I guess nobody's told the big guys that the majority of small businesses fail, fail hard, and fail quickly, but not quickly enough to be cheap.
Anyone want to bet that within 4 years, 50% of their currently-american software folks will be outsourced and within 8 years that number will be closer to 75%?
We are complex machines about which we almost have sufficient understanding to consistently do simple maintenance and repair operations which typically rely primarily on the machine's self-repair mechanisms. We do have the ability to turn these machines off, but we are then unable to turn them back on.
While we have observed that the operations of these machines is sometimes affected by their environment, the difference between the scope of what we know and can do at this time vs "mind control" is the difference between saying, "gee, this computer doesn't run as well when it's really warm out" vs saying "I'm going to write a piece of software for this computer".
It is true that various entities -have- tried various mind control and behavior control experiments before, but the simple fact of the matter is that it's something we have consistently failed to accomplish for decades. For example, look at drug rehab programs. The relapse rate for drug rehab programs is between 40 and 60 percent. If we were actually able to program someone's mind, this would be a prime candidate for reeducation.
As a US college student who -could- have specialized in information security, and didn't, I have to admit that my research into the matter suggested that infosec (aka hacking) is basically for people who would rather stroke their own egos than get paid, remain employed and stay out of jail.
If and when this situation changes -- for example, if I start seeing a bunch of job openings for IT security experts instead of the current bounty system that is so popular with large companies -- then I might reconsider my specialization. Basically, security right now is a hobby for tech people who think starcraft is too mainstream.
I would point out the many flaws in your logic, but your use of the word "degenerate" in that context suggests you adhere to a mindset where pointing out the flaws in your logic would only make you angry, and not actually lead you to revise your logic.
It is possible that I am mistaken. If that is the case, please elucidate and I will debate your points.
Nope, because the man could quite possibly be innocent. He may not have a body to produce. And if that's the case, holding an innocent man in jail indefinitely because the man doesn't have a body to prove that he is a murderer is a gross miscarriage of justice.
Just reading that, it's blindingly obvious that holding an innocent man in jail indefinitely for failure to incriminate himself is stupid. The same principle applies here.
Just because someone has admitted that they're addicted to something, doesn't mean they aren't addicted any more. Aren't there 11 other steps in the 12 step program?
Try asking a few people who smoke cigarrettes or drink coffee whether they're addicted or not.
Instead of picking on her for not being engaged, try being more interesting than her phone. Ask her interesting things about topics she likes to talk about.
Would bet that if you put a couple candles out, dimmed the lights and sat next to her she wouldn't even bring her phone out.
You are acting like quibbling over whether the number was 90% of the exposed population, or 30% of the total population, is important and you're ignoring my point. Let's take another example. Smallpox wiped out the great majority of Native Americans when they were exposed. How many? Nobody knows for sure. It was lots.
Humanity is inflicting itself with another situation in which we will be quibbling over what percentage of the total population was killed or harmed by it, and the percentages could be similar. This is the point that I'm trying to make and if you're too cowardly to acknowledge it, there's not much point in continuing the conversation.
Humanity has come reasonably close to a local extinction event a couple times in the last couple millennia. The black plague, in medieval europe, for example had about a 90% kill rate, comparable with what modern militaries would like to see in an engineered bio weapon.
What is new in the last century is that humanity is now capable of initiating its very own mass, global extinction event. Global warming could easily be comparable in scope, scale, and damage to a nuclear holocaust and the death toll due to global warming in the next one hundred years -is- going to be measured in percentages of total human population on planet earth. That is, in part, what this article is talking about. People are going to migrate or else they are going to die, and some of them will die.
Is this starting to sound like something you might be interested in? Homo sapiens, as a species, may in the near future cease to exist. I'd like our species epitaph NOT to read "Died from their own greed and nearsightedness." That is -your- greed and nearsightedness, in case you were wondering.
Global warming is stupid hype because we cannot look at the whole of human impact, which is regulated by population and not product choices by people in the 5% of the population that comprises the West. Climate fluctuates naturally. What does not is human use of land, which at this point is nearing epidemic proportions and will result in many extinct species. But you don't hear about that on the news.
Humanity has come reasonably close to a local extinction event a couple times in the last couple millennia. The black plague, in medieval europe, for example had about a 90% kill rate, comparable with what modern militaries would like to see in an engineered bio weapon.
What is new in the last century is that humanity is now capable of initiating its very own mass, global extinction event. Global warming could easily be comparable in scope, scale, and damage to a nuclear holocaust and the death toll due to global warming in the next one hundred years -is- going to be measured in percentages of total human population on planet earth. That is what this article is talking about.
