In reality, there were a hundred or so priests over a couple of decades engaged in the acts and probably a few hundred higher level clergy (bishop/cardinal/pope) that knew about the crimes and facilitated the cover ups. Meanwhile, the billion or so (roughly) Catholics had no idea so could not have learned from the example.
So we are simply talking about different n. For you, the base sum is all catholics, while for me it is the priesthood. On which it seems we both agree even the highest levels were involved.
And incidentally, yes you can be jailed for being a member of organized crime, even if you claim (truthfully or not) that you knew nothing about it.
Poor logic, glad to see you play the game certain people want you to play.
Put your energy to thinking deeper instead of personal attacks.
In the case of Catholic priests raping children, it was actively hidden.
From the outside world, yes. Within the catholic church, the guilty were actively protected. Supporting people in their actions is a common way to show them they are ok. The same effect is visible in many other areas.
Micro-credit exists where a functional banking system for the poor is regulated out of existence...it is more a symptom of an over-regulated & poor economy than a solution to one.
Where do you get your information from? Some of the countries that have the highest success rates with micro-credits have pretty much no regulation whatsoever in banking.
Banks don't do what micro-credits do, period. If they would, they had a century to prove it and failed. Interestingly, after micro-credits were successful to the point of attracting the interest of the Nobel Price committee, several banks tried to move into this sector, smelling good business. They failed miserably.
If nothing else, that proves that you're dead wrong. Even where no regulations or economy stop them, banks a) didn't provide this service and b) when they tried it was a failure. In the same countries, micro-credits driven by non-profit interests were and are successful.
They can't becasue ti takes money to us e money wisely.
That's a myth.
The poor do what they can to maximize the moment, and in the long run that is far more expensive.
That, too.
There is a mountain of evidence from the various micro-credit and micro-lending programs in place around the world. While there are some effects of the kind you mention, they are easily guarded against by screening applicants. Not even very deeply.
You want to help the poor? the best way I can see is double min. wage,
That is one reason the 1% have so much and poverty even exists anymore: The income gap. There's an interesting project in Switzerland - not exactly a country you'd count as communist - to limit the income of CEOs to 12 times that of their lowest-paid employees. Of course, the real goal is not to make the CEOs richer, but to give them an incentive to pay their people better.
It asks some interesting questions, like: What exactly does the CEO of a company do that makes him worth more per hour than the people who actually manufacture the products earn in a week ?
However, the formula is actually the very same that I was getting at: Don't hand out money, stop taking it away in the first place.
> I am a devout fan of capitalism. It is the best system ever devised for making self-interest serve the wider interest.
The argument can be made that capitalism widens the divide between rich and poor.
Oh, please. Even addressing that point seriously is just stupid. Of course he's a fan of capitalism - it made him the richest man on the planet for many years.
People at the top are significantly more likely to be fans of the system than people at the bottom. What a surprise!
'We want to give our wealth back to society in a way that has the most impact, and so we look for opportunities to invest for the largest returns.
Well, Mr. Gates, here's how:
Don't take away their wealth in the first place.
It's well-established fact that the poor make the best use of money. There is less waste and more immediate progress than with any organisation or institute. Micro-credits are a blasting success wherever they are granted in the interest of helping people. (they fail when the same banks that caused the housing bubble/burst get in on the game hoping to make a quick buck, because they don't screen the applicants).
Monopoly rent is known to damage the economy disproportionately. For every $ you give to charity now, Mr. Gates, you've already taken two away.
"Don't be a greedy bastard." is a much, much better formula for helping other people than giving away even most of your money. Because it's not a zero-sum game, it's not just redistribution of wealth, the 1% gain most of their wealth not just by taking it from the rest, but by causing damage in excess of their profit.
That exactly is the point: The difference is that Sweden is running its prisons as sadly necessary government institutions, and not as commercial enterprises.
This simple step reverses the incentives. The american prison system actually has an interest in more crime, more criminals, more prison sentences, because that equates to more profit. The swedish prison system has an interest in less crime, less criminals and prison sentences only where adequate, because that equates to less costs.
For a civilized society, one of these is perverse. I'll let you guess which one and you only get one try.
True, but you would be a daring fool to buy the Xbox division standalone.
The problem is that it relies intimately on Windows as its core OS. If you are the owner of just Xbox, you don't control a core part of your technology, and are at the mercy of Microsoft. Quick: How many companies who found themselves at the mercy of Microsoft survived?
Basically, the only measure by which Elop was 'good' would be microsoft's measurement of loyalty, willingness to sink his company for the sake of giving microsoft more of a chance.
