Well really, how often do people sit for four hours without getting up at all? I'd be willing to bet a dollar that most people get up every hour anyway.
I would read "I Will Never Leave You", by Hugh and Gayle Prather (married something like 45 years now), which they wrote after, during their years as marriage counselors, they noticed a dramatic shift toward increased broken relationships that the participants originally intended to be permanent.
One issue it addresses in detail that seems like it could potentially be relevant to you in the future is, What do you do when you seem very compatible but then one or both of you change so you seem not to have much in common anymore? Does it mean you're not "meant to be together" anymore? (Hint: no.)
I absolutely agree. With a background in c++, learning python (my new department's introductory language) was cake, but I'm watching the people who learned python first struggle to go beyond it. They're even more hindered by the fact that they keep thinking, "But python was so easy..."
...and before that was the glorious time of freedom before dictionaries, where people could spell things, including names, however they wanted to because there were no spelling rules. Ah, how I sigh for those exuberant days of yore!
I don't see making profit as fundamental to what corporations should be doing. What's wrong with just producing a good product, earning enough to sustain a reasonable size and get better at what they produce, and paying workers a fair wage?
The problem with asking a corporation to do anything other than, essentially, make money is that nothing else is going to be as objective. Technically--and I'm seeing this all throughout the comments in this--we can't ask corporations to do anything. We're asking the people who make the decisions to behave in certain ways, and nothing a person does is objective. But people can decide to behave in ways that are good for the community or not. Unlike corporations.
I agree, except I think this is not what the government should be doing, but what PEOPLE should be doing.
But I guess we, like corporations, are more interested in the short-term benefit of lower costs, rather than the long-term benefit of a business that keeps what we spend in the community as much as possible AND is directly answerable to our needs...and is usually staffed by people who are proud to be part of such an organization and are proud of the good work they do, resulting in...doing their jobs well.
Why should a corporation be treated as an individual?
I will treat a corporation as an individual the day a corporation is sent to jail for stealing pension funds!
Or maybe it should be treated like the individuals who run corporations (and make decisions) but who never seem to be punished for their egregious misdeeds, because, "oh, it was the corporation that did it"?
i don't know...they may be cool...but it just makes me shudder and go "yech" to picture in graphic detail what they might be doing in their bedroom when i'm not there...
It's like one of those "self-fulfilling prophecies": They won't win, so let's lock 'em in a closet. Don't worry, we'll come back in a couple years and check if they have a chance of winning then.
Are you aware that there are actual slaves in the world who aren't paid anything for what is often incredibly demeaning and demanding work, and are subject to whatever ridiculous demands and punishments their owner thinks up? That's not a joke, it's not made up to get a reaction out of our television audience, & it's incredibly inappropriate to compare this situation to slavery.
Chain stores (like Best Buy) often do things specifically to drive their smaller competition out of business, like have really good sales. Then they say the customers are evil for taking advantage of those very sales.
Why do you equate CAE's mission, which seems to me to be encouraging the public to educate itself about GMO, with white supremacism? Education = racism?
All this guy was doing was testing food to see if it had been modified by one or more of the most common methods. What is wrong with doing that (or advocating that others do it)?
I was reading an article about one of the robots, and they were all worried about how if the onboard computer fails, they were going to be screwed. My computer doesn't fail, and I am really rough on it. I bet my computer would work just fine hooked up to an SUV on rough terrain, with some padding and bolting and screwing in the parts that I've failed to screw in because I switch them out often. So I wondered, are they using substandard computer parts to control the robots? Then I saw all the robot disablings and I wondered even more.
If we have become "physically isolationists" (by which I assume you mean people who don't want to be accosted by random strangers) I wish the men who go about harassing women on the street would get a clue about that.
You make a good point about the abundance of mis-information on the web, and that's another problem that needs to be looked at, but I disagree with "this will all sort itself out and real scientists will continue or return to citing more traditional resources."
We have an incredible resource here (the internet) for diseminating information, and to ignore it would be something that's really not going to happen. We need to solve problems like this so we can take advantage of the benefits offered by the internet.
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I practice civil disobedience by sneaking into the patent office and quickly rotating the faxes upside down...
But sometimes people aren't geeky until they gain entrance into the digital world. Do not underestimate its transformative power!
