Come on, this is not new knowledge. We all, or at least a lot of people, are well aware that if you leave the radio on at night tuned to a talk station, the content of the talk gets worked into your dreams.
So what does that mean? Well, Unconscious? Check. Parsing sentences? Check. Integrating those the semantic content of those sentences into your dreams into the "plot" of your dream-or in other words "problem solving" - check.
On the last point- yes, it is problem solving. Getting the meaning out of a stream of sentences is the kind of problem solving that's so sophisticated, a computer can't yet do it. A computer can't read the paper and understand the it's meaning or listen the a radio broadcast and understand it's meaning . Intelligence agencies would love to have a computer that can read the world's papers and automatically process their contents. The technology isn't there yet, which is another way of saying that the problem isn't solved, so that's problem solving in your sleep, not to mention the problem solving of working a narrative around what it is your unconscious mind is listening to.
Is this story from some grad student trolling for fame ?
Horse shit it's illegal. The outer can do whatever detective work he wants about any person or person he wants. Only court orders restrain people or the press form publishing the names of private citizens for one reason or another. There is no "you cannot name a child by name" law. Nice try.
This is great. The cockroaches know no shame or limits. They just go right on, piling over each other at the patent office patenting every flicker of a UI idea, every shade of a thought of a notion.... and it's all to our long-term good.
If they acted responsibly, if they could manage to even momentarily raise the masks of an adult face over their twisted frothing greed and steroided self-regard as "creators" then they wouldn't be racking up such an egregious track record. Oh, but they can't.
Every patent attorney is like every other. There's change in the air. They can smell it and to them, it stinks. They're going to get theirs while they still can.
Why even Lead Patent Attorneys In Charge of Keeping CEOs In Coke N' Whores of major international businesses have seen fit to get out of their fluffy robes, come in from their party yachts and address the commoners, whom, it appears, are rebelling.
Every time I read something like this, my heart leaps with hope. It means the enemy has drunk it's own Ayn Rand kool-aid and they are structurally incapable of collective action; it's just every patent attorney / client for himself.
The worst possible thing for us would be for them to show some kind of coordinated restraint.
That's right , we're going to shut you down in a Big Way. You are reading the future correctly. Then you'll have to *work* for a living and the clients you represent will have to create value instead of blocking it. Holy shit- the worst of all possible outcomes is descending on you like a bird of prey. It's just a matter of time, so bill those clients while you still can, and don't hold anything back.
Hey man you've got 5 kids between three wives; that's 90 (!) years of pre-k through B.A. private schooling to pay for. Pray for the kids, but bill those hours !
It's true. They just neglected to point out that so do vegetarians.... or is India a violence free, caste-free , woman loving egalitarian paradise of people-not-exploiting-people these days?
Except my comment was not making an argument FOR evolution; I take evolution as the fact that it is, and launch my sarcasm and mockery at those who deny it from there.
It's amusing that conservatives who can't understand the basic principles of logic and how to apply them still seem acutely aware that they represent something "good" and "validating" which leads them to eagerly -and falsely- claim that logic supports their arguments.
It seems that in the early 21st century we've at least won the battle insofar as no-one,not even anti-rational Christians and conservatives will willing and publicly bear the yoke of being considered "illogical".
Nice, these models all treat humans as though they were some sort of one dimensional profit maximizing automaton. Where's the proof of that? Aside from the recitation of a series of exemplars, they have no proof. Exemplars do not prove a theory, even a large number of salient exemplars.
Acting as though there were no altruism in the problem named "climate change" just because there's a Republican party in the US with its head in the sand is not doing science.. it's reducing all human behavior to the virtually brain-stem-only ejaculations of a psychopathic minority.
I find your post insightful- yes having a society that functions as the maw of an alligator waiting to eat you EXCEPT for the pittance your employer affords you is exactly the model they are trying to preserve. It's a slave owner's mentality, and they barely make any bones about it. Nice going
I think that we're actually offering two complimentary explanations. I'm reflecting on the ultimate motivation of why corporations like Papa Johns are run the way they're run INSTEAD OF some other, completely affordable way which yields more egalitarian results for society at large.
Why do they WANT to be slave holders? It's implicit in your post that a lot of us (humans) WANT to be slave owners, and LIKE not just being on top, but lowering the bottom too. Slave-seeking land-based pirate ships- which is what a lot of corporations amount to really- are the context in which we live and frame explanations, but why are alternatives not as appealing to ambitious people; why is there not something else in the world?
Answer- because people are genetically predisposed to seek status in a social/sexual hierarchy and that's because our genes , like all genes, evolved in a resource-constrained environment in which competition for survival-giving resources were a zero sum game we played against our own kind.
It's like tits. Why are some men crazy for big tits? ( NSFW link not provided ) The bigger the better ! The reason is that big tits are a secondary sexual characteristic which broadcasts the reproductive fitness their bearer and men are pre-wired to interpret that signal and - here's the important part- nature saw no reason to put an upper limit on the link between the size of the tits and the size of excitation.. the bigger the tits, the bigger the signal ! tits are good, big tits are gooder !
The same thing with wealth and power acquisition. A lot of wealth is good, a super jumbo fortune you-and-your-six-successive-wives-and-eight-mistresses-can-never-spend is better and dramatically increasing the relative wealth spread between you and all your competition for those women:
We don't live in THAT kind of resource -constrained world anymore. Our behavior in this way is classifiable under anachronism-->very highly destructive. Science will bestow on our grandchildren the opportunity to control the knows-not-when-to-stop compulsiveness off these and a lot of other impulses.
