This might mean that "scared straight" could actually work to keep small businessmen honest. Might want to make introductions with convicted tax cheats a mandatory part of getting a business license... apparently it would work pretty well.
Uhm, perhaps you might consider that exposing small businessfolk to convicted tax cheats would increase the number of tax cheats. If you believe the first half about "scared straight" actually increasing propensity to crime, apparently it would work pretty well***. If you show a book like this to some businessfolk that haven't used social media before, perhaps there is something else going on....
1. Invest in Social Media 2. Note that businesses that used your Social Media illegally, don't yield much in repeat business opportunities 3. ??? [Write book documenting how businesses used Social Media illegally] 4. Profit! (legally, illegally, or at least a little bit of money to buy the book)
***On a related note, there is antecdotal evidence that exposure to criminal elements in prisons serves to increase crime rate. Bascially we have created an insititution that simultaneosly selects people that are pre-disposed to commit crimes and puts them with people that can serve as an introduction to more crimes that they may not have known about yet.... way to go!!!
...all of my vague acquaintances and high school classmates who I didn't like then will always need a place to tell me...
I always wonder... 1. what motivates people accept friends on facebook that they don't like? 2. how different these folks are from the other 85million fake people on facebook? ("these folks" being a deliberatly vague reference) 3. why people post anything on facebook at all given #1 and #2?
The good news (for you): almost no placebos in large medical trials are "sugar-filled" pills**. The bad news (for everyone): ingredients of placebos are mostly unregulated, usually not published, and are often formulated to attempt to duplicate the known side effects of the medicine in question in a relatively benign manner.
**most actual pills, however, are sugar coated***, so in that sense almost all pills (including both real pills and placebo pills) are "sugar" pills... ***the coating of pills is often plastic phthalates (embedded with sugar and artificial colors), yet another thing to worry about when taking pills...
Seriously... How stupid are we as an "intelligent" species that we don't rely on the massive oceans for our water supplies? Desalinate it, pump it, drink it. I'm really surprised that a multi-billion dollar industry hasn't popped up to make this happen all over to planet.
1. Look for sustainable, cost-effective energy source competitive with evapotranspiration to process water... 2. ??? 3. Desaliate it, Pump it 4. Profit!!
Only non-gaming, non-engineering application I've seen for [trig] is doing disk parity in RAID arrays.
I don't think that it is fair to say high-school [trig] is used for this. The error "distance" used in typical RAID is only "tangentially" related to what most folks would call trigonometry...;^)
...one still needed a critical mass of students to agree it was worth spending their time [and tuition] to learn your language.
Okay, we can remove all barriers except this one. How can you convince a critical mass of people to agree that it is worth spending their time to learn your language? Investing time is really more critical than all the others put together.
Why don't a critical mass of people to spend time learning Tuvan throat singing? Because they aren't interested and/or they don't think it's worth their time. Why do many people spend their time learning english? Because they perceive that is is worth their time.
This is the problem with many "new" languages. The problems that most folks are trying to solve is often not limited by language, but the availability of infrastructure. Let's take Ruby as an example. It isn't the most elegant of languages (although that is a matter of taste), but some folks when through the trouble of attempting to make it useful enough (e.g., gems, rails, etc) to convince some folks to spend time to learn it (like me). From the time it was first conceived until Rails popularized it, that was 10+ years...
One swallow does not a summer make, nor a few web-classes a programming language renaissance.
Apparently, a shell company called UnXis bought all that was left of SCO (except the lawsuit) for $600K. I'm assuming SCO lawyers got some money from some Dubai emirate to set UnXis up and then proceeded to dump that money into SCO so they could bleed it out. Now that money is gone, so Chapter 7 it is...
All that Unixware/OpenServer source base belongs to them (not us).
This will increase credit card fraud. The destination address is now effectively anonymous.
Except that most of the locations are in venues that have tons of security camera coverage (e.g., 7-elevens, grocery store, or drug-stores).
Sadly, I was a victim of some identity theft fraud where some hooligans created an account (not Amazon) and deliberatly directed some package delivery to their neighbor's house and stole them off the stoop after delivery. During the investigation, the cops initially accused this poor lady of doing the deed, but later they found out it was some neighbor's (not-so) clever kid.
