Again, getting people OUT of government assumes that people behave more honestly and fairly without government control. There simply is no reason to assume that. If anything we regularly see evidence to the contrary.
It's already picked and mixed, just not picked and mixed the way you like.
A "perfect" democracy is one where each citizen can vote equally on every single choice. Such a system would be impractical to the extreme, so shortcuts have to be (and have been) made; the "picking" and "mixing".
Most of the picking and mixing is done for the wrong reasons, though; for the benefit of the individuals doing the picking and mixing.
Limiting government assumes that civilians will be honest and fair when given (or rather; getting back from government) power to be dishonest and unfair.
Part of the problem is also that "honest" and "fair" are highly subjective terms in the first place. Another part is that every single social/political system takes just all people to be honest and fair; just one exception will screw up the entire thing for all people.
Capitalism would work great if everybody competes with everybody else and nobody tries to join forces to lesser competition.
Marxism would work great if everybody shares everything with everybody else and nobody tries to keep something for themselves.
I can't think of any social/political system which is NOT vulnerable in such a way.
I get the same ad for certain keyword combinations on Dutch-language Google as well. I could only find it for search terms "armeense genocide" and "armenie genocide". I tried a number of other words, but these are the only hits I found for the ad in Dutch. Atleast they don't seem to be limited just to the USA.
I can understand the people directly involved with a project having an emotional stake in which of competing projects wins.
But we're talking about a user here; just pick the one you like and change your pick if you want. I'm sure the investment in time learning to use your pick has some meaning to which one you'd like to succeed, but nowhere near as ridiculously teenage girl emotional at the author of TFA seems to be about it.
By this point, anybody who believes capitalist democracy isn't broken is just clinging on to false hope. Any system that depends on all players being honest and fair is doomed to fail. Sadly, this includes every possible system that I'm aware of.
10 seconds is more than enough for automated systems to trigger safety protocols. Also note that people-not-dying isn't the only possible benefit. People-not-hurt seems pretty good too. Limiting damage to equipment might also be convenient.
It's technically true of anything except machine code. Ever assembler is an abstraction. And even then, a CPU is just a generalized abstraction of dedicated chips.
Very much possible (they're already doing it). and very much a good thing; decoupling time of energy production from time of energy consumption allows for both cleaner and cheaper electricity. But they still have a VERY long way to go if they cost $13k.
Next up; an article explaining how these flat, 2D picture are not a true representation of what three-dimensional galaxies really look like in reallity.
Machine call centers are only better if they can respond to keypresses before finishing playing the tape. For some call centers I used to have little charts of the menu. If I needed department 3 for issue 4 for module 2 of product 5, I'd just dial in and immediately press 5243. Most automated call centers, however, don't allow you to do this. You have to listen through a horrendously slow voice listing out all the possible options even though you already know exactly which button you should press. At the very least let me press the button as soon as the voice tells me the options that's mapped to that button.
Some websites are even worse. They force you to a mobile website, which then offers a link to their app on an app store as the only content. The app will then require you to give them enough permissions to shoot pictures and mail them to all your friends while you sleep. I remember one mayor image-hosting website did this. I don't remember which one it was as I neither installed the app nor stayed on their site any longer.
Makes me wonder; would it be possible to set up a root account that requires two different passwords (the number of humans required to be present in the room) out of a set of five allowed passwords (the number of humans that were allowed to enter the room).
Wait until a few more moderations come in. You're judging an entire community by the actions of a few individuals. Right now GP is at "+5 Informative".
In my own experience, there seems to be a general "lifecycle" to comment moderations. The more controversial their subject matter, the more pronounced this seems to be. 1. Random votes. (i.e. -1's and +1's mixed, "average" jumps all over the place). 2. Going up to +5. 3. Back to +4 (only if really controversial and may take a few days). Few serious comment seem to end up negative, regardless of whether people agree or disagree.
What kind of IDE/environment are you using? I think the biggest hurdle is not the language choice, but how to get things to run.
My first language was Logo. Couldn't do much with it, but it was fully interactive, which meant that you got immediate feedback as soon as you pressed Enter. I've recently had to make a simple graphics language for my day job, including an interactive editor which ran the program (= redraw the image) on every change; feedback while you're typing. The language is quite strict and unforgiving, but if a similar language could be made friendlier, it could be a great kids' language.
Subtle things like... - Not being so darn stubborn when a salesperson sells a 12 month project to be delivered in 3 months. - Taking up leave days, even though running behind on schedule. - No longer working late or taking work home. - Generally being cheerful and somehow more "care free".
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Again, getting people OUT of government assumes that people behave more honestly and fairly without government control. There simply is no reason to assume that. If anything we regularly see evidence to the contrary.
It's already picked and mixed, just not picked and mixed the way you like.
A "perfect" democracy is one where each citizen can vote equally on every single choice. Such a system would be impractical to the extreme, so shortcuts have to be (and have been) made; the "picking" and "mixing".
