Let me point out that back when I was a kid, there was a per;on I knew uho really liked baseball. He'd practice tons; he'g read about it. He'd memorize trivia; he had baseball cards, and used them for fantasy baseball games back before there was fantasy sports.
He also had a temper, and couldn't stand it when people were "unreasonable", that is, disagreeing with him and not changing to agree with him. When that happened, he'd discuss it. For a long time. And he'd comfort himself during the discussion by picking up and swinging his baseball bat. A fifteen year-old.
Once, he accidentally hit the person he was discussing with. Accidentally. Once. And he was really very sorry, apologetic even.
Anyhow, back to the topic at hand. Just a game? I absolutely disagree. Interfering with school operations? Absolutely. Arrested? I couldn't approve more.
Such things are messages, and they convey the message "we're doing things my way, or else."
That said, my memory was that some reported on Âlashdot that you can force the failure of an SSD by powering it down in themiddle of a write, then powring it up, causing it to go into chkdsk, and finally powering it down in the middle of chkdsk. Which is not too unlikely an occurrance. If you wanted to decrease the user failure rate, you might hook it upyo a supercapacitor.
Well, yes, I couldvote for a third party, but what if, as a result, a repocrat wins?
But the Libertarian party approached that point, and the major news media conspired to silence them. (was it ABC? Or Fox fair'n'balanced that publicly told the party leadership, if your candidate won the presidency we wouldn't report it.?)
The democratic portion of our society is dead. And apparently the NSA shares 'information' with Israel, whose MI is famous for their assassinations.
The keys to the definition of kook are held by the government. If you want to know the truth, you have to ignore the label kook.
That doesn't mean that all kooks have the truth. It means that the label kook is often a slanderous title used to hide the truth.
Look at syzygyjob.com, and see the earthquake prediction by Jack Coles. He's rotting in prison even as he does it, calls in his predictions by collect call. I have no idea what he did or is supposed to have done to warrant prision, but I do know that Jim Berkland has asserted on the www that he was committed to a mental hospital for the offense of saying to the court that his occupation was earthquake forecaster.
Now,. I suspect that Coles is misinterpreting his data. I think that he believes that the radio signals he gets are piezoelectrically induced, whereas they may be simply the result of the reflection of broadcasted waves, off microdust in the atmosphere, caused by slow-slip quakes. Big whoopdedoo. He can be wrong; I'm probably wrong; but that doesn't make his statement that he is an earthquake forecaster false. Nor does it require a person to be committed to a mental hospital.
That is the power that our government wields, Are we now in an age, when nonconformance means assignment to a prison, without rights, under the name of "mental health"? So what is the difference between that, and the Nazi government before it destroyed a quarter of the world, ending with Germany and itself?
If you want to have a chance at knowing the truth, drop the term kook. Or take it as a badge of nonconformance.
Hmmm... your post ignites a desire in me to ramble. If you're going to bother looking up premillennial dispensationalism, also look up the Great Revolt of Jerusalem.
It seems that favored race or not, God does not look kindly on people trying to force His hand to enthrone them NOW. Therefore, starting a war with one's neighbors, expecting God to uphold one, is a bad idea. He might take a pass.
That said, there's a lot of nationalist, Hitlerian craziness in the region all around Isreal as well, and no, it didn't begin with Israel's behavior, it began with Hitler, and a deep-seated desire to exterminate Jews. Every wonder why that is? Maybe it really is because they are God's chosen people, and that makes them a target of envy. Not too many nations have lasted as long as that one has.
In other words, I do think there is something to all that stuff, but I don't think we have it all quite right.
But the one part that is definitely right is that yes, it *is* all about Jesus.
This. If you can avoid importing pests and diseases, then variants of the French biointensive method are probably best for (1) diet (2) converting CO2 to O2, (3) space constraints. Likewise, very little is as effective at energy-efficiency, as human labor. Again, the human labor provides the astronauts with something to do.
