We only hear about the big public mega hacks. There's a steady river of this stuff flowing into the databases of criminal organisations and bought and sold in bulk every day. Sony have been caught out spectacularly in the past too. It looks like they're unable to defend themselves against it.
How do I get "Troll" on my moderation? Here's the next Apple Inc. Slashdot story: http://apple.slashdot.org/stor... It's a fact that they act in bad faith. That's not even opinion. They intimidate customers with grievances into sign NDAs and/or threaten them with bankrupting litigation to keep Apple Inc.'s misdeeds under tight wraps.
Chimpanzees are genetically closer to us that they are to the other great apes; gorillas and orangutans (not sure about bonobos). They're capable of experiencing degrees of emotional suffering and trauma that a comparable to humans. Therefore, to inflict such suffering on chimpanzees isn't that far removed from doing it to other humans. I'm not saying that chimpanzees should have equal rights to humans but, for our own sakes, we should require appropriately humane treatment of them. If you want to see just how close to us they are and also how they're different, check out the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the work of Michael Tomasello et al. http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/
Don't want to pay for the next generation's education? Who's gonna support you when you've retired? You think your pension and health insurance will still be working if there's nobody earning a decent wage to pay into it? If you wanna be a loner and don't want to pay your way, go and live in the hills and don't use anything that civilisation, culture, and society have produced... including the language(s) you speak.
There's a simple survey to take that tells you if your answers correspond to an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Reading the questions gives you an idea of what ASDs are about, at least for people who are high-functioning: http://psychology-tools.com/au...
Credit card companies charge retailers which pass the fees onto their customers. So everyone pays for credit cards whether they want to or not and, if you ask any independent retailer, those fees are not reasonable. If you can, use a debit card or cash. They're cheaper for retailers and help local, small businesses (who can't negotiate bulk discounts from creadit card companies and so end up effectively subsidising the big chain stores' fees). Also, the money you spend locally, as opposed to big chain store corporations who offshore all their profits and tax liabilities, stays locally and contributes to the local economy. It's the ethical thing to do.
...Silicon Valley just aint gonna come up with feasible solutions to urban and suburban transport problems. I don't know why the press are asking them about everything outside their domains of expertise. Why not ask some experts on the subject instead? You know, people who actually know what they're talking about.
You know how they're all into including other sides of the argument? Well, how about requiring them to teach the controversy of abortion vs. adoption, abortion vs. death of mother and/or baby, and adoption vs. abortion for rape-incest? That should get some healthy debate going among the pupils and provide loads of learning experiences for how to form coherent arguments, the difference between fact and opinion, the importance of evidence-based reason, and the importance of allowing people to hold their own opinions without fear of reprisals, how to examine issues and do background research, compensate for our logical fallacies and cognitive biases, hear all sides, and make up their own minds. You know, the kinds of individuals who are mature and well-informed and capable of dealing with all the challenges and problems that life's likely to throw at them. Or is that not what the AZ school board people want?
tl;dr - The school board don't want pupils thinking for themselves.
Absolutely correct. The Medallion business was artificial scarcity, protected by insiders.
But on a broader scale the problem is that the world is awash in surplus capacity at every turn. Automation and robotics are compounding that problem at an exponentially increasing rate.
Ultimately we have too much labor and too much capacity to produce -- everywhere. This is a conundrum for economic models which require scarcity. We weren't supposed to have too much food, too much energy or too much labor. Demand was supposed to increase at a constant rate...but of course we juiced the world with credit and now we've built productive capacity and availability that cannot possibly be met with demand. We are surrounded by business models and prices which are conceptual remnants of earlier eras when capacity was restricted. These models can only ever be preserved through artificial means, because given a natural, free-market dynamic, competition and automation drive prices south.
So it's not just medallions that are priced at unsustainable levels. Its nearly everything that's artificially overpriced. And that includes us.
