If that was widely available, more people might be able to work from home and we can save on communting costs in terms of money and energy and road infrastructure....
Your examples do not contradict my point at all. It's not that there are no tv programs today working to make you identify with the g-man. Rather, there are many dramas today which also foreground the moral ambiguity of the state apparatuses: The Shield, La Femme Nikita (tv series), The Wire, etc. It was very difficult to find similar programs 30+ years ago.
CSI is an interesting case which really reminds me of the original MI. Both are very unrealisitc, but rely on the gadgets and plot complication to sustain viewer interest.
She also grew up watching these PR programs for the CIA and FBI.
It's amazing to me that we find it entertaining to watch agents of US government work to overthrow foreign governments by any criminal means handy. If another nation did that to us, we'd immediately label they as renegade nation and now-a-days, terrorists ( the all-purpose bogeyman ).
These agents never had moral qualms. Afterall, they were the good guys, so any means is well justified. But I wonder how Eliot Ness would feel visting the liquor stores of today, would he thought his effort was worth while?
The only TV program of that era to challenge the validity of the spying appartus was: The Prisoner - still a landmark today.
If one RTFA, one would see that the instructor wanted to make changes to the curriculum and was derided and denied by the representatives from the sponsoring company. This is very different from a lazy instructor just going with a published text.
PS. What collge do you teach at? I want to be sure my children don't go there since "Professors teach courses outside of their departments all the time, sometimes without any expertise."
I put up with this at H.S. due to shortage of qualified teachers, but it's inexcusable in post-secondary education. The college should simply NOT offer the course if it can't be properly taught.
IF one RTFA, one sees that the teacher was a Computer Graphics nontenured faculty who admits to not being qualified to teach a marketing course. When he tried to introduce multiple viewpoints, his curriculum was rejected. So the course was like a cheap workforce to push an industry group's viewpoints, not a true academcic course where many issues and perspectives would be explored.
There are productive and mutually beneficial ways that industry and university can help each other. Many science and engineering departments do it. But they are done with the clear knowledge and scrutiny of the faculty and student body. There is also always a clear distinction between company sponsored research and academic course work. The way this Hunter fiasco was conducted smeared many of these distinctions, thus ending up looking like a fraud.
While you have a valid point, the various historical errors tended to obscure it.
Germany put their communists in the death camp, so you can't blaim any of their actions on the communist. If fact, if not for the Communist Russia, it's not clear that the Allied would have won WWII.
It's certainly true that Russia seeked to dominate the countries around itself. But one should remember that in addition to the idea of spreading proletariat revolution, it also felt threatened from the West at the same time.
Stalin and Pol Pot certainly did heinous things. You should recall, though, that the "killing field" occured in Cambodia, not Vietnam. In fact, the communist Vietnam was the only one who directly put an end to the Pol Pot regime.
So you see that not all bad things are done by Communists, and Communist government sometime do good things. But when one demonize an idea, then anything associated with it is considered bad. I think this was the orginal theme of the poster, that the labels "islamofascist" and "communist" are used in the same simplistic way to demonize others.
"Among the presidential contenders, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, voted in favor of the final measure, while the two Democrats, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, did not vote. Mr. Obama did oppose immunity on a key earlier motion to end debate. Mrs. Clinton, campaigning in Texas, issued a statement saying she would have voted to oppose the final measure."
Obama did vote against immunity in an amendment previously, but DID NOT vote on the final bill.
Most important of all, McCain is IN FAVOR of immunity. Just remember that this November.
Actually, there ARE automotive standard buses. There are different from the PC standards however, and not as widely known. The auto garages already used them when you go in for car inspections or engine diagnostics. If we the consumer demand more information, the interface devices will become cheaper over time.
In fact, it's the entire basis of the modern banking systems. If a bank take in deposit of $100, it lends out no just $100 dollar, but up to $1000 if the reserve requirement is 10%. More prosaically, if you order supplies from a stationer and she extends credit to you and bill you at the end of the month, she has just loan you money she had (cost of goods) and also money that she didn't have (gross profit).
