Democracy works best when people can meet in real life, face to face. Direct democracy, or horizontal democracy (no hierarchy) means everyone can have a say on issues that effect them.
Um, laypeople are stupid. This is why direct democracy is not feasible.
That means small scale is best.
It also means that large-scale is impossible. I hope you don't need a road that extends beyond your own block.
the Opensource community. So we have an example already that works.
I suspect that most if not all Open-Source projects are either authoritarian regimes or highly-centralized pseudo-democracies.
most of America is inside the cabin frantically pushing the buttons, hoping that it will finally start to rise, and it doesn't.
Most of America is stupid and up to its eyeballs in debt because it lives beyond its means and does work of limited absolute value. Working harder does not necessarily mean getting rich; for many people it means getting done a dead-end job a little earlier in the day and needing to look busy for a while. You need the right training in the right fields and to do the right things, take intelligent risks, save, and live within your means. Expecting a retail-sales job to pave your way is expecting a little much.
Just how did these baby polar bears, kola bears, blind cave fish and blind mole rats make the oceanic journey and arrive in the Middle East.
And once there, how did Noah have room for over 1.25-million different species of animals on his boat? Did Noah save the plants? How did they get there?
Java is capable of runtime optimisations not possible with statically compiled languages like C++.
There is a world of difference between "theoretically capable" and "reliable does". Is there some practical demonstration that compute-intensive tasks like emulation can be reliably executed with Java without sucking?
What amazes me is the fact that this will be the second time Microsoft will have done it to Novell. You'd have thought they would of learned something.
Maybe Novell is looking for a $10-billion pay-day ten years down the line when they eventually sue Microsoft for breach of contract or anti-trust violations.
Government corruption is the most fundamental flaw of Communism. Power corrupts. At least in a Democratic system, the "top level" of control is actually a cycle between government and citizens, which can theoretically maintain a balance between tyranny and anarchy.
That makes sense, yet the fact that it didn't explode still demands explanation.
Two likely explanations (in the un-analogy) are: the chances are nowhere near as unlikely as they are faultily guessed to be, and you are the decillionth victim and you happend to live; the others all died.
He had some maths explanation about how the time dimension approached 0 and curved back on itself (somebody more fresh elaborate...), and I think he got the Pope to concede time after time-0 to nature.
It's the same as asking "What is north of the north pole?"
Anytime I read the phrase "Rob Enderle says," I know I can stop reading right there.
He is very insightful. You just read his article and do the exact opposite of what he says. The guy must have written a thousand articles and the odds are only 1/2^1000 that he could have gotten every single one of them wrong accidentally, so he is clearly a genius who only pretends to be dumb.
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War.
They don't mention Iran/Islamic radicals getting nuclear weapons at all. Phew! I guess this means it doesn't happen.
Um, laypeople are stupid. This is why direct democracy is not feasible.
It also means that large-scale is impossible. I hope you don't need a road that extends beyond your own block.
I suspect that most if not all Open-Source projects are either authoritarian regimes or highly-centralized pseudo-democracies.
No, they'll call you a journalist and throw you in jail on a contempt charge until you confess, however many years that may take.
A trillion here, a trillion there—pretty soon it adds up to real money.
...just cover your nads when you walk through the beam.
In Soviet Russia, the prosecutors pressure the court.
The French Dream is also irreconcilable with reality, which is an issue that France is grappling with now.
Most of America is stupid and up to its eyeballs in debt because it lives beyond its means and does work of limited absolute value. Working harder does not necessarily mean getting rich; for many people it means getting done a dead-end job a little earlier in the day and needing to look busy for a while. You need the right training in the right fields and to do the right things, take intelligent risks, save, and live within your means. Expecting a retail-sales job to pave your way is expecting a little much.
And once there, how did Noah have room for over 1.25-million different species of animals on his boat? Did Noah save the plants? How did they get there?
And if there is undisclosed prior art that you knew about, you go to jail for perjury.
There is a world of difference between "theoretically capable" and "reliable does". Is there some practical demonstration that compute-intensive tasks like emulation can be reliably executed with Java without sucking?
...written in XSLT.
Maybe Novell is looking for a $10-billion pay-day ten years down the line when they eventually sue Microsoft for breach of contract or anti-trust violations.
I'm sure al-Qaeda would bid on those contracts.
Government corruption is the most fundamental flaw of Communism. Power corrupts. At least in a Democratic system, the "top level" of control is actually a cycle between government and citizens, which can theoretically maintain a balance between tyranny and anarchy.
...especially considering that any strictly homosexual cows wouldn't be lactating.
Yeah, who needs privacy?
Two likely explanations (in the un-analogy) are: the chances are nowhere near as unlikely as they are faultily guessed to be, and you are the decillionth victim and you happend to live; the others all died.
Then why did I have to take a bus to work today?
It's the same as asking "What is north of the north pole?"
One significant difference is that Hawking had some credibility when he rolled into the room.
He is very insightful. You just read his article and do the exact opposite of what he says. The guy must have written a thousand articles and the odds are only 1/2^1000 that he could have gotten every single one of them wrong accidentally, so he is clearly a genius who only pretends to be dumb.
So, are you a math teacher in Kentucky or California?
Keep in mind that these smarter, more advanced countries are always only a few weeks away from having a dozen nukes.