About as much as requiring that all veterinarians and their staff are male - cause we are basically walking painkiller for mammals. Which includes humans, so just on the off chance that it does work...
But don't worry... From TFA: "Placing a womanâ(TM)s T-shirt next to a manâ(TM)s T-shirt negated the impact."
Aaaand it just occurred to me that the negating effect of female smells is NOT the argument against "all male" animal or human clinics and hiring policies. Damn. Hope that does not become a trend.
Is foregoing feeling 36% less pain really that big of price to pay to have sexy nurses and doctors? And by sexy I mean women.
Not being sexist. Just being human male, hetero and honest.
Only we're already beyond electronics now. It's software that's running things at this point. Anyone notice all those efforts to make everyone a coder? Or at least every child? You think that's done because coding is fun?
I'm not talking about "creating jobs". I'm not a politician.
I'm talking about the fact that even the W. administration WAS AWARE that education is a big part of the answer to the problem of what to do with all that workforce who's jobs are disappearing. They KNOW that the administration will be in the office (if all goes well) for the next eight years. That's both the parents, families and even all the kids ten years or older they have to think of. A lot of votes.
Want a second term? Same thing. Only they are dealing with 14-year-olds and older. Did the administration in power do something to make those kids employed or unemployed by the next election?
Mind you, doing "something" and creating a successful education program are two VERY different things.
But the push towards making everyone a "computer guy" is pretty fucking clear. Slashdot is full of stories about this or that program to get kids into coding. Because THAT is the current and next skilled worker industry. The next assembly line - unless it all moves to India first. It should probably be smarter getting them into space research and robotics... but it's not my problem.
Both the AC parent and its parent are arguing tangential points as if they are opposite.
Now those skills are being incorporated into electronics, and we're again looking for new meta skills. It all comes full circle again and again.
Everytime the "circle" goes around LESS labor is needed. Just where are those workers going to go because other industries are not absorbing them - the employment numbers proves it. Look at today's big comanies - like Amazon. They have about 30,000 employees.
AC's parent is not arguing that less labor is NOT needed. AC's parent is arguing that what the OP said about Marx not foreseeing the productivity increases in the 20th century is... well... pointless. Because the ACTUAL increase in productivity which caused "so many paid workers would simply be laid off" actually already happened in the 18th and the 19th century - which served Marx as both spark and the fuel for his ideas.
As for the parents question "Just where are those workers going to go " - he answers the part of that unwittingly.
Look at today's big comanies - like Amazon. They have about 30,000 employees.
A couple of decades ago, a company that size would have had a million people of ALL skill levels working there. But automation has made things much more efficient. Cheaper for the rest of us, sure. But what to do with all the displaced workers? Retrain? For what?
A couple of decades ago, a company like Amazon would not have existed. I.e. New industries are created.
Then, there's that cyclic push that AC's parent mentions. Right now we are at the stage where people are being pushed into learning new meta skills as he/she puts it.
Now those skills are being incorporated into electronics, and we're again looking for new meta skills.
Only we're already beyond electronics now. It's software that's running things at this point. Anyone notice all those efforts to make everyone a coder? Or at least every child? You think that's done because coding is fun?
Then, there is all that service industry growth. Personal this, private that...
Still... All that does not answer the question "what to do with ALL the displaced workers". That answers the question what is being done. Note how none if it is being done by "the invisible hand" but by actual government and industry backed efforts. Also, how most of the industry exists only because at some point in the past the government needed machines that can count and calculate really fast.
The real question is how big is the sum of the unemployed workforce which the society can absorb and bare before it starts caving in on itself. Oh... and reducing the number of people in a society is not the solution to any of the problems.
Particularly in the case where a big part of the reason WHY that may SEEM as a solution is because of conditions created through export of labor to societies which outnumber your society 3-5 to 1, whose biggest problem for growth both in size and in living standards was the lack of labor.
What happens when it turns out all your workers are either a tiny group of calculators (mostly in banking, then in engineering) and the rest are in some service industry or the other and all your stuff is made by someone else? Hint: Most of your workers are servants. And your thinkers' next logical step is to replace them ALL with robots.