Without these kinds of credit flexibility, there would be a fixed money supply which would slow our economies drastically. Of course, one can argue that that's a good thing....
The 'blade' does look like a spring. When he's just walking around, one can see him bouncing up and donw a bit. So this seems reasonable. He might qualify if he used a different prosthetic technology. I just hope athletes don't start thinking about replacing their naturla legs to get 'a leg up'!
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are exremely poor exmaples for your purposes. By a combination of personal abilites and good fortune, they have amassed wealth that no individual can realistically spend with their entire lifetime. Yet they do not claim to have the experience on how to best aid the poor. Rather they set up foundations staffed with people experiened in development, health, or whatever area they wish to direct their resources. The experience of getting rich helps mainly with getting more rich.
Yunus is a worthy role model indeed. He saw a need and fulfilled it. But we need many different approaches to dealing with a wide variety of problems.
Finally, it is a false choice to only develop one self or only help the poor. Why not do both? That's the kind of path OLPC is taking.
If you accept what you said, "Your right, there is no argument here. But this is typically the outcome of third party or minority politics. You create an awareness that causes another more influential party to take notice and adopt part if not all of your strategy and concerns and carry the torch for you."
Then you should conclude that Intel felt that OLPC would compete with them. That it could erode their goal to lock in new computer users to their proprietary technology and software.
Furthermore the outcome is NOT the same even if we assume the same educational experience can be delivered. Since Classmate is twice as expensive, the amount of education delivered would be half as much compared to OLPC. That's not even counting the ruggedized advantages built into the OLPC.
In addition, locking in new users to a proprietary solution means that more of the student's future income would be diverted to these vendors. An even worse scenario involve the company getting a population to invest in hardware and systems, only to pull support later on when profit margin becomes too low. Then those people would lost their investment. Not my preferred way to spend a 3rd world countries' scarce hard currency.
I actually have no beef with Intel resigning from OLPC. Since they are engaging in behavior which appears to involve a Conlict of Interest, it's good that they resigned from the nonprofit entity. But let's call a spade a spade. Intel is in it for the profit, not education. And sometimes, a nonprofit solution can be more efficient than a for-profit one.
Actually, if the tape is finite, then the TM is equivalent to a finite state automata. It means that eventually a state must be repeated and then the FSA will go into a loop. This is a very limited class of computing model. If you believe that the universe is finite, then this can make sense. Consequently, history MUST repeat itself!
The evidences so far don't support a finite universe. But Fredkin could be right (Look up digital physics).
I can't be sure. But I think some training is better than detaining people just because they wear a head scarf or pray to mecca or are pissed at routine flight delays....
They are nonpolluting, carbon neutral, no power devices for quick calculation. Not only that, they are objects d'art which visually shows the relation between numbers and function on the numbers. Esp. the circular ones!
Calculators are just black boxes. Who knows what they're doing with your digits behind those LEDs?
I would not assume either the government or private corporation has my interests at heart. Only I can advocate for that. Contrary to your example, privatization does not hold down corruption. The NYC transit system used to be operated by many independent companies. The whole set up was scrapped and merged into 1 singlt MTA precisely BECAUSE of rampant corruption and payoffs. Thus far, people complain about the fares, but I hear no accusation of corruption within the MTA.
Would you be happier if all US military activities are subcontracted to Blackwater? I support a case by case analysis of whether a function is better handled via private entities of public one. Prejudgement is nonoptimal, IMHO.