I'd suggest that one should calculate how much plant space you need to support each astronaut's breathing, and then go from there. Use the mechanical scrubbers as an automated emergency backup (with alarms), but other than that, let them remain unused.
Yet it's just been on Slashdot that the NSA has set their own backdoors into the standards, so you also have to roll your own secure encryption... and then, too, there are websites that seize hold of your OS, so you also need to roll your own OS, and then you've got the ISPs, that while they are only dumb pipes, they may be responsible for reporting what goes through with unidentifiable encryption...
At some point, it just isn't worth the time and effort to have real security. My goodness, I just wanted to look up how to care for my lemon tree, and I have to do all this? Maybe I should just go to the (precensored) library.
No, you don't understand what I was saying. You can't blame a chinese citizen for being under the thumb of the internet censorship. There is no uncensored option.
Likewise, you can't blame a US citizen for using Google/NSA, when all communications are under the NSA's illegal surveillance. There is no other option.
My apologies. I saw coherence between your post and the GP to your post, and took you to be one and the same. GP was positing that capitalism was useful because people base deecisions on selfish desires, and capitalism took advantage of our selfish desires and matched them together.
If this is what success looks like, I don't want any part of it. As a point of fact, you made so many false assumptions, that it invalidates your entire thesis.
One, for example, is the assumption that humans make choices based on selfieh desires. Yes, monsters do. But most humans do not.They rather make choices based on all kinds of reasons, some of them selfieh, most of them not selfish. How many parents do you know? Aah, but now you will redefine selfish to be self-and-childish. So how many beggars do you see? Would they do that if there was a high failure rate? Whoops, better redefine selfish to be self-and-child-and-social-guiltish.
But reason doesn't work that way, and your logic fails. Your model doesn't duplicate the real world, and thus it becomes a miserable model for most real people.
It's not a case of lazy. But if you're chinese in china, how (aside from being a rich oligarch) are you going to use the internet at all without a firewall?
Same goes for the US. What ISP is immune? Or are you going to buy your own backbone?
This also relates to ID in another way: it forces some people to reconsider the theories which so many consider to be authoritarian law.
Mind you, I have my own favorite commonly held evolutionary variant, to which this is no surprise at all.
But I really do favor letting creationists and ID'ers have a place at the scientific podium, because nothing drives science forward so mercilessly fast as losing a debate to a creationist.
And yes, I do also believe God made the universe and Earth and walked among us. But one variant of evolution is HOW I think He made life on Earth.
I'm sorry, I think you missed the point that I agree that capitalism is doomed. It's just that I think that capitalism has nothing to do with free trade.
WTO was all in the *name* of free trade, but was all about eliminating freedom from the equation. Similar stories were true with the "free trade" rules passed by the EU.
That's a large part of why so many people are no longer required: they're not required by the ruling elite. If you ask them if they, or their neighbors are needed, they are. Just, they don't have any power to have a say in that. That is, they cannot trade; they are prohibited from trading.
Regarding bloodless, bloody, whatever... I have no idea what will be. In some ways, the territory we cover is no different from when the leadership of a tribe grants access to the women more and more to themselves, until the tribe splits, and then the warriors go to war with the old guard. In some ways, there are new additions to the equation: especially, the infrastructure *appears* to empower the powerful much more greatly.
But maybe there are other factors of which we are not aware, or only partially aware. And maybe the Son of Man will return soon. I'm still waiting, and still going to wait; and I'm trying my best to be found watchful, not eating and drinking with the drunkards and beating the fellow servants.
The rest -- the big picture -- is definitely not up to me.
It isn't just the hypocrites. It is also the ill-advised "fixes" we use. One child in china? So the families abort the girls, because they need a son to provide for their old age. What, then, is the risk of war, when all these young men can't find spouses?
Strange. My first thought was "Al Gore; Kyoto delegates; Chinese; French!"
That said, I think that global warming is a valid concern. My biggest problem with the environmentalists is that they often do even more destruction with their willy-nilly unjust laws.
