One paid $40,000 a year for it, one paid $100 a year. Which is the smarter one?
That's a good question.
One hundred dollars buys two or three hours of time from a professional tutor or teaching assistant.
Assuming no laboratory or administrative costs, how valuable is an education that you got for the cost of two or three hours of one-on-one attention (including teaching and evaulation) per year?
There's also name stealing. Missouri has a town called "Versailles." I hear the way it's pronounced in Missouri is "Ver-sales" rather than "Ver-sai." Probably to cut down on confusion.
My favorite among these may be Calais, Maine. On a road trip a couple of decades ago, talking to a local at a tourist information booth:
"So, if we take Route 1 to Calais..."
"Ca-LAY? Where's...oh, you mean CALLOUS!"
"I suppose I do..."
Montpelier, Virginia gets a similar treatment.
but nobody gives a shit because it's not a new scary technology used by the damn kids ruining everything.
I'm pretty sure that failure to properly signal turns and lane changes is actually illegal in more states than using a cell phone or texting while driving. So this must the be some newfangled we'll-fine-you-heavily-and-raise-your-insurance-rates kind of "nobody gives a shit".
Most states are discouraging teens from driving at all. Death is better than an empty life.
Source?
In any case, the best possible world would be one where "most states are discouraging driving". Build liveable, walkable communities, with proper mixed-use development, green spaces, multi-use trails for pedestrians and bicycles, and good connections to public transit.
If the only way for a teen to buy groceries is by driving ten miles to a big-box Wal-Mart as the sole occupant of a seven-passenger SUV, then something is fundamentally broken.
In theory, a program could add a revision for every keystroke. But if you want to revert to a previous revision, it'd be tedious to find the right revision that way.
Whereas it's easy to find a previous revision now, particularly if you didn't save the specific version that you're looking for under a separate filename? Come now. Search for changes by date and time. Search for changes that add or remove specific phrases. Display overall document length as a function of time. Zoomable, scrollable display of changes over time, with annotated marks at each 'save' point.
In addition, it'd need to keep the hard drive spinning all the time to store all the diffs in case of power failure.
The twentieth century called; they want their storage technology back. Hard drives don't have to spin anymore. Portable devices are all operating off batteries (or backed up by batteries) anyway, so power outages aren't the bogeyman they once were. Worst case scenario a memory cache is flushed to disk every five or ten minutes and we're no worse off than the current 'autosave'.
Even in an application with automatic saving, the "save" button still has a purpose, namely to mark a revision as worth keeping.
True, but not really a problem. Use the 'save' button to insert an annotation in the editing history instead of creating or fixing a file.
You seem to be operating under the impression that, when faced with two bad choices (in this case, the status quo versus the grotesquely-misnamed Fair Tax), it's never possible to have a reasonable discussion about which is worse without also endorsing one of the choices.
Your reasoning continues to be nonsensical.
Incidentally, I'm not from the United States; I neither live there nor hold U.S. citizenship. I don't know where you're from either, but I assume their principal export is asshattery.
There is a significant difference between "This particular proposal for change is bad" - which is what was actually said - and "The current situation is good" -- which is what you're imagining you heard.
Rand's philosophy embraced selfishness as its highest ideal.
Not trying to be a dick or anything, but if you get the tax credit, you can be even more generous if you want.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, though--that strategy means that he would be choosing to fund his own preferred charities at the expense of other people funding the government services (from which he would still benefit...).
There is a guy with a metal detector at the airport door, and he gives you an extremely brief patdown.
And this system works extremely well, as long as no terrorists figure out that they can put bombs, firearms, and other weapons in a suitcase....
The problem with an interferometer having just two widely-separated points is that it only provides high angular resolution along the axis between those points. (It's not useless, but it is very limited.) The two sites are about 10,000 km apart, which somewhat limits the amount of sky that both sites will be able to see simultaneously (and observe continuously for any extended period of time). If a large number of telescopes are involved in the interferometer array, one needs some very high bandwidth data connections, which I'm not certain exist between South Africa and Australia. In practice, I suspect that what you'd be getting would be more like two Half-Kilometer-Arrays rather than a long-baseline SKA.
What has been proposed, and should be technically feasible, is dividing the array up by frequency band. The plan already calls for three overlapping arrays of different types of telescopes in order to capture three different frequency bands. (Phased array dipole antennas work great at 100 MHz, whereas you need dishes for 10 GHz.) In principle, one could put the low- and mid-frequency arrays on one site and the high-frequency arrays on another. That avoids the problems with bandwidth associated with long-baseline interferometry, and it allows each array to scan its entire local sky without worrying about what's over the distant station's horizon.
The downside is that this increases overall costs. Two sites need to be prepared; two sets of computing facilities need to be built; two different national governments have to be placated. Scientifically, it means that the entire array can't always be 'pointed' in the same place across its entire frequency spectrum--sometimes the high- or low-frequency portion of the array will be below the horizon.
The price you're paying more closely represents the costs incurred to provide you with electricity. Either change your lifestyle - which may well be very difficult for you - or accept that some other people who have made different choices from you will pay less for their power.
You've been enjoying a free ride for years; now you're not. Suck it up.
...China’s generals are ambitious. The country is on course to become the world’s largest military spender in just 20 years or so.
So a country with four times the population of the United States may match the U.S.'s military spending two decades from now...shocking.
Look, what exactly did you think was going to happen when China became a developed country with a modern economy and a fully-educated workforce? They're going to have money to spend. When did not having the absolute most-powerful military become a disaster for the U.S.?
Since when is it my responsibility, as the customer, to spend my money and time making devices that save the power company money?
It's not.
On the other hand, you can't bitch about it when you're charged more for usage that costs the power company more money.
Or did you think that it was the responsibility of the people who use cheap, off-peak power to subsidize your lifestyle?
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