You seem confused as to what regulation is, it's not some magical god like intelligence that magically makes something unbiased. It's a bunch of words being implemented by a bunch of people who couldn't get any other job.
Define biased. Define unbiased. Legally, strictly. Can you remove a spam site? What defines a spam site? What algorithms are allowed? Can you filter based on complaints? Human editors? Only algorithms? Which algorithms? What are the guidelines? Who checks if the guidelines are met? How are these checks done? Now prove it's unbiased by that criteria. Now file the paperwork that it's unbiased by that definition. Now pay to have a certified entity sign off on the paperwork that it's unbiased.
Oh wait, you made something new and revolutionary? Well it probably doesn't fit the existing definition, it's very new after all, so that's going to cost you. Senators are after all very expensive and you'll need quite a few of them.
You have no idea what you're talking about which says quite a bit about you actually. I recommend that you one day leave whatever shitfest of a american city your mother's basement is in and actually go to a place with a working public transportation system. You might learn that cars in fact aren't necessary in many places or even that helpful.
Like in this case. If you want to drive 600 miles for 10 hours instead of taking a train for 4 hours then you're pretty much the definition of an idiot.
Or they use this amazing concept known as express and local trains. The express train stops in only a few places which you use the much slower local train to get to.
You sound like you've chosen to lean more towards the reptilian approach.
When did I ever say anything about myself? I'm talking about people in general, society and so on. What I'm like and what you're like doesn't matter, it's the other 6+ billion people which really matters. You're apparently not only incapable of understanding that other people aren't like you but also that anyone would be capable of possessing such understanding.
And yes, it takes about 10 years to learn any craft or skill really well.
Learn it well? It takes 10 years to even begin learning to be a doctor, school doesn't teach you much you know. That's 10 years of making no money and spending probably 80 hours a week on it.
Why anybody would choose to embark on a course of study they aren't attracted to from a soul level is due largely, I think, to ignorance regarding the nature of free will and internal passions.
No, it's again your ignorance of human nature. Doubt you're even worth talking to you anymore really since your view is so utterly delusion. Most people don't have a passion for anything productive, many other people will be perfectly happy doing one of many things. Work s work in the end. A way to pay the bills and nothing else. Money helps them pick the thing which while very hard is also useful to society, that's the point of capitalism.
You know what most people really have a passion for? Their family. Not their job, not society, not humanity. They'll deal with the worst job in the world to help put food on the table. If money isn't an issue they'll pick whatever job lets them spend the most time with their family. If you look at more socialist countries you'll see that work is the one thing they avoid caring or spending time on as much as possible.
The problem with these articles is that it's probably very difficult to verify their authenticity or bring them to any standard of quality (since so few people care about them).
The problem with having a lot of low quality possibly inaccurate articles is that then the whole encyclopedia is considered of questionable quality by readers. After all the average reader doesn't know just how accurate they can expect given article to be so they can only assume it's low quality. As a result in the end no one will even bother reading the encyclopedia because it may all very well be rubbish.
Self-interest IS human nature. A species that does not have self interest does not survive, it's genes die off and are replaced by those that do have self-interest. Welcome to life. Deny it all you want but that's the truth.
Becoming a doctor is an unpleasant, grueling process that sucks 10 years of your life into essentially hell. The money makes up for all the time you couldn't spend enjoying life or being with your family. Most people wouldn't become doctors without the money because the sacrifice simply isn't worth it otherwise.
What the hell is your point? The median income has GONE UP over the past 40 years, inflation adjusted. In other words thing are BETTER now than they were 40 years ago by your metric. And before you say anything, this holds true even if you include more workers.
As for bubbles, trying to stop them with regulation is like killing your wife because she might one day cheat on you. Long term, the economy comes off much worse than otherwise since you need insane regulations to stop them. After all, is it actual economic growth or a bubble? Better be careful and nip it in the bud just in case. Poverty for everyone might be equality but it sure as hell isn't a good thing.
And when all the little socialists are dying of disease because no one wanted to spend 12 years becoming a doctor only to get as much reward as the guy who became a janitor I'll be sure to come around and laugh at them.
Only an idiot who has no idea of what they're talking about would call what the US has "unfettered capitalism." It may be less socialized than Europe but it's still so far from pure capitalism you'd need to be certifiably retarded to not notice. I'm actually amazed you can even type given such a severe disability.
Just because they use the same underlying technology doesn't mean anything else. A Pentium1 and a Core Duo both use the same underlying technology but I'm sure you wouldn't claim they're identical. Hell, even TFA says the lawnmower batteries are heavier.
Have you never seen the inside of a laptop or something?
You can fit anything you want, it'll just be less efficient as the parent said. Why do you think processors and gpus are most often soldered to the motherboard? The really small laptop even solder ram onto the motherboard and wireless is probably on the motherboard as well.
