No one would switch out a mission critical system just because times are hard. That would require personnel, and it's one of the things they're trying to keep a handle on.
However, there will be a lot of small projects, peripheral projects, that they will want/need to get going. When times are good, it is easy to say, "Sure, throw it on my Oracle bill." It's when times are slow that managers start looking at re-using equipment and squeezing the pennies until Lincoln screems. The extra Oracle or MS-SQL license isn't so easy to come by, and they look around for what is at hand that they can use for free. Once MySQL gets in there, it will stay. Some day, the peripheral system may be deemed mission critical.
I had a conversation with my aunt this weekend. She seemed to be fairly knowledgeable and spoke at length about McCain's and Obama's platforms. She didn't know who Bob Barr was.
The only thing I would add is that not a single gun needs to be touched to oust the current crop of Alpha Wolves. If the populace gave a damn about anything other than making sure that someone else pays for them to go to the doctor, all they have to do is pull lever C instead of A or B. They have to expend exactly ZERO energy beyond what they were already expending.
Sadly, most would rather waste their votes on A or B, deciding HOW all their rights and property will be taken, instead of whether or not it will be taken.
Careful. It wasn't just the welfare recipients that she took shots at. Most of the named villains in "Atlas Shrugged" were actually rich 'industrialists' or even scientists.
The way I read it, Ayn Rand had a respect for people who worked and created things. Anything. Even Dagney Taggart was cast in a glowing light for beautifying the gardening around a summer house that she had retreated to. OTOH, she explicitly cursed anyone that chose to live on the productivity of others.
I think (but have no support) that she would strongly support a minimum wage law, while forcefully opposing any sort of welfare. A person should be paid a fair wage for a fair day's work, BUT ONLY if he worked a fair work. Corporate thieves like the current crop of national bankers should be rounded up, stripped of everything they have and jailed.
I hate to get specific, because it has been such a long time since I read the work; but, consider the episode of Hank Reardon selling a batch of steel to the farm tractor manufacturer. The law forbade it, and supporting the tractor maker could get Reardon into trouble. Cost him a lot of money. But Reardon didn't gouge the man for the steel. Sold it at market prices. This is an example of non-reciprocal altruism, isn't it? Reardon saw a fellow human, that he respected, struggling and made an effort to help him.
I contrast this with the government forcefully taking money that I earned, and giving it to someone who I believe has willfully wasted opportunity after opportunity to do better for themselves, ie, someone I have NO respect for. The perpetually unemployed yet obese food stamp recipients living in their own squalor get paid, but in no way is it charity. It is not altruism. It is a tool used by poverty pimps to collect and retain power.
Until we perfect mind reading, the true roots of a persons altruism will always be complicated and shrouded in mystery. I believe this fact has been used as a weapon by the people who would prefer to remain poverty pimps. "Ayn Rand is evil, because she wants everyone to be selfish." When the truth is that she wants everyone to be able to choose for themselves when they will be altruistic, and abhorred entities that will hide behind altruism to make power grabs for themselves.
It's only interesting in that it show that the people doing the study have a strange idea of what is considered liberalism and conservatism. "self-reliant, resilient, dominating and energetic" and yet strong supporters of social welfare programs? I'm self-reliant, but I want the national government to insure that I get health care? Huh? The conservatives are the ones easily victimized, but it is the liberals that push statements like, "It's because I'm black, isn't it"? My conversations with most liberals often lead to frustration, as most of the ones I've talked to are wholly unwilling to step outside of the talking points they've been fed. The ones that are actually open minded become close friends that I go to for debate when I'm not sure of myself.
It seems to me that the study is broken from its very premises.
My reading is that her writings promote "forced altruism is bad, greed is natural and unavoidable"
The problem I have with today's Democrats is that they want to take my money, give it to someone that's not willing to make the sacrifices to earn it honestly, and call that 'charity' or 'fairness'. Excuse me, that it not charity or fair. It may be 'necessary', but giving someone else's money away is not in any way charitable. Her writings attack those that would use the phrases "greater good" and "public good" to enhance their personal gain. Seen any of that lately?
