I know of no proof that the played a role in AlQueda. I'm talking proof, not propaganda. If there was proof, he could have been charged, but he was never charged...
"There's no Proof! There's no Proof! Lalalalala I can't hear you lalalalalalala..."
You've seen more proof that he played a role in Al Qaeda than proof that he is dead.
Here's a clue. No one I know is omniscient. We still live our lives, doing the best we can. Get over it.
The US CREATED al-Qaeda via decades of interference in Mideast politics, especially propping up Saudi dictators....
The US is not all powerful. It is not the only force in the universe. Blaming all the unpleasant things in the world on US actions is not particularly rational.
US actions in the Cold War probably contributed in some ways to the success of Al Qaeda as a movement, as do the actions of those who blame the US for the crimes of Al Qaeda.
Terrorist activity, like it or not, is *criminal* activity and not under the rules of war, regardless of how the press refers to it.
Actually, terrorist activity from Al Qaeda doesn't fit completely into either category. That's the problem.
Both sides of the argument toss people into a category and stop thinking. There are elements of war, and elements of criminality, and we don't make any progress on improving how we deal with these issues until we face that and start thinking, instead of applying preconceived formulas that work in other situations.
...But for some reason in the Western world we feel the need to artificially constrain their supply, take them through a hazing ritual to make them cynical about their patients, then treat them like gods.
Health care is a ripoff because while information is cheap, regulation is expensive.
"We" don't feel the need to constrain supply, the government cartel granted a monopoly on legally providing health care services and controlling access to medication and medical equipment feels the need because they need yachts and summer homes in the Hamptons.
Health care is cheap; health care regulation is expensive crony capitalism.
Every single point he discussed was just wrong, usually on his own facts and analysis, having nothing to do with Marxism.
Immiseration - Wages have been stagnant in advanced countries, but have grown tremendously for billions across the world, lifting them out of grinding poverty.
Crisis of Overproduction - Much better explained by the Austrian economists.
Stagnation - Real rates of production. This whole paragraph is just a hash of nonsense. The majority of the world has been lifted out of poverty, and he calls that "shrinking real value". What a buffoon.
Alienation - Yes, being a human shovel in a coal mine was much more fulfilling than being a corporate cog, which was much more fulfilling than providing one of the zillions of niche services directly to a consumer. The whole direction of labor has been away from the mechanical, whether physical or mental. Mechanical can be automated.
False consciousness - This is always the funniest. If a prole doesn't agree with Marx, the prole has a false consciousness. Maybe the prole just isn't educated enough to believe something so idiotic as Marxism?
Commodity fetishism - Somehow the author convinces himself that "more, bigger, faster, cheaper, nastier, now" are mystical illlusions. Not even a marxist would be so idiotic - they'd be the first to recognize that these are real material qualities.
The guy doesn't even know what Marxism is, participates in many of it's follies, and adds a boatload of his own. Bozo. It's like a blog post of some college poly sci major on a drunken bender, thinking he is being profound.
The confidence interval for an estimation process is the sum of the variance of the estimator itself plus the prediction error against real data. A 4x confidence interval in a rate estimator really does say that we don't know squat on this particular issue.
So: Are you twice as productive as two average 25 year olds?
It's easy to be much more productive than There is a huge productivity range for programmers. I've known guys who were 5 times as productive as average coders. What a good guy brings to the table, besides his own productivity, is the avoidance of the communication/miscommunication overhead involved in using multiple guys instead. That's a huge win, and it applies all across IT.
Plenty of the GOP were for the bailouts. But a good many of them did offer some token resistance for the first bailout, that got the ball rolling. And they put up real resistance against Obamacare. Some of them at least try to stop runaway spending, but fail. The democrats - and the poster - by and large think that the problem is the gummint hasn't spent enough, and doesn't control enough of the economy.
And the Tea Partiers are hardly without their own contradictions as well. "Keep the gummint off my medicare!" But just as the GOP is better than the DEMs, the "crazy" Tea Partiers are better than the republicans.
I replied to someone ranting that it was all the fault of the GOP and Tea Partiers, while saying nothing of the DEMS who think the way out of our debt problem is to throw a few more trillion down the toiliet. Somehow all the debt was supposedly created by the GOP.
Social Security and Health Care spending are the long term problems bankrupting the country - all else is noise. The rest of Govt. spending on everything else has has been around 24% of GDP for 60 years. In that time, Pensions and Health Care go from 2% to 14% of GDP.
