There are props that I made for Video productions I did in high school (87-91) what would have gotten me thrown in jail today.
I spray painted a plastic water gun black for one production. That in itself would have gotten me expelled, thrown in jail, or worse, but then it didn't even get me in trouble. We ran around the grounds taking video for another production, and who knows what that would have caused.
In those days I didn't usually feel that school admin. was all that enlightened... but they were wise and patient by today's standards.
Moving from agricultural jobs to industrial jobs that take no skill or can be easily learned is a much different transition that moving from mid-skilled industrial jobs to those that take a very special skill or talent.
"Entrepreneurship" is a word that is getting flung about, but not everyone has the skill to be an entrepreneur. Also not every person has the skill to go into some sort of creative trade or become a corporate exec.
To be flip about it, you have to have jobs for the people on the lower part of the IQ scale to do. There are all type that have to survive in the economy. This particular transition is feeding those people (as well as a good deal of the smart people too) to the wolves.
The United States is actively in a revolution of sorts to end all the (small-s) socialist efforts of the past 100 years. This is simply because the rich don't think they should have to pay any taxes or contribute any money to the system that has allowed them to prosper.
The fact is this: there is a capitalist/socialist balance. When it gets too far out of whack you have popular movements of some sort because it creates huge unfairness. EITHER WAY it creates a situation where you have a small elite pushing their agenda on the majority of people.
Wood herself is going to be phased out... it's called death.
That's another major problem here. The system they have might work, but when there is only a couple of people in the whole country that can use it then the company could have a major problem on their hands at literally ANY moment.
With the 12.* releases I saw loads go up to 10+ loads after I upgraded my laptop from 11.
It was... *trumpets please* zeitgeist going nuts at random intervals.
Sorry Ubuntu... no more. Ubuntu-based, yeah I'll still go for that, but for me the everyday version if the distro is history. I need an OS, not a advertisement engine.
When this gets to the old farts in the higher courts - the kind of people who dictate their emails and get confused by double clicking on icons - this will be overturned. The lack of any real world experience in concert with authoritarian attitudes will make sure this doesn't stay case law.
Do people really think that the united states is capitalist right now? I think Aaron Smith himself would dispute that.
We're in a state of corporatism. It's very different. Capitalism is interaction among equals. An economic action between and individual and a corporation is NOT an action among equals. Modern corporations have more money, information, power, more EVERYTHING than an individual.
Don't confuse capitalism and corporatism. They look a lot alike on the outside, but inside they are very different.
There is also no guarantee that jobs will be replaced on a 1:1 basis. There may be one job created for every 4 replaced or worse. It's especially true at this point of time in history.
People aren't commodities. They're humans that have skills that they have acquired and (hopefully) chosen their skills to acquire based on their unique talents and abilities.
If you want to rush head long into the future that's fine, but if you are a humanist then you have make provisions for the people you are going to make permanently obsolete. Hell, maybe humanist isn't the right word, maybe REALIST is more correct, because if you make classes of people obsolete you're spreading the seeds of revolution.
You're right, but right now we have a ruling class that would just like the people who don't fall into the schemes to DIE. That's dangerous in the long term.
But if you don't tax then you don't have base for those businesses you hold so dear to build on and they will eventually die anyway.
You can take any idea to the extreme, and the extreme that there should be NO regulations and NO taxes and NO limit on how businesses can abuse employees (many of which hold huge amount of power over individuals) is just as disruptive as a 95% tax rate. The only difference is that a small number of people will make a lot of money in a limited period of time and then be able to live in Fiji while the plebeians live in an industrial hellhole.
New numbnuts execs come into the channel and delete the cult show because they don't understand the appeal and want to make their mark.
It was felt by MST3K fans that it was canceled in favor of the The Daily Show. Not the current decent version of the Daily Show, but the shitty Craig Kilborn version of the Daily Show.
Which is a GREAT reason to listen to some other people when it comes to these bills. The problem is that these same people are the ones that can funnel hundreds of thousands to lobbyists.
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WHO IS THE THOUGHT POLICE?
By today's standards: what a waste of time and money. How is that going to help at standardized test time.
Really... just about every institution needs to be wiped and started again.
There are props that I made for Video productions I did in high school (87-91) what would have gotten me thrown in jail today.
I spray painted a plastic water gun black for one production. That in itself would have gotten me expelled, thrown in jail, or worse, but then it didn't even get me in trouble. We ran around the grounds taking video for another production, and who knows what that would have caused.
In those days I didn't usually feel that school admin. was all that enlightened... but they were wise and patient by today's standards.
