I am sure he confused invisible, to invisible to radars and the type of systems that need a signal bounced back. You cannot use radars, but you can do motion detection and shape detection, etc. You can SEE the black thing for sure as almost nothing is pure black. It may be a good disguise in the sky though (unless you are between a start and your chaser):-)
I was impling that they are *never* allowed legally, not that Hispanics should sneak. Of course, you canadian Friend should be allowed inmediately. So never mind.
The problem with Hispanics is that they are not allowed to that country, nor allowed to blend into society. They re tolerated because they are needed...
>IQ tests are a near-perfect indicator of intelligence.
Near perfect, though we can't really define what "inteligent" really means... as someone has already said, inteligence must be proved in the field, not in the laboratory. There are thouthands of very inteligent people that never accomplished anything... and there are thouthands of dumber folks that are incredibly sucessfull that may not innitially seem smarter in laboratory terms. I got a resonable IQ, like 130 something. It did not help me to think I was reasonably inteligent, as I always expected more from me. I don't care as much now, and it works wonders to have the pressure off.
> People aren't logical. People are dumb. People are thoughtless. > Computers make being thoughtless easier.
Nonesense...
> When you make something > wasteful easier, it happens more often.
When you mske anything easier, it happens more often, how insightfull!!
People are the most refined and inteligent beings of all creation than we know about....how you comment seems inteligente to anyone makes me believe that you may actually be right!
And what's the % of released prisoners in general. I don't care much if it is 100%, 5 times, or 10^5. WHat's important is how likely is the released murdered to recommint a crime, compared to the general population.
> As a matter of fact, I belive he should have his own life taken > (wich isn't murder) from him so he isn't ever "five times more > likley to recommit if released".
Yes, but can never be sure if you are convicting the right person. There should be a 1/1000 or 1/50 or 1/100,000 ratio of failure. We don't even know what the ratio is.
In other workds....what to contribute or use a really open/free source...
>Got a patent? Sorry, bud, check that at the door.... without fear of breaking the law...
>Want to run specialized programs that require secrecy of code? Not on this platform, man.... that's truly open...
>Want to mingle your closed code with our open widget? Give up all your source first.... and will keep that way in the future? The GPLv3 could be the best of the series if you like that.
Natural is the word that includes a sense of NOT being able to predict the consecuences and therefore changing the behaveour. Else, Natural means whatever happens, and therefore the word is uneeded as fate, destiny or just evolution can be used:-)
Look at how much IT services are being exported to the US (I don't know exaclty but must be arround 20B at least. That's 60B at least in terms of US labour. That's about 1 million jobs (ok, give a range for gross errors...may be 0.5 million vs 1.5 million jobs). That's exactly the jobs you lost. Also there are no signs of really slowing down, and people from _abroad_ are getting really experienced and are starting to manage things instead of just doing the work.
On the other hand, most firms benefiting from these outosuourced jobs are American (Microsoft, IBM, Accenture, etc). Then again, it's not their fault, and Indians and labour exporting countries must do this, because USA doesn't want people to be able to move to the US...in order to protect the very workers that are now finding the Indians do not have to move to the US, they can sell much chepear and eat dinner with they grandparents. So you only chance is to prevent offshoring of labour (very difficult)...and if you are sucessfull, you'll find that the rich guys will find it more interesting to invest directly in other countries than in the languishing USA. Do don't manufacture most of the things you need for a living, and most countries will not pay for your dubious patents. And what good will the dollar be if you economy sinks? I am playing devils advocate....but you get the picture.
>The differnce is that String Theory is valid math, which is certainly a serious leg-up.
Math is language, just as english. In fact, spoken languages are more powerfull. There are infinite ideas you can't yet express with just math (and if you ever do, any common language will be much shorter). A universe that's explained by interacting quantities or energies, but may not be all there really actually _is_. Even computer languages are better suited to reality.
I agree with how you see things. I don't play lottery either. But money is something that buys things. Or things that earn you money, are reall good. I'd never trust my purchasing power to an online-whatever. But people are doing so, and sometimes it even makes sense. Some people live in "other world" and yes, they are the mercy of the developers.:-) ?
> As everyone knows, an encyclopedia is > a defintive source of information
Wasn't is some specific kind of book? An encyclopedia cannot be a definitive source of information
>based on aggregated knowledge
Right!
