I'm sure too, cause I get punched in the face all the time when I am taking pictures in the park....You also see tourists bloodied and beaten in the gutters all across new york./s
I completely disagree. Being able to create an outstanding search engine, or many of the other things google does, does not mean that those same people have the know how to fix social problems. Single mothers? How do you fix that? Kill the child or have her marry.
We have thrown literally trillions of dollars at social problems like poverty, homelessness, starvation and it's got us where? And suddenly a bunch of geeks that can write computer programs can somehow solve logistics problems that plague getting food from the middle of the US to people that need it in africa?
These problems have palgued humanity since the beginning of our existence and just because a team if highly intelligent people(in regards to their specific degrees)can land a man on the moon or make 'angry birds', does not mean they have the knowledge or skills to solve these issues. They are not trivial like making an app or facebook. They will be with us for the forseeable future. Star Trek society is a long ways off.
Not only are they technically difficult to solve, you have large bloated governments that love control and red tape that make fixing them near impossible. Partly because they don't want them fixed since it would mean it would free people from the prison the government has them trapped in.
The problem with your arguement is that you believe this can be done. Poverty(aka world hunger) is always going to be here. It's been with us since we first started noticing it. We are talking thousands of years here. Someone not making tumblr isn't going to just solve it.
Overpopulation? How do you solve that? We already have abortion, birth control, and murder going on. Just going to force a china type law limiting the number of children? Go to the UN talk to them about it. You will still have enough free time to make tumblr.
It's easy to say, stop working on 'x' because I don't like it and work on 'y' instead. But the 'y' the article points to, either people are already working on it(single mothers, gag unto me with a stick), or pie in the sky hopes and dreams that are decades off and won't be solved or seen in our lifetime.
Ontop of a self centered article(since it's all about what she wants and thinks the world should be like), it's poorly written and way too long.
Thanks guys. After posting I found their website and answered some of the questions I posed. I still have questions about viablity though.
It is a kite as opposed to a plane, which I was imaging before.
I came on to say just this. When everyone has dirt on them, who can throw the first stone? Everything in your youth will be overlooked and attributed to the college lifestyle. Us old fuddy duddies just need to cycle out of the workforce first and this will be a non-issue.
Really the only difference is we can find their dirt, they can't find ours. Dirt exists on both sides.
I really don't see how you can generate enough power to keep the aircraft in the air, and have extra power to spare and send back to the ground.
A kite, ok, maybe. But they say this flying wing flies in circles. So it stays aloft and generates power. How high can it actually go anyway? It still is dragging a cord back to the ground. Every foot higher is another foot of cord it has to support.
I would think it would be much simplier to create a modified wind turbine that can come down safely when the wind starts blowing too hard instead of creating some sort of 'perpetual motion' machine that creates energy.
Exactly. 29% of people are just idiots. Who cares what they think about 'hot button topics' when they show this level of stupidity.
Ladders! We should ban ladders, that's where many accidents at home come from!/s
Agreed. I expected to see a car that flies. I figured it was another car-airplane hybrid. But no, we have 6 fans blowing downward and it's wobbly as hell. I believe the US Military did the same crap in the 1960's. Congratulations!
I find it hard to believe that a few days in the year change a child from gifted to ungifted. If it does, then these kids are on the extremely low end of gifted, and after a year they will even out with the rest of the kids their age. There was an/. article a while ago discussing how the gifted kids, that you see go to college at the age of 14 generally even out when they hit their twenties. Super geniuses are extremely rare. What normally happens is these kids are smarter than their peers, but not any smarter than your average adult. So they fly through highschool and college and end up at the same place everyone else does, just sooner.
Not sure why I should care what Mark Twain thinks on freedom. The only thing you quote him as saying that I agree with is we will never be 100% safe. Some people are more willing to give up freedom in order to gain the illusion of safety. I am not.
