These are people with leadership qualities Indeed. One seemingly stupid definition of a leader I once heard is: "Someone with followers".
Look at all of the nitwits in the culture, of all genders and races, who have attention lavished upon them because of bad behavior.
The word 'leader' is used so often in a positive context that no one thinks on nitwits as leaders, albeit of a negative sort.
In a capitalistic society, where money is the only meaningful metric, there is no incentive for these leaders to improve behavior.
Kevin Federline and Eminem (because accusations of racism are a total bore when trying to discuss responsibility) are going to continue to behave as nitwits as long as they're getting paid to do so.
So let's give all these useless fellows a healthy dose of "ignore" and instead celebrate responsibility in manhhod.
[10 seconds later, the destructive trends reassert themselves...]
It's all advertising. Hawking effectively calls more attention to his issues by rejecting the honour than by accepting.
Much wisdom in that ravaged body.
What's really important is that the various AJAX libraries do an effective job
of papering over the gratuitous incompatabilities between ECMAScript the vendor implementation in question,
so that end users and mainstream developers can focus on getting something done and not fretting about whether feature X works with browser Y.
I just watched a dozen or so images of Nokia phones.
However, as I'm already a fully-hooked E61 geek, I was able to focus on reading the mildly interesting captions instead.
So there!
Ah, but at least you'll vote.
Participation matters as much as the outcome, and it's win-win:
You either feel like you've chosen correctly, or that you did what you could to prevent the slide of the country in a subjectively odious direction.
Just don't mention the elephant herd in the room: http://perotcharts.com/
I consider "gun nuts" and abortionists in the same mental breath, and for the same reason.
Your point about mass murders is notable, as is the death toll amongst the unborn, yet, consider this: a gun is an inanimate object, and an abortion is a medical procedure.
In both cases people are reacting strongly, one way or another, to the effects of irresponsible behavior, not the causes.
I have strong, negative reactions to analysis that distracts with focus on symptoms, not causes, and both of these issues are rooted in irresponsibility and willingness of populations to punt responsibility upstream to a government.
I get downmodded all the time for my disdain for socialism. To vary your account theme a bit, the point is not to take modding too seriously.
You know, you go in the jungle, make a statement. If you're going to fight, clash.
Maybe those advocating change so strongly this election season can start some collaboration beteween DARPA and PRADA to help make it fashionable again.
To hear the tales of some, this limited conflict has virtually wrecked the US Army and Marine Corps, at least in terms of material condition.
The chAir Force is also dilapidated, if crews training to fly the same airframes their grandfathers went aloft in is any indication.
While not a naval conflict by any means, Naval avaiation is certainly piling up hours.
Too, there is the time dimension. Iraq has gone on for several years and only now shows some hints of tapering off. I rather hope the loud-mouths on both sides of the conversation don't start something in Iran...
Yeah, but are you trying to contend that the Barbary Wars are truly comparable to WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc.?
IOW, I'll agree that an attempt at a binary read of US history fails, but that the amount of grey area involved prior to WWII was relatively trivial, and this is but one of several areas where the US electorate desperately needs (but is unlikely to engage in) serious introspection.
Certainly when written, and up through WWII.
After that, you start getting into UN-sanctioned forays, and then reach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
Oddly, the anti-war crowd never seems to recall the actual root of the problem.
Does anyone seriously think that western governments have any kind of moral credibility?
Absolutely, and that's why I think Universal Health Care will be an absolute, smashing
The US Constitution used to require a formal declaration of war from the Senate before the President could go galavanting.
The US needs to either become the UnitedState, with a single capitol and treating the former 50 as counties, or return to a more traditional, federalist separation of powers.
The half-measures are what is tedious.
Well said. And yet, more power continues to be given to the Beltway Brainchildren. The number of elected officials is constant, but they are dwarfed by the civil servants, and eclipsed by the contractors.
national love of violence as evidenced by the ongoing love of being armed in public
Responds Heinlien:
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
More abstractly, the 2nd Amendment is a part of the Bill of Rights, and I notice a high correlation between people wanting to tweak the plain meaning of that amendment and also wanting to introduce policy that I think is sending the US down a horrid European path.
That said, I agree with your point that the US is as likely to give up being tools of the UMBC as the Mafia is to give up organized crime.
Carrying your thought through, if "US based multinational corporations" (UBMCs) are really the drivers, then, is the US merely the messenger?
If the US is merely the messenger, do you really think a "[dis]continuing invad[ing] other countries and kill[ing] the citizens of other countries for the benefit of corporate commercial interests" will magically stop UBMCs from finding other henchmen?
I disagree somewhat with your premise, and don't think it models the situation well. The history and politics and personalities are a bigger hairball than simply blaming UBMCs.
Those not-exactly-in-keeping-with-the-10th Amendment programs which the Fed uses to tax individuals into dependency. Once started, they become politically bulletproof, and we will start to neglect things like national defense to feed these beasts.
Kudos to Massachusetts, by the way, for showing real leadership and demonstrating the proper level of government for funding social welfare programs: not the Federal.
To those more knowledgeable on the subject, what's the best response for me here?
I would float questions like:
What do you think a Denial of Service Attack is in a network context, and at what point does repeated "trust but verify" activity constitute a DoS on your life?
or,
Your taxes are paying for security services at the airport. At what point do you buy the right to say "Enough"?
Yeah, I have a relatively boring life, too. Cast as a reality show, it would make an effective insomnia treatment. There is still a "reasonable person" line that need not be crossed, particularly when it involves some homo bureaucratus requiring me to fill out paperwork or stand in some godforsaken line.