Democracy is tyranny of the minority by the majority. It works only when severely limited in what it can do as otherwise some group is going to get screwed.
If there was no self-interest than none of this would matter. You'd be happy to work for 18 hours a day in a sweat shop for the good of society.
And who defines what the greater good is or what advancing ourselves as a race is? We've got around 50 religions each of which will argue for something very different. Violently if need be since eternal damnation is the alternative in their eyes. Science has no answer. Nature says we should be somewhat selfish to ensure a better gene pool.
Communism and fascism is what you describe. A forced "greater good" imposed by some small group that cares nothing about what people want. After all one must sacrifice for the greater good and if a person isn't willing to do their part, and die if need be, then they're not being a proper member of society.
Want utopia? Have people care about each other as individuals not some ideology and have them comprehend their own limitations.
And if 0% of the people work then what happens? As long as even one person needs to work you need to justify why they will work. Communism usually uses "work or we'll kill you" but somehow I think you'd object to that.
The previous posted didn't get it quite right so let me explain. In space propulsion there are two conceptually different "fuels": a) Fuel: What you use to get energy. b) Reaction mass: What you use that energy to chuck out the back so you can move.
In a chemical engine the two are the same, the byproducts of getting energy are used as reaction mass. In a nuclear engine for example they wouldn't be, fuel could be your nuclear material and reaction mass could be water. An ion engine likewise gets energy and reaction mass from different things. In a theoretical nuclear powered photon engine they'd be the same again, fuel turns into energy and you chuck that energy, or a part of it, directly out the back.
This technology allows us to not need reaction mass which for current space craft is probably the limiting factor. You still need to use fuel to get energy and have all the resulting effects of that. Limit on that is of course pure matter-energy conversion through say antimatter-matter annihilation.
Why do you expect scientists to somehow have god like neutrality on a subject they're devoting their whole lives to? If someone told you your whole lives work is made up and stupid would you simply shrug and happily talk to them? Do really you only want scientists who couldn't care less about their own work and barely put any effort into it as a result?
Go look at the history of science. Ridiculing other view points in par for course simply because scientists are human. Many theories we accept today were the butt of jokes back in the day.
The only people who need neutrality are those funding scientists and those publishing their results. They should have enough detachment to no be biased.
When did I ever say anything about guns? Someone claimed, essentially, that the people in their country feel safer and I simply pointed out that it's BS.
Don't change the subject because you can't handle the truth.
Anyway, the claimed effect of owning guns isn't that you feel safer because you have a gun. The effect is that criminals feel less safe because it's likely their potential victim has a gun. As a result there are is fewer of them and you are safer even if you don't touch single gun in your life. A lack of guns doesn't protect you because a knife, or pretty much anything, can kill or intimidate you just as well.
by the way, those stats are coming from victims of crime so their perception is warped anyway.
No they're not.
and besides, victims of crime in the States are much more likely to be DEAD!
Again, no they're not or at least not in any way that matters. The murder rate in basically any sane country is so much lower than that of other crimes it's inconsequential.
The explaination is simple. We aren't that fearfull of our fellow countrymen, our prime minister can go for a jog in the morning without a bullet proof vest and a small army, most of us would like it to stay that way.
Seems to me like you're very much afraid of your fellow countrymen. Then again given the lovely rape rate you guys have and the stunning burglary rate I'm not surprised.
You mean China should be growing more slowly and incompetently?
Compared to India, China has been way ahead in terms of economic growth. It took India two decades and a major economic disaster to even approach China's growth and it's still not rivaling it despite another two decades. You know why it took so long? Because India's government was blocked from implementing economic reforms. Yeah, really useful form of government they had.
The job of a programmer is NOT to code. The job of a programmer/developer is to get working maintainable software created. Everything else, including coding, is secondary.
In reality people with your and the GPs attitude always seems to wonder why they get such shitty jobs and why they have such a hard time finding jobs. Want to know the secret? People don't want to hire idiots like you and we can tell. It's also a small world, good developers will network with past coworkers who were also good developers. At the same time they'll try to put as much distance between themselves and their idiotic ex-coworkers as humanely possible.
The list of countries with no extradition treaties with the US is, more or less: Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, China (People's Republic of China), the Union of the Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d' Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, the Maldives, Mali, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, the Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Oman, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe, Bhutan, Iran, Taiwan, Korea (North).
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You seem confused as to what regulation is, it's not some magical god like intelligence that magically makes something unbiased. It's a bunch of words being implemented by a bunch of people who couldn't get any other job.
