This is a process of indoctrination. We've been trained since birth to want more, need more, eat, drink, and medicate more. We've built an entire society on the point of a pyramid which is just about to come crashing down around us all. The Wallstreetification of our society and the placement of a little box in every home which tells us what to think and who to like has resulted in a uniform social disaster. Society shaped by the stupid and narcissistic. It would actually take balls and vision to provide better for the future and I'm not at all certain we have the will or the intelligence anymore to see that goal. I mean we let Dubyah steal... er, borrow the presidency for 8 years. how stupid is that?
Here, here. A great manager clones himself and trust others to grow. The man you describe loves leading but is insecure about growing those around him.
"A rising tide raises all boats..." -- John F. Kennedy
Friend you appear to have engaged mouth before utilizing brain. Of course there are more millionaires, the dollar is only worth 6 cents... do the math.
The question you posed is social mobility and it has never been worse in the United States. In fact social mobility is significantly greater in most of Europe than the U.S. and all you had to do was a quick search to find that, or perhaps you did and chose to ignore the truth to make your point.
The top 400 wealthiest people in this country now have the same wealth as the lower 170,000,000 citizens. Can you see the problem. The wealth is locked up in the hands of a vanishing few. That means there's nothing left for the rest of us. Your comment above about millionaires is precisely the problem. With a vanishingly few exceptions, the masses are being locked into futures unable to afford decent educations, social service or viable means to escape their condition and things are getting precipitously worse. Add age discrimination and a failing network of services for the poor and serious ugly is just around the corner. French Revolution style ugly. Why do you think we built up a private security army (yes, I know, make Dick Cheney one the super-wealthy.) Their use in Iraq was just the testing grounds.
Oh Yeah, let's do it like the Chinese, kidnap skilled people by the thousands (make certain they know that their families back home depend on the money they make.) Put them up in massive dorms. Work them endlessly until they commit suicide like lemmings. Repeat.
I recently read an article quoting an Apple executive about how America can't compete with China. He recounted how they needed to completely rework the production of a product, and how the Chinese woke their work force up from the dorms at 4:00 am, put them on the line retooling and worked them straight for 48 hours until the entire line was completely re-engineered to the new work and that the same process in America would take a week or more. Think about it, this clown was basically arguing about how great slave labor is when your company is in a bind, and that to compete we need to make our workforce into hopeless slaves without rights or human dignity.
When all you see is short term profit, long term sanity becomes a distant mirage. Until we begin teaching things like ethics, strategic planning, classical logic, critical thinking and comparative philosophy to our business majors as opposed to schools which now attempt to crank out Ruppert Murdoch clones like sausage, we will continue to see an ever increasing lack of consideration for working people, greater concentration of wealth at the level of controlling corporate directors, and a general disregard for society, humanity and the environment we all need to survive. Profit is a terrible mistress and the addiction to her is killing us.
Actually the breakdown is in the analogy. The copy of the media is a perfect copy (at least of the interesting part.) If your copy of the "Legal Tender" was also a perfect copy, at least on first glance, the studios would love to receive it. Of course then, you really would be guilty of counterfeiting and I'm sure the studios would notice you were paying them with bills that all had the same serial number.
The issue at hand is and has always been the philosophical battle surrounding "Fair Use". As far as the businesses pertaining to music and movies are concerned, there is no such thing. You should be forced to pay if a kid down the street whistles a tune, and the kid should be forced to pay for the public performance of copyrighted material. If they could, they would estimate the number of songs and movies you will ever hear and see in your life and charge your parents at your birth for them. They are greedy, and whats fair in their minds is that you give them all your money. Is any of this mysterious or confusing?
A senior account executive at Goldman Sachs just resigned (and he's now in the papers) because of what he refers to as a profound lack of moral backbone and a business which glee's in raping its own customers to 'make a buck". I posit that American Corporations today are for the most part interests in one thing and one thing only. Profit at any cost, and specifically profit for the few members in control at the top of these corporations. The record and movie industry are simply a symptom of a larger more fundamental problem. The business schools of our top universities have been polluted with a corporate philosophy that is devoid of ethical or moral consideration and they're teaching our young business people to rape and pillage. This has resulted in a climate and ecology for global enterprise that is doomed to a sick kind of cannibalism. Even Adam Smith warned that Capitalism only works in a strict framework of regulation that prevents the concentration of wealth and power and ensures the well being of the working class. In 1980 when then exCIA head George H.W. Bush ran against Ronald Reagan for Presidential Candidate, he referred to Reaganomics as "Voodoo Economics" long known to result in boom bust cycles and an ultimate collapse of the economic system. Congratulations, we're now harvesting that legacy. Is it any wonder that the MPAA and RIAA are busy trying to scrape up the last of the scraps left on the floor.
