First supposedly in Communism there is no, Bad or Good people all are equal as that is the whole point. The ONLY bad people would be those that refuse to participate in Communism, hence some of the strife caused.
However, yes if you are the guy that gets his rights taken away, it sucks, but supposedly it is for good reason for the greater benefit for all, and thus worthwhile.
The classic harsh example might be: You have to be killed, but in being killed you save 10,000 people. Sucks to be you, but great for many. As Spock would say the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Now the tricky part that always goes along with this is at what threshold of "rights transfer" from individual to state is "acceptable". To put it in the previous simplistic example, lets say your death would only save 10 people, would that be sufficient for the state to make that choice? What about only one really important person (which isn't supposed to work that way). I think the bottom line is that it give the state some pretty crazy power, and anyone who has it gets a bit drunk with it, and certainly never wants to relinquish it, or have anything apply to them. Having an economy based on a ponzi scheme doesn't help either. Anyway its an ideal, how it is implemented is something else entirely.
The way I get it (and I am not expert) is that Communism is simply the political extension of commune or communal. That is where people work and live together for the common good. I think ideologically it simply means that the rights of the state supersede that of the individual. So far as an ideal goes, its pretty darn good, in principle.
In practice however Greed, and Power tend to get in there and mess about. Where everyone is supposed to be "equal" there tends to be large inequity. China saw that the state managed economy of the USSR didn't really work that well and was really just a huge deck of cards that eventually came down. So they merged Capitalism which seemed to be working for the west at the time with Communism. While it does seem to be sort of working at least from a growth perspective, they basically get the worst from both systems. Lack of any political rights as per a democracy and escalating fiscal inequality among the population. Right now it is working as they hold the hope carrot of a better life out there for the masses. However as soon as they figure out that they have no power politically, and no hope fiscally, I think the proverbial shit is going to hit the fan. How long that will take or will they adjust who knows. Of course people could say that about some western countries right now also.
I think my take on this would be that any civilization that has the ability to build a Dyson Sphere, could likely A) drop in for lunch any time they wanted to, and B) totally annihilate us in some unusual and interesting way.
Not to be Xenophobic but I'm just saying we might not want to try and draw attention to ourselves.
Then again with that technology, I would go with the assumption that by the time we detect them, they have already detected us a long time ago and can read you licence place number if they really want to.
The only way this might be wrong is if they perceive time differently than we do and until we exist for a few million years we are nothing more than a blip. Then again that's pretty outrageous but who knows...
I found this also. The Liberals for being the "Official Opposition" didn't really do too much opposing. Mostly I suspect because they were too afraid to force an early election (or its stuff they really don't care that much about). So when Harper and is cronies were spouting off all sorts of batshit crazy ideas and bills about the internet, privacy, and IP, the Liberals were oddly quiet. It was only the NDP that would make a stand on camera as to what their opposing views were. The Liberals would argue that the NDP had nothing to lose, but at least they were doing their damn job.
Well in Canada we use Metric for pretty much everything. However two exceptions. It didn't come into being here until later on in the 60's or 70's so people like my Dad still use F for temperature which drives me bonkers, as all I know is C.
Also for whatever reason it is a lot more common here to say someone is 5"10 rather than 180cm like they might in Europe.
Of course the English still use "Stone" as weight, so they are the most backwards of all!
Some kid is going to ask his daddy why the heck something is 30.48 centimeters long, granddad will pip up with a rambling story about feet and inches and miles... The kid will either think the past was insane or that granddad is starting to lose his marbles!
They don't promote anymore. I kept waiting and it never happened. Managers are happy to just giving more and more work and responsibilities, while only giving you incremental pay increases. If you want to get ahead, change jobs, multiple times. I think it is sad, but it is apparently how things work now. The most successful people seem to now only stay long enough in a position in order to put it on their resume and then move on. The crazy thing is, it usually takes longer than their tenure to actually finish large projects, so they never really finish anything. Perhaps get your underlings to finish a project that your predecessor left, and then claim the credit, and move on. This is how people are rewarded now.
I doubt the cop is doing it because he particularly wants to or is circumventing policy, likely ordered to do it as part of his job. So don't fire the messenger, fire the guy who wrote the message.
What an absurd little idea, what will they think of next!
If the industry can't figure out that the model has changed without them, then they don't deserve to participate. Physical media is the past, all electronic is what the future is. They can try and wrangle about with a DRM laden cloud if they want, but even that is likely to fail, as it has been tried in the past. People want content, on demand. You either provide it or you do not.
Spiderman: "So doc does this mean I have super powers?" Doctor: "God no, what are you an idiot? You have radiation poisoning, you're going to die a horribly painful death with no possible cure" Spiderman: "Oh." G.I. Joe "...and Knowing is have the battle! Go Joe!"
