Actually, no. Wakonda is not personified at all. When you want to talk of a person "strong in The Force", that would be Wakonda-gi, which is essentially their word for shaman, or sometimes "man of mystery". Perhaps we should instead translate it as "Jedi".:-)
It seems a bit insulting, the insinuation being that the whole of their culture is distilled down to their native language.
Could you understand algebra if your language had no concept of plurality past "more than one"?
Language provides the framework within which we order our thoughts and interact with the outside world. This has a huge cultural impact. When one is lost, a way of thinking is lost too. People can still study Navajo culture without studying its language, but there's a certian level of understanding of that culture you can never have if you are only capable of thinking in English.
It would be interesting to see it dubbed into a Siouan language, cheifly because Lucas' The Force is a nearly identical concept to their own Wakonda, which was the basis for most Siouan tribal religon. If anything, The Force translates better into Siouan languages than into English.
It is diflicult to formulate the native idea expressed in this word... Wakonda that is the permeating life of visible nature -- an invisible life and power that reaches everywhere and everything and can be appealed to by man to send him help.
You quite often see this translated as "Great Spirit" or "Great Maker", and treated as if it was merely a quaint native term for the Judeo-Christian God.
It would be tough to prove, as it would have been a lateral position change within the same company for me, not an actual hiring. But that wasn't the real reason.
It was such a rediculous statement, frankly the thought didn't even occur to me. I was still in my 20's (and looked younger). Now that I'm in my 40's, something like that might be worth raising a stink about. But at the time it was tough to take it as anything other than an admission of insanity on their part. It would be like if they'd told my pale blond-haired blue-eyed self that I wasn't white enough because I had a sunburn. Direct at a black person, yes that would be horrible. Directed at an obviously white person, its a nice heads-up that you are talking to a complete loon.
Sometimes you hear things in interviews that set off warning flags. This was like a warning claxon. They couldn't have more directly told me they were run by clowns if they'd hit me in the face with pie and a soda spritzer. Why get upset over missing out on that? Be grateful and watch the ensuing chaos from a safe distance.
This was my comment exactly, except I've been doing this for 25 years rather than 15.
There was that one time my former (military contractor) employer got it in their collective heads that they'd start a commercial group. They got a lucrative deal for "technology transfer" from Intel, and got it in their heads that they could become a player in the commercial PC graphics market. However, they knew nothing much about the commercial world, so they just slavishly aped all the steriotypes about hip commercial companies, right down to the ping-pong tables and free soft drinks for developers. It sounded like an interesting change at first, so I tried to transfer in myself at one point, but was told I was too old (I had just turned 29 at the time). Of course that didn't stop every manager who could fog up a mirror from transerring in.
As far as I know never sold another product. Within 5 years they pretty much imploded under the weight of all their overhead.
My favorite story of that era was about their front door. Our facility had one main entrance with an armed security guard and secured access doors behind him. Every other entrance required a person to badge through a one-person-at-a-time turnstyle. Of course that wasn't very "commercial", or welcoming for all their 0 customers, so the commerical group had their own door put in, at great expense.
Of course there was a reason for all that security. A couple of months later some crazy defence protestor came to our facility, was turned back by the guard, and then went around trying every entrance until they found one (the commercial group's) that wasn't locked. So guess who got to deal with the crazy protestor? Less than a week later their door was replaced with a secured door, just like everyone else's. A few more thousand $ down the drain, but at least I got a laugh out of it.
Your utterance of this phrase tells me immediately that you're full of...
Actually, that was probably the most well-sourced part of my statement. If anything, I was being generous. Just go check out any comparative survey of health care quality or results. For example, this survey from the World Health Organization in 2000 ranked the USA 37th of 191 (but we were #1 in % of GDP spent on it!): decidely mediocre. This one from The Commonwealth Fund in 2010 ranked the USA dead last of the 7 nations studied (but again, first in expense!).
Even if you had it 20 years ago and got it taken care of?
The teenage sexual health history of someone I'm considering dating as say a 30+-year-old would most certianly not be any of my business. But how many folks here honestly wouldn't google that up before the date if it were possible to do? This is exactly the kind of stuff Larry is talking about making public.
I'm not sure the first thing I would say to a prospective employer is that I've had cancer, anymore than they should be able to ask whether we intend to have kids.
