To be fair, if you're allowed to drop the emotion and irrationality card, you just aren't going to find a philosophy that holds merit. You're best bet is a system that leverages the devils we know and can reasonably mitigate it's weak spots.
Communism doesn't work because it's trying to leverage non-universal human characteristics. Capitalism, while certainly not perfect, has the good sense at least to leverage greed into something productive. It's the mitigation of it's weak spots at which it doesn't do very well (at least in the US's current implementation); greed, instead of just encouraging productivity, also encourages absurd amounts of special interest group lobbying and rent-seeking behavior. I'd say this marks the main difference between objectivism's version of capitalism and reality; e.g. in Atlas Shrugged, those who seek success through regulation instead of by their own merits are the antagonists. I'm inclined to agree, since I believe farm subsidies, ethanol mandates, sugar import quotas and their ilk are tantamount to theft.
A system that leverages greed into a productive force is a good start. If we could create one that did the same for laziness, covetousness and the rest of the deadly se7en we'd be all set.
No, I'm pretty sure greed is the ultimate success of objectivism, or rather, what I call "moral" greed. So long as you constrain yourself as often as possible to Pareto improvements, acts that benefit you without harming others, greed is a tremendously powerful and productive force. You're right that humans are greedy, it's fact. Objectivism recognizes this and only seeks to guide that greed, just as laws against theft and fraud are designed to do.
Thank god I'm hearing from someone who actually has ADHD. Mine is pretty terrible, and you're just right, it's not a lack of ability to pay attention to things, it's more a lack of ability to not pay attention to things. I've been know to hyperfocus on, e.g., writing a 30 page paper and not even stop to go to the bathroom. Of course that's assuming I can start working on it at all.
I'm sort of curious about your experience with medication. I've never taken any for my symptoms, but I think my ADD may have been largely responsible for getting fired from my last job. It was all uninteresting busywork and so damn near impossible to get through. This is the first time I've really considered taking something since I think my ADD is part of why I'm as mentally agile as I am. What medication are you taking? How does it affect you as far as concentration on boring tasks goes, or motivation to do work in general? Do you notice a change in creativity or your ability to draw bits of knowledge from every corner of your mind (something folks like us are supposed to be good at)? Thanks.
It drives me crazy how people completely mischaracterize ADD/ADHD. It's not that a person cannot pay attention to something, it's that other things demand their attention and they can't not pay attention to that new thing. It's an overabundance of attention. That's why ADDers (like myself) have the unique ability to hyper-focus as well, so that if you can get sufficiently focused on a thing (difficult) you sometimes pay attention to it to the exclusion of everything else, even so far as not at all mentally hearing anything going on around you or words spoken to you.
Other descriptions of an ENTP, or like an INTJ or something? I did read a couple, and specifically a ENFP, because I tested essentially dead middle on the Thinking/Feeling spectrum, with only a mild preference toward T. ENFP fit quite well too, though it wasn't as shockingly accurate; it more just filled in parts that the ENTP seemed to have left out.
Meyer-Briggs and Minnesota Multi-Phasic whatchamacallits have never been shown to be of any practical use, and their pointlessness has been known for decades.
I guess. I did one of those Meyer-Briggs tests and was mindblown at how incredibly accurate it was. I was an ENTP and every single thing spot on, strengths and weaknesses alike. The only real caveat is that it said ENTPs "generally love to argue" while I only occasionally love to argue. Though maybe I'm particularly stereotypical.
I'll cast my vote as well for LaTeX, perhaps with an extra vote for lyx as well (started with LaTeX, but find lyx speeds things up).
More importantly though, I'm casting a huge vote for BibTeX. Get a frontend to take care of the syntax for you. Once you do that, it's a lifesaver. Pick a reference style once and all you need do is drop a quick ref command with the bibliography entry's name and it build the reference for you, adds the entry into the bibliography (properly formatted and placed), and generally takes care of everything. References are often a chore that distracts from including the content you want; BibTeX makes it simple.
