It's amazing how warm weather can make such a big difference.
I reserved a copy your recommended book at my local library.
I must admit that I'm kind of scared, because I don't want to find out that I've got an incurable limitation. At this point in my life, I feel like I've got all the desires of normal people, but I also feel like I have the limitations of a deactivated android. If I find out that I'm a deactivated android, then I'll be so disappointed, because to have desire without ability is like imprisonment.
In fact, I was intending to write some SciFi about a character, who was adopted at a young age [maybe 5]. This kid seemed biologically okay. The only problem is that he seems lifeless. He can see things. He can hear. He can walk. Unfortunately, he basically stares forward. Eventually, the child begins to repeat things that the father and the father's friends teach him. Eventually everybody discovers that the character can only repeat things and use those sentences as if they are his own, but he can never truly come up with his own sentences. Eventually, the character grows up, and interacts with people, but he still never comes up with his own stuff. He can fit in and function in society, but after a brief conversation with him people can easily see that something is off with him. It turns out that he's great at acting like everybody else, and still doesn't understand what he is hearing or saying.
That character was based on how I feel about myself, not what I believe about myself. What you describe sounds like my character. I find that truly remarkable, because if it is possible for you to be like my character in a significant way, which is based on me, then I probably have it, as well.
I get the impression that things are working out well for you.
How did you figure out that you have it? I've always thought that I had a problem, and that maybe I was just acting so normal, that people didn't realize. I've always felt that other people did things naturally that I couldn't do.
Reading what you wrote is kind of weird, because I never suspected that anybody else would go through something like that.
Who are "these people"? Are you talking about the bankers or just conservatives in general? Are you talking about libertarians? In this context, I'd be more of a libertarian. I complained on Slashdot. We had a huge debate.
I should add a disclaimer. I'm not complaining only about open source. I'm complaining about organizations, in general, that don't use the ideas of the most loyal people, without even giving the ideas a chance to show merit.
Great point. I'd like to add open source software web sites to that. If you mention a usability issue there, and they aren't interested, then they won't be very polite, I bet.
Move to a city where businesses can afford good handicapped access.
That's the best solution, in my opinion. The idea is that if we have specific cities catering to these special needs, then we'll have better accessible cities, as opposed to all places being sort of accessible. Of course people will not accept the idea of moving. It's as if the freedom to live wherever they want also means that everywhere has to fit their standards.
I can't remember what you said in your other posts, but I do believe what you said here.
Frankly, when you factor in human greed, human corruption, and human trust, conspiracies do actually make sense. At the very least, they provide motive to a crime.
Another idea is to have City Mail contract according to ratios. City Mail might be able to do a great job in 1 city and its surrounding country side, but not the entire country. If City Mail took over that particular country side, then the government post could easily reduce it costs on a scalable basis. I hope that I explained it correctly.
You have a good point. The postal service could cut down on transportation costs, compared to having no delivery services of any kind.
It would be useful to see what would happen if we took it away for the entire country. Perhaps we would buy less things, and need less delivery, which might put us into a bigger deficit of some kind. Maybe we would need to repair roads and widen them. Maybe we would need more parking spaces. Could somebody chime in here?
Maybe a compromise is to deliver any standard sized mail to anywhere in your country for $1, and it won't be done at a super fast pace. Another service that they'll provide is lower cost service that will be more frequent at a lower price in the populated parts of the country.
What would you think about that?
Having service available to everybody isn't the same as having it at the same price and at the same priority. My suggestion would allow USPS and Canada Post to continue earning on the profitable routes, while subsidizing the black holes at a lower cost. My solution won't solve problems, but it would allow us to continue at a lower cost.
(I can put stuff in my mailbox and the mail carrier will take it for me).
I saw that on a commercial. I was so surprised. Is that only for rural areas?
Personally, I don't care that the USPS takes a few days off, because I take lots of days off. But then again, my life is not so heavily scheduled for it to matter to me. For all I care, USPS can stop Saturday deliveries and I'd still think they were the far superior of the three major shippers.
