than delivering papers with all the free educational opportunities that the developed world provides, there are a number of social programs that will help you get on your feet. Even if you can't read, if you can just speak the language you have a great advantage over a recent immigrant.
The real issue is coming in the next 100 years as labor itself becomes automated, then there will be no more reason for 'jobs', and the only limits on supply will be artificial ones.
Then what are you going to do for your self-worth?
Brutal dictators and violent religious strife aren't characteristics of traditional tribal culture
You are working from a rather unusual version of history, there. Did you start reading at 1600 and just totally ignore everything before that? You never heard of Romans? Of the crusades? Of Constantinople? Of the Aztecs? Brutality and religious strife have been with us since the beginning of civilization, of course. In the last few hundred years more people have been thinking..it doesn't have to be that way.
People are built to suffer those losses
People aren't "built" to suffer losses without finding solutions for them, from the time Ogg poked a pointed stick at the lion that was trying to eat his child. We may well die trying, but that is no excuse for accepting a bad situation.
And however bad it is, it's much better than high infant mortality and short lifespans (and don't forget brutal dictators and violent religious strife).
The only thing worse I can think of than dying young due to an easily preventable disease or lack of food is having your child die from an easily preventable disease or lack of food.
I guess maybe all of the above while the dictator's kids grow fat and healthy and the local gang cuts your arms off to claim their rights to the diamond mine, I guess that could be worse.
Even worse than a 2 hour commute with a dead iPod battery, even worse than that...
But given some spectacular open-source failures in the late 1990's, a natural question may be whether some of these venture capitalists have perhaps lost their minds.
By this measure, VC's should run away from a closed source venture like Darl McBride from an honest judge...
I wouldn't bother applying for a job unless I knew it paid a bit more than I make now (or had some other benefits).
Maybe you're HR folks should (and the many other larger companies that seem to be suddenly shy about saying how much they think a job is worth) try letting folks know at least what the salary range is, and you're company might (if they aren't trying to underbid the job) get some candidates better suited to the job.
I know that these policies are often set in HR rather than by the group with the work, which is a rather different problem than there not being enough qualified candidates:-(.
Anyway, the last time we had an open position here, the pay range was clear, and we had plenty of qualified candidates.
has alot more weapons now than the British had, it's really pretty silly to compare them. One Apache could take out your entire militia regiment. One AC 130 your entire division. There was nothing (not even a ship of the line) like that kind of comparitive firepower in the 1770s.
(which tactics allowed the British to win most of the battles of the Revolution, I might add)
Except Saratoga, of course, in which case judicious hiding behind trees and rocks by the Continentals won the day, and in the end it turned out to be the battle that mattered most.
In any event, it's not relevent now, the difference between a guy with a hunting rifle and a aguy in an M1 Abrams is several of orders of magnitude beyond the differenc between a guy with a musket and a guy in a (bright) redcoat(with an X over his heart) with a musket.
If you can't keep your vote with peaceful means, you'll find yourself in a "Free Speech" zone surronded by tanks and begging to be allowed to trade your rifle for something that might do you some good.
Your rebellion would be taken out by a predator drone driven by a guy in a basement in Langley.
Relying on the 2nd to keep you free these days is just stupid. By the time enough folks join your rebellion to make a difference, there won't be any leaders left. When the 2nd was written, there wasn't much difference between a hunting rifle and the arms of the regular army, and there were no tanks, no helicopters, no fighter jets, and no drones. Not to mention that the Redcoats used outmoded and ineffective infantry tactics.
You would do better to participate fully in the current process & do what you can to keep the politicrats honest with peaceful means, than sit home cleaning your rifle waiting for your big video game's become real fantasy--because if time your little FPS wet dream comes true, thousands of people will be dead or about to die, for no good reason but that men and women who thought that the were good did nothing but clean their guns and hoard their bullets.
I can't believe anyone who talks like you do has any idea what a guerilla war is actually like for the guerillas and their families.
