Alright, I'm going to take this in another direction. I've got more than enough karma to burn, and I haven't flamed someone in a while.
I don't know about you, but I'd like our purely ceremonial head of government to be taken seriously both at home and abroad. No comment.
No comment? What fucking world do you live in? Do you not realize that perception may as well be reality in politics? The Governor General acts as the head of the Canadian Government. She meets with heads of state all the fucking time. She may not have any official power, but she wields a massive amount of influence. Access is power.
Get your head out of your ass. This appointment is not some minor office that nobody cares about. We are selecting someone to represent Canada to the world, and represent the Queen in this country. I expect that person to be one of the best of us. Do you honestly believe that William Shatner is one of the best of us?
Your posts demonstrate the problem with democracy. William Shatner is being considered alongside a man who has been internationally recognized for trying to stop the genocide in Rwanda, and speaking out about it ever since.
Born in Haiti, her family fled the country when she was 11 after her father was arrested and tortured. For most of the 80s, she went to university and volunteered at womens shelters. She co-ordinated major studies on violence against women in domestic settings. She moved into journalism in the late 80s, winning several awards for her coverage. She speaks 5 languages fluently. She has started womens shelters across the country.
I suppose I should qualify that statement. Everything I have read about William Shatner gives me the impression the man is a dick. If placed against someone (who has some reasonable buzz about him in this specific context) such as Romeo Dallaire, how does William Shatner measure up? This is no minor office - and the person who occupies it should be one of exceptional quality. Michelle Jean, my issues with her handling of Harper aside, was a person that could be looked up to for her journey through life and her efforts to support those less fortunate.
What has William Shatner done to deserve this?
As far as I'm concerned, he shouldn't even be mentioned among such people has Romeo Dallaire or Michelle Jean.
It depends on the sort of work that is available. Older people are certainly good for a certain things: Ideas? Sure. Concepts? Of course. Writing the code to see those in the latest "in" language? Not probably so much.
Basically this. I'm personally pushing 30, and I realize I've still got another decade before I hit these cliches, but I like to think I understand my own abilities and my own limitations. I have lost a significant amount of my concentration and coding ability over the past three years. What took me a two weeks to do when I was 25 would take me two months to do now. Perhaps I'm selling myself short? I don't know for certain.
The truth is that my job requires significantly less of that two-week mentality now. I haven't had a heads-down month long coding blitz in about 3 years - my role doesn't include that anymore. They have me advising a lot - pulled into all sorts of different projects, not really owning any.
I think the current career lifecycle actually causes age-based obsolescence:
1. You start out young an inexperienced, so you're learning like crazy, working on very narrow, specific jobs for short to medium stints. 2. As your skill set diversifies, you become more valuable in more areas, and you start becoming an authority on some technologies. You build up a wide, yet specialized, set of skills. 3. You get dragged around to be the authority on those skills. 4. And you stop using them, because you're too busy being an authority on them. As time goes on, the business thinks you're most valuable as a resource to others. 5. Your skillset degrades over time.
I hit my skill peak around 25-26 years old, and now I'm in the middle term of the lifecycle, which should last until my late 30s.
So, hopefully I'm somewhat right about this, and I can try to avoid it. The problem is that it requires doing things that your employers think someone else should do while you work on the "big problems". And I'm not one to dedicate my personal time to maintaining my skill set - because I have the other thing that comes with this period of ones life: kids, wife, house, responsibility.
In 1974, I released The Book Which Tells The Truth, which described my contact with the Elohim, the extra-terrestrials who created us scientifically in their laboratories, and who were mistaken for 'God' or 'gods' by our primitive ancestors, who were too ignorant to understand the truth. At the time, it was the public's enthusiasm for the 'UFO phenomenon' that made my books and the conferences I held around the world a success.
