You have to look at 5 Billion poor in china and realize that all the resources in the world cannot raise the standard of living by all that much - and so anyone who starts to suggest that a rising tide lifts all boats with respect to china has embarked on an endless mission.
If every chinese family drove two SUVs - the planet would sufficate in a continental traffic jam.
The problem is that the chinese have made a Darwinian bet that population size is the key to future success. In American we have made an opposite bet that education is more important than 16 kids. (you can't educate more than about 2 kids - if you do the math).
Our bet only works if we preserve the benefits of having fewer kids - which we give away if we allow china to provide labor at their overpopulated and thus undervalued rates. In that market - we are forced into playing their bet which is an overpopulation bet.
Good-bye world in which the super-power is also the most diverse nation in history - hello planetchina - which will have _most_ of the world workers, _most_ of the world income taxes, and _most_ of the world's wealth - on top of having most of the world's people.
We are entitled to the benefits of our policy decisions which are that fewer children, more education - higher standard of living.
Any other country that wants to throttle its population explosion and educate its 2.1 kids is entitled to the same (after the period of investment and subject to prior bad bets - such as is overpopulation.)
The difference between reference and compression is - I suggest - whether or not the recompilation of the data requires apriori knowledge - other than the decompression algorithm.
A pointilism of a mediterranean beach may not require you to visit THAT beach - but it may at the same time RELY heavily on images of beaches, palm trees, and villas which the observer has already in his head.
Artistically - I think pointalism is provocative precisely because it leans on the observer - and what you see in it probably says more about the viewer . ..
And as such - I am unconvinced that pointilism is compression - and I think there is a good deal of distance between "approximation by partial representation" and reversable optimization of parameters space.
You know what gets me about the "Wider dynamic range argument?"
I believe that we are missing all the beautiful out of gamut colors entirely.
Film doesn't bright light well at all. Look at the LED on your monitor - now try to get that color on screen. The greenest green on your screen is nothing like the brilliance of an LED.
We have trained out eyes to forget the real brilliance of light and color and to accept the unexciting reflected color space of ink on paper - or the even smaller dynamic space of projection systems and LCDs.
Consider a photograph of an LED keychain. unless you purposly underexpose the image - the fact that the LED is a point source of light will probably not appear.
You think now that movies are expressing the highlights - but missig the shadows - I suggest the opposite is even more the case.
I'm not convinced that pointilism is compression. It is approximation by partial representation akin to sketching, or whistling mozart. People familiar with the original may see or hear more than what is expressed - but the additional information is not extrapulated from the data stream - it is extrapolated from prior experience.
Pointalism is a pointer (NPI) to a real thing already in memory - without the thing - there is no data.
Its like saying the letters "HANDLES MESSIAH" is a compressed form of the actual piece because the letters evoke the entire work in the mind of an experienced reader.
Even if I chose to referance HANDLES MESSIAH by hinting at some part of its substance below the title - I am still only hinting - not compressing.
Compression - in information theory - implies that novel content can be volumetrically reduced and faithfully restored.
Faithful restoration may be compromised in lossy forms - but never completely eliminated if the term is to have meaning.
Pointilism can only be restored in the mind of a person who recognized the shapes, and it is therefore a blueprint for imagination, and not a volumetrically reduced representation of novel content.
I think you are overreacting to a legitimate goal.
Obviously the goal is less about how to get on first base and more about stealing second. Or in other words - what to do WITH a robotic platform - assuming you have a working platform as a given.
Whether you like this or not - a lot of useful applications for robots will be invented by people with this kind of experience - and lacking the detailed understanding of how to put a platform together in the first place.
In reality the application of robotics is the challenge space right now - how to build them is pretty well established. How to use them for more than mine clearing is the question. We don't see movement in robotics chiefly because we lack truly useful applications.
Bear in mind that to date - most robots have displaced 10 workers. So what does a future with 98% unemployment look like and tell me again why we should all line up to get there?
or said another way - knocking significantly increases the work - in bandwidth and cycles - to breach a security system all other things being equal.
It does seem to create a high ground for sites that need a higher security / lower ease of use profile.
