A deeper problem is how do we value people. We can see a hint of this in the environment, how do we value wild animals? Kill them all until there is nothing left? Kill only a percentage of them per year?
Valuing people is a lot more complicated. Giving everyone a stipend is essentially putting a value upon them. What amount should that be? Should some be more valuable than others? If you deem your value too low, what will you do to increase it? Currently, criminal gangs provide a way to value some people. That's their allure, people joining them feel valued. The consequences are horrid. What happens to a person's sense of worth when s/he's valued economically through a stipend the same as every one else?
High-minded notions that we'll all have more time to do the things we like presumes a rose-colored glasses view of humanity. The internet is wonderful, yet it spawns all sorts of nefarious activities. There's no reason to believe humans free to do as they choose will choose wonderfully up-lifting activities.
I could either mod you up or reply. Hopefully someone else will mod you up. One thing I learned from grad school and watching my fellow classmates fail to complete is that one needed (1) some ability, and (2) grit. If success requires psychopathy like the fellow below brings up, what is the price of your soul? Don't believe in a soul, what is the price of your self-respect? No self-respect, and psychopathy is all you have left, you'd better hope no one gets in a position to treat you the way you have treated them. What goes around, comes around.
BS. Trump won because without Obama or Sanders, many Democrats stayed home. In addition, Republicans have been in Science denial for years and Trump spoke their language because he comes across just as ignorant about Science and just as irritated have having his lifestyle altered because of things he doesn't like hearing from Science. Add a bit of jingoistic rhetoric and white angst over "losing" America and wishful thinking it could be turned back to the 1950s when lynchings were tolerated, and a bit of fake religious fervor on his part and the part of this the religious right, and there you have it, his coalition of misanthropic dumb asses.
Hehehehe...I once had a conversation with a professor on the West Coast who's wife had company back in 70's when Oracle wasn't called Oracle and were small fry in a large ocean. Uncle Larry screwed her out of payment for services rendered. He's always been pond scum.
Please, you cannot dumb science down enough for Trump to understand it. He's like most Republicans, he will only believe what he wants to and science be damned.
Yep, the only problem the alleged Administration has with the current Paris accords is that Trump didn't get to pee in the corners, Obama beat him to it.
Last I heard on NAFTA, the U.S. representative floated the idea of having the pact reaffirmed every 5 years. The Canada and Mexico officials, once they stopped laughing, very kindly and carefully, as though explaining to a 5 year old, told the Americans that an economic pact that was only guaranteed to last 5 years would cause businesses to assume there was no pact they could count upon and it was an idea with no legs.
So there you have it, the U.S. position is silly. The others countries are starting to move their agricultural agreements to other countries. Mexico has already started replacing American corn, wheat, and soybeans with the grains from other Latin American countries, primarily Brazil, which thinks the American position is absolutely fabulous and wishes the Administration to please do more to make America Great Again...or was it White Again, the Administration appears confused on this point.
Their incentive is that small devices might suck the oxygen out of MS. They know it, the rest of us hope for it. Stop trusting them, they don't trust you.
No, there is a disconnect between Republican voters and the value of a college education. Admittedly, colleges educations have become overpriced. However, that is not why Republicans reject them. They reject them because they believe science is some sort of dodge and than leadership in science won't make the U.S. a more prosperous place.
Wait until the executives of the buying company discover el Presidente Tweetie's golf resorts and hotels. A few of the right reservations at those places and he'll see that the buy will Make America White Again....or whatever his silly slogan is.
So in your opinion, brain chemistry has nothing to do with mental stability. And if you'd bother to read the literature, anti-depressants do not "cure" depression. The stabilize a person so they aren't functionally incapacitated....when they work. That's the other problem, everybody's body chemistry is different, what works on one does not work on another. And what works this year might not work next year on the same person. People are moving targets due to aging, and their diets also vary from year to year.
Depression is not a single condition. Pick up the Harvard Guide to Psychiatry, there are myriad disorders, i.e., paranoia, grandiosity, etc. One person usually does not have a single one but is some smorgasbord of different conditions. That makes picking drugs that much harder.
So go ahead believing a just society will cure depression. Just societies also generate serial killers.
