It seems like the traits they chose attempt to cover a few different developmental lines. Perhaps this is just a semantic problem because there is much research to suggest some attributes of a person do change (see Ken Wilber, Spiral Dynamics, Jane Lovinger). The Spiral Dynamics map, for example states that along any given developmental line (cognitive, inter-personal, etc), while a person is at different levels on different lines, the development on a given line will always go through the same set of stages (a bold claim). The Spiral Dynamics studies suggest that 60% - 70 % of people are at 4th stage (order, structure, rules, duty) or below. According to Ken Wilber, it is not clear why some people stop developing at the second or third stage, and others keep moving up to 7th, 8th, and beyond. I guess the same dilemna is there with cognitive intelligence, why do some people have much more, and some much less. FWIW Slashdot seems to be somewhere between pathological Orange (stage 5, science, ambition) and Green (stage 6, pluralistic, care for those outside your class).
Is there other intelligent life out there ? I don't know. However, some claim that if evidence of aliens visiting here presented itself, goverments would be unable to resist indulging in yet another coverup. The referenced story strengthens that claim. So I would not look to the government to just share what it knows. Would this coverup be 100% effective ? Likely not. It would start to leak here and there. You would have military and intelligence folks, astronauts and others, coming out with these "I want to say something before I die" stories. Which is what we see.
to find new artists or composers if you are into 20th / 21st century classical, or fusion/m-base/post bop jazz. For classical stuff I mostly hear of new composers on the Los Angeles classic station KUSC. Sometimes I stumble onto interesting stuff on Rhaspsody.
Nice to see there are a few other folks that like left brain music. I guess we spent too many nights performing pop music in bars and want to hear something different.
when Balmer took the helm. Imagine having billions at your disposal, having several chances, and still not being able to come up with a viable business.
If the culture at MS could be changed, there are more than enough bright people there to turn their ship around. I wouldn't mind seeing the ship turn around, as long as the execs had to walk the plank.
When I used to be involved in a lot of hiring I would routinely see hotshots hired who had no communication skills or self understanding. Then watch the resulting mess as these hires would refuse to cooperate and make enemies of co-workers and customers, and not know how to manage their stress. Check out the book "Emotional Intelligence". It turns out that SAT scores are not a reliable predictor of success. The cookie test (do I take one now, or wait a few minutes for two cookies) turns out to be a better predictor of success. The real crisis is that there is so little understanding of personal development, and people with the maturity of five year olds are routinely hired to be managers and leaders of companies. Ken Wilber has a lot of interesting things to say about this.
Depending on your current set of memes, you may have a negative reaction to inequality (liberal) or a positive one (conservative). Ultimately it is probably best to have no reaction and try to objectively evaluate the situation.
Some of us like this stuff. Try playing top 40 stuff over and over to help make it through college. Anyone with a brain will eventually want to hear some fresh and unusual ideas. Schoenberg, Bartok, Webern, Ligeti.
Gosh there has to be at least one person on here wondering how they can tell if your drive is encrypted or not. Maybe a reg key, or an ioctl to the FS driver. Seems like there might be a way around this. Not that I am recommending it.
Anyone see the 60 minutes special on the SNUS ? After around 30 years, the European studies are rolling in and this type of tobacco looks pretty harmless. No lung or mouth cancer. A questionable uptick in pancreatic cancer, and slightly higher blood pressure. Tobacco without spitting.
I think this topic demands some rigorous scientific study. You look at the number of govt / intelligence / military industrial people / astronauts coming out with these "I want to say this before I die" stories, and it makes one wonder. Either they are lying, crazy, or telling the truth. I find it hard to believe they are all lying or crazy.
To my knowledge, At Will is the default employment contract in 48 states in the US. It can, however, be surrendered and replaced with another contract. Companies do this routinely by accident and that is part of the reason wrongful termination cases are still won in the land of At Will.
The Tea Partiers are right when they say power corrupts and we should be wary of it concentrating too much in the govt. But why are they blind to the same thing happening with corporations ? It is just as bad or worse.
The govt could offer them. So when the libertarians are lying on the ground after a car crash the emergency personnel would know not to interfere with their lives. They could be exempted from having to buy insurance.
You have to consider that unlike some European countries, the US lets corporations get away with a lot more, and depends on the lawsuit as the corrective mechanism. I don't like it, but lawsuits are better than no corrective mechanism.
It cut to the bone on my left index and middle finger. Doctor sowed it all up and they work but are partially numb.
I left the blood on the wall as a reminder to be more careful. If these suits catch on, home woodworking is in trouble.
There were some fascinating correlations about autism rates before and after the mixed injections. And the same data was replicated in England. There was even a piece on 60 minutes about this.
Of course, this is only correlation, not proof that the mixture causes autism.
I was on a medical device project using generated code. After three years, management directed us to dump the generated code and hand code it. The two reasons were 1) known bad code the (widely used) tool was generating 2) Code generator company would not certify the generated code, regardless of what we were willing to pay. Required for medical.
is that a lot of cognitive activity creates noise that frustrates the 'transcendent' receiver. I can say from experience that successful meditation practice (where the mind gets really quiet) produces a vastly different experience of the moment to moment passage of time, than my normal consciousness. Perhaps increased intelligence means increased neuroticism, up to the point where you cognitively learn to turn down the cognition. Hence the athletes, coaches, woodworkers and musicians that strangely bring up Zen while discussing their work.
