Actually, they are talking about putting people into a sort of low temp stasis, like people who drown in freezing water go into. Much less boredom. That is "mostly dead", if you ask me.
This is different. Nobody gets high from pictures of heroin.
OTOH, the real reason why kiddie porn is illegal is because manufacturing it is harmful to the kiddies. No kiddies are harmed in the making of Manga, though, so it should not be illegal, in my opinion. In fact, it seems like a far better sexual outlet for the small percentage of men who like this sort of stuff than actual kiddies, so I'd say it should be encouraged by society. Making something illegal doesn't stop demand, as the 'war on drugs' and prohibition has clearly shown.
My company is "partnered" with Cisco to develop networking equipment for smart infrastructure. Working with them is impossible, and they are completely dysfunctional as an organization. The result is that their product is total shit and doesn't work, and their attitude is that it's our job to make our product work with it, despite the fact that their stuff does not comply with published networking standards.
They've been riding on their brand's coat tails for far too long... Hopefully a Ubiquiti or someone like them will step up and fill the hole that Cisco is digging itself into.
I hate this. Cisco used to be the innovators in the networking space. Now, they are stuck in the mud. Like IBM in the 90s.
What a sad story. My friends at cisco talk about having to do more with less. People get layed off, but the work they did still needs to get done. So, more hours, more frantic checkins, less QA. In short, a dreadful mess. My last year there, I was required to be on call (unpaid) during a mandatory company wide 'furlough' over the Christmas holiday. They used to give us a paid week of holiday over Christmas/Newyears. At the end, I was, in effect, forced to give them a paid holiday instead.
I'm also glad I got out when I did. Early retirement! The other older folks who didn't take it were fired 3 months later. I'm surprised that anybody but H1Bs are still working there. In fact, all my remaining cisco friends ARE H1Bs. Sigh...
Evolution is driven by competition. Evolution works in making life take advantage of every possible bit of resource in the world. Sadly, evolution also forces the losers to die out.
Cooperation is like the activity of an individual body. Cells cooperate with one another, because they all are on board with the program, they understand their place in it, and have an interest in making things work for everyone. It is easy to see that competition within a body is a body dying of cancer.
Is society a body, or is it a bunch of individuals, competing with each other? It is a bit of both, I think. In fact, the fact that we can both compete and cooperate may be what makes us human.
Lest somebody misunderstand, the very essence of an enterprise (any enterprise) is that it is a bundle of labour and capital whose essential structure and identity is independent of and more persistent than the labour it employs. The identity behind its labour component is no more important than the identity of its capital component.
Sigh. This is obviously false. The essence of any enterprise is the information that it encodes, its "DNA". The capital is like the energy that runs the organism. The labor is analogous to the cells, taking the information, and encoding it into products that are exchanged with the environment, and which allow the enterprise to function.
However, in high tech, the information is somewhat more difficult to encode than in, say, civil engineering, where everything they do is easily codified, and there is a long historical context to draw upon. Software and hardware practice is just not that mature yet. So, the information that is used by the enterprise is, for the most part, encoded within the behaviors and practices of the employees.
So, this makes the view that an enterprise is simply labor + capital both incorrect and harmful. By flushing employees, the enterprise is flushing its DNA. If enough of the corporate DNA is lost, the enterprise flounders, failing to build whatever keeps it alive, despite more and more urgent injections of both capital and labor. Eventually, it dies.
There were well known 'scams' run by the Air Force to play up to UFO guys, making them think that their evidence of black projects (stealth technology) was actually UFOs. They did this because they wanted to own the UFO researchers, in case the russians were using them to spy on their black projects.
In WWII, the Allied ground assault was helped by disinformation campaigns, which included inflatable tanks and trucks. They had fake transmitters, broadcasting as if they were particular command centers, so the NAZIs could triangulate their (wrong) position. Lying to the enemy is a very cost effective way to win.
On the other hand, NASA landed unmanned vehicles on the moon. Why couldn't they land a radio repeater and a laser reflector?
