To be precise, drunk, distracted and reckless driving are killers. Which is why police enforce ticketing and fatalities have dropped significantly since the 20th century. The next phase in mitigating car-related danger would be self-driving vehicles, obviously. Civilian gun use doesn't have the level of utility vehicles do, which the world at large overwhelmingly relies on - it's an accepted risk, by everyone driving. Aside from hunting which allowable in most developed countries, guns are toys, or murder instruments. A mere statistic doesn't mean much on its own - people in droves aren't jumping out of their seats to ban greasy foods in order to prevent heart-disease. Likewise vehicular deaths are in vast majority of cases not intentional. But by no metric should schools be acceptably a dangerous environment - there have been 45 school shootings in the U.S. this year, and more than one mass shooting. Frequent mass murders shake people up, as does the fact that rate of firearm homicide is far worse than any other developed country. It is utterly shameful and disgraceful.
False analogy. It's ridiculous to compare car accident fatalities to firearm homicide which, of course, would well exceed accidental gun deaths given its nature.
It would be disingenuous to narrow down disconcerting rates of gun violence down to a few key cities. It's high in way too many States, but particularly so in disenfranchised/impoverished areas. Mass shootings aren't tied to this though, and the U.S. leads developed nation there as well.
Except he didn't really describe an argument so much as a worldview strongly associated with conservatism. That's uncontroversial. But since you protest, you might like to explain how you reconcile with identifying as conservative and yet not believe trickle-down economics is effective or that inequality is ok, since the call for intervention seems to be associated with Liberals.
Yes, "participation points" were a thing here in Canada but I'm not sure if that's still the case. What I do know is that teachers tend to grade based on behavior, according to studies, which amounts to the same thing. It's also biased against males.
Makes me wish education requirements for teaching were much higher.
Seems for hard introverts that "friends" might reside in all parts of the world and communication manifests itself as forum posts and (maybe) irc, not sharing pictures and chain-mail on facebook.
Certainly it's easier to post something on fb. But it's rather low on the scale of socialization. You can't replace the experience of talking to someone face-to-face and I'd argue it's essential to everyone. Introverts just fill their quota faster.
"work or starve" is a truism for 90%+ of the population in a Capitalist society, but it's mundane point. While I wouldn't care to be thrown into whatever line of work the State would dictate under Communism, I equally wouldn't care to increase working hours and decrease my wage as productivity falls and automated systems take over more of the grunt work. We've coined the term "modern slavery" to describe the working conditions endured in some countries with whom we trade - I don't think conditions will get that abhorrent here but certainly it's possible to reach "slavery" levels again if everyone is required to work but also expendable and inessential.
Sending a crew without first solving the issue of sustaining life upon arrival is putting the cart before the horse. Otherwise you've just managed to send them in orbit.
Terraform the thing, engineer a station that can be deployed on-land, built-up piece by piece, etc.
Even in such a scenario of course some workers will want overtime. But why leave out the possibility of shorter hours with higher wage rate?
We see this plainly in cultural differences, for instance South Korea vs France or Germany in terms of working hours and vacation time.
Hell we could dispense with absolutist philosophical babble entirely and simply look to our neighbors who seem to strike a good balance. Some employ vastly different methods (i.e. Singapore versus Sweden) so the philosophy would lie in choosing which policies best suit the Western temperament.
Relevant topic - http://strikemag.org/bullshit-...
Keynes predicted a 15 h work week and, in effect, given the level of time spent doing inessential or paper-pushing non-sense, we have just that. The closer we are to full-automation, the more a concept like basic income is attractive as we have to saturate the market with products and services no one really needs nor, at a certain point, will they want, which places increasing pressure on employment rates as more of the population comes to rely on these jobs. Or in the case of upper middle classes, put asses in seats where they won't do much of anything. Powers that be still demand 40, or suggest even longer hours for people to make ends meet. There's absolutely no need for it. Every year in the West we seem to lose capacity for productivity.
Mind you I would go for an alternative to BI like a negative-tax of sorts which would still be very streamlined and cheap but would omit needlessly sending out cheques to those that don't need it.
A lot of this social media sugar just seems as though companies feel an obligation to appear "with the times", or appealing in that regard. Much of it can be safely ignored... so far. I'm more bothered by the direction of AAA games but I guess it's useless to fuss over those monstrosities.
True enough.
Honestly I don't think we'd need much motivation to nuke Mars from orbit, because nukes. It would mean testing dangerous technology right out in the open as it wouldn't be (exclusively, anyway) used as a potential weapon. There's a spacecraft depicted in Neal Stephenson's book Anathem that strikes me as already easy to conceive.
Eh? I wasn't privy to college incentives, aside from the mere virtue that being in college is now a necessity. Funny that the trades get so little attention in spite of the lopsided male presence, even with potentially generous compensation (though longer working hours) - that doesn't seem to matter. Breaking down barriers of job segregation in practice just means women in higher education. The corporations are happy I guess with the influx of supply, wages were bound to be suppressed eventually.
