Jealousy isn't a basic human behaviour? I think the world over can demonstrate that it is.
The fact that you can't take part in a discussion without coming off as a immature idiot suggests you perhaps shouldn't be taking part at all.
I think you mean envy. And in a post-scarcity world, material envy would be meaningless. If you really wanted a Ferrari, you could have one. It wouldn't be a big deal.
Sexual jealousy would still remain, but I imagine it would be more of a mental health issue than anything.
I can believe most people can be satisifed with "enough." But there will always be some asshole who wants it all.
There will still presumably be crime and punishment (as you can't just let people kill each other willy nilly) so maybe these assholes can get a few years in jail living on bread and water.
Another premise of Star Trek is a post-religion highly sexually liberated society. In that society, hookers haven't got much of a market because getting laid has become ridiculously easy.
Basically - picking somebody up consists "Horny?" and "Yeah/Nay"
Yes, but as long as people can say "nay" there will always be other people who ) are not getting enough sex. Even if everyone was extremely physically attractive you'd still have people with off-putting personalities.
Although the "humans are now perfect" theme just made people less interesting, eliminated sources of drama
Eliminating poverty does not make people less interesting. One of the points about being poor is that it severely limits your horizons, interests and so on.
The whole problem with having a small minority of wealthy people and a mass of poor ones is that the former get to do all the interesting stuff, while the latter scrabble around to find enough food to avoid starvation and have no time to do anything else.
OpenTTD's interface is absolutely marvellous, it's like a proto-Win95 within itself.
Oh yeah, windows 95. That's the operating system where I had to memorize a bunch of shell commands because the GUI was so incomplete. I can see why you'd draw that comparison, but not why you'd find it to be favorable.
The great thing about Windows 95 was that it wasn't Windows 3.1, in the same way that the great thing about Windows 3.1 was that it wasn't MS-DOS 5.0, and that the great thing about MS-DOS 5.0 was that it wasn't MS-DOS 4.0, and...
At around Windows ME, Microsoft obviously got bored with this idea.
...and that's why I was thrown out of school, spent time in juvenile prison and am now working part time flipping burgers with an electronic tag on my ankle.
You seem to know an awful lot about something that doesn't exist. You aren't you anyways, as your memories fade, new ones created, and cells replaced with lunch.
If you can't even agree on "I think, therefore I am" there's not really much to differentiate you from an abacus.
The rate that technology advances has been on an ever increasing curve for far longer than what went on in the 20th Century. The more we learn the faster we develop new technologies. There is no indication that said curve will flatten out.
Alternatively, you can look at (say) Roman civilisation and see that there was a downward slope during the Dark Ages following the fall of the Roamn Empire (in simplistic terms). The point is that human technological progress has certainly not been on a steady upward curve since the Ancient Egyptians.
What's wrong with farming? I grew a sizeable portion of my food this year with not much work.
It rather depends on the nature of the apocalypse. If everything is contaminated with radioactive fallout, you're not going to want to eat your crops, even if they survive.
If a series of mega volcanoes fills the sky with ash and no sunlight gets through, you're going to have trouble growing anything much. Similarly if a mega tsunami floods half the land.
If an asteroid wipes out half the planet, who knows?
And with the ever-popular zombie apocalypse, they'll get you while you're out ploughing and sowing.
What are the odds that ALL of the on-site maintenance people share your character flaws? What are the odds that they can or do control all entrances? What makes you think their families can even get there?
If you think that not bending the knee to those with wealth and power even following an apocalypse is a character flaw, that makes your sig fabulously ironic. Do you really think that being rich confers some sort of right to survive compared with everyone else?
It's a real problem, and I don't see any easy solution. There is a strong cultural tradition that says that women are supposed to protest against pursuit, even when that's what they really want, and there's no easy way to tell.
Clearly the only safe procedure is to immediately desist upon request, but there's also a strong cultural tradition that says this is "unmanly". Whoops!
You appear to be a time traveller from the Nineteenth Century, so congratulations on learning how to use the internet!
The Oracle Knowledge product, which was InQuira Knowledge Management until it was acquired by Oracle ~2012. We've built an integrated knowledge management / troubleshooting tool that's deployed to 100k call center agents.
The only sane reason for recommending an Oracle product is that you are working on commission from Oracle. Anything else is just insanity or pure evil.
+1. also, public companies are just a scam to enrich a small group of executive insiders. why should I show up every day and work my ass off to make some fuckhead rich? at least with a small private company I can keep an eye on the top people and get an idea if they're taking too much of the pie.
Nonsense, unless you're the Head of Finance or something, you will have absolutely no idea how much the directors in a private company are earning.
Right. And, this just in... Study finds 65% those involved in fatal auto accidents ate French Fries in the week before the accident:-/
Give me a break.
...and a special survey shows that 98% of slashdot readers think that writing "correlation!=causation" completely undermines the validity of any paper not using pure deductive reasoning.
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Jealousy isn't a basic human behaviour? I think the world over can demonstrate that it is.
The fact that you can't take part in a discussion without coming off as a immature idiot suggests you perhaps shouldn't be taking part at all.
I think you mean envy. And in a post-scarcity world, material envy would be meaningless. If you really wanted a Ferrari, you could have one. It wouldn't be a big deal.
Sexual jealousy would still remain, but I imagine it would be more of a mental health issue than anything.
I can believe most people can be satisifed with "enough." But there will always be some asshole who wants it all.
There will still presumably be crime and punishment (as you can't just let people kill each other willy nilly) so maybe these assholes can get a few years in jail living on bread and water.