Define biased. Define unbiased. Legally, strictly. Can you remove a spam site? What defines a spam site? What algorithms are allowed? Can you filter based on complaints? Human editors? Only algorithms? Which algorithms? What are the guidelines? Who checks if the guidelines are met? How are these checks done? Now prove it's unbiased by that criteria. Now file the paperwork that it's unbiased by that definition. Now pay to have a certified entity sign off on the paperwork that it's unbiased.
Oh wait, you made something new and revolutionary? Well it probably doesn't fit the existing definition, it's very new after all, so that's going to cost you. Senators are after all very expensive and you'll need quite a few of them.
You have no idea what you're talking about which says quite a bit about you actually. I recommend that you one day leave whatever shitfest of a american city your mother's basement is in and actually go to a place with a working public transportation system. You might learn that cars in fact aren't necessary in many places or even that helpful.
Like in this case. If you want to drive 600 miles for 10 hours instead of taking a train for 4 hours then you're pretty much the definition of an idiot.
Or they use this amazing concept known as express and local trains. The express train stops in only a few places which you use the much slower local train to get to.
You sound like you've chosen to lean more towards the reptilian approach.
When did I ever say anything about myself? I'm talking about people in general, society and so on. What I'm like and what you're like doesn't matter, it's the other 6+ billion people which really matters. You're apparently not only incapable of understanding that other people aren't like you but also that anyone would be capable of possessing such understanding.
And yes, it takes about 10 years to learn any craft or skill really well.
Learn it well? It takes 10 years to even begin learning to be a doctor, school doesn't teach you much you know. That's 10 years of making no money and spending probably 80 hours a week on it.
Why anybody would choose to embark on a course of study they aren't attracted to from a soul level is due largely, I think, to ignorance regarding the nature of free will and internal passions.
No, it's again your ignorance of human nature. Doubt you're even worth talking to you anymore really since your view is so utterly delusion. Most people don't have a passion for anything productive, many other people will be perfectly happy doing one of many things. Work s work in the end. A way to pay the bills and nothing else. Money helps them pick the thing which while very hard is also useful to society, that's the point of capitalism.
You know what most people really have a passion for? Their family. Not their job, not society, not humanity. They'll deal with the worst job in the world to help put food on the table. If money isn't an issue they'll pick whatever job lets them spend the most time with their family. If you look at more socialist countries you'll see that work is the one thing they avoid caring or spending time on as much as possible.
The problem with these articles is that it's probably very difficult to verify their authenticity or bring them to any standard of quality (since so few people care about them).
The problem with having a lot of low quality possibly inaccurate articles is that then the whole encyclopedia is considered of questionable quality by readers. After all the average reader doesn't know just how accurate they can expect given article to be so they can only assume it's low quality. As a result in the end no one will even bother reading the encyclopedia because it may all very well be rubbish.
Congratulations, you're seen the obvious. I replied to an absurd use of the word "capitalism" with an equally absurd use of the word "socialism."
Self-interest IS human nature. A species that does not have self interest does not survive, it's genes die off and are replaced by those that do have self-interest. Welcome to life. Deny it all you want but that's the truth.
Becoming a doctor is an unpleasant, grueling process that sucks 10 years of your life into essentially hell. The money makes up for all the time you couldn't spend enjoying life or being with your family. Most people wouldn't become doctors without the money because the sacrifice simply isn't worth it otherwise.
What the hell is your point? The median income has GONE UP over the past 40 years, inflation adjusted. In other words thing are BETTER now than they were 40 years ago by your metric. And before you say anything, this holds true even if you include more workers.
As for bubbles, trying to stop them with regulation is like killing your wife because she might one day cheat on you. Long term, the economy comes off much worse than otherwise since you need insane regulations to stop them. After all, is it actual economic growth or a bubble? Better be careful and nip it in the bud just in case. Poverty for everyone might be equality but it sure as hell isn't a good thing.
And when all the little socialists are dying of disease because no one wanted to spend 12 years becoming a doctor only to get as much reward as the guy who became a janitor I'll be sure to come around and laugh at them.
Only an idiot who has no idea of what they're talking about would call what the US has "unfettered capitalism." It may be less socialized than Europe but it's still so far from pure capitalism you'd need to be certifiably retarded to not notice. I'm actually amazed you can even type given such a severe disability.
Just because they use the same underlying technology doesn't mean anything else. A Pentium1 and a Core Duo both use the same underlying technology but I'm sure you wouldn't claim they're identical. Hell, even TFA says the lawnmower batteries are heavier.
Have you never seen the inside of a laptop or something?
You can fit anything you want, it'll just be less efficient as the parent said. Why do you think processors and gpus are most often soldered to the motherboard? The really small laptop even solder ram onto the motherboard and wireless is probably on the motherboard as well.
Democracy is tyranny of the minority by the majority. It works only when severely limited in what it can do as otherwise some group is going to get screwed.
