It's why helmets for cyclists and motorbike riders are not just made of a hard steel shell.
Unless you get one of those stupid army-style helmets that are legal in places with shitty motorcycle safety regulations, or as I like to call them, a "Darwin Special."
It was indeed easier to overlook when he was receiving a mere mortal's salary from the company rather than a large fraction of the company's profits. Vastly more money means vastly more ability to buy "free speech" and therefore vastly more influence. Some employees may not be comfortable with so much of their productivity going into that.
A similar argument came up over the Ender's Game movie boycott. It's a much bigger deal to support a movie with a bigoted producer/director than a bigoted key grip or makeup artist.
We need to come up with a totally new word for "tolerance" in the political context or this will never end. How about "brunglesnortz?" (No hits on Google, yay!)
For the most part, when people preach "tolerance" they mean "believe everything on my checklist exactly like I do without question", as the word "tolerance" is just a tribal identification signal, not an actual belief. That's really common these days, and I'm really tired of being told I'm a bigot for advocating acceptance of many cultural views!
Wrong. This follows the same logic as the WBC's calls for tolerant people to tolerate their intolerance.
Tolerance means being against discrimination based on traits people cannot control (including religion). There's your answer. It's not the same as the machinist's definition. It's not "just a tribal identification signal."
Neither is a particularly good thing to have, though (and here's where the irony is) staying their existing course would be safest *if* the gay lobby does an all out assault on this one. Recall chic-fil-a who actually saw record revenues from backlash during that incident.
Misleading. Chick-Fil-A did set a profit record on a day of counter-protest, but they caved to the "gay lobby" soon after. So they won a battle but lost the war...hard.
That might work, I was thinking about something like that, but I don't know if RFID data speeds are fast enough or if the devices can hold a charge for long enough.
No, that would be like a current RFID tag, and it would have the same effect as if you try to scan one with another tag next to it - they'll respond at the same time and the receiver won't get anything intelligible.
That could be doable but the per-tag cost would be too high right now. Current RFID tags couldn't cut it, each little tag would need to have a unique ID and pass acknowledgement messages back and forth with the point of sale system. That's the simplest way to do it, let them all have a shouting match until each one has been heard.
A more complicated system could allow a shopping cart full of items to form a network with each other and reply to the POS system with a single response.
Either of those could be practical in a decade or two once the tags are cheap enough.
What would you say are the conditions that would qualify capitalism as having failed? Keep in mind I will compare them to what qualified various communist states as failed.
What if children are still required to go to school and given a high-quality education that will be possible with more abundant resources? Education tends to make people reproduce responsibly. And mincome only goes to adults, so I'd tell them good luck with that.
so what we end up with? social security and few people paying the needs of many.. and the many being stuck with the problem of what the fuck to do with their time, so they become hairdressers, antique dealers, bar owners, fortune tellers, rc hobby salesmen, artists or any other ultimately useless, but fun providing, profession.
And this is bad because...?
Some will also become hobby programmers, engineers, scientists (like what Einstein did to occupy his time on slow days at the patent office)...there are plenty of "useful" things people can do with their free time.
The difference between mincome and negative income tax is that you don't have to pay income taxes out of your mincome...just out of your income. The mincome is yours no matter what. They're somewhat similar ideas but not the same thing.
You vastly underestimate the difficulty of computers recognizing objects...and if they're not neatly separated and scanned one at a time, forget about it.
I think it could be doable in the near future if all items came in boxes that have a giant QR code on every side.
Came here to say this. It's where Capt. Kurotsuchi kills Szayel Apollo. Kurotsuchi poisoned Szayel with a drug that would make him feel like a second lasted 1000 years or something like that, and then stabbed him in the heart.
It was close to episode 200 of the anime.
For those who don't know, Capt. Kurotsuchi is basically the Dr. Mengele of the series (Szayel Apollo being his counterpart on the other side).
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It's why helmets for cyclists and motorbike riders are not just made of a hard steel shell.
Unless you get one of those stupid army-style helmets that are legal in places with shitty motorcycle safety regulations, or as I like to call them, a "Darwin Special."
It was indeed easier to overlook when he was receiving a mere mortal's salary from the company rather than a large fraction of the company's profits. Vastly more money means vastly more ability to buy "free speech" and therefore vastly more influence. Some employees may not be comfortable with so much of their productivity going into that.
A similar argument came up over the Ender's Game movie boycott. It's a much bigger deal to support a movie with a bigoted producer/director than a bigoted key grip or makeup artist.
