I know that there's this, but not sure if it's the same technology. Not that I care. But the military has had this in operation for some time now....Like everything else, I guess.
... mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014. The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.
But what he failed to grasp was that the mindset of people in general changes. So if we're all bored, all we'll do is invent shit like facebook, and call it 'an integrated part of our society'. But he knew that 'passing time' isn't just some thing to do. This guy was a genius to conclude that robots would be doing a lot of the labor that men used to do, and since the people would be so great in numbers, they'd get bored to such an extent that would cause them mental repercussions. This is beyond what anyone would have been able to experience up to the 60's, in my opinion.
No, I totally agree with you. My post was more tongue-in-cheek than anything. I don't use facebook, because back when it first came out I felt that such a free service was hiding something, and the only real possibility was data-mining (at the time, I seriously thought that I coined that phrase 'data-mining'). I was asked by so many friends "Why don't you get on facebook?" and I always told them that I didn't want to be used for data-mining. They'd laugh, and tell me that I needed a tinfoil hat.
I think it's outright stupid to join facebook, especially when they warn you in advance that they're using you for profit. But to answer your question about the car dealership, if there was cars like that, and folks bought them in the same way that folks blindly sign up for facebook, then you'd be rich, and I'd love you for getting rid of a large percentage of idiots, by way of an ejection seat.
No seriously, I'd ask that. If Linda has to make 500 calls per day to ask people if they're interested in a pornographic internet, then she may as well be treated like a hussy. Worst case scenario, she gripes to her manager and eventually quits that shitty job.
I'm shocked at the comments from people who don't realize it is summer down there; who really should have enough shame to keep their ignorant mouths shut.
Who are you talking about? I didn't read every comment on this topic, but I didn't see anyone that seemed confused about this fact. If you're talking about me (you are responding to me) then you may need to re-read my first sentence. Either way, you seem like you're having a bad day. lighten up bro, it's Friday.
It starts off like this:
"At Facebook, we believe that ads should contribute to and be consistent with the overall user experience. The best ads are those that are tailored to individuals based on how they and their friends interact and affiliate with the brands, artists, and businesses they care about. These guidelines are not intended to serve as legal advice and adherence to these guidelines does not necessarily constitute legal compliance. Advertisers are responsible for ensuring that their ads comply with all applicable laws, statutes, and regulations."
More than likely, all of that money is going to 1 or 2 men. They'll hire a kid or 2 fresh out of college (probably family) to 'do stuff' for like $100/hr. Maybe that goes on for 2 or 3 months. No one will care that we never hear of the results of this tax 'investment'. No one will care that the 1 or 2 men suddenly have huge houses or something like that. The 1 or 2 kids from college will get a nice job at the NSA due to their ability to keep a secret.
Ok, ok... I know this is a hokey article and it's a funny idea to search for time travelers on the internet. God knows there are always people out there willing to 'say' things to indicate that they're something that they're not. Many of them actually believe themselves. Probably because they have not found their true Self in life. However...
The next time you have a lucid dream, and think about how cool it is to fly around in the sky, or underwater, or whatever else you may think to do; try time travel instead.
What'r the chances of getting stuck in ice in Antarctica during the summer months of 2013-2014, when global warming is at it's peak (tongue in cheek) - not once, but TWICE? Imagine having to be carried by a helicopter over all that ice, just to set down on another ship that's stuck in the same ice.
On a side note, I live in Alabama (USA) and where it's generally been, for the past 8 years or more, 70+ degrees in January, it's 35 today. I wonder if the last 8 years or so have been hotter due to the sun's cycle. Because supposedly it just ended (last summer was the coolest it's been in 8 or more years) and now it's cold as shit this year.
I second that. The point is, "Why pay more for entertainment just because it's new to everyone?" Because as long as it's new to me, it's new to me. I cut cable about 9 years ago. I was getting by simply by downloading documentaries, and a buying kid's movies on DVD. Then I got a PS3, just to watch movies on my TV, that I had on my server. Then I got Netflix. By that time, all of the series that they had were new to me, it was like hog-heaven.
I remember back in the late 80's - early 90's thinking how cool it's be to be able to watch whatever you wanted, whenever you want - fast-forward, rewind. And it's even cooler than I'd imagined it'd be. Cable is just a bunch of advertizing.
...any form of fiat currency is as silly as the next. At least Kayne works for a living, art at that. What we all use now as money is setup and run by those that have the most money (imagine that) and are self-regulated. It's no different than Kayne sitting at his house with a special machine that he uses to print money, and handing it out to all of his friends to spend as they wish. This is exactly how the current monetary system works.