Unless you decide on taking up SOME socialism along the way, cutting the profit margin in order to maintain jobs for skilled workers and local industries, that's a recipe for a takeover by those other societies with far more workers to keep busy and THEIR robots which YOU paid THEM to make for YOU.
A story is a series of events recorded in their chronological order. A plot is a series of events deliberately arranged so as to reveal their dramatic, thematic, and emotional significance.
The "deliberately arranged" bit is the important part. In a book or a play it's the old three or four or five act structure, which makes sure that you get all the information you need where and when you need it and which keeps the story interesting. You know... It makes sure that the detective finds the killer in the end, after finding all the clues if it is a mystery or that he finds the killer in the beginning then showing us how he kept missing the clues if it is a drama or a satire.
Or, put in another way, plot is what moves the story from A to Z, story is how the letters in between A and Z are arranged. Why from A to Z? Why not A to M? Because "'at is them rulez".
In a game, the rules of the game are its plot. In chess, the fact that each game starts the same way and has the same goal is what sets the plot of chess. The story in chess is all that which happens on the board. Openings, tactics, moves... that's the story. The players create the story. And even there, bits of plot are hidden - as there are strict rules how each figure moves and attacks. You ever had a game of chess where the entire court turns on the king, makes the pact with the other side and betrays him? How about one where two pawns from opposing sides fall in love and decide to run away together?
You want a different plot with chess? Try chess problems. Though, I'm not sure there is one that tries to reenact Romeo and Juliet.
As for 2048... That is a VERY bad example. That game is almost exclusively plot. A really big hint would be the fact that almost immediately people started coming up with algorithms to beat the game. If a bot can complete the game, moving from A to Z, or from 2 to 2048 - that's a plot-driven game. Put a SINGLE black-or-white, good-or-bad choice - and the bot will fail half the time.
If you're using 2048 as an example of a good game, you are actually asking for games that are entirely scripted, but with a steep learning curve and little to no random elements. Those are not games. Those are mathematical problems. Sure... some people find those fun, but eventually they do become just tedious number crunching.
Clearly, with all that push towards convincing everyone that the wearable tech is the next new thing that you don't want to miss out on (all those various attempts at wrist phones/watches, Google glass and variations on that theme...) SOMEONE has already figured that out some time ago.
There's simply a rather fixed limit what you can do with a pocket sized device and what you can use it for - technology-wise. Service-wise (like making stuff payable by phone or making every phone into a camera) takes both various technology advancements and accurately guessing (or convincing) the public and its needs. Both those goals are limited with function.
Making you take it out of your pocket and strap it to your body... That just takes convincing you that it's cool. The only really limiting factor there is fashion.
It's probably the same mechanism that once had us concluding that "Gods be angry. Quick! Burn someone to appease them." whenever we heard thunder in the distance. I.e. Coming up with giant important explanations to what we perceive as giant important events.
You will willingly buy into unsubstantiated claims about dental fillings and ingesting mercury even suffer pain and monetary cost because of it (and possibly even harming your health) - but you will not vaccinate your children on an off chance that "something" might be wrong with the vaccines.
You do realize, your actions there are guided by pure ignorance and fear, right? Much like Jenny's.
You might want to have a chat with her. I had her number somewhere... Found it on the wall once. It goes something like 86753... Dammit I'll have to look it up.
When Jack Ryan's campaign for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois began in 2003, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have his records released. Both Jeri and Jack agreed to make their divorce, but not custody, records public, saying their release could be harmful to their son.[30]
On June 18, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider agreed to release the custody files.[31] The decision generated much controversy because it went against both parents' direct request, and reversed the decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child. It was revealed that six years earlier, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public,[32] and in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris.[30][33] Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."[34] Jack Ryan denied these allegations. Although Jeri Ryan only made a brief statement,[35] and she refused to comment on the matter during the campaign, the document disclosure led Jack Ryan to withdraw his candidacy;[36][37] his main opponent, Barack Obama, then won the 2004 United States Senate election in Illinois.[38]
In short - it lasts the same as the battery of that capacity lasts today.
