If you don't pay them anything, then only those wealthy enough to not work could serve. That wouldn't be much better!
Alternately, I believe that congressmen should get paid the average wage of the residents of their state. That would make the job pay well enough to live off of, but would avoid attracting those who just want the money. At the same, it would encourage raising the standard of living of those in their state (across the board), instead of just sucking them dry like parasites.
On all of my personal must-stay-up servers, I get a processor that is too beefy for the task it's to do, then clock it down. It's usually rock solid and runs very cool. In some cases I've been able to get by using only passive cooling and still keeping the processor very cool, making the system solid, cool, and nearly silent.
Since everybody is spouting their viewpoint, I'll put mine out there, too. I'm only different in that I know that my opinion is just that, an opinion. While I believe in it rather strongly, I'm not going to try to crush everybody else's and try to get my opinion immortalized in law.
I'm totally for the killing of embryos.
If killing embryos results in fewer of these human larvae growing up become more obese morally outraged hypocritical consumer mindless sheep, it can only be a good thing. Especially since the next generation will just go on to pop out more of these vile spawn and on and on until we start eating each other or something like a cage full of rats.
Posting anonymously since I do a lot of business with WSWA types.
Ahhh, but we were one step ahead of you. We've completed the trace and the leg breaking is on its way. That'll teach you to post comments on Slashdot disparaging the WSWA. Bwahahahahaha
"But the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!"
I'm not sure I'm quite opposed to very close scrutiny being payed to the activities of our representatives. In fact, I believe that they should be the most watched of all of the people in a nation. When they hold the power to implement their will as law, they should have very little privacy (in certain areas).
Suspicion of bribery is suspicion of corruption of government, and that has the potential to be much more damaging to society than anything a petty criminal can acheive. Since the reps are just people, there's no way we can just trust them to always do the right thing (though they'd like us to). So, if we're going to give them the power to make decisions on our behalf and enforce them with the power of the government (great, great power), we need to ensure that they are not corrupt.
While the whole idea of monitoring free people so intently doesn't sit too easily with me, either, I think that this is the solution. For the reps to think that they should hold such power and still be able to keep all their wheelings and dealings secret is foolish. When bribing a person can lead to laws being passed that directly affect millions of people in a negative fashion, such bribes should not be allowed to take place.
The only fully transparent members of a nation should be members of the military, prisoners, and political representatives, in order of increasing transparency.
It's interesting that you used doctors as a counterexample of "unhealthy respect." While their work is important, the near godlike status they get (at least in the US) isn't quite in proportion to what they do. In fact this status (and income) attract people to the profession who are more interested in the dough than the work and you get a whole system full of incompetent jerks.
I've spent a lot of time with doctors (there're a whole lot of doctors in my family), and being interested in medicine and healing is never the reason why they picked that profession.
To get back on topic, it's kind of like the musician who's just tring to become a "rock star"... they're usually not the best of the bunch.
Chlorophyll absorbs in the red-orange region and in the blue-violet region. For commonly used UV light sources, there is a great amount of emitted light in the violet (approaching blue) region. You would obviously have to give the plants some red-orange wavelengths too.
It *is* interesting to see individuals (many of whom seem to be on Slashdot) who consider "keeping an open mind" an important quality in *everything* other than Religion.
I don't think that's all that surprising... (I know you said interesting.) Religion is based entirely on faith, to the absolute exclusion of reason. Religion is the one arena where an open mind does more damage than good. (At least for highly dogmatic organized religions)
You believe in a specific religion because you are told to, perhaps through some old book, perhaps orally. Religious doctrine is often riddled with inconsistancies and contradictions, but to be faithful, you must not heed them.
Religion is mostly unprovable, so it therefore lies entirely outside the domain of reason and logic. Except in the case of bizarre predictions and statements about the world around us, religious beliefs and reason have no overlap whatsoever. It's the predictions and statements that often cause so much strife between people. (of course that's not entirely true...)
What a funny coincidence, I just "securely wiped" a few old hard drives this weekend with a couple of 12 ga slugs. I suppose that slagging the leftover shards would be a good idea after that...
My method has the benefit of being a bit more fum than a degausser or wipe utility. (Actually I wiped them first...)
You talk as if capital is a cooperative conspiracy.
The real danger comes from the fact that it is not an organized conspiracy. If it were, the valuable rich consumers you speak of would be kept rich so they can keep consuming. As it is, the owners of the companies (or more specifically, the stockholders) are only interested in short term gains. Often the controlling stockholders have no real interest in the long-term viability of the company, and absolutely no loyalty to it.
In this case, the aim is not to control a vast conspiracy that feeds like a parasite from a preserved host, but a predator that converts the entire host (local economy) to food (profit). This short-sightedness (which I believe is the result of only greed) does all of the damage.
The conspiracy you refer to wouldn't really be so bad, because at least the host would be kept alive. Kinda like the parasites that Fry got in Futurama.