'The system in question is our very own Veterans Health Administration, whose success story is one of the best-kept secrets in the American policy debate. In the 1980's and early 1990's, says an article in The American Journal of Managed Care, the V.H.A. ''had a tarnished reputation of bureaucracy, inefficiency and mediocre care.'' But reforms beginning in the mid-1990's transformed the system, and ''the V.A.'s success in improving quality, safety and value,'' the article says, ''have allowed it to emerge as an increasingly recognized leader in health care.'' Last year customer satisfaction with the veterans' health system, as measured by an annual survey conducted by the National Quality Research Center, exceeded that for private health care for the sixth year in a row. This high level of quality (which is also verified by objective measures of performance) was achieved without big budget increases. In fact, the veterans' system has managed to avoid much of the huge cost surge that has plagued the rest of U.S. medicine.' By PAUL KRUGMAN 27 January 2006 The New York Times
Thinking of these programs as a 'fund' is fundmentally inaccurate. 'Pay as you go' programs are essentially backed by the political will of the citizenry. Do you worry about there not being a 'fund' for the defense spending? I doubt it. Since we value this service, we vote to fund it.
Even corporate pension funds which as fully funded from an actuarial point of view can be raided or depleted by the funding corporations. So there is no way to actually protect these funds. It really is all down to the will of the voters at the time.
Let's say all those kiddies miraculously start to pay $1 for each song they download starting today. JUST WHAT JOBS WOULD BE CREATED? Where do you think the money will go? to 1 million progammers building better music sharing software? or to Warner executive bonus pool?
Simmons is guilty of deception or willful ignorance. Take your pick.
Actually, we DO have a national healthcare plan in the USA for the senior citizens. It's called Medicare and the seniors like it very much, thank you for asking.
The whole fear mongering about national health insurance/care falls flat on its face when you realize that we already have massive government run health care systems that function rather well: Medicare, medicaid, VA hospital, and congressional/civil service health plans. Not perfect by any means, but certainly not worse than many private plans.
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Look what they did to that? A fine action movie, but without all the dissonant puzzling quirks of the original.
perfect for passing information inside POW camps.
"I see Nuthin... I know Nuthin...."
If that was widely available, more people might be able to work from home and we can save on communting costs in terms of money and energy and road infrastructure....
Your examples do not contradict my point at all.
It's not that there are no tv programs today working to make you
identify with the g-man. Rather, there are many dramas today
which also foreground the moral ambiguity of the state apparatuses:
The Shield, La Femme Nikita (tv series), The Wire, etc.
It was very difficult to find similar programs 30+ years ago.
CSI is an interesting case which really reminds me of the original MI.
Both are very unrealisitc, but rely on the gadgets and plot complication
to sustain viewer interest.
She also grew up watching these PR programs for the CIA and FBI.
It's amazing to me that we find it entertaining to watch agents of US government work to overthrow foreign governments by any criminal means handy. If another nation did that to us, we'd immediately label they as renegade nation and now-a-days, terrorists ( the all-purpose bogeyman ).
These agents never had moral qualms. Afterall, they were the good guys, so any means is well justified. But I wonder how Eliot Ness would feel visting the liquor stores of today, would he thought his effort was worth while?
The only TV program of that era to challenge the validity of the spying appartus was: The Prisoner - still a landmark today.
If one RTFA, one would see that the instructor wanted to make changes to the curriculum and was derided and denied by the representatives from the sponsoring company. This is very different from a lazy instructor just going with a published text.
PS. What collge do you teach at? I want to be sure my children don't go there since "Professors teach courses outside of their departments all the time, sometimes without any expertise."
I put up with this at H.S. due to shortage of qualified teachers, but it's inexcusable in post-secondary education. The college should simply NOT offer the course if it can't be properly taught.
IF one RTFA, one sees that the teacher was a Computer Graphics nontenured faculty who admits to not being qualified to teach a marketing course. When he tried to introduce multiple viewpoints, his curriculum was rejected. So the course was like a cheap workforce to push an industry group's viewpoints, not a true academcic course where many issues and perspectives would be explored.
There are productive and mutually beneficial ways that industry and university can help each other. Many science and engineering departments do it. But they are done with the clear knowledge and scrutiny of the faculty and student body. There is also always a clear distinction between company sponsored research and academic course work. The way this Hunter fiasco was conducted smeared many of these distinctions, thus ending up looking like a fraud.
