Increasing wages by 18.75% can easily be the straw that breaks the camel's back when a company is deciding if it's going to do business here or elsewhere. That $3/hr adds up to $6240/yr ($3 x 40 x 52), plus additional benefits and taxes (likely over $10k total per person).
How did things change in Japan and Korea (I witnessed this one first hand...living there for six yrs) when they went through the same sort of process?
As for John Galt, I think you need to go back and read the book if you think this is what Ayn meant.
Why-ever do you think that Catholics are (and have been for as long as the Catholic Church exists) discouraged from reading the Bible on their own instead of the officially approved Catechisms?
Reference please. I was raised Catholic (leaped off that wagon long ago), and never heard of such a thing.
When Ralph Nader described plutonium as "the most toxic substance known to mankind", Cohen, then a tenured professor, offered to consume on camera as much plutonium oxide as Nader could consume of caffeine,[17] the stimulant found in coffee and other beverages, which in its pure form has an oral (LD50) of 192 milligrams per kilogram in rats.[18]
Unfortunately, various people with marketing degrees tell me that this isn't an economically viable way to do things. Apparently nowadays, you have to accept thieves into your store with open arms.
Why are you asking the thieves? While I'm stereotyping here, so much of marketing today is about getting people to buy stuff that they have no reason to purchase. Every commercial seems to either use sex, or tug at heart-strings to tell you how it's going to save the children/environment/whales/grandma/handicapped. I tease my MBA spouse about it all the time.
Maybe that matters in our culture, but certainly not in some others. Having spent a quarter of my 53 yrs. in foreign lands, I don't think there's an aversion in many cultures for eating nearly anything that moves...no matter how cute, or intelligent it is.
For the record, I'm not interested in eating dogs, cats, dolphins, etc., but could care less if someone else wants to do so. The exception to that would be seeing an animal tortured (ala Faces of Death, when the tourists clobbered the monkey with little hammers before cracking his skull and chowing on the brains...I'd be in favor of turning the tourists into Soylent Green).
Anecdotal evidence is proof of nothing, you surely know better than that. As for hockey, tell us how many black kids grow up with a hockey stick in their hands vs. a basketball? I can tell you plenty of white kids in the areas of Ontario and Michigan (where I grew up) had them. Does that make it racist?...we may have all been born the same, but we were raised in different cultures, and that doesn't make it racist.
You white people aren't very good at spotting humor, are you?
That was humor? Funny, none of the mods caught it either...so far, you're the only person who found it funny.
I did an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and I can't recall ever having a Black math professor, which is of course proof of the racist nature of whole enterprise. Hockey has the same problem. Are there any Hockey teams owned by Black people?
Anecdotal evidence is proof of nothing, you surely know better than that. As for hockey, tell us how many black kids grow up with a hockey stick in their hands vs. a basketball? I can tell you plenty of white kids in the areas of Ontario and Michigan (where I grew up) had them. Does that make it racist?...we may have all been born the same, but we were raised in different cultures, and that doesn't make it racist.
In 30 years, civilization would be unrecognizable, but still existent.
While I agree with the remainder of your comments, I think you're off a few years on this estimate. Global population won't even double in that period of time, and there are plenty of places for humans to spread out still.
Disclaimer: I'm not advocating this, and do NOT like the idea one bit.
With an automated system, it would be easy to send tipoffs to human observers, police, etc., who could then monitor the persons actions more closely. Even potentially go in and question them. It's never been a requirement to have an actual crime for the authorities to take someone in for questioning.
Okay, well if I google wall street protests, the first page has Salon, Washington Post, CNN, Huffington Post, MSNBC, NY Times. Is that enough? I'm reading below of people talking of a "blackout", as if there's a media conspiracy, but I've seen this on TV news, and even Bill Maher.
Let's do some homework before we spread falsehoods.
Well, I know it's popular here on Slashdot to believe that "personal responsibility that nobody wants to teach their kids anymore". I guarantee you, the vast majority of parents would disagree. But certainly, your right that there are large numbers of those who don't.
You were obviously not the average student. Classroom texting, cheating via cellphone, and complete distraction are rampant in many. Teachers have enough to deal with without putting up with that crap.
Okay, kids have always had a social life, and that's great. What they don't need is for that life to be interfering with getting an education. What they don't need is another distraction in the classroom. What they don't need is another source of cheating available to them.
I'm not opposed to kids having them at school. I'm opposed to them in class...keep them in your locker, or have them confiscated.
Useful for what? Why does a child need their own telephone?
Why do you need your own telephone? (hint: you don't)
It's useful for communication. You know, that thing everyone does.