- It appears that - like using email as a file system - port knocking could be a means of communicating anything including a tunnelled ssh session without ever opening the firewall. - It is certainly ineffecient - but ineffecient for one - means ineffecient for everyone - including the hack.
The answer is to rebroadcast the speakkers own voice back into the earpiiece with more than suffecient amplification.
It is simply a afct that we adjust our own voices until we can hear them - in a quiet room we speak quietly - Or better - if you have ever spken to someone wearing good isolation earphons you will know quite well that dampening the audio response - directly translates into a shout.
An ideal phone would have a well extended microphone, noise cancelling and suffecient earpiece feedback.
even more ideal - would be situational awareness - in a loud room - play the souza march at the top of your lungs and vibrate - but in a quiet room - consider using a much quieter ring. - tricky albeit when the quieter room is only quiet because the phone is buried in a purse - but worth the effort on the whole.
BTW - an ultrasonic ring and an echo detect can determine the volumetric qualities of the room - which could resolve the apparent vs. real ambient noise.
The president today revealed that foriegn policy for the last six months has been dictated by BamTypeCorp of India which threatened to release the bank account numbers of all cittibanki customers if its demands were not met.
Even if its only the president of a major bank - there will be an embarrasing situation which results when people outside the reach of our laws are allowed access to data which is presumed to be protected by law.
Importantly - we need a social contract in a global age.
We need to know what jobs the government will step in to protect.
certainly matters of military security will be maintained - so that's a start.
Anything republicans do will be maintained - because they are making the policies.
So insurance - real estate - stock brokering - police work - radio talk shows - pizzarias - hiring democrats to do menial labor such as farming - home building - road building.
Most education products will be maintained - architechs - doctors - lawyers.
Software is at risk because so may practishoners are self-taught and the industry has few meaningful standards standards - and the finacial cost to entry is low.
The game of socialism is to "make the government pay for everything" - while simultaneously buying things in such a way as to avoid contributing to "the government"
Make "Unions and employers" pay for education, medicine, retirement, and lazy people - while shopping walmart for deep discounts on chinese labor.
ANSWER labor is outsources because the tariff on imported labor is less than taxes on domestic production.
(taxes includes all social costs tied to production - Unions are taxes)
The problem is not as much an over-investment in non-merit expeditures as it is the failure to allocate immobile costs (social costs) to mobile streams of revenue (production).
Consumption taxes must be considered when production taxes are subjected to out-of-network competition.
(Reread until peabrain begins to smell the coffee)
Unions are a euphamism for production taxes - they provide a revenue for social costs but they do not (yet) allow for limited slip taxation - that is the tranfer of load from the mobile side (production) to the immobile side (consumption).
If unions could close the loop on consumption - they may have more relevance in a global context. For example - if union workers at windstar corp - a producer of wind energy - agreed to consume only windstar energy - that would be a relevant union. If construction union workers agreed to purchase homes built under union contract. If Trucker union workers agreed to buy food anywhere but walmart. If - and you get the point. Unions to be meaningful in a world in which they are not - must create a closed economic exchange - presumbly a private currency.
So they would be paid minimum wage in dollars and the rest in UNIONOES. Unionoes can only be traded with compatible union entities. (Enter black market in laudering unionoes outside walmart.)
That may have seemed a tall order years ago - but now - it may seem less of a tall order than convincing republicans to give a damn about labor.
I think that labor has cut its own throat by the practice of partisanship. Entities which remain politically agnostic can impact politics much more than partisans - since both sides take partisans for granite.
AIK
The biggest welfare program in the world right now is the US military. Stability is the first form of currency. We are paying huge for stability in countries which would otherwise not attract our capital resources. Thus the corporations exporting jobs to india are the beneficiaries of the stability entitlement program known as the military complex.
I believe a lot of computer routines were invented first as mathematical theory many years before microprocessors made it possible to automate them.
As mathematical theory they probably wouldn't have been patentable.
All of which is to point out the eternal value of science fiction.
The science fiction writer makes a thing possible by clearing the patent minefield. - Robots that vacuum the floor - written up 50 years before their time.
Space flight - moon landings - submarines - flying machines.
