The reason the monkeys worked harder was that they could no longer judge how much work had to be done before they got a reward.
I think yours is the first post here to have caught that (maybe because of the usual RTFA latency). The workaholic monkeys keep their noses to the grindstone because of what can reasonably be interpreted to be a cognitive deficit. Yet our modern society values the resulting behavior, and so the procrastinating monkeys are seen as the pathological ones.
I don't think this has any practical application for humans.
I don't see anything therapeutic happening anytime soon, but employers will be climbing all over each other for the genetic test kits when they come out...
A more compelling argument against the "nothing to hide" idiots is that they assume that all civil authorities are 100% honest, diligent, and trustworthy public servants, and could never have any agenda other than the dispassionate enforcement of the law. Unfortunately, they are completely doe-eyed about this point.
The reason why the U.S. Constitution once protected citizens from unlimited government power is that such power can and will be abused. When unlimited power can be abused, you are no longer secure in your liberty regardless of whether you diligently abide by the law or not. Legal innocence does not protect you, because all it takes for you to get into trouble is to be in the wrong person's way. Hey, maybe a friend of the local police chief wants to buy your house, or maybe your company is bidding against one in which a powerful official has a financial interest. That's the way corruption works.
The Bush administration claims the right to hold anyone they want indefinitely and incommunicado without charge or recourse, arguing that this way they'll be better able to protect us against "terrorists". Most Americans seem willing to grant them these powers. The truth, however, is that they need them in order to avoid accountability, conceal their own failures, and, inevitably, to achieve ulterior goals that have nothing to do with terrorism. Otherwise, wouldn't they just relish the opportunity to bring the "evil-doers" to justice in as public a forum as possible?
There are ads on the paper site regardless of whether you reg or not. What they want is to sell higher priced targeted ads.
Of course, when I read the paper edition I can read whatever I want without other sheets of paper flying out to block my view. And, maybe more importantly, without fear that someday my name might be on a list sitting on John Ashcroft's or Tom Ridge's desk of people who occasionally read things that they might consider questionable. It may only be a matter of time before your "interest profile" inferred this way can be called up by employers in the same way that your credit report already can.
Oh, wait. It looks like software can have features that its host language doesn't. How 'bout that?
But the parent speaks of granularity, not features. E.g., if you're building a library that furnishes/requires bit-level access to data, you don't choose a high-level language that doesn't provide that capability to implement it. The example you give is actually a reduction in granularity.
You are such a liar. You don't know any Republicans.
My mother, for one, and not because she's particularly conservative, a bigot, or thinks that the lives of American soldiers and huge deficits are a small price to pay to further the business objectives of Bush, Cheney & Co. It's because the son of a friend of hers is a union member, works a lot of overtime, and therefore makes more money than she thinks he deserves. That's it.
And just what has gone down lately? Your taxes...
Oh yes, the good, responsible conservative likes an entertaining war as long as he isn't asked to actually pay for it. Let's borrow the money so our kids can do that, with interest. A $1500 bill from Uncle Sam to cover your share of the show would wipe that smirk right off your face, wouldn't it?
a lot of terrorists...
You mean those guys in Guantanimo that they've been holding without charge? Could it be that those people are there for show, and releasing many of them would be a political embarassment? The numbers are in, Bucko, and incidents of terrorism are UP. Bush has zero interest in finding Bin Laden and has even said as much.
and Monica Lewinsky
Good Grief, Monica Lewinsky. This is what you think is important. Well, I'm sure you'll be delighted when the most important issue ever to face this republic, gay marriage, takes center stage. The institution of marriage must be "defended," lest all God-fearing conservatives seek divorce en masse to escape their sullied matrimony. Yet another nice distraction to help them keep their heads buried deep in the sand (as if any assistance were needed)...
Neither do our Democratic overlords and their corporate buddies, when the Democrats are in charge.
Just about everyone I know who votes Republican - often against their own interests - gives that same excuse: "It doesn't matter, because they're all the same." Well, if the last few years have shown anything at all, it's that they are most certainly not the same, and if you don't think so you're just not paying attention to what's been going down lately.
That is true, however they have no jurisdiction since it is the state supervisor of elections and the republican majority that is precluding the use of a paper trail of touchscreen voting machines.
...and, as they've shown in the past, they have little interest in assuring accurate vote counts in areas that are "overwhelmingly" Democratic.