Regarding long term waste storage, this is being handled for coal waste by letting it sit in the open and leach into the ground. The worst we do now with nuclear is a MUCH better solution (and yes coal waste is deadly and yes it is killing 10s of thousands of people as we speak).
Pebble Bed reactors can't melt down and the coolant doesn't become radioactive, these are concerns with old technology reactors (and theoretical concerns that have caused much more actual harm to happen from coal power plants--we didn't build nuclear because of what might happen, so we built coal despite what does happen, aren't we big smarties).
The environmental movement's war on peaceful nuclear power to stop proliferation is one of the biggest strawmen of all: stopping the US from building new nuke plants certainly hasn't done anything to stop proliferation of nuclear weapons, if anything it has made it worse since developing nations can't buy safe and monitorable nuclear plant technology from the US, they get it from Russia, China, and North Korea.
So we see the law of unintended consequences strikes twice: the Environmental Movement's war on Nuclear power in the US has led to an increase in proliferation of nuclear weapons and an increase in environmental degradation.
Presently, there is low demand for nuclear fuel, one can expect that were demand to rise, more inexpensive sources would be located.
In any event, a 'stopgap' measure of 50-100 years worth (+150-300 years with thorium) is exactly what is needed while power sources that never run out are brought online (such as space based solar).
building and disposing of a safe nuclear powerplant requires so much energy, that they're not so terribly efficient.
This is exactly the problem the Pebble Bed technology solves.
It's high time the top brass of the environmental movement admit that stopping Nuclear power was a mistake that has lead to greater devastation of the environment by coal plants.
Even the nuclear waste issue pales in comparison to the the ecological damage coal plants have caused and will keep causing until we replace them (finally) with much cleaner nuclear technologies like Pebble Bed.Coal of course has it's own waste issues.
The anti-nuclear power movement has been one of the best examples of the law of unintended consequences in our times.
"Most telling, Jobs said is that Tiger, the next version of Mac OS X, will go on sale later this month, while Longhorn is still more than a year away."
And I recall that at one time Tiger was more than a year away!
When o when will it end? Will the titanic stuggle between the cat and the cow leave us with nothing but an arctic hotspring surronded by Penguins?
Even if you believe that everyone in 1988 had a chance to maximize their talents, we are in decline from that state now. If (as seems likely) only a fraction of the people in 1988 whom could have contributed more to society if they had advanced training were able to get it, then we are in more serious decline.
That goes to the point: we'll need to maximize the potential of every person to staty competitive, if real $ per capita declines, then there are people with talents who are not getting the chance to maximize those talents.
However I was talking about Higher Education, which (esp. in the sciences) was practically free for talented folks in the 50s-60s, mostly through public funds.
Now we have a great Higher Ed. system, but public funding of it (directly or through scholarships, etc. has dropped to the point that many talented Americans can't afford the $ and/or time to maximize their talents.
that keeps the superpowers on top. Technologcial power is temporary, the only way to keep it is to ensure that your very best minds have every opportunity to discover new technologies.
This should be even more important to the US, as with our smaller population we have a smaller total pool of potential talent, so it should be even more important that we make sure every American has a chance (and is encouraged) to maximize their talents.
We're not doing enough in this area any more, the public looks at Higher Ed. more as a way for an individual to make money than as a public good, so public funding of education has been drying up. If we want to keep our 'place' we'll need to start seeing education as a public good again, and get back to funding it that way...
in the Chronicle of Higher Ed a few weeks back they covered this issue. In that article, it seemed that the main opposition to the ipod giveaway were the upper classpeople who didn't get one:-).
Steve Sloan has some nice podcasts about the use of ipods in education from a prof's POV here:
hmm, didn't they pretty much replace single edged swords?:-)
there would be no special advantage of one company v.s. another to make an office suite that runs on it and the one that is truly less buggy and more feature rich and more secure is the one that ultimately wins.
But that isn't how has to work, instead corps that use the software hire programmers to work on the software to keep making it better. Since the corp's business model is in using the software not in making the sofware, it's in the corp's advantage to keep improving it: then corps compete on the strength of their actual products while the software that enables their business model keeps getting more secure, more feature rich, etc. See Google's investment in Firefox, IBM's investment in PHP, etc. for example.