Quite ridiculous. This is exactly opposite to the spirit of the patent system. By patenting something that they do not intend to implement, they are stifling technological advancement. This area of technology is now closed off for several years because Sony wants to grab a profit from the first person who actually wants to make an advancement in this area.
Aside from the oft pointed out prestige factor (which is a very good reason), you also have this added benefit to humanity...
...but until we get really, really serious advances in technology...
Trying to solve a problem is one of the fastest ways to come up with solutions to that problem. We are currently enjoying many of the technological advances acheived by (or for) the manned space program. Waiting for technology to advance enough to do something doesn't make as much sense as actively advancing it.
But then again, in the print industry I've seen big advertisers in magazines have gear that get's crap reviews.
In order to convey the fact that you're actually doing this, though, you're going to have to have at least one bad review... with that manufacturer's ad on your site. You have to admit that that is a fairly unstable situation. You don't have the advantage of the print industry of having the ads and the content printed together. If you're going to continue to provide the bad review to the public, the mfg is not likely to continue to pay you to host their ad.
So you end up with only ads on your site for products that were favorably reviewed, which looks suspicious.
I agree with the post a little further down about not accepting ads at all for products you review. If you do, your integrity will be suspect. That's just the way it works.
I really do strongly recommend checking out Tor. Even if you don't plan on using it regularly, running the server process will greatly increase the effectiveness of the network as a whole.
I haven't seen The Passion of the Christ. Not because I think seeing it may make me a Christian, but because I don't find Christian mythology particularly interesting. I've read the Bible, so I'm not ignorant of it, I'm just not interested in it. I probably wouldn't watch a movie about the Greek panthology, either.
The GP was talking about people remaining willfully ignorant to protect their shaky faith, I don't see how this applies...
It's amazing how often this argument is incorrectly brought up.
Microsoft was found to be a (near) monopoly. Therefore any abuse of their monopoly position is a bad thing.
Apple (or whever else this argument is used against) is not a monopoly. Therefore bundling whatever software they want isn't (as) bad. They are not even close to being a monopoly, so their actions definitely can't be monopolistic.
monopoly (mnp'l) , market condition in which there is only one seller of a certain commodity; by virtue of the long-run control over supply, such a seller is able to exert nearly total control over prices. In a pure monopoly, the single seller will usually restrict supply to that point on the supply-demand schedule that will maximize profit. In modern times, the accelerated production and competition brought about by the Industrial Revolution led to the formation of monopoly and oligopoly. Since the notion of monopoly is antithetical to the free market ideal, it has never been popular in capitalist nations. In the United States, the most famous monopoly was John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust in the late 19th cent. Despite such legislation as the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act (the first significant legal statute against monopoly), it was the Supreme Court that forced the break-up of Standard Oil, along with other monopolies. Since the 1960s, however, the U.S. Justice Dept. has occasionally been more active in attacking monopolies or near monopolies (such as AT&T and IBM); a major case in the 1990s involved the Microsoft Corp. (see Bill Gates).
If you've ever tried to translate jokes into another language (let alone plays on words), you'd realize that a human translator would not be able to translate that correctly and have it come out as a pun.
The whole point of the sentense it that 'flies' and 'like' have several different meanings. While it is possible to create a similar pun in a different language, this exact one is unlikely to translate. That's an artifact of the particular language it is composed in, not the abilities of the translator.
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Alternately, I believe that congressmen should get paid the average wage of the residents of their state. That would make the job pay well enough to live off of, but would avoid attracting those who just want the money. At the same, it would encourage raising the standard of living of those in their state (across the board), instead of just sucking them dry like parasites.
;)
Not everything the USSR did was bad. Stalin ate breakfast, too. Does that make be bad for doing it as well?
Who becomes richer because of this?
I know I'm cynical, but the fact that this always works out kinda bumms me out...
A Pascal's wager of sorts...
Your fatal mistake. Only hearwear of the tin variety really works...
On all of my personal must-stay-up servers, I get a processor that is too beefy for the task it's to do, then clock it down. It's usually rock solid and runs very cool. In some cases I've been able to get by using only passive cooling and still keeping the processor very cool, making the system solid, cool, and nearly silent.
Pfft. Getting Christians to hunger for war is like shooting fish in a barrel.
I'm totally for the killing of embryos.
If killing embryos results in fewer of these human larvae growing up become more obese morally outraged hypocritical consumer mindless sheep, it can only be a good thing. Especially since the next generation will just go on to pop out more of these vile spawn and on and on until we start eating each other or something like a cage full of rats.
Ahhh, but we were one step ahead of you. We've completed the trace and the leg breaking is on its way. That'll teach you to post comments on Slashdot disparaging the WSWA. Bwahahahahaha
-Kudos (or was it Kang?)
Suspicion of bribery is suspicion of corruption of government, and that has the potential to be much more damaging to society than anything a petty criminal can acheive. Since the reps are just people, there's no way we can just trust them to always do the right thing (though they'd like us to). So, if we're going to give them the power to make decisions on our behalf and enforce them with the power of the government (great, great power), we need to ensure that they are not corrupt.