Almost absolutely correct;) Productivity has multiplied since the mid 20th century but salaries haven't kept up with it since the early 80s. In other words, we're effectively earning 80s salaries to pay for housing, transport, healthcare, education, goods, and services at 21st century prices. So far, the banks have been lending us money to subsidise the higher prices, effectively supplementing our salaries, to prevent consumerism from collapsing and to turn a hefty profit in interest rates and fees, thereby making everything even more expensive (banking interest rates and fees are effectively taxation without representation - we have no choice about paying them, they're not democratically accountable, and the money goes off-shore as profits rather than into infrastructure and services for us). So we're producing far more goods than people can afford to buy and propping up their prices with massive debt. The money that previously allowed workers to buy goods is now going to the very rich who don't buy anywhere near as much stuff and services as the rest of us. What do we have left? Overproduction and poverty. That's what the free-market has given every country where it's been instigated. The only remotely humane solutions involve massive government intervention and a redistribution of wealth, similar to what we saw after the great depression. The other options are pretty horrific.
...that the USA, teh greatest country on earth, is getting left behind. Still burning dead dinosaurs and million year-old trees 'n' shit that makes everyone ill.
You can strap little bombs to thousands of birds, you know, flocks of 'em, and they have the detonators in their beaks. Then put breadcrumbs on the target/victim...
Or how about a big bomb with a big magnet on it so that it sticks to the bottom of a car or truck, then send in a special-ops stealth trained parrot to sneak in and detonate it?
Or radioactive flamingo dirty bombs?
It's only a matter of time before someone comes up with a dastardly plan like this. We have to stop them now! Air traffic control and passports for birds, immediately. Stop the avian terrorist threat!!!
If you think atrocities are only committed by the USA and its allies, you must have had a hell of an education.
Yeah, the US and its allies have been training other countries to do the really dirty work for them for decades, e.g. "The School of the Americas" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... Also, the British Military trained and the CIA supported the Sadam Hussein Ba'ath party regime (They were trained at Sandhurst military academy on an on-going basis). In Indonesia, the CIA and US military also supported a long series of massacres and a long campaign of oppression that continues to this day. There's a very, very long list of past and current attrocities in the world in which the USA plays a central role.
You can't indite Khan's methodology without dismissing the value of most public schools in general.
Not that you're wrong, just that singling out Khan is like noting that 4th grade isn't very good and ignoring the other 11 years of "education" we subject young people to.
You're absolutely right about current practices in public education and it's getting worse with policies like the No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top acts. It's increasingly suffering under the influence of the publishing and testing corporations like Pearson Education, McGraw Hill, ETS, et al. There's currently a lobbying and govt. driven feeding frenzy to get as much money from and exert as much control over public education by big corporations as possible. Now teachers across the country are rebelling, protesting, and campaigning for real education reform. The thing is, most experienced teachers know how to teach well but they're being forced to teach to meaningless tests so that corporations can make more money in the short-term regardless of the longer-term effects of having a poorly educated population.
So your question to Mr G could be summarised as: why don't you just fuck off?
No. I'd urge him to practice good journalism and exercise humility when writing about topics where he is not an expert. He should check his interpretations and conclusions with researchers and experts to avoid further embarrassment. Also, some public retractions of his claims are probably warranted. That is, if he values good journalistic practices and ethics.
The basic principle stands though and bizarrely seems to shock quite a few people - if you want to be good at something, do it for quite a long time.
"do it for quite a long time" is insufficient. It takes a whole lot more to get good at something as you already know. I don't know of anyone who was shocked by this so called "principle."
The problem with Austrian School economics and the subsequent Chicago School is that they are a-historical, i.e. their theories bear little or no relation to what happens in reality. The Fed was set up as a response to the frequent financial panics that plagued the free market at the time: http://www.minneapolisfed.org/... Additionally, the foundational principle of Austrian/Chicago School economic theory, homo economicus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H..., is just plain wrong (See Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize in Economics-winning work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...). We're not rational, self-interested agents and we have over a century of conclusive cognitive psychology resarch that tells us otherwise.
Austrian/Chicago School economists, like Murray Rothbard, are just plain nuts.
Are you suggesting that Baidu is a competitor to Google? How's your Chinese? I guess Europeans can always choose to learn Chinese and maybe, just maybe the search results will be appropriate for them. Who knows?
In what way? Because you don't think Google should use its other services to provide a more integrated experience? Without any sort of lock-in, don't pretend that's anything other than punishing success. You're begging the question. If Google is a monopoly and they're integrating stuff, that's bad. And they must be a monopoly, because they're doing bad monopoly things like integrating stuff. But without being an actual monopoly with actual lock-in, there's no reason that integration is a problem at all - in fact it's quite the opposite, that's what they have to do to remain competitive. Changing search engines away from Google is as simple as typing a different URL or choosing something else from the drop-down, or even *not changing the default*. The idea that a high search marketshare can be anything other than direct user choice is ridiculous - and so what's the problem?
