Unless we're talking heavy calculations here, doing them locally will likely drain less battery than a lengthy network request, especially over a laggy 3G network...
No, capitalism is not fundamentally "opposed" to government. Government is in fact required for capitalism to function in any kind of efficient manner. If not for the laws governing ownership, ownership would be reduced to the concept of "what you defend, you own", meaning capitalists would have to employ massive armies to protect "their" property, both from rival capitalists and from the people who live or work there.
Capitalism does not require private ownership, e.g. in state capitalism, the state owns the means of production, but the state is not controlled by the working class as it would in the case of Socialism with state ownership. (The difference between capitalism and socialism, if you did not read up on basic political theory, is where the ownership of the means of production lies, with the few (capitalists, whether private or state) as in the case of capitalism or with the people as in the case of socialism (whether by a worker-controlled state or cooperatively by the workers of the particular establishment, to mention only two models))
Also, don't confuse the capitalist economic system with the ideologies advocating keeping such a system, e.g. Liberalism. Capitalism in itself cannot be "opposed" to something, it is an economic system, not an ideology.
Both Anarchist and Libertarian are very old terms, it is only recently that the term "Libertarian" has been (in the US at least, not so much in the rest of the world with the exception of a few kids spending too much time in online forums abound with conspiracy nuts) associated with what are essentially Anarcho-capitalists.
The problem is that governments never, ever engage in the "saving" part.
We have the opposite problem in Sweden, we're saving and the debt is going down, the problem is that the right-wing government doesn't want to spend in bad times, it wants to save in both good and bad times and essentially hoard the money, meaning no major infrastructure investments which could be very useful right now with an unemployment rate of some 8% and a welfare system in shambles...
"BRAINPOWER" would be included in the "labor" category, just as physical labor is. What is with this idea that those of us who work with ideas do not labor? Of course we do, it's just in a different way from those who do physical labor. All forms of labor require some form of mental capacity, some more than others, but the amount of mental capacity required does not make it more or less labor.
The summary is of course adapted for American audiences with different definitions of many political terms than other parts of the world, but I would still like to offer my corrections of the political situation. The "Conservatives" mentioned are not conservatives, they are mostly liberals, ranging from a self-professed "liberal-conservative" party to a liberal party, a "social values" Christian party which is however very liberal in terms of economic politics nowadays, and a "Center party" (the name is a misnomer, the party has veered far to the right since its golden days). Personally I think the closest description of their collective politics is some type of neoliberal. The other "block", consisting of the Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Greens is not so homogeneous in terms of their political stances as the right-wing, the Social Democrats and the Greens are nowadays essentially liberals, not much difference from the government except for a few minor details, and the Left Party is the only socialist party and the only party that actually advocates something to the left of the status quo.
And regarding the actual topic, I'm not at all surprised, there is very little difference between the two "blocks" as a whole (the exception being the Left Party on the left and (in terms of issues related to a single issue) Sweden Democrats on the "populist" right) and people (unfortunately) mostly vote for purely superficial reasons like how they "percieve" a certain politician.
Of course this would create a problem. Imagine if American politicians could use holographic projections with programmable answers of the Founding Fathers...
That would be pretty crazy. Actually I find this persona cult built up around the "founding fathers" in the US quite fascinating, even though these are people who lived in a time that is very different from ours and during very different conditions, some Americans still seem to have this obsession about what this founding father or that other one would have thought about a present-day issue, one they could likely not even comprehend. We have no equivalent in Sweden, I guess the closest to a "founding father" would be Gustaf Wasa who liberated Sweden from the Danish king in the 16th century, but noone in their right mind would, if given the chance, ask him for input on a present-day political issue or obsess about the religion he did or did not practice. Nor would they ask those who wrote any of the revisions of our constitution.
Like I said, in countries *not* inundated in gun violence.. London would be a more apt comparison to Chicago than Oslo though, and they manage without guns in their day-to-day work.
I was mainly suggesting a way around the "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality. If cops are not allowed to use guns in their day-to-day activity, the force likely does not attract gun-nuts and the like. 99.99% of the time, there's no need for the police to be carrying guns around. Again, this may not work in countries like the US, but in most of the western world I believe it would.
Very true. The UK and Norway have the right idea, firearms should only be present only when the situation specifically calls for it. In Norway the firearms stay locked in the car and approval from a superior officer for them to be used, this seems like a good approach to me, at least in countries not inundated in gun violence.
That's a weird definition of coasting.. Of course you don't put the clutch in when coasting for a red light, that would entirely defeat the purpose of coasting, this is part of standard drivers education at least here. I don't have a car and don't drive much, but I do know how to coast.
