People like to follow whoever gives them the most good news. When religion made people feel more comfortable with their place in a terrifying world, religion was popular. When science gave people the means the control the world, science became popular. When science started doling out all sorts of bad news - that people will have to have a lesser lifestyle due to environmental issues, that many medical breakthroughs are being undone by new virii and bacteria, and even once safe things are now unsafe, well, religion becomes more popular. It's really that simple.
I think the only reason we say mutations are random is because we we really don't have a good understanding of how life actually works. I would be willing to bet that, if you got down to the brass tacks of it, that some mutations are actually more likely than others, simply because the various molecules that make up the proteins would be more likely to fold or split in one path in response to a stimulus, more than an other. In fact, I bet evolution is actually not only going to be found to be predictable, but managable, and that social and cultural definitions will effect physical evolution as much as any other. So, even though atheists might well successfully prove to most folks that there is no god, they will be stuck with the thorny fact that story of life is, to some degree, pre-ordained.
n my case, I've just been too lazy to sue corporations. This puts me squarely at the bottom of your classification I take it. You must really despise me right now.
The large majority of cases I've seen are brought by real plaintiffs that have suffered real injuries. The only questions that typically remain are "who caused it?" and "was it wrongful?"
I used to work for a plaintiff law firm. Most of the lawsuits are frivolous.
Your argument is might makes right. Because you are stronger than someone else, and need something exploitation would provide, that exploitation is ok.
Here's a radical question: do you have any idea if this is true?
You have a point, I should have left out the part "want to get rich". There are plenty of lazy rich people suing corporations, and probably even more than poor people, simply because the rich can afford the lawyers.
Most US welfare recipients get off welfare within 1 year. But according to some, we have a huge "welfare state".
Dude, that's a stupid thing. Welfare in means, any sort of government payout such that you don't have to work or work less, not a particular line item... it's social security, disability, medicare / medicaid long term care, wic, all that stuff... That comes to about half of person's wages, so pretty much, I'm spending half my working life to keep some fat slob into welfare.
I'm telling you, there's something in the water here that's making 30 percent of Americans complete morons. Or maybe it's something being broadcast over the airwave
You are absolutely right. All those poor people watching CNN....
I don't know why people choose to defend corporations over the people they hurt
Because....
1) most of the time people suing corporations are lazy people that want to get rich 2) there is generally a socialist agenda behind criticism of corporations from certain outlets 3) you can't sue the government, unless it gives you permission
Like, I love how you can sue insurance companies left and right, and sue everyone else in health care, but can you sue Social Security? Can you sue Medicare? Can you sue the Federal Reserve for its banks?
If that's what you get with freedom, I'll pass. Maybe some restrictions aren't so bad. Maybe a the ultra successful should provide a safety net for the ones who lose... sure its not perfect freedom anymore... but perfect freedom is an ugly bitch anyway.
You only have one life. At the end of it, you can say one of two things, you were either a pet, or you made your own decisions. Freedom is the former, and socialism is the latter. No matter how well intended the chains, how nice the cage, you are still wearing chains and living in a cage.
Waitaminit. People (especially software types) pay in far more than they will ever receive in benefits. Isn't that a form of "saving", except that their "savings account" is locked out to them?
I'm far from being a bleeding heart liberal, but the idea of unemployment insurance is to provide a bridge to the most vulnerable members of society. We pay a lot in unemployment, but, unless people are as irresponsible as I am, we have assets to fall back on. Unemployment insurance is really about keeping low classes from winding up homeless for not making rent.
My asshole of a boss fired me for being 2 minutes late
On the flipside, my Dad lost a disability case once to a guy that he had videotaped catching a touchdown pass in a game of football. The disability board said that just because a man could play football, doesn't mean he wasn't disabled...
hypothesized losing a minimum-wage job. I've had minimum-wage jobs. You're lucky if a minimum-wage job is enough to pay the bills
I've had them too. The thing is, even now, there's more than a few minimum wage jobs out there.
Just saying you are supposed to save sounds great in theory... It's not so simple in practice.
