If you are allowed to vote from afar someone else can force you to vote the way they want. Husbands can fill out their wives ballots and make the wife sign it then send it in with their own. When you make everyone come down to the polling place, you verify that they are alive and no one is forcing them to vote one way or another.
Wait, you say, most states already allow voting over serveral months, from anywhere, from people who may not even be alive, with little control over whether the vote was bought, or coerced, through absentee ballots. Well, mail has been around alot longer than the internet, just give it awhile, the web will catch up to voting fraud soon enough. (:-)
Y'know, I was one of several interviewers interviewing a candidate who answered an impossible question, with something along the lines of "I wouldn't do that", or something else indicating that he would give up rather than flog the dead horse. I thought it was the correct answer, but the other interviewer thought it displayed lack of dedication. Anyway, that person wasn't hired and the project failed. It really would have been better to give up early. C'est L'vie.
Spot on. I was writing that from the point of view that if the employer had given me a little more information, I might not have left in the first place. Of course, they were withholding the information so that I wouldn't know exactly how valuable I was to the company, so I left for where I thought I'd be more valuable.
Small businesses often like to play poker with their employees, keeping them in the dark. At least one manager at a large corporation I used to work for was adamant about hiring the right person for the job, which meant getting someone who wasn't such a star they'd be bored, or poached as soon as a better offer came along. Another manager that worked along with us routinly sold the moon and stars to new employees, several didn't last more than a few months.
Welcome to small business. Most usually have one or two key players that, if they die, the business dies with them. Usually, this is the founder, but not always. Sometimes, the president/founder/Grand Poobah doesn't realize who this key player is, and he fires that key player only to see his business fail, because he was too egotistical and arogant to notice that the company revolved around someone else.
Many small businesses have several key player that would severly hurt the company if they left. I was working at a small database company many moons ago, and was offers a consulting gig in a far off state at twice my current salary and I jumped at the chance. I had no clue that there was a million dollar contract riding on the project I was working on. Once the customer heard I was leaving, the contract evaporated. If they had only let me know that what I was doing really mattered, I might have stayed. (at a higher rate)
But what we can do, is to study drugs, gambling, sex and othe addictive behaviors and develop games that are as addicting as legally possible. Things like random reenforcement tend to increase the "reward"ness of the game. You can also look as the player's relative reaction times to see when he is becoming bored/tired or distracted and throw a bone his way so he won't leave right now. You can quickly test new techniques on randomized groups of players because you can gather the data electronically. With a little bit of pyschological dark side these games can be made much more addicting than traditional addictions. (Hmm, not a bad story line for a horror movie. Evil game company kidnaps players and straps then into gamings rigs like Alex in "A Clockwork Orange" I call dibs on the Hollywood rights (:-)
More accurate to say that taking a cutting is cloning and the surgical thing isn't. When you suck the DNA out of one cell and put in in an egg from a another animal, you aren't duplicating the mitochondral (sp?) DNA and the DNA from the cloned animal is old with shortened telomers. Unless you can reset the clock the new cloned animal won't live as long as a regular animal.
Plants made from cuttings typically live as long a plants grown from seeds, so they are the real clones, the Dolly types are the imposters.
You'll be able to tell you beef was cloned by the patent number on the package and the warning to not clone it yourself. "No asexual reproduction of this beef is allowed"
For those of you that think this is a joke, some roses bushes come with this warning, why not meat? I'm sure they will also start listing specific genes that are patented. I for one, welcome our Brave New World Overlords.
But, check out the version number. On my Solaris 2.8 box, it's 1.6 from '93. It took them 6 versions to produce a working/bin/true!! Version 1.6 doesn't even have any running code in it, it's just whitespace and comments.
you play it for a few minutes and then you're like, okay, I'm kind of sorry I tried it again because I had better memories of it. The truth is the game still kicks butt; it just needs a little updating for the hi-def generation -- maybe tightening up the graphics, maybe adding a background.
I have an arcade cocktail Temptest machine in my basement, that I still play occasionally. It uses color vector graphics. Made in 1980, it is ~2048 x 4096. Let's see you do *that* on your hi-def screen sonny. In my day, we had real hi-def, up hill, both ways, and we liked it.
Pentagon officials, however, have kept quiet regarding China's efforts as part of a Bush administration policy to keep from angering Beijing,...
Yeah, right. Spies keep quiet, because well, spies keep quiet. No matter what you say, you let the other side know something about the specifications of your hardware. These satellites are designed to survive nearby nuclear blasts or accidentally being pointed at the Sun. I imagine that the most any ground based laser would do is cause it to momentarily shutdown, then reactivate once the big light has gone away. Now, if the Chinese were to blast it with another satellite based laser, they could poke holes in the thing, *that* would be a problem.
I'm sure the Chinese government realizes that spy satellites that you know about are a stablizing influence. Things, like nukes, are destablizing. Bring on the satellites. (as per Arthur C. Clarke)
Imagine a world with absolutely no security, as in "an armed society is a polite society". Someone offends you, you shoot them. Someone else shoots you. If weapons are plentiful and deadly enough, soon the world population would drop to the 100K's and everyone would be miles apart and would use their robots to keep it that way. Security would be enforced through distance. Mad Max meets the Terminator movies.
