I agree with the judge; To be a REAL religion, the Western kind that counts, people need to KILL and DIE for it.
We have not seen that from these so-called Pastafarians, so OBVIOUSLY they're just fooling around....and no, ptomaine poisoning from bad pasta doesn't count.
What bullshit. This is NOT Land of the Free.
We're all guilty until proven otherwise. Just stand accused and see how much of your money and resource is required to buy justice regardless of whether you're guilty or innocent.
Snowden is a hero fighting a totalitarian regime and if we're very lucky, someday his statue will stand on the DC Mall.
The debacles are fewer bet when the nuke disasters come around, they're impressive; Chernobyl. Fukashima....and when you compare nuke deaths to coal, are you counting the deaths from nuclear contamination related health problems?
When nuke power proliferates I suspect we'll have much worse problems than coal mine collapses.
The Germans have already figured all this out but the lure of the money is strong in the USA.
The Germans are phasing out nuclear. I guess a good lesson taken to heart from the Japanese debacle.
But we love centralized power. It makes lots of money for the Fat Cats. Lessons be damned. There's profit to be made!!!!
Out of the way!
The Federal government is unlikely to ever put itself in a subordinate position to any computer system because computer algorithms don't like bad bookkeeping.
Our government has all the worst attributes of an evil AI and none of the disadvantages for those humans at the top who seek power and money.
Money is not speech. Corporations (And I include Unions in there) are not people. This is not a 1st amendment issue. Why are you OK with letting large organizations bribe our elected officials with campaign donations?
Exactly....and there is a distinction between corporations and unions as far as speech is concerned; corporations don't generally give a hoot about the political agenda of their workers whereas unions might. Also, a lot of corporations have offshore workforces whose rights aren't even covered under the US constitution at all. Not so the unions.
I recommend that as an extension to Citizens United, any corporation with offshore workforces should be stricken from making campaign contributions either directly or through any PAC.
Historically, tech developments like gunpowder, splitting the atom, air flight and GPS are double-edged swords and it's rare that they don't entail some risks to human society.
Once the tech is invented, fighting it with an axe is pretty much pointless. There's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.
The best thing to do is promote the beneficial uses and try to take the edge from the destructive uses.
All the guy with the axe did was cost the taxpayers some money.
You can always try it for a few semesters and then put your kid back in school to see if he's keeping pace with rest.
generally if your kid gets some fresh air exercise great food great literature to read and some good learning experiences from you it will be far supirior to most elementary schools.
Good. When US industry outsources their IT jobs to these 'software engineers', I hope they get totally screwed up by people who cheated their ways through school.
It will serve them right.
Pardon my cynicism but this is just another opportunity to confuse children even further. 'Math teacher' is generally an oxymoron. The real problem in math education is that the system requires math teachers to be 'math people'. Nerds who do math but can't communicate worth spit. In the elementary grades, we need artists who can teach math. They're rare but they do exist.
I was taught in my Theory of Programming Languages class that the effectiveness of available IDEs for a language was one measure of a language's useability and I wholeheartedly agree.
Snowden is a hero and deserves to be paid back monetarily for the damage to his life and reputation.
This would happen if our country was not run by a bunch of amoral quasi-criminals.
The laws of physics are simple compared to trying to corral the fine print of the US health insurance industry.
I think my last health insurance policy was 300 pages of legalese gibberish.
Consider that Richard Wagner's music was pretty much anthems for the 3rd reich and his position with regard to the Jews was confused at best. The Israelis recently lifted the bans on his works for their philharmonic.
I think artists need a little more slack.
'Ender's Game' is good work, maybe not 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' but I'll see it regardless.
I'm a fan of his writing not his politics.
They're nerdy now but when they get stylized by Gucci and others they won't be. They'll just be more expensive and trendy.
People will get over the nerdiness anyway; a large number of people will use anything if it gives them an advantage.
I read a sci-fi story called 'Waystation' from Amazing Magazine in the 50s that said that Earth's great contribution to the galactic community would be coffee but we know that they'll also come here for the sex, drugs and rock & roll of course!
Remember also that once you release your killer app and get even a handful of clients, someone out there is going to copy what you've done and one-up you in some way. Then you're going to find out how competitive the software industry really is.
You might consider registering a provisional patent first. I think that gives you a year to file an actual application. It's cheap insurance.
In reality, I've seen that local judges 'craft' the laws the way an elementary school teacher applies rules to keep a playground under control. I live in The South and it's particularly that way down here.
I think it would be great if people could transport themselves from place to place by telephone!
All I need is a physicist to iron out the details.
(I also have other ideas; invisibility, a brain booster and x-ray glasses)
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I agree with the judge; To be a REAL religion, the Western kind that counts, people need to KILL and DIE for it. We have not seen that from these so-called Pastafarians, so OBVIOUSLY they're just fooling around. ...and no, ptomaine poisoning from bad pasta doesn't count.