Future utopias traditionally portray people as more egalitarian, more intelligent, more engaged, interested and interesting, more productive, happier... more evolved. They tend to gloss over the alleged environmental mechanism through which that evolution would induced. Meanwhile, back in reality, news comes that in fact, we may be sliding the other way.
Whatever the case, we know this for sure- 10,000 years of civilization, religious exhortation and radical socio-cultural-political rearrangements has netted us
We live in a world of Papa Johns writ large, of pointless, noxious aggressive impulses with free reign and practically unlimited scope. The aggregation of all this is better known as the "culture of assholism." It's not a social con
It never was about the nickle and it never was. Most species of apes, specifically the males, assert their sexual dominance by keeping more of the good stuff - whatever that might be- for themselves than they can possibly use. This is so they can broadcast the fact of their dominance to females .
I think it's safe to say that the owner of Papa Johns is a physically unprepossessing specimen, basically he looks like some guy on your neighborhood watch.
Without a mindset that causes him to spend his life seeking, acquiring hording and displaying his wealth, he'd never get laid, or at least, he would not get as laid as he feels he should be.
In making a show of denying those under him healthcare, and especially by talking about how little it would cost him to provide those benefits as per the article above his primordial mind is attempting to broadcast the fact of his sexual dominance / desirability to available females. That's what's going on here.
When shit as demented as "No nickle for healthcare !!!! " becomes that public and is even paraded around by the perps themselves, you have to go to waaaaay back in evolutionary time to find the part of their brain that's being activated.
It's amusing that the conservatives who deny evolution is real seem also to be the people whose motivations are most clearly amenable to forces governing basic evolutionary processes.
Nice going here MightyYar.. I live in a nation of conservatards who think in the most simplistic dichotomies you can imagine. Thanks for putting one of them in their place. Tally ho !
Uh, desertification is a well known effect of global warming, idiot,. All you're doing is finding a new way to deny even as the predictions unfold before all our eyes.
"yes, all these bad things are happening, but none of it is the caused by global warming and the models and scientific establishment which have been predicting exactly these events are all wrong, even though what they predicted is coming true in just the way they predicted because.. because.. because I want that to be reality and I can speak empty words with absolutely nothing behind them!!
Their chips occupy most of the best price/performance ratios of any high performance chip, including Intel's offerings . Their 8-core $189.00 8320 is much faster than anyone realistically needs a chip to be. IF anyone is thinking about buying a new computer, check out PASSMARK's rating of your options for high end CPUs and focus in on the price performance ratio and then realize that this is just the single-threaded measurement, and AMD really shines in multi-threaded / multi-core computing , like the kind you do every day while you watch YouTube and edit music and chat with your friends etc etc etc.
Yes, I know I am asking for it from Intel employees and fanbois here... Sorry.
Why don't they just keep moving forward on the desktop front and open up new areas of revenue which leverage their ability to make fantastic chips inexpensively, revenues to be had in mobile devices and more forward looking, The Internet Of Things? That would give them this profile:
Making fantastic desktop chips now? Check.
Proven ability to leverage existing capabilities into current, rising markets? Check. Excellent long term outlook and R and D dedicated to soon-to-be-exploding, near future emerging computing markets? Check
Verdict- buy.
What I don't understand is one day, another chip maker will rise. That chip maker will spend a LOT of money and have to earn-the-hard-way a LOT of knowledge just to get where AMD is now. It's ridiculous that AMD is even thinking about throwing in the towel when they have the know how and capacity produce chips like they do at the prices they offer.
AMD leaving the stage would be the worst possible thing for consumers. Intel is a very highly manipulative company, still to this day offering a deliberately confusing array of chips with various abilities disabled so as to create an artificial "tiering" of the "market"- a practice which started back in the days of the 386 SX vs 386 DX and their disabled floating point chip...
What do you think is going to happen to prices and options if Intel is left alone on stage? They're going to make GP computing a niche market for millioniares while the rest of us can connect via dumb terminals to "the cloud" on what amounts to a pentium chip for a few hundred bucks a month courtesy of our "cloud provider" which will look a lot like our "cable provider" whilst our data, we're informed, no longer has the presumption of privacy.
Computing is too important to the progress of society be left in the hands of a corporation which has proven itself time and again, most enduringly, to be basically sociopathic.
Nothing to see here folks. Just the nation's political id machine is going into one of its tantrums when it didn't get its way... hey conservatives... why not be more like the conservatives of yesteryear, you know the hunters , fishers, outdoorsmen conservationists who knew Berry Goldwater was a lunatic you'd never invite to your party and respected the earth?
Today's "conservatives" are about excusing rape , both corporate and real, characterizing the first as the "invisible hand of Adam Smith" and the second as the "invisible hand of God Almighty".
You minds are weird. You're weird. You have a weird, paranoiac belief system which has set up shop as a one-stop reality-denial depot where you can stop and get a fill-up of stupid religious fundamentalism, a steaming hot cup of climate change denial, your ties filled with a lot of hot air about creationism and your "stupid" and "gullibility" levels checked and topped off.
You're stupid and your bizarre belief system is a danger to yourself and others. You may not like losing elections and are looking for ways to act out but I and the rest the country- and that would be the majority- understand that this s nothing more than the temper tantrum of a child who has to be put in his place for his own good.
Good. Because what we need are a LOT more lawsuits just like this one so the whole software patent fiasco finally implodes.
Software patents are fundamentally wrong for reasons we all know too well to recite here. But what is going to stop the system? Thew surest way to stop the system is to have it collapse under its own weight. Everyone always suing everyone over everything is the final place software patents will go if left unchecked. We have been saying this for a decade at least now. So why interfere with your enemy while he's busy committing suicide?
