In reality, we have given colleges simply too much power by indoctrinating everyone about the wonders of education and always equating it as going to college. If you think about it, training people has shifted from the burden of a company to the burden and cost of the individual for, imo, no greater gain. Wages and the like have been stagnant or worse since the 1970s. But it's not all roses for the company either, often they have to train the workers anyway after college.
So much of school is just theory when most people simply learn by doing. It's like trying to learning to cook by reading a book and then doing a dish or two at the end of every semester. Just not going to work if you want to be a line cook at a good restaurant.
Eventually we'll formalize this further by enabling a quick download directly to our brains that brings everyone up to speed fast regarding the facts of science, discipline, critical thinking, analysis.
I'm not sure that will work. A lot of my math professors (and physics profs) had open book tests. People still did as good or bad in them as without the books. Why? Because you can have a photographic memory, and memorize formulas and all that, but if you don't understand them or how to apply them, you're still boned. And with the limited time, there was no way someone could get up to speed and still finish the test.
Now maybe one day we'll be able to download understanding or at least have a program that stimulates the neural connections to make it happen, but I think putting things in our mental storage without letting our own CPU process them is kinda useless.
For example, what is the use of downloading the tenets of critical thinking if... you never think critically about them while doing so?
Yeah, but a lot of people don't max out their ram at purchase. They buy the computer, wait 12-24 months for the memory to get cheap, then max it out to give the computer a few more years effective life.
Borrowing money isn't fraud, and raising taxes isn't fraud. Nor is taxation theft. Taxation is agreeing that some things are best for the state to manage and paying for those from everyone.
So let's say a state taxes you at 100% because you're of Mexican heritage. It's passed by all the elected officials much like the Nuremberg Laws, so there is agreement. Makes it some grand agreement, right?
Get real. Contracts require consensus from everyone involved, laws don't. Rather than waxing poetic like an idiot trying to make the idea conform to your political ideology, just realize taxes just are. There's very little the average person can do to change them, other than leave the country, if that's allowed (I believe ex-convicts aren't allowed a passport, iirc, so tax evaders watch out) but that's also not always a viable option.
So don't try to assign some bogus morality to the whole thing. I pay my taxes, and I hope the next guy puts in his share just out of a sense of fairness, but it doesn't make us better or worse people - especially in this age of loopholes and thousands of pages of rules, where a rich guy can legally fulfill his obligation paying less than me (which your argument would support because that was what was agreed to by society as a whole via representatives). Gandhi evaded salt taxes and that didn't make him a bad person.
You need to focus more on jobs, which will create wealth. Cutting spending is creating a spiral of destruction in its wake that is destroying wealth left right and centre. Without jobs there's no demand, without demand there's no production and no innovation, without which there's less demand, and less wealth.
The Paul Krugman line of economic thought, going back to Keynes. He keeps this mantra too. I don't buy it because....
The whole thing is that the state is really bad at creating jobs. It usually defaults to toll collector type ideas, a job which benefits no one except a select few and raises no one's standard of living versus, say, a doctor or dentist or roofer. And then we do need to improve our whole infrastructure, but then the $1T or so bill from 2009 was supposed to start doing that, and all the money that went in my local area was utterly wasted, with no accountability, I wouldn't say it is a huge leap to suppose that this repeated often elsewhere.
Idk what the right solution is, but it seems we have this huge balloon here, and every time it deflates, people are screeching for someone to pump it up. And this has been the case for decades, not just since 2008. Every little bump in the road, "stimulus!" Hell, we've been living with the lowest interest rates since I remember in my entire lifetime. Stimulus is a lot like drugs, imo, and the more you take, the less effective it becomes and more painful to boot. IMO, the necessary corrections needed (see Wall St. bailout) are never allowed to take hold before we stimulus it away and we just keep pumping the bubbles bigger and then get outraged at how big the resulting debt is with one side of our mouths while crying for more of it with the other.
