Exactly correct sir. And also, now that India has it's own sense of not only stability, but also accomplishment, we can expect their rates to go up for services rendered. I mean, at what point do we stop calling India a 3rd-world?
This is basically the best way out of any of these stupid "global warming" arguments that everyone seems to love to get into these days. To think that 'the Earth was just chillin for eons at a stable temp, but then humans came and broke the planet' is simply the ego at work.
I don't know what you do for a living, but I'll bet you're pretty good at it.
"parts of nature" don't "sense that (they have) inflicted damage to the natural environment
What about the Clean Air Act of 1970?
...because you are anthropomorphizing "nature" which is not an organism at all, and does not sense or reason, or make decisions.
You're right. And I don't think that Nature is an organism either. However I don't think you're giving Nature enough due credit. After all, it's this very Nature that has evolved everything that we understand, and even our capacity to understand. Nature, to me, is justifiably the most intelligent thing/process that exists. And it's much more important to stay in tune with It's needs, than to dream up our own needs and try to stay in tune with them.
Please, give an example of a species "sensing" the damage it's inflicting on the environment, and what steps it took to rectify the problem.
Well to be fair, you gave a great example (Clean Air Act of 1970), and I'm sure that there's more, but they'll all be along the same lines; "human countering their own actions". No other part of Nature, that I've ever heard of, has ever damaged it's own environment that it depends on. I guess when a crocodile (that's existed quite in tune with Nature for over 200 million years) builds a factory that pollutes the environment to such an extent that it begins to link that pollution with it's own sicknesses, then I'll be more equipped to provide an example. But as it stands, no other species has polluted the environment. Which only supports my claim that no other species is foolish like mankind.
It's all another shot from Apple to integrate it's product into public society. Maybe Apple provided money. I know they're getting a lot of publicity for doing this stuff lately, just like how they're giving their technology to schools for use in and out of classrooms. At least it's something that no other company has ever dared (if my assumption is correct).
If you want to remind us all that human beings have done stupid things, fine. But don't hold up animals as noble savages. Doing so makes you look stupid!
I'm not holding animals up as noble savages, you came up with that "clever" concept. However, you and I may just be defining "foolish" differently. No other part of nature has ever sensed that it has inflicted damage to the natural environment, and just carried on, multiplying the same efforts. To whatever degree this foolishness exists, to that same degree, an imbalance with Nature exists.
They don't want money. Money is for poor people (the masses). Nah, what they have to do is keep the debt-to-dollar ratio at a regular. Because to "them" money is for you, but our debt is for them. The elite don't trade 'money' with each other, they trade 'our debt to them' with each other. The only real currency is 'life time', and they know that.
Libraries are for cities. I've never heard of a county library. I think he has a good point. As I take it, he's pointing out the fact that libraries are meant for spreading information, and this library is spreading technology. The two are oh so different - in the same way that paper and books are different.
Altruism is a very sophisticated behavior. So greed is pretty much built-in, along with deceit, rape, and genocide.
I think you have these backwards. Altruism is a simple matter of not being selfish, and even dogs do it. I feel that is built in. Of course greed, deceit, rape and genocide (hell you forgot to mention murder) are a part of nature, but they're things that, when viewed from a humane perspective (the one with altruism built-in), are looked down upon as barbaric, or things that are done by those with less evolution.
But you're taking what I said out of context. The next time you see or hear of anything except for mankind knowingly ruining the entire planet for it's own personal and very temporary gain, hit me up and I'll buy you a drink.
Ok, one of us is confused, probably me. But here's the first line from TFA:
Texas has seen the future of the public library, and it looks a lot like an Apple Store: Rows of glossy iMacs beckon. iPads mounted on a tangerine-colored bar invite readers. And hundreds of other tablets stand ready for checkout to anyone with a borrowing card.
So again, I ask the question: If the people don't have to go to the library to get the $books, then why build the library at all? I'm seriously not trolling here, it just seems illogical as stated. Now, if it's really just a ploy by Apple to get everyone to use their product, then that I can understand (not that it makes sense).
The people are citizens but the position brings special conditions.
I don't think that they should be excused from being spied on though. Actually they should be looked at closer than a citizen without special conditions, as they have more ability to bargain with terrorists, and sell them information, play both sides - all that.
I think you're right on, but I think saying that man will be around for another 10k years is not generous, but silly. No other species that we know of has ever been as selfish, and foolish as mankind. Hell, crocodiles have been here for 200 million years, and they never bothered to invent a lay-z-boy recliner, a blender, or even TV! And if you look around the planet at the humans that are here and happy, they have learned to live with Nature, and not against it, as mankind has for the last 200 years or so.
It does seem that Nature has some intelligent design to it, that sort of self-repairs when things get out of whack, and when species try to play god, they self-destruct. There does seem to be a small push toward a more Natural living these days, despite being laughed at by the masses. An interesting book that I found on this subject is called "Darwin's Unfinished Business" by Simon G. Powell. He also has some interesting youtube videos. Here's one based on the book that I just mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff1Z8nGGebs
I'm not trying to advertize, but bring to light a new way to approach Nature - with respect. And you seem like a fit personality.