Really? Ever listen to CSPAN's callin show on Saturday or Sunday mornings? I'm willing to bet most of this lot won't be acquiring meaningful careers anytime soon. Most are devoid of scientific understanding, basic probability and statistics eludes them. They are convinced there are a wealth of jobs just waiting to be unleashed by the Orange Headed Clown that will put them back to work with no additional education over their high school education required.
Anecdotal evidence is just that. I once was teaching a grad. level logic course and two fellows were in the military taking the course. About half-way through, they confronted me saying I must have been in the military once. Nope, that wasn't me. Vibrations are weird, just remember the Summer of Love.
On the other hand, this shows el Presidente Tweetie has no heart. Otherwise, he'd work with Congress to get a properly authorized program. In my estimation, he wants to get rid of DACA as reward to his loyal customers...errr...base. On the other hand, he's absolutely against having to take responsibility for a decision that could end up causing widespread angst. What to do, what to do? So he punts to Congress knowing full well those idiots will never agree to get a new DACA in place, and then can blame them for his decision to get rid of it. Classic politics by an unclassy guy.
I do not think people are strictly part of the cash flow. A lot of investment went into those people creating institutional memory, and if you did it right, some sort of emotional investment of the people in the company. Treating people as strictly part of cash flow tells them they do not count, are more or less worthless, and the company has not allegiance to them. All of this represents selling off the people and getting squat for them.
At least in the U.S., if you have less than the insurance limit (I think it is about $200K) and the bank loses it, then you can get reimbursed. If you have less than whatever in internet coins and they get lost, you get squat. That's going to be a big hurdle, who guarantees those transactions? All it would take is one major exploit on a crypto-currency to tank it.
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A deeper problem is how do we value people. We can see a hint of this in the environment, how do we value wild animals? Kill them all until there is nothing left? Kill only a percentage of them per year?
Valuing people is a lot more complicated. Giving everyone a stipend is essentially putting a value upon them. What amount should that be? Should some be more valuable than others? If you deem your value too low, what will you do to increase it? Currently, criminal gangs provide a way to value some people. That's their allure, people joining them feel valued. The consequences are horrid. What happens to a person's sense of worth when s/he's valued economically through a stipend the same as every one else?
High-minded notions that we'll all have more time to do the things we like presumes a rose-colored glasses view of humanity. The internet is wonderful, yet it spawns all sorts of nefarious activities. There's no reason to believe humans free to do as they choose will choose wonderfully up-lifting activities.
I think if we could just have pink unicorns, we could ask their magical advice on how to design new processors.
I could either mod you up or reply. Hopefully someone else will mod you up. One thing I learned from grad school and watching my fellow classmates fail to complete is that one needed (1) some ability, and (2) grit. If success requires psychopathy like the fellow below brings up, what is the price of your soul? Don't believe in a soul, what is the price of your self-respect? No self-respect, and psychopathy is all you have left, you'd better hope no one gets in a position to treat you the way you have treated them. What goes around, comes around.
BS. Trump won because without Obama or Sanders, many Democrats stayed home. In addition, Republicans have been in Science denial for years and Trump spoke their language because he comes across just as ignorant about Science and just as irritated have having his lifestyle altered because of things he doesn't like hearing from Science. Add a bit of jingoistic rhetoric and white angst over "losing" America and wishful thinking it could be turned back to the 1950s when lynchings were tolerated, and a bit of fake religious fervor on his part and the part of this the religious right, and there you have it, his coalition of misanthropic dumb asses.
Hehehehe...I once had a conversation with a professor on the West Coast who's wife had company back in 70's when Oracle wasn't called Oracle and were small fry in a large ocean. Uncle Larry screwed her out of payment for services rendered. He's always been pond scum.
Please, you cannot dumb science down enough for Trump to understand it. He's like most Republicans, he will only believe what he wants to and science be damned.
Yep, the only problem the alleged Administration has with the current Paris accords is that Trump didn't get to pee in the corners, Obama beat him to it.
Last I heard on NAFTA, the U.S. representative floated the idea of having the pact reaffirmed every 5 years. The Canada and Mexico officials, once they stopped laughing, very kindly and carefully, as though explaining to a 5 year old, told the Americans that an economic pact that was only guaranteed to last 5 years would cause businesses to assume there was no pact they could count upon and it was an idea with no legs.