Something like this would seem to be somewhat less exploitable than the above scheme as there is at least some video camera deterance.
In mexico, the possession of pretty much all drugs have been decriminalized, yet there doesn't seem to be an end in sight for the mexican drug war. Essentially all the gangs in Mexico want to be the ones to supply drugs to the US and are fighting it out to do so. Merely legalizing drugs in Mexico hasn't prevented the underground in Mexico from pretty much owning major parts of the country.
As with all things, it boils down to profit. The underground avoids complying with tax, customs, employment, and environmental laws. In the USA, you see some above-ground MJ dispensaries attempting to dodge taxes and purchase through quasi-legal channels (some state require dispensaries to grow their own) ostensibly to compete with the illegal suppliers with their rock bottom prices (or maybe they are just crooked business folks, hard to tell sometimes).
An underground generally thrives simply because there is proft to be made, not some sort of nebulous vacuum to be filled. Just like illicit prescription drugs, pirated software, books, movies, and songs: when there's more money to be made legally, than illegally, then the underground will fade.
But you have to actually create an account to disable the "psuedo-anonymous" history they are keeping on you...
Just like you have to pay for your credit report with a credit card, you must join to opt out (and hope they don't use that information against you)...
...As an interrupt handler it clearly "ripped off" CP/M to the point of being almost identical....
Apparently it was made identical for the purpose of allowing Qdos to reuse Intel's CP/M-8 to CP/M-16 conversion scheme... From here... http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/
My hope was that by making it as easy as possible to port existing 8-bit applications to our 16-bit computer... Intel had defined rules for translating 8-bit programs into 16-bit programs; CP/M translation compatibility means that when a program's request to CP/M went through the translation, it would become an equivalent request to DOS... So I made CP/M translation compatibility a fundamental design goal. This required me to create a very specific Application Program Interface that implemented the translation compatibility.
Even back then... Developers, Developers, Developers...;^)
If it's looking for bioelectrical signatures, it likely will have more trouble identifying you when you are dehydrated, drunk, high, out of breath (from running or experiencing a heart-attack), etc...
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't let you do that right now because you are not Dave...
On the other hand, if you loosened the identification threshold so these kind variations didn't matter, there probably wouldn't be much entropy left in that identification scheme. Someone with a simliar height and build would probably be easily mistaken for you.
Although the title of the article made it seem like she walked away from social media in general, it seems to me that she merely walked away from fakebook (oops) because she didn't drink enough the Zuck's koolaid (claims that zuck said "I don't know if I trust you" to his supposed ghost writer)...
I was once asked to ghost write (in a quasi-technical context), and I politely refused. Didn't cost me too many points with the CEO as there was plenty of other jobs to do in the company. I understand her position was not necessarily the same, but she took that new job and then apparently didn't like it and probably considered it blood money and needed to clean her soul of it.
I submit that the most common outcome of selling your soul for blood money is usually the same for most people. It destroys you from inside until you walk. You usually never really have to take blood money, but the opportuntiy often comes up in a seductive way and challenges you in your weakest moment. The best thing to do is say no, but not everyone does. I'll wager that she didn't have to move in the the position that left her the most disillusioned, but it was likley a most seductive opportunity (to ghost write for the Zuck)...
Hopefully the lesson about blood money doesn't get diluted by polluting it with the equally intriguing, but overdone story about the dangers in the vitualization of real social interaction and trusting your privacy to a bunch of 20-some frat boy wannabes...
...the EU will just keep transferring money from the rich to subsidy for farm animal meat for the rest of us.
Until that banking crisis forces a different path...
Ironically, people that tow-the-line on sustainability are often the first to fool themselves that taking from the rich isn't subject to the laws of sustainability either. In the long run, that strategy isn't any more sustainable than farming for animal meat if you aren't doing to measure and sustain them, the population (of rich folks) will be overused and collapse just like any other. Putting your head into the sand and ignoring this and continuing to exploit that resource because it always worked in the past is just yet another form of the ignorance that sustainability folks rail against in the general population...