...and since they can't ask, if you're a young female they just assume its a possibility, and devalue you accordingly.:-(
The US has not had anything even close to a "free market" for decades. Particularly regarding anything related to healthcare and pharmaceuticals
You by defintion cannot have a "free market" in health care, because demand is completely inelastic. If I need dialysis to live, I'll agree to pay whatever you feel like charging me. The customer is not, and in most cases cannot be a free player.
Trying to have a "market" in health care is as silly as it would be for Police or Firefighting services.
Where the USA gets in trouble is that it refuses to acknowlege this fact, and tries to inject "free market" constructs into its system whereever possible. Sure enough, the inevitable happens, and the USA has ended up with most expensive health care system in the world (while getting mediocre results).
Not just women. During the buildup to WWII Martha Dodd, the daughter of the US ambassador to Germany was romantically subourned by one of the young male attache's to the Soviet embassy in Berlin. It turned out he was under orders from Moscow to do so.
If you think they aren't still doing this kind of thing (even perhaps with same sex relationships), you're kidding yourself.
Come on. Walking around flashing that highly eliptical orbit far outside the plane the rest of the respectible planets oribit in, acting all chaoitc like a common comet, Pluto was clearly asking for it. I mean, its sad it happened and all, but hardly suprising. Someone was bound to attack Pluto sonner or later.
Think of it as a Neil deGrasse Tyson show done a bit in the style of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
The guy is so enthusiastic and charasmatic that he's a regular vistor on the late-night talk show circuit, and I believe currently holds the record for the most guest appearances on Colbert. He has 1.2 million followers on twitter. I think he's got what it takes to pull this off.
This is a #firstworldproblem, those who are worrying if they will find food tomorrow have no time to worry about
Then the USA is not a "First World" country. About a sixth of all residents don't get enough food. Particularly heartbreaking is that the numbers tend to get worse when you start talking about just kids. In my hometown the percentage of kids on meal assistance at their schools is so high, I'm too embarrassed to quote it here. These are the kids who are supposed to grow up and run the country.
I can't quite go that far with you. There is no doubt that everybody's brain is built differently, and this can greatly affect what is easy for that person and what is difficult. An extreme example would be someone who has dyslexia. It is no myth that such a person has much more trouble reading at age 7, and this (probably) has nothing to do with their socioeconomic status.
However, as someone with a graduate degree who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, it is quite true that some of the smartest, most driven people I grew up with had trouble just getting out of the old neighborhood. Meanwhile some of the stupidest people I have ever met were PhDs and program managers (nothing against those folks. The smart ones can indeed be brilliant). I can't vouch for the family backgrounds of the stupid people (because I try to avoid them), but from my old neighborhood it was 100% the case that friends of mine growing up in the projects and/or in really rough neighborhoods had the most trouble moving on to college.
That's just not true. The courts have repeatedly ruled that there are in fact limits to the 1st ammendment. There's a nice long wikipedia page on the subject for you to peruse if you don't belive me.
ITAR isn't (supposed to be) a regulation of speech, but rather a regulation of international commerce. The US government most certianly does have the right to do that (although I suppose you could try to argue that an export prohibition amounts to an export tarrif, which would be unconstitutional. I doubt it would fly, but you could try)
This isn't quite the same situation. I suspect the DoS would have no trouble with a "plans for printing a gun" T-Shirt, as long as you aren't shipping it overseas.
For roads and schools and infrastructure, the local/state govt is better at that than the individual
...and you know, pretty much everything government needs to do.
The fact of the matter is that we actually had a natural experiment with "individualisim" vs. "socalisim" in settlement here on the North American continent. Two neighboring European powers founded colonies here, that existed side-by-side well into the early 19th century. One took the path of "rugged individualisim", with almost no local goverment to speak of and every man left to make a living on the frontier and prosper how best he saw fit. The other clustered into dense settlements and founded their own governements, to organize labor, regulate behavior, and tax accordingly. They are known to history as French North America and British North America. While the "individualist" French are well thought of for their relations with the natives (perhaps only because any other policy would have been suicide for them), and their temporarily far more lucrative fur trade, it was the more collectivist English colonists that ended up developing what they had and could hold together into the most powerful country the world has ever seen.
Quite a few Americans now talk like they'd like to dismantle all that and send everyone back to the modern equivalent of fur trading, presumably until someone else passes us by and kicks our keister.
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The Dao that can be talked about is not the True Dao.
