Consider what the British did to Indus Valley civilization cities:
British engineers John and William Brunton were laying the East Indian Railway Company line connecting the cities of Karachi and Lahore. John wrote: "I was much exercised in my mind how we were to get ballast for the line of the railway." They were told of an ancient ruined city near the lines, called Brahminabad. Visiting the city, he found it full of hard well-burnt bricks, and "convinced that there was a grand quarry for the ballast I wanted," the city of Brahminabad was reduced to ballast.[15] A few months later, further north, John's brother William Brunton's "section of the line ran near another ruined city, bricks from which had already been used by villagers in the nearby village of Harappa at the same site. These bricks now provided ballast along 93 miles (150 km) of the railroad track running from Karachi to Lahore."[15]
Solution: govt provides a basic income (get the money from the Fed, the way financial institutions got $16 trillion), and encourages innovation with challenges, while leaving biz alone to innovate in its way. As long as we produce enough innovation that others want the currency remains strong, like Japan.
This post exemplifies the problem with market-based capitalism: risks are taken purely for money's sake. Instead of betting against a potentially world-changing technological breakthrough, why not use your resources to do research into how you can help to make it work? Risks should be taken in the lab, not in the market...
We also expend a lot of ordered energy in the form of speech waveforms, writing (as we're doing right now), and other, non-verbal, activies such as, say, drumming (ordered patterns of sound waves) or meditation (ordered patterns of brainwaves).
The second law is statistical and could be exploited. See the Fluctuation theorem:
The first laboratory experiment that verified the validity of the FT was carried out in 2002. In this experiment, a plastic bead was pulled through a solution by a laser. Fluctuations in the velocity were recorded that were opposite to what the second law of thermodynamics would dictate for macroscopic systems. See Wang et al. [Phys Rev Lett, 89, 050601(2002)] and later Carberry et al., [Phys Rev Lett, 92, 140601(2004)].
"Try explaining to a kid why a function accepting the same arguments can give different results in different parts of a program. This is highly non intuitive."
Natural language is intuitive, and it's context-sensitive...
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So we can program our own video shows, video games, vr's...
Our strength is in our ability to cooperate, not in our physical strength. Taking care of tigers and aboriginals is part of that strength. What can we learn from them, how can we cooperate to our mutual benefit? That is the direction evolution favors...
If evolution means the strong thrive and the weak go extinct, how come tigers are going extinct? In fact evolution favors those who cooperate, like ants and bees and humans, over the more solitary like the great apes who are stronger than humans...
Many animals, however, certainly sympathise with each other's distress or danger. This is the case even with birds; Capt. Stansbury11 found on a salt lake in Utah an old and completely blind pelican, which was very fat, and must have been long and well fed by his companions. Mr. Blyth, as he informs me, saw Indian crows feeding two or three of their companions which were blind; and I have heard of an analogous case with the domestic cock.
A more recent example contradicting "survival of the fittest" among animals:
Unalienable rights are self-evident. How many Louis Armstrongs existed before slavery ended? Remember that the reason for the economic collapse was (white?) Wall Street traders making $2 billion bets against the toxic assets they sold you while telling you "it's okay, we have a $6 million stake in it too!"
"As regards morality, I am bound to assign to the Dayaks a high place in the scale of civilization.... Robberies and theft are entirely unknown among them. They also are very truthful.... If I did not always get the ' whole truth,' I always got, at least, nothing but the truth from them. I wish I could say the same of the Malays" (pp. 209 and 210).
Bock's testimony is fully corroborated by that of Ida Pfeiffer. "I fully recognized," she wrote, "that I should be pleased longer to travel among them. I usually found them honest, good, and reserved... much more so than any other nation I know."
Consider also that money is kept artificially scarce by bankers who fear they can't get attention otherwise.
The pensions and health plans are for soldiers. The purpose of intelligence is defense.
In conclusion, the parent post is using hyperbolic exaggeration to try to discredit the article I linked to, shamelessly misapplying "reductio ad absurdum" by extending the items which have a direct relation to defense to those that don't.
"To get closer to a real figure, it’s necessary to start peeking at other parts of the federal budget where so many other pots of security spending are squirreled away."
Yeah, but we don't have to execute them. Run a simulation, find out who would have won, and let ppl live their lives as they wish while the politicians play their games without hurting anyone!
