Not allowed my ass, they just don't know how! Yes, a mob of people can actually mount an effective defense against an armed attacker!
I quote from http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=15456
The fourth target was El Al flight 219 from Tel Aviv to New York. At a stopover in Amsterdam, four hijackers were to board the plane, but suspicious security guards removed two of them.
The remaining two, the much-publicized Leila Khaled and a Nicaraguan terrorist, posing as a couple, attempted to take over the plane after it left Amsterdam, with Khaled pulling out a hand grenade hidden in her brassier.
However, the quick-witted El Al pilot put the plane into a steep dive, knocking the hijackers off balance. Khaled was overpowered by passengers and her accomplice was shot dead by an air marshal on board. When people understand that it is better to die fighting than to submit to an enemy who will kill you anyway, they can and have successfully thwarted terrorist attacks. Khaled, for example, was bound using the ties and belts of the passengers.
If you're used to living in a world where a low level of skill, the kind that Web 2.0 - style applications would be in a position to replace, garnered you a high salary and a fancy title, yes, it's quite the rude awakening. For the rest of us, it's business as usual. Woo. Way to win an argument by insulting my intelligence and professional qualifications without knowing jack shit about me!
Has it occurred to you that no field can grow forever? In fact, where did I actually say that we were losing artists and computer scientists?
We gain workers in creative fields as non-creative ones get automated or outsourced. The question is what happens to demand for those workers as their number increases.
Please go and look up the inflation-adjusted salaries of artists from 1990 to 2000. Then choose some time period for measuring computer scientists that shows the "normal" states of the field before and after the dot-com bubble. Measure salaries.
I bet that as the number of people in the field grows salaries go down -- until eventually only a few true greats of their craft can actually earn a good living in such creative fields, computing eventually included.
Automation will create unprecedented wealth that nobody can afford to buy.
Sure there are more people with income for spending on creative works. Now how are they spending that money?
My point is that oftentimes the market doesn't actually demand high or even moderate volumes of creative works. An economy in which enough has been automated to put "everyone" (for significant values of everyone) out of work will need a completely different economic system to ensure that the products of that automation actually reach consumers, since most people will no longer be able to afford any of it (since they either go jobless or enter an already flooded creativity market).
I probably don't. They tend to only really show up for world-shaking matters, and I don't involve myself in those very much. Nor am I religious enough to be trusted to obey any angel who comes around with a message from God;-).
Not really. If an angel enters this world and his an errand for God to carry out, it takes a physical form. If you meet an angel, you should very easily be able to test its reality.
When the number of competitors rises, it becomes harder for any of them to stand out. It's simple mathematics, so don't blame the victim.
Yes, victim. Corporations and the government have continually tried to goad as many possible into science and engineering majors. This oversupply doesn't come from the free market (remember, a truly free and efficient market never has surpluses of anything), it comes from interference in the market by employers in concert with the government.
True, but the Wiimote doesn't have nearly the stability (== staying in the same place when you don't deliberately move it) a mouse does. Keeping a Wiimote steady is actual work (hence why I abandoned using it to play Portal).
When you get good quality engineers at fraction of the salary in India, Ireland, Israel and other countries, the demand slackens. Damn right. It's gotten to the point that I will probably find a better job by making aliyah (claiming my right of Israeli citizenship) than by staying in America. That's not supposed to happen!
The widespread general consensus I get from my fellow science majors (I'm a 3rd-year Physics Undergrad) is that state-run schools in the US provide a considerably more rigorous and difficult curriculum than their more prestigious private school counterparts do. That makes sense. A school that makes most of its money from state funding and research grants can only win so many more dollars by lowering their academic standards for students (to make students come and stay) before either the state funding cuts or research cuts.
I know. I have a Facebook account. Thanks to that I can organize the fact that I can go to Israeli Movie Night tonight while attending Terror in the Trod tomorrow night if I don't want to party with my usual crowd, who I discovered thanks to a party they posted about on Facebook.
Then on Saturday there are two concerts listed to go to. For Facebook's target audience (read: college kids) it has immense utility. You just make sure to only friend people you actually know (and stay away from girls who write screaming love messages on each other's walls. I hate that.).
I wouldn't pay jack for iCal (it comes with the machine), and I won't pay for Facebook. I never said Facebook has financial value, merely that it has practical use.
Facebook actually has some useful components -- it's like a centralized iCal for my social life (or at least those bits of it that lots of other people attend).
