"Long term" in politics means "after my next term." To a politician, 2022 seems like a million bajillion years. They are in fact thinking "long term." Specifically they're thinking long term in the way they always think: it will be someone else's problem by then.
It is a diatribe against the exploitation of the King legacy by those who stand against the type of social justice that was the foundation of his principles and action.
Heh. Notice that as horrible and racist as they say we are, they still follow us to the ends of the earth. If I felt that way about someone, I'd move as far away as I could get.
Libertarians - fah! They're the first ones to cry for open borders for everyone else, but who do you see always starting up these Free State Projects and Seasteads so they can segregate themselves from the hoi polloi and have things their own way?
One things for sure - I'll bet you this Seastead won't have open borders!
One more hypocrisy from the "philosophically consistent" libertarians.
Why lead the world in exploring the universe on behalf of all mankind when you can make shitty electronics for lazy fucking walmart shoppers. Brilliant.
Since at this point, we aren't exploring the universe or making shitty electronics, making shitty electronics would be a step up in the world.
The nature of overpopulation problem (if in fact it exists) is that it will not cause boom when we reach population level X but rather we will be getting in more and more trouble, social strife, small and bigger wars for resources but also to subdue political parties at home etc. I do not think we can do anything so it is better to enjoy the going as long as it is good. So I will.
If it does exist, Friedman is telling it to the wrong people. Birth-rates in every western nation are declining. So if the world population is too large, then what exactly if Friedman expecting us to do about it? Start nuking 3rd world nations, or what?
It was around the 1970s that the human spirit began to be overwhelmed by bureaucracy (although the trend had been growing for many decades).
Since the mid-1970s the rate of progress has declined in physics, biology and the medical sciences – and some of these have arguably gone into reverse, so that the practice of science in some areas has overall gone backwards, valid knowledge has been lost and replaced with phony fashionable triviality and dishonest hype. Some of the biggest areas of science – medical research, molecular biology, neuroscience, epidemiology, climate research – are almost wholly trivial or bogus. This is not compensated by a few islands of progress, eg in computerization and the invention of the internet. Capability must cover all the bases, and depends not on a single advanced area but all-round advancement.
The fact is that human no longer do - *can* no longer do many things we used to be able to do: land on the moon, swiftly win wars against weak opposition and then control the defeated nation, secure national borders, discover ‘breakthrough’ medical treatments, prevent crime, design and build to a tight deadline, educate people so they are ready to work before the age of 22, block an undersea oil leak...
50 years ago we would have the smartest, best trained, most experienced and most creative people we could find (given human imperfections) in position to take responsibility, make decisions and act upon them in pursuit of a positive goal.
Now we have dull and docile committee members chosen partly with an eye to affirmative action and to generate positive media coverage, whose major priority is not to do the job but to avoid personal responsibility and prevent side-effects; pestered at every turn by an irresponsible and aggressive media and grandstanding politicians out to score popularity points; all of whom are hemmed-about by regulations such that – whatever they do do, or do not do – they will be in breach of some rule or another.
$250K also means you probably are still paying a mortgage, making car payments, have monthly bills and you'd be just as screwed as anyone else if you lost your job. I suspect those are problems Bill Gates will never have to confront. I submit that someone earning $250K a year still has a lot more in common with the burger-flip at McDonald's than he does with Warren Buffet.
It is not fair, we can't compete with cheap labor, that's not fair. I know this is slashdot where kicking America it the thing to do, but when we move everything overseas from meat head jobs to now engineering what do you expect? What we need are patriotic (a dirty word here) business people. But forget it most have been brainwashed into the fair and open market, which in reality does not exist.
You can keep on hating America and believe in fairness eventually it will catch us all and you'll learn the hard way that hating ones country and globalism leads to no good ends.
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
So - can you reproduce the Big Bang and verify that is indeed how the universe was created? Can you reproduce evolution to the point of speciation in a laboratory?
The point I'm making here is that you're always starting with an assumption. If you're a creationist, you assume that the revealed knowledge from the bible is correct, the earth must be 6000 years old, and therefore scientific methodology that indicates it's much older must be incorrect. If you believe in scientific methodology, which tells you the earth must be older than 6000 years, then you have to assume the revealed knowledge is incorrect.
But in either case, neither party can *prove* the reality of their assertion. Either you have to start with faith in revealed knowledge, or a faith in the scientific method.
Not sure why you feel that way. These reactors have been through a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami, but still there's not a single death due to direct exposure to radiation. If anything, this demonstrates how safe nuclear power it.
You have to wonder what chip architecture HP is going to move to now, considering losing Itanium leaves them high and dry. Of course, Itanium was largely developed by HP. Perhaps HP will continue the processor line?
It certainly isn't going to do HP any good having to do another architecture switch. To this day, most of the HPUX servers in my shop are PA-RISC. Moving to Itanium has generally been painful enough that when our development teams are forced to upgrade their applications, they generally opt to rehost them on Linux on x86 rather than HPUX on Itanium. Only a few applications where that isn't adequate have made it to HPUX Itanium. Putting their customers through another painful transition isn't going to win HPUX any friends.
Without anyone willing to defend it, the Constitution is just a charming piece of sheepskin with about as much value as toilet paper.
The problem is, there's not much of it left worth defending. Considering it's usually used as a bludgeon to whack Americans over the head, we'd probably be just as well off to declare it null and void and start over. I suspect not a few of the signatories of the original document would sign on to that project happily, if they could see what uses it was being put to today.