Increased energy use by the library will be far more than compensated by decreased energy use by patrons driving to/from the library
This makes no sense. How in the hell do the people get the e-books (and return them), or use the computers? They have to go to the library, no? If not, then what's the point of building the library at all?
Thanks for the info. Don't let the door hit you on your way out.
I think my cable company told me basically the same thing when I cut them out of my life 8 years ago, for so much advertizing. Turns out, there's a big push for getting rid of advertizing these days, by many folks. I guess you could get with the fine folks over at Netflix and see if they agree.
You may also be able to get with the folks at slashdot, like 10 years ago. Each article used to draw in at least 350 responses. These days, looks like 100 is about average, 350 is going to have something to do with the NSA, and 150-200 will be a good discussion about actual 'news for nerds, stuff that matters'. I'm sure that if they keep up the same lazy editing, shotty stories, and advertizing, in another 10 years slashdot will be all but gone. If Google News enable a discussion for viewers, then slashdot should be very worried.
Over the long-haul, more electricity is going to be used by these libraries than ordinary libraries, costing more per month than others. Money to pay IT professionals is another thing to consider, as well as the costs associated with e-readers needing to be replaced. Not to mention the fact that there's no benefit in having an electric library - oh wait, yeah... no shelves. Pffft.
...isn't congress (supposed to be) made up of regular ordinary US citizens? Hasn't a federal judge ruled that the NSA's spying techniques are legal? So what's the news here?
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Yeah, well. I imagine that 'predicting the future' or whatever you'd call what he did (in my opinion, he was simply a philosopher with very accurate insight) is not as one would assume, there's probably a lot of 'haziness' to it. What he's calling "psychiatry" may, today, be called 'giving pills to the masses', as they do with children these days.
I know of a few schools that require certain types of children to be medicated, just to make the teacher's job easier - and I credit the reason for my assumption (as to why the teachers get to declare the the kid(s) need medication), to be the same as the reason for his assumption (that in the future, people will depend on psychiatry so much). As both demonstrate a deterioration in an evolving mankind's love for an evolving mankind.
Isaac Asimov's insight was an integral part of his being, that he integrated into his 'guessing' method. I really don't understand why his estimate(s) concerning the future are now being doubted. Although we have not gone as far as he predicted (colonizing the moon, etc...) he was spot on regarding man's integration of technology into culture, and why.
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Exactly correct sir. And also, now that India has it's own sense of not only stability, but also accomplishment, we can expect their rates to go up for services rendered. I mean, at what point do we stop calling India a 3rd-world?
This is basically the best way out of any of these stupid "global warming" arguments that everyone seems to love to get into these days. To think that 'the Earth was just chillin for eons at a stable temp, but then humans came and broke the planet' is simply the ego at work.
I don't know what you do for a living, but I'll bet you're pretty good at it.
Wow, the new Obamacare requiring policies to include free ambulance service really went a lot further than I thought it would.
"parts of nature" don't "sense that (they have) inflicted damage to the natural environment
What about the Clean Air Act of 1970?
...because you are anthropomorphizing "nature" which is not an organism at all, and does not sense or reason, or make decisions.
You're right. And I don't think that Nature is an organism either. However I don't think you're giving Nature enough due credit. After all, it's this very Nature that has evolved everything that we understand, and even our capacity to understand. Nature, to me, is justifiably the most intelligent thing/process that exists. And it's much more important to stay in tune with It's needs, than to dream up our own needs and try to stay in tune with them.
Please, give an example of a species "sensing" the damage it's inflicting on the environment, and what steps it took to rectify the problem.
Well to be fair, you gave a great example (Clean Air Act of 1970), and I'm sure that there's more, but they'll all be along the same lines; "human countering their own actions". No other part of Nature, that I've ever heard of, has ever damaged it's own environment that it depends on. I guess when a crocodile (that's existed quite in tune with Nature for over 200 million years) builds a factory that pollutes the environment to such an extent that it begins to link that pollution with it's own sicknesses, then I'll be more equipped to provide an example. But as it stands, no other species has polluted the environment. Which only supports my claim that no other species is foolish like mankind.
...probably done for political reasons here
It's all another shot from Apple to integrate it's product into public society. Maybe Apple provided money. I know they're getting a lot of publicity for doing this stuff lately, just like how they're giving their technology to schools for use in and out of classrooms. At least it's something that no other company has ever dared (if my assumption is correct).
If you want to remind us all that human beings have done stupid things, fine. But don't hold up animals as noble savages. Doing so makes you look stupid!
I'm not holding animals up as noble savages, you came up with that "clever" concept. However, you and I may just be defining "foolish" differently. No other part of nature has ever sensed that it has inflicted damage to the natural environment, and just carried on, multiplying the same efforts. To whatever degree this foolishness exists, to that same degree, an imbalance with Nature exists.
They don't want money. Money is for poor people (the masses). Nah, what they have to do is keep the debt-to-dollar ratio at a regular. Because to "them" money is for you, but our debt is for them. The elite don't trade 'money' with each other, they trade 'our debt to them' with each other. The only real currency is 'life time', and they know that.