Hand in hand with that, you have to have some level of protectionism to protect the most vulnerable classes against outsourcing and also to prevent the outsourcing to ladders that help people step up. The job that I used to climb up the rung no longer exists in the USA and that I remember, every time I vote.
You certainly don't need it for the video storage, and it's not like this has enough horsepower to run an video intensive games. Seem like it would just drive the cost up needlessly.
Yeah, you are right. We would should probably have a core i7 in there, and wire it up to the hdtv, and that would be an amiga like thing.
Bottom line is, unemployment is to fill in while you don't have a job. If you get money selling Avon, the farmer's market, or work as a musician, then you sorta have a job, don't you?
I like the idea of the keyboard only form factor PC like 80's boxes wired to TVs, but do you think they could do the Amiga like thing and put in a 1GB kick butt graphics card into it...:-)
I remember your posts, and I think you're a right-wing nutjob.;-)
Definitely... but some sort of a new right wing lunacy... I'm essentially an isolationist nationalist that sees unions as a helpful tool to keeping a healthy middle class.
Respecting Russia
In America we see Russia as a rival and Europe as a pet. Americans see themselves as having intervened to save Europe in two wars, then, intervene again in the Cold War, and give Europe some major help, but Russia, most think, particularly on the right wing, have a great admiration for what the Russian people accomplished first against Germany in the war and then on in the cold war.
To some extent, any admiration the Americans have for Europe centers on the British and the Germans.. all those tales of soldiers talking of better German tanks and better German beer have had a big impact on American culture that today's Americans probably are not even aware of. One wonders what ideas from Iraq and Afghanistan will be folded into American culture...
When you cut through the "cloud", if you look into the center of things, you see that the so-called modern "cloud" computing environment is a giant computer(s), surrounded by high powered priestly geeks, doling out resources to everyone, completely centralized. The priests have some new tricks to entertain the masses with, but there's nothing fundamentally different between cloud computing and IBM's vision of computing in the 1960s.
Offensive? I'd think a lot of Russians would be insulted if you said they were European. There's a long and mixed tradition of Russia wanting to be a part of Europe and wanting to be something else. On one hand, you have Peter the Great, and subsequent czars, who thought Europe was the cats meow. Then, on the other hand, there's plenty of people that worked for the czar, that thought speaking french in court was a bunch of crap and that europeans sucked anyway. As it is, I think the Russians would prefer to not be thought of us Europeans, but as their equal to them. Russians are just Russians.
Typical unique American blend of ignorance and arrogance;
If you Europeans are so fucking great, why do have to have the right to export to American markets, or have any sort of an alliance with the United States. Frankly, I could care less if Vladimir Putin started raining nukes on Europe tomorrow. Europeans have money and you can provide for you own economy and your own security. You don't need America, and we Americans certainly do not need you. Europeans are just a dying culture and the USA has to get that millstone off of its head.
Typical unique American blend of ignorance and arrogance; because that 'Buy American' policy of Obama's isn't protectionism at all! Get your own house in order before -- wrongly -- criticising others.
Obama is not protectionism -enough-. The proof of free trade is in the trade deficit. right now, everyone on the planet earth dumps their manufactured goods into the USA and, even worse, whines when doing so might cause the dollar to fall.
Free trade is a total failure. Europeans can't negotiate in good faith, and neither can the rest of the world.
Let's do some math. At 4,000 people, that's around 8mw of peak demand assuming 2kw per househould.
So one guy plinked down 1.2M to buy one windmill. The best windmill gets you I think 3Mw, and even then, only if it is windy. By contrast, for about a million bucks, I could pick up a diesel generator station that delivers the 8MW and have power for everyone, whenever they need it.
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People like to follow whoever gives them the most good news. When religion made people feel more comfortable with their place in a terrifying world, religion was popular. When science gave people the means the control the world, science became popular. When science started doling out all sorts of bad news - that people will have to have a lesser lifestyle due to environmental issues, that many medical breakthroughs are being undone by new virii and bacteria, and even once safe things are now unsafe, well, religion becomes more popular. It's really that simple.
