The summer camp I go to doesn't pay the regular counselor staff a whole lot; yet I have noticed how enthusiastic said staff are about their work; I had often thought that the workers were enthusiasic *despite* the low pay.
I have conversed with the camp's director on occasion, and once he reframed this as a positive correlation, the lower pay helps to keep out the nonenthusiastic types that he/they don't want
He also mentioned that it helps keep the camp fees down; the analogy starts to break there, as educational systems don't seem to have a zeal for cost control.:)
The people from the CHP, and those on 4chan and whatever that are spreading these pictures are assholes adding insult to injury, no doubt. Certainly, living people in the family are being punished for something in which they had none or minimal culpability...
The car-crash event itself is certainly painful enough to deliver any punishment that may or may not be needed; likely more than 'necessary'; it doesn't seem to make sense to add any more. This is a "punishment-fit-crime" issue that I've certainly seen manifested on a (thankly!) smaller scale
I wonder if there's anything more than class-warfare/class-resentment behind the reactions to the Catsourases.
There's likely some schadenfreude in seeing bad things happen to well-off people. I'm not saying that this is right, I'm just saying that's the way it is.
I'd guess that the main other source for this phenomenon is some sort of deep-seated desire/instinct to see people be hit with the consequences of their bad decisions.
Sentimentality and kindness certainly have their place, but they can also lead to us being too easy on people making bad decisions who realized the consequences of said decisions.
However, I'm disinclined to think that the hammer always needs to drop on people for moderate lapses that *happened* to have serious consequences
If sufficiently bad decisions were responsible, I can see how that leads to a lesser desire to show sympathy... Personally, I'm tempted to think "reduced but not absent sympathy/whatever"...
Damn, I seem to find that *everything* is a gray area...
If the government was changing for their Internet in some fashion, but allowed people to opt-out, would there be any room for private nonfilterered Internet?
Granted, there would be selection bias: a lot of normal people would stick with the government internet, whereas a lot of the actual bad guys would head for private ISPs.
Government monopolies = have some of the same risks as private monopolies. Government playing sorta like everyone else, or the government service going to people too-poor-for-the-private-market in the market can work.
The drug companies obviously like the US situation because they could make more money than they could otherwise
Certainly the government under a public healthcare system would have a degree of buyers' monopoly (monopsony). Prices would go down, and they wouldn't rake in as much, true.
However, I suspect that, while Pharma's profits would be driven down, they wouldn't be driven down enough to force Pharma completely out of business. So, assuming that the US and the other holdouts went UHC, I'd suspect that staying in drug-development and making some money would be better for them than quitting the business and making *nothing*.
The money spent on government healthcare has to go *somewhere*. The drug/device makers, the doctors, will still get something. Only the insurance company people would necessarily be cut out of the picture.
Back in my senior year of high school (3 years ago), I was doing an intro to Python via independent study; my advisor's office had a Fedora machine in it.
I had kinda been willing to try Linux; the catalyst for actually doing so came with my underpowered Vista laptop. (I figured installing Linux would be a good way to fix that.)
So I gave the guy an email, and he suggested wubi. (As straightforward as any other Windows-app install, and it uses Ubuntu, certainly more newbie-friendly than some other distros)
I loved it. The laptop started running a LOT faster, it it was fine for what I was doing - I was [and still am] using that laptop mainly during class - take notes, relieve some stress/kill some time by surfing or playing gnome-games. [My home computer, an XP desktop, is still working quite okay, so I've been sticking with that as my main machine.]
I got around to doing a real/full OS install when it came time to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10, and I'll do something similar when I get around to upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 Yay for legal uses of BitTorrent (fetching the ISO)
Well, I recognized that, was using the term "filter" as a shorthand. Also, saw this thread right when it went live, wanted to get in before the "frist ps0t" crap, with something relevant to the topic.:)
Gene Simmons (KISS): Christine Sixteen Is different than the actions of the homeless man in Aqualung, but still just as illegal (is that a problem, that the two are viewed the same legally)
I first put up a Geocities page in late 2003/early 2004, as a high-school class at the time had exposed me to simple hand-coding of HTML.
It has been updated since them, but sparsely.
Geocities was/is great to post a small amount of material with minimal hassle, and be able to post most filetypes (although I admit that I couldn't run PHP with it)
Had WYSIWYG tools, but could also code-it-yourself.
Truly free markets work really well according to theory. Adam Smith was +6 insightful, but it's one of those things that's easy to misinterpret, so try reading large sections of _Wealth of Nations_ directly. (A lot of other major thinkers also get seriously misconstrued in a similar manner)
Yet, as with many brilliant-sounding theories, the imperfections are painful to watch and create new problems to solve.
It's really sad and ironic that the imperfections in this case often come from capitalist firms spouting the language of the free market but acting against its spirit, as TimeWarner clearly seems to be doing here. Now, hypocritical self-interested capitalists aren't the *only* problem with practical application of market theory, but they certainly are a major category of problem
The imperfections in practice of applying a theory certainly should be considered, but they aren't cause for discarding the entire concept...
