There's nothing like physics articles to bring out all the morons who think that because something is complex and counterintuitive, it's a license to make up any old bullshit they want.
And it's amazing how indignant the drooling retards get when they get called out on their bullshit by people who actually know what they're talking about (because they busted their arses at college for years, rather than just pulling shit out of their arses).
1) accelerate the decline of POTS telephony, and 2) everyone will be have been so frazzled by being robocalled at mealtimes by claims farmers (or the scam du jour); that nobody will trust anything a stranger ever says over a telephone, making life much harder for everyone, but especially the scammers, who will have successfully pissed in the well for their friends and future selves. A classic case of the Tragedy of the Commons (where the 'commons' in this case, is the ever shrinking pool of exploitable marks reachable by telephone).
Big Pharma is a gigantic example of market failure. Easiest way to take care of this problem is to create a network of government/nonprofit drug design centres around the world, impose an R&D levy on all medication, and the contract out the manufacturing to the cheapest bidder.
So I make a very ordinary salary as a software engineer, but could probably raise it by 25% by changing jobs but not venturing too far outside my comfort zone.
However, I've got friends who went from earning roughly as much as I did, to quadrupling what I'm making, simply because they play fast and loose: lying about past salaries, standing job offers, etc, to get raises; and taking jobs they're not always qualified for, simply because they're good at bullshit.
What this is REALLY saying, is that they're doing well because the free market values liars and bullshitters. The people who are the most profitable to employers however, are the people whose personalities and personal moral code precludes them from earning too much, allowing employers to get a bigger spread between 1) what they pay employees, and 2) what those employees contribute to their bottom line.
The reality is a bit more complex than I make out (bad directors persist, because big institutional investors want stability and don't want to rock the boat; nepotism (sometimes a good thing!!); information asymmetries everywhere, etc., etc.). Simply put, being a slimy, lying cunt pays -- and not everybody can be a director, because not everybody has the stomach to do what they need to do to get there.
Ostensibly we live in a free society, but that doesn't meant that our elites, with the connivance of Hollywood, propagandize to suit their elite interests. The stories they tell always fit an elite, self-serving narrative.
The greatest lie of our age, is that hard work is rewarded. So when things are unfair, we blame ourselves for not working hard enough, which is convenient for the rich, who are born into power, marry into it, or at least make the right friends.
This also explains the existence of the Tea Party, and why stupid and gullible people fight so savagely for the interests of the elites, and against their own -- they've drunk the Kool Aid, and honestly believe that each and every one of them are potential future billionaires, if it weren't for teh liburls, gays and leftists.
Spamhaus must be costing somebody (or some people) a LOT of money to draw such a massive attack.
I admire their balls -- Spamhaus are fighting serious and organised criminals, people who are perfectly capable of raping and murdering folks who get in their way. It wasn't so long ago that the Russian mafia targeted a Russian security specialist by kidnapping his daughter, raping her, injecting her with heroin and selling her into slavery.
They are not very nice people at all, and shouldn't be fucked around with. Picking fights with organised criminals should be left to law enforcement.
Anyway, I thought the problem wasn't finding the deposits (they're everywhere, and rare earths aren't that "rare").
The problem here is competing with China's willingness to pollute the absolute living fuck out of their own back yard, to refine the ores cheaper than everyone else.
If Japan and the West wanted to do something REALLY useful -- find refining methods that are less polluting and resource intensive -- or find substitute substances and processes to avoid the need for rare earth metals completely.
I forgot. In the Trotskyite alternative universe, any criticism of anybody who's just happens to have a brown skin is racist, no matter if they're our sworn enemies or not, and no matter what heinous crimes they commit, or how dysfunction and defective their culture is. Only white people can possibly be racist.
The red Chinese, like all Third World scum, only fear and respect force. For the same reasons why Arab and Muslim countries LOVE the Russians. They love and fear power, and have a homocidal hatred of weakness.
Only way to rein in the thieving bastards -- swiftly kick seven shades of black and blue out of them when they attack, and make it clear why.
Freedom must be balanced with responsibility. The extremes of Left and Right are more suceptable to most to obsessing about teh freedoms, but gloss over the crucial 'responsibility' thing.
I am no expert on media or British libel law, but something tells me that if Rupert Murdoch and his toadies are fighting so rabidly and foaming at the mouth so much at this royal charter, then it must be a good thing.
