Because a corporation the size of Mr. Softy is going to have very interesting interactions with a country which casually tosses opposition political leaders in jail: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=garry+kasparov+jail&btnG=Search+News
A cage match featuring Ballmer and his chair of choice against Vladimir might be interesting, if brief:
Currently, Putin is a black belt (6th dan) and is best known for his Harai Goshi (sweeping hip throw). Vladimir Putin is Master of Sports (Soviet and Russian sport title) in Judo and Sambo. After a state visit to Japan, Putin was invited to the Kodokan Institute where he showed the students and Japanese officials different judo techniques.
Now, c'mon; money cannot abide chaos. How do you get off with
applies logic to a system that doesn't really require it
Lawyers may occasionally be evil, but it's a methodical evil indeed.
Also, a huge chunk of the legal community truly feels that it does something honorable and important.
Aren't lawyers the coders of the "societal operating system", the law?
Aren't they deeply concerned with system state, sequencing, and abstraction?
Just a thought.
Why do we simply accept these societal variables as if they were constants?
There really is no requirement for people to act as if compulsive behavior is uncontrollable.
The roots lay elsewhere...
Let's see, "The Last Word in Jesus is US".
Ahem. Whatever your take on the peasant carpenter from Nazareth, his complete non-connection with politics is fairly apparent as you read the ends of the Gospels.
Certainly, some of the follow-on nitwits 'round about the Mediterranean set about undoing all that good work, but confusing him with _any_ particular nation is a clear giveaway that this site is to be taken about as seriously as that other famous right-wing reactionary self-parody
Speak English or Die.
I have heard it said that one of the side-effects of bureaucracy is to disperse blame, and lower individual accountability.
When studying management or organizational behavior in school, the emphasis always seemed to be on policy, procedure, and process.
Yet, when you cross over to a study of history, in stark contrast, you find that all of the points of inflection are centered upon individuals. Typically their ruthlessness, but often sheer greatness (Ghandi) is what actually matters. Bureaucracy, in contrast, seems to be about crushing individuality, and Socialism, perhaps unfairly, gets tarred with the same brush.
Hence the negative view of Socialism on the left side of the Atlantic.
Yes. There is a fundamental problem, though. Socialism is a belief system. Once civil servants become entrenched in power, they see a divine mandate to putter about with policy and peoples' lives. There is simply too much coupling (in the computer science meaning of the term) with these socialized systems.
A practical implementation that I can somewhat respect is that of the Amish. But there, adherence to the behavioral norm comes at a steep price.
Actually, I don't think neither the US nor the Russian Federation are really harmonious populations right now, if they ever were.
This is what meant to say.
I do however believe that Swedish-style reforms would work for a pretty large subset of either population, making it a good complementary alternative to existing systems.
Do not agree. Once setting down the road, as with garbage collection in a software project, the system needs to devour all.
Then again, I'm generally not a big believer in one-size-fits-all reforms, systems or methods, instead preferring a loose framework of guidelines within which several systems can co-exist, fulfilling slightly different needs in different ways for different people.
The a libertarian, every-individual-for-themself approach might be preferred.
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Hmmm...sending all those coke-addled Hollywood degenerates to France...not such a bad idea...
Oh, and maybe they can take Rendition with them.
Putin would so flog Ballmer like a rented mule.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=garry+kasparov+jail&btnG=Search+News
A cage match featuring Ballmer and his chair of choice against Vladimir might be interesting, if brief: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
Nifty photo collection:
http://www.who-sucks.com/people/getting-to-know-russian-president-vladimir-putin-through-pictures
Also, a huge chunk of the legal community truly feels that it does something honorable and important.
Aren't lawyers the coders of the "societal operating system", the law?
Aren't they deeply concerned with system state, sequencing, and abstraction?
Just a thought.
You're right, I probably meant impulsive.
A metric yard? Sounds afflicted...
Should have said "The roots lay elsewhere, he mused", he mused.
There really is no requirement for people to act as if compulsive behavior is uncontrollable.
The roots lay elsewhere...
Compared to lynx, no. But then, what is?
Kabul, shlabool
No cancer save
Head southeast, fool:
Burma Shave
Oh, I thought this was just a stealth ad from some IPv6 vendor:
"Worl' be fallin' apart an' shi'. Buy our boxen an' dodge the toxin."
Whackos Awaiting Silent Trystero's Empire (WASTE)
Let's see, "The Last Word in Jesus is US".
Ahem. Whatever your take on the peasant carpenter from Nazareth, his complete non-connection with politics is fairly apparent as you read the ends of the Gospels.
Certainly, some of the follow-on nitwits 'round about the Mediterranean set about undoing all that good work, but confusing him with _any_ particular nation is a clear giveaway that this site is to be taken about as seriously as that other famous right-wing reactionary self-parody Speak English or Die.
This was an engineering project, not an attempt to hold a conversation with females of the opposite sex.
Given a perceived difference between two groups, A and B, where A is nominally superior, B can either:
- Set about coming up with a superior solution, as in, say cel phone technologies,
- Go on and on, in the fashion of the baby with the full diaper.
One hopes that IPv6 mill eventually somewhat mitigate the latter squaking.Fa{ir|re} is what you pay to ride a bus.
You, and a certain "ronery" fellow in North Korea.
You completely miss the "fake but accurate" angle that is part of "A New Theory of Journalism".
I have heard it said that one of the side-effects of bureaucracy is to disperse blame, and lower individual accountability.
When studying management or organizational behavior in school, the emphasis always seemed to be on policy, procedure, and process.
Yet, when you cross over to a study of history, in stark contrast, you find that all of the points of inflection are centered upon individuals. Typically their ruthlessness, but often sheer greatness (Ghandi) is what actually matters. Bureaucracy, in contrast, seems to be about crushing individuality, and Socialism, perhaps unfairly, gets tarred with the same brush.
Hence the negative view of Socialism on the left side of the Atlantic.
Concur. Go, Garry Kasparov!
Yes. There is a fundamental problem, though. Socialism is a belief system. Once civil servants become entrenched in power, they see a divine mandate to putter about with policy and peoples' lives. There is simply too much coupling (in the computer science meaning of the term) with these socialized systems.
A practical implementation that I can somewhat respect is that of the Amish. But there, adherence to the behavioral norm comes at a steep price.
Yet, I cannot punt on this lousy Social Security...