Employment that pays better than welfare is always better than unemployment, even if its digging a hole in the middle of nowhere and filling it in every day. At least the person is active and healthy, and has earned income to spend towards the economy. The idea that the anthropologist doesn't see or understand that concept should be embarassing. Arrogant academics - these are the people teaching others?
if income to spend on consumer products is the only point to a job then the job is still pointless and doesn't need to be done. They could just give said person a paycheck for doing nothing and achieve the same effect, and there is in fact a movement to do just that.
Come to Milwaukee, WI sometime and behold a dirth of bars that only accept cash because they don't want to pay transaction fees or deal with drunk people running up tabs they can't pay for
I have a laptop, a camera, and a GPS, all of which are better stat wise than any smart phone. When I leave the house you can get a hold of me still, but I'm not distracted by my addiction to trolling Facebook political pages. Having the internet at every waking moment is often more of an inconvenience than it's worth, and if I REALLY have to look something up it can usually wait until I get home. The only thing I don't like about it is that everyone just assumes I'm poor, but with a hipster marketing campaign like this I can keep my flipphone and not be a social outcast, I call that a big win for Motorola, it's a smart move.
But I don't think it will work, I think direct democracy requires an informed electorate, and I personally don't want to become informed enough on every issue. For example, I don't want to research regulations on crab fishing, or many other topics. Not worth the effort required to make good decisions.
But the people who were directly effected by crab fishing regulations would vote on crab fishing regulations and you wouldn't be put on in any way regardless of which way they vote. I see a system in which people only vote on the laws that matter to their life, it would certainly be more effective than a career politician making decisions about things they themselves have no interest or understanding of.
Except the constitution didn't really stop tyrants from grabbing power. If you believe the Princeton studies the US is an oligarchy run entirely at the whims of plutocrats. The constitution was ratified so that the aristocrat class could give the federal government enough power to collect funds and pay back war debts to France. It was written by a bunch of rich white men in secret without any input from the public, to pretend they had the best interests of the common man at heart is laughable, I mean they argued over whether slaves were people for fucks sake.
Also, let us not discount the low tech ways in which the voting system is rigged. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, and endless pools of advertising money psychologically manipulating people to change their votes. There is no perfect government, but given how awful what we have is I for one would be willing to risk something new.
Just make biodiesel from these crazy life forms that sequester carbon from the CO2 air using energy from the sun, I think they call them "plants". Or Audi could buy out the patent and make cars that just run off of vegetable oil. This seems like a really convoluted way to get diesel when you can just take hempseed oil and add methanol.
Provided you make a warning against doing just that it's okay. During alcohol prohibition breweries used to sell malt extract with a warning that went something like "don't add water and yeast and leave in a dark room for 3 weeks, it will make alcohol and that's illegal!"
I've lived here in Milwaukee on and off for the last decade or so, and I can tell you right now this is the right decision for our town. Milwaukee is a city whose economy is entirely based on alcohol, that being said we have had awful cab service for as long as I've lived here. All summer long drunks flood the street for this festival and that festival, and every weekend the wait for a cab is frequently over an hour, sometimes it takes 20 or 30 minutes just to get on the phone with a dispatcher. Seeing as how the underfunded and overpriced bus system stops running an hour before bar close what we end up with is a plague of drunk drivers. Our cab companies have failed to provide us with the proper service we need (presumably because of the cost of keeping up an unused fleet in the winter months) , Uber gave the city an alternative and we made sure nothing would impede the solution to our problems.
' in which yeast eat the sugar and excrete ethanol.'.
This is not exactly correct either, the yeast do not 'eat sugar and poop alcohol', in actuality the yeast, after running out of oxygen in the air (or without access to air in the case of bottom fermenting yeast) 'breath' the exposed oxygen off of the sugar molecule, what's left behind is alcohol.
Think of the implications when criminals and everyday citizens get ahold of the police GPS data. How convenient would it be to have a map of the city with a little blip showing the position of each cop car if you were say, trying to plan a murder, or smuggling methamphetamine. You could track the rounds each squad car takes over the course of weeks and plan the perfect route to avoid any intervention. Not to mention the end of speed traps as we know it.
Depression isn't the common cold, it's a MENTAL health problem. This means that if a placebo makes you not depressed it's an effective medicine regardless of whether or not it has any physiological effect. If doing X makes you feel better and doesn't have any negative side effects then you have no reason not to do it, especially in this case because we know Vitamin D has other positive health effects. Studies or nay there's no reason not to try it.
Did anyone else get the inkling from his recent documentary "Transcendent Man" that he was looking to digitally resurrect his father from the dead? The man is a megalomaniac looking to create a state of intellectual immortality through software engineering. The idea that he would be allowed to continue his work with the resources of a tech giant like Google give me the heebie geebies for sure. We will certainly have the technology to emulate the human mind in a machine in the not too distant future, but I pray to Turing that it's not the mind of Kurzweil that is the first to be uploaded to that hard drive.
so you're basically saying if you smoke marijuana at all you can't drive a vehicle, considering that it can be in your system for weeks if you smoke more than once a week you'll never have a 0% blood THC count
if they stopped treating bright children so differently in our education system. I remember some of my peers in elementary school intentionally failing out of "advanced" classes to rejoin the herd back in the classroom. If you create a special class of kid and it's by definition a small section those children will inevitably be picked on. Allow the smart kids to enlighten the rest and maybe they won't be a special case anymore...
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Employment that pays better than welfare is always better than unemployment, even if its digging a hole in the middle of nowhere and filling it in every day. At least the person is active and healthy, and has earned income to spend towards the economy. The idea that the anthropologist doesn't see or understand that concept should be embarassing. Arrogant academics - these are the people teaching others?
if income to spend on consumer products is the only point to a job then the job is still pointless and doesn't need to be done. They could just give said person a paycheck for doing nothing and achieve the same effect, and there is in fact a movement to do just that.