Keep it to only 3 months before election, PERIOD. Isseus ads can't be halted, but no candidate ads before that period.
Beside, who said 'spending money' = 'speech'? the SCOTUS.
So, refill the SCOTUS with new members and that decision can be overturned. No constitution amendment necessary.
While you have a valid point, the various historical errors tended to obscure it.
Germany put their communists in the death camp, so you can't blaim any of their actions on the communist. If fact, if not for the Communist Russia, it's not clear that the Allied would have won WWII.
It's certainly true that Russia seeked to dominate the countries around itself. But one should remember that in addition to the idea of spreading proletariat revolution, it also felt threatened from the West at the same time.
Stalin and Pol Pot certainly did heinous things. You should recall, though, that the "killing field" occured in Cambodia, not Vietnam. In fact, the communist Vietnam was the only one who directly put an end to the Pol Pot regime.
So you see that not all bad things are done by Communists, and Communist government sometime do good things. But when one demonize an idea, then anything associated with it is considered bad. I think this was the orginal theme of the poster, that the labels "islamofascist" and "communist" are used in the same simplistic way to demonize others.
"Among the presidential contenders, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, voted in favor of the final measure, while the two Democrats, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, did not vote. Mr. Obama did oppose immunity on a key earlier motion to end debate. Mrs. Clinton, campaigning in Texas, issued a statement saying she would have voted to oppose the final measure."
Obama did vote against immunity in an amendment previously, but DID NOT vote on the final bill.
Most important of all, McCain is IN FAVOR of immunity. Just remember that this November.
Actually, there ARE automotive standard buses. There are different from the PC standards however, and not as widely known. The auto garages already used them when you go in for car inspections or engine diagnostics. If we the consumer demand more information, the interface devices will become cheaper over time.
YES. Very useful training for working in the real world.
There are many pointy headed bosses in the world.
You may become one of them.....
In fact, it's the entire basis of the modern banking systems. If a bank take in deposit of $100, it lends out no just
$100 dollar, but up to $1000 if the reserve requirement is 10%. More prosaically, if you order supplies from a stationer and she extends credit to you and bill you at the end of the month, she has just loan you money she had (cost of goods) and also money that she didn't have (gross profit).
Without these kinds of credit flexibility, there would be a fixed money supply which would slow our economies drastically. Of course, one can argue that that's a good thing....
The 'blade' does look like a spring. When he's just walking around, one can see him bouncing up and donw a bit. So this seems reasonable. He might qualify if he used a different prosthetic technology. I just hope athletes don't start thinking about replacing their naturla legs to get 'a leg up'!
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are exremely poor exmaples for your purposes. By a combination of personal abilites and good fortune, they have amassed wealth that no individual can realistically spend with their entire lifetime. Yet they do not claim to have the experience on how to best aid the poor. Rather they set up foundations staffed with people experiened in development, health, or whatever area they wish to direct their resources. The experience of getting rich helps mainly with getting more rich.
Yunus is a worthy role model indeed. He saw a need and fulfilled it. But we need many different approaches to dealing with a wide variety of
problems.
Finally, it is a false choice to only develop one self or only help the poor. Why not do both? That's the kind of path OLPC is taking.
If you accept what you said,
"Your right, there is no argument here. But this is typically the outcome of third party or minority politics. You create an awareness that causes another more influential party to take notice and adopt part if not all of your strategy and concerns and carry the torch for you."
Then you should conclude that Intel felt that OLPC would compete with them. That it could erode their goal to lock in new computer users to their proprietary technology and software.
Furthermore the outcome is NOT the same even if we assume the same educational experience can be delivered. Since Classmate is twice as expensive, the amount of education delivered would be half as much compared to OLPC. That's not even counting the ruggedized advantages built into the OLPC.
In addition, locking in new users to a proprietary solution means that more of the student's future income would be diverted to these vendors.