Also, a very very detaqiled study has shown that htere's enmough wind energy to meet 100% of all nations' needs. This looked at everything from where the wind blows and doesn't to storing and transmitting the energy to the amount of land mass needed for windmills to the amount of raw materials and rare earth products needed to build all the windmills
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/10/is-there-enough-wind-energy-to-meet-the-worlds-needs/
The Princeton wedges plan has the benefit of being immediately implementable and distributing the burden of meeting our energy needs across a spectrum of alternative energy sources along with very achievable conservation measures along with pricing in the real cost of fossil fuels.
In comparison, climate change, here, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is not going to get dramatically worse, if we don't do anything about it. For example, they generally forecast the loss of about as much land over the next century from rising water levels (assuming a one meter rise) as are lost each year from desertification due mostly to bad agricultural practices.
This is a joke. This is the exact opposite of what every scientific report says.
Your post is a classic example of someone holding forth in an authoritative tone who knows exactly zero about the subject he's pontificating on.
Global Warming Threatens Our National Security
IISS: âoeA Global Catastropheâ For International Security
A recent study done by the International Institute for Strategic Studies has likened the international security effects of global warming to those caused by nuclear war. [On Deadline]
U.N.: As Dangerous As War
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said this year that global warming poses as much of a threat to the world as war. [BBC]
Center for Naval Analyses: National Security Threat
In April, a report completed by the Center for Naval Analyses predicted that global warming would cause âoelarge-scale migrations, increased border tensions, the spread of disease and conflicts over food and water.â [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
Genocide in Sudan
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon charges, âoeAmid the diverse social and political causes, the Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change.â [Washington Post]
War in Somalia
In April, a group of 11 former U.S. military leaders released a report charging that the war in Somalia during the 1990s stemmed in part from national resource shortages caused by global warming. [Washington Post]
Starvation
A study by IISS found that reduced water supplies and hotter temperatures mean âoe65 countries were likely to lose over 15 percent of their agricultural output by 2100.â [Yahoo]
Large-Scale Migrations
Global warming will turn already-dry environments into deserts, causing the people who live there to migrate in massive numbers to more livable places. [MSNBC]
More Refugees
A study by the relief group Christian Aid estimates the number of refugees around the world will top a billion by 2050, thanks in large part to global warming. [Telegraph]
Increased Border Tensions
A report called âoeNational Security and the Threat of Climate Change,â written by a group of retired generals and admirals, specifically linked global warming to increased border tensions. âoeIf, as some project, sea levels rise, human migrations may occur, likely both within and across bo
Do you drive a car? Is it electric? Or at least the most fuel efficient that you can find?
Yes.
But the point is that individual action, if not a part of a coordinated national and global effort, is necessary but sadly not sufficient to save us.
So *what I do* is spend the precious time given to me in my life educating myself and then persuading my fellow citizen, using the devices of culture I have at hand. I participate in my democracy rather than just give up.
Glad to hear about your brother . Tell him I said "hi" , that refusing to stay silent is our greatest weapon, and "semper fi".
Global warming may be a fact but asserting that it will "deconstruct civilization" and that if we don't do something Earth will become uninhabitable is pretty strong spin for a "no spin zone".
Remember, - and this is the point of the intelligence analysis, before we actually reach the ecological point of literal uninhabitability as detailed by Lynas above, we will reach the certainty of reaching that point. You know this from the stock market. A company doesn't have to fail outright before the market starts to act as if it had; it only needs to be very likely to fail. Atr that distinguished point, the market collectively acts as if it had failed.
This is even truer for things like food and fresh water shortages , failed governments uncontrolled and uncontrollable immigration, break down and loss of civil order. All that has to happen is a loss of faith in the face of facts . In fact, all that has to happen to trigger cascading consequences throughout society is consecutive-year crop failures with a long-term prediction for more.
No one actually has to worry about wandering MadMax style though a barren world if, say, the food chain begins to collapse from the bottom up because of the acidification and heating of the oceans. They won't live to see it., their fellow human will make sure of that.
Why are we risking this? Why aren't we doing absolutely everything, all together now, to prevent this from happening? Fear of Big Government? Who thinks like that? People who live outside of reality- who believe , for instance, that the world's scientists are in a conspiracy of some description.
Those people are out there. Is that the demographic I'm supposed to cede the fate of all human society to? The Sara Palins , the Sharron Angles, the Richard Mourdochs? Because you know what? Right now, they're clearly winning.
Let's be clear. The people equating statistically improbable disasters - asteroids, aliens all that- to the absolute certain fact that global warming will, if left unchecked for too long, deconstruct civilization are engaging in a type of self soothing via fuzzy thinking. This is what denial is.
The people denying that the threat is imminent and reasoning that it is therefore amenable to current political processes are doing something a little more subtle.
They are creating an imaginary causal linkage between three phenomena which are, in reality, causally unlinked. This is therefore a type of magical thinking.
The first phenomena is the pace at which global warming will proceed. No one knows with certainty how quickly it will proceed or what effects each step of the progression will have on factors effecting national security. What we do know is it's worse than we thought, proceeding faster than we projected.
That pace is in no way related to the second phenomena , the ability of a (gerrymandered) minority of politicians to block urgently needed action at the federal level. Funded by and beholden to the now-classifiable-as-genocidal gas and oil industries, scientifically ignorant and proud of it, the pace of warming is in no way effected by their continued inaction, and nothing about their inaction obliges global warming to back off for our collective sake.
The third phenomena is what level of ecological disaster is going to serve as the trigger point at which the denier population capitulates to reality and assents to urgent, sweeping federal action. Because that level of ecological disaster both exists and will be realized sooner or later.