I think the only reason we say mutations are random is because we we really don't have a good understanding of how life actually works. I would be willing to bet that, if you got down to the brass tacks of it, that some mutations are actually more likely than others, simply because the various molecules that make up the proteins would be more likely to fold or split in one path in response to a stimulus, more than an other. In fact, I bet evolution is actually not only going to be found to be predictable, but managable, and that social and cultural definitions will effect physical evolution as much as any other. So, even though atheists might well successfully prove to most folks that there is no god, they will be stuck with the thorny fact that story of life is, to some degree, pre-ordained.
n my case, I've just been too lazy to sue corporations. This puts me squarely at the bottom of your classification I take it. You must really despise me right now.
Not sure I follow the logic.
The large majority of cases I've seen are brought by real plaintiffs that have suffered real injuries. The only questions that typically remain are "who caused it?" and "was it wrongful?"
I used to work for a plaintiff law firm. Most of the lawsuits are frivolous.
Care to volunteer for open brain surgery instead?
Your argument is might makes right. Because you are stronger than someone else, and need something exploitation would provide, that exploitation is ok.
I'm no PETA person, by any stretch of the imagination, but, I think some of these experiments they perform on animals are barbaric.
Here's a radical question: do you have any idea if this is true?
You have a point, I should have left out the part "want to get rich". There are plenty of lazy rich people suing corporations, and probably even more than poor people, simply because the rich can afford the lawyers.
Most US welfare recipients get off welfare within 1 year. But according to some, we have a huge "welfare state".
Dude, that's a stupid thing. Welfare in means, any sort of government payout such that you don't have to work or work less, not a particular line item... it's social security, disability, medicare / medicaid long term care, wic, all that stuff... That comes to about half of person's wages, so pretty much, I'm spending half my working life to keep some fat slob into welfare.
I'm telling you, there's something in the water here that's making 30 percent of Americans complete morons. Or maybe it's something being broadcast over the airwave
You are absolutely right. All those poor people watching CNN....
I don't know why people choose to defend corporations over the people they hurt
Because ....
1) most of the time people suing corporations are lazy people that want to get rich
2) there is generally a socialist agenda behind criticism of corporations from certain outlets
3) you can't sue the government, unless it gives you permission
Like, I love how you can sue insurance companies left and right, and sue everyone else in health care, but can you sue Social Security? Can you sue Medicare? Can you sue the Federal Reserve for its banks?
If that's what you get with freedom, I'll pass. Maybe some restrictions aren't so bad. Maybe a the ultra successful should provide a safety net for the ones who lose... sure its not perfect freedom anymore... but perfect freedom is an ugly bitch anyway.
You only have one life. At the end of it, you can say one of two things, you were either a pet, or you made your own decisions. Freedom is the former, and socialism is the latter. No matter how well intended the chains, how nice the cage, you are still wearing chains and living in a cage.
32M sounds like a giant chunk of change, but, its not even what gets spent on FireFox each year.
You figure a 50 man team of senior devs for a year, and I think that would pretty much do it.
I hypothesized losing a minimum-wage job
That's what unemployment insurance is for. I agree with that. I didn't read your whole post correctly.
But people who make more are expected to save.
Waitaminit. People (especially software types) pay in far more than they will ever receive in benefits. Isn't that a form of "saving", except that their "savings account" is locked out to them?
I'm far from being a bleeding heart liberal, but the idea of unemployment insurance is to provide a bridge to the most vulnerable members of society. We pay a lot in unemployment, but, unless people are as irresponsible as I am, we have assets to fall back on. Unemployment insurance is really about keeping low classes from winding up homeless for not making rent.
My asshole of a boss fired me for being 2 minutes late
On the flipside, my Dad lost a disability case once to a guy that he had videotaped catching a touchdown pass in a game of football. The disability board said that just because a man could play football, doesn't mean he wasn't disabled...
hypothesized losing a minimum-wage job. I've had minimum-wage jobs. You're lucky if a minimum-wage job is enough to pay the bills
I've had them too. The thing is, even now, there's more than a few minimum wage jobs out there.
