If you are equating feeding the starving with setting them on fire, then that is wrong. Have you considered what happens when you don't provide aid? Millions would starve, and there would be absolutely no hope for them to help themselves. Often aid is required because of war, not because the population is too lazy to fend for themselves.
Your cold heartedness is disgusting, especially when it is obvious that you live in a western society that does not suffer from civil war. I wonder what your response would be if you were caught in a society racked by civil war with a starving child, all for reasons not within your control?
That first link was interesting to me, right till I read:
So how do we know when help is either selfish or unselfish? How can we be sure that Bono, Madonna, Al Gore and Bill Gates are just rich swindlers? If we're honestly interested in helping someone, we do this best by solving their problem. Pumping in more money from the West does not solve the poverty of the Third World. Bono Loves Himself. In fact, the Western aid actually serves to increase poverty, by keeping generations of starving children alive - children that natural selection otherwise would take care of. Thus the number of people growing up without food and water naturally increases, contributing to the chaos and infections that run wild in Africa right now.
Oh bravo! By saving the lives of children you contribute to the problem... so how to solve this? cull the population down to a more manageable size. Now there's a solution that's not been tried before!
Speaking of trees, did you notice that one of his points was "People Power and the Upside-Down Pyramid"?
Perhaps he doesn't really believe what he writes, because if that was the case then people would probably contribute music for free, in much the same way they contribute to Wikipedia for free. But I don't think that fits into Bono's worldview.
He might want to reconsider those places he's going, or else one day he might not be able to protest about whales, starving children in Ethiopia or the terrible things China is doing to Tibet. And we wouldn't want that!
Hey. I watched Letterman last night and Robin Williams was being interviewed. He told a story about this floater that he was brought back down to earth in Scotland. Basically Bono started clapping and during the clapping he said "Every time I clap another whale dies". From the back of the auditorium came "Well then, fucking stop clapping!".
You know, only yesterday on slashdot did I read a comment that said (in all seriousness) that there "are 11 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't". Facepalm indeed!
Yes, I'm sure they found it easy to create a standardized and unbiased IQ test for an extinct family based solely on their postulated brain size. *snicker*
No, I didn't answer my own question. I am saying that I doubt that a 5 year old would use advanced features. Only you can really answer the question! So seriously, do they use the advanced features of Office 2007?
It can be surprisingly difficult. I'm wondering a few things though: does you 5 year old niece use sections, macros, table of contents, or any advanced aspect to Word? I doubt it somehow, which suggests to me that they don't use advanced features.
Not only are you awesome at bad analogies, you are terrible at syllogistic logic.
Premise A: Global GDP = $60 trillion Premise B: Total lost due to IT failue = $6 trillion Conclusion: Every company on the planet has lost 10% of their productivity due to IT failures.
Let me restate this another way - this is like saying there were 100 million bananas grown in the world in 2009, and that monkeys threw 10% of bananas on the ground, which means that 10 million people slipped on bananas every year.
I'd look at it differently. I would firstly work out exactly how much money is generated through effective IT services and projects, and then I'd work out how much money is saved through effective IT services and projects, and then work out how much is lost through projects that go wrong. I think this sort of analysis would give a more true picture of the benefits and risks of IT projects.
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Uh, no, while amusing it's obviously wrong.
If you are equating feeding the starving with setting them on fire, then that is wrong. Have you considered what happens when you don't provide aid? Millions would starve, and there would be absolutely no hope for them to help themselves. Often aid is required because of war, not because the population is too lazy to fend for themselves.
Your cold heartedness is disgusting, especially when it is obvious that you live in a western society that does not suffer from civil war. I wonder what your response would be if you were caught in a society racked by civil war with a starving child, all for reasons not within your control?
Spoken like someone who has never been starving.
Oh come on? Troll? I expressed an opinion. Seems like the mods are a bit trigger happy today.
Yes, funny that.
That first link was interesting to me, right till I read:
Oh bravo! By saving the lives of children you contribute to the problem... so how to solve this? cull the population down to a more manageable size. Now there's a solution that's not been tried before!
Well, to be more precise, the 0x denotes that the notation being used signifies hexadecimal. There is no such thing as '16' in binary :-)
Speaking of trees, did you notice that one of his points was "People Power and the Upside-Down Pyramid"?
Perhaps he doesn't really believe what he writes, because if that was the case then people would probably contribute music for free, in much the same way they contribute to Wikipedia for free. But I don't think that fits into Bono's worldview.
He might want to reconsider those places he's going, or else one day he might not be able to protest about whales, starving children in Ethiopia or the terrible things China is doing to Tibet. And we wouldn't want that!
Hey. I watched Letterman last night and Robin Williams was being interviewed. He told a story about this floater that he was brought back down to earth in Scotland. Basically Bono started clapping and during the clapping he said "Every time I clap another whale dies". From the back of the auditorium came "Well then, fucking stop clapping!".
His concern is astounding! After all, it was only by fully prosecuting those who made mix-tapes in the 80s that Bono made it big.
Oops.
Uh? No, traditionally appending a 0x denotes that the value is in hexadecimal. Ask any C programmer.
You know, only yesterday on slashdot did I read a comment that said (in all seriousness) that there "are 11 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't". Facepalm indeed!
0x10 is 16 in hexadecimal, not binary.
10 in binary is 2, not 3.
Nope, probably something stereotypically white.
Oh yes they can! Because no matter how stupid the scammers, there is always someone more stupid to actually scam.
Yes, I'm sure they found it easy to create a standardized and unbiased IQ test for an extinct family based solely on their postulated brain size. *snicker*
In that case, I apologise. But as you have a faulty understanding of what I wrote, I don't see any reason to continue responding to you!
No, I didn't answer my own question. I am saying that I doubt that a 5 year old would use advanced features. Only you can really answer the question! So seriously, do they use the advanced features of Office 2007?
It can be surprisingly difficult. I'm wondering a few things though: does you 5 year old niece use sections, macros, table of contents, or any advanced aspect to Word? I doubt it somehow, which suggests to me that they don't use advanced features.
When you use a search engine, you can have only two of the following: comprehensive, impartial and relevant.
Ah crap. I missed the "on average" bit. Oops. Ignore the above.
Not only are you awesome at bad analogies, you are terrible at syllogistic logic.
Premise A: Global GDP = $60 trillion
Premise B: Total lost due to IT failue = $6 trillion
Conclusion: Every company on the planet has lost 10% of their productivity due to IT failures.
Let me restate this another way - this is like saying there were 100 million bananas grown in the world in 2009, and that monkeys threw 10% of bananas on the ground, which means that 10 million people slipped on bananas every year.
I'd look at it differently. I would firstly work out exactly how much money is generated through effective IT services and projects, and then I'd work out how much money is saved through effective IT services and projects, and then work out how much is lost through projects that go wrong. I think this sort of analysis would give a more true picture of the benefits and risks of IT projects.
P.S. André Klapper, is that you?