Very few humans are ready for a democracy. I'm not, and I would doubt if you are. In order to be "ready" for democracy you need to have a sound picture of all of the issues haes your society, not just whats being legislated on right now, not just your personal life.
Luckily, there are very few true democracies out there, mostly there are republics, which require a less complete understsnding of events, although they still require some. They also require a free press and freedom from prosecution of political views. Without that no one can make informed decisions. It takes time for these things to come about, whic in the case of china is slowly improving (while the us is degrading).
welfare is a bureaucracy - it strives to perpetuate its own existence, rather like NASA
Is NASA a bad thing?
Just because its a bureaucracy does not mean that it does not complete its core mission objective, which in the case of welfare is to move as many unemployed people into the job market as possible and to help create a more perfect meritocracy by reducing the impact of the wealth of previous generations into the advancement of the next. Clearly, this is not going to be very successful, but it will help to some degree.
According to you, a secretary create value by assisting the work another, therefore allowing him/her to create more value. This increase of value is attributed to the secretary, even though s/he directly produced no value.
One could easily make the same point for a teacher who allows the prospective CFO to create value (maybe). Does this mean the teacher is also a secondary producer of value?
Do the CFOs parents also contribute value solely because their children did?
The concept of value added is entirely subjective, and we clearly define it differently.
Have you looked at welfare in the past 10 years? Most of the progams require you to a)get a job, b)being training for a job or C)looking for a job. Not exactly food-tubes, although it does say something about the wealth distribution in this country if the people working on the lowest rungneed government assistance in order to survive. Also, welfare beifits 1) do not cover all of the cost of living, just some and b)often have cut off dates, so much for unending support of the government.
And just one question, how much does a secretary produce? or a storew clerk? or a CFO?
Those were done for about the same budget that NASA currently gets. NASA doesn't need more money
however inflatiion *has* gone up since apollo, 17 billion then was a lot more than 17 billoin now, not to mention NASA has more on its plate now( space station, mars)
The last thing you want is a hacker breaking into your brain and controlling you
why would you need a computer, when you can hack into the root of the brian with a) a virulent proto diease or b) a collection of ancient summarian monosyllabic words...
No, becuase everyone whose bandwidth starts to rise above X group, where they get major slowdowns switches ISPs, and your profit margin disapears.
Also when do the groups change? dialy? weekly monthly? realtime?
If it's not real time, what's to stop someone from being real nice for one period(day,week,month,year), and then use a lot the next, they got alot of realy fast high bandwidth for someportion of the time, so for someone who only dowloads 1-2 days/period then its great!!!
If its realtime,. people will start losing bandwidth in the middle of a game/download, which is just stupid.
Just put them by the doors, and away from crowds, idealy they could set up security checkpoints outside of the terminals, which was a proposal after that guy shot up the El Al terminal in LA.
some airports are stating to counter this with bomb sniffing dogs and the like in the airport proper...besides it would be muc easier to conceal a submachine gun and effect the same level of fear.
the NYT article a couple days ago said less than.01 percent error, although as the database size increases the number of bad fingerprints on record will probably increase to, probably not leading to false-positives, just false-negatives.
%error*24million vistitors per year
.0001*240000000=2400
mistakes each year, assuming that the database is 100% correct. note: I have know Idea where these numbers actully came from, probably the manufacturer,not the most unbiased source.
I guess I just don't see why journalists ought to be immune from turning over evidence of illegal acts when I have to
This isn't asking the jornalists to testify, this is asking the jornalists to hold onto records of other people conversations with them, most specificly their conversations with Lamo.
This is essentialy hearsay evidence, which is, correct em if I'm wrong, inadmissable in a court of law. If they went the information contianed in those notes(e.g. the conversations with Lamo) then they should just subpoena Lamo dircectly. However, they no that he can cliam the fifth ammendmant and avoid those questions, something that the jornaists cannot do. And if you were in the journalist position, you as a regular citzen would not have to either.
Most of the people I think that wants the US out of Iraq are the people that lost thier power and the people that want that power.
Power in both senses of the word. While it mybe elements of the former regime fighting the US( we dont really knowwho it is), large portions of the rest of the population would like to run their own country.
nice idea, but one big draw of e-mail is that it is anonymous, you can sigh up for a accountin a bout 30 secs flat nd no one know who you are(or at least it takes a good deal of work to find out).
This AMTP would need to solve this issue before it could become viable, perhaps anonymouse payment accouts?
Hoover did what the public wanted (via the Congress) and look how that turned out. Roosevelt took an election and did what he thought best (between WPA and TVA type programs and WWII) and got us out of the Depression.
The key thing about both of these president is that they did something. I welcome a president who is not a slave to the poles, but commiting political suicide is not a way to get things done...
