What's the point in having lots of prefixes defined if you're then going to ignore them and use extra 0's and decimal points instead?
For the Americans, it would be like saying the speed was 396850 feet/fortnight instead of the more reasonable 0.39685 MegaFeet/fortnight....Or vice versa... You get the idea.
It is believed that modern society in the West developed by the upper-middle and upper classes' excess kids effectively outbreeding the lower classes over hundreds of years, resulting in gains in health, IQ and longer time preferences.
- It is believed by whom? - What's the relation between upper classes and higher IQ before modern society?
The problem now is that the brilliant minds that create entirely new occupations mostly focus that creativity on occupations that are directly dependent on the latest technology. This is natural, as where would you find new occupations easier than in new technologies?
However, we need a brilliant mind that finds new occupations that, while using the new technologies, don't depend on them. We need someone to find a way to use the excess workforce created by automatisation in such a way as to not require from that workforce the very fact that made it replaceable by automatisation.
The question that needs to be answered isn't "what new jobs are created by the new technological environnement" as the answer to that will make you fight for workers with every other innovator.
The question is "what new jobs can be done by those who the technological environnement made superfluous." So, essentially, what can I do with a million people whose previous occupation is automatisable?
I believe those new jobs will come in the form of "computer assisted individual aimed art.", like, for example, "painting pretty environnements and props for VR semi-custom games" or "supporting actors in personal movies in which the customer is the protagonist"
Is it enough to RTFA to discover whether he was fired for the having non work related conversations during work or for the actual content of those conversations?
Because I see some difference between monitoring the activity and monitoring the content.
So how are you going to stop them from committing atrocities?Oh yeah, that's right... WAR.
Cisco isn't China.
Do you want to pay that cost for your moral absolutism?
Closing Cisco has a pretty little cost.
your moral absolutism has limits.
No. It doesn't. Its consequences may have, but that doesn't make them wrong.
Right, better to just sue Cisco and feel like you're "doing" something than actually solve the problem.
So... If we can't stop death, there's no point in having medics? If we can't have a government that represents us all, better not to have any government? I think the one who has a problem with absolutes is you.
I can certainly decide it's a good idea to harm Cisco while accepting we won't be transforming China into a democratic utopia.
Perhaps you'd like to go after them for not paying California's minimum wage laws in China?
No, no. Your moral righteousness is absolute.
Are you really going to use the "countries have the right to set their own laws" argument in a torture-genocide case? Because I don't think you'll find it hard to find moral absolutes in that area.
Put simply, nukes that are small enough and precise enough are merely really powerful bombs, and only inspire a slightly irrational response such as "ZOMG NUKES!",
Or another slightly irrational response such as "next suicide bomber will carry a nuke".
Never forget that bombs are never just powerful; they are powerful relative to their size and weight, thus the TNT equivalence scale.
A suicide bomber in a car can't carry a hundred thousand kg of dynamite.
You seem to be linking the need for porn to the availability of porn, which makes no sense whatsoever. You also seem to mistakenly attach a temporal limitation to need of porn.
Never forget that "We need more porn" implies the omitted "always and however much porn there already is".
When you decide to dedicate part of your life to annoy powerful people who regularly break the law and later become immune to the consequences, at some point you have to decide whether to try to be invisible, risking a mistake that could make you disappear; or trying to be as visible as possible, to make it too cumbersome to dispose of you.
Knowing my past bosses, they need less succinct clues:
- Did they set up the job search page as browser's default? - Did they ask you to check their CV? - Did they tell you "That's it! I'm leaving this fucking hell hole!" - Did they stop coming every morning?
And, the one good clue: - When you called them on their personal phone to ask if they were "ill, or something", Did they answer "I LEFT THE COMPANY TWO WEEKS AGO, YOU FUCKING RETARD!"?
If the answer to all of the above is yes. Please, for the love of God, stop sending SMSs to their personal phone. They will never come back and they don't care you get fired if you don't make it to the shipping date.
You can't raise an army of slaves and then expect them to act as free men.
You have to put autonomous thinkers and obeying sheep on their correct places; and there are plenty of both. If you put a sheep on the wrong post, don't go now crying about a problem that you created yourself*.
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I'll be cautious and save my answer for the next time we discuss these same news in a couple of days.
You do not speak for everyone.
As an AC, you do not speak for anyone.
What's that in decimeters/second?
What's the point in having lots of prefixes defined if you're then going to ignore them and use extra 0's and decimal points instead?
For the Americans, it would be like saying the speed was 396850 feet/fortnight instead of the more reasonable 0.39685 MegaFeet/fortnight. ...Or vice versa... You get the idea.
Not humanitarian projects.
I believe the objective must be fundamentally self-serving for the process of excess workforce employment.
It is believed that modern society in the West developed by the upper-middle and upper classes' excess kids effectively outbreeding the lower classes over hundreds of years, resulting in gains in health, IQ and longer time preferences.
- It is believed by whom?
- What's the relation between upper classes and higher IQ before modern society?
The problem now is that the brilliant minds that create entirely new occupations mostly focus that creativity on occupations that are directly dependent on the latest technology. This is natural, as where would you find new occupations easier than in new technologies?
