It wasn't always like this. Keynes, for instance, believed (along with others) that advances in technology would allow people to work much less and enjoy life more. We've said it here so many times it's worn through, but technology was supposed to spread out the benefits, allow less work and more enjoyment of life, not widening gap of fear and grasping where neither the rich NOR the poor seem happy with what they have.
There are some great books to kickstart the brain on this, I find Tom Hodgkinson's "How to Be Idle" and "The Idler's Companion" are good places to pause and ponder, a good launching point.
We need a major shift in the way people think about work, running themselves into the ground. A major cultural shift. What I fear is that mankind will keep on the way it has: Letting millions starve when there's more than enough to go around, competing and making various ***ocracies.
On the other hand, one might consider reading that "Rat Race and Why You Need It" book (or whatever it's called) for some counterpoint.
Advance in technology is good, I don't want to come across as a luddite here, but can't there be a middle ground? Isn't it supposed to be a social net to catch those displaced but a rapidly advancing society?
Yeah, I'd be suggesting that you're pretty sadistic, and you should think about how your actions impact the emotions and well-being of other people. Frankly, YOU need a parent, or a swift kick in the nuts.
Anybody else get the email about this? I'm hearing that CNET has a 1000 page document outlining that the government has already allowed companies total immunity from prosecution over backdoors for wiretapping, and they just want to retroactively make it legal with CISPA. Am I really late on the game here, or not?
Clinton administration. Republican congress reigned him in and helped allow the surplus that is sometimes touted. It's much more complex than that I'm sure, but I'm just trying to bring some balance here.
Maybe a bit off topic, but... I spoke with someone recently who expressed concern about algorithms relating to self-driving cars, not just laws. When start having computers written to decide who gets a fine, for instance, self-driving cars will have safety algorithms which, depending on how a crash goes, are likely to have to decide at some point who stays safe and who doesn't in an inevitable crash.
So, what are the limits of computer code in these situations?
4.39 Mbps? Yessiree, the time AT&T spent ten years giving people speeds just barely fast enough that they wouldn't tear the cable out of the wall then tear the executives in two for charging $75/mo, oh those were the good years. Golden years! Wish we had'em back yessirree.
We had about 7-9Mbps up in Andersonville when I was living there last year and it was adequate, but could have been better. The upstream was awful, though.
It is 2013, we should demand better for all the money we pay to these yahoos.
it's not just that. The rare earths in China don't have to be refined as much as the stuff found pretty much everywhere else on earth. I don't remember the term, but a metallurgist friend explained it to me once, saying that hands down China is at the front of the pack because of this.
So, I'd be interested to know if the rare earths (and I know, there are many substances under that umbrella) found here are of a similar purity to the ones in China or the ones in the States.
I eat paleo at work unless we're treated to lunch. Even then , go for mostly meat and veggies.
Also, isometrics. Tense muscles *as hard as possible* for 10-20 seconds. Do that a couple times and hour every other day or so and I have to say it's not too bad, seemingly. Then I go home and get some exercise in a few times a week, yoga a couple times a week. Maybe hiking or walking, something slow and steady, on weekends ideally.
I love all that junk food, but I guess I like being in shape more. Also, cutting out the crud seems to keep my energy up. I can't imagine being strung out on coffee and sugary stuff all the time. Since I went mostly paleo about a year ago I'm less moody, which is great.
Another person from LA here to speak up. It's total bullshit up in the hills here near La Canada. You either get DSL (in a major metropolitan area! and it STILL goes out regularly!) or you get the most unreliable, pricey, crappy AT&T cable you can imagine. I thought moving from Chicago things would be better, but it just blows. I want to cockpunch (and I mean stretch the thing out, lay it on a slab, and punch it) repeatedly the moneygrubbers on this one. Actually, fact might be it's the investors doing it. More profit! It must be good because more profit! Hard to say, but a bunch of people deserve a swift kick in the softies for this travesty they call internet service.
Manufacturing and materials science in the U.S. is gutted. People who know key information are dying and leaving, and we're having to relearn things at this point. It was REALLY bad 5 years ago, and it's only going to get worse unless we (say it with me) INVEST MONEY IN IT.
