A more accurate summary of the article would be 'employees should become contractors and work when and where they choose, and get paid for what they accomplish, not by how many hours it took them.'
Nowhere in the article did he propose that they all develop open source software. His article is far more about the flaws with the employer-employee (master-servant!) relationship, than it is about OSS.
OTOH grandparent poster has a point. The free time/work time distinction is a recent developement in history.
Note to parent and grandparent posters, the word capitalism means so many things to different people, that it effectively means nothing. You are best to avoid the term, or strictly define it when you do.
How about a junkyard the size of the Pacific Ocean, piled 2 miles deep, with winds around 20,000 MPH, and parts that are indestructible at those speeds. And the parts that do fit together take a stronger jolt to break them apart than to snap them together in the first place, Let this wind blow for 2000 years, (the time since Christ), and then repeate 10 times for each person in the US. Remember, these are self-replicating airplanes, so if you get one, the rest happen in a decade or so. And we don't care about any particular airplane design, just something that flies well.
Doesn't sound quite so impossible now does it? Oh, and what I described roughly describes evolution for half a billion years - in a single mouthful of water. The Earth has oceans of the stuff. Even a.01% chance of you getting an airplane in this example implies that life was virtually gaurented to evolve on Earth.
Atoms are really small, and move and interact really fast, and a million years is a really long time. It is hard to wrap your mind around the size and scale of the problem. Even for the really intelligent people.
"The point is, unless this scaffolding process of evolution can be demonstrated or worked out exactly step by step on paper (or computer, whatever), evolutionists have a problem to work out. I am personally very interested in one such example where biologists can trace step by step the process of an evolving biological structure with more than just 5 components."
If what you are looking for is step-by-step examples of actual biological systems, then for the most part you are out of luck. The evidence, the missing genes, is (are?) gone.
OTOH, if what you are looking for is a step-by-step computer simulation of an evolving system that develops the same thing, then yes, you have a good point. Until such time saying such systems did evolve is educated speculation. Hardly groundless, but not solid science.
BTW, I too am looking forward to seeing this kind of computer demonstration. I suspect that we will learn a lot about life if such a system is demonstrated, or convincingly proven to not be possible.
Correct. It is useless. That does not make it incorrect.
Useless theories have no place in science. Even an incomplete theory (think newton's laws of gravity vs. general realitivity, or the bohr model of the atom vs quantum mechanics) has vastly more use than a completely correct (assumption for purpose of argument) but useless theory like this one.
I wish more people could understand this concept, but sadly, it seems that even most/.ers don't get it.
It is becuase our timekeeping is based on the position of the sun in the sky. This is determined by the earth's rotation period, which is not constant, or predictable to the resolution of seconds. (at least over a year or two)
Not a nine-headed Pope, it was the 14th amendment.
While I applaud the motive for the 14th amendment (end slavery etc.) the means that were used has badly broken the Consitiution. The 14th amendment needs to be repealed and replaced.
At Mach 3? Yea, I think that it just might blow away.
OTOH, new tanks that do not need foam insulation (or, like, have it on the INSIDE mabe?) sounds like a good short-term solution. Materials Science after all has progressed a good deal in the last 30 years.
No, you missed my point. This perfect god could have wanted to create an imperfect world - or he is just not done yet. There is no reason to think that a perfect god couldn't create an imperfect creation - if that is what he wanted to do!
On the other hand, classical Christian theology does state that the creation was at least intended to be perfect. Reality and most Christian theology are incompatible.
FWIW, the firefox in hoary does have all the security updates backported to it. This actually causes a minor problem 'cause the firefox guys won't let you get new extensions for the old versions. - there is a workaround for hoary though.
Not quite. All that is ruled out is a perfect god, trying to make a perfect creation, and that what we see is the final product. It could be a work in progress, or the flaws are intentional. (ie. he wanted it flawed for some reason.)
Was general relativity too complex for Newton to understand? Is that why he stopped with his theory of gravity?
I agree that they do not understand the human mind. But I an not convinced that the reason is that they are too complex. It is likely that we have just not figured them out yet.
" Depression is not a biologically-based disorder."
