Back in the day, our elite (and often inherited) ruling class had a sense of responsibility and duty to the public.
Today, the guys at the top do not consider themselves elite or a privileged ruling class. They're just out to make as much money for themselves as possible and get out while the getting is good. The key word is "stewardship". The old guys had it, new guys don't.
Excellent article on NY Times, no less (I would not have expected them to print something like this) :
"Wall Street firms, for example, now hire on the basis of youth and brains, not experience and character. Most of their problems can be traced to this."
South Korea is a non-multicultural, uniracial nation - an unforgivable sin in this day and age.
lol what?
Korean population is homogenous because they didn't import slaves from Africa. This is an unforgivable sin?
Another factor (probably the biggest one) is that East Asian dynasties have been relatively stable through the millenia and wars of conquest have been very few, compared to the Western world. The largest infusion of non-Korean blood into their population came from the Mongol invasion during the Ghengis Khan era. However Koreans are about as different from Mongols genetically as Norwegians are from Swedes (which is to say not very), so whatever bastard children that resulted simply got absorbed into the population.
Woe be the Koreans (and Japanese). They do not have affirmative action, hate crime laws, Rodney King racial riots, or huge police forces patrolling their crime-ridden cities. Unforgivable! What unenlightened barbarians!
your naivete and belief in human wonderment is amusing... sort of. But clearly you have no idea what the ghettos are like. You wouldn't last 30 minutes in Compton or any other inner city 'hood after sundown. Before you can get that big screen TV set up to show the disadvantaged youths the amazement of Mars, they will have taken that TV, your wallet, your car, and beat you senseless. Simply because you're white. And you'd be lucky to not get shot. I am not exaggerating.
NASA has double-downed on AGW, then went all-in on Climate Change. So anything they do nowadays is related to Climate Change at some level.
NASA is often called a civilian agency, and that is correct, but that just means it's not controlled by the military (Army Navy etc.). It's still a political agency; the people there are picked by politicians, so it tends to reflect political tastes of whoever put them in place (currently Demoliberals)
The Koreans run into the reactor room, get hit with radiation, heroically pull out the uranium rod and replace it with a new one, while Kirk watches behind the glass in horror, and say to him "The needs of the few... i have always been... and shall be... your friend"
No. IQ tests were banned in the US because they were considered discriminatory.
Not discriminatory as in, schools or businesses are taking IQ test results and discriminating against those with lower scores. But as in, they declared that the test was racist/discriminatory in and of itself... because certain racial groups (you can probably guess which ones) consistently did poorly.
They have idiots at Google too, that took a good, functional UI and revamped it with a nonsensical one.
For instance: in the old Gmail, you had clearly labeled HTML buttons that said "Delete" "Compose" "Archive", etc. It was easy to find.
In the new UI, somebody decided that little tiny dark icons with no text description were cool. Now the Delete button is replaced by a tiny black icon that represents a trash can. Archive button is replaced by another tiny black icon which looks similar to the other little black icons. So basically, what used to be a two-step operation (move your mouse cursor to Delete button, click) is now a four or five-step operation. (move cursor over little black icon and hover, wait for the onHover title to see if it's the one you want, go on to the next little icon and hover, read title, then click if it's the right one).
they wrote "about 8 million" lines of code to run a theme park on a little island back in the early 90's, so 10 million lines for Quickbooks 2012 seems reasonable.
we wouldn't have to forensically analyze long-distance data to figure out if the flags are standing or not. We'd just be looking out the damn window and see.
Europe being what it is, the result from this "cooperation" will be that Europe will have given China all its technology and know-how, "exported" all the manufacturing to them while devastating its own manufacturing base, and still bend over while asking, "Please sir, can I have some more?"
Falling share price can still affect the company in lots of ways.
- loss of employee morale, inability to attract new talent, inability to keep current talent. Zuckerberg and most of the employees are still holding FB shares, so falling prices affects them badly.
- inability to buy other companies with your stock. FB bought a BUNCH of companies just before they went public. With falling share prices their power to buy other companies is greatly diminished.
- inability to raise more capital in the future from selling more shares. Nobody's gonna want to buy more. On the other hand, if FB shares skyrocketed, they could keep issuing more shares and pocket $$
- shareholder anger, leading to lawsuits and possibly firing of execs (although I hear FB is intentionally structured to make this difficult)
Hatta is a thousanaire. He has no problems that I would worry about. If he doesn't like what he's doing, he can quit and still buy all the food he can eat.
I have a $100 stack-on gun cabinet (that's what it's called, nobody calls it a safe) with a manual keyed lock and I love it. It's roomy, stores all my guns including a large scoped rifle, and is quite sturdy. It bolts to wall studs from the inside. I dare anyone, even a gang of thugs who pumped iron in prison, to break it open by force or take it from my house with their bare hands. I'll even give them a screwdriver. They won't be able to.
It would take a large crowbar or a power drill or some other serious tool and criminal intent/effort to break it open. In other words, it secures my guns from the kids and it keeps honest people honest. Which is all that it's designed to do.
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Back in the day, our elite (and often inherited) ruling class had a sense of responsibility and duty to the public.
Today, the guys at the top do not consider themselves elite or a privileged ruling class. They're just out to make as much money for themselves as possible and get out while the getting is good. The key word is "stewardship". The old guys had it, new guys don't.
Excellent article on NY Times, no less (I would not have expected them to print something like this) :
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/opinion/brooks-why-our-elites-stink.html
"Wall Street firms, for example, now hire on the basis of youth and brains, not experience and character. Most of their problems can be traced to this."
South Korea is a non-multicultural, uniracial nation - an unforgivable sin in this day and age.
lol what?
