The eternal divide remains: make money, or do what is perceived as "right"?
The Olympics is going to be a gigantic spectacle, a media event and a profit center, whether it's under a "freedom"-loving liberal democracy, or totalitarian propaganda staged in stadiums built on heaps of dead dissidents.
A consumer boycott might unite 1% of the citizens of the United States, most of whom are east coast liberals who weren't going to watch it anyway (sports are for blue collar people), and cost the organizers enough to make them think differently -- but the next Olympics isn't in China anyway, and by the time another "oppressive" (not "freedom"-loving) state hosts the Olympics, the decision-makers will be retired or promoted to different positions.
So in short, fold your arms and do nothing. There's nothing you can do.
The business model required to purchase a Windows machine is broken.
There are no retailers who sell, out of the box, any kind of optimally adapted PC, configured correctly and free of junkware.
Because margins are so low, they stoop to ludicrous scams like putting junk components next to good ones, or (as Dell is famous for doing) buying everything on the cheap for a computer that crashes -- and the users blame Windows.
Microsoft's #1 challenge is to overcome this deficiency.
I would suggest they do as Apple did and open a chain of stores to sell preferred machines, configured well, or find someone who can.
The consumer faces a series of bad options when buying a Windows machine, and most won't understand how to build their own, even though it's simple even for the layman at this point.
Selling desktop software, including the OS, is Microsoft's biggest business. They need to tackle this gaping crack in their armor before they move on to any fancier but less necessary visions.
Your statistics assume an optimal result from the farming in question, which is not likely, and a minimal diet. Even more, I question your figures: my own suggest that we would need twice that amount of land, especially given necessary crop rotation.
New York City does not manufacture its own products, its own medicines, its own computers, its own pet food, and many other things it will need.
Even more, through your "better distribution of resources," you could create a clonelike world of apartments that would drive every smart person to suicide and cause a total lack of forward momentum, as it did in Soviet Russia.
I think many people are drawn to "clean" solutions that seem numerically sound, but leave out the entire chain of events required to bring about a result. Your solution is like purchasing products at Wal-mart: "this says it can do it, so it should have a 100% successful optimal result."
I agree with a lot of what you say, but as someone with teaching experience, the learning process can't all be free form. You need to bring everyone together on the same page, AND THEN cut them free to learn on their own.
Most good teachers will teach this way if allowed, but in Texas, between the PC police and the No Child Left Behind, teachers are extremely limited in what they can teach. Their lesson plans are literally dictated to them, and if they deviate and something goes wrong, it's a career problem.
Everything looks like a nail. This is the programmer disease: they're so used to configuring stuff on their boxes, they don't realize (a) their programs must connect to reality at some point and (b) not everyone wants to spend hours every day playing computer. Solipsists.
We have too many people, and most of them are stupid, criminal, parasitic or simply unexceptional in every way.
The herd needs thinning! But that's unpopular to say, so let's ban video games instead.
WTF
Too much desk work, doing boring pointless projects, dulls the soul. Hours of marching to meet a foe in battle who outnumbers you, facing certain death with a chance to dispense death... that drops those pounds like nothing else!
You're confusing Platonism with dualism.
In Platonic principle, the idea is manifested in reality, so we can discover its form and from that pattern understand its design principle.
Ever read the Pattern Language books by Christopher Alexander? Yep, that idea.
Dualism says there's another world, and we must touch that world to be able to understand it. It's crazy talk for Semitic shepherds on fly agaric.
I can call my doctor on my cell phone, or call my lover, but now much of that is done with the net. If I get one thing wrong on one project at work, this empowers my employers to know too much about me, and use it against me. It's as if Big Brother was a corporation not a government.
In the old days, they used to mail it to you. Yeah, on paper. And then you had to throw it out, and 800 billion tons of it are rotting in a landfill somewhere. The Fortune 1000 contains some of the people least concerned about the environment, or your spam-free virgin mailbox.
