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Now do his stepchildren, and exactly how much of their net worth came from Bernie's "campaign contributions".
The way the game is often played is to hire other family members as "consultants" at extremely high salaries (Bernie didn't invent this, by any means -- take a look at how many congresscritters have relatives on the campaign payroll) . In theory, you can't spend campaign money on yourself, but paying it to "consultants" is allowed. And if those "consultants" happen to be relatives, and they happen to use some of their "salaries" to buy luxuries for Dear Old Dad, that's perfectly fine.
Another good one is to set your relative, or even yourself, up in some ancillary business (e.g. advertising or printing). The late Oral Roberts (a TV preacher) was the innovator there. He was always crying about how he sent free Bibles and other religious stuff all over the world, and how many millions it cost. This was absolutely true.
What he never mentioned is that his non-profit ministry hired his very-much-for-profit printing company to print all this stuff.
As far as the government goes, there are pretty strict rules against paying actual government money out to relatives (though it does happen). The rules against paying out campaign contributions are a lot more lenient.
Again: patent nonsense.
Do you even know any old people?
Arthritis has nothing to do with general health or lifespan.
WAY more old people can still drive than can walk a mile round trip carrying bags of groceries.
I find it fascinating that every time this comes up you see the same type of mob behavior.
I mean, if y'all like "walkable cities" so much, why not just move to one and leave everyone else alone? That would seem to be the rational course of behavior. No one is stopping you.
But no, everyone else has to conform to what you think is best. It's basically a religious belief (e.g., the guy who somehow equates walking 15 feet from a car to the front door with the aforementioned mile hike lugging several bags of food, or the guy who thinks that "muscle mass" can compensate for arthritis).
You folks are worse than vegans. Seriously.
I'm sorry, but this is patent nonsense.
You know that, right?
Yes. And they suffered for it.
> access-controlled dense old towns in Europe
Europe is about the size of a postage stamp. Oregon is bigger than the UK. Texas is larger than France. Alaska and many Canadian provinces and territories are larger than the entire EU..
Walking HURTS if you have arthritis, and that has absolutely nothing to do with "muscle mass".
P.S. It's "lose".
They suffered and died.
Just like they suffered and died because there wasn't high blood pressure medication. Or air conditioners. Or any number of other things.
Go out and live a year or two in a pre-car society, then get back to me. It sucked ass even as a healthy young person.
Lots of unempathetic youngsters in this thread. Some day you'll know. Sooner than you think.
I mean, it's easy to say "just walk (or ride a bike)" when you're 22 years old and in prime health, but the population in most First World countries is rapidly aging.
But Jobs is who made the boxes something that non-nerds wanted to have in their homes. There were dozens of computer companies at the time, some (not many, but some) of which had Woz-level engineers (e.g. Jay Miner and team at Atari). But only Apple survived.
Someone once said there would never have been an Apple if there had been only one Steve, and I agree.
Was he a jerk sometimes? Yeah, definitely. But he's not the first genius who's been a jerk. At the extreme, Isaac Newton was a horrible person.
I estimate mine is about 50% USPS, 25% UPS, and 25% Amazon's own delivery service. The proportion that's Amazon-delivered has been increasing noticeably over the past year or two.
Eventually, certainly, but you can put it off for a while without much trouble.
You can get 20 round drum magazines for 12 gauge shotguns, and keep hot-swapping 'em until your barrel overheats.
> Phalanx_CIWS
But that's 1980 technology. I bet a current GPU could outcompute it by orders of magnitude.
Range is definitely an issue with shotguns. On the other hand, you're dealing with low-speed drones, not enemy missiles.
Most work in terms of hours spent: compilers (you had to write one from scratch)
Hardest due to inherent difficulty of the material: theory of computation. Turing Machines and the Halting Problem and such weren't too bad (well, duh) but some of the more advanced stuff was pretty challenging, at least to me.
Hardest due to the material being a collection of bizarre recipes and jumping all over the mathematical map: tie between an undergrad numerical methods course and a graduate modeling and simulations course. It wasn't conceptually difficult to write the code, but understanding exactly why it worked was a different story. I've never been good at memorizing stuff unless I understand how it works (advanced statistics suffers from a similar glut of "magic recipes", in my experience).
Edit: the compilers class was the one that's proven to be the most useful over the rest of my life. I've written specialized parsers and so on a bunch of times.
I've never used the stuff from theory of computation again, nor can I imagine that anyone would who wasn't a researcher in that area.
I could see numerical methods being useful if I did a lot of down and dirty work with the physical world, but I mostly haven't done that..
You can't open the door if the battery is dead (or, presumably, the battery has removed by a would-be car thief).
I'm not sure why one of these is a "failure of the car" but not the other.
If the Tesla cars defaulted to "doors open" when the battery was dead/removed, people would be complaining about that.
In both cases, the end outcome is exactly the same: the window gets bashed out by the fire department.
They could put a label on it to the effect of "We don't think this stuff works, and it might even be harmful", but they should not be allowed to ban it outright.
The current situation is one-sided:
FDA approves something harmful -> people are harmed and their friends and family start calling for the FDA's heads.
FDA doesn't approve something helpful -> people are also harmed, but most of them don't even know they were harmed. There's little chance of an angry mob showing up at the FDA's door.
The FDA is biased in favor of rejection, not approval.
If you allegedly "give" me something for "free", but still assert the right to tell me what I can do with it afterward, it's not "free" in either sense of the word. It's not "free as in beer", nor is "free as in freedom".
Stallman's monomania on this subject became tedious and counterproductive decades ago.
Yes, he wrote some great software. So did dozens of others.
Edit: when a friend of mine locked her kid inside a conventional car a number of years ago, and the fire department broke the window, I assure you the incident did not even make the local news, much less go national.
In both cases the child is in the car and the door cannot be opened.
In my city, the fire department solves the problem by bashing out a window, just as in this case. I know this because that's what happened when a friend locked in her baby.
That seems more like "exactly the same" than "not remotely the same" to me.
I'll bet it happens dozens of times across the country every single day.
Tyrants hate that.
Before firearms the world was mostly ruled by "nobles" (i.e., those who had extorted enough from the peasants to afford weapons and armor, and had the free time for the required years of training).
Now, it isn't. That didn't happen because the "nobles" suddenly decided to turn into nice guys.
Because McDonalds is cheap, fast, and tastes good. Seems obvious. They haven't sold billions of Big Macs because they taste terrible, no matter how much food snobs would like to pretend otherwise.
Even if you have "great food" sometimes you want a change. Something that might be "great food" to a tourist can be boring to a local.
Oh, do be quiet.
Trying to excuse this childish temper tantrum and exculpate the infantile perpetrators with "herp, derp, the paintings weren't damaged at all" is what was dishonest.