or when you're having trouble breathing? Euel Gibbons's "Lack of oxygen scare" played out in the 70s - We're still here and breathing fine thanks. And about monkey'n with the atmospheric machine - Das machine is nicht fur der fingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und popencorken mit spitzen sparken. www.joke-archives.com/oddsends/achtung.html
And that's going to somehow stop the Coriolis effect from stacking water in the gulf of Mexico? That stacked water has to go somewhere, and it goes north & south, the northern flow becomes the gulf stream.
Thanks for the encouragement. I worked in a simulator maintenance shop in a room that was 24' by 35' and no windows, I did eight years of that. We were all laid off when the base closed, I was 32, and decided I needed something outside. So I become a cowboy, the moneys not there in ag, but being outdoors was great, I worked for a ranch for three years. I owned my own herd for three years, after I came back to electronics. I had to sell off my herd when I switched from night shift to day shift. You can work cattle during the day, and electronics at night, but not the other way around. Yeah I know about getting dirty, and with cattle, you discover all the bad smells in the known universe. I've been up to my waist in lagoons, and I've been pissed on directly, and completely covered in cow shit. I worked with a geologist who left the field to work in the IT group I was in. He left the field to be with his kids when they were young, but now their in high school, he's ready to go back to geology. He's the one who talked me into my first geo class, it all really clicked. I won't finish until I'm in my mid 50's, but by then our youngest will be in college, and I'll still have 15+ years in the work force. I now see that in geology, one can warm down to retirement, not like electronics where you're either in or out, with no in between. I've been here 14 years, and I only know five or six people who've actually retired, electronics does not seem to be a lasting career.
I say go for it. Consider that we live in a generation that will probably live to be 100. And you'll likely work till 70+. You'll have 35 years doing what you want, to earn enough money to support you for the following 30 years.
I'm 47 and going back for Geology. I'll probably finish at 55, but I'll still have 15+ years to work. My motivation, is that I don't see my career in Electronics being able to warm down to retirement. You're either in or out, nothing in between. But I see Geology as being something you can take on smaller jobs, and slow down to retirement. From what I see, it's much broader than Electronics. Hey, but that's my rainbow...
I don't consider her successful, just because she has lots of $$. Yes, she was born well. But ask your self if she has real friends.
I used to play the California lottery. Then I almost won- my numbers came up when I did not buy a ticket, really this happened. I played pretty regular, got into a tiff with the missus one night, and forgot to buy a ticket. Anyhow, I stopped kicking myself a few years later. Consider this... If you and I go to a bar, and buy each other rounds, lets say that beers cost $3/ea... that's kind of painful, but we reciprocate. You buy a round, I buy a round, each feels some pain, but we are sharing the pain with each other. That builds a relationship. Now consider if I'm stuck working 40/week, and you are sitting on $80m... are you going to ask me to buy you a round? the interest on $80m at 5% is ~$24,000 a day... That's ~$1,000/hr. For you, you're making money, cause you can't spend it fast enough to reduce your principle. If I buy a few rounds of drinks, I've probably blown my income for the day. Do we have the same friendship? Are you gonna ask me to come by with my pickup to help you cause your mother-in-law gave you a sofa? Not! You don't take hand me down furniture, you probably kick it down to me. Or are you gonna kick two or three $m down to me so that we are on the same par... Are we still friends, or am I just hanging out while you're buying? We certainly ain't peers any more. I think that would really suck.
So when we share a couple of beers, that is an extravagance, and it only costs $20... We get a pretty fair amount of pleasure from it... But if one of us has $80m, we would not get the same pleasure of of a couple of beers.
Yeah, but you can't do much with people who rolled really poorly in health or family. Yes, provide support for the handicapped. About the children of junkies... Can't do much there, cause if you try, you risk becoming a tyrant right from the get-go. Consider that in the 1930's to 1950's Australia considered that children born to Aboriginal natives were going to grow up with a really terrible life. So they took the children away from their families and raised them in boarding schools. So the children grew up with what a British subject would consider a good school education. But the Aboriginal culture was severely damaged. And there was the charge of racism, etc.
