To quote the article, 'many anticipate [this sector] will become one of the next hot drivers of the American economy'."
Yeah, this new technology will give our retail cashiers yet more cheap imported goods from China to ring up. WallMart might even have to do some entry level hiring to keep up with the demand. Also, don't forget our fast food industry, which will need to feed all of our service employees at some point in their three-jobs-to-make-ends-meet day.
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I couldn't agree with you more.
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Is it really surprising that most of us don't know what our rights are? We don't need or want to know - and such rights are threatening, particularly in the hands of _other people_.
I came to the same conclusion today while sitting in my 10004 level introduction to Law and Society class. When my professor asked if we would trade freedom for safety, I was in the vast minority when I said, "hell no". I hate to say it, but most of my fellow American students seem to be lazy and complacent children who are unwilling and unable to bring themselves to think even for the hour they are forced to sit in class and earn their LERs. I was sickened, unnerved, angered, and disheartened at how plausible and inevitable my classmates made 1984 seem to me.
Though promising, this article pegs my bullshit-O-meter into the red zone. I hope that this work is scientifically confirmed to work and put into use in the home market soon.
"While this would greatly please the US, it would not be in the interests of the majority of Internet users, who want a network that allows them to express their own values, respects their own laws and supports their own cultures and interests."
Read: " I'm pissed because governments won't be able to push moral-majority opinions on to every citizen in their respective countries."
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I don't know what to make of uttering nonsense or random phrases. However, I do know that feeling it's necessary to repeat a phrase to yourself or image to accomplish a task sounds allot like OCD; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. A little bit of this kind of behavior or mental obsession is within the normal range of human behavior. It only becomes pathological to the extent you take it to an extreme. Such as having to step over cracks in the sidewalk or feeling the need to count all the holes in the accoustical tile when you enter a room.
OCD is an anxiety based behavior. Basically, whatever you obsess over is your mind's way of dealing with generalized anxiety. The human brain hates baseless emotion and will try to assign a reason to whatever you feel. So when you repeat an image over in your head to win a part of a game, it could be viewed as a coping mechanism to keep your anxiety about losing the level under control. Note that being anxious about losing the game and NEEDING to win it could be construed as obsessive and compulsive behavior as well. If obsessive behaviour or intrusive thoughts become a problem for you, SSRI's such as Luvox, Paxil, or prozac have been known to help.
In summary I don't think what you are feeling is 'the zone' and probably allot of people share your particular ideosyncracy. Whatever you do, relax and have fun.
How generous of them to use so much bandwidth to communicate with us verbally. I'll listen to every word of every audio file on their site to get their side of the story. Just in case they update their audio presentations, I'll be sure to flush my browser cache so I can keep up on the latest and greatest exciting news about Forgent.
They already do this sort of thing with the MBTI. I'll bet they avoid iNTj's, say me, like the plague. Too bad for them I always skew such tests towards iSTj or ESTP. (Depending on my accessment of the corporate culture.) Then again, anymore, I'd just as soon not even complete the interview with a company THAT concerned with conformity and control.
I apologize for assuming you approved of censorship.
I still disagree with you about Christianity being a religion. You have your faith, but you draw it from the teachings in the Bible. I know you want to distinguish your belief system from others that rely more heavily on words and earthly symbols; but to me, it's just a needlessly confusing semantic distinction. I have no religion as an Agnostic, Athiests have no religion, Diests have no religion; everyone else, including you, is religious to some degree. I don't wish to label you so much as accurately describe you for my own understanding.
Christianity may be founded on tolerance, but the missionary aspects of Christian beliefs have a bad tendency to be perverted into a militant style. I oppose intolerance of Christians as much as any other religion; though I know the end result of being outnumbered by those of other belief systems is going to be oppression of my beliefs. As an Agnostic, I'm confronted on a daily basis by consensual rules based on Christianity that destroy the quality of my life.