But that point is in no way causally related to that other point in time, the point of no return, where given our then-current or achievable level of technology, we'll still be able to limit the effects of global warming in order to preserve the habitability of the planet.
There's nothing to say that deniers won't come around too late. There's no guarantee that the level of ecological disaster sufficient to finally get through to deniers will appear on a schedule sufficient for us to solve the problem.
To think vague things like- eventually everyone will come around and then the political process will kick in in time for us to save ourselves- is magical thinking. The forces controlling the pace of, and political resistance to, global warming are unrelated with respect to the time frame needed to act.
The original question is rhetorical but only in the way opposite to that asserted by the deniers here. It IS a fact that the threat posed by global warming falls under the purview of the executive branch who WILL be empowered and in fact have a duty to act unilaterally, without Congressional oversight or approval, in order to preserve the national security of the United States. The only question is when will that time come and how will we know it? Is it now? A little while from now? When it's too late to do any good?
We just squeaked by an election in which one of the parties' candidates was threatening to pipeline in tar sands from Canada and light them on fire. We already know that, if we light on fire all the oil we current have already drilled and sitting waiting to be sold, it's game over for the environment and ourselves. Drilling for more, spending money to obtain yet more and dirtier oil and th
The fact is developers trend heavily (relative to the general population) towards free market is all and everything type thinking. They hate unions by instinct and they aren't herd animals by conceit- they think they're better than any herd.
Unless things have changed lately, you have a major personality problem in your way. Unless developers have grown up lately.
All fringe movements that later go on to change the face of society begin with fringy people.
Think slavery abolition and early pioneers in aviation. Think of the art world.
By definition, all revolutionary movements start at the fringes and are characterized by low participation, an evolutionary timescale uptake, massive trial and error, oddball individuals doing work of dubious ultimate value and some scurrilous binding "vision" of society that is cleanly orthogonal to mainstream's understanding of itself.
If such things were wont to start with Apple, it wouldn't termed called "revolutionary" except by media types, it would be called a "product release".
Of course such a group also describes every whacked-out, AK-47 hording, black helicopter fearing, alcoholic, self -loathing "oh! congratulations, when-are-you-due ?"-belly sporting, government hating, liberal bashing, IQ impaired, amphetamine popping, Ayn Rand reading, John Galt worshiping, racist scumbag or hippie-dippie dope smoking tie-dye wearing, lice infected, rasta-haired , smelly, dirty, freecycle cruising group of freakazoid social misfits that any slashdot poster ever mindlessly caricatured in any post ever...
The point is, the indicators you used to predict success are known to be unreliable differentiators.
So wrong on all counts and every *single* thing you said regarding "people like me" , what my opinion of Apple and patents is and the non-delusional reality of climate change.
Your post distinguishes itself by consisting entirely of false statements.
But he fact that I am not the least bit of what anyone would call unfamiliar with weapons and how to use them means nothing in this context since no one, especially me is considering taking the law into our own hands. We don't need to. We are the law. That's what democracy is about. There is zero doubt that the subhuman filth I referred to will, if they have the grave misfortune to live another 20 years , end their lives at the end of a hemp rope courtesy of a due process and jury of their peers.
An orderly society conducting itself within the confines of due process is these guy's worst nightmare. They're betting big on chaos. We are society; we are the rational truth telling children and inheritors of The Enlightenment and they are the enemies of civil society, or greater order of rationality itself.
Our power lies entirely in the orderliness of society, in the well functioning of civil society and the well being of its citizens. Why do you think they attack the public good ? Why do you think Koch wants to do away with the FBI and the CIA , a state he calls "freedom"? Why do you think he wants to suppress the vote? Why do you think he wants to devolve us into individual fiefdoms - The Confederacy called it "States Rights" and declared war on the United States over it. Why do you think they pushed fro Citizens United?
Because all that is the enemy of representative democracy , a system of government The Koch's and Paul Ryan's heroine Ayn Rand had nothing but contempt for. They hate representative democracy, they hate the Untied States of America they hate our system of government and the power it gives to:"ordinary" citizens, including the power to find them guilty of Crimes Against Humanity and to put a noose around their necks.
Social order, due process, facts, a reality-based populace able to make their voice heard all these things are what our power base consists of and as long as those things hold together , they're fucked.
Why do you think the Governor of Texas is always talking about secession? Why do you think Norquist et. al. are always bashing the government? Why was it a Republican operative who whipped up a frenzy over provably non-existant "voter fraud" and used that to repress votes ? Why do you think Norquist has stated that taxes are worse than the Holocaust and he wants to take the federal government and drown it in a bathtub? Because a government by for and of the people is the worst thing that ever happened to this kind of scum criminal. Law and order and reality based thinking are the sworn enemy of this filth, and they know it .
Please. The last thing anyone on our side is going to do is start to take the law into their own hands. We'll leave that to them, to their "2nd Amendment solutions ",.....and then destroy them utterly, completely and finally when they do.
Yep, there' s more ways than one to tear someone's head off and shit down their neck and throw their lifeless worthless corpse in the fucking gutter.
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Come on, this is not new knowledge. We all, or at least a lot of people, are well aware that if you leave the radio on at night tuned to a talk station, the content of the talk gets worked into your dreams.
So what does that mean? Well, Unconscious? Check. Parsing sentences? Check. Integrating those the semantic content of those sentences into your dreams into the "plot" of your dream-or in other words "problem solving" - check.
On the last point- yes, it is problem solving. Getting the meaning out of a stream of sentences is the kind of problem solving that's so sophisticated, a computer can't yet do it. A computer can't read the paper and understand the it's meaning or listen the a radio broadcast and understand it's meaning . Intelligence agencies would love to have a computer that can read the world's papers and automatically process their contents. The technology isn't there yet, which is another way of saying that the problem isn't solved, so that's problem solving in your sleep, not to mention the problem solving of working a narrative around what it is your unconscious mind is listening to.
