The rise of fascism was built on these "slights", and when they reach critical mass, if you don't keep your eyes open, you're being arrested for disagreeing and you didn't even have a clue that it was coming.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and all that.
If the government does that, then we won't be able to speak out against it. The point is to stop it from happening, not to let it happen then fight World War III to end it the hard way.
This is more like trade schools not continuing to train diesel mechanics because everyone wants to drive cars that run on gasoline. Never mind that diesel engines are in the majority of the freight-hauling vehicles that are in existence in the USA, and the world.
Who benefits from this 'unprecented economic growth'? The ultimate owner of the capital. Newsflash: that's usually not the guy that did the work, but the guy that paid him (at some level).
Here's what we really need in the USA.
We need to make corporations and their true owners follow the same laws as the rest of us with regards to raping communities and using slave labor. We need to close the borders to all trade until we figure out how to do global trade without fucking ourselves over. We've got oil. This is for corporations, not private individuals that want to go to Paris and buy a dress or antique shop in Prague or whatever. While we're at it, we need make offshore outsourcing, of any type of work - technical, manufacturing - illegal. I'm sorry, but if you can't get the work done inside the country, then you shouldn't be allowed to do business in the country. Simple as that.
Corporations should be forced by the government to locate operations in depressed areas, and they will like it. Where I grew up the economy is dead, and nobody will locate there because of the catch-22 that there is no infrastructure, yet there is no tax revenue to build it because no company will locate there.
Now will that ever happen? No. For one, the sociopaths that run the government would just turn corporate regulation into their personal playground, and make themselves feudal lords, as opposed to the CEOs that play that role now. Just try to say anything bad about the Busch family in the St. Louis press. See how good your life is after that. And also, the economic crash that would result would end up causing a global depression that would probably culminate in a nuclear holocaust, courtesy of ourselves and China.
In other words, we're so far down the road to self-rape that we can't turn back. We can either sit around and bitch about it or make the best of what we have, while we have it.
ARe you thinking about variable sweep wings? Those designs are somewhat common. The F-14, F-111 (retired), B-1, and the British Tornado all use that design, mostly to control shockwaves at high speeds and provide more life at low speeds.
Nitpick: Capitalism is not a type of government, it's an economic system. But, you're right, look at all the homocidal monarchs of years past, Saddam, etc.
However, capitalism gives mild psychopaths a legal outlet for their manipulative urges. It's understood today, and even encouraged, that to be successful in business you must screw people over. I majored in business administration and that's more or less what management classes are - they teach you how to manipulate people for the good of the Company. As with anything else, a natural aptitude for it will make you more successful.
problem is that having meticulously designed content necessarily limits the replayability.
MMOs and many other commercial games get around this by having designers add content continually for download. Programmatically-generated content is the only way to keep some games fresh. Civ III or RoN would be really dull if it was the same 20 meticulously designed maps over and over and over and over and over and over and...
And how much of the Apollo 11 mission was created by people reading Slashdot?
The thing about the internet is that everyone that uses it is creating it as they go. It's not like the Apollo missions where some bunch of engineers and rocket scientists went off and did something that "we" did. They had a project that they completed. We in the USA can be proud that it was our nation that did it, but I didn't have anything to do with it.
Maybe they should work it like Sun used to work solaris x86 - give away a free half-assed version for people to try out and learn with, but reserve the good version for their hardware.
I'm not saying he was wrong. My point is that in today's world, the management is probably telling the staff not to enforce the ratings like he did, because that will result in lost sales, so the ratings are useless.
Yes, he probably did the store the favor in the long term, but tell that to the district manager that's up the store owner's ass to get the revenue numbers up.
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just imagine how many consecutive Tours de France Lance Armstrong could win in this new world!
The rise of fascism was built on these "slights", and when they reach critical mass, if you don't keep your eyes open, you're being arrested for disagreeing and you didn't even have a clue that it was coming.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and all that.
If the government does that, then we won't be able to speak out against it.
The point is to stop it from happening, not to let it happen then fight World War III to end it the hard way.
that would make them not feudal lords.
everyone has their Pauly Shore moment, right?
Hey, what am I doing in this Bio-Dome?!??
Scott? Is that you?
Your pathetic attempt at character assassination is laughable. As if character mattered on this site.
