Comment Re:Government fails again (Score 1) 267
Not this crap again. Pre-funding benefits only accounted for about 1/3 of the Post Office's losses last year.
Not this crap again. Pre-funding benefits only accounted for about 1/3 of the Post Office's losses last year.
But very simply, why doesn't NASA ditch the rest and just stick with SpaceX instead of throwing money down the drain?
Because Congress says they must build the Pork Launcher.
Toyota had a long history of producing reliable and relatively cheap to run vehicles, which was a good enough reason for many people to buy them. GM... doesn't.
Out of interest, what apps are big enough for doubling their size to matter, yet most of their storage usage isn't data of some kind that can be shared between both versions?
Games, for example, might be a few megabytes of code with tens or hundreds of megabytes of game data.
They'll just print it, silly. Taxing and balancing a budget is just so 20th century.
Casual gamers are moving to tablets and phones, while hardcore gamers play PC games. There's not much room left for consoles, particularly when the new generation are just low-end gaming PCs.
But, uh, then they'd lose all that lovely money. What they should have done is changed all the other hydrants to ensure that more people get parking tickets.
Ha-ha-ha. Yes, the old 'you can have any phone so long as it's black Bakelite, and we've got a slot to install it next year' Post Office Telephones was just so, so much better than the BT of today.
That is not specific to socialism, or a reason for socialism to fail.
Of course it is, because in socialism the 'people in power' control everything. Socialism is the control of the means of production by the State, and the State is a gang of hungry troughers who want to steal as much as they can from the productive.
This is why just about every socialist nation on the planet is on the verge of bankruptcy, and the few exceptions are primarily resource-heavy economies raking in the cash from selling crap they dig out of the ground.
I like how they conflate "minimum" and "living". The quoted councilman is doing it for effect, obviously, but it's not the same thing, and it won't be.
It's just standard Leftyism. First you get a 'minimum wage', because, after all, no-one could be against having a mimimum wage for those poor people in low-paid jobs, could they? Where's your compassion? Then, when that's done, they move on to 'living wage', because no-one could be against those poor people in low-paid jobs earning enough to live on, can they? Then, of course, they'll have to set a 'maximum wage', because those EVIL CEOs earn way too much, how could you be opposed to preventing them from earning so much on the back of the low-paid workers? Then, eventually, they'll set the minimum and maximum wages to the same levels because how could you be opposed to eliminating inequality by having everyone paid the same?
It's so tediously predictable to be just plain boring these days.
Yes he was. But the outcome of either system is the same - a small group of elites exerts control over the masses - they just differ on who the small group of elites should be.
Yes, exactly. Socialists whine about 'equality', then when they're in power they steal money from the poor taxpayers to pay for their Zil limos; but that's OK, because they don't actually own the Zil limos, they just use them.
That's the nature of capitalist society, capitalism naturally breeds inequality.
Indeed. As Orwell said, 'all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.'
Oh, hang on. Sorry, he was writing about socialism, wasn't he?
People have nearly always put their damned fingers on the screen when they wanted things to happen.
Since when? I've never seen anyone put their damned fingers on a PC screen and expect it to do something.
A mouse (and especially a touchpad) -- that's a crappy interface device for a civilization that can't manufacture good touch devices and program good touch software.
About the only things a touchsceen is better at than a keyboard and mouse are finger painting, or clicking huge icons in a fast food store. For anything that requires any kind of precision, a touchscreen is an appallingly bad interface.
The price of burgers and lattes will go up.
Nah. With interest rates at roughly 0%, this will just accelerate automation of low-skilled jobs.
They've just promised that some other group of politicians will raise it years from now?
This seems to be the way so many new laws work: they're delayed until after the next election, so today's politicos can take the praise for passing the law, and the new bunch will be the ones in power when the problems become apparent.
If a 6600 used paper tape instead of core memory, it would use up tape at about 30 miles/second. -- Grishman, Assembly Language Programming