>compiled by a specific person or group of persons
Specific group ranging from one person to "the human race". The human race is a VERY specific group of persons as of now. I am pretty sure you're the kind of person that'd say "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft (or Insert your most trusted firm) software".
>being editted over time
Could be
>, and not changing much from year to year
Changes should reflect changes in knoledge, if knowledge changes slowly, then yes. But it's not an Ecyclopedia requirement.
>, with either sources given, or personal accounts listed (the latter explicity forbidden in wikpedia).
Depends on what you want the encyclopedia for...allows you to point fingers and say "This guy said so", so if that guy loses reputation, you may not trust him specifically in the future. You can't trust people in Wikipedia, you must trust a process, and know that wikipedia is correct in (let's guess) 95% of the sentences. I understand your point, but an encyclopedia is what it is, not how you want it done.
> Popularity of the information has no bearing on > what is presented either, being it must come > from trusted sources, or personal discovery.
The trusted source MUST be wikipedia. You don't bother trusting a company for buying a reliable car, and we see recall every year. Yet, you don't trust wikipedia will be one day be a very good source of information (fallable sometimes).
It doesn't matter, I trust Wikipedia will be a very good reference in many and most (not ALL) situations. Time, not your definition of encyclomedia, will say.
Something similar happens with software developemnt. Sometimes they want to measure work productivity. So the count Lines of Code, other times they measure Function Points, some other they measure conformance to tests, and yet, some other, they see different roles, and try to balance the need to write code, the need of some guys dthat do slight corrects but cruacially important ones, and ones that do beautifing.
Human work and value is not easily measured, and a balance must be made that REQUIRES judgment and knowledge, not only measure. Get your measures wrong, and you'll lose important contributions, and mess everything up (like measuring productivity with LOC alone! Guak).
If you ever read David Maister, you'll also see that consulting work (law firms, IT counsulting, makrting consulting, etc.), that having a single way to "compute" bonuses could be VERY bad for the company. If they measure sold hours, nobody'll want to start a promising & lucrative line, that will start paying in 2 years. So the company WILL reach a dead end for lack of innovation. If you reward billable hours only per person, people will tend to never delegate tasks, so that they work 90% billable ours, the company will not grow. Suppose they pay bonuses for people that start new lines of business that will not pay up soon, pay based your and your team billable hours...everyone will be too busy working and nobody will want to train new consultants (one will ask for consultats already in the company, teaching takes years)...so a good teacher gets no bonus although the are proving fresh blood that they'll be able to sell for hours.
So...yes, it's not easy. You need to balance and have a criteria, and putting 1000 measures can make things worst. At least as of now, you need to see the big picture and see that everyone valuable to the company stays. Measures mecome as compplex as all the interactions between everything.
Yes, working as a cash register at a supermarket is a little bit easier to measure, but still has its issues.
Measuring wikipedia contributions is a bit the same. The only thing clear is that if you have knowledge and don't contribute material, of if you have time and never even do edits, you are not adding much to the equation. All other roles are very valuable (although specific knoledge seems to be more scarce!).
The online currency is as scarce as the online makes wish it to be, same happens in reality. If Bush needs dollars, they can print some. They can even do it with not inflation, just raise taxes.
>and no central bank backing the currency, nor any financial controls.
The game maker is the central back (or the logic of the game, which the makes can alter as they wish. If an online currency depreciates, they can make it more scarce, and It will revaluate, just like any toher currency.
>The same applies to any items and other 'valuables' in those games; any particular scarcity of any particular item is purely artificial
Same with goverment mandated monopolies, patents, regulations, etc. Of course, the government can make "virtual cars". Well they could, but these virtual cars will be less usefull than in a game.
>and can be instantly changed at the whim of the company (or any less than honest admin
So, this has nothing to do with it being money as in "you can use it to buy whatever is availabe at our "made up world"
>or someone exploiting the game).
Or someone exploiting the real world game...both are games, there are natural (business tactic good or bad) and unnatural ways (like...uh, printing money in the real world?).
There are even exchange rates. And why would the money in a game not be real? If it is scarce, and takes effort to win, paying for the money with "real" money will save you REAL time or give you REAL pleasure. Maybe 20 min. working at McDonalds is better that doing something boring 1 week in a game.
Yes, It is real money, as in "it has a price". Whether you trust that money to stay stable in time in relation to other currencies is another thing.