Hmm... well, the US rewrote the Japan constitution forbidding them from having an (obvious) offensive military capability. With the Cold War, the US didn't need to be this heavy-handed about it. But West Germany was divided up into 3 zones for the US, GB and France to "defend" in case the Warsaw Pact forces decided to invade through Germany.
West germany was not divided up into 3 zones to "defend" in case the Warsaw pact forces decided to invade. Germany (and the capital Berlin) were divided into 4 occupied zones as the prize for winning WWII. It just so happens that 3 of the zones, were de-occupied much earlier than the remaining one and thus suffered a different "fate".
It also worked good enough for European countries as well. They only had to maintain plausible military forces to "help" fill in with NATO if necessary, as the US took on the role to backstop them if the USSR attacked them. This freed up GDP in these countries for other uses. Same with Japan. The US benefited from this as well, as we then had viable economic partners that were favorable to US economic interests. The US kind of demonstrated a potential industrial capacity for military production that only the USSR and now China can really come close to matching.
Also the US was not worried about France and Italy, GB as military competitors (as alluded to by the original poster), they were really just have taken advantage of the situation. After WWII, these european countries were not really viable economic "partners" because of the wartime destruction of their economies and the attempted deindustrialization of germany by some of the allied powers to punish them for the war. The US basically changed this course of history by attempting to quickly rebuild europe (via the Marshall plan and other efforts) as a hedge against an expanding communist threat, by exporting our economic system to europe with germany as the core (as it was historically).
This effort had the effect of unifying 3 of the 4 occupied german zones, but of course the Soviet Union (the occupier of the other zone) didn't go along with that as they had other ideas. The soviet union and associated warsaw pact countries were definitly not using the US as a proxy army, so I stand by my comment that "many countries != 2 countries";^)
My guess, current measures of intelligence seem to attempt to measure more knowledge than problem solving and cognitive association strategies. In this context knowledge might be simply considered "memo-ized" versions of problem solving and association strategies from other people.
As a more discussed example, consider the well-trodden "chinese room" thought experiment. Knowlege (or a simulation of intelligence) is likely stored in a brain in a certain way. This may be more efficient or less efficient, but it is likely not significantly different from the outside in most situations. The mechanisms to create new knowledge is likely stored in the brain in a different way and also have more or less efficient storage. You may not be able to observe much difference from the outside (e.g, an intelligence test), although perhaps maybe an MRI can tease apart the triggering of mechanisms to create new knowledge, that likely ignores measuring the knowledge aspect of intelligence or any measures of efficiency of storage.
On the other hand, thinking about intelligence from a testability point of view, we are all likely standing on the shoulders of giants...
Nous sommes des nains assis sur des épaules de géants. Si nous voyons plus de choses et plus lointaines qu’eux, ce n’est pas à cause de la perspicacité de notre vue, ni de notre grandeur, c’est parce que nous sommes élevés par eux.
If this is actually true, our individual intelligence is probably but miniscule contribution to the observable intelligence that we exhibit. To even think about measuring any sort of intrinsic intelligence independently of the knowlege we have obtained through life experience of being products of giants is likely an exercise in trivial pursuits...
If were were to truly test for some sort of intrinsic intelligence independent of knowledge (say the ability for problem solving), it seems like a test must present problems where it is reasonable to assume that the test-ee has not seen a strategy for solving it before (or the measurement is polluted the knowledge or lack of knowledge of viable solution strategies) and the test-er must judge the solution w/o bias of the solution strategy. I doubt anyone is making such tests for intelligence and even if it was attempted, where do you set the baseline knowledge to solve the problem?
Perhaps 78.3% of what most people consider intellegence is knowledge + some common knowledge creating part of the brain, and they can somehow measure the remainder in an MRI? Who knows?
I doubt it, though. My guess is that they are only measuring the efficiency of storage and recall of knowledge in the MRI and that is it. People that can store and recall better generally do better on controlled time tests, but not so much better, and we are only seeing that weak correlation, nothing more.
I hope you aren't arguing that other countries fall into the category that use the US as a proxy army because we didn't want them to be military competitors post-WW2. Other countries merely have taken advantage of the situation, the US didn't really worry about them being military competitors.
