One of the big messages behind the anti-gun lobby is that people with guns are able to fire in the heat of passion without more thought than it takes to get out the gun, remove the safety, and pull the trigger (assuming a loaded weapon). No time to think about the consequences, including the immediate possibility of being physically harmed in the process of killing the other person without a gun.
Signing up for slavery is still slavery. We need to eradicate that option, because the circumstances that push people into signing up for slavery are everyone's problem. Slaves existing makes us all poorer.
Such services are only needed because the job is black market. Security is provided by the police, advertising is provided by the brothel or red light district, and any other services can be paid for, cash, check, or whatever, to any other legal industry. Pimps are only needed given the illegal nature of prostitution. Such a role will disappear for any prostitutes that enter a legally regulated business.
Even the term "work force" is a recent invention. It wouldn't have meant much until industrialization, which is about the time women start taking a more "traditional" role in house work. Of course, maybe some places didn't need women in the fields, but my family didn't come from that stock and I suspect most didn't either.
Besides, I feel quite confident that when in a building, my brain clearly believes all floors are flat and ergo no processing to determine such. My proof is the number of small steps I've kicked and lumps I've tripped over. Not quite so instantaneously my brain first questions how this floor cannot be flat, I then become pissed off that I am no longer moving as I had intended and that my foot hurts, then my brain justifies it (accurately or not), and only then am I able to instinctively take action and protect myself from the fall. After it has happened a few times I move through those steps much more quickly and even had a room where upon entrance my brain prepared me for falling. That was about the time I discovered yoga and generally don't have such situational awareness issues anymore.
My understanding is yes. In part, the other room may have a load of other things forgotten that the brain now views as a priority, because your immediate surroundings take precedent to a thought connected to now remote surroundings (the other room).
There is a lot of truth to that. Conference rooms mean boredom to me so my brain loads the boredom context. If I need to say anything meaningful I need to bring notes. My cube (now just desk) is a place where I work and my brain loads my work context. It doesn't amaze me at all that the more we learn about the brain and effective software design, the more similar the 2 become.
Weirdness, I don't get it. Walking through a doorway involves a lot of quick sensory work eating away at caches and main memory. These instinctual kernel processes take precedent to user-land thought processes. An obvious survival technique.
Or rather disprove that the Higgs boson conforms to the standard model? Or that the Higgs Boson cannot exist in the standard model? I don't think most scientists are actively trying to tear down the standard model, just fix the discrepancies and find new areas to explore.
Actually, they did send in the Army. It seems to have been under the table though. And it didn't work out. My friend was terrified by how much more brutal the streets of New Orleans were than Fallujah. The army left soon after it arrived since they realized it was only going to become more of a warzone if they stayed much longer.
Neither of the projects you listed are things the US government should do. Drop trillions on Haiti? Even given such a thing would take a back seat to other financial priorities, what exactly would be accomplished? Foreign hand-outs to a people without an economy on promotes further abuses. Those trillions would be collected into the various social structures and fought over tooth-and-nail. The Mexican drug cartels would be jealous of such depravity.
Then there's clean drinking water. Why throw money at something that exists? As in all modern convienences, the problem is not one of R&D, it's logistics. How can we support sanitation in places that we have no jurisdiction? This returns back to the Haiti problem. Without local support (incorruptible government) the plan is completely useless. NGOs are the only method of supporting such systems, and the US is quite deft at promoting them. So leave the government out. Otherwise we'll just be back to propping up more 3rd world dictators.
Now, hate war all you want, but military action _is_ something the US government controls, should control, and (usually) knows how to use effectively. Perhaps everything looks like a nail when all you have is a hammer (and certainly there were better options for Iraq). But using the military is sometimes the best course of action (removing the Taliban).
Some of us really are concerned with supporting our troops. For instance my best friend fought in Fallujah years ago. He is a soldier at heart but injured beyond picking up a weapon again. He's been in civilian networking since then and his heart breaks when he hears of poor contracting near the front lines. If you can't understand his desire to do engineering in a warzone, I find you closed-minded and heartless.
Now I have aspirations to join him and my fancy degree and fully resume should help me out. I'm the kind of guy that was happy to be in college when talk of a new draft floated around post-9/11. I could just as easily head to Africa where my mom has done work in Uganda and Kenya for orphans from the Lords Resistance Army and AIDs. Maybe it's because I've lived around bleeding-hearts all my life, but I see my skills going to waste in that kind of environment. I also have seen my skills go to waste in a traditional engineering job here at home, although my current gig is awesome. In a warzone there are expectations of excellence and ability that I have not found elsewhere. These may not be the people of highest caliber, but I'm more interested in getting people's best. Plus I want to see my friend's best. This is my justification, perhaps not to your liking, but I've grown used to disappointing bleeding-hearts.
Is there value-free version of the phrase "bleeding-heart"? I mean it as a descriptor rather than a pejorative, but I know that it won't be heard that way. But I am drawing a blank for a better phrase.