And anyone who didn't expect that the day he took office at Nokia is a complete idiot who has never seen Microsoft doing business before.
"awful" is more like it. I had more fun writing 8086 assembler than C# code. On a broken keyboard. With a toothpick in my mouth and both hands tied behind my back. By a sadistic Pascal teacher who kept going on about clean code structure and went on to describe Oberon when that wasn't enough.
I backup my iMac to a Time Capsule over WiFi. It happens to be located in my home, but it could just as well be next door, wouldn't make a difference. So if your neighbour is what we city dwellers think "neighbour" means and not "the next ranch ten miles down the river", that might work.
So basically, get a WiFi-enabled harddrive. Or a WiFi router with a USB port. Initial backup via USB or whatever, and incremental updates are usually small enough that they can happen in the background. On the Mac that's built-in, I'm sure there's software for Linux and maybe that hobby OS from Redmond a few people here use.
Not sure about the US, but I've had the pleasure of starting from the private/business departure area on my local airport, and it doesn't compare with the regular airport, it's an entirely different world. No security theatre, no waiting and sitting around, you arrive, go through the lobby, on the tarmac, into the plane, take-off. Total time spent on airport: 10 minutes at most.
Being able to skip the lines and security theatre and waiting and boarding is easily worth it all by itself.
Kids are not stupid, and challenging them is part of what school is about.
The moron whou thought a whole sentence was beyond the comprehension of a school-age child deserves to be flogged and fired. He's part of the problem.
Finding the math problem in a text problem was one of the most valuable lessons I remember from my early school days. Mostly because in the real world, you will encounter many more text problems than "1+2 = ?" ones.
The problem with dumbing-down is that necessarily information gets lost. The first is tone and texture. For an example, compare just the introduction of the articles on "love" in Wikipedia, in regular english and in simple english. There's just a lot of depth lost in the simple english.
But if you dumb down even more, then meaning starts to get lost. For example, the fact that love is an interpersonal emotion is not mentioned in simple english. You probably didn't notice because we all know what love is (more or less), so we add missing information without noticing. But someone who doesn't know can't do that, and so the aliens in Tau Ceti who get a copy of Wikipedia won't understand a lot about love from the simple english article.
We're living in a world where everything is getting dumbed down. Mostly for profit reasons (more audience if more people understand it), but also for misunderstood benevolence reasons. If you know anything about people, you never dumb something down to their level, ever. If you want to do them good, you dumb it down to slightly above their level, so they can understand it and grow at the same time. You never remove the challenge completely, because we humans, like all animals, are lazy by nature and won't extend effort unless we have to.
And if you want to make absolutely sure that someone understands a question, you need to add information, not remove it. The more terse a package of information is, the more effort the receiver has to make to extract the information from it, unless it was carefully crafted to make extraction easy. That is true for both compression and prose (the famous "sorry that this letter is so long, I didn't have time to write a short one" line - creating a short and yet informative package is quite a bit of work).
Sorry, but they've already solved this the other way:
You'll be brought into a smal cabin, get a full-body-scan, then you'll have to undress, get a cavity search and then you'll be issued a state-owned Burka to wear for the rest of your trip.
Attacking waiting points for security lines is a time honored practice in some parts of the world, the only surprising thing is that it took this long for it to occur here.
"took"? It's still waiting to happen. The moron killed 1 person. In a target-rich environment, with a rifle in your hand, you'd have to be a half-blind to not kill at least three people before the area is clear - if that was your target. But then again, you'd se a bomb or a hand-grenade.
This guy was not out to randomly kill as many people as possible, this was not a terrorist attack.
Not with powerline. But you are underestimating the power of side-channel attacks. There's proof of concept code out there to send messages via timing difference in CPU cache access speed. Getting data across the power line without special hardware is certainly daunting, but not necessarily impossible. It was worth the 5 minutes it took to rule it out.
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In reality, there were a hundred or so priests over a couple of decades engaged in the acts and probably a few hundred higher level clergy (bishop/cardinal/pope) that knew about the crimes and facilitated the cover ups. Meanwhile, the billion or so (roughly) Catholics had no idea so could not have learned from the example.
So we are simply talking about different n. For you, the base sum is all catholics, while for me it is the priesthood. On which it seems we both agree even the highest levels were involved.
And incidentally, yes you can be jailed for being a member of organized crime, even if you claim (truthfully or not) that you knew nothing about it.
Poor logic, glad to see you play the game certain people want you to play.
