There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that poor people are genetically inferior.
But the genetically inferior are more likely to be poor. Intelligence gives people opportunities they would not otherwise have, and personal drive allows them to create opportunities that aren't immediately available to them.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'm warning you that the attitude you have toward social justice is ultimately self-defeating. The highly intelligent can choose their income level up to a certain point simply by choosing their profession. It should be the goal of society to afford every individual that level of freedom. Intimating that we need an equality of outcomes due the unfairness of the universe is only going to make you enemies, and serves to reinforce the idea that wealth itself is somehow morally deserved by some and not by others.
It has to start with the individual, with their health, their education, their attitudes, and eventually, their DNA. To remove the oppressive hierarchies of the market, you don't redistribute the outputs, you redistribute the inputs. You give everyone the same freedom and wealth of opportunities.
Yes, but you're missing the point. The luckiest thing that ever happened to Bill Gates happened at the moment of his conception. His innate drive and intelligence practically guaranteed his success, the only difference his opportunities made was whether he'd end up a multi-millionaire or a billionaire. A person like that does not give up. Nature kicks nurture's ass all the way to the curb.
The error is believing that anyone "deserves" what they have. We are all the products of circumstances beyond our control. The market merely rewards success because that is the function of the market. It does not care who is smart or who isn't, or who works hard or who is lazy, it tends to allocate resources according to who provides the most value to the system.
It's very tempting to believe that you're there because of some kind of innate superiority,
Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm there because of an innate superiority. The error is thinking that the world owes me or anyone else a reward for winning the genetic lottery.
We Americans are FAR too convinced that throwing money at education is bound to fix the problem
Actually, throwing money will go a long way to fixing the problem, as long as the teachers catch it instead of the school boards. When you hire the cheapest workers, you get the cheapest results.
Oh, and when we spend more than any other country per student and don't get half as good results[citation needed].
I have not found anything that substantiates this, though I did find a ranking that puts us at third or twenty-first, depending on whether you express the expense as a proportion of GDP or not.
It's a really BAD precedent to set, to legally enforce the idea that a software developer can FORCE a customer to use their product only in specific ways they outline.
Yeah, about that. There are these things called license agreements, they're kind of like contracts, which are a sort of legal instrument, that is maybe, like, thousands of years old.
If you don't like the license, don't buy the software.
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Charlie Stross and Ken MacLeod are fairly computer literate and often reference Linux and whatnot in their near-future fiction. It's not exactly unusual.
If a people want to go to war, then let them go to war. If they are ultimately destroyed, it will be their own fault. We place far to much blame on leaders and are far too forgiving of the followers that enabled them. It is a form of scapegoating that ironically keeps those leaders in power. It is to their advantage that a population be considered blameless, because it enables their personal wars to be made in much the same way that corporate liability emboldens unethical business practices. The rank and file have no fear of reprisal if they believe they aren't personally responsible.
The real fault with the H1B program is that it is structured in a way that encourages companies to offshore jobs.
No, the real fault with the H1B program is that it is nothing more than a scam to undercut the market rate for specialized skills and to depress all salaries by keeping guest workers beholden to their sponsoring corporation.
Instead of keeping those skilled workers under the gun of deportation, give them green cards, put them on the road to citizenship, and that solves all problems. They are able to shop the market, so salaries aren't depressed. They won't return to their home country, so offshoring is diminished. They bleed competing countries of their best and brightest and push the lowest performers out of our own market, thus making our country as a whole more competitive.
And in the event that a case is made, internal to the administration, that the President -- now or in the future -- really needs to have his own personal communications device(s), that fact in itself -- not to mention the specific equipment and carriers -- doesn't need to be, and, frankly, shouldn't be, publicly disclosed.
You, are, just, whining, because, it's, not, an, iPhone.
I have to side with Jobs himself, on this one. People just need to leave him alone, and stay out of this media crusade to "get to the bottom of what's ailing him".
This is the Streisand effect in action. The more people scream leave Bri^H^H^H Steve alone, the more people want to know what the big secret is all about.
If civilizations are that common, then the threat of attack by competing civilizations is more pronounced, therefore survivors will go to great lengths to hide themselves. We should assume that our simple technology will never detect a Type-II civilization because they would never announce their presence so obviously as by enclosing a star.
It originally meant having a crack available to the copy protection of piece of software on the day of its release (the zero day, being more impressive than the day after, or three weeks later). The script kiddies started using it to refer to any type of exploit because it sounded cool, so it has now been rationalized to refer to an exploit for which there is no patch available, regardless of how long the software has been out or how long the exploited flaw has been known.
There is no defense against "zero day". The script kiddie misappropriation of warez d00d slang is now so embedded in the nomenclature that even legitimate security researchers are using it.
What is actually killing the economy is the business major. There are too many people who don't know a trade going around thinking that the world owes them something.
LOL. You forgot reintroducing the combination of the monitor and mainboard in the same enclosure, available in a wide variety of fruity colors, which also introduced the most obnoxious branding convention ever devised.
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Just because I'm american and we are allowed the freedom of speech inside the US doesn't mean I can have a copy of Mein Kampf in Germany.
By that logic, we should all STFU whenever these companies assist foreign governments in tracking down dissidents.
Either natural rights exist or they don't. If they exist, then it doesn't matter what country a person is in when they are infringed.
Ahmadinejad went on to say "Our satellites will block out the sun."
Why, yes, yes I am. Stay thirsty, amigo.
Creating it isn't so difficult, but keeping it is a bitch.
