Yet once it does collapse, and it will, the supporters of capitalism will be out explaining about how it was not capitalism that failed, because capitalism was never truly implemented.
So, what, the only people able to define what is and isn't capitalism are its critics? Because if anyone else tries, they're just making excuses? Yeah, that's a great system for getting clear and unbiased results.
Here's another method. Look at the definitions. Looks at the theory. Now look at reality. Tell me, which definition or theory of capitalism says that the Government should tax the people to give low-interest loans to failing industry?
No, they aren't. In communism, one takes from people according to their ability, and distributes according to their need. The only way to accomplish this is through violence
No, communism is possible. It just doesn't work at a state level. Most families would, I imagine, be communal in nature - the parents give according to their ability (their wages) and distribute according to the need (foods, clothes, education). Other organisations, like monasteries and communes, can function under the system as well.
The key for all those examples, though, is that the people who participate in them do so voluntarily. Parent choose to marry, and have kids. When kids don't want to participate, they leave - and generally the parents will wish them well when they do. Communism fails when the "according to their ability" segment don't give willingly. If they don't want to give, they try to leave. This is why communist nations always have such a problem with defection - the productive are always trying to get out.
Uh-huh. So for instance, on a web-app, your recommendation would be that every time a user signs up, the app creates another database-level user with specific permissions. So your app now has to have permissions to grant permissions on a database, and you could well end up with a couple of hundred thousand database users. Man am I glad you don't work with me.
Also, in the implementation of most databases, user rights are still just queried from a table. The only difference is the tables are managed, and the queries run by the database instead of the application.
You're right. They're doing exactly what they should be doing.
Unfortunately, the government isn't. They should be slapping down anti-competitive moves (those exclusivity agreements). Capitalism relies on a tension of forces - corporations working for the good of investors, and government working for the good of the people. When government sells out to coporations, its no longer capitalism.
Eventually people are going to want phone makers to make Ratings mandatory to get sold on app stores
Except the phone makers don't have much leverage themselves (with Android). It's Google's system, and it's not like the phone makers are valued clients on fat contracts. Google can afford refuse them. With iPhone, it's even less likely, given that Apple has never given a stuff what anyone thinks.
Of course, with Android, even that doesn't matter, since the Android Marketplace is just one purveyor of apps among many - albeit, the default one.
Short a legal requirement forcing them to do so, I doubt Google or Apple are going to voluntarily start requiring ratings. It's a losing move for whoever does it first, for the reasons you pointed out.
just that China gets too many passes than it really deserves.
Depends what you mean by "deserves". It get passes because it's large, rich, and still growing. It gets them because the US is afraid of pissing it off. It's pretty much the same reason the US has received special consideration from so many other governments in the past. As far as "deserves" (a subjective judgement) can be objectively analyzed, it deserves them because it is sufficiently large and powerful to demand them - which is all that matters when it comes to international politics.
As validation of their model, I've since bought all of both series as ebooks from them (actually under the webscription model: 5-6 books, including the one I was looking for, for $15). I've also bought half of the Honor Harrington series as audio books through Audible, all through a couple of $5 loss-leaders.
While GoogleDocs version lacks a lot of features Excel provides, it's FILTER function, and it's ability to process whole columns, as opposed to just ranges, makes certain operations so much more elegant, extensible and maintainable. While nowhere near close in a head-on, feature-for-feature comparison, there are certainly use-cases where Google's version is more useful than Excel.
They probably are - those terms are much worse for them than something like "every month for six months". The latter would require them to clean-up shop in the short term, get past the audits, and the deal's done. Those FTC audits are long-term liabilities that are going to be hanging over Facebook for the next twenty years. They're going to have a lot bigger impact than a bit of short-term oversight.
Yeah, because I have my bank account details and medical information on Facebook.
My "most personal information" that Facebook has is "I washed the dog yesterday" and "the potato plants are doing well." What are they going to do - try and sell me pooch shampoo? Oh no - the horror!
