The fact, is, once Obama goes and cuts missile defense, cuts the aircraft carrier, submarine and F-22 fighter, as is rumored, the last bastion of genuine engineering jobs in the USA will be wiped out and we will be able to manufacture as much as the British.
Please... don't try and link some positive news about C/S grads with this administration. Not everyone glows in their loins like you do, at this commy bast... I mean, your wonderful president!
However, I do feel strongly that what goes on between consenting adults are their own business.
That's fine, but I don't need to hear about it! You've only reinforced my point that overall sex is useless, and that, what goes on between two consenting adults is their business. I agree with that. But I don't think you have the right to force acceptance of your own sexual beliefs. If you want to keep your business between two people, that's fine, but if you want that business to become public, and force me to respond to it, then, its my business too, and I'd rather not be the case. I'd be like, keep your mouth shut, and everyone's happy.
And how do goods get to brick-and-mortar stores? Are they delivered by fairies? And how do customers get to stores?
The goods can be delivered in bulk, which is cheaper. Customers can get to shopping centers where they can load up the SUVs with whatever sort of goods they need in a single trip. Brick and mortar retail are rather naturally efficient that way.
It's only low fuel prices and computerized routing of delivery vehicles that even make online ordering possible. Once you put in carbon taxes and other legal taboos against trucking and personal delivery, you'll pretty much end the online business.
Sex is traditionally connected with the biological urge to procreate....So, I plainly think you're wrong
Well, I'm not. The taboos against sexuality are driven by those who have some serious misgivings about the animal nature of man. A lot of people say that sexual taboos stem from procreation so that they can say that those taboos should be removed, rather than try and attack the idea that humans should not be so body focused head on.
Other people do say that though, and have said it. The whole "if it feels good, it must be right" mentality of the sixties generation comes from that line of thinking. It's body-centricity, placing one's body ahead of the world around you.
Is because it is self indulgence and traditionally our culture is against self indulgence. When people are focused on their bodies, they aren't doing anything productive, and more importantly, are fixated firmly on themselves and not the world around them. That's a good value and to some extent gay activism will always bump into the charge that identifying oneself so strongly with one's sexuality is to accept a narcissistic lifestyle that is sorely at odds with the values that actually worked to make the country prosper.
Violence, on the other hand, can actually be useful. Violence is about a life not centered around self. Indeed, depersonalization is required to a degree to accept violence, and depersonalization is often useful. There is a bad guy, go get them. There is an animal attacking, go get them. The earth is doing something, so we engage in some act to right it. IT cements the idea that we can alter the world around us, whereas, sexuality only seeks to see that we are pleasured within whatever world we are in.
The vast majority of the list looks like kiddie porn sites or links to kiddie porn sights. You know, teenagers and younger being exploited.
Frankly, the Danes and the Australians are doing the "liberal" thing in trying to block these sites. If they block everyone, they reason, the sites will go out of business and the exploitation will stop. That's admirable.
But... since I'm an American.... I would rather let the people go to these sites, determine who is getting their jollies off looking at this stuff, and then let's round up all these sick f--- people and kill them.
There *is* a tendency for the corporate world to not recognize a genius *unless* he's also a complete ass.
You have to network in the corporate world, and constantly differentiate yourself so that everyone sees what you are doing is vital to the firm. The thing is, though, unless your project is a new product, that brings money into the firm, then, you aren't likely to get attention.
A big problem of retailers like this is that the internet has put them in a terrible spot. With prices so low as to be unable to pay people to sell them, they've got to think of something to survive. So they do anything and that sense of doing anything to survive can become pervasive in any culture, government or otherwise.
In the longer term, the only policy item on the table likely to help the retailer will be carbon taxes. Once carbon taxes go into effect, the cost of fuel will rise, and shippers will safely pass the cost. That package that takes $20 to ship might then take $50 or even $100 in fuel surcharges and suddenly the savings of online shopping evaporate compared to the cost of delivery to concentrated distribution centers for local pickup - stores.
But frankly, despite having a Democratic congress, and a Democratic president, I would be willing to bet that carbon taxes are not likely to see the light of day in the USA.
But here's a way the industry can work, in that, Microsoft gets to be the "bad" guy to protect the hardware vendors of today from new competition. I can imagine IBM, Dell, HP all giving Microsoft a call, and asking them for Cisco-like networking and storage administration features for Windows Server. It's a tough market for Microsoft to break into but... they could do it. Microsoft also works with hardware vendors to get more and more packet slicing features into hardware... Taiwan is only too happy to help.
Once Microsoft establishes how that software would work and the hardware people deliver the commodity hardware, the Linux people begin copying it and in fairly short order there is GNU-[fill in microsoft name] here.
