This is why man is becoming less and less brutish with time by adopting superior values. Oh dear. I see yet another individual has bought in to the Myth of Man the Killer.
altruism, attempting to save people who we know are lost causes by wasting resources on them, etc. Altruism, morality, etc. may not benefit an individual much, but they do benefit a society. Morality (and Religion) seem to inspire societies to cooperate to make the society greater. Even though individuals in a selfish society may benefit from an "every man for himself" approach, a moral society would trounce that selfish society (by out-producing it, defeating it in combat, etc.). In a moral society, every individual adds value, so 'saving' individuals would be a beneficial evolution; we may not have yet evolved the emotional ability to give up lost causes.
We fight evolution all the fucking time, we interefere with natural selection daily, that is "fighting evolution", i.e. not letting the chips fall where they may. With hope, the 'interferences' that benefit us will remain, and the ones that do not (or, one day, will not) will cease. This process is also part of evolution.
Mod me down if you must, but where exactly were Israeli forces during the War in Iraq? Think of all the sacrifices the U.S. has made for Israel. That is gratitude for you.
So why couldn't you have just called and ordered their service? They probably had already laid the wires, so it should have been easy to set you up as well. Your local government fucked you over (as governments are wont to do) IMO.
I think the problem is that some users have code that depends on VBA, and they want it for compatibility reasons. Cedega is (somewhat) popular, not because DirectX is superior to Linux alternatives, but because many computer games depend on it.
Should you trust your coworkers with Lithium-Ion batteries? I am sure a berserker could rig one (or several) to explode some way. Do you extensively check your employees (TSA-style) to ensure that they have not brought anything dangerous (liquid explosives, dangerous chemical compounds, etc.) into the workplace? Do you ensure that they do not have any pocketknives (a deadly weapon) on them?
You do realize that private citizens CAN and DO own tanks. They are mostly the WW2 variety, and I am not sure if they can own the shells. When the Second Amendment was ratified, private citizens could own warships (the eighteenth century equivalent of tanks), but they required a Writ of Mandamus to actually USE it as a warship. Society has not degenerated into chaos because of private ownership.
Without the Court, they would have all forms of abortion illegal, they would have striptease and pornography outlawed, they would have mandatory school prayer, and they would still put 16-year old killers in gas chambers. I have two words for you: Kelo decision.
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If other countries are nice enough to educate our workforce for us, why not allow them? Lenin once said, "the capitalists will sell us the rope by which we will hang them." This way we can concentrate our funds on ensuring that the U.S. remains the best place to come for innovation. If the rest of the world ever wises up to the deal, THEN we will need to focus on educating home-grown talent. I do think we need to ensure that H1B workers are not treated like slave labor (i.e. allowing a lengthy job search time, easy application for permanent residency/citizenship, etc.).
I have heard of the "Mother of All Demos", but I was responding to the OP's suggestion that XML was an 'innovative' technology, even though it is a simplification of SGML. Mark-up languages enjoyed widespread adoption for quite some time before XML was drafted. Transclusion is a technique that I had never seen before, so it seemed innovative to me.
Stuff like Dtrace , TCP/IP, xml,.. THAT is innovation.
Don't get me wrong; DTrace does sound like a very useful application, but real-time debugging was available on Genera. Clinical debugging (as opposed to mortician-style debugging) has been around for quite some time.
I agree that TCP/IP was innovative.
XML is just a simplified subset of SGML; while XML is useful, it is hardly innovative. If you want to see innovative, you should look at Project Xanadu..l
I once a read a blog entry that dealt with the same subject, although it criticized the technocrats on the left. It looks like technocracy is a bipartisan practice.
I can't think of any single successful product apart from Xbox 360, Windows and Office that was a success (sic: redundant).
They make some decent mice and keyboards, and those seem to be selling. MediaCentre PCs also seem to be selling, but Apple might blow MS out of the water.
Unfortunately, the word Free has two different meanings: gratis (i.e. free beer) and libre (i.e free speech). I think the intended meaning of Free in the phrase "Freedom isn't Free" is the gratis one. I agree that one occasionally has to sacrifice in the eternal war to maintain one's freedom from forces that seek to limit it (i.e. one's own government).
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McCain is not a liberal or a conservative. He is a statist.
Mod me down if you must, but where exactly were Israeli forces during the War in Iraq? Think of all the sacrifices the U.S. has made for Israel. That is gratitude for you.
So why couldn't you have just called and ordered their service? They probably had already laid the wires, so it should have been easy to set you up as well. Your local government fucked you over (as governments are wont to do) IMO.
HAHA!! You believe in a higher power!
(RPG rocket head towards Slithe)
OH MY SCIENCE!!
(Slithe explodes into little chunks.)
I think the problem is that some users have code that depends on VBA, and they want it for compatibility reasons. Cedega is (somewhat) popular, not because DirectX is superior to Linux alternatives, but because many computer games depend on it.
Would you accept a duel where the other guy had a machete and you were unarmed?
Because, in the 18th century, they WERE synonyms.
Should you trust your coworkers with Lithium-Ion batteries? I am sure a berserker could rig one (or several) to explode some way. Do you extensively check your employees (TSA-style) to ensure that they have not brought anything dangerous (liquid explosives, dangerous chemical compounds, etc.) into the workplace? Do you ensure that they do not have any pocketknives (a deadly weapon) on them?
You do realize that private citizens CAN and DO own tanks. They are mostly the WW2 variety, and I am not sure if they can own the shells. When the Second Amendment was ratified, private citizens could own warships (the eighteenth century equivalent of tanks), but they required a Writ of Mandamus to actually USE it as a warship. Society has not degenerated into chaos because of private ownership.
If other countries are nice enough to educate our workforce for us, why not allow them? Lenin once said, "the capitalists will sell us the rope by which we will hang them." This way we can concentrate our funds on ensuring that the U.S. remains the best place to come for innovation. If the rest of the world ever wises up to the deal, THEN we will need to focus on educating home-grown talent. I do think we need to ensure that H1B workers are not treated like slave labor (i.e. allowing a lengthy job search time, easy application for permanent residency/citizenship, etc.).
Cue Capitalist/Communist flamewars in 3...2...1...
Do not begin a sentence with a conjunction!
You can do many nifty things with a $10,000 screwdriver.
I didn't know Shrub read Slashdot.
By the way, Douglas Engelbart gave the "Mother of All Demos" on December 9, 1968.
I have heard of the "Mother of All Demos", but I was responding to the OP's suggestion that XML was an 'innovative' technology, even though it is a simplification of SGML. Mark-up languages enjoyed widespread adoption for quite some time before XML was drafted. Transclusion is a technique that I had never seen before, so it seemed innovative to me.
Don't get me wrong; DTrace does sound like a very useful application, but real-time debugging was available on Genera. Clinical debugging (as opposed to mortician-style debugging) has been around for quite some time.
I agree that TCP/IP was innovative.
XML is just a simplified subset of SGML; while XML is useful, it is hardly innovative. If you want to see innovative, you should look at Project Xanadu.
. . . Reality Distortion Fields?
I once a read a blog entry that dealt with the same subject, although it criticized the technocrats on the left. It looks like technocracy is a bipartisan practice.
Unfortunately, the word Free has two different meanings: gratis (i.e. free beer) and libre (i.e free speech). I think the intended meaning of Free in the phrase "Freedom isn't Free" is the gratis one. I agree that one occasionally has to sacrifice in the eternal war to maintain one's freedom from forces that seek to limit it (i.e. one's own government).