Once people see 'their time' as the 'real currency', they'll wonder why they're spending so much of it on money.
If they come up with a solution that's technically excellent, but simply too costly for the business to use and still make a profit?
This. This is the reason that I say it's a man-made thing. In Nature, there is no "profit". The whole concept of "profit" is a total illusion based on the wants of the greedy. I'd be interested if anyone has a definition of the word "profit" that doesn't include the word "financial" or any variation of the word.
Exactly what I was going to point out. There is no merit in arguing about faith, and there's no faith in science. Neither of these guys will be able to even lay out a logical series of words that the other will see in some new way, as each are talking about something totally different than the other.
One truth, however, is that no one has all of the answers, and anyone that claims to, is only fooling himself/herself.
But this was perhaps the first time that magnetic sensitivity was proven in dogs, and it was also the first time that a predictable behavioral reaction to the fluctuations in the magnetic field—magnetic storms, often as resulting from solar flares—was proven in a mammal.
I might be off topic here, but...
My house sits almost exactly diagonal to Earth's magnetic field, meaning that - unlike Solomon's Temple - only the corners of the house face North, East, South or West. I noticed that both of my kids wiggle around in their sleep in order to have their head face East. This happens in their beds, as well as on the floor. I told my wife what I thought, and we did some experiments:
Beds:
I moved both of the kids' beds to have the head face East, and both kids slept straight in their beds (they didn't wiggle out of that direction at all - we tested this for a few weeks. When I moved them back, the kids wiggled to have their heads face East again. So I moved the beds back to have the head face East and left them that way.
Floor:
On the weekend we would put a bunch of blankets down in the living room and pass out watching movies. The kids would always wiggle to have their heads facing East. I changed the blankets to have their heads facing West, but the kids would wiggle around to have their heads facing East.
I don't really find that either my wife or I wiggle around to face a certain direction, but I do find it easier to fall asleep if I move my couch to have my head facing East. Not sure if anyone else has ever had a similar experience.
Spoken by someone who has never tried to do anything bigger than a website most likely.
More like, spoken by someone who has managed many others, on projects that aren't even up for discussion. Shit now that I think back on all of the jobs that I've had, since age 18 and up, I've been the manager at all of them. Weird. I'm self-employed now, so fuck managers and workers. My main source of income now is local organic farming, and I have an IT consulting firm on the side. You show me anyone else that has such a diverse swing of responsibilities, and I'll show you another person that will tell you that management is a myth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy
I guess I'll say it again, "If you get a group of any number of people that know how to do something that needs to be done, they'll always self-assemble, and get it done." - So I guess we're saying the same thing here.
Management is just a rational form, that doesn't depend on just brute strength.
See I think what you're calling management, I'm also calling management. Brute strength (not always physical strength) is exactly what manages humans. The management that I'm calling bullshit on, is the kind of management where there is no actual strength (be it physical or mental), but usually some form of family ties with the owner or other higher-ups in the company. There are times when a person is just really good at kissing ass and they are put over a smaller group of people, but this is generally done by a micro-manager that has either become lazy, or is not him/herself micro-managed and has a lot of freedom and chooses to get someone else to do his/her job.
Most people here on slashdot are in a cubicle, or some variation of it, and they will have a manager of some kind. I'm under the impression that there are some here that are both not self-employed, and have a job that gives them freedom to not be managed. Perhaps they're managers themselves, with only the owner above them. For those guys, the owner isn't the manager, but the guy that they simply report to. Reporting to someone isn't the same as being managed by that person. You are one that I am willing to bet is sitting in a cubicle, trying not to piss everyone off.
Management is a human-made thing, and has no real place anywhere in Nature. If you get a group of any number of people that know how to do something that needs to be done, they'll always self-assemble, and get it done. The problem comes when one of them tries to manage it all.
As far as a bunch of idiots all sitting around in cubicles, waiting for their daily instructions, yeah they need a manager. And for that, any manager will do, as long as the manager can understand the overall project, and is able to explain (each's part of it) to the ones doing the work.
No, I evidently didn't read it correctly at all, but I think it was because the whole "The Ford CMAX Solar Energi Concept car will have 1.5 square meters of solar photovoltaic cells on its roof to generate power to charge its battery." threw me off. Hell, I thought "carport" was some fancy name for the thing that'd mount atop. Derp!
