The differences are physical because neurology and genetics are physical. Possibly you refer to programming which is also physical but is often considered to be beyond or beside the physical somehow. In any case...
Men and women had different evolutionary pressures upon them and so sexual dimorphism exists. This has been a known fact of science and is patiently obvious...
We've only had this obscured because the ideological literalists have crept into the feminist movement and have concluded that for men and women to be given equal meritorious treatment in society they must be literally identical.
You see the same thing out of evangelical Christians when they insist the world is 6000 years old or that dinosaurs didn't exist because they aren't able to accept that maybe there were dinosaurs... and maybe the world is billions of years old... and yet maybe their god still created it all. The other religious factions don't seem to have a problem making that leap but literalists are annoying in this sort of discussion. Tragically irritating.
Its patiently obvious that we are different. Men and women think differently. Not just in terms of spacial perception but emotionally. Our personalities are different.
And that's fine. It doesn't mean either is inferior. Just different. And there is nothing wrong with being different.
You have to take into consideration that US demographics are extremely diverse where as china's stats are pretty much uniform.
Point being... we have a lot of stupid people in the US. Just stupid. Not a lot to be done about it.
That said, we also have some of the smartest people in the world. And what is more, we draw smart people to the US from all around the world. And they come here and have children.
Are they massively outnumbered by the exceptionally stupid? Yes. But we have them all the same.
I have no such faith. But by the same token, you seem to suggest that we should have no courts or laws what so ever.
You would suggest we have total anarchy.
Ultimately, we must trust in some sort of authority or system for laws and justice or what do we have?...
Do I think the system will make no mistakes ever? Of course not. Its unavoidable. You can merely limit it as much as possible and then accept what cannot be avoided. The alternative is anarchy. And anarchy leads to chaos. And chaos leads to fear. And fear leads to submission. And submission leads to slavery.
Anarchists tend to wind up in chains of their own making.
I'd rather not be a slave. So I don't support anarchy.
Actually their next step is to claim they have a shortage of doctors and then use that as a justification to open immigration for doctors assuming they take medicare contracts. The English are already doing that. Their healthcare system is full of Indian doctors imported in large part because their system ran into the same problem.
Think the politicians in the US wouldn't do the same thing?
They're idiots. They don't see that the consequence will be a collapse in US medical education.
Your argument is that authorities want to imprison crazy people and that is a bad thing?
If someone is dangerously insane... that is... given to violence or criminal behavior due to their insanity, then it is in the public interest that they be restrained lest they continue to act in a criminal fashion disrupting the peace.
If someone is not dangerously insane then why should the authorities care if they are in jail or not? They pose no threat and cause no disturbance. What point is there to putting them in jail?
As such... it doesn't actually cut both ways. It cuts one way. That sword has one edge... not two.
Well then lets just define legal and illegal as "whatever you think or feel at the moment"... what could possibly go wrong?
Obviously we need laws that are static and not subject to the whims of any person at any time whenever convenient.
If you're saying we have too many laws or that we've made a lot of things illegal that shouldn't be illegal... then I totally agree with you. But the problem is that laws are passed through a political process and many of the political factions like those laws.
Our current system of government thrives on playing people off against each other to make sure that no one gets what they want. You have faction A and faction B and while both factions want things they also want to frustrate the other factions. As a result, you can pass laws no one likes so long as the other faction doesn't like it either.
How to get out of this box? Two ways.
1. One party where there are no opposing factions. That doesn't mean there aren't other factions. They just don't oppose any government action what so ever. Imagine a government where it was illegal to be a republican or a democrat but not illegal to be a democrat or republican. That's basically what happens. Often the whole thing is run by some strong man like a putin or a chavez... and anyone that disagrees disappears.
2. Limit the power of government so much that it isn't worth fighting over for most of the factions. They are ultimately fighting over money and power. If you limit the power of government so it isn't useful for those purposes then you avoid the problem entirely.
Careful. The legal definition of insanity is in place to prevent people from exploiting the definition to get away with crimes.
The definition is largely "do you know that what you did was wrong."... So if a talking banana told you to do it, it doesn't really matter. You knew it was wrong and chose to do it anyway. You should have ignored the talking banana. That is the position of the law.