All this legislation means, is that a lot of rightwing douchebags who previously think they're invincible and can destroy peoples' lives at whim, are finally brought to heel. No more threats to destroy politicians, no more special pleading, no more backroom deals with the Prime Minister and cabinet in Number 10, and no more special treatment for Establishment-connected bloggers and Tweeters.
Rupert Murdoch is addicted to wielding and abusing his considerable power. He's afraid of losing control, which is why his propaganda machine has gone into overdrive.
It's probably a bit much for the private sector to fund projects to support political strategy with planning horizons measured in decades.
With private business, particularly in the US (and increasingy in Europe) where their management tend to be infested with barely educated cookie-cutter MBA pindicks who are incapable of planning beyond the next reporting season, you just can't expect much.
Thus, if I actually cared about the West, and the sort of world we want to see for our grandkids, I would like to see a partnership of business and industry, rather than letting business to their own devices. Because you know those slimy dicks would have us enslaved by the Chinese and the Arabs if they thought they could make next quarter's sales targets.
In the case of Fisker, the government is backstopping them, to prevent the Chinese from funding Fisker and then stealing all the technology for themselves.
This guy is either whiter than sour cream, and comfortably middle class and doesn't have to deal with the consequences of multiculturalism.
Or some brown abo or leb who think that anybody opposed to brown privilege and endless handouts to the dregs of the Third World is a "RACIST CUNT1!!1111one"
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There's nothing like physics articles to bring out all the morons who think that because something is complex and counterintuitive, it's a license to make up any old bullshit they want.
And it's amazing how indignant the drooling retards get when they get called out on their bullshit by people who actually know what they're talking about (because they busted their arses at college for years, rather than just pulling shit out of their arses).
IF there's any good to come of this, it'll:
1) accelerate the decline of POTS telephony, and
2) everyone will be have been so frazzled by being robocalled at mealtimes by claims farmers (or the scam du jour); that nobody will trust anything a stranger ever says over a telephone, making life much harder for everyone, but especially the scammers, who will have successfully pissed in the well for their friends and future selves. A classic case of the Tragedy of the Commons (where the 'commons' in this case, is the ever shrinking pool of exploitable marks reachable by telephone).
Criminals, in general, are not a very clever lot.
Big Pharma is a gigantic example of market failure. Easiest way to take care of this problem is to create a network of government/nonprofit drug design centres around the world, impose an R&D levy on all medication, and the contract out the manufacturing to the cheapest bidder.
I was under the impression that ethics and moral are the same thing, in different contexts.
Ethics apply eveywhere.
Morals apply to your own personal conduct.
And get a 10% salary increase at every job change.
I say, put their names out there for all to see, and let Anonymous make a bonfire out of their pathetic lives.
It'll serve as a warning to others who believe it's right to unfairly destroy other peoples lives.
"Destroy peoples' lives; and have your life destroyed in turn." It would be a powerful message in poetic justice.
So I make a very ordinary salary as a software engineer, but could probably raise it by 25% by changing jobs but not venturing too far outside my comfort zone.
However, I've got friends who went from earning roughly as much as I did, to quadrupling what I'm making, simply because they play fast and loose: lying about past salaries, standing job offers, etc, to get raises; and taking jobs they're not always qualified for, simply because they're good at bullshit.
What this is REALLY saying, is that they're doing well because the free market values liars and bullshitters. The people who are the most profitable to employers however, are the people whose personalities and personal moral code precludes them from earning too much, allowing employers to get a bigger spread between 1) what they pay employees, and 2) what those employees contribute to their bottom line.
The reality is a bit more complex than I make out (bad directors persist, because big institutional investors want stability and don't want to rock the boat; nepotism (sometimes a good thing!!); information asymmetries everywhere, etc., etc.). Simply put, being a slimy, lying cunt pays -- and not everybody can be a director, because not everybody has the stomach to do what they need to do to get there.
Ostensibly we live in a free society, but that doesn't meant that our elites, with the connivance of Hollywood, propagandize to suit their elite interests. The stories they tell always fit an elite, self-serving narrative.
The greatest lie of our age, is that hard work is rewarded. So when things are unfair, we blame ourselves for not working hard enough, which is convenient for the rich, who are born into power, marry into it, or at least make the right friends.
This also explains the existence of the Tea Party, and why stupid and gullible people fight so savagely for the interests of the elites, and against their own -- they've drunk the Kool Aid, and honestly believe that each and every one of them are potential future billionaires, if it weren't for teh liburls, gays and leftists.
We do NOT live in a meritocracy -- far from it.
Isn't it amazing how to the hottest stories Slashdot always appear on Hacker News 18 hours earlier?