Is this story from some grad student trolling for fame ?
Horse shit it's illegal. The outer can do whatever detective work he wants about any person or person he wants. Only court orders restrain people or the press form publishing the names of private citizens for one reason or another. There is no "you cannot name a child by name" law. Nice try.
This is great. The cockroaches know no shame or limits. They just go right on, piling over each other at the patent office patenting every flicker of a UI idea, every shade of a thought of a notion .... and it's all to our long-term good.
If they acted responsibly, if they could manage to even momentarily raise the masks of an adult face over their twisted frothing greed and steroided self-regard as "creators" then they wouldn't be racking up such an egregious track record. Oh, but they can't.
Every patent attorney is like every other. There's change in the air. They can smell it and to them, it stinks. They're going to get theirs while they still can.
Why even Lead Patent Attorneys In Charge of Keeping CEOs In Coke N' Whores of major international businesses have seen fit to get out of their fluffy robes, come in from their party yachts and address the commoners, whom, it appears, are rebelling.
Every time I read something like this, my heart leaps with hope. It means the enemy has drunk it's own Ayn Rand kool-aid and they are structurally incapable of collective action; it's just every patent attorney / client for himself.
The worst possible thing for us would be for them to show some kind of coordinated restraint.
That's right , we're going to shut you down in a Big Way. You are reading the future correctly. Then you'll have to *work* for a living and the clients you represent will have to create value instead of blocking it. Holy shit- the worst of all possible outcomes is descending on you like a bird of prey. It's just a matter of time, so bill those clients while you still can, and don't hold anything back.
Hey man you've got 5 kids between three wives; that's 90 (!) years of pre-k through B.A. private schooling to pay for. Pray for the kids, but bill those hours !
A broken clock is still right twice a day.
It's true. They just neglected to point out that so do vegetarians.... or is India a violence free, caste-free , woman loving egalitarian paradise of people-not-exploiting-people these days?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/world/asia/gujarat-riot-trials-may-alter-indias-cycle-of-violence.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
OK then.
Except my comment was not making an argument FOR evolution; I take evolution as the fact that it is, and launch my sarcasm and mockery at those who deny it from there.
It's amusing that conservatives who can't understand the basic principles of logic and how to apply them still seem acutely aware that they represent something "good" and "validating" which leads them to eagerly -and falsely- claim that logic supports their arguments.
It seems that in the early 21st century we've at least won the battle insofar as no-one,not even anti-rational Christians and conservatives will willing and publicly bear the yoke of being considered "illogical".
Score one for our side.
Acting as though there were no altruism in the problem named "climate change" just because there's a Republican party in the US with its head in the sand is not doing science.. it's reducing all human behavior to the virtually brain-stem-only ejaculations of a psychopathic minority.
Wow that BBC special looks great... thanks for the tip!
I find your post insightful- yes having a society that functions as the maw of an alligator waiting to eat you EXCEPT for the pittance your employer affords you is exactly the model they are trying to preserve. It's a slave owner's mentality, and they barely make any bones about it. Nice going
I think that we're actually offering two complimentary explanations. I'm reflecting on the ultimate motivation of why corporations like Papa Johns are run the way they're run INSTEAD OF some other, completely affordable way which yields more egalitarian results for society at large.
Why do they WANT to be slave holders? It's implicit in your post that a lot of us (humans) WANT to be slave owners, and LIKE not just being on top, but lowering the bottom too. Slave-seeking land-based pirate ships- which is what a lot of corporations amount to really- are the context in which we live and frame explanations, but why are alternatives not as appealing to ambitious people; why is there not something else in the world?
Answer- because people are genetically predisposed to seek status in a social/sexual hierarchy and that's because our genes , like all genes, evolved in a resource-constrained environment in which competition for survival-giving resources were a zero sum game we played against our own kind.
It's like tits. Why are some men crazy for big tits? ( NSFW link not provided ) The bigger the better ! The reason is that big tits are a secondary sexual characteristic which broadcasts the reproductive fitness their bearer and men are pre-wired to interpret that signal and - here's the important part- nature saw no reason to put an upper limit on the link between the size of the tits and the size of excitation.. the bigger the tits, the bigger the signal ! tits are good, big tits are gooder !
The same thing with wealth and power acquisition. A lot of wealth is good, a super jumbo fortune you-and-your-six-successive-wives-and-eight-mistresses-can-never-spend is better and dramatically increasing the relative wealth spread between you and all your competition for those women:
http://dailymalemodels.com/
is best !
We don't live in THAT kind of resource -constrained world anymore. Our behavior in this way is classifiable under anachronism-->very highly destructive. Science will bestow on our grandchildren the opportunity to control the knows-not-when-to-stop compulsiveness off these and a lot of other impulses.
Future utopias traditionally portray people as more egalitarian, more intelligent, more engaged, interested and interesting, more productive, happier... more evolved. They tend to gloss over the alleged environmental mechanism through which that evolution would induced. Meanwhile, back in reality, news comes that in fact, we may be sliding the other way.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/11/13/191217/study-claims-human-intelligence-peaked-two-to-six-millennia-ago
Whatever the case, we know this for sure- 10,000 years of civilization, religious exhortation and radical socio-cultural-political rearrangements has netted us
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Petraeus_and_Paula_Broadwell.jpg
and this
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1884001280/nm0000216
We live in a world of Papa Johns writ large, of pointless, noxious aggressive impulses with free reign and practically unlimited scope. The aggregation of all this is better known as the "culture of assholism." It's not a social con
he pizza maker could have to pay damages of $500 per text message, or US$250 million, one of the largest damage awards under the 1991 law...