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It seems like the traits they chose attempt to cover a few different developmental lines. Perhaps this is just a semantic problem because there is much research to suggest some attributes of a person do change (see Ken Wilber, Spiral Dynamics, Jane Lovinger). The Spiral Dynamics map, for example states that along any given developmental line (cognitive, inter-personal, etc), while a person is at different levels on different lines, the development on a given line will always go through the same set of stages (a bold claim). The Spiral Dynamics studies suggest that 60% - 70 % of people are at 4th stage (order, structure, rules, duty) or below. According to Ken Wilber, it is not clear why some people stop developing at the second or third stage, and others keep moving up to 7th, 8th, and beyond. I guess the same dilemna is there with cognitive intelligence, why do some people have much more, and some much less. FWIW Slashdot seems to be somewhere between pathological Orange (stage 5, science, ambition) and Green (stage 6, pluralistic, care for those outside your class).
Is there other intelligent life out there ? I don't know. However, some claim that if evidence of aliens visiting here presented itself, goverments would be unable to resist indulging in yet another coverup. The referenced story strengthens that claim. So I would not look to the government to just share what it knows. Would this coverup be 100% effective ? Likely not. It would start to leak here and there. You would have military and intelligence folks, astronauts and others, coming out with these "I want to say something before I die" stories. Which is what we see.
to find new artists or composers if you are into 20th / 21st century classical, or fusion/m-base/post bop jazz. For classical stuff I mostly hear of new composers on the Los Angeles classic station KUSC. Sometimes I stumble onto interesting stuff on Rhaspsody.
Nice to see there are a few other folks that like left brain music. I guess we spent too many nights performing pop music in bars and want to hear something different.
when Balmer took the helm. Imagine having billions at your disposal, having several chances, and still not being able to come up with a viable business. If the culture at MS could be changed, there are more than enough bright people there to turn their ship around. I wouldn't mind seeing the ship turn around, as long as the execs had to walk the plank.
When I used to be involved in a lot of hiring I would routinely see hotshots hired who had no communication skills or self understanding. Then watch the resulting mess as these hires would refuse to cooperate and make enemies of co-workers and customers, and not know how to manage their stress. Check out the book "Emotional Intelligence". It turns out that SAT scores are not a reliable predictor of success. The cookie test (do I take one now, or wait a few minutes for two cookies) turns out to be a better predictor of success. The real crisis is that there is so little understanding of personal development, and people with the maturity of five year olds are routinely hired to be managers and leaders of companies. Ken Wilber has a lot of interesting things to say about this.
hate-the-leader bandwagon
Depending on your current set of memes, you may have a negative reaction to inequality (liberal) or a positive one (conservative). Ultimately it is probably best to have no reaction and try to objectively evaluate the situation.
the atonal mess
Some of us like this stuff. Try playing top 40 stuff over and over to help make it through college. Anyone with a brain will eventually want to hear some fresh and unusual ideas. Schoenberg, Bartok, Webern, Ligeti.
Gosh there has to be at least one person on here wondering how they can tell if your drive is encrypted or not. Maybe a reg key, or an ioctl to the FS driver. Seems like there might be a way around this. Not that I am recommending it.
So are they big or small ?
Anyone see the 60 minutes special on the SNUS ? After around 30 years, the European studies are rolling in and this type of tobacco looks pretty harmless. No lung or mouth cancer. A questionable uptick in pancreatic cancer, and slightly higher blood pressure. Tobacco without spitting.
I think this topic demands some rigorous scientific study. You look at the number of govt / intelligence / military industrial people / astronauts coming out with these "I want to say this before I die" stories, and it makes one wonder. Either they are lying, crazy, or telling the truth. I find it hard to believe they are all lying or crazy.
To my knowledge, At Will is the default employment contract in 48 states in the US. It can, however, be surrendered and replaced with another contract. Companies do this routinely by accident and that is part of the reason wrongful termination cases are still won in the land of At Will.
The Tea Partiers are right when they say power corrupts and we should be wary of it concentrating too much in the govt. But why are they blind to the same thing happening with corporations ? It is just as bad or worse.
The govt could offer them. So when the libertarians are lying on the ground after a car crash the emergency personnel would know not to interfere with their lives. They could be exempted from having to buy insurance.
You have to consider that unlike some European countries, the US lets corporations get away with a lot more, and depends on the lawsuit as the corrective mechanism. I don't like it, but lawsuits are better than no corrective mechanism.
It cut to the bone on my left index and middle finger. Doctor sowed it all up and they work but are partially numb. I left the blood on the wall as a reminder to be more careful. If these suits catch on, home woodworking is in trouble.
Link: http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/france/france17.html
There were some fascinating correlations about autism rates before and after the mixed injections. And the same data was replicated in England. There was even a piece on 60 minutes about this. Of course, this is only correlation, not proof that the mixture causes autism.
I live down the street, and the new building is much nicer. Parking is a pain, though.
A company rushing a new treatment to make quicker money. Or an malfunctioning government agency that often resembles a whorehouse ?
No thanks.
I was on a medical device project using generated code. After three years, management directed us to dump the generated code and hand code it. The two reasons were 1) known bad code the (widely used) tool was generating 2) Code generator company would not certify the generated code, regardless of what we were willing to pay. Required for medical.
is that a lot of cognitive activity creates noise that frustrates the 'transcendent' receiver. I can say from experience that successful meditation practice (where the mind gets really quiet) produces a vastly different experience of the moment to moment passage of time, than my normal consciousness. Perhaps increased intelligence means increased neuroticism, up to the point where you cognitively learn to turn down the cognition. Hence the athletes, coaches, woodworkers and musicians that strangely bring up Zen while discussing their work.
Richard Hoagland says it will go like this:
-we discover microbes
-we discover artifacts
-we discover other intelligent life
Maybe all the retired military and intelligence guys, with their "I want to say this before I die" stories, weren't lying after all.
Over selling isn't wrong,
Huh ? It is a lie, it is wrong, and should be illegal. I welcome you to show me otherwise.