age and wisdom are not synonyms neither are does rank hold the same meaning. often hierarchy is a convenient way to avoid scrutiny. selection mechanisms have always shown themselves to be subvertable in ways ranging from gerrymandering and outright fraud and collusion. how do you propose to counteract these forces? what's to prevent someone who achieved rank from abusing rank or even just making bad decisions? it's clear that in our system of government that public officials make many compromises both moral and ethical to achieve power what mechanisms in your proposed hierarchy prevents these ethically compromised individuals from achieving power?
there's a saying(i think I'm paraphrasing) "good citizens cannot be governed" it means that turning good people into petty criminals by unjust laws and random enforcement keeps everyone in line because they want to avoid drawing attention. who knows what people may talk about on the phone the possibility however remote that the government can use this information to oil the squeaky wheel by silencing it's detractors even if it's not in our lifetimes (that it's discovered to have occurred) is too great a risk to allow the use of the technology without judicial over site. there have been laws in place governing wiretapping that mandate judicial over site that were sufficient against the soviets who were a far larger threat in their time than religious extremists could ever be why should they now be ineffective. September eleventh was a great tragedy but changed nothing about the reality of government secrecy still breeds corruption. if you want to stop the spread of militant extremists well for a start stop arming them. then after that stop training them. then as a final blow reward the social moderates.
Any business does not exceed unless it is able to provide the greatest amount of value, it is able to.
this presumes an educated consumer making rational decisions. marketing is an industry built on clueless consumers making emotional decisions. comprehensive education is obviously not profitable in a purely capitalistic sense. which is i guess the reason it doesn't have the sort of lobbying power that say the cigarette industry does.
some people try to treat Darwinism like it's something the human race can opt out of. like there's some sort of Socialism/Darwinism dichotomy. this is to say the least a simple minded assertion along the lines of stating that there's a Airplane/Gravity dichotomy. there is no anti-Darwinism selection pressures exist in any biological system. i mean there's all kinds of absurd directions you can go intellectually if you get the idea that natural selection can be suspended by a social system.
hell the whole reason that society exists is in accordance with natural selection the members of our species that survived were and are overwhelmingly more suited to group rather than individual effort. language, so essential to this discourse, is a social adaptation. the scientific method it's self is a social construct. the benifits of socialized medicine are to prevent the spread of disease through a population meaning evolutionarily those groups that enact socialized medicine are more likely to survive to pass on their genes than those who don't. that is to say that it's very much an adaptive behavior. a society that produces a higher level of general education similarly increases survival rates by preparing individuals in that group for a higher degree of environmental complexity. this is also an adaptive behavior.
Creativity is a realization of group effort in the individual. this is the reason why ideas and inventions will often emerge nearly simultaneously in geographically distinct areas. an egoists may like to think the whole of human history was created to produce them but in reality any great act, invention or idea was a long time and many hands in the making.
for astrophysics blue shift means it's moving towards the viewer red shift away. though how this guy's fevered imagination drew any correlation to tech consumption is beyond me unless it's based on what the companies look like through an IR camera.
he was looking for an excuse to say "nanny state" it makes people who can't think for themselves feel clever. he'll likely think about that little quip while jerking off to rush Limbaugh later.
My view of corporations is not that they are evil but that they are largely amoral the pay for executives is set up in such a way as to encourage short term thinking. Corporations are less like evil giants than they are like massively powerful toddlers destructive only by coincidence while seeking to fulfill short term needs rather than longterm goals.
I'll step out on a limb here the computer your using isn't likely made by IBM therefore your benefiting from the practice of software reverse engineering. shame on you.
bourbon to me is like drinking syrup. vodka well the best vodka has been filtered so much that it's entirely tasteless and the worst is well potato. scotch or a good Irish whiskey you can taste what it's made of. it's production is a skilled trade rather than a automated assembly line. it's the same with a good beer.
I hear there's debate as to whether ass-prints should be admissible as evidence so the ARS system and the controversial plan to collect citizen ass-prints may be so much hot air... so it's unlikely the courts would bare it...
if my religious beliefs for example proscribed that gravity was in fact caused by fairies could i then demand Einstein and Newton not be taught to physics students?
95% of MCSEs interviewed approve of Microsoft and deals they make 5% read the entire question and fear they may be forced to learn something to compete.
seems a broad brush to paint with. Certainly the recent immigrants rights protests had a clear purpose and a direct political affect. the taco bell boycott had a definite effect and a clear purpose. i mean people aren't arming themselves like they used to say back when the 40 hour work week and the right to organize brought people to the streets but i can hardly imagine your suggesting that sort of public display of unified purpose.
this particular knot would be easy enough to cut through if the US hadn't in fact invaded a country to stop a dictator they installed in power in order to act as a bull work against an enemy they sold arms to but made by installing another dictator who overthrew a previous democracy who had oil we wanted. did I leave anything out?