Do you see the "Big Boys" influencing the Citizen Journalists directed through (mis)advertising just like they influence the general public? Or, would the CJs, be smarter than your average bear and relativly immune to big money influnce the way that "real" journalists are? (:-)
Hmm, you could look at the water meter, and if they haven't used any water in a day, as long as they don't have any automatic waterering devices or leaking toilets, it would tell them that there was a problem. The automatic devices and leaks could probably be detected and compensated for with fuzzy logic. Apartments without water meters would have to have one installed, not a real big problem.
If the students aren't including the GPL required disclosures and credit for your work, you can go all RIAA on their asses and sue them for copyright infringement. There's no fair use to take your code in toto and pass it as their own. You could get $150K each if they have rich parents.
The only way to be completley non-evil in politics is to completley avoid politics. The name of the game is compromise, and that means sometime you have to piss off some of your friends.
A corporation the size of Google cannot completley avoid politics, because politians are drawn to money and fame like moths to a flame, so they have to play the game.
The least evil way to spend your money is to give it to people who support your causes and to ignore your detractors. You don't try to influence anyone, you simply try to keep those in power that agree with you and try to put in power people who oppose people who disagree with you. No quid-pro-quo, but it can accomplish the same thing over the long run. Leave actual influencing with the grassroots where it belongs.
She's not in a bubble. We're just innoculating her with small doses of media. Where a normal child would be killed by the media virus, our children will develop an immunity over time. No danger of her turning into a couch potato since she has ADD and is generally bouncing off the walls.
We don't eat beef at home, but she doesn't really grok that CheeseBurgers come from ground up dead cows. I think she knows about chicken. As far as being able to deal with death, she's had 1 dog, 2 fish, and 3 siblings die, so I think she gets it.
As far as talking to sociopaths, that's my wife's job. She's a clinical pyschologist and yes, she really has had to deal with real, clinical, locked up, sociopaths, and no, we're not about to let our 5yo anywhere near them.
She's also in gymnastics and at age 5 can lift her own weight and then some. I don't imagine that by junior high, she'll have any problem holding her own in a fight.
My daughter has a computer (a Macintosh running Mac OS 9). The only games she has are educational with no killing. She has a simple word processor, a complex drawing program, and other programs that create, not simulate destruction. We use Tivo Kidzone to record only programs with positive messages. So far, she doesn't watch much at the neighbor's kid's houses. We have a garden that she helps in, two dogs, and she spends most of her none school time running around outside, so I'd say, no, her childhood isn't being destroyed by consumer electronics. Your Milage May Vary.
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Now they want us to register our home theaters. Ok, everyone, repeat after me: Home Theaters don't kill people, people kill people. </rant>
If you are allowed to vote from afar someone else can force you to vote the way they want. Husbands can fill out their wives ballots and make the wife sign it then send it in with their own. When you make everyone come down to the polling place, you verify that they are alive and no one is forcing them to vote one way or another.
Wait, you say, most states already allow voting over serveral months, from anywhere, from people who may not even be alive, with little control over whether the vote was bought, or coerced, through absentee ballots. Well, mail has been around alot longer than the internet, just give it awhile, the web will catch up to voting fraud soon enough. (:-)
Smart companies will start using cheaper software. i.e. GPL stuff.
Y'know, I was one of several interviewers interviewing a candidate who answered an impossible question, with something along the lines of "I wouldn't do that", or something else indicating that he would give up rather than flog the dead horse. I thought it was the correct answer, but the other interviewer thought it displayed lack of dedication. Anyway, that person wasn't hired and the project failed. It really would have been better to give up early. C'est L'vie.
Spot on. I was writing that from the point of view that if the employer had given me a little more information, I might not have left in the first place. Of course, they were withholding the information so that I wouldn't know exactly how valuable I was to the company, so I left for where I thought I'd be more valuable.
Small businesses often like to play poker with their employees, keeping them in the dark. At least one manager at a large corporation I used to work for was adamant about hiring the right person for the job, which meant getting someone who wasn't such a star they'd be bored, or poached as soon as a better offer came along. Another manager that worked along with us routinly sold the moon and stars to new employees, several didn't last more than a few months.
And when it breaks, the SysAdmin says, "Bummer, it's broke, get some new data"
The big problem with encryption is debugging. It can be hard enough debugging problems without encryption, with it, it can be difficult and expensive.
Also, you have to test systems like key recovery. How do you know that the stored keys are valid? Once you need them, it may be too late.
Welcome to small business. Most usually have one or two key players that, if they die, the business dies with them. Usually, this is the founder, but not always. Sometimes, the president/founder/Grand Poobah doesn't realize who this key player is, and he fires that key player only to see his business fail, because he was too egotistical and arogant to notice that the company revolved around someone else.
