That's a brilliant idea.:) Dave stole one of my Magic cards, so I'll just drop a note in the box that he's planning to go Postal. I'll say he's going to do it on a day when I have a test, as an added bonus.
It doesn't mean anything. Maybe the brits are just nicer people on average than americans. After all, they're not being influenced by evil videogames and television.:)
Maybe they're just all poor and can't afford firearms, especially black market ones...
I'd be more interested in the crime rate before and after a country passed anti-gun laws.
Anyonymous contributions could never happen. Nothing would prevent the contributor from letting the politician know where it's from and that there's plenty more where that came from, if he does whatever...
How about no contributions at all? How would the people be informed about the different candidates? It would be the lobbyists responsibility to support certain candidates and do the 'advertising'. So, the NRA would have a list of approved candidates, the pro-choice folks would have theirs, people could listen to the groups that are important to them.
Also, each citizen casting a single vote is undemocratic. It reduces the race to the two most politcally central candidates, neither one willing to stick their neck out. For each candidate you should be allowed to cast a thumbs up vote or no vote. Maybe even a thumbs up (+1), neutral, or thumbs down (-1), although this may encourage cult candidates who are only known by those who love them, but on the other hand would prevent the extremely unpopular.
With this system, there would be no need for primaries, because parties would not be disadvantaged by supporting several candidates with similar stances.
Oh well, just my $.02. Seems to me, that with the current system, it's unfortunately possible to elect someone who 60% of the population thinks is satisfactory, and the other 40% hate.
What most people don't understand, is that if the people have ready access to weapons, there won't be a need for a revolt. Kind of like how I could use a gun to mug you, but I don't need to shoot you. The threat of force is more powerful than the force itself.
It's when people have been living in a stable country all their lives and don't understand the purpose of the second-amendment (which in my opinion, has been violated out of existence), that the stability is at risk.
I don't believe that gun laws reduce crime, but even if they did, I would still oppose them. I enjoy living in the only free country on Earth (maybe it's not a free country anymore though), and there are plenty of others for people to choose if they don't like it.
The company where I work lets us sleep in our cubicles, so I don't have to spend money on an apartment. I invest the extra money in our company's stock. My manager says the stock value is guaranteed, there's a storage room full of computer hardware for collateral in the basement.
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That rule protects the American workers more than the foreigners. They don't want you hiring Mexicans for $1/hour instead of Americans for $5 (I know you'd have to pay mininum wage, it's just an example).
From the immigrant's POV, it's harder to find a job, but if you do, you get more.
It's only economical to import skilled labor, not cheap labor.
So? It would be much simpler for the state to tax the customer's income. Then you don't have to worry about the international situation, and you have much less accounting and hassle.
ECommerce and B&M Retail operations should be taxed the same, else one would be getting subsidized. Whatever the sales tax rate ends up being, the end result is equivalent: If you make a lot of money, you'll make a lot of purchases. Whether you tax the income or the sales doesn't matter, it's simpler to tax and collect the income.
Some people support a sales tax over equivalent income tax because it discourages consumption, promotes saving. However from an economic standpoint, consumption is good. If everyone saved their money, stuffed it in a mattress for example, the economy would suffer. People wouldn't be able to sell their services because less people would buy them. Fewer goods would be produced.
The sensible way to promote investment would be to lower the capital gains tax, or create a tax subsidy for investing in american business. It doesn't do our economy any good if the tax laws encourage you to invest in foreign countries.
The real reason the tax system is so fucked up is that the government wants to obfuscate the total amount of your income that you pay in taxes. Several 10% taxes seems cheaper than one 30% tax. Every paycheck, the government mugs me and my employer 7.5% for Social Security. Why do they split it up between me and the employer? It doesn't make any difference, I'm actually paying 15%. But the tax looks cheaper if I think of the tax as $7 out of $100 instead of $15 out of $107.
If they were sincere about Social Security, they could force me to put 15% of my income into some sort of IRA. They'll probably bankrupt the program before I retire, it's all a scam.