About CEOs... Pretty much every dime they get, goes back out. Unless they are hoarding gold, they are buying stuff that someone got to make and someone else got to sell, that goes for yachts, limos, mansions, plus fancy toys or fancy meals/vacations. If they invest in a new business, that is a good thing too. That's probably how we grew so fast after the second world war, ordinary people got to invest in business instead of just bank savings. So it goes up and down, that's what is expected when one puts money at risk. Over time, I put $7k into a 401k in the late 80's, and never a penny more (into that account). In 2007, it was up to ~$40k, today it's down to ~$21k. So I still have a 3x gain. I have faith that I'll gain that 6x again in ten years.
Can we just give money to people for doing nothing? Not likely to work well, it's best to give them an opportunity to be something. I'm not too quick to say that people in Africa have it all bad, they have what they're used to. Some have it really bad, where they are being oppressed by others. But that's the nature of Africa. I attend a class with a nurse from South Africa. She said the racism in South Africa is not as much Black vs White, as it is Black tribe vs Black tribe. Relatively small towns have 50 killings a month that don't involve Whites. The incidence of rape is 300%, meaning that the average woman is raped 3x per year. It's basically hate crimes against the other tribe, and that's gonna be hard to fix, and probably not our job.
Yes, I know a majority of CEO's did not found their companies, but it's their company all the same, you and I work for them for $$ on a pre-determined agreement. If you think your services are worth more than you receive, then go market your skills elsewhere. You are probably paid what the market will bear for your skillset. If you are unhappy with that, then improve your skillset to the level where you are earning what you think you are worth. If the market for your skillset is saturated, then cross train into another industry where you think your new skillsets will return an income which satisfies you.
You and I are paid what we are worth. This is Kobiashi-Maru Captain Kirk - if you foresee the outcome, good for you. If you don't like the projected outcome, then change the formula until you like the outcome.
That's what I'm doing, I have the (perhaps mistaken) belief that Geology will have a better future than Electronics, so at 47 with a wife, three kids, & a mortgage, I'm back at school becoming a rock scientist. I don't think I'll be able to slow down to a graceful retirement in Electronics, so I'm changing the formula.
I guarantee you, you'll never get anywhere by complaining about the other guy's success.
The maximum benefit to all, is everyone can earn all they want with no limits. This ain't a zero sum game. When you create something, you create wealth, when you market that something, you collect that wealth.
Wanna get rich quick? Follow these three steps:
1. Find the most important problem in your industry. 2. Fix that problem. 3. Profit.
There are three kind of people in this world, those who are fixing the top ten problems in their industry. Those who watch the top ten problems in their industry get fixed. And those who don't know there are problems in their industry.
If you ain't working on one of the top ten problems in your industry...
The defenders of status quo however do wish with all their might to avoid any examination of this fact.
You need to consider the goal. Do you need to be a famous bazillionaire, or just have a decent lifestyle. You can only have a small population of celebrity billionaires, such as Paris Hilton. With relatively no education (not even high school), she has been able to market her image as a spoiled bad girl to great effect. Her Grandfather died and left her nothing, as she is able to do about $5m with her image.
Me, I'm happy to work a bit, have a comfortable income, and a decent lifestyle.
Crooks are the real lazy fools. I've heard about ~30% are very intelligent, so intelligent that they think their superiority will allow them to commit crimes with impunity. Not likely, our prisons are full of very intelligent crooks that failed that litmus test. The others are - well, they rolled a little lower score on the die.
the majority of "successful" individuals got that way through behavior that is considered repugnant by mainstream standards
In some circles, hard work and sacrifice must be considered repugnant, but in the circles where I circulate, those are considered positive attributes of successful people.
When you go out and found a company, invest all your money, all your families money, borrow money from investors, dedicate your whole life to your business, including every night, every weekend, every weekend night, work your ass into the ground, then - yes you are entitled to take home as much as you want.
I've not done those things, and I feel fine that the CEO whom I work for makes hundreds of millions on HIS business, and I'm satisfied with my really nice paycheck, cause I did not the the above things, cause I'm too lazy. I earn what I deserve for my investment in time.