And injustice does cause environmental problems. Now that I'm losing my car, for example, I won't be recycling; I don't have the means. And when people can't afford plumbing, they end up with the contamination in slums.
No. when there is a huge disparity between the standard of living of those who work in the public schools, and those they serve; when families are thrown out of their homes for nonpayment of taxes that then fund the schools; when the schools' ability to deliver on the promise of a better standard of living has been largely false for forty years, NO. The answer is not to vote for politicians to take more money from the poor and give it to school systems.
The answer is to defund the schools AND the politicians AND the capitalists entirely, internalize your efforts by going agrarian, homeschooling your kids , and starting over.
There is a point past which additional effort hvs negative effects.
Teaching to the test IS the problem. My oldest son, instead of being given math problems to practice, was made to spend his time studying test-guessing strategies. As a result, in 7th grade, he was still counting on his fingers when the going got tough, and his PSAT math was 48/80. Mine was 80/80. His teachers named him as among their best college bound scorers.
At that point, I started requiring an hour of math practice aday, before other homework.
I dunno. I attended Harrisonburg high school. At the time, wehad a math teacher who started Virginia Academic Competition for Excelence: school "Jeopardyâoe. He began it in the hour before school, just for math, and expanded it to be region-wide in all subjects, televised. Another star was our chemistry teacher, named chemistry teacher of the year, nationwide. Our school took third in the national ACSL programming competition, beating out some big name charter schools.
No, it isn't unfettered free trade. It is unfetered capitalism (rule by capital).
Unfettered free trade would not give special priveleges to corporations to trade the produce of laborers, while denying it to the laborers. It wouldn't include patents and tariffs and copyrights. It wouldn't zone people out of an ability to do commerce. It wouldn't say who can and who cannot practice medicine, who can or cannot sell pharmaceuticals, or actively limit the number of doctors (or taxi drivers for that matter.} It wouldn't say who can and who cannot sell the fish they catch.
Nonsense. Com to Harrisonburg! Here in the center of the city we have the Mayor Walter Green MD medical buiding just across from the old historic post office.
It was paid for with Federal Funds, because it was a Medical Buinding. The land was donated to him by the city, while he was mayor IIRC, because it would revitalize the downtown. I forget what is on the bottom floor, but at various other floors yoou have a stock broker, the US Post office renting their space instead of using the historic building; a couple other businesses, and -- in the penthouse--DR Green's medical office where you will no doubt find a stethoscope.
I'd say that this is more of the privatize - nationalize cycle that is favored by big business.
Specifically, the big businesses -- through media shills and lobbyists they have hired -- request the nationalization of their competitors and regulation of the industry that is designed to prevent competition. In turn, when a government, loaded down with such dross, becomes top-heavy, then the big business requests privatization of the profitable sectors, at rock-bottom prices.
Happens all the time.
The real version of this is "steal from the small folks, give to the big folks. Tie them down, then repeat."
I'd favor Japan taking it over-- if they completely nationalized the company, fired the management and legally prohibited them from working in management again, and nationalized the majority of their property [say, in excess of the 50%ile mark]. Alternatively, they can open TEPCO and their managers and stockholders to complete liability. Alternatively, they can say to the managers and stockholders of the time when the mess happened, "clean your mess up, no matter what the cost, or go to jail."
Most of which violates the rule of law. But so does the nationalize / privatize cycle. And so does the nonenforcement of environmental and safety regulations.
Which leads to what they *will* do instead: nationalize, privatize. nationalize, privatize.
What he is doing is attempting to destroy Ausyian freedom with the heckler's veto. I don't know if it is legal there, but it is illegal but done here in the US.
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Let me point out that back when I was a kid, there was a per;on I knew uho really liked baseball. He'd practice tons; he'g read about it. He'd memorize trivia; he had baseball cards, and used them for fantasy baseball games back before there was fantasy sports.
