1.
favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.
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Militaristic, yes. Nationalistic? Nope. Authoritarian? Some-but mostly driven by the war and otherwise nope.
The society has considerable freedom. In most ways equal to our own (and in some cases greater than our own).
It's simply a democracy with limited right to vote. Anyone can earn the right to vote. They just have to pass one moral test- are they willing to put the good of society ahead of their own.
You know-- like being a democrat, hispanic, or black in florida (where they incorrectly disenfranchised 89,000 voters) or the mid west (where they disenfranchised per their own statements 5% of democratic voters with a combination of voterid+closing voterid offices all but 4 days a year).
The united states was a democracy between 1941 and 1945. The war drove certain authoritarian policies.
It's a democracy where the right to vote is awarded to those who put the good of society ahead of their own well being for a few years.
Many democracies have not given the right to vote to all citizens.
And democracies which give the right to vote to all citizens are classically predicted to vote themselves out of business ( and not just thru social programs - this is not an anti left wing statement. I'm a strong liberal ).
Volker was also fairly true to the books (outside of lacking budget for power armor). He played up the fascist symbolism but left the valid arguments that
a) power grows out of the barrel of a gun. b) people who won't sacrifice their own good for society probably shouldn't be running society.
Aye, and adding to this is the modern method of making bread is very different. Given positive results by celiac patients tested with traditional bread making methods, it's possible that a lot of our gluten intolerance issues are due to grain preparation methods.
For example, the modern process developed in 1961 makes bread in less time from lower quality wheat.
The Chorleywood bread process allows the use of lower-protein wheats and reduces processing time, the system being able to produce a loaf of bread from flour to sliced and packaged form in about three-and-a-half hours.
If the consumer can't see the actual nutritional value of the food (this year's data, not data from 30 years ago), then we can't make an informed decision in our purchases.
All we have to go on in looks.
And meats now contain huge amounts of water too. Chicken and ham are up to 32% water now. A more realistic brining level would be about 15%.
Measurable nutrients from food has declined by up to 40% since the 1930s and by about 15% since 1950.
The water content of fruits has exploded (most fruits are basically packed nutrientless water and sugar).
Faster growing crops boosted by CO2 will have even less time to draw as many nutrients from the soil.
We really should measure a random sampling of end consumer food products for nutrients each year and then require current real values to be on the food labels. Monsanto, Conagra and others spend millions to prevent that kind of labeling however. And do everything they can to muddy what organic and natural means.
But you can't trust organic and natural either outside of constant testing. Farmers want to make money- they'll try something "organic" which is actually unsafe.
So send agents to stores to buy food and then measure it. Then post the results on the web and require each seller to use that nutritional data on labels for their food until the next test.
case1: You experienced ageism (yes) -> relate story (no)-> exit
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Yes, I've experienced ageism.
It started in 1985 when I saw good programmers unable to find work once they reached 45 to 50 years of age. I realized we had strong ageism in IT.
It continued in the Y2K 2000 layoffs when I again saw many good older programmers unable to find work while younger programmers with the same skill sets were able to find work. In one hilariously bad example, I recommended one dye their hair. They did. And they were hired at the next job.
It continued again when I was passing resume's of highly skilled programmers to INFOSYS and they *required* the high school graduation date on resumes even when the person had years of great experience and recent college degrees. See, they were calculating the person's age since people graduate from college at various ages but they almost all graduate highschool at age 18.
And it continued after H1B labor replaced united states citizen workers (who were forced to train them) at SYSCO FOODS corporation. Those who were young were able to find jobs. Many of those who were as young as 48 too much longer to find jobs or never found work in the field again so far. The skill sets of the younger and older workers were very similar.
And it's happened blatantly here on Slashdot many times-- the worse being in the discussion on Google's age discrimination against the 40 year old female they recruited 4 times only to turn down once they saw how old she was.. 4 times. In that discussion, young people said flatly "But old people won't fit with our youth culture". Let's do some word substitution there for shits and giggles.. "But women won't fit with our male culture"... "But blacks won't fit with our white culture"... Do I even need to ask if you see my point?
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In 2009, the supreme court absolutely gutted our age discrimination protection. Age discrimination has increased steadily since then.