Put your energy to thinking deeper instead of personal attacks.
In the case of Catholic priests raping children, it was actively hidden.
From the outside world, yes. Within the catholic church, the guilty were actively protected. Supporting people in their actions is a common way to show them they are ok. The same effect is visible in many other areas.
Micro-credit exists where a functional banking system for the poor is regulated out of existence...it is more a symptom of an over-regulated & poor economy than a solution to one.
Where do you get your information from? Some of the countries that have the highest success rates with micro-credits have pretty much no regulation whatsoever in banking.
Banks don't do what micro-credits do, period. If they would, they had a century to prove it and failed. Interestingly, after micro-credits were successful to the point of attracting the interest of the Nobel Price committee, several banks tried to move into this sector, smelling good business. They failed miserably.
If nothing else, that proves that you're dead wrong. Even where no regulations or economy stop them, banks a) didn't provide this service and b) when they tried it was a failure. In the same countries, micro-credits driven by non-profit interests were and are successful.
They can't becasue ti takes money to us e money wisely.
That's a myth.
The poor do what they can to maximize the moment, and in the long run that is far more expensive.
That, too.
There is a mountain of evidence from the various micro-credit and micro-lending programs in place around the world. While there are some effects of the kind you mention, they are easily guarded against by screening applicants. Not even very deeply.
You want to help the poor? the best way I can see is double min. wage,
That is one reason the 1% have so much and poverty even exists anymore: The income gap. There's an interesting project in Switzerland - not exactly a country you'd count as communist - to limit the income of CEOs to 12 times that of their lowest-paid employees. Of course, the real goal is not to make the CEOs richer, but to give them an incentive to pay their people better.
It asks some interesting questions, like: What exactly does the CEO of a company do that makes him worth more per hour than the people who actually manufacture the products earn in a week ?
However, the formula is actually the very same that I was getting at: Don't hand out money, stop taking it away in the first place.
Fact: The Catholic Church never taught people that pedophilia was correct, or good, or just.
There are two kinds of teaching - the one "by the letter" and the one by action.
On paper, the Hells Angels are a Harley Davidson fan club, you know?
> I am a devout fan of capitalism. It is the best system ever devised for making self-interest serve the wider interest.
The argument can be made that capitalism widens the divide between rich and poor.
Oh, please. Even addressing that point seriously is just stupid. Of course he's a fan of capitalism - it made him the richest man on the planet for many years.
People at the top are significantly more likely to be fans of the system than people at the bottom. What a surprise!
'We want to give our wealth back to society in a way that has the most impact, and so we look for opportunities to invest for the largest returns.
Well, Mr. Gates, here's how:
Don't take away their wealth in the first place.
It's well-established fact that the poor make the best use of money. There is less waste and more immediate progress than with any organisation or institute. Micro-credits are a blasting success wherever they are granted in the interest of helping people. (they fail when the same banks that caused the housing bubble/burst get in on the game hoping to make a quick buck, because they don't screen the applicants).
Monopoly rent is known to damage the economy disproportionately. For every $ you give to charity now, Mr. Gates, you've already taken two away.
"Don't be a greedy bastard." is a much, much better formula for helping other people than giving away even most of your money. Because it's not a zero-sum game, it's not just redistribution of wealth, the 1% gain most of their wealth not just by taking it from the rest, but by causing damage in excess of their profit.
That exactly is the point: The difference is that Sweden is running its prisons as sadly necessary government institutions, and not as commercial enterprises.
This simple step reverses the incentives.
The american prison system actually has an interest in more crime, more criminals, more prison sentences, because that equates to more profit.
The swedish prison system has an interest in less crime, less criminals and prison sentences only where adequate, because that equates to less costs.
For a civilized society, one of these is perverse. I'll let you guess which one and you only get one try.
True, but you would be a daring fool to buy the Xbox division standalone.
The problem is that it relies intimately on Windows as its core OS. If you are the owner of just Xbox, you don't control a core part of your technology, and are at the mercy of Microsoft. Quick: How many companies who found themselves at the mercy of Microsoft survived?
Basically, the only measure by which Elop was 'good' would be microsoft's measurement of loyalty, willingness to sink his company for the sake of giving microsoft more of a chance.
And anyone who didn't expect that the day he took office at Nokia is a complete idiot who has never seen Microsoft doing business before.
Trimming the fat [...] trying to dance
You missed the news that Balmer is already on the way out?
Uh, they do?
One of the main areas of 3D printed parts right now are medical, especially implants and prosthesis.
It just doesn't make headline news as much as an "omg! guns!" blurb.
