1. As noted above, Einsteins "religiosity" was far more about aesthetic sensibility than about doctrine. He is talking about a feeling of wonder, not about belief.
2. More to the point, my link and data is about belief in Biblical accounts of cration, not on religious affiliation or sensibilities. Many scientists have some religious affiliation (I know a number of Buddhist-affiliated cognitive scientists) - that's a far, far cry from questioning scientific theories on the basis of religious doctrine.
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Most people view "constitutional republic" as simply one of several possible implementations of a democracy - I don't know of any society or ideology that has institutionalized or proposed completely unbuffered rule by "fifty percent plus one."
I assure you that no US political leader would ever get on mass media and announce that the US isn't really a democracy.
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Pure models are not useful for discussing political economics. By that standard, there has never been a "true" capitalist system, nor a "true" socialist one, nor a "true" communist one. Even some fascist apologists say that the problems with Nazism came from the fact that it wasn't "true" fascism, and the problems with Mussolini came from the influence of Nazism.
I'm also critical of farm subsidies on the part of Europe and the US - I think that form of government protection is preventing the best of globalism from actually developing and hurting third world economies considerably - but capitalism, especially complex high-tech highly-interdependent late-capitalism, will always rely on a non-trivial legal and political framework, and on elements of infrastructure that are publically supported (transportation, utilities, financial institutions like the FDIC).
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The United States has not had real conflict in its borders since the mid 19th century - even 9/11 wasn't a real war at home in anyway comparable to anything the rest of the world has had to deal with for most of the 20th century. In light of that fact, it wasn't surprising that a rhetoric of a free society was able to develop. In light of the love of comfort and security that the American populace evinces, I sometimes think that if it faced the sorts of turmoil that Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America confronted, it would be willing to create a society far less free than many of the above in order to defend those comforts. The luxury of freedom apparently ranks below other luxuries.
I can't find any place to actually order the kit itself. Neither scea.com nor playstation.com has a link for ordering it, nor does the link you included. Do you or anyone else know where you can actually get it? Has Sony ended availability of PS2 Linux?
You are correct. The data about the demographics of Bible literalism are pretty discouraging: between 32 and 40 percent of Americas subscribe to a literal reading of the Bible, versus 7 percent of the British. There's other interesting data at that link. What's most striking is that American belief in creationism is around 45 percent for most of the population, but only at 5 percent for scientists.
One sobering statistic is the fact that, at the end of last year, one out of every 32 adults in the United States was behind bars or on probation or parole. This is ridiculous, and a far greater incarceration rate than most any other first world country. I find it difficult to understand how so many Americans can still subscribe to the rhetoric that their country is the freest.
Also noteable was that the market was considered mature. "It's not going to grow" was what one of the analysts said. While gamers may drive the custom-PC market, consoles are running the game market.
Unfortunately, over forty percent of Americans are the sort of Christian that believes in 6-day creation. I think that by a slim margin that qualifies as the majority of Christians in the US. Only 39% of Americans believe, as you do, in theistically-guided evolution.
In comparision, in England, only 5% of the population is creationist.
How big is the company or organization you work for? A sysadmin has the power to administer a system. He's not the CIO, the CTO, even a manager.
It may be possible to replace Outlook as a client with something like Lotus Notes or the like, but it had better be at least as good as a client (Notes is not.) Outlook is an excellent client. So is Evolution, but Evolution is still about 20% shy of serviceability - it needs to be 20% ahead to justify a migration (and the feature of virtual folders could be half that battle right there) - but it doesn't run in Win32 environments yet and there's no indication it will. Mozilla calendar still lacks a lot of finish, including basic sync conduits for Palm/Pocket PC and, of course, enterprise calendaring.
But the onus is on the patent holder to defend their patent. The fact is that it is impossible to know how many patents one violates when developing code. When you stop development to check for patent infringement for methods you developed by yourself, you expose yourself to charges of willful violation.
By not knowing whether any given algorithm or method has been patented (and chances are most any real project has some 'infringing' methods) you not only protect yourself against accusations of willful violations, and against negligence for failing to find *all* violations, but you also weaken the patent itself, since by *policy* you didn't refer to the original claim and thus definitely came up with your solution by yourself.
No, it says that by as a matter of principle never checking for patent infringement for solutions you've come up with independently, you are protecting yourself from the possible charge of infringement. This is really a case where ignorance is, if not bliss, the basis of a good case against a bad patent.
Incidentally, in what countries are software patents still not recognized? (i.e., "where is the future of Linux and free software development?")
The poster's original point is still well-taken. A low-income community could not boot-strap themselves into this without outside help - that's the jist of the original question, and it should have been answered accordingly. The fact that the outside help could be 'services' instead of cash is somewhat moot.