I mean, I can think of a little company from Albuquerque that ended up doing pretty well for itself.
Of course, they weren't originally from NM, they moved there from Boston location to be nearer to their first primary customer (although they first incorporated in NM). Later, they moved to the place which was the headquarters of the company that created the program that became the basis of their first block-buster product...
So I guess another option to starting in CA is to chase your primary customer around the country. Unfortunatly, that might be the same as starting in CA if your primary customer is in California, right? That's not true for every company, but quite a few tech companies fall into that situation these days...
Phoenix ?!? Has anyone ever been there? This is pure long-shot PR from someone with real estate interests..
Intel has had facilities in Chandler, AZ pretty much forever (since 1979)...
Even though Chandler is only 25 miles from Phoenix, that presence didn't help it become the next silicon valley in 1990 boom, so what is different today (except the real-estate bust)? Yeah... real-estate interests;^)
Before Steve was in charge, Apple grew. When Steve was fired, downhill. When Steve was brought back, more growth.
FTFY.
Although Steve was a founder and high level exec and visionary, he really wasn't in charge of the business stuff in the early days of Apple (inside sources seem to indicate it was mostly Mike Markkula behind the scenes). By many accounts, he learned his CEO business lessons on the job at Pixar and NeXT, and brought those lessons back to Apple.
That all depends on a host of factors. If the transplant came from a brother or sister (or from yourself, which is becoming more and more common these days) the rate of rejection is very low (still not 0, but close to it). If it's coming from a stranger rejection is more likely, though that again depends on how good the match is and how the new immune system reacts. There are even cases where doctors will chose a 'less good' match for patients with persistent cancer because it increases the chances of the new immune helping to finish off the cancer. At least, that's what they told me when I was in to donate.
Incidentally, it's not the host's body that rejects the bone marrow, it's generally the other way around. The new bone marrow rejects the host, called graft vs host disease.
I don't know about this case, but in standard BMT, a full histocompatible match with siblings isn't that likely (of course this doesn't fully correlate to the rate of rejection).
AFAIK, Since one set of HLA (human leukocyte antigen) genes comes from your mother and one set comes from your father, there is roughly only a 1 in 4 chance that your brother or sister inherited the same two sets of HLA genes that you have.
Of course you can attempt to use a partial match (there are 4 genes per set so the odds aren't that great) or even as low as a haplomatch (1/2 match), which by definition you have a 100% chance of that with your parent (you got one of those chromosomes, right), but still only 50% chance with a brother or sister (they might have gotten the other one).
Apparently the standard treatment for partially matched donors is to deplete the donor graft of T lymphocite cells help avoid graft vs host disease. Sometimes they additionally prescribe more nasty radiation and chemotherapy type treatments to reduce the chance of rejection. But perhaps these things wouldn't be done for somebody with AIDS because they would tend to increase the risks of infection.
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This might mean that "scared straight" could actually work to keep small businessmen honest. Might want to make introductions with convicted tax cheats a mandatory part of getting a business license... apparently it would work pretty well.
Uhm, perhaps you might consider that exposing small businessfolk to convicted tax cheats would increase the number of tax cheats. If you believe the first half about "scared straight" actually increasing propensity to crime, apparently it would work pretty well***. If you show a book like this to some businessfolk that haven't used social media before, perhaps there is something else going on....
1. Invest in Social Media
2. Note that businesses that used your Social Media illegally, don't yield much in repeat business opportunities
3. ??? [Write book documenting how businesses used Social Media illegally]
4. Profit! (legally, illegally, or at least a little bit of money to buy the book)
***On a related note, there is antecdotal evidence that exposure to criminal elements in prisons serves to increase crime rate. Bascially we have created an insititution that simultaneosly selects people that are pre-disposed to commit crimes and puts them with people that can serve as an introduction to more crimes that they may not have known about yet.... way to go!!!
...all of my vague acquaintances and high school classmates who I didn't like then will always need a place to tell me...
I always wonder...
1. what motivates people accept friends on facebook that they don't like?