I don't buy the conspiracy theories for a minute, but they aren't inconsistent. They are just far less likely than the possibility that people landed on the moon.
You obviously lack an understanding of science. While it's true that there's not a lot science can prove, there's some and sometimes more importantly what it can disprove.
Prove something for me. Remember, it has to be true without any doubt.
We cannot prove that that the sun is a fusion machine, creating heavier and heavier elements over time. We can't prove that uranium comes from supernovas. We can't prove anything about the sun, because nobody can prove anything about the world. Only math has proofs.
However, we can make a very clever guess about fusion and uranium, and collect data to determine if that guess is at least consistent with both observation and our prior guesses.
We can then base our actions on these guesses, just like we base our actions on guesses about whether the earth in front of us will open up and swallow our car when we are doing 60 mph on the freeway. The overwhelming likelyhood is that, no, the chasm won't open. But we can't PROVE it.
I beg to differ. Nothing is ever 'proven' in science. Only math has proofs.
Science is just a process of observing and remembering which facts that you think are true, so you can build on them, or possibly find a way to refute them. No proofs exist for any real hypothesis. All sensory input is subject to errors.
Science is easy. Everybody does it every day. Babies are doing science when they are crying in different ways, and noticing which of these get them more milk. Evolution is science, in which the hypothesis are generated by random mutation, and the test of 'truth' is survival.
The thing that is moving us forward is memory. Remembering what worked, and what didn't. Evolution gets to write the truth in DNA. We write it down with journals.
We are writing memory down in a way that probably represents the truth, so others can depend on it, and thus 'stand on the shoulders of giants'. We are publishing those results so that more of us can start at a point that will move the frontier forward.
That is why things like manipulating science textbooks to reflect religious belief ticks me off. Or, editing climate reports because your buddies in the oil industry don't like them. It perverts the process of remembering the truth.
Note that whether god exists is immaterial to this endeavor. If she exists, she is rooting us on, hoping we'll understand more of the world, to her credit. If she doesn't exist, well, we get new iPhones and cars that don't crash and an internet that lets us keep remembering what worked and maybe quantum computers that can simulate worlds, so we can be the gods.
Nobody in the western world gets ebola, because it requires terrible sanitation and hospital practices to get started as an epidemic. There have been 10 cases of hemorrhagic fever in the US in the last 10 years. None of them erupted into an epidemic.
If somebody tried to use it as a weapon, they would need to introduce huge quantities of it into the food supply. Given the west's food inspection regime, that would be difficult to do.
On the other hand, it is all still working. It reboots occasionally. My computer does that. By reformatting, they will map out any bad sectors, which is probably the issue, and it'll run for another 10 years. Sounds like a smart technology tradeoff to me. Use cheap, off the shelf hardware, and KISS it to death. Write a special driver, or build special hardware to do ECC, and you end up with a bug that causes the system to freeze in an unrecoverable way.
Actually, better to look for problems with the simulation. I know that software I write often has "Fix This" in comments. I wonder if the bit where relativity and quantum mechanics was supposed to be reconciled has a 'Fix This' in the source code?
When they called me, I was overcome with passion, and yelled "You are a lying cunt" into the phone. Man, I hate these parasites. The other guys I hate are the robocallers who pretend to be the IRS. Sadly, it is a generated female voice, and so can't be usefully yelled at. Dialing their number may be dangerous, so I haven't just called them up and yelled at them. Assholes
I rather like telling them to hold on while I go into the other room so I can hear them better, then setting the phone down with the line still open and going back to whatever I was doing before they called.
At a prior employer, we were in a cube area. Somehow, a scumbag cold calling salesman had gotten our number, in which all the phone numbers were (xxx) xxx-12. They had already called three people in cube number order when they got to me, so, I pulled this 'tell them to hold, put the phone down' gag on the guy, and told everybody else to do it. It took him 5 more calls to figure out that we were on to him.
