So let me get this straight, if I don't believe that the obviously made-up and utilitarian "God" abstract concept has a physical instantiation of some kind in the universe, I'm probably sociopathic.
The one thing I'll agree with you on is that religion educates child-like, non-independent thinking people on the benefits of social reciprocity. But you could just explain the benefits of social reciprocity with a bunch of other stories that don't involve weird-ass supernatural deities intervening all over the place. It kind of fails the Occam's Razor principle. The game theory principles of social reciprocity are starting to become well understood, and I suspect that before long we'll have theory proving that social reciprocity (do unto others, don't covet...don't steal etc etc) for intelligent agents like ourselves is an organizational configuration (of constraints) which leads to thermodynamically more efficiency per unit of survival (to reproduction) probability per person. Live in a civilized society with social reciprocity, lifts all boats. Lifts the hierarchs boats just a little bit more so we get hierarchical religious authority backing up the stories with sticks and stones. Just a stable societal organization structure. Nothing more. Nothing less.
There needs to be national (and un for that matter) legislation stating clearly that the person owns their identification information, and all control of how it gets released, with the exception that a few government-issued pieces of id are co-owned by the person and the government. Technical details can follow.
Why don't they just start some semi-autonomous collectives?
Merge one back in if it comes up with anything decent.
I think their related worry must why like 70 percent (off top of my head) of their new innovative product rollouts (as opposed to extensions to gmail and improvements on search) seem to be failing in the market,
What? LISP is dead simple. Evaluate arguments, apply symbolized function to arguments. Compose these function evaluations if you feel like it.
I got the impression people didn't like LISP because of the parentheses, to which I can only say "if so, why are you programmer". If indented properly, LISP is the most elegant looking and easy to understand programming language I've ever encountered. The flexibility in LISP comes from the fact that it is trivially easy to create domain-specific libraries of many small functions (See SOLID principles), and yes, you have to read the comments for each of these little functions to understand the whole, but then you are rocking, adding two more functions on top and finishing your program.
It has to do with whether the rules imposed in the GPL are arguably necessary.
The thing that many people seem to forget is that using GPL software in the construction of your software or extensions is entirely voluntary (even if extremely valuable). You could always opt to write a whole alternate eco-system of software and give it whatever license you want. That's liberty. If you use GPL software, you are voluntarily becoming a citizen of the "GPL State" with its benefits (the existing GPL codebase in its totality, and, some would argue, the license's protections.) Of course as a citizen you have to abide by the rules.
The other thing about the "GPL state" is you're allowed to leave it and move to or form your own state at any time, unlike a typical totalitarian regime. You just can't take the buildings and cities with you when you leave, though you can use them as general inspiration to build your own.
Enough with the drum-tight (stetched) analogies already.
Actually a lot of the death and illness caused by Chernobyl was young children developing thyroid cancer because they absorbed radioactive iodine into their thyroid from drinking contaminated milk from the (wide) surrounding area affected by IODINE fallout from the accident.
So your initial sentence is pretty much how should I say, wrong.
Because total freedom includes the freedom to deny freedom to others.
Total freedom is equivalent to some kind of combination of anarchy and libertarian anarcho-capitalism.
It ends up being pretty oppressive for the non-swift or non-bold or non-ruthless.
So some systems, like GPL, which are trying to promote the "most amount of freedom for the most people" have to have some consitutional rules to guard that overall fair state.
In a way it's analogous to a market. Many are advocates of a "free market", but of course a free market cannot function without rules (against insider trading, against hacking the trading system, against fraudulent financial statements or prospectuses) and punishments for violating the rules, so again, not totally free. But seems to work. That's the key. A level of freedom designed carefully to conserve the most amount of freedom for the largest number of people and to have it continue to work despite people trying to game and corrupt the system.
Their probably afraid that the hobbyist will let a mainstream media journalist try their cool Google phone and, because the journalist doesn't understand the finer points of google recommending it not be used on phones, they write a scathing review of Google's new phone OS.
If there's one thing I've learned in my tech career, is that customers don't understand or care who exactly in the chain of production was responsible for their problem or lousy experience. It's always you. And if you're the big name part of the equation, its DEFINITELY you.
Saw a great sign on the side of a truck: "Joe's Natural Gardening: Where the Customer is Occasionally Right"
I didn't know they let 4 year olds on the internet unsupervised.
Can't switch 'til delicious add-on works
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Sadly, delicious has become indispensible to my online life and their add-on is only compatible with Firefox 3.0 - 4.0b3pre
I guess the latest UI changes in the later 4betas threw them for a loop. If anyone knows the status of that add-on maybe give an update. Is there still a team working on it, given the shake-up a while back?
that people 300 years from now will see them as the few beacons of rationality and guardians of beauty and true value in an era in which pure-greed-driven anarcho-captialist industrial civilization went insane and tore down its own home and the neighboring residents.