Ok. Slightly better. But why wireless? Why internet? If you are not home do you need to control lights? If you are that bad about not turning off lights when you leave are you really going to remember once your gone? You need more than a dimmer switch? Really? Why? Why not wire all the lights to a central keypad in the home(think dedicated tablet computer).
Can't wait for these to be wide spread enough to where you can drive down the street at christmas time, hack the entire blocks house lights and turn it into a spectacular light show for yourself set to music.
No idea why you got downvoted. But..
It's going to be a cold day in hell before I get this crap. Just because you can hook it to the net should it be? Do you want it hacked? Do you need another wifi signal degrading signal in your home? Taking up bandwidth? Wake up and want to piss at night, fumble for your phone or hit a switch? It boggles my mind why they think people want this.
While I understand what you mean by saying that shit living conditions correlate to poor grades. It's not America's responsibility to make sure everyone has a nice 6 bedroom house and enough computers in the house so a child can study. Maybe the parents, who are apparently struggling financially shouldn't have 5 kids? Maybe the parents should have done something better in their lives so they can afford more than 1 bedroom. Or if you are so concerned about the plight of poor families with too many children and no means to raise them, you can start your own charity for them.
I agree completely. I've never taken anything online seriously. I hate how its made into this huge deal, but after all its just online. I learned early on not to take much online seriously, but now we have forgotten that.
Companies see everything online as a possible PR nightmare. Omg, someone made a youtube video about us!! BAD PR. No it will be forgotten in 2 seconds, and anyone that believes a youtube video is true or not completely one sided, probably devoid of any facts that make the poster look bad is also a retard.
I guess its just too bad that alot of retards have power and money.
What I don't understand is this. You all think just because some code monkey or janitor sweats more than the CEO somehow the CEO shouldn't get paid as much. But have any of you ever filled the role? Have you ever taken a paycheck from a company and gone this is too much? Have you ever returned money in objection because your 60,000+ job a year makes more than the person that cleans your trash can? But all the sudden a CEO makes a bajillion dollars and you think he doesn't deserve it? Success anywhere requires first and foremost skill. Secondly to make it to the majors you do require a bit of luck. That being said the government requires nothing but a pretty face and alot of money to throw at some TV ad. Half the people haven't worked a job in their life yet you somehow think that just because a ton of people voted for them they are smart or deserve our respect. Did you ever meet the prom queen?! Really? What has government ever done. If it wasn't for the people they wouldn't have any money to take. All they do is take from us and redistribute as they see fit. They wouldn't be here if not for the hard working American. All they do is take our money and pay extra people along the way under the guise of 'helping'. Private industry can be trusted. Why? Because private industry can always be trusted to make a profit. Government can't be trusted. They have their own interested intertwined with the want to take more money from us. What have they brought us that has ever succeeded? Military is about all I can ever come up with. Everything else is a failure. Our public education is a joke. And just because this article wants to make it seem like throwing more money at it IE taxes on income will make it better, that won't. There are smarter ways to work harder for less. Always. The government just throws more money at the problem. Why? Because they don't work for it.
As CEO his decisions, his actions, in his job directly effect stock prices. How didn't he work for it? He has a huge impact on the share price. He sure as heck worked for it.
Just because the CEO then uses the tax free environment he helped create the article questions his intentions? Of course it was going to benefit him greatly, and just because it does, doesn't make any of the prior points against the tax less valid. Its his money, he worked for it. Get over it.
Great. Now on top of blue tooth making people looking they they talk to themselves. We will have people having seizures. This seems like too much effort all around. I can only imagine my phone calling grandma at 2 am since I left the phone on the table and wanted to get a snack to eat. How about track my eye movements? But even then if I look away it would have problems.
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I'm sure too, cause I get punched in the face all the time when I am taking pictures in the park....You also see tourists bloodied and beaten in the gutters all across new york. /s
I completely disagree. Being able to create an outstanding search engine, or many of the other things google does, does not mean that those same people have the know how to fix social problems. Single mothers? How do you fix that? Kill the child or have her marry.
