Most companies, people who have called the IT department because they could not figure out how to turn on their computers will set IT policy or will mandate technology shifts because they got sold by someone that sounded good.
I've heard of this before. Isn't this called "politics" and "legislating"? That's where someone is elected because he was popular, then gets to make decisions about stuff he knows absolutely nothing about. He was popular because he knows how to one thing well: network and spin a good yarn, and he responds to folks who can do the same.
It's just scary to realize how similiar the Chinese economy is to the Japanese economy of 20 years ago, and how China is pretty much guarenteed to hit the wall within the next decade, just like Japan did.
Yes, and the difference now is that the Chinese economy is propping up the American government, both by financing our massive debt/deficit and providing our consumer based economy with cheap goods, fueling our economy and tax base. What happens when the Chinese economy hits a wall and that support goes away, eh?
I'm sorry, but you seem to be under the impression that the folks opposing the.xxx domain want a better solution. They don't. This is just a battle in the culture wars. Finding a solution would mean the fighting would end, and that would be bad for the culture warriors...
Seriously, if the TLD structure is subject to influence from 6,000 "letters of concern" from the U.S. Christian Right, what is the message to the rest of the world?
Well, there's influence, and then there's control.
For example, read this excellent post on why the XXX domain would be horrible for porn sites. It would be highly chaotic to switch over, and many porn sites would go down in the ensuing confusion and resulting lack of income. But do the fundies think that far ahead? No. They're blinded by their idealism and think that by allowing the XXX domain they'd be somehow be giving their blessing to porn. They won't do what it takes to get what they want.
So they have influence, but they give up true control.
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Which reminds me of one of my pet peeves: someone talking on their phone in the bathroom.
It used to be that when you walked into the bathroom and there was someone muttering to themselves in the stall, that was a sign of mental illness. Now it's just bad manners. And, really, who wants to talk to someone while they're taking a shit? This happens all of the time in the bathroom at my office building. If that isn't a sign of phone addiction, I don't know what is...
I completely think that we never had free will, that everything that we do is because of all the circumstances that came before it.
I tend to agree, except that I choose to believe in free will because it makes me feel better. The cool thing is that I have no other choice but to believe in free will. Fate led me to it.:)
If they weren't athletic they'd be dead - and therefore we would not be here.
You're falling into a common trap when thinking about evolutionary forces: narrow focus. Evolution has no focus, save that it finds the form that survives. So to think like evolution you too must lose your focus and see all of the possible environmental factors that would shape an organism's development.
Anyway, scary predators weren't the only environmental factor that could prevent an individual from passing on it's genes, and there are many other ways of avoiding them besides running fast. Climbing a tree and waiting them out comes to mind. The athletic aggressive guys were on the ground. They got caught. The smart lazy guys got up a tree while the fast st00pid ones ran around distracting the scary predators.:)
A few more years of this hype and it may well exist. Just wait.
The interesting question is, "Why the hype?" Or, more specifically, "Why do some people want it to exist?"
A related question is, "How can the entire media be manipulated to hype something that doesn't really exist?" Sounds *cough*WMD*cough* familiar, doesn't it?
Attaching a label to yourself is a great way to start a self fulfilling prophecy...
It's also a way of gaining self knowledge, a way to explore your own psyche and those of others. Finding language you can use to describe yourself doesn't have to limit what you can be.
Anyway, you seem to be worried about being trapped by the "is" of identity. Check out E Prime.
...as long as the data is deemed to be related to foreign intelligence.
If someone travels to a foreign land or has dealings with foreigners, would that make their data relevant? Is there anyone in America that would NOT qualify?
...it will most likely be reversible on geological timescales...
Oh, it'll reverse itself just fine. When we're all dead. So the "save the planet" angle of environmentalism must contain the "save ourselves" idea as well. Otherwise it's just fine to accelerate global warming. It'll kill us quicker and let the planet heal.
...having DNA which includes extra information not present in previous generations.
Not necessarily. All that is required is that the species be genetically incompatible, that they not be able to produce viable offspring. No "increase" in genetic information is necessary.
Microevolution leads inevitably to macroevolution. It would be ludicrous to assert that two isolated populations, starting from a common genetic source, could never evolve via microevolution into genetically incompatible species.
You read that link? Microevolution leads to macroevolution through the nature of our genetic structure. Isolated populations (either by physical or behavioral barriers) diverge. It's pretty clear, though the details are, of course, debated.