He also had a temper, and couldn't stand it when people were "unreasonable", that is, disagreeing with him and not changing to agree with him. When that happened, he'd discuss it. For a long time. And he'd comfort himself during the discussion by picking up and swinging his baseball bat. A fifteen year-old.
Once, he accidentally hit the person he was discussing with. Accidentally. Once. And he was really very sorry, apologetic even.
Anyhow, back to the topic at hand. Just a game? I absolutely disagree. Interfering with school operations? Absolutely. Arrested? I couldn't approve more.
Such things are messages, and they convey the message "we're doing things my way, or else."
Mod up inciteful? Or how about insightful?
That said, my memory was that some reported on Âlashdot that you can force the failure of an SSD by powering it down in themiddle of a write, then powring it up, causing it to go into chkdsk, and finally powering it down in the middle of chkdsk. Which is not too unlikely an occurrance. If you wanted to decrease the user failure rate, you might hook it upyo a supercapacitor.
Well, yes, I couldvote for a third party, but what if, as a result, a repocrat wins?
But the Libertarian party approached that point, and the major news media conspired to silence them. (was it ABC? Or Fox fair'n'balanced that publicly told the party leadership, if your candidate won the presidency we wouldn't report it.?)
The democratic portion of our society is dead. And apparently the NSA shares 'information' with Israel, whose MI is famous for their assassinations.
The keys to the definition of kook are held by the government. If you want to know the truth, you have to ignore the label kook.
That doesn't mean that all kooks have the truth. It means that the label kook is often a slanderous title used to hide the truth.
Look at syzygyjob.com, and see the earthquake prediction by Jack Coles. He's rotting in prison even as he does it, calls in his predictions by collect call. I have no idea what he did or is supposed to have done to warrant prision, but I do know that Jim Berkland has asserted on the www that he was committed to a mental hospital for the offense of saying to the court that his occupation was earthquake forecaster.
Now,. I suspect that Coles is misinterpreting his data. I think that he believes that the radio signals he gets are piezoelectrically induced, whereas they may be simply the result of the reflection of broadcasted waves, off microdust in the atmosphere, caused by slow-slip quakes. Big whoopdedoo. He can be wrong; I'm probably wrong; but that doesn't make his statement that he is an earthquake forecaster false. Nor does it require a person to be committed to a mental hospital.
That is the power that our government wields, Are we now in an age, when nonconformance means assignment to a prison, without rights, under the name of "mental health"? So what is the difference between that, and the Nazi government before it destroyed a quarter of the world, ending with Germany and itself?
If you want to have a chance at knowing the truth, drop the term kook. Or take it as a badge of nonconformance.
Hmmm... your post ignites a desire in me to ramble. If you're going to bother looking up premillennial dispensationalism, also look up the Great Revolt of Jerusalem.
It seems that favored race or not, God does not look kindly on people trying to force His hand to enthrone them NOW. Therefore, starting a war with one's neighbors, expecting God to uphold one, is a bad idea. He might take a pass.
That said, there's a lot of nationalist, Hitlerian craziness in the region all around Isreal as well, and no, it didn't begin with Israel's behavior, it began with Hitler, and a deep-seated desire to exterminate Jews. Every wonder why that is? Maybe it really is because they are God's chosen people, and that makes them a target of envy. Not too many nations have lasted as long as that one has.
In other words, I do think there is something to all that stuff, but I don't think we have it all quite right.
But the one part that is definitely right is that yes, it *is* all about Jesus.
This. If you can avoid importing pests and diseases, then variants of the French biointensive method are probably best for (1) diet (2) converting CO2 to O2, (3) space constraints. Likewise, very little is as effective at energy-efficiency, as human labor. Again, the human labor provides the astronauts with something to do.
I'd suggest that one should calculate how much plant space you need to support each astronaut's breathing, and then go from there. Use the mechanical scrubbers as an automated emergency backup (with alarms), but other than that, let them remain unused.