2. how different these folks are from the other 85million fake people on facebook? ("these folks" being a deliberatly vague reference)
3. why people post anything on facebook at all given #1 and #2?
Some placebos are sugar pills...
The good news (for you): almost no placebos in large medical trials are "sugar-filled" pills**.
The bad news (for everyone): ingredients of placebos are mostly unregulated, usually not published, and are often formulated to attempt to duplicate the known side effects of the medicine in question in a relatively benign manner.
**most actual pills, however, are sugar coated***, so in that sense almost all pills (including both real pills and placebo pills) are "sugar" pills...
***the coating of pills is often plastic phthalates (embedded with sugar and artificial colors), yet another thing to worry about when taking pills...
// task: can you find the unsafe production practices in this psuedocode? // assume we can create this // important first step: use fissional fuel // might be a while
class ThoriumCycle {
VALUE money;
LICENSE licence;
REACTOR Reactor;
REPROCESSOR ReprocessingFacility;
FUEL fuel;
vector<MESS> wasteStorage;
ThoriumCycle (VALUE &startupMoney, FUEL &Plutonium) : money(startupMoney) {
licence = Government.Lobby(money,influence);
assert(licence.recieved(), "damn protestors");
Reactor = license.Factory(REACTOR);
Reprocessor = license.Factory(REPROCESSOR);
fuel = Plutonium;
}
Running(vector<FERTILE> &ThoriumSupply) {
Reactor.FuelWith(fuel);
(heat, neutrons, waste) = Reactor.Burn();
wasteStorage.push(waste);
forall (Th232 in ThoriumSupply) {
MESS U233_Th232_mixture = Reactor.Breed(neutrons, Th232);
(fuel=U233, residualTh232, waste) = Reprocessor.Mess(U233_Th232_mixture);
ThoriumSupply.push(residualTh232);
wasteStorage.push(waste);
if (not_enough_to_be_critical(U233) or Reactor.BeyondServiceLife() or money<minimum) break;
Reactor.FuelWith(U233);
(heat, neutrons, waste) = Reactor.Burn();
wasteStorage.push(waste);
ENERGY electricity = ELECTRICITY(heat);
money += CASH(electricity) - currentOperatingExpenses;
}
}
~ThoriumCycle() {
wasteStorage.push(Reprocessor.Decommision(money));
delete Reprocessor;
wasteStorage.push(Reactor.Decommision(money));
delete Reactor;
waitFor(wasteStorage.isSafe(money));
assert (money>0,"oops not viable operation");
}
};
Seriously... How stupid are we as an "intelligent" species that we don't rely on the massive oceans for our water supplies? Desalinate it, pump it, drink it. I'm really surprised that a multi-billion dollar industry hasn't popped up to make this happen all over to planet.
1. Look for sustainable, cost-effective energy source competitive with evapotranspiration to process water...
2. ???
3. Desaliate it, Pump it
4. Profit!!
Only non-gaming, non-engineering application I've seen for [trig] is doing disk parity in RAID arrays.
I don't think that it is fair to say high-school [trig] is used for this. The error "distance" used in typical RAID is only "tangentially" related to what most folks would call trigonometry... ;^)
...one still needed a critical mass of students to agree it was worth spending their time [and tuition] to learn your language.
Okay, we can remove all barriers except this one. How can you convince a critical mass of people to agree that it is worth spending their time to learn your language? Investing time is really more critical than all the others put together.
Why don't a critical mass of people to spend time learning Tuvan throat singing? Because they aren't interested and/or they don't think it's worth their time. Why do many people spend their time learning english? Because they perceive that is is worth their time.
This is the problem with many "new" languages. The problems that most folks are trying to solve is often not limited by language, but the availability of infrastructure. Let's take Ruby as an example. It isn't the most elegant of languages (although that is a matter of taste), but some folks when through the trouble of attempting to make it useful enough (e.g., gems, rails, etc) to convince some folks to spend time to learn it (like me). From the time it was first conceived until Rails popularized it, that was 10+ years...
One swallow does not a summer make, nor a few web-classes a programming language renaissance.
XBMC (was XBox Media Center). Just like...
