communication isn't the only reason modern democracys work through representative government.
on the cynical side there's the monied interests seeking to limit the pool of candidates to those the elite choose.
on the idealistic side there's the desire to avoid the rule of the mob. theoretically the representatives have the time to investigate the pros and cons of things and work in your best interest.
seeing as how the u.s. is these days i tend to be a little more cynical than idealistic but there you have it.
Texas, in theory, is a "right to work state". As it has been explained to me that means you and your employer's relationship ends the moment either one of you decides it to. I'm sure it's meant for the employer's good (texas in general not being super-friendly to labor), but it does work both ways.
Except that sometimes its necessary to push a system in order to get it to change.
Its easy to believe, especially if you are white and male, that things are fine,
but they arent. 50 years is really no time at all in terms of actual people's lives.
People still face discrimination every day, on the job included.
Its still incredibly worthwhile to make sure that minorities have the tools to necessary to right the system.
Income based decisions would be great, but diversity choices based on gender, race, sexual preference, and religion remain important.
there's no better way to do text with structure... YAML's not bad for structured data in a text --
If you need something that will map directly on to code based data structures its great
( which granted isn't always the case )
At any rate much more compact than XML to be sure.
correction: the medieval warm-period at its hottest ~1000ad was colder than now.
certain isolated geographical may have been warmer ( eg. england ) but
the average global temp at the time was at about the same temp as the 1970s.
right now is the warmest period on record for a long time.
oh. and england started growing grapes for wine last year.
Accurate climatology data = 50 yearsEstimated age of the earth = billions of yearsyeah, we REALLY know a lot about why the earth changes climate. I feel the same way about physics and, even, science in general.
Its been around too $#@! long; how could we possibly know anything about it?
for a win* developer source insight( http://www.sourceinsight.com/ ) may be what you are looking for -- not free but well priced; not a full ide but its truly the best c/++ code editor ive ever used.
its simply incredible to me how fast one can explore and move through code using it.
one brilliant thing about it is that its setup so you really never need the mouse --
which means your hands dont have to leave the keyboard ever ( emacsy like in that respect )
the only downside of source insight is its symbol auto-completion isnt so great.
visual studio for its glitchy ness is still generally faster on that front.
if you dont mind typing tho and just want to know the name / case / parameters of the symbol then si's context window does the trick just fine.
is it possible that a sort of de-evolution *could* occur in the a face of decreasing numbers of niches?
if the enivronment has been in a sense chemically flattened due to toxins then it seems there could be fewer styles of adapation that physically/chemically work. we might create a situtation in which there's less room for different types of organisms to exist -- making it difficult to support earth's overall biological system.
i dont think this is what the original poster meant by de-evolution mind you....
dont forget we still have state reps.
it could really balance things out a bit:
congress representing the states;
the president representing the people.
my thoughts almost exactly:- slashdot's tagging system would be a great addition to email.
i can add tags but so could the sender.
i only pay attention to tags in a trusted sender email list (so spam tags dont disrupt me too much).
unlike delicious i can actually create tag sets which emails with multiple tags together well ( "interview" + "sql programmer" )
i can search or, more to the point, group by tags.
i can tag email addresses so that senders add to the sorting as well.
oh and baysian statistical analysis can suggest likely tags for me.
( excuse me while i go patent this...:)
there's a archaeological theory that the only reason people are around (or civilization at any rate) is because climate stabilized -- consistent temperatures made permanent settlement and wide scale agriculture possible.
we might not be able to stop climate change over the millennia but it would be nice to avoid damaging our home deliberately while we are here. at the very least its probably in our own best interest.
i also wonder how much those wars -- and the emigration of *really* smart people from the war zone of Europe to the safety of the US helped seed the US intellectual dominance -- some examples being Einstein and von Braun but im sure they werent the only ones....
one of the things i see overlooked in the press and in peoples' responses is the separation b/t evolution and darwin's theory of natural selection.
natural selection is a theory that explains the observed mechanism called evolution.
we know that evolution happens, we even know that natural selection can cause evolution.
darwin invented the concept of natural selection and he proposed the theory that natural selection via gradual accumulation of random variation is *the* overriding mechanism for evolution.
is it? hard to prove such a strict set of rules as that. there are likely other evolutionary mechanisms. maybe in some cases darwin rules, maybe in other cases something like punctuation rules.
its interesting to note that there were theological mechanisms proposed back *before* darwin's day but they were proven wrong by the geological record.
darwin's theory for evolution has yet to be proven wrong, but its hard to say if it will ever be proven right.