Yet it's just been on Slashdot that the NSA has set their own backdoors into the standards, so you also have to roll your own secure encryption... and then, too, there are websites that seize hold of your OS, so you also need to roll your own OS, and then you've got the ISPs, that while they are only dumb pipes, they may be responsible for reporting what goes through with unidentifiable encryption...
At some point, it just isn't worth the time and effort to have real security. My goodness, I just wanted to look up how to care for my lemon tree, and I have to do all this? Maybe I should just go to the (precensored) library.
No, you don't understand what I was saying. You can't blame a chinese citizen for being under the thumb of the internet censorship. There is no uncensored option.
Likewise, you can't blame a US citizen for using Google/NSA, when all communications are under the NSA's illegal surveillance. There is no other option.
My apologies. I saw coherence between your post and the GP to your post, and took you to be one and the same. GP was positing that capitalism was useful because people base deecisions on selfish desires, and capitalism took advantage of our selfish desires and matched them together.
Your post continued that train of thought.
I prefer the terms "Dem' publicans" and "Repo-crats"
If this is what success looks like, I don't want any part of it. As a point of fact, you made so many false assumptions, that it invalidates your entire thesis.
One, for example, is the assumption that humans make choices based on selfieh desires. Yes, monsters do. But most humans do not.They rather make choices based on all kinds of reasons, some of them selfieh, most of them not selfish. How many parents do you know? Aah, but now you will redefine selfish to be self-and-childish. So how many beggars do you see? Would they do that if there was a high failure rate? Whoops, better redefine selfish to be self-and-child-and-social-guiltish.
But reason doesn't work that way, and your logic fails. Your model doesn't duplicate the real world, and thus it becomes a miserable model for most real people.
It's not a case of lazy. But if you're chinese in china, how (aside from being a rich oligarch) are you going to use the internet at all without a firewall?
Same goes for the US. What ISP is immune? Or are you going to buy your own backbone?
This also relates to ID in another way: it forces some people to reconsider the theories which so many consider to be authoritarian law.
Mind you, I have my own favorite commonly held evolutionary variant, to which this is no surprise at all.
But I really do favor letting creationists and ID'ers have a place at the scientific podium, because nothing drives science forward so mercilessly fast as losing a debate to a creationist.
And yes, I do also believe God made the universe and Earth and walked among us. But one variant of evolution is HOW I think He made life on Earth.
I'm sorry, I think you missed the point that I agree that capitalism is doomed. It's just that I think that capitalism has nothing to do with free trade.
WTO was all in the *name* of free trade, but was all about eliminating freedom from the equation. Similar stories were true with the "free trade" rules passed by the EU.
That's a large part of why so many people are no longer required: they're not required by the ruling elite. If you ask them if they, or their neighbors are needed, they are. Just, they don't have any power to have a say in that. That is, they cannot trade; they are prohibited from trading.
Regarding bloodless, bloody, whatever... I have no idea what will be. In some ways, the territory we cover is no different from when the leadership of a tribe grants access to the women more and more to themselves, until the tribe splits, and then the warriors go to war with the old guard. In some ways, there are new additions to the equation: especially, the infrastructure *appears* to empower the powerful much more greatly.
But maybe there are other factors of which we are not aware, or only partially aware. And maybe the Son of Man will return soon. I'm still waiting, and still going to wait; and I'm trying my best to be found watchful, not eating and drinking with the drunkards and beating the fellow servants.
The rest -- the big picture -- is definitely not up to me.
It isn't just the hypocrites. It is also the ill-advised "fixes" we use. One child in china? So the families abort the girls, because they need a son to provide for their old age. What, then, is the risk of war, when all these young men can't find spouses?
How environmentally damaging is war?
Just one example, a la the film "mindscape".
Strange. My first thought was "Al Gore; Kyoto delegates; Chinese; French!"
That said, I think that global warming is a valid concern. My biggest problem with the environmentalists is that they often do even more destruction with their willy-nilly unjust laws.
