The Human Being is a predator animal, that is, everything either can be eaten or can eat you, and our brain is organized to help this behaviour. That is why Buddhism has such a dismal opinion of human thought and searches instead for a direct, non-thinking way to truth.
In other countries we have this image of the American as a highly eficient robot that lives and dies alone. It sure is a gross stereotype but reading all these comments I realize it perfectly applies to a big sector of your population.
..have you ever read "Ficciones" and "El Aleph" from Jorge Luis Borges? Yes, the writer that everybody says has not received the Nobel because of his political opinions.
Great post. Also, Harvard was more about preparing the ruling class, and they do need the rigours of classical studies plus the brain cell exercise provided by math.
A few years ago, the whole elector's database was illegaly sold to private companies, including an American one, and as a result most people keep receiving unwanted calls from their banks up to 7 or 8 times a day trying to sell you insurance over the phone or asking for overdue payments, same from other companies, sometimes for years even if it was a clerical error. Last year the government tried to force everybody to register their cell phones since most people opt for prepaid cards to avoid fraudulent charges from Carlos Slim's (richest man in the world) Telcel company. About half the users naively did. Now they're receiving extorsion calls from people claiming they've kidnapped a relative of yours. Most calls have been traced to prisions where influential prisioners have their little kingdoms. Of course that has been a fact of life with land lines too, but up to now there was no way to know which cell phone number youi have. Now they have all your personal info since the registration is tied to the equivalent of your SS number (CURP), who also links you to info on your bank balances. And now, oh my my, the same government whose corrupt politicians, police chiefs, and even state governors have been found to protect kidnappers wants you to register all the info of your children in one convenient big database...and the company in charge is owned by a president's in-law (Hildebrando)...wow...can't wait to comply...!
During the flight you're the authority, traveler's lives are in part your responsability, you should be able to specify the safety measures you consider appropiate for the ocasion without having some over-opinionated uber-alienated gadget geek valuing his temporary convenience over a somewhat possible danger to the passengers. Sorry, but for obvious reasons the pilot's confort is way more important than some whiny's traveler.
The most influential celestial body around here is the Sun, and the second one is the Moon. Coincidently your main sign is called your Solar Sign, and your secondary one is your Lunar Sign. That should cue you that astrology is trying to correlate hundreds of years of empirical observations to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun and the position of the Moon. Astrology says they have found a tipology that can be attributed to whatever fields the Sun and the Moon are directing toward Earth. As for the influence of something as faraway as planets and other stars, astrology says those influences exist, affecting mainly superior qualities of the human personality, but subordinated to stronger influences caused by your genetics and your Karma. How can you start a personal investigation of the validity of real Astrology? Check in the groups you belong to the "Element" you all belong to and classify them in two groups, one for Air and Water the other for Fire and Earth. Also, check with all the married couples you're acquainted with and check their "Element". The results might surprise you.
Congratulations, youre back at the medioeval witchhunt/inquisition paranoid lifestyle when a single anonymous tip was enough to ruin your enemies and claim their property.
Got news for you, down here in Mexico bilingualism is required for any half-decent job, and the closer you get to the border an American frequent border-crosser visa is a requirement for any decent job.
There are areas in New Mexico (formerly Nuevo Mexico), California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Colorado and Nevada where the native language of the oldest residents is Spanish since it was Mexican territory. They didn't crossed the border, it was more like the border crossed them (Jessica dixit).
"And where do you have the right to take from other people to have what you want?"
It's the basis of the capitalist economy: You produce $ 10 worth of something, you get $ 5, the owner of means of production takes the rest, or actually as much as he can get away with. Because he can, and the police and army are there to safeguard this right of his.
The US are illegally intefering with Latinamerica, Latinamericans then have a moral right to come here illegaly. The US have to deal with the consequences of being an empire.
After throwing the PRI out, PAN, a conservative party, took over. A fundamentalist sector of which, El Yunque, is the one calling the shots in the state. An example of the type of society they have in mind is the sentencing of Araceli Camargo to 26 years of prision for an spontaneous abortion when she was 18 yers old after a very unfair and corrupt filled trial. The punishment for abortion in this state is 3 years in prision, in order to increase the penalty she was accused of murdering a relative. The fiscal attorney had all the support from the government, so no chance she would walk away free. If you read the records of the process you'll find every dirty trick on the book. 30 more ladies have already been sentenced to similar terms, and 166 more are waiting for the trial, if you can call this medieval farce a trial. Now imagine giving this kind of government total power over your privacy...shudder...