Like the Queen of England, our Constitution is a figurehead which poses no threat to our current government.
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"Long term" in politics means "after my next term." To a politician, 2022 seems like a million bajillion years. They are in fact thinking "long term." Specifically they're thinking long term in the way they always think: it will be someone else's problem by then.
One more argument for monarchy.
It is possible to lose superpower status without instantly becoming a third world nation.
Maybe, maybe not.
I expect we'll be finding out shortly...
Obviously the family is not very big on living up to MLK's dream.
Apparently, they're living up quite well to MLK's dream of living large....
No.
It is a diatribe against the exploitation of the King legacy by those who stand against the type of social justice that was the foundation of his principles and action.
Ah! This kind of social justice!
Heh. Notice that as horrible and racist as they say we are, they still follow us to the ends of the earth. If I felt that way about someone, I'd move as far away as I could get.
Libertarians - fah! They're the first ones to cry for open borders for everyone else, but who do you see always starting up these Free State Projects and Seasteads so they can segregate themselves from the hoi polloi and have things their own way?
One things for sure - I'll bet you this Seastead won't have open borders!
One more hypocrisy from the "philosophically consistent" libertarians.
Which qualified immigrants? Our supply of old Nazi rocket scientists either died or retired years ago.
Why lead the world in exploring the universe on behalf of all mankind when you can make shitty electronics for lazy fucking walmart shoppers. Brilliant.
Since at this point, we aren't exploring the universe or making shitty electronics, making shitty electronics would be a step up in the world.
My first reaction when I saw this story was, "It'll never happen". Apparently I'm in good company.
Not looking promising.
That's me!
The nature of overpopulation problem (if in fact it exists) is that it will not cause boom when we reach population level X but rather we will be getting in more and more trouble, social strife, small and bigger wars for resources but also to subdue political parties at home etc. I do not think we can do anything so it is better to enjoy the going as long as it is good. So I will.
If it does exist, Friedman is telling it to the wrong people. Birth-rates in every western nation are declining. So if the world population is too large, then what exactly if Friedman expecting us to do about it? Start nuking 3rd world nations, or what?
More interesting is the figure for growth in the government segment - 155.6% isn't shabby growth there, either...
Indeed. Bruce Charlton got it right:
$250K also means you probably are still paying a mortgage, making car payments, have monthly bills and you'd be just as screwed as anyone else if you lost your job. I suspect those are problems Bill Gates will never have to confront. I submit that someone earning $250K a year still has a lot more in common with the burger-flip at McDonald's than he does with Warren Buffet.
It is not fair, we can't compete with cheap labor, that's not fair. I know this is slashdot where kicking America it the thing to do, but when we move everything overseas from meat head jobs to now engineering what do you expect? What we need are patriotic (a dirty word here) business people. But forget it most have been brainwashed into the fair and open market, which in reality does not exist.
You can keep on hating America and believe in fairness eventually it will catch us all and you'll learn the hard way that hating ones country and globalism leads to no good ends.
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
--Thomas Jefferson
Considering Belgium has been doing fine without a government for months, I'm not seeing a problem with a government shutdown. Probably it's the best thing that could happen. It's caused enough trouble already.
I remember using Kermit to download my first SLS distro, sometime around 1992 or 93 through my college internet connection.
I feel old.
*sniff!*
So - can you reproduce the Big Bang and verify that is indeed how the universe was created? Can you reproduce evolution to the point of speciation in a laboratory?
The point I'm making here is that you're always starting with an assumption. If you're a creationist, you assume that the revealed knowledge from the bible is correct, the earth must be 6000 years old, and therefore scientific methodology that indicates it's much older must be incorrect. If you believe in scientific methodology, which tells you the earth must be older than 6000 years, then you have to assume the revealed knowledge is incorrect.
But in either case, neither party can *prove* the reality of their assertion. Either you have to start with faith in revealed knowledge, or a faith in the scientific method.
Not sure why you feel that way. These reactors have been through a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami, but still there's not a single death due to direct exposure to radiation. If anything, this demonstrates how safe nuclear power it.
You have to wonder what chip architecture HP is going to move to now, considering losing Itanium leaves them high and dry. Of course, Itanium was largely developed by HP. Perhaps HP will continue the processor line?
It certainly isn't going to do HP any good having to do another architecture switch. To this day, most of the HPUX servers in my shop are PA-RISC. Moving to Itanium has generally been painful enough that when our development teams are forced to upgrade their applications, they generally opt to rehost them on Linux on x86 rather than HPUX on Itanium. Only a few applications where that isn't adequate have made it to HPUX Itanium. Putting their customers through another painful transition isn't going to win HPUX any friends.
If the Times succeeds in shutting this down, it could have a chilling effect for Twitter and online free speech in general."
Anything that has a chilling effect on Twitter can't be all bad!
Indeed. Pruning - makes your processor get up and go!
Some states will do anything to get out of paying their bills....
Without anyone willing to defend it, the Constitution is just a charming piece of sheepskin with about as much value as toilet paper.
The problem is, there's not much of it left worth defending. Considering it's usually used as a bludgeon to whack Americans over the head, we'd probably be just as well off to declare it null and void and start over. I suspect not a few of the signatories of the original document would sign on to that project happily, if they could see what uses it was being put to today.
Like the Queen of England, our Constitution is a figurehead which poses no threat to our current government.
At least you know you won't be seeing looting, raping and rioting like in New Orleans and Haiti.
Gee, what could be the difference?