We have thrown literally trillions of dollars at social problems like poverty, homelessness, starvation and it's got us where? And suddenly a bunch of geeks that can write computer programs can somehow solve logistics problems that plague getting food from the middle of the US to people that need it in africa?
These problems have palgued humanity since the beginning of our existence and just because a team if highly intelligent people(in regards to their specific degrees)can land a man on the moon or make 'angry birds', does not mean they have the knowledge or skills to solve these issues. They are not trivial like making an app or facebook. They will be with us for the forseeable future. Star Trek society is a long ways off.
Not only are they technically difficult to solve, you have large bloated governments that love control and red tape that make fixing them near impossible. Partly because they don't want them fixed since it would mean it would free people from the prison the government has them trapped in.
The problem with your arguement is that you believe this can be done. Poverty(aka world hunger) is always going to be here. It's been with us since we first started noticing it. We are talking thousands of years here. Someone not making tumblr isn't going to just solve it.
Overpopulation? How do you solve that? We already have abortion, birth control, and murder going on. Just going to force a china type law limiting the number of children? Go to the UN talk to them about it. You will still have enough free time to make tumblr.
It's easy to say, stop working on 'x' because I don't like it and work on 'y' instead. But the 'y' the article points to, either people are already working on it(single mothers, gag unto me with a stick), or pie in the sky hopes and dreams that are decades off and won't be solved or seen in our lifetime.
Ontop of a self centered article(since it's all about what she wants and thinks the world should be like), it's poorly written and way too long.
Thanks guys. After posting I found their website and answered some of the questions I posed. I still have questions about viablity though. It is a kite as opposed to a plane, which I was imaging before.
I came on to say just this. When everyone has dirt on them, who can throw the first stone? Everything in your youth will be overlooked and attributed to the college lifestyle. Us old fuddy duddies just need to cycle out of the workforce first and this will be a non-issue. Really the only difference is we can find their dirt, they can't find ours. Dirt exists on both sides.
I really don't see how you can generate enough power to keep the aircraft in the air, and have extra power to spare and send back to the ground. A kite, ok, maybe. But they say this flying wing flies in circles. So it stays aloft and generates power. How high can it actually go anyway? It still is dragging a cord back to the ground. Every foot higher is another foot of cord it has to support. I would think it would be much simplier to create a modified wind turbine that can come down safely when the wind starts blowing too hard instead of creating some sort of 'perpetual motion' machine that creates energy.
Well who wants them back in the barn now that they have printed guns?
Exactly. 29% of people are just idiots. Who cares what they think about 'hot button topics' when they show this level of stupidity. Ladders! We should ban ladders, that's where many accidents at home come from! /s
Agreed. I expected to see a car that flies. I figured it was another car-airplane hybrid. But no, we have 6 fans blowing downward and it's wobbly as hell. I believe the US Military did the same crap in the 1960's. Congratulations!
I find it hard to believe that a few days in the year change a child from gifted to ungifted. If it does, then these kids are on the extremely low end of gifted, and after a year they will even out with the rest of the kids their age. There was an /. article a while ago discussing how the gifted kids, that you see go to college at the age of 14 generally even out when they hit their twenties. Super geniuses are extremely rare. What normally happens is these kids are smarter than their peers, but not any smarter than your average adult. So they fly through highschool and college and end up at the same place everyone else does, just sooner.
Not sure why I should care what Mark Twain thinks on freedom. The only thing you quote him as saying that I agree with is we will never be 100% safe. Some people are more willing to give up freedom in order to gain the illusion of safety. I am not.
Guess it's too soon to make points that, if someone wants to kill other people, they can do it no matter what is legal or illegal?
Ban common sense!
Then right after that lets ban the dodo bird.
They need those jets to tell us plebs about the crisis. I also enjoy that a solution to stopping climate change is higher taxes.
That's slashdot for you. Climate change isn't real, but humans are a cancer that should be destroyed.
