They may effect the speed at which research is performed but they do not effect the relaying of information in undergraduate curriculum.
I think it's important for a student to be able to make it in the real world, and put their profession into context. Otherwise, you graduate students who are human calculators, but do not know why they do what they do. Or you have students who are going to be trapped and exploited by politics and religion when they leave, because they were exposed to a politics-free world.
It's not much good knowing how to derive equations if you are about to be executed for heresy.
I can't wait to go on the Reality Distortion Coaster...
Yeah, that's a wild ride, but after you go on it, you can't remember any of the experience. personally, I like "It's a Jobs World After All" - where you get to see the many faces of Steve Jobs around the world. You get into a little white boat/segway (it's amphibious), and as far as the eye can see is blackturtleneck Jobs...
Macworld Paris - Black turtleneck MacWorld San Francisco - black turtleneck MacWorld New York - black turtleneck
This goes on for miles, but then you round a bend, and get totally freaked out when you see:
MacWorld Tokyo 2001 - tailored business suit
At this moment, you have a strange desire to go on the Reality Distortion Roller Coaster again.
Acid trip? That's so retro - like a blue iMac or something. No, Steve's favorite ride would be "uncluttered white space." Where you go into a space, and it's white. And not cluttered.
It's already too late. In reality, we are all just workers in salt mines that have been converted into vast, underground Disney factories. Old Walt's re-animated frozen head lives in a command center, connected by thousands of wires, which he uses to beam dreams of the above-ground world into our heads. Because Walt needs spice from the mines. Some of the miners have been able to peek outside the dream factory, but they usually die in horror within hours. When will our savior come?
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Are you kidding? "A Bug's Life" was a knock-off of "Antz"!
Factually, that's just not true. Bug's Life had been in the works for years, and was lovingly crafted. The Antz people got wind of Bug's Life - and quickly slapped together a knock-off.
Antz may or may not be a good movie - but there is no doubt that it was an imitation of Bug's Life, and much more hastily produced.
It's not going to happen. It's a system. It won't just up and die one day, it has to be changed (which you also note). Young, ambitious people can be greedy too. Especially when they have teachers.
Somewhere in the nation, a 7-year-old is torturing his first kitten. One day, this boy will become the Vice President of the USA and follow in the footsteps of our esteemed leaders.
but , instead, chuck DRM'd CDs and DVDs into a furnace... in public, with the media present, and explain to them exactly why your NOT gonna take it anymore...
Wouldn't it be more effective to throw RIAA executives into the furnace?
No instructor or professor should be allowed to display a political agenda of any type.
Humans are political beings. It is impossible to eliminate political opinions and assumption. Are teachers supposed to be some sort of automaton, not allowed to participate in society with the rest of the population? I guess we should make it illegal for female teachers to bare their ankles again.
Anyway, if there's an argument that his group doesn't have the perfect right to do what they're doing,
The campus is University property. People are there to work and learn. The professor owns copyright on his lectures, so he gets to say who is allowed to record a copy. Basically, this group doesn't have any "perfect right" to do anything with University property. People who disrupt classes can be ejected from the property.
Funny, that's exactly what they claim to be trying to combat
But they are full of shit.
Unless you have evidence that they're really only targettingthe left or the right, I fail to see how they're doing anything particularly egregious
Even if they weren't targeting left or right, they would be disrupting classes, and making education ugly. I believe their goal is to tarnish the reputation of education by raising straw-man criticisms. They are similar to Intelligent Design proponents in their "we're just offering an alternative" passive-aggressive approach.
Liberty requires no justification: when you propose to interfere with someone's choices, the burden of proof is on the government to show the necessity of that interference.
but what happens when private property owners interfere with each other's rights? The notion of government not being a part of the market is ridiculous. the government enables the market, and is a major customer.
Without the government, there would be less economic liberty. We would be held hostage by economic thugs. Personally, I think human liberty is much more important than economic liberty. And total economic liberty is very corrosive to human rights and liberty. So, economics (which is not a human being) must be restricted to protect it from steamrolling over liberty.
Why is it that Libertarians never deal with these issues, and just say that the free market is everything?
