You just have to look at the settling of the americas to realize how many people are willing to do something like this.
I would bet on hundreds of thousands so tens of thousands is a certainty.
Why die in a pointless war or of obesity at home when you could be one of a few thousand settlers on the moon or mars? To many, that would give their life meaning.
As a long term manager, I was trying to retain staff but the message from the executives was wierd- like they didn't care about retention after never having had a layoff and always selling the idea that we would temporarily staff with contractors but then let them go after big projects..
After three years of the work, they let go of 80% of the employees and we found out the layoffs had been planned 2 years previously (at least- that's when the paperwork was in legal- so probably the idea to lay us off had been close to three years old).
Other SAP companies have done this too in our area. So it appears to be a gameplan. Work existing staff to death- let most of them go and go to an outsourcing/offshoring firm for support after the project is complete.
Of course -- in this case, the project is failing so horribly that it's not complete when they let everyone go and the offshoring firm turns out to not have enough SAP people to backfill. Not sure the project wont' fail spectacularly. More likely, they'll find someway to declare failure success and move on.
One person just laid down and died (40's). Stroke. Two people had heart attacks. There was a 4th person who was unconcious at his desk but he was a contractor and we never heard what happened to him.
Last big project we had a guy in his 30's die from a virus getting across the blood/brain barrier. Doctors said if he hadn't been so exhausted and hadn't kept working he wouldn't have died.
Project size was about 400 staff- people I'm referring to who died were 40's and 50's. We also had some in their 60's die but I don't attribute those to the SAP project. We also had a few cancers and a few non fatal heart attacks. I agree with your underlying point that a certain amount of people do just die.
You can't work people 70-80 hours for multiple years without having deaths that could have been avoided. I saw 20 year olds walking around with two black eyes from lack of sleep. My own blood pressure went up 40 points during that period. Two months we worked the entire month including sundays. 15 hour days were common. And oncall on top of that.
By the way... how many people do you think died settling the eastern colonies of the america (not counting the native americans who they killed sooner or later)?
How many settling the midwest? The west?
Entire groups died to the last person.
If sending up a rocket with 98% safety vs 99% safety safety costs 1x, 10x, -- think how many you could send to space by accepting 2 failures per hundred launches instead of 1 failure per hundred launches.
Over 100 people died in the construction of the Hoover Dam.
Five workers died constructing the empire state building.
We had 3 people die on our SAP software project plus multiple heart attacks and divorces.
At least space means something compared to implementing a software package that won't probably be used in 30 years.
We don't need extremely expensive heroes- we need construction workers to throw stuff up into space cheap. We need a moon base extracting materials before the legal and financial hurdles get so great we end up stuck here.
And so that means lower standards of living, water, food going forward if we keep increasing the population.
They've all dropped so much in my lifetime that it's astonishing and yet almost noone seems to notice or complain. Things that used to be so plentiful that they were free are now charged for.
Things that used to be available the public are now available only by reservations a year in advance and on top of that sometimes you have to pay 40 bucks or more.
In only 40 years the decline has been tremendous. I can't imagine what it will be like in another 40 years.
I've said for years it won't slow down like they think.
You are already seeing subcultures in the 1st world which are breeding at a higher rate for a variety of reasons (religion is significant).
If you view humans as a virus- those which breed quickly seem plausible to become the dominant group in the population.
Sad, because the earth is a paradise at about 2 to 3 billion.
We are way past the earth's carrying capacity and it's too late to change anything.
I expect that, like deer, we'll do fine until there is a glitch, virus, etc. and then a billion or more will die fairly quickly. Hopefully after I'm dead of natural causes.
We are making a lot of progress on disease so I'm thinking disruption of food delivery or destruction of water supply is more likely-- lots of aquifers being drawn down now.
Well, you store a lot of emotional states in your muscles. Working the muscles can cause you to experience the emotions.
Your brain mainly runs on glucose and is built from a lot of cholesterol. Every decision you make costs glucose to perform.
From the wiki...
The makeup of the brain is about 12% fat, most of which is located in myelin (which itself is 70-80% fat).[9] Specific fatty acid ratios will depend in part on the diet of the animal it is harvested from. The brain is also very high in cholesterol. As an example, a 140 g can of "pork brains in milk gravy", a single serving, contains 3500 milligrams of cholesterol, 1170% of the USRDA.[10]
However- I came across an abstract which says the cholesterol is synthesized by the glia (?) and not used directly.
a) finish a multi year project. b) consistently learn a wide range of new material c) the ability to think clearly and formally d) get along with a variety people without flaming out (including 'asshole' professors as standins for 'asshole' bosses. e) the ability to consistently churn out 10 page+ documents.
