ones. I've known very good Atheists and ones who I certainly wouldn't trust my kids with."
I'm thinking that you aren't getting how statistics works. Atheists on average are less likely to rape than the religious. rape along with a whole slew of other things... violent crime, divorce....
"The bottom line is that you need to judge people individually and not collectively"
I was talking about a group. You are just blanket denying the importance or usefulness of statistics in general. Which is frankly quite insane.
There was a case a while ago about an iPhone being used as a medical device. And it was several times cheaper than the comparable tool. But it wasn't allowed because it was a phone/toy and not suited for the purpose.
Personally, I think these big companies are missing an opportunity. Why wouldn't nintendo gimp the wii, stick it in a sturdy box and allow people to use it for one purpose only, then double the price and sell it as a medical tool. Same with cellphone companies that could be producing today's tricorders.
It may be peaking soon though. 6nm is getting close to physical maximums for most techniques due to the casimir effect. Techniques that push chips from 2d into 3d will be the next useful improvement. But after that point we have run out of easy options.
Increasing speed of chips and ram could help relieve that pressure mind you. As programmers can tade off more processing for less drive usage, or count on faster ram and compress everything. This will give us a bit more time. Beyond that we will simply have to get more inventive on how we use computers.
Very very fast internet could become important, if users feel they need access to 10million TB of data personally. That may not be physically feasible on a personal computer. So 'cloud' type services would be important. Having a few duplicates rather than 1million duplicates of any given song is clearly a big improvement. This of course feeding into the idea that when we made the internet we stopped making machines, we just started making components for the one ultimate computer. And when you think of it from that perspective there is tons of room for improvement even if some of the parts are nearing the useful maximums.
He put palin's birthday (which is easily googleable) into yahoo's I forgot my password form. This guy is in no way a hacker/cracker. I bet there are cases of actual hackers getting busted for counts in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of the same, or similar intrusions. And get about the same time.
David Kernell's father isn't exactly a poor working class nobody... Your point still stands but I thought I'd point that out.
The difference is subtle. It means that there isn't a minimum bar that you have to get over before justice evens out. Which would seem to make sense, if you can't hire a good lawyer you are obviously screwed. But that even amongst the very rich, the one with the deeper pockets still wins. Figuring out why that might be the case seems important.
Though in reality it is likely that justice MOSTLY flattens out for the rich vs richer. But rich vs rich corporation is a fresh jump in inequity.
I'm an atheist. We have lower levels of sexual abuse because our morals are reinforced by logic and a sense of regret rather than forgiven and cleansed by God making everything ok.
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I didn't conveniently leave it out, the picture is old. And I looked for (about 10minutes) something more up to date but that can't be found. And I fully agree that seeing who controlled what house through these periods in time would also be valuable and interesting. So would adding bits of historical timeline, wars and recessions and their causes, to give context. Anyways, I wasn't feeling energetic enough to make my own chart, You can feel free. However I do know that Bush improved greatly when the dems took the house (Aside from the depression fix at the very end).
Anyways that was full bi-partisan and occurred mostly before Obama controlled anything. I do think it will be interesting to see more information as it comes out and I welcome it.
Also I was saying that G.W. Bush was terrible (based on those stats) not Reagan. Reagan however created a type of economic ideology which was probably harmful, though hard to measure. Didn't mean to cherry pick at all.
That time period you mention also happens to be Bill Clinton. With Bush on either side creating all time record deficits. Reagan before that terrible as well (obviously...). Jimmy carter didn't make anything better or worse. Ford sucked. Nixon didn't fuck anything up. Lyndon Johnson broke a bit above even.
Dems: 1 great, 1 good, 1 even
GOP: 1 terrible, 3 bad, 1 even.
http://www.thefreespeechzone.net/images/charts/bush_deficit_graphic.gif
Water doesn't get included in the nutritional information.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc.jpg
You allow ?
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He was pointing out the rediculousness and you took it seriously... And Democrats of the last 50~ years are way better with money than Republicans so think of another meme.
One of my PCs has the usb ports on the front of the case upside down. It confuses anyone that tries to use it.
I just pictured the bottom of the printer opening up and dropping dozens of ink cartridges onto the sheet of paper like a WWII bomber.
Nice ideal, but amongst the average person there is not the will. If there was, why haven't ... pretty much all cellphone companies been burned to the ground?
He's worked on open government. And he did seriously everything you could ask of him on the healthcare bill. He's done OK overall at making the change he promised happen. GITMO obviously isn't closed which sucks but he is still working on it at least, originally he got shot down by the senate when he tried to shut it down. Anyways, the options were Obama who has shown some progress in the right direction or McCain who promised to keep things the same or go in the wrong direction. I'm not sure how that would have been better... I know it is a a bit of "I voted for Kodos" moment. But you have a two party system in the States, what do you expect.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
Canada too. Bell got all our lines and since the people paid for them they were forced to resell the lines so competition would happen. Recently the gov decided that bell doesn't HAVE to resell.... which is pretty clearly fucking evil and retarded.