Have you considered that they would hold back the downloadable content so it can be improved and balanced in the wake of everything the masses find once the game is release? There are quality standards Bungie adheres to; it'd be a shame to release expansions to the game that aren't well formed and quickly become obsolete.
Yes, but if you do that you're guaranteeing that that full house won't go back to the same person. It's equally important to ensure that it might go back to them as it is to ensure that it won't. Randomness is about randomness, not about getting different hands.
Do you play nethack? Waiting for the board to update every move would drive most people crazy, but not doing it and "queuing" your moves will get you killed very quickly. You need to look before you leap. In a FPS, when you die you come right back to life (and don't use CS as a counterexample, it's not the same as losing a character you've spent 5 hours carefully tending).
You might be surprised how many people still play. Last year there were 16,722 games played in the tournament (which is not even the biggest). This is only from players hearing about the tournament and participating. Playing across the internet is often painful because of latency, so most people don't bother.
seeing as how I'm very bright (super sperm) and I'm awesome at halo (they'll be spread everywhere very quickly). Unfortunately my halo skillz aren't going to help me support all my illegitimate children. My brain would, but it's too busy making me feel depressed about my premature ejaculation to do me much good right now.
I think we should take this opportunity to see how far/.'s comment nesting will go. I'm thinking it can handle another 5 or 6 levels before it really starts looking silly.
It's unfortunate that our champion in upholding our constitutional rights watches child porn. Even if he wins there's a push in the public sentiment that our rights only protect the guilty and perverted.
You're not reading it right. It only drops anything that matches one of those results that's within 7 words of the name of the candidate. An article just on sex won't get picked up unless it also mentions the candidate by name.
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To be fair, if you're allowed to drop the emotion and irrationality card, you just aren't going to find a philosophy that holds merit. You're best bet is a system that leverages the devils we know and can reasonably mitigate it's weak spots.
Communism doesn't work because it's trying to leverage non-universal human characteristics. Capitalism, while certainly not perfect, has the good sense at least to leverage greed into something productive. It's the mitigation of it's weak spots at which it doesn't do very well (at least in the US's current implementation); greed, instead of just encouraging productivity, also encourages absurd amounts of special interest group lobbying and rent-seeking behavior. I'd say this marks the main difference between objectivism's version of capitalism and reality; e.g. in Atlas Shrugged, those who seek success through regulation instead of by their own merits are the antagonists. I'm inclined to agree, since I believe farm subsidies, ethanol mandates, sugar import quotas and their ilk are tantamount to theft.
A system that leverages greed into a productive force is a good start. If we could create one that did the same for laziness, covetousness and the rest of the deadly se7en we'd be all set.
No, I'm pretty sure greed is the ultimate success of objectivism, or rather, what I call "moral" greed. So long as you constrain yourself as often as possible to Pareto improvements, acts that benefit you without harming others, greed is a tremendously powerful and productive force. You're right that humans are greedy, it's fact. Objectivism recognizes this and only seeks to guide that greed, just as laws against theft and fraud are designed to do.
"legitimate need to upload a two-hour video of good quality"
Who gets to define legitimate?
I do. It amazes me how long it takes some people to catch on.
Can't blame them, I think my entire personality group is "superior"
Well said and accurate, which is important since nearly everyone else commenting on this story has the picture wrong.
Thank god I'm hearing from someone who actually has ADHD. Mine is pretty terrible, and you're just right, it's not a lack of ability to pay attention to things, it's more a lack of ability to not pay attention to things. I've been know to hyperfocus on, e.g., writing a 30 page paper and not even stop to go to the bathroom. Of course that's assuming I can start working on it at all.
I'm sort of curious about your experience with medication. I've never taken any for my symptoms, but I think my ADD may have been largely responsible for getting fired from my last job. It was all uninteresting busywork and so damn near impossible to get through. This is the first time I've really considered taking something since I think my ADD is part of why I'm as mentally agile as I am. What medication are you taking? How does it affect you as far as concentration on boring tasks goes, or motivation to do work in general? Do you notice a change in creativity or your ability to draw bits of knowledge from every corner of your mind (something folks like us are supposed to be good at)? Thanks.