In about that order.
Companies do not want to put a major 3 year project into the hands of someone who might flame out after 6 months.
The ability to think clearly and exposure to philosophy is of benefit to the degree seeker in any case.
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So many reboots lately.
Thought Superman was a very good $5 movie with poor character development and lots of fast blurry special effects. Unfortunately tickets were $10.
I will never watch this film again in my life. I didn't hate it. It's just not worth a second viewing.
You didn't even mention youtube. Massive infringement there.
But that's owned by the big boys and they are trying to figure out a way to monetize it so infringement is okay.
Of course youtube also has a TON of legal useful files.
It's sad but I think the end is coming for torrents, the internet, etc. Less than a decade most likely.
You kids will be back to sneakernet and small private sites.
You just have to look at the settling of the americas to realize how many people are willing to do something like this.
I would bet on hundreds of thousands so tens of thousands is a certainty.
Why die in a pointless war or of obesity at home when you could be one of a few thousand settlers on the moon or mars? To many, that would give their life meaning.
Purposeless is worse than death to many.
Funny you should say that.
As a long term manager, I was trying to retain staff but the message from the executives was wierd- like they didn't care about retention after never having had a layoff and always selling the idea that we would temporarily staff with contractors but then let them go after big projects..
After three years of the work, they let go of 80% of the employees and we found out the layoffs had been planned 2 years previously (at least- that's when the paperwork was in legal- so probably the idea to lay us off had been close to three years old).
Other SAP companies have done this too in our area. So it appears to be a gameplan. Work existing staff to death- let most of them go and go to an outsourcing/offshoring firm for support after the project is complete.
Of course -- in this case, the project is failing so horribly that it's not complete when they let everyone go and the offshoring firm turns out to not have enough SAP people to backfill. Not sure the project wont' fail spectacularly. More likely, they'll find someway to declare failure success and move on.
70-80 hour weeks.
One person just laid down and died (40's). Stroke.
Two people had heart attacks.
There was a 4th person who was unconcious at his desk but he was a contractor and we never heard what happened to him.
Last big project we had a guy in his 30's die from a virus getting across the blood/brain barrier. Doctors said if he hadn't been so exhausted and hadn't kept working he wouldn't have died.
Project size was about 400 staff- people I'm referring to who died were 40's and 50's. We also had some in their 60's die but I don't attribute those to the SAP project. We also had a few cancers and a few non fatal heart attacks. I agree with your underlying point that a certain amount of people do just die.
You can't work people 70-80 hours for multiple years without having deaths that could have been avoided. I saw 20 year olds walking around with two black eyes from lack of sleep. My own blood pressure went up 40 points during that period. Two months we worked the entire month including sundays. 15 hour days were common. And oncall on top of that.
I find this response by the government to be completely hysterically funny.
By the way... how many people do you think died settling the eastern colonies of the america (not counting the native americans who they killed sooner or later)?
How many settling the midwest? The west?
Entire groups died to the last person.
If sending up a rocket with 98% safety vs 99% safety safety costs 1x, 10x, -- think how many you could send to space by accepting 2 failures per hundred launches instead of 1 failure per hundred launches.
Over 100 people died in the construction of the Hoover Dam.
Five workers died constructing the empire state building.
We had 3 people die on our SAP software project plus multiple heart attacks and divorces.
At least space means something compared to implementing a software package that won't probably be used in 30 years.
We don't need extremely expensive heroes- we need construction workers to throw stuff up into space cheap. We need a moon base extracting materials before the legal and financial hurdles get so great we end up stuck here.
"Clearly something has to give"
And so that means lower standards of living, water, food going forward if we keep increasing the population.
They've all dropped so much in my lifetime that it's astonishing and yet almost noone seems to notice or complain. Things that used to be so plentiful that they were free are now charged for.
Things that used to be available the public are now available only by reservations a year in advance and on top of that sometimes you have to pay 40 bucks or more.
In only 40 years the decline has been tremendous. I can't imagine what it will be like in another 40 years.
And the result of that was that we got *so* cautious that we essentially stopped going to space entirely.
I politely call your attention to all the astronauts who trained and will never be able to go to space.
Going to space is dangerous. People will die.
Look at the numbers willing to go to Mars, one way, and die before they would on earth.