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You people have discos where you live? Lucky bastards.
MLDA laws must die horrible deaths, being pecked to death by zombie pigeons.
EXACTLY! You know where I heard that story? From a Krav Maga instructor!
I quote from http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=15456 The fourth target was El Al flight 219 from Tel Aviv to New York. At a stopover in Amsterdam, four hijackers were to board the plane, but suspicious security guards removed two of them.
The remaining two, the much-publicized Leila Khaled and a Nicaraguan terrorist, posing as a couple, attempted to take over the plane after it left Amsterdam, with Khaled pulling out a hand grenade hidden in her brassier.
However, the quick-witted El Al pilot put the plane into a steep dive, knocking the hijackers off balance. Khaled was overpowered by passengers and her accomplice was shot dead by an air marshal on board. When people understand that it is better to die fighting than to submit to an enemy who will kill you anyway, they can and have successfully thwarted terrorist attacks. Khaled, for example, was bound using the ties and belts of the passengers.
Has it occurred to you that no field can grow forever? In fact, where did I actually say that we were losing artists and computer scientists?
We gain workers in creative fields as non-creative ones get automated or outsourced. The question is what happens to demand for those workers as their number increases.
Please go and look up the inflation-adjusted salaries of artists from 1990 to 2000. Then choose some time period for measuring computer scientists that shows the "normal" states of the field before and after the dot-com bubble. Measure salaries.
I bet that as the number of people in the field grows salaries go down -- until eventually only a few true greats of their craft can actually earn a good living in such creative fields, computing eventually included.
Automation will create unprecedented wealth that nobody can afford to buy.
Sure there are more people with income for spending on creative works. Now how are they spending that money?
My point is that oftentimes the market doesn't actually demand high or even moderate volumes of creative works. An economy in which enough has been automated to put "everyone" (for significant values of everyone) out of work will need a completely different economic system to ensure that the products of that automation actually reach consumers, since most people will no longer be able to afford any of it (since they either go jobless or enter an already flooded creativity market).
OK, so who's going to buy all this human spirit? Remember that "starving hacker" and "starving artist" contain the word "starving" for a reason.
"Those who do not allow others liberty deserve it not for themselves." -- paraphrased from Abraham Lincoln
OK, standard gaming APIs. SDL 1.4 (or whatever the latest is) with OpenGL 2.0 support.
Those already run on every system under the sun.
What's he going to do? Make web-pages wear yellow semantic markup?
I totally sympathize. I've found myself only able to rely on Slashdot comments for my buying advice ;-).
I think it just comes from the fact that most people can't find time to excel in both sports and academics.
I probably don't. They tend to only really show up for world-shaking matters, and I don't involve myself in those very much. Nor am I religious enough to be trusted to obey any angel who comes around with a message from God ;-).
Now, now Mr. Arafat, nobody's calling a a kafir.
Of course, of course. If I believe the evidence of my eyes and ears there must be something wrong with me!
Not really. If an angel enters this world and his an errand for God to carry out, it takes a physical form. If you meet an angel, you should very easily be able to test its reality.
When the number of competitors rises, it becomes harder for any of them to stand out. It's simple mathematics, so don't blame the victim.
Yes, victim. Corporations and the government have continually tried to goad as many possible into science and engineering majors. This oversupply doesn't come from the free market (remember, a truly free and efficient market never has surpluses of anything), it comes from interference in the market by employers in concert with the government.
True, but the Wiimote doesn't have nearly the stability (== staying in the same place when you don't deliberately move it) a mouse does. Keeping a Wiimote steady is actual work (hence why I abandoned using it to play Portal).
Die you motherfucking moronic damned abuser and rapist of the English language!
I know. I have a Facebook account. Thanks to that I can organize the fact that I can go to Israeli Movie Night tonight while attending Terror in the Trod tomorrow night if I don't want to party with my usual crowd, who I discovered thanks to a party they posted about on Facebook.
Then on Saturday there are two concerts listed to go to. For Facebook's target audience (read: college kids) it has immense utility. You just make sure to only friend people you actually know (and stay away from girls who write screaming love messages on each other's walls. I hate that.).
Sorry, but I think Stephen Colbert's "Formula 401" has cornered the market for seed.
I wouldn't pay jack for iCal (it comes with the machine), and I won't pay for Facebook. I never said Facebook has financial value, merely that it has practical use.
Facebook actually has some useful components -- it's like a centralized iCal for my social life (or at least those bits of it that lots of other people attend).