Technically we are able to give everybody enough food. Technically we are able to distribute wealth better. Technically we are able not to kill each other.
That does not mean that we do that.
In other words: do not look for a technical solution for a social problem.
Yes it can, but that depends on what you think it means. There have been civilizations without the wheel. It will be entierly differnt from what we have now, but yes, it is possible.
We might need to give up on many things that we think are normal now; but that has happend as well in the past.
It will also depend if we receive it peacefully or by force. Will we be prepared for it. If oil and coal run out to,orrow because some aliens stole it all will be different than when we decide that we focus on renewable energy sources and use it less and less till it becomes 0.
To be fair, it was always about the copyright owners and never about the artist. It basically is : Do you want to be famous and make a bit of money or do you want to keep the copyright to your music?
And note that this is still just about the copyright owner. e.g. the singer/songwriter. All others are payed by the hour, most of the time.
That right there also shows that they perhaps leaked it themselves. Especially with thye cliffhanger on the end of episode 4 and episode 5 not being leaked.
And that is perhaps why they had to restart V a few times all over. They should take lessons from "The Bald and the Beautifull" (I know what I did) as you can miss several seasons and still pick up what is going on after 17 seconds.
Youmust use the correct gold plated cables. That way there IS a difference. I clearly can hear the difference in sound if an MP3 is played from a consumer or an enterprise drive.
"I used a backhoe to drag a box but itoe was ruined in the process."
This will lead to confusion as well and makes thing rather difficult to pronounce: "I used a backhoe to drag a wooden toe but itoe was ruined in the process." or "I used am ilk to drag a box but itlk was ruined in the process." So people will sart using exceptions.
You could try to use what number it is in the line, something like it1, it2, it3, but that will be confusing as hell. So what would be better is to forbit the use of 'it' so it becomes: "I used a backhoe to drag a box but the backhoe was ruined in the process."
It could bedcomew interesting with: "I used a wooden backhoe to drag a silver backhoe but the backhoe was ruined in the process." Mmm, doen't work either. Or even:
"I used a backhoe to drag a backhoe but the backhoe was ruined in the process."
I learned most of my English by a teacher who allowed us to talk during his teaching as long as it was in Enlish. We though we were smart by not paying attention to what he was saying. We were talking about tv shows and he was talking about past tense and who knows what.
Look who is the fool now. (English is my third language)
Once I knew people were leaving, I talked to them asking why and then helped them in any way I could.
I never tried to hold them back. Their decision was taken, so why bother them? If they wanted references, I gave good (and honest) ones to their potential new employer. I also would inform what I would say to the emplyee, so it would be up to them if they wanted to use me or not.
This would mean in the end that they would be much more willing to do their time with us, which can still be several months (in Belgium). It also would enable me to hire new people who would then be trained by the person leaving.
When I wanted to leave, I always went to my manager and explained why. They were always happy that I did that and gave positive feedback and helped me with everything I asked for as much as possible.
One even gave me the address of a company that were looking for what I was looking for (didn't work out).
Karma goes a long way and there is no reason to burn your bridges.
What I have seen that it is the type of food that had a huge impact in the growth. Especial from the 60ies on, people would eat healthier and thus were able to grow more when they were infants. Now count back from the sicties and you get to WW2. People born just after WW2 were much, much, much healthier foodwise. They were in their 20 in the 60ies-70ies and that is when people were born became longer.
Natural selection does not happen in 2 generations.
Where I worked our team was asked to do overtime. It would be payed at 150% and everybody said no. Then they said 150% free time and many said yes.
I am paid to be at a job for a certain amount of time and if they want me to stay longer, they need to pay. If they insist I do it for free, otherwise I get fired, they better have some real good reason and an even better lawer, because I will win that battle.
If they need it once in a while and I can get it back, I do not mind. If they need two people to do 60 hour weeks, they need to have 3 people doing 40 hour weeks, so they better pay for that and more.
After all: I work to live. I do not live to work. (And yes, I am a commie European.)
It might be that it excist fior these reasons, but that does not make it right.
Vacation needs to be negotiated? I am from Europe and here it isn't. It is dealt with as an information when you aply for a job. It differs from counbtry to country and from company to company. Some give more than others.
In the short term it will be very interesting. In the long term when people realize they get payed less than their cow orkers, it will lead to unhappy workers. For this reason many comopanies use a very specific scale that is public, so you know what a co worker will earn at what grade.
And the last one about the race to the bottom, when you are an individual, you wil loose the race to the bottom. The companies will find ways to get cheaper employees. (They might even import them and change the laws to make it possible)
So yes, it is stupid and it amazes me how many people here defend it. As always they think they will outsmart the companies. Alone you can't. You are replacable.