But! But! Global warming is a scam!! Lord Monckton and the Murdoch press told me so!!!
http://www.cauce.org/2010/11/kidnapping-theft-and-rape-are-not-cyber-crimes.html
http://boingboing.net/2010/10/26/good-news-of-a-kind.html
Who'd they piss off?
Spamhaus must be costing somebody (or some people) a LOT of money to draw such a massive attack.
I admire their balls -- Spamhaus are fighting serious and organised criminals, people who are perfectly capable of raping and murdering folks who get in their way. It wasn't so long ago that the Russian mafia targeted a Russian security specialist by kidnapping his daughter, raping her, injecting her with heroin and selling her into slavery.
They are not very nice people at all, and shouldn't be fucked around with. Picking fights with organised criminals should be left to law enforcement.
Anyway, I thought the problem wasn't finding the deposits (they're everywhere, and rare earths aren't that "rare").
The problem here is competing with China's willingness to pollute the absolute living fuck out of their own back yard, to refine the ores cheaper than everyone else.
If Japan and the West wanted to do something REALLY useful -- find refining methods that are less polluting and resource intensive -- or find substitute substances and processes to avoid the need for rare earth metals completely.
There are no bigger cunts on Earth than war profiteers, or the evil rightwing scum, like Dick Cheney, who gorged themselves on the blood shed in Iraq.
There's a special place in hell for these people.
I forgot. In the Trotskyite alternative universe, any criticism of anybody who's just happens to have a brown skin is racist, no matter if they're our sworn enemies or not, and no matter what heinous crimes they commit, or how dysfunction and defective their culture is. Only white people can possibly be racist.
The red Chinese, like all Third World scum, only fear and respect force. For the same reasons why Arab and Muslim countries LOVE the Russians. They love and fear power, and have a homocidal hatred of weakness.
Only way to rein in the thieving bastards -- swiftly kick seven shades of black and blue out of them when they attack, and make it clear why.
Utterly pointless.
This guy isn't even pissing anybody off for entertainment value.
Doesn't compute.
Freedom must be balanced with responsibility. The extremes of Left and Right are more suceptable to most to obsessing about teh freedoms, but gloss over the crucial 'responsibility' thing.
The Left *does't* have the blood of a million people on its hands.
The Left *didn't* access the voicemail of a raped/murdered schoolgirl, tricking her family and investigators into thinking she was still alive.
The owners of the left-wing media *hasn't* scored private meetings with the Prime Minister in Number 10 to lobby for war on brown people.
The Left *certainly* hasn't driven people to their deaths through intrusion and harrasment for profit.
Rick Santorum got a little mockery on the Internet. But according to this wingnut, that's worst than a million dead. Nice going mate.
I am no expert on media or British libel law, but something tells me that if Rupert Murdoch and his toadies are fighting so rabidly and foaming at the mouth so much at this royal charter, then it must be a good thing.
All this legislation means, is that a lot of rightwing douchebags who previously think they're invincible and can destroy peoples' lives at whim, are finally brought to heel. No more threats to destroy politicians, no more special pleading, no more backroom deals with the Prime Minister and cabinet in Number 10, and no more special treatment for Establishment-connected bloggers and Tweeters.
Rupert Murdoch is addicted to wielding and abusing his considerable power. He's afraid of losing control, which is why his propaganda machine has gone into overdrive.
It's probably a bit much for the private sector to fund projects to support political strategy with planning horizons measured in decades.
With private business, particularly in the US (and increasingy in Europe) where their management tend to be infested with barely educated cookie-cutter MBA pindicks who are incapable of planning beyond the next reporting season, you just can't expect much.
Thus, if I actually cared about the West, and the sort of world we want to see for our grandkids, I would like to see a partnership of business and industry, rather than letting business to their own devices. Because you know those slimy dicks would have us enslaved by the Chinese and the Arabs if they thought they could make next quarter's sales targets.
In the case of Fisker, the government is backstopping them, to prevent the Chinese from funding Fisker and then stealing all the technology for themselves.
Microsoft regularly rolls over for the Chinese government too.
Microsoft has never met a dictator or despot they didn't like.
Off your meds today, moonbat?
LOL. Said like a true campus leftist.
This guy is either whiter than sour cream, and comfortably middle class and doesn't have to deal with the consequences of multiculturalism.
Or some brown abo or leb who think that anybody opposed to brown privilege and endless handouts to the dregs of the Third World is a "RACIST CUNT1!!1111one"