Think of Douglas adam's hitch hikers guide. Doesn't it know where you are in the universe - speak to you - have a click interface? translate every language automatically etc . .. How many billion dollars worth of future patents did DA preempt in that one series ?
I suggest the real measure of global competition is productivity / price. We should compete because our productivity is higher - not because our costs are lower.
I suggest that in a fair race - the US can out-produce any country on earth - dollar for dollar.
How do we end up losing?
We handicapp our engines of production. The problem is less the mobility of the factors of production - than it is the unequal handicapping of the players.
In the US - production has to bear the cost of health insurance and retirement.
Import taxes do not pay for medicine & retirements. Sales taxes do not pay for M&R Labor pays for M&R.
Do the chinese workers pay the same M&R that we do?
As long as the answer is no - the advantage of imports largely is the M&R loophole it creates.
The real truth is that we should decouple all externalities of labor until our labor has no more or less burden than foriegn labor.
This means - end or change unions (begin long conversation) End or change social security End or change Medical system End or change Welfare
Bottom line - Optimize taxation for net GDP. Do not crush exports by taxing production to such a point that outsourcing becomes profitable.
(reread last sentence until peabrain begins to absorb essence.)
Tax consumption - but not to the point that black market becomes significant.
remember outsource only to democracies - the germans do not use the economy we gave them to kill us because - and only because - they don't want to die in a nuclear holocauset. The saud family on the other hand has taken our gifted economy and deprived their people such that they don't give a damn who dies - bomb us if you like - any imaginable after-life is better than this.
Again - only strengthen countries in which the wealth is shared - if not the power.
Spam could be identified with the help of IP address profiling.
1. Every (participating) mail client reports the IP address, An Address Hash, and a full content Hash, and a common word Hash to a central server.
2. All Email recieved is assigned a value similar to the google value which identifies that email as unique or - similar to thousands. - As Sent from a human source - or a prolific source.
Spammers would simply sort themselves out of existence by coming in last on the uniquness/prolificness test.
The trasaction with other email servers is something like:
I just recieved mail from 123.23.34.45 with an address hash of fgf3vsd8g7g83hisyeeg97948ekhdu and a content Hash of ^4ehjhdis838eyYe89y9 with a filtered content of GTYijhiuTY9Y986)708y9yoiuy - how many similar emails exist?
Reply:
From IP: 123.23.34.45 -- 200,000 From Address -- 5,000 With Content -- 1 With Filtered content -- 1
Thusly this is unique mail from a human in a medium company
From IP: 123.23.34.45 -- 200,000,000,000 From Address -- 5,000,000 With Content -- 1 With Filtered content -- 1,000,000,000
This is unique item from a prolific source which is common to a huge number of items once the spam words filter is applied.
etc etc etc.
I think IP profiling is different from a white list because the user can decide determine the metrics (for example set his own spam words - if he's a protologist - he may accept spam with words like pen*s for example)
Also because it operates AT THE SAME SPEED as the message stream - it can react in real time to new messages and new ideas - like the insertion of random words) - it also discourages experimentation - since that raises the prolificness of a given IP Address - It also discourages insecure - inadvertant hosts - because their mail gets flagged.
It will however lead to credibity farming - that is the operation of a legitimate mail server for the purpose of using accumulated positive heuristics to launch a high credibility spam attack.
I think this system can operate as an adhock p2p in which some mail servers create local networks - independant of any corporate server. _ The idea is only to get enough email to create useful data on a substantial portion of the internet. Most addresses will be familiar - a unfamiliar address can launch a larger search outside the local group if necessary.
Keeping group count high avoids a monolithic solution - and limits the success of testing - so there should not be a single pool of data.
The police would only catch one out of every million criminals - but that poor guy would be beheaded publicly as an example to the rest not to sin.
In a utopian country - every sin would have an immediate but porportionate punishment - and no one would do wrong on the assumption that they might "get away with it."
I think that on balance this is a very good move.
The general trend towards catching everyone (cameras, IRS requiring employees to collect taxes, searching every box that crosses the border) tend to sacrifice privacy in exchange for a more balanced distribution of the punantive burden.
This is brilliant - no fun intended - because it is a strong move toward utopia with a zero increase in big brother intrusion. The traffic engineer should be applauded by both sides on this one - and I think the complainers here would do well to reconsider.
