>To cripple education through the agenda that the ID folks are proposing is doing a disservice to us all.
That, I think, is a key point, but the damage to education is not the worst part of it. ID is a political, not a scientific, debate based on the distribution of power, not knowledge.
As evidence, I offer the foremost proponent of ID: Seattle's Discovery Institute (link deliberately omitted). In addition to ID, its "fellows" promote classic authoritarianism, including the virtues of torture (look up "James Na") and a recent invasion we've all heard of. This would not appear to be an accident.
Catestrophic climate change could be the basis of, or a feature in, an excellent game.
In Sid Meier's Civilization, if you didn't carefully manage your power plants, you could easily toast the planet. It was great for gameplay, as even if you had defeated all military and economic foes, you still had to contend with the detritus of your success.
>I disbelieve a faith in the market's ability to correct ecological catastrophe
Nothing can do everything... including the marketplace.
However, there's no reason not to take advantage of the power of the marketplace to do as much good as possible. Everyone has to make a living one way or another, and you might as well make a living doing good stuff.
Even Gandhi spun cotton. In fact, he never felt he was too good to do stoop labor as part of his philosophy.
"Google, in Mountain View, intends to provide the free, so-called Wi-Fi access. The service it proposes would be faster than dial-up but slower than a typical broadband connection.
In its joint bid, Earthlink plans to offer speedier access, but for a fee.
It looks like the entire scheme is a classic "the first dose is free but the good stuff'll cost ya" scheme. That's not necessarily a bad way to go, to implement a public good while preserving competitive incentives.
>If I remember correctly: BSF was paid partially in SCO shares. That would make BSF interested in the financiall well being of the company. If they are not acting in the best interest of the company (like a pump and dump scam) there could be some trouble for that law firm. Let alone the possible corporate veil piercing
Hmmmmm.....
If so, a shareholder lawsuit, with recourse against the lawfirm, may be a logical step.
I wonder who's selling malpractice insurance to that law firm?
The deliberate intrasigience of the feddies is not the last word. Technology to combat catastrophic climate change is the next big economic opportunity. The only question is whether we make it here and sell it there, or vice versa.
As long as our political leadership are tied to old-fashioned energy sources, they have no incentive to develop & implement the new technologies that will replace the old... it's a classic "Innovator's Dilemma".
And it has an "Innovator's Dilemma" solution: outsiders develop small, nimble technologies, some of which fail, some of which succeed; eventually they eat the dinosaurs (...sorta like the desktop PC in the era of the mainframe.) You, yourself, can probably figure out a few clever ways to create or implent a green tech in your own city. Give it a try! [A few suggestions here]
What is better than making an honest buck while thumbing your nose at the anti-scientists!
> don't want them to field questions on public policy
When public policy is related to science, talking about science is talking about public policy.
The current White House policy is to deny castrophic global climate change; therefore scientists are forbidden to tell the truth about the science of global climate change.
It is simply wrong to tell scientists to lie about their findings.
"....SCO tells the court that it has provided 'color-coded illustrations', 'line-by-line source code comparisons' and 'over 45,000 pages of supporting materials'... ... 33,000 of those pages concern item 294, which SCO abandons in its opposition brief.... ....while the Final Disclosures include color-coded illustrations and line-by-line source comparisons, they do not do so with regard to any of the 198 items at issue."
I don't want to be "piling on" but if IBM is correct in its analysis of SCO's, it would seem that SCO is writing the book on how to look like they are acting in bad faith.
Do they really think IBM would not notice and point out to the judge these glaring gaps?
Freecycle lets you give or get free stuff in your community with minimal effort.
It's very important that each Freecycle node is geographically localized, e.g. one city, so that you're offering/accepting only to/from people for whom the offer is geographically practical. For this application, the internet does not annihilate geography, it only minimizes other transaction costs of offering/accepting free stuff... but that's plenty of benefit!
>If the police will refuse to enforce this by not arresting the mayor, that will be even better.
As Gandhi & MLK demonstrated, it's even better if the police do enforce the law. Going to jail over a stupid, stupid law is a great way of saying "It's a stupid, stupid law" in a way that (a) attracts attention, (b) shows that you really mean it, and (c) gets the law repealed.
Not that I think the mayor's going to the pokey over wi-fi; I'm just saying that it's best if one wishes to break a law, that one includes the punishment in the total calculation.
You're quite right, of course. It would have been cool for it to have a variable scoring system, e.g. "kids", avant-garde, tourist.... but as is, it was darn good.
I suppose in some sense, websites that let you post photos and rate those of other people is a comparable game... in which ratings are the scoring system.
The category of Art Games seems sparse, but Pokemon Snap was a nice, fun change from the usual 1st-person shooter. Instead of blowing monsters away, you took photographs, with limited "film" so you couldn't just spray away.
The only real problem (apart from the general Pokemon-ness, which for some people would be a barrier) is the scoring system. I think they did as well as could be expected, but scoring seemed to be centered on a particular aesthetic, e.g. photos with a critter well centered scored higher.
I hope Joy Of Painting is as much fun. Can you imagine it as a MMPORG???
"Some people say the universe is governed by universal laws. Others say it is but a joke of the Elder Gods.
"I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought." someone said. "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."
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>To cripple education through the agenda that the ID folks are proposing is doing a disservice to us all.
That, I think, is a key point, but the damage to education is not the worst part of it. ID is a political, not a scientific, debate based on the distribution of power, not knowledge.
As evidence, I offer the foremost proponent of ID: Seattle's Discovery Institute (link deliberately omitted). In addition to ID, its "fellows" promote classic authoritarianism, including the virtues of torture (look up "James Na") and a recent invasion we've all heard of. This would not appear to be an accident.