OTOH if women are cheaper, why are they not forcing out the male workforce?
You are a bad country if you were doing it that way. Most spies are not registerd as such. They are people who have a job in an other country and do the spying on the side.
Crossing borders is not an issue. And if they are recognised as spies, they are burned and will not be used again.
FYI, James Bond is fiction.
And even if they would want to get into a country, they can. Look at people illegaly smuggeling others and succeed. Now imagine that you somehow make those illegal people legal.
And they could even give you a new passport. Happens all the time. New passport, ID and what not.
I just go to the store, shoot the storemanager in the face and steal the BluRay. That way I don't have to spend as much time in prison when they catch me. Disadvantage is that I have to sit through all the ads.
Whever I was in charge, I always saw that there where three people responsible. Because we are in Europe, we would have people having holidays between 20 to 40 days a year, so 1 would be the backup of the first and the second one would be backup for when the second one would be sick when the first one was on a holiday.
Obviously only group email adresses should be used to contact with external partners, so a followup would be possible.
People have called me stoopid for doing it that way, but it has saved the company more than once.
The reaction to that is "So? AT&T has that information already and I have nothing to hide." People do not understant 'data'. They are not interested in it, so it is not important to them. Because it is meaningless to the people, they have no interest in defending it (or giving it away). It has no value to the people.
To some individuals it will, but to the general public? Try talking to them about it and see how interested they are.
The dick-pic not only tells them that the NSA sees EVERYTHING. It explaines what EVERYTHING is. And if you would have seem it, youwoudl know that this is not just about your phone bill, date, number called, duration. It is about the content as well.
It was very interesting to see that people indeed where worried if the gov could see their junk.
I think this is because people have no idea what 'security' or 'privacy' actually is or do not understand the implications.
If you tell people "we know who you called" people will think "I have nothing to hide". Once you say "We saw your dick" then suddenly it becomes real and understandable.
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Technically we are able to give everybody enough food. Technically we are able to distribute wealth better. Technically we are able not to kill each other.
That does not mean that we do that.
In other words: do not look for a technical solution for a social problem.
Yes it can, but that depends on what you think it means. There have been civilizations without the wheel. It will be entierly differnt from what we have now, but yes, it is possible.
We might need to give up on many things that we think are normal now; but that has happend as well in the past.
It will also depend if we receive it peacefully or by force. Will we be prepared for it. If oil and coal run out to,orrow because some aliens stole it all will be different than when we decide that we focus on renewable energy sources and use it less and less till it becomes 0.
To be fair, it was always about the copyright owners and never about the artist. It basically is : Do you want to be famous and make a bit of money or do you want to keep the copyright to your music?
And note that this is still just about the copyright owner. e.g. the singer/songwriter. All others are payed by the hour, most of the time.
That right there also shows that they perhaps leaked it themselves. Especially with thye cliffhanger on the end of episode 4 and episode 5 not being leaked.
When "I am Legend" came out, I spoiled it for all my friends by telling them how it ended. That showed them.
And that is perhaps why they had to restart V a few times all over. They should take lessons from "The Bald and the Beautifull" (I know what I did) as you can miss several seasons and still pick up what is going on after 17 seconds.
Youmust use the correct gold plated cables. That way there IS a difference. I clearly can hear the difference in sound if an MP3 is played from a consumer or an enterprise drive.
"I used a backhoe to drag a box but itoe was ruined in the process."
This will lead to confusion as well and makes thing rather difficult to pronounce:
"I used a backhoe to drag a wooden toe but itoe was ruined in the process."
or
"I used am ilk to drag a box but itlk was ruined in the process." So people will sart using exceptions.
You could try to use what number it is in the line, something like it1, it2, it3, but that will be confusing as hell. So what would be better is to forbit the use of 'it' so it becomes:
"I used a backhoe to drag a box but the backhoe was ruined in the process."
It could bedcomew interesting with:
"I used a wooden backhoe to drag a silver backhoe but the backhoe was ruined in the process." Mmm, doen't work either. Or even:
"I used a backhoe to drag a backhoe but the backhoe was ruined in the process."
http://houghi.org/Fun/poem.txt
Seriously, please use google to find the answer to this question as it is posted extremely often here on /.
It happens so often that it starts looking as if it is some sort of homework question.
If you can not even able to use google to find the answer, you will not be able to teach a kid anything.
I learned most of my English by a teacher who allowed us to talk during his teaching as long as it was in Enlish. We though we were smart by not paying attention to what he was saying.
We were talking about tv shows and he was talking about past tense and who knows what.
Look who is the fool now. (English is my third language)
You learn a LOT by teaching and that is what he is doing.
Once I knew people were leaving, I talked to them asking why and then helped them in any way I could.