KFC (was Kentucky Fried Chicken)...
AT&T (was American Telephone & Telegraph)
COLECO (was COnneticut LEather COmpany)
Apparently, a shell company called UnXis bought all that was left of SCO (except the lawsuit) for $600K. I'm assuming SCO lawyers got some money from some Dubai emirate to set UnXis up and then proceeded to dump that money into SCO so they could bleed it out. Now that money is gone, so Chapter 7 it is...
All that Unixware/OpenServer source base belongs to them (not us).
This will increase credit card fraud. The destination address is now effectively anonymous.
Except that most of the locations are in venues that have tons of security camera coverage (e.g., 7-elevens, grocery store, or drug-stores).
Sadly, I was a victim of some identity theft fraud where some hooligans created an account (not Amazon) and deliberatly directed some package delivery to their neighbor's house and stole them off the stoop after delivery. During the investigation, the cops initially accused this poor lady of doing the deed, but later they found out it was some neighbor's (not-so) clever kid.
Something like this would seem to be somewhat less exploitable than the above scheme as there is at least some video camera deterance.
As you yourself note, the real issue with Mexico's drug war is the USAs drug laws.
And the real issue with the opium war was the chinese drug laws?
In mexico, the possession of pretty much all drugs have been decriminalized, yet there doesn't seem to be an end in sight for the mexican drug war. Essentially all the gangs in Mexico want to be the ones to supply drugs to the US and are fighting it out to do so. Merely legalizing drugs in Mexico hasn't prevented the underground in Mexico from pretty much owning major parts of the country.
As with all things, it boils down to profit. The underground avoids complying with tax, customs, employment, and environmental laws. In the USA, you see some above-ground MJ dispensaries attempting to dodge taxes and purchase through quasi-legal channels (some state require dispensaries to grow their own) ostensibly to compete with the illegal suppliers with their rock bottom prices (or maybe they are just crooked business folks, hard to tell sometimes).
An underground generally thrives simply because there is proft to be made, not some sort of nebulous vacuum to be filled. Just like illicit prescription drugs, pirated software, books, movies, and songs: when there's more money to be made legally, than illegally, then the underground will fade.
But you have to actually create an account to disable the "psuedo-anonymous" history they are keeping on you...
Just like you have to pay for your credit report with a credit card, you must join to opt out (and hope they don't use that information against you)...
...As an interrupt handler it clearly "ripped off" CP/M to the point of being almost identical....
Apparently it was made identical for the purpose of allowing Qdos to reuse Intel's CP/M-8 to CP/M-16 conversion scheme... From here... http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/
My hope was that by making it as easy as possible to port existing 8-bit applications to our 16-bit computer...
Intel had defined rules for translating 8-bit programs into 16-bit programs; CP/M translation compatibility means that when a program's request to CP/M went through the translation, it would become an equivalent request to DOS...
So I made CP/M translation compatibility a fundamental design goal. This required me to create a very specific Application Program Interface that implemented the translation compatibility.
Even back then... Developers, Developers, Developers... ;^)
If it's looking for bioelectrical signatures, it likely will have more trouble identifying you when you are dehydrated, drunk, high, out of breath (from running or experiencing a heart-attack), etc...
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't let you do that right now because you are not Dave...
On the other hand, if you loosened the identification threshold so these kind variations didn't matter, there probably wouldn't be much entropy left in that identification scheme. Someone with a simliar height and build would probably be easily mistaken for you.
Although the title of the article made it seem like she walked away from social media in general, it seems to me that she merely walked away from fakebook (oops) because she didn't drink enough the Zuck's koolaid (claims that zuck said "I don't know if I trust you" to his supposed ghost writer)...
I was once asked to ghost write (in a quasi-technical context), and I politely refused. Didn't cost me too many points with the CEO as there was plenty of other jobs to do in the company. I understand her position was not necessarily the same, but she took that new job and then apparently didn't like it and probably considered it blood money and needed to clean her soul of it.
