I thought I was always supposed to praise Canada over the US... yet they lead us in "sole country" proposals, supposedly an awful, cowboyish thing... ugh, my Slashdot head must asplode!
Isn't the whole economic history of the world a history of increasing productivity; i.e. decreasing need for labor?
Yet somehow dystopia never arrives, well, unless there is some massive government program undertaken to stave off unemployment, which perversely gives us lovely economic utopias like the Great Depression and the Soviet Union.
Terrorism has an insignificant impact compared to the costs of fighting it. Compare it to any other risk and we're much better spending our money on curing cancer, reducing vehicular accidents, etc.
Flying is the safest method of travel with or without the TSA. That's the truth of the matter and man kind just can't see beyond the emotional aspects of threats. As a result we do the most illogical thing possible passing bad rules/polices/laws and accept the most illogical thing in accepting the legislation (society).
You are being totally static in your assumptions, as though terrorism were the weather or something.
As well say something like "our town has such low crime that we should disband the police department. Much better to spend that money on pig feed inspections."
That certainly doesn't mean that the TSA is the best approach... something like Israel's methodology would make more sense.
As long as even one guy was paid during the "shutdown" (really shutdown theater) to put up Barrycades around open air monuments, and even one guy was paid to imprison foreign tourists in their hotel to prevent them from looking at a monument, then I don't want to hear it. They could have sent that money to the hungry masses.
Your heroes the Democrats decided to make it hurt. They decided what to fund and what not to.
Or here's something left field, how about make public transport free and just pay for it through a flat levy?
Oh noes! higher taxes! Yeah it won't sell politically, but really common sense tells you public transport benefits everyone so should be paid for out of the public purse. And think of how much more efficient you can make it when you don't have to bother with complicated ticketing systems.
If you like public transport it's a win, if you're a Canyonero fan then you also win (less other cars on the road to get in your way). Of course it'll never happen because the 2nd amendment or some other bullshit excuse.
Hmm... sure, if you consider it a public benefit by getting the unwashed out of the way packed into their cattle cars, leaving the streets less crowded for us haves.
In the 1970s we almost doubled the number of people working when women were urged to enter the workforce. Good thing that didn't result in high unemployment or anything...
I dunno... the whole known history of mankind seem to be one of increasing productivity (which is, basically, decreased need for labor) yet the dystopia from that never arrives.
When dystopias do show up, they seem to come from systems of governance that are not based on voluntary cooperation and trade. Which kind of doesn't support the "we have to dump capitalism" meme.
One thing that probably hasn't helped is pushing women into the outside the home workforce, which basically doubled the supply of labor for any given unit of population. There's no law of nature that says we had to do that, or have to keep doing it. Though on the flip side, you could say "wow, we suddenly doubled the supply of labor and still didn't have economic dystopia".
So yeah... all quite complex, and not likely to be solved by "policy wonks" with top down solutions.
Given that fracking is a permanent change to the environment that can't be undone, EVER, I'd want to see some pretty compelling evidence that it absolutely can't cause harm, EVER, before being used widely across a bunch of different geologies.
Wasn't pumping any oil out in the first place a "permanent change that can't be undone ever"?
Or were you planning on recovering all the oil that had ever been pumped, and putting it back somehow?
Google considers Google Apps a viable replacement for Microsoft Office, so I can see where they would think Googe+ circles are a replacement for real interviewing and hiring skills.
For what most people do with Office, it probably is.
Yes, for businesses who run on Excel macros, Access dashboards, and VBA it isn't. But they have their own problems...
... there is a kind of coding that can be dumb and mechanical. And naturally, all the finest business methodologies encourage that, so that the lowest cost sweatshop coder can be plugged interchangeably into the spot.
But yeah, it's flamebait. Though how many coders have equally as thoughtlessly trashed the marketing types? When it's not your field, it's easy to misunderstand and denigrate it.
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Yeah, Bernanke's a real genius. It takes a special kind of genius to turn a recession into an ongoing malaise.
I thought I was always supposed to praise Canada over the US ... yet they lead us in "sole country" proposals, supposedly an awful, cowboyish thing ... ugh, my Slashdot head must asplode!
Yep.
Isn't the whole economic history of the world a history of increasing productivity; i.e. decreasing need for labor?
Yet somehow dystopia never arrives, well, unless there is some massive government program undertaken to stave off unemployment, which perversely gives us lovely economic utopias like the Great Depression and the Soviet Union.
Terrorism has an insignificant impact compared to the costs of fighting it. Compare it to any other risk and we're much better spending our money on curing cancer, reducing vehicular accidents, etc.
Flying is the safest method of travel with or without the TSA. That's the truth of the matter and man kind just can't see beyond the emotional aspects of threats. As a result we do the most illogical thing possible passing bad rules/polices/laws and accept the most illogical thing in accepting the legislation (society).