It sounds like except for the phrase "faster than light", which is vague, (He didn't say faster than the speed of light, just faster than light), he patented sending an electrical signal through a wire. Let's see:
generating opposing magnetic fields... Well when you send current through a wire, you generate a magnetic field going clockwise around the wire. So the magnetic fields on opposite sides of the wire are opposing. Their maximum force is in a circular direction around the wire, which sounds a lot like "perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the respective magnetic field".
Generating heat... Ever wonder how a toaster works? Of course it would generate heat along the wire.
Generating accelerator... if you put a magnetic particle close to the wire, it accelerates, simple. The closer to the heat source, the more powerful the acceleration. Electromagnetic injection point isn't even a word, as far as I know.
generating a communication signal... Yeah, I do this everyday when I use the ethernet.
So, I guess this guy can claim a patent on: A/V equipment, toasters, extension cords, basically anything that uses electricity.
I think I read somewhere that identical twins do NOT have identical DNA. They start out the same, because the zygote splits or something, but there are many minor mutations that occur after it splits, so that their DNA is not the same (even if crime labs can't positively tell them apart yet.)
Identical twins don't have identical fingerprints which, to my knowledge is purely a function of DNA.
You forget what we take for granted now. In the 70's, how would you obtain a billing/financial type of program? your COMPANY would pay people like you many thousands of dollars to write it for them, paying extra to optimize every little thing because hardware was damn expensive too.
I know there are other factors, such as wider customer base - but would I be able to buy something like QuickBooks for $99 if the programmers had to write it in assembler?
I'd rather they write it in something "easier", and pass the savings on to the consumer, so the consumer can spend the extra $$ on hardware. Besides, they can support/port/expand it better if it's written in a modern language.
I wonder if NT would be as buggy or expensive as it is if it were written in a modern language? Sure an OS written in Java is absurd today, but in 5-10 years we'll have more CPU cycles than we know what to do with and then... Why not?
It's the comic relief to me. Interesting that it wasn't mentioned in the article.
It's all tongue in cheek. The models are *supposed* to be exaggerated. The death and pain sounds are *supposed* to resemble an orgasm. You're *supposed* to be rewarded in the game for playing a female (for instance getting married and getting a lot of gold or something).
Why? Because it's funny that's why. The programmers are mostly male. They know that the players are mostly male. You get rewarded for playing a female because you're playing along with them.
And if you're insecure about your masculinity, you can play the beefy male character and say "Well I can kick people's asses in the game, so I must be this strong in real life, right?"
And before I get flamed for making fun of women or degrading women, let me clarify. It's the same kind of humor in Kids in the Hall when the female roles are palyed by men, or SNL. Would the Church Lady be as funny if she was played by a women? It's not as if they didn't have competant actresses.
Remember that a lot of people have real lives and play computer games to unwind and relax, not because they identify with the characters.
Yeah, maybe that's why I only create lesbians in The Sims (and make them wear swimsuits). It gets even more fun when a woman is making out with some other woman - and her girlfriend is watching. Catfight!
They could have a setting where the monitor emulates a certain resolution. So, pixel based measurements in web pages would display *as if* they were on a 640x480 screen or whatever (you pick the resolution)
Also, if I understand correctly, it screws up any sort of wireless data transmission, including radio/tv/cell phone/cordless phone.
Implementing GPS would require a really long cable dangling from the sattelite. Grab onto it, and plug it into your unit. (of course you would have to grab three of them)
But maybe that would be good./.'ers love cheap space travel. How about instead of wasting all that money on environmentally unfriendly rocket fuel, just grab one of those sattelite cables, and start climbing!
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That's a brilliant idea. :) Dave stole one of my Magic cards, so I'll just drop a note in the box that he's planning to go Postal. I'll say he's going to do it on a day when I have a test, as an added bonus.
So Britain is a valid example, while Switzerland is not?
How about Iran? Are firearms legal there? Is the crimerate greater or smaller? What about China?
It doesn't mean anything. Maybe the brits are just nicer people on average than americans. After all, they're not being influenced by evil videogames and television. :)
Maybe they're just all poor and can't afford firearms, especially black market ones...
I'd be more interested in the crime rate before and after a country passed anti-gun laws.