We can offer better treatment for people with mental instability without redefining insanity legally. If we redefine it, then clever criminals will use it to get light sentences and make an even larger mockery of our legal system.
Do not be that stupid. See this one coming. Show enough intelligence to anticipate the next move.
Actually they've admitted that that is their objective from the start.
The ACA's point is to pave the way for single payer by destroying the American insurance industry. This is not indispute or controversal. It is merely not what they say in the mainstream press. They have been caught in candid moment repeatedly during fundraisers telling their supporters that this is exactly the point.
What is more, it doesn't take a great intelligence to see the obvious... merely an obtuse one to be blind to it. The whole thing was concocted with that end in mind and its beyond obvious.
What is more... most of the supporters of the ACA are upset with it because it isn't single payer already. So to look at the ACA and say it isn't a harbringer of single payer healthcare is at best naive... and more likely dishonest.
That said, we're already finding the loopholes in your stupid law. The list of them is growing by the day. And your own politicians are working over time to create new ones as your political allies demand them... after all... the rules are for other people to follow not your people... right? Well... we'll use your own loopholes... We'll use any and all of them.
Ultimately, the ACA will amount to little more then an expensive education in the incompetence of big government and the empty words of your little cliche. The medicare expansion was looking like it might be a problem but now the medical industry is revolting because you're trying to dictate what doctors get paid. And doctors are responding by dropping medicare contracts. Which means your programs have a big and growing doctor shortage.
Free medical care with no doctors serving it... genius.
Your higher priced insurance policies will of course cover their services. But then what have you really accomplished here? You've made healthcare LESS accessible to people and more expensive.
I say something about step wells and you talk about imaginary features?
Kindly have a coherent thought like a sapient human being or I'll have to assume you're nothing but another poor fool that had his head filled with garbage.
Think for yourself or you can't claim to think at all. When you immediately start mouthing talking points you do nothing more then signal to everyone that you're a tool... a robot... a parrot. And rather then take you seriously or have a discussion with you... I'll throw crackers at you.
Choose. Be a human being or less then human. And yes... if you are incapable of thinking for yourself then you are less then human.
A better app would be one that automatically just filtered their comments off the web entirely. Possibly this app will make that more practical. If it flags the comment as auto generated you can just filter them out.
What a load of stupid garbage. Anyone that thinks politics, economics, culture, geography, and the happenstance of history doesn't rule the destiny of nations is an idiot.
To claim its all down to healthcare is just mindless self serving statistics for healthcare aid organizations. To claim that all the worlds many problems will just go away if we have healthcare. How completely stupid.
Obviously poor health contributes to poor economic conditions. But as someone that has actually been to these countries and seen what is really going on... the poor health is itself a symptom.
In Nigeria for example there are villages with open pit wells. Just a hole in the ground where water bubbles up. No effort made to keep it clean or sanitary. They wash animals in the same pit they drink from. SHOCKINGLY they get horribly ill with some frequency.
This is a problem that was solved about 6000 years ago if not earlier. You create a series of step wells. The highest step is either human drinking water or completely left untouched. The next step is for cleaning. And the step after that is for animals.
This costs nothing to build. Literally nothing. You can use dirt/clay from the area and just build this with local labor at a cost of literally nothing. Not 2 dollars a day. Not 10 cents a day. ZERO.
And yet they drink from the open pit well and get all sorts of horrible water born diseases.
The politics and culture in most poor countries is beyond hopeless. You're dealing with entrenched ways of doing things that kill.
If you want to fix these places you need to graft a new culture into their community that actually is effective. This isn't colonialism. We're not sending our own people over there to live permanently. Rather, you build a reasonable village for these people and structure it along lines that will be successful. That is your best chance at bringing real change to those parts of the world.
If you lack the "care" to do that... then just leave them alone. You're just wasting everyone's time otherwise.
Most of my posts are either lengthy or very contextually relevant. This app is only going to serve the people that write "lolz" or "tldr" type responses... aka morons.
You should have put windows... ACTUAL windows on those tablets.
Some twit is going to point out that they did that once and it didn't sell well.