Why are you linking to a US tv station? What possible evidence of anything could that be? Even RCTV which was taken off the public airwaves continue broadcasting their hatred of the government via cable and satellite, something which is very cheap and publicly available in Venezuela.
No, it *should not* be illegal to publish documents in the US, yet there he is. What I'm saying is if the US detains someone under torture-like condition simply for releasing "secret" documents, the people responsible for a TV station which aided a violent coup against the President of the United States, in which the President was physically abducted (which was the case in Venezuela in 2002), would be in deep trouble, no matter how much you believe otherwise.
There is most certainly freedom of speech in Venezuela, the Venezuelan media lambastes the government on a daily basis, on a vitriolic level rarely seen in western democracies.
There's a big difference between outing government actions which have been kept from the people and assisting a coup d'état against a democratically elected government. The first is most certainly protected speech and well within the bounds of freedom of speech, but the latter is plotting to overthrow a democratically elected government and most certainly warrants a prison sentence. Consider what has happened to Bradley Manning simply for leaking not-so-secret documents, can you even imagine what would happen to someone who assisted in the attempted violent overthrow of a US president?
There's a fundamental difference. Impeachment is well within the legal bounds of the constitution governing the United States. Advocating, openly supporting and assisting a coup d'état against the democratically elected government as Venezuelan media did is something entirely different. If it had happened in the US, the responsible would likely have been on death row by now.
Ah yes, the "murder-crazed totalitarians" Greg Grandin, NYU professor of history, pulitzer prize finalist, Yale PhD, and Amy Goodman, award-winning investigative journalist, arguably the best and most principled American investigative journalist at least I know of... Please, get a brain and use it, it's a powerful tool used correctly, but it requires development of some critical thinking skills, you won't get this by blindly swallowing anything Fox News tells you.
Exactly, the DRM is counter-productive. I was considering getting SimCity, I've been a fan of the SimCity series since I was a kid, but the problems with the DRM (combined with the outrageous price, about twice as much as I used to pay for boxed games including a manual, where there was a whole chain of distributors and manufacturers who needed their cut, for a *download*), I'm considering either not getting it at all or pirating it when the crack comes. I'm not paying that much money in order to be screwed out of playing the game single player due to a freaking server overloading, not to mention the problems with wine and Origin (the game apparently otherwise works fine in wine) meaning I would have to be completely cut-off from anything productive while playing.
I did impulse buy Civ5 Gold (even though I already had Civ 5 around somewhere, but not the expansions) the other day when they had a special, even installed Steam in wine to do it, first time I used Steam. I bet they would earn way more money with prices more geared towards impulse buys.
Chavez has done a lot of good for his country and for getting Latin America out from under the thumb of US domination, he was loved by many, but yes embalming seems a bit over the top, I can see no reason to do this. Keep the spirit of what he was trying to achieve alive, this will be a much better way to honor his memory than by putting his body on display.
Oh and for anyone interested in an in-depth and more balanced story about Chavez than the sound-byte propaganda put out by the mainstream media, read this excellent article. You may also be interested in watching this with Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
It's an interesting tool, but I've always been somewhat skeptical of tools that write the code for me, especially when collaborating with someone else who may not be using the same tool. There's also the issue of using the templates provided by e.g. conferences, how does that work?
I agree that is stupid, but that's not usually required of a good take-home exam. I've never had a take-home exam where you're not allowed to use course material or any kind of material you want to really, for some it was even allowed to discuss the questions with other students (but the answer still had to make clear that you understood the question and the answer obviously). Any take-home exam that you can finish by simply copying a few lines from a book is not a take-home exam (or a classroom exam for that matter) worth the name.
279 students seems a bit extreme to me, but whenever we had large classes, the lectures were complemented with exercises run by other teachers or TAs with around 20 students/excersie. Of course I studied engineering, but even with the humanities I can imagine smaller seminars to discuss the material from the lectures would be useful, the lecture is very much a one-way street in terms of learning, there's not much room for discussion, at least for the vast majority of the class.
It's also easier to use for kids than learning how to use a mouse and keyboard. Even a one-year-old can point on a screen, the pointing will trigger some sort of action on screen, maybe a sound, and they will be amused.
For that matter, from what I've gathered (on Slashdot) of working conditions in the IT industry in the US, they could certainly use a union. Unions are there to provide a counter-force to the interests of owners who would most like to have free 24 hour slave labor if it was possible. I would never go along with the working conditions told of here on Slashdot and they would never fly in a country which does have some measure of employee power. (even if it's quickly diminishing in the wake of 30 years of neoliberal policies here in Sweden)
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Unless we're talking heavy calculations here, doing them locally will likely drain less battery than a lengthy network request, especially over a laggy 3G network...