Well really, how often do people sit for four hours without getting up at all? I'd be willing to bet a dollar that most people get up every hour anyway.
I notice they give the average television watching time for the British versus "as much as" time for Americans. Biased much?
Explosions! MWA HA HA HA HA!
How is this flamebait?? And why do I never have modpoints when I really need them?
I would read "I Will Never Leave You", by Hugh and Gayle Prather (married something like 45 years now), which they wrote after, during their years as marriage counselors, they noticed a dramatic shift toward increased broken relationships that the participants originally intended to be permanent. One issue it addresses in detail that seems like it could potentially be relevant to you in the future is, What do you do when you seem very compatible but then one or both of you change so you seem not to have much in common anymore? Does it mean you're not "meant to be together" anymore? (Hint: no.)
I absolutely agree. With a background in c++, learning python (my new department's introductory language) was cake, but I'm watching the people who learned python first struggle to go beyond it. They're even more hindered by the fact that they keep thinking, "But python was so easy..."
My God, no! LARGE penises, fine...but large HAIRY ones?!
...and before that was the glorious time of freedom before dictionaries, where people could spell things, including names, however they wanted to because there were no spelling rules. Ah, how I sigh for those exuberant days of yore!
Agreed! If I had mod points, I would give them to you...here, want this handful of sticky change from my pockets instead? :D
I agree, except I think this is not what the government should be doing, but what PEOPLE should be doing.
But I guess we, like corporations, are more interested in the short-term benefit of lower costs, rather than the long-term benefit of a business that keeps what we spend in the community as much as possible AND is directly answerable to our needs...and is usually staffed by people who are proud to be part of such an organization and are proud of the good work they do, resulting in...doing their jobs well.
Why should a corporation be treated as an individual?
I will treat a corporation as an individual the day a corporation is sent to jail for stealing pension funds!
Or maybe it should be treated like the individuals who run corporations (and make decisions) but who never seem to be punished for their egregious misdeeds, because, "oh, it was the corporation that did it"?
...that it's at least 8000 years away and thus, no matter what, we will have a chance to open the crypt of civilization up!!!
i don't know...they may be cool...but it just makes me shudder and go "yech" to picture in graphic detail what they might be doing in their bedroom when i'm not there...
In our society, which is extremely focused on appearance, I'm not sure being a computer tech really IS better than being a barber...
It's like one of those "self-fulfilling prophecies": They won't win, so let's lock 'em in a closet. Don't worry, we'll come back in a couple years and check if they have a chance of winning then.
Are you aware that there are actual slaves in the world who aren't paid anything for what is often incredibly demeaning and demanding work, and are subject to whatever ridiculous demands and punishments their owner thinks up? That's not a joke, it's not made up to get a reaction out of our television audience, & it's incredibly inappropriate to compare this situation to slavery.
Chain stores (like Best Buy) often do things specifically to drive their smaller competition out of business, like have really good sales. Then they say the customers are evil for taking advantage of those very sales.
Would couples need to scan both sets of fingerprints? Familes? Will gay couples be allowed to scan both sets of fingerprints?
Why do you equate CAE's mission, which seems to me to be encouraging the public to educate itself about GMO, with white supremacism? Education = racism? All this guy was doing was testing food to see if it had been modified by one or more of the most common methods. What is wrong with doing that (or advocating that others do it)?
I was reading an article about one of the robots, and they were all worried about how if the onboard computer fails, they were going to be screwed. My computer doesn't fail, and I am really rough on it. I bet my computer would work just fine hooked up to an SUV on rough terrain, with some padding and bolting and screwing in the parts that I've failed to screw in because I switch them out often. So I wondered, are they using substandard computer parts to control the robots? Then I saw all the robot disablings and I wondered even more.
If we have become "physically isolationists" (by which I assume you mean people who don't want to be accosted by random strangers) I wish the men who go about harassing women on the street would get a clue about that.
You make a good point about the abundance of mis-information on the web, and that's another problem that needs to be looked at, but I disagree with "this will all sort itself out and real scientists will continue or return to citing more traditional resources." We have an incredible resource here (the internet) for diseminating information, and to ignore it would be something that's really not going to happen. We need to solve problems like this so we can take advantage of the benefits offered by the internet.