The growth of government is directly tied to the growth of corporations. If you consider governments and corporations in the same category, here are the top 20 by revenue:
US (Federal) Japan Germany France China Italy UK Brazil Canada Royal Dutch Shell Exxon Mobil Spain Netherlands Wal-Mart Russia Australia Saudi Arabia BP Norway Sweden
Now, tell me, if BP had been at the top of this listen, what would have the outcome of this current situation have been? Or a better question: what would Nigeria be able to get BP to do about a disaster like this, given the entire budget of their government is half of BP's annual profit.
While corporations exist in their current form, governments must always exist that are larger. Otherwise we're _really_ screwed.
You're assuming we fix it before the oil gets sucked into the gulf stream and pushed up the east coast.
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I hold the entire company, its subsidiaries, and its partners in this specific well, responsible.
As far as I'm concerned, they should have to pay every cent of clean up costs and lost revenue costs, as well as a multi-billion dollar fine for screwing up so badly.
If they go out of business as a result, so be it. Liquidate their assets to pay it off, I care not.
ironically, social conservatives always wind up breaking their own principles. just examine the folly of anti-homosexual activists found in homosexual situations form throughout history, especially recent, for examples. and you can bet the daughters of politicians who rail against abortion are secretly flown to canada when a "problem" happens
Speaking as a Canadian, I would bet that if we ever saw that happening, we'd tell anyone who would listen. It probably doesn't happen.
The Canadian public is overwhelmingly pro-choice and pro-gay-marriage.
Before reading any detail about global warming, I try to examine the source. You can tell a lot about global warming skeptics by examining the source.
In your referenced case, it was terribly easy. The man who runs climatedepot.com is Marc Morano. He also was the lead man in the John Kerry/Swiftboat situation, and has exactly zero scientific credentials. He does seem to be a pretty heavy and obvious republican though.
Provide me a source I can't argue with. How about a published paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal?
I'm no geologist or really much of a scientist at all, but I recall the nuke thread and didn't really get to ask the question: why is nuking this oil well a bad idea? Everyones' initial response was "nuke it? haha, that's preposterous!" but I didn't really see an explanation of why its not a viable option?
Assuming it worked at stopping the continuing spill, what would be the negative effects? Assuming it didn't, what would be the negative effects of trying?
The Library of Congress contains roughly 1,199 kilometers of books. Assume that each shelf is roughly 30cm by 30cm, you get a volume of roughly 107,910 m3. To fill that volume with barrels of oil...
A barrel of oil is 42 US Gallons, or 0.158987294928 m3. So, you need 6.29 barrels to get 1 m3.
So we should need about 678,753 barrels of oil to constitute one library of congress.
So, at a rate of 4 barrels per second, there is a library of congress worth of oil being dumped into the Gulf about every 47 hours.
Its been done before - facebook is the new myspace is the new yahoo chat is the new geocities.
If they get their idea nailed down well, with a clean, easy user interface and a simple deployment mechanism and method for growth with privacy in tact, they may have a shot at it.
I'm not completely sure what exactly my problem is, but I updated to windows 7 64 bit on my desktop two weeks ago, and firefox crashes probably once every 20 minutes while using it.
Right on, and that is precisely the problem we have right now: most of the citizens do not care. People are not just unaware of the issues facing America and what their government is doing; they seem not to care about any of it at all.
From my perspective as an outsider who does catch a fair bit of America-centric media, the problem the US is having isn't that its citizenry doesn't care. It's that there are several extremely loud contingents of the population that are misinformed, not uninformed.
And those groups are also being used by embedded interests.
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As RIM famously discovered, the patent system may be broken, but you can get really seriously screwed if you don't play the game right now.
You're an hour too late. We've already beat this topic to death on mailing lists, twitter, fark and facebook.
Nothing to see here, GBTW.
Alright, I'm going to take this in another direction. I've got more than enough karma to burn, and I haven't flamed someone in a while.
I don't know about you, but I'd like our purely ceremonial head of government to be taken seriously both at home and abroad.
No comment.
No comment? What fucking world do you live in? Do you not realize that perception may as well be reality in politics? The Governor General acts as the head of the Canadian Government. She meets with heads of state all the fucking time. She may not have any official power, but she wields a massive amount of influence. Access is power.