Is this starting to sound like something you might be interested in? Homo sapiens, as a species, may in the near future cease to exist. I'd like our species epitaph NOT to read "Died from their own greed and nearsightedness." That is YOUR greed and nearsightedness, in case you were wondering.
If you've never heard of a subject, and have no information on it other than the image it conjures, why do you feel you are entitled to an opinion on it, much less that you ought to support legislation banning it? You don't even know what it is.
By remaining silent, you may sometimes appear to be a fool, but every time you open your mouth you dispel all doubts. You are a problem your society has to deal with. Please take steps to mitigate this effect.
Of course, that doesn't help Zuckerberg's marketing analytics or Facebook's "you are the product" business model.
People gripe about this, but what do you expect? Even Slashdot has to pay the bills. Facebook isn't some altruistic touchy-feely social experiment, it's a business. An you are not obligated to participate.
The problem is that Facebook is a business masquerading as some altruistic touchy-feely social experiment. When its facade wears thin and people see how it treats them and their touchy-feely social things, they tend to pick up and take their business elsewhere. Basically, Facebook could have a production problem. Its product doesn't especially want to get sold and the more FB tries to sell the more the product pushes back.
The solution is for Facebook to tone down the salesmanship a bit and get back in touch with the touchy-feely social end of things, but that's not going to happen. When a business is threatened it doesn't lighten up on its core practices, it doubles down.
A major and significant difference between the two literatures you're trying to compare is that Jesus tells his followers "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth...If a man strikes you on one cheek turn to him the other cheek also. If a soldier from an oppressive, totalitarian regime forces you to be a pack-slave for a mile, instead be his slave for two miles...Vengeance is mine, says the Lord God almighty."
Jesus teaches that wrath, vengeance, destruction, etc. on unbelievers is the sole province of God (and Jesus) to execute, whereas radical islam says that they, the believers, should make war on and destroy their enemies personally. That's the difference between calling the cops because your roommate is selling something they shouldn't be selling, versus taking your entrepreneurial roommate out back and breaking his kneecaps. It's a big difference.
...are the founders of Communism no longer left enough? I really can't keep track of history any more as quickly as it's being rewritten.
One would think that if you look out and the entire world is to the "right" of you that maybe, just maybe, you'd realize that you're at the far loony fringe?...
That sword cuts both ways. If you look out and the entire world is to the "left" of you maybe, just maybe you'd realize that you're also at the far loony fringe? America is far and away more conservative than Canada or the European Union, and really those are the closest comparable societies. Canada has free health care for everyone; America would rather its poor die in the streets. Europe recently had an article about how it doesn't have enough inmates to keep its jails in business and is shutting some of them down; America has the largest and fastest-growing population of inmates and criminals in the world.
These problems and many others have solutions, and those solutions have been tested for decades in other countries. It's time America gets with the program before we turn into another third-world country getting pity money from the big boys.
If the government has records from 1957 and they are not Super-Secret-Never-Happened, they are available to the public through FOIA requests.
However, there will be paperwork. Please bring your own spade and your own supply of pens with blue-or-black ink. Expect to have even simple requests lost, misfiled, and rejected because you used blue-or-black-ink instead of the clearly labeled chartreuse holographic ink required (only) for form 144A-44A-44.
I am not allowed to wish you the best of luck. May god have mercy on your soul.
http://www.foia.gov/report-mak...
Their religion says that they should drag us down to their level and then beat us with experience. Our religion says that we should ignore their petty antics for the tragic irrelevance that it is, turn the other cheek and continue to help them. Kindness is not a weakness; it heaps burning coals of shame on their heads when we are kind to them; it torments everyone we have been kind to when we are tormented.
On the other hand, the West could be an awful lot more kind. We are not anywhere close to perfect and it seems like perfection is farther off every year.
I had an opportunity to attend schools in each of the west coast states, and I've seen the same error made in Washington, Oregon and California. It's not exclusive to the south, just to native-English Americans. Probably because "should've" -sounds- like "should of".
If Trump gets elected what do you bet North Korea starts playing nice before he's finished the Oath of Office? The man is crazy and evil, and has made a career out of burning to the ground the businesses he's put in charge of, so there won't be much of a US left after he's done with it, but he is just the man to scare North Korea into thinking there is someone bigger, meaner, and more crazy than them in the dog park.
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I guess nobody's told the big guys that the majority of small businesses fail, fail hard, and fail quickly, but not quickly enough to be cheap. Anyone want to bet that within 4 years, 50% of their currently-american software folks will be outsourced and within 8 years that number will be closer to 75%?