Possible, but that doesn't mean everything that gets mocked does so because it wasn't understood.
Every chicken is a bird, but not every bird is a chicken.
"awful" is more like it. I had more fun writing 8086 assembler than C# code. On a broken keyboard. With a toothpick in my mouth and both hands tied behind my back. By a sadistic Pascal teacher who kept going on about clean code structure and went on to describe Oberon when that wasn't enough.
Also, it was more readable.
There ought to be a law... that regulates our lawmakers. One of them is that they need to pass a sanity test each time they make a law that doesn't.
I haven't really looked into it,
Maybe you should, then, before posting nonsense. Neither Facebook nor OpenID nor any of the similar schemes use 3rd party cookies.
Right until they realize that while watching a western movie is really cool, living in one sucks big time.
in order to show more relevant video adverts
There's your mistake right there. They think that there is such a thing as a relevant advert.
Hint: If it were relevant, I would've looked for it on Google already.
I backup my iMac to a Time Capsule over WiFi. It happens to be located in my home, but it could just as well be next door, wouldn't make a difference. So if your neighbour is what we city dwellers think "neighbour" means and not "the next ranch ten miles down the river", that might work.
So basically, get a WiFi-enabled harddrive. Or a WiFi router with a USB port. Initial backup via USB or whatever, and incremental updates are usually small enough that they can happen in the background. On the Mac that's built-in, I'm sure there's software for Linux and maybe that hobby OS from Redmond a few people here use.
I don't think the point of the flying car is at your home location.
The point is that once you arrive, you have a car.
Not sure about the US, but I've had the pleasure of starting from the private/business departure area on my local airport, and it doesn't compare with the regular airport, it's an entirely different world. No security theatre, no waiting and sitting around, you arrive, go through the lobby, on the tarmac, into the plane, take-off. Total time spent on airport: 10 minutes at most.
Being able to skip the lines and security theatre and waiting and boarding is easily worth it all by itself.
Kids are not stupid, and challenging them is part of what school is about.
The moron whou thought a whole sentence was beyond the comprehension of a school-age child deserves to be flogged and fired. He's part of the problem.
Finding the math problem in a text problem was one of the most valuable lessons I remember from my early school days. Mostly because in the real world, you will encounter many more text problems than "1+2 = ?" ones.
The problem with dumbing-down is that necessarily information gets lost. The first is tone and texture. For an example, compare just the introduction of the articles on "love" in Wikipedia, in regular english and in simple english.
There's just a lot of depth lost in the simple english.
But if you dumb down even more, then meaning starts to get lost. For example, the fact that love is an interpersonal emotion is not mentioned in simple english. You probably didn't notice because we all know what love is (more or less), so we add missing information without noticing. But someone who doesn't know can't do that, and so the aliens in Tau Ceti who get a copy of Wikipedia won't understand a lot about love from the simple english article.
We're living in a world where everything is getting dumbed down. Mostly for profit reasons (more audience if more people understand it), but also for misunderstood benevolence reasons. If you know anything about people, you never dumb something down to their level, ever. If you want to do them good, you dumb it down to slightly above their level, so they can understand it and grow at the same time. You never remove the challenge completely, because we humans, like all animals, are lazy by nature and won't extend effort unless we have to.
And if you want to make absolutely sure that someone understands a question, you need to add information, not remove it. The more terse a package of information is, the more effort the receiver has to make to extract the information from it, unless it was carefully crafted to make extraction easy.
That is true for both compression and prose (the famous "sorry that this letter is so long, I didn't have time to write a short one" line - creating a short and yet informative package is quite a bit of work).
Sorry, but they've already solved this the other way:
You'll be brought into a smal cabin, get a full-body-scan, then you'll have to undress, get a cavity search and then you'll be issued a state-owned Burka to wear for the rest of your trip.
Attacking waiting points for security lines is a time honored practice in some parts of the world, the only surprising thing is that it took this long for it to occur here.
"took"? It's still waiting to happen. The moron killed 1 person. In a target-rich environment, with a rifle in your hand, you'd have to be a half-blind to not kill at least three people before the area is clear - if that was your target. But then again, you'd se a bomb or a hand-grenade.
This guy was not out to randomly kill as many people as possible, this was not a terrorist attack.
Not with powerline. But you are underestimating the power of side-channel attacks. There's proof of concept code out there to send messages via timing difference in CPU cache access speed. Getting data across the power line without special hardware is certainly daunting, but not necessarily impossible. It was worth the 5 minutes it took to rule it out.