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To be precise, drunk, distracted and reckless driving are killers. Which is why police enforce ticketing and fatalities have dropped significantly since the 20th century. The next phase in mitigating car-related danger would be self-driving vehicles, obviously. Civilian gun use doesn't have the level of utility vehicles do, which the world at large overwhelmingly relies on - it's an accepted risk, by everyone driving. Aside from hunting which allowable in most developed countries, guns are toys, or murder instruments. A mere statistic doesn't mean much on its own - people in droves aren't jumping out of their seats to ban greasy foods in order to prevent heart-disease. Likewise vehicular deaths are in vast majority of cases not intentional. But by no metric should schools be acceptably a dangerous environment - there have been 45 school shootings in the U.S. this year, and more than one mass shooting. Frequent mass murders shake people up, as does the fact that rate of firearm homicide is far worse than any other developed country. It is utterly shameful and disgraceful.
False analogy. It's ridiculous to compare car accident fatalities to firearm homicide which, of course, would well exceed accidental gun deaths given its nature.
It would be disingenuous to narrow down disconcerting rates of gun violence down to a few key cities. It's high in way too many States, but particularly so in disenfranchised/impoverished areas. Mass shootings aren't tied to this though, and the U.S. leads developed nation there as well.
Right, in the world. Amongst developed nations, it's certainly number 1 in that sense, by miles and miles.
On taxpayer dollars? The US has universal healthcare now?
Except he didn't really describe an argument so much as a worldview strongly associated with conservatism. That's uncontroversial. But since you protest, you might like to explain how you reconcile with identifying as conservative and yet not believe trickle-down economics is effective or that inequality is ok, since the call for intervention seems to be associated with Liberals.
Yes, "participation points" were a thing here in Canada but I'm not sure if that's still the case. What I do know is that teachers tend to grade based on behavior, according to studies, which amounts to the same thing. It's also biased against males. Makes me wish education requirements for teaching were much higher.
Seems for hard introverts that "friends" might reside in all parts of the world and communication manifests itself as forum posts and (maybe) irc, not sharing pictures and chain-mail on facebook. Certainly it's easier to post something on fb. But it's rather low on the scale of socialization. You can't replace the experience of talking to someone face-to-face and I'd argue it's essential to everyone. Introverts just fill their quota faster.
And whose argument is he misrepresenting?
"work or starve" is a truism for 90%+ of the population in a Capitalist society, but it's mundane point. While I wouldn't care to be thrown into whatever line of work the State would dictate under Communism, I equally wouldn't care to increase working hours and decrease my wage as productivity falls and automated systems take over more of the grunt work. We've coined the term "modern slavery" to describe the working conditions endured in some countries with whom we trade - I don't think conditions will get that abhorrent here but certainly it's possible to reach "slavery" levels again if everyone is required to work but also expendable and inessential.
Sending a crew without first solving the issue of sustaining life upon arrival is putting the cart before the horse. Otherwise you've just managed to send them in orbit. Terraform the thing, engineer a station that can be deployed on-land, built-up piece by piece, etc.
In other words the public sector will offer to babysit for 8 hours a day with a gamut of paper-pushing activities.
Even in such a scenario of course some workers will want overtime. But why leave out the possibility of shorter hours with higher wage rate? We see this plainly in cultural differences, for instance South Korea vs France or Germany in terms of working hours and vacation time.
Hell we could dispense with absolutist philosophical babble entirely and simply look to our neighbors who seem to strike a good balance. Some employ vastly different methods (i.e. Singapore versus Sweden) so the philosophy would lie in choosing which policies best suit the Western temperament.
Relevant topic - http://strikemag.org/bullshit-... Keynes predicted a 15 h work week and, in effect, given the level of time spent doing inessential or paper-pushing non-sense, we have just that. The closer we are to full-automation, the more a concept like basic income is attractive as we have to saturate the market with products and services no one really needs nor, at a certain point, will they want, which places increasing pressure on employment rates as more of the population comes to rely on these jobs. Or in the case of upper middle classes, put asses in seats where they won't do much of anything. Powers that be still demand 40, or suggest even longer hours for people to make ends meet. There's absolutely no need for it. Every year in the West we seem to lose capacity for productivity. Mind you I would go for an alternative to BI like a negative-tax of sorts which would still be very streamlined and cheap but would omit needlessly sending out cheques to those that don't need it.
"the money magically appears out of thin air" - said no socialist ever
In the market for sex, women have the leverage - they are the sellers. Demand among males is much higher.
A lot of this social media sugar just seems as though companies feel an obligation to appear "with the times", or appealing in that regard. Much of it can be safely ignored... so far. I'm more bothered by the direction of AAA games but I guess it's useless to fuss over those monstrosities.
There you go, I suppose.
It's the only way to be sure.
True enough. Honestly I don't think we'd need much motivation to nuke Mars from orbit, because nukes. It would mean testing dangerous technology right out in the open as it wouldn't be (exclusively, anyway) used as a potential weapon. There's a spacecraft depicted in Neal Stephenson's book Anathem that strikes me as already easy to conceive.
Eh? I wasn't privy to college incentives, aside from the mere virtue that being in college is now a necessity. Funny that the trades get so little attention in spite of the lopsided male presence, even with potentially generous compensation (though longer working hours) - that doesn't seem to matter. Breaking down barriers of job segregation in practice just means women in higher education. The corporations are happy I guess with the influx of supply, wages were bound to be suppressed eventually.
I would think so given the amount of corporate subsidies and incentives available in the past few years. Lets see what happens when those are removed.
Utter bullshit.
I agree. But the basis or driver of these theorems is still social/psychological given the need for narrowly defined rational self-interest.