The Emperor Has No Clothes is another classic about thoughts of crowds. There is a moral to the story, which is lost here, sometimes it takes innocence (or bravery) to point out that what everyone else is thinking is wrong i.e. that the commonly held belief is based on a lie.
Maybe not important to you, but it may be interesting to someone like McDonald's. Probably not at the current prices though, but 30-50 years down the road...
Oh, and an ultra-light weight tripod!
Maybe not important to you, but it may be interesting to someone like **insert major camera/mobile phone manufacturer here**.
Actually, those are pretty good examples - if you are looking for more immediate funding AND you don't feel like lying through your teeth about possible capabilities of your invention. Although, they WILL probably have to do more lying before they sell this one. And get a more colorful video. Preferably with some scantly clad human females in it.
It might also be a completely useless study of a pointless topic.
Also, completely WRONG as the very first commenter to TFA puts it:
ponckk a team... can play as never before, and still loose, if they don't score. A team that plays very poorly, can score, and win.....
look at the world cup history, and the majority of soccer matches.
Look at the debut of spain in the world cup...
your software is really nice and the algorithm has to be great. but it doesn't apply in real life. thats why there arn't many stats in soccer, that is why is simple...GET THE BALL IN, thats what counts. And your algorithm is leaving that out immediatly Today, 02:27:4
How do you call it when person A (e.g. circletimessquare) calls person B (say... me) an "asshole" and a "fucking asshole", to which person B replies with:
Surely you are aware of the fact that tracing that ball will be only the first step in curing cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, poverty, hunger, energy crisis, global warming AND bringing the balance to the Force?
Come on! Let me see some REAL trolling! You obviously can't beat my post with arguments - let's see you throw mod points in my face and call me names. COME ON! BE A PROPER TROLL!
Bah... Kids these days... In my day, trolls had balls... Now? They hide behind "anonymous coward" and chuck mod points at you. Pathetic.
i'm sorry, but you set up again a false conflict: that if i think that that financial arrangement is abusive of taxpayers, then i hate police officers.
That was SARCASM... fucking asshole.
Also, there is nothing abusive about Tassone's pension agreement. RTFM - the guy was planning to retire after 20 years. So, he busted his ass for that time, pulling in as much overtime as he could. He also suffered injuries in the line of duty.
Those 20 years are probably more like 30-40 years of 9-to-5 work, but he did them in 20. Good for him.
Should everyone be allowed to do the same? Work hard, pull in as much overtime as you can (and have it on record as such), put in as much into your pension-fund and retire early. Plus, don't get fired so someone could buy a third mansion for his cat. Fuck yeah!
You mean a world where everyone makes unionized workers' salaries, benefits and protection and not the actual straw man 150k you mention above?
Where exactly do I say "same amount"? Also, I have EXPLICITLY argued against your "150k for everyone" straw man.
i support capitalism with socialist safety nets. or socialism with capitalist engines. whatever. i simply am complaining about these union stooges obviously getting away with murder. just as much murder as the ceo scumbags with the golden parachutes from the companies they helped destroy
Oh please... Now you are comparing a unionized employee making couple of thousands more in benefits to a CEO literally STEALING millions? Pleaaaase...
Face it - you are NOT for "capitalism with socialist safety nets. or socialism with capitalist engines.". I'm guessing that you would like to be, maybe because you have personal issues with your life so far, which makes you feel somehow "responsible". But your heart is simply not in it. You are far more to the right, and far closer to laissez-faire deregulated capitalism than you would like to believe.
You asked for someone to describe you a world where anyone could have salaries and benefits akin to those enjoyed by union workers. You didn't ask for someone to fix irregularities in how unions operate.
And besides... Why shouldn't your pension be higher than your last year's salary? You WERE investing into the fund for decades, right? Not just piling it up - INVESTING. Your money was working for you all that time. Plus, if I recall correctly, the money you put into you pension fund doesn't get taxed like the rest of your salary.
And again... Why all those straw men? Why couldn't you quote THIS part of the same article?
Some will receive the big pensions for decades. Thirteen New York City police officers recently retired at age 40 with pensions above $100,000 a year; nine did so in their 30s. The plan's public information officer said that the very young retirees had qualified for special disability pensions, which are 50 percent larger than ordinary police pensions. He said several dozen of the highest-paid New York City police retirees had disabilities related to 9/11 and the rest of the disabilities resulted from injuries in the line of duty.