I submit that the most common outcome of selling your soul for blood money is usually the same for most people. It destroys you from inside until you walk. You usually never really have to take blood money, but the opportuntiy often comes up in a seductive way and challenges you in your weakest moment. The best thing to do is say no, but not everyone does. I'll wager that she didn't have to move in the the position that left her the most disillusioned, but it was likley a most seductive opportunity (to ghost write for the Zuck)...
Hopefully the lesson about blood money doesn't get diluted by polluting it with the equally intriguing, but overdone story about the dangers in the vitualization of real social interaction and trusting your privacy to a bunch of 20-some frat boy wannabes...
...the EU will just keep transferring money from the rich to subsidy for farm animal meat for the rest of us.
Until that banking crisis forces a different path...
Ironically, people that tow-the-line on sustainability are often the first to fool themselves that taking from the rich isn't subject to the laws of sustainability either. In the long run, that strategy isn't any more sustainable than farming for animal meat if you aren't doing to measure and sustain them, the population (of rich folks) will be overused and collapse just like any other. Putting your head into the sand and ignoring this and continuing to exploit that resource because it always worked in the past is just yet another form of the ignorance that sustainability folks rail against in the general population...
Just sayn'
I suppose that's better than the billions in funding that universities normally get for their ongoing study in immorality...
Hmm... well, the US rewrote the Japan constitution forbidding them from having an (obvious) offensive military capability. With the Cold War, the US didn't need to be this heavy-handed about it. But West Germany was divided up into 3 zones for the US, GB and France to "defend" in case the Warsaw Pact forces decided to invade through Germany.
West germany was not divided up into 3 zones to "defend" in case the Warsaw pact forces decided to invade. Germany (and the capital Berlin) were divided into 4 occupied zones as the prize for winning WWII. It just so happens that 3 of the zones, were de-occupied much earlier than the remaining one and thus suffered a different "fate".
It also worked good enough for European countries as well. They only had to maintain plausible military forces to "help" fill in with NATO if necessary, as the US took on the role to backstop them if the USSR attacked them. This freed up GDP in these countries for other uses. Same with Japan. The US benefited from this as well, as we then had viable economic partners that were favorable to US economic interests. The US kind of demonstrated a potential industrial capacity for military production that only the USSR and now China can really come close to matching.
Also the US was not worried about France and Italy, GB as military competitors (as alluded to by the original poster), they were really just have taken advantage of the situation. After WWII, these european countries were not really viable economic "partners" because of the wartime destruction of their economies and the attempted deindustrialization of germany by some of the allied powers to punish them for the war. The US basically changed this course of history by attempting to quickly rebuild europe (via the Marshall plan and other efforts) as a hedge against an expanding communist threat, by exporting our economic system to europe with germany as the core (as it was historically).
This effort had the effect of unifying 3 of the 4 occupied german zones, but of course the Soviet Union (the occupier of the other zone) didn't go along with that as they had other ideas. The soviet union and associated warsaw pact countries were definitly not using the US as a proxy army, so I stand by my comment that "many countries != 2 countries" ;^)
My guess, current measures of intelligence seem to attempt to measure more knowledge than problem solving and cognitive association strategies. In this context knowledge might be simply considered "memo-ized" versions of problem solving and association strategies from other people.
As a more discussed example, consider the well-trodden "chinese room" thought experiment. Knowlege (or a simulation of intelligence) is likely stored in a brain in a certain way. This may be more efficient or less efficient, but it is likely not significantly different from the outside in most situations. The mechanisms to create new knowledge is likely stored in the brain in a different way and also have more or less efficient storage. You may not be able to observe much difference from the outside (e.g, an intelligence test), although perhaps maybe an MRI can tease apart the triggering of mechanisms to create new knowledge, that likely ignores measuring the knowledge aspect of intelligence or any measures of efficiency of storage.
On the other hand, thinking about intelligence from a testability point of view, we are all likely standing on the shoulders of giants...
Nous sommes des nains assis sur des épaules de géants. Si nous voyons plus de choses et plus lointaines qu’eux, ce n’est pas à cause de la perspicacité de notre vue, ni de notre grandeur, c’est parce que nous sommes élevés par eux.