Yes, so we can text during class, and send each other answers during the tests. Seriously, there is no reason a young child needs a cellphone at school. Land lines are (still) available in every office for emergencies, changes in plans for after school, etc.
it was useful to be able to call my parents if some after-school activity was cancelled, or something else happened that required me to leave school at a different time, such as when one of my close friends was killed in a car accident, or when I was coopted to the debate team at the last minute before a competition.
Even my schools back in the 60s and 70s had landlines that could be used by the students. My daughter's schools (she graduated just a couple yrs ago), had phones in the office that could be used. Certainly not as convenient, but I still see no reason a young child should need a cellphone. Most of the kids are just texting each other when they should be paying attention during class.
Learning is not a binary process. The ability to memorize important items is a useful skill that can be learned and improved upon. I'm not advocating against instruction for rational thought, just stating that this theme I've seen on Slashdot against teaching memorization, is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I'm able to do simple math in my head faster than most people can on a calculator, and it's served me well in engineering, at the grocery store, and piloting Cessnas. When you go to the doctor, do they look up the name of that broken bone you have, or is it on the tip of their tongue? Was memorization overdone in public schools...probably, but it's far from dead.
Piffle. You can make a broad-spectrum jammer with nothing more than a big, honkin' amplifier and a spark plug, and it'll jam everything for miles around.
Riiiight. Highly recommend you go do some reading before posting such drivel.
Fine. Now let's talk about the survivability of such a system in battlefield conditions. Firing-up a jammer on a battlefield is like standing on the 50-yard line of a blacked-out football stadium full of snipers, and lighting a road flare. Surprise! Your lifespan is now measured in seconds.
And if it really were possible, it would also be just as possible to run wires (or wireless) a couple hundred yards away to control it...you don't need to stand on the 50-yard line.
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Nothing like having a good exchange of information. Thanks for being so polite and informative.
Increasing wages by 18.75% can easily be the straw that breaks the camel's back when a company is deciding if it's going to do business here or elsewhere. That $3/hr adds up to $6240/yr ($3 x 40 x 52), plus additional benefits and taxes (likely over $10k total per person).
How did things change in Japan and Korea (I witnessed this one first hand...living there for six yrs) when they went through the same sort of process?
As for John Galt, I think you need to go back and read the book if you think this is what Ayn meant.
Why-ever do you think that Catholics are (and have been for as long as the Catholic Church exists) discouraged from reading the Bible on their own instead of the officially approved Catechisms?
Reference please. I was raised Catholic (leaped off that wagon long ago), and never heard of such a thing.
This is on Cohen's wikipedia page:
When Ralph Nader described plutonium as "the most toxic substance known to mankind", Cohen, then a tenured professor, offered to consume on camera as much plutonium oxide as Nader could consume of caffeine,[17] the stimulant found in coffee and other beverages, which in its pure form has an oral (LD50) of 192 milligrams per kilogram in rats.[18]
Possibly, but at least they had the nerve to not post as an AC.
I want verifiable facts regardless of which side of the argument they favor.
Unfortunately, various people with marketing degrees tell me that this isn't an economically viable way to do things. Apparently nowadays, you have to accept thieves into your store with open arms.
Why are you asking the thieves? While I'm stereotyping here, so much of marketing today is about getting people to buy stuff that they have no reason to purchase. Every commercial seems to either use sex, or tug at heart-strings to tell you how it's going to save the children/environment/whales/grandma/handicapped. I tease my MBA spouse about it all the time.
Maybe that matters in our culture, but certainly not in some others. Having spent a quarter of my 53 yrs. in foreign lands, I don't think there's an aversion in many cultures for eating nearly anything that moves...no matter how cute, or intelligent it is.
For the record, I'm not interested in eating dogs, cats, dolphins, etc., but could care less if someone else wants to do so. The exception to that would be seeing an animal tortured (ala Faces of Death, when the tourists clobbered the monkey with little hammers before cracking his skull and chowing on the brains...I'd be in favor of turning the tourists into Soylent Green).
Anecdotal evidence is proof of nothing, you surely know better than that. As for hockey, tell us how many black kids grow up with a hockey stick in their hands vs. a basketball? I can tell you plenty of white kids in the areas of Ontario and Michigan (where I grew up) had them. Does that make it racist?...we may have all been born the same, but we were raised in different cultures, and that doesn't make it racist.
You white people aren't very good at spotting humor, are you?
That was humor? Funny, none of the mods caught it either...so far, you're the only person who found it funny.
