Comment Re:Price? (Score 4, Funny) 141
The machine costs next to nothing. Now the ink cartridges
The machine costs next to nothing. Now the ink cartridges
Yes. They determined that the IRS denied one application - to a liberal group. Or didn't they tell you that on Fox?
You're from Austin, I'd guess.
Don't worry. They will be attending. And taking names.
nobody said anything about Nazis.
That was probably going from Perl 4 to Perl 5. Going across a major release where many features have changed is going to cause problems with any language. The changes from Python 2.5 to 2.7 are likely to be much less pain.
now that HE might be being spied on he suddenly cares?
Congress has constitutional protection from the executive branch, so spying on them would likely be a major problem, even if spying on the rest of us is "legal". Also, lying to Congress is frowned upon. I think this puts Alexander in a real bind if he has to sign a letter to Congress.
Ho Chi Minh allied with the communists to try to free his country from the French. It has ultimately turned out to be a successful strategy as Vietnam is free and independent. If we had supported our former ally instead of joining the war against him it would likely now be a democracy. Like Iraq, diplomacy would have been a better course than military action, but there are active hawks in the US government then and now.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. DDE
Hillary championed a national healthcare system during Bill's first term and has been hated by the right ever since. The private insurance requirement was the only way to get it passed.
Highways were almost entirely state and local until Eisenhower (R) created the Interstates, ostensibly to support military maneuvers. The cost has been enormous, but well worthwhile for travel and commerce.
Federal contribution to primary education is around 8% of the total (and growing), the rest is local and state. The purpose of the Federal funding is supposedly to bring all education up to minimum standards, but Congress has been known to use any excuse to bring more Federal money to their districts.
The chief benefit of a strong Conservative voice would be in curbing Federal power and spending, but they don't seem to be accomplishing that. Both parties are bent on increasing the Federal role,just in slightly different areas. The media portray them as liberal vs. conservative, but they are really both Centralist. We need a third party with some new ideas.
Please. Playing ignorant(or willfully disdainful) lip service to the constitution as if it's magical is #2 on standard politician processes, after pandering to the individual groups you are talking to today.
Besides, the Constitution is better in the original Klingon.
The problem with predictions like "cordless phone" and "robot cars" is that they are super easy. A lot of people want it, a lot of people dreamed of it, a lot of people ready to pay for it, so there is a high chance that this will happen. The thing you don't know is *when*. Our lives are not run by "cars with brains" in a same way it is run by smart phones, so saying that he predicted correctly both is somewhat of an overstatement.
I'll give you an example of similar prediction: in 50 years all devices will be charged remotely, no need to plug them in. You'll enter your house and the devices you carry with you will start to charge. This is almost bound to happen. When and to what extent -- this is the question that nobody can answer (and the one that really matters.)
Your predictions are absurd. In 50 years you won't be carrying devices, they will be embedded in your body or ubiquitous in your environment. You are looking at short term issues with present day devices.. Asimov had a 10-pound dial telephone and predicted that in 50 years we would be carrying it around and reading documents on it. Which prediction is better?
Most divergent of all, he believed that increasing automatization of labor would spawn not inequality or joblessness, but spiritual malaise.
How is this different from what we have now, I insist and ask ?
The 60s were different in that they were one of the few times when there wasn't increasing inequality/joblesness - people married young and could hold on to a job for 50 years - which is the outlier, not the historical norm. Just look at the 19th century by comparison. For a bit more discussion, see here.
Having lived through that period, there was a general feeling that we could do anything: stop wars, have civil rights, go to the moon, end poverty by sharing as taught in the bible^W the Whole Earth Catalog. It was a dream, but a pretty good one. Even though the war in Iraq was as unjust and pointless as Vietnam, there was a lot less marching and rock-throwing. People seem to not believe that they can change things. I would call that a malaise.
Jumping genes are better known as retroposons. Shame on Science for not explaining this.
Why? Do you think just naming something explains it? Has creating the name schizophrenia explained anything? Has that classification improved life for the mentally ill?
... as we know it. Where there is lots of energy there could be something to make use of it.
1 point of call and 1 place to run things properly
Good argument against separating IT. What happens when they are busy (hint: IT is always busy). Who decides what "properly" means (hint: IT thinks they do).
IT is separate in most organizations because it requires specialized training which they don't want to give to everyone in the company. The reason Engineering groups are always at odds with IT is because they feel they don't need to go to someone else for things they know how to do. In a TV station, why should Engineering run and maintain every piece of equipment EXCEPT computers?
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
