Give that smelly homeless cunt some of your money then you sanctimonious prick.
I prefer to do things like plant perennial food bearing plants around my community and organize the donation of food I grew to the hungry and invest put time, effort and money into pushing the RepRap project forward. But I've personally provided housing to close to a hundred homeless people who needed it over the years, and helped them get work.
For profit insurance companies always lose in comparison to mutual companies.That profit margin has got to come from somewhere.
For-profit insurance companies are crooked by design and run and staffed by blood-sucking larcenous cretins.
Insurance should be a strictly not-for-profit business, period.
Come the revolution, insurance "executives" had better pray that there is only enough rope in supply to take care of Wall Street executions, er, "executives".
Insurance fills the role that used to be filled by a sense of community and good neighbourliness. Insurance exists because when you see the misfortunate, you turn your eyes and walk on by. Not you personally, mister anonymous coward. ALL OF YOU.
Wall Street executives exist because, collectively, you will only work when you see something in it for you, right away. If you would be industrious without receiving money in exchange and find ways to organize yourselves, Wall Street would be rendered obsolete instantly. You get used and cheated and swindled because it's the only way to get you off your fucking asses. You really don't deserve any better.
Truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Things may get better in North America when immigrants have replaced the lot of you, or they may not. But for you... things are just going to keep getting worse and worse.
What you have is a shortage of healthy, able bodied young people. Everything else flows from this. If you start now, you should see improvement in 20 years time. Good luck; I think you will need it.
God I always hate those fucking questions. "Why did you chose to apply with us?" Because I need a fucking job! Why else do people apply for a job? Why is that not enough? "Where do you see yourself in five years?" Uh, gainfully employed? Do my life goals really matter to whether or not I can fill this position? What if I saw myself working at the fucking circus in five years, would that have a bearing on whether or not I was hired? Why? "What are your goals?" To make enough money to pay my bills with a little left over for fun once in a while? Is that too mundane?
Man, I despise interviews. I fantasize about going all Peter Gibbons in Office Space every time someone asks me one of these stupid, irrelevant questions, but my sense of self-preservation reigns in those crazy ideas.
Personally, when someone asks me why I chose to apply with them, I've got a very good reason. When someone asks me "Where do you see yourself in 5 years", I tell them the truth, and then I ask them what they will do to help me get there. If they answer wrong, I walk. And when they ask me to engage in meaningless work so they can judge me, I tell them they're welcome to judge my portfolio, but if they want me to start problem solving, the meaningless of the task is irrelevant... they're still going to have to pay for it.
You can weed out most bad employers in this way. Not all of them, but most. It helps if you have 3 months salary in reserve for emergencies like you should so you don't end up entering a bad situation out of desperation.
Not really, the US represents a huge buyer of inexpensive cheap plastic crap from china and would devastate their economy if we stopped trading with them. The US would suffer because we would have to buy locally produced expensive cheap plastic crap, at least until we have had time to ramp up the cheap plastic crap industry at home and solve the unemployment problem.
China gets squat in exchange for the goods they ship to the US. The reason they continue is to keep their productive infrastructure operational and their people industrious. They could dump manufactured goods into the sea and be no worse off.
As for being blacklisted by the Americans... the US got where they are on the basis of trade. The reason they got that way is because people who trade with them usually end up getting the short end of the stick. This being the case, any rational person would see that doing business with the US is a bad idea. This isn't a secret. It's not even a controversial statement. The problem is, Americans are extremely good at corrupting representatives into screwing over those they represent by continuing to do business with them.
China knows how to topple a civilization just fine. Give them free fish for years until they have forgotten what a fishing rod is and their children have never seen one, then withdraw the fish. That's how they're beating the west.
Your definition comes from the mouthes of the lazy and uninformed.
Try reading up on the Gnostics.
Summary from memory (I haven't read the Gnostic texts in years):
The Gnostics believed that the Judo-Christian god was one of the true God's children, but he was arrogant and jealous of his father, and wanted to be a creator as well, so he stole some of his fathers substance and bound it up in matter, and all matter wants to be back in the light of the true Creator and is suffering.