You are being totally static in your assumptions, as though terrorism were the weather or something.
As well say something like "our town has such low crime that we should disband the police department. Much better to spend that money on pig feed inspections."
That certainly doesn't mean that the TSA is the best approach ... something like Israel's methodology would make more sense.
Yeah, Silly Metric. Only intellectually superior countries are holding out on this issue ...
'cause it's so much better to be schizophrenic, hating someone while desperately imitating them ...
And torpedoes ... good point.
It's amazing what we think we "know", by trying to interpret the electromagnetic radiation that falls on us.
Next week: more amazing complete revisions of what we "know".
So they can show that 3d printed guns are bad and should be outlawed.
WTF, how is this even news?
You're right; the best approach to a problem like this is to say nothing about it ;)
And none of these "HE EARNT IT FROM THE SWEAT OF HIS BROW" lies, please.
1) Hard workers are poor - smart workers are rich;
2) Arab oil magnates CERTAINLY didn't work for it.
Not sure what you are intending to slam ... capitalism, or Islam?
As long as even one guy was paid during the "shutdown" (really shutdown theater) to put up Barrycades around open air monuments, and even one guy was paid to imprison foreign tourists in their hotel to prevent them from looking at a monument, then I don't want to hear it. They could have sent that money to the hungry masses.
Your heroes the Democrats decided to make it hurt. They decided what to fund and what not to.
Or here's something left field, how about make public transport free and just pay for it through a flat levy? Oh noes! higher taxes! Yeah it won't sell politically, but really common sense tells you public transport benefits everyone so should be paid for out of the public purse. And think of how much more efficient you can make it when you don't have to bother with complicated ticketing systems. If you like public transport it's a win, if you're a Canyonero fan then you also win (less other cars on the road to get in your way). Of course it'll never happen because the 2nd amendment or some other bullshit excuse.
Hmm ... sure, if you consider it a public benefit by getting the unwashed out of the way packed into their cattle cars, leaving the streets less crowded for us haves.
Tougher sell put that way, though ...
Outside the home? A far, far lower proportion. You can look it up ...
In the 1970s we almost doubled the number of people working when women were urged to enter the workforce. Good thing that didn't result in high unemployment or anything ...
I dunno ... the whole known history of mankind seem to be one of increasing productivity (which is, basically, decreased need for labor) yet the dystopia from that never arrives.
When dystopias do show up, they seem to come from systems of governance that are not based on voluntary cooperation and trade. Which kind of doesn't support the "we have to dump capitalism" meme.
One thing that probably hasn't helped is pushing women into the outside the home workforce, which basically doubled the supply of labor for any given unit of population. There's no law of nature that says we had to do that, or have to keep doing it. Though on the flip side, you could say "wow, we suddenly doubled the supply of labor and still didn't have economic dystopia".
So yeah ... all quite complex, and not likely to be solved by "policy wonks" with top down solutions.
... we need to learn how to eat them.
Were servers actually shut off? Domain names allowed to lapse? Anybody laid off? Bandwidth drastically reduced?
No? Then it was just shutdown theater, not shutdown.
Given that fracking is a permanent change to the environment that can't be undone, EVER, I'd want to see some pretty compelling evidence that it absolutely can't cause harm, EVER, before being used widely across a bunch of different geologies.
Wasn't pumping any oil out in the first place a "permanent change that can't be undone ever"?
Or were you planning on recovering all the oil that had ever been pumped, and putting it back somehow?
Absolutely. I remember those. I would gladly pay a few cents more not to put up with that carp.
(Fortunately, I didn't have to ... Shell prices were not by any means the lowest in town.)
Google considers Google Apps a viable replacement for Microsoft Office, so I can see where they would think Googe+ circles are a replacement for real interviewing and hiring skills.
For what most people do with Office, it probably is.
Yes, for businesses who run on Excel macros, Access dashboards, and VBA it isn't. But they have their own problems ...
... if there was a real shutdown, nobody would have been paid to put "shutdown" notices on websites.
The really exciting thing, according to Coria, was how well Polaris was able to fill in the gaps left by the fossil records.
And we know it did so correctly because ... ?
Most reviews are shills ... companies have whole departments dedicated to getting bloggers to post sham reviews ...
And string theory ... and everything we "know" about prehistory ...
... if anything can tame lame social networking and blogs about cats, it would be throwing stifling academia and certifications at it.
People would lose interest in the net in no time.
... there is a kind of coding that can be dumb and mechanical. And naturally, all the finest business methodologies encourage that, so that the lowest cost sweatshop coder can be plugged interchangeably into the spot.
But yeah, it's flamebait. Though how many coders have equally as thoughtlessly trashed the marketing types? When it's not your field, it's easy to misunderstand and denigrate it.