Just saying you are supposed to save sounds great in theory... It's not so simple in practice.
Hand in hand with that, you have to have some level of protectionism to protect the most vulnerable classes against outsourcing and also to prevent the outsourcing to ladders that help people step up. The job that I used to climb up the rung no longer exists in the USA and that I remember, every time I vote.
You certainly don't need it for the video storage, and it's not like this has enough horsepower to run an video intensive games. Seem like it would just drive the cost up needlessly.
Yeah, you are right. We would should probably have a core i7 in there, and wire it up to the hdtv, and that would be an amiga like thing.
Regardless, it isn't enough money to live off of.
That is why you are supposed to save.
Bottom line is, unemployment is to fill in while you don't have a job. If you get money selling Avon, the farmer's market, or work as a musician, then you sorta have a job, don't you?
I like the idea of the keyboard only form factor PC like 80's boxes wired to TVs, but do you think they could do the Amiga like thing and put in a 1GB kick butt graphics card into it... :-)
I remember your posts, and I think you're a right-wing nutjob. ;-)
Definitely... but some sort of a new right wing lunacy... I'm essentially an isolationist nationalist that sees unions as a helpful tool to keeping a healthy middle class.
Respecting Russia
In America we see Russia as a rival and Europe as a pet. Americans see themselves as having intervened to save Europe in two wars, then, intervene again in the Cold War, and give Europe some major help, but Russia, most think, particularly on the right wing, have a great admiration for what the Russian people accomplished first against Germany in the war and then on in the cold war.
To some extent, any admiration the Americans have for Europe centers on the British and the Germans.. all those tales of soldiers talking of better German tanks and better German beer have had a big impact on American culture that today's Americans probably are not even aware of. One wonders what ideas from Iraq and Afghanistan will be folded into American culture...
When you cut through the "cloud", if you look into the center of things, you see that the so-called modern "cloud" computing environment is a giant computer(s), surrounded by high powered priestly geeks, doling out resources to everyone, completely centralized. The priests have some new tricks to entertain the masses with, but there's nothing fundamentally different between cloud computing and IBM's vision of computing in the 1960s.
Offensive? I'd think a lot of Russians would be insulted if you said they were European. There's a long and mixed tradition of Russia wanting to be a part of Europe and wanting to be something else. On one hand, you have Peter the Great, and subsequent czars, who thought Europe was the cats meow. Then, on the other hand, there's plenty of people that worked for the czar, that thought speaking french in court was a bunch of crap and that europeans sucked anyway. As it is, I think the Russians would prefer to not be thought of us Europeans, but as their equal to them. Russians are just Russians.
Typical unique American blend of ignorance and arrogance;
If you Europeans are so fucking great, why do have to have the right to export to American markets, or have any sort of an alliance with the United States. Frankly, I could care less if Vladimir Putin started raining nukes on Europe tomorrow. Europeans have money and you can provide for you own economy and your own security. You don't need America, and we Americans certainly do not need you. Europeans are just a dying culture and the USA has to get that millstone off of its head.
Typical unique American blend of ignorance and arrogance; because that 'Buy American' policy of Obama's isn't protectionism at all! Get your own house in order before -- wrongly -- criticising others.
Obama is not protectionism -enough-. The proof of free trade is in the trade deficit. right now, everyone on the planet earth dumps their manufactured goods into the USA and, even worse, whines when doing so might cause the dollar to fall.
Free trade is a total failure. Europeans can't negotiate in good faith, and neither can the rest of the world.
Let's do some math. At 4,000 people, that's around 8mw of peak demand assuming 2kw per househould.
So one guy plinked down 1.2M to buy one windmill. The best windmill gets you I think 3Mw, and even then, only if it is windy. By contrast, for about a million bucks, I could pick up a diesel generator station that delivers the 8MW and have power for everyone, whenever they need it.