The only difference here is which culture is being alienated. If they had started with the 3rd film and moved backward we would have had a lot of angry Christians bitching about why they took a classic Revelations movie and made it all Eastern philosophy. No one on/. would have noticed since the only _real_ mysticism is Eastern in origin. Give it up, the first movie had as much shlocky nonsense as the other 2. But it was _our_ shlocky nonsense.
Precisely because there aren't plenty of other people who can do the job. Which is also why Wal-mart doesn't have to worry too much about unions. Only skilled labor is positively served by unions. There are too many service industry works low and high to make unions effective at that level. I've worked for one, and it was clear that the company was happy to let the unions manage hr. The union was very much for the business, not the workers.
Certainly I've had those thoughts, and certainly I found the hypothetical results lacking. Utopia it would not be. However, it still felt correct. So years later while studying history I had this brilliant idea (that I'm certain to not be the first). I noticed that great things happened when incredible social upheaval occurs. This is mostly brought on by large migration (Aryan invasion of India, Greeks colonizing the Mediterranean, the Great Migration period of the late Roman Empire, New World colonies). In other words, I want a new America. The more I read, the more I realize the greatness of America is that it captures the high points of European culture while attempting to cast off it's low points. Once achieved, the new culture then transmits the better social order back home, uplifting all. Perhaps this can be replicated on Antarctica or in the Oceans, but most places are already politically stable and have a cultural equilibrium that prevents any revolution of having great affect (note the difference between the American and French revolutions).
So truthfully it's not that space colonization will bring some splendid utopia of perfect people, but rather give us the next migration point that allows revolutionary ideas to take hold. Perhaps the Oceans and Antartica come first. But we do need to spread out to places that allow political upheaval and new social orders. Space will be the next colony someday. And it behooves us to colonize it. Not to build a Utopia, but for the progress of man everywhere.
In both places I've lived the opposite is true. It is the big business who help the small businesses, but it's the small businesses that are important. UPS, Sysco, Costco, and Crown Plaza help the local catering business. Perhaps it's all perspective.
Of course they still have weapons. As the GP stated, removing negative mods just transforms what counts as 0. Rather than being a bury brigade, we'll see huge positive ratings on inconsequential postings, effectively burying real posts. Systems can be gamed. The problem is the openness of the system allows any number of people to game the system in differing ways.
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Perhaps by the law. But culturally it's a right. That these 2 are not reconciled is a major problem.
One of the big messages behind the anti-gun lobby is that people with guns are able to fire in the heat of passion without more thought than it takes to get out the gun, remove the safety, and pull the trigger (assuming a loaded weapon). No time to think about the consequences, including the immediate possibility of being physically harmed in the process of killing the other person without a gun.
Signing up for slavery is still slavery. We need to eradicate that option, because the circumstances that push people into signing up for slavery are everyone's problem. Slaves existing makes us all poorer.
Such services are only needed because the job is black market. Security is provided by the police, advertising is provided by the brothel or red light district, and any other services can be paid for, cash, check, or whatever, to any other legal industry. Pimps are only needed given the illegal nature of prostitution. Such a role will disappear for any prostitutes that enter a legally regulated business.
Even the term "work force" is a recent invention. It wouldn't have meant much until industrialization, which is about the time women start taking a more "traditional" role in house work. Of course, maybe some places didn't need women in the fields, but my family didn't come from that stock and I suspect most didn't either.
There is a lot of truth in that. Gender roles are better thought of as cultural roles, but there is biological reasoning for them.
Some would argue that skills are directly relatable to neurophysiology.
Besides, I feel quite confident that when in a building, my brain clearly believes all floors are flat and ergo no processing to determine such. My proof is the number of small steps I've kicked and lumps I've tripped over. Not quite so instantaneously my brain first questions how this floor cannot be flat, I then become pissed off that I am no longer moving as I had intended and that my foot hurts, then my brain justifies it (accurately or not), and only then am I able to instinctively take action and protect myself from the fall. After it has happened a few times I move through those steps much more quickly and even had a room where upon entrance my brain prepared me for falling. That was about the time I discovered yoga and generally don't have such situational awareness issues anymore.
My understanding is yes. In part, the other room may have a load of other things forgotten that the brain now views as a priority, because your immediate surroundings take precedent to a thought connected to now remote surroundings (the other room).
There is a lot of truth to that. Conference rooms mean boredom to me so my brain loads the boredom context. If I need to say anything meaningful I need to bring notes. My cube (now just desk) is a place where I work and my brain loads my work context. It doesn't amaze me at all that the more we learn about the brain and effective software design, the more similar the 2 become.
Weirdness, I don't get it. Walking through a doorway involves a lot of quick sensory work eating away at caches and main memory. These instinctual kernel processes take precedent to user-land thought processes. An obvious survival technique.
You're not familiar with the True Scotsman problem, are you?
Or rather disprove that the Higgs boson conforms to the standard model? Or that the Higgs Boson cannot exist in the standard model? I don't think most scientists are actively trying to tear down the standard model, just fix the discrepancies and find new areas to explore.
