I think it's not human nature to strive for openness in the corporate entities that give us our end products and services. If you think about how our minds probably evolved, we never really had to worry much about the origin of our food and resource sources. The fruit is on the bush/tree, growing naturally. The dear is running through the forest, completely wild. Water runs through a river as it has done for thousands of years. We might only have to directly worry about a poisoned food source, but that's not too complicated. And any processed tools or clothing would have been made by someone we know by a fairly simple and transparent process, and we'd be more likely to have had a hand in it ourselves.
So, I think our minds are not evolved for worrying about highly complex supply and process chains. It takes a lot of collective momentum to educate ourselves and motivate ourselves to take action in this way. Corporations are simply taking advantage of this fact of human nature. I don't think we'll ever get less "lazy" in this way without an institutional interweaving of high-minded consumer education throughout the public education system.
Scientific consensus before the sexual revolution was reached by a relatively small minority of the human population, and increasingly smaller the further back in time you go. You'd have to be relatively not poor and literate and somewhat educated and rather intelligent and rather curious about how the natural world works. Even though they were mostly males, they were not typical or representative of the males of their time.
I'm not sure where you get the sense that men and women equally resolve disputes through violence. Do you have any statistics showing equal instances among men and women in either gang violence or domestic physical/sexual abuse or assault/battery convictions? Murder? I don't think you can find any such statistics. The fact is that women are not as physically violent as men are. Men even naturally form friendships/bond through physical aggression toward each other(including sports, video games, etc). Women would rather sit and talk for hours. There is this definite difference in aggression and violence.
I in no way wish to portray men as either ugly or monsters. I do rather like the ways in which I express my male identity. I think the way men are is an outcome of evolutionary need, and it serves its purpose. Men's behaviour patterns were developed to hunt well, to be away from home for long periods of time while hunting, to protect their tribe against rival tribes, and to acquire new resources by defeating other tribes. In situations where a scarcity of resources exists, men's behavioural instincts are immensely useful to a human society in terms of survival.
My wife and I actually consider both to be equally bad, which I'm sure is a more rare perspective. Circumcision of males, I think, somewhat robs us of the fullest sexual experiences, as is similarly argued on female circumcision.
The context of the perceived "extroversion" is important, I think. I'm very very introverted in most contexts. I prefer to not speak. However, in the context of a classroom in which mainly cerebral, external knowledge is the topic of conversation, I tend to be quite participatory, far surpassing verbally those normally extroverted people(particularly females).
Emotional intelligence certainly can put food on the table. There are a number of high-paying jobs that rely primarily on relational finesse and emotional manipulation. Marketing/advertising, counseling, business management, negotiation, etc...
Further, emotional intelligence does other useful things such as bringing about peace between individuals, families, or even nations. While men at large would default to settle disputes through violent means, women would do it peacefully by default. This also means women do well at solidifying familial ties and promoting cooperation in communities, which is why it is now very well known that the best way to help a poor developing country is to give women what they need to be successful, as opposed to what the male leaders would request.
Chicago Union Station actually does have free wifi (though it's pretty weak in the terminal area). For that matter, the Champaign-Urbana train station also has free wifi:-)
All crops are organic, but not all pesticides/herbicides/etc. are. Since these additives are not eliminated(and most often cannot be) from the crops, the product you get in the store is not entirely an organic product, and you end up ingesting the inorganic/synthetic compounds. The term "organic" refers largely to the quality defined as when a crop does not have these inorganic/synthetic compounds added.
The part you're missing in your outlook is that no one succeeds on his own.
The doctors and nurses that go through all their training and do all their brain surgeries on all their patients, they rely on the rest of society encouraging them, making it easier for them, having the infrastructure in place to do everything from educating them to having roads to bring patients to a hospital, and to pay for police/fire/military protection so that the doctor can practice his trade.
To say that a doctor got where he is on his own and deserves every penny he can squeeze out of his patients no matter what is bullshit. Our society values doctors enough to make a relatively smooth path to become a doctor if someone has the drive and intelligence to do so, and any doctor who comes out of our system today is a result of that. Coming out of this system, doctors have an obligation to better our society with their skill and knowledge. There's even the hippocratic oath they have to swear and such.
If our society decides that our doctors/hospitals that we provide so much infrastructure for are not serving the public well(for a critical task in a functioning society), but being greedy bastards or are being inept or inefficient, there is some merit to the government redirecting the healthcare industry in a better direction, even if it means some people are going to go out of business or make less money. If the societal infrastructure wasn't there, they wouldn't be in business at all in the first place.