Of course were responsible. In the human being social evolution has replaced natural evolution. Things that were instinctive are now done following a thought process. And were interfering with the natural evolution that rules the rest of the animal and vegetal kingdom. Our best thinkers, lets say the representatives of this new process, say we need to intentionally balance nature. So, in doing so, were fulfilling natures new role for us.
I'm, with you. It's fun being a genious writer. You have an interesting profession, you meet lots of interesting people. You give conferences, travel, sometimes make some big money, etc. It's a lot of fun. Now, on the other hand, being a good father, being interesting company to your children and wife, worrying and helping them day after day after day through the good and the bad times, forgetting about your amusements, etc...
The later is more the measure of a great man. The other, it's just having fun, even if you're "influencing" lots of people.
Seriously though, welcome to the future. It rang a bell for me when I learned a former member of some defense or intelligence comunity is part of the board of directors.
They're just scared of losing their jobs. They're mostly overwhelmed by what they perceive as infinitely better trained managers and professionals, and afraid that saying "I can't" would bring unconfortable questions about their capability. In other words they feel they don't have the weapons to be more assertive. Compare that with the overly assertive and agressive attitude of the typical Indian businessperson.
I'd really like to read the opinion of the working poor you mention, problem is they don't post at Slashdot. As for the banning of violent videogames, well, in the US you can get banned from society for taking a leak in public, while in most Latinamerica it'll get you at most a misdemeanor fine, different societies, different definitions of decent behavior.
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The Human Being is a predator animal, that is, everything either can be eaten or can eat you, and our brain is organized to help this behaviour. That is why Buddhism has such a dismal opinion of human thought and searches instead for a direct, non-thinking way to truth.
In other countries we have this image of the American as a highly eficient robot that lives and dies alone. It sure is a gross stereotype but reading all these comments I realize it perfectly applies to a big sector of your population.
..have you ever read "Ficciones" and "El Aleph" from Jorge Luis Borges? Yes, the writer that everybody says has not received the Nobel because of his political opinions.
Great post. Also, Harvard was more about preparing the ruling class, and they do need the rigours of classical studies plus the brain cell exercise provided by math.
Thank God tunnel-visioned Slashdot people is not deciding this issue...where have you seen whole regions being evacuated because a gas plant failed?
It's called "Tunnel vision", which seems to abound in Slashdot. How dare somebody to criticize technology?
A few years ago, the whole elector's database was illegaly sold to private companies, including an American one, and as a result most people keep receiving unwanted calls from their banks up to 7 or 8 times a day trying to sell you insurance over the phone or asking for overdue payments, same from other companies, sometimes for years even if it was a clerical error. Last year the government tried to force everybody to register their cell phones since most people opt for prepaid cards to avoid fraudulent charges from Carlos Slim's (richest man in the world) Telcel company. About half the users naively did. Now they're receiving extorsion calls from people claiming they've kidnapped a relative of yours. Most calls have been traced to prisions where influential prisioners have their little kingdoms. Of course that has been a fact of life with land lines too, but up to now there was no way to know which cell phone number youi have. Now they have all your personal info since the registration is tied to the equivalent of your SS number (CURP), who also links you to info on your bank balances. And now, oh my my, the same government whose corrupt politicians, police chiefs, and even state governors have been found to protect kidnappers wants you to register all the info of your children in one convenient big database...and the company in charge is owned by a president's in-law (Hildebrando)...wow...can't wait to comply...!
During the flight you're the authority, traveler's lives are in part your responsability, you should be able to specify the safety measures you consider appropiate for the ocasion without having some over-opinionated uber-alienated gadget geek valuing his temporary convenience over a somewhat possible danger to the passengers. Sorry, but for obvious reasons the pilot's confort is way more important than some whiny's traveler.