'In essence, we have developed a new generation of electrodes with new materials â" we call it MFE â" Multi Function Electrode," StoreDot CEO Doron Myersdorf told Gizmag. "On one side it acts like a supercapacitor (with very fast charging), and on the other is like a lithium electrode (with slow discharge). The electrolyte is modified with our nanodots in order to make the multifunction electrode more effective."
It's basically a supercapacitor on top of a battery. You charge the capacitor quickly, it discharges into the battery slowly, and because the capacitor is actually a part of the electrode the loss is minimal.
On top of that, not having to discharge the capacitor into the battery all at once, it can discharge into the battery slowly, without heating it up, increasing the battery's life-cycle.
Discharge time is not the issue. Like others have already mentioned - we're gonna need new (thicker) cables and connectors to charge that fast. And we just got the reversible USB.
Ah! Excellent! So you do speak SOME sarcasm, but lack finer understanding of philosophy behind the language, or you just can't pick up my dialect.
Let me explain.
1 ) Just because I'm intrigued by the topic someone mentioned enough to look it up myself, and then provide the links for others with just about the same level of interest as mine - does not mean that I have additional expertise or information that I'm withholding for any reason. You can tell all that from my original post cause if I did have more info, posting the fourth link would be trivial. Or writing a sentence saying where to find it.
It was all "implied" by the copy/paste link-dump style of the post.
2 ) Even if I did for some inexplicable reason have the info you need while lacking the will to share it - I am not your personal search engine or database. Feel free to look it up yourself. You clearly know what you are looking for, you clearly know of existence of search engines and the internet - go look it up yourself.
3 ) Arguing against the quality of freely provided information while asking the provider to get you more of it - makes you come off as spoiled and whiny. Plus, you aggravate that by showing us that you have the time (enough to hang on slashdot, enough to reply...twice), interest for the subject, tools and ability to look it up yourself - but no will to do so on your own.
I on the other hand while maybe having time, tools and ability, completely lack the necessary level of interest or motivation for such an "adventure".
There you go... Those seven words expanded to several paragraphs. Now go and google the stuff you want for yourself by yourself. Or get your manservant or personal assistant to do it for you. I don't care. It's not my job.
The issues involved can't be quantified numerically, and then just put through an equation until everyone is equally happy or miserable. Nor could we call such a process just, good, right, proper or any other similar positive term.
If I'm stopped with no reason and unjustly accused of a crime just for shopping there (Which is what asking for a receipt is. Next time try not having it on you and see how it goes.) - I'm not shopping there anymore. And I'm raising a fuss prior to that. See how that goes regarding their promotions and stamps.
As for your other examples, it appears to me by what you are letting slide and in which way (centering on authoritative and economical aspects of human interaction and disregarding the moral issues like spying, stealing, more spying and workspace harassment) that you are either purposefully putting those up as strawmen OR that you really don't see anything wrong there.
A parent-child relationship with no trust or privacy, where children are objects and not persons. Nice. A commercial relationship where both trust and honesty hinges on the question of technical abilities of both sides, along with the ability of one side to trick the other without them noticing it - and if they do, that's OK. Cheating - fine if you can get away with it. And a "I'm your boss, I'm your god" relationship which allows employee fuck-all of options - they can choose having no privacy or no job. And that, according to your argument, is just as it should be. Even more, "that is a good thing."
Did you check with your psychiatrist lately? You may be a psycho. Or working for the NSA. But I'm repeating myself there.
Lying about killing a co-cadet in a training accident.
Any flaw that episode may have is overshadowed by Picard's "First Duty" speech. Which is also the title of the episode. Training accident is just the window dressing.
Straczynski had the main arc in mind, but he could not foresee where the show will end up. So, he had "trap doors" written for all characters. But episodes and characters still had to be written as they went along.
You have to re-read it at least twice to pick it up, as the connection with other points is very weak.
"As an explanation for the Black Death in its own right, [bubonic plague spread by rat fleas] simply isn't good enough. It cannot spread fast enough from one household to the next to cause the huge number of cases that we saw during the Black Death epidemics," said Public Health England's Dr Tim Brooks.