OK, let's rephrase it then: You got distracted from political discourse and democratic participation by cat videos, competitive sports, celebrity gossip, "manufactured" extremist arguing by both elected representatives and the mainstream media on "wedge issues" that doesn't contribute to constructive political discourse, all paid for by corporate sponsorship to push their messages and agendas on us. I believe it's what the Romans used to call "bread and circuses." It's no wonder that American social networks are mostly filled with meaningless, irrelevant garbage. In some other coutries, it's a different matter. They take their public political discourse a little more seriously.
Ahhh.... that's why you don't have a functioning democracy anymore: You got distracted from political discourse and democratic participation by cat videos.
American culture spends so much time being exceptional and telling itself it's the best, it just doesn't have the time or the energy left for quality control. Anything that attracts a cli... ooh, look! A Funny cat!!! LOLz!!!! =)))
"used a novel method of tracking people through data from the social media site LinkedIn" -- [sarcasm]Yeah, that's really reliable data. Won't have any problems with skewed, self-selected data-sets at all.[/sarcasm]
It's funny that you say EUSSR. The European Central Bank is one of the most fundamentalist free-market neoliberal banking organisations in the world. It puts the Fed and Wall St. to shame (if you think being fundamentalist free-market neoliberal is a good thing). They're prepared to let whole countries go to rack and ruin for the sake of free-market purity.
And Google have an effective monopoly on search and are abusing it. It's a pretty straightforward case for their companies in the EU being broken up. Isn't that one of the functions of small gubbermint in a fundamentalist free-market neoliberal system? You know, to ensure that there's competition and no one entity can become tyranical?
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We only hear about the big public mega hacks. There's a steady river of this stuff flowing into the databases of criminal organisations and bought and sold in bulk every day. Sony have been caught out spectacularly in the past too. It looks like they're unable to defend themselves against it.
How do I get "Troll" on my moderation? Here's the next Apple Inc. Slashdot story: http://apple.slashdot.org/stor... It's a fact that they act in bad faith. That's not even opinion. They intimidate customers with grievances into sign NDAs and/or threaten them with bankrupting litigation to keep Apple Inc.'s misdeeds under tight wraps.
Chimpanzees are genetically closer to us that they are to the other great apes; gorillas and orangutans (not sure about bonobos). They're capable of experiencing degrees of emotional suffering and trauma that a comparable to humans. Therefore, to inflict such suffering on chimpanzees isn't that far removed from doing it to other humans. I'm not saying that chimpanzees should have equal rights to humans but, for our own sakes, we should require appropriately humane treatment of them. If you want to see just how close to us they are and also how they're different, check out the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the work of Michael Tomasello et al. http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/
Don't want to pay for the next generation's education? Who's gonna support you when you've retired? You think your pension and health insurance will still be working if there's nobody earning a decent wage to pay into it? If you wanna be a loner and don't want to pay your way, go and live in the hills and don't use anything that civilisation, culture, and society have produced... including the language(s) you speak.
There's a simple survey to take that tells you if your answers correspond to an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Reading the questions gives you an idea of what ASDs are about, at least for people who are high-functioning: http://psychology-tools.com/au...
"One day, machine will exceed human intelligence." -- Ray Kurzweil
"Only if we meet them half way." -- Dave Snowden
Most people's opinions on this topic are based on science fiction, not computer science and psychology.
Credit card companies charge retailers which pass the fees onto their customers. So everyone pays for credit cards whether they want to or not and, if you ask any independent retailer, those fees are not reasonable. If you can, use a debit card or cash. They're cheaper for retailers and help local, small businesses (who can't negotiate bulk discounts from creadit card companies and so end up effectively subsidising the big chain stores' fees). Also, the money you spend locally, as opposed to big chain store corporations who offshore all their profits and tax liabilities, stays locally and contributes to the local economy. It's the ethical thing to do.
...Silicon Valley just aint gonna come up with feasible solutions to urban and suburban transport problems. I don't know why the press are asking them about everything outside their domains of expertise. Why not ask some experts on the subject instead? You know, people who actually know what they're talking about.
