I really think that Colin believes that people working for minimum wage are not in fact real people, and don't really matter. They are just some type of intelligent, trainable chimpanzee. We shouldn't be concerned by their plight.
So cute and innocent, like a fuzzy little kitten. You are basically saying, "I'm talented, therefore this isn't an issue for me. Fuck everyone else." I'm talented too, this probably won't be an issue for me either. But the market is not fair and just by nature. Without legislation like this, people are going to get screwed over by unscrupulous companies. Do you really think some poor person is going to give up his job over this? I know, even though you participate in the system, the unfairness of the system is not your fault, right? Or maybe you think it is utterly fair. Easy to think when you've got yours.
Seems an odd bit to focus on, rather than the continued openness of the source code. Is that even true? I don't think anything in the license would give developers any reason not to fear legal repercussions if they might to begin with.
Dying in your sleep is easy. I've died when I'm awake. DMT, my friend. More than once. Gone beyond, completely beyond. And I still can't make sense of you. But, you intrigue me to no end. S'why I responded. I thought, hey, with a mind like that, our little Jimekai has either done A LOT of hallucinogens, is a high functioning schizophrenic, is WAY more intelligent than me, or some combination. Whichever it is, fascinating. Utterly, utterly fascinating. But maybe I'm just weird that way. I'd rather have a completely unintelligible conversation with an interesting weirdo than a predictable conversation with a boring straight.
It is a system, like any other. It has some pretty massive positive feedback loops built into it. There is a reason the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, and it has nothing to do with government control.
The market fails to allocate resources efficiently in the case of natural monopoly, imbalance of information, and externalities. The government needs to step in to restore balance to the market. Without government oversight, unscrupulous players can leverage market failure modes to dominate the market.
You can hand-wave all you like, shouting about how the market will self-correct, but that will only fool people who have not actually studied history or looked at the market in action. There is a reason all countries gave up laissez faire: it didn't work, and led to horrible, horrible abuses.
Yes, but it also limits your freedom to just take whatever you like. I don't buy the natural rights argument, and one reason is that 'taking whatever you like' would be a natural right under the "What could I do if there were no other humans about," rule.
That's what I'd heard. But my ex says I should watch it. She thinks the show is not so bad. I mean, they've had one, maybe two shows so far? That's not enough to judge a series. I haven't even seen the first show yet, so I can't really judge. We shall see whether I agree with you (and most critics ) or her. It would be sad if their series sucks. I even thought their Outback Steakhouse commercial was funny, and I hate commercials.
Come on, we have one data point to go on vis a vis life in the universe. He's right, life could be anything. But at the same time, until we have more data points to go on, or at least some way to test them, speculations such as that are kind of pointless. We should focus on looking for the kind of life we know can exist in our universe. And we ain't finding it around Eta Carinae, that's for sure. Have you seen those animations of that thing blowing up? And supposedly it does that again and again because it is so big and hot that the internal radiation pressure is greater than the force of gravity holding the thing together. I doubt even lawpoop's energy beings could live in a place like that. But it's all just speculation, not even an educated guess. Even if we figure out some kind of TOE, there will still be so much we don't know about the specific emergent properties of our universe. Until we get out there and look.
You know, I've read your Electric Universe arguments here many times before, and I'm curious. What's your background? What drew you to the EU theory?
I'll tell you the problem I have with the theory, it's the whole, "There is no fusion in stars, it's all electric!" thing. Certainly we don't know everything there is to know about plasma, and certainly the mainstream theories do not have everything nailed down, but come on! The science behind star fusion is so interwoven with all of modern knowledge and technology that if something as major as EU were true, almost everything else we know would have to be false, and all our technology would be very different.
The thing is, the Electric Universe folks make an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. If anyone in the EU community had that proof, they would be world famous rather than the marginalized outcasts they are. It's not like there haven't been MAJOR scientific revolutions in the past, it's just that THOSE guys had incontrovertible hard data to back them up.
At first I thought you might just be a clever troll, but your tenacity on this subject goes far beyond the casual interests of a troll. I think you really believe all this, and rather than make me think you are an idiot, which you clearly are not, it makes me very curious about what makes you tick.
Let me introduce you to a thing called the Internet. You can use it to look up facts and dispel ignorance. Well, I can use it that way, anyhow. Evidently you can't. Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_radiation
In short, gamma radiation is light. Just very, very high frequency light.