No states have been able to come out from more than 260% total credit market debt (Great Britain, 1815-1900, from dismantling a Napoleanic countering military force/navy and the industrial revolution). We're at least over 350% iirc, sometimes more depending on the parameters used. If you look at us since the 1980s, our borrowing has been at a 45 degree line at the least: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/3261573312_50932bdcf7.jpg
All that tells me is that as a society, we've been living in the mistaken belief that the future is ALWAYS going to be bigger. I don't believe that will be the case. One of the fundamentals driving modern economies is energy and the cost of it. We can't get around this, we need cheap energy. But it keeps getting more expensive, since 2000
Or he could, you know, find work in a position befitting his experience? Catering to home users is generally bottom of the barrel in terms of pay and probably getting the same PITA phone calls about their network not working because little Timmy downloaded too much pronz.
There are some companies around that actually value an older guy who's a little humble and knows the ropes. Hotshot 25 y/os may have the cool factor and are in touch with what's hot, but at the same time make a lot of mistakes their older peers no longer make nor have the same perspective.
IMO, if the guy has any legacy knowledge of systems still in use but no longer sexy, he should leverage that.
Really? Mine takes much longer than that. You should post it. Don't worry, it will appear as ***-**-*** on our screens just like mine did on yours just now. I just want to copy and paste it in the Steve Gibson's Interactive Brute Force Password Search Space Calculator to verify what you said.
So, scientists are off by a bit. To ignore trends just because it might stay "good" for a little while longer is a bit like sticking your head in the sand. Back in 1977, we really didn't have the same computing power, google earth, or a million other things that makes research and all that thousands of times more comprehensive today. And maybe today scientists are wrong, science tends to do that with new information, to undo some previous conclusions.
Let's be real, once implemented, only retards would use google without tor or whatever to do searches. And there'd still be a ton of false positives from people searching interesting things out of idle curiosity, research, verifying what they saw on TV, writing a book, etc.
I already do this to gather teeth to get rich off of the tooth fairy. We tell the little bastards that the we're removing isn't a tooth, but bone cancer from the jaw we need to remove pronto.
Imagine if some of those 'self-driving cars' would use them.
I would hope a self-driving cars use data from it's immediate surroundings to make decisions and just use a GPS as a navigational device that can be overridden by irl factors on the ground. It wouldn't even have to be sabotage that overrides a gps, just your avg Cop/Fireman blocking off a street temporarily.
IMO, people are bigger dangers. Especially in a situation like where faulty data will lead a GPS will tell them to turn the wrong way on a one way street and they don't really check. I have a friend that obeys the things blindly. I know the GPS is screwing up and using a route that may look good on paper but is utterly long irl compared to some shortcuts the locals know. But no, she never listens. The GPS says so and it must be followed. She's the type to veer into oncoming traffic on a one way street if, fate forbid, her GPS screw up majorly one day.
Just like it wasn't forseeable that trading with China (read: getting cheap labor in exchange for IP and quasi-building up their infrastructure closer to 1st world standards) would mean we're just making our own competent competitors for resources and business in the next generation.
Next up: Captain Obvious Reports that Invading Iraq has not been a cost effective means to reducing terrorism.
What constitutes unconstitutional is relatively narrowly defined. Tenenbaum violated laws that have been on the books, in one shape or form, for centuries and are expressly blessed by the constitution.
"According to the Supreme Court, the Eighth Amendment forbids some punishments entirely, and forbids some other punishments that are excessive when compared to the crime, or compared to the competence of the perpetrator."
If you stole those CDs, it would be 1/1000th the punishment, if that.
Plenty of people suffer worse without breaking any laws. People are losing their homes because of a combination of a loss of income as they lost their jobs and their mortgages being too high.
Government does not force people to buy houses. Constitution is a restriction on what the government can do. Government is fining Tenenbaum.
Others are going to suffer the same fate as Tenenbaum not because they did anything wrong, but because the cancer they've contracted that their insurance won't fully cover will result in a seven digit debt.
Again, the government isn't acting here. What's your point?
I use a software for selling on the internet. The company used to have a CLI type interface for mass changes to the inventory/listings/whatnot. It switched to GUI.
Not even 1/8 as powerful, slow, and painful. Not to mention I have to check listings to see if the change actually took hold. Now what used to take 5 minutes can take the whole day.