Forgot to cite my source: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publ...
We are complex machines about which we almost have sufficient understanding to consistently do simple maintenance and repair operations which typically rely primarily on the machine's self-repair mechanisms. We do have the ability to turn these machines off, but we are then unable to turn them back on.
While we have observed that the operations of these machines is sometimes affected by their environment, the difference between the scope of what we know and can do at this time vs "mind control" is the difference between saying, "gee, this computer doesn't run as well when it's really warm out" vs saying "I'm going to write a piece of software for this computer".
It is true that various entities -have- tried various mind control and behavior control experiments before, but the simple fact of the matter is that it's something we have consistently failed to accomplish for decades. For example, look at drug rehab programs. The relapse rate for drug rehab programs is between 40 and 60 percent. If we were actually able to program someone's mind, this would be a prime candidate for reeducation.
1234?
Thanks to great advances in security, we've adopted a new password which is over twice as secure: 12345
The 13/hr is supposed to be net after expenses like car maintenance and taxes.
As a US college student who -could- have specialized in information security, and didn't, I have to admit that my research into the matter suggested that infosec (aka hacking) is basically for people who would rather stroke their own egos than get paid, remain employed and stay out of jail.
If and when this situation changes -- for example, if I start seeing a bunch of job openings for IT security experts instead of the current bounty system that is so popular with large companies -- then I might reconsider my specialization. Basically, security right now is a hobby for tech people who think starcraft is too mainstream.
I would point out the many flaws in your logic, but your use of the word "degenerate" in that context suggests you adhere to a mindset where pointing out the flaws in your logic would only make you angry, and not actually lead you to revise your logic. It is possible that I am mistaken. If that is the case, please elucidate and I will debate your points.
Nope, because the man could quite possibly be innocent. He may not have a body to produce. And if that's the case, holding an innocent man in jail indefinitely because the man doesn't have a body to prove that he is a murderer is a gross miscarriage of justice. Just reading that, it's blindingly obvious that holding an innocent man in jail indefinitely for failure to incriminate himself is stupid. The same principle applies here.
Just because someone has admitted that they're addicted to something, doesn't mean they aren't addicted any more. Aren't there 11 other steps in the 12 step program? Try asking a few people who smoke cigarrettes or drink coffee whether they're addicted or not.
Instead of picking on her for not being engaged, try being more interesting than her phone. Ask her interesting things about topics she likes to talk about.
Would bet that if you put a couple candles out, dimmed the lights and sat next to her she wouldn't even bring her phone out.
You are acting like quibbling over whether the number was 90% of the exposed population, or 30% of the total population, is important and you're ignoring my point. Let's take another example. Smallpox wiped out the great majority of Native Americans when they were exposed. How many? Nobody knows for sure. It was lots. Humanity is inflicting itself with another situation in which we will be quibbling over what percentage of the total population was killed or harmed by it, and the percentages could be similar. This is the point that I'm trying to make and if you're too cowardly to acknowledge it, there's not much point in continuing the conversation.
Humanity has come reasonably close to a local extinction event a couple times in the last couple millennia. The black plague, in medieval europe, for example had about a 90% kill rate, comparable with what modern militaries would like to see in an engineered bio weapon.
What is new in the last century is that humanity is now capable of initiating its very own mass, global extinction event. Global warming could easily be comparable in scope, scale, and damage to a nuclear holocaust and the death toll due to global warming in the next one hundred years -is- going to be measured in percentages of total human population on planet earth. That is, in part, what this article is talking about. People are going to migrate or else they are going to die, and some of them will die.
Is this starting to sound like something you might be interested in? Homo sapiens, as a species, may in the near future cease to exist. I'd like our species epitaph NOT to read "Died from their own greed and nearsightedness." That is -your- greed and nearsightedness, in case you were wondering.
Global warming is stupid hype because we cannot look at the whole of human impact, which is regulated by population and not product choices by people in the 5% of the population that comprises the West. Climate fluctuates naturally. What does not is human use of land, which at this point is nearing epidemic proportions and will result in many extinct species. But you don't hear about that on the news.
Humanity has come reasonably close to a local extinction event a couple times in the last couple millennia. The black plague, in medieval europe, for example had about a 90% kill rate, comparable with what modern militaries would like to see in an engineered bio weapon.
What is new in the last century is that humanity is now capable of initiating its very own mass, global extinction event. Global warming could easily be comparable in scope, scale, and damage to a nuclear holocaust and the death toll due to global warming in the next one hundred years -is- going to be measured in percentages of total human population on planet earth. That is what this article is talking about.