True, the Bible doesn't make life on Earth out to be a picnic. It's what you choose, or are compelled to feel is right. I prefer a less bleak outlook on the span of eternity I've been given to occupy. To each his own.
You are welcome to your resolve. I respect a man of principles, even if I disagree with him on a fundamental level.
Christianity IS a religion; complete with rituals, prophesies, and revealed divine plans. This semantic game you born again Christians like to play is just slight of hand to hide your Biblical literalism. As a Christian you believe in the old testament definitions of what it is to sin; while using the new testament to overide the old testaments methods of redemption and salvation. E.G. In the old testament, getting pee on your hand while you take a leak is a sin; which, like all other sins, sticks with your descendents for three generations. To redeem yourself, you sacrifice X number of goats with X amount of incense or what have you. In the new testament, you are forgiven for your sins by accepting Jesus Christ as your saviour; who died on the cross to expiate the sins of all people who accept him as their saviour. If that isn't religious what, pray tell, is?
I don't find my worldview particularly comforting, nor am I discomforted by some human manufactured notion of sin.
As a non-Christian, I divide eternity into three parts: The time I didn't exist as a self aware entity, the time I do, and the time when I won't.
Thanks, but no thanks, for your stream-of-consciousness meditation suggestion. I find the quality of the answers from such exercises wanting.
You mean well, but ultimately, the missionary element of your beliefs compells people like you to structure society in such a way as to prejudge people like me before we meet our maker. I'd prefer to remain silent on issues of religion, but I feel compelled to speak out lest I find myself unable to live by my beliefs under the weight of religious oppression and intolerance. Take comfort in the fact, as you believe, that God will punish the Italian web sites for blaspheming; but leave it up to him to decide. Sin, and temptation to sin, provide God the useful service of testing souls under fire. If your faith is strong, you have nothing to lose by letting those who don't share it speak their minds. Besides, even within your own belief system, there are those who would try to shut you up as well. By respecting and protecting my right to believe as I will, you protect your own. The truth will find its own level.
I believe that religion is a comfort blanket which compells otherwise well intended people to do, or support, great evil. Religion is the bulwark behind which people lacking imagination, vision, and tolerance resist change for the better. The censorship of websites in Italy is just the latest display of backwards thinking by the self appointed righteous.
As an agnostic, the only religion I can relate to and support is Deism. Diests take the love, comfort, and answer of a higher power, while leaving behind the dogma, traditions, and culture of nomadic herders from two thousand years ago behind.
"IT has been itching to seize control over the desktop ever since those ROUGE PCs yanked control from the terminal/mainframe days."
Yes, and those rouge PCs clash with the office decor too!
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"The next generation unseated its elders -- as is the right of every generation - and is making its own culture, moving away from ours."
Uh, exactly which generation is Spiderman supposed to represent? As a GenXer it's older than me, and if I'm not mistaken, is a far older tale than Star Wars.
I use a MICRO innovations ergonomic keyboard, and it's definitely easier on my wrists than the non-ergonomic variety. Place your hands on the home row on both type of keyboards, then look at how your wrist lines up with your hands. The ergonomic keyboards line your wrists up straight, while the regular keyboard forces you to bend them thereby placing stress on them. Along the same lines, I use a Logitech thumb optical trackball instead of a mouse, which allows me to keep my wrist lined up and less stressed. (I have a bad habit of rotating my wrist to use a conventional mouse instead of keeping it locked and using my arm.)
Venus is always described as Earth's sister planet in terms of mass and overall size. Guess I made the mistake of assuming that Venus rotated at a similar speed too.
The biggest obstacle to conventional terraforming, vs large enclosed habitation modules, is the solar wind. Mars doesn't have a strong enough magnetic field to stop it from slowly stripping away the atmosphere. I wander if it would be feasable to enclose the planet in a magnetic field by placing a network of guided stationary magnets, with overlapping fields, in orbit? For the time being, I agree with you that this discovery has more potential for making Mars into a manned pit-stop/science-outpost than terraforming.