It SHOULD be (imo), but it's been used to simply get people to make more stuff so far. There's a huge body of literature about this going back the last couple hundred years. I suggest starting with "How to Be Idle", it gives a good overview on the subject, is a fun read, and points one in some good directions on where humanity may have gone wrong in our drive to Be Really Busy.
Precisely, so while i recognize the productivity numbers in the north/south post, I don't see how its relevant given the larger context of "nations are built on the work of desperate, overworked peons"
The movie "Strange Days" may not have been a truly great film, but I feel it at least approached those subjects. They could cause a very real shift in the way people live their lives (or don't, as the case may be)
Let me add: This is the same thing we've been saying since at least the N64 (maybe Super Nintendo, though there was Pilot Wings) "I have no use for it now, but there are more games coming out." I show my age, but I remember the same argument for every single nintendo console release. This is par for the course. Buy your NTDOY stock now, while it's cheap.
No. No. No. I don't believe this dumb shit anymore, and neither should you. In fact, I don't think you even believe what you're saying.
HOW MANY PEOPLE have you talked to that thought the DHS was a good idea?
Now, HOW MANY PEOPLE have you talked to that think the DHS is a worthless hole for tax dollars to go into?
I posit that this "it makes stupid people feel secure" notion is just a way fro smart people to feel smug that they're "in the know" about the DHS while all the dumb people run the country because since smart people are SO SMART they could do it better. It's basically a talking point that politicians LOVE to see bandied about, because they actually are smart enough to know that when you talk like this you are actually helping them: You feel good and superior, the tax dollars keep flowing and nothing gets done about it.
I'm just SO tired of this moronic talking point... aren't we smarter than this, Slashdot!?
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It wasn't always like this. Keynes, for instance, believed (along with others) that advances in technology would allow people to work much less and enjoy life more.
We've said it here so many times it's worn through, but technology was supposed to spread out the benefits, allow less work and more enjoyment of life, not widening gap of fear and grasping where neither the rich NOR the poor seem happy with what they have.
There are some great books to kickstart the brain on this, I find Tom Hodgkinson's "How to Be Idle" and "The Idler's Companion" are good places to pause and ponder, a good launching point.
We need a major shift in the way people think about work, running themselves into the ground. A major cultural shift. What I fear is that mankind will keep on the way it has: Letting millions starve when there's more than enough to go around, competing and making various ***ocracies.
On the other hand, one might consider reading that "Rat Race and Why You Need It" book (or whatever it's called) for some counterpoint.
Advance in technology is good, I don't want to come across as a luddite here, but can't there be a middle ground? Isn't it supposed to be a social net to catch those displaced but a rapidly advancing society?
Yeah, I'd be suggesting that you're pretty sadistic, and you should think about how your actions impact the emotions and well-being of other people. Frankly, YOU need a parent, or a swift kick in the nuts.
A friend from high school was working on this, what, 6-8 years ago for a college's music archive.
Is that you causing all this ruckus, Rob?
Anybody else get the email about this? I'm hearing that CNET has a 1000 page document outlining that the government has already allowed companies total immunity from prosecution over backdoors for wiretapping, and they just want to retroactively make it legal with CISPA.
Am I really late on the game here, or not?
Clinton administration. Republican congress reigned him in and helped allow the surplus that is sometimes touted.
It's much more complex than that I'm sure, but I'm just trying to bring some balance here.
All I want on the side of my battery not is a logo that says, "King/Pikul" Start a jam band, name it King Pickle, profit.
And no Oxford Comma, apparently.
Shame on you!
http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/content/sega-master-system-vs-nintendo-entertainment-system
Nintendo hardware wasn't even close to better than the SMS. A cursory look at the specs will tell you that. The SMS had more processing power, better graphics and sound.
Maybe a bit off topic, but...
I spoke with someone recently who expressed concern about algorithms relating to self-driving cars, not just laws. When start having computers written to decide who gets a fine, for instance, self-driving cars will have safety algorithms which, depending on how a crash goes, are likely to have to decide at some point who stays safe and who doesn't in an inevitable crash.
So, what are the limits of computer code in these situations?
4.39 Mbps?
Yessiree, the time AT&T spent ten years giving people speeds just barely fast enough that they wouldn't tear the cable out of the wall then tear the executives in two for charging $75/mo, oh those were the good years. Golden years! Wish we had'em back yessirree.
