I understand, however, I never made a biological basis to prove that I am better than anyone else. I made an education-level basis. As someone who deals with learner analysis every day, it is not unfair to deem certain learners only capable of learning to a specific peak level, based on all sorts of factors. One of them could possibly be biological, but I do not bother myself with the underlying reasons WHY somebody is less developed than others, only that they are (and what kind of training to design in order to fulfill their training needs).
Last I checked, money is a problem of the world. Advertising is the economic engine and money is the natural resource. Or to put it another way, not all of us want to be all high and mighty and spend our lives toiling to solve the problems that somebody else thinks is more important than the problems I like to work on.
IF this is talking about versioning coming in OSX Lion, then I'd say it is different because it is giving average home users and enterprise-like level tool they may find handy without all the enterprise tool fuss and administration.
And if it is talking about the upcoming Versioning in Lion, then no, they won't charge a premium for it...I'll guess about a one-time $129 upgrade.
And considering services like Mozy, Carbonite and DropBox already do versioning (preserving overwritten or deleted files), this isn't really a story.
Except the small details there is no monthly fee, it is a tightly integrated aspect of the OS's user-interface, and you don't have to do anything other than turn your OSX Lion-installed Mac on, I'd say it's exactly the same thing...
Yes, the 98% of America that isn't old rich white dudes are all lazy and refuse to be educated. Since it is safe to presume you aren't in the 2% of hard working educated people, thank you for making my point that you and your ilk keep believing things that are counter productive to your well-being.
I'm not ignoring any points. So what if Amazon is completely automated in the future. It still takes humans to automate the automation and to by 100% automated would require a whole slew of NEW jobs to design, maintain and operate that automation. Most likely those jobs will be much higher paying as well.
Less than 1% of people make a difference? Pessimist much? I'm in education. I make a difference every day (not public school or university, mind you, but training people how to do their jobs).
I think BORDERS closed the Overland Park Kansas Borders, not Obama. I've been to Overland Park. Doesn't seem like there's a big enough market for one Borders there, so it closed;-)
or a third world hell hole were 1% of the population has everything and the other 99% fights among themselves for the scraps so they don't die in the streets.
Other than a massive exaggeration, we are already there, and have been since at least the 1980s. That's how America works...haves and have-nots. Mostly because the have-nots keep voting against their own best interests and believe in things like "trickle down".
Manufacturing (and other labor fields) will never go away completely. The problem is in the United States we dump all of our uneducated people into manufacturing jobs. We don't have too few manufacturing jobs, we have too many uneducated people.
The reason the US is losing manufacturing jobs, and service jobs, is because American workers expect a higher standard of living than most other places around the world, and therefore aren't willing to work for low enough wages to keep those jobs here.
I travel to Orange County several times a year from Austin, TX and the housing prices are like another galaxy to me. The reason CA jobs are coming to Austin is simple. My 2500 sq. ft. house cost me $200,000, while you can't get a a 900 sq. ft. shanty in Orange County for $200,000. They have artificially low property taxes, so the state appraises the houses at 5x their value to make up for the lost revenue (at the expense of people like me not ever being able to move there and the expense of companies not being able to hire people so they move to places like Austin). I have high property taxes (I pay $5,000 a year on $200k), but even if I pay $5,000 a year for one hundred years, my house will still be cheaper than an equivalent one in Orange County. The think with $5,000 a year in property taxes is I don't have to include that in the price of the house when considering a loan, so it's easier to get a loan as well.
Except the government buying iPads had a zilch chance of happening..
Define "the government", because in my definition (schools operated at the state level count as the government), it's already happening. Keep in mind I'm in the education tech field as well, so I'm not just saying it's happening out of thin air.
Tinners, electricians, pipe fitters, welders, and so on aren't low skill; they're blue collar because they're labor intensive.
They also aren't incredibly high skill either. It wouldn't take an intelligent person long to learn the principles of welding or electricity. Seems like high school science has those covered.
But yes, they are blue collar because you get dirty, (hence a blue collar not a white one).
Right, because letting companies do whatever the hell they want is so good for the livelihood of workers. Ask some coal miner in West Virginia, or an oil rig worker in the Gulf how that worked out for them.
If you think rich corporations will do the right thing just to create more jobs and not just give all their profits back to the rich old white guys on the board of directors, then you live in an alternate reality.
The reason manufacturing jobs are labeled "low-skill" is because they don't take much skill. Take your example. You and I are both in the academic field. Both of us can be trained in a few hours on how to assemble some machine components. The laborer, however, will most likely NEVER be able to conduct academic research. I think the anti-intellectual movement in the United States is a bigger disaster than if I were to go work on an assembly line putting airplane parts together.
Nobody is arguing that low skill jobs aren't critically important or that their work isn't difficult, it's just that anyone can do it, which makes them "low-skill".
as an european, i'd have to ask - what are those good things ? (trying to ignore "then-than" fuckup...)
How about starting with, "The largest automobile manufacturer on the planet is still in business"? Not to mention, for the first time in GM history (during my 40 years of existence), they are actually producing some really good cars....which is really hard for me to admit, FWIW.
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Nope, sorry. Just because Hitler and the Third Reich could rationalize themselves as good guys didn't make them so.
There's always somebody on the wrong side of history. It's only a moral dilemma when it is unclear who the bad guy is.
Saddam Hussein gassing Kurds and killing and torturing political opponents made him a bad guy, not G.W.'s botched foreign policy.
Maniacal Islamic fundamentalist psychopaths who behead western journalists make them bad guys, not the US's opulent prosperity.
Hording illegal weapons and killing women and children made Koresh evil, not the overly zealous tactics of the ATF.
Shall I continue?