Ya, what they failed to read in the small print, is that they would be require to fill out separately every single UPC for every hard drive currently in production and in stock to enable the mail in rebate.
Hint: Even if they did, it is being handled by a 3rd party broker who will simply refuse to pay it out no matter what.
I know there is a forum pun in there somewhere. Anyway, as the subject suggests it is all about balance.
The difficulty is due to the types of modern food we eat, it is VERY hard to moderate many of the things we should, such as fat, sugar, and salt.
Pretty much any processed food is loaded with all three. If fact a lot of food that people might consider healthy is in fact not. Canned vegetables and soup for example is just loaded with salt. Sugar, or HFCS, or added glucose in some why shape or form is added to just about everything, particularly drinks.
So I think the fact the guy is likely trying to make is that the amount that is commonly ingested is toxic to the human body, and results in all sorts of health problems like obesity, heart problems, diabetes, etc...
This is directly the problem with a largely unregulated food industry which has a very large lobby to prevent it from ever becoming so. The best a regular person can do is to try an regulate these substances buy avoiding processed food whenever possible, and buying local fresh good from farmers markets and the like. However for most people deck is really stacked against them.
The big thing about sugar is not only the intake, but how fast your body burns them. As a rule of thumb the more refined the faster you burn, and the worse it is for you. Try to use sugar that has some fiber attached to it, this will slow absorption and allow you body to handle it better. Of course if you still eat a ton of it this wont help either. Even stuff people normal associate with health like juice is horrible for you in this regard. You are much better off just eating an actual piece of fruit, as it contains all the fiber and structure of the material that you have to break down before getting at all the sugar it contains. Anyway of the three, fat, salt, and sugar I probably try and regulate sugar and salt the most.
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I guess I meant from an ideological perspective.
First supposedly in Communism there is no, Bad or Good people all are equal as that is the whole point. The ONLY bad people would be those that refuse to participate in Communism, hence some of the strife caused.
However, yes if you are the guy that gets his rights taken away, it sucks, but supposedly it is for good reason for the greater benefit for all, and thus worthwhile.
The classic harsh example might be: You have to be killed, but in being killed you save 10,000 people. Sucks to be you, but great for many. As Spock would say the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Now the tricky part that always goes along with this is at what threshold of "rights transfer" from individual to state is "acceptable". To put it in the previous simplistic example, lets say your death would only save 10 people, would that be sufficient for the state to make that choice? What about only one really important person (which isn't supposed to work that way). I think the bottom line is that it give the state some pretty crazy power, and anyone who has it gets a bit drunk with it, and certainly never wants to relinquish it, or have anything apply to them. Having an economy based on a ponzi scheme doesn't help either. Anyway its an ideal, how it is implemented is something else entirely.
Well you know the saying:
"Don't bite the hand that feeds you."
and I guess it still goes if that hand every now and again bitch slaps you.
The way I get it (and I am not expert) is that Communism is simply the political extension of commune or communal. That is where people work and live together for the common good. I think ideologically it simply means that the rights of the state supersede that of the individual. So far as an ideal goes, its pretty darn good, in principle.
In practice however Greed, and Power tend to get in there and mess about. Where everyone is supposed to be "equal" there tends to be large inequity. China saw that the state managed economy of the USSR didn't really work that well and was really just a huge deck of cards that eventually came down. So they merged Capitalism which seemed to be working for the west at the time with Communism. While it does seem to be sort of working at least from a growth perspective, they basically get the worst from both systems. Lack of any political rights as per a democracy and escalating fiscal inequality among the population. Right now it is working as they hold the hope carrot of a better life out there for the masses. However as soon as they figure out that they have no power politically, and no hope fiscally, I think the proverbial shit is going to hit the fan. How long that will take or will they adjust who knows. Of course people could say that about some western countries right now also.
I plan on using my 3 wishes for a billion dollars, a time travel device, and then an infinite amount of wishes!
If they want to waste their genie on shuttles, and space stations that's their business!
I think the quote you are looking for goes something like this:
"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."
Ha and you though gas was expensive at the pumps last weekend? Just wait till you see what this costs!
I think my take on this would be that any civilization that has the ability to build a Dyson Sphere, could likely A) drop in for lunch any time they wanted to, and B) totally annihilate us in some unusual and interesting way.
Not to be Xenophobic but I'm just saying we might not want to try and draw attention to ourselves.
Then again with that technology, I would go with the assumption that by the time we detect them, they have already detected us a long time ago and can read you licence place number if they really want to.
The only way this might be wrong is if they perceive time differently than we do and until we exist for a few million years we are nothing more than a blip. Then again that's pretty outrageous but who knows...
The real challenge for the future is going to be the coming Zombie Apocalypse.