Over time, the cost of high end networking plunges and the software to manage, egged on by competition from Cisco, Microsoft and Linux, gets better and better. Broadband everywhere suddenly becomes a lot faster, a lot better, and a lot cheaper, and so many of today's networking administrators start looking like the steam engine fireman when the diesel comes around.
As networking administration costs fall, providers can profitably roll out broadband to more and more people. Local governments can -finally- deploy their own broadband for everyone, if they want to. Perhaps in twenty years, all major cities have some form of public broadband.
I mean, if you are a genius, why wouldn't you be nice... if you are better than everyone else, then, take ownership of the team, put the project on your back and just do it. That's what you were meant to do. No need to be a dick about it. If its so hard, maybe you aren't so smart!
There was the single coder that ported, without authorization, Windows 286 to Windows 386. He got enough of it to work that he demo'd it up the chain until Ballmer took a look at it, threw a chair, and said "f---- you just killed OS/2!"
They threw some more developers on it, and the rest, as they say, is history. A single developer laid the groundwork for Windows 3.1.
That one might think that the very same recession that increases interest in Linux might well put many of the leading vendors out of business.
Novell's operating margin and profit margins are both negative, according to e-trade. Sun Microsystems looks to be in big trouble, as usual.
But, on the other hand, Red Hat did well last year, so I guess Linux fans should keep their fingers crossed as their earnings are due on the 25th of March. Oracle is also doing ok and their earnings are due out the 18th.
IBM is totally kicking ass right now, EPS wise.
So... you could lose Sun Microsystems and maybe Novell, but you would still have Oracle, Red Hat and IBM to fund OSS development, and, of course, Google.
Why does this seem like something the same people protesting Sexual Education in our American schools
The right wing tends to feel that sex education is more about promoting a sexual society than it is about safety, as, whenever the right suggests other things be taught in the same of safety, the left argues that such education is promotion. For example, you might think that we would have gun safety classes in a nation with 100 million guns, but the left wing has continually refused to let even -free- gun classes such as NRA'S Eagle program to be taught in public schools, because they say that teaching about guns promotes guns.
It isn't like MS could pack up and leave Redmond for anything short of hundreds of millions of dollars either
The City of Cleveland said the same thing about Rockefeller at the turn of the 20th century as well. They were wrong, and the city has been in decline ever since.
How precise could that time be when the Shuttle takes a second or two to get moving? It's not exactly a quicky off the pad in the way the Saturn V's were.
That's a lot of jobs. When you realize that some cities would fork over hundreds of millions in annual tax abatements just to get that many jobs, pitching in on a bridge is not a bad deal.
So when I choose to work in a dangerous mine, and lose an arm in accident I don't deserve unemployment insurance or to be judged on the same basis as everyone else when I try to get another job because I should face the choices I made
For an example of how much a society can do for both parents, check Sweden's stats here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternity_leave#Europe [wikipedia.org] . Spoiler: 480 days paid paternity leave. (disclaimer: I'm not Swedish)
Sweden's throwing every benefit on the table that it can to boost its birth rate. Making babies is a good way to keep your old age benefits solvent. By 2050 I think nearly half of Sweden's population will be retired and a huge amount will be over 80.
Unfortunately for the Western World, Darwin favors dumb male dominated societies over smart equal societies.
At GM, each division is run separately with a president. It has been done this was since the 1920s
Ah, but, you see, all car design is centralized and GM's problem has always been trying to manage its brands and often to their own self detriment. That has been the story since around the 1960s and we notice that GM begins its decline around that time as well. Most famous, of course, is the idea that the Corvette -HAS- to be the fastest car, and so on, or Pontiac has to be about performance, and so on. The famous GTO muscle cars that did so well for GM were actually sort of a coup against the centralized scheme of the 1960s... already corporate was getting in the way of products that could sell.
Look at how the designs of all its cars go into one design center, where they say this is the pontiac, and this the chevy, etc... the whole thing is a mess. Look at how many sales GM has lost doing prototypes of cars that everyone likes, then takes three years to deliver, at which point, everyone has moved on. Look at how there is one set of GM engine plants, etc... the whole thing is a big mess.
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The fucking up of the western world has been a long and arduous process hearkening back to the 1400s!
No, because the West kicked ass right up until it shot itself in the foot with World War I.
I call bullshit!
I was talking about the decline of the American manufacturing economy since 1950s.
Stimulus package, IT jobs? Barf!