High school age kids are just coming into their psychosis at that age. Full blown schizophrenia happens in about 1 in 100 individuals, so, if you have kids in high school, and your high school has 1000 kids, 10 of them are probably fighting incipient insanity. Many more will end up in jail.
I'd go with being more, rather than less, paranoid in this situation if I was a teacher or administrator.
It is all about short term gains. "Next quarter, our payroll will be lower." This problem has been brewing since the 80s, when people found out that gutting companies and looting their pension funds was wildly profitable, and that nobody would put you in jail if you did it. In fact, they run you for president.
Most of the people I know from india (and I worked at cisco for 10 years, so I know a lot of them) really like the united states. They like it. They like the schools, the houses, the stores, the people. They like it.
They can also make enough money to send it home. Many build houses for their parents, and for themselves (in India), while they are working in the US, but most just like it here so much they move their parents over as well, or have extended visits.
Much of India has a terrible climate, horrible traffic, and a corrupt government. Indians like it in the U.S. because they can pick someplace like Silicon Valley, with arguably the best climate in the world, best schools, best roads, housing, and they don't have to bribe officials to get things done.
Only up to a point if you have seen some of the stuff that employers get away with in India you would not be surprised they want to run a way - also not having property stolen by AK toting gangsters is a plus as happened to a college of mines family back in India - or if your a Muslim or a low caste person American even on h1b term seems like the promised land
Is this still true? I thought caste was a thing of the past, at least in the cities.
Remember that ATT didn't let other people connect to their lines until the 1960s. They have a shared monopoly. Business 101 suggests that they suck as much cash as they can while the government lets them get away with it. Their business isn't supplying you with netflix. It is picking your pocket in any way they can.
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Better yet, how about sending dead people?
Actually, they are talking about putting people into a sort of low temp stasis, like people who drown in freezing water go into. Much less boredom. That is "mostly dead", if you ask me.
This is different. Nobody gets high from pictures of heroin.
OTOH, the real reason why kiddie porn is illegal is because manufacturing it is harmful to the kiddies. No kiddies are harmed in the making of Manga, though, so it should not be illegal, in my opinion. In fact, it seems like a far better sexual outlet for the small percentage of men who like this sort of stuff than actual kiddies, so I'd say it should be encouraged by society. Making something illegal doesn't stop demand, as the 'war on drugs' and prohibition has clearly shown.
Yep, I also thought this. Strange how a few years of inattentiveness can affect your world.
My company is "partnered" with Cisco to develop networking equipment for smart infrastructure. Working with them is impossible, and they are completely dysfunctional as an organization. The result is that their product is total shit and doesn't work, and their attitude is that it's our job to make our product work with it, despite the fact that their stuff does not comply with published networking standards.
They've been riding on their brand's coat tails for far too long... Hopefully a Ubiquiti or someone like them will step up and fill the hole that Cisco is digging itself into.
I hate this. Cisco used to be the innovators in the networking space. Now, they are stuck in the mud. Like IBM in the 90s.
What a sad story. My friends at cisco talk about having to do more with less. People get layed off, but the work they did still needs to get done. So, more hours, more frantic checkins, less QA. In short, a dreadful mess. My last year there, I was required to be on call (unpaid) during a mandatory company wide 'furlough' over the Christmas holiday. They used to give us a paid week of holiday over Christmas/Newyears. At the end, I was, in effect, forced to give them a paid holiday instead.
I'm also glad I got out when I did. Early retirement! The other older folks who didn't take it were fired 3 months later. I'm surprised that anybody but H1Bs are still working there. In fact, all my remaining cisco friends ARE H1Bs. Sigh...
Evolution is driven by competition. Evolution works in making life take advantage of every possible bit of resource in the world. Sadly, evolution also forces the losers to die out.
Cooperation is like the activity of an individual body. Cells cooperate with one another, because they all are on board with the program, they understand their place in it, and have an interest in making things work for everyone. It is easy to see that competition within a body is a body dying of cancer.
Is society a body, or is it a bunch of individuals, competing with each other? It is a bit of both, I think. In fact, the fact that we can both compete and cooperate may be what makes us human.