And we'll get their results in 20 to 80 years.
This approach has killed the space program.
I see the benefits of caution but exploration is done by bold people who die (madame curie for example and a lot of american pioneers).
Since Malthus died in 1834, I think your guess about population predictions would probably be wrong about population predictions.
I agree on the technology- tho H.G. Wells made some interesting predictions about social changes (birth control, suburbs, etc.).
If you mean the general population- perhaps you are correct. They are underestimating the current problems.
It's okay--when we pass 7 billion, people will suddenly start acting differently than they have since the beginning of time.
Water is a bit more of a concern.
At current growth rates, the weight of humans would equal the weight of the planet in 500 years.
At current energy growth rates since the 1600's, the earth will be hotter than boiling water in under 400 years.
Clearly something has to give.
So less energy per person- lower quality of life- less water per person.
Deer do just fine until they wipe out their environment and die off. No war needed.
When population density is high enough, minor disruptions in food and water delivery, or a disease can kill a lot of people really fast.
Typical bad plague single pass would kill about 140 million people now. That's just 2%.
I've said for years it won't slow down like they think.
You are already seeing subcultures in the 1st world which are breeding at a higher rate for a variety of reasons (religion is significant).
If you view humans as a virus- those which breed quickly seem plausible to become the dominant group in the population.
Sad, because the earth is a paradise at about 2 to 3 billion.
We are way past the earth's carrying capacity and it's too late to change anything.
I expect that, like deer, we'll do fine until there is a glitch, virus, etc. and then a billion or more will die fairly quickly. Hopefully after I'm dead of natural causes.
We are making a lot of progress on disease so I'm thinking disruption of food delivery or destruction of water supply is more likely-- lots of aquifers being drawn down now.
Well, you store a lot of emotional states in your muscles. Working the muscles can cause you to experience the emotions.
Your brain mainly runs on glucose and is built from a lot of cholesterol. Every decision you make costs glucose to perform.
From the wiki...
The makeup of the brain is about 12% fat, most of which is located in myelin (which itself is 70-80% fat).[9] Specific fatty acid ratios will depend in part on the diet of the animal it is harvested from. The brain is also very high in cholesterol. As an example, a 140 g can of "pork brains in milk gravy", a single serving, contains 3500 milligrams of cholesterol, 1170% of the USRDA.[10]
However- I came across an abstract which says the cholesterol is synthesized by the glia (?) and not used directly.
No it's true even for non practical courses.
A degree shows you can
a) finish a multi year project.
b) consistently learn a wide range of new material
c) the ability to think clearly and formally
d) get along with a variety people without flaming out (including 'asshole' professors as standins for 'asshole' bosses.
e) the ability to consistently churn out 10 page+ documents.
In about that order.
Companies do not want to put a major 3 year project into the hands of someone who might flame out after 6 months.
The ability to think clearly and exposure to philosophy is of benefit to the degree seeker in any case.
Like new research in physics being added to the existing base of physics works?
Don't see a difference.
However- any work created on their own time (off hours) should be theirs even if it is in the same field.
Not saying it's not possible but I'm pretty sure that won't work.
You are the connections of your cells.
So you would need to create a duplicate of the cells and then duplicate the connections-- and I think the connections are analog with multiple values.
Remember, if you help americans, the terrorists win.
But it is the judge's job to determine if working someone without pay is legal or not.
Your point is valid- but the actual market is about 50%.
A $10 an hour employee costs you about $15. And that's only if they work over 30 hours and qualify for insurance.
This drops to about 43% at the social security breakpoint (just under $110k last I heard).
Thanks.
You may be benefiting heavily from the fact that California makes a lot of wine.
Shipping costs for those wines may preclude selling it elsewhere that inexpensively.
I've had several blind tastings *with* the appropriate meals.
Steak with cabsav, merlot,...
Sausage with malbec
Salmon with chardonnay
etc.
Only in the malbec did we find the cheap wine dominated ($5) but no one really *liked* malbec.
Pinot seem like a great wine for cheese and crackers standing around chatting.
Most sweet wines are just for drinking straight or with a salty/sour meal.
I'll see if fresh & easy is available in texas.
Oak Leaf and Bay Bridge were terrible.
I've had wine that cost in the $50 to $100 range.
I find it tastes "like it's type" so the cabsav is really cabsavy. But that doesn't mean I like it any better.
As for wines above $100- why on earth would I want to acquire a taste for something that expensive unless I'm a millionaire.