We had about 7-9Mbps up in Andersonville when I was living there last year and it was adequate, but could have been better. The upstream was awful, though.
It is 2013, we should demand better for all the money we pay to these yahoos.
Sharks jealous, news at 11
it's not just that. The rare earths in China don't have to be refined as much as the stuff found pretty much everywhere else on earth. I don't remember the term, but a metallurgist friend explained it to me once, saying that hands down China is at the front of the pack because of this.
So, I'd be interested to know if the rare earths (and I know, there are many substances under that umbrella) found here are of a similar purity to the ones in China or the ones in the States.
it's just a troll headline to get donations for the EFF...
Ever think about that, Slashdot? Come on, where are all the tinfoil hats?
THAT's when we should party it down for Pi day.
Also, I'm going to a maker space for the first time to learn about El Wire and scarf me some pie. Yay!
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Water, some tea or a little coffee sometimes.
I eat paleo at work unless we're treated to lunch. Even then , go for mostly meat and veggies.
Also, isometrics. Tense muscles *as hard as possible* for 10-20 seconds. Do that a couple times and hour every other day or so and I have to say it's not too bad, seemingly. Then I go home and get some exercise in a few times a week, yoga a couple times a week. Maybe hiking or walking, something slow and steady, on weekends ideally.
I love all that junk food, but I guess I like being in shape more. Also, cutting out the crud seems to keep my energy up. I can't imagine being strung out on coffee and sugary stuff all the time. Since I went mostly paleo about a year ago I'm less moody, which is great.
Good luck!
Another person from LA here to speak up. It's total bullshit up in the hills here near La Canada. You either get DSL (in a major metropolitan area! and it STILL goes out regularly!) or you get the most unreliable, pricey, crappy AT&T cable you can imagine.
I thought moving from Chicago things would be better, but it just blows. I want to cockpunch (and I mean stretch the thing out, lay it on a slab, and punch it) repeatedly the moneygrubbers on this one. Actually, fact might be it's the investors doing it. More profit! It must be good because more profit! Hard to say, but a bunch of people deserve a swift kick in the softies for this travesty they call internet service.
Manufacturing and materials science in the U.S. is gutted.
People who know key information are dying and leaving, and we're having to relearn things at this point.
It was REALLY bad 5 years ago, and it's only going to get worse unless we (say it with me) INVEST MONEY IN IT.
Good lord is America ever short-sighted.
It SHOULD be (imo), but it's been used to simply get people to make more stuff so far. There's a huge body of literature about this going back the last couple hundred years. I suggest starting with "How to Be Idle", it gives a good overview on the subject, is a fun read, and points one in some good directions on where humanity may have gone wrong in our drive to Be Really Busy.
Precisely, so while i recognize the productivity numbers in the north/south post, I don't see how its relevant given the larger context of "nations are built on the work of desperate, overworked peons"
Me! and my girlfriend!
We've both contested multiple tickets via mail and won. Doesn't cost a dime.
wow, I replied before finishing your post. I feel like a complete /. tool. My apologies.
The movie "Strange Days" may not have been a truly great film, but I feel it at least approached those subjects. They could cause a very real shift in the way people live their lives (or don't, as the case may be)
Wow, FIVE me too posts?
Let me add: This is the same thing we've been saying since at least the N64 (maybe Super Nintendo, though there was Pilot Wings) "I have no use for it now, but there are more games coming out." I show my age, but I remember the same argument for every single nintendo console release.
This is par for the course. Buy your NTDOY stock now, while it's cheap.
No. No. No. I don't believe this dumb shit anymore, and neither should you. In fact, I don't think you even believe what you're saying.
HOW MANY PEOPLE have you talked to that thought the DHS was a good idea?
Now, HOW MANY PEOPLE have you talked to that think the DHS is a worthless hole for tax dollars to go into?
I posit that this "it makes stupid people feel secure" notion is just a way fro smart people to feel smug that they're "in the know" about the DHS while all the dumb people run the country because since smart people are SO SMART they could do it better. It's basically a talking point that politicians LOVE to see bandied about, because they actually are smart enough to know that when you talk like this you are actually helping them: You feel good and superior, the tax dollars keep flowing and nothing gets done about it.
I'm just SO tired of this moronic talking point... aren't we smarter than this, Slashdot!?
Well... can't you just pencil it in instead?