Machinist's definition of "tolerance" at work. Again... :-(
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
We need to come up with a totally new word for "tolerance" in the political context or this will never end. How about "brunglesnortz?" (No hits on Google, yay!)
I enjoy the hell out of that kind of thing >:)
Wrong. You're using the machinist's definition of tolerance. See this post to learn the meaning in the political context:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p....
For the most part, when people preach "tolerance" they mean "believe everything on my checklist exactly like I do without question", as the word "tolerance" is just a tribal identification signal, not an actual belief. That's really common these days, and I'm really tired of being told I'm a bigot for advocating acceptance of many cultural views!
Wrong. This follows the same logic as the WBC's calls for tolerant people to tolerate their intolerance.
Tolerance means being against discrimination based on traits people cannot control (including religion). There's your answer. It's not the same as the machinist's definition. It's not "just a tribal identification signal."
Neither is a particularly good thing to have, though (and here's where the irony is) staying their existing course would be safest *if* the gay lobby does an all out assault on this one. Recall chic-fil-a who actually saw record revenues from backlash during that incident.
Misleading. Chick-Fil-A did set a profit record on a day of counter-protest, but they caved to the "gay lobby" soon after. So they won a battle but lost the war...hard.
That might work, I was thinking about something like that, but I don't know if RFID data speeds are fast enough or if the devices can hold a charge for long enough.
No, that would be like a current RFID tag, and it would have the same effect as if you try to scan one with another tag next to it - they'll respond at the same time and the receiver won't get anything intelligible.
That could be doable but the per-tag cost would be too high right now. Current RFID tags couldn't cut it, each little tag would need to have a unique ID and pass acknowledgement messages back and forth with the point of sale system. That's the simplest way to do it, let them all have a shouting match until each one has been heard.
A more complicated system could allow a shopping cart full of items to form a network with each other and reply to the POS system with a single response.
Either of those could be practical in a decade or two once the tags are cheap enough.
Capitalism isn't failing any time soon.
What would you say are the conditions that would qualify capitalism as having failed? Keep in mind I will compare them to what qualified various communist states as failed.
What if children are still required to go to school and given a high-quality education that will be possible with more abundant resources? Education tends to make people reproduce responsibly. And mincome only goes to adults, so I'd tell them good luck with that.
so what we end up with? social security and few people paying the needs of many.. and the many being stuck with the problem of what the fuck to do with their time, so they become hairdressers, antique dealers, bar owners, fortune tellers, rc hobby salesmen, artists or any other ultimately useless, but fun providing, profession.
And this is bad because...?
Some will also become hobby programmers, engineers, scientists (like what Einstein did to occupy his time on slow days at the patent office)...there are plenty of "useful" things people can do with their free time.
The difference between mincome and negative income tax is that you don't have to pay income taxes out of your mincome...just out of your income. The mincome is yours no matter what. They're somewhat similar ideas but not the same thing.
For those who modded the parent offtopic: It's a reference to Marshall Brain's "Manna" and is very on-topic.
You vastly underestimate the difficulty of computers recognizing objects...and if they're not neatly separated and scanned one at a time, forget about it.
I think it could be doable in the near future if all items came in boxes that have a giant QR code on every side.
Well, they did go through the Bell Riots first.
2024? Good guess...
It's fitting, since spacewalking in LEO really is just falling with style :-P
Which reminds me of this other time another college kid said he invested $1500 in bitcoin, forgot the password, and when he finally remembered it was worth about $150000, not bad for a college kid.
It might just cover his student debt!
They'd rather look to individuals as a consumable resource. It's more profitable for them that way, at least in the short term.
The only meaningful difference between a chocobo and an emu or ostrich is that a chocobo is cute, and apparently not aggressive at all.
Came here to say this. It's where Capt. Kurotsuchi kills Szayel Apollo. Kurotsuchi poisoned Szayel with a drug that would make him feel like a second lasted 1000 years or something like that, and then stabbed him in the heart.
It was close to episode 200 of the anime.
For those who don't know, Capt. Kurotsuchi is basically the Dr. Mengele of the series (Szayel Apollo being his counterpart on the other side).
If only they had some nuclear power plants to give them home-sourced carbon-neutral power!
Cue staring at goats and attempts to spy with psychic powers.
A lot of right-wing nutjobs in the US actually admire Putin's silly displays and say their President should be more like that.
Almost ready to elect Camacho...almost.