Got the graphic novel from Amazon (~$12), almost done with it. I definitely agree with the "freaking awesome" assessment of the novel.
As such, I'm going to give the movie a try, but only after it shows up in the el-cheapo second-run theater ($2 instead of $8 or something). [This is standard procedure for movies I'm interested in watching.]
Sure, I wish I could learn as efficiently just by reading the material online or whatever. But I just don't see it happening.
However, I've found that teachers/professors can provide a useful steering role, pointing you in the right direction and whatnot. (If done properly,) they can filter out some irrelevant, inaccurate and/or confusing material.
If you don't "get it", sometimes you need to ask the answer or at least ask for a push in the right direction, rather than blindly plowing through yourself.
And, to be honest, the structure of a class can lead to you actually getting off your proverbial butt and getting some work done on the topic; otherwise you might procrastinate; I presume I'd be quite likely to fall into such a trap
Granted, I'm not a computer-tech or engineering major.
Though, this doesn't help socially inept/.ers like myself actually pick them up.;) * Picking up *any* ~150lb weight might be hard for an average/.er, but that's another issue.:P
The common-interest thing may help However, the higher level of intelligence may make the aforementioned girls more of a challenge; maybe that's a good thing in a way
...I've found that I can slack off in bursts, work furiously in bursts, sometimes work fitfully. Thing is, I don't know exactly when or how I switch between modes.:)
Whether at university computer lab or on home machine (both are quiee except for incidental noise or music that *I* select - the music is my usual mix of classic rock and whatever)
Slashdot Mirror
As it happens, I just found that book at a garage sale over the weekend.
The message is a disturbing picture, but it seems to make perfect sense based on the available information
It seems pragmatic, not arguing about the ideology of more/less government, but rather about how we could be doing it better...I like that approach.
SW developer. ... her
Problem there. :P
(Have not) Fixed That For You.
The summer camp I go to doesn't pay the regular counselor staff a whole lot; yet I have noticed how enthusiastic said staff are about their work; I had often thought that the workers were enthusiasic *despite* the low pay.
I have conversed with the camp's director on occasion, and once he reframed this as a positive correlation, the lower pay helps to keep out the nonenthusiastic types that he/they don't want
He also mentioned that it helps keep the camp fees down; the analogy starts to break there, as educational systems don't seem to have a zeal for cost control. :)
Since Google has a degree of market power here, that freedom-to-go-somewhere-else is there, but somewhat limited.
The people from the CHP, and those on 4chan and whatever that are spreading these pictures are assholes adding insult to injury, no doubt.
Certainly, living people in the family are being punished for something in which they had none or minimal culpability...
The car-crash event itself is certainly painful enough to deliver any punishment that may or may not be needed; likely more than 'necessary'; it doesn't seem to make sense to add any more. This is a "punishment-fit-crime" issue that I've certainly seen manifested on a (thankly!) smaller scale
I wonder if there's anything more than class-warfare/class-resentment behind the reactions to the Catsourases.
There's likely some schadenfreude in seeing bad things happen to well-off people. I'm not saying that this is right, I'm just saying that's the way it is.
I'd guess that the main other source for this phenomenon is some sort of deep-seated desire/instinct to see people be hit with the consequences of their bad decisions.
Sentimentality and kindness certainly have their place, but they can also lead to us being too easy on people making bad decisions who realized the consequences of said decisions.
However, I'm disinclined to think that the hammer always needs to drop on people for moderate lapses that *happened* to have serious consequences
If sufficiently bad decisions were responsible, I can see how that leads to a lesser desire to show sympathy...
Personally, I'm tempted to think "reduced but not absent sympathy/whatever"...
Damn, I seem to find that *everything* is a gray area...
If the government was changing for their Internet in some fashion, but allowed people to opt-out, would there be any room for private nonfilterered Internet?
Granted, there would be selection bias: a lot of normal people would stick with the government internet, whereas a lot of the actual bad guys would head for private ISPs.
Government monopolies = have some of the same risks as private monopolies. Government playing sorta like everyone else, or the government service going to people too-poor-for-the-private-market in the market can work.
The drug companies obviously like the US situation because they could make more money than they could otherwise
Certainly the government under a public healthcare system would have a degree of buyers' monopoly (monopsony). Prices would go down, and they wouldn't rake in as much, true.
However, I suspect that, while Pharma's profits would be driven down, they wouldn't be driven down enough to force Pharma completely out of business.
So, assuming that the US and the other holdouts went UHC, I'd suspect that staying in drug-development and making some money would be better for them than quitting the business and making *nothing*.
The money spent on government healthcare has to go *somewhere*. The drug/device makers, the doctors, will still get something. Only the insurance company people would necessarily be cut out of the picture.
