While the evidence you present is completely factual and justifies both regulations that were put in place as a reactionary measure, its hard to not marvel how much financial might the product producing China has right now over the stagnantly over-consuming US.
If it brought good jobs, and a generally higher quality of life for its people perhaps these risks would be worth it.
The big picture problem is that there is mistrust from employers to employees and employees with the outside world.
Companies have NO IDEA how to a) recognize talent b) recognize character and because of their failings in this regard they put up all of these countermeasures. (Hire people smarter than you, but don't trust them an inch!)
Employers have an unconscionable amount of power and control over its employees and not taking a stand is the passive, safe, and lazy thing to do.
If you are playing along with the erosion of your liberties for an employer you may as well consider yourself an indentured servant or a slave and start answering everything with "Yess massah, anything you say massah"
Hopefully, once they are divided up as such, the Progressives would become a small minority and we can have an honest debate between Corporate-Authoritarians and Libertarian views.
Feature request: Replaceable perfume cartridge that smells of Ea d' old booke. Add that in after unfettered SD support on the Kindle and you may have a winner.
I want a Que device form factor for $199 or basically a device like the Entourage Edge with e-Ink on *both* displays. But with all the 6inch devices, or 9 inch devices that are crippled its a matter of just waiting out this war and see who emerges the victor.
Expose Open Source for the charity work that it really is.
You can convince your state to allow open source contributors to get tax deductions based on their hourly contributions at their usual rate of pay, up to %10 of their annual income.
While you may consider the photograph your work, and taking away such as removal of merit of the photographer, the act of theft and right to one's own image and soul are at stake in addition to other factors.
There are amateur photographers and there are those who make their livelihood from it. Those who make their livelihood require consent and written release from their subjects. Unless there is an equal exchange between photographer and subject, the subject is being exploited without compensation.
>If it did, we'd be living in a very different world right now, with every journalist, blogger, >photographer, and webmaster busily rewriting history, pro bono, for anyone who has a problem >with the past.
We do not have nearly as many storefronts with buggy whip manufacturer logos on them because times have changed. CNN's web site yesterday was not the same as it was today. Your every journalist, blogger, photographer and web master wants all the benefits without the RESPONSIBILITY of being what they really are: publishers and editors.
"Lucrative service businesses" exist because there will always be people want to be lazy, ignorant, stylish, and feel empowered by delegating to others with a loose exchange rate of currency for their time.
On any given piece of hardware that can run XP or Vista/Windows 7, XP runs faster.
It's smarter to run XP, not lazier. And until MS gets their head out of their butt and gives people a better product than XP, people will not buy it on their own free will.
OK, well how about someone stops by your house and kills you and decides that punishment for murder doesn't matter because these "silly ideological" laws against murder shouldn't count against him? No. Unleashing a science experiment as a human should be thought through. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
Your assumption that people with ethical concerns are luddites is faulty. More than likely they are more informed and (thankfully) wiser than you.
Our moral rules (as stated in the first paragraph) already cover that. It hurts nobody, so it is their freedom.
Does it? Their offspring become part of the society that we are in and will need to be supported from cradle to grave. The burden these mutant children will bring is indeterminable and cause for concern for everyone. Sorry, this is why "try it and see" is a bad idea. Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should!
Someone will have to pay for the "worst thing happening", and chances are it will be everyone punished for these bad ideas.
Perhaps because you haven't thought of the consequences of the deep bioethical debates behind it. I preface this by stating that I am a fan of regenerative technologies and think a great deal of good can and will come out of them in time.
Eugenics is a sinister topic that deserves a great pause. There are several key issues and parallels at play:
1) Treatments that increase the quality of life effect the population as a whole in mortality rates, and what established medical industries will it harm? 2) Possibilities this work lead to genetically superior "super men" , opening the pandora's box to designer babies and other man-made chimeras and monsters. 3) Life devaluation issues ex: Will people start blending up of lower class/poor/minority babies just to get their stem cells because life has become so "cheap" and abundant? 4) Can we label anyone a "volunteer" for anything that we want to do research on?
Oddly enough this is one thing that Bush got right for all the wrong reasons. He was correct in giving some time for the application of unproven technologies to sink in and let society stew a little on the ramifications.It was important for him to pick a side and get people to polarize their opinions to help along the public policy.
"Either way the embryo is still dead."