Exactly. A lot of people don't need service every day. A lot of us could do without service on certain days. A lot of mail could be delivered tomorrow or 2 weeks from now. Postal companies might be wise to offer optional service. In other words, only deliver certain kinds of mail every day or every business day, while other mail will only be delivered when there is more mail to accompany it.
I forgot to ask about Canada Post. Does anybody know how Canada Post is doing? I can't imagine them being any better.
We are subscribed to Zip.ca. I'm happy with the service and the concept, but DVDs haven't been coming very frequently this summer, and I blame Canada Post.
:^D Hey, we should create a template for that. The template would contain quotes from tons of people, so that you only need to copy from 1 person. This save us so much time, and bring down the cost of research.;^P
That's exactly it. They're paying for genuine interest. People may not like advertisers, but we're being stupid if we assume that the advertisers are more interested in clicks than they are interested in visitor interest. Believing that fallacy would be like genuinely believing that a DOS attack would be doing the web site owners a favour, by using up processor cycles and bandwidth.
However, I don't think that we have idiots among us. I think that these people are really evil, and they are trying to deceive us. We have scammers, spammers, and theives among us. Call me an extremist, but nobody is that stupid.
They should do that to all invasive animals. When the invasive animals are gone, we could encourage people to become vegetarians. When the weeds are gone, we could encourage people to eat more meat. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
Tribalism, statelessness, unregulated societies, etc. are all part of the commons or anarchy. The free market is something that needs to be protected through regulations. The regulations force people to pay for what they consume, and pay for their failures.
Slashdotters believe in the free market when it comes to their freedoms, but believe in socialism, when it comes to handouts from the government.
It's okay to admit that he's wrong, but the important thing is to keep arguing. When people realize that you don't really believe it, they'll want to stop arguing, but a good ad hominem attack will usually keep it going.;^)
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It's amazing how warm weather can make such a big difference.
I reserved a copy your recommended book at my local library.
I must admit that I'm kind of scared, because I don't want to find out that I've got an incurable limitation. At this point in my life, I feel like I've got all the desires of normal people, but I also feel like I have the limitations of a deactivated android. If I find out that I'm a deactivated android, then I'll be so disappointed, because to have desire without ability is like imprisonment.
In fact, I was intending to write some SciFi about a character, who was adopted at a young age [maybe 5]. This kid seemed biologically okay. The only problem is that he seems lifeless. He can see things. He can hear. He can walk. Unfortunately, he basically stares forward. Eventually, the child begins to repeat things that the father and the father's friends teach him. Eventually everybody discovers that the character can only repeat things and use those sentences as if they are his own, but he can never truly come up with his own sentences. Eventually, the character grows up, and interacts with people, but he still never comes up with his own stuff. He can fit in and function in society, but after a brief conversation with him people can easily see that something is off with him. It turns out that he's great at acting like everybody else, and still doesn't understand what he is hearing or saying.
That character was based on how I feel about myself, not what I believe about myself. What you describe sounds like my character. I find that truly remarkable, because if it is possible for you to be like my character in a significant way, which is based on me, then I probably have it, as well.
I get the impression that things are working out well for you.
Take care.
How did you figure out that you have it? I've always thought that I had a problem, and that maybe I was just acting so normal, that people didn't realize. I've always felt that other people did things naturally that I couldn't do.
Reading what you wrote is kind of weird, because I never suspected that anybody else would go through something like that.
Thanks for asking. I thought that it was just me. I had to reread it, to confirm that I really read it right the first time.
Who are "these people"? Are you talking about the bankers or just conservatives in general? Are you talking about libertarians? In this context, I'd be more of a libertarian. I complained on Slashdot. We had a huge debate.
I should add a disclaimer. I'm not complaining only about open source. I'm complaining about organizations, in general, that don't use the ideas of the most loyal people, without even giving the ideas a chance to show merit.
Great point. I'd like to add open source software web sites to that. If you mention a usability issue there, and they aren't interested, then they won't be very polite, I bet.
You have a very clever suggestion for combining the 2 technologies. It's seems so obvious, but I never thought of it before.
Good suggestion.
Move to a city where businesses can afford good handicapped access.