If this is the case, seems like it'd make more sense to leave the carport out of the picture, keep the lens (put it in your yard somewhere?), and move the solar panels from the car to below the lens.
As far as I understand this, regardless what type of lens you have to magnify, if you're going to get about 10x the light, then the lens has to be about 10x the size of the area that would normally receive 1x the sunlight. Does this mean that there will be a huge lens atop the car? If so, will that be expensive? If so, will my car insurance go up?
Well, the planet has a limited amount of these metals. The things have their own use, no doubt. Gold (as mentioned by jeffmeden) is not a superconductor (as I had previously thought), but is a really good conductor at room temp (as is silver and copper but gold doesn't form an oxide layer or tarnish), so it has an actual real-world use. Diamonds have a real-world use, as they're so hard, they can be used to break other stones that are difficult to break up.
It's this real-world use that defines things to not be fiat. Food and water are only another example of these, as they sustain our life (time). The real question is, what is the value of our time here? If you're not asking that question of yourself, then you're supporting some version of a fiat currency. If you're supporting a fiat currency, make sure that it's because you have a lot of it, otherwise someone else is more than likely using your time for their gain.
Regardless whatever the currency is, The People will verify it's actual worth (how much is money worth to you?). In my mind, computer technology hasn't proven itself. All it's done is improve things that will increase the population, and all that does is decrease the value of whatever currency is in place.
The only real currency on the planet is our time itself. You should always value that over anything else, no matter what. Coming after that is food and water. So if you spend your time growing food, you can pick and choose what you'd like to trade for it. If you don't want to trade things for your food, then all you have to do is protect what you have. All the rest is fiat as far as I'm concerned. But then again, I'm old and don't care about the things that so many other do.
Wow, I had no idea. So if you're stuck at sea, regardless of your nationality, or where you are, the rest of the world has an obligation to help you. Fuck, imagine if that same rational humane ideal carried through on land, throughout all situations, throughout all circumstances - rather than from sea captain to sea captain, but from human to human. Queue John Lennon Imagine...
Slashdot Mirror
Uhh...
Integrated: verb
To make into a whole by bringing all parts together; unify.
Integral: adjective
necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental.
I know that there's this, but not sure if it's the same technology. Not that I care. But the military has had this in operation for some time now. ...Like everything else, I guess.
... mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014. The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.
But what he failed to grasp was that the mindset of people in general changes. So if we're all bored, all we'll do is invent shit like facebook, and call it 'an integrated part of our society'. But he knew that 'passing time' isn't just some thing to do. This guy was a genius to conclude that robots would be doing a lot of the labor that men used to do, and since the people would be so great in numbers, they'd get bored to such an extent that would cause them mental repercussions. This is beyond what anyone would have been able to experience up to the 60's, in my opinion.
No, I totally agree with you. My post was more tongue-in-cheek than anything. I don't use facebook, because back when it first came out I felt that such a free service was hiding something, and the only real possibility was data-mining (at the time, I seriously thought that I coined that phrase 'data-mining'). I was asked by so many friends "Why don't you get on facebook?" and I always told them that I didn't want to be used for data-mining. They'd laugh, and tell me that I needed a tinfoil hat.
I think it's outright stupid to join facebook, especially when they warn you in advance that they're using you for profit. But to answer your question about the car dealership, if there was cars like that, and folks bought them in the same way that folks blindly sign up for facebook, then you'd be rich, and I'd love you for getting rid of a large percentage of idiots, by way of an ejection seat.
No seriously, I'd ask that. If Linda has to make 500 calls per day to ask people if they're interested in a pornographic internet, then she may as well be treated like a hussy. Worst case scenario, she gripes to her manager and eventually quits that shitty job.
I'm shocked at the comments from people who don't realize it is summer down there; who really should have enough shame to keep their ignorant mouths shut.
Who are you talking about? I didn't read every comment on this topic, but I didn't see anyone that seemed confused about this fact. If you're talking about me (you are responding to me) then you may need to re-read my first sentence. Either way, you seem like you're having a bad day. lighten up bro, it's Friday.
Probably to stop The Hulk when the time is right? Dunno.
Sounds like an older sister at work.
Seriously, read the advertizing guidelines policy for facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ad_guidelines.php
It starts off like this:
"At Facebook, we believe that ads should contribute to and be consistent with the overall user experience. The best ads are those that are tailored to individuals based on how they and their friends interact and affiliate with the brands, artists, and businesses they care about. These guidelines are not intended to serve as legal advice and adherence to these guidelines does not necessarily constitute legal compliance. Advertisers are responsible for ensuring that their ads comply with all applicable laws, statutes, and regulations."