Even the hassle of a unequally timed light is trivial next to the cost in human suffering caused by speeding.
-Are you suggesting that if someone places less value on short term leisure?
Well put. IF
If everyone started at the same point in the curve - your relative value assignment theory would hold.
The problem is that noone starts atthe same place. Not eveyone has an endowment at harvard to ensure that regardless of how well they study they will be admitted and garenteed a degree.
Which is why the government should require all recognized institutions to be merit based.
Of government employers and contractors were required to ignore credentials from institutions which express favoratism - then private colleges could not flood the world with wealth-induced credentials.
Perverting welfare is easy - just have loads of kids. Thus it is a system which creates more load for itself as the load increases - not scalable.
Perverting wealth is easy - use your wealth to ensure that your kids get the only available education - that they get the jobs making rules - because they have the education - and that the rules favor the status quo. If you need help maintaining the status quo - your education will inform you that religion and fear will help you convince ignorant people to support the idea that change is bad.
Put to pervert my proposal - which is that 1 child of every mother gets a needs-tested full ride scholarship - absolutely prevents stagnation.
intelligence is part luck and partly the cultural advantage of being born into a family which supports curiosity and mental development.
detected intelligence (Which is what schools respond too) has a great deal to do with connections.
In this end - the disadvantaged stay disadvantaged and raise kids who are disadvantaged.
Tested intelligence is a poor indicator because it implies that everyone will show up equally to be tested.
In addition - some realize for good reason that the test isn't really for them. If my native language is other than that of the test for example - I wouldn't really be in the running.
The purpose - again - of welfare - is to ensure that no one is isolated from the benefits of the free market.
I suggest - and your reponses have been interesting - but I suggest - that sending one child of every mother to higher education is a meritorious algorithm for maximizing social inclusion at minimal expense while maintaining high levels of Gross National Education (GNE) and minimizing the risks of a handout (which invariably is the overpopulation of dependant populations - and disengagement of high contributors for that reason)
Bullshitting aside - I think you make a fair point about people missing the full boat scholarship - but that isn't an externality.
That IS the system.
And by and large it fails to reach out to underpriviledged classes. While I was lucky enough to inherit a reasonable IQ if not wealth - many are not - and this thread is dedicated to the proposition that including EVERY FAMILY UNIT in what you experienced would be a worthy end.
In my case - My family needed me to earn money - even a full boat would have stretched our resources at that time.
A merit system will end up educating both.2 children of asian immigrant in this country. I think its great that asians are more than usually dedicated to great SAT scores - but my money would be better spent educating one underachieving child from a different minority (and majority) rather than concentrating the handout of a free education for a few overachievers.
(But we should also educate the top 5 - 7% from each school)
Not every idea should be called fascism simply because you haven't yet adopted it personally.
Yes - every family should be invited to participate in the American Dream if at all possible - why? Because inclusion is much better than exclusion. Exclusion leads to alternatives - counter cultures - black markets - gangs - under class - barrios etc . ..
If we don't invite everyone to the party - the chances are good they will force us to put them in prison.
If every person in prison has a sister who is a lawyer - we could all but rule out necessity as a justification for crime.
That - to remind you - is the base assumption for welfare - in case you forgot.
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You have to look at 5 Billion poor in china and realize that all the resources in the world cannot raise the standard of living by all that much - and so anyone who starts to suggest that a rising tide lifts all boats with respect to china has embarked on an endless mission.
If every chinese family drove two SUVs - the planet would sufficate in a continental traffic jam.
The problem is that the chinese have made a Darwinian bet that population size is the key to future success. In American we have made an opposite bet that education is more important than 16 kids. (you can't educate more than about 2 kids - if you do the math).
Our bet only works if we preserve the benefits of having fewer kids - which we give away if we allow china to provide labor at their overpopulated and thus undervalued rates. In that market - we are forced into playing their bet which is an overpopulation bet.
Good-bye world in which the super-power is also the most diverse nation in history - hello planetchina - which will have _most_ of the world workers, _most_ of the world income taxes, and _most_ of the world's wealth - on top of having most of the world's people.
We are entitled to the benefits of our policy decisions which are that fewer children, more education - higher standard of living.
