Anything government does is away from some private sector people
No, not everything. There is no private army. There is no private national highway system. There is plenty of things that the government can do that cannot be done by the private industry. But why compete with the private industry while taxing it? That's just so damn obnoxious.
$50 million in tax money could have paid for a whole lot of open source software development, instead.
How would that not be spending tax dollars to compete with private industry? What kind of an ass backwards priority system does this poster have? Take money away from honest citizens at gun point and give this money to their competition? How is this even remotely ethical?
Because hr personal has no analytic skills. They don't know how to distill information that's given to them. They are told what a department works on and they just dump that into a requirement without understanding that these change rapidly even though they stay in the same category of skills. They don't know how to identify categories. If they had analytic skills, they wouldn't be in hr.
I want that data, too. Why isn't performance data public record? These are public schools which operate completely on tax payers' dollars. All teacher salaries are public record as is all public employee data. Why shouldn't performance metrics be public record? I doubt they are asking for students to be named by name. I am sure they would be happy with just the student performance data in a way that keeps students names impossible to find. I would like to know that data, too. Certainly when I pay property taxes I'd like to know what they buy me.
eventually enough coins will be lost that bitcoins will become useless.
I am not sure why this would be. As long as it can be infinitely fractioned (and I believe it can be), loss of any amount of bitcoins is just deflationary.
By the way, there is no "cabal". That word usually implies a conspiracy. Conspiracy requires a secret. And, as I mentioned, the French take industry to be a state affair as a matter of fact. So I did not make any claims of conspiracy. It's the state of France exercising its influence for the sake of what it considers to be its national interests.
I am hoping that they would actually be subject to the laws. If a debt collector from texas calls someone in rhode island (i am using both of these as examples), the callee has no recourse other than federal courts. And good luck reaching the fbi to verify that some phone number in texas is a debt collector. If debt collectors had to be local, you'd see that the number is from texas and simply tell them that they have no legal way to collect your debt -- they are outside of your jurisdiction.
Existing enforcement mechanisms already dont work,
They don't work because they are out of jurisdiction. Someone hires debt collectors. That someone knows your address. If they were penalized for hiring a debt collector outside of your jurisdiction, they (most likely a creditor with a reputation to maintain) would not hire debt collectors outside of your jurisdiction because it would expose them to greater penalties than any money they can possibly recoup. And if your debt collector was in your jurisdiction, they would not be abusive because they would be very easily checked through local courts.
So it may come as no surprise to know that I can make up my own mind on GM without the influence of a French farming cabal.
Yeah, I call bull shit on this one. They don't go out with a straight face trying to make a dispassionate argument that you can think through. The best marketing subverts culture. And I very much doubt that there are too many europeans choosing ge foods over non-ge foods because they want to counter the cultural trends.
Do you want your food labeled with every specific type of pesticide used in its growing? How about labeling every piece of industrial equipment used in its processing? These are all "truth in advertising" and these all have about an equal chance of effecting the content of what you eat. The actual truth is, however, that the only thing which effects the content of what you eat is what is contained in the end product -- not what is contained in any of the ingredients or work product that creates the end product.
But if ambition and psychopathy are a scale, you want the ambitious people working for you who aren't constantly looking for a way to stab you in the back and climb over you.
You do if you are confident that you can win. You work with people who might stab you in the back and you watch your back. But these people bring in more of what you look for.
and it's being patented because it doesn't occur naturally. it occurs as a result of human effort. if the same variation were to happen accidentally during random copying error, it would not be patentable. your viscera is for its own sake. it's not justified by anything in reality.
well, oil does store the sun energy in chemical bonds, but ok. that's not really the topic here. not sure why what i say is bull shit since you haven't actually refuted the point. you made it stronger. it takes thousands of years to wait for a genetic variation to occur naturally. and gm does so quicker.