This software is geared towards power users and they went the wrong way.
GUIs are great for some things but should not replace established tools for the sake of "progress" or pleasing more users. (Especially in a tool not geared towards most users).
Add in the "First to File" that IIRC the USPTO adopted a while back over the traditional first to invent (a wholly bureacratic self convenience in order to simplify their own lives and no one else who is actually a productive member of society), and I think it's actually a net negative.
Just as Carlin said "Not every ejaculation deserves a name", not every brainfart deserves patent protection. Yet that's what we're increasingly doing as a society.
And they're not even brainfarts sometimes, just old techniques/methods applied to new mediums to continue doing business as usual. That should never be patentable.
IMO, the first thing a patent process should ask is: "Does this idea help overcome some real-world obstacle in order to accomplish something humans haven't been technically able to do before?"
In an era of "Secret Questions" and facebook, we really don't need to worry about passwords. Those SQs are the bigger problem. If the answers aren't on your facebook profile, many of them can be socially engineered out of friends or the like. (For example, you're tagged in someone else's picture. They're a childhood friend. An easy path one way or another to discover the HS you went to, a SQ staple.)
It pissed me off to no end that Apple recently implemented this.
'It doesn't speed, it doesn't cut you off, it doesn't tailgate,' says Tom Jacobs, a spokesman for the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles.
Anybody who equates breaking the speed limit as automatic excessive speeding is a tool. The speed limit on my local highway is 55mph, the average speed is close to 70. It's a safe speed. Many areas put an artificially low speed to collect tickets at will.
In fact, it would be highly dangerous to go 55mph. You'd get rear ended in no time not to mention road rage.
There is a good rule in driving: when in Rome, do as the Romans do. The rules say one thing, but the reality is, most of the time, that it's far safer to go with the flow than to fight it. Any driving system that doesn't adhere to this within reason is one I don't want to step foot in.
First, accidents would go down. 'Your automated car isn't sitting around getting distracted, making a phone call, looking at something it shouldn't be looking at or simply not keeping track of things,' says Danny Sullivan. Google's car adheres strictly to the speed limit and follows the rules of the road.
I wouldn't know about that. My Mac gets the spinning beachball of eternal limbo often enough.
Now I can't personally vouch for the $70 Canon, I have a $200 Sony Dpp that's traditionally hard to find, but dyesub in general is 100x better than inkjet and the quality is on par with whatever you get printed in stores.
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In reality, we have given colleges simply too much power by indoctrinating everyone about the wonders of education and always equating it as going to college. If you think about it, training people has shifted from the burden of a company to the burden and cost of the individual for, imo, no greater gain. Wages and the like have been stagnant or worse since the 1970s. But it's not all roses for the company either, often they have to train the workers anyway after college.
So much of school is just theory when most people simply learn by doing. It's like trying to learning to cook by reading a book and then doing a dish or two at the end of every semester. Just not going to work if you want to be a line cook at a good restaurant.
I'm not sure that will work. A lot of my math professors (and physics profs) had open book tests. People still did as good or bad in them as without the books. Why? Because you can have a photographic memory, and memorize formulas and all that, but if you don't understand them or how to apply them, you're still boned. And with the limited time, there was no way someone could get up to speed and still finish the test.
Now maybe one day we'll be able to download understanding or at least have a program that stimulates the neural connections to make it happen, but I think putting things in our mental storage without letting our own CPU process them is kinda useless.
For example, what is the use of downloading the tenets of critical thinking if... you never think critically about them while doing so?
Playboy. How quaint. Is that what the Amish boys fap to in their outhouses?
Yeah, but a lot of people don't max out their ram at purchase. They buy the computer, wait 12-24 months for the memory to get cheap, then max it out to give the computer a few more years effective life.
You mean those people who have the ability to read ifixit.
So let's say a state taxes you at 100% because you're of Mexican heritage. It's passed by all the elected officials much like the Nuremberg Laws, so there is agreement. Makes it some grand agreement, right?