You know how they're all into including other sides of the argument? Well, how about requiring them to teach the controversy of abortion vs. adoption, abortion vs. death of mother and/or baby, and adoption vs. abortion for rape-incest? That should get some healthy debate going among the pupils and provide loads of learning experiences for how to form coherent arguments, the difference between fact and opinion, the importance of evidence-based reason, and the importance of allowing people to hold their own opinions without fear of reprisals, how to examine issues and do background research, compensate for our logical fallacies and cognitive biases, hear all sides, and make up their own minds. You know, the kinds of individuals who are mature and well-informed and capable of dealing with all the challenges and problems that life's likely to throw at them. Or is that not what the AZ school board people want?
tl;dr - The school board don't want pupils thinking for themselves.
Absolutely correct. The Medallion business was artificial scarcity, protected by insiders.
But on a broader scale the problem is that the world is awash in surplus capacity at every turn. Automation and robotics are compounding that problem at an exponentially increasing rate.
Ultimately we have too much labor and too much capacity to produce -- everywhere. This is a conundrum for economic models which require scarcity. We weren't supposed to have too much food, too much energy or too much labor. Demand was supposed to increase at a constant rate ...but of course we juiced the world with credit and now we've built productive capacity and availability that cannot possibly be met with demand. We are surrounded by business models and prices which are conceptual remnants of earlier eras when capacity was restricted. These models can only ever be preserved through artificial means, because given a natural, free-market dynamic, competition and automation drive prices south.
So it's not just medallions that are priced at unsustainable levels. Its nearly everything that's artificially overpriced. And that includes us.
Almost absolutely correct ;) Productivity has multiplied since the mid 20th century but salaries haven't kept up with it since the early 80s. In other words, we're effectively earning 80s salaries to pay for housing, transport, healthcare, education, goods, and services at 21st century prices. So far, the banks have been lending us money to subsidise the higher prices, effectively supplementing our salaries, to prevent consumerism from collapsing and to turn a hefty profit in interest rates and fees, thereby making everything even more expensive (banking interest rates and fees are effectively taxation without representation - we have no choice about paying them, they're not democratically accountable, and the money goes off-shore as profits rather than into infrastructure and services for us). So we're producing far more goods than people can afford to buy and propping up their prices with massive debt. The money that previously allowed workers to buy goods is now going to the very rich who don't buy anywhere near as much stuff and services as the rest of us. What do we have left? Overproduction and poverty. That's what the free-market has given every country where it's been instigated. The only remotely humane solutions involve massive government intervention and a redistribution of wealth, similar to what we saw after the great depression. The other options are pretty horrific.
...that the USA, teh greatest country on earth, is getting left behind. Still burning dead dinosaurs and million year-old trees 'n' shit that makes everyone ill.
1. Aren't you a little black to be a stormtrooper?
Disney Inc.'s market research team found that American viewers found killing black storm troopers less disturbing than white ones.
That sword *almost* makes sense.
Especially if it's by crusty old white guys in long robes with burning crosses.
Here's Darth Vader trying out his new suit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You can strap little bombs to thousands of birds, you know, flocks of 'em, and they have the detonators in their beaks. Then put breadcrumbs on the target/victim...
Or how about a big bomb with a big magnet on it so that it sticks to the bottom of a car or truck, then send in a special-ops stealth trained parrot to sneak in and detonate it?
Or radioactive flamingo dirty bombs?
It's only a matter of time before someone comes up with a dastardly plan like this. We have to stop them now! Air traffic control and passports for birds, immediately. Stop the avian terrorist threat!!!
...acted in bad faith? What a surprise.
If you think atrocities are only committed by the USA and its allies, you must have had a hell of an education.
Yeah, the US and its allies have been training other countries to do the really dirty work for them for decades, e.g. "The School of the Americas" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... Also, the British Military trained and the CIA supported the Sadam Hussein Ba'ath party regime (They were trained at Sandhurst military academy on an on-going basis). In Indonesia, the CIA and US military also supported a long series of massacres and a long campaign of oppression that continues to this day. There's a very, very long list of past and current attrocities in the world in which the USA plays a central role.
You can't indite Khan's methodology without dismissing the value of most public schools in general.