I never regarded Hitler as a "full human being" and found him to be every bit as evil as portrayed. What's the problem again?
Sometimes the bad guys are exactly that..bad guys. In these cases, there is no moral dilemma.
I understand, however, I never made a biological basis to prove that I am better than anyone else. I made an education-level basis. As someone who deals with learner analysis every day, it is not unfair to deem certain learners only capable of learning to a specific peak level, based on all sorts of factors. One of them could possibly be biological, but I do not bother myself with the underlying reasons WHY somebody is less developed than others, only that they are (and what kind of training to design in order to fulfill their training needs).
Exactly. Clicking ads is just the vehicle for a greater purpose.
Last I checked, money is a problem of the world. Advertising is the economic engine and money is the natural resource. Or to put it another way, not all of us want to be all high and mighty and spend our lives toiling to solve the problems that somebody else thinks is more important than the problems I like to work on.
If a teacher knows their students the way they should, no special software is needed to detect when they are plagiarizing works.
best post ever...
IF this is talking about versioning coming in OSX Lion, then I'd say it is different because it is giving average home users and enterprise-like level tool they may find handy without all the enterprise tool fuss and administration.
And if it is talking about the upcoming Versioning in Lion, then no, they won't charge a premium for it...I'll guess about a one-time $129 upgrade.
And considering services like Mozy, Carbonite and DropBox already do versioning (preserving overwritten or deleted files), this isn't really a story.
Except the small details there is no monthly fee, it is a tightly integrated aspect of the OS's user-interface, and you don't have to do anything other than turn your OSX Lion-installed Mac on, I'd say it's exactly the same thing...
Riiight, and I'm sure there's no way to mark a file or version of a file for permanent deletion. Apple is that short sighted.....
Yes, the 98% of America that isn't old rich white dudes are all lazy and refuse to be educated. Since it is safe to presume you aren't in the 2% of hard working educated people, thank you for making my point that you and your ilk keep believing things that are counter productive to your well-being.
I'm not ignoring any points. So what if Amazon is completely automated in the future. It still takes humans to automate the automation and to by 100% automated would require a whole slew of NEW jobs to design, maintain and operate that automation. Most likely those jobs will be much higher paying as well.
Less than 1% of people make a difference? Pessimist much? I'm in education. I make a difference every day (not public school or university, mind you, but training people how to do their jobs).
I think BORDERS closed the Overland Park Kansas Borders, not Obama. I've been to Overland Park. Doesn't seem like there's a big enough market for one Borders there, so it closed ;-)
or a third world hell hole were 1% of the population has everything and the other 99% fights among themselves for the scraps so they don't die in the streets.
Other than a massive exaggeration, we are already there, and have been since at least the 1980s. That's how America works...haves and have-nots. Mostly because the have-nots keep voting against their own best interests and believe in things like "trickle down".
Manufacturing (and other labor fields) will never go away completely. The problem is in the United States we dump all of our uneducated people into manufacturing jobs. We don't have too few manufacturing jobs, we have too many uneducated people.
Upping the quality of our products cuts into our profits, which is entirely un-American. See "Chevrolet".
The reason the US is losing manufacturing jobs, and service jobs, is because American workers expect a higher standard of living than most other places around the world, and therefore aren't willing to work for low enough wages to keep those jobs here.
You've never been to the Southeast, have you?
I travel to Orange County several times a year from Austin, TX and the housing prices are like another galaxy to me. The reason CA jobs are coming to Austin is simple. My 2500 sq. ft. house cost me $200,000, while you can't get a a 900 sq. ft. shanty in Orange County for $200,000. They have artificially low property taxes, so the state appraises the houses at 5x their value to make up for the lost revenue (at the expense of people like me not ever being able to move there and the expense of companies not being able to hire people so they move to places like Austin). I have high property taxes (I pay $5,000 a year on $200k), but even if I pay $5,000 a year for one hundred years, my house will still be cheaper than an equivalent one in Orange County. The think with $5,000 a year in property taxes is I don't have to include that in the price of the house when considering a loan, so it's easier to get a loan as well.
Except the government buying iPads had a zilch chance of happening. .
Define "the government", because in my definition (schools operated at the state level count as the government), it's already happening. Keep in mind I'm in the education tech field as well, so I'm not just saying it's happening out of thin air.
Tinners, electricians, pipe fitters, welders, and so on aren't low skill; they're blue collar because they're labor intensive.
They also aren't incredibly high skill either. It wouldn't take an intelligent person long to learn the principles of welding or electricity. Seems like high school science has those covered.
But yes, they are blue collar because you get dirty, (hence a blue collar not a white one).
Right, because letting companies do whatever the hell they want is so good for the livelihood of workers. Ask some coal miner in West Virginia, or an oil rig worker in the Gulf how that worked out for them.
If you think rich corporations will do the right thing just to create more jobs and not just give all their profits back to the rich old white guys on the board of directors, then you live in an alternate reality.
The reason manufacturing jobs are labeled "low-skill" is because they don't take much skill. Take your example. You and I are both in the academic field. Both of us can be trained in a few hours on how to assemble some machine components. The laborer, however, will most likely NEVER be able to conduct academic research. I think the anti-intellectual movement in the United States is a bigger disaster than if I were to go work on an assembly line putting airplane parts together.
Nobody is arguing that low skill jobs aren't critically important or that their work isn't difficult, it's just that anyone can do it, which makes them "low-skill".
as an european, i'd have to ask - what are those good things ? (trying to ignore "then-than" fuckup...)
How about starting with, "The largest automobile manufacturer on the planet is still in business"? Not to mention, for the first time in GM history (during my 40 years of existence), they are actually producing some really good cars. ...which is really hard for me to admit, FWIW.