Now, you could say it is a good, not money, because that money cannot buy anything. Well, in a sense yes, and in a sense no. I can't buy anything outside the game (it's not universally accepted not unit of measure outside the game). But well, you can buy anything in the game (or "world") and trade it for a different currency if you want to jump worlds (from "virtual" to "real"). I can't buy anything in the USA with Mexican pesos or Yens. And I can't buy millitary stuff from the US if i live in certain countries. This is not different.
The ONLY reals issues are:
- Do you trust the coin in the virtual world to be stable (It could even grow in value, be an investment, if the game is really addictive and money is scarce and the games gets more popular) - You can't trade goods from one world to another.
Financials bother me, but surelly some economists will start making papaers about these "new currencies" (they make GOOD experiments though).
Yes, ant Google's helped a lot in that respect. Imagine if the best search engine was MSN based. Imagine Microsoft leveraging online apps the way Google does? Passport could be a reality. Maybe you'll be needing some extensions for enhaced features on MSN (MSN may have enhanced features now...I don't know, I I don't care). There'd be a direct relationship connecting an OS (clients) and content (Web service): you can leverage that. If you want to migrate...you may lose important webapps functionality. And one you can set new standards without consensus, you win.
Yes, Google has helped a lot. Apple has not helped that much, except for the fact that they have shown that Microsoft is not the only one that can sell PCs to the masses, or that Microsoft-free solutions can be very desirable.
Microsoft is doing well, but they have upset to many companies all at the same time, and that's the only way for them to keep growing.
It's more like psychology. You probably wouldn't give a damn if you finish 100% your lunch some day, the extra food is worth little (maybe you always, everytime, finish 100% of your served food). Some people would see that a sacrilege, in areas where people really suffer famine.
Now, there are CXOs that are mad, there are the good ones also, working for their company, people, etc. The reason they pay them so much, I don't know, but have several ideas. It doesn't matter that much (few people are in these positions, and lowering his salary say to 10% wouldn't even increase average salaries even 0.1%)...
Yes, and also probably the opposite: someone making $2,000,000 would see a cell phone's value as the janitor thinks of 4 candies. He can obviously buy 1,000 without making a dent on his income. So the meaning may be different. "Stealing" a cell phone for CEO is similar to the janitor "stealing" some candies, they are not really stealing. When a CEO steas $100,000 or the janitor steals a notebook. Are CEOs as likely to steal say $100,000 than janitors notebooks?
I don't know if the quoted search is real or invented....but it's still ridiculous...
> why do people hurt others
Power, sex, not caring, different codes, different values, because they do not want to do what you want, because life is though, defense, and thouthand other reasons, including... fun...
> how to help others who have hurt you
First, by not acting like you are a martir and the other guy is surelly heading to hell.
> how to love someone who mistreated you
She seems closer to hate than anything else, which is bad bad bad, but wants to feel good.
> what does god mean when he says bless those who spitefully use you
She's a martir, and she wants to read about how difficult and how holy it is to be a martir. She want to taste the sweet flavour of her heavy burden that god has put in her shoulders.
> I would say that chances are good that she was at > abused in some manner - ranging from a prick of a > boyfriend to rape.
No, I would say chances are she got really addicted at a boy that didn't give squat about her values (that made him interesting, irresistable, an a good male for mating as per her phisiologically programed attraction scheme), and she probably preffered him over a well behaved, much nicer, but not so interesting and confident boy. And now she wants to blame bad luck...
I'd say it's 99% their parents and "teachers" fault. I was raised in a catholic school, I liked many values a lot, and am thanksfull for that, but self-compassion, "guiltiness" manipulation, martir-sindrome, and "external truth" (as in faith because someone said so) did not help me become better, and where it did, most of the time it did for the wrong reasons.
Bad news for the lady: "the world is not as they have teached her...".
(And by the way, confession with a third party is to make you feel great even after you really scew thing up, it takes away responsability, you can always "clear your way to heaven inmediately", and at the same time, you give the father more power over your destiny and life. I've seen enough of this to see it works well for good and bad people, without changing them whatsoever).
"If you do a frustrating thing too much, you will get fed up with it. Early I ended up hating and quitting a few different jobs because I took them too seriously and burnt out on them. Now I carefully limit my frustration levels to what I can handle. It's the same way with Wikipedia: I do as much as I can where I still enjoy it."