Lest somebody misunderstand, the very essence of an enterprise (any enterprise) is that it is a bundle of labour and capital whose essential structure and identity is independent of and more persistent than the labour it employs. The identity behind its labour component is no more important than the identity of its capital component.
Sigh. This is obviously false. The essence of any enterprise is the information that it encodes, its "DNA". The capital is like the energy that runs the organism. The labor is analogous to the cells, taking the information, and encoding it into products that are exchanged with the environment, and which allow the enterprise to function.
However, in high tech, the information is somewhat more difficult to encode than in, say, civil engineering, where everything they do is easily codified, and there is a long historical context to draw upon. Software and hardware practice is just not that mature yet. So, the information that is used by the enterprise is, for the most part, encoded within the behaviors and practices of the employees.
So, this makes the view that an enterprise is simply labor + capital both incorrect and harmful. By flushing employees, the enterprise is flushing its DNA. If enough of the corporate DNA is lost, the enterprise flounders, failing to build whatever keeps it alive, despite more and more urgent injections of both capital and labor. Eventually, it dies.
I've had to remove steam. Boot times are incredibly slow when it is installed. It doesn't install malware; it IS the malware.
a) NASA and the Air Force
b) Scare the Russkies
There were well known 'scams' run by the Air Force to play up to UFO guys, making them think that their evidence of black projects (stealth technology) was actually UFOs. They did this because they wanted to own the UFO researchers, in case the russians were using them to spy on their black projects.
In WWII, the Allied ground assault was helped by disinformation campaigns, which included inflatable tanks and trucks. They had fake transmitters, broadcasting as if they were particular command centers, so the NAZIs could triangulate their (wrong) position. Lying to the enemy is a very cost effective way to win.
On the other hand, NASA landed unmanned vehicles on the moon. Why couldn't they land a radio repeater and a laser reflector?
I don't buy the conspiracy theories for a minute, but they aren't inconsistent. They are just far less likely than the possibility that people landed on the moon.
You obviously lack an understanding of science. While it's true that there's not a lot science can prove, there's some and sometimes more importantly what it can disprove.
Prove something for me. Remember, it has to be true without any doubt.
Show me it can be done.
Cute, but no cake for you. Beside the point.
We cannot prove that that the sun is a fusion machine, creating heavier and heavier elements over time. We can't prove that uranium comes from supernovas. We can't prove anything about the sun, because nobody can prove anything about the world. Only math has proofs.
However, we can make a very clever guess about fusion and uranium, and collect data to determine if that guess is at least consistent with both observation and our prior guesses.
We can then base our actions on these guesses, just like we base our actions on guesses about whether the earth in front of us will open up and swallow our car when we are doing 60 mph on the freeway. The overwhelming likelyhood is that, no, the chasm won't open. But we can't PROVE it.
Only mathematicians need or want proof.
I beg to differ. Nothing is ever 'proven' in science. Only math has proofs.
Science is just a process of observing and remembering which facts that you think are true, so you can build on them, or possibly find a way to refute them. No proofs exist for any real hypothesis. All sensory input is subject to errors.
Science is easy. Everybody does it every day. Babies are doing science when they are crying in different ways, and noticing which of these get them more milk. Evolution is science, in which the hypothesis are generated by random mutation, and the test of 'truth' is survival.
The thing that is moving us forward is memory. Remembering what worked, and what didn't. Evolution gets to write the truth in DNA. We write it down with journals.
We are writing memory down in a way that probably represents the truth, so others can depend on it, and thus 'stand on the shoulders of giants'. We are publishing those results so that more of us can start at a point that will move the frontier forward.
That is why things like manipulating science textbooks to reflect religious belief ticks me off. Or, editing climate reports because your buddies in the oil industry don't like them. It perverts the process of remembering the truth.
Note that whether god exists is immaterial to this endeavor. If she exists, she is rooting us on, hoping we'll understand more of the world, to her credit. If she doesn't exist, well, we get new iPhones and cars that don't crash and an internet that lets us keep remembering what worked and maybe quantum computers that can simulate worlds, so we can be the gods.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/2...