And injustice does cause environmental problems. Now that I'm losing my car, for example, I won't be recycling; I don't have the means. And when people can't afford plumbing, they end up with the contamination in slums.
No. when there is a huge disparity between the standard of living of those who work in the public schools, and those they serve; when families are thrown out of their homes for nonpayment of taxes that then fund the schools; when the schools' ability to deliver on the promise of a better standard of living has been largely false for forty years, NO. The answer is not to vote for politicians to take more money from the poor and give it to school systems.
The answer is to defund the schools AND the politicians AND the capitalists entirely, internalize your efforts by going agrarian, homeschooling your kids , and starting over.
There is a point past which additional effort hvs negative effects.
Teaching to the test IS the problem. My oldest son, instead of being given math problems to practice, was made to spend his time studying test-guessing strategies. As a result, in 7th grade, he was still counting on his fingers when the going got tough, and his PSAT math was 48/80. Mine was 80/80. His teachers named him as among their best college bound scorers.
At that point, I started requiring an hour of math practice aday, before other homework.
I dunno. I attended Harrisonburg high school. At the time, wehad a math teacher who started Virginia Academic Competition for Excelence: school "Jeopardyâoe. He began it in the hour before school, just for math, and expanded it to be region-wide in all subjects, televised. Another star was our chemistry teacher, named chemistry teacher of the year, nationwide. Our school took third in the national ACSL programming competition, beating out some big name charter schools.
But not all schools are like that.
The real American institution is the homeschool.
No, it isn't unfettered free trade. It is unfetered capitalism (rule by capital).
Unfettered free trade would not give special priveleges to corporations to trade the produce of laborers, while denying it to the laborers. It wouldn't include patents and tariffs and copyrights. It wouldn't zone people out of an ability to do commerce. It wouldn't say who can and who cannot practice medicine, who can or cannot sell pharmaceuticals, or actively limit the number of doctors (or taxi drivers for that matter.} It wouldn't say who can and who cannot sell the fish they catch.
Nonsense. Com to Harrisonburg! Here in the center of the city we have the Mayor Walter Green MD medical buiding just across from the old historic post office.
It was paid for with Federal Funds, because it was a Medical Buinding. The land was donated to him by the city, while he was mayor IIRC, because it would revitalize the downtown. I forget what is on the bottom floor, but at various other floors yoou have a stock broker, the US Post office renting their space instead of using the historic building; a couple other businesses, and -- in the penthouse--DR Green's medical office where you will no doubt find a stethoscope.
Everyone else is thinking Robocop II, and I'm thinking "Inspector Gadget".
But he WAS a rent-a-cop. Murphy was a real cop (both in fiction , of course)
I'd say that this is more of the privatize - nationalize cycle that is favored by big business.
Specifically, the big businesses -- through media shills and lobbyists they have hired -- request the nationalization of their competitors and regulation of the industry that is designed to prevent competition. In turn, when a government, loaded down with such dross, becomes top-heavy, then the big business requests privatization of the profitable sectors, at rock-bottom prices.
Happens all the time.
The real version of this is "steal from the small folks, give to the big folks. Tie them down, then repeat."
I'd favor Japan taking it over-- if they completely nationalized the company, fired the management and legally prohibited them from working in management again, and nationalized the majority of their property [say, in excess of the 50%ile mark]. Alternatively, they can open TEPCO and their managers and stockholders to complete liability. Alternatively, they can say to the managers and stockholders of the time when the mess happened, "clean your mess up, no matter what the cost, or go to jail."
Most of which violates the rule of law. But so does the nationalize / privatize cycle. And so does the nonenforcement of environmental and safety regulations.
Which leads to what they *will* do instead: nationalize, privatize. nationalize, privatize.
What he is doing is attempting to destroy Ausyian freedom with the heckler's veto. I don't know if it is legal there, but it is illegal but done here in the US.