Most Christians are not true Christians in the view of fundamentalist Christians. Most Muslims are not true Muslims in the view of fundamentalist Muslims. Most Jews are not true Jews in the view of fundamentalist Jews. Most socialists are not true socialists in the view of fundamentalist socialists. Hell, you could probably even find a cadre of fundamentalist librarians who decry most librarians as meer "library workers" if you look hard enough.
You have to train yourself to actually see things. It takes conscious effort at first. Sketching or writing detailed verbal descriptions helps.
Unfortunately, until you HAVE trained yourself to see things, you're blind to the gaps in your perception. It was an eye-opener to me how my perception of bicycles changed once I started cycling seriously and studying components and frame geometry.
I would imagine more scientists get into comics, with even more detailed and well defined universe, often with rules that are consistent with our own or at least plausibly explained enough to suspend disbelief.
Comics have historically been so poorly consistent internally that fans don't bat an eyelid at the biannual festival of Retconia, when the Mobius Mitten is donned in order to undo Galamuncher's attack on the third planet in the system Sol, incidentally raising some popular characters from the dead.
Tolkien was a poor second-rate wannabe of HG Wells and Jules Verne, or if you want to go back a few centuries, Johnathan Swift.
Chalk is a second-rate cheese and oranges are rubbish apples. Honestly, Tolkien was working in a completely different genre from all of them. Wells and Verne wrote stories essentially exploring the effects of a single idea, and using them to reflect on society. Swift was a satirist, and everything was a reflection of us. Tolkien, in essence, simply wrote a story. The parallels to ourselves serve to make the story more comprehensible -- signposting, basically.
Galadriel was bearer of one of the elven rings, so perhaps had a connection to Sauron despite him losing his ring. No such connection would have existed to Saruman, who never had any ring AFAIK.
You say that, but my computer teachers didn't use teddy bears in class. Or the biography of Genghis Khan. Or the debate on Copernican theory. The only possible explanation for this... censorship.
It's a problem for Mexicans, and the average man on the street in Guadalajara has no more influence on his country's policies than the average Joe in Houston. Trade and business interests lobby to get the right to sell overseas, and argue that this means more tax intake and higher wages, and is therefore "better for the country". Here in the UK, "austerity" measures taken after the financial crash are pushing people deeper into poverty and even to starvation, and yet the government say it's all for the good of everyone.
This is an idea that I'm surprised hasn't gained more traction. Using import tarrifs as a means of protectionism is quite rightly considered bad form internationally. However, using import tarrifs to create a level playing field seems perfectly fair. After all, if companies in your country are mandated by law to pay a minimum wage, paid holidays and parental leave, and are forced to respect workers rights and health and safety, the countries without minimum wages or paid leave and where nobody bats an eyelid when a 10-year-old boy dies in a mineral sand landslip do have something of an immoral competitive advantage.
Thus I would think that the best approach would be to charge import tarrifs from countries without comparable labour laws to your own, calculated on the cost of offering similar protections to those in your country. This would promote domestic production in the short term, and would promote better working practices globally in the long term. Sounds like a win-win, to me, and an easy one for the politicians to sell to the public.
Aside from water and air, there is nothing as important to human life as food. Why does worker reward not reflect this?
The price of a commodity has little to do with "importance", but with scarcity and cost of production.
But here we're talking about food for which there is demand and a market, and it's going unpicked due to difficulties in attracting workers. The demand for food has not decreased in recent years, so someone, somewhere, needs that food. And yet it's not "cost-effective" to pick it.
The missing part of this equation is how that "hole" in the supply is fulfilled. And the answer is... cheap imports. Not a problem, you say? It is for the world's poor, because while the global food market means low prices in first world countries, it means high prices in developing countries and leaves people unable to afford to feed their families.
This is where our priorities are messed up. We shrug our shoulders, say "market forces" and let other people shoulder the burden. Just look at the problems that US corn ethanol caused for Mexicans. To people in the States, Mexican maize is cheap, so the ethanol manufacturers snatched it up, leaving the Mexican supply far below demand, pushing prices up and causing widespread hunger.
Don't trust the invisible hand -- everything the hand gives you, it has taken from someone else.
I sometimes get puzzled by people who talk about jobs like this.
If anyone should be paid millions, it is doctors who save your life or teachers who raise your kids.
Well I agree with that. Doctors are well-paid, and deservedly so. Teachers are typically underpaid.
Counter:
Healthcare/Education is so important that doctors/teachers should have their salaries controlled to keep the cost of healthcare/education affordable.