More corp. IT $$ can then be freed from continually patching buggy software products and chasing down the damage they cause to improving the software and helping users learn to use it more effectively.
There need be no net loss of programming jobs, in fact since we would all be involved in making better software (instead of just good enough for marketing to sell), most programmers would probably see a net improvement in their worth to their employers and their self worth.
your car is overcoming wind resistence by exerting greater force on the road, via it's tires. You are talking about road friction and wind friction as if they are unrelated to speed.
Speed is determined by the balance between resistence (friction of the road + friction of the air) and accleration. Unless it is coasting downhill to maintain a given speed the tires must exert force on the road, the greater the speed, the greater the force.
Force exerted on the road certainly causes wear on the road, and a faster car is exerting more force than a slower car.
So, physics question: what determines the maximum land speed of a wheel driven vehicle?
Related: if ground friction is a minor issue, why are trains able to move vastly greater loads than trucks for a given unit of energy (call it horsepower)? Why are maglev trains even more efficient than rails?
identity theft is mostly accomplished via social engineering and/or improper security controls being installed on complex programmable systems.
Tracking cars with simple ROM devices is a much different technology, more like what we have been doing for emissions control, for instance.
With the amount of information available, it's better to look to the 4th to prevent abuse of information than think some you can do anything (legally) to prevent it's being gathered.
In any event, the system wouldn't tell the govt. what you were doing, it would tell it what your car was doing, so there is direct 4th amendment issue--it is well established that govt. can monitor your property to prevent you doing something with it that may harm others.
Voting machines, another conflation: the majority of drivers are cheating the current speed control system, so we need a new system that reduces cheating-- with voting, the ability to cheat has been increased by the current implementaion, the opposit case.
If speed control via cops chasing you and giving you a ticket physically was keeping 90% of the people at the speed limit, there would be little reason to look for a better solution.
all road damage is not caused by weather, roads wear out where there is very little change in the weather (LA, for instance).
With weather taken out of the equation, vehicle wear and tear is obviously still a significant cause of road wear, and it is simple physics that the higher the speed of a vehicle the more energy it is expending, and of course it is expending a good deal of that energy via it's tires.
At the molecular level, vehicles move by having molecules of their tires push against molecules of the road, and the harder they push the more molecules of the road will get pushed out of the road, this is simple physics, even if you don't understand it.
I think it would be pretty easy to catch the very few people who would have the knowledge and talent to do this, certainly easier than enforcing the traffic laws using the current system.
Would you do if you could lose your license permanently if caught?
I don't want a device on my car reporting my driving habits (and who knows what else-- like location, etc) to police.
Why, what are you doing?
Embedded device or high res cameras that track your license plate (or an RFID system embedded in your license plate), it's better to participate in the democratic process to limit abuses of these things than to try and prevent progress from finding better ways to enforce reasonable limits on privileges to use equipment that enables you put other people's lives at risk.
you doing that, since LE would recieve two signals from my car, one that wasn't speeding and one that was. We establish that my actual car wasn't, we track you down and send you to Saudi Arabia (or better Syria) for interrogation.
In any event, cracking a simple ROM chip is not easy like cracking a Wintel & if just about everyone drove the speed limit it would be pretty easy to catch the crackers. You would stand out pretty well and pissed off citizens would be sending pics from their cell phones to LE.
By the way, how do you know speed limits are 'arbitrary'? Are you a trained civil engineer?
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than delivering papers with all the free educational opportunities that the developed world provides, there are a number of social programs that will help you get on your feet. Even if you can't read, if you can just speak the language you have a great advantage over a recent immigrant.
The real issue is coming in the next 100 years as labor itself becomes automated, then there will be no more reason for 'jobs', and the only limits on supply will be artificial ones.
Then what are you going to do for your self-worth?