Come to Milwaukee, WI sometime and behold a dirth of bars that only accept cash because they don't want to pay transaction fees or deal with drunk people running up tabs they can't pay for
Bust unions and then pay employees half as much, at least that's what Elon's got to is.
I have a laptop, a camera, and a GPS, all of which are better stat wise than any smart phone. When I leave the house you can get a hold of me still, but I'm not distracted by my addiction to trolling Facebook political pages. Having the internet at every waking moment is often more of an inconvenience than it's worth, and if I REALLY have to look something up it can usually wait until I get home. The only thing I don't like about it is that everyone just assumes I'm poor, but with a hipster marketing campaign like this I can keep my flipphone and not be a social outcast, I call that a big win for Motorola, it's a smart move.
http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/980707-03-a.html
Flexfuel vehicles, the difference between running efficiently on ethanol and not is just a software hack
the terms aren't mutually exclusive, an oligarchy of plutocrats if you will...
But I don't think it will work, I think direct democracy requires an informed electorate, and I personally don't want to become informed enough on every issue. For example, I don't want to research regulations on crab fishing, or many other topics. Not worth the effort required to make good decisions.
But the people who were directly effected by crab fishing regulations would vote on crab fishing regulations and you wouldn't be put on in any way regardless of which way they vote. I see a system in which people only vote on the laws that matter to their life, it would certainly be more effective than a career politician making decisions about things they themselves have no interest or understanding of.
Except the constitution didn't really stop tyrants from grabbing power. If you believe the Princeton studies the US is an oligarchy run entirely at the whims of plutocrats. The constitution was ratified so that the aristocrat class could give the federal government enough power to collect funds and pay back war debts to France. It was written by a bunch of rich white men in secret without any input from the public, to pretend they had the best interests of the common man at heart is laughable, I mean they argued over whether slaves were people for fucks sake.
Also, let us not discount the low tech ways in which the voting system is rigged. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, and endless pools of advertising money psychologically manipulating people to change their votes. There is no perfect government, but given how awful what we have is I for one would be willing to risk something new.
Your roommates steal all the phone chargers so you have to charge your phone at work.
Just make biodiesel from these crazy life forms that sequester carbon from the CO2 air using energy from the sun, I think they call them "plants". Or Audi could buy out the patent and make cars that just run off of vegetable oil. This seems like a really convoluted way to get diesel when you can just take hempseed oil and add methanol.
He's not going to get a building named after him ever...
Provided you make a warning against doing just that it's okay. During alcohol prohibition breweries used to sell malt extract with a warning that went something like "don't add water and yeast and leave in a dark room for 3 weeks, it will make alcohol and that's illegal!"
Here in Milwaukee it already takes a couple of hours to get a cab at 2am, that is, unless you call uber
I've lived here in Milwaukee on and off for the last decade or so, and I can tell you right now this is the right decision for our town. Milwaukee is a city whose economy is entirely based on alcohol, that being said we have had awful cab service for as long as I've lived here. All summer long drunks flood the street for this festival and that festival, and every weekend the wait for a cab is frequently over an hour, sometimes it takes 20 or 30 minutes just to get on the phone with a dispatcher. Seeing as how the underfunded and overpriced bus system stops running an hour before bar close what we end up with is a plague of drunk drivers. Our cab companies have failed to provide us with the proper service we need (presumably because of the cost of keeping up an unused fleet in the winter months) , Uber gave the city an alternative and we made sure nothing would impede the solution to our problems.
' in which yeast eat the sugar and excrete ethanol.'.
This is not exactly correct either, the yeast do not 'eat sugar and poop alcohol', in actuality the yeast, after running out of oxygen in the air (or without access to air in the case of bottom fermenting yeast) 'breath' the exposed oxygen off of the sugar molecule, what's left behind is alcohol.
Think of the implications when criminals and everyday citizens get ahold of the police GPS data. How convenient would it be to have a map of the city with a little blip showing the position of each cop car if you were say, trying to plan a murder, or smuggling methamphetamine. You could track the rounds each squad car takes over the course of weeks and plan the perfect route to avoid any intervention. Not to mention the end of speed traps as we know it.
Depression isn't the common cold, it's a MENTAL health problem. This means that if a placebo makes you not depressed it's an effective medicine regardless of whether or not it has any physiological effect. If doing X makes you feel better and doesn't have any negative side effects then you have no reason not to do it, especially in this case because we know Vitamin D has other positive health effects. Studies or nay there's no reason not to try it.
don't use ice, it's beer or straight bourbon for this guy
there is a digital modern artist named Jason Salavon that has been working on all sorts of algorithm based art, including a machine that pumps out abstract expressionist paintings
Did anyone else get the inkling from his recent documentary "Transcendent Man" that he was looking to digitally resurrect his father from the dead? The man is a megalomaniac looking to create a state of intellectual immortality through software engineering. The idea that he would be allowed to continue his work with the resources of a tech giant like Google give me the heebie geebies for sure. We will certainly have the technology to emulate the human mind in a machine in the not too distant future, but I pray to Turing that it's not the mind of Kurzweil that is the first to be uploaded to that hard drive.
so you're basically saying if you smoke marijuana at all you can't drive a vehicle, considering that it can be in your system for weeks if you smoke more than once a week you'll never have a 0% blood THC count
Except for the studies that they did years ago in the Netherlands...
if they stopped treating bright children so differently in our education system. I remember some of my peers in elementary school intentionally failing out of "advanced" classes to rejoin the herd back in the classroom. If you create a special class of kid and it's by definition a small section those children will inevitably be picked on. Allow the smart kids to enlighten the rest and maybe they won't be a special case anymore...