Amen to that. I had to go to the shrink 4 month to grasp that idea, I I still need comments like yours to remind myself.:-)
Because AMD nor any other manufacturer involved wants you to pay USD200 for a computer, when you are now spending ~ USD 1000 or more for one (lost value, and a lot of enemies for some manufacturers, like AMD that may be hated by vendors like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc).
This must be for educational purposes or very poor countries only, at least for the moment.
1) Export of choice: Food 2) Food: Electricty: Among the cheapest in the world, very reliable
Please don't send them more trucks nor equipment to build power plants (by the way, the problem is having good rivers or generating enough income to be able to pay for the coal or gas).
I am now living in Mexico, they have a program called Enciclomedia, they will spend USD 1600 in 5 years, in a setup that involves 1 desktop per class, and electric board and a projector, for two grades (I believe 6th and 1st secondary). I think it's increadibly expensive (like 5USD per child per month!) and incredible inneficient. But I it's better than nothing. Make kids will learn about computers and get interested in the field, applications, etc. Kids are very curious. The program will produce an impact.
Of course, they could have bought 16 million computers, nealy one per child for ages between 10 to 18...instead of one per class for two grades. Who needs an electronic board and a projector if you have 1 computers per student?
Anyway, the point is we'll have to wait and see, but i suspect underestimating people, and trying to give them food is not the way. Showing them a future they can reach if they make an effort, just knowing you have an opportunity and that there is more in the world than your town, or your newspaper, is what can change societies.
(By the way, Mexico is a poor country, and there are a lot of people living below the poverty line, but famine is really uncommon. Again, the problem is education, not food. What do you do with a 40 year old honest guy that has very limited knoledge and can only do very manual, simple tasks? Starting with kids is the only hope.
They are just stating they have a secret criteria for choosing and don't want anyone to know the criteria. Exactly what we are complaining about is THE FEATURE, no the error of the policy.
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I am sure he confused invisible, to invisible to radars and the type of systems that need a signal bounced back. You cannot use radars, but you can do motion detection and shape detection, etc. You can SEE the black thing for sure as almost nothing is pure black. It may be a good disguise in the sky though (unless you are between a start and your chaser) :-)
I was impling that they are *never* allowed legally, not that Hispanics should sneak. Of course, you canadian Friend should be allowed inmediately. So never mind.
The problem with Hispanics is that they are not allowed to that country, nor allowed to blend into society. They re tolerated because they are needed...
>IQ tests are a near-perfect indicator of intelligence.
... as someone has already said, inteligence must be proved in the field, not in the laboratory. There are thouthands of very inteligent people that never accomplished anything ... and there are thouthands of dumber folks that are incredibly sucessfull that may not innitially seem smarter in laboratory terms. I got a resonable IQ, like 130 something. It did not help me to think I was reasonably inteligent, as I always expected more from me. I don't care as much now, and it works wonders to have the pressure off.
Near perfect, though we can't really define what "inteligent" really means
50% of lawers jobs are uncalled...and the remaining 50& depend on the stupidity of the legal system, and 11 MUSD promises.
> People aren't logical. People are dumb. People are thoughtless.
...
> Computers make being thoughtless easier.
Nonesense
> When you make something
> wasteful easier, it happens more often.
When you mske anything easier, it happens more often, how insightfull!!
People are the most refined and inteligent beings of all creation than we know about....how you comment seems inteligente to anyone makes me believe that you may actually be right!
And what's the % of released prisoners in general. I don't care much if it is 100%, 5 times, or 10^5. WHat's important is how likely is the released murdered to recommint a crime, compared to the general population.
> As a matter of fact, I belive he should have his own life taken
> (wich isn't murder) from him so he isn't ever "five times more
> likley to recommit if released".
Yes, but can never be sure if you are convicting the right person. There should be a 1/1000 or 1/50 or 1/100,000 ratio of failure. We don't even know what the ratio is.
In other workds....what to contribute or use a really open/free source ...
... without fear of breaking the law ...
... that's truly open ...
... and will keep that way in the future? The GPLv3 could be the best of the series if you like that.
>Got a patent? Sorry, bud, check that at the door.
>Want to run specialized programs that require secrecy of code? Not on this platform, man.
>Want to mingle your closed code with our open widget? Give up all your source first.
