Ah, yes. You are one of the ultra-highminded ones.
If there is someone making a buck on something, you come down with a butt-load of heavy bricks if it does not suit your mighty principles.
You would keep the Chinese people from having the faintest approach to the WWW because their government would forbid some portion of it?
This was a mediocre story which used advanced techniques for about two years and was quickly eclipsed by much better stories using the same and better techniques.
SW is much like Flash Gordon. Put it on the shelf and relive it with a buzz on every five years or so.
This just in. The telephone changed the way we all lived and undeveloped adolescent girls and boys spend inordinant amounts of time talking on it, describing a feeling of disconnect when deprived.
Get a grip. This exact same crap was said a century ago. The past is sooooo golden. That is, until you get there. Then it sucks.
First, telephone calls cost money for long-distance.
Second, please tell me -- exactly -- what is "good" about hand written letters?
I have friends I write to frequently all over the world. For instance, Switzerland. It takes about 7-9 days for a letter to get there. 2-3 weeks for a round-trip. I don't call that communicating.
I'm glad your ivory tower is unscathed by the modern world. No, the precedent is not what you think.
You're looking at this from the outside. From inside China, the precedent is having a friggin' search engine to the world in the first place, regardless if crippled.
"After war, money is the most effective way to change another country's behaviour."
Very good. That's exactly what Google is doing, providing a venue for the insertion of capitalism (money) and information (partial search).
"If we say 'that's just business' we are putting a rubber stamp on China's current activities."
Please give an alternative which would allow democratic countries to have a foot in the door if you would deny those companies who would abide by their rules (that is, be allowed in in the first place)? Assuming you preclude war, that is.
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"Granted, no one will die if you get infected with a zombie, but neither is your car capable of crashing every other car on every road in the world."
Your computer cannot do the same, either. Were it so, we would have already had one computer crashing every other computer on every other net in the world. We have not, not can it happen. Your entire post is excess.
I notice all your cites are the BBC, that ever-so-antiAmerican organization. By the way, follow the development of environmental recovery and friendly technologies, and you find yourself right back here most of the time.
"...people in England wouldn't buy a house without at least a 50 year-guaranteed slate roof."
Perhaps, but they're also paying for that every-so-much-more support structure underneath. I reroofed my house myself (new struts and all) for $5000. In twenty years, I'll have to repair it. Big deal.
A good investment, when you can do it, is to wrap the house (inside and out) with a vapor barrior. The reduction in draft makes it seem warmer. Very cost effective if you're already stripping rooms or redoing the siding, etc.
Ummm, slapping terminators onto it does not cut it. You need definitions that make enough sense to someone to get them used. Just what is "appling" someone, or "applizing" the person?
"beliefed", sheesh. No wonder you thought it would be easy. Maybe that explains the F's she gave you?
Whoopeediippin' doo. You slapped some terminators on a noun. That didn't create a new word. #1 and #3 were nonsense, and #2 is no where unique (went berrying), just implied picking.
Nounification. More nonsense. Failes your point, m'thinks.
"This bidding process is almost certainly a good thing for the hospitals, but is it good for the nurses?"
Unless you do more than wave hands, yes. They get extra income for doing what they're trained for.
"Or safe for you?"
Why not. It's not like a nurse will be doing a job for which they're untrained.
"And what will happen if other industries also adopt auction systems?"
Software already does. It's called asking for hourly rate. Same for plumbers, carpenters, lawyers, accountants, etc. Pretty pandemic, if you ask me.
"Imagine a company telling you, 'Hey, you want to make some extra dollars by building this car or writing this piece of software? Name your price, and you'll make some more cash.'"
I don't have to, because that doesn't make sense. Nurses aren't being asked to do something they aren't trained for, why pretend that's the case?
"What do you think of this bidding process?"
Reasonable, what rational reasons would you have against it?
What, pray tell, would be the reason for you to own lockpicking tools? Hmmm? Maybe to pick locks? No, they're not just tools. They are tools specifically designed to circumvent someone's locks.
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Ah, yes. You are one of the ultra-highminded ones. If there is someone making a buck on something, you come down with a butt-load of heavy bricks if it does not suit your mighty principles.
You would keep the Chinese people from having the faintest approach to the WWW because their government would forbid some portion of it?
How very benevolent of you.
Je-heee-zuz H. Christ.
This was a mediocre story which used advanced techniques for about two years and was quickly eclipsed by much better stories using the same and better techniques.
SW is much like Flash Gordon. Put it on the shelf and relive it with a buzz on every five years or so.
Elsewise, get a life, get a life, get a life.
This just in. The telephone changed the way we all lived and undeveloped adolescent girls and boys spend inordinant amounts of time talking on it, describing a feeling of disconnect when deprived.
Get a grip. This exact same crap was said a century ago. The past is sooooo golden. That is, until you get there. Then it sucks.
First, telephone calls cost money for long-distance.
Second, please tell me -- exactly -- what is "good" about hand written letters?