An even worse scenario involve the company getting a population to invest in hardware and systems, only to pull support later on when profit margin becomes too low. Then those people would lost their investment.
Not my preferred way to spend a 3rd world countries' scarce hard currency.
I actually have no beef with Intel resigning from OLPC. Since they are engaging in behavior which appears to involve a Conlict of Interest, it's good that they resigned from the nonprofit entity. But let's call a spade a spade. Intel is in it for the profit, not education. And sometimes, a nonprofit solution can be more efficient than a for-profit one.
"real turing machines don't have infinite tapes"
Actually, if the tape is finite, then the TM is equivalent to a finite state automata. It means that eventually a state must be repeated and then the FSA will go into a loop. This is a very limited class of computing model. If you believe that the universe is finite, then this can make sense. Consequently, history MUST repeat itself!
The evidences so far don't support a finite universe. But Fredkin could be right (Look up digital physics).
I can't be sure. But I think some training is better than detaining people just because they wear a head scarf or pray to mecca or are pissed at routine flight delays....
They are nonpolluting, carbon neutral, no power devices for quick calculation.
Not only that, they are objects d'art which visually shows the relation between numbers and function on the numbers.
Esp. the circular ones!
Calculators are just black boxes. Who knows what they're doing with your digits behind those LEDs?
I would not assume either the government or private corporation has my interests at heart. Only I can advocate for that. Contrary to your example, privatization does not hold down corruption. The NYC transit system used to be operated by many independent companies. The whole set up was scrapped and merged into 1 singlt MTA precisely BECAUSE of rampant corruption and payoffs. Thus far, people complain about the fares, but I hear no accusation of corruption within the MTA.
Would you be happier if all US military activities are subcontracted to Blackwater?
I support a case by case analysis of whether a function is better handled via private entities of public one. Prejudgement is nonoptimal, IMHO.
'The system in question is our very own Veterans Health Administration,
whose success story is one of the
best-kept secrets in the American policy debate.
In the 1980's and early 1990's, says an article in The American Journal of
Managed Care, the V.H.A. ''had a tarnished reputation of bureaucracy,
inefficiency and mediocre care.'' But reforms beginning in the mid-1990's
transformed the system, and ''the V.A.'s success in improving quality, safety
and value,'' the article says, ''have allowed it to emerge as an increasingly
recognized leader in health care.''
Last year customer satisfaction with the veterans' health system, as measured by
an annual survey conducted by the National Quality Research Center, exceeded
that for private health care for the sixth year in a row. This high level of
quality (which is also verified by objective measures of performance) was
achieved without big budget increases. In fact, the veterans' system has managed
to avoid much of the huge cost surge that has plagued the rest of U.S. medicine.'
By PAUL KRUGMAN
27 January 2006
The New York Times
Thinking of these programs as a 'fund' is fundmentally inaccurate.
'Pay as you go' programs are essentially backed by the political will
of the citizenry. Do you worry about there not being a 'fund' for the
defense spending? I doubt it. Since we value this service, we vote to fund it.
Even corporate pension funds which as fully funded from an actuarial point of view can
be raided or depleted by the funding corporations. So there is no way to actually
protect these funds. It really is all down to the will of the voters at the time.
"putting 100,000 to a million people out of work"
Let's say all those kiddies miraculously start to pay $1 for each song they download starting today. JUST WHAT JOBS WOULD BE CREATED?
Where do you think the money will go? to 1 million progammers building better music sharing software? or to Warner executive bonus pool?
Simmons is guilty of deception or willful ignorance. Take your pick.
Actually, we DO have a national healthcare plan in the USA
for the senior citizens. It's called Medicare and the seniors
like it very much, thank you for asking.
The whole fear mongering about national health insurance/care falls flat on its face when you realize that we already have massive government run health care systems that function rather well: Medicare, medicaid, VA hospital, and congressional/civil service health plans.
Not perfect by any means, but certainly not worse than many private plans.
See what happens if you got too many LEDs on your shirt.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3635225&page=1