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Comment Re:red v blue (Score 1) 285

That's not that case AT ALL. Take a look at California which has a very wealthy population, the rich there lean more to the left. The rich put Obama into office. Also in the South, Republicans tend to provide the people with most of their jobs since Republicans are very heavy on defense spending. Most military bases and recruitment are in the South and with the US spending nearly 3/4 of a trillion dollars each year on defense the South gains the most.

Comment Re:first post (Score 2) 196

Clang will just issue a warning that you are making multiple unsequenced modifications. This is undefined in the C spec and the compiler just increments i sequently printing "I got first post!." Sequence points like this are hard to clarify for all cases which is why the C99 spec leaves it undefined. In C11 a detailed memory model has been created which should define most cases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C_standard_revision)

Confirmed with:
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Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0
Thread model: posix

Comment It's a bottle neck on verification (Score 1) 307

From Forbes investigation the issue is that you cannot browse the plans without entering all of your personal information for verification first. The system then needs to cross check all of the info to calculate your government subsides. This causes a major bottleneck which greatly slows down the system. Most would balk at the prices without the subsides.

Quote from the article: So, by analyzing your income first, if you qualify for heavy subsidies, the website can advertise those subsidies to you instead of just hitting you with Obamacare’s steep premiums. For example, the site could advertise plans that cost “$0 or “$30 instead of explaining that the plan really costs $200, and that you’re getting a subsidy of $200 or $170.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/14/obamacares-website-is-crashing-because-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-health-plans-true-costs/

Comment Re:How safe would this be? (Score 3, Informative) 533

A fast deceleration caused by what?
Like detecting a crack or fault in the tube structure shortly ahead of the current location and it needs to come to an immediate stop.

Most fast-decelerations that planes suffer are imposed at 9.8m/s^2...
Actually almost None do, a plane becomes a glider when it's engines quits and glides to the ground. 9.8 m/s^2 would imply that it descends straight down like a rock with no air resistance. When engines fail planes can glide to a landing and then skid on the ground with the resistance of the ground slowing the plane down during the "slapdown"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Impact_Demonstration

Comment How safe would this be? (Score 1) 533

I know that the original target speed was 4000 mph but even at 800-1000 mph how safe will this be when a fast deceleration occurs. In a plane during a crash it skids, hopefully, in a empty field or ocean and then comes to a stop. In a car there are crumple zones to absorb the impact to slow down the deceleration. It doesn't seem like there would be the enough padding to make it stop reasonably. This idea seems to be great but only if it had it's own separate rail section to handle emergencies. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/09/13/1459026.htm

Comment Re:Be still, my heart! (Score 1) 214

The average number of unanimous decisions is nowhere near 80%. "The marquee decisions of the term — on affirmative action, voting rights and same-sex marriage — will almost certainly be closely divided on the core issues. But the overall percentage of unanimous decisions is unlikely to drop to 40 percent, the average rate for full terms in recent years." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/us/supreme-court-issuing-more-unanimous-rulings.html?_r=0

Comment Re:How is cellular allocation done elsewhere? (Score 3, Interesting) 140

In Europe it's pretty much Vodafone and T-Mobile which also makes the EU a duopoly. There was a recent auction in the Netherlands that turned into an all out bidding war which actually sent the stocks of the telcos there down sharply. The price of the auction is just passed down to consumers through prices increases, reduction of services, or added fees. So while the treasury may lose $12 billion that amount wont be passed on the consumer so it's a wash. It's probably better for everyone to limit AT&T and Verizon and make sure there's more competition.

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