More than likely, all of that money is going to 1 or 2 men. They'll hire a kid or 2 fresh out of college (probably family) to 'do stuff' for like $100/hr. Maybe that goes on for 2 or 3 months. No one will care that we never hear of the results of this tax 'investment'. No one will care that the 1 or 2 men suddenly have huge houses or something like that. The 1 or 2 kids from college will get a nice job at the NSA due to their ability to keep a secret.
Linda, what are you wearing?
Ok, ok... I know this is a hokey article and it's a funny idea to search for time travelers on the internet. God knows there are always people out there willing to 'say' things to indicate that they're something that they're not. Many of them actually believe themselves. Probably because they have not found their true Self in life. However...
The next time you have a lucid dream, and think about how cool it is to fly around in the sky, or underwater, or whatever else you may think to do; try time travel instead.
What'r the chances of getting stuck in ice in Antarctica during the summer months of 2013-2014, when global warming is at it's peak (tongue in cheek) - not once, but TWICE? Imagine having to be carried by a helicopter over all that ice, just to set down on another ship that's stuck in the same ice.
On a side note, I live in Alabama (USA) and where it's generally been, for the past 8 years or more, 70+ degrees in January, it's 35 today. I wonder if the last 8 years or so have been hotter due to the sun's cycle. Because supposedly it just ended (last summer was the coolest it's been in 8 or more years) and now it's cold as shit this year.
I second that. The point is, "Why pay more for entertainment just because it's new to everyone?" Because as long as it's new to me, it's new to me. I cut cable about 9 years ago. I was getting by simply by downloading documentaries, and a buying kid's movies on DVD. Then I got a PS3, just to watch movies on my TV, that I had on my server. Then I got Netflix. By that time, all of the series that they had were new to me, it was like hog-heaven.
I remember back in the late 80's - early 90's thinking how cool it's be to be able to watch whatever you wanted, whenever you want - fast-forward, rewind. And it's even cooler than I'd imagined it'd be. Cable is just a bunch of advertizing.
...any form of fiat currency is as silly as the next. At least Kayne works for a living, art at that. What we all use now as money is setup and run by those that have the most money (imagine that) and are self-regulated. It's no different than Kayne sitting at his house with a special machine that he uses to print money, and handing it out to all of his friends to spend as they wish. This is exactly how the current monetary system works.
Once people see 'their time' as the 'real currency', they'll wonder why they're spending so much of it on money.
If they come up with a solution that's technically excellent, but simply too costly for the business to use and still make a profit?
This. This is the reason that I say it's a man-made thing. In Nature, there is no "profit". The whole concept of "profit" is a total illusion based on the wants of the greedy. I'd be interested if anyone has a definition of the word "profit" that doesn't include the word "financial" or any variation of the word.
Exactly what I was going to point out. There is no merit in arguing about faith, and there's no faith in science. Neither of these guys will be able to even lay out a logical series of words that the other will see in some new way, as each are talking about something totally different than the other.
One truth, however, is that no one has all of the answers, and anyone that claims to, is only fooling himself/herself.
But this was perhaps the first time that magnetic sensitivity was proven in dogs, and it was also the first time that a predictable behavioral reaction to the fluctuations in the magnetic field—magnetic storms, often as resulting from solar flares—was proven in a mammal.
I might be off topic here, but...
My house sits almost exactly diagonal to Earth's magnetic field, meaning that - unlike Solomon's Temple - only the corners of the house face North, East, South or West. I noticed that both of my kids wiggle around in their sleep in order to have their head face East. This happens in their beds, as well as on the floor. I told my wife what I thought, and we did some experiments:
Beds:
I moved both of the kids' beds to have the head face East, and both kids slept straight in their beds (they didn't wiggle out of that direction at all - we tested this for a few weeks. When I moved them back, the kids wiggled to have their heads face East again. So I moved the beds back to have the head face East and left them that way.
Floor:
On the weekend we would put a bunch of blankets down in the living room and pass out watching movies. The kids would always wiggle to have their heads facing East. I changed the blankets to have their heads facing West, but the kids would wiggle around to have their heads facing East.
I don't really find that either my wife or I wiggle around to face a certain direction, but I do find it easier to fall asleep if I move my couch to have my head facing East. Not sure if anyone else has ever had a similar experience.