Korean population is homogenous because they didn't import slaves from Africa. This is an unforgivable sin?
Another factor (probably the biggest one) is that East Asian dynasties have been relatively stable through the millenia and wars of conquest have been very few, compared to the Western world. The largest infusion of non-Korean blood into their population came from the Mongol invasion during the Ghengis Khan era. However Koreans are about as different from Mongols genetically as Norwegians are from Swedes (which is to say not very), so whatever bastard children that resulted simply got absorbed into the population.
Woe be the Koreans (and Japanese). They do not have affirmative action, hate crime laws, Rodney King racial riots, or huge police forces patrolling their crime-ridden cities. Unforgivable! What unenlightened barbarians!
ARNOLD: Get your ass to Maars!
CURIOSITY: Okay Done.
they have a missile... in their pants
your naivete and belief in human wonderment is amusing... sort of. But clearly you have no idea what the ghettos are like. You wouldn't last 30 minutes in Compton or any other inner city 'hood after sundown. Before you can get that big screen TV set up to show the disadvantaged youths the amazement of Mars, they will have taken that TV, your wallet, your car, and beat you senseless. Simply because you're white. And you'd be lucky to not get shot. I am not exaggerating.
NASA has double-downed on AGW, then went all-in on Climate Change. So anything they do nowadays is related to Climate Change at some level.
NASA is often called a civilian agency, and that is correct, but that just means it's not controlled by the military (Army Navy etc.). It's still a political agency; the people there are picked by politicians, so it tends to reflect political tastes of whoever put them in place (currently Demoliberals)
Because having too many links in one paragraph is both visually annoying and just plain fucking stupid.
With a title like that, more like:
The Koreans run into the reactor room, get hit with radiation, heroically pull out the uranium rod and replace it with a new one, while Kirk watches behind the glass in horror, and say to him "The needs of the few... i have always been... and shall be... your friend"
No. IQ tests were banned in the US because they were considered discriminatory.
Not discriminatory as in, schools or businesses are taking IQ test results and discriminating against those with lower scores. But as in, they declared that the test was racist/discriminatory in and of itself... because certain racial groups (you can probably guess which ones) consistently did poorly.
"How can I get in on this action?" as in, i want some of that money too!
It's so much money that some theorists fear it could distort the field.
I call BS. Smart young students that gravitated toward something wall street-ish might rethink and go into quantum physics instead.
They have idiots at Google too, that took a good, functional UI and revamped it with a nonsensical one.
For instance: in the old Gmail, you had clearly labeled HTML buttons that said "Delete" "Compose" "Archive", etc. It was easy to find.
In the new UI, somebody decided that little tiny dark icons with no text description were cool. Now the Delete button is replaced by a tiny black icon that represents a trash can. Archive button is replaced by another tiny black icon which looks similar to the other little black icons. So basically, what used to be a two-step operation (move your mouse cursor to Delete button, click) is now a four or five-step operation. (move cursor over little black icon and hover, wait for the onHover title to see if it's the one you want, go on to the next little icon and hover, read title, then click if it's the right one).
they wrote "about 8 million" lines of code to run a theme park on a little island back in the early 90's, so 10 million lines for Quickbooks 2012 seems reasonable.
why would it be impossible?
A court-issued search warrant is all you need. Seize and look through Facebook server logs.
we wouldn't have to forensically analyze long-distance data to figure out if the flags are standing or not. We'd just be looking out the damn window and see.
oops, I meant Jamie Foxx... I got my Quentin Tarantino movies mixed up
Wow, is there anything Samuel L. Jackson can't do?
no, their privacy was loosened with a screwdriver.
Europe being what it is, the result from this "cooperation" will be that Europe will have given China all its technology and know-how, "exported" all the manufacturing to them while devastating its own manufacturing base, and still bend over while asking, "Please sir, can I have some more?"
Here, listen to this.
My favorite (non-pop) music from the 80's. This is real music.
not the App Store most people are thinking of (the iphone/ipad one). TF summary is misleading.
The mobile App store's always been restrictive, and it seems to have done okay... nothing to see here.
Falling share price can still affect the company in lots of ways.
- loss of employee morale, inability to attract new talent, inability to keep current talent. Zuckerberg and most of the employees are still holding FB shares, so falling prices affects them badly.
- inability to buy other companies with your stock. FB bought a BUNCH of companies just before they went public. With falling share prices their power to buy other companies is greatly diminished.
- inability to raise more capital in the future from selling more shares. Nobody's gonna want to buy more. On the other hand, if FB shares skyrocketed, they could keep issuing more shares and pocket $$
- shareholder anger, leading to lawsuits and possibly firing of execs (although I hear FB is intentionally structured to make this difficult)
Hatta is a thousanaire. He has no problems that I would worry about. If he doesn't like what he's doing, he can quit and still buy all the food he can eat.
-Ugh Kamumba, Starvation Village, Ethiopia
isn't ranting about Google+ and how Facebook is great because they "get" platforms anymore...
I have a $100 stack-on gun cabinet (that's what it's called, nobody calls it a safe) with a manual keyed lock and I love it. It's roomy, stores all my guns including a large scoped rifle, and is quite sturdy. It bolts to wall studs from the inside. I dare anyone, even a gang of thugs who pumped iron in prison, to break it open by force or take it from my house with their bare hands. I'll even give them a screwdriver. They won't be able to.
It would take a large crowbar or a power drill or some other serious tool and criminal intent/effort to break it open. In other words, it secures my guns from the kids and it keeps honest people honest. Which is all that it's designed to do.
There's wind erosion on Mars so the dust over there is pretty smooth... nothing like the jagged nasty Moon stuff.