You don't need to explore assertions, go explore the numbers at the site.
So this can be laid almost entirely at the feet of the GOP and the crazed fanatical Tea Party extremist wing that seems to completely control it these days.
We could be solvent quite easily,...if it weren't for republicans and the tea party.
So much delusion, so little time.
Yeah, it's the people against bailouts, runaway health care spending, and stimulus to prop up bloated government payrolls that are the problem.
The unsustainable part of government spending is health care and pensions. Since 1953, total spending at all levels of government, as a percentage of gdp, has remained essentially flat for the combination of all other spending categories (including interest payments) except health care and pensions, which went from 2% to 14% of GDP.
For how many decades have they been making Superman movies?
They have barely scratched the surface of the comic book library. The more movies they make, the more widely spread the stories are, the more valuable the franchises become. We are nowhere near saturation with these franchises. People are still making money on movies from the corpus of Shakespeare, Virgil, and Homer. From the Greek gods. From the Norse Gods. Comic books often cashed in on these first, and now movies are cashing in on them.
And should we hit Peak Comic Book Movies, they can move onto the huge SciFi/Fantasy corpus. They could make 20 Stephen Donaldson movies.
We now have the means to tell any story anyone has ever imagined. And some yahoo thinks that a decade of movies has tapped out that enterprise. "640k is all anyone will ever need."
This is bad, right? Aren't we against companies buying up patents from other companies because they had no hand in the patent filing or "innovation"? Or is this now okay because it's Google?
It's ok if they're doing it defensively, to protect themselves against lawsuits. Murder is bad, defending yourself against murder is good.
No, every automaker boss in thinking, "this is more than 10 years from now, I will be retired with a golden parachute long before we even worry about this."
I don't mind allowing the option for anonymity for those who need or want it, but I also want the ability to disable viewing anonymous drivel;
The biggest absurdity of Web 2.0 is that it still doesn't have the filtering functionality of a usenet killfile. It's pitiful. A decade and a half into web sites, and we're just starting to have "ignore user" buttons. Pitiful. Probably early nineties, I'm on a email list with fully configurable, chained trust network filtering. Almost twenty years later, if I'm lucky, I can ignore a user on a site. Pitiful.
Yahoo is much better about anonymity. They allow full blown aliases to be associated with your yahoo account, so you don't have to log into different accounts. Also, their temporary email addresses are quite handy.
These kinds of features are the main reason I still primarily use my Yahoo account
Citibank is good about this too, allowing you to create temporary credit card numbers with time and amount limits.
No. It is not how democracy was intended to work. You do not threaten to harm the country if your demands are not met.
So it's not the people running up trillions of dollars of debt that are the threat, it's the people who are trying to put a stop to increasing the debt?
It's not the heroin pusher that's the problem, it's the guy suggesting you go through detox.
The problem isn't that business types maximize quarterly profits - that is just one of many potential side effects of maximizing *your own* profits over the company's profits.
Predictably, slashdot readers, being technical types, make the intellectual mistake they always make - they look at "the larger problem" abstracted from the humans involved. The shareholder and societal problem is to align incentives, knowledge, and power in a corporation to that larger problem. Management is a *real problem*, and when it isn't solved, a parasitic class with the "people skills" to rule will do so.
Anyone else remember Thulsa Doom and the Riddle of Steel? The True Steel is flesh, and the power over flesh.
This is not to condemn business types for looking after themselves. Far from it. I'm all for people looking out for themselves. Engineers are only weak because they are on their knees. Let them rise. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight.
Lawyers, doctors, public teachers unions, drug companies, banks, insurance companies, government employee unions, drug cartels, the prison industrial complex - all colluding with government to limit our freedom, expand their power, and raid our wallets.
More and more, I've been thinking about the US as the old Soviet Union. Of course not as bad, but with systemic problems limiting freedom and flushing money down the toilet, while the corrupt kleptocracy running the place manages to fish a few dollars out of the bowl before the flush.
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I know of no proof that the played a role in AlQueda. I'm talking proof, not propaganda. If there was proof, he could have been charged, but he was never charged...
"There's no Proof! There's no Proof! Lalalalala I can't hear you lalalalalalala..."
You've seen more proof that he played a role in Al Qaeda than proof that he is dead.
Here's a clue. No one I know is omniscient. We still live our lives, doing the best we can. Get over it.
