Boycotting Sony would be like boycotting porn. Gettng on a bus is a public act, all you need is enough people to stand near the bus stop giving dirty looks and people will join your boycott. You can't stand in front of every store selling Sony stuff. Sony stuff is mostly consumed in the privacy of your home. Broadcast is very private, and the stuff in your mailbox, only the shipper knows for sure.
Guess What! Firefox lets you use Wikipedia as a search engine, too. Click on the Google symbol in the searchbox, if Wikipedia isn't on the list, select "Add Engines", then choose Wikipedia or whatever else you like. Next time you use the searchbox, it will be one of the options.
There is a reason for this right, it is to keep our leaders on their best behaviour. Since our leaders include a group of influential people much larger than the group we elect, it can't be defined by law, so the press is allowed to choose who to watch. Notethat the press, itself, isn't defined by law, so anyone who publishes in a public place has that right and the corresponding responsibility to not misuse it. The press, itself, is more concerned about interesting stories than about keeping our leaders honest. Most of our "influential people" on the screen know that even bad publicity is good publicity. Occassionally, a Britany Spears comes along, who probably wished the stories about her and her family would go away. I, myself, don't like those stories, and doubt they would exist if everyone was like me. But, even so, Britanny is probably extra careful about how well she straps her kid in when they go for a drive. So, the price of giving the press the right to report on thiings that our leaders would rather keep private, is that "interesting" people of all sorts are stalked, photographed, and written about. there is the concept of a "public person" and a "private person" that I haven't gotten into. But, I think a public person, in general, is someone who wants publicity and must accept bad as well as good, while a private person wants to be left alone. A private person's complain about his privacy being abused carries more weight since he doesnt want good publicity either. IE, celebreties and politicians want good press, so they must put up with bad press.
Not everyone in the polling place understands what is happening in a primary, that you in some way are "joining" a party and therefore limiting your options. In George, we don't register for a party when we register to vote, you just walk in and start voting. Some people know the names of who they want to vote for and don't think much about the party until they realize that the silly machine won't let them vote for who they intended. And even then, they might just think there is something wrong with the machine (and that might be a good thing if more people are confused by the Diebold machines than the butterfly ballots that we used to have).
GP appears to be talking about primary elections, not general elections. In Georgia, it sort of does work that way in that everyone you vote for much be in the same party. Ideally, for each office, there will be a few Democrats, a few Republicans, and maybe even someone else. If you absolutely must vote for one of the Democrats, then everyone else you vote for must be a Democrat, so for primaries, people choose according to which race they care about, if the Mayorial Race is more important or competitive than the Congressional Race, then you vote for your favorite mayorial candidate and that's it. (I assume, because I don't live in a city and have never had to vote for a mayor....anyone else here from JC or Milton?) But, that's the way it works for other offices, if I really care about my Congress Rep, I might not get to vote for my favorite Senate Candidate. As a practical manor, incumbants are never opposed by anyone in their own party, and most the other races are unapposed at the primary level or I don't know any of the guys running for dogcather, so I don't care about that race.
It is important to remember that your primary vote does not obligate you to vote for the same candidate in the general election. So, if your favorite candidates all survive the primary, you get a chance to vote for all of them, assuming that they aren't running against each other. And now that we have these wonderful machines from Diebold, no one can accidentally screw up and vote for candidates in different parties.
And this is exactly why this idea of the human race splitting due to evolution is probably crap.
Not only can we already modify our bodies with artificial devices (implants, etc.), we're already very close to being able to genetically engineer ourselves and our offspring. Unless there's an absolutely huge disparity between the rich and the poor, even lower middle-class people should be able to afford some improvements.
Companion surgery to modify the genes will be the next big thing. You will fall in love with her body/hair, marry, then realize it's fake. When it is time to conceive, if you can afford it, you will have the parents' gametes or the zygote itself genetically modified to make the enhancement a permanent feature of your family tree.
I can easily see people with money to invest investing in genetic enhancements that will stay in the family tree forever. That is a nobrainer. The real problem isn't even that educated people have fewer kids. Rich and/or educated men have always been able to father more than enough kids, assuming they weren't picky when choosing a mate. It is the educated women who are the problem. This study is about the benefits of educating the girls in poor countries, but a similar phenomenon is happening at the other end of the economic spectrum.
