I'm all in favor of doing what works. In this case, it worked.
In practice, I think it was wrong for the FBI to do what they did. But, what're they going to do? Turn him over to the computer crime devision? Isn't that kinda like someone from a Special Victims Unit arresting a prostitute for giving a tip on someone who's going about killing hookers?
Uh, you realize, don't you, that those slackers' employer is not "the federal government" - it's the people who compose this country, ie the citizenry?
I mind a fucking lot thta they're slacking off on my dime. It's literally no different than giving someone who can work "disability pay", or simply burning money. At least by burning money you'd get heat and light...
So, why do we need all these beaurocratic agencies? Worthless.
If people have projects, and they complete them on time, with good quality, then what does it matter?
All this means is that traditional project management timeline estimation is drastically inefficient and prone to people over-inflating their project requirements, thus resulting in people slacking off to make up the dead time.
To complicate matters, I get ISS and IIS confused; I have to think which acronym is the station, and which one is the shitty web server.
So, basically, I thought, "What...? How would IBM Purchasing Microsoft's web server improve security for anyone?! Unless they're going to burry it deep."
If your interests were commercial, why would you care a hill of beans if you get "international acclaim from the scientific community" - provided you can make a shit ton of cash in the process of selling devices utilizing the principle (or service, or whatever)?
If it's a commercial venture, there's no reason to get more than 1 person to look at it other than for collaboration. "Yep, this is real - it's not fraudulent in the least" is all they need.
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You're right, of course.
Just don't expect the socialist haters in America see things any other way than "Israel is the lapdog of Imperialist America" and "Bush is Hitler!" and various other ploys taken out of the Islamic Jihad playbook.
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It can be easily, easily argued that aside from Eastern Europe and large Westernized/tourist cities like Hong Kong, it is almost to a point better in the United States.
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For that matter, what's preventing them from picking up "cheap" prostitues and a raging case of typhoid or syphilus?
The fact that they're in Muslim countries where sharia law is common - where things like prostitution (and prostitutes) are often summarily executed for their crimes?
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Sounds like you had some real pisspot officers.
You forgot to tell him about the porn these drives contained. My god, I've never seen so much porn...
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Those statements take into account a fighting force that was drafted.
They have nothing at all to do with an all-volunteer armed force (ie what we have today). The mentality of the troops is drastically different - they wnat to be there - and their skill level is compareable due to interest in a successful outcome.
You really need to stop listening to Air America, watching televised news, and reading rags like New York Times and the Washington Post.
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Uh, what?
This is absolute nonsense; rhetoric at best - if you can call it that. None of this has any sound historical background.
The majority of casualties occur during the first couple weeks in theater and a week or two prior to departure. This is historically consistent since records on such things have been kept. They're either green and inexperienced, or they're anxious and careless.
Length in theater has a marginal impact on the morale of troops. Support from home for what they're doing and the perception of success and low casualties, however, does (ie, the media isn't helping matters here with their one-sided reporting of the war).
The longer a war carries on, soldiers will fight harder to end it (especially if they think they're the ones winning). Though, this has largely to do with morale.
uhhh... so fucking what?
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In other news, it's been found out that servicemen are issued fully-automatic assault weapons with high-capacity magazines - devices which are illegal (in one way or another) in all fifty states with a felony charge!... besides, they're not in the US. US business or copyright law does not apply.
It was a feature of protestant culture. If a person doesn't believe in a strong work ethic they, by definition, do not comply with what we know today as the protestant work ethic. assessing current cultures is significantly more difficult, as we don't know what's going to be the 'norm' for our era, and don't know what the overriding set of mores is going to be. it's best looked at in retrospect.
Not only are there those who copy CDs and consider it illegal, but there are those who know it's illegal, but consider it to be moral to do so. "Fight the man" and all that... communism-charged public school anarchists. Odd combination, but they exist.
You can't be deprived of something which you yourself can not acquire on your own via legit means. If you don't have the money for music, you can't acquire it,and therefore nobody can deprive you.
If you can't get laid at a bar, you don't go down to the corner, pick up a hooker, and rape her. That's now how things work.
The irony here is that these people (3rd worlders) would still be working 80 hours a week in rice fields and having half their produce taken by the government if it werne't for US companies outsourcing to their countries.
Hell, look at India. Now it's pushing up in the world markets, but 10 years ago it was a complete shit hole and economic wasteland. No, we're not responsible for that success, but having massive infusions of domestic wealth didn't hurt.
Hunter/gatherers very rarely did traverse into agriculture. Being hunters, their groups couldn't be too large, so they'd often split up into smaller groups after a generation or two. Some settled down; most didn't. Mostly, they were simply killed off by those people groups that decided to settle down.