1. That was before the tablet craze.
2. The interface was crap.
3. The technology wasn't as good.
What MS should have done is provide a windows system with full compatibility with their other software in a tablet form factor.
MS has three points of leverage in the OS wars.
1. Legacy customers. These are the existing windows users want to use their existing windows software or something very much like it that can read and write all their old documents. These people are your core. MS keeps taking these people for granted and not making much of an effort to keep them happy. That is idiotic. If they keep doing that then the legacy customers will eventually evaporate.
2. Legacy money... MS has giant piles of money. But most of it comes from a previous age. Still... the money pile is massive and they can use that to help them in any OS war.
3. They have a lot of very bright people that work for them. Their ability to turn out reams of very sophisticated software is not to be underestimated. Not only that... they have quite a few innovators. This seems counter intuitive given that MS has not done anything interesting in awhile but that's not for lack of coming up with good ideas or even developing them to the proof of concept level. They just don't get executed.
Those are their strengths.
They should have leveraged their bright people and reams of cash to build a tablet that their legacy users would actually want. Look at the businesses using ipads for point of sale devices. That should have been MS. And it still can. But they have to take their heads out of their asses.
they also read less and therefore are less likely to have tried a high quality reader or care about them.
An ereader costs more then a book. Since they don't like or care about books they want to spend as little as possible. Filter the statistics for people that read.
Anyone that knows how to use ebooks and has a decent reader is going to probably prefer them.
The people that I've seen that prefer regular books either are very anti technology... either by age or inclination... or have never tried a quality reader.
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The differences are physical because neurology and genetics are physical. Possibly you refer to programming which is also physical but is often considered to be beyond or beside the physical somehow. In any case...
Men and women had different evolutionary pressures upon them and so sexual dimorphism exists. This has been a known fact of science and is patiently obvious...
We've only had this obscured because the ideological literalists have crept into the feminist movement and have concluded that for men and women to be given equal meritorious treatment in society they must be literally identical.
You see the same thing out of evangelical Christians when they insist the world is 6000 years old or that dinosaurs didn't exist because they aren't able to accept that maybe there were dinosaurs... and maybe the world is billions of years old... and yet maybe their god still created it all. The other religious factions don't seem to have a problem making that leap but literalists are annoying in this sort of discussion. Tragically irritating.
Its patiently obvious that we are different. Men and women think differently. Not just in terms of spacial perception but emotionally. Our personalities are different.
And that's fine. It doesn't mean either is inferior. Just different. And there is nothing wrong with being different.
I'd like to also see this tried on a much more primitive engine... one that didn't make use of transistors.
You have to take into consideration that US demographics are extremely diverse where as china's stats are pretty much uniform.
Point being... we have a lot of stupid people in the US. Just stupid. Not a lot to be done about it.
That said, we also have some of the smartest people in the world. And what is more, we draw smart people to the US from all around the world. And they come here and have children.
Are they massively outnumbered by the exceptionally stupid? Yes. But we have them all the same.
I have no such faith. But by the same token, you seem to suggest that we should have no courts or laws what so ever.
You would suggest we have total anarchy.
Ultimately, we must trust in some sort of authority or system for laws and justice or what do we have?...
Do I think the system will make no mistakes ever? Of course not. Its unavoidable. You can merely limit it as much as possible and then accept what cannot be avoided. The alternative is anarchy. And anarchy leads to chaos. And chaos leads to fear. And fear leads to submission. And submission leads to slavery.
Anarchists tend to wind up in chains of their own making.
I'd rather not be a slave. So I don't support anarchy.
I do actually... I just didn't bother making that distinction in that sentence.
Your reply has no substance and is therefore null.
Null comments are null.
0 = 0
Actually their next step is to claim they have a shortage of doctors and then use that as a justification to open immigration for doctors assuming they take medicare contracts. The English are already doing that. Their healthcare system is full of Indian doctors imported in large part because their system ran into the same problem.
Think the politicians in the US wouldn't do the same thing?
They're idiots. They don't see that the consequence will be a collapse in US medical education.
Your argument is that authorities want to imprison crazy people and that is a bad thing?