A ponzi scheme is designed to enrich the ppl who created it. Social Security is not. Did FDR get rich by taking social security taxes? Using "Ponzi Scheme" to describe Social Security is clearly a blatant ploy to cloud the issue with emotion and ignore facts.
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Have you heard of modal logic? Or possible worlds?
Yet the question remains, why did so many "drop dead" in the same place?
"That's a bit like claiming that bodies in a cemetary are actually a serial killer's victims."
Even if it's a cemetary that would be interesting in itself, implying some kind of well-developed awareness on the part of the animals...
Consider what the British did to Indus Valley civilization cities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization#Discovery_and_excavation
Solution: govt provides a basic income (get the money from the Fed, the way financial institutions got $16 trillion), and encourages innovation with challenges, while leaving biz alone to innovate in its way. As long as we produce enough innovation that others want the currency remains strong, like Japan.
This post exemplifies the problem with market-based capitalism: risks are taken purely for money's sake. Instead of betting against a potentially world-changing technological breakthrough, why not use your resources to do research into how you can help to make it work? Risks should be taken in the lab, not in the market...
I read the article and watched the video, where are they "very very skeptical"? They seemed fair and open-minded to me.
We also expend a lot of ordered energy in the form of speech waveforms, writing (as we're doing right now), and other, non-verbal, activies such as, say, drumming (ordered patterns of sound waves) or meditation (ordered patterns of brainwaves).
The second law is statistical and could be exploited. See the Fluctuation theorem:
"Try explaining to a kid why a function accepting the same arguments can give different results in different parts of a program. This is highly non intuitive."
Natural language is intuitive, and it's context-sensitive...
So we can program our own video shows, video games, vr's...
Why did the "ape leaders" decide to free slaves, then give them the vote, then give women the vote, then establish civil rights laws?
Govt is us. It is up to us to improve it. We are the ultimate authority. Democracy is by the people, for the people, of the people.
From the first link I got to this page which has the delicious quote:
"we might want to stop thinking about jobs as the main aspect of our lives that we want to save. They may be a means, but they are not the ends."
Our strength is in our ability to cooperate, not in our physical strength. Taking care of tigers and aboriginals is part of that strength. What can we learn from them, how can we cooperate to our mutual benefit? That is the direction evolution favors...
If evolution means the strong thrive and the weak go extinct, how come tigers are going extinct? In fact evolution favors those who cooperate, like ants and bees and humans, over the more solitary like the great apes who are stronger than humans...
"[...] the kind of evolution and survival of the fittest that animals go through [...]"
Quoting Darwin ( Descent of Man , page 77):
A more recent example contradicting "survival of the fittest" among animals:
Orca Whales Take Care of a Permanently Disabled Individual – For Years:
Unalienable rights are self-evident. How many Louis Armstrongs existed before slavery ended? Remember that the reason for the economic collapse was (white?) Wall Street traders making $2 billion bets against the toxic assets they sold you while telling you "it's okay, we have a $6 million stake in it too!"
Contrast the Dayaks of Borneo, of whom Kropotkin writes in Chapter 3 of Mutual Aid :
Consider also that money is kept artificially scarce by bankers who fear they can't get attention otherwise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevant_logic
The pensions and health plans are for soldiers. The purpose of intelligence is defense.
In conclusion, the parent post is using hyperbolic exaggeration to try to discredit the article I linked to, shamelessly misapplying "reductio ad absurdum" by extending the items which have a direct relation to defense to those that don't.
According to Chris Hellman, the defense budget is more like $1.2 trillion. Link: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175361/
"To get closer to a real figure, it’s necessary to start peeking at other parts of the federal budget where so many other pots of security spending are squirreled away."
Yeah, but we don't have to execute them. Run a simulation, find out who would have won, and let ppl live their lives as they wish while the politicians play their games without hurting anyone!
A ponzi scheme is designed to enrich the ppl who created it. Social Security is not. Did FDR get rich by taking social security taxes? Using "Ponzi Scheme" to describe Social Security is clearly a blatant ploy to cloud the issue with emotion and ignore facts.
Move all violence to online simulations.
Look up Ponzi Scheme. It requires fraud, misrepresentation. US Govt is not lying about where the money goes. The Poker company is.
English has different transformational rules than math.
John, from a tree, picked an apple.
John picked an apple, from a tree.
In English, I guess both can mean John was in the tree when he picked the apple, or only the apple was from the tree.
The point is I think that in English, both interpretations are possible. Given no other context, the two interpretations are superposed.