I hope you do realize that our (US) form of government is built on the concept that the country should be ruled by people without expertise in politics.
No. I guess that is just to much to ask. The ruling classes have control again. Vote for your king while you still can.
I'll agree with you, right after China and India open up their immigration rules so that I can take my high wage, American job earnings and spend them in the low-wage countries.
And besides, what's wrong with being nationalistic, protectionist, greedy or implicitly racist. I'm explicitly racist, you insensitive clod!!
I can quite imagine in my parts of the world this being a feasible benefit for the elderly *and* the disabled. This doesn't mean everyone over 65 is all of a sudden going to be outfitted like robocop.
For the record, I live in North Carolina, America.
Have you not seen the commercials for electric wheelchairs?
"Come on down. Get your free electric wheelchair. We'll handle getting the money out of the government."
If the government starts giving them out, they'll have to give them to everyone with a doctor's note. The wheelchair companies know which doctor to send you to. This would be no different.
You claim that $26,400 is not an issue. That is very close to the median income of a working American. Your claim is that someone should be forced to work for a YEAR and turn over all the proceeds so that some random senior citizen can stand up without help. It may be the right thing to do, but it is most DEFINATELY an issue.
Quality of life is important. But it is not my responsibility to guarantee it for you, or my right to demand it of you.
The problem is that they will be running up against the Laws of Physics. You can make it smaller and lighter all you want, as long as you don't run up against those most enforced of laws.
Phones and video games just have to produce voltages large enough to represent 1s and possibly 0s. Maybe produce some light. You can get away with using less power if you can make the electronics smaller. A nice feedback loop.
This robotic system has to actually lift and move things. Things that are not getting smaller. It takes a given amount of power to lift a 170lb person. You can't make the power requirement smaller. To be mobile, something to generate that power has to be carried along. There are several ways of possibly accomplishing this task, but don't count on any major revolutions.
The patient's mobility will still be limited by how much battery reserves they can carry. This might be useful for letting the patient stand up to pull something off a shelf, but won't be useful for an extended shopping trip (barring a very long drop-cord).
The communication path between the mouse and the laptop is optical. The mouse is electronic. They said the interference was caused by the mouse clicking. Most switches are very noisy.
Anyone know how big a rock needs to start off to survive the passage thru the atmosphere and have any part of itself hit the ground??
Size doesn't matter (thank you. thank you. Tip your waitress). No, really. It matters, it just isn't "all" that matters. Relative velocity is just as important. If the body sneaks up on us from behind, it could actually have a relatively low differential velocity. The nickel-iron sample you found would probably fit in that category, and it slowed to terminal velocity before being burned up.
An extremely large body coming directly at us for a head-on collision probably wouldn't make it to the ground (and wouldn't have to in order to take out a large percentage of life in our little gravity well hole.)
Within context, it sounds fairly intelligent to me.
Palin knows that the media is trying to steer her into saying something like "We have to reduce entitlement spending to save our economy", which the media will then turn into "Palin wants babies to starve."
Palin knows that the base of voters that she is maintaining for McCain (while he tries to chase down independants) agrees that the media will twist what she says, while ignoring the obvious truth that entitlement spending has run wild.
For Palin to blow off the question and talk about what she wants gains her cred with the people who support her.
You may not like it. You may think it makes her look dumb. But she's not talking to YOU. She's talking to people that agree with her, which is her assigned role at this time. She is being flippant towards the people who are so often flippant to the people she is trying to represent.
My definition for intelligence is having the ability to modify the entities in ones environment to further ones own agenda.
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No one would switch out a mission critical system just because times are hard. That would require personnel, and it's one of the things they're trying to keep a handle on.
However, there will be a lot of small projects, peripheral projects, that they will want/need to get going. When times are good, it is easy to say, "Sure, throw it on my Oracle bill." It's when times are slow that managers start looking at re-using equipment and squeezing the pennies until Lincoln screems. The extra Oracle or MS-SQL license isn't so easy to come by, and they look around for what is at hand that they can use for free. Once MySQL gets in there, it will stay. Some day, the peripheral system may be deemed mission critical.