What I never understand is that *everyone* gets older. I saw that when I was 24 back in 1985 just starting in IT and as a result I saved very hard and retired at 51. Funny story tho-- they laid me off 1 Day before I was going to give 30 days notice for my retirement, so I got close to $40,000 severance plus unemployment. The senior director never knew why I was so happy and when she asked why I was happy I told her that I really couldn't tell her for legal reasons.
Oh.. P.P.S. Sysco's project using indians from infosys recently failed at a cost of over a billion dollars.
I see what you did there. Changing the topic from productivity to productivity GROWTH.
Productivity is soaring. Full stop.
Prior machines used in agriculture and industry made humans more efficient. Robots and automation eliminate the need for two orders of magnitude humans at all in the space of years, not generations. Tens of thousands of people died homeless and starving because of the industrial revolution (and we had a smaller population back then) because they couldn't get training, businesses wouldn't hire them, and social safety nets were to weak.
25% of people age 16 to 54 are unable to find work. It's already happening. Entire fields are ceasing to exist. Amazon has hundreds of robot workers that would have been humans less than 20 years ago.
It's not the fact that it's happening, it's how fast it's going to happen. Self driving delivery trucks are going to eliminate 3 million jobs in the space of a few years. It's very disruptive and people like you are sticking their heads in the sand instead of planning for a smooth transition.
Productivity is soaring and has been for over 20 years. the benefits of that productivity are not being shared in part due to the fact that productivity gains from automation and robotics go straight to Capital.
The U.S. is at record levels (about 25%) of disengaged workers between the ages of 16 to 50. They don't count as unemployed- but they don't have jobs.
Projections are for 38% to 45% of jobs in the united states to be automated over the next 17 years.
Well if things which should be infinately divisable values instead show signs of discrete step values then that might be an indicator that you are in a simulator with a limited resolution, or where shortcuts might have been taken with things that would involve processor intensive math.
The portrait is partially for anti counterfeiting reasons so it would need to be a very complex "20". Even the lines the portraits are made from are anti-counterfeiting.
I had no scholorship or grants (mainly because I came from a single mom high school dropout - I had good grades and a she got me a letter of acceptance to the coast guard).
I graduated after 10 years with zero debt. In large part due to a per semester cost of $180 (to $300 at the end) for a 12 hour load. Another $100 (to about $200) for books.
$35k is basically all of your ability to save for a decade.
Now that a college degree is basically required, we should extend public schooling for many basic degrees (like business, math, english) thru college years at no expense to people which will help create a pool of well qualified citizens.
The best way to do this is to set up 50 new free colleges which each can handle 10,000 students where the masters degree staff is paid reasonable (sub 6 figure) wages without bloated pensions and where they teach in inexpensive buildings instead of marble and granite palaces. They would be allowed to use only 1 standard set of ebook format texts which were provided free to the students (including updates) for life.
Anyone graduating from these colleges would have 10% of their after tax wages garnished for 8 years which would be fed back into the system. There would be no scholarships, no grants.
The sports programs would be between the 59 new colleges (only) and be written from the beginning to be self funded by students and alumni donations. A quarter of income earned by the sports program would feed back into the school budget. The schools (one per state and major territory) would be open to any united states (and associated territorial) citizen.
That's what we essentially had with public state university's until about 1992. But now all the public state university's have been corrupted and charge $4000+ tuition and allow professors to require purchase of $150 (or more) books which are never used in class.
1) social security changes are driving people to work longer-- which is crushing employment for young people- which will affect our societies ability to pay for social securty.
2) the rate of change is very high plus it's very expensive to train. When i was being educated- it cost $180 per semester for a full load.
3) Massive age discrimination starts at 40 and protection against age discrimination has been gutted by the supreme court.
4) Offshoring and H1B destroy the prospects of local labor. (white collar & professional)
5) Automation and robotics destroy the prospects of local labor (manual) AND are destroying jobs (temporarily) faster than new jobs can be created. (and new jobs created are mostly easy to automate or replace with robots).
Limits to growth wlll hit decades sooner and lead to major losses of food productivity and non-renewable resources (like chromium used to make stainless steel).
Food and population are higher than when first projected in 1972 so the overshoot will be that much worse. Other limits basically on track except pollution (we are doing really well on pollution).
Likely reduction of earth's carrying capacity will likely be from 12 billion to under 2 billion in the space of 20 to 30 years (pretty horrific). Human population is already almost 100% over sustainable levels. Basically the Mayans (who destroyed all their trees) or the Easter islanders (who destroyed all their trees), but played on a global scale.