Based on personal experience, this is blatantly wrong. Depression, or at least some 'kinds' of depression, are not caused by thoughts, and are not improved or worsened by thoughts.
The real trouble is that there is a kind (or kinds) of depression that is caused by negative thoughts. (loss of loved one, personal failure etc.) And this depression looks a lot like the other kind. To complicate matters, they can both occur at the same time, and the first type can cause the second. In addition, like you said, "there is no PET scan or any kind of thing that would tell you definately, 'this person has depression'." So diagnosis is done on the basis of asking the person how they feel and what they do. This is just not good enough to tell the difference. And they need different treatments.
Gaaa... 20% sounds horrible, until you realize that that is just 20% of the energy present in the wind - and that no turbine can ever get more than ~60% anyway. (think something like carnot efficiency limits, and propellor types are limited to ~30%)
It is just a non-issue. Whether 2% or 60%, if a windmill can produce 2000 Kw/hr/yr at a certain site, then that is 2000 kw/hr. The wind was free.
c) and d) compliment each other. You can farm the same land that the windmills are on. And use any excess energy from the windmills to pump the water for the farm. Any disruption to the native wildlife from the windmills is dwarfed by the farm.
Even a 50% reduction in energy use per person will be swamped by population growth in 35 years - at 2% growth per year. China's economy is now growing at ~9%
Conservation is at very best a short-term stop-gap measure to allow us time to come up with a replacement. We have to spend 'all kinds of effort on how to provide more energy and perpetuate the "more more more!" mindset.' because there will be 'more more more' people. Conservation can't cut it.
Have you ever tried to run Windows on a laptop without the drivers and utilities provided by the laptop maker? I have. The drivers were for XP home and we were trying 2K. Almost nothing worked. We then tried Fedora core 4 on the same laptop. While there were a few problems, most stuff worked. I am posting from Ubuntu, it is easier than fedora (IMHO)
The problem is not linux, it is manufacturer support. Windows is actually much worse than most linux distro's, but because the manufacturer supports the laptop, it (usuallly!) works fairly well. If they gave the same support to linux it would work just fine.
No brushes. The windmill spins the magnets, the wires are fixed. This makes it very simple mechanically. (and a rectifier is dirt simple to make, or buy)
Auto alternators suck badly for windmills. They need 100's, and like 1000's of rpm's. Windmills do not provide this. Which means gears, belts etc, all of which waste energy and add complexity. Also, auto alternators use electromagnets for the magnetic fields. This allows easy voltage regulation, (lower rpm, just up the field strength) - great for a car, but hard to use for a windmill, especially when the wind isn't blowing - How do you power it for startup? And this style of voltage regulation puts max tourque at the lowest speeds. Tourque needs to match the windspeed for efficiency.
These guys are living on this stuff. This is how they get their power. They are off-grid - due to location, not choice. If auto alternators worked better, they would be using them.
No. The other main issue is power storage. Solar, wind and wave only work when there is sun, wind and wave. How do you store for a calm night? Batteries are a poor solution.
Of course. Their 'customers' are the shareholders. Most of their shareholders are not investors, they are speculators. Speculators care about short term only. Follow the money!
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A more accurate summary of the article would be 'employees should become contractors and work when and where they choose, and get paid for what they accomplish, not by how many hours it took them.'
Nowhere in the article did he propose that they all develop open source software. His article is far more about the flaws with the employer-employee (master-servant!) relationship, than it is about OSS.
OTOH grandparent poster has a point. The free time/work time distinction is a recent developement in history.
Note to parent and grandparent posters, the word capitalism means so many things to different people, that it effectively means nothing. You are best to avoid the term, or strictly define it when you do.
Doesn't sound quite so impossible now does it? Oh, and what I described roughly describes evolution for half a billion years - in a single mouthful of water. The Earth has oceans of the stuff. Even a .01% chance of you getting an airplane in this example implies that life was virtually gaurented to evolve on Earth.
Atoms are really small, and move and interact really fast, and a million years is a really long time. It is hard to wrap your mind around the size and scale of the problem. Even for the really intelligent people.
If what you are looking for is step-by-step examples of actual biological systems, then for the most part you are out of luck. The evidence, the missing genes, is (are?) gone.