Brutal dictators and violent religious strife aren't characteristics of traditional tribal culture
You are working from a rather unusual version of history, there. Did you start reading at 1600 and just totally ignore everything before that? You never heard of Romans? Of the crusades? Of Constantinople? Of the Aztecs? Brutality and religious strife have been with us since the beginning of civilization, of course. In the last few hundred years more people have been thinking..it doesn't have to be that way.
People are built to suffer those losses
People aren't "built" to suffer losses without finding solutions for them, from the time Ogg poked a pointed stick at the lion that was trying to eat his child. We may well die trying, but that is no excuse for accepting a bad situation.
sells papers.
But it's really not all that bad.
And however bad it is, it's much better than high infant mortality and short lifespans (and don't forget brutal dictators and violent religious strife).
The only thing worse I can think of than dying young due to an easily preventable disease or lack of food is having your child die from an easily preventable disease or lack of food.
I guess maybe all of the above while the dictator's kids grow fat and healthy and the local gang cuts your arms off to claim their rights to the diamond mine, I guess that could be worse.
Even worse than a 2 hour commute with a dead iPod battery, even worse than that...
But given some spectacular open-source failures in the late 1990's, a natural question may be whether some of these venture capitalists have perhaps lost their minds.
By this measure, VC's should run away from a closed source venture like Darl McBride from an honest judge...
I wouldn't bother applying for a job unless I knew it paid a bit more than I make now (or had some other benefits).
Maybe you're HR folks should (and the many other larger companies that seem to be suddenly shy about saying how much they think a job is worth) try letting folks know at least what the salary range is, and you're company might (if they aren't trying to underbid the job) get some candidates better suited to the job.
I know that these policies are often set in HR rather than by the group with the work, which is a rather different problem than there not being enough qualified candidates:-(.
Anyway, the last time we had an open position here, the pay range was clear, and we had plenty of qualified candidates.
has alot more weapons now than the British had, it's really pretty silly to compare them. One Apache could take out your entire militia regiment. One AC 130 your entire division. There was nothing (not even a ship of the line) like that kind of comparitive firepower in the 1770s.
(which tactics allowed the British to win most of the battles of the Revolution, I might add)
Except Saratoga, of course, in which case judicious hiding behind trees and rocks by the Continentals won the day, and in the end it turned out to be the battle that mattered most.
In any event, it's not relevent now, the difference between a guy with a hunting rifle and a aguy in an M1 Abrams is several of orders of magnitude beyond the differenc between a guy with a musket and a guy in a (bright) redcoat(with an X over his heart) with a musket.
If you can't keep your vote with peaceful means, you'll find yourself in a "Free Speech" zone surronded by tanks and begging to be allowed to trade your rifle for something that might do you some good.
Like a flower.
in there!
Then they would be tiny holes that contain gohphers, you see?
Fore!
Your rebellion would be taken out by a predator drone driven by a guy in a basement in Langley.
Relying on the 2nd to keep you free these days is just stupid. By the time enough folks join your rebellion to make a difference, there won't be any leaders left. When the 2nd was written, there wasn't much difference between a hunting rifle and the arms of the regular army, and there were no tanks, no helicopters, no fighter jets, and no drones. Not to mention that the Redcoats used outmoded and ineffective infantry tactics.
You would do better to participate fully in the current process & do what you can to keep the politicrats honest with peaceful means, than sit home cleaning your rifle waiting for your big video game's become real fantasy--because if time your little FPS wet dream comes true, thousands of people will be dead or about to die, for no good reason but that men and women who thought that the were good did nothing but clean their guns and hoard their bullets.
I can't believe anyone who talks like you do has any idea what a guerilla war is actually like for the guerillas and their families.
the points that aren't strawmen.
Regarding long term waste storage, this is being handled for coal waste by letting it sit in the open and leach into the ground. The worst we do now with nuclear is a MUCH better solution (and yes coal waste is deadly and yes it is killing 10s of thousands of people as we speak).
Pebble Bed reactors can't melt down and the coolant doesn't become radioactive, these are concerns with old technology reactors (and theoretical concerns that have caused much more actual harm to happen from coal power plants--we didn't build nuclear because of what might happen, so we built coal despite what does happen, aren't we big smarties).