Generally this is not the case, simply because it costs more to differentiate products this way and it also makes it more difficult to consistently meet production targets for each "brand". You're simply not going to tell WalMart that you can't deliver their 5,000,000 units of El-Cheapo brand doohickeys because too few of them failed QC on the Luxurio brand line last week.
The fact is that the marketer wants your money regardless of whether you insist on paying top-dollar or you're a cheapskate, like me. Brand differentiation of otherwise identical products is an easy way to keep everybody happy.
But don't sit here on Slashdot and bitch, you're not changing anything.
The airing of grievances in a public forum (like Slashdot) is an essential part of achieving change. Nothing happens until a critical mass of people become aware.
Oh yes this is the country you want to trust for your outsourcing needs.
Well, I know of a country where the CEO of a major corporation accepted a $30 Million "gift" from his company just before becoming Vice President of the country, and then pushed hard for a war that he knew would enrich that company (and himself) immensely. I don't know if I'd be willing to outsource there, either! Oh, wait...
I don't think that embezzlement is a primarily a crime of the desperately poor. Greed knows no bounds whatsoever, and there are plenty of well-healed corporate executives who are happily ripping off their shareholders big-time in spite of their wealth.
Unless I send an email to someone who's pissed off at me, I lose money for it.
Sigh... For the eleventy-fifth time: You simply don't authorize the payment of any bonds. Then your mail gets through just fine to the people who know you (i.e., who have you on their whitelists), and everyone else gets to decide whether they want to see your messages despite your refusal to post the bond. After all, it's already the case that they can choose to filter or delete without reading them. Essentially, the system would make zero difference to people who choose not to utilize it.
It takes a lot to kill a company, and Sun's not going anywhere anytime soon. They have $7 BILLION in cash in the bank right now, have a strong R&D budget.
If nothing else, their cash may make them an attractive acquisition target. That is how big companies die...
Experience and energy both count; you get the best results when you have both.
In some ways, energy slowly gets killed by experience, rather than being the result of age per se. In my 20s, technology was cool and I was thrilled with what I found myself increasingly able to do (and with what I was entrusted to do). That made 12 and 14 hour days zip by like nothing, and the occasional all-nighter seemed fun. Now, in my 40s, I can do just about everything more efficiently and with fewer false starts, but the "cool" aspect has diminished and motivation for extraordinary effort has to be found somewhere else...
This ignorance is often displayed by many politicians, regardless of political orientation.
Ignorance is only part of the problem. You're assuming that most of these politicians even care whether the measures they propose are practical, effective, fair, or even needed. They don't. What they do care about is getting some publicity, and being seen as strong and proactive by constituents that are even more ignorant than themselves.
Don't forget the most important distinction between the NWS and Accuweather: Only one of them can legally contribute to political campaigns. This, and not any quest for "efficiency," is the real engine behind privatization.
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I think yours is the first post here to have caught that (maybe because of the usual RTFA latency). The workaholic monkeys keep their noses to the grindstone because of what can reasonably be interpreted to be a cognitive deficit. Yet our modern society values the resulting behavior, and so the procrastinating monkeys are seen as the pathological ones.
I don't think this has any practical application for humans.
I don't see anything therapeutic happening anytime soon, but employers will be climbing all over each other for the genetic test kits when they come out...
The reason why the U.S. Constitution once protected citizens from unlimited government power is that such power can and will be abused. When unlimited power can be abused, you are no longer secure in your liberty regardless of whether you diligently abide by the law or not. Legal innocence does not protect you, because all it takes for you to get into trouble is to be in the wrong person's way. Hey, maybe a friend of the local police chief wants to buy your house, or maybe your company is bidding against one in which a powerful official has a financial interest. That's the way corruption works.
The Bush administration claims the right to hold anyone they want indefinitely and incommunicado without charge or recourse, arguing that this way they'll be better able to protect us against "terrorists". Most Americans seem willing to grant them these powers. The truth, however, is that they need them in order to avoid accountability, conceal their own failures, and, inevitably, to achieve ulterior goals that have nothing to do with terrorism. Otherwise, wouldn't they just relish the opportunity to bring the "evil-doers" to justice in as public a forum as possible?
Of course, when I read the paper edition I can read whatever I want without other sheets of paper flying out to block my view. And, maybe more importantly, without fear that someday my name might be on a list sitting on John Ashcroft's or Tom Ridge's desk of people who occasionally read things that they might consider questionable. It may only be a matter of time before your "interest profile" inferred this way can be called up by employers in the same way that your credit report already can.
If my experience is any guide, the affliction doesn't get any better with age.