Any other country that wants to throttle its population explosion and educate its 2.1 kids is entitled to the same (after the period of investment and subject to prior bad bets - such as is overpopulation.)
AIK
The difference between reference and compression is - I suggest - whether or not the recompilation of the data requires apriori knowledge - other than the decompression algorithm.
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A pointilism of a mediterranean beach may not require you to visit THAT beach - but it may at the same time RELY heavily on images of beaches, palm trees, and villas which the observer has already in his head.
Artistically - I think pointalism is provocative precisely because it leans on the observer - and what you see in it probably says more about the viewer . .
And as such - I am unconvinced that pointilism is compression - and I think there is a good deal of distance between "approximation by partial representation" and reversable optimization of parameters space.
AIK
You know what gets me about the "Wider dynamic range argument?"
I believe that we are missing all the beautiful out of gamut colors entirely.
Film doesn't bright light well at all. Look at the LED on your monitor - now try to get that color on screen. The greenest green on your screen is nothing like the brilliance of an LED.
We have trained out eyes to forget the real brilliance of light and color and to accept the unexciting reflected color space of ink on paper - or the even smaller dynamic space of projection systems and LCDs.
Consider a photograph of an LED keychain. unless you purposly underexpose the image - the fact that the LED is a point source of light will probably not appear.
You think now that movies are expressing the highlights - but missig the shadows - I suggest the opposite is even more the case.
AIK
I'm not convinced that pointilism is compression.
It is approximation by partial representation akin to sketching, or whistling mozart. People familiar with the original may see or hear more than what is expressed - but the additional information is not extrapulated from the data stream - it is extrapolated from prior experience.
Pointalism is a pointer (NPI) to a real thing already in memory - without the thing - there is no data.
Its like saying the letters "HANDLES MESSIAH" is a compressed form of the actual piece because the letters evoke the entire work in the mind of an experienced reader.
Even if I chose to referance HANDLES MESSIAH by hinting at some part of its substance below the title - I am still only hinting - not compressing.
Compression - in information theory - implies that novel content can be volumetrically reduced and faithfully restored.
Faithful restoration may be compromised in lossy forms - but never completely eliminated if the term is to have meaning.
Pointilism can only be restored in the mind of a person who recognized the shapes, and it is therefore a blueprint for imagination, and not a volumetrically reduced representation of novel content.
I Suggest
AIK
I think you are overreacting to a legitimate goal.
Obviously the goal is less about how to get on first base and more about stealing second. Or in other words - what to do WITH a robotic platform - assuming you have a working platform as a given.
Whether you like this or not - a lot of useful applications for robots will be invented by people with this kind of experience - and lacking the detailed understanding of how to put a platform together in the first place.
In reality the application of robotics is the challenge space right now - how to build them is pretty well established. How to use them for more than mine clearing is the question. We don't see movement in robotics chiefly because we lack truly useful applications.
Bear in mind that to date - most robots have displaced 10 workers. So what does a future with 98% unemployment look like and tell me again why we should all line up to get there?
AIK
Free Market = your salary = Gross World Product / World Population or $10 a day.
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or said another way - knocking significantly increases the work - in bandwidth and cycles - to breach a security system all other things being equal.
It does seem to create a high ground for sites that need a higher security / lower ease of use profile.
- It appears that - like using email as a file system - port knocking could be a means of communicating anything including a tunnelled ssh session without ever opening the firewall. - It is certainly ineffecient - but ineffecient for one - means ineffecient for everyone - including the hack.
AIK
The answer is to rebroadcast the speakkers own voice back into the earpiiece with more than suffecient amplification.
It is simply a afct that we adjust our own voices until we can hear them - in a quiet room we speak quietly - Or better - if you have ever spken to someone wearing good isolation earphons you will know quite well that dampening the audio response - directly translates into a shout.
An ideal phone would have a well extended microphone, noise cancelling and suffecient earpiece feedback.
even more ideal - would be situational awareness - in a loud room - play the souza march at the top of your lungs and vibrate - but in a quiet room - consider using a much quieter ring. - tricky albeit when the quieter room is only quiet because the phone is buried in a purse - but worth the effort on the whole.