If you are unhappy with what you earn, follow these four simple steps to success: 1. Find a great idea. 2. Work hard at it. 3. Profit. 4. Defend what you have earned, you are entitled to it.
Some loony will shrug and say 'oh, evolution/natural selection, nothing to see here, move along'
Domestic livestock are well... domestic, under our control, kept for our benefit. They are not wild animals... Are you suggesting that we control natural selection for the entire wild world?
Domestic livestock are susceptible to disease because we keep them in confinement, and regularly transport them all over. The alternative is do away with domestic livestock. Which would be a very dangerous step against evolution, as we evolved to where we are by domesticating livestock. It turns out that livestock are really efficient at turning easy to grow low quality feed into high protein food for us omnivores that have a need for proteins we cannot synthesize out of low quality feed for ourselves.
appendicitis is natural selection too
Humans have evolved to overcome diseases in the colony with intelligence. The problem was that humans have a huge investment in childhood, to have an adult taken out of production after such a long investment was a huge loss. By having teams dedicated to keeping the productive adults alive, made the whole colony stronger by preventing the loss after the large investment. Appendicitis is just one of many diseases we have overcome through intelligence. We have overcome the top ten causes of death of the 19'th century through vaccination and sanitation.
Having just tried Linux myself, I didn't find it easy to use, simply because I didn't know how to use the CLI.
This paragraph is not what this thread is about, but I think it's relevant background. Not to start a holy war, and that's where this could easily go, I'll start out by saying I don't like MS windows. I am a total UNIX GEEK, and I really hate MS windows. Every time a MS computer does something UNIX would not, I say out loud (loudly) "Thank you Mr Gates, may I have another". But I've toned down my anti-MS vitriol lately... MS windows has become much more stable than what it used to be... Granted it's still not UNIX.
The usefulness of UNIX vs MS-windows is based on what you want do with your computer. If you want to do typical office stuff, email, surf the net with really cool browser apps doing really cool stuff,...shields up Mr Sulu MS or apple is probably for you. MS or apple is like public transportation, they will take you where 95% of people want to go, and get you there and back safely. For the other 5%, the slash dot types, we want or need to go "Where no one has gone before", or at least where not many people have gone before, and UNIX is what will take us there. UNIX is like a dirt-bike, you can go past where the sidewalk has ended, out where you see things not seen by every one else. But it's a wild and dangerous world. You need to take care of your self, make the stuff you need, fix what you have broken, because Mr Gates & Mr Jobs will not come rescue you. However there is a crowd of slash dot geeks that will spend hours working on your problem, and give you the fix, and hold your hand and walk you through the rough bits, because we've all been there before. We were all newbies at one time, and needed our hands held a few times when we are doing something new.
What UNIX does for me... I work in a cutting edge part of electronics, and I need to build my own computer tools, on just about a daily basis. Not enough people do what we do to encourage a vendor to write us the software for some of our special case needs. And we sometimes don't have a good handle on how to get what we are after, so some hacking goes on to try to find some results, then we build on that. So I have a job, where I get challenges, and get to make it all up just about from scratch. But that's good because that's what I like doing, and I'm good at it. With UNIX, I can write program with PERL to drive a hardware tester to do some specialized data collection, generate sometimes huge megabytes of data, write a PERL program to reduce the data, import the reduced data into MS-Excel, generate some pretty graphs, and I make a pretty MS power-point report for my customer.
So would I be able to do the hard stuff on a MS PC? Theoretically yes, but the practice always seems to break somewhere in PC land. UNIX is almost always the bestest fastest easiest solution. However UNIX has a steep learning curve, more of a step. Once you've made it up the first step, UNIX gets real easy- well not easy, but more efficient, much more efficient. Here's the point, with a PC, the easy things are easy, but the hard things are impossible. With UNIX, nothing is easy, but nothing is impossible.