Most of the picking and mixing is done for the wrong reasons, though; for the benefit of the individuals doing the picking and mixing.
Limiting government assumes that civilians will be honest and fair when given (or rather; getting back from government) power to be dishonest and unfair.
Part of the problem is also that "honest" and "fair" are highly subjective terms in the first place.
Another part is that every single social/political system takes just all people to be honest and fair; just one exception will screw up the entire thing for all people.
Capitalism would work great if everybody competes with everybody else and nobody tries to join forces to lesser competition.
Marxism would work great if everybody shares everything with everybody else and nobody tries to keep something for themselves.
I can't think of any social/political system which is NOT vulnerable in such a way.
Just take a hacker mentality to politics.
I get the same ad for certain keyword combinations on Dutch-language Google as well.
I could only find it for search terms "armeense genocide" and "armenie genocide".
I tried a number of other words, but these are the only hits I found for the ad in Dutch.
Atleast they don't seem to be limited just to the USA.
I can understand the people directly involved with a project having an emotional stake in which of competing projects wins.
But we're talking about a user here; just pick the one you like and change your pick if you want. I'm sure the investment in time learning to use your pick has some meaning to which one you'd like to succeed, but nowhere near as ridiculously teenage girl emotional at the author of TFA seems to be about it.
By this point, anybody who believes capitalist democracy isn't broken is just clinging on to false hope.
Any system that depends on all players being honest and fair is doomed to fail.
Sadly, this includes every possible system that I'm aware of.
How about the 40 million outgoing messages to be delivered within the timespan of a few seconds at most?
10 seconds is more than enough for automated systems to trigger safety protocols.
Also note that people-not-dying isn't the only possible benefit. People-not-hurt seems pretty good too. Limiting damage to equipment might also be convenient.
It's technically true of anything except machine code. Ever assembler is an abstraction.
And even then, a CPU is just a generalized abstraction of dedicated chips.
Very much possible (they're already doing it). and very much a good thing; decoupling time of energy production from time of energy consumption allows for both cleaner and cheaper electricity. But they still have a VERY long way to go if they cost $13k.
Well, it WAS a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Justice isn't a myth, it's subjective.
Laws are things made up by groups of humans to try and improve their individual lives.
Did they tell Aaron, or did they only say this to the press afterwards?
Next up; an article explaining how these flat, 2D picture are not a true representation of what three-dimensional galaxies really look like in reallity.
sell lots of good stuff at a reasonable profit
LMFTFY
sell artificially limited quantities of cheapest production quality stuff at a maximum profit
Companies try to do as little as possible for as much money as possible.
Machine call centers are only better if they can respond to keypresses before finishing playing the tape.
For some call centers I used to have little charts of the menu. If I needed department 3 for issue 4 for module 2 of product 5, I'd just dial in and immediately press 5243.
Most automated call centers, however, don't allow you to do this. You have to listen through a horrendously slow voice listing out all the possible options even though you already know exactly which button you should press. At the very least let me press the button as soon as the voice tells me the options that's mapped to that button.
Some websites are even worse. They force you to a mobile website, which then offers a link to their app on an app store as the only content.
The app will then require you to give them enough permissions to shoot pictures and mail them to all your friends while you sleep.
I remember one mayor image-hosting website did this. I don't remember which one it was as I neither installed the app nor stayed on their site any longer.
I agree, there is nothing annoyinger than imaginary words.
Two out of five, not always the same two.
Makes me wonder; would it be possible to set up a root account that requires two different passwords (the number of humans required to be present in the room) out of a set of five allowed passwords (the number of humans that were allowed to enter the room).
Wait until a few more moderations come in.
You're judging an entire community by the actions of a few individuals.
Right now GP is at "+5 Informative".
In my own experience, there seems to be a general "lifecycle" to comment moderations.
The more controversial their subject matter, the more pronounced this seems to be.
1. Random votes. (i.e. -1's and +1's mixed, "average" jumps all over the place).
2. Going up to +5.
3. Back to +4 (only if really controversial and may take a few days).
Few serious comment seem to end up negative, regardless of whether people agree or disagree.
Ignoring GOTO (just remove it from the language), what fundamentally bad habits does BASIC teach?
What kind of IDE/environment are you using?
I think the biggest hurdle is not the language choice, but how to get things to run.
My first language was Logo. Couldn't do much with it, but it was fully interactive, which meant that you got immediate feedback as soon as you pressed Enter.
I've recently had to make a simple graphics language for my day job, including an interactive editor which ran the program (= redraw the image) on every change; feedback while you're typing. The language is quite strict and unforgiving, but if a similar language could be made friendlier, it could be a great kids' language.
Subtle things like...
- Not being so darn stubborn when a salesperson sells a 12 month project to be delivered in 3 months.
- Taking up leave days, even though running behind on schedule.
- No longer working late or taking work home.
- Generally being cheerful and somehow more "care free".
Laws apply to all, rules just apply to those who want to.
If you're good enough and they really want to have you, you'll be able to negotiate.