In their beliefs, the only noble and good goal was the extermination of all life, which would result in the liberation of energy from the machinations of the evil Judo-Christian god. So, they preached that people should stop breeding and go into extinction.
In the real world, 2 is only 2 because of the definitions you choose. Are those two people? Are those a quadrillion cells in a pile? How much space has to be between the two piles for them not to be one pile?
Definitions are choices. Reduction is ignorance, because there is no such thing as useless data, just limited people. It's all arbitrary, and the thing you were sure was useless will all eventually bite you on the ass, and the thing you thought was an absolute truth will eventually be demonstrated to be a local effect if you live long enough to see it.
Truthfully, I find it hard to imagine that more warmth, more water and more carbon dioxide are a recipe for disaster in terms of the habitability of the planet. What's being described is a greenhouse. More plants, more jungles, more life, more food.
Better for life.
Humans will have to move. If you're one of those people who has everything you value tied up in your house which is underwater, you'll be unhappy, and considering how we love to live on the coasts, that will be a lot of people.
No, actually I was a child prodigy who dropped out of university. Partly because I didn't want my eyes obscured by the opinions of others before I had the chance to see the world, and partly because I was almost killed in a car accident and would have had to borrow money to retake first year.
I don't find this to be a joke. This just emphasizes how little we know about how the earth's systems will react to global warming. My fear is we won't listen to scientists until it is too late and we have killed off the majority of the organisms that help us counter the CO2 we are pumping into the air or the other effects, e.g. ocean acidification.
I'm reminded of the kid who won the Ontario science fair by figuring out how to biodegrade plastic bags. Everyone always told him that it would take thousands of years for bacteria to break down those bags, so he instantly saw that if they break down in thousands of years, something's doing it, and that something can be cultured.
The environment changes, the organisms change. The universe loves organisms, and she'll never stop springing them up in places you'd never think you'd find them.
The birth rate in Australia and the US are both below the level required to sustain a long term culture. They rely on the existence of healthier human cultures to poach young from. If their values ever became dominant over those cultures, all would fall.
The western world is in the midst of a catastrophe of demographics caused by insufficient breeding. You'd have to have your head under a rock not to know. I hope your "logical fallacies" bring you comfort, but I'd suggest you might have more fun dancing by the lights of burning Rome.
There is no such thing as correct. There is only useful and useless, and the only real measure of useful and useless on this scale is existence and extinction.
Consider how often scientific progress has brought us to the brink of extinction. Consider that most of its adherents were born to religious households because they're the ones that actually breed.
I would suggest that a vibrant society of ignorant breeders has a MUCH better chance of surviving than a sterile society of educated intellectuals. If they exist in symbiosis, they can benefit each other, but the intellectuals NEED the breeders, while the breeders don't need the intellectuals.
That's the difference between a nun and a slut, by the way. Both are dead branches on the tree of life that are not materially connected to the future in the way that a mother is. But the nun acknowledges the importance of the flock on an intellectual level and subjugates herself to the future of mankind in her decision making, while the slut has no concerns beyond the time of her own existence.
Oh, and as for the article; if you want a society based on science, discard democracy and go seek your philosopher king. In a democracy, I owe you no explanations for how I cast my vote. I'm free to vote according to what the Flying Spaghetti Monster whispered in my ear, and you're obligated to respect that because you elected to cast a vote.
Eventually perhaps you'll reason yourself back the other way, once you realize that religions deal with a problem domains which are important but not susceptible to the scientific method. Those religions were selected for by evolutionary pressure. That's why they're still around.
and the other side of that is that new stuff isn't always better by a long way.
I mean, look at the tools we're using to connect to this site - still using ethernet? surely we should have scrapped that ancient technology by now.... and the move towards thin clients with all the data held on the 'cloud'. Isn't that just mainframe style development all over again?
A lot of the old guys will tell you that something is better, not because they're "stuck in the past" but because the techniques they're talking about really are better. There are too many 'latest fads' in IT today, often they become the biggest hyped up thing ever, and after a year or two everyone recognises that they were just bull.
