Oh, so we should just outsource our negative externalities to other places with those brown/yellow-skinned people living in poverty?
We 'should'? No, that's what we actually do.
That's the way comrade! No compromise, no retreat! Gaia must be cleansed of this evil technology and industry! Hunter-gatherer society, FTW!
Do-nothing inertia, tragedy-of-the-commons and willful ignorance of consequences until it's too late/incredibly expensive to fix! That's the Plutocrat way! Grab your monocle and cigar from the butler, old sock!
It was disconnected until 1973 (or so) when the government required large businesses to offer it.
Actually, that wasn't the first step-it really came from wage controls during WW2. You couldn't give someone a raise past X dollars, but you could offer them extra benefits, such as health care.
Now it's morphed into a horrible mess which has unintended consequences such as what you mentioned above. But there are too many moneyed interests being enriched by the current system to pass any real change.
Single-payer Canadian style healthcare would be better for doctors and employers...a huge pool of healthy people would drop health care costs significantly, and employers would no longer have to offer a health care benefit. But of course the drug companies and health insurance companies would lose out, so they'll fight tooth and nail to keep their broken system.
Tramiel killed the 7800. When originally launched in 1984, its library was full of the best arcade conversions ever seen. Robotron, Ms Pac Man, Galaga, etc. However, it was also in the middle of the video game crash, and Tramiel fell into the "video games are a fad" camp. He yanked the 7800 from the market before it got any traction.
After Nintendo and Super Mario showed that video games were still a hot commodity, Tramiel decided to re-enter the video game market. But instead of spending money to design a new console, he decided to unload his warehouse of Atari 7800s. By the time they actually got back on the market in 1987, they looked stupidly weak against the NES and Master System. Jack's cheapness screwed Atari yet again.
TOKYO, JAPAN - After reading a sullen, masturbatory blog post by user 'EdIII' on popular tech blog Slashdot, Sony Corporation has decided to dissolve. "It's been a good run," said George Harrison, "but after EdIII's post accusing us of murder we really decided it was time to pack it in. We really are fat idiots and definitely worse than Hitler." Sony's numerous patents will be acquired by Apple Inc.
The US...is not responsible when a former Baathist sets off a bomb in a marketplace. He -- and whatever organization he answers to, if any -- is responsible. He is not a toddler or monkey or a robot responding unthinkingly to stimuli or programming. He is a moral actor.
The US is not responsible for creating a lawless failed state where settling old scores along tribal and religious lines is acceptable? Arguing about enabling the moral acts of a single person in this environment is getting waaaaay off track. It's like you're arguing about the actions of a single drunk driver in a country where drunk driving is legal and all of the bars are 30 miles away from neighborhoods.
And what's this garbage about Baathists? In Iraq, Baathism was the party of Saddam Hussein. It had no real leaders when he fell, and was hardly relevant at all in the civil war. The civil war was between Sunnis, Shiites and (to a lesser extent) Kurds and Turks. The civil war started when the US invaded Iraq and fired the Iraqi army, leaving a bunch of angry, broke men with weapons and military training with no source of income. The results are obvious.
The idea that the US is responsible for his actions...is of the same spirit as what a Victorian colonial might say with a shrug: "Well, what do you expect, chap? They're just wogs, after all."
How ironic! The Imperial British were masters of fomenting ethnic/religious strife in order to maintain their grip on power. Although I think the US's version was unintentional, it had the same result, albeit with a client state vs. direct colonial control.
If getting rid of Saddam was (in your estimation) not worth the post-overthrow cost, then by your logic it would have been immoral for the Iraqis themselves to do it, assuming they had the power to.
We're not talking about internal revolution here (much as you want to dig up bogus connections to the Civil War). We're talking about the most powerful country in the world overthrowing a neutered dictator who only had nominal control over part of his country under the pretext that he was a clear and immediate threat to them. Or have you forgotten?