On an off-topic note, I think Venus would be the superior choice of terraforming project, given a solar shade to cool it down, and some advanced biological engineering to sequester the excess co2 out of the atmosphere. Both currently only concepts, rather than reality.
You're my favorite troll. I'm impressed by this whole "Angela Taylor" " "DrBiscuit" identitiy you've cobbled together for yourself. The consistency of your feminist rhetoric and perspective, and dogged determination to apply them to totally non-related topics deserves kudos as well. Keep up the good work, Slashdot just wouldn't be the same without the creativity of contributors like yourself.
Straight from the newspeak dictionary found at: http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns_frames.h tml
Feminist: Implied - One who wishes to be more feminine, and wishes to protect feminine ideas and custom. Actual - One who wishes to be more masculine, and destroy differences between the sexes.
"It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a feminist philosophy, to treat everything as if it were a male chauvanist." - Abraham Maslow
"For instance, if I end up having to foot the medical bills of heroin users, then it *is* my business what other people do in the privacy of their own homes."
Ok, so if somebody is a poor, and fat, then we should make thme eat right and exercise because we don't want to foot their medical bills as a society? How about this: everybody pays their own medical bills; then nobody has to worry about the lifestyle choices of anybody else. You seem semi-informed, so why don't you go to www.capitalism.org and inform yourself the rest of the way, and then come back to the discussion. While you're at it, try going here too: www.mcwilliams.com
Wow, they have a fat pipe! I wish every web site I visited loaded that fast. Not to mention a download of 200KBs after being featured on Slashdot. I'm impressed.
I know I shouldn't feed trolls, but here I go anyway. Note, I said sometimes, not every time. It's not a given that everyone who uses drugs or alcohol will commit crimes or behave irresponsibly. When they do, laws against the specific crimes they commit are sufficient to deal with them. Besides, if access to information and safer psychotropics weren't repressed, people would have better options than poisoning themselves with cocaine, alcohol, and tobaco.
"Hell, lets not go after drug users or sellers either cause they are always out there. Hey, lets not go after people who speed because everyone speeds. Also, no need to fine jay-walkers since everyone jay-walks every-so-often,..."
Yes, let's not go after drug users or sellers. Drug use is a consensual crime that harms nobody but the person taking them. True, sometimes some drug users commit other crimes while under the influence of whatever is they're taking, but their are already laws on the books to address said crimes. If I want to take illicit drugs or heavens forbid, make my own medical decisions, it's not yours or anybody else's business. Same goes for jaywalking.
Your rhetoric is specious and ill-informed. You need to learn the difference between a consensual crime and one involving coercion, threat, force, or theft. I hope you educate yourself if you plan on voting in the future.
Just the other day our President, Bush, was going on about making people work harder for their welfare. I couldn't agree more. We need to train those corporate executives in lifestyle skills, teach them how to fill out job applications, and make them jump through all of the other hoops the poor do to feed at the government trough. Sadly it doesn't work that way. The poor in America do get benefits, but often have to work harder to qualify than if they just went out and found a job. Our government doesn't want to eliminate benefits for the poor; otherwise, what else would they use as a distraction from their giveaways to the filthy rich?
Sounds like Feudalism to me. Personally, I'd rather not be one of the "serfs" in such a society if I can at all help it. Too bad free market capitalism degenerates into feudalism as the capital holder's wealth reaches a self reproducing critical mass, then sucks up and locks away all available capital building resources.
Actually, the whole Napster thing woke me up to how sleazy the entertainment industry is. The debates surrounding the issue of Napster were also formative in my understanding of intellectual property and how it is a fundamentally wrong concept that's against human nature and harmful to vertical mobility and society in general. Before Napster, I sympathized with the RIAA's position. Now, I see them for the anti free marketers they are. I'll never buy a CD or DVD while the proceeds of the sale is being used to lobby my freedom away. So, at least in my case, the Napster debacle served a usefull purpose.