Here is another UNIX thing. In a well run UNIX shop, UNIX is the same on every machine (1), the individual UNIX user tailors his own personal UNIX account for his needs or desires. In a PC shop, each PC is individually tailored by the user. If I login to your PC, I get the tools you have installed, if I tweak something, I'm screwing you. We have about 20,000 UNIX servers at my site, everyday about 20 die. They get rebooted/rebuilt, and go back on-line, and they all come back the same as before they went down, all the tools are there, all the network disks get mounted, everything. Because in UNIX, every machine is the same. No matter which machine I login on, my window manager fvwm runs the same, all my aliases work, all my personalizat
Do the laws of thermodynamics mean nothing to you?
Chill Bro... These guys live in TV-land, where anything is possible regardless of reality, good intentions mean fabulous success, 5 lbs. of wheat is harvested from a 5 gallon bucket of faith, and all scientists speak truth to power.
We are a very long way away from running out of food.
We are seeing several isolated conditions where politicians/warlords/mafia are relocating individuals of the wrong tribe/party/religion to areas where water hence food is very scarce. And bandits/highwaymen are waylaying food shipments from farmed area, and causing further starvation. Well meaning western governments and charities are making the problems worse by shipping foreign grain to the starving, these shipments are intercepted by the politicians/warlords/mafia which causes the local prices to fall, hurting the local farmers, whose product was stolen in the first place.
And we are seeing starvation where populations which are trying to farm marginal environments, are seeing marginal success... Which means occasional failure. These populations don't enjoy the benefit of inexpensive transportation allowing them to take part in the global commodity exchange where localized surpluses/shortages are moderated by trading across a large web consisting of large variation in production.
When will we see global food production fall to less than the need of the global population? History says when more governments take over food production, then we will see food production fall.
The idea of a board over-seeing all ideas will be IMHO the show-stopper.
Not that I'm a smart haxzor, but I've seen some really-really smart people, and I've seen that the managers of the really smart people often don't realize the genius they have working for them.
Hence, when a really smart haxzor wants to develop some interesting "new idea", the roadblocks get thrown up because the managers don't understand the need or potential of "new idea".
I think all managers of a company which wants to try this needs to watch Michael Cringley's documentary "Triumph of the Nerds", not to be confused with "Pirates of Silicon Valley", or even "Revenge of the Nerds"... TOTN is interviews with people who worked in Palo Alto Research Center, or knew Gates, Jobs, Woz and others that were the silicon revolution. They talk about successes, failures, and things that PARC rejected which became success for others up to a decade later.
Such as PARC engineers had a PC that could print a document which looked just like what you saw on the screen... Great you say, MS has been doing this since the 80's (1)... PARC stifled this in 1968, almost 2 decades before MS could do decent printing.
Of course PARC computers had a mouse, 10 years before commercially available PC's had a mouse.
1. For those who weren't there, PCs word processing was really crappy until the late 80's. For instance, your word processing software did not tell your printer what font size to use, tab length, or margins. Which does not sound like much, but if you set type for size 8 font, and your printer printed in size 10 font, your document comes out not looking like what you saw on the screen.
Cuba openly supports a violent over-throw of Capitalist economies, and vows to not rest until world wide communism has been achieved. http://www.newworker.org/athens.htm
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or when you're having trouble breathing?
Euel Gibbons's "Lack of oxygen scare" played out in the 70s - We're still here and breathing fine thanks.
And about monkey'n with the atmospheric machine -
Das machine is nicht fur der fingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und popencorken mit spitzen sparken.
www.joke-archives.com/oddsends/achtung.html
And that's going to somehow stop the Coriolis effect from stacking water in the gulf of Mexico? That stacked water has to go somewhere, and it goes north & south, the northern flow becomes the gulf stream.
Thanks for the encouragement. I worked in a simulator maintenance shop in a room that was 24' by 35' and no windows, I did eight years of that. We were all laid off when the base closed, I was 32, and decided I needed something outside. So I become a cowboy, the moneys not there in ag, but being outdoors was great, I worked for a ranch for three years. I owned my own herd for three years, after I came back to electronics. I had to sell off my herd when I switched from night shift to day shift. You can work cattle during the day, and electronics at night, but not the other way around. Yeah I know about getting dirty, and with cattle, you discover all the bad smells in the known universe. I've been up to my waist in lagoons, and I've been pissed on directly, and completely covered in cow shit.