I did an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and I can't recall ever having a Black math professor, which is of course proof of the racist nature of whole enterprise. Hockey has the same problem. Are there any Hockey teams owned by Black people?
Anecdotal evidence is proof of nothing, you surely know better than that. As for hockey, tell us how many black kids grow up with a hockey stick in their hands vs. a basketball? I can tell you plenty of white kids in the areas of Ontario and Michigan (where I grew up) had them. Does that make it racist?...we may have all been born the same, but we were raised in different cultures, and that doesn't make it racist.
...and does tend to set a form of precedent for the methods used for data mining.
Precedent is not set at lower court levels.
I highly doubt that getting a Facebook account qualifies as a legal contract:
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/contract
In 30 years, civilization would be unrecognizable, but still existent.
While I agree with the remainder of your comments, I think you're off a few years on this estimate. Global population won't even double in that period of time, and there are plenty of places for humans to spread out still.
They can't set discriminatory rules like "men only"
No more ladies nights?
Disclaimer: I'm not advocating this, and do NOT like the idea one bit.
With an automated system, it would be easy to send tipoffs to human observers, police, etc., who could then monitor the persons actions more closely. Even potentially go in and question them. It's never been a requirement to have an actual crime for the authorities to take someone in for questioning.
You must be new to civics, and how SCOTUS actually works.
Highly doubtful you would be able to change drivers in a short enough time to exceed the speed limit between toll gate A and B.
You haven't seen how fast we drive.
Okay, well if I google wall street protests, the first page has Salon, Washington Post, CNN, Huffington Post, MSNBC, NY Times. Is that enough? I'm reading below of people talking of a "blackout", as if there's a media conspiracy, but I've seen this on TV news, and even Bill Maher.
Let's do some homework before we spread falsehoods.
Well, I know it's popular here on Slashdot to believe that "personal responsibility that nobody wants to teach their kids anymore". I guarantee you, the vast majority of parents would disagree. But certainly, your right that there are large numbers of those who don't.
You were obviously not the average student. Classroom texting, cheating via cellphone, and complete distraction are rampant in many. Teachers have enough to deal with without putting up with that crap.
I haven't washed-up in years.
There's an app for that?!?
Okay, kids have always had a social life, and that's great. What they don't need is for that life to be interfering with getting an education. What they don't need is another distraction in the classroom. What they don't need is another source of cheating available to them.
I'm not opposed to kids having them at school. I'm opposed to them in class...keep them in your locker, or have them confiscated.
Useful for what? Why does a child need their own telephone?
Why do you need your own telephone? (hint: you don't)
It's useful for communication. You know, that thing everyone does.
Yes, so we can text during class, and send each other answers during the tests. Seriously, there is no reason a young child needs a cellphone at school. Land lines are (still) available in every office for emergencies, changes in plans for after school, etc.
it was useful to be able to call my parents if some after-school activity was cancelled, or something else happened that required me to leave school at a different time, such as when one of my close friends was killed in a car accident, or when I was coopted to the debate team at the last minute before a competition.
Even my schools back in the 60s and 70s had landlines that could be used by the students. My daughter's schools (she graduated just a couple yrs ago), had phones in the office that could be used. Certainly not as convenient, but I still see no reason a young child should need a cellphone. Most of the kids are just texting each other when they should be paying attention during class.
Rote memorization is dead.
Learning is not a binary process. The ability to memorize important items is a useful skill that can be learned and improved upon. I'm not advocating against instruction for rational thought, just stating that this theme I've seen on Slashdot against teaching memorization, is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I'm able to do simple math in my head faster than most people can on a calculator, and it's served me well in engineering, at the grocery store, and piloting Cessnas. When you go to the doctor, do they look up the name of that broken bone you have, or is it on the tip of their tongue? Was memorization overdone in public schools...probably, but it's far from dead.
Curious what state that is. My kid attended one of the top public schools systems in the country, and there was no similar requirement.
Piffle. You can make a broad-spectrum jammer with nothing more than a big, honkin' amplifier and a spark plug, and it'll jam everything for miles around.
Riiiight. Highly recommend you go do some reading before posting such drivel.
Fine. Now let's talk about the survivability of such a system in battlefield conditions. Firing-up a jammer on a battlefield is like standing on the 50-yard line of a blacked-out football stadium full of snipers, and lighting a road flare. Surprise! Your lifespan is now measured in seconds.
And if it really were possible, it would also be just as possible to run wires (or wireless) a couple hundred yards away to control it...you don't need to stand on the 50-yard line.
Now go away, lest we mock you some more.
Oops...too late.