Another premise of Star Trek is a post-religion highly sexually liberated society. In that society, hookers haven't got much of a market because getting laid has become ridiculously easy. Basically - picking somebody up consists "Horny?" and "Yeah/Nay"
Yes, but as long as people can say "nay" there will always be other people who ) are not getting enough sex. Even if everyone was extremely physically attractive you'd still have people with off-putting personalities.
Although the "humans are now perfect" theme just made people less interesting, eliminated sources of drama
Eliminating poverty does not make people less interesting. One of the points about being poor is that it severely limits your horizons, interests and so on.
The whole problem with having a small minority of wealthy people and a mass of poor ones is that the former get to do all the interesting stuff, while the latter scrabble around to find enough food to avoid starvation and have no time to do anything else.
Yes, but surely the whole point of the Star Trek universe (like Iain M Banks's Culture) is that resources are infinite, at least in practical terms?
OpenTTD's interface is absolutely marvellous, it's like a proto-Win95 within itself.
Oh yeah, windows 95. That's the operating system where I had to memorize a bunch of shell commands because the GUI was so incomplete. I can see why you'd draw that comparison, but not why you'd find it to be favorable.
The great thing about Windows 95 was that it wasn't Windows 3.1, in the same way that the great thing about Windows 3.1 was that it wasn't MS-DOS 5.0, and that the great thing about MS-DOS 5.0 was that it wasn't MS-DOS 4.0, and...
At around Windows ME, Microsoft obviously got bored with this idea.
...and that's why I was thrown out of school, spent time in juvenile prison and am now working part time flipping burgers with an electronic tag on my ankle.
You seem to know an awful lot about something that doesn't exist. You aren't you anyways, as your memories fade, new ones created, and cells replaced with lunch.
If you can't even agree on "I think, therefore I am" there's not really much to differentiate you from an abacus.
I doubt it. Progress has undoubtedly slowed. What happened in the last few years that should "blow" my mind?
Uber, at least according to the slashdot "editors".
The rate that technology advances has been on an ever increasing curve for far longer than what went on in the 20th Century. The more we learn the faster we develop new technologies. There is no indication that said curve will flatten out.
Alternatively, you can look at (say) Roman civilisation and see that there was a downward slope during the Dark Ages following the fall of the Roamn Empire (in simplistic terms). The point is that human technological progress has certainly not been on a steady upward curve since the Ancient Egyptians.
the fact that we can imagine it now means that it's probably going to happen
That is a pretty flimsy argument. I can imagine time travel, that doesn't mean it's ever going to happen.
What's wrong with farming? I grew a sizeable portion of my food this year with not much work.
It rather depends on the nature of the apocalypse. If everything is contaminated with radioactive fallout, you're not going to want to eat your crops, even if they survive.
If a series of mega volcanoes fills the sky with ash and no sunlight gets through, you're going to have trouble growing anything much. Similarly if a mega tsunami floods half the land.
If an asteroid wipes out half the planet, who knows?
And with the ever-popular zombie apocalypse, they'll get you while you're out ploughing and sowing.
What are the odds that ALL of the on-site maintenance people share your character flaws? What are the odds that they can or do control all entrances? What makes you think their families can even get there?
If you think that not bending the knee to those with wealth and power even following an apocalypse is a character flaw, that makes your sig fabulously ironic. Do you really think that being rich confers some sort of right to survive compared with everyone else?
I dated a feminist once who would get angry with me for holding the door open.
Then I dated a woman who wanted me to and was angry when I didn't.
You seem to have a gift for making women angry.
Sure, I stop. I also see other men that don't stop, and end up with her on top riding him screaming in ecstasy.
Any fucking wonder it's confusing for some men?
It's best not to take your sexual politics from porn.
Wow, looks like some TRP/MRA buffoons have mod points today.
It's a real problem, and I don't see any easy solution. There is a strong cultural tradition that says that women are supposed to protest against pursuit, even when that's what they really want, and there's no easy way to tell.
Clearly the only safe procedure is to immediately desist upon request, but there's also a strong cultural tradition that says this is "unmanly". Whoops!
You appear to be a time traveller from the Nineteenth Century, so congratulations on learning how to use the internet!
The Oracle Knowledge product, which was InQuira Knowledge Management until it was acquired by Oracle ~2012. We've built an integrated knowledge management / troubleshooting tool that's deployed to 100k call center agents.
The only sane reason for recommending an Oracle product is that you are working on commission from Oracle. Anything else is just insanity or pure evil.
don't work for a publicly traded company
+1. also, public companies are just a scam to enrich a small group of executive insiders. why should I show up every day and work my ass off to make some fuckhead rich? at least with a small private company I can keep an eye on the top people and get an idea if they're taking too much of the pie.
Nonsense, unless you're the Head of Finance or something, you will have absolutely no idea how much the directors in a private company are earning.
its not a startup, its a publicly traded company with a half billion in revenue. it was a startup, but not in a long time.
In 2014 revenue was 1.4 billion. Unfortunately they made a net loss of 0.57 billion, and have had losses for the past five years.
Their financial results are more like those of a start up than a normal publicly traded company.
Yes, because self-evidently no mere scientist could possibly have thought of this until you, Mr AC, came to their aid.
Right. And, this just in... Study finds 65% those involved in fatal auto accidents ate French Fries in the week before the accident :-/
Give me a break.
...and a special survey shows that 98% of slashdot readers think that writing "correlation!=causation" completely undermines the validity of any paper not using pure deductive reasoning.
Me? I don't have the expertise to opine
I'm pretty sure that's the first time that sentence has ever appeared on the internet.
Nothing to do with the Nazis.
Do you have any references for this story? A Google search for "Chief Ullumongo" turns up nothing.
Oddly, it doesn't even give a link to the parent's post. Has Google given up indexing slashdot or something?