So does this go both ways... can individuals claim orphaned corporate content or do the corporates have YET ANOTHER special right?
Yes, I can.
Moving from agricultural jobs to industrial jobs that take no skill or can be easily learned is a much different transition that moving from mid-skilled industrial jobs to those that take a very special skill or talent.
"Entrepreneurship" is a word that is getting flung about, but not everyone has the skill to be an entrepreneur. Also not every person has the skill to go into some sort of creative trade or become a corporate exec.
To be flip about it, you have to have jobs for the people on the lower part of the IQ scale to do. There are all type that have to survive in the economy. This particular transition is feeding those people (as well as a good deal of the smart people too) to the wolves.
The United States is actively in a revolution of sorts to end all the (small-s) socialist efforts of the past 100 years. This is simply because the rich don't think they should have to pay any taxes or contribute any money to the system that has allowed them to prosper.
The fact is this: there is a capitalist/socialist balance. When it gets too far out of whack you have popular movements of some sort because it creates huge unfairness. EITHER WAY it creates a situation where you have a small elite pushing their agenda on the majority of people.
Good choice. Really good choice...
While I think this is actually a good idea, I don't think that mandating curriclum from the statehouse is a good thing.
It's all moot though... anything that promotes imagination is never going to make it out of a committee anyway.
Wood herself is going to be phased out... it's called death.
That's another major problem here. The system they have might work, but when there is only a couple of people in the whole country that can use it then the company could have a major problem on their hands at literally ANY moment.
It *had* been nice to follow Ubuntu.
With the 12.* releases I saw loads go up to 10+ loads after I upgraded my laptop from 11.
It was... *trumpets please* zeitgeist going nuts at random intervals.
Sorry Ubuntu... no more. Ubuntu-based, yeah I'll still go for that, but for me the everyday version if the distro is history. I need an OS, not a advertisement engine.
I don't get it. Aren't they too godly to watch porn in Utah?
When this gets to the old farts in the higher courts - the kind of people who dictate their emails and get confused by double clicking on icons - this will be overturned. The lack of any real world experience in concert with authoritarian attitudes will make sure this doesn't stay case law.
everyone they canned they freaking hated.
Do people really think that the united states is capitalist right now? I think Aaron Smith himself would dispute that.
We're in a state of corporatism. It's very different. Capitalism is interaction among equals. An economic action between and individual and a corporation is NOT an action among equals. Modern corporations have more money, information, power, more EVERYTHING than an individual.
Don't confuse capitalism and corporatism. They look a lot alike on the outside, but inside they are very different.
There is also no guarantee that jobs will be replaced on a 1:1 basis. There may be one job created for every 4 replaced or worse. It's especially true at this point of time in history.
People aren't commodities. They're humans that have skills that they have acquired and (hopefully) chosen their skills to acquire based on their unique talents and abilities.
If you want to rush head long into the future that's fine, but if you are a humanist then you have make provisions for the people you are going to make permanently obsolete. Hell, maybe humanist isn't the right word, maybe REALIST is more correct, because if you make classes of people obsolete you're spreading the seeds of revolution.
You're right, but right now we have a ruling class that would just like the people who don't fall into the schemes to DIE. That's dangerous in the long term.
Like in Blade Runner (or more specifically When Android Dream...) the colonies will be only way to escape the shithole that Earth will become.
But if you don't tax then you don't have base for those businesses you hold so dear to build on and they will eventually die anyway.
You can take any idea to the extreme, and the extreme that there should be NO regulations and NO taxes and NO limit on how businesses can abuse employees (many of which hold huge amount of power over individuals) is just as disruptive as a 95% tax rate. The only difference is that a small number of people will make a lot of money in a limited period of time and then be able to live in Fiji while the plebeians live in an industrial hellhole.
How can you grep this page for "anime" and it come up blank?
Doesn't someone have an anime reference for this? Someone that know anime stuff better than me has got to know one....
This exact thing happened to MST3K *twice*.
New numbnuts execs come into the channel and delete the cult show because they don't understand the appeal and want to make their mark.
It was felt by MST3K fans that it was canceled in favor of the The Daily Show. Not the current decent version of the Daily Show, but the shitty Craig Kilborn version of the Daily Show.
You forgot Ted McGinley
The idea that there is only ONE group at fault in the arrangement you describe is asinine!
These people live in their reality bubble.
Which is a GREAT reason to listen to some other people when it comes to these bills. The problem is that these same people are the ones that can funnel hundreds of thousands to lobbyists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma