Wrong,. Everything you said is wrong. That's why you get downmodded.
Point 1- he specifically did NOT say "global warming may or may not be happening". he said it IS happening but not at the rate he predicted. So you're WRONG. You understand what WRONG means? It means change the way you process information because you're coming to WRONG conclusions.
Of course since you only had to READ what he said and parrot it back to see that you're WRONG, I'm not sure where there is for you to go except to take a remedial reading course.
2) Lovelock is NOT a climate scientist and his predictions were NOT based on peer reviewed publications in respected journals. Rather, he was an "idea guy" and "visonary". If the world was understandable and explicable based on what "visionaries" "see" and not SCIENCE then the native Americans would be running the country right now.
3) He's no leader of he climate change movement just because he's not a climate scientist. Limbaugh and Hannity have the same limitation.
Joe Romm et. al- mainstream, publishing scientists, have criticized him for years for his way out predictions and ignorance of what the science is actually telling us:
5) Western civilization IS science and you ignore it and what the (vast vast ) majority of it scientists tell you at your peril and unfortunately mine and my family's since it's not really possible to hand you and your type your own fucking Earth then sit back and have popcorn while we watch you bury yourselves in your own excrement.
The OP is a liar and has been posting this trash on Slashdot for years. how did it get through this time? Slashdot needs to look at its servers and see 1) who posted it, 20 who modded it up and who they are. I think we all know they'll find.
Good. Some people live like there is no reality and no actors out there but the one they live in and the ones they have lunch with. Glad to see they finally GTFU.
NC is wrong for a reason. Even though nutrition science is a science and you can't, with good reason, claim to be a nutritionist without certification, also a good thing, he's not claiming to BE a nutritionist and people have been talking about diet and health from time immemorial.
I actually think each of his pages should carry a disclaimer that he is NOT a nutritionist and nothing he says has been scientifically tested and shown to be true.
But if they're so worried about this nutritionist, what about eh LEGIONS of global warming denier-quacks that populate the red states like N.C.? Where is the concern about what effect- death on a scale so massive it dwarfs WWII - THEIR unscientific and reckless opinions are having on naive readers?
I actually think in the case of global warming the media outlets and personalities who perpetrated the fraud of denialism should be prosecuted under a Nuremberg - like framework.
If we truly do nothing to stop global warming, that result - giving them access to due process of any sort- will be giving them a safe refuge from the masses of people looking to string them up Mussolini style from the nearest tree.
Yeah, I know. Mussolini, Saddam and Mubarak never thought it could come to that either Funny how the sudden imposition of reality can produce shocking results .
Come on. So they want you to have their client so they can troubleshoot and have a known, uniform access path to their service. Have you ever provided a service of any size at all? Come on. I would have done exactly the same thing.
They'll decide I'm too stupid to be shown some results, with the resulting ignorance and limitation on my horizons sure to have the long term effect of keeping me in an ongoing bad mood, since I wont' be able to figure out how life actually works.....
As technology advances, it heavily favors destructive offense over defense. Armadillo shells, castles and distance were all effective defenses once.
Later, at least you still needed an lot of other people to kill a lot of other people. The Constitution was born here.
Then came the bomb.
Later, at least you still needed a smaller number of highly skilled people and access to rare materials and rare know how.You born were here.
I don't need to tell slashdot readers that the number of people and the skills needed and the access to needed materials are all trending downwards.
Here's an equation that expresses this relationship succinctly:
1/ F = ( (D (superscript V) * A ) / N )
with
F is your Freedom and 1/F is your potential loss of freedom,
N is the number of bad actors needed to use a technology
A is the accessibility to whatever skills and materials those bad actors need
V is the number of victims effected by their bad actions
D is the level of Damage done to their victims ranging from inconvenience to death.
Given a suitable quantitative model of these variables , you can just plug in the numbers and watch your start to shrink.
A bunch of people stealing credit card numbers or one guy writing a computer virus that effects millions? D isn't an a true existential threat, so the base remains calm.
A mutant country only trying to build the bomb? No victims no damage,but let that country succeed and spread its technology and those actors actually start to use that bomb and see what happens. At the extreme, 1/F -> 0 , as in, you're dead.
A small group of terrorists trying to create a super virus? This is where things start to go really badly. D and possibly A go way up, and your freedom is threatened. The only factor really saving you is V- it's hard to make Sarin gas , say, effect a lot of people.
But let V D and A all take off and basically your freedom is going to be severely impinged. It has to be, because the first organizing principle of society isn't freedom or democracy or human rights, it's survival.
I am not saying this makes me happy.
You never want to get to a situation where VD and A are getting very large, but what are you going to do to stop it? Technology marches on. Knowledge becomes more widespread. 3D printers are a Good Thing. I think we all see where this is going.
It's nobody's fault. People are just whatever evolution shit out its ass over the course of a few million years. More and more of hose people are gaining theoretical access to WMD . It's nobody's fault.
You can change the living circumstances for these humans and try to implement regimes which bar access to WMD. That's our approach now.
A different approach is to try to arrange the world so the usual causes of discontent are removed for as many people as possible. Those would be poverty, ignorance, illiteracy, disease, famine, a decent place in a decent world.
The problem with that approach is i> it doesn't work Men-apes, no matter how much power and how many females they have only want more. Ask Arnold. Ask Bin Laden. Ask Trump. Ask anyone.
The drive to expand your sphere of power and control and access to the mating rights to yet more females is a monster that only gets hungrier the more it's fed. How many wives did Bin Laden have? How much money was he born into? How much esteem and status did he inherit? Ditto Trump. Ditto Forbes. Ditto the Record Executive / TV Evangelist / CEO / Senator and Professional Athlete of Your Choice.
Ditto Genghis Khan and his relatives for that matter .
Technology marches on and no one is going to, or even could , stop it. People are motivated to do what they do which is express a set of drives that served them well- a few hundred thousand years ago.
We have to change what people are if we're going to surviv
I just can't understand Germany lately. This is a great country with really enlightened people running it for the most part but their positions on IP - software patents (legal in Germany) and draconic copyright measures are just counter to everything else the Germans do in terms of forward thinkingness.
I am guessing it's because they've drunk the IP Kool-Aide and think that all these measures are somehow making for a stronger economy... or something....
I looked up the references...the deaths through bombing are:
from Wikipedia:
The West German government estimated 655,000 civilian deaths during war in Germany and Austria: 500,000 killed by strategic bombing,......For Germany within the 1937 borders 465,000 killed by strategic bombing,...A 1990 study by the German historian de:Olaf Groehler estimated 360,000â"370,000 civilians were killed by Allied strategic bombing within the 1937 German boundaries,....This revised estimate was published in the authoritative series The German Reich and the Second World War[199]
and from post-war famine :
From Wikipedia:
Famine Deaths 1945-1946 The German economist Bruno Gleitze from the German Institute for Economic Research estimated that there were 1,200,000 deaths caused by an increase in mortality due to harsh conditions in Germany during and after the war[221] In Allied occupied Germany the shortage of food was an acute problem in 1946â"47 the average kilocalorie intake per day was... an amount insufficient for long-term health.,[222]
We never fought a total war with either Russia or Vietnam. That's the point. Nation building and how to do it is an absolute must and one of the facts conservatives are going to have to make peace with going forward. I never suggested we bomb and leave. I suggested that the model we used in WWII- total war followed closely by nation building, is the right one.
Here's the take away lesson. Why you fight a war, it has to be total war, not a "police action" type war. And yes I am a liberal and no I don't like that fact much but it's still a fact.
The Nazis and the Japanese ( suggested reading: The Rape of Nanking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_Nanking_(book))
weren't any better than this in WWII. It represents a total devaluing of human life and unlimited freedom to make war on the opposition in any way conceivable.
We won WWII despite this because ultimately we fought back in just the same way . Millions of Germans died during the bombing of Berlin and many millions more starved to death AFTER the war during the occupation and this was deliberate. We were going to submit the nazis totally and absolutely and a part of that was the 1200 calories a day we allowed them. It's hard to maintain your fighting spirit and think of maintaining the ole Sig Heil when you're living amongst rubble and so mal-nourished and hungry you can barely stand.
Little Boy and Fat Man had the same effect on Imperial Japan. It wasn't about winning the war, it was about the psychological conversion of the population through REAL shock and awe, a total and absolute devastation and final full on shit-fuck invalidation of the poisoned government that population had permitted to arise.
That is how you fight subhuman scum like the Tali. Total war because that's what they're going to use against you. We should have nuked Kabul on Sept 12th. We should have turned Tora Bora into a radioactive wasteland and let Northwest Pakistan contemplate their fate if they decide they're going to continue to put the finger in the eye of civilian government in Islamabad. Fuck you and the god you rode in on.
As it stands, the world has learned the same lesson it learned in Vietnam. America fights civilized, limited wars and can be triumphed over by fighting a war of attrition with her.
Thanks, Colin Powell for your crucial speech at the UN which greenlighted a couple of fucking draft-dodging alcoholics to use the exact same failed tactics you yourself warned the country against after Vietnam.
Go fuck yourself and the son who rode in on you too.
Software patents cover any possible implementation of the "invention " they describe.
That's why programmers hate software patents. They're not patents on code - that's called "copyright". They're patents on ideas, totally abstract concepts that cover any way the same effect could be achieved irrespective of the code.
IP attorneys are essentially parasites, attaching themselves to then feeding off of software development. They serve no purpose but their own. Ultimately software development will die wherever software patents are allowed, where "die" means becomes the providence of only large corporations and achieve only the quality and rate of innovation that that situation implies.
No Google is not selling YOU. They're selling AGGREGATE customer data. Facebook is selling you - but first they get you to offer YOU up. Linked IN which hardly anyone has a problem with as far as I can see is every bit as bad as FB in terms of knowing who you know and therefore what resources you're likely to be able to marshal for yourself.. should anyone ever want to undermine your life in some fashion.
Think about this. Zuckerberg may or may not be a good guy but what he's not is extremely intelligent the way Brin and Page are. Brin and Page solved a hard problem in a clever way. Zuckerberg's online school year book really took off! Brin and Page are fundamentally academics steeped in the Liberal (big L) tradition of the university culture - openess, utility, egalitarianism, advancement through accomplishment. Zuckerberg is a twenty-something billioniaire whose value system, whatever it is, came under the influence of people with a LOT of money to give him, people also likely became his advisors and tour guides in solving Life's Big Problems.
Ask me who I fundamentally trust more to make good decisions when some morally challenged right wing government liaison comes knocking again, crinkling her nose, with yet another sticky moral conundrum they need his help on.
Google's foray into China was a clear attempt to change through engagement. The idea, as once organic hippie now organic entrepreneur Casperian Farm's founder said is to "change the system more than it changes you". When it became perfectly clear that China was not going to change at all , Google pulled out.
That's not just a post hoc just so story designed to make Google look good, that's exactly what did happen. They debated fiercely and a long time over whether to engage China at all and for just the reasons you'd hope they would.
I'm sorry but what does a twenty something billionaire whose success was tendered to him because he effectively won the "someone's gonna hit gold here" lottery really know about the long form value of things like the privacy of strangers private lives and freedom from unwarranted analysis by people and organizations with out-sized power and undersized consciences?
I'll tell you- he knows nothing. He can be talked into nearly any POV especially by those within the power structure that's funded his company's success from the start and have only brought him good things beyond his imagining.
With all this talk about what Google is doing with your aggregated surfing data, where is the talk about something both more subtle and powerful which is, what can you do with a company like FB which has MUCH more personal data than just aggregate shopping - porn habits of it users when it's headed up by a personality you and your cronies effectively formed?
The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. I am pretty sure this was said in early funding discussions with Zuckerberg not present.
Exactly, all organizations very quickly devolve into something which serves only themselves, which is to say not their mission or their purported purpose (remember that corporations and the fiction of being a corporation is a grant from the government not a right and one to which obligations along with privileges attach) but only the individual personalities involved which see the corporation as an extension of their egos, a mere appendage to their personal selves.
ALL organizations do this sooner or later and when they do then need to be dissolved. The corporate death penalty - revocation of their corporate charter- is not issued nearly easily enough in the US. Usually we let them go on and on until they commit suicide.
The fact is Infossy and the amoral sociopaths that run it to keep themselves in whatever vices it is they're into need to simply be dissolved.
If we had a little more of that attitude and a little less of the ole Ayn Rand corporate worship bullshit, we wouldn't have had a collapse of the economy in the first place.
Time to get the the FBI involved on a whole different footing because making terrorists threats against someone, especially someone who is exposing the fraudulent transfer of foreign nationals into the country, is basically starting to get into Homeland Security territory.
How many failed projects does Infosys et. al. have to head up before companies start getting smart and just learn to leave the bodyshops alone? India is a fascinating place filled with very smart people, but none of them work for Infosys. As to infosys's management, they obviously still think their in India where all law, except perhaps blaspheme laws, is optional depending on whose palm you're greasing.
Welcome to America, where we take shit like this seriously and by and large federal agents are not for sale and laws are not optional.
Here's your new cellmate. His name is Bubba. You're going to be best friends.
Come on to sustain double digit inflation year over year you need someone to pay the bills and spies pay full out of state tuition with a smile on their faces. Of course universities want them to enroll.
This is just way #2432 that universities are determined to destroy themselves and their reputations as a reputable societal institution.
Don't bother teaching- leave that to your TAs who are undeveloped and overly ambitious and aggressive personalities who learn to hate their unpaid teaching duties and the students which are the source of that labor.
Jack tuition up five times the rate of inflation and more for decades on end because, hey, you could be working in the private sector making TEN TIMES this much.....
Never ever evolve anything you do in terms of pedagogy and violently resist all efforts at changes to the lowest-effort sage-on-the-stage model that you've milked for , what is it now? Going on three centuries?
Harass and dominate ordinary unsophisticated students who show up to your campuses by foisting on them draconic intellectual property "agreements" for anything they invent while undergraduates "using the schools computers or network"
Keep building glass and granite monuments to yourselves and your sports teams while underfunding that "teaching thing" society expects you to do
Please . Importing spies that will in time wreck our economy? Hey man.. I'm gonna get mine while the gettin's good. Fire up those J1s baby... American students are sooo.... yesterday...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says that Apple and other tech companies' patent hoarding IS PREVENTING entrepreneurs doing the same thing that he and Steve Jobs did in starting a computer company in a garage.
182 subjects . And they can claim to have achieved the required statistical power to assert statistical significance over.. what population exactly?
I didn't say the study wasn't worthy or interesting.. I am just saying with 182 subjects, the strong claim presented to me - We've mapped intelligence!) in the title of this article isn't warranted.
Who submits these things. Helper undergrads who want to see the study and their name in the "thanks to" section made famous?
If you factor out the super-loyal Toyota Prius buyers,...
Simple translation:
"if you factor out the hybrid car which actually delivers its estimated EPA to its buyers...
The government needs to come down on these manufacturers harder with respect to their fakey-fake estimated EPA numbers. I have driven a Prius and I can tell you it gets 50 MPG just like it says it does if you simply refrain from driving like a 16 year old.
Honda's claims for their hybrids, on the other hand, are lawsuit worthy:
And if you RTFA on the website of the "researchers" , you have to wonder if they included in those "hybrid" owners people who bought "flex-fuel" vehicles, which are are pretty useless according to owner's I've talked to (they just allow you to use ethanol if you can find it) .
Finally the research on the reasercher's own site is opaque. It doesn't specify the study's methods were, what questions they asked , To whom they were asked and how those people were selected, what constitutes "a hybrid" or what even what their raw data was. It's just a results table.
Results without methods tells us nothing except what the "researcher" wants us to hear. Sorry, I am not sure this is even news or newsworthy as opposed to some propaganda piece designed to be put into some lobbyist firm or senator's mouth at some televised hearing or debate on whether Americans want hybrids or EVs or even cares about fuel efficiency.
Is a right wing hate talk magazine with pretensions to being "serious".
Read their coverage of the Vince Foster suicide or anything to do with Clinton really to get an idea of just unhinged this sorry, sloppy bucket of stupid:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/07/conservative-politics-low-effort-thinking_n_1410448.html?ref=mostpopular
conservatard shit really is.
They didn't fire him because they disagreed with what he said; they fired him because they had to.
The question I had to ask myself with Sony from then on was- have they learned their lesson and can i trust them? Do I want to put this on my computer or do I want to look for alternatives?
Corporations have to try harder to reduce the number of sociopaths in their hierarchies so a bunch of them can't get together and do something like THAT.
Let's review what you just did and what they did, shall we?
They:
Went to high school and excelled then gained admittance to the most competitive undergraduate and gradate environments then spent long years honing their skills and advancing their knowledge in a rigorous disciplined environment in which only the best of the best of the best can survive.
They then each spent their entire professional lives investigating subject matter relevant to their findings using the most sophisticated tools mankind has ever created and which are proven through experience and rigorous testing to be accurate and reliable.
Acting together they worked out and published before their peers and for those peers' inspection- each of whom is equally qualified as the original authors- a paper using the same tools that and techniques that make spacecraft go where they're supposed to go and make nanotechnology possible which arrived at conclusions you find upsetting.
You:
Logged onto Slashdot after long hours reading Redstate, listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching Fox News and dismissed their work as a part of a worldwide conspiracy, demanding that they be removed from positions of authority in society.
And you believe society should listen to you and be guided by your ideas and thinking while dismissing the ideas and thinking of the people who published this paper.
You're a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States and America.
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Wrong,. Everything you said is wrong. That's why you get downmodded.
Point 1- he specifically did NOT say "global warming may or may not be happening". he said it IS happening but not at the rate he predicted. So you're WRONG. You understand what WRONG means? It means change the way you process information because you're coming to WRONG conclusions.
Of course since you only had to READ what he said and parrot it back to see that you're WRONG, I'm not sure where there is for you to go except to take a remedial reading course.
2) Lovelock is NOT a climate scientist and his predictions were NOT based on peer reviewed publications in respected journals. Rather, he was an "idea guy" and "visonary". If the world was understandable and explicable based on what "visionaries" "see" and not SCIENCE then the native Americans would be running the country right now.
3) He's no leader of he climate change movement just because he's not a climate scientist. Limbaugh and Hannity have the same limitation.
Joe Romm et. al- mainstream, publishing scientists, have criticized him for years for his way out predictions and ignorance of what the science is actually telling us:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/23/469749/james-lovelock-finally-walks-back-his-absurd-doomism-but-he-still-doesnt-follow-climate-science/
5) Western civilization IS science and you ignore it and what the (vast vast ) majority of it scientists tell you at your peril and unfortunately mine and my family's since it's not really possible to hand you and your type your own fucking Earth then sit back and have popcorn while we watch you bury yourselves in your own excrement.
6) So go fuck yourself.
4)
The OP is a liar and has been posting this trash on Slashdot for years. how did it get through this time? Slashdot needs to look at its servers and see 1) who posted it, 20 who modded it up and who they are. I think we all know they'll find.
Good. Some people live like there is no reality and no actors out there but the one they live in and the ones they have lunch with. Glad to see they finally GTFU.
NC is wrong for a reason. Even though nutrition science is a science and you can't, with good reason, claim to be a nutritionist without certification, also a good thing, he's not claiming to BE a nutritionist and people have been talking about diet and health from time immemorial.
I actually think each of his pages should carry a disclaimer that he is NOT a nutritionist and nothing he says has been scientifically tested and shown to be true.
But if they're so worried about this nutritionist, what about eh LEGIONS of global warming denier-quacks that populate the red states like N.C.? Where is the concern about what effect- death on a scale so massive it dwarfs WWII - THEIR unscientific and reckless opinions are having on naive readers?
I actually think in the case of global warming the media outlets and personalities who perpetrated the fraud of denialism should be prosecuted under a Nuremberg - like framework.
If we truly do nothing to stop global warming, that result - giving them access to due process of any sort- will be giving them a safe refuge from the masses of people looking to string them up Mussolini style from the nearest tree.
Yeah, I know. Mussolini, Saddam and Mubarak never thought it could come to that either Funny how the sudden imposition of reality can produce shocking results .
Come on. So they want you to have their client so they can troubleshoot and have a known, uniform access path to their service. Have you ever provided a service of any size at all? Come on. I would have done exactly the same thing.
These people are fucking morons.
OK here's the dynamic at play.
As technology advances, it heavily favors destructive offense over defense. Armadillo shells, castles and distance were all effective defenses once.
Later, at least you still needed an lot of other people to kill a lot of other people. The Constitution was born here.
Then came the bomb.
Later, at least you still needed a smaller number of highly skilled people and access to rare materials and rare know how .You born were here.
I don't need to tell slashdot readers that the number of people and the skills needed and the access to needed materials are all trending downwards.
Here's an equation that expresses this relationship succinctly:
1/ F = ( (D (superscript V) * A ) / N )
with
F is your Freedom and 1/F is your potential loss of freedom,
N is the number of bad actors needed to use a technology
A is the accessibility to whatever skills and materials those bad actors need
V is the number of victims effected by their bad actions
D is the level of Damage done to their victims ranging from inconvenience to death.
Given a suitable quantitative model of these variables , you can just plug in the numbers and watch your start to shrink.
A bunch of people stealing credit card numbers or one guy writing a computer virus that effects millions? D isn't an a true existential threat, so the base remains calm.
A mutant country only trying to build the bomb? No victims no damage,but let that country succeed and spread its technology and those actors actually start to use that bomb and see what happens. At the extreme, 1/F -> 0 , as in, you're dead.
A small group of terrorists trying to create a super virus? This is where things start to go really badly. D and possibly A go way up, and your freedom is threatened. The only factor really saving you is V- it's hard to make Sarin gas , say, effect a lot of people.
But let V D and A all take off and basically your freedom is going to be severely impinged. It has to be, because the first organizing principle of society isn't freedom or democracy or human rights, it's survival.
I am not saying this makes me happy.
You never want to get to a situation where VD and A are getting very large, but what are you going to do to stop it? Technology marches on. Knowledge becomes more widespread. 3D printers are a Good Thing. I think we all see where this is going.
It's nobody's fault. People are just whatever evolution shit out its ass over the course of a few million years. More and more of hose people are gaining theoretical access to WMD . It's nobody's fault.
You can change the living circumstances for these humans and try to implement regimes which bar access to WMD. That's our approach now.
A different approach is to try to arrange the world so the usual causes of discontent are removed for as many people as possible. Those would be poverty, ignorance, illiteracy, disease, famine, a decent place in a decent world.
The problem with that approach is i> it doesn't work Men-apes, no matter how much power and how many females they have only want more. Ask Arnold. Ask Bin Laden. Ask Trump. Ask anyone.
The drive to expand your sphere of power and control and access to the mating rights to yet more females is a monster that only gets hungrier the more it's fed. How many wives did Bin Laden have? How much money was he born into? How much esteem and status did he inherit? Ditto Trump. Ditto Forbes. Ditto the Record Executive / TV Evangelist / CEO / Senator and Professional Athlete of Your Choice.
Ditto Genghis Khan and his relatives for that matter .
Technology marches on and no one is going to, or even could , stop it. People are motivated to do what they do which is express a set of drives that served them well- a few hundred thousand years ago.
We have to change what people are if we're going to surviv
Yeah but it wouldn't have the built in authority of the Almighty Final Authority.
Religious people all suck ,
"India has successfully test fired a long-range, nuke-capable missile. Named after Hindu God of fire 'Agni',
Why does this worry me?
I just can't understand Germany lately. This is a great country with really enlightened people running it for the most part but their positions on IP - software patents (legal in Germany) and draconic copyright measures are just counter to everything else the Germans do in terms of forward thinkingness.
I am guessing it's because they've drunk the IP Kool-Aide and think that all these measures are somehow making for a stronger economy ... or something....
from Wikipedia:
The West German government estimated 655,000 civilian deaths during war in Germany and Austria: 500,000 killed by strategic bombing, ......For Germany within the 1937 borders 465,000 killed by strategic bombing, ...A 1990 study by the German historian de:Olaf Groehler estimated 360,000â"370,000 civilians were killed by Allied strategic bombing within the 1937 German boundaries, ....This revised estimate was published in the authoritative series The German Reich and the Second World War[199]
and from post-war famine :
From Wikipedia:
Famine Deaths 1945-1946 The German economist Bruno Gleitze from the German Institute for Economic Research estimated that there were 1,200,000 deaths caused by an increase in mortality due to harsh conditions in Germany during and after the war[221] In Allied occupied Germany the shortage of food was an acute problem in 1946â"47 the average kilocalorie intake per day was ... an amount insufficient for long-term health.,[222]
We never fought a total war with either Russia or Vietnam. That's the point. Nation building and how to do it is an absolute must and one of the facts conservatives are going to have to make peace with going forward. I never suggested we bomb and leave. I suggested that the model we used in WWII- total war followed closely by nation building, is the right one.
Here's the take away lesson. Why you fight a war, it has to be total war, not a "police action" type war. And yes I am a liberal and no I don't like that fact much but it's still a fact.
The Nazis and the Japanese ( suggested reading: The Rape of Nanking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_Nanking_(book)) weren't any better than this in WWII. It represents a total devaluing of human life and unlimited freedom to make war on the opposition in any way conceivable.
We won WWII despite this because ultimately we fought back in just the same way . Millions of Germans died during the bombing of Berlin and many millions more starved to death AFTER the war during the occupation and this was deliberate. We were going to submit the nazis totally and absolutely and a part of that was the 1200 calories a day we allowed them. It's hard to maintain your fighting spirit and think of maintaining the ole Sig Heil when you're living amongst rubble and so mal-nourished and hungry you can barely stand.
Little Boy and Fat Man had the same effect on Imperial Japan. It wasn't about winning the war, it was about the psychological conversion of the population through REAL shock and awe, a total and absolute devastation and final full on shit-fuck invalidation of the poisoned government that population had permitted to arise.
That is how you fight subhuman scum like the Tali. Total war because that's what they're going to use against you. We should have nuked Kabul on Sept 12th. We should have turned Tora Bora into a radioactive wasteland and let Northwest Pakistan contemplate their fate if they decide they're going to continue to put the finger in the eye of civilian government in Islamabad. Fuck you and the god you rode in on.
As it stands, the world has learned the same lesson it learned in Vietnam. America fights civilized, limited wars and can be triumphed over by fighting a war of attrition with her.
Thanks, Colin Powell for your crucial speech at the UN which greenlighted a couple of fucking draft-dodging alcoholics to use the exact same failed tactics you yourself warned the country against after Vietnam.
Go fuck yourself and the son who rode in on you too.
Wrong,.
Software patents cover any possible implementation of the "invention " they describe.
That's why programmers hate software patents. They're not patents on code - that's called "copyright". They're patents on ideas, totally abstract concepts that cover any way the same effect could be achieved irrespective of the code.
IP attorneys are essentially parasites, attaching themselves to then feeding off of software development. They serve no purpose but their own. Ultimately software development will die wherever software patents are allowed, where "die" means becomes the providence of only large corporations and achieve only the quality and rate of innovation that that situation implies.
No Google is not selling YOU. They're selling AGGREGATE customer data. Facebook is selling you - but first they get you to offer YOU up. Linked IN which hardly anyone has a problem with as far as I can see is every bit as bad as FB in terms of knowing who you know and therefore what resources you're likely to be able to marshal for yourself.. should anyone ever want to undermine your life in some fashion.
Think about this. Zuckerberg may or may not be a good guy but what he's not is extremely intelligent the way Brin and Page are. Brin and Page solved a hard problem in a clever way. Zuckerberg's online school year book really took off! Brin and Page are fundamentally academics steeped in the Liberal (big L) tradition of the university culture - openess, utility, egalitarianism, advancement through accomplishment. Zuckerberg is a twenty-something billioniaire whose value system, whatever it is, came under the influence of people with a LOT of money to give him, people also likely became his advisors and tour guides in solving Life's Big Problems.
Ask me who I fundamentally trust more to make good decisions when some morally challenged right wing government liaison comes knocking again, crinkling her nose, with yet another sticky moral conundrum they need his help on.
Google's foray into China was a clear attempt to change through engagement. The idea, as once organic hippie now organic entrepreneur Casperian Farm's founder said is to "change the system more than it changes you". When it became perfectly clear that China was not going to change at all , Google pulled out.
That's not just a post hoc just so story designed to make Google look good, that's exactly what did happen. They debated fiercely and a long time over whether to engage China at all and for just the reasons you'd hope they would.
I'm sorry but what does a twenty something billionaire whose success was tendered to him because he effectively won the "someone's gonna hit gold here" lottery really know about the long form value of things like the privacy of strangers private lives and freedom from unwarranted analysis by people and organizations with out-sized power and undersized consciences?
I'll tell you- he knows nothing. He can be talked into nearly any POV especially by those within the power structure that's funded his company's success from the start and have only brought him good things beyond his imagining.
With all this talk about what Google is doing with your aggregated surfing data, where is the talk about something both more subtle and powerful which is, what can you do with a company like FB which has MUCH more personal data than just aggregate shopping - porn habits of it users when it's headed up by a personality you and your cronies effectively formed?
The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. I am pretty sure this was said in early funding discussions with Zuckerberg not present.
ALL organizations do this sooner or later and when they do then need to be dissolved. The corporate death penalty - revocation of their corporate charter- is not issued nearly easily enough in the US. Usually we let them go on and on until they commit suicide.
The fact is Infossy and the amoral sociopaths that run it to keep themselves in whatever vices it is they're into need to simply be dissolved.
If we had a little more of that attitude and a little less of the ole Ayn Rand corporate worship bullshit, we wouldn't have had a collapse of the economy in the first place.
Time to get the the FBI involved on a whole different footing because making terrorists threats against someone, especially someone who is exposing the fraudulent transfer of foreign nationals into the country, is basically starting to get into Homeland Security territory.
How many failed projects does Infosys et. al. have to head up before companies start getting smart and just learn to leave the bodyshops alone? India is a fascinating place filled with very smart people, but none of them work for Infosys. As to infosys's management, they obviously still think their in India where all law, except perhaps blaspheme laws, is optional depending on whose palm you're greasing.
Welcome to America, where we take shit like this seriously and by and large federal agents are not for sale and laws are not optional.
Here's your new cellmate. His name is Bubba. You're going to be best friends.
Come on to sustain double digit inflation year over year you need someone to pay the bills and spies pay full out of state tuition with a smile on their faces. Of course universities want them to enroll.
This is just way #2432 that universities are determined to destroy themselves and their reputations as a reputable societal institution.
Don't bother teaching- leave that to your TAs who are undeveloped and overly ambitious and aggressive personalities who learn to hate their unpaid teaching duties and the students which are the source of that labor.
Jack tuition up five times the rate of inflation and more for decades on end because, hey, you could be working in the private sector making TEN TIMES this much.....
Never ever evolve anything you do in terms of pedagogy and violently resist all efforts at changes to the lowest-effort sage-on-the-stage model that you've milked for , what is it now? Going on three centuries?
Harass and dominate ordinary unsophisticated students who show up to your campuses by foisting on them draconic intellectual property "agreements" for anything they invent while undergraduates "using the schools computers or network"
Keep building glass and granite monuments to yourselves and your sports teams while underfunding that "teaching thing" society expects you to do
Please . Importing spies that will in time wreck our economy? Hey man.. I'm gonna get mine while the gettin's good. Fire up those J1s baby... American students are sooo.... yesterday...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says that Apple and other tech companies' patent hoarding IS PREVENTING entrepreneurs doing the same thing that he and Steve Jobs did in starting a computer company in a garage.
www.santorum.com
I didn't say the study wasn't worthy or interesting.. I am just saying with 182 subjects, the strong claim presented to me - We've mapped intelligence!) in the title of this article isn't warranted.
Who submits these things. Helper undergrads who want to see the study and their name in the "thanks to" section made famous?
Someone call quality control....
Simple translation:
The government needs to come down on these manufacturers harder with respect to their fakey-fake estimated EPA numbers. I have driven a Prius and I can tell you it gets 50 MPG just like it says it does if you simply refrain from driving like a 16 year old.
Honda's claims for their hybrids, on the other hand, are lawsuit worthy:
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2012/02/01/20120201woman-wins-suit-honda-hybrid-mpg.html
And if you RTFA on the website of the "researchers" , you have to wonder if they included in those "hybrid" owners people who bought "flex-fuel" vehicles, which are are pretty useless according to owner's I've talked to (they just allow you to use ethanol if you can find it) .
Finally the research on the reasercher's own site is opaque. It doesn't specify the study's methods were, what questions they asked , To whom they were asked and how those people were selected, what constitutes "a hybrid" or what even what their raw data was. It's just a results table.
Results without methods tells us nothing except what the "researcher" wants us to hear. Sorry, I am not sure this is even news or newsworthy as opposed to some propaganda piece designed to be put into some lobbyist firm or senator's mouth at some televised hearing or debate on whether Americans want hybrids or EVs or even cares about fuel efficiency.
Is a right wing hate talk magazine with pretensions to being "serious". Read their coverage of the Vince Foster suicide or anything to do with Clinton really to get an idea of just unhinged this sorry, sloppy bucket of stupid :http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/07/conservative-politics-low-effort-thinking_n_1410448.html?ref=mostpopular
conservatard shit really is.
They didn't fire him because they disagreed with what he said; they fired him because they had to.
The question I had to ask myself with Sony from then on was- have they learned their lesson and can i trust them? Do I want to put this on my computer or do I want to look for alternatives?
Corporations have to try harder to reduce the number of sociopaths in their hierarchies so a bunch of them can't get together and do something like THAT.
Yes it really is just you.
Let's review what you just did and what they did, shall we?
They :
Went to high school and excelled then gained admittance to the most competitive undergraduate and gradate environments then spent long years honing their skills and advancing their knowledge in a rigorous disciplined environment in which only the best of the best of the best can survive.
They then each spent their entire professional lives investigating subject matter relevant to their findings using the most sophisticated tools mankind has ever created and which are proven through experience and rigorous testing to be accurate and reliable.
Acting together they worked out and published before their peers and for those peers' inspection- each of whom is equally qualified as the original authors- a paper using the same tools that and techniques that make spacecraft go where they're supposed to go and make nanotechnology possible which arrived at conclusions you find upsetting.
You:
Logged onto Slashdot after long hours reading Redstate, listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching Fox News and dismissed their work as a part of a worldwide conspiracy, demanding that they be removed from positions of authority in society.
And you believe society should listen to you and be guided by your ideas and thinking while dismissing the ideas and thinking of the people who published this paper.
You're a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States and America.