With Brains becoming a cheap global commodity, one can only expect a massive increase in the Zombie population.
I found this also. The Liberals for being the "Official Opposition" didn't really do too much opposing. Mostly I suspect because they were too afraid to force an early election (or its stuff they really don't care that much about). So when Harper and is cronies were spouting off all sorts of batshit crazy ideas and bills about the internet, privacy, and IP, the Liberals were oddly quiet. It was only the NDP that would make a stand on camera as to what their opposing views were. The Liberals would argue that the NDP had nothing to lose, but at least they were doing their damn job.
They plan to throw rovers at Mars until they capitulate! :)
Well in Canada we use Metric for pretty much everything. However two exceptions. It didn't come into being here until later on in the 60's or 70's so people like my Dad still use F for temperature which drives me bonkers, as all I know is C.
Also for whatever reason it is a lot more common here to say someone is 5"10 rather than 180cm like they might in Europe.
Of course the English still use "Stone" as weight, so they are the most backwards of all!
Some kid is going to ask his daddy why the heck something is 30.48 centimeters long, granddad will pip up with a rambling story about feet and inches and miles... The kid will either think the past was insane or that granddad is starting to lose his marbles!
had a job a The Daily Planet!
had a job at The Daily Planet!
They don't promote anymore. I kept waiting and it never happened. Managers are happy to just giving more and more work and responsibilities, while only giving you incremental pay increases. If you want to get ahead, change jobs, multiple times. I think it is sad, but it is apparently how things work now. The most successful people seem to now only stay long enough in a position in order to put it on their resume and then move on. The crazy thing is, it usually takes longer than their tenure to actually finish large projects, so they never really finish anything. Perhaps get your underlings to finish a project that your predecessor left, and then claim the credit, and move on. This is how people are rewarded now.
Just fill you phone with images of Goatse.
Have fun washing your eyeballs with bleach and trying to forget you fascist bastards!
I doubt the cop is doing it because he particularly wants to or is circumventing policy, likely ordered to do it as part of his job. So don't fire the messenger, fire the guy who wrote the message.
Just watched the "Revival" a few weeks ago. Apparently there is a "Resurrection" live action movie coming soon.
Positively provincial!
What an absurd little idea, what will they think of next!
If the industry can't figure out that the model has changed without them, then they don't deserve to participate. Physical media is the past, all electronic is what the future is. They can try and wrangle about with a DRM laden cloud if they want, but even that is likely to fail, as it has been tried in the past. People want content, on demand. You either provide it or you do not.
Actually has a cool origin story however, I am looking forward to the movie.
I'm waiting for the Charles Xavier/Juggernaut story. Whats more back story than estranged brothers.
Spiderman: "So doc does this mean I have super powers?"
Doctor: "God no, what are you an idiot? You have radiation poisoning, you're going to die a horribly painful death with no possible cure"
Spiderman: "Oh."
G.I. Joe "...and Knowing is have the battle! Go Joe!"
probably accuse us of trying to spread some deadly digital virus around the universe...
"Captain we have found the source of the material"
"Prep the Destructo Ray, and make me some tea!"
Ya, what they failed to read in the small print, is that they would be require to fill out separately every single UPC for every hard drive currently in production and in stock to enable the mail in rebate.
Hint: Even if they did, it is being handled by a 3rd party broker who will simply refuse to pay it out no matter what.
I know there is a forum pun in there somewhere. Anyway, as the subject suggests it is all about balance.
The difficulty is due to the types of modern food we eat, it is VERY hard to moderate many of the things we should, such as fat, sugar, and salt.
Pretty much any processed food is loaded with all three. If fact a lot of food that people might consider healthy is in fact not. Canned vegetables and soup for example is just loaded with salt. Sugar, or HFCS, or added glucose in some why shape or form is added to just about everything, particularly drinks.
So I think the fact the guy is likely trying to make is that the amount that is commonly ingested is toxic to the human body, and results in all sorts of health problems like obesity, heart problems, diabetes, etc...
This is directly the problem with a largely unregulated food industry which has a very large lobby to prevent it from ever becoming so. The best a regular person can do is to try an regulate these substances buy avoiding processed food whenever possible, and buying local fresh good from farmers markets and the like. However for most people deck is really stacked against them.
The big thing about sugar is not only the intake, but how fast your body burns them. As a rule of thumb the more refined the faster you burn, and the worse it is for you. Try to use sugar that has some fiber attached to it, this will slow absorption and allow you body to handle it better. Of course if you still eat a ton of it this wont help either. Even stuff people normal associate with health like juice is horrible for you in this regard. You are much better off just eating an actual piece of fruit, as it contains all the fiber and structure of the material that you have to break down before getting at all the sugar it contains. Anyway of the three, fat, salt, and sugar I probably try and regulate sugar and salt the most.