Meanwhile, Steve Kerekes, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, a US INDUSTRY GROUP, said some stuff downplaying the possible dangers of the situation with the purpose of preventing the build-up of opposition to nuclear power.
Re: Greens. You are misrepesenting greens. Those "narrow interests" that they support are basically the interests of functioning, diverse, healthy eco-systems worldwide and all of the inhabitants of those ecosystems. Yep. Pretty "special interest". Pretty radical. Definitely evil. Those bastards are supporting life over money. They are supporting sense not dollars. It's a good thing Guantanamo is still open.
You do realize don't you that it is American and British oil companies exploiting the resources of Nigeria and leaving them with a massive pollution mess to clean up, right? Sorry but in global evironmental exploitation and degradation, Western multi-national companies and the Western consumers (I'm guilty too) they sell to are by an order of magnitude the worst culprits on the planet, and have been for 60 years at least.
What are they teaching you American kids in school these days?
Only an ignoramus would think that "clean" is the most important environmental indicator.
I think you would get pretty good agreement among scientists that In rough order of long-term importance, some environmental problems we are causing now are: 1. Removal of natural eco-systems and biodiversity. 2. Global warming (and its secondary effects like ocean acidification) 3. Overuse of fresh-water resources 4. Pollution of water resources and ocean life with toxins 5. Toxic waste deposits on land 6. Heavy metal and P.O.P. air pollution 7. Fossil-fuel particulate air pollution
So you must think that an American has a (god given?) right to emit GHGs 6 times as much as a Chinese person and 13 times as much as an Indian citizen.
Who should have to "clean up" first, the person emitting 6 times (13 times) as much, or the other person.
Per person is the only fair way to count it. Otherwise you are not so subtly admitting that you value some people (by citizenship) more than you value other people, and that the privileged people (the special people) have an inherent right to contribute more to the problem before having to clean up their act. If you believe that, then say so openly.
The reason I pick greenhouse-gas emissions is that by far that is the most serious global issue being caused by fossil-fuel based electricity production. Particulate air pollution is a local problem. Serious yes. A lot easier to see and understand yes. But way way less important on the global scale of issues.
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So let me get this straight, if I don't believe that the obviously made-up and utilitarian "God" abstract concept has a physical instantiation of some kind in the universe, I'm probably sociopathic.
The one thing I'll agree with you on is that religion educates child-like, non-independent thinking people on the benefits of social reciprocity.
But you could just explain the benefits of social reciprocity with a bunch of other stories that don't involve weird-ass supernatural deities
intervening all over the place.
It kind of fails the Occam's Razor principle. The game theory principles of social reciprocity are starting to become well understood,
and I suspect that before long we'll have theory proving that social reciprocity (do unto others, don't covet...don't steal etc etc) for intelligent
agents like ourselves is an organizational configuration (of constraints) which leads to thermodynamically more efficiency per unit of survival
(to reproduction) probability per person. Live in a civilized society with social reciprocity, lifts all boats. Lifts the hierarchs boats just a little
bit more so we get hierarchical religious authority backing up the stories with sticks and stones. Just a stable societal organization structure.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Take that sociopathy and stuff it in your pipe.
A version of SAML (or credible general-purpose alternative to it) that works easily with RESTful services might help things along.
There needs to be national (and un for that matter) legislation stating clearly that the person owns their identification information,
and all control of how it gets released, with the exception that a few government-issued pieces of id are co-owned by the person
and the government.
Technical details can follow.
Why don't they just start some semi-autonomous collectives?
Merge one back in if it comes up with anything decent.
I think their related worry must why like 70 percent (off top of my head)
of their new innovative product rollouts (as opposed to extensions to gmail
and improvements on search) seem to be failing in the market,
and how they can crack the Facebook nut.
"if so, why are you programmer" should of course read "If so, why are you a programmer?" Why am I still a programmer? )))
What?
LISP is dead simple.
Evaluate arguments, apply symbolized function to arguments.
Compose these function evaluations if you feel like it.
I got the impression people didn't like LISP because of the parentheses, to which I can only say
"if so, why are you programmer". If indented properly, LISP is the most elegant looking and easy
to understand programming language I've ever encountered. The flexibility in LISP comes from the
fact that it is trivially easy to create domain-specific libraries of many small functions (See SOLID principles),
and yes, you have to read the comments for each of these little functions to understand the whole, but then
you are rocking, adding two more functions on top and finishing your program.
by dropping them and seeing which one hits the ground first.
It has to do with whether the rules imposed in the GPL are arguably necessary.
The thing that many people seem to forget is that using GPL software in the construction of your software or extensions is entirely voluntary
(even if extremely valuable). You could always opt to write a whole alternate eco-system of software and give it whatever license you want.
That's liberty. If you use GPL software, you are voluntarily becoming a citizen of the "GPL State" with its benefits (the existing GPL codebase
in its totality, and, some would argue, the license's protections.) Of course as a citizen you have to abide by the rules.