But hey, it's too late to do a anything about. So you can't even get all overwrought about it.
These are the people who projected a 380ppm Co2 over 50 years ago. They were sharp cookies. And no where NEAR as politicized as people are today. They were rational and drew the logical unpleasant conclusions from the data.
Citing dense population as a reason for inexpensive high speed internet is bullshit in any with a population over 50,000.
Better?
I get that high speed internet away from the backbones would be expensive.
Really, high speed internet should be like the interstate highway system. The federa government builds massive trunk lines to every state. County and City governments built out lines to their local areas. And then multiple cable companies compete based on price on those lines.
We are being ripped off. We know we are being ripped off.
Why can't small males avail themselves of the service but to female MMA fighters who could whip the males in a fight can? Small males get assaulted, bullied, and even raped as well.
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fasÂcism
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noun: fascism; noun: Fascism; plural noun: Fascisms
An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
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auÂthorÂiÂtarÂiÂan
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adjective: authoritarian
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favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.
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Militaristic, yes. Nationalistic? Nope. Authoritarian? Some-but mostly driven by the war and otherwise nope.
The society has considerable freedom. In most ways equal to our own (and in some cases greater than our own).
It's simply a democracy with limited right to vote. Anyone can earn the right to vote. They just have to pass one moral test- are they willing to put the good of society ahead of their own.
You know-- like being a democrat, hispanic, or black in florida (where they incorrectly disenfranchised 89,000 voters) or the mid west (where they disenfranchised per their own statements 5% of democratic voters with a combination of voterid+closing voterid offices all but 4 days a year).
The united states was a democracy between 1941 and 1945. The war drove certain authoritarian policies.
Starship troopers isn't facist.
It's a democracy where the right to vote is awarded to those who put the good of society ahead of their own well being for a few years.
Many democracies have not given the right to vote to all citizens.
And democracies which give the right to vote to all citizens are classically predicted to vote themselves out of business ( and not just thru social programs - this is not an anti left wing statement. I'm a strong liberal ).
Volker was also fairly true to the books (outside of lacking budget for power armor). He played up the fascist symbolism but left the valid arguments that
a) power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
b) people who won't sacrifice their own good for society probably shouldn't be running society.
Help desk.
This might also increase employment levels as companies hire an extra person to prevent overtime.
That's happened in the past.
It will also push jobs overseas but salaries overseas are going up at close to 4x the rate of U.S. salaries.
Aye, and adding to this is the modern method of making bread is very different. Given positive results by celiac patients tested with traditional bread making methods, it's possible that a lot of our gluten intolerance issues are due to grain preparation methods.
For example, the modern process developed in 1961 makes bread in less time from lower quality wheat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Chorleywood bread process allows the use of lower-protein wheats and reduces processing time, the system being able to produce a loaf of bread from flour to sliced and packaged form in about three-and-a-half hours.
If the consumer can't see the actual nutritional value of the food (this year's data, not data from 30 years ago), then we can't make an informed decision in our purchases.
All we have to go on in looks.
And meats now contain huge amounts of water too. Chicken and ham are up to 32% water now. A more realistic brining level would be about 15%.
Measurable nutrients from food has declined by up to 40% since the 1930s and by about 15% since 1950.
The water content of fruits has exploded (most fruits are basically packed nutrientless water and sugar).
Faster growing crops boosted by CO2 will have even less time to draw as many nutrients from the soil.
We really should measure a random sampling of end consumer food products for nutrients each year and then require current real values to be on the food labels. Monsanto, Conagra and others spend millions to prevent that kind of labeling however. And do everything they can to muddy what organic and natural means.
But you can't trust organic and natural either outside of constant testing. Farmers want to make money- they'll try something "organic" which is actually unsafe.
So send agents to stores to buy food and then measure it. Then post the results on the web and require each seller to use that nutritional data on labels for their food until the next test.
hah hahaha. man, you are hysterical.
You know, I hear we'll never need more than 640k on computers either!
Have *you* experienced ageism.
case1: You experienced ageism
(yes) -> relate story
(no)-> exit
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Yes, I've experienced ageism.
It started in 1985 when I saw good programmers unable to find work once they reached 45 to 50 years of age. I realized we had strong ageism in IT.