The US CREATED al-Qaeda via decades of interference in Mideast politics, especially propping up Saudi dictators....
The US is not all powerful. It is not the only force in the universe. Blaming all the unpleasant things in the world on US actions is not particularly rational.
US actions in the Cold War probably contributed in some ways to the success of Al Qaeda as a movement, as do the actions of those who blame the US for the crimes of Al Qaeda.
Terrorist activity, like it or not, is *criminal* activity and not under the rules of war, regardless of how the press refers to it.
Actually, terrorist activity from Al Qaeda doesn't fit completely into either category. That's the problem.
Both sides of the argument toss people into a category and stop thinking. There are elements of war, and elements of criminality, and we don't make any progress on improving how we deal with these issues until we face that and start thinking, instead of applying preconceived formulas that work in other situations.
The fundamental problem is accountability, not competence. When you have two vendors, both will point at the other, and you're left in the middle.
Why is healthcare such a rip-off?
...But for some reason in the Western world we feel the need to artificially constrain their supply, take them through a hazing ritual to make them cynical about their patients, then treat them like gods.
Health care is a ripoff because while information is cheap, regulation is expensive.
"We" don't feel the need to constrain supply, the government cartel granted a monopoly on legally providing health care services and controlling access to medication and medical equipment feels the need because they need yachts and summer homes in the Hamptons.
Health care is cheap; health care regulation is expensive crony capitalism.
And Presto! Instant Twilight Zone episode!
Every single point he discussed was just wrong, usually on his own facts and analysis, having nothing to do with Marxism.
Immiseration - Wages have been stagnant in advanced countries, but have grown tremendously for billions across the world, lifting them out of grinding poverty.
Crisis of Overproduction - Much better explained by the Austrian economists.
Stagnation - Real rates of production. This whole paragraph is just a hash of nonsense. The majority of the world has been lifted out of poverty, and he calls that "shrinking real value". What a buffoon.
Alienation - Yes, being a human shovel in a coal mine was much more fulfilling than being a corporate cog, which was much more fulfilling than providing one of the zillions of niche services directly to a consumer. The whole direction of labor has been away from the mechanical, whether physical or mental. Mechanical can be automated.
False consciousness - This is always the funniest. If a prole doesn't agree with Marx, the prole has a false consciousness. Maybe the prole just isn't educated enough to believe something so idiotic as Marxism?
Commodity fetishism - Somehow the author convinces himself that "more, bigger, faster, cheaper, nastier, now" are mystical illlusions. Not even a marxist would be so idiotic - they'd be the first to recognize that these are real material qualities.
The guy doesn't even know what Marxism is, participates in many of it's follies, and adds a boatload of his own. Bozo. It's like a blog post of some college poly sci major on a drunken bender, thinking he is being profound.
There's a future where the cells are cheap, but the real estate for them is expensive.
This bears repeating.
The confidence interval for an estimation process is the sum of the variance of the estimator itself plus the prediction error against real data. A 4x confidence interval in a rate estimator really does say that we don't know squat on this particular issue.
So: Are you twice as productive as two average 25 year olds?
It's easy to be much more productive than There is a huge productivity range for programmers. I've known guys who were 5 times as productive as average coders. What a good guy brings to the table, besides his own productivity, is the avoidance of the communication/miscommunication overhead involved in using multiple guys instead. That's a huge win, and it applies all across IT.
Plenty of the GOP were for the bailouts. But a good many of them did offer some token resistance for the first bailout, that got the ball rolling. And they put up real resistance against Obamacare. Some of them at least try to stop runaway spending, but fail. The democrats - and the poster - by and large think that the problem is the gummint hasn't spent enough, and doesn't control enough of the economy.
And the Tea Partiers are hardly without their own contradictions as well. "Keep the gummint off my medicare!" But just as the GOP is better than the DEMs, the "crazy" Tea Partiers are better than the republicans.
I replied to someone ranting that it was all the fault of the GOP and Tea Partiers, while saying nothing of the DEMS who think the way out of our debt problem is to throw a few more trillion down the toiliet. Somehow all the debt was supposedly created by the GOP.
Social Security and Health Care spending are the long term problems bankrupting the country - all else is noise. The rest of Govt. spending on everything else has has been around 24% of GDP for 60 years. In that time, Pensions and Health Care go from 2% to 14% of GDP.