And as I also pointed out, the number of people killed in the overthrow itself was far lower than it would have been otherwise (for a rough comparison, scaling what happened in Lebanon to account for population differences, gives 1.1 million at the low end). So, again by your standards, an indigenous overthrow would be even more wrong.
Are you really using Lebanon as the basis of your absurd counterfactual? The country that every other country in the area has used as its battlefield for the last 30+ years? Why not use Egypt, it has a much larger population, or Syria, or Narnia for all the relevance that it has?
Dear God, I'm sick of post-hoc rationalizations by neocons. Take that disingenuous garbage to foxnews.com. You can write coherent sentences so you're 2 steps ahead of most of their pundits.
That's what, propaganda goal #3? #4? First it was 'training/harboring terrorists,' then 'weapons of mass destruction', then 'bringing democracy to the Middle East...' All nonsense used to justify an elective adventure that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and liquidated the educated class of an entire country.
Sure, getting rid of Hussein was a good thing, but guess what? In the real world, you can't eliminate Hussein in a vacuum. You have to consider the possibility that one tin-pot dictator is not worth razing a country, killing hundreds of thousands of innocents including nearly all of the educated class, plus thousands of your own soldiers, and spending billions of dollars that could have helped immensely with the current financial crisis.
'US forces went out of their way to spill as little blood as possible?' No, the Bush administration rashly created the situation that led to the deaths of the Iraqis (most Democrats spinelessly went along with it). The Bush administration was full of Polyannas who thought that Iraq would be like the liberation of Paris. Rumsfeld created his own intelligence department because he didn't like the facts, then smugly dismissed any criticism with statements like "You don't go to war with the army you want, you go with the army you have" which is extremely disingenuous considering the elective nature of the war.
The most powerful people in the country had no plans beyond "overthrow Saddam" and little or no conception of history or politics in Iraq. They seemed to have no idea at all that there would be a civil war, or any strategies on how to fight it. That's tragic negligence.
Using "not insignficant" instead of "significant" lengthens the sentence and makes it harder to parse. They mean the same thing despite your pointless story about paper cuts. It's never not good to go ahead with stopping not misusing self-contradictory phrases.
If Sony came into your house and disabled even just a seldomly-used button on your remote control, I'll bet you'd bitch about it every time their name was mentioned - regardless of whether you could go out and buy a separate remote for that button or not.
Here's the deal: PS3 sucked as a computer. Development of anything interesting (like say, a media player that used the Cell to play MKVs) languished for years. YDL was/is a decent distro, but you weren't going to do anything interesting with it on the PS3. I know, I tried. This coming from someone who uses Linux as my only desktop at work.
If Sony came into my house and took off a button from my remote that I'd never used, I'd be happy because then I wouldn't accidentally hit it anymore. Not that your absurd example has anything to do with what actually happened.
Traditional A/V companies are all doing pretty poorly. Like most consumer products, there's no middle ground anymore. It's all super cheap crap fresh off the boat from China or expensive custom boutique stuff. Sony is neither one of these, and I don't suspect they'll survive in the long run.
Someone will pay big bucks for the Sony name, but that's the only thing that will be left: a name that bears no resemblance to the original innovative company (see also: Zenith, RCA, Atari).
What he's trying to say is that you're completely wrong. Tramiel killed Atari. Remember his terrible decisions that destroyed the most pioneering company in video gaming history?
"Game machines were dead"?!?! No, Tramiel decided that game machines were dead, and he was absolutely wrong. He froze the 7800 right when it was ready for market in 1984. He gutted Atari's arcade and home console divisions to focus on computers.
Then, after the success of the NES, he decided Atari needed to make a console again. But did he commission a new design? Nope, he brought back the 7800, slashing the specs from its 1983 design so that it was even further behind the NES and Master System. Another puzzling decision in the name of saving money.
In 1984, the 7800 had the best ports of the most popular arcade games ever made. In 1987, it was light years behind the NES and Super Mario Bros. Atari would never recover from Jack's decisions.