Is this starting to sound like something you might be interested in? Homo sapiens, as a species, may in the near future cease to exist. I'd like our species epitaph NOT to read "Died from their own greed and nearsightedness." That is YOUR greed and nearsightedness, in case you were wondering.
If you've never heard of a subject, and have no information on it other than the image it conjures, why do you feel you are entitled to an opinion on it, much less that you ought to support legislation banning it? You don't even know what it is.
By remaining silent, you may sometimes appear to be a fool, but every time you open your mouth you dispel all doubts. You are a problem your society has to deal with. Please take steps to mitigate this effect.
Of course, that doesn't help Zuckerberg's marketing analytics or Facebook's "you are the product" business model.
People gripe about this, but what do you expect? Even Slashdot has to pay the bills. Facebook isn't some altruistic touchy-feely social experiment, it's a business. An you are not obligated to participate.
The problem is that Facebook is a business masquerading as some altruistic touchy-feely social experiment. When its facade wears thin and people see how it treats them and their touchy-feely social things, they tend to pick up and take their business elsewhere. Basically, Facebook could have a production problem. Its product doesn't especially want to get sold and the more FB tries to sell the more the product pushes back.
The solution is for Facebook to tone down the salesmanship a bit and get back in touch with the touchy-feely social end of things, but that's not going to happen. When a business is threatened it doesn't lighten up on its core practices, it doubles down.
A major and significant difference between the two literatures you're trying to compare is that Jesus tells his followers "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth...If a man strikes you on one cheek turn to him the other cheek also. If a soldier from an oppressive, totalitarian regime forces you to be a pack-slave for a mile, instead be his slave for two miles...Vengeance is mine, says the Lord God almighty."
Jesus teaches that wrath, vengeance, destruction, etc. on unbelievers is the sole province of God (and Jesus) to execute, whereas radical islam says that they, the believers, should make war on and destroy their enemies personally. That's the difference between calling the cops because your roommate is selling something they shouldn't be selling, versus taking your entrepreneurial roommate out back and breaking his kneecaps. It's a big difference.
"It is their core business..." FTFY. God loves you no matter how bad your grammar is.
God loves you in spite of your hate speech. Peace, brother.
In America, if an earthquake feels you, you can sue it for harassment and emotional damages.
...are the founders of Communism no longer left enough? I really can't keep track of history any more as quickly as it's being rewritten.
One would think that if you look out and the entire world is to the "right" of you that maybe, just maybe, you'd realize that you're at the far loony fringe? ...
That sword cuts both ways. If you look out and the entire world is to the "left" of you maybe, just maybe you'd realize that you're also at the far loony fringe? America is far and away more conservative than Canada or the European Union, and really those are the closest comparable societies. Canada has free health care for everyone; America would rather its poor die in the streets. Europe recently had an article about how it doesn't have enough inmates to keep its jails in business and is shutting some of them down; America has the largest and fastest-growing population of inmates and criminals in the world.
These problems and many others have solutions, and those solutions have been tested for decades in other countries. It's time America gets with the program before we turn into another third-world country getting pity money from the big boys.
Yes, the prison administrators really are corrupt. These are the same administrators that already contract out convicts as slave labor.
If the government has records from 1957 and they are not Super-Secret-Never-Happened, they are available to the public through FOIA requests. However, there will be paperwork. Please bring your own spade and your own supply of pens with blue-or-black ink. Expect to have even simple requests lost, misfiled, and rejected because you used blue-or-black-ink instead of the clearly labeled chartreuse holographic ink required (only) for form 144A-44A-44. I am not allowed to wish you the best of luck. May god have mercy on your soul. http://www.foia.gov/report-mak...
Their religion says that they should drag us down to their level and then beat us with experience. Our religion says that we should ignore their petty antics for the tragic irrelevance that it is, turn the other cheek and continue to help them. Kindness is not a weakness; it heaps burning coals of shame on their heads when we are kind to them; it torments everyone we have been kind to when we are tormented. On the other hand, the West could be an awful lot more kind. We are not anywhere close to perfect and it seems like perfection is farther off every year.
I had an opportunity to attend schools in each of the west coast states, and I've seen the same error made in Washington, Oregon and California. It's not exclusive to the south, just to native-English Americans. Probably because "should've" -sounds- like "should of".
If Trump gets elected what do you bet North Korea starts playing nice before he's finished the Oath of Office? The man is crazy and evil, and has made a career out of burning to the ground the businesses he's put in charge of, so there won't be much of a US left after he's done with it, but he is just the man to scare North Korea into thinking there is someone bigger, meaner, and more crazy than them in the dog park.