Natural is the word that includes a sense of NOT being able to predict the consecuences and therefore changing the behaveour. Else, Natural means whatever happens, and therefore the word is uneeded as fate, destiny or just evolution can be used :-)
Look at how much IT services are being exported to the US (I don't know exaclty but must be arround 20B at least. That's 60B at least in terms of US labour. That's about 1 million jobs (ok, give a range for gross errors...may be 0.5 million vs 1.5 million jobs). That's exactly the jobs you lost. Also there are no signs of really slowing down, and people from _abroad_ are getting really experienced and are starting to manage things instead of just doing the work.
On the other hand, most firms benefiting from these outosuourced jobs are American (Microsoft, IBM, Accenture, etc). Then again, it's not their fault, and Indians and labour exporting countries must do this, because USA doesn't want people to be able to move to the US...in order to protect the very workers that are now finding the Indians do not have to move to the US, they can sell much chepear and eat dinner with they grandparents. So you only chance is to prevent offshoring of labour (very difficult)...and if you are sucessfull, you'll find that the rich guys will find it more interesting to invest directly in other countries than in the languishing USA. Do don't manufacture most of the things you need for a living, and most countries will not pay for your dubious patents. And what good will the dollar be if you economy sinks? I am playing devils advocate....but you get the picture.
Where did you get the idea that school is all and only about scientific theories?
>The differnce is that String Theory is valid math, which is certainly a serious leg-up.
Math is language, just as english. In fact, spoken languages are more powerfull. There are infinite ideas you can't yet express with just math (and if you ever do, any common language will be much shorter). A universe that's explained by interacting quantities or energies, but may not be all there really actually _is_. Even computer languages are better suited to reality.
I agree with how you see things. I don't play lottery either. But money is something that buys things. Or things that earn you money, are reall good. I'd never trust my purchasing power to an online-whatever. But people are doing so, and sometimes it even makes sense. Some people live in "other world" and yes, they are the mercy of the developers. :-) ?
> As everyone knows, an encyclopedia is
> a defintive source of information
Wasn't is some specific kind of book? An encyclopedia cannot be a definitive source of information
>based on aggregated knowledge
Right!
>compiled by a specific person or group of persons
Specific group ranging from one person to "the human race". The human race is a VERY specific group of persons as of now. I am pretty sure you're the kind of person that'd say "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft (or Insert your most trusted firm) software".
>being editted over time
Could be
>, and not changing much from year to year
Changes should reflect changes in knoledge, if knowledge changes slowly, then yes. But it's not an Ecyclopedia requirement.
>, with either sources given, or personal accounts listed (the latter explicity forbidden in wikpedia).
Depends on what you want the encyclopedia for...allows you to point fingers and say "This guy said so", so if that guy loses reputation, you may not trust him specifically in the future. You can't trust people in Wikipedia, you must trust a process, and know that wikipedia is correct in (let's guess) 95% of the sentences. I understand your point, but an encyclopedia is what it is, not how you want it done.
> Popularity of the information has no bearing on
> what is presented either, being it must come
> from trusted sources, or personal discovery.
The trusted source MUST be wikipedia. You don't bother trusting a company for buying a reliable car, and we see recall every year. Yet, you don't trust wikipedia will be one day be a very good source of information (fallable sometimes).
It doesn't matter, I trust Wikipedia will be a very good reference in many and most (not ALL) situations. Time, not your definition of encyclomedia, will say.
Something similar happens with software developemnt. Sometimes they want to measure work productivity. So the count Lines of Code, other times they measure Function Points, some other they measure conformance to tests, and yet, some other, they see different roles, and try to balance the need to write code, the need of some guys dthat do slight corrects but cruacially important ones, and ones that do beautifing.
Human work and value is not easily measured, and a balance must be made that REQUIRES judgment and knowledge, not only measure. Get your measures wrong, and you'll lose important contributions, and mess everything up (like measuring productivity with LOC alone! Guak).
If you ever read David Maister, you'll also see that consulting work (law firms, IT counsulting, makrting consulting, etc.), that having a single way to "compute" bonuses could be VERY bad for the company. If they measure sold hours, nobody'll want to start a promising & lucrative line, that will start paying in 2 years. So the company WILL reach a dead end for lack of innovation. If you reward billable hours only per person, people will tend to never delegate tasks, so that they work 90% billable ours, the company will not grow. Suppose they pay bonuses for people that start new lines of business that will not pay up soon, pay based your and your team billable hours...everyone will be too busy working and nobody will want to train new consultants (one will ask for consultats already in the company, teaching takes years)...so a good teacher gets no bonus although the are proving fresh blood that they'll be able to sell for hours.