The whole "walled garden" metaphor applies to iOS products, not Mac OS X. You can download and install whatever you want on a Mac. Including Linux or Windows if that floats your boat.
In short, there is nothing wrong with aviation technology. It, of itself, is safe.
All the problems arise from the use of human beings in the design, implementation, and maintenance processes. We know that human beings are flawed in half a hundred different ways and to such an extent that there is no possibility of applying any kind of credible quality assurance to these modules. We can extrapolate from history and recognize that so long as human modules are involved in the aviation industry, there will be catastrophic failures.
I don't have to go trawling for plaudits on Facebook because my IQ is certified 150, my wife is a cardiologist with huge boobs, and everyone at my work says I'm the smartest and funniest guy they've ever met!
"Polished" doesn't equal "shiny." Actually, it means "someone put thought into the design." Sadly, this is not true for a lot of desktop Linux implementations. In a lot of ways, using the latest GNOME feels like going back in time to Windows 3.1. Instead of acknowledging this, you're advising people not to use Linux. Probably good advice.
Wanting to "copycat" Guitar Freaks? Try going back to playing Guitar Freaks after playing Guitar Hero/Rock Band. It's like trying to ride a tricycle after you've been riding a Harley. Harmonix did a lot more than rip off Guitar Freaks, or "the masses" wouldn't have bought it.
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Oh, so we should just outsource our negative externalities to other places with those brown/yellow-skinned people living in poverty?
We 'should'? No, that's what we actually do.
That's the way comrade! No compromise, no retreat! Gaia must be cleansed of this evil technology and industry! Hunter-gatherer society, FTW!
Do-nothing inertia, tragedy-of-the-commons and willful ignorance of consequences until it's too late/incredibly expensive to fix! That's the Plutocrat way! Grab your monocle and cigar from the butler, old sock!
It was disconnected until 1973 (or so) when the government required large businesses to offer it.
Actually, that wasn't the first step-it really came from wage controls during WW2. You couldn't give someone a raise past X dollars, but you could offer them extra benefits, such as health care.
Now it's morphed into a horrible mess which has unintended consequences such as what you mentioned above. But there are too many moneyed interests being enriched by the current system to pass any real change.
Single-payer Canadian style healthcare would be better for doctors and employers...a huge pool of healthy people would drop health care costs significantly, and employers would no longer have to offer a health care benefit. But of course the drug companies and health insurance companies would lose out, so they'll fight tooth and nail to keep their broken system.
Tramiel killed the 7800. When originally launched in 1984, its library was full of the best arcade conversions ever seen. Robotron, Ms Pac Man, Galaga, etc. However, it was also in the middle of the video game crash, and Tramiel fell into the "video games are a fad" camp. He yanked the 7800 from the market before it got any traction.
After Nintendo and Super Mario showed that video games were still a hot commodity, Tramiel decided to re-enter the video game market. But instead of spending money to design a new console, he decided to unload his warehouse of Atari 7800s. By the time they actually got back on the market in 1987, they looked stupidly weak against the NES and Master System. Jack's cheapness screwed Atari yet again.
TOKYO, JAPAN - After reading a sullen, masturbatory blog post by user 'EdIII' on popular tech blog Slashdot, Sony Corporation has decided to dissolve. "It's been a good run," said George Harrison, "but after EdIII's post accusing us of murder we really decided it was time to pack it in. We really are fat idiots and definitely worse than Hitler." Sony's numerous patents will be acquired by Apple Inc.
Coffee, eggs, concern trolls...it's a Slashdot morning!
The US ...is not responsible when a former Baathist sets off a bomb in a marketplace. He -- and whatever organization he answers to, if any -- is responsible. He is not a toddler or monkey or a robot responding unthinkingly to stimuli or programming. He is a moral actor.
The US is not responsible for creating a lawless failed state where settling old scores along tribal and religious lines is acceptable? Arguing about enabling the moral acts of a single person in this environment is getting waaaaay off track. It's like you're arguing about the actions of a single drunk driver in a country where drunk driving is legal and all of the bars are 30 miles away from neighborhoods.