I.e. Flees are not a fast enough vector. It must have been something faster. Enter airborne plague. And the 1906 case as an example of how fast it moves. And the presence of "DNA of Yersinia pestis" on the teeth of the corpses of the people from the period, as a proof that they COULD HAVE been spreading it with their breath. Too.
The find actually does not exclude fleas, it only (maybe) provides proof for YET ANOTHER vector - that we already knew of.
Nice to see you taking offense at calling racists FUCKING RETARDED ASSHOLES, followed by arguing just the right racist points (as if being non-white is a valid racial determination), followed by assumptions about the identity of someone you see as an opponent and sweeping generalizations about those identity assumptions... Even literally arguing the idea that every member of group A should be OK with everything group A does, including bad and evil things, as long as it is aimed against those outside the group A and those opposing it. Ain't generalizations grand?
And this, children, is how you recognize FUCKING RETARDED ASSHOLES - by what they are against and by what they support through their "logic". In this case, we have a defender of racists, supporter of the idea of "non-white" as a determining factor of one's identity (just like calling both a rabbit and a fox "not a cow"), a believer in "tribal enemies" AND paranoid hater of over a billion humans whom he has generalized into his own personal scarecrow.
And how do we call someone like that? A FUCKING RETARDED ASSHOLE!
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About as much as requiring that all veterinarians and their staff are male - cause we are basically walking painkiller for mammals.
Which includes humans, so just on the off chance that it does work...
But don't worry... From TFA:
"Placing a womanâ(TM)s T-shirt next to a manâ(TM)s T-shirt negated the impact."
Aaaand it just occurred to me that the negating effect of female smells is NOT the argument against "all male" animal or human clinics and hiring policies.
Damn. Hope that does not become a trend.
Is foregoing feeling 36% less pain really that big of price to pay to have sexy nurses and doctors?
And by sexy I mean women.
Not being sexist. Just being human male, hetero and honest.
Either way, we make mice feel nice.
That line is the continuation of this part:
Only we're already beyond electronics now. It's software that's running things at this point.
Anyone notice all those efforts to make everyone a coder? Or at least every child?
You think that's done because coding is fun?
I'm not talking about "creating jobs". I'm not a politician.
I'm talking about the fact that even the W. administration WAS AWARE that education is a big part of the answer to the problem of what to do with all that workforce who's jobs are disappearing.
They KNOW that the administration will be in the office (if all goes well) for the next eight years.
That's both the parents, families and even all the kids ten years or older they have to think of. A lot of votes.
Want a second term? Same thing. Only they are dealing with 14-year-olds and older.
Did the administration in power do something to make those kids employed or unemployed by the next election?
Mind you, doing "something" and creating a successful education program are two VERY different things.
But the push towards making everyone a "computer guy" is pretty fucking clear.
Slashdot is full of stories about this or that program to get kids into coding.
Because THAT is the current and next skilled worker industry. The next assembly line - unless it all moves to India first.
It should probably be smarter getting them into space research and robotics... but it's not my problem.
Both the AC parent and its parent are arguing tangential points as if they are opposite.
Now those skills are being incorporated into electronics, and we're again looking for new meta skills. It all comes full circle again and again.
Everytime the "circle" goes around LESS labor is needed.
Just where are those workers going to go because other industries are not absorbing them - the employment numbers proves it.
Look at today's big comanies - like Amazon. They have about 30,000 employees.
AC's parent is not arguing that less labor is NOT needed.
AC's parent is arguing that what the OP said about Marx not foreseeing the productivity increases in the 20th century is... well... pointless.
Because the ACTUAL increase in productivity which caused "so many paid workers would simply be laid off" actually already happened in the 18th and the 19th century - which served Marx as both spark and the fuel for his ideas.
As for the parents question "Just where are those workers going to go " - he answers the part of that unwittingly.
Look at today's big comanies - like Amazon. They have about 30,000 employees.
A couple of decades ago, a company that size would have had a million people of ALL skill levels working there. But automation has made things much more efficient. Cheaper for the rest of us, sure. But what to do with all the displaced workers? Retrain? For what?
A couple of decades ago, a company like Amazon would not have existed. I.e. New industries are created.