I never tried to hold them back. Their decision was taken, so why bother them? If they wanted references, I gave good (and honest) ones to their potential new employer. I also would inform what I would say to the emplyee, so it would be up to them if they wanted to use me or not.
This would mean in the end that they would be much more willing to do their time with us, which can still be several months (in Belgium). It also would enable me to hire new people who would then be trained by the person leaving.
When I wanted to leave, I always went to my manager and explained why. They were always happy that I did that and gave positive feedback and helped me with everything I asked for as much as possible.
One even gave me the address of a company that were looking for what I was looking for (didn't work out).
Karma goes a long way and there is no reason to burn your bridges.
He was longer than average and 'petite Napopleon' was just a nice name for him.
What I have seen that it is the type of food that had a huge impact in the growth. Especial from the 60ies on, people would eat healthier and thus were able to grow more when they were infants.
Now count back from the sicties and you get to WW2. People born just after WW2 were much, much, much healthier foodwise. They were in their 20 in the 60ies-70ies and that is when people were born became longer.
Natural selection does not happen in 2 generations.
Where I worked our team was asked to do overtime. It would be payed at 150% and everybody said no. Then they said 150% free time and many said yes.
I am paid to be at a job for a certain amount of time and if they want me to stay longer, they need to pay. If they insist I do it for free, otherwise I get fired, they better have some real good reason and an even better lawer, because I will win that battle.
If they need it once in a while and I can get it back, I do not mind. If they need two people to do 60 hour weeks, they need to have 3 people doing 40 hour weeks, so they better pay for that and more.
After all: I work to live. I do not live to work. (And yes, I am a commie European.)
It might be that it excist fior these reasons, but that does not make it right.
Vacation needs to be negotiated? I am from Europe and here it isn't. It is dealt with as an information when you aply for a job. It differs from counbtry to country and from company to company. Some give more than others.
In the short term it will be very interesting. In the long term when people realize they get payed less than their cow orkers, it will lead to unhappy workers. For this reason many comopanies use a very specific scale that is public, so you know what a co worker will earn at what grade.
And the last one about the race to the bottom, when you are an individual, you wil loose the race to the bottom. The companies will find ways to get cheaper employees. (They might even import them and change the laws to make it possible)
So yes, it is stupid and it amazes me how many people here defend it. As always they think they will outsmart the companies. Alone you can't. You are replacable.
OTOH if women are cheaper, why are they not forcing out the male workforce?
You are a bad country if you were doing it that way. Most spies are not registerd as such. They are people who have a job in an other country and do the spying on the side.
Crossing borders is not an issue. And if they are recognised as spies, they are burned and will not be used again.
FYI, James Bond is fiction.
And even if they would want to get into a country, they can. Look at people illegaly smuggeling others and succeed. Now imagine that you somehow make those illegal people legal.
And they could even give you a new passport. Happens all the time. New passport, ID and what not.
Yeah, good luck with that. First try to get one singlen taxcing system in your own country and then we will talk again.
And I am not even talking just about states, but between cities as well.
As long as that is not possible, have two (let alone more than 2) countres line up their taxes, no waythat is going to happen.
I say, open it up and let the market sort it out. Oh, wait ....
I just go to the store, shoot the storemanager in the face and steal the BluRay. That way I don't have to spend as much time in prison when they catch me. Disadvantage is that I have to sit through all the ads.
Whever I was in charge, I always saw that there where three people responsible. Because we are in Europe, we would have people having holidays between 20 to 40 days a year, so 1 would be the backup of the first and the second one would be backup for when the second one would be sick when the first one was on a holiday.
Obviously only group email adresses should be used to contact with external partners, so a followup would be possible.
People have called me stoopid for doing it that way, but it has saved the company more than once.
The reaction to that is "So? AT&T has that information already and I have nothing to hide." People do not understant 'data'. They are not interested in it, so it is not important to them. Because it is meaningless to the people, they have no interest in defending it (or giving it away).
It has no value to the people.
To some individuals it will, but to the general public? Try talking to them about it and see how interested they are.
The dick-pic not only tells them that the NSA sees EVERYTHING. It explaines what EVERYTHING is. And if you would have seem it, youwoudl know that this is not just about your phone bill, date, number called, duration. It is about the content as well.
It was very interesting to see that people indeed where worried if the gov could see their junk.
I think this is because people have no idea what 'security' or 'privacy' actually is or do not understand the implications.
If you tell people "we know who you called" people will think "I have nothing to hide". Once you say "We saw your dick" then suddenly it becomes real and understandable.
Or just a mechanical alarmclock. Or any other form of delay. Or just somebody who pushes the button with everything around his body. Or ....
There are a gazillion movies, so to be sure, best shut down Hollywood.