Actually, they did send in the Army. It seems to have been under the table though. And it didn't work out. My friend was terrified by how much more brutal the streets of New Orleans were than Fallujah. The army left soon after it arrived since they realized it was only going to become more of a warzone if they stayed much longer.
Neither of the projects you listed are things the US government should do. Drop trillions on Haiti? Even given such a thing would take a back seat to other financial priorities, what exactly would be accomplished? Foreign hand-outs to a people without an economy on promotes further abuses. Those trillions would be collected into the various social structures and fought over tooth-and-nail. The Mexican drug cartels would be jealous of such depravity.
Then there's clean drinking water. Why throw money at something that exists? As in all modern convienences, the problem is not one of R&D, it's logistics. How can we support sanitation in places that we have no jurisdiction? This returns back to the Haiti problem. Without local support (incorruptible government) the plan is completely useless. NGOs are the only method of supporting such systems, and the US is quite deft at promoting them. So leave the government out. Otherwise we'll just be back to propping up more 3rd world dictators.
Now, hate war all you want, but military action _is_ something the US government controls, should control, and (usually) knows how to use effectively. Perhaps everything looks like a nail when all you have is a hammer (and certainly there were better options for Iraq). But using the military is sometimes the best course of action (removing the Taliban).
Some of us really are concerned with supporting our troops. For instance my best friend fought in Fallujah years ago. He is a soldier at heart but injured beyond picking up a weapon again. He's been in civilian networking since then and his heart breaks when he hears of poor contracting near the front lines. If you can't understand his desire to do engineering in a warzone, I find you closed-minded and heartless.
Now I have aspirations to join him and my fancy degree and fully resume should help me out. I'm the kind of guy that was happy to be in college when talk of a new draft floated around post-9/11. I could just as easily head to Africa where my mom has done work in Uganda and Kenya for orphans from the Lords Resistance Army and AIDs. Maybe it's because I've lived around bleeding-hearts all my life, but I see my skills going to waste in that kind of environment. I also have seen my skills go to waste in a traditional engineering job here at home, although my current gig is awesome. In a warzone there are expectations of excellence and ability that I have not found elsewhere. These may not be the people of highest caliber, but I'm more interested in getting people's best. Plus I want to see my friend's best. This is my justification, perhaps not to your liking, but I've grown used to disappointing bleeding-hearts.
Is there value-free version of the phrase "bleeding-heart"? I mean it as a descriptor rather than a pejorative, but I know that it won't be heard that way. But I am drawing a blank for a better phrase.
First film Neo is The One.
/. would have noticed since the only _real_ mysticism is Eastern in origin. Give it up, the first movie had as much shlocky nonsense as the other 2. But it was _our_ shlocky nonsense.
Complete with superman flying.
The only difference here is which culture is being alienated. If they had started with the 3rd film and moved backward we would have had a lot of angry Christians bitching about why they took a classic Revelations movie and made it all Eastern philosophy. No one on
Toss-up and slam-dunk.
This. Unions can be a boon. Instead they developed as tools of fearful workers and now we have to deal with the stereotype. Sucks for us.
Precisely because there aren't plenty of other people who can do the job. Which is also why Wal-mart doesn't have to worry too much about unions. Only skilled labor is positively served by unions. There are too many service industry works low and high to make unions effective at that level. I've worked for one, and it was clear that the company was happy to let the unions manage hr. The union was very much for the business, not the workers.
Certainly I've had those thoughts, and certainly I found the hypothetical results lacking. Utopia it would not be. However, it still felt correct. So years later while studying history I had this brilliant idea (that I'm certain to not be the first). I noticed that great things happened when incredible social upheaval occurs. This is mostly brought on by large migration (Aryan invasion of India, Greeks colonizing the Mediterranean, the Great Migration period of the late Roman Empire, New World colonies). In other words, I want a new America. The more I read, the more I realize the greatness of America is that it captures the high points of European culture while attempting to cast off it's low points. Once achieved, the new culture then transmits the better social order back home, uplifting all. Perhaps this can be replicated on Antarctica or in the Oceans, but most places are already politically stable and have a cultural equilibrium that prevents any revolution of having great affect (note the difference between the American and French revolutions).
So truthfully it's not that space colonization will bring some splendid utopia of perfect people, but rather give us the next migration point that allows revolutionary ideas to take hold. Perhaps the Oceans and Antartica come first. But we do need to spread out to places that allow political upheaval and new social orders. Space will be the next colony someday. And it behooves us to colonize it. Not to build a Utopia, but for the progress of man everywhere.
Care to back up your claim? I'll understand if you haven't used Java since 1.2, but that's hardly relevant today.
In both places I've lived the opposite is true. It is the big business who help the small businesses, but it's the small businesses that are important. UPS, Sysco, Costco, and Crown Plaza help the local catering business. Perhaps it's all perspective.
Normal != nominal.
Of course they still have weapons. As the GP stated, removing negative mods just transforms what counts as 0. Rather than being a bury brigade, we'll see huge positive ratings on inconsequential postings, effectively burying real posts. Systems can be gamed. The problem is the openness of the system allows any number of people to game the system in differing ways.