Libraries are for cities. I've never heard of a county library. I think he has a good point. As I take it, he's pointing out the fact that libraries are meant for spreading information, and this library is spreading technology. The two are oh so different - in the same way that paper and books are different.
Have you gotten to know any other species well?
Yes.
Altruism is a very sophisticated behavior. So greed is pretty much built-in, along with deceit, rape, and genocide.
I think you have these backwards. Altruism is a simple matter of not being selfish, and even dogs do it. I feel that is built in. Of course greed, deceit, rape and genocide (hell you forgot to mention murder) are a part of nature, but they're things that, when viewed from a humane perspective (the one with altruism built-in), are looked down upon as barbaric, or things that are done by those with less evolution.
But you're taking what I said out of context. The next time you see or hear of anything except for mankind knowingly ruining the entire planet for it's own personal and very temporary gain, hit me up and I'll buy you a drink.
Texas has seen the future of the public library, and it looks a lot like an Apple Store: Rows of glossy iMacs beckon. iPads mounted on a tangerine-colored bar invite readers. And hundreds of other tablets stand ready for checkout to anyone with a borrowing card.
So again, I ask the question: If the people don't have to go to the library to get the $books, then why build the library at all? I'm seriously not trolling here, it just seems illogical as stated. Now, if it's really just a ploy by Apple to get everyone to use their product, then that I can understand (not that it makes sense).
The people are citizens but the position brings special conditions.
I don't think that they should be excused from being spied on though. Actually they should be looked at closer than a citizen without special conditions, as they have more ability to bargain with terrorists, and sell them information, play both sides - all that.
I think you're right on, but I think saying that man will be around for another 10k years is not generous, but silly. No other species that we know of has ever been as selfish, and foolish as mankind. Hell, crocodiles have been here for 200 million years, and they never bothered to invent a lay-z-boy recliner, a blender, or even TV! And if you look around the planet at the humans that are here and happy, they have learned to live with Nature, and not against it, as mankind has for the last 200 years or so.
It does seem that Nature has some intelligent design to it, that sort of self-repairs when things get out of whack, and when species try to play god, they self-destruct. There does seem to be a small push toward a more Natural living these days, despite being laughed at by the masses. An interesting book that I found on this subject is called "Darwin's Unfinished Business" by Simon G. Powell. He also has some interesting youtube videos. Here's one based on the book that I just mentioned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff1Z8nGGebs
I'm not trying to advertize, but bring to light a new way to approach Nature - with respect. And you seem like a fit personality.
Increased energy use by the library will be far more than compensated by decreased energy use by patrons driving to/from the library
This makes no sense. How in the hell do the people get the e-books (and return them), or use the computers? They have to go to the library, no? If not, then what's the point of building the library at all?
Thanks for the info. Don't let the door hit you on your way out.
I think my cable company told me basically the same thing when I cut them out of my life 8 years ago, for so much advertizing. Turns out, there's a big push for getting rid of advertizing these days, by many folks. I guess you could get with the fine folks over at Netflix and see if they agree.
You may also be able to get with the folks at slashdot, like 10 years ago. Each article used to draw in at least 350 responses. These days, looks like 100 is about average, 350 is going to have something to do with the NSA, and 150-200 will be a good discussion about actual 'news for nerds, stuff that matters'. I'm sure that if they keep up the same lazy editing, shotty stories, and advertizing, in another 10 years slashdot will be all but gone. If Google News enable a discussion for viewers, then slashdot should be very worried.
Over the long-haul, more electricity is going to be used by these libraries than ordinary libraries, costing more per month than others. Money to pay IT professionals is another thing to consider, as well as the costs associated with e-readers needing to be replaced. Not to mention the fact that there's no benefit in having an electric library - oh wait, yeah... no shelves. Pffft.
I didn't RTFA I didn't even finish reading the whole summary. This is stupid advertizing. This makes me feel like looking for other news outlets...
...isn't congress (supposed to be) made up of regular ordinary US citizens? Hasn't a federal judge ruled that the NSA's spying techniques are legal? So what's the news here?
Then she's "Leendah".
ha! That would explain why they're using so much electricity.
Geeks build labs and test things, like high-voltage. You thinking of pirates.
So each throw in $2.00, fix the lab.
Woops, forgot to provide the link to it on wikipedia.
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Yeah, well. I imagine that 'predicting the future' or whatever you'd call what he did (in my opinion, he was simply a philosopher with very accurate insight) is not as one would assume, there's probably a lot of 'haziness' to it. What he's calling "psychiatry" may, today, be called 'giving pills to the masses', as they do with children these days.
I know of a few schools that require certain types of children to be medicated, just to make the teacher's job easier - and I credit the reason for my assumption (as to why the teachers get to declare the the kid(s) need medication), to be the same as the reason for his assumption (that in the future, people will depend on psychiatry so much). As both demonstrate a deterioration in an evolving mankind's love for an evolving mankind.
Isaac Asimov's insight was an integral part of his being, that he integrated into his 'guessing' method. I really don't understand why his estimate(s) concerning the future are now being doubted. Although we have not gone as far as he predicted (colonizing the moon, etc...) he was spot on regarding man's integration of technology into culture, and why.