Spoken by someone who has never tried to do anything bigger than a website most likely.
More like, spoken by someone who has managed many others, on projects that aren't even up for discussion. Shit now that I think back on all of the jobs that I've had, since age 18 and up, I've been the manager at all of them. Weird. I'm self-employed now, so fuck managers and workers. My main source of income now is local organic farming, and I have an IT consulting firm on the side. You show me anyone else that has such a diverse swing of responsibilities, and I'll show you another person that will tell you that management is a myth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy
I guess I'll say it again, "If you get a group of any number of people that know how to do something that needs to be done, they'll always self-assemble, and get it done." - So I guess we're saying the same thing here.
Management is just a rational form, that doesn't depend on just brute strength.
See I think what you're calling management, I'm also calling management. Brute strength (not always physical strength) is exactly what manages humans. The management that I'm calling bullshit on, is the kind of management where there is no actual strength (be it physical or mental), but usually some form of family ties with the owner or other higher-ups in the company. There are times when a person is just really good at kissing ass and they are put over a smaller group of people, but this is generally done by a micro-manager that has either become lazy, or is not him/herself micro-managed and has a lot of freedom and chooses to get someone else to do his/her job.
Most people here on slashdot are in a cubicle, or some variation of it, and they will have a manager of some kind. I'm under the impression that there are some here that are both not self-employed, and have a job that gives them freedom to not be managed. Perhaps they're managers themselves, with only the owner above them. For those guys, the owner isn't the manager, but the guy that they simply report to. Reporting to someone isn't the same as being managed by that person. You are one that I am willing to bet is sitting in a cubicle, trying not to piss everyone off.
Management is a human-made thing, and has no real place anywhere in Nature. If you get a group of any number of people that know how to do something that needs to be done, they'll always self-assemble, and get it done. The problem comes when one of them tries to manage it all.
As far as a bunch of idiots all sitting around in cubicles, waiting for their daily instructions, yeah they need a manager. And for that, any manager will do, as long as the manager can understand the overall project, and is able to explain (each's part of it) to the ones doing the work.
No, I evidently didn't read it correctly at all, but I think it was because the whole "The Ford CMAX Solar Energi Concept car will have 1.5 square meters of solar photovoltaic cells on its roof to generate power to charge its battery." threw me off. Hell, I thought "carport" was some fancy name for the thing that'd mount atop. Derp!
If this is the case, seems like it'd make more sense to leave the carport out of the picture, keep the lens (put it in your yard somewhere?), and move the solar panels from the car to below the lens.
As far as I understand this, regardless what type of lens you have to magnify, if you're going to get about 10x the light, then the lens has to be about 10x the size of the area that would normally receive 1x the sunlight. Does this mean that there will be a huge lens atop the car? If so, will that be expensive? If so, will my car insurance go up?
Well, the planet has a limited amount of these metals. The things have their own use, no doubt. Gold (as mentioned by jeffmeden) is not a superconductor (as I had previously thought), but is a really good conductor at room temp (as is silver and copper but gold doesn't form an oxide layer or tarnish), so it has an actual real-world use. Diamonds have a real-world use, as they're so hard, they can be used to break other stones that are difficult to break up.
It's this real-world use that defines things to not be fiat. Food and water are only another example of these, as they sustain our life (time). The real question is, what is the value of our time here? If you're not asking that question of yourself, then you're supporting some version of a fiat currency. If you're supporting a fiat currency, make sure that it's because you have a lot of it, otherwise someone else is more than likely using your time for their gain.
Regardless whatever the currency is, The People will verify it's actual worth (how much is money worth to you?). In my mind, computer technology hasn't proven itself. All it's done is improve things that will increase the population, and all that does is decrease the value of whatever currency is in place.
The only real currency on the planet is our time itself. You should always value that over anything else, no matter what. Coming after that is food and water. So if you spend your time growing food, you can pick and choose what you'd like to trade for it. If you don't want to trade things for your food, then all you have to do is protect what you have. All the rest is fiat as far as I'm concerned. But then again, I'm old and don't care about the things that so many other do.
Wow, I had no idea. So if you're stuck at sea, regardless of your nationality, or where you are, the rest of the world has an obligation to help you. Fuck, imagine if that same rational humane ideal carried through on land, throughout all situations, throughout all circumstances - rather than from sea captain to sea captain, but from human to human. Queue John Lennon Imagine...