That doesn't support evolution any more than seeing people with different colors of hair or eyes.
No, it's more comparable to some people having wings and others being able to breathe underwater. In other words, due to their basic physical structure, they're able to operate in an environment they previously could not.
And that was a pretty weak attempt at a straw man argument, btw.
It's a group of single celled organisms that, when presented with certain environmental stimuli, act as a multicellular organism. In other words, it's a "missing link" between bacteria and fish.
The next time you get into an Intelligent Design debate, ask this question of the ID advocate: Are you afraid of the Avian Flu?
If they answer "Yes" you can slam them. Basically, the Avian Flu is only a threat if you think evolution is valid. The only way it can be a problem to humans is if it mutates, evolves, into a strain that can spread from human to human.
So, if they're afraid of the Avian Flu, they MUST believe in evolution. If they're not afraid of it, all the better. They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.:P
It remains to be seen whether hotels will be eager to help TiVo undermine their pay-per-view video revenue.
Hotels will love it, as long as they get a cut, and as long as it requires no effort on the staff to implement.
The big flaw in this is distribution of the media. Recently I designed a system to distribute movies to a hotel chain using a bittorrent style p2p system, but it depended that the same file being distributed to the entire chain at the same time. If you're sending "personalized" media out on demand you no longer have that economy of scale. It would require a rather gargantuan streaming media infrastructure, and that ain't cheap. Also, depending on the media being distributed, ludicrous amounts of security are required to distribute over the internet. Movie studios in particular are extremely paranoid about their products being transmitted over the wire. Unless there's been a seachange in attitudes recently I can't see them allowing point to point trasnmission of a high quality movie file to some random location on demand.
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Most companies, people who have called the IT department because they could not figure out how to turn on their computers will set IT policy or will mandate technology shifts because they got sold by someone that sounded good.
I've heard of this before. Isn't this called "politics" and "legislating"? That's where someone is elected because he was popular, then gets to make decisions about stuff he knows absolutely nothing about. He was popular because he knows how to one thing well: network and spin a good yarn, and he responds to folks who can do the same.
It's just scary to realize how similiar the Chinese economy is to the Japanese economy of 20 years ago, and how China is pretty much guarenteed to hit the wall within the next decade, just like Japan did.
Yes, and the difference now is that the Chinese economy is propping up the American government, both by financing our massive debt/deficit and providing our consumer based economy with cheap goods, fueling our economy and tax base. What happens when the Chinese economy hits a wall and that support goes away, eh?
.kids.us is a better idea than .xxx.
.xxx domain want a better solution. They don't. This is just a battle in the culture wars. Finding a solution would mean the fighting would end, and that would be bad for the culture warriors...
I'm sorry, but you seem to be under the impression that the folks opposing the
Seriously, if the TLD structure is subject to influence from 6,000 "letters of concern" from the U.S. Christian Right, what is the message to the rest of the world?
Well, there's influence, and then there's control.
For example, read this excellent post on why the XXX domain would be horrible for porn sites. It would be highly chaotic to switch over, and many porn sites would go down in the ensuing confusion and resulting lack of income. But do the fundies think that far ahead? No. They're blinded by their idealism and think that by allowing the XXX domain they'd be somehow be giving their blessing to porn. They won't do what it takes to get what they want.
So they have influence, but they give up true control.
Which reminds me of one of my pet peeves: someone talking on their phone in the bathroom.
It used to be that when you walked into the bathroom and there was someone muttering to themselves in the stall, that was a sign of mental illness. Now it's just bad manners. And, really, who wants to talk to someone while they're taking a shit? This happens all of the time in the bathroom at my office building. If that isn't a sign of phone addiction, I don't know what is...
...talk to the printer manufacturer and ask them to support Linux? Maybe?
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I completely think that we never had free will, that everything that we do is because of all the circumstances that came before it.
:)
I tend to agree, except that I choose to believe in free will because it makes me feel better. The cool thing is that I have no other choice but to believe in free will. Fate led me to it.
If they weren't athletic they'd be dead - and therefore we would not be here.
:)
You're falling into a common trap when thinking about evolutionary forces: narrow focus. Evolution has no focus, save that it finds the form that survives. So to think like evolution you too must lose your focus and see all of the possible environmental factors that would shape an organism's development.