I have watched their HBO special about twenty times since I recorded it last year. It never fails to make me laugh. My favorites are "She's so Hot, Boom" and "Hip-hop-opotamous vs. Rhymenocerous." You know they have an HBO series now? I've got the first episode on my DVR, I just haven't had the time to watch it yet.
Yeah, Andy throws the craziest parties, doesn't he? Ooops. She. Andy hates it when I forget that.
Eta Carinae is so large, it is almost too big to be a star. It has been blowing itself apart every now and then since it was born. I find it unlikely in the extreme that any life could have developed nearby. I doubt the system even has planets.
The Bad Astronomy site started out to debunk nutty astronomical theories, like the Electric Universe theory, or the preposterous notion that the moon landing was faked. It's a pretty decent site.
The citizens have every right to demand whatever they'd like from their government. You sound like an idiotic knee-jerk apologist for big business who just assumed that the BBC was a private company.
That's the problem. We tend to think the other guys are fighting FOR the power. And they tend to think we don't know what we're doing, and will enact some sort of soviet style communist regime. Nice piece, by the way, but I had that figured out ten years ago. How old is that piece? It seems more geared towards audiences of the 90s.
On the other hand, their dad is the President. What could you give him that he didn't already have access to? A conscience? Honor? Integrity? A coupon for some plastic surgery to tone down those big flappy ears?
They think if they mention the unfairness of the mod system, they will get off scot free. That worked up to about five years ago. Now most of the mods have caught on, and mentioning possible moderation in your post is more likely to get you modded down than up.
It is a limitation, in service of greater freedom. Freedom is like that, you have to give up some to gain some. That's a basic implication of the golden rule. If you don't want something done to you, you can't go around doing it to others.
Don't worry about moderation. Just say what you are going to say without being a dick about it. If you have half a brain, two cogent thoughts to rub together, and aren't a complete ass-hat, you'll do alright here.
I heard that you folks were taking down some street signs and erasing some lane markers for this very reason. Parts of London, maybe? I can't recall. But I read that this was a new trend in traffic management in Europe. It seems TLSFA is right, people drive more carefully when they have to take more responsibility
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I really think that Colin believes that people working for minimum wage are not in fact real people, and don't really matter. They are just some type of intelligent, trainable chimpanzee. We shouldn't be concerned by their plight.
So cute and innocent, like a fuzzy little kitten. You are basically saying, "I'm talented, therefore this isn't an issue for me. Fuck everyone else." I'm talented too, this probably won't be an issue for me either. But the market is not fair and just by nature. Without legislation like this, people are going to get screwed over by unscrupulous companies. Do you really think some poor person is going to give up his job over this? I know, even though you participate in the system, the unfairness of the system is not your fault, right? Or maybe you think it is utterly fair. Easy to think when you've got yours.
Seems an odd bit to focus on, rather than the continued openness of the source code. Is that even true? I don't think anything in the license would give developers any reason not to fear legal repercussions if they might to begin with.
Dying in your sleep is easy. I've died when I'm awake. DMT, my friend. More than once. Gone beyond, completely beyond. And I still can't make sense of you. But, you intrigue me to no end. S'why I responded. I thought, hey, with a mind like that, our little Jimekai has either done A LOT of hallucinogens, is a high functioning schizophrenic, is WAY more intelligent than me, or some combination. Whichever it is, fascinating. Utterly, utterly fascinating. But maybe I'm just weird that way. I'd rather have a completely unintelligible conversation with an interesting weirdo than a predictable conversation with a boring straight.
It is a system, like any other. It has some pretty massive positive feedback loops built into it. There is a reason the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, and it has nothing to do with government control.
The market fails to allocate resources efficiently in the case of natural monopoly, imbalance of information, and externalities. The government needs to step in to restore balance to the market. Without government oversight, unscrupulous players can leverage market failure modes to dominate the market.
You can hand-wave all you like, shouting about how the market will self-correct, but that will only fool people who have not actually studied history or looked at the market in action. There is a reason all countries gave up laissez faire: it didn't work, and led to horrible, horrible abuses.
Yes, but it also limits your freedom to just take whatever you like. I don't buy the natural rights argument, and one reason is that 'taking whatever you like' would be a natural right under the "What could I do if there were no other humans about," rule.