I had a conversation with my aunt this weekend. She seemed to be fairly knowledgeable and spoke at length about McCain's and Obama's platforms. She didn't know who Bob Barr was.
I believe she is typical.
Well said, ultranova.
The only thing I would add is that not a single gun needs to be touched to oust the current crop of Alpha Wolves. If the populace gave a damn about anything other than making sure that someone else pays for them to go to the doctor, all they have to do is pull lever C instead of A or B. They have to expend exactly ZERO energy beyond what they were already expending.
Sadly, most would rather waste their votes on A or B, deciding HOW all their rights and property will be taken, instead of whether or not it will be taken.
Careful. It wasn't just the welfare recipients that she took shots at. Most of the named villains in "Atlas Shrugged" were actually rich 'industrialists' or even scientists.
The way I read it, Ayn Rand had a respect for people who worked and created things. Anything. Even Dagney Taggart was cast in a glowing light for beautifying the gardening around a summer house that she had retreated to. OTOH, she explicitly cursed anyone that chose to live on the productivity of others.
I think (but have no support) that she would strongly support a minimum wage law, while forcefully opposing any sort of welfare. A person should be paid a fair wage for a fair day's work, BUT ONLY if he worked a fair work. Corporate thieves like the current crop of national bankers should be rounded up, stripped of everything they have and jailed.
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I hate to get specific, because it has been such a long time since I read the work; but, consider the episode of Hank Reardon selling a batch of steel to the farm tractor manufacturer. The law forbade it, and supporting the tractor maker could get Reardon into trouble. Cost him a lot of money. But Reardon didn't gouge the man for the steel. Sold it at market prices. This is an example of non-reciprocal altruism, isn't it? Reardon saw a fellow human, that he respected, struggling and made an effort to help him.
I contrast this with the government forcefully taking money that I earned, and giving it to someone who I believe has willfully wasted opportunity after opportunity to do better for themselves, ie, someone I have NO respect for. The perpetually unemployed yet obese food stamp recipients living in their own squalor get paid, but in no way is it charity. It is not altruism. It is a tool used by poverty pimps to collect and retain power.
Until we perfect mind reading, the true roots of a persons altruism will always be complicated and shrouded in mystery. I believe this fact has been used as a weapon by the people who would prefer to remain poverty pimps. "Ayn Rand is evil, because she wants everyone to be selfish." When the truth is that she wants everyone to be able to choose for themselves when they will be altruistic, and abhorred entities that will hide behind altruism to make power grabs for themselves.
It's only interesting in that it show that the people doing the study have a strange idea of what is considered liberalism and conservatism. "self-reliant, resilient, dominating and energetic" and yet strong supporters of social welfare programs? I'm self-reliant, but I want the national government to insure that I get health care? Huh? The conservatives are the ones easily victimized, but it is the liberals that push statements like, "It's because I'm black, isn't it"? My conversations with most liberals often lead to frustration, as most of the ones I've talked to are wholly unwilling to step outside of the talking points they've been fed. The ones that are actually open minded become close friends that I go to for debate when I'm not sure of myself.
It seems to me that the study is broken from its very premises.
ummmh?....Why do you think they worked so hard to shut down Ron Paul?
My reading is that her writings promote "forced altruism is bad, greed is natural and unavoidable"
The problem I have with today's Democrats is that they want to take my money, give it to someone that's not willing to make the sacrifices to earn it honestly, and call that 'charity' or 'fairness'. Excuse me, that it not charity or fair. It may be 'necessary', but giving someone else's money away is not in any way charitable. Her writings attack those that would use the phrases "greater good" and "public good" to enhance their personal gain. Seen any of that lately?
I hope you do realize that our (US) form of government is built on the concept that the country should be ruled by people without expertise in politics.
No. I guess that is just to much to ask. The ruling classes have control again. Vote for your king while you still can.
I'll agree with you, right after China and India open up their immigration rules so that I can take my high wage, American job earnings and spend them in the low-wage countries.