Get real. Contracts require consensus from everyone involved, laws don't. Rather than waxing poetic like an idiot trying to make the idea conform to your political ideology, just realize taxes just are. There's very little the average person can do to change them, other than leave the country, if that's allowed (I believe ex-convicts aren't allowed a passport, iirc, so tax evaders watch out) but that's also not always a viable option.
So don't try to assign some bogus morality to the whole thing. I pay my taxes, and I hope the next guy puts in his share just out of a sense of fairness, but it doesn't make us better or worse people - especially in this age of loopholes and thousands of pages of rules, where a rich guy can legally fulfill his obligation paying less than me (which your argument would support because that was what was agreed to by society as a whole via representatives). Gandhi evaded salt taxes and that didn't make him a bad person.
The Paul Krugman line of economic thought, going back to Keynes. He keeps this mantra too. I don't buy it because....
The whole thing is that the state is really bad at creating jobs. It usually defaults to toll collector type ideas, a job which benefits no one except a select few and raises no one's standard of living versus, say, a doctor or dentist or roofer. And then we do need to improve our whole infrastructure, but then the $1T or so bill from 2009 was supposed to start doing that, and all the money that went in my local area was utterly wasted, with no accountability, I wouldn't say it is a huge leap to suppose that this repeated often elsewhere.
Idk what the right solution is, but it seems we have this huge balloon here, and every time it deflates, people are screeching for someone to pump it up. And this has been the case for decades, not just since 2008. Every little bump in the road, "stimulus!" Hell, we've been living with the lowest interest rates since I remember in my entire lifetime. Stimulus is a lot like drugs, imo, and the more you take, the less effective it becomes and more painful to boot. IMO, the necessary corrections needed (see Wall St. bailout) are never allowed to take hold before we stimulus it away and we just keep pumping the bubbles bigger and then get outraged at how big the resulting debt is with one side of our mouths while crying for more of it with the other.
No states have been able to come out from more than 260% total credit market debt (Great Britain, 1815-1900, from dismantling a Napoleanic countering military force/navy and the industrial revolution). We're at least over 350% iirc, sometimes more depending on the parameters used. If you look at us since the 1980s, our borrowing has been at a 45 degree line at the least:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/3261573312_50932bdcf7.jpg
All that tells me is that as a society, we've been living in the mistaken belief that the future is ALWAYS going to be bigger. I don't believe that will be the case. One of the fundamentals driving modern economies is energy and the cost of it. We can't get around this, we need cheap energy. But it keeps getting more expensive, since 2000
Or he could, you know, find work in a position befitting his experience? Catering to home users is generally bottom of the barrel in terms of pay and probably getting the same PITA phone calls about their network not working because little Timmy downloaded too much pronz.
There are some companies around that actually value an older guy who's a little humble and knows the ropes. Hotshot 25 y/os may have the cool factor and are in touch with what's hot, but at the same time make a lot of mistakes their older peers no longer make nor have the same perspective.
IMO, if the guy has any legacy knowledge of systems still in use but no longer sexy, he should leverage that.
Really? Mine takes much longer than that. You should post it. Don't worry, it will appear as ***-**-*** on our screens just like mine did on yours just now. I just want to copy and paste it in the Steve Gibson's Interactive Brute Force Password Search Space Calculator to verify what you said.
I always thought this talk by Chris Martenson was pretty good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WBiTnBwSWc
So, scientists are off by a bit. To ignore trends just because it might stay "good" for a little while longer is a bit like sticking your head in the sand. Back in 1977, we really didn't have the same computing power, google earth, or a million other things that makes research and all that thousands of times more comprehensive today. And maybe today scientists are wrong, science tends to do that with new information, to undo some previous conclusions.
Let's be real, once implemented, only retards would use google without tor or whatever to do searches. And there'd still be a ton of false positives from people searching interesting things out of idle curiosity, research, verifying what they saw on TV, writing a book, etc.
Fred Flintstone tells me that they're simply fishing for an excuse to jack up the price of bronto burgers.
Count down from infinity.
I already do this to gather teeth to get rich off of the tooth fairy. We tell the little bastards that the we're removing isn't a tooth, but bone cancer from the jaw we need to remove pronto.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Not_enough_names_to_go_around_in_China,_ministry_says
I would hope a self-driving cars use data from it's immediate surroundings to make decisions and just use a GPS as a navigational device that can be overridden by irl factors on the ground. It wouldn't even have to be sabotage that overrides a gps, just your avg Cop/Fireman blocking off a street temporarily.