Also:
Mr. Tassone said the only reason he joined the police force was the promise of a full pension after just 20 years, and it would have been wrong for the state or city to go back on the promise after using it to recruit him.
He said he put up with hardships for 20 years as a police officer, "and now I'm at the end of it and I've become a target," he said. "I broke my hand three times. I broke my left ankle. I blew out my knee. In my last two years alone, I made between 350 and 400 arrests, and a lot of those people weren't volunteering."
Because he could retire young, he added, it was important to start out with the largest pension possible. In the coming years, inflation will eat away at his benefit. Public pensions in New York City and State have had a cost-of-living adjustment feature since 2000, but it applies only to the first $18,000.
"I concede, I have a very good pension, but what's that pension going to be worth when I'm 70 years old?" Mr. Tassone said.
Seriously? Do you really like straw that much or do you simply hate hard working american police officers?
Oh... wait... you were generalizing and putting up a straw man, I get it.
now enunciate the real world plan in which that is possible
You mean a world where everyone makes unionized workers' salaries, benefits and protection and not the actual straw man 150k you mention above? Easy.
The same one where CEOs DON'T get rewarded by 6 and 7-figure salaries and bonuses regardless if they bring the economy to its knees. Also... The same one where both CEOs and workers consider a sum like 150k a year "a shitload of money".
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The Emperor Has No Clothes is another classic about thoughts of crowds. There is a moral to the story, which is lost here, sometimes it takes innocence (or bravery) to point out that what everyone else is thinking is wrong i.e. that the commonly held belief is based on a lie.
A self adjusting drinking cup
Maybe not important to you, but it may be interesting to someone like McDonald's.
Probably not at the current prices though, but 30-50 years down the road...
Oh, and an ultra-light weight tripod!
Maybe not important to you, but it may be interesting to someone like **insert major camera/mobile phone manufacturer here**.
Actually, those are pretty good examples - if you are looking for more immediate funding AND you don't feel like lying through your teeth about possible capabilities of your invention.
Although, they WILL probably have to do more lying before they sell this one.
And get a more colorful video. Preferably with some scantly clad human females in it.
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is still retired from Microsoft.
Also, several of them weren't removed through war, despite actual wars being fought against their regimes.
A rather pointless list that.
Watching The Fine Video? It is there for a reason...
You know... for all those people NOT remembering the actual quote.
Also... "Poor rabbits" sounds way better than "poor hares". It has more... "ZING!" to it.
Poor rabbits...
It might also be a completely useless study of a pointless topic.
Also, completely WRONG as the very first commenter to TFA puts it:
ponckk
a team... can play as never before, and still loose, if they don't score.
A team that plays very poorly, can score, and win.....
look at the world cup history, and the majority of soccer matches.
Look at the debut of spain in the world cup...
your software is really nice and the algorithm has to be great. but it doesn't apply in real life.
thats why there arn't many stats in soccer, that is why is simple...GET THE BALL IN, thats what counts.
And your algorithm is leaving that out immediatly
Today, 02:27:4
...the Tom Green school of medicine?
How do you call it when person A (e.g. circletimessquare) calls person B (say... me) an "asshole" and a "fucking asshole", to which person B replies with:
That was SARCASM... fucking asshole.
If anything, I've let him off easy.
Get the Flock outa here!
In Saudi Arabia geothermal energy pushes Harry Reid?
Surely you are aware of the fact that tracing that ball will be only the first step in curing cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, poverty, hunger, energy crisis, global warming AND bringing the balance to the Force?
How much is that in sensible scientific measurements like Libraries of Congress or Football Fields per Square Barleycorn?
Read the post above that one and THEN tell me I am the one flaming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnmMNdiCz_s#t=2m36s
Come on! Let me see some REAL trolling!
You obviously can't beat my post with arguments - let's see you throw mod points in my face and call me names.
COME ON! BE A PROPER TROLL!
Bah... Kids these days...
In my day, trolls had balls...
Now? They hide behind "anonymous coward" and chuck mod points at you.