No, capitalism is not fundamentally "opposed" to government. Government is in fact required for capitalism to function in any kind of efficient manner. If not for the laws governing ownership, ownership would be reduced to the concept of "what you defend, you own", meaning capitalists would have to employ massive armies to protect "their" property, both from rival capitalists and from the people who live or work there.
Capitalism does not require private ownership, e.g. in state capitalism, the state owns the means of production, but the state is not controlled by the working class as it would in the case of Socialism with state ownership. (The difference between capitalism and socialism, if you did not read up on basic political theory, is where the ownership of the means of production lies, with the few (capitalists, whether private or state) as in the case of capitalism or with the people as in the case of socialism (whether by a worker-controlled state or cooperatively by the workers of the particular establishment, to mention only two models))
Also, don't confuse the capitalist economic system with the ideologies advocating keeping such a system, e.g. Liberalism. Capitalism in itself cannot be "opposed" to something, it is an economic system, not an ideology.
Both Anarchist and Libertarian are very old terms, it is only recently that the term "Libertarian" has been (in the US at least, not so much in the rest of the world with the exception of a few kids spending too much time in online forums abound with conspiracy nuts) associated with what are essentially Anarcho-capitalists.
The problem is that governments never, ever engage in the "saving" part.
We have the opposite problem in Sweden, we're saving and the debt is going down, the problem is that the right-wing government doesn't want to spend in bad times, it wants to save in both good and bad times and essentially hoard the money, meaning no major infrastructure investments which could be very useful right now with an unemployment rate of some 8% and a welfare system in shambles...
"BRAINPOWER" would be included in the "labor" category, just as physical labor is. What is with this idea that those of us who work with ideas do not labor? Of course we do, it's just in a different way from those who do physical labor. All forms of labor require some form of mental capacity, some more than others, but the amount of mental capacity required does not make it more or less labor.
The summary is of course adapted for American audiences with different definitions of many political terms than other parts of the world, but I would still like to offer my corrections of the political situation. The "Conservatives" mentioned are not conservatives, they are mostly liberals, ranging from a self-professed "liberal-conservative" party to a liberal party, a "social values" Christian party which is however very liberal in terms of economic politics nowadays, and a "Center party" (the name is a misnomer, the party has veered far to the right since its golden days). Personally I think the closest description of their collective politics is some type of neoliberal. The other "block", consisting of the Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Greens is not so homogeneous in terms of their political stances as the right-wing, the Social Democrats and the Greens are nowadays essentially liberals, not much difference from the government except for a few minor details, and the Left Party is the only socialist party and the only party that actually advocates something to the left of the status quo.
And regarding the actual topic, I'm not at all surprised, there is very little difference between the two "blocks" as a whole (the exception being the Left Party on the left and (in terms of issues related to a single issue) Sweden Democrats on the "populist" right) and people (unfortunately) mostly vote for purely superficial reasons like how they "percieve" a certain politician.
Last time I tried it, there was no hardware acceleration and no access to sensors though. Has that changed?
Of course this would create a problem. Imagine if American politicians could use holographic projections with programmable answers of the Founding Fathers...
That would be pretty crazy. Actually I find this persona cult built up around the "founding fathers" in the US quite fascinating, even though these are people who lived in a time that is very different from ours and during very different conditions, some Americans still seem to have this obsession about what this founding father or that other one would have thought about a present-day issue, one they could likely not even comprehend. We have no equivalent in Sweden, I guess the closest to a "founding father" would be Gustaf Wasa who liberated Sweden from the Danish king in the 16th century, but noone in their right mind would, if given the chance, ask him for input on a present-day political issue or obsess about the religion he did or did not practice. Nor would they ask those who wrote any of the revisions of our constitution.
Like I said, in countries *not* inundated in gun violence.. London would be a more apt comparison to Chicago than Oslo though, and they manage without guns in their day-to-day work.
I was mainly suggesting a way around the "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality. If cops are not allowed to use guns in their day-to-day activity, the force likely does not attract gun-nuts and the like. 99.99% of the time, there's no need for the police to be carrying guns around. Again, this may not work in countries like the US, but in most of the western world I believe it would.
Very true. The UK and Norway have the right idea, firearms should only be present only when the situation specifically calls for it. In Norway the firearms stay locked in the car and approval from a superior officer for them to be used, this seems like a good approach to me, at least in countries not inundated in gun violence.
That's a weird definition of coasting.. Of course you don't put the clutch in when coasting for a red light, that would entirely defeat the purpose of coasting, this is part of standard drivers education at least here. I don't have a car and don't drive much, but I do know how to coast.