None of this is surprising. Just sad. We've allowed a paltry few greedy self interested men, to Wallstreet our future into a straightjacket of poverty and ecological decline to feed their personal need for wealth and power. When you scrape all the lies, and spin, and obfuscation off, its incredibly simple and its profoundly disturbing. We've been bought and sold.
As for long term energy sources, Asimov came up with a brilliant one. You open two portals, one to a parallel universe with a higher fundamental energy state than ours and one to a lower energy state. Energy will now flow between the two portals. You can tap the flow to do useful work, and the available energy is for all intents and purposes unlimited.
Of course you have to crack that pesky wormhole to parallel dimension as portal problem, but after that, its all gravy!!!
It could have been the measure of a space warp field that was able to reduce the normal run of 100 parsec to only 12. That would be an impressive warp engine.
A lot of research has been done and will continue to be done on the nature of DM (WIMPs vs MACHOs). Massive object like rogue planets doesn't begin to account for galactic halos and since we can see other galaxies from virtually every angle we would see halos of planets the way we currently see gas and dust in galaxies, and we simply don't see that. Moreover, the way groups of galaxies function in clusters and superclusters defies massive objects like planets as a cause. Even if you include small black holes and brown dwarfs, we simply don't see enough baryonic matter in the halo to indicate its primary constituent is massive objects.
So DM is non-baryonic in nature, interacts weakly with light (in all spectrums) and that leaves us with a bunch of theories regarding strange particles and alternative views of the universe rather than Einsteins.
Particularly true when during the planet forming phase of a solar system, planets and planetismals have only two options, accreted into larger bodies or be flung out of the nascent solar system. As young planets get significant size, bodies get flung out with greater and greater frequency. The young Jupiter probably flung hundreds or even thousands of earth masses worth of bodies of all sizes into deep space.
Yes, but in the case of the email servers from the prior administration, if Dubyah, had updated the servers, we'd have enough to put him and the Dark Lord of the Sith Cheney away for several lifetimes, so it only makes sense to keep around hardware that would automagically hide the dead bodies.
A bit of information friend... since we became a nation of the corporation, by the corporation and for the corporation... the government/corporations (they've effectively become one and the same) and the nations people are no longer on speaking terms. Americans are way more pissed off than you ever will be, because our corporations crap on the world weekly but they defecate on us here in the states every few seconds. Please feel free to club a CEO or two. You'll win friends and garner respect here in the states.
How about the growing body of evidence that the problem is ignorance and poverty. When people are informed and can begin competing in the global market, populations level out, then drop. Famines, plagues and wars are averted. People make babies when they die at 40 years of old age and 8 of their 10 children will die by adulthood so they need at least those 10 to ensure there are two left to take care of them in their dotage.
The Khan Academy and the $25 laptop or $15 smartphone is the savior of this planet. Personally I don't think things have ever been brighter, though the window of opportunity is clearly small, and we best be getting along if we expect to enjoy a future worth having.
The answer as usual is to engineer everything. Synthesize meat that is as environmentally acceptable as plant based agriculture, in fact, introduce phytonutrients to the synMeat, so that its naturally seasoned and as nutritious as green leafy vegetables, complete with fiber and healthy fats. Move to a oil economy based on oil produced by algae. Sequester carbon and turn it into graphene. Use the graphene to engineer damn near everything including the next stage of opto-electronics.
Work like dogs to push genetics, epigenetics, genomics, proteomics, and every other "omic" to the point that we fully understand every twist and wiggle of our DNA including the fractal aspects and the importance of the content expressed in the introns. Model the hell out of engineering human beings. Improve the species. Eliminate aging and senescence. Eliminate cancer, systemic failure, disease and death. Extend prepubescence for several decades to improve our maturity and intellectual development. Add a half dozen new metabolic cycles to allow human beings to consume other materials in a pinch. Mix nanotechnology and brain structure to amplify human intelligence and give everyone access to profoundly enhanced perception.
Every solution creates new problems, demanding more advanced technology. Welcome to the singularity.
Au Contraire, Mother Teresa's devotion to the untouchables and her commitment to the sick and starving were very much not the status quo when she began her mission. In fact she met tremendous resistance from Indian officials and members of upper Indian castes. I can't think of a single person who I respect or admire that doesn't have at least one opinion I disagree with highly. That simply make me, me and them, them. This by no means detracts from or diminishes the greatness of a great person, it simply punctuates their humanity.
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This is a process of indoctrination. We've been trained since birth to want more, need more, eat, drink, and medicate more. We've built an entire society on the point of a pyramid which is just about to come crashing down around us all. The Wallstreetification of our society and the placement of a little box in every home which tells us what to think and who to like has resulted in a uniform social disaster. Society shaped by the stupid and narcissistic. It would actually take balls and vision to provide better for the future and I'm not at all certain we have the will or the intelligence anymore to see that goal. I mean we let Dubyah steal... er, borrow the presidency for 8 years. how stupid is that?