However, we need a brilliant mind that finds new occupations that, while using the new technologies, don't depend on them. We need someone to find a way to use the excess workforce created by automatisation in such a way as to not require from that workforce the very fact that made it replaceable by automatisation.
The question that needs to be answered isn't "what new jobs are created by the new technological environnement" as the answer to that will make you fight for workers with every other innovator.
The question is "what new jobs can be done by those who the technological environnement made superfluous." So, essentially, what can I do with a million people whose previous occupation is automatisable?
I believe those new jobs will come in the form of "computer assisted individual aimed art.", like, for example, "painting pretty environnements and props for VR semi-custom games" or "supporting actors in personal movies in which the customer is the protagonist"
Is it enough to RTFA to discover whether he was fired for the having non work related conversations during work or for the actual content of those conversations?
Because I see some difference between monitoring the activity and monitoring the content.
A cave? Bah. That's for soft skinned hipsters.
I've always slept in a tree branch, and my father before me, and never did I feel the need for a cave.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino has stated that the exact procedures that will be used are not known
I like the Scottish flavor of that use of the word "exact".
I wonder what would be the answer if a journalist raises the question "precisely how exact are we talking here?"
So how are you going to stop them from committing atrocities?Oh yeah, that's right... WAR.
Cisco isn't China.
Do you want to pay that cost for your moral absolutism?
Closing Cisco has a pretty little cost.
your moral absolutism has limits.
No. It doesn't. Its consequences may have, but that doesn't make them wrong.
Right, better to just sue Cisco and feel like you're "doing" something than actually solve the problem.
So... If we can't stop death, there's no point in having medics? If we can't have a government that represents us all, better not to have any government?
I think the one who has a problem with absolutes is you.
I can certainly decide it's a good idea to harm Cisco while accepting we won't be transforming China into a democratic utopia.
What if someone wants to buy shoes "so they can track and arrest dissidents"? Or lunch so they can keep up their dissident-tracking strength?
If the shoes are specifically made to facilitate your dissident tracking efforts, yes. Otherwise, no.
That's the point in judging moral behavior. Knowledge and intent, matter.
Perhaps you'd like to go after them for not paying California's minimum wage laws in China?
No, no. Your moral righteousness is absolute.
Are you really going to use the "countries have the right to set their own laws" argument in a torture-genocide case? Because I don't think you'll find it hard to find moral absolutes in that area.
Put simply, nukes that are small enough and precise enough are merely really powerful bombs, and only inspire a slightly irrational response such as "ZOMG NUKES!",
Or another slightly irrational response such as "next suicide bomber will carry a nuke".
Never forget that bombs are never just powerful; they are powerful relative to their size and weight, thus the TNT equivalence scale.
A suicide bomber in a car can't carry a hundred thousand kg of dynamite.
And I'm sure they'll find all sorts of trumped up charges to make your life miserable.
Where the trumped charge could be "victim of a hit and run" and "miserable" could mean "short".
You seem to be linking the need for porn to the availability of porn, which makes no sense whatsoever. You also seem to mistakenly attach a temporal limitation to need of porn.
Never forget that "We need more porn" implies the omitted "always and however much porn there already is".
The one good (AC -1) post in several thousands that makes me still read everything (when I'm bored).
I think any country would rather have an aircraft explode every decade than stop tourism.
Money trumps lives every single time.
By his chosen name, "djfuq", we also know some other things:
- he's a dj
- he fucks
- he's dyslexic
Our artist is finishing a sketch at this very moment.
When you decide to dedicate part of your life to annoy powerful people who regularly break the law and later become immune to the consequences, at some point you have to decide whether to try to be invisible, risking a mistake that could make you disappear; or trying to be as visible as possible, to make it too cumbersome to dispose of you.
I wonder how does one take that decision.
This development was already described over a decade ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
"Why, for example, would I possibly to see OpenOffice humiliated?
I don't often possibly to see.
But when I do, I ask myself why would I.
For example.
Everything vibrates.
Everything's a dildo if you're brave enough.
Knowing my past bosses, they need less succinct clues:
- Did they set up the job search page as browser's default?
- Did they ask you to check their CV?
- Did they tell you "That's it! I'm leaving this fucking hell hole!"
- Did they stop coming every morning?
And, the one good clue:
- When you called them on their personal phone to ask if they were "ill, or something", Did they answer "I LEFT THE COMPANY TWO WEEKS AGO, YOU FUCKING RETARD!"?
If the answer to all of the above is yes. Please, for the love of God, stop sending SMSs to their personal phone. They will never come back and they don't care you get fired if you don't make it to the shipping date.
so 1% by all the Californians, 1% Google, 1% Apple, 1% Tesla and 1% who ?
Taking into account that their HQ is in Geneva, I don't think any of California's solar power comes from the world health organization.
You can't raise an army of slaves and then expect them to act as free men.
You have to put autonomous thinkers and obeying sheep on their correct places; and there are plenty of both. If you put a sheep on the wrong post, don't go now crying about a problem that you created yourself*.
*: Or your boss, if you're one of the sheep.