The fact, is, once Obama goes and cuts missile defense, cuts the aircraft carrier, submarine and F-22 fighter, as is rumored, the last bastion of genuine engineering jobs in the USA will be wiped out and we will be able to manufacture as much as the British.
Please... don't try and link some positive news about C/S grads with this administration. Not everyone glows in their loins like you do, at this commy bast... I mean, your wonderful president!
However, I do feel strongly that what goes on between consenting adults are their own business.
That's fine, but I don't need to hear about it! You've only reinforced my point that overall sex is useless, and that, what goes on between two consenting adults is their business. I agree with that. But I don't think you have the right to force acceptance of your own sexual beliefs. If you want to keep your business between two people, that's fine, but if you want that business to become public, and force me to respond to it, then, its my business too, and I'd rather not be the case. I'd be like, keep your mouth shut, and everyone's happy.
And we all turned out alright.
By what measure do you figure that? WE have completely fraked up the entire western world within the space of two generations.
At some point, people are going to need to just start smashing security cameras simply as a statement against monitoring.
And how do goods get to brick-and-mortar stores? Are they delivered by fairies? And how do customers get to stores?
The goods can be delivered in bulk, which is cheaper. Customers can get to shopping centers where they can load up the SUVs with whatever sort of goods they need in a single trip. Brick and mortar retail are rather naturally efficient that way.
It's only low fuel prices and computerized routing of delivery vehicles that even make online ordering possible. Once you put in carbon taxes and other legal taboos against trucking and personal delivery, you'll pretty much end the online business.
Sex is traditionally connected with the biological urge to procreate....So, I plainly think you're wrong
Well, I'm not. The taboos against sexuality are driven by those who have some serious misgivings about the animal nature of man. A lot of people say that sexual taboos stem from procreation so that they can say that those taboos should be removed, rather than try and attack the idea that humans should not be so body focused head on.
Other people do say that though, and have said it. The whole "if it feels good, it must be right" mentality of the sixties generation comes from that line of thinking. It's body-centricity, placing one's body ahead of the world around you.
By "all", you mean "all cases except where it's something else instead, such as an anti-abortion site".
In the article I wrote "The Vast Majority"
Is because it is self indulgence and traditionally our culture is against self indulgence. When people are focused on their bodies, they aren't doing anything productive, and more importantly, are fixated firmly on themselves and not the world around them. That's a good value and to some extent gay activism will always bump into the charge that identifying oneself so strongly with one's sexuality is to accept a narcissistic lifestyle that is sorely at odds with the values that actually worked to make the country prosper.
Violence, on the other hand, can actually be useful. Violence is about a life not centered around self. Indeed, depersonalization is required to a degree to accept violence, and depersonalization is often useful. There is a bad guy, go get them. There is an animal attacking, go get them. The earth is doing something, so we engage in some act to right it. IT cements the idea that we can alter the world around us, whereas, sexuality only seeks to see that we are pleasured within whatever world we are in.
The vast majority of the list looks like kiddie porn sites or links to kiddie porn sights. You know, teenagers and younger being exploited.
Frankly, the Danes and the Australians are doing the "liberal" thing in trying to block these sites. If they block everyone, they reason, the sites will go out of business and the exploitation will stop. That's admirable.
But... since I'm an American.... I would rather let the people go to these sites, determine who is getting their jollies off looking at this stuff, and then let's round up all these sick f--- people and kill them.
Welcome our new UV Resistant High Altitude Bacteriological Overlords!
There *is* a tendency for the corporate world to not recognize a genius *unless* he's also a complete ass.
You have to network in the corporate world, and constantly differentiate yourself so that everyone sees what you are doing is vital to the firm. The thing is, though, unless your project is a new product, that brings money into the firm, then, you aren't likely to get attention.
A big problem of retailers like this is that the internet has put them in a terrible spot. With prices so low as to be unable to pay people to sell them, they've got to think of something to survive. So they do anything and that sense of doing anything to survive can become pervasive in any culture, government or otherwise.
In the longer term, the only policy item on the table likely to help the retailer will be carbon taxes. Once carbon taxes go into effect, the cost of fuel will rise, and shippers will safely pass the cost. That package that takes $20 to ship might then take $50 or even $100 in fuel surcharges and suddenly the savings of online shopping evaporate compared to the cost of delivery to concentrated distribution centers for local pickup - stores.
But frankly, despite having a Democratic congress, and a Democratic president, I would be willing to bet that carbon taxes are not likely to see the light of day in the USA.
It could work out well for everyone.