Then, there's that cyclic push that AC's parent mentions.
Right now we are at the stage where people are being pushed into learning new meta skills as he/she puts it.
Now those skills are being incorporated into electronics, and we're again looking for new meta skills.
Only we're already beyond electronics now. It's software that's running things at this point.
Anyone notice all those efforts to make everyone a coder? Or at least every child?
You think that's done because coding is fun?
Then, there is all that service industry growth. Personal this, private that...
Still... All that does not answer the question "what to do with ALL the displaced workers".
That answers the question what is being done.
Note how none if it is being done by "the invisible hand" but by actual government and industry backed efforts.
Also, how most of the industry exists only because at some point in the past the government needed machines that can count and calculate really fast.
The real question is how big is the sum of the unemployed workforce which the society can absorb and bare before it starts caving in on itself.
Oh... and reducing the number of people in a society is not the solution to any of the problems.
Particularly in the case where a big part of the reason WHY that may SEEM as a solution is because of conditions created through export of labor to societies which outnumber your society 3-5 to 1, whose biggest problem for growth both in size and in living standards was the lack of labor.
What happens when it turns out all your workers are either a tiny group of calculators (mostly in banking, then in engineering) and the rest are in some service industry or the other and all your stuff is made by someone else?
Hint: Most of your workers are servants. And your thinkers' next logical step is to replace them ALL with robots.
Unless you decide on taking up SOME socialism along the way, cutting the profit margin in order to maintain jobs for skilled workers and local industries, that's a recipe for a takeover by those other societies with far more workers to keep busy and THEIR robots which YOU paid THEM to make for YOU.
Because the game was made easy enough so even people who don't want to read can beat it.
Usually it is accomplished by putting huge blinking signs on the victory items.
"CLICK HERE TO WIN THE GAME!!!"
- click -
"GOOD JOB! You have won the game! Here - have some numbers as a reward. They are big numbers. That means you are really good at winning."
A story is a series of events recorded in their chronological order.
A plot is a series of events deliberately arranged so as to reveal their dramatic, thematic, and emotional significance.
The "deliberately arranged" bit is the important part.
In a book or a play it's the old three or four or five act structure, which makes sure that you get all the information you need where and when you need it and which keeps the story interesting.
You know... It makes sure that the detective finds the killer in the end, after finding all the clues if it is a mystery or that he finds the killer in the beginning then showing us how he kept missing the clues if it is a drama or a satire.
Or, put in another way, plot is what moves the story from A to Z, story is how the letters in between A and Z are arranged.
Why from A to Z? Why not A to M? Because "'at is them rulez".
In a game, the rules of the game are its plot.
In chess, the fact that each game starts the same way and has the same goal is what sets the plot of chess.
The story in chess is all that which happens on the board. Openings, tactics, moves... that's the story.
The players create the story.
And even there, bits of plot are hidden - as there are strict rules how each figure moves and attacks.
You ever had a game of chess where the entire court turns on the king, makes the pact with the other side and betrays him?
How about one where two pawns from opposing sides fall in love and decide to run away together?
You want a different plot with chess? Try chess problems.
Though, I'm not sure there is one that tries to reenact Romeo and Juliet.
As for 2048... That is a VERY bad example. That game is almost exclusively plot.
A really big hint would be the fact that almost immediately people started coming up with algorithms to beat the game.
If a bot can complete the game, moving from A to Z, or from 2 to 2048 - that's a plot-driven game.
Put a SINGLE black-or-white, good-or-bad choice - and the bot will fail half the time.
If you're using 2048 as an example of a good game, you are actually asking for games that are entirely scripted, but with a steep learning curve and little to no random elements.
Those are not games. Those are mathematical problems.
Sure... some people find those fun, but eventually they do become just tedious number crunching.
Clearly, with all that push towards convincing everyone that the wearable tech is the next new thing that you don't want to miss out on (all those various attempts at wrist phones/watches, Google glass and variations on that theme...) SOMEONE has already figured that out some time ago.
There's simply a rather fixed limit what you can do with a pocket sized device and what you can use it for - technology-wise.