There was heavy metal, starting with Black Sabbath, and the commercial gods saw it was good and so cloned it. That got you Whitesnake, Motley Crue, Poison, and all that glam junk. True, the artists themselves were willing to sell out.
So metal tried again with speed metal, and bands like Metallica and Slayer and Nuclear Assault ruled the earth. Until the money got too good.
Metal tried yet again with death metal, but that got cloned by all sorts of miserable hip-hop hybrids like Slipknot, Korn, SOAD, etc. They cloned black metal, too, but it took longer because it was as anarchistic as punk but hailed traditional values, including ethnic independence.
There is still "true" underground metal which is intense, Romanticist art. But the same thing that makes the RIAA whores makes their music whorelike, and we the underground metal fans are determined to oppose it.
Selfishness is what kills human endeavors. People want to be comfortable and happy, and in doing so, they strangle other plans that might help all of us. They go too far. That's why they need leaders. If you let most people pick their future, they'll screw it up.
If your only concern for our population is that they're comfortable and happy, you can win elections by handing out free Big Macs and Budweiser. Is that the human future you want?
On the contrary, eugenicists and dictators produce some of the best people in history -- they're just outnumbered. Check your facts before posting, please!
Get Sun's hands off of him and get him into the White House! Democracy (spit) has gotten this country one liar after another as president, and we finally got a real dummy. Democracy (spit) gets us Windows on every PC, garbage television pre-empting "Dr Who" reruns, and the idea that a football player is MORE IMPORTANT than a genius programmer in high school. Democracy (spit) is more concerned with abortion, gay marriage and Iraq than saving our collective human assDemocracy (spit) is closed source. Intelligent dictatorship and eugenics is truly the best winning, and is the only open source alternative to democracy (spit).
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The eternal divide remains: make money, or do what is perceived as "right"?
The Olympics is going to be a gigantic spectacle, a media event and a profit center, whether it's under a "freedom"-loving liberal democracy, or totalitarian propaganda staged in stadiums built on heaps of dead dissidents.
A consumer boycott might unite 1% of the citizens of the United States, most of whom are east coast liberals who weren't going to watch it anyway (sports are for blue collar people), and cost the organizers enough to make them think differently -- but the next Olympics isn't in China anyway, and by the time another "oppressive" (not "freedom"-loving) state hosts the Olympics, the decision-makers will be retired or promoted to different positions.
So in short, fold your arms and do nothing. There's nothing you can do.
The business model required to purchase a Windows machine is broken.
There are no retailers who sell, out of the box, any kind of optimally adapted PC, configured correctly and free of junkware.
Because margins are so low, they stoop to ludicrous scams like putting junk components next to good ones, or (as Dell is famous for doing) buying everything on the cheap for a computer that crashes -- and the users blame Windows.
Microsoft's #1 challenge is to overcome this deficiency.
I would suggest they do as Apple did and open a chain of stores to sell preferred machines, configured well, or find someone who can.
The consumer faces a series of bad options when buying a Windows machine, and most won't understand how to build their own, even though it's simple even for the layman at this point.
Selling desktop software, including the OS, is Microsoft's biggest business. They need to tackle this gaping crack in their armor before they move on to any fancier but less necessary visions.
Your model lacks infrastructure and beauty.
Your statistics assume an optimal result from the farming in question, which is not likely, and a minimal diet. Even more, I question your figures: my own suggest that we would need twice that amount of land, especially given necessary crop rotation.
New York City does not manufacture its own products, its own medicines, its own computers, its own pet food, and many other things it will need.
Even more, through your "better distribution of resources," you could create a clonelike world of apartments that would drive every smart person to suicide and cause a total lack of forward momentum, as it did in Soviet Russia.
I think many people are drawn to "clean" solutions that seem numerically sound, but leave out the entire chain of events required to bring about a result. Your solution is like purchasing products at Wal-mart: "this says it can do it, so it should have a 100% successful optimal result."