Well, I imagine the 40 hour cap approaches some limit in the advertising in which the advertisements become less effective, and the advertisers are not willing to pay the same rate. I'll bet the advertisers are willing to pay more to have an advertisement come on right when a user logs onto Pandora, but the longer you're logged in perhaps you're less likely to click on an ad or be affected by an ad, because you're just listening to music(or you left the room). So, Pandora probably calculated a threshold at which it becomes unprofitable to have you keep listening for free because the advertising rates are lower at that point.
Somalia is a war-ravaged nation of mostly desperate and very impoverished people. That has a huge effect on what actions people take. Desperate people take desperate actions. They will take any kind of work, do any kind of deed that gets them a meal. Having no effective police force, they look to ruthless people with power and resources who can protect them and their family from being killed or attacked or robbed. The ruthless alpha character by his nature must act in violence against rival factions to keep them at bay.
In the US, people are mostly fat and more or less don't have to think about where their next meal is coming from. We have an effective policing that are likewise not desperate, and are minimally corrupt. This means we don't have to worry about protecting our families and we can think about moral considerations before we think about our very survival.
This is why our murder rate is lower than Somalia's.
A lot of Leonidas' improvements are under the hood, much like Snow Leopard will be. Tighter integration with YUM and Package Kit means that it installs software faster than Apt which Ubuntu and Debian use. It also has a feature by default called Yum-Presto. Which has been available since Fedora 8 and openSuSE 11. Yum-Presto creates Delta RPMs which contains only the changed code of an update. Downloading only what has changed, not the Whole file itself. What differs from the Ubuntu update system is that Yum-Presto does not require special.debs for updating. It just scans the RPM on a configured server and the Code on your computer and complies the difference. While the Ubuntu way of doing it is that special.debs have to be built by the developer to take advantage of this. Another feature of Yum-Presto is that when you install software, it can use code already on your computer so you can save bandwidth installing software too.
I've never used Banshee myself, but I've heard some good stuff about it, at least. I guess we'll see how it turns out once Canonical is done optimizing it for Ubuntu for the next release.
What kind of hardware/OS are you using that Tomboy is unusably sluggish? My computer is almost 5 years old and Tomboy works great!
Also, this is not all for Tomboy. Ubuntu is bringing in Banshee music player in version 9.10 (released in October 2009), and that's written in Mono too.
I think that people who get into MMORPGs actually do like to work, or it at least doesn't preclude them from that. The difference is that the work they're doing is something we don't particularly see as valuable to society.
I think dedicated MMORPG players want to feel successful at something. I think those that are overly addicted and spend all their waking time devoted to the work of playing this game means to a large extent that they don't feel they can feel the same kind of success in any other pursuit.
Just a note about the french fries, that the long distance transportation, freezing process, and frying process, will all leech out those nutrients you refer to, making is substantially less nutritional than you list.
I know you were making a joke, but my point is a significant thing that not many people realize.
In other news, can someone create an exact copy of windows in linux? Why doesn't the LinuxFoundation look at exactly what's holding that back? If it behaves exactly the same, I guarantee they will own the market. Exactly the same as XP even, forget Vista or 7, people haven't been accustomed to those yet.
Considering the work that WINE has yet to go toward even supporting a lot of Windows application, I don't think it'll happen any time soon.
To answer for the GP, modern bus systems have bike racks on the front bumper that people can load and unload their bikes onto quickly.
Presumably, the GP didn't feel like biking both ways initially, so took his bike to the bus stop and loaded it on the bus and took it to work, so he could ride it home.
If you want a higher interest rate at any given time, just check out www.bankrate.com, which is a great site for researching the health of a bank and its various interest rates. Here's a page I often turn to in order to see what the highest rates are:
To choose a bank to deposit money into for savings, I generally will look at the bank with the highest interest rate that also has 4 stars(which indicates very good health). The bank I'm currently with for savings emails me whenever their rate changes, and they have excellent 24/7 customer service, with a competitive interest rate.
Another good site for this kind of thing is the finance section of www.fatwallet.com:
The users keep a running list of the top returning CDs, Savings Accounts, and Credit Cards. They talk about all the minutiae of the different accounts and customer service, etc...
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It was pretty wretched.
I think it's not human nature to strive for openness in the corporate entities that give us our end products and services. If you think about how our minds probably evolved, we never really had to worry much about the origin of our food and resource sources. The fruit is on the bush/tree, growing naturally. The dear is running through the forest, completely wild. Water runs through a river as it has done for thousands of years. We might only have to directly worry about a poisoned food source, but that's not too complicated. And any processed tools or clothing would have been made by someone we know by a fairly simple and transparent process, and we'd be more likely to have had a hand in it ourselves.