If someone is dangerously insane... that is... given to violence or criminal behavior due to their insanity, then it is in the public interest that they be restrained lest they continue to act in a criminal fashion disrupting the peace.
If someone is not dangerously insane then why should the authorities care if they are in jail or not? They pose no threat and cause no disturbance. What point is there to putting them in jail?
As such... it doesn't actually cut both ways. It cuts one way. That sword has one edge... not two.
Well then lets just define legal and illegal as "whatever you think or feel at the moment"... what could possibly go wrong?
Obviously we need laws that are static and not subject to the whims of any person at any time whenever convenient.
If you're saying we have too many laws or that we've made a lot of things illegal that shouldn't be illegal... then I totally agree with you. But the problem is that laws are passed through a political process and many of the political factions like those laws.
Our current system of government thrives on playing people off against each other to make sure that no one gets what they want. You have faction A and faction B and while both factions want things they also want to frustrate the other factions. As a result, you can pass laws no one likes so long as the other faction doesn't like it either.
How to get out of this box? Two ways.
1. One party where there are no opposing factions. That doesn't mean there aren't other factions. They just don't oppose any government action what so ever. Imagine a government where it was illegal to be a republican or a democrat but not illegal to be a democrat or republican. That's basically what happens. Often the whole thing is run by some strong man like a putin or a chavez... and anyone that disagrees disappears.
2. Limit the power of government so much that it isn't worth fighting over for most of the factions. They are ultimately fighting over money and power. If you limit the power of government so it isn't useful for those purposes then you avoid the problem entirely.
Those are your choices.
Door 1 or door 2 or "this." Pick one.
Try that in court... it should be fun.
Do you honestly think that an effective counter argument? Really?
In the context of a court, right and wrong is legal and illegal.
So they are a distinction without meaning in this instance.
Your move.
Careful. The legal definition of insanity is in place to prevent people from exploiting the definition to get away with crimes.
The definition is largely "do you know that what you did was wrong."... So if a talking banana told you to do it, it doesn't really matter. You knew it was wrong and chose to do it anyway. You should have ignored the talking banana. That is the position of the law.
We can offer better treatment for people with mental instability without redefining insanity legally. If we redefine it, then clever criminals will use it to get light sentences and make an even larger mockery of our legal system.
Do not be that stupid. See this one coming. Show enough intelligence to anticipate the next move.
Actually they've admitted that that is their objective from the start.
The ACA's point is to pave the way for single payer by destroying the American insurance industry. This is not indispute or controversal. It is merely not what they say in the mainstream press. They have been caught in candid moment repeatedly during fundraisers telling their supporters that this is exactly the point.
What is more, it doesn't take a great intelligence to see the obvious... merely an obtuse one to be blind to it. The whole thing was concocted with that end in mind and its beyond obvious.
What is more... most of the supporters of the ACA are upset with it because it isn't single payer already. So to look at the ACA and say it isn't a harbringer of single payer healthcare is at best naive... and more likely dishonest.
That said, we're already finding the loopholes in your stupid law. The list of them is growing by the day. And your own politicians are working over time to create new ones as your political allies demand them... after all... the rules are for other people to follow not your people... right? Well... we'll use your own loopholes... We'll use any and all of them.
Ultimately, the ACA will amount to little more then an expensive education in the incompetence of big government and the empty words of your little cliche. The medicare expansion was looking like it might be a problem but now the medical industry is revolting because you're trying to dictate what doctors get paid. And doctors are responding by dropping medicare contracts. Which means your programs have a big and growing doctor shortage.
Free medical care with no doctors serving it... genius.
Your higher priced insurance policies will of course cover their services. But then what have you really accomplished here? You've made healthcare LESS accessible to people and more expensive.
TLDR?
Your incompetence is ruining lives as usual.
No really.
What?
I say something about step wells and you talk about imaginary features?
Kindly have a coherent thought like a sapient human being or I'll have to assume you're nothing but another poor fool that had his head filled with garbage.
Think for yourself or you can't claim to think at all. When you immediately start mouthing talking points you do nothing more then signal to everyone that you're a tool... a robot... a parrot. And rather then take you seriously or have a discussion with you... I'll throw crackers at you.