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age and wisdom are not synonyms neither are does rank hold the same meaning. often hierarchy is a convenient way to avoid scrutiny. selection mechanisms have always shown themselves to be subvertable in ways ranging from gerrymandering and outright fraud and collusion. how do you propose to counteract these forces? what's to prevent someone who achieved rank from abusing rank or even just making bad decisions? it's clear that in our system of government that public officials make many compromises both moral and ethical to achieve power what mechanisms in your proposed hierarchy prevents these ethically compromised individuals from achieving power?
there's a saying(i think I'm paraphrasing) "good citizens cannot be governed" it means that turning good people into petty criminals by unjust laws and random enforcement keeps everyone in line because they want to avoid drawing attention. who knows what people may talk about on the phone the possibility however remote that the government can use this information to oil the squeaky wheel by silencing it's detractors even if it's not in our lifetimes (that it's discovered to have occurred) is too great a risk to allow the use of the technology without judicial over site. there have been laws in place governing wiretapping that mandate judicial over site that were sufficient against the soviets who were a far larger threat in their time than religious extremists could ever be why should they now be ineffective. September eleventh was a great tragedy but changed nothing about the reality of government secrecy still breeds corruption. if you want to stop the spread of militant extremists well for a start stop arming them. then after that stop training them. then as a final blow reward the social moderates.
this presumes an educated consumer making rational decisions. marketing is an industry built on clueless consumers making emotional decisions. comprehensive education is obviously not profitable in a purely capitalistic sense. which is i guess the reason it doesn't have the sort of lobbying power that say the cigarette industry does.
some people try to treat Darwinism like it's something the human race can opt out of. like there's some sort of Socialism/Darwinism dichotomy. this is to say the least a simple minded assertion along the lines of stating that there's a Airplane/Gravity dichotomy. there is no anti-Darwinism selection pressures exist in any biological system. i mean there's all kinds of absurd directions you can go intellectually if you get the idea that natural selection can be suspended by a social system.
hell the whole reason that society exists is in accordance with natural selection the members of our species that survived were and are overwhelmingly more suited to group rather than individual effort. language, so essential to this discourse, is a social adaptation. the scientific method it's self is a social construct. the benifits of socialized medicine are to prevent the spread of disease through a population meaning evolutionarily those groups that enact socialized medicine are more likely to survive to pass on their genes than those who don't. that is to say that it's very much an adaptive behavior. a society that produces a higher level of general education similarly increases survival rates by preparing individuals in that group for a higher degree of environmental complexity. this is also an adaptive behavior.
Creativity is a realization of group effort in the individual. this is the reason why ideas and inventions will often emerge nearly simultaneously in geographically distinct areas. an egoists may like to think the whole of human history was created to produce them but in reality any great act, invention or idea was a long time and many hands in the making.
i think he's alluding to tinfoil hats :D
you could say you have a wealth of Riches...
so are you Richard the founder of shadow robotics or one of the engineers?
for astrophysics blue shift means it's moving towards the viewer red shift away. though how this guy's fevered imagination drew any correlation to tech consumption is beyond me unless it's based on what the companies look like through an IR camera.
this could be good for a reporter working in an area where a camera or media might get confiscated.
the appreciation of existing assets is also called inflation.
no everyone working for freedom in iran was killed in operation ajax you know the one where we funded the overthrow of the Iranian democracy.
yes i agree the use of the word "mash" should be distilled to it's essential form...
he was looking for an excuse to say "nanny state" it makes people who can't think for themselves feel clever. he'll likely think about that little quip while jerking off to rush Limbaugh later.
Don't forget about the government funded R&D that big pharmaceutical companies often get exclusive rights to.
My view of corporations is not that they are evil but that they are largely amoral the pay for executives is set up in such a way as to encourage short term thinking. Corporations are less like evil giants than they are like massively powerful toddlers destructive only by coincidence while seeking to fulfill short term needs rather than longterm goals.
tea and toast? man that joke took the biscuit...
it would be nice if it applied the solder paste for surface mount then performed the pick and place all that's left is reflow
I'll step out on a limb here the computer your using isn't likely made by IBM therefore your benefiting from the practice of software reverse engineering. shame on you.
bourbon to me is like drinking syrup. vodka well the best vodka has been filtered so much that it's entirely tasteless and the worst is well potato. scotch or a good Irish whiskey you can taste what it's made of. it's production is a skilled trade rather than a automated assembly line. it's the same with a good beer.
I hear there's debate as to whether ass-prints should be admissible as evidence so the ARS system and the controversial plan to collect citizen ass-prints may be so much hot air... so it's unlikely the courts would bare it...
if my religious beliefs for example proscribed that gravity was in fact caused by fairies could i then demand Einstein and Newton not be taught to physics students?
95% of MCSEs interviewed approve of Microsoft and deals they make 5% read the entire question and fear they may be forced to learn something to compete.
seems a broad brush to paint with. Certainly the recent immigrants rights protests had a clear purpose and a direct political affect. the taco bell boycott had a definite effect and a clear purpose. i mean people aren't arming themselves like they used to say back when the 40 hour work week and the right to organize brought people to the streets but i can hardly imagine your suggesting that sort of public display of unified purpose.
this particular knot would be easy enough to cut through if the US hadn't in fact invaded a country to stop a dictator they installed in power in order to act as a bull work against an enemy they sold arms to but made by installing another dictator who overthrew a previous democracy who had oil we wanted. did I leave anything out?