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Yeah, this new technology will give our retail cashiers yet more cheap imported goods from China to ring up. WallMart might even have to do some entry level hiring to keep up with the demand. Also, don't forget our fast food industry, which will need to feed all of our service employees at some point in their three-jobs-to-make-ends-meet day.
I couldn't agree with you more.
I came to the same conclusion today while sitting in my 10004 level introduction to Law and Society class. When my professor asked if we would trade freedom for safety, I was in the vast minority when I said, "hell no". I hate to say it, but most of my fellow American students seem to be lazy and complacent children who are unwilling and unable to bring themselves to think even for the hour they are forced to sit in class and earn their LERs. I was sickened, unnerved, angered, and disheartened at how plausible and inevitable my classmates made 1984 seem to me.
Though promising, this article pegs my bullshit-O-meter into the red zone. I hope that this work is scientifically confirmed to work and put into use in the home market soon.
"While this would greatly please the US, it would not be in the interests of the majority of Internet users, who want a network that allows them to express their own values, respects their own laws and supports their own cultures and interests."
Read: " I'm pissed because governments won't be able to push moral-majority opinions on to every citizen in their respective countries."
I don't know what to make of uttering nonsense or random phrases. However, I do know that feeling it's necessary to repeat a phrase to yourself or image to accomplish a task sounds allot like OCD;
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. A little bit of this kind of behavior or mental obsession is within the normal range of human behavior. It only becomes pathological to the extent you take it to an extreme. Such as having to step over cracks in the sidewalk or feeling the need to count all the holes in the accoustical tile when you enter a room.
OCD is an anxiety based behavior. Basically, whatever you obsess over is your mind's way of dealing with generalized anxiety. The human brain hates baseless emotion and will try to assign a reason to whatever you feel. So when you repeat an image over in your head to win a part of a game, it could be viewed as a coping mechanism to keep your anxiety about losing the level under control. Note that being anxious about losing the game and NEEDING to win it could be construed as obsessive and compulsive behavior as well. If obsessive behaviour or intrusive thoughts become a problem for you, SSRI's such as Luvox, Paxil, or prozac have been known to help.
In summary I don't think what you are feeling is 'the zone' and probably allot of people share your particular ideosyncracy. Whatever you do, relax and have fun.
How generous of them to use so much bandwidth to communicate with us verbally. I'll listen to every word of every audio file on their site to get their side of the story. Just in case they update their audio presentations, I'll be sure to flush my browser cache so I can keep up on the latest and greatest exciting news about Forgent.
They already do this sort of thing with the MBTI.
I'll bet they avoid iNTj's, say me, like the plague. Too bad for them I always skew such tests towards iSTj or ESTP. (Depending on my accessment of the corporate culture.) Then again, anymore, I'd just as soon not even complete the interview with a company THAT concerned with conformity and control.
I apologize for assuming you approved of censorship.
I still disagree with you about Christianity being a religion. You have your faith, but you draw it from the teachings in the Bible. I know you want to distinguish your belief system from others that rely more heavily on words and earthly symbols; but to me, it's just a needlessly confusing semantic distinction. I have no religion as an Agnostic, Athiests have no religion, Diests have no religion; everyone else, including you, is religious to some degree. I don't wish to label you so much as accurately describe you for my own understanding.
Christianity may be founded on tolerance, but the missionary aspects of Christian beliefs have a bad tendency to be perverted into a militant style. I oppose intolerance of Christians as much as any other religion; though I know the end result of being outnumbered by those of other belief systems is going to be oppression of my beliefs. As an Agnostic, I'm confronted on a daily basis by consensual rules based on Christianity that destroy the quality of my life.
True, the Bible doesn't make life on Earth out to be a picnic. It's what you choose, or are compelled to feel is right. I prefer a less bleak outlook on the span of eternity I've been given to occupy. To each his own.
