Santorum is on Pennsylvania's shitlist for a bunch of reasons. He is up for re-election in 2006, and let us just say that he stands a snowballs chance in hell of returning. The Democrats are going so far as to put a Pro-Lifer up against him to divide the Christian Right vote.
Santorum is on the record for saying a pile of things that have alienated him from anyone with an IQ above 70. He has also been next to useless when the BRAC tried to remove that last active airbase in PA.
I work at a science museum with such a feed. We have a pair of Sparc stations that suck down weather products in real time. Back before Sept 11, we also used to get commercial aircraft position data. That made for a really cool looking map.
I would say that remorse is not the key. A sense of duty is a far more powerful motivator.
I'm an ENTx on the Meyer's brigs personality survey. They puts me dead smack in between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. I find that I almost never regret an action I took, even if things went badly. There are times though when my motives weren't all that pure, and those are the types of things that nag my conciounce. And I feel bad about the actions even if things went right in the end.
Folks like the person in your example lack a moral compass. They live only for themselves, and you are right, they are absolutely destructive in a position of authority. However, it you aren't careful about the adjectives you use to describe them your filter will net self-motivated individuals who ARE constructive in authority.
I have no idea how to measure one's moral compass. I take it for granted that I have one. Some of the things that are good and evil don't make sense logically. That's probably why I'm more comfortable saying I'm a Taoist than a Christian. Christ himself was probabably a Taoist, but nobody studies what he actually said. Most sermons I've heard focus on the writing of Paul (a moralist) and/or the old Testiment where God literally spelled out what was good and bad for you.
I think the mechanism is very similar to the masoquist. Stimulis that would be interpreted by a 'normal' brain as uncomfortable or painful is actually registered as pleasurable to a masoquist.
You are also simplifying military training a bit. Military training does not even touch on killing. Instead it stresses automatic reactions. When threatened, you are given a sophisticated response that your body carries out before it gets the chance to be worried or scared.
The prevelance of "Post Traumatic Stress" in returning vets is more or less proof that while the training allows the soldier to survive, it doesn't really address the problem of living with the fact that you have killed another human being.
Oddly, PTS is almost unheard of in snipers. Snipers attribute this to the fact that when they are acquiring and prosecuting a target, they are just doing a job. The derive no pain or joy from the exercise, and their actions are so methodical that emotion is not involved in the decision making process.
Any leadership role generally requires a big head and a good bit of knife work. What seperates a "leader" from a "killer" is how much they enjoy the knife work.
Mao, Castro, and Che set out to lead. Stalin (at times) and Pol Pot were just flat out to kill people, to the point that it impacted their ability to lead and the welfare of their respective countries.
Hilter was another "killer" on the podium. He really didn't give a rats ass what happened to Germany after he was done with it. As soon as it was clear the Nazis were going to lose to the Allies, he actually embarked on a program to destroy the infrastructure of Germany to punish his "weak" people.
Both Hilter and Stalin were also fond of "cleaning house" by periodically killing off members of their party they suspected of not quite towing the line (or plotting to kill them, etc.)
If you read the article, narcism is a pre-requisit. The difference between Andrew Festow and Bill Gates is namely that Bill Gates (while big headed and meglomaniacal) thinks of the company as an extension of himself. Festow saw the company as a means to an end.
Narcisists are very beneficial to a company. Psychopaths will sell it and the shareholders up the river as soon as it benefits his self interest. And even more scary, psychopaths LOOK for those oppertunities because it thrills them.
To everything there is a season, and
a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and
a time to die;
a time to plant, and
a time to pluck up
that which is planted;
A time to kill, and
a time to heal;
a time to break down, and
a time to build up;
A time to weep, and
a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and
a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and
a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and
a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and
a time to lose;
a time to keep, and
a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and
a time to sow;
a time to keep silence, and
a time to speak;
A time to love, and
a time to hate;
a time of war; and
a time of peace.
--Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
The Tao gives birth to all of creation.
The virtue of Tao in nature nurtures them,
and their family give them their form.
Their environment then shapes them into completion.
That is why every creature honors the Tao and its virtue.
No one tells them to honor the Tao and its virtue,
it happens all by itself.
So the Tao gives them birth,
and its virtue cultivates them,
cares for them,
nurtures them,
gives them a place of refuge and peace,
helps them to grow and shelters them.
It gives them life without wanting to posses them,
and cares for them expecting nothing in return.
It is their master, but it does not seek to dominate them.
This is called the dark and mysterious virtue.
--The Tao te Ching, Chapter 51
Religion and Philosophy have long known that it's a big world that needs a lot of stuff we can't always conteplate the purpose of.
I feel the same way about tomatos. They were bred to be rubber balls and survive trips from Chile. But they have absolutely no taste at all. I remember tomatos right from my mom's garden. A slice of that with some salt on top... heaven.
No actually it's dripping sarcasm with a touch of the sardonic.