That only holds if you believe that healthcare and education are better dealt with as private enterprise than as part of the public sector. I don't.
California rice has a lot of arsenic in it. They should just stop for that reason alone.
Wrong state. The arsenic problem is in former cotton fields, where arsenic was used as a pesticide to kill the boll weevil. This was OK for a non-food crop, but not great for food crops, particularly rice, which has a marked tendency to pick up arsenic from the soil wherever it's present.
The choice isn't pay a high wage or pay a low wage.
The choice is grow strawberries that you can sell at a price people will pay, or don't grow strawberries.
But when you consider that the people who used to pick fruit are now working in factories sticking consumer goods in boxes, you have to consider our society's priorities pretty messed up. Aside from water and air, there is nothing as important to human life as food. Why does worker reward not reflect this?
IOW, they haven't properly balanced their system and the windmills are the ones getting the shaft.
Yeah, the idiots should have planned the winds more carefully. Relying on nature to generate the winds they need was never going to work, so they should get some giant wind machines from Hollywood. (Yes, I am being sarcastic. Glad you noticed.)
I'm not against nuclear power, but I am against nuclear power operators, who too often cut corners and make the Geiger-Müller tubes go clickity-click, either at the plant, or at the dump site. When they fail to do things right, it's the taxpayer who ends up funding the cleanup.
..but make sure that the wires in your phone are they right way round, or the signal might not be clear enough for them to understand what you're saying.
DOSbox isn't an emulator. It's a sandboxed OS-as-subsystem with some virtualised components to replace direct memory access. These virtualised components are similar to what you would have to use to run the same program pseudo-natively in Windows.
Before the invention of the internal combustion engine, a car was any wheeled trolley pulled or pushed by a living thing. You youngsters all seem to think it only means a self-powered four wheeled vehicle. My point? Language is democratic, and history is secondary to current usage.
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Most Christians are not true Christians in the view of fundamentalist Christians.
Most Muslims are not true Muslims in the view of fundamentalist Muslims.
Most Jews are not true Jews in the view of fundamentalist Jews.
Most socialists are not true socialists in the view of fundamentalist socialists.
Hell, you could probably even find a cadre of fundamentalist librarians who decry most librarians as meer "library workers" if you look hard enough.
You have to train yourself to actually see things. It takes conscious effort at first. Sketching or writing detailed verbal descriptions helps.
Unfortunately, until you HAVE trained yourself to see things, you're blind to the gaps in your perception. It was an eye-opener to me how my perception of bicycles changed once I started cycling seriously and studying components and frame geometry.
I would imagine more scientists get into comics, with even more detailed and well defined universe, often with rules that are consistent with our own or at least plausibly explained enough to suspend disbelief.
Comics have historically been so poorly consistent internally that fans don't bat an eyelid at the biannual festival of Retconia, when the Mobius Mitten is donned in order to undo Galamuncher's attack on the third planet in the system Sol, incidentally raising some popular characters from the dead.
You must be a hoot at parties. Did you have to study how to slag off other people's hobbies or does it come naturally to you?
Tolkien was a poor second-rate wannabe of HG Wells and Jules Verne, or if you want to go back a few centuries, Johnathan Swift.
Chalk is a second-rate cheese and oranges are rubbish apples. Honestly, Tolkien was working in a completely different genre from all of them. Wells and Verne wrote stories essentially exploring the effects of a single idea, and using them to reflect on society. Swift was a satirist, and everything was a reflection of us. Tolkien, in essence, simply wrote a story. The parallels to ourselves serve to make the story more comprehensible -- signposting, basically.
Galadriel was bearer of one of the elven rings, so perhaps had a connection to Sauron despite him losing his ring. No such connection would have existed to Saruman, who never had any ring AFAIK.
You say that, but my computer teachers didn't use teddy bears in class. Or the biography of Genghis Khan. Or the debate on Copernican theory. The only possible explanation for this... censorship.
The problem isn't with the image itself but where it is from. Claim that it is from somewhere else and there isn't a problem.
Which itself is almost the definition of the ad hominem fallacy.
No it's not.
I'm not entirely sure why it's considered terrible by the average Slashdotter to ask someone, or a group of people, to stop being an asshole.
Because "you don't have a right to not be offended" is code for "I don't want to stop being an asshole."
It's a problem for Mexicans, and the average man on the street in Guadalajara has no more influence on his country's policies than the average Joe in Houston. Trade and business interests lobby to get the right to sell overseas, and argue that this means more tax intake and higher wages, and is therefore "better for the country". Here in the UK, "austerity" measures taken after the financial crash are pushing people deeper into poverty and even to starvation, and yet the government say it's all for the good of everyone.