So...yes, it's not easy. You need to balance and have a criteria, and putting 1000 measures can make things worst. At least as of now, you need to see the big picture and see that everyone valuable to the company stays. Measures mecome as compplex as all the interactions between everything.
Yes, working as a cash register at a supermarket is a little bit easier to measure, but still has its issues.
Measuring wikipedia contributions is a bit the same. The only thing clear is that if you have knowledge and don't contribute material, of if you have time and never even do edits, you are not adding much to the equation. All other roles are very valuable (although specific knoledge seems to be more scarce!).
>No. There is no actual scarcity
:-)
The online currency is as scarce as the online makes wish it to be, same happens in reality. If Bush needs dollars, they can print some. They can even do it with not inflation, just raise taxes.
>and no central bank backing the currency, nor any financial controls.
The game maker is the central back (or the logic of the game, which the makes can alter as they wish. If an online currency depreciates, they can make it more scarce, and It will revaluate, just like any toher currency.
>The same applies to any items and other 'valuables' in those games; any particular scarcity of any particular item is purely artificial
Same with goverment mandated monopolies, patents, regulations, etc. Of course, the government can make "virtual cars". Well they could, but these virtual cars will be less usefull than in a game.
>and can be instantly changed at the whim of the company (or any less than honest admin
So, this has nothing to do with it being money as in "you can use it to buy whatever is availabe at our "made up world"
>or someone exploiting the game).
Or someone exploiting the real world game...both are games, there are natural (business tactic good or bad) and unnatural ways (like...uh, printing money in the real world?).
There are even exchange rates. And why would the money in a game not be real? If it is scarce, and takes effort to win, paying for the money with "real" money will save you REAL time or give you REAL pleasure. Maybe 20 min. working at McDonalds is better that doing something boring 1 week in a game.
Yes, It is real money, as in "it has a price". Whether you trust that money to stay stable in time in relation to other currencies is another thing.
Now, you could say it is a good, not money, because that money cannot buy anything. Well, in a sense yes, and in a sense no. I can't buy anything outside the game (it's not universally accepted not unit of measure outside the game). But well, you can buy anything in the game (or "world") and trade it for a different currency if you want to jump worlds (from "virtual" to "real"). I can't buy anything in the USA with Mexican pesos or Yens. And I can't buy millitary stuff from the US if i live in certain countries. This is not different.
The ONLY reals issues are:
- Do you trust the coin in the virtual world to be stable (It could even grow in value, be an investment, if the game is really addictive and money is scarce and the games gets more popular)
- You can't trade goods from one world to another.
Financials bother me, but surelly some economists will start making papaers about these "new currencies" (they make GOOD experiments though).
Geeesh
Yes, ant Google's helped a lot in that respect. Imagine if the best search engine was MSN based. Imagine Microsoft leveraging online apps the way Google does? Passport could be a reality. Maybe you'll be needing some extensions for enhaced features on MSN (MSN may have enhanced features now...I don't know, I I don't care). There'd be a direct relationship connecting an OS (clients) and content (Web service): you can leverage that. If you want to migrate...you may lose important webapps functionality. And one you can set new standards without consensus, you win.
Yes, Google has helped a lot. Apple has not helped that much, except for the fact that they have shown that Microsoft is not the only one that can sell PCs to the masses, or that Microsoft-free solutions can be very desirable.
Microsoft is doing well, but they have upset to many companies all at the same time, and that's the only way for them to keep growing.
Federico
It's more like psychology. You probably wouldn't give a damn if you finish 100% your lunch some day, the extra food is worth little (maybe you always, everytime, finish 100% of your served food). Some people would see that a sacrilege, in areas where people really suffer famine.
Now, there are CXOs that are mad, there are the good ones also, working for their company, people, etc. The reason they pay them so much, I don't know, but have several ideas. It doesn't matter that much (few people are in these positions, and lowering his salary say to 10% wouldn't even increase average salaries even 0.1%)...