While the whole idea of monitoring free people so intently doesn't sit too easily with me, either, I think that this is the solution. For the reps to think that they should hold such power and still be able to keep all their wheelings and dealings secret is foolish. When bribing a person can lead to laws being passed that directly affect millions of people in a negative fashion, such bribes should not be allowed to take place.
The only fully transparent members of a nation should be members of the military, prisoners, and political representatives, in order of increasing transparency.
I've spent a lot of time with doctors (there're a whole lot of doctors in my family), and being interested in medicine and healing is never the reason why they picked that profession.
To get back on topic, it's kind of like the musician who's just tring to become a "rock star"... they're usually not the best of the bunch.
Chlorophyll absorbs in the red-orange region and in the blue-violet region. For commonly used UV light sources, there is a great amount of emitted light in the violet (approaching blue) region. You would obviously have to give the plants some red-orange wavelengths too.
I don't think that's all that surprising... (I know you said interesting.) Religion is based entirely on faith, to the absolute exclusion of reason. Religion is the one arena where an open mind does more damage than good. (At least for highly dogmatic organized religions)
You believe in a specific religion because you are told to, perhaps through some old book, perhaps orally. Religious doctrine is often riddled with inconsistancies and contradictions, but to be faithful, you must not heed them.
Religion is mostly unprovable, so it therefore lies entirely outside the domain of reason and logic. Except in the case of bizarre predictions and statements about the world around us, religious beliefs and reason have no overlap whatsoever. It's the predictions and statements that often cause so much strife between people. (of course that's not entirely true...)
My method has the benefit of being a bit more fum than a degausser or wipe utility. (Actually I wiped them first...)
The real danger comes from the fact that it is not an organized conspiracy. If it were, the valuable rich consumers you speak of would be kept rich so they can keep consuming. As it is, the owners of the companies (or more specifically, the stockholders) are only interested in short term gains. Often the controlling stockholders have no real interest in the long-term viability of the company, and absolutely no loyalty to it.
In this case, the aim is not to control a vast conspiracy that feeds like a parasite from a preserved host, but a predator that converts the entire host (local economy) to food (profit). This short-sightedness (which I believe is the result of only greed) does all of the damage.
The conspiracy you refer to wouldn't really be so bad, because at least the host would be kept alive. Kinda like the parasites that Fry got in Futurama.
Quite ridiculous. This is exactly opposite to the spirit of the patent system. By patenting something that they do not intend to implement, they are stifling technological advancement. This area of technology is now closed off for several years because Sony wants to grab a profit from the first person who actually wants to make an advancement in this area.
Trying to solve a problem is one of the fastest ways to come up with solutions to that problem. We are currently enjoying many of the technological advances acheived by (or for) the manned space program. Waiting for technology to advance enough to do something doesn't make as much sense as actively advancing it.
In order to convey the fact that you're actually doing this, though, you're going to have to have at least one bad review... with that manufacturer's ad on your site. You have to admit that that is a fairly unstable situation. You don't have the advantage of the print industry of having the ads and the content printed together. If you're going to continue to provide the bad review to the public, the mfg is not likely to continue to pay you to host their ad.
So you end up with only ads on your site for products that were favorably reviewed, which looks suspicious.
I agree with the post a little further down about not accepting ads at all for products you review. If you do, your integrity will be suspect. That's just the way it works.
I really do strongly recommend checking out Tor. Even if you don't plan on using it regularly, running the server process will greatly increase the effectiveness of the network as a whole.
The GP was talking about people remaining willfully ignorant to protect their shaky faith, I don't see how this applies...
Along those lines, remember that more US citizens have been wrongfully killed by the US government than by foreign terrorists.
Microsoft was found to be a (near) monopoly. Therefore any abuse of their monopoly position is a bad thing.
Apple (or whever else this argument is used against) is not a monopoly. Therefore bundling whatever software they want isn't (as) bad. They are not even close to being a monopoly, so their actions definitely can't be monopolistic.
monopoly (mnp'l) , market condition in which there is only one seller of a certain commodity; by virtue of the long-run control over supply, such a seller is able to exert nearly total control over prices. In a pure monopoly, the single seller will usually restrict supply to that point on the supply-demand schedule that will maximize profit. In modern times, the accelerated production and competition brought about by the Industrial Revolution led to the formation of monopoly and oligopoly. Since the notion of monopoly is antithetical to the free market ideal, it has never been popular in capitalist nations. In the United States, the most famous monopoly was John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust in the late 19th cent. Despite such legislation as the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act (the first significant legal statute against monopoly), it was the Supreme Court that forced the break-up of Standard Oil, along with other monopolies. Since the 1960s, however, the U.S. Justice Dept. has occasionally been more active in attacking monopolies or near monopolies (such as AT&T and IBM); a major case in the 1990s involved the Microsoft Corp. (see Bill Gates).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press.
The whole point of the sentense it that 'flies' and 'like' have several different meanings. While it is possible to create a similar pun in a different language, this exact one is unlikely to translate. That's an artifact of the particular language it is composed in, not the abilities of the translator.