Back in my senior year of high school (3 years ago), I was doing an intro to Python via independent study; my advisor's office had a Fedora machine in it.
I had kinda been willing to try Linux; the catalyst for actually doing so came with my underpowered Vista laptop. (I figured installing Linux would be a good way to fix that.)
So I gave the guy an email, and he suggested wubi. (As straightforward as any other Windows-app install, and it uses Ubuntu, certainly more newbie-friendly than some other distros)
I loved it. The laptop started running a LOT faster, it it was fine for what I was doing - I was [and still am] using that laptop mainly during class - take notes, relieve some stress/kill some time by surfing or playing gnome-games. [My home computer, an XP desktop, is still working quite okay, so I've been sticking with that as my main machine.]
I got around to doing a real/full OS install when it came time to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10, and I'll do something similar when I get around to upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04
Yay for legal uses of BitTorrent (fetching the ISO)
Well, I recognized that, was using the term "filter" as a shorthand. Also, saw this thread right when it went live, wanted to get in before the "frist ps0t" crap, with something relevant to the topic. :)
Why does it take 2 months 3 weeks to fire corrupt morons? :P
Oh yeah, corrupt unions.
Gene Simmons (KISS): Christine Sixteen
Is different than the actions of the homeless man in Aqualung, but still just as illegal (is that a problem, that the two are viewed the same legally)
Useful idiots for the US to have, or useful idiots for China to have?
That there hackin' stuff could backfire, ah reckon.
Five bucks...er, five pounds, that this will be filtered to high heck...
I first put up a Geocities page in late 2003/early 2004, as a high-school class at the time had exposed me to simple hand-coding of HTML.
It has been updated since them, but sparsely.
Geocities was/is great to post a small amount of material with minimal hassle, and be able to post most filetypes (although I admit that I couldn't run PHP with it)
Had WYSIWYG tools, but could also code-it-yourself.
I've had a page up on Geocities since late 2003/early 2004, only casually updated [which is why I want to stick with a free host.]
Ads not a problem - I'm tempted to steer page visitors to Adblock Plus, which I already use myself.
The simple Geocities sidebar ads are no challenge for Adblock to terminate with extreme prejudice. :)
I recall when using Geocities myself, in my pre-Adblock days, just being glad to not be stuck with banners/Flash, though.
Truly free markets work really well according to theory.
Adam Smith was +6 insightful, but it's one of those things that's easy to misinterpret, so try reading large sections of _Wealth of Nations_ directly.
(A lot of other major thinkers also get seriously misconstrued in a similar manner)
Yet, as with many brilliant-sounding theories, the imperfections are painful to watch and create new problems to solve.
It's really sad and ironic that the imperfections in this case often come from capitalist firms spouting the language of the free market but acting against its spirit, as TimeWarner clearly seems to be doing here.
Now, hypocritical self-interested capitalists aren't the *only* problem with practical application of market theory, but they certainly are a major category of problem
The imperfections in practice of applying a theory certainly should be considered, but they aren't cause for discarding the entire concept...
Got the graphic novel from Amazon (~$12), almost done with it. I definitely agree with the "freaking awesome" assessment of the novel.
As such, I'm going to give the movie a try, but only after it shows up in the el-cheapo second-run theater ($2 instead of $8 or something). [This is standard procedure for movies I'm interested in watching.]
Very clearly written, a lot of clear examples of what MS is doing.
Very intriguing to see it as such a consistent pattern.
Innuendo gets peoples' attention, plain and simple, even if those people are over 13. :P
Sure, I wish I could learn as efficiently just by reading the material online or whatever. But I just don't see it happening.
However, I've found that teachers/professors can provide a useful steering role, pointing you in the right direction and whatnot. (If done properly,) they can filter out some irrelevant, inaccurate and/or confusing material.
If you don't "get it", sometimes you need to ask the answer or at least ask for a push in the right direction, rather than blindly plowing through yourself.
And, to be honest, the structure of a class can lead to you actually getting off your proverbial butt and getting some work done on the topic; otherwise you might procrastinate; I presume I'd be quite likely to fall into such a trap
Funny? How about insightful!
Granted, I'm not a computer-tech or engineering major.
Though, this doesn't help socially inept /.ers like myself actually pick them up. ;) /.er, but that's another issue. :P
* Picking up *any* ~150lb weight might be hard for an average
The common-interest thing may help
However, the higher level of intelligence may make the aforementioned girls more of a challenge; maybe that's a good thing in a way
Heard this a few years back in a political discussion, and I must say I agree with it:
"I'm pro-bush, but not the George W kind."
...I've found that I can slack off in bursts, work furiously in bursts, sometimes work fitfully. :)
Thing is, I don't know exactly when or how I switch between modes.
Whether at university computer lab or on home machine (both are quiee except for incidental noise or music that *I* select - the music is my usual mix of classic rock and whatever)
wouldn't you get your tool burned by the grits?