He isn't saying there shouldn't be an EPA or OSHA, he's saying that people had problems then came up with the regulatory solution (ie creating the EPA). WTF are you responding to? I don't even think the GP is a tea partier.

PS I'm a Democrat, not trusting the FED (which is a rational position if you know its history) isn't the same as being a Tea Party member. Its just one issue out of many and one that quiet a few Occupiers would agree with (well the ones that know what the FED is anyway). Now go troll elsewhere.

CMU is much the same way. No legacy admissions and grants and scholarships are entirely need based and not an honor (like say the Rhodes Scholarship is). Keep in mind that this for the CS departments, other schools in the universities are a bit different.

Clearly written by someone who never was at one of these top CS schools. I assure you that rote memorization won't get you a degree at any of them. Most of my tests at CMU were open book and open note and I can count on 1 hand how many times I used my textbook or notes during a test. Why? Because the tests weren't rote memorization tests but instead tested for your ability to synthesize what you learned and apply it to a domain you might not have ever considered. One question on my OS final was to write a device driver for an optical disk, with a pencil and paper (no compiler or debugger) in valid C. Rote memorization won't help you there. Quit being bitter and ignorant about educational experiences you haven't had. Perhaps there is a reason all the CS profs come from MIT, Berkeley and CMU...

PS Berkeley graduates about 4X the CS major as MIT and CMU combined. Not sure the author considered this in their analysis...good engineers are supposed to see this type of omission. Guess CIOs aren't...

This right there is why you didn't get a job with a software firm and ended up in IT instead. It might be a symptom of you not getting into one of these top CS schools in that when you are at such an university, you are surrounded by people who are as smart or smarter than you (perhaps for the first time in your life) and you realize really quickly that first impressions and looks are very likely to fool you when dealing with such people. You learn to look a bit deeper and you learn that a term like "smart" can take on many forms. Some people are better communicators, some are better engineers, some are better at abstract logic and some are more pragmatic folks that always make sound decisions. And how they dress rarely will tell you which someone is. So you learn to filter those factors and look deeper. Something you clearly never learned to do. And putting someone like you in a quality engineering team can be like throwing a wrench into a clock's gears. That's why you ended up where you did and no other reason. I've worked with people in the software field without CS degrees and with degrees from "lesser" schools. Your authoritarian attitude toward others is why you are barred from software firms, thank his noodley goodness.

Its actually worse than that. If you remove CA from the US economy, what do you think the jobs/GDP/other national growth metrics for the rest of the US look like over the last 30 years? Can you say perpetual depression? Removing CA from the US would be disastrous, for the other 49 states. Don't kid yourself about the size of the CA economy, its large and growing, unlike the most of the rest of the US. Oh, and we actually pay off our debts. You really think politicians from other states would want to have to explain those numbers to the voters?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, I hope that was sarcasm...

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Yes it did. The thing that made elevators a success was a safety demonstration at the 1854 worlds fair. The guy who invented the safety break for the elevator Elisha Otis became the biggest maker of elevators (which is why you see the name Otis in many elevators even today). The maker who won was not the guy who first made a elevator, it was the first guy who could prove an elevator was safe.

I work for a startup that makes high-throughput SQL systems which handles millions of events/tuples per second. We tell our clients that they can run our software in the cloud but it only runs about 1/4 as efficiently as hosting your own servers. We are able to pipeline buffers effectively on local hardware, but the virtual abstraction layer destroys our performance. I doubt we are alone in this. So when you pay for a "server" in the cloud, you are really only getting 1/4 the I/O capacity as a local server and since we are talking about servers, their I/O capacity is really what you are buying. In my experience, virtualization is really about lazy sys admins who don't know/want to learn things like PXE and it does mean less time in loud and cold server rooms.

You know every time someone pushes something as hard as the cloud gets pushed, there is something worth knowing that they aren't telling you. In this case, its that the cloud will probably cost you more as you need 4x the number of "cloud servers" to handle the I/O load of your production servers. But hey, at least 'the cloud' sounds really cool.

So make all ISPs utilities then (most of them built their lines on the gov't dime). Oh wait, you don't want that as then you wouldn't be paided to shill for them anymore. Tough shit, get a real job parasite.

A Volt is $35K - tax credit ($7.5K to $9K depending on the state). So the actual cost of buying a Volt is less than the average cost of a new car.

A Volt does this now. Quit making excuses...

Riiiiiiiiight, so that bargin $15K ICE car is never going to need maintenance? I have a Volt and my maintenance cost is 0 so far for 2 years. I doubt I will reach the first scheduled maintenance (which can be at 75,000 miles depending on usage patterns) and is just an oil change for the generator which can easily be done myself for $10 in oil. The parent said its about COST, not price. Costs like maintenance that EVs don't really have in practice are not free for ICEs. EVs are cheaper for 90% of drivers daily usage patterns at this point. Not some minor slice of the market, but most of the market. You would have to drive less than 1000 miles a year for an EVs to not to pay off at this point. You are just considering gas costs, but maintenance costs can easily exceed gas costs, especially for cheaper or older ICE cars. Plus the time I don't spend waiting at tollbothes (yea HOV lanes). Just make sure not to lease the Volt as you don't get the $7500 federal tax credit that way.

A Volt would cut your gas usage in half, and if you have charging at the office, then it would be probably 90%. And its $26K after tax credits. Quit making excuses, your choices are about you and not about the EVs available anymore if you can afford a new car. If not, then it will probably be another 3-5 years for you.