Get your head out of your ass. This appointment is not some minor office that nobody cares about. We are selecting someone to represent Canada to the world, and represent the Queen in this country. I expect that person to be one of the best of us. Do you honestly believe that William Shatner is one of the best of us?
Your posts demonstrate the problem with democracy. William Shatner is being considered alongside a man who has been internationally recognized for trying to stop the genocide in Rwanda, and speaking out about it ever since.
So I say to you, respectfully, go fuck yourself.
On the "until its not" comment: it wasn't that long ago.
Born in Haiti, her family fled the country when she was 11 after her father was arrested and tortured. For most of the 80s, she went to university and volunteered at womens shelters. She co-ordinated major studies on violence against women in domestic settings. She moved into journalism in the late 80s, winning several awards for her coverage. She speaks 5 languages fluently. She has started womens shelters across the country.
What has William Fucking Shatner done?
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I don't know about you, but I'd like our purely ceremonial head of government to be taken seriously both at home and abroad.
Oh, and the position is ceremonial - until it's not.
I suppose I should qualify that statement. Everything I have read about William Shatner gives me the impression the man is a dick. If placed against someone (who has some reasonable buzz about him in this specific context) such as Romeo Dallaire, how does William Shatner measure up? This is no minor office - and the person who occupies it should be one of exceptional quality. Michelle Jean, my issues with her handling of Harper aside, was a person that could be looked up to for her journey through life and her efforts to support those less fortunate.
What has William Shatner done to deserve this?
As far as I'm concerned, he shouldn't even be mentioned among such people has Romeo Dallaire or Michelle Jean.
I say: fuck that noise.
It depends on the sort of work that is available. Older people are certainly good for a certain things: Ideas? Sure. Concepts? Of course. Writing the code to see those in the latest "in" language? Not probably so much.
Basically this. I'm personally pushing 30, and I realize I've still got another decade before I hit these cliches, but I like to think I understand my own abilities and my own limitations. I have lost a significant amount of my concentration and coding ability over the past three years. What took me a two weeks to do when I was 25 would take me two months to do now. Perhaps I'm selling myself short? I don't know for certain.
The truth is that my job requires significantly less of that two-week mentality now. I haven't had a heads-down month long coding blitz in about 3 years - my role doesn't include that anymore. They have me advising a lot - pulled into all sorts of different projects, not really owning any.
I think the current career lifecycle actually causes age-based obsolescence:
1. You start out young an inexperienced, so you're learning like crazy, working on very narrow, specific jobs for short to medium stints.
2. As your skill set diversifies, you become more valuable in more areas, and you start becoming an authority on some technologies. You build up a wide, yet specialized, set of skills.
3. You get dragged around to be the authority on those skills.
4. And you stop using them, because you're too busy being an authority on them. As time goes on, the business thinks you're most valuable as a resource to others.
5. Your skillset degrades over time.
I hit my skill peak around 25-26 years old, and now I'm in the middle term of the lifecycle, which should last until my late 30s.
So, hopefully I'm somewhat right about this, and I can try to avoid it. The problem is that it requires doing things that your employers think someone else should do while you work on the "big problems". And I'm not one to dedicate my personal time to maintaining my skill set - because I have the other thing that comes with this period of ones life: kids, wife, house, responsibility.
*shrug*
In 1974, I released The Book Which Tells The Truth, which described my contact with the Elohim, the extra-terrestrials who created us scientifically in their laboratories, and who were mistaken for 'God' or 'gods' by our primitive ancestors, who were too ignorant to understand the truth. At the time, it was the public's enthusiasm for the 'UFO phenomenon' that made my books and the conferences I held around the world a success.
L. Ron, is that you?
The growth of government is directly tied to the growth of corporations. If you consider governments and corporations in the same category, here are the top 20 by revenue:
US (Federal)
Japan
Germany
France
China
Italy
UK
Brazil
Canada
Royal Dutch Shell
Exxon Mobil
Spain
Netherlands
Wal-Mart
Russia
Australia
Saudi Arabia
BP
Norway
Sweden
Now, tell me, if BP had been at the top of this listen, what would have the outcome of this current situation have been? Or a better question: what would Nigeria be able to get BP to do about a disaster like this, given the entire budget of their government is half of BP's annual profit.