That's what I'd heard. But my ex says I should watch it. She thinks the show is not so bad. I mean, they've had one, maybe two shows so far? That's not enough to judge a series. I haven't even seen the first show yet, so I can't really judge. We shall see whether I agree with you (and most critics ) or her. It would be sad if their series sucks. I even thought their Outback Steakhouse commercial was funny, and I hate commercials.
Come on, we have one data point to go on vis a vis life in the universe. He's right, life could be anything. But at the same time, until we have more data points to go on, or at least some way to test them, speculations such as that are kind of pointless. We should focus on looking for the kind of life we know can exist in our universe. And we ain't finding it around Eta Carinae, that's for sure. Have you seen those animations of that thing blowing up? And supposedly it does that again and again because it is so big and hot that the internal radiation pressure is greater than the force of gravity holding the thing together. I doubt even lawpoop's energy beings could live in a place like that. But it's all just speculation, not even an educated guess. Even if we figure out some kind of TOE, there will still be so much we don't know about the specific emergent properties of our universe. Until we get out there and look.
You know, I've read your Electric Universe arguments here many times before, and I'm curious. What's your background? What drew you to the EU theory?
I'll tell you the problem I have with the theory, it's the whole, "There is no fusion in stars, it's all electric!" thing. Certainly we don't know everything there is to know about plasma, and certainly the mainstream theories do not have everything nailed down, but come on! The science behind star fusion is so interwoven with all of modern knowledge and technology that if something as major as EU were true, almost everything else we know would have to be false, and all our technology would be very different.
The thing is, the Electric Universe folks make an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. If anyone in the EU community had that proof, they would be world famous rather than the marginalized outcasts they are. It's not like there haven't been MAJOR scientific revolutions in the past, it's just that THOSE guys had incontrovertible hard data to back them up.
At first I thought you might just be a clever troll, but your tenacity on this subject goes far beyond the casual interests of a troll. I think you really believe all this, and rather than make me think you are an idiot, which you clearly are not, it makes me very curious about what makes you tick.
Let me introduce you to a thing called the Internet. You can use it to look up facts and dispel ignorance. Well, I can use it that way, anyhow. Evidently you can't. Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_radiation
In short, gamma radiation is light. Just very, very high frequency light.
I have watched their HBO special about twenty times since I recorded it last year. It never fails to make me laugh. My favorites are "She's so Hot, Boom" and "Hip-hop-opotamous vs. Rhymenocerous." You know they have an HBO series now? I've got the first episode on my DVR, I just haven't had the time to watch it yet.
Yeah, Andy throws the craziest parties, doesn't he? Ooops. She. Andy hates it when I forget that.
Eta Carinae is so large, it is almost too big to be a star. It has been blowing itself apart every now and then since it was born. I find it unlikely in the extreme that any life could have developed nearby. I doubt the system even has planets.
I'm no astrophysicist, but from what I understand, because of the magnetic fields most of the dangerous crap exits from the poles.
The Bad Astronomy site started out to debunk nutty astronomical theories, like the Electric Universe theory, or the preposterous notion that the moon landing was faked. It's a pretty decent site.
Really? I did not know that. I really thought it was a part of the government. Well, as regulated as it is, my point still stands, wouldn't you say?
The citizens have every right to demand whatever they'd like from their government. You sound like an idiotic knee-jerk apologist for big business who just assumed that the BBC was a private company.
That's the problem. We tend to think the other guys are fighting FOR the power. And they tend to think we don't know what we're doing, and will enact some sort of soviet style communist regime. Nice piece, by the way, but I had that figured out ten years ago. How old is that piece? It seems more geared towards audiences of the 90s.
I don't even need to click on that link. And I can't, damn web filters at work. I know exactly what you refer to. Flight of the Conchords, am I right?
They think if they mention the unfairness of the mod system, they will get off scot free. That worked up to about five years ago. Now most of the mods have caught on, and mentioning possible moderation in your post is more likely to get you modded down than up.
It is a limitation, in service of greater freedom. Freedom is like that, you have to give up some to gain some. That's a basic implication of the golden rule. If you don't want something done to you, you can't go around doing it to others.
Don't worry about moderation. Just say what you are going to say without being a dick about it. If you have half a brain, two cogent thoughts to rub together, and aren't a complete ass-hat, you'll do alright here.
I heard that you folks were taking down some street signs and erasing some lane markers for this very reason. Parts of London, maybe? I can't recall. But I read that this was a new trend in traffic management in Europe. It seems TLSFA is right, people drive more carefully when they have to take more responsibility
Canada is part of Echelon.
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