Bullcrap reply!

That sort of extemeist rhetoric is precisely the problem, and why both parties deserve to lose their mandate. The Republican and Democrat parties are not intrinsic to the United States, and they only hold power because voters vote for them. They need to be reminded of that.

Both parties deserve to lose their mandate. I do not feel I have representation with either party, and I am sick of "vote for the choice you hate the least." > voting for the lesser evil implies the lesser evil has my approval, or a legitimate mandate. If Democracy requires we vote for one of two failed parties, then the Democracy experiment has failed. Punish both parties at the polls and end the undemocratic unpatriotic self-fulfilling prophecy. Vote No Labels or Forward.

Yeah, the Romans tried concrete buildings and it didn't work out at all. They eventually just gave up on concrete because their buildings wouldn't last.

If only modern builders would learn, SMH.

Not to mention the fox can declare the hens come out to be eaten, and HR Block / Turbo Tax will bring the hen out for the slaughter. It's called the IRS can audit anyone, anytime, and tax preparers aren't stopping that. The idea tax preparers somehow protect the hen is just ridiculous.

Sure they can make it easier. They just ring up the number they say you owe, and you pay it. You know, the one that if you don't pay you get audited for anyway.

The IRS has the magical power to have you thrown in prison for the rest of your life if you don't pay up. HR Block and keeping the IRS from having direct bank account access will protect you about as much as declaring yourself a sovereign citizen. But if it makes you feel secure, believe whatever you want about the HR Block Sure Filing DELUX service you forked over for (or whatever it's called).

It's paid for with taxes, of course. Just like the rest of the government. The difference is it cuts out the wealthy CEOs from profiting off me paying my taxes. Given I prefer to profit off my own hard work, I'd rather the direct file option.

I disagree with the need for an isolated course on how to use a computer. Just have students use a computer for writing essays, spreadsheets for tracking data, etc. They will learn by doing.

Oh wow yeah good point there Tojo.

Warhawks in Imperial Japan thought this about Americans, too.

I suspect they're not only flubbing the audio on purpose, but peddling articles like this on purpose. The goal is to then sell a product like "AI Audio Xtreme" that fixes the problem they created and popularized.

When measuring distance, we start at 0. When enumerating, we start at 1. One of the more error inducing parts of Numerical Analysis is that often indices start at 1 in mathematics, but 0 in a programming language. But sometimes not, e.g. it's useful to treat the constant term of a polynomial has having degree 0, so the polynomials written in summation notation can start at i=0. But in a vector, it's customary to enumerate the entries and so they start at 1. This is especially confusing when working with, say, sparse-row form of a matrix that involves polynomials and needs to be programmed in.

Personally, I think starting at 0 makes sense when working at a lower level. But for higher level purposes, it makes sense to draw analogy with mathematical vectors and start at 1.

Its phones. Particularly media on phones designed to catch and hold attention. Over time it damages the reticular activating system which impairs attention span in children.

When the brain does something frequently, it becomes a "closed task" the brain can do on "autopilot" so to speak. This can lead to road hypnosis, which is known to cause car accidents.

Likely these people just experienced road hypnosis. Normally people only get a closed task when driving on known or redundant stretches of road. But with GPS, it let it happen on unknown stretches of road (to catastrophic consequences). It's fun to point and laugh, but it isn't stupidity, it's just a quirk of how the human brain works.