Perhaps the "Great Spirit" (Lucas) can reveal
Actually, no. Wakonda is not personified at all. When you want to talk of a person "strong in The Force", that would be Wakonda-gi, which is essentially their word for shaman, or sometimes "man of mystery". Perhaps we should instead translate it as "Jedi". :-)
It seems a bit insulting, the insinuation being that the whole of their culture is distilled down to their native language.
Could you understand algebra if your language had no concept of plurality past "more than one"?
Language provides the framework within which we order our thoughts and interact with the outside world. This has a huge cultural impact. When one is lost, a way of thinking is lost too. People can still study Navajo culture without studying its language, but there's a certian level of understanding of that culture you can never have if you are only capable of thinking in English.
It is diflicult to formulate the native idea expressed in this word ... Wakonda that is the permeating life of visible nature -- an invisible life and power that reaches everywhere and everything and can be appealed to by man to send him help.
You quite often see this translated as "Great Spirit" or "Great Maker", and treated as if it was merely a quaint native term for the Judeo-Christian God.
but was told I was too old
And you didn't sue?
It would be tough to prove, as it would have been a lateral position change within the same company for me, not an actual hiring. But that wasn't the real reason.
It was such a rediculous statement, frankly the thought didn't even occur to me. I was still in my 20's (and looked younger). Now that I'm in my 40's, something like that might be worth raising a stink about. But at the time it was tough to take it as anything other than an admission of insanity on their part. It would be like if they'd told my pale blond-haired blue-eyed self that I wasn't white enough because I had a sunburn. Direct at a black person, yes that would be horrible. Directed at an obviously white person, its a nice heads-up that you are talking to a complete loon.
Sometimes you hear things in interviews that set off warning flags. This was like a warning claxon. They couldn't have more directly told me they were run by clowns if they'd hit me in the face with pie and a soda spritzer. Why get upset over missing out on that? Be grateful and watch the ensuing chaos from a safe distance.
This was my comment exactly, except I've been doing this for 25 years rather than 15.
There was that one time my former (military contractor) employer got it in their collective heads that they'd start a commercial group. They got a lucrative deal for "technology transfer" from Intel, and got it in their heads that they could become a player in the commercial PC graphics market. However, they knew nothing much about the commercial world, so they just slavishly aped all the steriotypes about hip commercial companies, right down to the ping-pong tables and free soft drinks for developers. It sounded like an interesting change at first, so I tried to transfer in myself at one point, but was told I was too old (I had just turned 29 at the time). Of course that didn't stop every manager who could fog up a mirror from transerring in.
As far as I know never sold another product. Within 5 years they pretty much imploded under the weight of all their overhead.
My favorite story of that era was about their front door. Our facility had one main entrance with an armed security guard and secured access doors behind him. Every other entrance required a person to badge through a one-person-at-a-time turnstyle. Of course that wasn't very "commercial", or welcoming for all their 0 customers, so the commerical group had their own door put in, at great expense.
Of course there was a reason for all that security. A couple of months later some crazy defence protestor came to our facility, was turned back by the guard, and then went around trying every entrance until they found one (the commercial group's) that wasn't locked. So guess who got to deal with the crazy protestor? Less than a week later their door was replaced with a secured door, just like everyone else's. A few more thousand $ down the drain, but at least I got a laugh out of it.
"...while getting mediocre results..."
Your utterance of this phrase tells me immediately that you're full of ...
Actually, that was probably the most well-sourced part of my statement. If anything, I was being generous. Just go check out any comparative survey of health care quality or results. For example, this survey from the World Health Organization in 2000 ranked the USA 37th of 191 (but we were #1 in % of GDP spent on it!): decidely mediocre. This one from The Commonwealth Fund in 2010 ranked the USA dead last of the 7 nations studied (but again, first in expense!).
Even if you had it 20 years ago and got it taken care of?
The teenage sexual health history of someone I'm considering dating as say a 30+-year-old would most certianly not be any of my business. But how many folks here honestly wouldn't google that up before the date if it were possible to do? This is exactly the kind of stuff Larry is talking about making public.
I'm not sure the first thing I would say to a prospective employer is that I've had cancer, anymore than they should be able to ask whether we intend to have kids.
...and since they can't ask, if you're a young female they just assume its a possibility, and devalue you accordingly. :-(
The US has not had anything even close to a "free market" for decades. Particularly regarding anything related to healthcare and pharmaceuticals
You by defintion cannot have a "free market" in health care, because demand is completely inelastic. If I need dialysis to live, I'll agree to pay whatever you feel like charging me. The customer is not, and in most cases cannot be a free player.