It drives me crazy how people completely mischaracterize ADD/ADHD. It's not that a person cannot pay attention to something, it's that other things demand their attention and they can't not pay attention to that new thing. It's an overabundance of attention. That's why ADDers (like myself) have the unique ability to hyper-focus as well, so that if you can get sufficiently focused on a thing (difficult) you sometimes pay attention to it to the exclusion of everything else, even so far as not at all mentally hearing anything going on around you or words spoken to you.
Other descriptions of an ENTP, or like an INTJ or something? I did read a couple, and specifically a ENFP, because I tested essentially dead middle on the Thinking/Feeling spectrum, with only a mild preference toward T. ENFP fit quite well too, though it wasn't as shockingly accurate; it more just filled in parts that the ENTP seemed to have left out.
Meyer-Briggs and Minnesota Multi-Phasic whatchamacallits have never been shown to be of any practical use, and their pointlessness has been known for decades.
I guess. I did one of those Meyer-Briggs tests and was mindblown at how incredibly accurate it was. I was an ENTP and every single thing spot on, strengths and weaknesses alike. The only real caveat is that it said ENTPs "generally love to argue" while I only occasionally love to argue. Though maybe I'm particularly stereotypical.
I hear using an abundance of elipsises also helps. I wasn't going to say anything, but after seeing nine periods at the end of your sig...
I'll cast my vote as well for LaTeX, perhaps with an extra vote for lyx as well (started with LaTeX, but find lyx speeds things up).
More importantly though, I'm casting a huge vote for BibTeX. Get a frontend to take care of the syntax for you. Once you do that, it's a lifesaver. Pick a reference style once and all you need do is drop a quick ref command with the bibliography entry's name and it build the reference for you, adds the entry into the bibliography (properly formatted and placed), and generally takes care of everything. References are often a chore that distracts from including the content you want; BibTeX makes it simple.
Great game with cute robots. Can't go wrong.
You had me up until "Memisters will probably more compact implement soem electronic functions the other three are used for now."
Have you considered that they would hold back the downloadable content so it can be improved and balanced in the wake of everything the masses find once the game is release? There are quality standards Bungie adheres to; it'd be a shame to release expansions to the game that aren't well formed and quickly become obsolete.
Yes, but if you do that you're guaranteeing that that full house won't go back to the same person. It's equally important to ensure that it might go back to them as it is to ensure that it won't. Randomness is about randomness, not about getting different hands.
Do you play nethack? Waiting for the board to update every move would drive most people crazy, but not doing it and "queuing" your moves will get you killed very quickly. You need to look before you leap. In a FPS, when you die you come right back to life (and don't use CS as a counterexample, it's not the same as losing a character you've spent 5 hours carefully tending).
You might be surprised how many people still play. Last year there were 16,722 games played in the tournament (which is not even the biggest). This is only from players hearing about the tournament and participating. Playing across the internet is often painful because of latency, so most people don't bother.
seeing as how I'm very bright (super sperm) and I'm awesome at halo (they'll be spread everywhere very quickly). Unfortunately my halo skillz aren't going to help me support all my illegitimate children. My brain would, but it's too busy making me feel depressed about my premature ejaculation to do me much good right now.
They should have used the red head from the "additional results" section for the sample picture. She got crazy hot from quite mediocre.
I think we should take this opportunity to see how far /.'s comment nesting will go. I'm thinking it can handle another 5 or 6 levels before it really starts looking silly.
Besides play games, pretty much all I do is work out, drink and smoke weed.
I guess they could try to be different and start with Zoosporangium Zebra and work backwards.
How is that different? Seems like Microsoft has been working backwards for quite some time now.
It's unfortunate that our champion in upholding our constitutional rights watches child porn. Even if he wins there's a push in the public sentiment that our rights only protect the guilty and perverted.
So this is how a geek compensates for being small in the pants.
You're not reading it right. It only drops anything that matches one of those results that's within 7 words of the name of the candidate. An article just on sex won't get picked up unless it also mentions the candidate by name.