So, I think our minds are not evolved for worrying about highly complex supply and process chains. It takes a lot of collective momentum to educate ourselves and motivate ourselves to take action in this way. Corporations are simply taking advantage of this fact of human nature. I don't think we'll ever get less "lazy" in this way without an institutional interweaving of high-minded consumer education throughout the public education system.
Scientific consensus before the sexual revolution was reached by a relatively small minority of the human population, and increasingly smaller the further back in time you go. You'd have to be relatively not poor and literate and somewhat educated and rather intelligent and rather curious about how the natural world works. Even though they were mostly males, they were not typical or representative of the males of their time.
I'm not sure where you get the sense that men and women equally resolve disputes through violence. Do you have any statistics showing equal instances among men and women in either gang violence or domestic physical/sexual abuse or assault/battery convictions? Murder? I don't think you can find any such statistics. The fact is that women are not as physically violent as men are. Men even naturally form friendships/bond through physical aggression toward each other(including sports, video games, etc). Women would rather sit and talk for hours. There is this definite difference in aggression and violence.
I in no way wish to portray men as either ugly or monsters. I do rather like the ways in which I express my male identity. I think the way men are is an outcome of evolutionary need, and it serves its purpose. Men's behaviour patterns were developed to hunt well, to be away from home for long periods of time while hunting, to protect their tribe against rival tribes, and to acquire new resources by defeating other tribes. In situations where a scarcity of resources exists, men's behavioural instincts are immensely useful to a human society in terms of survival.
My wife and I actually consider both to be equally bad, which I'm sure is a more rare perspective. Circumcision of males, I think, somewhat robs us of the fullest sexual experiences, as is similarly argued on female circumcision.
The context of the perceived "extroversion" is important, I think. I'm very very introverted in most contexts. I prefer to not speak. However, in the context of a classroom in which mainly cerebral, external knowledge is the topic of conversation, I tend to be quite participatory, far surpassing verbally those normally extroverted people(particularly females).
Emotional intelligence certainly can put food on the table. There are a number of high-paying jobs that rely primarily on relational finesse and emotional manipulation. Marketing/advertising, counseling, business management, negotiation, etc...
Further, emotional intelligence does other useful things such as bringing about peace between individuals, families, or even nations. While men at large would default to settle disputes through violent means, women would do it peacefully by default. This also means women do well at solidifying familial ties and promoting cooperation in communities, which is why it is now very well known that the best way to help a poor developing country is to give women what they need to be successful, as opposed to what the male leaders would request.
Chicago Union Station actually does have free wifi (though it's pretty weak in the terminal area). For that matter, the Champaign-Urbana train station also has free wifi :-)
That's true. It's just that you said "a few, small hardware vendors". I guess what you really want is "a few, big hardware vendors".
http://system76.com/
http://www.zareason.com/shop/home.php
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
There are a few :-)
All crops are organic, but not all pesticides/herbicides/etc. are. Since these additives are not eliminated(and most often cannot be) from the crops, the product you get in the store is not entirely an organic product, and you end up ingesting the inorganic/synthetic compounds. The term "organic" refers largely to the quality defined as when a crop does not have these inorganic/synthetic compounds added.
Oh, for a chance to beat up clippy in real life!
Surely there will be a line around the block at the grand opening, with an unsuspecting paper clip waiting to get pummeled.
The part you're missing in your outlook is that no one succeeds on his own.
The doctors and nurses that go through all their training and do all their brain surgeries on all their patients, they rely on the rest of society encouraging them, making it easier for them, having the infrastructure in place to do everything from educating them to having roads to bring patients to a hospital, and to pay for police/fire/military protection so that the doctor can practice his trade.
To say that a doctor got where he is on his own and deserves every penny he can squeeze out of his patients no matter what is bullshit. Our society values doctors enough to make a relatively smooth path to become a doctor if someone has the drive and intelligence to do so, and any doctor who comes out of our system today is a result of that. Coming out of this system, doctors have an obligation to better our society with their skill and knowledge. There's even the hippocratic oath they have to swear and such.
If our society decides that our doctors/hospitals that we provide so much infrastructure for are not serving the public well(for a critical task in a functioning society), but being greedy bastards or are being inept or inefficient, there is some merit to the government redirecting the healthcare industry in a better direction, even if it means some people are going to go out of business or make less money. If the societal infrastructure wasn't there, they wouldn't be in business at all in the first place.