The ones that 'settled down' probably started by transient farming, and then realized it was pretty easy, and had a semi-permanent camp. As a result of this and the transient farming, they ended up having more children (ie, lower physical demand for body fat in women due to constant moving), and they were essentially 'stuck' in the agrarian lifestyle from then on in.
Excuse me? A "comfortable" lifestyle? This assumes that you call dying by your mid-30's, constantly foraging and hunting for food, living in temporary shelters or caves, and other such primitive accoutrements "comfortable" living.
You really need to stop watching so much TV, playing so many computer games, and doing whatever else you do - and go read. Please.
- mid-30s is not the average life span of a hunter-gatherer. It's the average lifespan of an average agriculturalist. Huge, huge difference. Foragers lived twice as long (though there were fewer of them due to the needed higher mobility, so the archeological records aren't too clear on this; however, modern hunter gatherers living on some of the worst land in the world demonstrate this) - modern hunter-gatherers have a life full of leasure, storytelling, and non-survival tasks. much of their 'survival' are things that people in the 'civilized' world do for fun: crafts, sowing, hunting, cooking, and what have you. - if you don't think sleeping in a cave is comfortable or in a teepee with thick buffalo/bear/wolf/coyote/cougar robes/blankets, well... buddy, you've never done it. it fucking rocks. - caves are cool in the summer and warm in the winter. - teepees are much, much more comfortable than an un-airconditioned modern house in the summer.
what exactly is 'comfortable' to you? a lazy boy, a bud light, and the sports/history channel?
I guarantee you that if you go out in the woods, physically fit and knowledgeable of what's ahead of you, and spend a month there (with supplies), you'll become quite accustomed to "rugged living". in fact, when you come home, the "soft life" will feel awkward, sterile, and unnatural. You will want to sleep on the floor, and bathing every day will make your skin feel agitated. your body would start getting soft again and you would return to your current state with back problems from sleeping on a squishy matress and sitting in an elevated chair all day.
Not only was this written in a serious manner (I think), but was modded +5 insightful!
Someone (or 5 someones, it sould seem) need to go read a little history. (I'm serious. I'm tired of computer gamers thinking they know something about a topic because they saw it in a game, so it must be true.)
RTS games as you describe model history, or more apprporiately, mimick American history. One is not necessarily the prerequisite of the other; it did not 'lead' to the invention of this or that. In short, the "40-hr Work Week", "Military-Industrial Complex" and "Civic Green Space" had nothing at all to do with the Space Program's inception.
For instance, China's space program didn't have the societal equivilants of a "40 hour work week" or a "civic green space" "whatever". Their military-industrial complex, well, isn't; it's a fully state run organization. They were (and are no longer) about 50 years behind us on the curve, being where we were around 1900 in the 1950s.
Somehow, despite a lack of human rights, economic sanctions, environmental laws, and really, anything - aside from an entirely different government, culture, and approach - they've managed to catch up pretty damn quickly.
while you might earn about 10 times as much as the chinese IT workers, you're still getting royally fucked; they make a lot less than US IT workers do, after the exchange rate.
also, the US/China exchange rate is 7.9748 Chinese yuan to the dollar. So, getting paid 10x as much probably wouldn't be equal to your normal sallary back home... and then you'd have to live in China, too.
If something exists due to a cultural artifact, then it is, by definition, inate. Yes, the progression of history shapes culture, but this in no way negates the fact that certain apects are indeed innate to culture of specific eras and cultural groups. This is how I'm able to say "American culture has always embraced firearm ownership" and be both 100% correct and 100% wrong, depending on which era of America we're talking about.
Ever notice how Protestant culture doesn't really exist in (mainstream) America anymore? Hard work was endemic to that culture. We don't live in that culture. We live in the Fast Food culture - "give it to me now, and cheap! And no, I don't even want to have to get out of my car for it. That's too much effort."
So you're saying that if I work 40 hours instead of 60, I'm not working as hard as the guy working 60? Even if I get just as much work done? It would seem my efficiency is somewhat higher; doesn't this require more energy, and thus, more "work" would be getting completed?
it's yet another move closer towards a police state. That's what the "war on drugs" was all about, really - semi-militarize police departments so they'd develop a stronger "us vs. them" mentality. If that wasn't the government's intent, then they sure got lucky.
no, I don't do drugs. I'm just saying it's mighty convenient.
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I'm all in favor of doing what works. In this case, it worked.