So if government funding doesn't drive innovation, where do the generals get all those wonderful toys they love so much?
What bullshit. This is NOT Land of the Free. We're all guilty until proven otherwise. Just stand accused and see how much of your money and resource is required to buy justice regardless of whether you're guilty or innocent. Snowden is a hero fighting a totalitarian regime and if we're very lucky, someday his statue will stand on the DC Mall.
The debacles are fewer bet when the nuke disasters come around, they're impressive; Chernobyl. Fukashima. ...and when you compare nuke deaths to coal, are you counting the deaths from nuclear contamination related health problems?
When nuke power proliferates I suspect we'll have much worse problems than coal mine collapses.
The Germans have already figured all this out but the lure of the money is strong in the USA.
The Germans are phasing out nuclear. I guess a good lesson taken to heart from the Japanese debacle. But we love centralized power. It makes lots of money for the Fat Cats. Lessons be damned. There's profit to be made!!!! Out of the way!
The Federal government is unlikely to ever put itself in a subordinate position to any computer system because computer algorithms don't like bad bookkeeping. Our government has all the worst attributes of an evil AI and none of the disadvantages for those humans at the top who seek power and money.
Money is not speech. Corporations (And I include Unions in there) are not people. This is not a 1st amendment issue. Why are you OK with letting large organizations bribe our elected officials with campaign donations?
Exactly. ...and there is a distinction between corporations and unions as far as speech is concerned; corporations don't generally give a hoot about the political agenda of their workers whereas unions might. Also, a lot of corporations have offshore workforces whose rights aren't even covered under the US constitution at all. Not so the unions.
I recommend that as an extension to Citizens United, any corporation with offshore workforces should be stricken from making campaign contributions either directly or through any PAC.
agree with you 100%. Apathy is problem #1.
Historically, tech developments like gunpowder, splitting the atom, air flight and GPS are double-edged swords and it's rare that they don't entail some risks to human society. Once the tech is invented, fighting it with an axe is pretty much pointless. There's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube. The best thing to do is promote the beneficial uses and try to take the edge from the destructive uses. All the guy with the axe did was cost the taxpayers some money.
You can always try it for a few semesters and then put your kid back in school to see if he's keeping pace with rest. generally if your kid gets some fresh air exercise great food great literature to read and some good learning experiences from you it will be far supirior to most elementary schools.
I'm an agnostic apatheist. I don't know and I don't care.
Good. When US industry outsources their IT jobs to these 'software engineers', I hope they get totally screwed up by people who cheated their ways through school. It will serve them right.
Pardon my cynicism but this is just another opportunity to confuse children even further. 'Math teacher' is generally an oxymoron. The real problem in math education is that the system requires math teachers to be 'math people'. Nerds who do math but can't communicate worth spit. In the elementary grades, we need artists who can teach math. They're rare but they do exist.
I was taught in my Theory of Programming Languages class that the effectiveness of available IDEs for a language was one measure of a language's useability and I wholeheartedly agree.
Snowden is a hero and deserves to be paid back monetarily for the damage to his life and reputation. This would happen if our country was not run by a bunch of amoral quasi-criminals.
I hope that if these commercial entities die off there will be an expansion of homebrewed music exchanged over the net.
The laws of physics are simple compared to trying to corral the fine print of the US health insurance industry. I think my last health insurance policy was 300 pages of legalese gibberish.
There never was democracy. What you had was Big Brother but he was so poorly organized that you thought you were free.
Consider that Richard Wagner's music was pretty much anthems for the 3rd reich and his position with regard to the Jews was confused at best. The Israelis recently lifted the bans on his works for their philharmonic. I think artists need a little more slack. 'Ender's Game' is good work, maybe not 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' but I'll see it regardless. I'm a fan of his writing not his politics.
They're nerdy now but when they get stylized by Gucci and others they won't be. They'll just be more expensive and trendy. People will get over the nerdiness anyway; a large number of people will use anything if it gives them an advantage.
I read a sci-fi story called 'Waystation' from Amazing Magazine in the 50s that said that Earth's great contribution to the galactic community would be coffee but we know that they'll also come here for the sex, drugs and rock & roll of course!
Remember also that once you release your killer app and get even a handful of clients, someone out there is going to copy what you've done and one-up you in some way. Then you're going to find out how competitive the software industry really is. You might consider registering a provisional patent first. I think that gives you a year to file an actual application. It's cheap insurance.
In reality, I've seen that local judges 'craft' the laws the way an elementary school teacher applies rules to keep a playground under control. I live in The South and it's particularly that way down here.
Lossless sounds better and analog/vinyl better still on good equipment.
I think it would be great if people could transport themselves from place to place by telephone! All I need is a physicist to iron out the details. (I also have other ideas; invisibility, a brain booster and x-ray glasses)