If it’s all a "liberal" conspiracy, what are they trying to gain?
Not to pick sides, but just to answer your question:
Carbon Credits
Vast Government agencies to oversee environmental regulations
Alternative fuel research and corporations
Grants and associated kickbacks for "green" and "clean" industry
Save 600 Million People from having to fight wars to get land to farm on, because their land has been swamped by seawater.
There, FIFY
Nobody in the western world gets ebola, because it requires terrible sanitation and hospital practices to get started as an epidemic. There have been 10 cases of hemorrhagic fever in the US in the last 10 years. None of them erupted into an epidemic.
If somebody tried to use it as a weapon, they would need to introduce huge quantities of it into the food supply. Given the west's food inspection regime, that would be difficult to do.
On the other hand, it is all still working. It reboots occasionally. My computer does that. By reformatting, they will map out any bad sectors, which is probably the issue, and it'll run for another 10 years. Sounds like a smart technology tradeoff to me. Use cheap, off the shelf hardware, and KISS it to death. Write a special driver, or build special hardware to do ECC, and you end up with a bug that causes the system to freeze in an unrecoverable way.
Actually, better to look for problems with the simulation. I know that software I write often has "Fix This" in comments. I wonder if the bit where relativity and quantum mechanics was supposed to be reconciled has a 'Fix This' in the source code?
When they called me, I was overcome with passion, and yelled "You are a lying cunt" into the phone. Man, I hate these parasites. The other guys I hate are the robocallers who pretend to be the IRS. Sadly, it is a generated female voice, and so can't be usefully yelled at. Dialing their number may be dangerous, so I haven't just called them up and yelled at them. Assholes
I rather like telling them to hold on while I go into the other room so I can hear them better, then setting the phone down with the line still open and going back to whatever I was doing before they called.
At a prior employer, we were in a cube area. Somehow, a scumbag cold calling salesman had gotten our number, in which all the phone numbers were (xxx) xxx-12. They had already called three people in cube number order when they got to me, so, I pulled this 'tell them to hold, put the phone down' gag on the guy, and told everybody else to do it. It took him 5 more calls to figure out that we were on to him.
High school age kids are just coming into their psychosis at that age. Full blown schizophrenia happens in about 1 in 100 individuals, so, if you have kids in high school, and your high school has 1000 kids, 10 of them are probably fighting incipient insanity. Many more will end up in jail.
I'd go with being more, rather than less, paranoid in this situation if I was a teacher or administrator.
It is all about short term gains. "Next quarter, our payroll will be lower." This problem has been brewing since the 80s, when people found out that gutting companies and looting their pension funds was wildly profitable, and that nobody would put you in jail if you did it. In fact, they run you for president.
Most of the people I know from india (and I worked at cisco for 10 years, so I know a lot of them) really like the united states. They like it. They like the schools, the houses, the stores, the people. They like it.
They can also make enough money to send it home. Many build houses for their parents, and for themselves (in India), while they are working in the US, but most just like it here so much they move their parents over as well, or have extended visits.
Much of India has a terrible climate, horrible traffic, and a corrupt government. Indians like it in the U.S. because they can pick someplace like Silicon Valley, with arguably the best climate in the world, best schools, best roads, housing, and they don't have to bribe officials to get things done.
At least, that is what they tell me.
Only up to a point if you have seen some of the stuff that employers get away with in India you would not be surprised they want to run a way - also not having property stolen by AK toting gangsters is a plus as happened to a college of mines family back in India - or if your a Muslim or a low caste person American even on h1b term seems like the promised land
Is this still true? I thought caste was a thing of the past, at least in the cities.
Remember that ATT didn't let other people connect to their lines until the 1960s. They have a shared monopoly. Business 101 suggests that they suck as much cash as they can while the government lets them get away with it. Their business isn't supplying you with netflix. It is picking your pocket in any way they can.