No matter how helpful the father is with childcare, that nine month pregancy, followed up with a year of breastfeeding can really impact on the job performance of a fulltime professional. After that, someone must watch the kids, who do much better when raised by adults, male or female, who are as smart as they are. These people do not work for minimum wage at the local childcare center. So smart, rich kids are very expensive and society can only afford so many of them. Now that smart girls are less likely to go into teaching, employers (and employees, too, but I think they already are) must work very hard at figuring out how to squeeze parenting and professional level employment into one life. The obvious solution to the pregancy problem is surrogate mothering, something that is happening more and more, especially in countries with different moral standards than the USA (where it is done for infertility, not for convenience). Or, if we want to completely change the world for women and their employers, not to mention the kids, bring on Aldous Huxley's Bottle Babies.
Yeah. I suspect that really smart people don't perceive themselves as smart. The more you know, the more you realize how little you know. If you don't know anything, you're not capable of estimating your own knowledge - you don't know enough to know whether you know anything. Stupid people probably think they're pretty smart, while smart people probably constantly doubt their own intellect.
That's what I tell myself everyday. Raising my teenagers, I have no trouble seeing how stupid and clueless I am. If I ever have doubts, one of them will tell me.
I know what smart women like - men who can hold up their half of an intelligent conversation about interesting books, movies, technology, polititics, religion,, and have the money to feed me well while doing it. Guys who can only talk about how smart they are are dull. I've known a few Mensa members and they are certainly not the sort anyone, even a smart woman would want to spend an evening with.
A little history that many might find surprising. Back in the 80's, that's prior to MS Windows, the top selling spreadsheet and wordprocessors for Macintosh OS were MS Excel and MS Word. Microsoft had a version of Word for the PC, but it did not use a mouse or a GUI. It was not the most popular wordprocessor for PC's, that was WordPerfect. MS development of GUI Excel and Word went along in parallel to the development in Windows and finally came out of the R&D department years after the Mac versions. During the early 90's, featurea usually appeared on the Mac version first. We had both Mac's and PC's in our office and eventually standardized on MS Office for that very reason, that the Mac and PC versions were better synced than anything else on the market since most companies supported Mac or PC, but not both.
Studies have shown that a workplace phone shared by several people is a great way to share the common cold and similar diseases. Maybe someone needs to make a handset that cleans itself.
All you are saying is that mechanical devices are more fun to watch then electronic devices. This is even true for people who don't undertand mechanical processes. With CD's all you have is the music to entertain you.
"Pretexting"is lying for the purpose of identity theft. So, it is a more precise term for what happened, at least for those who know what it means. And it is illegal, unlike many other forms of lying.
From the linked gsa.gov website:
Under a new federal law - the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act - it's illegal for anyone to:
use false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or documents to get customer information from a financial institution or directly from a customer of a financial institution.
use forged, counterfeit, lost, or stolen documents to get customer information from a financial institution or directly from a customer of a financial institution.
ask another person to get someone else's customer information using false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or using false, fictitious or fraudulent documents or forged, counterfeit, lost, or stolen documents.
Here's another government website about "pretexting", dated 2001, so we know the "word" has been around awhile. They also put quotes around "identity theft".
The web is an Information Media, not an audiotory or visual media. The information can be provided in more than one way. It may seem a bit redundant, but then, wasn't God being redundant when he thought up both vision and hearing?
This used to be very common back in the day when all students were required to write with the right hand, back when writing lefty was thought to be a preference and not something you are born with.
Thanks to all who didn't jump all over me for disrespecting the dead. The media does a good job of doing that with people who are still alive which I suppose is why I hadn't read anything good about him until he died. He does sound like a genuinely decent fellow, one who will be missed. He probably had a lot of projects still ahead of him. I entirely get and like your analogy of the kids playing with the lovable family pit bull. You can get too comfortable around wild animals, or high voltage, or whatever it is you work with on a daily basis.
This is a fellow I never heard of until I came across a picture of him dangling his own child over a crocodile pit while he was feeding the creatures. It is hard to like a guy after that really bad first impression. Not that I dislike him. I don't know anything about him other than that he does stupid stuff in public, so the joking makes more sense than sympathy.
Even a good 16 year old is only 16 years old. The most advanced 16 year old still has a lot to learn about using his new freedoms wisely. Yes, he should have some freedom, but mostly to make mistakes that can be fixed. Most people do not drive as well as they think they do. This is especially true for teenagers who just don't have as much experience.