I have friends I write to frequently all over the world. For instance, Switzerland. It takes about 7-9 days for a letter to get there. 2-3 weeks for a round-trip. I don't call that communicating.
Bullshit. Five to ten years is sometimes only enough time to just about get whatever you have saleable. Not enough time. More like twenty.
"It is the precedent that is important here."
I'm glad your ivory tower is unscathed by the modern world. No, the precedent is not what you think.
You're looking at this from the outside. From inside China, the precedent is having a friggin' search engine to the world in the first place, regardless if crippled.
"After war, money is the most effective way to change another country's behaviour."
Very good. That's exactly what Google is doing, providing a venue for the insertion of capitalism (money) and information (partial search).
"If we say 'that's just business' we are putting a rubber stamp on China's current activities."
Please give an alternative which would allow democratic countries to have a foot in the door if you would deny those companies who would abide by their rules (that is, be allowed in in the first place)? Assuming you preclude war, that is.
"...and the attitude of the rest of the world in letting the US puppet the UN into submission is sad to see."
This statement alone shows you don't know dick about the UN and its policies toward the U.S.
That gives us what, another eight hundred years?
"Granted, no one will die if you get infected with a zombie, but neither is your car capable of crashing every other car on every road in the world."
Your computer cannot do the same, either. Were it so, we would have already had one computer crashing every other computer on every other net in the world. We have not, not can it happen. Your entire post is excess.
One of the things I find amusing about the space elevator is its need for a fully functional space industry to construct it.
I notice all your cites are the BBC, that ever-so-antiAmerican organization. By the way, follow the development of environmental recovery and friendly technologies, and you find yourself right back here most of the time.
"...people in England wouldn't buy a house without at least a 50 year-guaranteed slate roof."
Perhaps, but they're also paying for that every-so-much-more support structure underneath. I reroofed my house myself (new struts and all) for $5000. In twenty years, I'll have to repair it. Big deal.
A good investment, when you can do it, is to wrap the house (inside and out) with a vapor barrior. The reduction in draft makes it seem warmer. Very cost effective if you're already stripping rooms or redoing the siding, etc.
"...proliferation of 'grief counselors' descending..."
I would not describe a plague of locusts as "progress", but rather, a pestilence from Hell.
Ummm, slapping terminators onto it does not cut it. You need definitions that make enough sense to someone to get them used. Just what is "appling" someone, or "applizing" the person?
"beliefed", sheesh. No wonder you thought it would be easy. Maybe that explains the F's she gave you?
Bzzzt! Newton did not write about the fact that apples fall to the ground. He did describe the how in great detail and insight.
That is what was missing in the 'study', and what constitutes science.
Whoopeediippin' doo. You slapped some terminators on a noun. That didn't create a new word. #1 and #3 were nonsense, and #2 is no where unique (went berrying), just implied picking.
Nounification. More nonsense. Failes your point, m'thinks.
"This bidding process is almost certainly a good thing for the hospitals, but is it good for the nurses?"
Unless you do more than wave hands, yes. They get extra income for doing what they're trained for.
"Or safe for you?"
Why not. It's not like a nurse will be doing a job for which they're untrained.
"And what will happen if other industries also adopt auction systems?"
Software already does. It's called asking for hourly rate. Same for plumbers, carpenters, lawyers, accountants, etc. Pretty pandemic, if you ask me.
"Imagine a company telling you, 'Hey, you want to make some extra dollars by building this car or writing this piece of software? Name your price, and you'll make some more cash.'"
I don't have to, because that doesn't make sense. Nurses aren't being asked to do something they aren't trained for, why pretend that's the case?
"What do you think of this bidding process?"
Reasonable, what rational reasons would you have against it?
"By making people bid, they are literally making them demean themselves..."
Oh, horseshit. I spent most of my career bidding myself. I just don't go lower than I want. How the hell, exactly, have I demeaned myself?
I didn't bring down my rates because some low-caliber bid low. They typically didn't get selected anyway.
"My services will be charged what I feel are appropriate, and not being forced to BID like a slave. Sheesh."
Wow, what sanctimonious pap. You know when they ask you for your hourly charge? That's a bid, chum.
You DO understand that there are some who will underbid you who are actually better than you, don't you?
That has to be utter bullshit. A regular TV consumes more power, not to mention an electric stove. Tripe.
Yeah, right. A stalker sneaks up on you and attaches an RFID tag. You don't even notice it's done, so you go on with your merry little life.
Shit people, at least try to think.
Just pretend you don't notice, and after the stalker leaves, put the tag on a stray dog.
This crap was insightful?
If you're that paranoid, pay in cash. Jesus, can't the nutsos think at least two steps?
Puh-lease. Take off at least a couple of pounds of tin-foil. At a theme park the kids are rampantly everywhere. Finding them was never a problem.
Why don't you at least create a novel problem?
"...how can they outlaw lockpicks?"
What, pray tell, would be the reason for you to own lockpicking tools? Hmmm? Maybe to pick locks? No, they're not just tools. They are tools specifically designed to circumvent someone's locks.