1) Music/movies (we outsell the rest of the World in these combined). 2) Advanced weapons sales 3) Software of any sort 4) Basic research and devt. (not readily marketable AND given for free to the rest of the world. We are the absolute leader in "pure" research investment, though starting to slow down for obvious reasons). 5) Applied research, design, and devt. (sattelites, pharmaceuticals, consumer electronics, you name it) 6) Agriculture (including the GM foods that EU farmers are scared of). 7) Exporting Democracy!
It's not a fallacy, it's a valid way to make a comparison: at least to me a billion does not seem that much more than a million. I have a hard time imagining ten thousand things at once.
I think the Moon stacking example is actually a good one: USD 1M worth will get you to a lower sattelite orbit. Between 10 and 100 M will stick out into space, and 400B is enough to extend to the moon.
Do you think there could be a reason for why Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Intel, AMD are all American companies? Why do you think Linus immigrated to the US of A?
Between the US and the Japan/China eating Europe's lunch, what exactly is there left for the Europeans to do (except bitching about the immigrants and the gready capitalists not giving them free R&D results).
It's not a troll, it's the truth (which makes me sad).
People trying to do us a favor by making us afraid? They are full of shit.
Just consider the Global Warming and population growth scaremongers: They are exacly the reason why the Pentagon is spending 400,000,000,000 US$/year (NOT including the Iraq war). The doctrine clearly states that the uncontrolled pop growth and the Warming will cause lots of wars, hunger, mass unrest and migration, and multiple antropogenic disasters on a geological scale; this is why they claim we need to be spending 400B/year
Do you even realize how much is USD 400B? If you stacked 40,000,000,000,000 pennies on top of eachother, the resulting money column would go all the way to the Moon and then some. And that's what we spend each year because of a few fucks that are trying to scare up for the greater good.
Name the last enemy we've fought against that *didn't* torture [military detainees]
Russia. Cuba. Iran.
Do you recall those British sailors captured and released by Iran about a year ago? They did show their faces on TV (which is illegal) but I don't recall anybody being tortured there either.
[...]world's largest full color e-paper that is A3 size, which is equivalent to a 21.4-inch screen. Why, that's almost large enough to wipe my fat ass!
But of course you go after the masterminds, the leaders, and the competent enablers. For example, we target drug kingpins over your average drug users, our snipers are trained to take out the top brass rather than the lowly conscripts, the FBI and ICE will (or used to) focus on violent gangs rather than the jaywalkers, &c.
I gave up cable to cut costs. Now I'm out many of my shows. Damn! Should have Mirrored. We all feel very sorry that the movie/TV studios are stealing your money that way, I am sure.
To compensate, try cutting the fuel costs by siphoning off the neighbours' gasoline.
While I do not wish to help the Democrat party Senator, it is only fair to point out that slashdotting his switchboard (particularly by those outside his state) is not going to help him.
If you are not his constituent, just send him some money if you really wish to help.
Slashdot Mirror
This is pretty much how it works right now with the Govt paying for NSF, NIH, DARPA, DoA and DoE grants, etc.
Sarcasm about Microsoft trying to follow the law AND benefit their investors? What's sarcastic about a company trying to make money in a legal way?
Would you rather just take away all of their money and R&D, and give it to the "people"?
A few things we still kick ass in:
1) Music/movies (we outsell the rest of the World in these combined).
2) Advanced weapons sales
3) Software of any sort
4) Basic research and devt. (not readily marketable AND given for free to the rest of the world. We are the absolute leader in "pure" research investment, though starting to slow down for obvious reasons).
5) Applied research, design, and devt. (sattelites, pharmaceuticals, consumer electronics, you name it)
6) Agriculture (including the GM foods that EU farmers are scared of).
7) Exporting Democracy!
It's not a fallacy, it's a valid way to make a comparison: at least to me a billion does not seem that much more than a million. I have a hard time imagining ten thousand things at once.
I think the Moon stacking example is actually a good one: USD 1M worth will get you to a lower sattelite orbit. Between 10 and 100 M will stick out into space, and 400B is enough to extend to the moon.
Are you being sarcastic here?
Do you think there could be a reason for why Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Intel, AMD are all American companies?
Why do you think Linus immigrated to the US of A?
Between the US and the Japan/China eating Europe's lunch, what exactly is there left for the Europeans to do (except bitching about the immigrants and the gready capitalists not giving them free R&D results).
It's not a troll, it's the truth (which makes me sad).
People trying to do us a favor by making us afraid? They are full of shit.
Just consider the Global Warming and population growth scaremongers:
They are exacly the reason why the Pentagon is spending 400,000,000,000 US$/year (NOT including the Iraq war). The doctrine clearly states that the uncontrolled pop growth and the Warming will cause lots of wars, hunger, mass unrest and migration, and multiple antropogenic disasters on a geological scale; this is why they claim we need to be spending 400B/year
Do you even realize how much is USD 400B? If you stacked 40,000,000,000,000 pennies on top of eachother, the resulting money column would go all the way to the Moon and then some. And that's what we spend each year because of a few fucks that are trying to scare up for the greater good.
Or maybe no as many people care for the sick twisted obscenity that you download? Just a though...
$2M for a working rocket spaceship
$2B for a half-assed video hosting site Youtube
I am the only one saddened by this?
Well, if we started respecting engineering and science it would discriminate against all those who cannot or do not want to study either of these.
Didn't Hindenburg use a wünderengine?
Knowing a little about the govt IT employees, this "third-party encryption scheme" probably uses ROT13.
And they do it twice for the managers' laptops.
Name the last enemy we've fought against that *didn't* torture [military detainees]
Russia. Cuba. Iran.
Do you recall those British sailors captured and released by Iran about a year ago? They did show their faces on TV (which is illegal) but I don't recall anybody being tortured there either.
Isn't the whole point of having a hash is that it's useless even if stolen? And who uses DES for production server hashes these days, anyways?
That's because you have no clue what net neutrality means.
No, dude, scalping is exactly like stealing music or pirating movies: it's a victimless crime!
Plus it's only illegal if you get caught.
They play for the same reason that people play slot machine games against a computer programmed to make a profit... addiction
And this is wrong how, exactly?
But of course you go after the masterminds, the leaders, and the competent enablers.
For example, we target drug kingpins over your average drug users, our snipers are trained to take out the top brass rather than the lowly conscripts, the FBI and ICE will (or used to) focus on violent gangs rather than the jaywalkers, &c.
To compensate, try cutting the fuel costs by siphoning off the neighbours' gasoline.
sandwich: Peanut butter and jelly -- Machiavelli
spare tire: -- quagmire
hand: job -- lynch mob
While I do not wish to help the Democrat party Senator, it is only fair to point out that slashdotting his switchboard (particularly by those outside his state) is not going to help him.
If you are not his constituent, just send him some money if you really wish to help.
Worked well for Brad Delp: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259154,00.html
Boycot hard drives. They are stealing Giant Magnetoresistance Nobel Prize jobs from Americans.
It was a typo. I mean, Q and N are right next to each-other.
Leahy did release the PR blurb on it, but the full text is kept secret of course (Dems want to get paid too)
Track the bill here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-2168