Many small businesses have several key player that would severly hurt the company if they left. I was working at a small database company many moons ago, and was offers a consulting gig in a far off state at twice my current salary and I jumped at the chance. I had no clue that there was a million dollar contract riding on the project I was working on. Once the customer heard I was leaving, the contract evaporated. If they had only let me know that what I was doing really mattered, I might have stayed. (at a higher rate)
But what we can do, is to study drugs, gambling, sex and othe addictive behaviors and develop games that are as addicting as legally possible. Things like random reenforcement tend to increase the "reward"ness of the game. You can also look as the player's relative reaction times to see when he is becoming bored/tired or distracted and throw a bone his way so he won't leave right now. You can quickly test new techniques on randomized groups of players because you can gather the data electronically. With a little bit of pyschological dark side these games can be made much more addicting than traditional addictions. (Hmm, not a bad story line for a horror movie. Evil game company kidnaps players and straps then into gamings rigs like Alex in "A Clockwork Orange" I call dibs on the Hollywood rights (:-)
More accurate to say that taking a cutting is cloning and the surgical thing isn't. When you suck the DNA out of one cell and put in in an egg from a another animal, you aren't duplicating the mitochondral (sp?) DNA and the DNA from the cloned animal is old with shortened telomers. Unless you can reset the clock the new cloned animal won't live as long as a regular animal.
Plants made from cuttings typically live as long a plants grown from seeds, so they are the real clones, the Dolly types are the imposters.
You'll be able to tell you beef was cloned by the patent number on the package and the warning to not clone it yourself. "No asexual reproduction of this beef is allowed"
For those of you that think this is a joke, some roses bushes come with this warning, why not meat? I'm sure they will also start listing specific genes that are patented. I for one, welcome our Brave New World Overlords.
I'm going to patent the process of providing voice, video, data, and scents. Bingo!, I trump your patent.
But, check out the version number. On my Solaris 2.8 box, it's 1.6 from '93. It took them 6 versions to produce a working /bin/true!! Version 1.6 doesn't even have any running code in it, it's just whitespace and comments.
You don't understand. The government will only do this to Them, never to us. (for sufficiently advanced definitions of us and them)
Yep, we do. 'nough said.
I'm sure the Chinese government realizes that spy satellites that you know about are a stablizing influence. Things, like nukes, are destablizing. Bring on the satellites. (as per Arthur C. Clarke)
Imagine a world with absolutely no security, as in "an armed society is a polite society". Someone offends you, you shoot them. Someone else shoots you. If weapons are plentiful and deadly enough, soon the world population would drop to the 100K's and everyone would be miles apart and would use their robots to keep it that way. Security would be enforced through distance. Mad Max meets the Terminator movies.
Do you see the "Big Boys" influencing the Citizen Journalists directed through (mis)advertising just like they influence the general public? Or, would the CJs, be smarter than your average bear and relativly immune to big money influnce the way that "real" journalists are? (:-)
Hmm, you could look at the water meter, and if they haven't used any water in a day, as long as they don't have any automatic waterering devices or leaking toilets, it would tell them that there was a problem. The automatic devices and leaks could probably be detected and compensated for with fuzzy logic. Apartments without water meters would have to have one installed, not a real big problem.
If the students aren't including the GPL required disclosures and credit for your work, you can go all RIAA on their asses and sue them for copyright infringement. There's no fair use to take your code in toto and pass it as their own. You could get $150K each if they have rich parents.
Ok, this is just a joke for the humor impaired.
The only way to be completley non-evil in politics is to completley avoid politics. The name of the game is compromise, and that means sometime you have to piss off some of your friends.
A corporation the size of Google cannot completley avoid politics, because politians are drawn to money and fame like moths to a flame, so they have to play the game.
The least evil way to spend your money is to give it to people who support your causes and to ignore your detractors. You don't try to influence anyone, you simply try to keep those in power that agree with you and try to put in power people who oppose people who disagree with you. No quid-pro-quo, but it can accomplish the same thing over the long run. Leave actual influencing with the grassroots where it belongs.
She's not in a bubble. We're just innoculating her with small doses of media. Where a normal child would be killed by the media virus, our children will develop an immunity over time. No danger of her turning into a couch potato since she has ADD and is generally bouncing off the walls.
We don't eat beef at home, but she doesn't really grok that CheeseBurgers come from ground up dead cows. I think she knows about chicken. As far as being able to deal with death, she's had 1 dog, 2 fish, and 3 siblings die, so I think she gets it.
As far as talking to sociopaths, that's my wife's job. She's a clinical pyschologist and yes, she really has had to deal with real, clinical, locked up, sociopaths, and no, we're not about to let our 5yo anywhere near them.
She's also in gymnastics and at age 5 can lift her own weight and then some. I don't imagine that by junior high, she'll have any problem holding her own in a fight.
My daughter has a computer (a Macintosh running Mac OS 9). The only games she has are educational with no killing. She has a simple word processor, a complex drawing program, and other programs that create, not simulate destruction. We use Tivo Kidzone to record only programs with positive messages. So far, she doesn't watch much at the neighbor's kid's houses. We have a garden that she helps in, two dogs, and she spends most of her none school time running around outside, so I'd say, no, her childhood isn't being destroyed by consumer electronics. Your Milage May Vary.