Yes, and also probably the opposite: someone making $2,000,000 would see a cell phone's value as the janitor thinks of 4 candies. He can obviously buy 1,000 without making a dent on his income. So the meaning may be different. "Stealing" a cell phone for CEO is similar to the janitor "stealing" some candies, they are not really stealing. When a CEO steas $100,000 or the janitor steals a notebook. Are CEOs as likely to steal say $100,000 than janitors notebooks?
I don't know if the quoted search is real or invented....but it's still ridiculous...
... fun ...
> why do people hurt others
Power, sex, not caring, different codes, different values, because they do not want to do what you want, because life is though, defense, and thouthand other reasons, including
> how to help others who have hurt you
First, by not acting like you are a martir and the other guy is surelly heading to hell.
> how to love someone who mistreated you
She seems closer to hate than anything else, which is bad bad bad, but wants to feel good.
> what does god mean when he says bless those who spitefully use you
She's a martir, and she wants to read about how difficult and how holy it is to be a martir. She want to taste the sweet flavour of her heavy burden that god has put in her shoulders.
> I would say that chances are good that she was at
> abused in some manner - ranging from a prick of a
> boyfriend to rape.
No, I would say chances are she got really addicted at a boy that didn't give squat about her values (that made him interesting, irresistable, an a good male for mating as per her phisiologically programed attraction scheme), and she probably preffered him over a well behaved, much nicer, but not so interesting and confident boy. And now she wants to blame bad luck...
I'd say it's 99% their parents and "teachers" fault. I was raised in a catholic school, I liked many values a lot, and am thanksfull for that, but self-compassion, "guiltiness" manipulation, martir-sindrome, and "external truth" (as in faith because someone said so) did not help me become better, and where it did, most of the time it did for the wrong reasons.
Bad news for the lady: "the world is not as they have teached her...".
(And by the way, confession with a third party is to make you feel great even after you really scew thing up, it takes away responsability, you can always "clear your way to heaven inmediately", and at the same time, you give the father more power over your destiny and life. I've seen enough of this to see it works well for good and bad people, without changing them whatsoever).
"If you do a frustrating thing too much, you will get fed up with it. Early I ended up hating and quitting a few different jobs because I took them too seriously and burnt out on them. Now I carefully limit my frustration levels to what I can handle. It's the same way with Wikipedia: I do as much as I can where I still enjoy it."
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Amen to that. I had to go to the shrink 4 month to grasp that idea, I I still need comments like yours to remind myself.
Because AMD nor any other manufacturer involved wants you to pay USD200 for a computer, when you are now spending ~ USD 1000 or more for one (lost value, and a lot of enemies for some manufacturers, like AMD that may be hated by vendors like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc).
This must be for educational purposes or very poor countries only, at least for the moment.
Some other point...
At least for argentina:
1) Export of choice: Food
2) Food: Electricty: Among the cheapest in the world, very reliable
Please don't send them more trucks nor equipment to build power plants (by the way, the problem is having good rivers or generating enough income to be able to pay for the coal or gas).
I am now living in Mexico, they have a program called Enciclomedia, they will spend USD 1600 in 5 years, in a setup that involves 1 desktop per class, and electric board and a projector, for two grades (I believe 6th and 1st secondary). I think it's increadibly expensive (like 5USD per child per month!) and incredible inneficient. But I it's better than nothing. Make kids will learn about computers and get interested in the field, applications, etc. Kids are very curious. The program will produce an impact.
Of course, they could have bought 16 million computers, nealy one per child for ages between 10 to 18...instead of one per class for two grades. Who needs an electronic board and a projector if you have 1 computers per student?
Anyway, the point is we'll have to wait and see, but i suspect underestimating people, and trying to give them food is not the way. Showing them a future they can reach if they make an effort, just knowing you have an opportunity and that there is more in the world than your town, or your newspaper, is what can change societies.
(By the way, Mexico is a poor country, and there are a lot of people living below the poverty line, but famine is really uncommon. Again, the problem is education, not food. What do you do with a 40 year old honest guy that has very limited knoledge and can only do very manual, simple tasks? Starting with kids is the only hope.
They are just stating they have a secret criteria for choosing and don't want anyone to know the criteria. Exactly what we are complaining about is THE FEATURE, no the error of the policy.
I just tried on my notebook, and ran perfectly. It's a 2 years old average notebook, so graphics looked dull and washed, but it worked.