That would have bought some health care for their employees.
According to Forbes magazine, it would cost Papa Johns 5 cents per pizza to provide health care to their employees.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2012/11/14/Forbes-Papa-Johns-ACA-cost-5-cents/UPI-54101352940627/
It never was about the nickle and it never was. Most species of apes, specifically the males, assert their sexual dominance by keeping more of the good stuff - whatever that might be- for themselves than they can possibly use. This is so they can broadcast the fact of their dominance to females .
I think it's safe to say that the owner of Papa Johns is a physically unprepossessing specimen, basically he looks like some guy on your neighborhood watch.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/08/papa-johns-obamacare-will-raise-pizza-prices-131331.html
Without a mindset that causes him to spend his life seeking, acquiring hording and displaying his wealth, he'd never get laid, or at least, he would not get as laid as he feels he should be.
In making a show of denying those under him healthcare, and especially by talking about how little it would cost him to provide those benefits as per the article above his primordial mind is attempting to broadcast the fact of his sexual dominance / desirability to available females. That's what's going on here.
When shit as demented as "No nickle for healthcare !!!! " becomes that public and is even paraded around by the perps themselves, you have to go to waaaaay back in evolutionary time to find the part of their brain that's being activated.
It's amusing that the conservatives who deny evolution is real seem also to be the people whose motivations are most clearly amenable to forces governing basic evolutionary processes.
Nice going here MightyYar.. I live in a nation of conservatards who think in the most simplistic dichotomies you can imagine. Thanks for putting one of them in their place. Tally ho !
Uh, desertification is a well known effect of global warming, idiot ,. All you're doing is finding a new way to deny even as the predictions unfold before all our eyes.
"yes, all these bad things are happening, but none of it is the caused by global warming and the models and scientific establishment which have been predicting exactly these events are all wrong, even though what they predicted is coming true in just the way they predicted because.. because.. because I want that to be reality and I can speak empty words with absolutely nothing behind them!!
COME ON!
Their chips occupy most of the best price/performance ratios of any high performance chip, including Intel's offerings . Their 8-core $189.00 8320 is much faster than anyone realistically needs a chip to be. IF anyone is thinking about buying a new computer, check out PASSMARK's rating of your options for high end CPUs and focus in on the price performance ratio and then realize that this is just the single-threaded measurement, and AMD really shines in multi-threaded / multi-core computing , like the kind you do every day while you watch YouTube and edit music and chat with your friends etc etc etc.
Yes, I know I am asking for it from Intel employees and fanbois here... Sorry.
Why don't they just keep moving forward on the desktop front and open up new areas of revenue which leverage their ability to make fantastic chips inexpensively, revenues to be had in mobile devices and more forward looking, The Internet Of Things? That would give them this profile: Making fantastic desktop chips now? Check. Proven ability to leverage existing capabilities into current, rising markets? Check. Excellent long term outlook and R and D dedicated to soon-to-be-exploding, near future emerging computing markets? Check
Verdict- buy.
What I don't understand is one day, another chip maker will rise. That chip maker will spend a LOT of money and have to earn-the-hard-way a LOT of knowledge just to get where AMD is now. It's ridiculous that AMD is even thinking about throwing in the towel when they have the know how and capacity produce chips like they do at the prices they offer.
AMD leaving the stage would be the worst possible thing for consumers. Intel is a very highly manipulative company, still to this day offering a deliberately confusing array of chips with various abilities disabled so as to create an artificial "tiering" of the "market"- a practice which started back in the days of the 386 SX vs 386 DX and their disabled floating point chip...
What do you think is going to happen to prices and options if Intel is left alone on stage? They're going to make GP computing a niche market for millioniares while the rest of us can connect via dumb terminals to "the cloud" on what amounts to a pentium chip for a few hundred bucks a month courtesy of our "cloud provider" which will look a lot like our "cable provider" whilst our data, we're informed, no longer has the presumption of privacy.
Computing is too important to the progress of society be left in the hands of a corporation which has proven itself time and again, most enduringly, to be basically sociopathic.
No, seriously, it is.
Nothing to see here folks. Just the nation's political id machine is going into one of its tantrums when it didn't get its way... hey conservatives... why not be more like the conservatives of yesteryear, you know the hunters , fishers, outdoorsmen conservationists who knew Berry Goldwater was a lunatic you'd never invite to your party and respected the earth?
Today's "conservatives" are about excusing rape , both corporate and real, characterizing the first as the "invisible hand of Adam Smith" and the second as the "invisible hand of God Almighty".
You minds are weird. You're weird. You have a weird, paranoiac belief system which has set up shop as a one-stop reality-denial depot where you can stop and get a fill-up of stupid religious fundamentalism, a steaming hot cup of climate change denial, your ties filled with a lot of hot air about creationism and your "stupid" and "gullibility" levels checked and topped off.
You're stupid and your bizarre belief system is a danger to yourself and others. You may not like losing elections and are looking for ways to act out but I and the rest the country- and that would be the majority- understand that this s nothing more than the temper tantrum of a child who has to be put in his place for his own good.
Good. Because what we need are a LOT more lawsuits just like this one so the whole software patent fiasco finally implodes.
Software patents are fundamentally wrong for reasons we all know too well to recite here. But what is going to stop the system? Thew surest way to stop the system is to have it collapse under its own weight. Everyone always suing everyone over everything is the final place software patents will go if left unchecked. We have been saying this for a decade at least now. So why interfere with your enemy while he's busy committing suicide?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/world-on-track-for-nearly-11-degree-temperature-rise-energy-expert-says/2011/11/28/gIQAi0lM6N_story.html
http://globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm
\http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120909150446.htm
http://inhabitat.com/carnegie-institution-study-finds-there-is-enough-wind-power-to-meet-global-energy-demand/
We can do this, but we have to contain and neutralize the political power of the fossil fuel companies and their ideological compatriots.
http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/
Practical , doable , economical. Check Check Check.
In comparison, climate change, here, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is not going to get dramatically worse, if we don't do anything about it. For example, they generally forecast the loss of about as much land over the next century from rising water levels (assuming a one meter rise) as are lost each year from desertification due mostly to bad agricultural practices.
This is a joke. This is the exact opposite of what every scientific report says.
Your post is a classic example of someone holding forth in an authoritative tone who knows exactly zero about the subject he's pontificating on.
Global Warming Threatens Our National Security IISS: âoeA Global Catastropheâ For International Security
A recent study done by the International Institute for Strategic Studies has likened the international security effects of global warming to those caused by nuclear war. [On Deadline]
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/climate-change-.html
U.N.: As Dangerous As War United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said this year that global warming poses as much of a threat to the world as war. [BBC]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6410305.stm
Center for Naval Analyses: National Security Threat In April, a report completed by the Center for Naval Analyses predicted that global warming would cause âoelarge-scale migrations, increased border tensions, the spread of disease and conflicts over food and water.â [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/320929_secured.html
Genocide in Sudan
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon charges, âoeAmid the diverse social and political causes, the Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change.â [Washington Post]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501857.html
War in Somalia
In April, a group of 11 former U.S. military leaders released a report charging that the war in Somalia during the 1990s stemmed in part from national resource shortages caused by global warming. [Washington Post]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041401209.html
Starvation
A study by IISS found that reduced water supplies and hotter temperatures mean âoe65 countries were likely to lose over 15 percent of their agricultural output by 2100.â [Yahoo]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070912/ts_nm/climate_security_dc
Large-Scale Migrations
Global warming will turn already-dry environments into deserts, causing the people who live there to migrate in massive numbers to more livable places. [MSNBC]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19479607/
More Refugees
A study by the relief group Christian Aid estimates the number of refugees around the world will top a billion by 2050, thanks in large part to global warming. [Telegraph]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/14/nclimate14.xml
Increased Border Tensions
A report called âoeNational Security and the Threat of Climate Change,â written by a group of retired generals and admirals, specifically linked global warming to increased border tensions. âoeIf, as some project, sea levels rise, human migrations may occur, likely both within and across bo
Do you drive a car? Is it electric? Or at least the most fuel efficient that you can find?
Yes. But the point is that individual action, if not a part of a coordinated national and global effort, is necessary but sadly not sufficient to save us.
So *what I do* is spend the precious time given to me in my life educating myself and then persuading my fellow citizen, using the devices of culture I have at hand. I participate in my democracy rather than just give up.
Glad to hear about your brother . Tell him I said "hi" , that refusing to stay silent is our greatest weapon, and "semper fi".
Global warming may be a fact but asserting that it will "deconstruct civilization" and that if we don't do something Earth will become uninhabitable is pretty strong spin for a "no spin zone".
First,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/apr/23/scienceandnature.climatechange and then read
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-ritz/james-hansens-new-climate_b_67357.html This is congruent with the reports coming out of the CIA and other models. It's worse than we thought , and the feedback mechanisms that we know of- and there are others that we will discover- are more ferocious than we thought .
Remember, - and this is the point of the intelligence analysis, before we actually reach the ecological point of literal uninhabitability as detailed by Lynas above, we will reach the certainty of reaching that point. You know this from the stock market. A company doesn't have to fail outright before the market starts to act as if it had; it only needs to be very likely to fail. Atr that distinguished point, the market collectively acts as if it had failed.
This is even truer for things like food and fresh water shortages , failed governments uncontrolled and uncontrollable immigration, break down and loss of civil order. All that has to happen is a loss of faith in the face of facts . In fact, all that has to happen to trigger cascading consequences throughout society is consecutive-year crop failures with a long-term prediction for more.
No one actually has to worry about wandering MadMax style though a barren world if, say, the food chain begins to collapse from the bottom up because of the acidification and heating of the oceans. They won't live to see it., their fellow human will make sure of that.
Why are we risking this? Why aren't we doing absolutely everything, all together now, to prevent this from happening? Fear of Big Government? Who thinks like that? People who live outside of reality- who believe , for instance, that the world's scientists are in a conspiracy of some description.
Those people are out there. Is that the demographic I'm supposed to cede the fate of all human society to? The Sara Palins , the Sharron Angles, the Richard Mourdochs? Because you know what? Right now, they're clearly winning.
Let's be clear. The people equating statistically improbable disasters - asteroids, aliens all that- to the absolute certain fact that global warming will, if left unchecked for too long, deconstruct civilization are engaging in a type of self soothing via fuzzy thinking. This is what denial is.
The people denying that the threat is imminent and reasoning that it is therefore amenable to current political processes are doing something a little more subtle.
They are creating an imaginary causal linkage between three phenomena which are, in reality, causally unlinked. This is therefore a type of magical thinking.
The first phenomena is the pace at which global warming will proceed. No one knows with certainty how quickly it will proceed or what effects each step of the progression will have on factors effecting national security. What we do know is it's worse than we thought, proceeding faster than we projected.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2009/02/23/203730/mit-doubles-global-warming-projections/
That pace is in no way related to the second phenomena , the ability of a (gerrymandered) minority of politicians to block urgently needed action at the federal level. Funded by and beholden to the now-classifiable-as-genocidal gas and oil industries, scientifically ignorant and proud of it, the pace of warming is in no way effected by their continued inaction, and nothing about their inaction obliges global warming to back off for our collective sake.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2009/03/17/203822/media-copenhagen-global-warming-impacts-worst-case-ipcc/?mobile=nc
The third phenomena is what level of ecological disaster is going to serve as the trigger point at which the denier population capitulates to reality and assents to urgent, sweeping federal action. Because that level of ecological disaster both exists and will be realized sooner or later.
But that point is in no way causally related to that other point in time, the point of no return, where given our then-current or achievable level of technology, we'll still be able to limit the effects of global warming in order to preserve the habitability of the planet.
There's nothing to say that deniers won't come around too late. There's no guarantee that the level of ecological disaster sufficient to finally get through to deniers will appear on a schedule sufficient for us to solve the problem.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=349
To think vague things like- eventually everyone will come around and then the political process will kick in in time for us to save ourselves- is magical thinking. The forces controlling the pace of, and political resistance to, global warming are unrelated with respect to the time frame needed to act.
The original question is rhetorical but only in the way opposite to that asserted by the deniers here. It IS a fact that the threat posed by global warming falls under the purview of the executive branch who WILL be empowered and in fact have a duty to act unilaterally, without Congressional oversight or approval, in order to preserve the national security of the United States. The only question is when will that time come and how will we know it? Is it now? A little while from now? When it's too late to do any good?
We just squeaked by an election in which one of the parties' candidates was threatening to pipeline in tar sands from Canada and light them on fire. We already know that, if we light on fire all the oil we current have already drilled and sitting waiting to be sold, it's game over for the environment and ourselves. Drilling for more, spending money to obtain yet more and dirtier oil and th
The fact is developers trend heavily (relative to the general population) towards free market is all and everything type thinking. They hate unions by instinct and they aren't herd animals by conceit- they think they're better than any herd.
Unless things have changed lately, you have a major personality problem in your way. Unless developers have grown up lately.
All fringe movements that later go on to change the face of society begin with fringy people.
Think slavery abolition and early pioneers in aviation. Think of the art world.
By definition, all revolutionary movements start at the fringes and are characterized by low participation, an evolutionary timescale uptake, massive trial and error, oddball individuals doing work of dubious ultimate value and some scurrilous binding "vision" of society that is cleanly orthogonal to mainstream's understanding of itself.
If such things were wont to start with Apple, it wouldn't termed called "revolutionary" except by media types, it would be called a "product release".
Of course such a group also describes every whacked-out, AK-47 hording, black helicopter fearing, alcoholic, self -loathing "oh! congratulations, when-are-you-due ?"-belly sporting, government hating, liberal bashing, IQ impaired, amphetamine popping, Ayn Rand reading, John Galt worshiping, racist scumbag or hippie-dippie dope smoking tie-dye wearing, lice infected, rasta-haired , smelly, dirty, freecycle cruising group of freakazoid social misfits that any slashdot poster ever mindlessly caricatured in any post ever...
The point is, the indicators you used to predict success are known to be unreliable differentiators.
So wrong on all counts and every *single* thing you said regarding "people like me" , what my opinion of Apple and patents is and the non-delusional reality of climate change.
Your post distinguishes itself by consisting entirely of false statements.
But he fact that I am not the least bit of what anyone would call unfamiliar with weapons and how to use them means nothing in this context since no one, especially me is considering taking the law into our own hands. We don't need to. We are the law. That's what democracy is about. There is zero doubt that the subhuman filth I referred to will, if they have the grave misfortune to live another 20 years , end their lives at the end of a hemp rope courtesy of a due process and jury of their peers.
An orderly society conducting itself within the confines of due process is these guy's worst nightmare. They're betting big on chaos. We are society; we are the rational truth telling children and inheritors of The Enlightenment and they are the enemies of civil society, or greater order of rationality itself.
Our power lies entirely in the orderliness of society, in the well functioning of civil society and the well being of its citizens. Why do you think they attack the public good ? Why do you think Koch wants to do away with the FBI and the CIA , a state he calls "freedom"? Why do you think he wants to suppress the vote? Why do you think he wants to devolve us into individual fiefdoms - The Confederacy called it "States Rights" and declared war on the United States over it. Why do you think they pushed fro Citizens United?
Because all that is the enemy of representative democracy , a system of government The Koch's and Paul Ryan's heroine Ayn Rand had nothing but contempt for. They hate representative democracy, they hate the Untied States of America they hate our system of government and the power it gives to :"ordinary" citizens, including the power to find them guilty of Crimes Against Humanity and to put a noose around their necks.
Social order, due process, facts, a reality-based populace able to make their voice heard all these things are what our power base consists of and as long as those things hold together , they're fucked.
Why do you think the Governor of Texas is always talking about secession? Why do you think Norquist et. al. are always bashing the government? Why was it a Republican operative who whipped up a frenzy over provably non-existant "voter fraud" and used that to repress votes ? Why do you think Norquist has stated that taxes are worse than the Holocaust and he wants to take the federal government and drown it in a bathtub? Because a government by for and of the people is the worst thing that ever happened to this kind of scum criminal. Law and order and reality based thinking are the sworn enemy of this filth, and they know it .
Please. The last thing anyone on our side is going to do is start to take the law into their own hands. We'll leave that to them, to their "2nd Amendment solutions ",.....and then destroy them utterly, completely and finally when they do.
Yep, there' s more ways than one to tear someone's head off and shit down their neck and throw their lifeless worthless corpse in the fucking gutter.