Service-wise (like making stuff payable by phone or making every phone into a camera) takes both various technology advancements and accurately guessing (or convincing) the public and its needs.
Both those goals are limited with function.
Making you take it out of your pocket and strap it to your body... That just takes convincing you that it's cool.
The only really limiting factor there is fashion.
I.e. It's low hanging fruit.
We never have. We probably never will.
http://overpopulationisamyth.c...
...but ALL PEOPLE love conspiracy theories.
It's probably the same mechanism that once had us concluding that "Gods be angry. Quick! Burn someone to appease them." whenever we heard thunder in the distance.
I.e. Coming up with giant important explanations to what we perceive as giant important events.
You will willingly buy into unsubstantiated claims about dental fillings and ingesting mercury even suffer pain and monetary cost because of it (and possibly even harming your health) - but you will not vaccinate your children on an off chance that "something" might be wrong with the vaccines.
You do realize, your actions there are guided by pure ignorance and fear, right? Much like Jenny's.
You might want to have a chat with her. I had her number somewhere... Found it on the wall once.
It goes something like 86753... Dammit I'll have to look it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
When Jack Ryan's campaign for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois began in 2003, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have his records released. Both Jeri and Jack agreed to make their divorce, but not custody, records public, saying their release could be harmful to their son.[30]
On June 18, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider agreed to release the custody files.[31] The decision generated much controversy because it went against both parents' direct request, and reversed the decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child. It was revealed that six years earlier, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public,[32] and in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris.[30][33] Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."[34] Jack Ryan denied these allegations. Although Jeri Ryan only made a brief statement,[35] and she refused to comment on the matter during the campaign, the document disclosure led Jack Ryan to withdraw his candidacy;[36][37] his main opponent, Barack Obama, then won the 2004 United States Senate election in Illinois.[38]
Only not explicitly explained.
In short - it lasts the same as the battery of that capacity lasts today.
'In essence, we have developed a new generation of electrodes with new materials â" we call it MFE â" Multi Function Electrode," StoreDot CEO Doron Myersdorf told Gizmag. "On one side it acts like a supercapacitor (with very fast charging), and on the other is like a lithium electrode (with slow discharge). The electrolyte is modified with our nanodots in order to make the multifunction electrode more effective."
It's basically a supercapacitor on top of a battery.
You charge the capacitor quickly, it discharges into the battery slowly, and because the capacitor is actually a part of the electrode the loss is minimal.
On top of that, not having to discharge the capacitor into the battery all at once, it can discharge into the battery slowly, without heating it up, increasing the battery's life-cycle.
Discharge time is not the issue. Like others have already mentioned - we're gonna need new (thicker) cables and connectors to charge that fast.
And we just got the reversible USB.
Ah! Excellent!
So you do speak SOME sarcasm, but lack finer understanding of philosophy behind the language, or you just can't pick up my dialect.
Let me explain.
1 ) Just because I'm intrigued by the topic someone mentioned enough to look it up myself, and then provide the links for others with just about the same level of interest as mine - does not mean that I have additional expertise or information that I'm withholding for any reason.
You can tell all that from my original post cause if I did have more info, posting the fourth link would be trivial.
Or writing a sentence saying where to find it.
It was all "implied" by the copy/paste link-dump style of the post.
2 ) Even if I did for some inexplicable reason have the info you need while lacking the will to share it - I am not your personal search engine or database.
Feel free to look it up yourself.
You clearly know what you are looking for, you clearly know of existence of search engines and the internet - go look it up yourself.
3 ) Arguing against the quality of freely provided information while asking the provider to get you more of it - makes you come off as spoiled and whiny.
Plus, you aggravate that by showing us that you have the time (enough to hang on slashdot, enough to reply...twice), interest for the subject, tools and ability to look it up yourself - but no will to do so on your own.
I on the other hand while maybe having time, tools and ability, completely lack the necessary level of interest or motivation for such an "adventure".
There you go...
Those seven words expanded to several paragraphs. Now go and google the stuff you want for yourself by yourself.
Or get your manservant or personal assistant to do it for you. I don't care. It's not my job.
Do you have Google on your computer?
http://blogs.discovermagazine....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05...
http://www.sciencefriday.com/s...
