You will make a lot of money in this growing field. It will both pay for your college as well as provide you with invaluable lessons in American business principals such as:
Your customers are all losers who deserve to be taken advantage of
It is very profitable to take risks. By taking the right risks you can make much more money than you could through than so-called "honest work"
Laws and government regulations are a joke. If you are caught breaking the law the proper response is to cry that you are being politically targetted.
Only wimps resort to the legal system to resolve business disputes - real men just hire someone to break your opponent's kneecaps
Not my grandmother. She's the one with the "I'm spending my grandchild's inheritance" bumper sticker on her car. She earned it, knows she can't take it with her, and will be damned if anyone else gets it.
Saddam didn't have the same reluctance to arm the population as did the Nazis. Civilians were freely able to acquire firearms of all sorts under his regime. This must make his regime one of the freest in the world!
The standard for evaluating the elite is the same used in the book under discussion for evaluating mankind's achievements.
The whole premise of the book is about the achievements of an elite. Once this is settled, then having a society governed by an elite is an accomplished fact.
While averages in terms of intelligence and other inherent abilities are failry similar, it is the number of exceptions at the more talented end of the bell curve that are important for society as a whole. Having, say, 2% versus 1% of all individuals with extraordinary talent will influence the whole nature of the resulting society.
Talent is also a matter of a game of numbers. All races have very talented individuals. Some races just have a few more of them. This slight difference pushes the society as a whole to advance further.
The strong and the intelligent are poised to take the risks necessary to advance civilization. Apart from those daring few, humans crave certainty and fear risk. Building a society that rewards heroism and recognizes the special contributions of those who strive for it it essential for progress. Western civilzation has moved from supporting leadership, struggle and heroism over the last 2 centuries.
Democracy believed that the masses could be motivated to fight for their own interests. This has proven sadly false and will be the undoing of societies espousing democracy.
It was that point that intellectual fashion shifted towards a belief in democracy and away from and emphasis on leadership and excellence.
With the American and French revolutions, it became commonplace to believe in the ascencion of the masses, and to degrade the accomplishments of the historically better educated and better bred.
It is no coincidence that the growth of mass democracy has resulted in the slow steady decay of Western civilization.
The space program from its inception (germany in the 1940's) has always been about weapons delivery. Even the "purest" civilian use of space travel is ultimately about military dominance. This was the case during the "space race" of the 1960's, and is the case now.
The Chinese move is simply a challenge to the US dominance of space. It is the equivalence of a country's first successful nuclear test.
while I wouldn't want a 4 year-old viewing information on contraceptives, I would if they are at an age where this information is relevant and important.
There are quite a few parents who would go absolutely bonkers if their 19-year old daughter were viewing information on contraceptives. Seriously. Also, there are many parents who believe that their feelings on this matter aren't just a matter of personal choice but are the immutably law of God that must be codified in the legal code if this nation is not to fall into the same fate as Sodom and Gomorrah.
You might think I am stretching this a bit but I am not. It is really like that on this side of the Atlantic.
You forgot the difference between an occasional wiretap and ongoing surveilance. Even with encrypted communications, the FBI can still tap lines with a keyboard sniffer. It just takes a black bag job to do so.
The purpose of placing central chokepoints and stopping strong encryption is to permit ubiquitous surveillance. The requirements of CALEA are that something like 1% of all calls must be monitorable. This is a HUGE number - far in excess of the number of wiretap requests. It can only be justified by large scale surveillance of many individuals.
Wiretapping on a scale implied by a prohibition against encrypted long-distance communication is something different than wiretaps ordered for specific criminal cases. It implies a sea change in attitudes about the role of citizens and government. These changes directly contradict the views of the 18th century enlightenment. Security and national defense trump individual rights now.
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Dang -- gotta edit before posting. My mistake. Good point, Mr. Coward.
Your customers are all losers who deserve to be taken advantage of
It is very profitable to take risks. By taking the right risks you can make much more money than you could through than so-called "honest work"
Laws and government regulations are a joke. If you are caught breaking the law the proper response is to cry that you are being politically targetted.
Only wimps resort to the legal system to resolve business disputes - real men just hire someone to break your opponent's kneecaps
Not my grandmother. She's the one with the "I'm spending my grandchild's inheritance" bumper sticker on her car. She earned it, knows she can't take it with her, and will be damned if anyone else gets it.
Frank Zappa and Filemaker Pro. Not bad for someone who has been dead for 10 years.
There are basically two styles of XML parser, event-based (SAX) and document-based (DOM). I find DOM-types easier to use.
At least that's what our vet recommends to keep our dog worm-free.
Mr Tesla had an idea like this about 100 years ago
No pain, no gain
"Uh Clem" is from an old Firesign Theater routine "I think We're All Bozos on this Bus"
See: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030514/515543 9s.htm
I suspect Symatec gets more revenue from a few large corporate site licenses than all the worried parents put together.
Also note that corporate users are less likely to finesse the controls and more likely to block everything.
The whole premise of the book is about the achievements of an elite. Once this is settled, then having a society governed by an elite is an accomplished fact.
Fascism in its original form as proposed by Mussolini, and his ideological heirs like Franco was an entirely different animal.
Mussolini did not exterminate Jews, in fact many of his early supporters were Jews.
Proof that the solar cycle and the Slashdot effect are related!
Talent is also a matter of a game of numbers. All races have very talented individuals. Some races just have a few more of them. This slight difference pushes the society as a whole to advance further.
Democracy believed that the masses could be motivated to fight for their own interests. This has proven sadly false and will be the undoing of societies espousing democracy.
With the American and French revolutions, it became commonplace to believe in the ascencion of the masses, and to degrade the accomplishments of the historically better educated and better bred.
It is no coincidence that the growth of mass democracy has resulted in the slow steady decay of Western civilization.
If you are triumphant, Machiavelli reminds us, people "will always find the means you used to have been appropriate."
But you'd be eliminating an important source of psychedelic chemicals
Works better than SP4!
http://jya.com/nsa-sun.htm
Obviously goes with the hot liquids
The Chinese move is simply a challenge to the US dominance of space. It is the equivalence of a country's first successful nuclear test.
There are quite a few parents who would go absolutely bonkers if their 19-year old daughter were viewing information on contraceptives. Seriously. Also, there are many parents who believe that their feelings on this matter aren't just a matter of personal choice but are the immutably law of God that must be codified in the legal code if this nation is not to fall into the same fate as Sodom and Gomorrah.
You might think I am stretching this a bit but I am not. It is really like that on this side of the Atlantic.
The purpose of placing central chokepoints and stopping strong encryption is to permit ubiquitous surveillance. The requirements of CALEA are that something like 1% of all calls must be monitorable. This is a HUGE number - far in excess of the number of wiretap requests. It can only be justified by large scale surveillance of many individuals.
Wiretapping on a scale implied by a prohibition against encrypted long-distance communication is something different than wiretaps ordered for specific criminal cases. It implies a sea change in attitudes about the role of citizens and government. These changes directly contradict the views of the 18th century enlightenment. Security and national defense trump individual rights now.