I agree with a lot of what you say, but as someone with teaching experience, the learning process can't all be free form. You need to bring everyone together on the same page, AND THEN cut them free to learn on their own.
Most good teachers will teach this way if allowed, but in Texas, between the PC police and the No Child Left Behind, teachers are extremely limited in what they can teach. Their lesson plans are literally dictated to them, and if they deviate and something goes wrong, it's a career problem.
Everything looks like a nail. This is the programmer disease: they're so used to configuring stuff on their boxes, they don't realize (a) their programs must connect to reality at some point and (b) not everyone wants to spend hours every day playing computer. Solipsists.
We're charging our battery
And now we're full of energy
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We're functioning automatic
And we are dancing mechanic
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)
ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)
we are programmed just to do
anything you want us to
we are the robots
we are the robots
we are the robots
we are the robots
we're functioning automatic
and we are dancing mechanic
we are the robots
we are the robots
we are the robots
we are the robots
Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)
ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)
Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)
ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)
[repeat to fade]
We are the robots
We have too many people, and most of them are stupid, criminal, parasitic or simply unexceptional in every way. The herd needs thinning! But that's unpopular to say, so let's ban video games instead. WTF
Too much desk work, doing boring pointless projects, dulls the soul. Hours of marching to meet a foe in battle who outnumbers you, facing certain death with a chance to dispense death... that drops those pounds like nothing else!
You're confusing Platonism with dualism. In Platonic principle, the idea is manifested in reality, so we can discover its form and from that pattern understand its design principle. Ever read the Pattern Language books by Christopher Alexander? Yep, that idea. Dualism says there's another world, and we must touch that world to be able to understand it. It's crazy talk for Semitic shepherds on fly agaric.
I can call my doctor on my cell phone, or call my lover, but now much of that is done with the net. If I get one thing wrong on one project at work, this empowers my employers to know too much about me, and use it against me. It's as if Big Brother was a corporation not a government.
That's the biggest flop of all... well I guess it did make money. Maybe making money is a flop, because I'd much rather use an Apple Lisa than AOL!
More nostalgia unrelated to reality. Enjoy! Oh, but pay full price.
In the old days, they used to mail it to you. Yeah, on paper. And then you had to throw it out, and 800 billion tons of it are rotting in a landfill somewhere. The Fortune 1000 contains some of the people least concerned about the environment, or your spam-free virgin mailbox.
So metal tried again with speed metal, and bands like Metallica and Slayer and Nuclear Assault ruled the earth. Until the money got too good.
Metal tried yet again with death metal, but that got cloned by all sorts of miserable hip-hop hybrids like Slipknot, Korn, SOAD, etc. They cloned black metal, too, but it took longer because it was as anarchistic as punk but hailed traditional values, including ethnic independence.
There is still "true" underground metal which is intense, Romanticist art. But the same thing that makes the RIAA whores makes their music whorelike, and we the underground metal fans are determined to oppose it.
Selfishness is what kills human endeavors. People want to be comfortable and happy, and in doing so, they strangle other plans that might help all of us. They go too far. That's why they need leaders. If you let most people pick their future, they'll screw it up. If your only concern for our population is that they're comfortable and happy, you can win elections by handing out free Big Macs and Budweiser. Is that the human future you want? On the contrary, eugenicists and dictators produce some of the best people in history -- they're just outnumbered. Check your facts before posting, please!
Get Sun's hands off of him and get him into the White House! Democracy (spit) has gotten this country one liar after another as president, and we finally got a real dummy. Democracy (spit) gets us Windows on every PC, garbage television pre-empting "Dr Who" reruns, and the idea that a football player is MORE IMPORTANT than a genius programmer in high school. Democracy (spit) is more concerned with abortion, gay marriage and Iraq than saving our collective human assDemocracy (spit) is closed source. Intelligent dictatorship and eugenics is truly the best winning, and is the only open source alternative to democracy (spit).