Not everything is a game. Or a sum. Period.
The issues involved can't be quantified numerically, and then just put through an equation until everyone is equally happy or miserable.
Nor could we call such a process just, good, right, proper or any other similar positive term.
If I'm stopped with no reason and unjustly accused of a crime just for shopping there (Which is what asking for a receipt is. Next time try not having it on you and see how it goes.) - I'm not shopping there anymore.
And I'm raising a fuss prior to that. See how that goes regarding their promotions and stamps.
As for your other examples, it appears to me by what you are letting slide and in which way (centering on authoritative and economical aspects of human interaction and disregarding the moral issues like spying, stealing, more spying and workspace harassment) that you are either purposefully putting those up as strawmen OR that you really don't see anything wrong there.
A parent-child relationship with no trust or privacy, where children are objects and not persons. Nice.
A commercial relationship where both trust and honesty hinges on the question of technical abilities of both sides, along with the ability of one side to trick the other without them noticing it - and if they do, that's OK. Cheating - fine if you can get away with it.
And a "I'm your boss, I'm your god" relationship which allows employee fuck-all of options - they can choose having no privacy or no job.
And that, according to your argument, is just as it should be. Even more, "that is a good thing."
Did you check with your psychiatrist lately? You may be a psycho.
Or working for the NSA. But I'm repeating myself there.
James Blish actually had a much better explanation for how transporters are 'really' supposed to work
Would you mind reminding us?
I remember reading through that explanation but not reading the rest of the story as the translation didn't really sit well with me.
And the fact that almost nobody in the Star Trek (television) universe is concerned with this fact is bugging me.
Bones McCoy did. All the time.
On the other hand... you did notice they didn't do much church going on that show?
That they were more... what's the word... sciency?
Lying about killing a co-cadet in a training accident.
Any flaw that episode may have is overshadowed by Picard's "First Duty" speech. Which is also the title of the episode.
Training accident is just the window dressing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I was talking in the "spirit of the article".
Which, lest we forget, is titled "Rats Didn't Spread Black Death, Humans Did, Say Researchers".
Straczynski had the main arc in mind, but he could not foresee where the show will end up.
So, he had "trap doors" written for all characters. But episodes and characters still had to be written as they went along.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Just like a cop pulling you over to inform you that your tail light is broken and that you should fix it for your own safety!
That only takes skill, not brains.
I mean... you can see stupid posts made by penis heads all the time.
You have to re-read it at least twice to pick it up, as the connection with other points is very weak.
"As an explanation for the Black Death in its own right, [bubonic plague spread by rat fleas] simply isn't good enough. It cannot spread fast enough from one household to the next to cause the huge number of cases that we saw during the Black Death epidemics," said Public Health England's Dr Tim Brooks.
I.e. Flees are not a fast enough vector. It must have been something faster.
Enter airborne plague. And the 1906 case as an example of how fast it moves.
And the presence of "DNA of Yersinia pestis" on the teeth of the corpses of the people from the period, as a proof that they COULD HAVE been spreading it with their breath. Too.
The find actually does not exclude fleas, it only (maybe) provides proof for YET ANOTHER vector - that we already knew of.
Indeed a terrible article.
Well hello there, you fucking retarded asshole!
Nice to see you taking offense at calling racists FUCKING RETARDED ASSHOLES, followed by arguing just the right racist points (as if being non-white is a valid racial determination), followed by assumptions about the identity of someone you see as an opponent and sweeping generalizations about those identity assumptions...
Even literally arguing the idea that every member of group A should be OK with everything group A does, including bad and evil things, as long as it is aimed against those outside the group A and those opposing it.
Ain't generalizations grand?
And this, children, is how you recognize FUCKING RETARDED ASSHOLES - by what they are against and by what they support through their "logic".
In this case, we have a defender of racists, supporter of the idea of "non-white" as a determining factor of one's identity (just like calling both a rabbit and a fox "not a cow"), a believer in "tribal enemies" AND paranoid hater of over a billion humans whom he has generalized into his own personal scarecrow.
And how do we call someone like that?
A FUCKING RETARDED ASSHOLE!