You are welcome to your resolve. I respect a man of principles, even if I disagree with him on a fundamental level.
Christianity IS a religion; complete with rituals,
prophesies, and revealed divine plans. This semantic game you born again Christians like to play is just slight of hand to hide your Biblical literalism. As a Christian you believe in the old testament definitions of what it is to sin; while using the new testament to overide the old testaments methods of redemption and salvation.
E.G. In the old testament, getting pee on your hand while you take a leak is a sin; which, like all other sins, sticks with your descendents for three generations. To redeem yourself, you sacrifice X number of goats with X amount of incense or what have you. In the new testament, you are forgiven for your sins by accepting Jesus Christ as your saviour; who died on the cross to expiate the sins of all people who accept him as their saviour. If that isn't religious what, pray tell, is?
I don't find my worldview particularly comforting, nor am I discomforted by some human
manufactured notion of sin.
As a non-Christian, I divide eternity into three
parts: The time I didn't exist as a self aware entity, the time I do, and the time when I won't.
Thanks, but no thanks, for your stream-of-consciousness meditation suggestion. I find the quality of the answers from such exercises wanting.
You mean well, but ultimately, the missionary element of your beliefs compells people like you to structure society in such a way as to prejudge
people like me before we meet our maker. I'd prefer to remain silent on issues of religion, but I feel compelled to speak out lest I find myself unable to live by my beliefs under the weight of religious oppression and intolerance.
Take comfort in the fact, as you believe, that God will punish the Italian web sites for blaspheming; but leave it up to him to decide. Sin, and temptation to sin, provide God the useful service of testing souls under fire. If your faith is strong, you have nothing to lose by letting those who don't share it speak their minds. Besides, even within your own belief system, there are those who would try to shut you up as well. By respecting and protecting my right to believe as I will, you protect your own. The truth will find its own level.
I believe that religion is a comfort blanket which
compells otherwise well intended people to do, or support, great evil. Religion is the bulwark behind which people lacking imagination, vision, and tolerance resist change for the better. The censorship of websites in Italy is just the latest display of backwards thinking by the self appointed righteous.
As an agnostic, the only religion I can relate to and support is Deism. Diests take the love, comfort, and answer of a higher power, while leaving behind the dogma, traditions, and culture of nomadic herders from two thousand years ago behind.
"IT has been itching to seize control over the desktop ever since those ROUGE PCs yanked control from the terminal/mainframe days."
Yes, and those rouge PCs clash with the office decor too!
"The next generation unseated its elders -- as is the right of every generation - and is making its own culture, moving away from ours."
Uh, exactly which generation is Spiderman supposed to represent? As a GenXer it's older than me, and if I'm not mistaken, is a far older tale than Star Wars.
I use a MICRO innovations ergonomic keyboard, and it's definitely easier on my wrists than the non-ergonomic variety. Place your hands on the home row on both type of keyboards, then look at how your wrist lines up with your hands. The ergonomic keyboards line your wrists up straight, while the regular keyboard forces you to bend them thereby placing stress on them. Along the same lines, I use a Logitech thumb optical trackball instead of a mouse, which allows me to keep my wrist lined up and less stressed. (I have a bad habit of rotating my wrist to use a conventional mouse instead of keeping it locked and using my arm.)
Venus is always described as Earth's sister planet in terms of mass and overall size. Guess I made the mistake of assuming that Venus rotated at a similar speed too.
The biggest obstacle to conventional terraforming, vs large enclosed habitation modules, is the solar wind. Mars doesn't have a strong enough magnetic field to stop it from slowly stripping away the atmosphere. I wander if it would be feasable to enclose the planet in a magnetic field by placing a network of guided stationary magnets, with overlapping fields, in orbit? For the time being, I agree with you that this discovery has more potential for making Mars into a manned pit-stop/science-outpost than terraforming.