And what's this garbage about Baathists? In Iraq, Baathism was the party of Saddam Hussein. It had no real leaders when he fell, and was hardly relevant at all in the civil war. The civil war was between Sunnis, Shiites and (to a lesser extent) Kurds and Turks. The civil war started when the US invaded Iraq and fired the Iraqi army, leaving a bunch of angry, broke men with weapons and military training with no source of income. The results are obvious.
The idea that the US is responsible for his actions...is of the same spirit as what a Victorian colonial might say with a shrug: "Well, what do you expect, chap? They're just wogs, after all."
How ironic! The Imperial British were masters of fomenting ethnic/religious strife in order to maintain their grip on power. Although I think the US's version was unintentional, it had the same result, albeit with a client state vs. direct colonial control.
If getting rid of Saddam was (in your estimation) not worth the post-overthrow cost, then by your logic it would have been immoral for the Iraqis themselves to do it, assuming they had the power to.
We're not talking about internal revolution here (much as you want to dig up bogus connections to the Civil War). We're talking about the most powerful country in the world overthrowing a neutered dictator who only had nominal control over part of his country under the pretext that he was a clear and immediate threat to them. Or have you forgotten?
And as I also pointed out, the number of people killed in the overthrow itself was far lower than it would have been otherwise (for a rough comparison, scaling what happened in Lebanon to account for population differences, gives 1.1 million at the low end). So, again by your standards, an indigenous overthrow would be even more wrong.
Are you really using Lebanon as the basis of your absurd counterfactual? The country that every other country in the area has used as its battlefield for the last 30+ years? Why not use Egypt, it has a much larger population, or Syria, or Narnia for all the relevance that it has?
Dear God, I'm sick of post-hoc rationalizations by neocons. Take that disingenuous garbage to foxnews.com. You can write coherent sentences so you're 2 steps ahead of most of their pundits.
overthrowing Saddam wasn't in and of itself good
That's what, propaganda goal #3? #4? First it was 'training/harboring terrorists,' then 'weapons of mass destruction', then 'bringing democracy to the Middle East...' All nonsense used to justify an elective adventure that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and liquidated the educated class of an entire country.
Sure, getting rid of Hussein was a good thing, but guess what? In the real world, you can't eliminate Hussein in a vacuum. You have to consider the possibility that one tin-pot dictator is not worth razing a country, killing hundreds of thousands of innocents including nearly all of the educated class, plus thousands of your own soldiers, and spending billions of dollars that could have helped immensely with the current financial crisis.
'US forces went out of their way to spill as little blood as possible?' No, the Bush administration rashly created the situation that led to the deaths of the Iraqis (most Democrats spinelessly went along with it). The Bush administration was full of Polyannas who thought that Iraq would be like the liberation of Paris. Rumsfeld created his own intelligence department because he didn't like the facts, then smugly dismissed any criticism with statements like "You don't go to war with the army you want, you go with the army you have" which is extremely disingenuous considering the elective nature of the war.
The most powerful people in the country had no plans beyond "overthrow Saddam" and little or no conception of history or politics in Iraq. They seemed to have no idea at all that there would be a civil war, or any strategies on how to fight it. That's tragic negligence.
Using "not insignficant" instead of "significant" lengthens the sentence and makes it harder to parse. They mean the same thing despite your pointless story about paper cuts. It's never not good to go ahead with stopping not misusing self-contradictory phrases.
If Sony came into your house and disabled even just a seldomly-used button on your remote control, I'll bet you'd bitch about it every time their name was mentioned - regardless of whether you could go out and buy a separate remote for that button or not.
Here's the deal: PS3 sucked as a computer. Development of anything interesting (like say, a media player that used the Cell to play MKVs) languished for years. YDL was/is a decent distro, but you weren't going to do anything interesting with it on the PS3. I know, I tried. This coming from someone who uses Linux as my only desktop at work.