BTW - an ultrasonic ring and an echo detect can determine the volumetric qualities of the room - which could resolve the apparent vs. real ambient noise.
AIK
The president today revealed that foriegn policy for the last six months has been dictated by BamTypeCorp of India which threatened to release the bank account numbers of all cittibanki customers if its demands were not met.
Even if its only the president of a major bank - there will be an embarrasing situation which results when people outside the reach of our laws are allowed access to data which is presumed to be protected by law.
AIK
Importantly - we need a social contract in a global age.
We need to know what jobs the government will step in to protect.
certainly matters of military security will be maintained - so that's a start.
Anything republicans do will be maintained - because they are making the policies.
So insurance - real estate - stock brokering - police work - radio talk shows - pizzarias - hiring democrats to do menial labor such as farming - home building - road building.
Most education products will be maintained - architechs - doctors - lawyers.
Software is at risk because so may practishoners are self-taught and the industry has few meaningful standards standards - and the finacial cost to entry is low.
AIK
The game of socialism is to "make the government pay for everything" - while simultaneously buying things in such a way as to avoid contributing to "the government"
Make "Unions and employers" pay for education, medicine, retirement, and lazy people - while shopping walmart for deep discounts on chinese labor.
ANSWER
labor is outsources because the tariff on imported labor is less than taxes on domestic production.
(taxes includes all social costs tied to production - Unions are taxes)
The solution - tax consumption.
AIK
You forget that when "putting food on the table" becomes comodified - the next thing to be ramped up is "putting mouths to feed AT the table."
Show me an exponential means of production and I'll show you three religions hell bent on stress testing your new consumption.
So we can feed them - where do we put them?
Are you going to build 8 x 8 cells to keep them in? 10,000 stories high?
That should be fun.
What if they are restless and want more than 3 square metres? - oh yeah and lazy?
good luck
AIK
I think you're answer 3. is the achielles heel.
Not sure - but we are probably headed for an ENRON class explosion in some outsourcing operation.
HEADLINE:
raid in bamm arrests 2 billion indian typists for making personal purchases from credit cards numbers they collected at work.
HEADLINE:
President Cheney's heart xrays appear on the internet after routine checkup at St Mary's.
The problem is not as much an over-investment in non-merit expeditures as it is the failure to allocate immobile costs (social costs) to mobile streams of revenue (production).
Consumption taxes must be considered when production taxes are subjected to out-of-network competition.
(Reread until peabrain begins to smell the coffee)
Unions are a euphamism for production taxes - they provide a revenue for social costs but they do not (yet) allow for limited slip taxation - that is the tranfer of load from the mobile side (production) to the immobile side (consumption).
If unions could close the loop on consumption - they may have more relevance in a global context. For example - if union workers at windstar corp - a producer of wind energy - agreed to consume only windstar energy - that would be a relevant union. If construction union workers agreed to purchase homes built under union contract. If Trucker union workers agreed to buy food anywhere but walmart. If - and you get the point. Unions to be meaningful in a world in which they are not - must create a closed economic exchange - presumbly a private currency.
So they would be paid minimum wage in dollars and the rest in UNIONOES. Unionoes can only be traded with compatible union entities. (Enter black market in laudering unionoes outside walmart.)
That may have seemed a tall order years ago - but now - it may seem less of a tall order than convincing republicans to give a damn about labor.
I think that labor has cut its own throat by the practice of partisanship. Entities which remain politically agnostic can impact politics much more than partisans - since both sides take partisans for granite.
AIK
The biggest welfare program in the world right now is the US military. Stability is the first form of currency. We are paying huge for stability in countries which would otherwise not attract our capital resources. Thus the corporations exporting jobs to india are the beneficiaries of the stability entitlement program known as the military complex.
Interesting theory - but
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I believe a lot of computer routines were invented first as mathematical theory many years before microprocessors made it possible to automate them.
As mathematical theory they probably wouldn't have been patentable.
All of which is to point out the eternal value of science fiction.
The science fiction writer makes a thing possible by clearing the patent minefield. - Robots that vacuum the floor - written up 50 years before their time.
Space flight - moon landings - submarines - flying machines.