Why are you linking to a US tv station? What possible evidence of anything could that be? Even RCTV which was taken off the public airwaves continue broadcasting their hatred of the government via cable and satellite, something which is very cheap and publicly available in Venezuela.
No, it *should not* be illegal to publish documents in the US, yet there he is. What I'm saying is if the US detains someone under torture-like condition simply for releasing "secret" documents, the people responsible for a TV station which aided a violent coup against the President of the United States, in which the President was physically abducted (which was the case in Venezuela in 2002), would be in deep trouble, no matter how much you believe otherwise.
There is most certainly freedom of speech in Venezuela, the Venezuelan media lambastes the government on a daily basis, on a vitriolic level rarely seen in western democracies.
There's a big difference between outing government actions which have been kept from the people and assisting a coup d'état against a democratically elected government. The first is most certainly protected speech and well within the bounds of freedom of speech, but the latter is plotting to overthrow a democratically elected government and most certainly warrants a prison sentence. Consider what has happened to Bradley Manning simply for leaking not-so-secret documents, can you even imagine what would happen to someone who assisted in the attempted violent overthrow of a US president?
There's a fundamental difference. Impeachment is well within the legal bounds of the constitution governing the United States. Advocating, openly supporting and assisting a coup d'état against the democratically elected government as Venezuelan media did is something entirely different. If it had happened in the US, the responsible would likely have been on death row by now.
Ah yes, the "murder-crazed totalitarians" Greg Grandin, NYU professor of history, pulitzer prize finalist, Yale PhD, and Amy Goodman, award-winning investigative journalist, arguably the best and most principled American investigative journalist at least I know of... Please, get a brain and use it, it's a powerful tool used correctly, but it requires development of some critical thinking skills, you won't get this by blindly swallowing anything Fox News tells you.
Exactly, the DRM is counter-productive. I was considering getting SimCity, I've been a fan of the SimCity series since I was a kid, but the problems with the DRM (combined with the outrageous price, about twice as much as I used to pay for boxed games including a manual, where there was a whole chain of distributors and manufacturers who needed their cut, for a *download*), I'm considering either not getting it at all or pirating it when the crack comes. I'm not paying that much money in order to be screwed out of playing the game single player due to a freaking server overloading, not to mention the problems with wine and Origin (the game apparently otherwise works fine in wine) meaning I would have to be completely cut-off from anything productive while playing.
I did impulse buy Civ5 Gold (even though I already had Civ 5 around somewhere, but not the expansions) the other day when they had a special, even installed Steam in wine to do it, first time I used Steam. I bet they would earn way more money with prices more geared towards impulse buys.
Chavez has done a lot of good for his country and for getting Latin America out from under the thumb of US domination, he was loved by many, but yes embalming seems a bit over the top, I can see no reason to do this. Keep the spirit of what he was trying to achieve alive, this will be a much better way to honor his memory than by putting his body on display.
Oh and for anyone interested in an in-depth and more balanced story about Chavez than the sound-byte propaganda put out by the mainstream media, read this excellent article. You may also be interested in watching this with Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
That word, I don't think it means what you think it means...
It's an interesting tool, but I've always been somewhat skeptical of tools that write the code for me, especially when collaborating with someone else who may not be using the same tool. There's also the issue of using the templates provided by e.g. conferences, how does that work?
Mod parent up!
I agree that is stupid, but that's not usually required of a good take-home exam. I've never had a take-home exam where you're not allowed to use course material or any kind of material you want to really, for some it was even allowed to discuss the questions with other students (but the answer still had to make clear that you understood the question and the answer obviously). Any take-home exam that you can finish by simply copying a few lines from a book is not a take-home exam (or a classroom exam for that matter) worth the name.
279 students seems a bit extreme to me, but whenever we had large classes, the lectures were complemented with exercises run by other teachers or TAs with around 20 students/excersie. Of course I studied engineering, but even with the humanities I can imagine smaller seminars to discuss the material from the lectures would be useful, the lecture is very much a one-way street in terms of learning, there's not much room for discussion, at least for the vast majority of the class.
It's also easier to use for kids than learning how to use a mouse and keyboard. Even a one-year-old can point on a screen, the pointing will trigger some sort of action on screen, maybe a sound, and they will be amused.
For that matter, from what I've gathered (on Slashdot) of working conditions in the IT industry in the US, they could certainly use a union. Unions are there to provide a counter-force to the interests of owners who would most like to have free 24 hour slave labor if it was possible. I would never go along with the working conditions told of here on Slashdot and they would never fly in a country which does have some measure of employee power. (even if it's quickly diminishing in the wake of 30 years of neoliberal policies here in Sweden)