Ok, sure there are old guys who do reminisce about the past too much, but by the same token there are too many young guys who think that everything the currently exists is rubbish because they can do it better.
The industry really needs to grow up and understand that building on what has gone before is beneficial, not to (continually) scrap it and start over again.
Change it by 10%, label it new and improved, watch the sheeple line up.
This is how mature consumer focused industries work. Industry isn't about producing high quality products, it's about keeping production infrastructure in operation.
It doesn't mean what you think it means. Please, "ironically" has been massacred enough already. Let's this word rest for a couple of decades, unless you are one of the two people in the world that actually uses it appropriately.
Ironically, by drawing peoples attention to the word without providing them an explanation of how it ought to be used, YA_Python_dev exacerbated the problem and increased his own suffering...
Plus he threw everyone who uses that expression under the bus. Literally.
It doesn't mean what you think it means. Please, "Literally" has been massacred enough already. Let's this word rest for a couple of decades, unless you are one of the two people in the world that actually uses it appropriately.
It doesn't mean what you think it means. Please, "ironically" has been massacred enough already. Let's this word rest for a couple of decades, unless you are one of the two people in the world that actually uses it appropriately.
Ironically, by drawing peoples attention to the word without providing them an explanation of how it ought to be used, YA_Python_dev exacerbated the problem and increased his own suffering...
This is why developers flock to Apple. Apple has done the hard work of gathering the suckers of the world together so they can be quickly separated from their money.
YES you can do everything with an Android device, but it's the same way you can do everything with Ubuntu Linux on a desktop instead of MacOS or Windows. It's great for us techies, but can you really get your parents to to use one every day?
Yes... that is, until Unity came out. So much for that...
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Give that smelly homeless cunt some of your money then you sanctimonious prick.
I prefer to do things like plant perennial food bearing plants around my community and organize the donation of food I grew to the hungry and invest put time, effort and money into pushing the RepRap project forward. But I've personally provided housing to close to a hundred homeless people who needed it over the years, and helped them get work.
I walk the walk, asshole.
For profit insurance companies always lose in comparison to mutual companies.That profit margin has got to come from somewhere.
For-profit insurance companies are crooked by design and run and staffed by blood-sucking larcenous cretins.
Insurance should be a strictly not-for-profit business, period.
Come the revolution, insurance "executives" had better pray that there is only enough rope in supply to take care of Wall Street executions, er, "executives".
Insurance fills the role that used to be filled by a sense of community and good neighbourliness. Insurance exists because when you see the misfortunate, you turn your eyes and walk on by. Not you personally, mister anonymous coward. ALL OF YOU.
Wall Street executives exist because, collectively, you will only work when you see something in it for you, right away. If you would be industrious without receiving money in exchange and find ways to organize yourselves, Wall Street would be rendered obsolete instantly. You get used and cheated and swindled because it's the only way to get you off your fucking asses. You really don't deserve any better.
Truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Things may get better in North America when immigrants have replaced the lot of you, or they may not. But for you... things are just going to keep getting worse and worse.
What you have is a shortage of healthy, able bodied young people. Everything else flows from this. If you start now, you should see improvement in 20 years time. Good luck; I think you will need it.
If you did what you describe when applying to the company I work for, you would not be considered for employment.
This is not just an anticipated result of my approach. It is a goal.
God I always hate those fucking questions. "Why did you chose to apply with us?" Because I need a fucking job! Why else do people apply for a job? Why is that not enough? "Where do you see yourself in five years?" Uh, gainfully employed? Do my life goals really matter to whether or not I can fill this position? What if I saw myself working at the fucking circus in five years, would that have a bearing on whether or not I was hired? Why? "What are your goals?" To make enough money to pay my bills with a little left over for fun once in a while? Is that too mundane?
Man, I despise interviews. I fantasize about going all Peter Gibbons in Office Space every time someone asks me one of these stupid, irrelevant questions, but my sense of self-preservation reigns in those crazy ideas.