On an off-topic note, I think Venus would be the superior choice of terraforming project, given a solar shade to cool it down, and some advanced biological engineering to sequester the excess co2 out of the atmosphere. Both currently only concepts, rather than reality.
You're my favorite troll. I'm impressed by this whole "Angela Taylor" " "DrBiscuit" identitiy you've cobbled together for yourself. The consistency of your feminist rhetoric and perspective, and dogged determination to apply them to totally non-related topics deserves kudos as well. Keep up the good work, Slashdot just wouldn't be the same without the creativity of contributors like yourself.
Straight from the newspeak dictionary found at:h tml
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns_frames.
Feminist:
Implied - One who wishes to be more feminine, and wishes to protect feminine ideas and custom.
Actual - One who wishes to be more masculine, and destroy differences between the sexes.
"It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a feminist philosophy, to treat everything as if it were a male chauvanist." - Abraham Maslow
"For instance, if I end up having to foot the medical bills of heroin users, then it *is* my business what other people do in the privacy of their own homes."
Ok, so if somebody is a poor, and fat, then we should make thme eat right and exercise because we don't want to foot their medical bills as a society? How about this: everybody pays their own medical bills; then nobody has to worry about the lifestyle choices of anybody else. You seem semi-informed, so why don't you go to www.capitalism.org and inform yourself the rest of the way, and then come back to the discussion.
While you're at it, try going here too:
www.mcwilliams.com
Wow, they have a fat pipe! I wish every web site I visited loaded that fast. Not to mention a download of 200KBs after being featured on Slashdot. I'm impressed.
I know I shouldn't feed trolls, but here I go anyway. Note, I said sometimes, not every time. It's not a given that everyone who uses drugs or alcohol will commit crimes or behave irresponsibly. When they do, laws against the specific crimes they commit are sufficient to deal with them. Besides, if access to information and safer psychotropics weren't repressed, people would have better options than poisoning themselves with cocaine, alcohol, and tobaco.
"Hell, lets not go after drug users or sellers either cause they are always out there. Hey, lets not go after people who speed because everyone speeds. Also, no need to fine jay-walkers since everyone jay-walks every-so-often,..."
Yes, let's not go after drug users or sellers. Drug use is a consensual crime that harms nobody but the person taking them. True, sometimes some drug users commit other crimes while under the influence of whatever is they're taking, but their are already laws on the books to address said crimes. If I want to take illicit drugs or heavens forbid, make my own medical decisions, it's not yours or anybody else's business. Same goes for jaywalking.
Your rhetoric is specious and ill-informed. You need to learn the difference between a consensual crime and one involving coercion, threat, force, or theft. I hope you educate yourself if you plan on voting in the future.
Just the other day our President, Bush, was going on about making people work harder for their welfare. I couldn't agree more. We need to train those corporate executives in lifestyle skills, teach them how to fill out job applications, and make them jump through all of the other hoops the poor do to feed at the government trough. Sadly it doesn't work that way. The poor in America do get benefits, but often have to work harder to qualify than if they just went out and found a job. Our government doesn't want to eliminate benefits for the poor; otherwise, what else would they use as a distraction from their giveaways to the filthy rich?
Sounds like Feudalism to me. Personally, I'd rather not be one of the "serfs" in such a society if I can at all help it. Too bad free market capitalism degenerates into feudalism as the capital holder's wealth reaches a self reproducing critical mass, then sucks up and locks away all available capital building resources.
Actually, the whole Napster thing woke me up to how sleazy the entertainment industry is. The debates surrounding the issue of Napster were also formative in my understanding of intellectual property and how it is a fundamentally wrong concept that's against human nature and harmful to vertical mobility and society in general. Before Napster, I sympathized with the RIAA's position. Now, I see them for the anti free marketers they are. I'll never buy a CD or DVD while the proceeds of the sale is being used to lobby my freedom away. So, at least in my case, the Napster debacle served a usefull purpose.