As a species, we have a certain amount of respect for our dead, whether or not you agree with it. There are laws on the books about how the dead must be prepared for burial, how casket vaults must be made around coffins to prevent the ground from sinking. Grave robbing laws came about because of the high demand for understanding anatomy by means of dissection. For a human grave we treat it with respect and attempt to protect it from desecration. Organ donation as a choice has evolved as an important act of volunteerism. One really big reason that people take issue with using a dead embryo is because they were not sentient volunteers acting on their own free will -- hence making them victims, and then adding insult to injury. Whether or not you believe them to be victims doesn't matter nearly as much as the idea that *someone else* might, and throw roadblocks up to block your agenda. There are people out there who believe that the means needs to justify the ends.
I've read many books on eugenics,genetics, and bioethics over the years but none of them stands out so nearly as well as When Medicine Went Mad I've been spending several months absorbing the debates and came to the conclusion that it is extremely important in terms of public opinion to do your research in such a way that is ethical, professional, and will not raise doubts or fears about the means in which your data is acquired to preserve and maintain the public trust.
There are many people out there who are clinging to XP, and they don't want Vista, they don't want 7...they want Windows XP 4 EVAR! And there is nothing wrong with that. XP isn't broken, don't fix it.
Sure, Windows 7 might 'suck less' than Vista, but that's merely providing the remedy to the poison. Easier to use, simpler, less eye candy.
There's nothing wrong with providing virtualization, and perhaps if they slapped a better GUI and contributing with new features to VirtualBox that might be worth writing home about. (Specifically the braindead ISO image manager that's a PITA to use when all is needed is a combobox for previously saved images, adding an OSX compat layer, adding JIT app translation for emulated binaries, etc)
Microsoft needs figure out what works well and make it work even better, not try to give us something new.
Slashdot Mirror
While the evidence you present is completely factual and justifies both regulations that were put in place as a reactionary measure, its hard to not marvel how much financial might the product producing China has right now over the stagnantly over-consuming US.
If it brought good jobs, and a generally higher quality of life for its people perhaps these risks would be worth it.
If you don't support my point of view behind that comment, you are one of the idiocrats.
There, fixed that for you.
> There is really no cause for whining here. The community should be grateful to these guys.
But...but...but.. the GPL community is so good at it.
The big picture problem is that there is mistrust from employers to employees and employees with the outside world.
Companies have NO IDEA how to a) recognize talent b) recognize character and because of their failings in this regard they put up all of these countermeasures.
(Hire people smarter than you, but don't trust them an inch!)
Employers have an unconscionable amount of power and control over its employees and not taking a stand is the passive, safe, and lazy thing to do.
If you are playing along with the erosion of your liberties for an employer you may as well consider yourself an indentured servant or a slave and start answering everything with "Yess massah, anything you say massah"
Whoa whoa whoa. Stealing WoW credentials is enough to get even the most complacent geek to take notice.
There, fixed that for you:
Hopefully, once they are divided up as such, the Progressives would become a small minority and we can have an honest debate between Corporate-Authoritarians and Libertarian views.
They can't hate us if they're dead.
Unfortunately after we do our bombing runs these days we send "humanitarian aid", plant flowers, and sing hippie songs with them.
WHO's on first?
Don't worry, Obama will take it from him soon enough.
> How freaky can it be to have a book, which you can't print or copy a page from, for further reference; in a SCHOOL?
Why can't you put the Kindle in the photocopier/scanner like any other book?
Feature request: Replaceable perfume cartridge that smells of Ea d' old booke.
Add that in after unfettered SD support on the Kindle and you may have a winner.
I want a Que device form factor for $199 or basically a device like the Entourage Edge with e-Ink on *both* displays.
But with all the 6inch devices, or 9 inch devices that are crippled its a matter of just waiting out this war and see who emerges the victor.
Expose Open Source for the charity work that it really is.
You can convince your state to allow open source contributors to get tax deductions based on their hourly contributions at their usual rate of pay, up to %10 of their annual income.
While you may consider the photograph your work, and taking away such as removal of
merit of the photographer, the act of theft and right to one's own image and soul are at stake in addition to other factors.
There are amateur photographers and there are those who make their livelihood from it. Those who make their livelihood require consent and written release from their subjects. Unless there is an equal exchange between photographer and subject, the subject is being exploited without compensation.
>If it did, we'd be living in a very different world right now, with every journalist, blogger, >photographer, and webmaster busily rewriting history, pro bono, for anyone who has a problem >with the past.
We do not have nearly as many storefronts with buggy whip manufacturer logos on them because times have changed. CNN's web site yesterday was not the same as it was today. Your every journalist, blogger, photographer and web master wants all the benefits without the RESPONSIBILITY of being what they really are: publishers and editors.