Choose. Be a human being or less then human. And yes... if you are incapable of thinking for yourself then you are less then human.
A better app would be one that automatically just filtered their comments off the web entirely. Possibly this app will make that more practical. If it flags the comment as auto generated you can just filter them out.
What a load of stupid garbage. Anyone that thinks politics, economics, culture, geography, and the happenstance of history doesn't rule the destiny of nations is an idiot.
To claim its all down to healthcare is just mindless self serving statistics for healthcare aid organizations. To claim that all the worlds many problems will just go away if we have healthcare. How completely stupid.
Obviously poor health contributes to poor economic conditions. But as someone that has actually been to these countries and seen what is really going on... the poor health is itself a symptom.
In Nigeria for example there are villages with open pit wells. Just a hole in the ground where water bubbles up. No effort made to keep it clean or sanitary. They wash animals in the same pit they drink from. SHOCKINGLY they get horribly ill with some frequency.
This is a problem that was solved about 6000 years ago if not earlier. You create a series of step wells. The highest step is either human drinking water or completely left untouched. The next step is for cleaning. And the step after that is for animals.
This costs nothing to build. Literally nothing. You can use dirt/clay from the area and just build this with local labor at a cost of literally nothing. Not 2 dollars a day. Not 10 cents a day. ZERO.
And yet they drink from the open pit well and get all sorts of horrible water born diseases.
The politics and culture in most poor countries is beyond hopeless. You're dealing with entrenched ways of doing things that kill.
If you want to fix these places you need to graft a new culture into their community that actually is effective. This isn't colonialism. We're not sending our own people over there to live permanently. Rather, you build a reasonable village for these people and structure it along lines that will be successful. That is your best chance at bringing real change to those parts of the world.
If you lack the "care" to do that... then just leave them alone. You're just wasting everyone's time otherwise.
Change tactics from ineffective irritating and counter productive actions to more rational and intelligent actions does not mean give up.
You're boring me with your stupidity. Please waste someone else's time.
Most of my posts are either lengthy or very contextually relevant. This app is only going to serve the people that write "lolz" or "tldr" type responses... aka morons.
Was it a backlit epaper reader?
If you don't like those then I don't know what to tell you. Those are amazing.
The old "I'm rubber, you're glue" defense... Cunning.
It remains shocking that you morons have even the self delusion of competency.
*derisive snort*
You may go.. *makes brushing motions with hand*
Quote where I said I gave up?
That is your straw man. Not my argument. Try again. Attempts to redefine my argument along lines that you find convenient will be rejected as invalid.
You should have put windows... ACTUAL windows on those tablets.
Some twit is going to point out that they did that once and it didn't sell well.
1. That was before the tablet craze.
2. The interface was crap.
3. The technology wasn't as good.
What MS should have done is provide a windows system with full compatibility with their other software in a tablet form factor.
MS has three points of leverage in the OS wars.
1. Legacy customers. These are the existing windows users want to use their existing windows software or something very much like it that can read and write all their old documents. These people are your core. MS keeps taking these people for granted and not making much of an effort to keep them happy. That is idiotic. If they keep doing that then the legacy customers will eventually evaporate.
2. Legacy money... MS has giant piles of money. But most of it comes from a previous age. Still... the money pile is massive and they can use that to help them in any OS war.
3. They have a lot of very bright people that work for them. Their ability to turn out reams of very sophisticated software is not to be underestimated. Not only that... they have quite a few innovators. This seems counter intuitive given that MS has not done anything interesting in awhile but that's not for lack of coming up with good ideas or even developing them to the proof of concept level. They just don't get executed.
Those are their strengths.
They should have leveraged their bright people and reams of cash to build a tablet that their legacy users would actually want. Look at the businesses using ipads for point of sale devices. That should have been MS. And it still can. But they have to take their heads out of their asses.
they also read less and therefore are less likely to have tried a high quality reader or care about them.
An ereader costs more then a book. Since they don't like or care about books they want to spend as little as possible. Filter the statistics for people that read.
Anyone that knows how to use ebooks and has a decent reader is going to probably prefer them.
The people that I've seen that prefer regular books either are very anti technology... either by age or inclination... or have never tried a quality reader.