That's the best solution, in my opinion. The idea is that if we have specific cities catering to these special needs, then we'll have better accessible cities, as opposed to all places being sort of accessible. Of course people will not accept the idea of moving. It's as if the freedom to live wherever they want also means that everywhere has to fit their standards.
I can't remember what you said in your other posts, but I do believe what you said here.
Frankly, when you factor in human greed, human corruption, and human trust, conspiracies do actually make sense. At the very least, they provide motive to a crime.
Another idea is to have City Mail contract according to ratios. City Mail might be able to do a great job in 1 city and its surrounding country side, but not the entire country. If City Mail took over that particular country side, then the government post could easily reduce it costs on a scalable basis. I hope that I explained it correctly.
You have a good point. The postal service could cut down on transportation costs, compared to having no delivery services of any kind.
It would be useful to see what would happen if we took it away for the entire country. Perhaps we would buy less things, and need less delivery, which might put us into a bigger deficit of some kind. Maybe we would need to repair roads and widen them. Maybe we would need more parking spaces. Could somebody chime in here?
Maybe a compromise is to deliver any standard sized mail to anywhere in your country for $1, and it won't be done at a super fast pace. Another service that they'll provide is lower cost service that will be more frequent at a lower price in the populated parts of the country.
What would you think about that?
Having service available to everybody isn't the same as having it at the same price and at the same priority. My suggestion would allow USPS and Canada Post to continue earning on the profitable routes, while subsidizing the black holes at a lower cost. My solution won't solve problems, but it would allow us to continue at a lower cost.
I saw that on a commercial. I was so surprised. Is that only for rural areas?
Exactly. A lot of people don't need service every day. A lot of us could do without service on certain days. A lot of mail could be delivered tomorrow or 2 weeks from now. Postal companies might be wise to offer optional service. In other words, only deliver certain kinds of mail every day or every business day, while other mail will only be delivered when there is more mail to accompany it.
I forgot to ask about Canada Post. Does anybody know how Canada Post is doing? I can't imagine them being any better.
We are subscribed to Zip.ca. I'm happy with the service and the concept, but DVDs haven't been coming very frequently this summer, and I blame Canada Post.
That sounds to me that it is best for USPS should focus on international shipping, and even work with UPS on international shipping.
Why couldn't you guys just patent the judicial systems, and then sue courts?
:^D Hey, we should create a template for that. The template would contain quotes from tons of people, so that you only need to copy from 1 person. This save us so much time, and bring down the cost of research. ;^P
...car odomiters don't actually go down when driving in reverse.
Lucky for all of us, that you gave that disclaimer. It's good for all of us to know that Slashdot did not reach a new low.
That's exactly it. They're paying for genuine interest. People may not like advertisers, but we're being stupid if we assume that the advertisers are more interested in clicks than they are interested in visitor interest. Believing that fallacy would be like genuinely believing that a DOS attack would be doing the web site owners a favour, by using up processor cycles and bandwidth.
However, I don't think that we have idiots among us. I think that these people are really evil, and they are trying to deceive us. We have scammers, spammers, and theives among us. Call me an extremist, but nobody is that stupid.
That's exactly right. It's a sunk cost. You've paid for the film, whether you used it or not. Of course, you could sell it, but that's off-topic.
Many people have difficulty evaluating just how much something is worth, because of sunk costs.
They should do that to all invasive animals. When the invasive animals are gone, we could encourage people to become vegetarians. When the weeds are gone, we could encourage people to eat more meat. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
I totally agree. I laughed out loud, even after thinking about it.
I guess that there must be a technique to explaining it, without giving it away.
Tribalism, statelessness, unregulated societies, etc. are all part of the commons or anarchy. The free market is something that needs to be protected through regulations. The regulations force people to pay for what they consume, and pay for their failures.
Slashdotters believe in the free market when it comes to their freedoms, but believe in socialism, when it comes to handouts from the government.
I agree.
It's okay to admit that he's wrong, but the important thing is to keep arguing. When people realize that you don't really believe it, they'll want to stop arguing, but a good ad hominem attack will usually keep it going. ;^)
Better yet, he could start his own blog.