Here, here. A great manager clones himself and trust others to grow. The man you describe loves leading but is insecure about growing those around him.
"A rising tide raises all boats..." -- John F. Kennedy
Friend you appear to have engaged mouth before utilizing brain. Of course there are more millionaires, the dollar is only worth 6 cents... do the math.
The question you posed is social mobility and it has never been worse in the United States. In fact social mobility is significantly greater in most of Europe than the U.S. and all you had to do was a quick search to find that, or perhaps you did and chose to ignore the truth to make your point.
The top 400 wealthiest people in this country now have the same wealth as the lower 170,000,000 citizens. Can you see the problem. The wealth is locked up in the hands of a vanishing few. That means there's nothing left for the rest of us. Your comment above about millionaires is precisely the problem. With a vanishingly few exceptions, the masses are being locked into futures unable to afford decent educations, social service or viable means to escape their condition and things are getting precipitously worse. Add age discrimination and a failing network of services for the poor and serious ugly is just around the corner. French Revolution style ugly. Why do you think we built up a private security army (yes, I know, make Dick Cheney one the super-wealthy.) Their use in Iraq was just the testing grounds.
Oh Yeah, let's do it like the Chinese, kidnap skilled people by the thousands (make certain they know that their families back home depend on the money they make.) Put them up in massive dorms. Work them endlessly until they commit suicide like lemmings. Repeat.
I recently read an article quoting an Apple executive about how America can't compete with China. He recounted how they needed to completely rework the production of a product, and how the Chinese woke their work force up from the dorms at 4:00 am, put them on the line retooling and worked them straight for 48 hours until the entire line was completely re-engineered to the new work and that the same process in America would take a week or more. Think about it, this clown was basically arguing about how great slave labor is when your company is in a bind, and that to compete we need to make our workforce into hopeless slaves without rights or human dignity.
When all you see is short term profit, long term sanity becomes a distant mirage. Until we begin teaching things like ethics, strategic planning, classical logic, critical thinking and comparative philosophy to our business majors as opposed to schools which now attempt to crank out Ruppert Murdoch clones like sausage, we will continue to see an ever increasing lack of consideration for working people, greater concentration of wealth at the level of controlling corporate directors, and a general disregard for society, humanity and the environment we all need to survive. Profit is a terrible mistress and the addiction to her is killing us.
Are you kidding... the Mullahs are at this very moment planning a Jihad on all the ACs on the planet now just to get this clown!
Actually the breakdown is in the analogy. The copy of the media is a perfect copy (at least of the interesting part.) If your copy of the "Legal Tender" was also a perfect copy, at least on first glance, the studios would love to receive it. Of course then, you really would be guilty of counterfeiting and I'm sure the studios would notice you were paying them with bills that all had the same serial number.
The issue at hand is and has always been the philosophical battle surrounding "Fair Use". As far as the businesses pertaining to music and movies are concerned, there is no such thing. You should be forced to pay if a kid down the street whistles a tune, and the kid should be forced to pay for the public performance of copyrighted material. If they could, they would estimate the number of songs and movies you will ever hear and see in your life and charge your parents at your birth for them. They are greedy, and whats fair in their minds is that you give them all your money. Is any of this mysterious or confusing?
A senior account executive at Goldman Sachs just resigned (and he's now in the papers) because of what he refers to as a profound lack of moral backbone and a business which glee's in raping its own customers to 'make a buck". I posit that American Corporations today are for the most part interests in one thing and one thing only. Profit at any cost, and specifically profit for the few members in control at the top of these corporations. The record and movie industry are simply a symptom of a larger more fundamental problem. The business schools of our top universities have been polluted with a corporate philosophy that is devoid of ethical or moral consideration and they're teaching our young business people to rape and pillage. This has resulted in a climate and ecology for global enterprise that is doomed to a sick kind of cannibalism. Even Adam Smith warned that Capitalism only works in a strict framework of regulation that prevents the concentration of wealth and power and ensures the well being of the working class. In 1980 when then exCIA head George H.W. Bush ran against Ronald Reagan for Presidential Candidate, he referred to Reaganomics as "Voodoo Economics" long known to result in boom bust cycles and an ultimate collapse of the economic system. Congratulations, we're now harvesting that legacy. Is it any wonder that the MPAA and RIAA are busy trying to scrape up the last of the scraps left on the floor.
None of this is surprising. Just sad. We've allowed a paltry few greedy self interested men, to Wallstreet our future into a straightjacket of poverty and ecological decline to feed their personal need for wealth and power. When you scrape all the lies, and spin, and obfuscation off, its incredibly simple and its profoundly disturbing. We've been bought and sold.
No I chewed and my lungs are thanking me!