In The Future There Will Be Robots!
This is more like trade schools not continuing to train diesel mechanics because everyone wants to drive cars that run on gasoline. Never mind that diesel engines are in the majority of the freight-hauling vehicles that are in existence in the USA, and the world.
Oh, brilliant. I'd love to see you explain that to all the American workers whose jobs depend on selling their products outside the USA.
:)
They could find new jobs. It's a free market and it'll balance itself out, right?
Who benefits from this 'unprecented economic growth'? The ultimate owner of the capital. Newsflash: that's usually not the guy that did the work, but the guy that paid him (at some level).
Here's what we really need in the USA.
We need to make corporations and their true owners follow the same laws as the rest of us with regards to raping communities and using slave labor. We need to close the borders to all trade until we figure out how to do global trade without fucking ourselves over. We've got oil. This is for corporations, not private individuals that want to go to Paris and buy a dress or antique shop in Prague or whatever. While we're at it, we need make offshore outsourcing, of any type of work - technical, manufacturing - illegal. I'm sorry, but if you can't get the work done inside the country, then you shouldn't be allowed to do business in the country. Simple as that.
Corporations should be forced by the government to locate operations in depressed areas, and they will like it. Where I grew up the economy is dead, and nobody will locate there because of the catch-22 that there is no infrastructure, yet there is no tax revenue to build it because no company will locate there.
Now will that ever happen? No. For one, the sociopaths that run the government would just turn corporate regulation into their personal playground, and make themselves feudal lords, as opposed to the CEOs that play that role now. Just try to say anything bad about the Busch family in the St. Louis press. See how good your life is after that. And also, the economic crash that would result would end up causing a global depression that would probably culminate in a nuclear holocaust, courtesy of ourselves and China.
In other words, we're so far down the road to self-rape that we can't turn back. We can either sit around and bitch about it or make the best of what we have, while we have it.
This shit is fucking depressing.
ARe you thinking about variable sweep wings? Those designs are somewhat common. The F-14, F-111 (retired), B-1, and the British Tornado all use that design, mostly to control shockwaves at high speeds and provide more life at low speeds.
Maybe in today's world of 5-second attention spans, the LAST company to market wins.
Richard Stallman refutes!
"2+2 = 5 if software is free," he said.
Will Kirsten Dunst jump around in her underwear? IF so, I'm so fucking there
It would appear that they want to take over the internet by playing their "we're not Microsoft" card.
Capitalism rewards psychopathic behavior inherently. All of the people you just smugly linked to were psychopaths in -spite- of their ideology.
Nitpick: Capitalism is not a type of government, it's an economic system. But, you're right, look at all the homocidal monarchs of years past, Saddam, etc.
However, capitalism gives mild psychopaths a legal outlet for their manipulative urges. It's understood today, and even encouraged, that to be successful in business you must screw people over. I majored in business administration and that's more or less what management classes are - they teach you how to manipulate people for the good of the Company. As with anything else, a natural aptitude for it will make you more successful.
Capitalism and psychopathy go hand in hand. That's why it has survived today.
non gratis anus rodentium!
(yeah, I know, but it looks funny)
problem is that having meticulously designed content necessarily limits the replayability.
MMOs and many other commercial games get around this by having designers add content continually for download. Programmatically-generated content is the only way to keep some games fresh. Civ III or RoN would be really dull if it was the same 20 meticulously designed maps over and over and over and over and over and over and...
baaaa... I love google... baaaaaaaaa *bleat*
And how much of the Apollo 11 mission was created by people reading Slashdot?
The thing about the internet is that everyone that uses it is creating it as they go. It's not like the Apollo missions where some bunch of engineers and rocket scientists went off and did something that "we" did. They had a project that they completed. We in the USA can be proud that it was our nation that did it, but I didn't have anything to do with it.
Maybe they should work it like Sun used to work solaris x86 - give away a free half-assed version for people to try out and learn with, but reserve the good version for their hardware.
I'm not saying he was wrong. My point is that in today's world, the management is probably telling the staff not to enforce the ratings like he did, because that will result in lost sales, so the ratings are useless.
Yes, he probably did the store the favor in the long term, but tell that to the district manager that's up the store owner's ass to get the revenue numbers up.