Not that you're wrong, just that singling out Khan is like noting that 4th grade isn't very good and ignoring the other 11 years of "education" we subject young people to.
You're absolutely right about current practices in public education and it's getting worse with policies like the No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top acts. It's increasingly suffering under the influence of the publishing and testing corporations like Pearson Education, McGraw Hill, ETS, et al. There's currently a lobbying and govt. driven feeding frenzy to get as much money from and exert as much control over public education by big corporations as possible. Now teachers across the country are rebelling, protesting, and campaigning for real education reform. The thing is, most experienced teachers know how to teach well but they're being forced to teach to meaningless tests so that corporations can make more money in the short-term regardless of the longer-term effects of having a poorly educated population.
So your question to Mr G could be summarised as: why don't you just fuck off?
No. I'd urge him to practice good journalism and exercise humility when writing about topics where he is not an expert. He should check his interpretations and conclusions with researchers and experts to avoid further embarrassment. Also, some public retractions of his claims are probably warranted. That is, if he values good journalistic practices and ethics.
The basic principle stands though and bizarrely seems to shock quite a few people - if you want to be good at something, do it for quite a long time.
"do it for quite a long time" is insufficient. It takes a whole lot more to get good at something as you already know. I don't know of anyone who was shocked by this so called "principle."
The problem with Austrian School economics and the subsequent Chicago School is that they are a-historical, i.e. their theories bear little or no relation to what happens in reality. The Fed was set up as a response to the frequent financial panics that plagued the free market at the time: http://www.minneapolisfed.org/... Additionally, the foundational principle of Austrian/Chicago School economic theory, homo economicus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H..., is just plain wrong (See Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize in Economics-winning work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...). We're not rational, self-interested agents and we have over a century of conclusive cognitive psychology resarch that tells us otherwise.
Austrian/Chicago School economists, like Murray Rothbard, are just plain nuts.
Are you suggesting that Baidu is a competitor to Google? How's your Chinese? I guess Europeans can always choose to learn Chinese and maybe, just maybe the search results will be appropriate for them. Who knows?
In what way? Because you don't think Google should use its other services to provide a more integrated experience? Without any sort of lock-in, don't pretend that's anything other than punishing success. You're begging the question. If Google is a monopoly and they're integrating stuff, that's bad. And they must be a monopoly, because they're doing bad monopoly things like integrating stuff. But without being an actual monopoly with actual lock-in, there's no reason that integration is a problem at all - in fact it's quite the opposite, that's what they have to do to remain competitive. Changing search engines away from Google is as simple as typing a different URL or choosing something else from the drop-down, or even *not changing the default*. The idea that a high search marketshare can be anything other than direct user choice is ridiculous - and so what's the problem?
This isn't even wrong. It's incoherent.
OK, let's rephrase it then: You got distracted from political discourse and democratic participation by cat videos, competitive sports, celebrity gossip, "manufactured" extremist arguing by both elected representatives and the mainstream media on "wedge issues" that doesn't contribute to constructive political discourse, all paid for by corporate sponsorship to push their messages and agendas on us. I believe it's what the Romans used to call "bread and circuses." It's no wonder that American social networks are mostly filled with meaningless, irrelevant garbage. In some other coutries, it's a different matter. They take their public political discourse a little more seriously.
Ahhh.... that's why you don't have a functioning democracy anymore: You got distracted from political discourse and democratic participation by cat videos.
American culture spends so much time being exceptional and telling itself it's the best, it just doesn't have the time or the energy left for quality control. Anything that attracts a cli... ooh, look! A Funny cat!!! LOLz!!!! =)))
"used a novel method of tracking people through data from the social media site LinkedIn" -- [sarcasm]Yeah, that's really reliable data. Won't have any problems with skewed, self-selected data-sets at all.[/sarcasm]
It's funny that you say EUSSR. The European Central Bank is one of the most fundamentalist free-market neoliberal banking organisations in the world. It puts the Fed and Wall St. to shame (if you think being fundamentalist free-market neoliberal is a good thing). They're prepared to let whole countries go to rack and ruin for the sake of free-market purity.
And Google have an effective monopoly on search and are abusing it. It's a pretty straightforward case for their companies in the EU being broken up. Isn't that one of the functions of small gubbermint in a fundamentalist free-market neoliberal system? You know, to ensure that there's competition and no one entity can become tyranical?