Seems like the parents are pushing this kid kinda hard to begin with
Huh? Why blame the parents - even if you think there is blame to push. The kid's 16 - that's plenty old enough for a bit of self-determination. Gifted kids particularly can push themselves - usually because they find the muck doled out at highschool boring. If the kid's smart, and driven - why not apply? He'll probably get knocked back, but even if he didn't, one summer of reality is likely to be a useful eye-opener, and do no real harm. Unlike accepting the Zynga contract,
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. Convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, so that through my being with you again your joy in Christ Jesus will overflow on account of me.
I thought you went to college to get an education, not a job. You go to college to study subjects you enjoy and want to learn more about, as well as get some knowledge about more general subjects that are useful to any well-rounded person.
That died the moment employers started asking for college/university degrees as qualifications. The fact that you now need a degree for a position as sales clerk is just gravy.
As long as jobs are demanding CS qualifications for development work, developers are going to go for CS qualifications. It's just another case of degree inflation that's been going on for decades.
Uh-huh. Because saying that there's such a thing as default majors, and that women often choose psychology as theirs, is an example of rampant sexual prejudice. Because, through failed inference, you assume he doesn't think that men also have a default major.
What we really need are more psych and English majors who are great at writing proposals and applications for grants.
Don't be silly. He doesn't mean he gives you money, he means the Government's money, which, as everyone knows, doesn't count as other people's money at all. Because, you know, it's the Government!
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The article is talking about the cohort as a whole. By 35, half the people who started out in the profession are gone.
Yeah, well, Communism can hardly be described as communist, since it involves giving money to the political leaders, not the people.
Yet once it does collapse, and it will, the supporters of capitalism will be out explaining about how it was not capitalism that failed, because capitalism was never truly implemented.
So, what, the only people able to define what is and isn't capitalism are its critics? Because if anyone else tries, they're just making excuses? Yeah, that's a great system for getting clear and unbiased results.
Here's another method. Look at the definitions. Looks at the theory. Now look at reality. Tell me, which definition or theory of capitalism says that the Government should tax the people to give low-interest loans to failing industry?
No, they aren't. In communism, one takes from people according to their ability, and distributes according to their need. The only way to accomplish this is through violence
No, communism is possible. It just doesn't work at a state level. Most families would, I imagine, be communal in nature - the parents give according to their ability (their wages) and distribute according to the need (foods, clothes, education). Other organisations, like monasteries and communes, can function under the system as well.
The key for all those examples, though, is that the people who participate in them do so voluntarily. Parent choose to marry, and have kids. When kids don't want to participate, they leave - and generally the parents will wish them well when they do. Communism fails when the "according to their ability" segment don't give willingly. If they don't want to give, they try to leave. This is why communist nations always have such a problem with defection - the productive are always trying to get out.
The fact that you picked only on that out of his signature, invalidates your grammar nazi license
Uh-huh. So for instance, on a web-app, your recommendation would be that every time a user signs up, the app creates another database-level user with specific permissions. So your app now has to have permissions to grant permissions on a database, and you could well end up with a couple of hundred thousand database users. Man am I glad you don't work with me.
Also, in the implementation of most databases, user rights are still just queried from a table. The only difference is the tables are managed, and the queries run by the database instead of the application.
Ok, so its not screening at the moment, but Game of Thrones is in production with the second book atm...
Given that the software requires a copy of the original picture, that shouldn't be hard at all
You're right. They're doing exactly what they should be doing.
Unfortunately, the government isn't. They should be slapping down anti-competitive moves (those exclusivity agreements). Capitalism relies on a tension of forces - corporations working for the good of investors, and government working for the good of the people. When government sells out to coporations, its no longer capitalism.
Eventually people are going to want phone makers to make Ratings mandatory to get sold on app stores
Except the phone makers don't have much leverage themselves (with Android). It's Google's system, and it's not like the phone makers are valued clients on fat contracts. Google can afford refuse them. With iPhone, it's even less likely, given that Apple has never given a stuff what anyone thinks.
Of course, with Android, even that doesn't matter, since the Android Marketplace is just one purveyor of apps among many - albeit, the default one.