Think of Douglas adam's hitch hikers guide. Doesn't it know where you are in the universe - speak to you - have a click interface? translate every language automatically etc . .
How many billion dollars worth of future patents did DA preempt in that one series ?
just thoughts.
AIK
Not at all - we must simply refactor our finacial system so that it optimizes projected GNP within the context of the projected global playing field.
We must recognize the change in context and adjust the factors which do not project into that change.
Every redneck understands a limited slip differential. If one wheel slips = the limited slip moves the power to the other wheel.
In a limited slip economy - when production slips - you move the burden to consumption.
The burden is healthcare - taxes - and retirement.
Unions very often wrap healthcare and retirement - thus unions must be viewed as a class of taxes.
The point is that in product cycles which are highly mobile - the burden must be shifted to consumption. - Limited slip economics.
Moral 1 Unions are taxes
Moral 2 Tax that which can't move.
AIK
I suggest the real measure of global competition is productivity / price. We should compete because our productivity is higher - not because our costs are lower.
I suggest that in a fair race - the US can out-produce any country on earth - dollar for dollar.
How do we end up losing?
We handicapp our engines of production. The problem is less the mobility of the factors of production - than it is the unequal handicapping of the players.
In the US - production has to bear the cost of health insurance and retirement.
Import taxes do not pay for medicine & retirements.
Sales taxes do not pay for M&R
Labor pays for M&R.
Do the chinese workers pay the same M&R that we do?
As long as the answer is no - the advantage of imports largely is the M&R loophole it creates.
The real truth is that we should decouple all externalities of labor until our labor has no more or less burden than foriegn labor.
This means - end or change unions (begin long conversation)
End or change social security
End or change Medical system
End or change Welfare
Bottom line - Optimize taxation for net GDP. Do not crush exports by taxing production to such a point that outsourcing becomes profitable.
(reread last sentence until peabrain begins to absorb essence.)
Tax consumption - but not to the point that black market becomes significant.
remember outsource only to democracies - the germans do not use the economy we gave them to kill us because - and only because - they don't want to die in a nuclear holocauset. The saud family on the other hand has taken our gifted economy and deprived their people such that they don't give a damn who dies - bomb us if you like - any imaginable after-life is better than this.
Again - only strengthen countries in which the wealth is shared - if not the power.
AIK
Spam could be identified with the help of IP address profiling.
1. Every (participating) mail client reports the IP address, An Address Hash, and a full content Hash, and a common word Hash to a central server.
2. All Email recieved is assigned a value similar to the google value which identifies that email as unique or - similar to thousands. - As Sent from a human source - or a prolific source.
Spammers would simply sort themselves out of existence by coming in last on the uniquness/prolificness test.
The trasaction with other email servers is something like:
I just recieved mail from 123.23.34.45 with an address hash of fgf3vsd8g7g83hisyeeg97948ekhdu and a content Hash of ^4ehjhdis838eyYe89y9 with a filtered content of GTYijhiuTY9Y986)708y9yoiuy - how many similar emails exist?
Reply:
From IP: 123.23.34.45 -- 200,000
From Address -- 5,000
With Content -- 1
With Filtered content -- 1
Thusly this is unique mail from a human in a medium company
From IP: 123.23.34.45 -- 200,000,000,000
From Address -- 5,000,000
With Content -- 1
With Filtered content -- 1,000,000,000
This is unique item from a prolific source which is common to a huge number of items once the spam words filter is applied.
etc etc etc.
I think IP profiling is different from a white list because the user can decide determine the metrics (for example set his own spam words - if he's a protologist - he may accept spam with words like pen*s for example)
Also because it operates AT THE SAME SPEED as the message stream - it can react in real time to new messages and new ideas - like the insertion of random words) - it also discourages experimentation - since that raises the prolificness of a given IP Address - It also discourages insecure - inadvertant hosts - because their mail gets flagged.
It will however lead to credibity farming - that is the operation of a legitimate mail server for the purpose of using accumulated positive heuristics to launch a high credibility spam attack.
I think this system can operate as an adhock p2p in which some mail servers create local networks - independant of any corporate server. _ The idea is only to get enough email to create useful data on a substantial portion of the internet. Most addresses will be familiar - a unfamiliar address can launch a larger search outside the local group if necessary.