Anyonymous contributions could never happen. Nothing would prevent the contributor from letting the politician know where it's from and that there's plenty more where that came from, if he does whatever...
How about no contributions at all? How would the people be informed about the different candidates? It would be the lobbyists responsibility to support certain candidates and do the 'advertising'. So, the NRA would have a list of approved candidates, the pro-choice folks would have theirs, people could listen to the groups that are important to them.
Also, each citizen casting a single vote is undemocratic. It reduces the race to the two most politcally central candidates, neither one willing to stick their neck out. For each candidate you should be allowed to cast a thumbs up vote or no vote. Maybe even a thumbs up (+1), neutral, or thumbs down (-1), although this may encourage cult candidates who are only known by those who love them, but on the other hand would prevent the extremely unpopular.
With this system, there would be no need for primaries, because parties would not be disadvantaged by supporting several candidates with similar stances.
Oh well, just my $.02. Seems to me, that with the current system, it's unfortunately possible to elect someone who 60% of the population thinks is satisfactory, and the other 40% hate.
What most people don't understand, is that if the people have ready access to weapons, there won't be a need for a revolt. Kind of like how I could use a gun to mug you, but I don't need to shoot you. The threat of force is more powerful than the force itself.
It's when people have been living in a stable country all their lives and don't understand the purpose of the second-amendment (which in my opinion, has been violated out of existence), that the stability is at risk.
I don't believe that gun laws reduce crime, but even if they did, I would still oppose them. I enjoy living in the only free country on Earth (maybe it's not a free country anymore though), and there are plenty of others for people to choose if they don't like it.
How do you know it's not like that right now? Why else would the feds take your whole computer and not just the box when they bust you?
Real Men use real bikes. The kind where you provide the energy. Any dumbass can ride a motorcycle.
sure it's not 5 gal/hr PER engine, which would make is 3mpg? I find it hard to believe that it would be as efficient as 12mpg.
You dumbass, that's exactly why he wasn't talking about 'african americans', he was talking about rappers.
I thought it was funny, so shut the fuck up.
The company where I work lets us sleep in our cubicles, so I don't have to spend money on an apartment. I invest the extra money in our company's stock. My manager says the stock value is guaranteed, there's a storage room full of computer hardware for collateral in the basement.
That rule protects the American workers more than the foreigners. They don't want you hiring Mexicans for $1 /hour instead of Americans for $5 (I know you'd have to pay mininum wage, it's just an example).
From the immigrant's POV, it's harder to find a job, but if you do, you get more.
It's only economical to import skilled labor, not cheap labor.
So? It would be much simpler for the state to tax the customer's income. Then you don't have to worry about the international situation, and you have much less accounting and hassle.
ECommerce and B&M Retail operations should be taxed the same, else one would be getting subsidized. Whatever the sales tax rate ends up being, the end result is equivalent: If you make a lot of money, you'll make a lot of purchases. Whether you tax the income or the sales doesn't matter, it's simpler to tax and collect the income.
Some people support a sales tax over equivalent income tax because it discourages consumption, promotes saving. However from an economic standpoint, consumption is good. If everyone saved their money, stuffed it in a mattress for example, the economy would suffer. People wouldn't be able to sell their services because less people would buy them. Fewer goods would be produced.
The sensible way to promote investment would be to lower the capital gains tax, or create a tax subsidy for investing in american business. It doesn't do our economy any good if the tax laws encourage you to invest in foreign countries.
The real reason the tax system is so fucked up is that the government wants to obfuscate the total amount of your income that you pay in taxes. Several 10% taxes seems cheaper than one 30% tax. Every paycheck, the government mugs me and my employer 7.5% for Social Security. Why do they split it up between me and the employer? It doesn't make any difference, I'm actually paying 15%. But the tax looks cheaper if I think of the tax as $7 out of $100 instead of $15 out of $107.
If they were sincere about Social Security, they could force me to put 15% of my income into some sort of IRA. They'll probably bankrupt the program before I retire, it's all a scam.