Treating a Linux box as a single user box and just running everything as root is *convenient*, but not secure.
"Lucrative service businesses" exist because there will always be people want to be lazy, ignorant, stylish, and feel empowered by delegating to others with a loose exchange rate of currency for their time.
Don't you know that Cash for Clunkers was a death panel for antiques, you insensitive clod!
If it were really coming from Kennedy, it would be about auto repair for the uninsured being a right.
Will it blend?
"still running on Windows XP", how about companies who are still running on NT?
On any given piece of hardware that can run XP or Vista/Windows 7, XP runs faster.
It's smarter to run XP, not lazier. And until MS gets their head out of their butt and gives people a better product than XP, people will not buy it on their own free will.
OK, well how about someone stops by your house and kills you and decides that punishment for murder doesn't matter because these "silly ideological" laws against murder shouldn't count against him? No. Unleashing a science experiment as a human should be thought through. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
Your assumption that people with ethical concerns are luddites is faulty. More than likely they are more informed and (thankfully) wiser than you.
Our moral rules (as stated in the first paragraph) already cover that. It hurts nobody, so it is their freedom.
Does it? Their offspring become part of the society that we are in and will need to be supported from cradle to grave. The burden these mutant children will bring is indeterminable and cause for concern for everyone. Sorry, this is why "try it and see" is a bad idea. Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should!
Someone will have to pay for the "worst thing happening", and chances are it will be everyone punished for these bad ideas.
Perhaps because you haven't thought of the consequences of the deep bioethical debates behind it. I preface this by stating that I am a fan of regenerative technologies and think a great deal of good can and will come out of them in time.
Eugenics is a sinister topic that deserves a great pause. There are several key issues and parallels at play:
1) Treatments that increase the quality of life effect the population as a whole in mortality rates, and what established medical industries will it harm?
2) Possibilities this work lead to genetically superior "super men" , opening the pandora's box to designer babies and other man-made chimeras and monsters.
3) Life devaluation issues ex: Will people start blending up of lower class/poor/minority babies just to get their stem cells because life has become so "cheap" and abundant?
4) Can we label anyone a "volunteer" for anything that we want to do research on?
Oddly enough this is one thing that Bush got right for all the wrong reasons. He was correct in giving some time for the application of unproven technologies to sink in and let society stew a little on the ramifications.It was important for him to pick a side and get people to polarize their opinions to help along the public policy.
"Either way the embryo is still dead."
As a species, we have a certain amount of respect for our dead, whether or not you agree with it. There are laws on the books about how the dead must be prepared for burial, how casket vaults must be made around coffins to prevent the ground from sinking. Grave robbing laws came about because of the high demand for understanding anatomy by means of dissection. For a human grave we treat it with respect and attempt to protect it from desecration. Organ donation as a choice has evolved as an important act of volunteerism. One really big reason that people take issue with using a dead embryo is because they were not sentient volunteers acting on their own free will -- hence making them victims, and then adding insult to injury. Whether or not you believe them to be victims doesn't matter nearly as much as the idea that *someone else* might, and throw roadblocks up to block your agenda. There are people out there who believe that the means needs to justify the ends.
I've read many books on eugenics,genetics, and bioethics over the years but none of them stands out so nearly as well as
When Medicine Went Mad I've been spending several months absorbing the debates and came to the conclusion that it is extremely important in terms of public opinion to do your research in such a way that is ethical, professional, and will not raise doubts or fears about the means in which your data is acquired to preserve and maintain the public trust.
Isn't it a little late for April Fool's?
And, in true IRS-like demanding fashion...
I'll expect all of my paid-in cell tax for the past 15 years to be paid back with interest compounded at %12 per annum.
XP has become a victim of its own success.
There are many people out there who are clinging to XP, and they don't want Vista, they don't want 7...they want Windows XP 4 EVAR! And there is nothing wrong with that. XP isn't broken, don't fix it.
Sure, Windows 7 might 'suck less' than Vista, but that's merely providing the remedy to the poison. Easier to use, simpler, less eye candy.
There's nothing wrong with providing virtualization, and perhaps if they slapped a better GUI and contributing with new features to VirtualBox that might be worth writing home about. (Specifically the braindead ISO image manager that's a PITA to use when all is needed is a combobox for previously saved images, adding an OSX compat layer, adding JIT app translation for emulated binaries, etc)
Microsoft needs figure out what works well and make it work even better, not try to give us something new.
Aren't bullets a lot cheaper than DNA tests?
These people don't have a right to our justice system.