Gaming is growing up, fitfully and slowly. There are those of us who believe that was is now called gaming will become the definitive media of the 21st century, the way that film and television were the definitive media for the first and second half of the 20th. For this to happen, the media will have a number of explosions past its existing boundaries and expectations. Did you know that film got its start as an amusement park curiosity and as an arcade amusement? If you began with the early history of film - Lumiere, Melies - you would have had virtually no way of predicting it would become a social institution in which hundreds of people sat together in dark rooms watching 2 hour long narratives.
I've read that about forty percent of Americans believe in creationism rather than evolution; that statistic specifically excludes believers in theistically-guided evolution, too. I'm inclined to suspect that the vast majority of such Believers are in fly-over country. Interestingly, only 5% of scientists hold that belief - I would presume, too, that those scientists worked in fields such as chemistry or other domains entirely free of data relating to speciation or life.
The South Pole is populated by scientists studying climate change, astronomy and the like. Podunk Iowa is populated by literalists fundementalists who believe the earth is 6000 years old, deny evolution, and are awaiting the rapture. Who do you think needs the internet more?
Unless you're going to be doing cutting-edge research, the bulk of practical information you will need to know in your career, you will get - in your career. You education - particularly your college education - is about turning you into a good *professional* as well as a good engineer. It will also help you when your domain becomes obsolete, or jobs in your painstakingly chosen field become scarce, or when you actually need to hold a viable conversation with someone who might fund your work.
And if you *are* going into cutting edge research, you get to do the hyper-specialization bit in grad school. If you have no plans of going into graduate school, you're just going to be a platinum-plated cog ITRL, anyway.
Theater. Live performance. You know, actors on a stage? Tickets for small theaters are typically about $25 - for major productions, well over a hundred.
Tell me where you live so that I can make sure I never go there.
Things can "improve" in a year or two. I suggest you learn something about the nature and causes of scarcity and famine. Sometimes starvation is due to factors that only last a season, and then all is well again.
You know something? Some sort of agrarian reform is actually necessary in Zimbabwe. I don't like Mugabe's heavy-handed populist way of going about it, but even his critics agree that something needed to be done about a distribution of land resources that was inherited lock, stock and barrel from colonialism.
I don't know what's going to become of it in the long run, but I know something that could be worse - an unregulated transfer of land to people who don't know how to farm, destroying any chance for agricultural exports. If Mugabe simply gave the land away now, without regulating its transfer, things would be worse in the long run. (I've seen agrarian reform fail in this regard before.)
Because they are starving *this year.* For any one of a number of reasons - many famines have their origins in temporary climactic, political, or economic factors. (Also, the thing of cash crops is that you can have a surplus of them, but due to trade factors *still* have starvation or malnutrition - a population cannot live healthily off of one crop alone.) The *fact* is that food exports to Europe is among their most important forms of international trade. Mugabe (I don't like him, either) has fucked up Zimbabwe agriculture this year with his demagoguery, but the essential risk of getting GM crops still remains. The US sure as hell is *never* going to be a major importer of staple food crops.
Ideological distortion that benefits the left: "greed multinational corporations with their patents are causing African children to starve.
Ideological distortion that benefits the right: "ignorant 3rd world government listens to tree-hugging granola crunchers and selfishly lets its own people starve."
Ugly, complex reality: if Zimbabwe's own corn crop were adulterated with GM corn, they could lose their primary market for food exports, Europe, and then could end up suffering more down the line; if they get their local production back on track, the survivors would probably better off not having GM corn in the fields. I have always felt the complexity trumps ideology, and this is a classic instance of it.
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2. More to the point, my link and data is about belief in Biblical accounts of cration, not on religious affiliation or sensibilities. Many scientists have some religious affiliation (I know a number of Buddhist-affiliated cognitive scientists) - that's a far, far cry from questioning scientific theories on the basis of religious doctrine.
I assure you that no US political leader would ever get on mass media and announce that the US isn't really a democracy.
I'm also critical of farm subsidies on the part of Europe and the US - I think that form of government protection is preventing the best of globalism from actually developing and hurting third world economies considerably - but capitalism, especially complex high-tech highly-interdependent late-capitalism, will always rely on a non-trivial legal and political framework, and on elements of infrastructure that are publically supported (transportation, utilities, financial institutions like the FDIC).
The United States has not had real conflict in its borders since the mid 19th century - even 9/11 wasn't a real war at home in anyway comparable to anything the rest of the world has had to deal with for most of the 20th century. In light of that fact, it wasn't surprising that a rhetoric of a free society was able to develop. In light of the love of comfort and security that the American populace evinces, I sometimes think that if it faced the sorts of turmoil that Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America confronted, it would be willing to create a society far less free than many of the above in order to defend those comforts. The luxury of freedom apparently ranks below other luxuries.
I can't find any place to actually order the kit itself. Neither scea.com nor playstation.com has a link for ordering it, nor does the link you included. Do you or anyone else know where you can actually get it? Has Sony ended availability of PS2 Linux?