Personally, when someone asks me why I chose to apply with them, I've got a very good reason. When someone asks me "Where do you see yourself in 5 years", I tell them the truth, and then I ask them what they will do to help me get there. If they answer wrong, I walk. And when they ask me to engage in meaningless work so they can judge me, I tell them they're welcome to judge my portfolio, but if they want me to start problem solving, the meaningless of the task is irrelevant... they're still going to have to pay for it.
You can weed out most bad employers in this way. Not all of them, but most. It helps if you have 3 months salary in reserve for emergencies like you should so you don't end up entering a bad situation out of desperation.
Not really, the US represents a huge buyer of inexpensive cheap plastic crap from china and would devastate their economy if we stopped trading with them. The US would suffer because we would have to buy locally produced expensive cheap plastic crap, at least until we have had time to ramp up the cheap plastic crap industry at home and solve the unemployment problem.
Cheap plastic crap such as laptops and tablet computers almost all produced in China in Taiwanese-owned plants
China gets squat in exchange for the goods they ship to the US. The reason they continue is to keep their productive infrastructure operational and their people industrious. They could dump manufactured goods into the sea and be no worse off.
As for being blacklisted by the Americans... the US got where they are on the basis of trade. The reason they got that way is because people who trade with them usually end up getting the short end of the stick. This being the case, any rational person would see that doing business with the US is a bad idea. This isn't a secret. It's not even a controversial statement. The problem is, Americans are extremely good at corrupting representatives into screwing over those they represent by continuing to do business with them.
China knows how to topple a civilization just fine. Give them free fish for years until they have forgotten what a fishing rod is and their children have never seen one, then withdraw the fish. That's how they're beating the west.
I know a better way to fight them. It's called fucking and breeding.
Your definition comes from the mouthes of the lazy and uninformed.
Try reading up on the Gnostics.
Summary from memory (I haven't read the Gnostic texts in years):
The Gnostics believed that the Judo-Christian god was one of the true God's children, but he was arrogant and jealous of his father, and wanted to be a creator as well, so he stole some of his fathers substance and bound it up in matter, and all matter wants to be back in the light of the true Creator and is suffering.
In their beliefs, the only noble and good goal was the extermination of all life, which would result in the liberation of energy from the machinations of the evil Judo-Christian god. So, they preached that people should stop breeding and go into extinction.
Many did.
In pure math, by definition, 2 + 2 = 4.
In the real world, 2 is only 2 because of the definitions you choose. Are those two people? Are those a quadrillion cells in a pile? How much space has to be between the two piles for them not to be one pile?
Definitions are choices. Reduction is ignorance, because there is no such thing as useless data, just limited people. It's all arbitrary, and the thing you were sure was useless will all eventually bite you on the ass, and the thing you thought was an absolute truth will eventually be demonstrated to be a local effect if you live long enough to see it.
Truthfully, I find it hard to imagine that more warmth, more water and more carbon dioxide are a recipe for disaster in terms of the habitability of the planet. What's being described is a greenhouse. More plants, more jungles, more life, more food.
Better for life.
Humans will have to move. If you're one of those people who has everything you value tied up in your house which is underwater, you'll be unhappy, and considering how we love to live on the coasts, that will be a lot of people.
But in the end, it will be BETTER for life.
No, actually I was a child prodigy who dropped out of university. Partly because I didn't want my eyes obscured by the opinions of others before I had the chance to see the world, and partly because I was almost killed in a car accident and would have had to borrow money to retake first year.
I don't find this to be a joke. This just emphasizes how little we know about how the earth's systems will react to global warming. My fear is we won't listen to scientists until it is too late and we have killed off the majority of the organisms that help us counter the CO2 we are pumping into the air or the other effects, e.g. ocean acidification.
I'm reminded of the kid who won the Ontario science fair by figuring out how to biodegrade plastic bags. Everyone always told him that it would take thousands of years for bacteria to break down those bags, so he instantly saw that if they break down in thousands of years, something's doing it, and that something can be cultured.
The environment changes, the organisms change. The universe loves organisms, and she'll never stop springing them up in places you'd never think you'd find them.
