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Federal safety standards are pitiful compared to insurance company standards....Federal standards mandate airbags, but only for the driver, not the passenger or side airbags they've been putting in. All of that is coming from the insurance industry
Wrong. They've been required for both driver and passenger since 1999.
> The military is NOT the "largest entitlement program in the country." It's not even fucking CLOSE.
Your link refutes your argument. Your link refers to three large entitlement programs with approximately the same size as military spending. These numbers are from your link:
* $715 billion for military spending ("some 20 percent of the budget")
* $708 billion for social security ("another 20 percent of the budget")
* $753 billion for Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP ("together account for 21 percent of the budget")
Your own source states that military spending exceeds social security spending (albeit by just 1%), medicare, medicaid, and CHIP. Only by combining *all* of them can you justify your bizarre "not even fucking CLOSE" claim. It's like saying that Bill Gates was never one of the highest paid employees of Microsoft because there were many other employees whose *combined* salary exceeded his.
In addition, "military spending" above specifically excludes veterans benefits, but if we're talking about entitlements they should clearly be included. Even excluding that, military spending--using your own data--is slightly larger than spending on social security, the largest of entitlement programs.
> Your comment makes me rage. If you were close enough I kick you in the junk
> so hard your grandchildren would still be feeling it...if you were still capable of having them.
I suggest consulting your own sources before getting so angry you consider assault.
Chess and Go are actually EXPTIME-complete, even harder than NP-complete problems and PSPACE-complete problems.
In general, one-player games of bounded length (like Flood-It, or Sudoku) tend to be NP-complete; one-player unbounded games (like sliding-block puzzles, or Sokoban) tend to be PSPACE-complete; two-player bounded-length games (like Hex, or Amazons) also tend to be PSPACE-complete, and two-player unbounded games (like Chess, Checkers, and Go) tend to be EXPTIME-complete.
I can't resist here a plug for my book (with Erik Demaine), Games, Puzzles, and Computation, which discusses all these issues in detail. A theme running throughout the book is the same as the view expressed in this paper: most interesting games and puzzles seem to be as hard as their "natural" complexity class, outlined above.
For commercial offerings you might look into Documentum or FileNet. Both are quite good with maintaining document revision history and I believe both integrate with Explorer.
If we took half the money we spend killing people and instead used it to research space flight, we would be MUCH further along at this point.
If we took half the money we put into entitlement programs and put it into getting better education, we would be much better off. Instead, we shunt money to people who WON'T do anything with their lives but suck on the gov't teat and spit out kids to get MORE money. Then THEIR kids do the same thing. Welfare reform is a joke. People just move to places when the money dries up. And yes, I KNOW people like this.
Think back a little further--the post that makes you so mad isn't talking about 2009. It describes when income tax, medicare, and social security were founded--long before Obama or Bush.
With income tax, when the 16th amendment was passed in 1913, it was sold as a tax on the rich. If you made $100,000 in 1913 you were mighty wealthy:
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/02/05/original-income-tax-form-from-1913/
I presume the post is also talking about Medicare's original passage in 1965. And if you don't understand the profound mission creep social security numbers have endured, then you must be very new to
If only people like you would occasionally shut off your outrage generators--and recognize that not everything is about modern partisanship.
Oh Come On! You will never be elected by being soft on crime! We must INCREASE THE PENALTIES!
Take money out of education, social programs, health care, rehab, and PUNISH THE CRIMINALS!
I've heard of the issue. If you were truly interested you would have gone to Google. Another one is whites born and raised in South Africa wondering if they should check the "African American" box on forms here in the States. Blacks immigrating from Haiti or elsewhere in the Caribbean run into a similar puzzler.
Except Mac OS X kernel is not a microkernel. The following talk given a few years back, even though slightly out of date when it comes to discussing 64 bit support in the kernel, is still relevant
Anyone with a fucking GED should be able to write better than this. Editors? What a joke. If I could go one week without seeing shit like this, I would consider paying for a subscription.
Why would a lack of typos suddenly be the feature that makes you plunk down the cash?
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