If this is actually true, our individual intelligence is probably but miniscule contribution to the observable intelligence that we exhibit. To even think about measuring any sort of intrinsic intelligence independently of the knowlege we have obtained through life experience of being products of giants is likely an exercise in trivial pursuits...
If were were to truly test for some sort of intrinsic intelligence independent of knowledge (say the ability for problem solving), it seems like a test must present problems where it is reasonable to assume that the test-ee has not seen a strategy for solving it before (or the measurement is polluted the knowledge or lack of knowledge of viable solution strategies) and the test-er must judge the solution w/o bias of the solution strategy. I doubt anyone is making such tests for intelligence and even if it was attempted, where do you set the baseline knowledge to solve the problem?
Perhaps 78.3% of what most people consider intellegence is knowledge + some common knowledge creating part of the brain, and they can somehow measure the remainder in an MRI? Who knows?
I doubt it, though. My guess is that they are only measuring the efficiency of storage and recall of knowledge in the MRI and that is it. People that can store and recall better generally do better on controlled time tests, but not so much better, and we are only seeing that weak correlation, nothing more.
Many countries != 2 countries: Japan, Germany
I hope you aren't arguing that other countries fall into the category that use the US as a proxy army because we didn't want them to be military competitors post-WW2. Other countries merely have taken advantage of the situation, the US didn't really worry about them being military competitors.
I mean, I can think of a little company from Albuquerque that ended up doing pretty well for itself.
Of course, they weren't originally from NM, they moved there from Boston location to be nearer to their first primary customer (although they first incorporated in NM). Later, they moved to the place which was the headquarters of the company that created the program that became the basis of their first block-buster product...
So I guess another option to starting in CA is to chase your primary customer around the country. Unfortunatly, that might be the same as starting in CA if your primary customer is in California, right? That's not true for every company, but quite a few tech companies fall into that situation these days...
Phoenix ?!? Has anyone ever been there?
This is pure long-shot PR from someone with real estate interests..
Intel has had facilities in Chandler, AZ pretty much forever (since 1979)...
Even though Chandler is only 25 miles from Phoenix, that presence didn't help it become the next silicon valley in 1990 boom, so what is different today (except the real-estate bust)? Yeah... real-estate interests ;^)
Before Steve was in charge, Apple grew. When Steve was fired, downhill. When Steve was brought back, more growth.
FTFY.
Although Steve was a founder and high level exec and visionary, he really wasn't in charge of the business stuff in the early days of Apple (inside sources seem to indicate it was mostly Mike Markkula behind the scenes). By many accounts, he learned his CEO business lessons on the job at Pixar and NeXT, and brought those lessons back to Apple.
That all depends on a host of factors. If the transplant came from a brother or sister (or from yourself, which is becoming more and more common these days) the rate of rejection is very low (still not 0, but close to it). If it's coming from a stranger rejection is more likely, though that again depends on how good the match is and how the new immune system reacts. There are even cases where doctors will chose a 'less good' match for patients with persistent cancer because it increases the chances of the new immune helping to finish off the cancer. At least, that's what they told me when I was in to donate.
Incidentally, it's not the host's body that rejects the bone marrow, it's generally the other way around. The new bone marrow rejects the host, called graft vs host disease.
I don't know about this case, but in standard BMT, a full histocompatible match with siblings isn't that likely (of course this doesn't fully correlate to the rate of rejection).
AFAIK, Since one set of HLA (human leukocyte antigen) genes comes from your mother and one set comes from your father, there is roughly only a 1 in 4 chance that your brother or sister inherited the same two sets of HLA genes that you have.
Of course you can attempt to use a partial match (there are 4 genes per set so the odds aren't that great) or even as low as a haplomatch (1/2 match), which by definition you have a 100% chance of that with your parent (you got one of those chromosomes, right), but still only 50% chance with a brother or sister (they might have gotten the other one).
Apparently the standard treatment for partially matched donors is to deplete the donor graft of T lymphocite cells help avoid graft vs host disease. Sometimes they additionally prescribe more nasty radiation and chemotherapy type treatments to reduce the chance of rejection. But perhaps these things wouldn't be done for somebody with AIDS because they would tend to increase the risks of infection.