I have the sense that if you don't uncover at least 2 fundi plots before lunch your day is wasted.
In the case of fruit a freak plants in the past that built a structure that was yummy for motile creatures. For whatever reason, its seeds where encased in said structure, and where spread to wherever the animal releaved itself next.
Not only did the plant's range spread quickly, it's progeny was planted with a big pile of fertilizer!
I don't claim that it's intelligent design. It's an idea that worked, and we have plenty of rough steps along the way to prove it was more or less a shot in the dark.
Siberian Tigers have very specific adaptations to the cold. One of them is their sheer size (at over 850lbs) and thicker fur coat. Tiger species range in habitat between Jungle and Tundra/
Lions are only found in the savanna and around the borders of deserts. If they could survive anywhere else, they would have by now.
New Jersey is too nasty of an environment for Elephants. Any that actually manage to survive are usually offered a do-nothing role in the Federal Government.
Windows is in a pickel of its own making. To cut the throats of competitors, they buried what should be application code into the guts of the OS and knitted things like "Spell Check", "Program Scripting", and "Contact Lists" into the API. As a result, the API is overly complex. It is also confused about when something is working on the hardware, OS, Application, or User level. A call that is designed to retrieve an address from an address book can, with a little hacking, access the registry or even the file system.
If anything Windows will be out in the cold. To secure their system they are going to have to start from scratch with the API. A lot of companies that write custom software, forced to migate their software no matter what, will migrate to Unix-like systems because the API has more of less been set in stone for 20 years, and will remain so for the future.
And should a new API break your code, you can keep running on the old API. It will be supported as long as someone has a copy of the code.
I've interviewed at a few of them. They don't listen to their own staff. They listen to contractors and consultants. And contractors and consultants don't usually build stuff for the long term. Consultants build systems to meet requirements, budget, and schedule. Whether it works in 6 months (or after the next rev of Windows/SQL Server/etc) is not their problem.
Getting back to my point, if you want to be heard, be a consultant.
Remember, cow muscle evolved to move the cow around, not to feed people.
Not true. Mankind has been selectively breeding cattle for thousands of years. In that time we have literally bred them to be tasty. I remember seeing a while back a bit on CNN about cattler farmers using Ultrasound to measure the fat content and muscle mass of steer so they can tell who to stud before having to breed them, raise the offspring, then slaughter the offspring to get the information.
You also suffer from the falicy that any biomass is intended to be food. With the exception of milk and fruit, everything we eat was a creature or plant that had other ideas.
Our organization has been running for several years with a web-based calendar and contact list system. One thing we have going for us is that nobody in upper management has ever worked with Outlook, and the few that have not been able to name a capability in Outlook that doesn't work with our system. (They complain because they have to do it in a browser instead of having it all come up through the Email client.)
We migrated the stafflist to LDAP, so the argument about the staff list not showing up when composing emails has been vanquished as well.
I think what people need to realize is that contact and scheduling systems are an amalgam of several networking protocols. With a pretty front end. I keep forgetting the pretty front end. In any case, and fool with enough time on his hands and a DB backend could build his own.
Considering it was a 6'2", 200lb football player vs. a 5'2" 100lb nerd, my Evil Twin would have had to have been packing heat.
The worst part was the crowd that just stood there stupidly while I was literally beaten into unconciousness. No offer of help. Not even cheering the fucker on. Just standing there stupid.
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Santorum is on the record for saying a pile of things that have alienated him from anyone with an IQ above 70. He has also been next to useless when the BRAC tried to remove that last active airbase in PA.
I work at a science museum with such a feed. We have a pair of Sparc stations that suck down weather products in real time. Back before Sept 11, we also used to get commercial aircraft position data. That made for a really cool looking map.
(As I uncomfortably dust off the sign on my desk that reads "Senior Network Engineer.")
I'm an ENTx on the Meyer's brigs personality survey. They puts me dead smack in between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. I find that I almost never regret an action I took, even if things went badly. There are times though when my motives weren't all that pure, and those are the types of things that nag my conciounce. And I feel bad about the actions even if things went right in the end.
Folks like the person in your example lack a moral compass. They live only for themselves, and you are right, they are absolutely destructive in a position of authority. However, it you aren't careful about the adjectives you use to describe them your filter will net self-motivated individuals who ARE constructive in authority.
I have no idea how to measure one's moral compass. I take it for granted that I have one. Some of the things that are good and evil don't make sense logically. That's probably why I'm more comfortable saying I'm a Taoist than a Christian. Christ himself was probabably a Taoist, but nobody studies what he actually said. Most sermons I've heard focus on the writing of Paul (a moralist) and/or the old Testiment where God literally spelled out what was good and bad for you.
No they aren't psychopaths. They are just as self centered as men. They just happend to be greedy about the bling instead of the sex.