But here's a way the industry can work, in that, Microsoft gets to be the "bad" guy to protect the hardware vendors of today from new competition. I can imagine IBM, Dell, HP all giving Microsoft a call, and asking them for Cisco-like networking and storage administration features for Windows Server. It's a tough market for Microsoft to break into but ... they could do it. Microsoft also works with hardware vendors to get more and more packet slicing features into hardware... Taiwan is only too happy to help.
Once Microsoft establishes how that software would work and the hardware people deliver the commodity hardware, the Linux people begin copying it and in fairly short order there is GNU-[fill in microsoft name] here.
Over time, the cost of high end networking plunges and the software to manage, egged on by competition from Cisco, Microsoft and Linux, gets better and better. Broadband everywhere suddenly becomes a lot faster, a lot better, and a lot cheaper, and so many of today's networking administrators start looking like the steam engine fireman when the diesel comes around.
As networking administration costs fall, providers can profitably roll out broadband to more and more people. Local governments can -finally- deploy their own broadband for everyone, if they want to. Perhaps in twenty years, all major cities have some form of public broadband.
I mean, if you are a genius, why wouldn't you be nice... if you are better than everyone else, then, take ownership of the team, put the project on your back and just do it. That's what you were meant to do. No need to be a dick about it. If its so hard, maybe you aren't so smart!
There was the single coder that ported, without authorization, Windows 286 to Windows 386. He got enough of it to work that he demo'd it up the chain until Ballmer took a look at it, threw a chair, and said "f---- you just killed OS/2!"
They threw some more developers on it, and the rest, as they say, is history. A single developer laid the groundwork for Windows 3.1.
That one might think that the very same recession that increases interest in Linux might well put many of the leading vendors out of business.
Novell's operating margin and profit margins are both negative, according to e-trade. Sun Microsystems looks to be in big trouble, as usual.
But, on the other hand, Red Hat did well last year, so I guess Linux fans should keep their fingers crossed as their earnings are due on the 25th of March. Oracle is also doing ok and their earnings are due out the 18th.
IBM is totally kicking ass right now, EPS wise.
So... you could lose Sun Microsystems and maybe Novell, but you would still have Oracle, Red Hat and IBM to fund OSS development, and, of course, Google.
Why does this seem like something the same people protesting Sexual Education in our American schools
The right wing tends to feel that sex education is more about promoting a sexual society than it is about safety, as, whenever the right suggests other things be taught in the same of safety, the left argues that such education is promotion. For example, you might think that we would have gun safety classes in a nation with 100 million guns, but the left wing has continually refused to let even -free- gun classes such as NRA'S Eagle program to be taught in public schools, because they say that teaching about guns promotes guns.
It isn't like MS could pack up and leave Redmond for anything short of hundreds of millions of dollars either
The City of Cleveland said the same thing about Rockefeller at the turn of the 20th century as well. They were wrong, and the city has been in decline ever since.
The precise time was 7:43:44 EDT.
How precise could that time be when the Shuttle takes a second or two to get moving? It's not exactly a quicky off the pad in the way the Saturn V's were.
That's a lot of jobs. When you realize that some cities would fork over hundreds of millions in annual tax abatements just to get that many jobs, pitching in on a bridge is not a bad deal.
So when I choose to work in a dangerous mine, and lose an arm in accident I don't deserve unemployment insurance or to be judged on the same basis as everyone else when I try to get another job because I should face the choices I made
Uh, then don't work in the mine?
For an example of how much a society can do for both parents, check Sweden's stats here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternity_leave#Europe [wikipedia.org] . Spoiler: 480 days paid paternity leave. (disclaimer: I'm not Swedish)
Sweden's throwing every benefit on the table that it can to boost its birth rate. Making babies is a good way to keep your old age benefits solvent. By 2050 I think nearly half of Sweden's population will be retired and a huge amount will be over 80.
Unfortunately for the Western World, Darwin favors dumb male dominated societies over smart equal societies.
At GM, each division is run separately with a president. It has been done this was since the 1920s
Ah, but, you see, all car design is centralized and GM's problem has always been trying to manage its brands and often to their own self detriment. That has been the story since around the 1960s and we notice that GM begins its decline around that time as well. Most famous, of course, is the idea that the Corvette -HAS- to be the fastest car, and so on, or Pontiac has to be about performance, and so on. The famous GTO muscle cars that did so well for GM were actually sort of a coup against the centralized scheme of the 1960s... already corporate was getting in the way of products that could sell.
Look at how the designs of all its cars go into one design center, where they say this is the pontiac, and this the chevy, etc... the whole thing is a mess. Look at how many sales GM has lost doing prototypes of cars that everyone likes, then takes three years to deliver, at which point, everyone has moved on. Look at how there is one set of GM engine plants, etc... the whole thing is a big mess.