Unless, of course, they have more advanced capacity for turning it off. Some people get overwhelmed with emotions. Inability to handle emotions is certainly an extreme. But what if lack of emotional response is just a life-long suppression. All that MRIs show is the blood flow to regions of the brain. What if suppression of emotions is just an efficiency mechanism to stop flow of blood to those parts of the brain. That would indicate superior faculty rather than a deficiency. But on the MRI it would show up the same.
That's the point. Television (which most people use as the source of their values) exists for the purpose of selling whatever is advertised. It trains people not for cooler intellect, but for submitting to the emotional side of themselves. In this child-like state most people are more prone to manipulation and pressure to shop.
Not if you superiors are ambitious. Ambitious people try to find use for other ambitious people. Scared people try to defend themselves against even the most minor threats. But then scared people rarely rise very far.
I think we forgot the value of "cooler intellect." Rational introspection doesn't seem to be of value anymore. This is largely practiced in order put people into a trance in which they can be easily convinced to shop. But we can keep out of science, can't we? Suppressing ones emotions (including empathy) is more important when attempting to analyze a situation than embracing them.
He is going for the shock value. If you want to stop an out of control dog, you don't try to calm it down. You smack it on the nose. First and foremost, you have to call him a liar. Bullies have to be confronted. Otherwise, the shock produced by "monsanto lies" trash lines is all that will be remembered. The shock produces an adrenaline rush. And that helps in memory formation.
corn can be eatable, apples can become tasty and juicy, hunger can become a thing of the past in the industrialized world, etc. all cultivated crops are "genetically engineered". you can sit a round and wait for genetic variation to happen because of accidental errors in copying genes. or you can create introduce features into the copying that you want. the former is "cultivation". the latter is genetic engineering. you are an idiot.
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Anything government does is away from some private sector people
No, not everything. There is no private army. There is no private national highway system. There is plenty of things that the government can do that cannot be done by the private industry. But why compete with the private industry while taxing it? That's just so damn obnoxious.
Enough to make impossible any Bayesian inference (that you are suggesting without naming it by name or maybe not even wittingly).
$50 million in tax money could have paid for a whole lot of open source software development, instead.
How would that not be spending tax dollars to compete with private industry? What kind of an ass backwards priority system does this poster have? Take money away from honest citizens at gun point and give this money to their competition? How is this even remotely ethical?
Pssst, wanna buy a bridge?
Keep up with the times, man! We don't sell bridges anymore. Healthcare. If you believe the proverbial "that", I have some healthcare to sell you.
Because hr personal has no analytic skills. They don't know how to distill information that's given to them. They are told what a department works on and they just dump that into a requirement without understanding that these change rapidly even though they stay in the same category of skills. They don't know how to identify categories. If they had analytic skills, they wouldn't be in hr.
This right to privacy you think you have does not apply to many areas:
It doesn't say they want private data. It says they want performance data. This does not have to identify students.
I want that data, too. Why isn't performance data public record? These are public schools which operate completely on tax payers' dollars. All teacher salaries are public record as is all public employee data. Why shouldn't performance metrics be public record? I doubt they are asking for students to be named by name. I am sure they would be happy with just the student performance data in a way that keeps students names impossible to find. I would like to know that data, too. Certainly when I pay property taxes I'd like to know what they buy me.
And if you believe that, I have some healthcare to sell you.
eventually enough coins will be lost that bitcoins will become useless.
I am not sure why this would be. As long as it can be infinitely fractioned (and I believe it can be), loss of any amount of bitcoins is just deflationary.
By the way, there is no "cabal". That word usually implies a conspiracy. Conspiracy requires a secret. And, as I mentioned, the French take industry to be a state affair as a matter of fact. So I did not make any claims of conspiracy. It's the state of France exercising its influence for the sake of what it considers to be its national interests.
I am hoping that they would actually be subject to the laws. If a debt collector from texas calls someone in rhode island (i am using both of these as examples), the callee has no recourse other than federal courts. And good luck reaching the fbi to verify that some phone number in texas is a debt collector. If debt collectors had to be local, you'd see that the number is from texas and simply tell them that they have no legal way to collect your debt -- they are outside of your jurisdiction.