Well, I imagine the 40 hour cap approaches some limit in the advertising in which the advertisements become less effective, and the advertisers are not willing to pay the same rate. I'll bet the advertisers are willing to pay more to have an advertisement come on right when a user logs onto Pandora, but the longer you're logged in perhaps you're less likely to click on an ad or be affected by an ad, because you're just listening to music(or you left the room). So, Pandora probably calculated a threshold at which it becomes unprofitable to have you keep listening for free because the advertising rates are lower at that point.
Somalia is a war-ravaged nation of mostly desperate and very impoverished people. That has a huge effect on what actions people take. Desperate people take desperate actions. They will take any kind of work, do any kind of deed that gets them a meal. Having no effective police force, they look to ruthless people with power and resources who can protect them and their family from being killed or attacked or robbed. The ruthless alpha character by his nature must act in violence against rival factions to keep them at bay.
In the US, people are mostly fat and more or less don't have to think about where their next meal is coming from. We have an effective policing that are likewise not desperate, and are minimally corrupt. This means we don't have to worry about protecting our families and we can think about moral considerations before we think about our very survival.
This is why our murder rate is lower than Somalia's.
Fedora implements this. They call them "Delta RPMs". A link and a quote for you:
http://geeks.pirillo.com/profiles/blogs/fedora-11-review
A lot of Leonidas' improvements are under the hood, much like Snow Leopard will be. Tighter integration with YUM and Package Kit means that it installs software faster than Apt which Ubuntu and Debian use. It also has a feature by default called Yum-Presto. Which has been available since Fedora 8 and openSuSE 11. Yum-Presto creates Delta RPMs which contains only the changed code of an update. Downloading only what has changed, not the Whole file itself. What differs from the Ubuntu update system is that Yum-Presto does not require special .debs for updating. It just scans the RPM on a configured server and the Code on your computer and complies the difference. While the Ubuntu way of doing it is that special .debs have to be built by the developer to take advantage of this. Another feature of Yum-Presto is that when you install software, it can use code already on your computer so you can save bandwidth installing software too.
I've never used Banshee myself, but I've heard some good stuff about it, at least. I guess we'll see how it turns out once Canonical is done optimizing it for Ubuntu for the next release.
What kind of hardware/OS are you using that Tomboy is unusably sluggish? My computer is almost 5 years old and Tomboy works great!
Also, this is not all for Tomboy. Ubuntu is bringing in Banshee music player in version 9.10 (released in October 2009), and that's written in Mono too.
I think that people who get into MMORPGs actually do like to work, or it at least doesn't preclude them from that. The difference is that the work they're doing is something we don't particularly see as valuable to society.
I think dedicated MMORPG players want to feel successful at something. I think those that are overly addicted and spend all their waking time devoted to the work of playing this game means to a large extent that they don't feel they can feel the same kind of success in any other pursuit.
Just a note about the french fries, that the long distance transportation, freezing process, and frying process, will all leech out those nutrients you refer to, making is substantially less nutritional than you list.
I know you were making a joke, but my point is a significant thing that not many people realize.
In other news, can someone create an exact copy of windows in linux? Why doesn't the LinuxFoundation look at exactly what's holding that back? If it behaves exactly the same, I guarantee they will own the market. Exactly the same as XP even, forget Vista or 7, people haven't been accustomed to those yet.
Considering the work that WINE has yet to go toward even supporting a lot of Windows application, I don't think it'll happen any time soon.
To answer for the GP, modern bus systems have bike racks on the front bumper that people can load and unload their bikes onto quickly.
Presumably, the GP didn't feel like biking both ways initially, so took his bike to the bus stop and loaded it on the bus and took it to work, so he could ride it home.
If you want a higher interest rate at any given time, just check out www.bankrate.com, which is a great site for researching the health of a bank and its various interest rates. Here's a page I often turn to in order to see what the highest rates are:
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/rate/mmmf_highratehome.asp?web=brm¶ms=US,416&prodtype=chksav&market=416&product=33&state=US&sort=2
To choose a bank to deposit money into for savings, I generally will look at the bank with the highest interest rate that also has 4 stars(which indicates very good health). The bank I'm currently with for savings emails me whenever their rate changes, and they have excellent 24/7 customer service, with a competitive interest rate.
Another good site for this kind of thing is the finance section of www.fatwallet.com:
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/finance/
The users keep a running list of the top returning CDs, Savings Accounts, and Credit Cards. They talk about all the minutiae of the different accounts and customer service, etc...
Slime approaches...
Command?
Or they could have a charter that demands any most funds be put toward expanded/improved service, which I think is more likely.
That would be a preferable state of affairs, methinks.