Keeping group count high avoids a monolithic solution - and limits the success of testing - so there should not be a single pool of data.
AIK
In a really bad country
The police would only catch one out of every million criminals - but that poor guy would be beheaded publicly as an example to the rest not to sin.
In a utopian country - every sin would have an immediate but porportionate punishment - and no one would do wrong on the assumption that they might "get away with it."
I think that on balance this is a very good move.
The general trend towards catching everyone (cameras, IRS requiring employees to collect taxes, searching every box that crosses the border) tend to sacrifice privacy in exchange for a more balanced distribution of the punantive burden.
This is brilliant - no fun intended - because it is a strong move toward utopia with a zero increase in big brother intrusion. The traffic engineer should be applauded by both sides on this one - and I think the complainers here would do well to reconsider.
Even the hassle of a unequally timed light is trivial next to the cost in human suffering caused by speeding.
AIK
-Are you suggesting that if someone places less value on short term leisure?
Well put. IF
If everyone started at the same point in the curve - your relative value assignment theory would hold.
The problem is that noone starts atthe same place. Not eveyone has an endowment at harvard to ensure that regardless of how well they study they will be admitted and garenteed a degree.
Which is why the government should require all recognized institutions to be merit based.
Of government employers and contractors were required to ignore credentials from institutions which express favoratism - then private colleges could not flood the world with wealth-induced credentials.
AIK
Perverting welfare is easy - just have loads of kids. Thus it is a system which creates more load for itself as the load increases - not scalable.
Perverting wealth is easy - use your wealth to ensure that your kids get the only available education - that they get the jobs making rules - because they have the education - and that the rules favor the status quo. If you need help maintaining the status quo - your education will inform you that religion and fear will help you convince ignorant people to support the idea that change is bad.
Put to pervert my proposal - which is that 1 child of every mother gets a needs-tested full ride scholarship - absolutely prevents stagnation.
AIK
intelligence is part luck and partly the cultural advantage of being born into a family which supports curiosity and mental development.
detected intelligence (Which is what schools respond too) has a great deal to do with connections.
In this end - the disadvantaged stay disadvantaged and raise kids who are disadvantaged.
Tested intelligence is a poor indicator because it implies that everyone will show up equally to be tested.
In addition - some realize for good reason that the test isn't really for them. If my native language is other than that of the test for example - I wouldn't really be in the running.
The purpose - again - of welfare - is to ensure that no one is isolated from the benefits of the free market.
I suggest - and your reponses have been interesting - but I suggest - that sending one child of every mother to higher education is a meritorious algorithm for maximizing social inclusion at minimal expense while maintaining high levels of Gross National Education (GNE) and minimizing the risks of a handout (which invariably is the overpopulation of dependant populations - and disengagement of high contributors for that reason)
AIK
Bullshitting aside - I think you make a fair point about people missing the full boat scholarship - but that isn't an externality.
That IS the system.
And by and large it fails to reach out to underpriviledged classes. While I was lucky enough to inherit a reasonable IQ if not wealth - many are not - and this thread is dedicated to the proposition that including EVERY FAMILY UNIT in what you experienced would be a worthy end.
In my case - My family needed me to earn money - even a full boat would have stretched our resources at that time.
A merit system will end up educating both.2 children of asian immigrant in this country. I think its great that asians are more than usually dedicated to great SAT scores - but my money would be better spent educating one underachieving child from a different minority (and majority) rather than concentrating the handout of a free education for a few overachievers.
(But we should also educate the top 5 - 7% from each school)
AIK
Fascism?
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You need to revisit your dictionary.
Not every idea should be called fascism simply because you haven't yet adopted it personally.
Yes - every family should be invited to participate in the American Dream if at all possible - why?
Because inclusion is much better than exclusion. Exclusion leads to alternatives - counter cultures - black markets - gangs - under class - barrios etc . .
If we don't invite everyone to the party - the chances are good they will force us to put them in prison.
If every person in prison has a sister who is a lawyer - we could all but rule out necessity as a justification for crime.
That - to remind you - is the base assumption for welfare - in case you forgot.
AIK