The other thing about the "GPL state" is you're allowed to leave it and move to or form your own state at any time, unlike a typical totalitarian regime.
You just can't take the buildings and cities with you when you leave, though you can use them as general inspiration to build your own.
Enough with the drum-tight (stetched) analogies already.
"Spending a year close to Fukushima itself will have ZERO observable health effects."
Go for it. I'm sure they could use your assistance there.
Actually a lot of the death and illness caused by Chernobyl was young children developing thyroid cancer because they absorbed radioactive iodine into their thyroid from drinking contaminated milk from the (wide) surrounding area affected by IODINE fallout from the accident.
So your initial sentence is pretty much how should I say, wrong.
I wonder if it's going to be possible/practical to install a "free" Samba on MacOS 7 to replace whatever more limited thing apple delivers.
Because total freedom includes the freedom to deny freedom to others.
Total freedom is equivalent to some kind of combination of anarchy and libertarian anarcho-capitalism.
It ends up being pretty oppressive for the non-swift or non-bold or non-ruthless.
So some systems, like GPL, which are trying to promote the "most amount of freedom for the
most people" have to have some consitutional rules to guard that overall fair state.
In a way it's analogous to a market. Many are advocates of a "free market",
but of course a free market cannot function without rules (against insider trading, against hacking the trading system,
against fraudulent financial statements or prospectuses) and punishments for violating the rules,
so again, not totally free. But seems to work. That's the key. A level of freedom designed carefully to
conserve the most amount of freedom for the largest number of people and to have it continue to work
despite people trying to game and corrupt the system.
Clever if you ask me, and laudable.
Their probably afraid that the hobbyist will let a mainstream media journalist try their cool Google phone and, because the journalist doesn't understand the finer points of google recommending it not be used on phones, they write a scathing review of Google's new phone OS.
If there's one thing I've learned in my tech career, is that customers don't understand or care who exactly in the chain of production was responsible for their problem or lousy experience. It's always you. And if you're the big name part of the equation, its DEFINITELY you.
Saw a great sign on the side of a truck: "Joe's Natural Gardening: Where the Customer is Occasionally Right"
I didn't know they let 4 year olds on the internet unsupervised.
Sadly, delicious has become indispensible to my online life and their add-on is only compatible with Firefox 3.0 - 4.0b3pre
I guess the latest UI changes in the later 4betas threw them for a loop. If anyone knows the status of that add-on
maybe give an update. Is there still a team working on it, given the shake-up a while back?
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201012300325.html
that people 300 years from now will see them as the few beacons of rationality and guardians of beauty and true value in an era in which pure-greed-driven anarcho-captialist industrial civilization went insane and tore down its own home and the neighboring residents.
Meanwhile, Steve Kerekes, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, a US INDUSTRY GROUP, said some stuff downplaying the possible dangers of the situation with the purpose of preventing the build-up of opposition to nuclear power.
If not how would one recreate the dns? Is it harder with dnssec?
Re: Greens. You are misrepesenting greens. Those "narrow interests" that they support are basically the interests of functioning, diverse, healthy eco-systems worldwide and all of the inhabitants of those ecosystems. Yep. Pretty "special interest". Pretty radical. Definitely evil. Those bastards are supporting life over money. They are supporting sense not dollars. It's a good thing Guantanamo is still open.
Stone me.
I'll be affin' to modify me writing style 'en. Yeah dats de ticket. Dat's wot I'm about now, in' I ?
You do realize don't you that it is American and British oil companies exploiting the resources of Nigeria and leaving them with a massive pollution mess to clean up, right? Sorry but in global evironmental exploitation and degradation, Western multi-national companies and the Western consumers (I'm guilty too) they sell to are by an order of magnitude the worst culprits on the planet, and have been for 60 years at least.
What are they teaching you American kids in school these days?
Only an ignoramus would think that "clean" is the most important environmental indicator.
I think you would get pretty good agreement among scientists that In rough order of long-term importance,
some environmental problems we are causing now are:
1. Removal of natural eco-systems and biodiversity.
2. Global warming (and its secondary effects like ocean acidification)
3. Overuse of fresh-water resources
4. Pollution of water resources and ocean life with toxins
5. Toxic waste deposits on land
6. Heavy metal and P.O.P. air pollution
7. Fossil-fuel particulate air pollution
So you must think that an American has a (god given?) right to emit GHGs 6 times as much as a Chinese person and 13 times as much as an Indian citizen.
Who should have to "clean up" first, the person emitting 6 times (13 times) as much, or the other person.
Per person is the only fair way to count it. Otherwise you are not so subtly admitting that you value some people (by citizenship) more than you value other people, and that the privileged people (the special people) have an inherent right to contribute more to the problem before having to clean up their act. If you believe that, then say so openly.
The reason I pick greenhouse-gas emissions is that by far that is the most serious global issue being caused by fossil-fuel based electricity production. Particulate air pollution is a local problem. Serious yes. A lot easier to see and understand yes. But way way less important on the global scale of issues.