You don't need to explore assertions, go explore the numbers at the site.
So this can be laid almost entirely at the feet of the GOP and the crazed fanatical Tea Party extremist wing that seems to completely control it these days.
We could be solvent quite easily, ...if it weren't for republicans and the tea party.
So much delusion, so little time.
Yeah, it's the people against bailouts, runaway health care spending, and stimulus to prop up bloated government payrolls that are the problem.
The unsustainable part of government spending is health care and pensions. Since 1953, total spending at all levels of government, as a percentage of gdp, has remained essentially flat for the combination of all other spending categories (including interest payments) except health care and pensions, which went from 2% to 14% of GDP.
You can go here to play around with the data:
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/index.php
For how many decades have they been making Superman movies?
They have barely scratched the surface of the comic book library. The more movies they make, the more widely spread the stories are, the more valuable the franchises become. We are nowhere near saturation with these franchises. People are still making money on movies from the corpus of Shakespeare, Virgil, and Homer. From the Greek gods. From the Norse Gods. Comic books often cashed in on these first, and now movies are cashing in on them.
And should we hit Peak Comic Book Movies, they can move onto the huge SciFi/Fantasy corpus. They could make 20 Stephen Donaldson movies.
We now have the means to tell any story anyone has ever imagined. And some yahoo thinks that a decade of movies has tapped out that enterprise. "640k is all anyone will ever need."
This is bad, right? Aren't we against companies buying up patents from other companies because they had no hand in the patent filing or "innovation"? Or is this now okay because it's Google?
It's ok if they're doing it defensively, to protect themselves against lawsuits. Murder is bad, defending yourself against murder is good.
No, every automaker boss in thinking, "this is more than 10 years from now, I will be retired with a golden parachute long before we even worry about this."
We have a winner!
I don't mind allowing the option for anonymity for those who need or want it, but I also want the ability to disable viewing anonymous drivel;
The biggest absurdity of Web 2.0 is that it still doesn't have the filtering functionality of a usenet killfile. It's pitiful. A decade and a half into web sites, and we're just starting to have "ignore user" buttons. Pitiful. Probably early nineties, I'm on a email list with fully configurable, chained trust network filtering. Almost twenty years later, if I'm lucky, I can ignore a user on a site. Pitiful.
Yahoo is much better about anonymity. They allow full blown aliases to be associated with your yahoo account, so you don't have to log into different accounts. Also, their temporary email addresses are quite handy.
These kinds of features are the main reason I still primarily use my Yahoo account
Citibank is good about this too, allowing you to create temporary credit card numbers with time and amount limits.
Anonymous porn, what else?
A Canadian thinks the US should have more taxes and a bigger government. Who woulda thunk it?
No. It is not how democracy was intended to work. You do not threaten to harm the country if your demands are not met.
So it's not the people running up trillions of dollars of debt that are the threat, it's the people who are trying to put a stop to increasing the debt?
It's not the heroin pusher that's the problem, it's the guy suggesting you go through detox.
Doesn't this mean that any yahoo in the world can start making knock offs?
The problem isn't that business types maximize quarterly profits - that is just one of many potential side effects of maximizing *your own* profits over the company's profits.
Predictably, slashdot readers, being technical types, make the intellectual mistake they always make - they look at "the larger problem" abstracted from the humans involved. The shareholder and societal problem is to align incentives, knowledge, and power in a corporation to that larger problem. Management is a *real problem*, and when it isn't solved, a parasitic class with the "people skills" to rule will do so.
Anyone else remember Thulsa Doom and the Riddle of Steel? The True Steel is flesh, and the power over flesh.
This is not to condemn business types for looking after themselves. Far from it. I'm all for people looking out for themselves. Engineers are only weak because they are on their knees. Let them rise. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight.
There will be wallets. Or at least money clips.
Lawyers, doctors, public teachers unions, drug companies, banks, insurance companies, government employee unions, drug cartels, the prison industrial complex - all colluding with government to limit our freedom, expand their power, and raid our wallets.
More and more, I've been thinking about the US as the old Soviet Union. Of course not as bad, but with systemic problems limiting freedom and flushing money down the toilet, while the corrupt kleptocracy running the place manages to fish a few dollars out of the bowl before the flush.
So I suppose this guy's research is supposed to be tainted by $1mil from oil companies.
Do you suppose that the $billions from governments, bent on new ways to tax and control, carries no taint to the research of government scientists?