Trying to have a "market" in health care is as silly as it would be for Police or Firefighting services.
Where the USA gets in trouble is that it refuses to acknowlege this fact, and tries to inject "free market" constructs into its system whereever possible. Sure enough, the inevitable happens, and the USA has ended up with most expensive health care system in the world (while getting mediocre results).
Not just women. During the buildup to WWII Martha Dodd, the daughter of the US ambassador to Germany was romantically subourned by one of the young male attache's to the Soviet embassy in Berlin. It turned out he was under orders from Moscow to do so.
If you think they aren't still doing this kind of thing (even perhaps with same sex relationships), you're kidding yourself.
A dwarf human is still a human. So Pluto is a planet
Ah. Well, in that case we're reclassifying them all as "giant comets", just to avoid confusing logicians like yourself.
The point goes to you.
Neil you killed Pluto
Come on. Walking around flashing that highly eliptical orbit far outside the plane the rest of the respectible planets oribit in, acting all chaoitc like a common comet, Pluto was clearly asking for it. I mean, its sad it happened and all, but hardly suprising. Someone was bound to attack Pluto sonner or later.
Actually, the feathered serpent is generally the good guy. Smoking Mirror (a jaguar) is the one to watch out for.
But don't worry; its not the end of the worl...um...well..actually...
Think of it as a Neil deGrasse Tyson show done a bit in the style of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
The guy is so enthusiastic and charasmatic that he's a regular vistor on the late-night talk show circuit, and I believe currently holds the record for the most guest appearances on Colbert. He has 1.2 million followers on twitter. I think he's got what it takes to pull this off.
Here, I found of recent picture of Nohmul for you.
This is a #firstworldproblem, those who are worrying if they will find food tomorrow have no time to worry about
Then the USA is not a "First World" country. About a sixth of all residents don't get enough food. Particularly heartbreaking is that the numbers tend to get worse when you start talking about just kids. In my hometown the percentage of kids on meal assistance at their schools is so high, I'm too embarrassed to quote it here. These are the kids who are supposed to grow up and run the country.
I can't quite go that far with you. There is no doubt that everybody's brain is built differently, and this can greatly affect what is easy for that person and what is difficult. An extreme example would be someone who has dyslexia. It is no myth that such a person has much more trouble reading at age 7, and this (probably) has nothing to do with their socioeconomic status.
However, as someone with a graduate degree who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, it is quite true that some of the smartest, most driven people I grew up with had trouble just getting out of the old neighborhood. Meanwhile some of the stupidest people I have ever met were PhDs and program managers (nothing against those folks. The smart ones can indeed be brilliant). I can't vouch for the family backgrounds of the stupid people (because I try to avoid them), but from my old neighborhood it was 100% the case that friends of mine growing up in the projects and/or in really rough neighborhoods had the most trouble moving on to college.
Math and reading ability at age 7 and socioeconomic status of the parents.
Socioeconomic status and socioeconomic status of the parents.
So has this study really shown anything other than the transitive property?
I'd say that you really ought to stick "IANAL" in there somewhere, but frankly the content of your message makes that redundant.
Try clicking that first link I supplied in the meantime. The education of a person begins with the first word read...
This isn't quite the same situation. I suspect the DoS would have no trouble with a "plans for printing a gun" T-Shirt, as long as you aren't shipping it overseas.
I think I like him best when he is English. At least he tends to be polite then.
That's easy to fix; just say something nice about Chelsea.
For roads and schools and infrastructure, the local/state govt is better at that than the individual
...and you know, pretty much everything government needs to do.
The fact of the matter is that we actually had a natural experiment with "individualisim" vs. "socalisim" in settlement here on the North American continent. Two neighboring European powers founded colonies here, that existed side-by-side well into the early 19th century. One took the path of "rugged individualisim", with almost no local goverment to speak of and every man left to make a living on the frontier and prosper how best he saw fit. The other clustered into dense settlements and founded their own governements, to organize labor, regulate behavior, and tax accordingly. They are known to history as French North America and British North America. While the "individualist" French are well thought of for their relations with the natives (perhaps only because any other policy would have been suicide for them), and their temporarily far more lucrative fur trade, it was the more collectivist English colonists that ended up developing what they had and could hold together into the most powerful country the world has ever seen.
Quite a few Americans now talk like they'd like to dismantle all that and send everyone back to the modern equivalent of fur trading, presumably until someone else passes us by and kicks our keister.