Anyway, scary predators weren't the only environmental factor that could prevent an individual from passing on it's genes, and there are many other ways of avoiding them besides running fast. Climbing a tree and waiting them out comes to mind. The athletic aggressive guys were on the ground. They got caught. The smart lazy guys got up a tree while the fast st00pid ones ran around distracting the scary predators.
A few more years of this hype and it may well exist. Just wait.
The interesting question is, "Why the hype?" Or, more specifically, "Why do some people want it to exist?"
A related question is, "How can the entire media be manipulated to hype something that doesn't really exist?" Sounds *cough*WMD*cough* familiar, doesn't it?
Attaching a label to yourself is a great way to start a self fulfilling prophecy...
It's also a way of gaining self knowledge, a way to explore your own psyche and those of others. Finding language you can use to describe yourself doesn't have to limit what you can be.
Anyway, you seem to be worried about being trapped by the "is" of identity. Check out E Prime.
...as long as the data is deemed to be related to foreign intelligence.
If someone travels to a foreign land or has dealings with foreigners, would that make their data relevant? Is there anyone in America that would NOT qualify?
...it will most likely be reversible on geological timescales...
Oh, it'll reverse itself just fine. When we're all dead. So the "save the planet" angle of environmentalism must contain the "save ourselves" idea as well. Otherwise it's just fine to accelerate global warming. It'll kill us quicker and let the planet heal.
A siginificant increase in genetic information is necessary for a single celled organism to evolve into a human.
Nope: The largest genome size is often attributed to Amoeba dubia at 700pg, conveniently 200 times larger than a human's...
Evolution is not a linear search. It is simply a search. You make too many assumptions. Discard them.
...having DNA which includes extra information not present in previous generations.
Not necessarily. All that is required is that the species be genetically incompatible, that they not be able to produce viable offspring. No "increase" in genetic information is necessary.
Microevolution leads inevitably to macroevolution. It would be ludicrous to assert that two isolated populations, starting from a common genetic source, could never evolve via microevolution into genetically incompatible species.
With kind regards, John Titor.
You're ripping off Douglas Adams, "John."
BTW, 2035 called. It wants it's post apocalyptic vibe back.
You read that link? Microevolution leads to macroevolution through the nature of our genetic structure. Isolated populations (either by physical or behavioral barriers) diverge. It's pretty clear, though the details are, of course, debated.
Actually, with that argument I'm not actually debating. If they fall for it, they may decide that Avian Flu is not a threat...
Capiche?
i dont think fish are bacteria "acting like fish"
Of course they're not. Though some parts of them (and us) are close
That doesn't support evolution any more than seeing people with different colors of hair or eyes.
No, it's more comparable to some people having wings and others being able to breathe underwater. In other words, due to their basic physical structure, they're able to operate in an environment they previously could not.
And that was a pretty weak attempt at a straw man argument, btw.
If they try that, just point them here
It's a group of single celled organisms that, when presented with certain environmental stimuli, act as a multicellular organism. In other words, it's a "missing link" between bacteria and fish.
If you want a good example of single celled organisms evolving into multicellular ones, I've got two words for ya: slime mold
The next time you get into an Intelligent Design debate, ask this question of the ID advocate: Are you afraid of the Avian Flu?
:P
If they answer "Yes" you can slam them. Basically, the Avian Flu is only a threat if you think evolution is valid. The only way it can be a problem to humans is if it mutates, evolves, into a strain that can spread from human to human.
So, if they're afraid of the Avian Flu, they MUST believe in evolution. If they're not afraid of it, all the better. They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
It remains to be seen whether hotels will be eager to help TiVo undermine their pay-per-view video revenue.
Hotels will love it, as long as they get a cut, and as long as it requires no effort on the staff to implement.
The big flaw in this is distribution of the media. Recently I designed a system to distribute movies to a hotel chain using a bittorrent style p2p system, but it depended that the same file being distributed to the entire chain at the same time. If you're sending "personalized" media out on demand you no longer have that economy of scale. It would require a rather gargantuan streaming media infrastructure, and that ain't cheap. Also, depending on the media being distributed, ludicrous amounts of security are required to distribute over the internet. Movie studios in particular are extremely paranoid about their products being transmitted over the wire. Unless there's been a seachange in attitudes recently I can't see them allowing point to point trasnmission of a high quality movie file to some random location on demand.