I think Fox news getting a ruling saying that they are allowed to lie about whatever they want is kinda shitty. I wouldn't force them to give both sides or anything like that. But if you can demonstrate that a person lied factually on something being able to shut them down would be helpful. Or force a public apology for the error.
Google?
Let me guess, string theorist? You know, adding more dimensions isn't ALWAYS the answer!
Yeah, I wasn't sure what specific technique he was using but since he will be running into fundamental physical limits either way it still stands.
It does sound like lab only uselessness that can't be used for storing data. Not just impractical, but doesn't work as data storage (readable/writeable with some degree of accuracy).
I'm technically 'strong agnostic'. Which is something that approaches atheism since the chances of God existing approach 0. So while I'm technically agnostic i'm infinitely close to atheist.
But really, I agree with you.
Morals can be easily explained by social darwinism without any need for God at all.
There are 100 cavemen in two tribes of 50. Tribe 1 is filled with people that are greedy the other with those that share. A harsh winter occurs. Tribe 2 share the one big kill and whatever food they have, they survive through the winter hungry but alive. Tribe 1 kills a mammoth or w/e as well. Instead of bringing it back they eat as much as they can since they shouldn't have to share. Then they go back to the cave, the ones inside feel they have been ripped off, a fight ensues they all die.
Next generation Tribe 2 teaches their kids about the dangers of greed. TADA, morals formed without any need for God. Yay for social darwinism.
(Also, Teaching people other things would be an example of horizontal meme transfer)
"Utimately, it comes down to individuals and their individual choices. I've known very good Chrisitans and very evil ones. I've known very good Atheists and ones who I certainly wouldn't trust my kids with."
I'm thinking that you aren't getting how statistics works. Atheists on average are less likely to rape than the religious. rape along with a whole slew of other things... violent crime, divorce....
"The bottom line is that you need to judge people individually and not collectively"
I was talking about a group. You are just blanket denying the importance or usefulness of statistics in general. Which is frankly quite insane.
I've seen 'wiki it' a few times before.... And does Ancestor's tale go into detail about horizontal gene transfer methods? Or just touch on them?
"does he have to turn the Wii back in?"
Why not? It hasn't been allowed yet, that could very well be part of the deal if it goes through.
There was a case a while ago about an iPhone being used as a medical device. And it was several times cheaper than the comparable tool. But it wasn't allowed because it was a phone/toy and not suited for the purpose.
Personally, I think these big companies are missing an opportunity. Why wouldn't nintendo gimp the wii, stick it in a sturdy box and allow people to use it for one purpose only, then double the price and sell it as a medical tool. Same with cellphone companies that could be producing today's tricorders.
This is /. 512GB doesn't come close.
It may be peaking soon though. 6nm is getting close to physical maximums for most techniques due to the casimir effect. Techniques that push chips from 2d into 3d will be the next useful improvement. But after that point we have run out of easy options.
Increasing speed of chips and ram could help relieve that pressure mind you. As programmers can tade off more processing for less drive usage, or count on faster ram and compress everything. This will give us a bit more time. Beyond that we will simply have to get more inventive on how we use computers.
Very very fast internet could become important, if users feel they need access to 10million TB of data personally. That may not be physically feasible on a personal computer. So 'cloud' type services would be important. Having a few duplicates rather than 1million duplicates of any given song is clearly a big improvement. This of course feeding into the idea that when we made the internet we stopped making machines, we just started making components for the one ultimate computer. And when you think of it from that perspective there is tons of room for improvement even if some of the parts are nearing the useful maximums.
He put palin's birthday (which is easily googleable) into yahoo's I forgot my password form. This guy is in no way a hacker/cracker. I bet there are cases of actual hackers getting busted for counts in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of the same, or similar intrusions. And get about the same time.
Hijacking 100's of pcs -> 65k fine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7451268.stm
Cracking one unsecured e-mail address -> 20years.
David Kernell's father isn't exactly a poor working class nobody... Your point still stands but I thought I'd point that out.
The difference is subtle. It means that there isn't a minimum bar that you have to get over before justice evens out. Which would seem to make sense, if you can't hire a good lawyer you are obviously screwed. But that even amongst the very rich, the one with the deeper pockets still wins. Figuring out why that might be the case seems important.
Though in reality it is likely that justice MOSTLY flattens out for the rich vs richer. But rich vs rich corporation is a fresh jump in inequity.
I'm an atheist. We have lower levels of sexual abuse because our morals are reinforced by logic and a sense of regret rather than forgiven and cleansed by God making everything ok.