Were you trustworthy? I know that it is very difficult to earn the trust of some people, but trust is a 2 way thing. You say that you had opportunities to violate their trust. How did you use those opportunities? Did you use them as opportunities to earn their trust? It is very hard to trust a kid or an adult for that matter who takes advantage of lack of supervision to do the sort of things that they wouldn't do when supervised.
I've seen the future and it is not private. No matter how much we may say we want privacy, we will trade it away in a heartbeat for anything thats free.
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Boycotting Sony would be like boycotting porn. Gettng on a bus is a public act, all you need is enough people to stand near the bus stop giving dirty looks and people will join your boycott. You can't stand in front of every store selling Sony stuff. Sony stuff is mostly consumed in the privacy of your home. Broadcast is very private, and the stuff in your mailbox, only the shipper knows for sure.
Guess What! Firefox lets you use Wikipedia as a search engine, too. Click on the Google symbol in the searchbox, if Wikipedia isn't on the list, select "Add Engines", then choose Wikipedia or whatever else you like. Next time you use the searchbox, it will be one of the options.
There is a reason for this right, it is to keep our leaders on their best behaviour. Since our leaders include a group of influential people much larger than the group we elect, it can't be defined by law, so the press is allowed to choose who to watch. Notethat the press, itself, isn't defined by law, so anyone who publishes in a public place has that right and the corresponding responsibility to not misuse it. The press, itself, is more concerned about interesting stories than about keeping our leaders honest. Most of our "influential people" on the screen know that even bad publicity is good publicity. Occassionally, a Britany Spears comes along, who probably wished the stories about her and her family would go away. I, myself, don't like those stories, and doubt they would exist if everyone was like me. But, even so, Britanny is probably extra careful about how well she straps her kid in when they go for a drive. So, the price of giving the press the right to report on thiings that our leaders would rather keep private, is that "interesting" people of all sorts are stalked, photographed, and written about. there is the concept of a "public person" and a "private person" that I haven't gotten into. But, I think a public person, in general, is someone who wants publicity and must accept bad as well as good, while a private person wants to be left alone. A private person's complain about his privacy being abused carries more weight since he doesnt want good publicity either. IE, celebreties and politicians want good press, so they must put up with bad press.
Not everyone in the polling place understands what is happening in a primary, that you in some way are "joining" a party and therefore limiting your options. In George, we don't register for a party when we register to vote, you just walk in and start voting. Some people know the names of who they want to vote for and don't think much about the party until they realize that the silly machine won't let them vote for who they intended. And even then, they might just think there is something wrong with the machine (and that might be a good thing if more people are confused by the Diebold machines than the butterfly ballots that we used to have).
GP appears to be talking about primary elections, not general elections. In Georgia, it sort of does work that way in that everyone you vote for much be in the same party. Ideally, for each office, there will be a few Democrats, a few Republicans, and maybe even someone else. If you absolutely must vote for one of the Democrats, then everyone else you vote for must be a Democrat, so for primaries, people choose according to which race they care about, if the Mayorial Race is more important or competitive than the Congressional Race, then you vote for your favorite mayorial candidate and that's it. (I assume, because I don't live in a city and have never had to vote for a mayor....anyone else here from JC or Milton?) But, that's the way it works for other offices, if I really care about my Congress Rep, I might not get to vote for my favorite Senate Candidate. As a practical manor, incumbants are never opposed by anyone in their own party, and most the other races are unapposed at the primary level or I don't know any of the guys running for dogcather, so I don't care about that race.
It is important to remember that your primary vote does not obligate you to vote for the same candidate in the general election. So, if your favorite candidates all survive the primary, you get a chance to vote for all of them, assuming that they aren't running against each other. And now that we have these wonderful machines from Diebold, no one can accidentally screw up and vote for candidates in different parties.
Companion surgery to modify the genes will be the next big thing. You will fall in love with her body/hair, marry, then realize it's fake. When it is time to conceive, if you can afford it, you will have the parents' gametes or the zygote itself genetically modified to make the enhancement a permanent feature of your family tree.
I can easily see people with money to invest investing in genetic enhancements that will stay in the family tree forever. That is a nobrainer. The real problem isn't even that educated people have fewer kids. Rich and/or educated men have always been able to father more than enough kids, assuming they weren't picky when choosing a mate. It is the educated women who are the problem. This study is about the benefits of educating the girls in poor countries, but a similar phenomenon is happening at the other end of the economic spectrum.