You are also simplifying military training a bit. Military training does not even touch on killing. Instead it stresses automatic reactions. When threatened, you are given a sophisticated response that your body carries out before it gets the chance to be worried or scared.
The prevelance of "Post Traumatic Stress" in returning vets is more or less proof that while the training allows the soldier to survive, it doesn't really address the problem of living with the fact that you have killed another human being.
Oddly, PTS is almost unheard of in snipers. Snipers attribute this to the fact that when they are acquiring and prosecuting a target, they are just doing a job. The derive no pain or joy from the exercise, and their actions are so methodical that emotion is not involved in the decision making process.
Any leadership role generally requires a big head and a good bit of knife work. What seperates a "leader" from a "killer" is how much they enjoy the knife work.
Mao, Castro, and Che set out to lead. Stalin (at times) and Pol Pot were just flat out to kill people, to the point that it impacted their ability to lead and the welfare of their respective countries.
Hilter was another "killer" on the podium. He really didn't give a rats ass what happened to Germany after he was done with it. As soon as it was clear the Nazis were going to lose to the Allies, he actually embarked on a program to destroy the infrastructure of Germany to punish his "weak" people.
Both Hilter and Stalin were also fond of "cleaning house" by periodically killing off members of their party they suspected of not quite towing the line (or plotting to kill them, etc.)
Narcisists are very beneficial to a company. Psychopaths will sell it and the shareholders up the river as soon as it benefits his self interest. And even more scary, psychopaths LOOK for those oppertunities because it thrills them.
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sow; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war; and a time of peace.
--Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
The Tao gives birth to all of creation. The virtue of Tao in nature nurtures them, and their family give them their form. Their environment then shapes them into completion. That is why every creature honors the Tao and its virtue.
No one tells them to honor the Tao and its virtue, it happens all by itself. So the Tao gives them birth, and its virtue cultivates them, cares for them, nurtures them, gives them a place of refuge and peace, helps them to grow and shelters them.
It gives them life without wanting to posses them, and cares for them expecting nothing in return. It is their master, but it does not seek to dominate them. This is called the dark and mysterious virtue.
--The Tao te Ching, Chapter 51
Religion and Philosophy have long known that it's a big world that needs a lot of stuff we can't always conteplate the purpose of.
I feel the same way about tomatos. They were bred to be rubber balls and survive trips from Chile. But they have absolutely no taste at all. I remember tomatos right from my mom's garden. A slice of that with some salt on top... heaven.
I have the sense that if you don't uncover at least 2 fundi plots before lunch your day is wasted.
In the case of fruit a freak plants in the past that built a structure that was yummy for motile creatures. For whatever reason, its seeds where encased in said structure, and where spread to wherever the animal releaved itself next.
Not only did the plant's range spread quickly, it's progeny was planted with a big pile of fertilizer!
I don't claim that it's intelligent design. It's an idea that worked, and we have plenty of rough steps along the way to prove it was more or less a shot in the dark.
Lions are only found in the savanna and around the borders of deserts. If they could survive anywhere else, they would have by now.
The Bears? I thought WI had the Packers?
New Jersey is too nasty of an environment for Elephants. Any that actually manage to survive are usually offered a do-nothing role in the Federal Government.
I plan to eat the rich. Or more accurately, encourage cannibalism where it pertains to those who egregiously wasting resources.
Probably "Dinner"
(Oh, that was sarcasm.)
If anything Windows will be out in the cold. To secure their system they are going to have to start from scratch with the API. A lot of companies that write custom software, forced to migate their software no matter what, will migrate to Unix-like systems because the API has more of less been set in stone for 20 years, and will remain so for the future.
And should a new API break your code, you can keep running on the old API. It will be supported as long as someone has a copy of the code.
Getting back to my point, if you want to be heard, be a consultant.
Not true. Mankind has been selectively breeding cattle for thousands of years. In that time we have literally bred them to be tasty. I remember seeing a while back a bit on CNN about cattler farmers using Ultrasound to measure the fat content and muscle mass of steer so they can tell who to stud before having to breed them, raise the offspring, then slaughter the offspring to get the information.
You also suffer from the falicy that any biomass is intended to be food. With the exception of milk and fruit, everything we eat was a creature or plant that had other ideas.
Does Apple Computer count?
We migrated the stafflist to LDAP, so the argument about the staff list not showing up when composing emails has been vanquished as well.
I think what people need to realize is that contact and scheduling systems are an amalgam of several networking protocols. With a pretty front end. I keep forgetting the pretty front end. In any case, and fool with enough time on his hands and a DB backend could build his own.
It's called LDAP. And we were using it for years before Active Directory...
Oh wait, Active Directory uses LDAP too.
US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8:
Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
Yup, it's in there.
The worst part was the crowd that just stood there stupidly while I was literally beaten into unconciousness. No offer of help. Not even cheering the fucker on. Just standing there stupid.
Evil Twin carries a knife on him to this day.