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Look at all of the nitwits in the culture, of all genders and races, who have attention lavished upon them because of bad behavior.
The word 'leader' is used so often in a positive context that no one thinks on nitwits as leaders, albeit of a negative sort.
In a capitalistic society, where money is the only meaningful metric, there is no incentive for these leaders to improve behavior.
Kevin Federline and Eminem (because accusations of racism are a total bore when trying to discuss responsibility) are going to continue to behave as nitwits as long as they're getting paid to do so.
So let's give all these useless fellows a healthy dose of "ignore" and instead celebrate responsibility in manhhod.
[10 seconds later, the destructive trends reassert themselves...]
It's all advertising. Hawking effectively calls more attention to his issues by rejecting the honour than by accepting.
Much wisdom in that ravaged body.
What's really important is that the various AJAX libraries do an effective job
of papering over the gratuitous incompatabilities between ECMAScript the vendor implementation in question,
so that end users and mainstream developers can focus on getting something done and not fretting about whether feature X works with browser Y.
I just watched a dozen or so images of Nokia phones.
However, as I'm already a fully-hooked E61 geek, I was able to focus on reading the mildly interesting captions instead.
So there!
Probably. I'll head down to CVS before it gets too darcs and see if I can pick up something. Oh, and a quilt to keep the patient warm.
Please excuse me while I "respond back" to some email.
Ah, but at least you'll vote.
Participation matters as much as the outcome, and it's win-win:
You either feel like you've chosen correctly, or that you did what you could to prevent the slide of the country in a subjectively odious direction.
Just don't mention the elephant herd in the room: http://perotcharts.com/
I consider "gun nuts" and abortionists in the same mental breath, and for the same reason.
Your point about mass murders is notable, as is the death toll amongst the unborn, yet, consider this: a gun is an inanimate object, and an abortion is a medical procedure.
In both cases people are reacting strongly, one way or another, to the effects of irresponsible behavior, not the causes.
I have strong, negative reactions to analysis that distracts with focus on symptoms, not causes, and both of these issues are rooted in irresponsibility and willingness of populations to punt responsibility upstream to a government.
I get downmodded all the time for my disdain for socialism. To vary your account theme a bit, the point is not to take modding too seriously.
I actually went to Quadra in the mid-80's as a Naval Sea Cadet.
Met Canadians who could name every ship in the Canadian Navy.
Doughty fellows all.
Sure the Monty Python reference, but "furry animals" really points to
Floyd
The chAir Force is also dilapidated, if crews training to fly the same airframes their grandfathers went aloft in is any indication.
While not a naval conflict by any means, Naval avaiation is certainly piling up hours.
Too, there is the time dimension. Iraq has gone on for several years and only now shows some hints of tapering off. I rather hope the loud-mouths on both sides of the conversation don't start something in Iran...
Yeah, but are you trying to contend that the Barbary Wars are truly comparable to WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc.?
IOW, I'll agree that an attempt at a binary read of US history fails, but that the amount of grey area involved prior to WWII was relatively trivial, and this is but one of several areas where the US electorate desperately needs (but is unlikely to engage in) serious introspection.
Certainly when written, and up through WWII.
After that, you start getting into UN-sanctioned forays, and then reach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
Oddly, the anti-war crowd never seems to recall the actual root of the problem.
The US Constitution used to require a formal declaration of war from the Senate before the President could go galavanting.
The US needs to either become the UnitedState, with a single capitol and treating the former 50 as counties, or return to a more traditional, federalist separation of powers.
The half-measures are what is tedious.
Well said. And yet, more power continues to be given to the Beltway Brainchildren. The number of elected officials is constant, but they are dwarfed by the civil servants, and eclipsed by the contractors.
That said, I agree with your point that the US is as likely to give up being tools of the UMBC as the Mafia is to give up organized crime.
As long as you already speak [insert language here].
If the article has "Pimp" in the title, and it wasn't even written by Herbert Kornfeld then gonna not RFTA twice!
A datacenter is a point in space surrounded by just over 6.28 units of datacircumference.
Carrying your thought through, if "US based multinational corporations" (UBMCs) are really the drivers, then, is the US merely the messenger?
If the US is merely the messenger, do you really think a "[dis]continuing invad[ing] other countries and kill[ing] the citizens of other countries for the benefit of corporate commercial interests" will magically stop UBMCs from finding other henchmen?
I disagree somewhat with your premise, and don't think it models the situation well. The history and politics and personalities are a bigger hairball than simply blaming UBMCs.
You ever see those Gary Kasparov interviews last year? Judging from that, we've plenty of room to go down. Yet descend we will.
Those not-exactly-in-keeping-with-the-10th Amendment programs which the Fed uses to tax individuals into dependency. Once started, they become politically bulletproof, and we will start to neglect things like national defense to feed these beasts.
Kudos to Massachusetts, by the way, for showing real leadership and demonstrating the proper level of government for funding social welfare programs: not the Federal.
What do you think a Denial of Service Attack is in a network context, and at what point does repeated "trust but verify" activity constitute a DoS on your life?
or,
Your taxes are paying for security services at the airport. At what point do you buy the right to say "Enough"?
Yeah, I have a relatively boring life, too. Cast as a reality show, it would make an effective insomnia treatment. There is still a "reasonable person" line that need not be crossed, particularly when it involves some homo bureaucratus requiring me to fill out paperwork or stand in some godforsaken line.