I worked with a geologist who left the field to work in the IT group I was in. He left the field to be with his kids when they were young, but now their in high school, he's ready to go back to geology. He's the one who talked me into my first geo class, it all really clicked. I won't finish until I'm in my mid 50's, but by then our youngest will be in college, and I'll still have 15+ years in the work force. I now see that in geology, one can warm down to retirement, not like electronics where you're either in or out, with no in between. I've been here 14 years, and I only know five or six people who've actually retired, electronics does not seem to be a lasting career.
I say go for it. Consider that we live in a generation that will probably live to be 100. And you'll likely work till 70+. You'll have 35 years doing what you want, to earn enough money to support you for the following 30 years.
I'm 47 and going back for Geology. I'll probably finish at 55, but I'll still have 15+ years to work. My motivation, is that I don't see my career in Electronics being able to warm down to retirement. You're either in or out, nothing in between. But I see Geology as being something you can take on smaller jobs, and slow down to retirement. From what I see, it's much broader than Electronics. Hey, but that's my rainbow...
$1/GB is really cheap for satellite ISP.
I'm on wild blue, and pay $80 for 17GB a month.
My daughters discovered video chat, and maxed us out again... Also cold weather causes poor antenna/amplifier performance =(
I have two more options, Hughes and directcon. Directcon has really poor customer service.
I don't consider her successful, just because she has lots of $$. Yes, she was born well. But ask your self if she has real friends.
I used to play the California lottery. Then I almost won- my numbers came up when I did not buy a ticket, really this happened. I played pretty regular, got into a tiff with the missus one night, and forgot to buy a ticket. Anyhow, I stopped kicking myself a few years later. Consider this... If you and I go to a bar, and buy each other rounds, lets say that beers cost $3/ea... that's kind of painful, but we reciprocate. You buy a round, I buy a round, each feels some pain, but we are sharing the pain with each other. That builds a relationship. Now consider if I'm stuck working 40/week, and you are sitting on $80m... are you going to ask me to buy you a round? the interest on $80m at 5% is ~$24,000 a day... That's ~$1,000/hr. For you, you're making money, cause you can't spend it fast enough to reduce your principle. If I buy a few rounds of drinks, I've probably blown my income for the day. Do we have the same friendship? Are you gonna ask me to come by with my pickup to help you cause your mother-in-law gave you a sofa? Not! You don't take hand me down furniture, you probably kick it down to me. Or are you gonna kick two or three $m down to me so that we are on the same par... Are we still friends, or am I just hanging out while you're buying? We certainly ain't peers any more. I think that would really suck.
So when we share a couple of beers, that is an extravagance, and it only costs $20... We get a pretty fair amount of pleasure from it... But if one of us has $80m, we would not get the same pleasure of of a couple of beers.
Yeah, but you can't do much with people who rolled really poorly in health or family. Yes, provide support for the handicapped. About the children of junkies... Can't do much there, cause if you try, you risk becoming a tyrant right from the get-go. Consider that in the 1930's to 1950's Australia considered that children born to Aboriginal natives were going to grow up with a really terrible life. So they took the children away from their families and raised them in boarding schools. So the children grew up with what a British subject would consider a good school education. But the Aboriginal culture was severely damaged. And there was the charge of racism, etc.
About CEOs... Pretty much every dime they get, goes back out. Unless they are hoarding gold, they are buying stuff that someone got to make and someone else got to sell, that goes for yachts, limos, mansions, plus fancy toys or fancy meals/vacations. If they invest in a new business, that is a good thing too. That's probably how we grew so fast after the second world war, ordinary people got to invest in business instead of just bank savings. So it goes up and down, that's what is expected when one puts money at risk. Over time, I put $7k into a 401k in the late 80's, and never a penny more (into that account). In 2007, it was up to ~$40k, today it's down to ~$21k. So I still have a 3x gain. I have faith that I'll gain that 6x again in ten years.