There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that poor people are genetically inferior.
But the genetically inferior are more likely to be poor. Intelligence gives people opportunities they would not otherwise have, and personal drive allows them to create opportunities that aren't immediately available to them.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'm warning you that the attitude you have toward social justice is ultimately self-defeating. The highly intelligent can choose their income level up to a certain point simply by choosing their profession. It should be the goal of society to afford every individual that level of freedom. Intimating that we need an equality of outcomes due the unfairness of the universe is only going to make you enemies, and serves to reinforce the idea that wealth itself is somehow morally deserved by some and not by others.
It has to start with the individual, with their health, their education, their attitudes, and eventually, their DNA. To remove the oppressive hierarchies of the market, you don't redistribute the outputs, you redistribute the inputs. You give everyone the same freedom and wealth of opportunities.
Yes, but you're missing the point. The luckiest thing that ever happened to Bill Gates happened at the moment of his conception. His innate drive and intelligence practically guaranteed his success, the only difference his opportunities made was whether he'd end up a multi-millionaire or a billionaire. A person like that does not give up. Nature kicks nurture's ass all the way to the curb.
The error is believing that anyone "deserves" what they have. We are all the products of circumstances beyond our control. The market merely rewards success because that is the function of the market. It does not care who is smart or who isn't, or who works hard or who is lazy, it tends to allocate resources according to who provides the most value to the system.
It's very tempting to believe that you're there because of some kind of innate superiority,
Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm there because of an innate superiority. The error is thinking that the world owes me or anyone else a reward for winning the genetic lottery.
We Americans are FAR too convinced that throwing money at education is bound to fix the problem
Actually, throwing money will go a long way to fixing the problem, as long as the teachers catch it instead of the school boards. When you hire the cheapest workers, you get the cheapest results.
Oh, and when we spend more than any other country per student and don't get half as good results [citation needed].
I have not found anything that substantiates this, though I did find a ranking that puts us at third or twenty-first, depending on whether you express the expense as a proportion of GDP or not.
alternate server to continue to enjoy our purchase.
You mean the alternate server running software literally stolen from Blizzard?
It's a really BAD precedent to set, to legally enforce the idea that a software developer can FORCE a customer to use their product only in specific ways they outline.
Yeah, about that. There are these things called license agreements, they're kind of like contracts, which are a sort of legal instrument, that is maybe, like, thousands of years old.
If you don't like the license, don't buy the software.
Used to be, flesh-eating robots could eat only slugs.
Apple is the new Microsoft.
Charlie Stross and Ken MacLeod are fairly computer literate and often reference Linux and whatnot in their near-future fiction. It's not exactly unusual.
If a people want to go to war, then let them go to war. If they are ultimately destroyed, it will be their own fault. We place far to much blame on leaders and are far too forgiving of the followers that enabled them. It is a form of scapegoating that ironically keeps those leaders in power. It is to their advantage that a population be considered blameless, because it enables their personal wars to be made in much the same way that corporate liability emboldens unethical business practices. The rank and file have no fear of reprisal if they believe they aren't personally responsible.
The real fault with the H1B program is that it is structured in a way that encourages companies to offshore jobs.
No, the real fault with the H1B program is that it is nothing more than a scam to undercut the market rate for specialized skills and to depress all salaries by keeping guest workers beholden to their sponsoring corporation.
Instead of keeping those skilled workers under the gun of deportation, give them green cards, put them on the road to citizenship, and that solves all problems. They are able to shop the market, so salaries aren't depressed. They won't return to their home country, so offshoring is diminished. They bleed competing countries of their best and brightest and push the lowest performers out of our own market, thus making our country as a whole more competitive.
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And in the event that a case is made, internal to the administration, that the President -- now or in the future -- really needs to have his own personal communications device(s), that fact in itself -- not to mention the specific equipment and carriers -- doesn't need to be, and, frankly, shouldn't be, publicly disclosed.
You, are, just, whining, because, it's, not, an, iPhone.
I have to side with Jobs himself, on this one. People just need to leave him alone, and stay out of this media crusade to "get to the bottom of what's ailing him".
This is the Streisand effect in action. The more people scream leave Bri^H^H^H Steve alone, the more people want to know what the big secret is all about.
If civilizations are that common, then the threat of attack by competing civilizations is more pronounced, therefore survivors will go to great lengths to hide themselves.
We should assume that our simple technology will never detect a Type-II civilization because they would never announce their presence so obviously as by enclosing a star.
Unless she downloaded it without being notified upfront of the cost, she ain't going to win this one.
Are you an expert in German law? How can you possibly make such a statement?
In the United States, she could simply refuse to pay. They'd have to sue her to get the money, which they'd never do because they're a scam.
It originally meant having a crack available to the copy protection of piece of software on the day of its release (the zero day, being more impressive than the day after, or three weeks later). The script kiddies started using it to refer to any type of exploit because it sounded cool, so it has now been rationalized to refer to an exploit for which there is no patch available, regardless of how long the software has been out or how long the exploited flaw has been known.
There is no defense against "zero day". The script kiddie misappropriation of warez d00d slang is now so embedded in the nomenclature that even legitimate security researchers are using it.
What is actually killing the economy is the business major. There are too many people who don't know a trade going around thinking that the world owes them something.
The thing is, you seem to parse the words and glean some meaning, but the thing is, you miss the point entirely.
LOL. You forgot reintroducing the combination of the monitor and mainboard in the same enclosure, available in a wide variety of fruity colors, which also introduced the most obnoxious branding convention ever devised.