>The issue at stake is to teach rational and sound thought in learning rather than as another poster said "fact after fact".
If that is so, then why not teach the Flat Earth theory? It is testable, which ID is not.
... like the Q-Ships of WW1, the cops could deploy a few laptops that, when attacked by a thief, would deploy Taser darts....
... to be followed by lawsuits, of course.
The best part of Star Trek: The Motion Picture was when the Klingons probed an alien phenomenon in a similar way.
Let's hope NASA's probe has different results!
Catestrophic climate change could be the basis of, or a feature in, an excellent game.
In Sid Meier's Civilization, if you didn't carefully manage your power plants, you could easily toast the planet. It was great for gameplay, as even if you had defeated all military and economic foes, you still had to contend with the detritus of your success.
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Perhaps he meant meteor-ologists. People who study meteors ;-P
... go around, blasting any tech you see, using the Injunction Blaster and Patent Traps!
>I disbelieve a faith in the market's ability to correct ecological catastrophe
Nothing can do everything ... including the marketplace.
However, there's no reason not to take advantage of the power of the marketplace to do as much good as possible. Everyone has to make a living one way or another, and you might as well make a living doing good stuff.
Even Gandhi spun cotton. In fact, he never felt he was too good to do stoop labor as part of his philosophy.
Probably not. But that's a different set of facts. RTFA and you'll see.
"Google, in Mountain View, intends to provide the free, so-called Wi-Fi access. The service it proposes would be faster than dial-up but slower than a typical broadband connection. In its joint bid, Earthlink plans to offer speedier access, but for a fee.
It looks like the entire scheme is a classic "the first dose is free but the good stuff'll cost ya" scheme. That's not necessarily a bad way to go, to implement a public good while preserving competitive incentives.
>If I remember correctly: BSF was paid partially in SCO shares. That would make BSF interested in the financiall well being of the company. If they are not acting in the best interest of the company (like a pump and dump scam) there could be some trouble for that law firm. Let alone the possible corporate veil piercing
Hmmmmm.....
If so, a shareholder lawsuit, with recourse against the lawfirm, may be a logical step.
I wonder who's selling malpractice insurance to that law firm?
The deliberate intrasigience of the feddies is not the last word. Technology to combat catastrophic climate change is the next big economic opportunity. The only question is whether we make it here and sell it there, or vice versa.
As long as our political leadership are tied to old-fashioned energy sources, they have no incentive to develop & implement the new technologies that will replace the old ... it's a classic "Innovator's Dilemma".
And it has an "Innovator's Dilemma" solution: outsiders develop small, nimble technologies, some of which fail, some of which succeed; eventually they eat the dinosaurs (...sorta like the desktop PC in the era of the mainframe.) You, yourself, can probably figure out a few clever ways to create or implent a green tech in your own city. Give it a try! [A few suggestions here]
What is better than making an honest buck while thumbing your nose at the anti-scientists!
>I wonder what the statute of limitations is on ruining the environment.
The laws of nature have no limitations.
Sometimes they are a bit slow, but they are relentless.
> don't want them to field questions on public policy
When public policy is related to science, talking about science is talking about public policy.
The current White House policy is to deny castrophic global climate change; therefore scientists are forbidden to tell the truth about the science of global climate change.
It is simply wrong to tell scientists to lie about their findings.
"....SCO tells the court that it has provided 'color-coded illustrations', 'line-by-line source code comparisons' and 'over 45,000 pages of supporting materials' ...
... 33,000 of those pages concern item 294, which SCO abandons in its opposition brief ....
....while the Final Disclosures include color-coded illustrations and line-by-line source comparisons, they do not do so with regard to any of the 198 items at issue."
I don't want to be "piling on" but if IBM is correct in its analysis of SCO's, it would seem that SCO is writing the book on how to look like they are acting in bad faith.
Do they really think IBM would not notice and point out to the judge these glaring gaps?
Freecycle lets you give or get free stuff in your community with minimal effort.
It's very important that each Freecycle node is geographically localized, e.g. one city, so that you're offering/accepting only to/from people for whom the offer is geographically practical. For this application, the internet does not annihilate geography, it only minimizes other transaction costs of offering/accepting free stuff ... but that's plenty of benefit!
Example: Seattle-area uses http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycleseattle/
>If the police will refuse to enforce this by not arresting the mayor, that will be even better.
As Gandhi & MLK demonstrated, it's even better if the police do enforce the law. Going to jail over a stupid, stupid law is a great way of saying "It's a stupid, stupid law" in a way that (a) attracts attention, (b) shows that you really mean it, and (c) gets the law repealed.
Not that I think the mayor's going to the pokey over wi-fi; I'm just saying that it's best if one wishes to break a law, that one includes the punishment in the total calculation.
You're quite right, of course. It would have been cool for it to have a variable scoring system, e.g. "kids", avant-garde, tourist .... but as is, it was darn good.
I suppose in some sense, websites that let you post photos and rate those of other people is a comparable game ... in which ratings are the scoring system.
The category of Art Games seems sparse, but Pokemon Snap was a nice, fun change from the usual 1st-person shooter. Instead of blowing monsters away, you took photographs, with limited "film" so you couldn't just spray away.
The only real problem (apart from the general Pokemon-ness, which for some people would be a barrier) is the scoring system. I think they did as well as could be expected, but scoring seemed to be centered on a particular aesthetic, e.g. photos with a critter well centered scored higher.
I hope Joy Of Painting is as much fun. Can you imagine it as a MMPORG???
"Some people say the universe is governed by universal laws. Others say it is but a joke of the Elder Gods.
"I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought." someone said. "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."
... as claimed in 1998 Scientific American article
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