Can we just give money to people for doing nothing? Not likely to work well, it's best to give them an opportunity to be something. I'm not too quick to say that people in Africa have it all bad, they have what they're used to. Some have it really bad, where they are being oppressed by others. But that's the nature of Africa. I attend a class with a nurse from South Africa. She said the racism in South Africa is not as much Black vs White, as it is Black tribe vs Black tribe. Relatively small towns have 50 killings a month that don't involve Whites. The incidence of rape is 300%, meaning that the average woman is raped 3x per year. It's basically hate crimes against the other tribe, and that's gonna be hard to fix, and probably not our job.
Yes, I know a majority of CEO's did not found their companies, but it's their company all the same, you and I work for them for $$ on a pre-determined agreement. If you think your services are worth more than you receive, then go market your skills elsewhere. You are probably paid what the market will bear for your skillset. If you are unhappy with that, then improve your skillset to the level where you are earning what you think you are worth. If the market for your skillset is saturated, then cross train into another industry where you think your new skillsets will return an income which satisfies you.
You and I are paid what we are worth. This is Kobiashi-Maru Captain Kirk - if you foresee the outcome, good for you. If you don't like the projected outcome, then change the formula until you like the outcome.
That's what I'm doing, I have the (perhaps mistaken) belief that Geology will have a better future than Electronics, so at 47 with a wife, three kids, & a mortgage, I'm back at school becoming a rock scientist. I don't think I'll be able to slow down to a graceful retirement in Electronics, so I'm changing the formula.
I guarantee you, you'll never get anywhere by complaining about the other guy's success.
The maximum benefit to all, is everyone can earn all they want with no limits. This ain't a zero sum game. When you create something, you create wealth, when you market that something, you collect that wealth.
Wanna get rich quick? Follow these three steps:
1. Find the most important problem in your industry.
2. Fix that problem.
3. Profit.
There are three kind of people in this world, those who are fixing the top ten problems in their industry.
Those who watch the top ten problems in their industry get fixed.
And those who don't know there are problems in their industry.
If you ain't working on one of the top ten problems in your industry...
The defenders of status quo however do wish with all their might to avoid any examination of this fact.
You need to consider the goal. Do you need to be a famous bazillionaire, or just have a decent lifestyle. You can only have a small population of celebrity billionaires, such as Paris Hilton. With relatively no education (not even high school), she has been able to market her image as a spoiled bad girl to great effect. Her Grandfather died and left her nothing, as she is able to do about $5m with her image.
Me, I'm happy to work a bit, have a comfortable income, and a decent lifestyle.
Crooks are the real lazy fools. I've heard about ~30% are very intelligent, so intelligent that they think their superiority will allow them to commit crimes with impunity. Not likely, our prisons are full of very intelligent crooks that failed that litmus test. The others are - well, they rolled a little lower score on the die.
Why don't you log off the computer, and go out, and do right, the things Bill Gates did wrong.
There are only a few reasons for talented people to end up working a cash register...
A problem with their poisons (Drugs/alcohol).
Choosing in a field where talent goes unpaid (art / psychology).
Refusing to relocate where their talent is needed (technology center).
Personality problems (liar / rude / bathing).
In my life, I've met a lot of scientists, but never one operating a cash register, and I've met a few artists... Super-Size that please.
the majority of "successful" individuals got that way through behavior that is considered repugnant by mainstream standards
In some circles, hard work and sacrifice must be considered repugnant, but in the circles where I circulate, those are considered positive attributes of successful people.
But birds of a feather...
When you go out and found a company, invest all your money, all your families money, borrow money from investors, dedicate your whole life to your business, including every night, every weekend, every weekend night, work your ass into the ground, then - yes you are entitled to take home as much as you want.
I've not done those things, and I feel fine that the CEO whom I work for makes hundreds of millions on HIS business, and I'm satisfied with my really nice paycheck, cause I did not the the above things, cause I'm too lazy. I earn what I deserve for my investment in time.
If you are unhappy with what you earn, follow these four simple steps to success:
1. Find a great idea.
2. Work hard at it.
3. Profit.
4. Defend what you have earned, you are entitled to it.
You could make a sonar device that you lower from the chopper, then you don't even have to land...
The next step, of course would be a drone. When you take the people out, and the air-craft becomes very much more efficient.