In practice, I think it was wrong for the FBI to do what they did. But, what're they going to do? Turn him over to the computer crime devision? Isn't that kinda like someone from a Special Victims Unit arresting a prostitute for giving a tip on someone who's going about killing hookers?
Uh, you realize, don't you, that those slackers' employer is not "the federal government" - it's the people who compose this country, ie the citizenry?
I mind a fucking lot thta they're slacking off on my dime. It's literally no different than giving someone who can work "disability pay", or simply burning money. At least by burning money you'd get heat and light...
So, why do we need all these beaurocratic agencies? Worthless.
If people have projects, and they complete them on time, with good quality, then what does it matter?
All this means is that traditional project management timeline estimation is drastically inefficient and prone to people over-inflating their project requirements, thus resulting in people slacking off to make up the dead time.
the difference here is, the self-powered strike isn't powered by the souls of the damned, so in your case it really isn't "self powered" >:-P
To complicate matters, I get ISS and IIS confused; I have to think which acronym is the station, and which one is the shitty web server.
So, basically, I thought, "What...? How would IBM Purchasing Microsoft's web server improve security for anyone?! Unless they're going to burry it deep."
If your interests were commercial, why would you care a hill of beans if you get "international acclaim from the scientific community" - provided you can make a shit ton of cash in the process of selling devices utilizing the principle (or service, or whatever)?
If it's a commercial venture, there's no reason to get more than 1 person to look at it other than for collaboration. "Yep, this is real - it's not fraudulent in the least" is all they need.
You're right, of course.
Just don't expect the socialist haters in America see things any other way than "Israel is the lapdog of Imperialist America" and "Bush is Hitler!" and various other ploys taken out of the Islamic Jihad playbook.
It can be easily, easily argued that aside from Eastern Europe and large Westernized/tourist cities like Hong Kong, it is almost to a point better in the United States.
For that matter, what's preventing them from picking up "cheap" prostitues and a raging case of typhoid or syphilus?
The fact that they're in Muslim countries where sharia law is common - where things like prostitution (and prostitutes) are often summarily executed for their crimes?
Sounds like you had some real pisspot officers.
You forgot to tell him about the porn these drives contained. My god, I've never seen so much porn...
Those statements take into account a fighting force that was drafted.
They have nothing at all to do with an all-volunteer armed force (ie what we have today). The mentality of the troops is drastically different - they wnat to be there - and their skill level is compareable due to interest in a successful outcome.
You really need to stop listening to Air America, watching televised news, and reading rags like New York Times and the Washington Post.
Uh, what?
This is absolute nonsense; rhetoric at best - if you can call it that. None of this has any sound historical background.
The majority of casualties occur during the first couple weeks in theater and a week or two prior to departure. This is historically consistent since records on such things have been kept. They're either green and inexperienced, or they're anxious and careless.
Length in theater has a marginal impact on the morale of troops. Support from home for what they're doing and the perception of success and low casualties, however, does (ie, the media isn't helping matters here with their one-sided reporting of the war).
The longer a war carries on, soldiers will fight harder to end it (especially if they think they're the ones winning). Though, this has largely to do with morale.
In other news, it's been found out that servicemen are issued fully-automatic assault weapons with high-capacity magazines - devices which are illegal (in one way or another) in all fifty states with a felony charge! ... besides, they're not in the US. US business or copyright law does not apply.
It was a feature of protestant culture. If a person doesn't believe in a strong work ethic they, by definition, do not comply with what we know today as the protestant work ethic. assessing current cultures is significantly more difficult, as we don't know what's going to be the 'norm' for our era, and don't know what the overriding set of mores is going to be. it's best looked at in retrospect.
And no,
Not only are there those who copy CDs and consider it illegal, but there are those who know it's illegal, but consider it to be moral to do so. "Fight the man" and all that... communism-charged public school anarchists. Odd combination, but they exist.
if you're a producer of said CD, then you've had whatever the value of your worth is stole nfrom you (or whatever you wanted to sell it for).
If you're a person with a CD collection and a friend copies it from you - you've lost nothing.
You can't be deprived of something which you yourself can not acquire on your own via legit means. If you don't have the money for music, you can't acquire it ,and therefore nobody can deprive you.
If you can't get laid at a bar, you don't go down to the corner, pick up a hooker, and rape her. That's now how things work.
The irony here is that these people (3rd worlders) would still be working 80 hours a week in rice fields and having half their produce taken by the government if it werne't for US companies outsourcing to their countries.
Hell, look at India. Now it's pushing up in the world markets, but 10 years ago it was a complete shit hole and economic wasteland. No, we're not responsible for that success, but having massive infusions of domestic wealth didn't hurt.