It sounds like except for the phrase "faster than light", which is vague, (He didn't say faster than the speed of light, just faster than light), he patented sending an electrical signal through a wire. Let's see:
generating opposing magnetic fields... Well when you send current through a wire, you generate a magnetic field going clockwise around the wire. So the magnetic fields on opposite sides of the wire are opposing. Their maximum force is in a circular direction around the wire, which sounds a lot like "perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the respective magnetic field".
Generating heat... Ever wonder how a toaster works? Of course it would generate heat along the wire.
Generating accelerator... if you put a magnetic particle close to the wire, it accelerates, simple. The closer to the heat source, the more powerful the acceleration. Electromagnetic injection point isn't even a word, as far as I know.
generating a communication signal... Yeah, I do this everyday when I use the ethernet.
So, I guess this guy can claim a patent on:
A/V equipment, toasters, extension cords, basically anything that uses electricity.
I think I read somewhere that identical twins do NOT have identical DNA. They start out the same, because the zygote splits or something, but there are many minor mutations that occur after it splits, so that their DNA is not the same (even if crime labs can't positively tell them apart yet.)
Identical twins don't have identical fingerprints which, to my knowledge is purely a function of DNA.
Correct me if I'm wrong, folks.
You forget what we take for granted now. In the 70's, how would you obtain a billing/financial type of program? your COMPANY would pay people like you many thousands of dollars to write it for them, paying extra to optimize every little thing because hardware was damn expensive too.
I know there are other factors, such as wider customer base - but would I be able to buy something like QuickBooks for $99 if the programmers had to write it in assembler?
I'd rather they write it in something "easier", and pass the savings on to the consumer, so the consumer can spend the extra $$ on hardware. Besides, they can support/port/expand it better if it's written in a modern language.
I wonder if NT would be as buggy or expensive as it is if it were written in a modern language? Sure an OS written in Java is absurd today, but in 5-10 years we'll have more CPU cycles than we know what to do with and then... Why not?
But instead of storing "next" and "prev" pointers, it only used one value - the XOR of prev and next!
Thanks! My professors always complain that my code is too human readable. That should shut them up.
No really, that's a neat trick.
It's the comic relief to me. Interesting that it wasn't mentioned in the article.
It's all tongue in cheek. The models are *supposed* to be exaggerated. The death and pain sounds are *supposed* to resemble an orgasm. You're *supposed* to be rewarded in the game for playing a female (for instance getting married and getting a lot of gold or something).
Why? Because it's funny that's why. The programmers are mostly male. They know that the players are mostly male. You get rewarded for playing a female because you're playing along with them.
And if you're insecure about your masculinity, you can play the beefy male character and say "Well I can kick people's asses in the game, so I must be this strong in real life, right?"
And before I get flamed for making fun of women or degrading women, let me clarify. It's the same kind of humor in Kids in the Hall when the female roles are palyed by men, or SNL. Would the Church Lady be as funny if she was played by a women? It's not as if they didn't have competant actresses.
Remember that a lot of people have real lives and play computer games to unwind and relax, not because they identify with the characters.
Yeah, maybe that's why I only create lesbians in The Sims (and make them wear swimsuits). It gets even more fun when a woman is making out with some other woman - and her girlfriend is watching. Catfight!
Hehe, sucking someone's ass is the as "tossing their salad" Doesn't anyone listen to Chris Rock?
I'd buy it, but he says it's for induhviduals.
Doesn't anybody actually read Dilbert here?
They'll probably improve that though. The first Color LCDs were hard to see from an angle too.
Defragging!
They could have a setting where the monitor emulates a certain resolution. So, pixel based measurements in web pages would display *as if* they were on a 640x480 screen or whatever (you pick the resolution)
Also, if I understand correctly, it screws up any sort of wireless data transmission, including radio/tv/cell phone/cordless phone.
/.'ers love cheap space travel. How about instead of wasting all that money on environmentally unfriendly rocket fuel, just grab one of those sattelite cables, and start climbing!
Implementing GPS would require a really long cable dangling from the sattelite. Grab onto it, and plug it into your unit. (of course you would have to grab three of them)
But maybe that would be good.
Not to mention, it's probably less efficient.