It continued in the Y2K 2000 layoffs when I again saw many good older programmers unable to find work while younger programmers with the same skill sets were able to find work. In one hilariously bad example, I recommended one dye their hair. They did. And they were hired at the next job.
It continued again when I was passing resume's of highly skilled programmers to INFOSYS and they *required* the high school graduation date on resumes even when the person had years of great experience and recent college degrees. See, they were calculating the person's age since people graduate from college at various ages but they almost all graduate highschool at age 18.
And it continued after H1B labor replaced united states citizen workers (who were forced to train them) at SYSCO FOODS corporation. Those who were young were able to find jobs. Many of those who were as young as 48 too much longer to find jobs or never found work in the field again so far. The skill sets of the younger and older workers were very similar.
And it's happened blatantly here on Slashdot many times-- the worse being in the discussion on Google's age discrimination against the 40 year old female they recruited 4 times only to turn down once they saw how old she was.. 4 times. In that discussion, young people said flatly "But old people won't fit with our youth culture". Let's do some word substitution there for shits and giggles.. "But women won't fit with our male culture"... "But blacks won't fit with our white culture"... Do I even need to ask if you see my point?
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In 2009, the supreme court absolutely gutted our age discrimination protection. Age discrimination has increased steadily since then.
What I never understand is that *everyone* gets older. I saw that when I was 24 back in 1985 just starting in IT and as a result I saved very hard and retired at 51. Funny story tho-- they laid me off 1 Day before I was going to give 30 days notice for my retirement, so I got close to $40,000 severance plus unemployment. The senior director never knew why I was so happy and when she asked why I was happy I told her that I really couldn't tell her for legal reasons.
Oh.. P.P.S. Sysco's project using indians from infosys recently failed at a cost of over a billion dollars.
I mean seriously. ha ha hahah HAHA HAA H HAH AHAHAHH HAHHAHA ha he he heh heh.
Chess players ,jeopardy players, go players all laugh and weep at the same time in sympathy for you.
I see what you did there. Changing the topic from productivity to productivity GROWTH.
Productivity is soaring. Full stop.
Prior machines used in agriculture and industry made humans more efficient. Robots and automation eliminate the need for two orders of magnitude humans at all in the space of years, not generations. Tens of thousands of people died homeless and starving because of the industrial revolution (and we had a smaller population back then) because they couldn't get training, businesses wouldn't hire them, and social safety nets were to weak.
25% of people age 16 to 54 are unable to find work. It's already happening.
Entire fields are ceasing to exist. Amazon has hundreds of robot workers that would have been humans less than 20 years ago.
It's not the fact that it's happening, it's how fast it's going to happen. Self driving delivery trucks are going to eliminate 3 million jobs in the space of a few years. It's very disruptive and people like you are sticking their heads in the sand instead of planning for a smooth transition.
Productivity is soaring and has been for over 20 years. the benefits of that productivity are not being shared in part due to the fact that productivity gains from automation and robotics go straight to Capital.
The U.S. is at record levels (about 25%) of disengaged workers between the ages of 16 to 50. They don't count as unemployed- but they don't have jobs.
Projections are for 38% to 45% of jobs in the united states to be automated over the next 17 years.
It would be a great reason for setting the speed of light limitation to prevent travel out of the primary simulation area.
Well if things which should be infinately divisable values instead show signs of discrete step values then that might be an indicator that you are in a simulator with a limited resolution, or where shortcuts might have been taken with things that would involve processor intensive math.
The portrait is partially for anti counterfeiting reasons so it would need to be a very complex "20".
Even the lines the portraits are made from are anti-counterfeiting.
In 1983 to 1992, I got my degree.
I had no scholorship or grants (mainly because I came from a single mom high school dropout - I had good grades and a she got me a letter of acceptance to the coast guard).
I graduated after 10 years with zero debt. In large part due to a per semester cost of $180 (to $300 at the end) for a 12 hour load. Another $100 (to about $200) for books.
$35k is basically all of your ability to save for a decade.
Now that a college degree is basically required, we should extend public schooling for many basic degrees (like business, math, english) thru college years at no expense to people which will help create a pool of well qualified citizens.