If there was no self-interest than none of this would matter. You'd be happy to work for 18 hours a day in a sweat shop for the good of society.
And who defines what the greater good is or what advancing ourselves as a race is? We've got around 50 religions each of which will argue for something very different. Violently if need be since eternal damnation is the alternative in their eyes. Science has no answer. Nature says we should be somewhat selfish to ensure a better gene pool.
Communism and fascism is what you describe. A forced "greater good" imposed by some small group that cares nothing about what people want. After all one must sacrifice for the greater good and if a person isn't willing to do their part, and die if need be, then they're not being a proper member of society.
Want utopia? Have people care about each other as individuals not some ideology and have them comprehend their own limitations.
And if 0% of the people work then what happens? As long as even one person needs to work you need to justify why they will work. Communism usually uses "work or we'll kill you" but somehow I think you'd object to that.
The previous posted didn't get it quite right so let me explain. In space propulsion there are two conceptually different "fuels":
a) Fuel: What you use to get energy.
b) Reaction mass: What you use that energy to chuck out the back so you can move.
In a chemical engine the two are the same, the byproducts of getting energy are used as reaction mass. In a nuclear engine for example they wouldn't be, fuel could be your nuclear material and reaction mass could be water. An ion engine likewise gets energy and reaction mass from different things. In a theoretical nuclear powered photon engine they'd be the same again, fuel turns into energy and you chuck that energy, or a part of it, directly out the back.
This technology allows us to not need reaction mass which for current space craft is probably the limiting factor. You still need to use fuel to get energy and have all the resulting effects of that. Limit on that is of course pure matter-energy conversion through say antimatter-matter annihilation.
Why do you expect scientists to somehow have god like neutrality on a subject they're devoting their whole lives to? If someone told you your whole lives work is made up and stupid would you simply shrug and happily talk to them? Do really you only want scientists who couldn't care less about their own work and barely put any effort into it as a result?
Go look at the history of science. Ridiculing other view points in par for course simply because scientists are human. Many theories we accept today were the butt of jokes back in the day.
The only people who need neutrality are those funding scientists and those publishing their results. They should have enough detachment to no be biased.
yeah i'd feel safer if i was packin' a glok.
When did I ever say anything about guns? Someone claimed, essentially, that the people in their country feel safer and I simply pointed out that it's BS.
Don't change the subject because you can't handle the truth.
Anyway, the claimed effect of owning guns isn't that you feel safer because you have a gun. The effect is that criminals feel less safe because it's likely their potential victim has a gun. As a result there are is fewer of them and you are safer even if you don't touch single gun in your life. A lack of guns doesn't protect you because a knife, or pretty much anything, can kill or intimidate you just as well.
by the way, those stats are coming from victims of crime so their perception is warped anyway.
No they're not.
and besides, victims of crime in the States are much more likely to be DEAD!
Again, no they're not or at least not in any way that matters. The murder rate in basically any sane country is so much lower than that of other crimes it's inconsequential.
The explaination is simple. We aren't that fearfull of our fellow countrymen, our prime minister can go for a jog in the morning without a bullet proof vest and a small army, most of us would like it to stay that way.
Really? Is that why people in Australia are more afraid of walking in the dark and burglaries than those in the US?
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_per_of_saf_wal_in_dar-crime-perception-safety-walking-dark
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_per_of_saf_bur-crime-perception-of-safety-burglary
Seems to me like you're very much afraid of your fellow countrymen. Then again given the lovely rape rate you guys have and the stunning burglary rate I'm not surprised.
Data does have mass:
http://scottkurowski.com/massbit/index.htm
So in other words it a way for people who are incapable of living in the real world to play out their escape fantasies?
You mean China should be growing more slowly and incompetently?
Compared to India, China has been way ahead in terms of economic growth. It took India two decades and a major economic disaster to even approach China's growth and it's still not rivaling it despite another two decades. You know why it took so long? Because India's government was blocked from implementing economic reforms. Yeah, really useful form of government they had.
That's why any decent encryption or hashing system salts the password. Your tables are now useless.
The job of a programmer is NOT to code. The job of a programmer/developer is to get working maintainable software created. Everything else, including coding, is secondary.
In reality people with your and the GPs attitude always seems to wonder why they get such shitty jobs and why they have such a hard time finding jobs. Want to know the secret? People don't want to hire idiots like you and we can tell. It's also a small world, good developers will network with past coworkers who were also good developers. At the same time they'll try to put as much distance between themselves and their idiotic ex-coworkers as humanely possible.
Very far from true.
The list of countries with no extradition treaties with the US is, more or less:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, China (People's Republic of China), the Union of the Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d' Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, the Maldives, Mali, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, the Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Oman, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe, Bhutan, Iran, Taiwan, Korea (North).