No matter how helpful the father is with childcare, that nine month pregancy, followed up with a year of breastfeeding can really impact on the job performance of a fulltime professional. After that, someone must watch the kids, who do much better when raised by adults, male or female, who are as smart as they are. These people do not work for minimum wage at the local childcare center. So smart, rich kids are very expensive and society can only afford so many of them. Now that smart girls are less likely to go into teaching, employers (and employees, too, but I think they already are) must work very hard at figuring out how to squeeze parenting and professional level employment into one life. The obvious solution to the pregancy problem is surrogate mothering, something that is happening more and more, especially in countries with different moral standards than the USA (where it is done for infertility, not for convenience). Or, if we want to completely change the world for women and their employers, not to mention the kids, bring on Aldous Huxley's Bottle Babies.
Apple will have 50% market share?
That's what I tell myself everyday. Raising my teenagers, I have no trouble seeing how stupid and clueless I am. If I ever have doubts, one of them will tell me.
I know what smart women like - men who can hold up their half of an intelligent conversation about interesting books, movies, technology, polititics, religion,, and have the money to feed me well while doing it. Guys who can only talk about how smart they are are dull. I've known a few Mensa members and they are certainly not the sort anyone, even a smart woman would want to spend an evening with.
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A little history that many might find surprising. Back in the 80's, that's prior to MS Windows, the top selling spreadsheet and wordprocessors for Macintosh OS were MS Excel and MS Word. Microsoft had a version of Word for the PC, but it did not use a mouse or a GUI. It was not the most popular wordprocessor for PC's, that was WordPerfect. MS development of GUI Excel and Word went along in parallel to the development in Windows and finally came out of the R&D department years after the Mac versions. During the early 90's, featurea usually appeared on the Mac version first. We had both Mac's and PC's in our office and eventually standardized on MS Office for that very reason, that the Mac and PC versions were better synced than anything else on the market since most companies supported Mac or PC, but not both.
Studies have shown that a workplace phone shared by several people is a great way to share the common cold and similar diseases. Maybe someone needs to make a handset that cleans itself.
All you are saying is that mechanical devices are more fun to watch then electronic devices. This is even true for people who don't undertand mechanical processes. With CD's all you have is the music to entertain you.
Fortunately my kid's too poor for all that crap. 200 pound per hour therapists? His only indulgence is slashdot.
From the linked gsa.gov website:
Here's another government website about "pretexting", dated 2001, so we know the "word" has been around awhile. They also put quotes around "identity theft".
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http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/money/pretexti
The web is an Information Media, not an audiotory or visual media. The information can be provided in more than one way. It may seem a bit redundant, but then, wasn't God being redundant when he thought up both vision and hearing?
This used to be very common back in the day when all students were required to write with the right hand, back when writing lefty was thought to be a preference and not something you are born with.
Thanks to all who didn't jump all over me for disrespecting the dead. The media does a good job of doing that with people who are still alive which I suppose is why I hadn't read anything good about him until he died. He does sound like a genuinely decent fellow, one who will be missed. He probably had a lot of projects still ahead of him. I entirely get and like your analogy of the kids playing with the lovable family pit bull. You can get too comfortable around wild animals, or high voltage, or whatever it is you work with on a daily basis.
This is a fellow I never heard of until I came across a picture of him dangling his own child over a crocodile pit while he was feeding the creatures. It is hard to like a guy after that really bad first impression. Not that I dislike him. I don't know anything about him other than that he does stupid stuff in public, so the joking makes more sense than sympathy.
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There's trust, and there's trust.
Even a good 16 year old is only 16 years old. The most advanced 16 year old still has a lot to learn about using his new freedoms wisely. Yes, he should have some freedom, but mostly to make mistakes that can be fixed. Most people do not drive as well as they think they do. This is especially true for teenagers who just don't have as much experience.
Were you trustworthy? I know that it is very difficult to earn the trust of some people, but trust is a 2 way thing. You say that you had opportunities to violate their trust. How did you use those opportunities? Did you use them as opportunities to earn their trust? It is very hard to trust a kid or an adult for that matter who takes advantage of lack of supervision to do the sort of things that they wouldn't do when supervised.
I've seen the future and it is not private. No matter how much we may say we want privacy, we will trade it away in a heartbeat for anything thats free.