The best way to do this is to set up 50 new free colleges which each can handle 10,000 students where the masters degree staff is paid reasonable (sub 6 figure) wages without bloated pensions and where they teach in inexpensive buildings instead of marble and granite palaces. They would be allowed to use only 1 standard set of ebook format texts which were provided free to the students (including updates) for life.
Anyone graduating from these colleges would have 10% of their after tax wages garnished for 8 years which would be fed back into the system. There would be no scholarships, no grants.
The sports programs would be between the 59 new colleges (only) and be written from the beginning to be self funded by students and alumni donations. A quarter of income earned by the sports program would feed back into the school budget. The schools (one per state and major territory) would be open to any united states (and associated territorial) citizen.
That's what we essentially had with public state university's until about 1992. But now all the public state university's have been corrupted and charge $4000+ tuition and allow professors to require purchase of $150 (or more) books which are never used in class.
Very common on Youtube these days.
Videos at normal speed consume huge amounts of time. Viewing videos faster gets the same content but takes much less time.
oh great, lying to discover that your partner is lying.
If you are going to lie about something more significant than if you took out the trash, you should probably just end it anyway.
Speed reading works.
I was trained in highschool and greatly increased my reading speed. But it took 90 days of practice and training.
But it's real.
We are past the transitional period when a company should be able to get a city to sign up for a monopoly provider.
The cable should be open to anyone that wants to provide programming.
You should literally have a choice of cable providers on the cable to your house like you do to the roku in your house.
Opening the cable box to competition is a joke- a mockery.
It should no longer be legal to allow one cable company to have a monopoly over a geographical area.
Google this
graph labor participation 16 to 50 year old
and you'll see labor participation by 16 to 50 year olds has been declining since 2001.
And that it's declining for various subgroups (like 40 year old males,
25-35, 30-40, 35-45, etc. etc.
Here's one of the many graphs showing this.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5_k...
Meanwhile 65+ employment rate is creeping up.
I think there are several factors :
1) social security changes are driving people to work longer-- which is crushing employment for young people- which will affect our societies ability to pay for social securty.
2) the rate of change is very high plus it's very expensive to train. When i was being educated- it cost $180 per semester for a full load.
3) Massive age discrimination starts at 40 and protection against age discrimination has been gutted by the supreme court.
4) Offshoring and H1B destroy the prospects of local labor. (white collar & professional)
5) Automation and robotics destroy the prospects of local labor (manual) AND are destroying jobs (temporarily) faster than new jobs can be created. (and new jobs created are mostly easy to automate or replace with robots).
Look into "Rooms for rent".
You can rent an extra room in a house in many cities for much less than an apartment.
by going around the protective mechanisms?
So FBI hired someone they consider a criminal and ignored the crime.
Limits to growth wlll hit decades sooner and lead to major losses of food productivity and non-renewable resources (like chromium used to make stainless steel).
Food and population are higher than when first projected in 1972 so the overshoot will be that much worse. Other limits basically on track except pollution (we are doing really well on pollution).
Likely reduction of earth's carrying capacity will likely be from 12 billion to under 2 billion in the space of 20 to 30 years (pretty horrific). Human population is already almost 100% over sustainable levels. Basically the Mayans (who destroyed all their trees) or the Easter islanders (who destroyed all their trees), but played on a global scale.
But hey, it's too late to do a anything about. So you can't even get all overwrought about it.
These are the people who projected a 380ppm Co2 over 50 years ago. They were sharp cookies.
And no where NEAR as politicized as people are today. They were rational and drew the logical unpleasant conclusions from the data.
So, let's have your SO tell you they were fired or they're leaving you while you are hand's free.
Also distracted driving.
Plus study's have shown no benefit to hands free texting.
http://hothardware.com/news/st...
You have to look at your phone to ensure the hands free did the operation correctly.
Plus if they say anything that engages your visual cortex you are effectively blind for a moment while you visualize what they said.
Citing dense population as a reason for inexpensive high speed internet is bullshit in any with a population over 50,000.
Better?
I get that high speed internet away from the backbones would be expensive.
Really, high speed internet should be like the interstate highway system. The federa government builds massive trunk lines to every state. County and City governments built out lines to their local areas. And then multiple cable companies compete based on price on those lines.
We are being ripped off. We know we are being ripped off.
Why can't small males avail themselves of the service but to female MMA fighters who could whip the males in a fight can? Small males get assaulted, bullied, and even raped as well.