And besides, what's wrong with being nationalistic, protectionist, greedy or implicitly racist. I'm explicitly racist, you insensitive clod!!
The only thing I could find more disconcerting would be having the software written by someone that voted for John Kerry even once.
Anyone remember what happened the NEXT TIME we let Cyberdyne make anything remotely robotic? :-)
There. Fixed that for You.
There. Fixed that for me.
Anyone remember what happened the NEXT we let Cyberdyne make anything remotely robotic? :-)
There. Fixed that for ou.
I can quite imagine in my parts of the world this being a feasible benefit for the elderly *and* the disabled. This doesn't mean everyone over 65 is all of a sudden going to be outfitted like robocop.
For the record, I live in North Carolina, America.
Have you not seen the commercials for electric wheelchairs?
"Come on down. Get your free electric wheelchair. We'll handle getting the money out of the government."
If the government starts giving them out, they'll have to give them to everyone with a doctor's note. The wheelchair companies know which doctor to send you to. This would be no different.
You claim that $26,400 is not an issue. That is very close to the median income of a working American. Your claim is that someone should be forced to work for a YEAR and turn over all the proceeds so that some random senior citizen can stand up without help. It may be the right thing to do, but it is most DEFINATELY an issue.
Quality of life is important. But it is not my responsibility to guarantee it for you, or my right to demand it of you.
The problem is that they will be running up against the Laws of Physics. You can make it smaller and lighter all you want, as long as you don't run up against those most enforced of laws.
Phones and video games just have to produce voltages large enough to represent 1s and possibly 0s. Maybe produce some light. You can get away with using less power if you can make the electronics smaller. A nice feedback loop.
This robotic system has to actually lift and move things. Things that are not getting smaller. It takes a given amount of power to lift a 170lb person. You can't make the power requirement smaller. To be mobile, something to generate that power has to be carried along. There are several ways of possibly accomplishing this task, but don't count on any major revolutions.
The patient's mobility will still be limited by how much battery reserves they can carry. This might be useful for letting the patient stand up to pull something off a shelf, but won't be useful for an extended shopping trip (barring a very long drop-cord).
It is a step in the right direction, though.
I don't know, but I think she would look really nice in a burka.
The communication path between the mouse and the laptop is optical. The mouse is electronic. They said the interference was caused by the mouse clicking. Most switches are very noisy.
Or the thermal gradient changes as parts of the structure are in and out of the sunlight
Just put a cover over it. Duh!
My Dakota Quad Cab truck weighs 4376lbs. A Chevy S-10 weighs in at 3077lbs.
AOL CD's aren't that dense. It's the AOL USERS that are dense.
Anyone know how big a rock needs to start off to survive the passage thru the atmosphere and have any part of itself hit the ground??
Size doesn't matter (thank you. thank you. Tip your waitress). No, really. It matters, it just isn't "all" that matters. Relative velocity is just as important. If the body sneaks up on us from behind, it could actually have a relatively low differential velocity. The nickel-iron sample you found would probably fit in that category, and it slowed to terminal velocity before being burned up.
An extremely large body coming directly at us for a head-on collision probably wouldn't make it to the ground (and wouldn't have to in order to take out a large percentage of life in our little gravity well hole.)
Don't you judge me, FishAdmin. Don't you judge me.
Within context, it sounds fairly intelligent to me.
Palin knows that the media is trying to steer her into saying something like "We have to reduce entitlement spending to save our economy", which the media will then turn into "Palin wants babies to starve."
Palin knows that the base of voters that she is maintaining for McCain (while he tries to chase down independants) agrees that the media will twist what she says, while ignoring the obvious truth that entitlement spending has run wild.
For Palin to blow off the question and talk about what she wants gains her cred with the people who support her.
You may not like it. You may think it makes her look dumb. But she's not talking to YOU. She's talking to people that agree with her, which is her assigned role at this time. She is being flippant towards the people who are so often flippant to the people she is trying to represent.
My definition for intelligence is having the ability to modify the entities in ones environment to further ones own agenda.