You are so wrong it's kind of funny.
I've got an old journal entry that is relevant:
http://slashdot.org/~ShieldW0lf/journal/198978
The birth rate in Australia and the US are both below the level required to sustain a long term culture. They rely on the existence of healthier human cultures to poach young from. If their values ever became dominant over those cultures, all would fall.
The western world is in the midst of a catastrophe of demographics caused by insufficient breeding. You'd have to have your head under a rock not to know. I hope your "logical fallacies" bring you comfort, but I'd suggest you might have more fun dancing by the lights of burning Rome.
There is no such thing as correct. There is only useful and useless, and the only real measure of useful and useless on this scale is existence and extinction.
Consider how often scientific progress has brought us to the brink of extinction. Consider that most of its adherents were born to religious households because they're the ones that actually breed.
I would suggest that a vibrant society of ignorant breeders has a MUCH better chance of surviving than a sterile society of educated intellectuals. If they exist in symbiosis, they can benefit each other, but the intellectuals NEED the breeders, while the breeders don't need the intellectuals.
That's the difference between a nun and a slut, by the way. Both are dead branches on the tree of life that are not materially connected to the future in the way that a mother is. But the nun acknowledges the importance of the flock on an intellectual level and subjugates herself to the future of mankind in her decision making, while the slut has no concerns beyond the time of her own existence.
Oh, and as for the article; if you want a society based on science, discard democracy and go seek your philosopher king. In a democracy, I owe you no explanations for how I cast my vote. I'm free to vote according to what the Flying Spaghetti Monster whispered in my ear, and you're obligated to respect that because you elected to cast a vote.
Eventually perhaps you'll reason yourself back the other way, once you realize that religions deal with a problem domains which are important but not susceptible to the scientific method. Those religions were selected for by evolutionary pressure. That's why they're still around.
and the other side of that is that new stuff isn't always better by a long way.
I mean, look at the tools we're using to connect to this site - still using ethernet? surely we should have scrapped that ancient technology by now.... and the move towards thin clients with all the data held on the 'cloud'. Isn't that just mainframe style development all over again?
A lot of the old guys will tell you that something is better, not because they're "stuck in the past" but because the techniques they're talking about really are better. There are too many 'latest fads' in IT today, often they become the biggest hyped up thing ever, and after a year or two everyone recognises that they were just bull.
Ok, sure there are old guys who do reminisce about the past too much, but by the same token there are too many young guys who think that everything the currently exists is rubbish because they can do it better.
The industry really needs to grow up and understand that building on what has gone before is beneficial, not to (continually) scrap it and start over again.
Change it by 10%, label it new and improved, watch the sheeple line up.
This is how mature consumer focused industries work. Industry isn't about producing high quality products, it's about keeping production infrastructure in operation.
You can't exclusively forage. Sometimes, you need to plant.
Irregardless...
It doesn't mean what you think it means. Please, "ironically" has been massacred enough already. Let's this word rest for a couple of decades, unless you are one of the two people in the world that actually uses it appropriately.
Ironically, by drawing peoples attention to the word without providing them an explanation of how it ought to be used, YA_Python_dev exacerbated the problem and increased his own suffering...
Plus he threw everyone who uses that expression under the bus. Literally.
It doesn't mean what you think it means. Please, "Literally" has been massacred enough already. Let's this word rest for a couple of decades, unless you are one of the two people in the world that actually uses it appropriately.
It doesn't mean what you think it means. Please, "ironically" has been massacred enough already. Let's this word rest for a couple of decades, unless you are one of the two people in the world that actually uses it appropriately.
Ironically, by drawing peoples attention to the word without providing them an explanation of how it ought to be used, YA_Python_dev exacerbated the problem and increased his own suffering...
This is why developers flock to Apple. Apple has done the hard work of gathering the suckers of the world together so they can be quickly separated from their money.
YES you can do everything with an Android device, but it's the same way you can do everything with Ubuntu Linux on a desktop instead of MacOS or Windows. It's great for us techies, but can you really get your parents to to use one every day?
Yes... that is, until Unity came out. So much for that...