While corporations exist in their current form, governments must always exist that are larger. Otherwise we're _really_ screwed.
Having had in-depth conversations with scientists that are actually in the field, I can confidently say that you're wrong.
We have the technology for a trip. We don't have the political will.
The trip would be return though - we don't have the technology to sustain a habitat there independent of earth.
You're assuming we fix it before the oil gets sucked into the gulf stream and pushed up the east coast.
I hold the entire company, its subsidiaries, and its partners in this specific well, responsible.
As far as I'm concerned, they should have to pay every cent of clean up costs and lost revenue costs, as well as a multi-billion dollar fine for screwing up so badly.
If they go out of business as a result, so be it. Liquidate their assets to pay it off, I care not.
ironically, social conservatives always wind up breaking their own principles. just examine the folly of anti-homosexual activists found in homosexual situations form throughout history, especially recent, for examples. and you can bet the daughters of politicians who rail against abortion are secretly flown to canada when a "problem" happens
Speaking as a Canadian, I would bet that if we ever saw that happening, we'd tell anyone who would listen. It probably doesn't happen.
The Canadian public is overwhelmingly pro-choice and pro-gay-marriage.
So they can search for porn. What can they do if they find it? Is porn illegal in Australia now?
Before reading any detail about global warming, I try to examine the source. You can tell a lot about global warming skeptics by examining the source.
In your referenced case, it was terribly easy. The man who runs climatedepot.com is Marc Morano. He also was the lead man in the John Kerry/Swiftboat situation, and has exactly zero scientific credentials. He does seem to be a pretty heavy and obvious republican though.
Provide me a source I can't argue with. How about a published paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal?
I see a television weather reporter here, not a published scientist.
I'm no geologist or really much of a scientist at all, but I recall the nuke thread and didn't really get to ask the question: why is nuking this oil well a bad idea? Everyones' initial response was "nuke it? haha, that's preposterous!" but I didn't really see an explanation of why its not a viable option?
Assuming it worked at stopping the continuing spill, what would be the negative effects? Assuming it didn't, what would be the negative effects of trying?
And on a more serious note, based on 4 barrels per second is 12 square kilometers of oil 1 millimeter deep every day.
Well, lets see...
The Library of Congress contains roughly 1,199 kilometers of books. Assume that each shelf is roughly 30cm by 30cm, you get a volume of roughly 107,910 m3. To fill that volume with barrels of oil...
A barrel of oil is 42 US Gallons, or 0.158987294928 m3. So, you need 6.29 barrels to get 1 m3.
So we should need about 678,753 barrels of oil to constitute one library of congress.
So, at a rate of 4 barrels per second, there is a library of congress worth of oil being dumped into the Gulf about every 47 hours.
You obviously didn't read the article. They're trying to build a decentralized, p2p-style facebook application.
Its been done before - facebook is the new myspace is the new yahoo chat is the new geocities.
If they get their idea nailed down well, with a clean, easy user interface and a simple deployment mechanism and method for growth with privacy in tact, they may have a shot at it.
I run adblock, noscript and torbutton... I have a feeling its noscript at this point, but im not sure.
I'd settle for a windows 7 64-bit native build.
I'm not completely sure what exactly my problem is, but I updated to windows 7 64 bit on my desktop two weeks ago, and firefox crashes probably once every 20 minutes while using it.
Right on, and that is precisely the problem we have right now: most of the citizens do not care. People are not just unaware of the issues facing America and what their government is doing; they seem not to care about any of it at all.
From my perspective as an outsider who does catch a fair bit of America-centric media, the problem the US is having isn't that its citizenry doesn't care. It's that there are several extremely loud contingents of the population that are misinformed, not uninformed.
And those groups are also being used by embedded interests.