The environmental movement's war on peaceful nuclear power to stop proliferation is one of the biggest strawmen of all: stopping the US from building new nuke plants certainly hasn't done anything to stop proliferation of nuclear weapons, if anything it has made it worse since developing nations can't buy safe and monitorable nuclear plant technology from the US, they get it from Russia, China, and North Korea.
So we see the law of unintended consequences strikes twice: the Environmental Movement's war on Nuclear power in the US has led to an increase in proliferation of nuclear weapons and an increase in environmental degradation.
Woo hoo.
Presently, there is low demand for nuclear fuel, one can expect that were demand to rise, more inexpensive sources would be located.
In any event, a 'stopgap' measure of 50-100 years worth (+150-300 years with thorium) is exactly what is needed while power sources that never run out are brought online (such as space based solar).
building and disposing of a safe nuclear powerplant requires so much energy, that they're not so terribly efficient.
This is exactly the problem the Pebble Bed technology solves.
will be the first thing reversed.
It's high time the top brass of the environmental movement admit that stopping Nuclear power was a mistake that has lead to greater devastation of the environment by coal plants.
Even the nuclear waste issue pales in comparison to the the ecological damage coal plants have caused and will keep causing until we replace them (finally) with much cleaner nuclear technologies like Pebble Bed. Coal of course has it's own waste issues.
The anti-nuclear power movement has been one of the best examples of the law of unintended consequences in our times.
Cat vs. Cattle, what a choice:-).
But M$ is truly shameless:
"Most telling, Jobs said is that Tiger, the next version of Mac OS X, will go on sale later this month, while Longhorn is still more than a year away."
And I recall that at one time Tiger was more than a year away!
When o when will it end? Will the titanic stuggle between the cat and the cow leave us with nothing but an arctic hotspring surronded by Penguins?
must really have them running scared:-).
not much point in not using real dollars per capita IMO (see Over the same time period (1988-98), real higher education appropriations per capita declined from $185 to $175.
Even if you believe that everyone in 1988 had a chance to maximize their talents, we are in decline from that state now. If (as seems likely) only a fraction of the people in 1988 whom could have contributed more to society if they had advanced training were able to get it, then we are in more serious decline.
That goes to the point: we'll need to maximize the potential of every person to staty competitive, if real $ per capita declines, then there are people with talents who are not getting the chance to maximize those talents.
provide an educated labor pool.
vs. a private 'good'.
However I was talking about Higher Education, which (esp. in the sciences) was practically free for talented folks in the 50s-60s, mostly through public funds.
Now we have a great Higher Ed. system, but public funding of it (directly or through scholarships, etc. has dropped to the point that many talented Americans can't afford the $ and/or time to maximize their talents.
that keeps the superpowers on top. Technologcial power is temporary, the only way to keep it is to ensure that your very best minds have every opportunity to discover new technologies.
This should be even more important to the US, as with our smaller population we have a smaller total pool of potential talent, so it should be even more important that we make sure every American has a chance (and is encouraged) to maximize their talents.
We're not doing enough in this area any more, the public looks at Higher Ed. more as a way for an individual to make money than as a public good, so public funding of education has been drying up. If we want to keep our 'place' we'll need to start seeing education as a public good again, and get back to funding it that way...
(moderators, it's a meta-joke, get it????)
But this just seems to be asking for a lot of trouble.
You raise a good point (-ed fanblad), what happens if the 600 software engineers make the pointy haired bosses walk the plank and sail off for Tahiti?
Call her the FSF Crimson Permanent Assurance, and you'd have a great movie and some killr appz!
in the Chronicle of Higher Ed a few weeks back they covered this issue. In that article, it seemed that the main opposition to the ipod giveaway were the upper classpeople who didn't get one:-).
Steve Sloan has some nice podcasts about the use of ipods in education from a prof's POV here:
http://www.edupodder.com/session_detail.html
hmm, didn't they pretty much replace single edged swords?:-)
there would be no special advantage of one company v.s. another to make an office suite that runs on it and the one that is truly less buggy and more feature rich and more secure is the one that ultimately wins.
