It's true that the original Ned Ludd protests in 1811 were purely a labor movement by crofters who perceived their artisanal fabric-making business in danger from the Jacquard loom. No concept of what industrialization would mean in the long run existed at the time.
It would be nice if we had a more historically accurate term for it, but the movement that we call Luddite today actually is a visceral hatred of innovation itself. It's the idea that applications of science are by default dangerous and 'corporate'.
Hmmm. If we developed an Ebola vaccine, it might be the world's greatest knows way of eliminating Luddites. We could even put a homeopathically small trace amount of mercury in it, just to make sure.
The latest OS X includes Handoff, which right now is just a way of starting work on one Apple device or computer and subsequently continuing it on another ("Handoff"). ArsTechnica, in their long-form review of OS X 10.10, has some details on the internals of this feature. It seems to be implemented in a way that would eventually allow for having client tasks on your iDevice interact with server processes on your remote OS X machine - or on a cloud server.
It's an election year. This is the occasion for prosecutors to lobby for jail construction bonds, at the same time as inventing new categories of prisoners to fill them. How many people are jailed for "paraphernalia," which means common items that might possibly be used in the drug trade. Failing that, we can always crank down the blood alcohol limit one more time until one beer with dinner out is enough to expose middle-class people to the prison system for the first time.
As with everything else: it may be difficult for us to envision a distant ideal, but all of us can envision an incremental improvement from our current state.
There is a lot of confusion in the public mind between genetic choice and eugenics.
Almost all of us are the result of genetic choice: two people picked each other out and started having babies that they hoped are like themselves in as many ways as possible. We all want our children to be more intelligent than the average, just as we want them to be taller, stronger and better looking. That's basic human nature, and whatever technology becomes available to give us more choice in creating offspring gets incorporated into that process. In time, genetic choice by embryonic sorting will become the norm.
Eugenics, on the other hand, is a set of genetic ideals imposed by governments. It became an international fad in the early twentieth century as an outgrowth of Darwinism. Until WW II, it was as popular in the US as it was anywhere else.
Oooh, a professional phrenologist! And if your test babies show a fear response to images of guns and nuclear plants, does that nail them politically also?
I'm not a believer in "alternative" medicine, including your witch doctors. I just want to be able to buy conventional medical services on an open market, in the same way that I shop for electronics. If I'm prescribed a medication, I want to be able to shop the world market for the best deal, just as the Canadian government does. If the Silicon Valley disruptors were to offer me a medical market, this is the market that would be most important to me. I don't care that much about the rare occasions when I need a cab ride.
But we're nerds, remember, so we get the plain and practical woman. In the long run, this gives us more success in life than those whose success was in following their hormones.
Einstein, a pacifist, did not recommend starting the Manhattan Project. His letter warned Roosevelt that Germany was pursuing development that could result in a bomb. Starting Manhattan was roosevelt's idea.
I wish Silicon Valley would start developing market schemes like this for the medical field. How often do I take cabs? Now how often do I stuff the pockets of the Pharma monopoly?
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It's true that the original Ned Ludd protests in 1811 were purely a labor movement by crofters who perceived their artisanal fabric-making business in danger from the Jacquard loom. No concept of what industrialization would mean in the long run existed at the time.
It would be nice if we had a more historically accurate term for it, but the movement that we call Luddite today actually is a visceral hatred of innovation itself. It's the idea that applications of science are by default dangerous and 'corporate'.
Don't forget the four million people who died at Chernobyl, and the radioactive wasteland of Pennsylvania.
Which even if were true would be of ni use if you put your solar panels in a place where is either
1. No sun, or
2. Californians.
Ivanpah, CA, has plenty of featureless open desert for its solar mirrors. Unfortunately, it's also infested with Californians.
It means "Natural Sciences"
Hmmm. If we developed an Ebola vaccine, it might be the world's greatest knows way of eliminating Luddites. We could even put a homeopathically small trace amount of mercury in it, just to make sure.
The latest OS X includes Handoff, which right now is just a way of starting work on one Apple device or computer and subsequently continuing it on another ("Handoff"). ArsTechnica, in their long-form review of OS X 10.10, has some details on the internals of this feature. It seems to be implemented in a way that would eventually allow for having client tasks on your iDevice interact with server processes on your remote OS X machine - or on a cloud server.
Can we see your bestselling Gnu tablet?
Don't rely on the whim of judges. Develop stronger crypto.
It's an election year. This is the occasion for prosecutors to lobby for jail construction bonds, at the same time as inventing new categories of prisoners to fill them. How many people are jailed for "paraphernalia," which means common items that might possibly be used in the drug trade. Failing that, we can always crank down the blood alcohol limit one more time until one beer with dinner out is enough to expose middle-class people to the prison system for the first time.
Don't worry, we will definitely attempt no landing there.
As with everything else: it may be difficult for us to envision a distant ideal, but all of us can envision an incremental improvement from our current state.
There is a lot of confusion in the public mind between genetic choice and eugenics.
Almost all of us are the result of genetic choice: two people picked each other out and started having babies that they hoped are like themselves in as many ways as possible. We all want our children to be more intelligent than the average, just as we want them to be taller, stronger and better looking. That's basic human nature, and whatever technology becomes available to give us more choice in creating offspring gets incorporated into that process. In time, genetic choice by embryonic sorting will become the norm.
Eugenics, on the other hand, is a set of genetic ideals imposed by governments. It became an international fad in the early twentieth century as an outgrowth of Darwinism. Until WW II, it was as popular in the US as it was anywhere else.
Oooh, a professional phrenologist! And if your test babies show a fear response to images of guns and nuclear plants, does that nail them politically also?
Being free to join Comcast is like being free to join ISIS, except that Comcast hates Americans more.
"...Comcast is a bad guy the US army won't do anything about."
That's because if the US Army attacked Comcast, they could have it fired.
I've seen a nuclear warhead. They are disturbingly small.
This is Slashdot. In our culture, snark is an experimental protocol.
We'll know whether to panic when that 21-day quarantine period is up. Unless the CDC is wrong about that period also.
Whoosh!
What I'm saying is that iOS doesn't support Flash in the first place.
I'm not a believer in "alternative" medicine, including your witch doctors. I just want to be able to buy conventional medical services on an open market, in the same way that I shop for electronics. If I'm prescribed a medication, I want to be able to shop the world market for the best deal, just as the Canadian government does. If the Silicon Valley disruptors were to offer me a medical market, this is the market that would be most important to me. I don't care that much about the rare occasions when I need a cab ride.
But we're nerds, remember, so we get the plain and practical woman. In the long run, this gives us more success in life than those whose success was in following their hormones.
Ich bin nicht ein Geschichtnazi, aber...
Einstein, a pacifist, did not recommend starting the Manhattan Project. His letter warned Roosevelt that Germany was pursuing development that could result in a bomb. Starting Manhattan was roosevelt's idea.
I wish Silicon Valley would start developing market schemes like this for the medical field. How often do I take cabs? Now how often do I stuff the pockets of the Pharma monopoly?