The even more efficient step, would be deploy sensors that send the data to satellites. Deploy them once, they send massive amounts of data for years.
Efficiency very high ;)
Sex appeal very low =(
yep, I'm a geek
Some loony will shrug and say 'oh, evolution/natural selection, nothing to see here, move along'
Domestic livestock are well... domestic, under our control, kept for our benefit. They are not wild animals... Are you suggesting that we control natural selection for the entire wild world?
Domestic livestock are susceptible to disease because we keep them in confinement, and regularly transport them all over. The alternative is do away with domestic livestock. Which would be a very dangerous step against evolution, as we evolved to where we are by domesticating livestock. It turns out that livestock are really efficient at turning easy to grow low quality feed into high protein food for us omnivores that have a need for proteins we cannot synthesize out of low quality feed for ourselves.
appendicitis is natural selection too
Humans have evolved to overcome diseases in the colony with intelligence. The problem was that humans have a huge investment in childhood, to have an adult taken out of production after such a long investment was a huge loss. By having teams dedicated to keeping the productive adults alive, made the whole colony stronger by preventing the loss after the large investment. Appendicitis is just one of many diseases we have overcome through intelligence. We have overcome the top ten causes of death of the 19'th century through vaccination and sanitation.
And now they're begging for money to save frogs.
It seems to me, that here they are begging money to fight evolution...
Witness Don Quixote in action.
Having just tried Linux myself, I didn't find it easy to use, simply because I didn't know how to use the CLI.
This paragraph is not what this thread is about, but I think it's relevant background. Not to start a holy war, and that's where this could easily go, I'll start out by saying I don't like MS windows. I am a total UNIX GEEK, and I really hate MS windows. Every time a MS computer does something UNIX would not, I say out loud (loudly) "Thank you Mr Gates, may I have another". But I've toned down my anti-MS vitriol lately... MS windows has become much more stable than what it used to be... Granted it's still not UNIX.
The usefulness of UNIX vs MS-windows is based on what you want do with your computer. If you want to do typical office stuff, email, surf the net with really cool browser apps doing really cool stuff, ...shields up Mr Sulu MS or apple is probably for you. MS or apple is like public transportation, they will take you where 95% of people want to go, and get you there and back safely. For the other 5%, the slash dot types, we want or need to go "Where no one has gone before", or at least where not many people have gone before, and UNIX is what will take us there. UNIX is like a dirt-bike, you can go past where the sidewalk has ended, out where you see things not seen by every one else. But it's a wild and dangerous world. You need to take care of your self, make the stuff you need, fix what you have broken, because Mr Gates & Mr Jobs will not come rescue you. However there is a crowd of slash dot geeks that will spend hours working on your problem, and give you the fix, and hold your hand and walk you through the rough bits, because we've all been there before. We were all newbies at one time, and needed our hands held a few times when we are doing something new.
What UNIX does for me... I work in a cutting edge part of electronics, and I need to build my own computer tools, on just about a daily basis. Not enough people do what we do to encourage a vendor to write us the software for some of our special case needs. And we sometimes don't have a good handle on how to get what we are after, so some hacking goes on to try to find some results, then we build on that. So I have a job, where I get challenges, and get to make it all up just about from scratch. But that's good because that's what I like doing, and I'm good at it. With UNIX, I can write program with PERL to drive a hardware tester to do some specialized data collection, generate sometimes huge megabytes of data, write a PERL program to reduce the data, import the reduced data into MS-Excel, generate some pretty graphs, and I make a pretty MS power-point report for my customer.
So would I be able to do the hard stuff on a MS PC? Theoretically yes, but the practice always seems to break somewhere in PC land. UNIX is almost always the bestest fastest easiest solution. However UNIX has a steep learning curve, more of a step. Once you've made it up the first step, UNIX gets real easy- well not easy, but more efficient, much more efficient. Here's the point, with a PC, the easy things are easy, but the hard things are impossible. With UNIX, nothing is easy, but nothing is impossible.
