Not so surprising if you've read Dawkins (For the non geneticists among us).
You see, according to him, we are machines whose purpose is to allow genes to replicate. The fact that other genes co-opt this mechanism isn't entirely surprising if you look at it from that perspective.
Hopefully more people will realize how flat out EVIL that company is because of this. One of the interesting things about Microsoft is the high concentration of evil within the organisation. I have a theory that they have managed to attract or suck the evil from many surrounding areas. This leaves an evil gradient, from those who work in the company, through their trading partners into the general I.T. marketplace where there is now a general lack of evil.
This is clearly shown by the Google, "Do No Evil" corporate slogan. More a statement of the inability to perform evil due to the concentration gradient and general lack of evil available.
Really, why are authorities even promising monopoly wifi to companies anyway?
Nothing really. They just do it all for you.
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It's just a set of products. Nifty, but not revolutionary, well to those with a reliable electricity supply anyway. The nice thing is you can plonk it down literally anywhere in the world.
But it's very difficult to say "If you don't like the way things are run here, you can just leave." But that's the nature of a marketplace. You don't like something, move on elsewhere.
It's not easy to export a livejournal account to another service with more agreeable ToS. It's not easy to leave the friends and contacts behind when you move your blogging to another service. Well if your ethics are less important than the your apathy then what's the problem? Just stay where you are.
Gold in a faraway bank's vault ain't gonna cut it, since they'll just take your stuff and run. ok. I suspect you're thinking of a much larger collapse of civilisation than even the goldbugs. A country can just about operate with high inflation... You just have to lug money to the shops by the wheelbarrow load.
Except that gold maintains it's value in the face of a devaluing currency. But then, so do other commodities.
Money is just a commodity. Gold is just a commodity. Coffee is just a commodity.
When one of them is devaluing, the tendency is to move your value out to another one, which isn't devaluing. It isn't a case of demand for gold increasing or the value of the gold increasing, but demand for the currency decreasing along with it's value. Historically, over thousands of years, gold has continued to maintain it's value. Now as a currency, it has problems, just like fiat currencies but it can be used as a store of value.
Indeed it is this misperception, that "applications" (no matter how contrived) make the math "relevant" or "useful" that lead to a concentration on special cases and problem solving via recipe that actually helps hide why mathematics is actually useful. I disagree. Mathematics isn't useful. In day to day life, who uses any mathematics? (And I'm not talking arithmetic here)
Or at least that's the perception which the overwhelming majority of the population have. If you take away the practicality, then people who might just benefit from it simply don't realise that what they saw in maths class is applicable to something they're doing... Like crop yields.
There's no point having a tool unless it's use is understood. And in maths, they go into great detail about the tool, how shiny it is, how it bends this way and that way, how heavy it is, how wonderfully abstract it is. But you never see it in use, you never see it doing anything but sitting there looking pretty. It therefore appears to have no use.... and is therefore not used.
The same applies to other subject areas, maths was just an example. The relevance of almost all education is successfully removed by the education system.
With every day, I become more disgusted with the corporate greed stranglehold. Even more so, I amazed that consumers largely don't care. There you go. Cause and effect, all in two sentences.
I strongly suggest that any parents out there with kids in school actively remove them from the public education system and look at an internationally recognised qualification, independent of political control:
What we need is a way to make it more interesting -- and show students how, for example, conducting an experiment or programming a simulation on a computer can be fun It needs to be relevant.
It's the biggest problem we have in education. Showing the students the context of the material. We take all this knowledge which exists out of it's context, transfer it to a classroom... And instantly make it utterly irrelevant.
WTF use is a quadratic equation in a book? Not much. But to calculate the potential yield of a field of produce it is useful.
There is no reason you can't teach them basic calculus either. No calculus??? I did calculus at 'O' grade in Scotland. Oh come on, it isn't even that hard.
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Races between these vehicles would be... spectacular.
This time he actually has something to sell.
For the general public anyway. They might make good military vehicles or some other special purpose.
If they ever become fully computer controlled then maybe.
I'd hope they would be computer controlled. Alternatively they might be better suited to military applications, like the hovercraft.
Not so surprising if you've read Dawkins (For the non geneticists among us).
You see, according to him, we are machines whose purpose is to allow genes to replicate. The fact that other genes co-opt this mechanism isn't entirely surprising if you look at it from that perspective.
If this vote was bought. What about all the previous ones? How much is the SIS worth?
The organisation has instantly lost all credibility.
This is clearly shown by the Google, "Do No Evil" corporate slogan. More a statement of the inability to perform evil due to the concentration gradient and general lack of evil available.
And you didn't mention to him that this was attempted fraud, (while writing down his name)?
Of killing & eating each other. That's life on earth.
... disadvantaged.
Any artificial life without that pedigree is going to be
You're seeing it from the wrong point of view.
You're a machine used by your genes to propagate themselves.
Really, why are authorities even promising monopoly wifi to companies anyway?
It's just a set of products. Nifty, but not revolutionary, well to those with a reliable electricity supply anyway. The nice thing is you can plonk it down literally anywhere in the world.
If it matters and you want out they don't exactly make it difficult for you:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?
Except that gold maintains it's value in the face of a devaluing currency. But then, so do other commodities.
Money is just a commodity. Gold is just a commodity. Coffee is just a commodity.
When one of them is devaluing, the tendency is to move your value out to another one, which isn't devaluing. It isn't a case of demand for gold increasing or the value of the gold increasing, but demand for the currency decreasing along with it's value. Historically, over thousands of years, gold has continued to maintain it's value. Now as a currency, it has problems, just like fiat currencies but it can be used as a store of value.
And trade with money is just barter by another name. I agree that bandwidth doesn't make a particularly good currency.
And only use the version number when you mention Ubuntu.
Or at least that's the perception which the overwhelming majority of the population have. If you take away the practicality, then people who might just benefit from it simply don't realise that what they saw in maths class is applicable to something they're doing... Like crop yields.
There's no point having a tool unless it's use is understood. And in maths, they go into great detail about the tool, how shiny it is, how it bends this way and that way, how heavy it is, how wonderfully abstract it is. But you never see it in use, you never see it doing anything but sitting there looking pretty. It therefore appears to have no use.... and is therefore not used.
The same applies to other subject areas, maths was just an example. The relevance of almost all education is successfully removed by the education system.
I strongly suggest that any parents out there with kids in school actively remove them from the public education system and look at an internationally recognised qualification, independent of political control:
The International Baccalaureate.
http://www.ibo.org/
Well, if we increase the amount of money in the economy by 14% a year, everyone must be getting wealthier? no?
Labour like inflation. It fools the plebs.
It's the biggest problem we have in education. Showing the students the context of the material. We take all this knowledge which exists out of it's context, transfer it to a classroom... And instantly make it utterly irrelevant.
WTF use is a quadratic equation in a book? Not much. But to calculate the potential yield of a field of produce it is useful.
Science positions in the UK are particularly poorly paid. If the country needed more scientists, surely the high wages would indicate the problem.
Two lungs, two kidneys, a liver which regenerates given half a chance. Why no second pump. Seems like a design failure to me.