Nobody ever promised that liberty produces the best results at all times,
Who is talking about liberty? I'm talking about the "free market" in the Libertarian sense - the idea that economics and property rights should trump all else, and we should rely on the market to do what's best. Often the free market is at odds with human liberty.
it's just that all attempts to centrally plan an economy have been dismal failures, often accompanied by appalling loss of millions of lives.
Who was talking about centrally planning an economy? As far as I know, businesses plan their own economic affairs. This does not preclude government regulation. In any case, I don't see what this has to do with the question at hand.
Their current price is doing a lot to keep small investors out of owning anything but a pittance of Google stock. Does anyone with market knowhow have an explanation for why a company would let it's stock go so high when it will suffer such extremes in value during currnent market fluctiations like right now?
To stop small investors from owning more than a pittance of Google stock.
Then you talk about how the government is invovled. The invisible hand works most efficiently only if the government doesn't stick it's dick into business.
Why isn't the government a part of the market?
This is exactly what occurred here. Take away the government, and there's no problem in the first place.
Take away the government, then there's no roads to run businesses on in the first place. The government is a major sponsor of business. Businesses benefit more from the government than they are restricted by the government.
Doesn't this starkly expose the futility and dysfunctionality of the stock market system, and discredit the idea that "the free market" has some sort of guiding hand that will give the best results?
What kind of insanity is this, that the government goes out of control, spending billions on a pointless war, spends billions more spying on its own citizens - and Google has its stock price downgraded because it stands up to a basic infringement on the rights of American citizens? Even though this would have no effect on profitability or income? Jesus Christ on a stick.
Whoever get's their digital media appliance in the living room is probably going to be the ultimate winner.
The living room is obsolete. people don't tend to live in nuclear families anymore. They have smaller houses and apartments. it's more about replacing the living room with something more flexible. For example, I'm amazed at the success of iPod "boomboxes" - basically computer-style integrated mini-speakers that your iPod plugs in to. "Cute," I thought, but I didn't think many people would buy them. After all, who would want to listen to such crappy speakers? But sure enough, iPod boomboxes started turning up everywhere. It felt like the 80s all over again.
When you think about it, living room stereos have been on the decline since the 80s. Only audiophiles or home theatre enthusiasts care. Most people seem to want a portable device, or a bookshelf stereo - or they are happy just using their computer speakers.
One company? What about Universal, EMI, BMG, Sony Music etc?
All of the big record companies use Fairplay. So it is a standard in the music industry, that outsells the competing standard (PlaysForSure DRM) by a ridiculously large margin.
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I think it's important for a student to be able to make it in the real world, and put their profession into context. Otherwise, you graduate students who are human calculators, but do not know why they do what they do. Or you have students who are going to be trapped and exploited by politics and religion when they leave, because they were exposed to a politics-free world.
It's not much good knowing how to derive equations if you are about to be executed for heresy.
What now? It's Chinatown!
Yeah, that's a wild ride, but after you go on it, you can't remember any of the experience. personally, I like "It's a Jobs World After All" - where you get to see the many faces of Steve Jobs around the world. You get into a little white boat/segway (it's amphibious), and as far as the eye can see is blackturtleneck Jobs...
Macworld Paris - Black turtleneck
MacWorld San Francisco - black turtleneck
MacWorld New York - black turtleneck
This goes on for miles, but then you round a bend, and get totally freaked out when you see:
MacWorld Tokyo 2001 - tailored business suit
At this moment, you have a strange desire to go on the Reality Distortion Roller Coaster again.
Acid trip? That's so retro - like a blue iMac or something. No, Steve's favorite ride would be "uncluttered white space." Where you go into a space, and it's white. And not cluttered.
It's already too late. In reality, we are all just workers in salt mines that have been converted into vast, underground Disney factories. Old Walt's re-animated frozen head lives in a command center, connected by thousands of wires, which he uses to beam dreams of the above-ground world into our heads. Because Walt needs spice from the mines. Some of the miners have been able to peek outside the dream factory, but they usually die in horror within hours. When will our savior come?
Factually, that's just not true. Bug's Life had been in the works for years, and was lovingly crafted. The Antz people got wind of Bug's Life - and quickly slapped together a knock-off.