I would think that if you are inclined to believe that humans are a cancer you'd be more willing to believe in climate change.
Ok. Slightly better. But why wireless? Why internet? If you are not home do you need to control lights? If you are that bad about not turning off lights when you leave are you really going to remember once your gone? You need more than a dimmer switch? Really? Why? Why not wire all the lights to a central keypad in the home(think dedicated tablet computer). Can't wait for these to be wide spread enough to where you can drive down the street at christmas time, hack the entire blocks house lights and turn it into a spectacular light show for yourself set to music.
No idea why you got downvoted. But.. It's going to be a cold day in hell before I get this crap. Just because you can hook it to the net should it be? Do you want it hacked? Do you need another wifi signal degrading signal in your home? Taking up bandwidth? Wake up and want to piss at night, fumble for your phone or hit a switch? It boggles my mind why they think people want this.
No, we have a decent handle on how the internet works. We just have no handle on how to run a business.
While I understand what you mean by saying that shit living conditions correlate to poor grades. It's not America's responsibility to make sure everyone has a nice 6 bedroom house and enough computers in the house so a child can study. Maybe the parents, who are apparently struggling financially shouldn't have 5 kids? Maybe the parents should have done something better in their lives so they can afford more than 1 bedroom. Or if you are so concerned about the plight of poor families with too many children and no means to raise them, you can start your own charity for them.
I agree completely. I've never taken anything online seriously. I hate how its made into this huge deal, but after all its just online. I learned early on not to take much online seriously, but now we have forgotten that. Companies see everything online as a possible PR nightmare. Omg, someone made a youtube video about us!! BAD PR. No it will be forgotten in 2 seconds, and anyone that believes a youtube video is true or not completely one sided, probably devoid of any facts that make the poster look bad is also a retard. I guess its just too bad that alot of retards have power and money.
What I don't understand is this. You all think just because some code monkey or janitor sweats more than the CEO somehow the CEO shouldn't get paid as much. But have any of you ever filled the role? Have you ever taken a paycheck from a company and gone this is too much? Have you ever returned money in objection because your 60,000+ job a year makes more than the person that cleans your trash can? But all the sudden a CEO makes a bajillion dollars and you think he doesn't deserve it? Success anywhere requires first and foremost skill. Secondly to make it to the majors you do require a bit of luck. That being said the government requires nothing but a pretty face and alot of money to throw at some TV ad. Half the people haven't worked a job in their life yet you somehow think that just because a ton of people voted for them they are smart or deserve our respect. Did you ever meet the prom queen?! Really? What has government ever done. If it wasn't for the people they wouldn't have any money to take. All they do is take from us and redistribute as they see fit. They wouldn't be here if not for the hard working American. All they do is take our money and pay extra people along the way under the guise of 'helping'. Private industry can be trusted. Why? Because private industry can always be trusted to make a profit. Government can't be trusted. They have their own interested intertwined with the want to take more money from us. What have they brought us that has ever succeeded? Military is about all I can ever come up with. Everything else is a failure. Our public education is a joke. And just because this article wants to make it seem like throwing more money at it IE taxes on income will make it better, that won't. There are smarter ways to work harder for less. Always. The government just throws more money at the problem. Why? Because they don't work for it.
As CEO his decisions, his actions, in his job directly effect stock prices. How didn't he work for it? He has a huge impact on the share price. He sure as heck worked for it.
Just because the CEO then uses the tax free environment he helped create the article questions his intentions? Of course it was going to benefit him greatly, and just because it does, doesn't make any of the prior points against the tax less valid. Its his money, he worked for it. Get over it.
I can't think of anything else that would effect the geek community less than banning sex.
Great. Now on top of blue tooth making people looking they they talk to themselves. We will have people having seizures. This seems like too much effort all around. I can only imagine my phone calling grandma at 2 am since I left the phone on the table and wanted to get a snack to eat. How about track my eye movements? But even then if I look away it would have problems.