Plus, they have a damn fine beach. Or it was a fine beach, until everybody started bringing their laptops there...
But the parent speaks of granularity, not features. E.g., if you're building a library that furnishes/requires bit-level access to data, you don't choose a high-level language that doesn't provide that capability to implement it. The example you give is actually a reduction in granularity.
My mother, for one, and not because she's particularly conservative, a bigot, or thinks that the lives of American soldiers and huge deficits are a small price to pay to further the business objectives of Bush, Cheney & Co. It's because the son of a friend of hers is a union member, works a lot of overtime, and therefore makes more money than she thinks he deserves. That's it.
And just what has gone down lately? Your taxes...
Oh yes, the good, responsible conservative likes an entertaining war as long as he isn't asked to actually pay for it. Let's borrow the money so our kids can do that, with interest. A $1500 bill from Uncle Sam to cover your share of the show would wipe that smirk right off your face, wouldn't it?
a lot of terrorists...
You mean those guys in Guantanimo that they've been holding without charge? Could it be that those people are there for show, and releasing many of them would be a political embarassment? The numbers are in, Bucko, and incidents of terrorism are UP. Bush has zero interest in finding Bin Laden and has even said as much.
and Monica Lewinsky
Good Grief, Monica Lewinsky. This is what you think is important. Well, I'm sure you'll be delighted when the most important issue ever to face this republic, gay marriage, takes center stage. The institution of marriage must be "defended," lest all God-fearing conservatives seek divorce en masse to escape their sullied matrimony. Yet another nice distraction to help them keep their heads buried deep in the sand (as if any assistance were needed)...
Just about everyone I know who votes Republican - often against their own interests - gives that same excuse: "It doesn't matter, because they're all the same." Well, if the last few years have shown anything at all, it's that they are most certainly not the same, and if you don't think so you're just not paying attention to what's been going down lately.
...and, as they've shown in the past, they have little interest in assuring accurate vote counts in areas that are "overwhelmingly" Democratic.
The fact is that the marketer wants your money regardless of whether you insist on paying top-dollar or you're a cheapskate, like me. Brand differentiation of otherwise identical products is an easy way to keep everybody happy.
The airing of grievances in a public forum (like Slashdot) is an essential part of achieving change. Nothing happens until a critical mass of people become aware.
Well, I know of a country where the CEO of a major corporation accepted a $30 Million "gift" from his company just before becoming Vice President of the country, and then pushed hard for a war that he knew would enrich that company (and himself) immensely. I don't know if I'd be willing to outsource there, either! Oh, wait...
I don't think that embezzlement is a primarily a crime of the desperately poor. Greed knows no bounds whatsoever, and there are plenty of well-healed corporate executives who are happily ripping off their shareholders big-time in spite of their wealth.
Sigh... For the eleventy-fifth time: You simply don't authorize the payment of any bonds. Then your mail gets through just fine to the people who know you (i.e., who have you on their whitelists), and everyone else gets to decide whether they want to see your messages despite your refusal to post the bond. After all, it's already the case that they can choose to filter or delete without reading them. Essentially, the system would make zero difference to people who choose not to utilize it.
If nothing else, their cash may make them an attractive acquisition target. That is how big companies die...
In some ways, energy slowly gets killed by experience, rather than being the result of age per se. In my 20s, technology was cool and I was thrilled with what I found myself increasingly able to do (and with what I was entrusted to do). That made 12 and 14 hour days zip by like nothing, and the occasional all-nighter seemed fun. Now, in my 40s, I can do just about everything more efficiently and with fewer false starts, but the "cool" aspect has diminished and motivation for extraordinary effort has to be found somewhere else...
True, but it's hard to be inconspicuous when you have diamonds on the soles of your shoes...
In that regard it would be more like poker, where skill definitely counts but you still have to play the cards you're dealt...
If you leave your stuff outside by the curb, they won't have to.
The answer to this and most of life's other thorny problems, I expect...
True, but "Fatherland" was already taken...
Ignorance is only part of the problem. You're assuming that most of these politicians even care whether the measures they propose are practical, effective, fair, or even needed. They don't. What they do care about is getting some publicity, and being seen as strong and proactive by constituents that are even more ignorant than themselves.
I'll bet whoever at the FTC considered that doesn't work there anymore...
Stalking hot babes!
Don't forget the most important distinction between the NWS and Accuweather: Only one of them can legally contribute to political campaigns. This, and not any quest for "efficiency," is the real engine behind privatization.