So there you have it, the U.S. position is silly. The others countries are starting to move their agricultural agreements to other countries. Mexico has already started replacing American corn, wheat, and soybeans with the grains from other Latin American countries, primarily Brazil, which thinks the American position is absolutely fabulous and wishes the Administration to please do more to make America Great Again...or was it White Again, the Administration appears confused on this point.
Their incentive is that small devices might suck the oxygen out of MS. They know it, the rest of us hope for it. Stop trusting them, they don't trust you.
No, there is a disconnect between Republican voters and the value of a college education. Admittedly, colleges educations have become overpriced. However, that is not why Republicans reject them. They reject them because they believe science is some sort of dodge and than leadership in science won't make the U.S. a more prosperous place.
"General Electric", really? Since you got that wrong, we can ignore the rest of your stupid list as unsupported tat.
Wait until the executives of the buying company discover el Presidente Tweetie's golf resorts and hotels. A few of the right reservations at those places and he'll see that the buy will Make America White Again....or whatever his silly slogan is.
That Obama affects your mental health when he isn't even President any longer is worrying.
So in your opinion, brain chemistry has nothing to do with mental stability. And if you'd bother to read the literature, anti-depressants do not "cure" depression. The stabilize a person so they aren't functionally incapacitated....when they work. That's the other problem, everybody's body chemistry is different, what works on one does not work on another. And what works this year might not work next year on the same person. People are moving targets due to aging, and their diets also vary from year to year.
Depression is not a single condition. Pick up the Harvard Guide to Psychiatry, there are myriad disorders, i.e., paranoia, grandiosity, etc. One person usually does not have a single one but is some smorgasbord of different conditions. That makes picking drugs that much harder.
So go ahead believing a just society will cure depression. Just societies also generate serial killers.
Really? Ever listen to CSPAN's callin show on Saturday or Sunday mornings? I'm willing to bet most of this lot won't be acquiring meaningful careers anytime soon. Most are devoid of scientific understanding, basic probability and statistics eludes them. They are convinced there are a wealth of jobs just waiting to be unleashed by the Orange Headed Clown that will put them back to work with no additional education over their high school education required.
Anecdotal evidence is just that. I once was teaching a grad. level logic course and two fellows were in the military taking the course. About half-way through, they confronted me saying I must have been in the military once. Nope, that wasn't me. Vibrations are weird, just remember the Summer of Love.
But that would also make it part of G-d's plan. Has this plan ever been peered reviewed? How do we know it is a good plan?
...the Norks heartily approve of the Seoul government making themselves a bigger hostage in any standoff.
Trump represents nothing except himself. Jesus, how blind can you possibly be?
Yeah, right on!! It worked a treat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On the other hand, this shows el Presidente Tweetie has no heart. Otherwise, he'd work with Congress to get a properly authorized program. In my estimation, he wants to get rid of DACA as reward to his loyal customers...errr...base. On the other hand, he's absolutely against having to take responsibility for a decision that could end up causing widespread angst. What to do, what to do? So he punts to Congress knowing full well those idiots will never agree to get a new DACA in place, and then can blame them for his decision to get rid of it. Classic politics by an unclassy guy.
I'd second that. The conversation with Java probably went along the lines of:
Oracle Lawyer: So this Java, what's it do?
Sun Lawyer: It's great, you can write code once and run it on anything.
OL: Why would I want to do that?
SL: Because then all the software will be essentially controlled by you.
OL: Oh....does it have any profit potential?
SL: (looks at other Sun Lawyer and gives sneaky wink) Big Pontential, oh yes!!
I do not think people are strictly part of the cash flow. A lot of investment went into those people creating institutional memory, and if you did it right, some sort of emotional investment of the people in the company. Treating people as strictly part of cash flow tells them they do not count, are more or less worthless, and the company has not allegiance to them. All of this represents selling off the people and getting squat for them.
At least in the U.S., if you have less than the insurance limit (I think it is about $200K) and the bank loses it, then you can get reimbursed. If you have less than whatever in internet coins and they get lost, you get squat. That's going to be a big hurdle, who guarantees those transactions? All it would take is one major exploit on a crypto-currency to tank it.
Because allowing the Norks to perfect their missile technology is a bad idea for the future when they might use it?