Short a legal requirement forcing them to do so, I doubt Google or Apple are going to voluntarily start requiring ratings. It's a losing move for whoever does it first, for the reasons you pointed out.
just that China gets too many passes than it really deserves.
Depends what you mean by "deserves". It get passes because it's large, rich, and still growing. It gets them because the US is afraid of pissing it off. It's pretty much the same reason the US has received special consideration from so many other governments in the past. As far as "deserves" (a subjective judgement) can be objectively analyzed, it deserves them because it is sufficiently large and powerful to demand them - which is all that matters when it comes to international politics.
Seconding that.
I got onto the 1632/Ring of Fire series, and the Honor Harrington series through the Baen free library.
As validation of their model, I've since bought all of both series as ebooks from them (actually under the webscription model: 5-6 books, including the one I was looking for, for $15). I've also bought half of the Honor Harrington series as audio books through Audible, all through a couple of $5 loss-leaders.
While GoogleDocs version lacks a lot of features Excel provides, it's FILTER function, and it's ability to process whole columns, as opposed to just ranges, makes certain operations so much more elegant, extensible and maintainable. While nowhere near close in a head-on, feature-for-feature comparison, there are certainly use-cases where Google's version is more useful than Excel.
They probably are - those terms are much worse for them than something like "every month for six months". The latter would require them to clean-up shop in the short term, get past the audits, and the deal's done. Those FTC audits are long-term liabilities that are going to be hanging over Facebook for the next twenty years. They're going to have a lot bigger impact than a bit of short-term oversight.
company with their most personal information
Yeah, because I have my bank account details and medical information on Facebook.
My "most personal information" that Facebook has is "I washed the dog yesterday" and "the potato plants are doing well." What are they going to do - try and sell me pooch shampoo? Oh no - the horror!
Facebook could be sued because a lawyer had a bad hair day.
Doesn't mean they'd lose.
I'm smart. So are a lot of the people on /. Should we all have taken accelerated schooling, away from our friends and peers?
If you were interested, yep
Should we all have been spared social interaction with people our same age that might not have appreciated our brilliance?
Yeah, because doing one summer internship at 16 removes all social interaction with his peers
The chance this kid has overzealous parents seems FAR more likely than he is some sort of one in a million super genius.
When your criteria for "super genius" consist of "isn't challenged by highschool computer classes", no, no it's not.
Seems like the parents are pushing this kid kinda hard to begin with
Huh? Why blame the parents - even if you think there is blame to push. The kid's 16 - that's plenty old enough for a bit of self-determination. Gifted kids particularly can push themselves - usually because they find the muck doled out at highschool boring. If the kid's smart, and driven - why not apply? He'll probably get knocked back, but even if he didn't, one summer of reality is likely to be a useful eye-opener, and do no real harm. Unlike accepting the Zynga contract,
Philippians 1:21 - 25
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. Convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, so that through my being with you again your joy in Christ Jesus will overflow on account of me.
I thought you went to college to get an education, not a job. You go to college to study subjects you enjoy and want to learn more about, as well as get some knowledge about more general subjects that are useful to any well-rounded person.
That died the moment employers started asking for college/university degrees as qualifications.
The fact that you now need a degree for a position as sales clerk is just gravy.
How do projects get into the pipeline? That's right, through proposal and grant writing.
Ahh, yes. The solution to the problem of too much bureaucracy holding up progress ... hire more bureaucrats.
As long as jobs are demanding CS qualifications for development work, developers are going to go for CS qualifications. It's just another case of degree inflation that's been going on for decades.
Some cheap swipe at women
Uh-huh. Because saying that there's such a thing as default majors, and that women often choose psychology as theirs, is an example of rampant sexual prejudice. Because, through failed inference, you assume he doesn't think that men also have a default major.
What we really need are more psych and English majors who are great at writing proposals and applications for grants.
Yeah, the real productive work.
Don't be silly. He doesn't mean he gives you money, he means the Government's money, which, as everyone knows, doesn't count as other people's money at all. Because, you know, it's the Government!
Because you're not selling to the government, duh.