This is an idea that I'm surprised hasn't gained more traction. Using import tarrifs as a means of protectionism is quite rightly considered bad form internationally. However, using import tarrifs to create a level playing field seems perfectly fair. After all, if companies in your country are mandated by law to pay a minimum wage, paid holidays and parental leave, and are forced to respect workers rights and health and safety, the countries without minimum wages or paid leave and where nobody bats an eyelid when a 10-year-old boy dies in a mineral sand landslip do have something of an immoral competitive advantage.
Thus I would think that the best approach would be to charge import tarrifs from countries without comparable labour laws to your own, calculated on the cost of offering similar protections to those in your country. This would promote domestic production in the short term, and would promote better working practices globally in the long term. Sounds like a win-win, to me, and an easy one for the politicians to sell to the public.
Aside from water and air, there is nothing as important to human life as food. Why does worker reward not reflect this?
The price of a commodity has little to do with "importance", but with scarcity and cost of production.
But here we're talking about food for which there is demand and a market, and it's going unpicked due to difficulties in attracting workers. The demand for food has not decreased in recent years, so someone, somewhere, needs that food. And yet it's not "cost-effective" to pick it.
The missing part of this equation is how that "hole" in the supply is fulfilled. And the answer is... cheap imports. Not a problem, you say? It is for the world's poor, because while the global food market means low prices in first world countries, it means high prices in developing countries and leaves people unable to afford to feed their families.
This is where our priorities are messed up. We shrug our shoulders, say "market forces" and let other people shoulder the burden. Just look at the problems that US corn ethanol caused for Mexicans. To people in the States, Mexican maize is cheap, so the ethanol manufacturers snatched it up, leaving the Mexican supply far below demand, pushing prices up and causing widespread hunger.
Don't trust the invisible hand -- everything the hand gives you, it has taken from someone else.
I sometimes get puzzled by people who talk about jobs like this.
If anyone should be paid millions, it is doctors who save your life or teachers who raise your kids.
Well I agree with that. Doctors are well-paid, and deservedly so. Teachers are typically underpaid.
Counter: Healthcare/Education is so important that doctors/teachers should have their salaries controlled to keep the cost of healthcare/education affordable.
That only holds if you believe that healthcare and education are better dealt with as private enterprise than as part of the public sector. I don't.
California rice has a lot of arsenic in it. They should just stop for that reason alone.
Wrong state. The arsenic problem is in former cotton fields, where arsenic was used as a pesticide to kill the boll weevil. This was OK for a non-food crop, but not great for food crops, particularly rice, which has a marked tendency to pick up arsenic from the soil wherever it's present.
The choice isn't pay a high wage or pay a low wage.
The choice is grow strawberries that you can sell at a price people will pay, or don't grow strawberries.
But when you consider that the people who used to pick fruit are now working in factories sticking consumer goods in boxes, you have to consider our society's priorities pretty messed up. Aside from water and air, there is nothing as important to human life as food. Why does worker reward not reflect this?
This whole thread is pedantry fail. Of course, "pedantry fail" is tautologous, as all pedantry is fallacious.
IOW, they haven't properly balanced their system and the windmills are the ones getting the shaft.
Yeah, the idiots should have planned the winds more carefully. Relying on nature to generate the winds they need was never going to work, so they should get some giant wind machines from Hollywood. (Yes, I am being sarcastic. Glad you noticed.)
Heat-pumps also require large gardens. And dropping the ground temperature isn't great if you're growing your own vegetables.
I'm not against nuclear power, but I am against nuclear power operators, who too often cut corners and make the Geiger-Müller tubes go clickity-click, either at the plant, or at the dump site. When they fail to do things right, it's the taxpayer who ends up funding the cleanup.
Mmm... 50 shades of get that company to IPO, stat!
Which begs the question: why is there an E in the word "hipster"?
Not here it ain't -- those are carriages.
tell that to Monster
..but make sure that the wires in your phone are they right way round, or the signal might not be clear enough for them to understand what you're saying.
DOSbox isn't an emulator. It's a sandboxed OS-as-subsystem with some virtualised components to replace direct memory access. These virtualised components are similar to what you would have to use to run the same program pseudo-natively in Windows.
Before the invention of the internal combustion engine, a car was any wheeled trolley pulled or pushed by a living thing. You youngsters all seem to think it only means a self-powered four wheeled vehicle. My point? Language is democratic, and history is secondary to current usage.