OTOH, if what you are looking for is a step-by-step computer simulation of an evolving system that develops the same thing, then yes, you have a good point. Until such time saying such systems did evolve is educated speculation. Hardly groundless, but not solid science.
BTW, I too am looking forward to seeing this kind of computer demonstration. I suspect that we will learn a lot about life if such a system is demonstrated, or convincingly proven to not be possible.
Useless theories have no place in science. Even an incomplete theory (think newton's laws of gravity vs. general realitivity, or the bohr model of the atom vs quantum mechanics) has vastly more use than a completely correct (assumption for purpose of argument) but useless theory like this one.
I wish more people could understand this concept, but sadly, it seems that even most /.ers don't get it.
And as long as we use rockets, space will largely be inaccessable to humans. Current tech costs too much.
Naa.. just replace the explosives with tear-gas cannisters and alarms. :)
It is becuase our timekeeping is based on the position of the sun in the sky. This is determined by the earth's rotation period, which is not constant, or predictable to the resolution of seconds. (at least over a year or two)
While I applaud the motive for the 14th amendment (end slavery etc.) the means that were used has badly broken the Consitiution. The 14th amendment needs to be repealed and replaced.
OTOH, new tanks that do not need foam insulation (or, like, have it on the INSIDE mabe?) sounds like a good short-term solution. Materials Science after all has progressed a good deal in the last 30 years.
It sure ain't solid while it is burning. More like plasma. Metal flakes, who cares. Plasma torches next to hydrogen tanks....
On the other hand, classical Christian theology does state that the creation was at least intended to be perfect. Reality and most Christian theology are incompatible.
FWIW, the firefox in hoary does have all the security updates backported to it. This actually causes a minor problem 'cause the firefox guys won't let you get new extensions for the old versions. - there is a workaround for hoary though.
Not quite. All that is ruled out is a perfect god, trying to make a perfect creation, and that what we see is the final product. It could be a work in progress, or the flaws are intentional. (ie. he wanted it flawed for some reason.)
I agree that they do not understand the human mind. But I an not convinced that the reason is that they are too complex. It is likely that we have just not figured them out yet.
Oh, wait - inflation. Right.
My point, not even printing money in the basement is an exemption from your rule.
Based on personal experience, this is blatantly wrong. Depression, or at least some 'kinds' of depression, are not caused by thoughts, and are not improved or worsened by thoughts.
The real trouble is that there is a kind (or kinds) of depression that is caused by negative thoughts. (loss of loved one, personal failure etc.) And this depression looks a lot like the other kind. To complicate matters, they can both occur at the same time, and the first type can cause the second. In addition, like you said, "there is no PET scan or any kind of thing that would tell you definately, 'this person has depression'." So diagnosis is done on the basis of asking the person how they feel and what they do. This is just not good enough to tell the difference. And they need different treatments.
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It is just a non-issue. Whether 2% or 60%, if a windmill can produce 2000 Kw/hr/yr at a certain site, then that is 2000 kw/hr. The wind was free.
c) and d) compliment each other. You can farm the same land that the windmills are on. And use any excess energy from the windmills to pump the water for the farm. Any disruption to the native wildlife from the windmills is dwarfed by the farm.
Conservation is at very best a short-term stop-gap measure to allow us time to come up with a replacement. We have to spend 'all kinds of effort on how to provide more energy and perpetuate the "more more more!" mindset.' because there will be 'more more more' people. Conservation can't cut it.
The problem is not linux, it is manufacturer support. Windows is actually much worse than most linux distro's, but because the manufacturer supports the laptop, it (usuallly!) works fairly well. If they gave the same support to linux it would work just fine.
No brushes. The windmill spins the magnets, the wires are fixed. This makes it very simple mechanically. (and a rectifier is dirt simple to make, or buy)
These guys are living on this stuff. This is how they get their power. They are off-grid - due to location, not choice. If auto alternators worked better, they would be using them.
No. The other main issue is power storage. Solar, wind and wave only work when there is sun, wind and wave. How do you store for a calm night? Batteries are a poor solution.
Of course. Their 'customers' are the shareholders. Most of their shareholders are not investors, they are speculators. Speculators care about short term only. Follow the money!