Existing enforcement mechanisms already dont work,
They don't work because they are out of jurisdiction. Someone hires debt collectors. That someone knows your address. If they were penalized for hiring a debt collector outside of your jurisdiction, they (most likely a creditor with a reputation to maintain) would not hire debt collectors outside of your jurisdiction because it would expose them to greater penalties than any money they can possibly recoup. And if your debt collector was in your jurisdiction, they would not be abusive because they would be very easily checked through local courts.
So it may come as no surprise to know that I can make up my own mind on GM without the influence of a French farming cabal.
Yeah, I call bull shit on this one. They don't go out with a straight face trying to make a dispassionate argument that you can think through. The best marketing subverts culture. And I very much doubt that there are too many europeans choosing ge foods over non-ge foods because they want to counter the cultural trends.
Do you want your food labeled with every specific type of pesticide used in its growing? How about labeling every piece of industrial equipment used in its processing? These are all "truth in advertising" and these all have about an equal chance of effecting the content of what you eat. The actual truth is, however, that the only thing which effects the content of what you eat is what is contained in the end product -- not what is contained in any of the ingredients or work product that creates the end product.
But if ambition and psychopathy are a scale, you want the ambitious people working for you who aren't constantly looking for a way to stab you in the back and climb over you.
You do if you are confident that you can win. You work with people who might stab you in the back and you watch your back. But these people bring in more of what you look for.
and it's being patented because it doesn't occur naturally. it occurs as a result of human effort. if the same variation were to happen accidentally during random copying error, it would not be patentable. your viscera is for its own sake. it's not justified by anything in reality.
well, oil does store the sun energy in chemical bonds, but ok. that's not really the topic here. not sure why what i say is bull shit since you haven't actually refuted the point. you made it stronger. it takes thousands of years to wait for a genetic variation to occur naturally. and gm does so quicker.
well, of course: i was proposing the he submit to the forces he holds dear and die out due to his ineptness.
Unless, of course, they have more advanced capacity for turning it off. Some people get overwhelmed with emotions. Inability to handle emotions is certainly an extreme. But what if lack of emotional response is just a life-long suppression. All that MRIs show is the blood flow to regions of the brain. What if suppression of emotions is just an efficiency mechanism to stop flow of blood to those parts of the brain. That would indicate superior faculty rather than a deficiency. But on the MRI it would show up the same.
That's the point. Television (which most people use as the source of their values) exists for the purpose of selling whatever is advertised. It trains people not for cooler intellect, but for submitting to the emotional side of themselves. In this child-like state most people are more prone to manipulation and pressure to shop.
Not if you superiors are ambitious. Ambitious people try to find use for other ambitious people. Scared people try to defend themselves against even the most minor threats. But then scared people rarely rise very far.
I think we forgot the value of "cooler intellect." Rational introspection doesn't seem to be of value anymore. This is largely practiced in order put people into a trance in which they can be easily convinced to shop. But we can keep out of science, can't we? Suppressing ones emotions (including empathy) is more important when attempting to analyze a situation than embracing them.
He is going for the shock value. If you want to stop an out of control dog, you don't try to calm it down. You smack it on the nose. First and foremost, you have to call him a liar. Bullies have to be confronted. Otherwise, the shock produced by "monsanto lies" trash lines is all that will be remembered. The shock produces an adrenaline rush. And that helps in memory formation.
corn can be eatable, apples can become tasty and juicy, hunger can become a thing of the past in the industrialized world, etc. all cultivated crops are "genetically engineered". you can sit a round and wait for genetic variation to happen because of accidental errors in copying genes. or you can create introduce features into the copying that you want. the former is "cultivation". the latter is genetic engineering. you are an idiot.
seek help. actually, better not. let natural selection take care of you.