So now the dawg has some street cred, f'shizzle
You couldn't tell by the profound lamosity of the header that the article was going to waste 5 minutes of your life?
I had a friend who used to take brownies to concerts chock full of anecdotal evidence!
As for long term energy sources, Asimov came up with a brilliant one. You open two portals, one to a parallel universe with a higher fundamental energy state than ours and one to a lower energy state. Energy will now flow between the two portals. You can tap the flow to do useful work, and the available energy is for all intents and purposes unlimited.
Of course you have to crack that pesky wormhole to parallel dimension as portal problem, but after that, its all gravy!!!
It could have been the measure of a space warp field that was able to reduce the normal run of 100 parsec to only 12. That would be an impressive warp engine.
When Einstein made space and time different aspects of the same thing...
A lot of research has been done and will continue to be done on the nature of DM (WIMPs vs MACHOs). Massive object like rogue planets doesn't begin to account for galactic halos and since we can see other galaxies from virtually every angle we would see halos of planets the way we currently see gas and dust in galaxies, and we simply don't see that. Moreover, the way groups of galaxies function in clusters and superclusters defies massive objects like planets as a cause. Even if you include small black holes and brown dwarfs, we simply don't see enough baryonic matter in the halo to indicate its primary constituent is massive objects.
So DM is non-baryonic in nature, interacts weakly with light (in all spectrums) and that leaves us with a bunch of theories regarding strange particles and alternative views of the universe rather than Einsteins.
Particularly true when during the planet forming phase of a solar system, planets and planetismals have only two options, accreted into larger bodies or be flung out of the nascent solar system. As young planets get significant size, bodies get flung out with greater and greater frequency. The young Jupiter probably flung hundreds or even thousands of earth masses worth of bodies of all sizes into deep space.
Works a lot better if you have an eccentric elliptical orbit for one moon and another moon further out with a circular orbit. Think Jupiter's moon Io.
Yeah, and the rumor about "Yellow Cake" in Iraq was a fouled up email about what Saddam had with his friends on his Birthday.
Yes, but in the case of the email servers from the prior administration, if Dubyah, had updated the servers, we'd have enough to put him and the Dark Lord of the Sith Cheney away for several lifetimes, so it only makes sense to keep around hardware that would automagically hide the dead bodies.
Great... change the name to "Hobbitual", they can tell the customers to come in every day and make it a Hobbit!/p
Think about it... Pub -> Drunk on brew... Hollywood -> Drunk on power... same business. Inebriation!!!
Or perhaps a new mod... dORK...
A bit of information friend... since we became a nation of the corporation, by the corporation and for the corporation... the government/corporations (they've effectively become one and the same) and the nations people are no longer on speaking terms. Americans are way more pissed off than you ever will be, because our corporations crap on the world weekly but they defecate on us here in the states every few seconds. Please feel free to club a CEO or two. You'll win friends and garner respect here in the states.
How about the growing body of evidence that the problem is ignorance and poverty. When people are informed and can begin competing in the global market, populations level out, then drop. Famines, plagues and wars are averted. People make babies when they die at 40 years of old age and 8 of their 10 children will die by adulthood so they need at least those 10 to ensure there are two left to take care of them in their dotage.
The Khan Academy and the $25 laptop or $15 smartphone is the savior of this planet. Personally I don't think things have ever been brighter, though the window of opportunity is clearly small, and we best be getting along if we expect to enjoy a future worth having.
The answer as usual is to engineer everything. Synthesize meat that is as environmentally acceptable as plant based agriculture, in fact, introduce phytonutrients to the synMeat, so that its naturally seasoned and as nutritious as green leafy vegetables, complete with fiber and healthy fats. Move to a oil economy based on oil produced by algae. Sequester carbon and turn it into graphene. Use the graphene to engineer damn near everything including the next stage of opto-electronics.
Work like dogs to push genetics, epigenetics, genomics, proteomics, and every other "omic" to the point that we fully understand every twist and wiggle of our DNA including the fractal aspects and the importance of the content expressed in the introns. Model the hell out of engineering human beings. Improve the species. Eliminate aging and senescence. Eliminate cancer, systemic failure, disease and death. Extend prepubescence for several decades to improve our maturity and intellectual development. Add a half dozen new metabolic cycles to allow human beings to consume other materials in a pinch. Mix nanotechnology and brain structure to amplify human intelligence and give everyone access to profoundly enhanced perception.
Every solution creates new problems, demanding more advanced technology. Welcome to the singularity.
Au Contraire, Mother Teresa's devotion to the untouchables and her commitment to the sick and starving were very much not the status quo when she began her mission. In fact she met tremendous resistance from Indian officials and members of upper Indian castes. I can't think of a single person who I respect or admire that doesn't have at least one opinion I disagree with highly. That simply make me, me and them, them. This by no means detracts from or diminishes the greatness of a great person, it simply punctuates their humanity.