The most influential celestial body around here is the Sun, and the second one is the Moon. Coincidently your main sign is called your Solar Sign, and your secondary one is your Lunar Sign. That should cue you that astrology is trying to correlate hundreds of years of empirical observations to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun and the position of the Moon. Astrology says they have found a tipology that can be attributed to whatever fields the Sun and the Moon are directing toward Earth. As for the influence of something as faraway as planets and other stars, astrology says those influences exist, affecting mainly superior qualities of the human personality, but subordinated to stronger influences caused by your genetics and your Karma. How can you start a personal investigation of the validity of real Astrology? Check in the groups you belong to the "Element" you all belong to and classify them in two groups, one for Air and Water the other for Fire and Earth. Also, check with all the married couples you're acquainted with and check their "Element". The results might surprise you.
Congratulations, youre back at the medioeval witchhunt/inquisition paranoid lifestyle when a single anonymous tip was enough to ruin your enemies and claim their property.
We have a Police Farce.
Got news for you, down here in Mexico bilingualism is required for any half-decent job, and the closer you get to the border an American frequent border-crosser visa is a requirement for any decent job.
Wow! We're about to catch up with Atlantis technology! http://www.forgottenagesresearch.com/lost-knowledge-series/Edgar-Cayce-on-the-Great-Crystal-of-Atlantisand-Be.htm
There are areas in New Mexico (formerly Nuevo Mexico), California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Colorado and Nevada where the native language of the oldest residents is Spanish since it was Mexican territory. They didn't crossed the border, it was more like the border crossed them (Jessica dixit).
It's the basis of the capitalist economy: You produce $ 10 worth of something, you get $ 5, the owner of means of production takes the rest, or actually as much as he can get away with. Because he can, and the police and army are there to safeguard this right of his.
I've got nothing to say, I just wanted to see my user name in this article.
The US are illegally intefering with Latinamerica, Latinamericans then have a moral right to come here illegaly. The US have to deal with the consequences of being an empire.
That's what coke is for. Specially among high level management who ocasionally need to show an energetic attitude.
After throwing the PRI out, PAN, a conservative party, took over. A fundamentalist sector of which, El Yunque, is the one calling the shots in the state. An example of the type of society they have in mind is the sentencing of Araceli Camargo to 26 years of prision for an spontaneous abortion when she was 18 yers old after a very unfair and corrupt filled trial. The punishment for abortion in this state is 3 years in prision, in order to increase the penalty she was accused of murdering a relative. The fiscal attorney had all the support from the government, so no chance she would walk away free. If you read the records of the process you'll find every dirty trick on the book. 30 more ladies have already been sentenced to similar terms, and 166 more are waiting for the trial, if you can call this medieval farce a trial. Now imagine giving this kind of government total power over your privacy...shudder...
Of course were responsible. In the human being social evolution has replaced natural evolution. Things that were instinctive are now done following a thought process. And were interfering with the natural evolution that rules the rest of the animal and vegetal kingdom. Our best thinkers, lets say the representatives of this new process, say we need to intentionally balance nature. So, in doing so, were fulfilling natures new role for us.
I'm, with you. It's fun being a genious writer. You have an interesting profession, you meet lots of interesting people. You give conferences, travel, sometimes make some big money, etc. It's a lot of fun. Now, on the other hand, being a good father, being interesting company to your children and wife, worrying and helping them day after day after day through the good and the bad times, forgetting about your amusements, etc...
The later is more the measure of a great man. The other, it's just having fun, even if you're "influencing" lots of people.
Well, remember that Google's opt-out feature lets users protect privacy by moving to a remote village:
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Seriously though, welcome to the future. It rang a bell for me when I learned a former member of some defense or intelligence comunity is part of the board of directors.
http://www.halfpasthuman.com/
They're just scared of losing their jobs. They're mostly overwhelmed by what they perceive as infinitely better trained managers and professionals, and afraid that saying "I can't" would bring unconfortable questions about their capability. In other words they feel they don't have the weapons to be more assertive. Compare that with the overly assertive and agressive attitude of the typical Indian businessperson.
I'd really like to read the opinion of the working poor you mention, problem is they don't post at Slashdot. As for the banning of violent videogames, well, in the US you can get banned from society for taking a leak in public, while in most Latinamerica it'll get you at most a misdemeanor fine, different societies, different definitions of decent behavior.