Hunter/gatherers very rarely did traverse into agriculture. Being hunters, their groups couldn't be too large, so they'd often split up into smaller groups after a generation or two. Some settled down; most didn't. Mostly, they were simply killed off by those people groups that decided to settle down.
The ones that 'settled down' probably started by transient farming, and then realized it was pretty easy, and had a semi-permanent camp. As a result of this and the transient farming, they ended up having more children (ie, lower physical demand for body fat in women due to constant moving), and they were essentially 'stuck' in the agrarian lifestyle from then on in.
Excuse me? A "comfortable" lifestyle? This assumes that you call dying by your mid-30's, constantly foraging and hunting for food, living in temporary shelters or caves, and other such primitive accoutrements "comfortable" living.
You really need to stop watching so much TV, playing so many computer games, and doing whatever else you do - and go read. Please.
- mid-30s is not the average life span of a hunter-gatherer. It's the average lifespan of an average agriculturalist. Huge, huge difference. Foragers lived twice as long (though there were fewer of them due to the needed higher mobility, so the archeological records aren't too clear on this; however, modern hunter gatherers living on some of the worst land in the world demonstrate this)
- modern hunter-gatherers have a life full of leasure, storytelling, and non-survival tasks. much of their 'survival' are things that people in the 'civilized' world do for fun: crafts, sowing, hunting, cooking, and what have you.
- if you don't think sleeping in a cave is comfortable or in a teepee with thick buffalo/bear/wolf/coyote/cougar robes/blankets, well... buddy, you've never done it. it fucking rocks.
- caves are cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
- teepees are much, much more comfortable than an un-airconditioned modern house in the summer.
what exactly is 'comfortable' to you? a lazy boy, a bud light, and the sports/history channel?
I guarantee you that if you go out in the woods, physically fit and knowledgeable of what's ahead of you, and spend a month there (with supplies), you'll become quite accustomed to "rugged living". in fact, when you come home, the "soft life" will feel awkward, sterile, and unnatural. You will want to sleep on the floor, and bathing every day will make your skin feel agitated. your body would start getting soft again and you would return to your current state with back problems from sleeping on a squishy matress and sitting in an elevated chair all day.
Wow... just... wow.
Not only was this written in a serious manner (I think), but was modded +5 insightful!
Someone (or 5 someones, it sould seem) need to go read a little history. (I'm serious. I'm tired of computer gamers thinking they know something about a topic because they saw it in a game, so it must be true.)
RTS games as you describe model history, or more apprporiately, mimick American history. One is not necessarily the prerequisite of the other; it did not 'lead' to the invention of this or that. In short, the "40-hr Work Week", "Military-Industrial Complex" and "Civic Green Space" had nothing at all to do with the Space Program's inception.
For instance, China's space program didn't have the societal equivilants of a "40 hour work week" or a "civic green space" "whatever". Their military-industrial complex, well, isn't; it's a fully state run organization. They were (and are no longer) about 50 years behind us on the curve, being where we were around 1900 in the 1950s.
Somehow, despite a lack of human rights, economic sanctions, environmental laws, and really, anything - aside from an entirely different government, culture, and approach - they've managed to catch up pretty damn quickly.
while you might earn about 10 times as much as the chinese IT workers, you're still getting royally fucked; they make a lot less than US IT workers do, after the exchange rate.
also, the US/China exchange rate is 7.9748 Chinese yuan to the dollar. So, getting paid 10x as much probably wouldn't be equal to your normal sallary back home... and then you'd have to live in China, too.
If something exists due to a cultural artifact, then it is, by definition, inate. Yes, the progression of history shapes culture, but this in no way negates the fact that certain apects are indeed innate to culture of specific eras and cultural groups. This is how I'm able to say "American culture has always embraced firearm ownership" and be both 100% correct and 100% wrong, depending on which era of America we're talking about.
Ever notice how Protestant culture doesn't really exist in (mainstream) America anymore? Hard work was endemic to that culture. We don't live in that culture. We live in the Fast Food culture - "give it to me now, and cheap! And no, I don't even want to have to get out of my car for it. That's too much effort."
So you're saying that if I work 40 hours instead of 60, I'm not working as hard as the guy working 60? Even if I get just as much work done? It would seem my efficiency is somewhat higher; doesn't this require more energy, and thus, more "work" would be getting completed?
harder != longer
it's yet another move closer towards a police state. That's what the "war on drugs" was all about, really - semi-militarize police departments so they'd develop a stronger "us vs. them" mentality. If that wasn't the government's intent, then they sure got lucky.
no, I don't do drugs. I'm just saying it's mighty convenient.