Here is another UNIX thing. In a well run UNIX shop, UNIX is the same on every machine (1), the individual UNIX user tailors his own personal UNIX account for his needs or desires. In a PC shop, each PC is individually tailored by the user. If I login to your PC, I get the tools you have installed, if I tweak something, I'm screwing you. We have about 20,000 UNIX servers at my site, everyday about 20 die. They get rebooted/rebuilt, and go back on-line, and they all come back the same as before they went down, all the tools are there, all the network disks get mounted, everything. Because in UNIX, every machine is the same. No matter which machine I login on, my window manager fvwm runs the same, all my aliases work, all my personalizat
I think someone has unplugged the anode while touching a ground...
Do the laws of thermodynamics mean nothing to you?
Chill Bro... These guys live in TV-land, where anything is possible regardless of reality, good intentions mean fabulous success, 5 lbs. of wheat is harvested from a 5 gallon bucket of faith, and all scientists speak truth to power.
We are a very long way away from running out of food.
We are seeing several isolated conditions where politicians/warlords/mafia are relocating individuals of the wrong tribe/party/religion to areas where water hence food is very scarce. And bandits/highwaymen are waylaying food shipments from farmed area, and causing further starvation. Well meaning western governments and charities are making the problems worse by shipping foreign grain to the starving, these shipments are intercepted by the politicians/warlords/mafia which causes the local prices to fall, hurting the local farmers, whose product was stolen in the first place.
And we are seeing starvation where populations which are trying to farm marginal environments, are seeing marginal success... Which means occasional failure. These populations don't enjoy the benefit of inexpensive transportation allowing them to take part in the global commodity exchange where localized surpluses/shortages are moderated by trading across a large web consisting of large variation in production.
When will we see global food production fall to less than the need of the global population? History says when more governments take over food production, then we will see food production fall.
The idea of a board over-seeing all ideas will be IMHO the show-stopper.
Not that I'm a smart haxzor, but I've seen some really-really smart people, and I've seen that the managers of the really smart people often don't realize the genius they have working for them.
Hence, when a really smart haxzor wants to develop some interesting "new idea", the roadblocks get thrown up because the managers don't understand the need or potential of "new idea".
I think all managers of a company which wants to try this needs to watch Michael Cringley's documentary "Triumph of the Nerds", not to be confused with "Pirates of Silicon Valley", or even "Revenge of the Nerds"... TOTN is interviews with people who worked in Palo Alto Research Center, or knew Gates, Jobs, Woz and others that were the silicon revolution. They talk about successes, failures, and things that PARC rejected which became success for others up to a decade later.
Such as PARC engineers had a PC that could print a document which looked just like what you saw on the screen... Great you say, MS has been doing this since the 80's (1)... PARC stifled this in 1968, almost 2 decades before MS could do decent printing.
Of course PARC computers had a mouse, 10 years before commercially available PC's had a mouse.
1. For those who weren't there, PCs word processing was really crappy until the late 80's. For instance, your word processing software did not tell your printer what font size to use, tab length, or margins. Which does not sound like much, but if you set type for size 8 font, and your printer printed in size 10 font, your document comes out not looking like what you saw on the screen.
Oh no, Cuban refugees are granted legal residence in the US upon arriving on US soil.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cuban+refugee+policy&btnG=Google+Search&aq=5&oq=cuban+ref
It's not the thoughts, but the actions...
And plotting violence is in fact a crime.
They aren't worshipping God because they are under restrictions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Cuba
Cuba openly supports a violent over-throw of Capitalist economies, and vows to not rest until world wide communism has been achieved.
http://www.newworker.org/athens.htm
In the 1970's, the popular thing for upwardly mobile Communists was to hijack US airliners and divert them to Cuba.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cuba-US_aircraft_hijackings
In Cuba, attempting to flee to the US is a crime punishable by death.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=cuba+escape+execute&btnG=Search
Cuban refugees living in the US charter small air-craft to fly between Cuba and the US, for the purpose of finding/assisting refugees fleeing Cuba in small boats. These flights have been shot down in international airspace.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E5DF1139F936A15751C0A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
So ask your self where you stand... People should be allowed to leave at their own will, or held in the workers paradise for their own good.
Holding people in a country against their will, is that kind of like slavery?