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communication isn't the only reason modern democracys work through representative government. on the cynical side there's the monied interests seeking to limit the pool of candidates to those the elite choose. on the idealistic side there's the desire to avoid the rule of the mob. theoretically the representatives have the time to investigate the pros and cons of things and work in your best interest. seeing as how the u.s. is these days i tend to be a little more cynical than idealistic but there you have it.
Texas, in theory, is a "right to work state". As it has been explained to me that means you and your employer's relationship ends the moment either one of you decides it to. I'm sure it's meant for the employer's good (texas in general not being super-friendly to labor), but it does work both ways.
Except that sometimes its necessary to push a system in order to get it to change. Its easy to believe, especially if you are white and male, that things are fine, but they arent. 50 years is really no time at all in terms of actual people's lives.
People still face discrimination every day, on the job included.
Its still incredibly worthwhile to make sure that minorities have the tools to necessary to right the system. Income based decisions would be great, but diversity choices based on gender, race, sexual preference, and religion remain important.
correction: the medieval warm-period at its hottest ~1000ad was colder than now.
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certain isolated geographical may have been warmer ( eg. england ) but the average global temp at the time was at about the same temp as the 1970s.
right now is the warmest period on record for a long time.
oh. and england started growing grapes for wine last year.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/200
for a win* developer source insight( http://www.sourceinsight.com/ ) may be what you are looking for -- not free but well priced; not a full ide but its truly the best c/++ code editor ive ever used. its simply incredible to me how fast one can explore and move through code using it. one brilliant thing about it is that its setup so you really never need the mouse -- which means your hands dont have to leave the keyboard ever ( emacsy like in that respect ) the only downside of source insight is its symbol auto-completion isnt so great. visual studio for its glitchy ness is still generally faster on that front. if you dont mind typing tho and just want to know the name / case / parameters of the symbol then si's context window does the trick just fine.
is it possible that a sort of de-evolution *could* occur in the a face of decreasing numbers of niches? if the enivronment has been in a sense chemically flattened due to toxins then it seems there could be fewer styles of adapation that physically/chemically work. we might create a situtation in which there's less room for different types of organisms to exist -- making it difficult to support earth's overall biological system. i dont think this is what the original poster meant by de-evolution mind you....
dont forget we still have state reps. it could really balance things out a bit: congress representing the states; the president representing the people.
my thoughts almost exactly:- slashdot's tagging system would be a great addition to email. i can add tags but so could the sender. i only pay attention to tags in a trusted sender email list (so spam tags dont disrupt me too much). unlike delicious i can actually create tag sets which emails with multiple tags together well ( "interview" + "sql programmer" ) i can search or, more to the point, group by tags. i can tag email addresses so that senders add to the sorting as well. oh and baysian statistical analysis can suggest likely tags for me. ( excuse me while i go patent this... :)
there's a archaeological theory that the only reason people are around (or civilization at any rate) is because climate stabilized -- consistent temperatures made permanent settlement and wide scale agriculture possible. we might not be able to stop climate change over the millennia but it would be nice to avoid damaging our home deliberately while we are here. at the very least its probably in our own best interest.
i also wonder how much those wars -- and the emigration of *really* smart people from the war zone of Europe to the safety of the US helped seed the US intellectual dominance -- some examples being Einstein and von Braun but im sure they werent the only ones....
great book! too few people have read it but its excellent early cyber-punk.
one of the things i see overlooked in the press and in peoples' responses is the separation b/t evolution and darwin's theory of natural selection. natural selection is a theory that explains the observed mechanism called evolution. we know that evolution happens, we even know that natural selection can cause evolution. darwin invented the concept of natural selection and he proposed the theory that natural selection via gradual accumulation of random variation is *the* overriding mechanism for evolution. is it? hard to prove such a strict set of rules as that. there are likely other evolutionary mechanisms. maybe in some cases darwin rules, maybe in other cases something like punctuation rules. its interesting to note that there were theological mechanisms proposed back *before* darwin's day but they were proven wrong by the geological record. darwin's theory for evolution has yet to be proven wrong, but its hard to say if it will ever be proven right.