IMO, people are bigger dangers. Especially in a situation like where faulty data will lead a GPS will tell them to turn the wrong way on a one way street and they don't really check. I have a friend that obeys the things blindly. I know the GPS is screwing up and using a route that may look good on paper but is utterly long irl compared to some shortcuts the locals know. But no, she never listens. The GPS says so and it must be followed. She's the type to veer into oncoming traffic on a one way street if, fate forbid, her GPS screw up majorly one day.
Just like it wasn't forseeable that trading with China (read: getting cheap labor in exchange for IP and quasi-building up their infrastructure closer to 1st world standards) would mean we're just making our own competent competitors for resources and business in the next generation.
Next up: Captain Obvious Reports that Invading Iraq has not been a cost effective means to reducing terrorism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Cruel_and_unusual_punishments
"According to the Supreme Court, the Eighth Amendment forbids some punishments entirely, and forbids some other punishments that are excessive when compared to the crime, or compared to the competence of the perpetrator."
If you stole those CDs, it would be 1/1000th the punishment, if that.
Government does not force people to buy houses. Constitution is a restriction on what the government can do. Government is fining Tenenbaum.
Again, the government isn't acting here. What's your point?
I use a software for selling on the internet. The company used to have a CLI type interface for mass changes to the inventory/listings/whatnot. It switched to GUI.
Not even 1/8 as powerful, slow, and painful. Not to mention I have to check listings to see if the change actually took hold. Now what used to take 5 minutes can take the whole day.
This software is geared towards power users and they went the wrong way.
GUIs are great for some things but should not replace established tools for the sake of "progress" or pleasing more users. (Especially in a tool not geared towards most users).
Add in the "First to File" that IIRC the USPTO adopted a while back over the traditional first to invent (a wholly bureacratic self convenience in order to simplify their own lives and no one else who is actually a productive member of society), and I think it's actually a net negative.
Just as Carlin said "Not every ejaculation deserves a name", not every brainfart deserves patent protection. Yet that's what we're increasingly doing as a society.
And they're not even brainfarts sometimes, just old techniques/methods applied to new mediums to continue doing business as usual. That should never be patentable.
IMO, the first thing a patent process should ask is: "Does this idea help overcome some real-world obstacle in order to accomplish something humans haven't been technically able to do before?"
In an era of "Secret Questions" and facebook, we really don't need to worry about passwords. Those SQs are the bigger problem. If the answers aren't on your facebook profile, many of them can be socially engineered out of friends or the like. (For example, you're tagged in someone else's picture. They're a childhood friend. An easy path one way or another to discover the HS you went to, a SQ staple.)
It pissed me off to no end that Apple recently implemented this.
I wish for encryption with a selection of input methods and a variable lenght password.
No. I don't need to be in the garage every other month, withdrawing some amount from my kids' college fund.
Anybody who equates breaking the speed limit as automatic excessive speeding is a tool. The speed limit on my local highway is 55mph, the average speed is close to 70. It's a safe speed. Many areas put an artificially low speed to collect tickets at will.
In fact, it would be highly dangerous to go 55mph. You'd get rear ended in no time not to mention road rage.
There is a good rule in driving: when in Rome, do as the Romans do. The rules say one thing, but the reality is, most of the time, that it's far safer to go with the flow than to fight it. Any driving system that doesn't adhere to this within reason is one I don't want to step foot in.
I wouldn't know about that. My Mac gets the spinning beachball of eternal limbo often enough.
Probably cheaper, but I disagree with "better". Try a dye-sublimation like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Canon-SELPHY-Compact-Printer-4350B001/dp/B003YL412A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336553811&sr=8-1
Now I can't personally vouch for the $70 Canon, I have a $200 Sony Dpp that's traditionally hard to find, but dyesub in general is 100x better than inkjet and the quality is on par with whatever you get printed in stores.
Upside is when I only need 1 picture, it's there.