But that isn't how has to work, instead corps that use the software hire programmers to work on the software to keep making it better. Since the corp's business model is in using the software not in making the sofware, it's in the corp's advantage to keep improving it: then corps compete on the strength of their actual products while the software that enables their business model keeps getting more secure, more feature rich, etc. See Google's investment in Firefox, IBM's investment in PHP, etc. for example.
More corp. IT $$ can then be freed from continually patching buggy software products and chasing down the damage they cause to improving the software and helping users learn to use it more effectively.
There need be no net loss of programming jobs, in fact since we would all be involved in making better software (instead of just good enough for marketing to sell), most programmers would probably see a net improvement in their worth to their employers and their self worth.
the DEA secretly installed these devices.
So long as you know that a new car or a legally required device will report your speed to LE it shouldn't conflict with this ruling.
your car is overcoming wind resistence by exerting greater force on the road, via it's tires. You are talking about road friction and wind friction as if they are unrelated to speed.
Speed is determined by the balance between resistence (friction of the road + friction of the air) and accleration. Unless it is coasting downhill to maintain a given speed the tires must exert force on the road, the greater the speed, the greater the force.
Force exerted on the road certainly causes wear on the road, and a faster car is exerting more force than a slower car.
So, physics question: what determines the maximum land speed of a wheel driven vehicle?
Related: if ground friction is a minor issue, why are trains able to move vastly greater loads than trucks for a given unit of energy (call it horsepower)? Why are maglev trains even more efficient than rails?
identity theft is mostly accomplished via social engineering and/or improper security controls being installed on complex programmable systems.
Tracking cars with simple ROM devices is a much different technology, more like what we have been doing for emissions control, for instance.
With the amount of information available, it's better to look to the 4th to prevent abuse of information than think some you can do anything (legally) to prevent it's being gathered.
In any event, the system wouldn't tell the govt. what you were doing, it would tell it what your car was doing, so there is direct 4th amendment issue--it is well established that govt. can monitor your property to prevent you doing something with it that may harm others.
Voting machines, another conflation: the majority of drivers are cheating the current speed control system, so we need a new system that reduces cheating-- with voting, the ability to cheat has been increased by the current implementaion, the opposit case.
If speed control via cops chasing you and giving you a ticket physically was keeping 90% of the people at the speed limit, there would be little reason to look for a better solution.
all road damage is not caused by weather, roads wear out where there is very little change in the weather (LA, for instance).
With weather taken out of the equation, vehicle wear and tear is obviously still a significant cause of road wear, and it is simple physics that the higher the speed of a vehicle the more energy it is expending, and of course it is expending a good deal of that energy via it's tires.
At the molecular level, vehicles move by having molecules of their tires push against molecules of the road, and the harder they push the more molecules of the road will get pushed out of the road, this is simple physics, even if you don't understand it.
I think it would be pretty easy to catch the very few people who would have the knowledge and talent to do this, certainly easier than enforcing the traffic laws using the current system.
Would you do if you could lose your license permanently if caught?
I don't want a device on my car reporting my driving habits (and who knows what else-- like location, etc) to police.
Why, what are you doing?
Embedded device or high res cameras that track your license plate (or an RFID system embedded in your license plate), it's better to participate in the democratic process to limit abuses of these things than to try and prevent progress from finding better ways to enforce reasonable limits on privileges to use equipment that enables you put other people's lives at risk.
you doing that, since LE would recieve two signals from my car, one that wasn't speeding and one that was. We establish that my actual car wasn't, we track you down and send you to Saudi Arabia (or better Syria) for interrogation.
In any event, cracking a simple ROM chip is not easy like cracking a Wintel & if just about everyone drove the speed limit it would be pretty easy to catch the crackers. You would stand out pretty well and pissed off citizens would be sending pics from their cell phones to LE.
By the way, how do you know speed limits are 'arbitrary'? Are you a trained civil engineer?