Pathetic.
i'm sorry, but you set up again a false conflict: that if i think that that financial arrangement is abusive of taxpayers, then i hate police officers.
That was SARCASM... fucking asshole.
Also, there is nothing abusive about Tassone's pension agreement.
RTFM - the guy was planning to retire after 20 years.
So, he busted his ass for that time, pulling in as much overtime as he could.
He also suffered injuries in the line of duty.
Those 20 years are probably more like 30-40 years of 9-to-5 work, but he did them in 20.
Good for him.
Should everyone be allowed to do the same?
Work hard, pull in as much overtime as you can (and have it on record as such), put in as much into your pension-fund and retire early.
Plus, don't get fired so someone could buy a third mansion for his cat.
Fuck yeah!
I didn't say ANYTHING REMOTELY CLOSE TO THAT.
Here...
You mean a world where everyone makes unionized workers' salaries, benefits and protection and not the actual straw man 150k you mention above?
Where exactly do I say "same amount"?
Also, I have EXPLICITLY argued against your "150k for everyone" straw man.
i support capitalism with socialist safety nets. or socialism with capitalist engines. whatever. i simply am complaining about these union stooges obviously getting away with murder. just as much murder as the ceo scumbags with the golden parachutes from the companies they helped destroy
Oh please... Now you are comparing a unionized employee making couple of thousands more in benefits to a CEO literally STEALING millions?
Pleaaaase...
Face it - you are NOT for "capitalism with socialist safety nets. or socialism with capitalist engines.".
I'm guessing that you would like to be, maybe because you have personal issues with your life so far, which makes you feel somehow "responsible".
But your heart is simply not in it. You are far more to the right, and far closer to laissez-faire deregulated capitalism than you would like to believe.
You asked for someone to describe you a world where anyone could have salaries and benefits akin to those enjoyed by union workers.
You didn't ask for someone to fix irregularities in how unions operate.
And besides... Why shouldn't your pension be higher than your last year's salary?
You WERE investing into the fund for decades, right? Not just piling it up - INVESTING. Your money was working for you all that time.
Plus, if I recall correctly, the money you put into you pension fund doesn't get taxed like the rest of your salary.
And again... Why all those straw men? Why couldn't you quote THIS part of the same article?
Some will receive the big pensions for decades.
Thirteen New York City police officers recently retired at age 40 with pensions above $100,000 a year; nine did so in their 30s.
The plan's public information officer said that the very young retirees had qualified for special disability pensions, which are 50 percent larger than ordinary police pensions.
He said several dozen of the highest-paid New York City police retirees had disabilities related to 9/11 and the rest of the disabilities resulted from injuries in the line of duty.
Also:
Mr. Tassone said the only reason he joined the police force was the promise of a full pension after just 20 years, and it would have been wrong for the state or city to go back on the promise after using it to recruit him.
He said he put up with hardships for 20 years as a police officer, "and now I'm at the end of it and I've become a target," he said.
"I broke my hand three times. I broke my left ankle. I blew out my knee.
In my last two years alone, I made between 350 and 400 arrests, and a lot of those people weren't volunteering."
Because he could retire young, he added, it was important to start out with the largest pension possible.
In the coming years, inflation will eat away at his benefit.
Public pensions in New York City and State have had a cost-of-living adjustment feature since 2000, but it applies only to the first $18,000.
"I concede, I have a very good pension, but what's that pension going to be worth when I'm 70 years old?" Mr. Tassone said.
Seriously?
Do you really like straw that much or do you simply hate hard working american police officers?
ALL unionized workers get paid that much? Really?
Oh... wait... you were generalizing and putting up a straw man, I get it.
now enunciate the real world plan in which that is possible
You mean a world where everyone makes unionized workers' salaries, benefits and protection and not the actual straw man 150k you mention above?
Easy.
The same one where CEOs DON'T get rewarded by 6 and 7-figure salaries and bonuses regardless if they bring the economy to its knees.
Also... The same one where both CEOs and workers consider a sum like 150k a year "a shitload of money".
We're talkin androids here. Not one of them iThingies.
I'll be here all week! Try the veal!
I'm a general practitioner not an oncologist!
It was set on "car" not "cancer"!
Rectal exam physical enough for you?