If Sony came into my house and took off a button from my remote that I'd never used, I'd be happy because then I wouldn't accidentally hit it anymore. Not that your absurd example has anything to do with what actually happened.
Traditional A/V companies are all doing pretty poorly. Like most consumer products, there's no middle ground anymore. It's all super cheap crap fresh off the boat from China or expensive custom boutique stuff. Sony is neither one of these, and I don't suspect they'll survive in the long run.
Someone will pay big bucks for the Sony name, but that's the only thing that will be left: a name that bears no resemblance to the original innovative company (see also: Zenith, RCA, Atari).
The USA has less people, and much more arable land.
What he's trying to say is that you're completely wrong. Tramiel killed Atari. Remember his terrible decisions that destroyed the most pioneering company in video gaming history?
"Game machines were dead"?!?! No, Tramiel decided that game machines were dead, and he was absolutely wrong. He froze the 7800 right when it was ready for market in 1984. He gutted Atari's arcade and home console divisions to focus on computers.
Then, after the success of the NES, he decided Atari needed to make a console again. But did he commission a new design? Nope, he brought back the 7800, slashing the specs from its 1983 design so that it was even further behind the NES and Master System. Another puzzling decision in the name of saving money.
In 1984, the 7800 had the best ports of the most popular arcade games ever made. In 1987, it was light years behind the NES and Super Mario Bros. Atari would never recover from Jack's decisions.
Baloney. Just because you bought into the BS spouted by people shilling for registry cleaners, doesnt make it accurate.
Hah. Guess you've never actually worked on Windows computers.
And a bad setting always has the potential to cause problems, whether its called named.conf or boot.ini or grub.conf or the SYSTEM hive.
So...what's easier to diagnose and fix? Hundreds of thousands of obscure key/value pairs in the SYSTEM hive or changing a few lines of a .conf file?
The whole "walled garden" metaphor applies to iOS products, not Mac OS X. You can download and install whatever you want on a Mac. Including Linux or Windows if that floats your boat.
Sweet, could you text Bob Dole and ask him to give me some free V14.gr4?
How about buying a dead-tree edition? Or maybe even take it out of the goddamn library, you deadbeat?
Well, I wouldn't know, it's been so long since we've been outside the asylum, hasn't it, Bats? WAHOOOHOOOHAHAHAH!
In short, there is nothing wrong with aviation technology. It, of itself, is safe.
All the problems arise from the use of human beings in the design, implementation, and maintenance processes. We know that human beings are flawed in half a hundred different ways and to such an extent that there is no possibility of applying any kind of credible quality assurance to these modules. We can extrapolate from history and recognize that so long as human modules are involved in the aviation industry, there will be catastrophic failures.
and people stop using Simpson's quotes and "obligatory xkcd " as substitutes for humor.
Hah! I laugh at people with their fragile egos.
I don't have to go trawling for plaudits on Facebook because my IQ is certified 150, my wife is a cardiologist with huge boobs, and everyone at my work says I'm the smartest and funniest guy they've ever met!
Also, my penis? Enormous.
Yep. How is this any better than the days of horrible 'web apps' that only run IE6?
I'm at a loss for why anyone but Mac Cult members would use anything non-android.
How do I know you didn't read the article? (And have never used WebOS?)
And are you one of those people who've written more books than they've read?
"Polished" doesn't equal "shiny." Actually, it means "someone put thought into the design." Sadly, this is not true for a lot of desktop Linux implementations. In a lot of ways, using the latest GNOME feels like going back in time to Windows 3.1. Instead of acknowledging this, you're advising people not to use Linux. Probably good advice.
Wanting to "copycat" Guitar Freaks? Try going back to playing Guitar Freaks after playing Guitar Hero/Rock Band. It's like trying to ride a tricycle after you've been riding a Harley. Harmonix did a lot more than rip off Guitar Freaks, or "the masses" wouldn't have bought it.