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Very few humans are ready for a democracy. I'm not, and I would doubt if you are. In order to be "ready" for democracy you need to have a sound picture of all of the issues haes your society, not just whats being legislated on right now, not just your personal life. Luckily, there are very few true democracies out there, mostly there are republics, which require a less complete understsnding of events, although they still require some. They also require a free press and freedom from prosecution of political views. Without that no one can make informed decisions. It takes time for these things to come about, whic in the case of china is slowly improving (while the us is degrading).
acording to the article..
He has donated nearly $26 billion to the foundation.
out of a net worth of about 40 billion, that doesn't seem so bad.
Is NASA a bad thing?
Just because its a bureaucracy does not mean that it does not complete its core mission objective, which in the case of welfare is to move as many unemployed people into the job market as possible and to help create a more perfect meritocracy by reducing the impact of the wealth of previous generations into the advancement of the next. Clearly, this is not going to be very successful, but it will help to some degree.
According to you, a secretary create value by assisting the work another, therefore allowing him/her to create more value. This increase of value is attributed to the secretary, even though s/he directly produced no value.
One could easily make the same point for a teacher who allows the prospective CFO to create value (maybe). Does this mean the teacher is also a secondary producer of value?
Do the CFOs parents also contribute value solely because their children did?
The concept of value added is entirely subjective, and we clearly define it differently.
Have you looked at welfare in the past 10 years?
Most of the progams require you to a)get a job, b)being training for a job or C)looking for a job. Not exactly food-tubes, although it does say something about the wealth distribution in this country if the people working on the lowest rungneed government assistance in order to survive.
Also, welfare beifits 1) do not cover all of the cost of living, just some and b)often have cut off dates, so much for unending support of the government.
And just one question, how much does a secretary produce? or a storew clerk? or a CFO?
however inflatiion *has* gone up since apollo, 17 billion then was a lot more than 17 billoin now, not to mention NASA has more on its plate now( space station, mars)
The last thing you want is a hacker breaking into your brain and controlling you why would you need a computer, when you can hack into the root of the brian with a) a virulent proto diease or b) a collection of ancient summarian monosyllabic words...
cyber penis? Pshh
he has 24/7 pr0n, where ever, when ever, with 512 Gb of storage...
Also when do the groups change? dialy? weekly monthly? realtime?
If it's not real time, what's to stop someone from being real nice for one period(day,week,month,year), and then use a lot the next, they got alot of realy fast high bandwidth for someportion of the time, so for someone who only dowloads 1-2 days/period then its great!!!
If its realtime,. people will start losing bandwidth in the middle of a game/download, which is just stupid.
we already need 02
Just put them by the doors, and away from crowds, idealy they could set up security checkpoints outside of the terminals, which was a proposal after that guy shot up the El Al terminal in LA.
Finally a good use for all this stupid carbon! Get out of the atmosphere and into my computer!
some airports are stating to counter this with bomb sniffing dogs and the like in the airport proper...besides it would be muc easier to conceal a submachine gun and effect the same level of fear.
%error*24million vistitors per year
.0001*240000000=2400
mistakes each year, assuming that the database is 100% correct. note: I have know Idea where these numbers actully came from, probably the manufacturer,not the most unbiased source.
This isn't asking the jornalists to testify, this is asking the jornalists to hold onto records of other people conversations with them, most specificly their conversations with Lamo.
This is essentialy hearsay evidence, which is, correct em if I'm wrong, inadmissable in a court of law. If they went the information contianed in those notes(e.g. the conversations with Lamo) then they should just subpoena Lamo dircectly. However, they no that he can cliam the fifth ammendmant and avoid those questions, something that the jornaists cannot do. And if you were in the journalist position, you as a regular citzen would not have to either.
Socialism failed? communism failed(well exept for cuba, sort of). Socialism is doing just fine in Europe.
Most of the people I think that wants the US out of Iraq are the people that lost thier power and the people that want that power.
Power in both senses of the word. While it mybe elements of the former regime fighting the US( we dont really knowwho it is), large portions of the rest of the population would like to run their own country.
nice idea, but one big draw of e-mail is that it is anonymous, you can sigh up for a accountin a bout 30 secs flat nd no one know who you are(or at least it takes a good deal of work to find out).
This AMTP would need to solve this issue before it could become viable, perhaps anonymouse payment accouts?
backdoor anyone?
It already has. see here
Hoover did what the public wanted (via the Congress) and look how that turned out. Roosevelt took an election and did what he thought best (between WPA and TVA type programs and WWII) and got us out of the Depression. The key thing about both of these president is that they did something. I welcome a president who is not a slave to the poles, but commiting political suicide is not a way to get things done...
And what are your qualifacations of a "good job"?