Antz may or may not be a good movie - but there is no doubt that it was an imitation of Bug's Life, and much more hastily produced.
They'll just ban loudspeakers, then. But people will start using neural jacks, so the RIAA will ban electrons.
Somewhere in the nation, a 7-year-old is torturing his first kitten. One day, this boy will become the Vice President of the USA and follow in the footsteps of our esteemed leaders.
Wouldn't it be more effective to throw RIAA executives into the furnace?
Why not? Politics have shaped math and science greatly. It is not very responsible of them to give you an incomplete education.
Humans are political beings. It is impossible to eliminate political opinions and assumption. Are teachers supposed to be some sort of automaton, not allowed to participate in society with the rest of the population? I guess we should make it illegal for female teachers to bare their ankles again.
What do you suggest is a more apt description? It's a perfectly fitting description. It would be very hard to improve on.
The campus is University property. People are there to work and learn. The professor owns copyright on his lectures, so he gets to say who is allowed to record a copy. Basically, this group doesn't have any "perfect right" to do anything with University property. People who disrupt classes can be ejected from the property.
But they are full of shit.
Unless you have evidence that they're really only targettingthe left or the right, I fail to see how they're doing anything particularly egregious
Even if they weren't targeting left or right, they would be disrupting classes, and making education ugly. I believe their goal is to tarnish the reputation of education by raising straw-man criticisms. They are similar to Intelligent Design proponents in their "we're just offering an alternative" passive-aggressive approach.
Fascism is about corporate rule, not the people's government. Look it up sometime.
but what happens when private property owners interfere with each other's rights? The notion of government not being a part of the market is ridiculous. the government enables the market, and is a major customer.
Without the government, there would be less economic liberty. We would be held hostage by economic thugs. Personally, I think human liberty is much more important than economic liberty. And total economic liberty is very corrosive to human rights and liberty. So, economics (which is not a human being) must be restricted to protect it from steamrolling over liberty.
Why is it that Libertarians never deal with these issues, and just say that the free market is everything?
Who is talking about liberty? I'm talking about the "free market" in the Libertarian sense - the idea that economics and property rights should trump all else, and we should rely on the market to do what's best. Often the free market is at odds with human liberty.
it's just that all attempts to centrally plan an economy have been dismal failures, often accompanied by appalling loss of millions of lives.
Who was talking about centrally planning an economy? As far as I know, businesses plan their own economic affairs. This does not preclude government regulation. In any case, I don't see what this has to do with the question at hand.
Get drunk and sleep with a floozy.
To stop small investors from owning more than a pittance of Google stock.
Why isn't the government a part of the market?
This is exactly what occurred here. Take away the government, and there's no problem in the first place.
Take away the government, then there's no roads to run businesses on in the first place. The government is a major sponsor of business. Businesses benefit more from the government than they are restricted by the government.
I agree. I was arguing against the idea that Windowsw users are somehow more security-conscious than Mac users.
Of course I do. I was not referring to that. "Apologised" is spelled with an "o" in the middle, not an "i."
What kind of insanity is this, that the government goes out of control, spending billions on a pointless war, spends billions more spying on its own citizens - and Google has its stock price downgraded because it stands up to a basic infringement on the rights of American citizens? Even though this would have no effect on profitability or income? Jesus Christ on a stick.
The living room is obsolete. people don't tend to live in nuclear families anymore. They have smaller houses and apartments. it's more about replacing the living room with something more flexible. For example, I'm amazed at the success of iPod "boomboxes" - basically computer-style integrated mini-speakers that your iPod plugs in to. "Cute," I thought, but I didn't think many people would buy them. After all, who would want to listen to such crappy speakers? But sure enough, iPod boomboxes started turning up everywhere. It felt like the 80s all over again.
When you think about it, living room stereos have been on the decline since the 80s. Only audiophiles or home theatre enthusiasts care. Most people seem to want a portable device, or a bookshelf stereo - or they are happy just using their computer speakers.
All of the big record companies use Fairplay. So it is a standard in the music industry, that outsells the competing standard (PlaysForSure DRM) by a ridiculously large margin.