You are correct. The data about the demographics of Bible literalism are pretty discouraging: between 32 and 40 percent of Americas subscribe to a literal reading of the Bible, versus 7 percent of the British. There's other interesting data at that link. What's most striking is that American belief in creationism is around 45 percent for most of the population, but only at 5 percent for scientists.
One sobering statistic is the fact that, at the end of last year, one out of every 32 adults in the United States was behind bars or on probation or parole. This is ridiculous, and a far greater incarceration rate than most any other first world country. I find it difficult to understand how so many Americans can still subscribe to the rhetoric that their country is the freest.
Also noteable was that the market was considered mature. "It's not going to grow" was what one of the analysts said. While gamers may drive the custom-PC market, consoles are running the game market.
When seeking to avoid drowning, one should also be wary not to perish of thirst.
In comparision, in England, only 5% of the population is creationist.
It may be possible to replace Outlook as a client with something like Lotus Notes or the like, but it had better be at least as good as a client (Notes is not.) Outlook is an excellent client. So is Evolution, but Evolution is still about 20% shy of serviceability - it needs to be 20% ahead to justify a migration (and the feature of virtual folders could be half that battle right there) - but it doesn't run in Win32 environments yet and there's no indication it will. Mozilla calendar still lacks a lot of finish, including basic sync conduits for Palm/Pocket PC and, of course, enterprise calendaring.
By not knowing whether any given algorithm or method has been patented (and chances are most any real project has some 'infringing' methods) you not only protect yourself against accusations of willful violations, and against negligence for failing to find *all* violations, but you also weaken the patent itself, since by *policy* you didn't refer to the original claim and thus definitely came up with your solution by yourself.
Incidentally, in what countries are software patents still not recognized? (i.e., "where is the future of Linux and free software development?")
Not to mention fear. I half-expect to wake up to find a severed header (horse.h?)in my bed.
The poster's original point is still well-taken. A low-income community could not boot-strap themselves into this without outside help - that's the jist of the original question, and it should have been answered accordingly. The fact that the outside help could be 'services' instead of cash is somewhat moot.
Gaming is growing up, fitfully and slowly. There are those of us who believe that was is now called gaming will become the definitive media of the 21st century, the way that film and television were the definitive media for the first and second half of the 20th. For this to happen, the media will have a number of explosions past its existing boundaries and expectations. Did you know that film got its start as an amusement park curiosity and as an arcade amusement? If you began with the early history of film - Lumiere, Melies - you would have had virtually no way of predicting it would become a social institution in which hundreds of people sat together in dark rooms watching 2 hour long narratives.
I've read that about forty percent of Americans believe in creationism rather than evolution; that statistic specifically excludes believers in theistically-guided evolution, too. I'm inclined to suspect that the vast majority of such Believers are in fly-over country. Interestingly, only 5% of scientists hold that belief - I would presume, too, that those scientists worked in fields such as chemistry or other domains entirely free of data relating to speciation or life.
The South Pole is populated by scientists studying climate change, astronomy and the like. Podunk Iowa is populated by literalists fundementalists who believe the earth is 6000 years old, deny evolution, and are awaiting the rapture. Who do you think needs the internet more?
And if you *are* going into cutting edge research, you get to do the hyper-specialization bit in grad school. If you have no plans of going into graduate school, you're just going to be a platinum-plated cog ITRL, anyway.
Tell me where you live so that I can make sure I never go there.
Things can "improve" in a year or two. I suggest you learn something about the nature and causes of scarcity and famine. Sometimes starvation is due to factors that only last a season, and then all is well again.
I don't know what's going to become of it in the long run, but I know something that could be worse - an unregulated transfer of land to people who don't know how to farm, destroying any chance for agricultural exports. If Mugabe simply gave the land away now, without regulating its transfer, things would be worse in the long run. (I've seen agrarian reform fail in this regard before.)
Because they are starving *this year.* For any one of a number of reasons - many famines have their origins in temporary climactic, political, or economic factors. (Also, the thing of cash crops is that you can have a surplus of them, but due to trade factors *still* have starvation or malnutrition - a population cannot live healthily off of one crop alone.) The *fact* is that food exports to Europe is among their most important forms of international trade. Mugabe (I don't like him, either) has fucked up Zimbabwe agriculture this year with his demagoguery, but the essential risk of getting GM crops still remains. The US sure as hell is *never* going to be a major importer of staple food crops.
Ideological distortion that benefits the right: "ignorant 3rd world government listens to tree-hugging granola crunchers and selfishly lets its own people starve."
Ugly, complex reality: if Zimbabwe's own corn crop were adulterated with GM corn, they could lose their primary market for food exports, Europe, and then could end up suffering more down the line; if they get their local production back on track, the survivors would probably better off not having GM corn in the fields. I have always felt the complexity trumps ideology, and this is a classic instance of it.
I used to own an Ericsson. They definitely suck.