I will direct your attention to this Wikipedia entry regarding Ashkenazi Jews who as a group have a markedly higher average intelligence than other ethnic groups.
And again, it's not a predisposition to commit a crime. It is a predisposition to lower average group intelligence. The group as a whole will underachieve in a society where they are surrounded by groups of higher average group intelligence. So individuals can succeed and fail on their own merits, but statistically they will fall into the distribution of the group from which they are genetically derived.
Lower average performance leads to lower standards of living, and that leads to malnutrition and other factors which exacerbate the situation for the underperforming group. As the groups diverge, the underperforming group realizes fewer and fewer opportunities to succeed and crime becomes a problem.
The crime (of the type we are discussing here) is a result of a societal failure to provide productive outlets for these underperforming groups. Frustration and hopelessness are caused by constant failure and inability to succeed.
"Smartness" and "intelligence" are certainly controversial, but it is a mistake to think that these terms haven't been defined sufficiently. Mental flexibility, analytical skill, and memory among others are all part of intelligence. These are the traits that bring success in the modern world. To deny this and claim that there exist other traits that are critical to success in general society, I think, is a mistake and does a disservice to those whom you are trying to protect from relegation to second class citizenship.
Well, their main competitor Ubuntu is basically giving away the OS for free. How can RedHat expect to compete with that?
Personally, I find Linux to be great as a server OS doing very specific things for my home network. Webserver, you bet. Fileserver, yep. Firewall, no doubt. Mail server, of course. But on the desktop, I find that Windows (XP) just works without any fuss. I've tried "desktop Linuces" and found them all pretty clunky for the stuff I wanted to do.
The argument isn't that blacks are genetically predisposed to committing crime. That is a strawman and it unfairly preempts any discussion on genetic differences between races.
The argument is that groups of people who share relatively close genetic markers will share the phenotypic traits defined by the DNA. Identical twins share identical DNA, so they look and behave very similarly to each other. Not only their physical attributes, but also their mental attributes and temperament come from the sharing of DNA. Similarly, children will share traits (both physical and mental) with their parents.
As anthropological history shows, humans have lived in relatively small groups and intermarried amongst relatives for most of history. In small closed societies, specific traits become more prevalent. White skin, curly hair, bone density, height, nose shape, and yes, intelligence. These differences are real and specifically linked to the history of our genes. There is no "genetic lottery". You get the genes that your parents have, and they got theirs from their parents. The only lottery is to which parents a person is born, and except in the most colloquial of terms such a thing can hardly be called chance.
Since intelligence is one of biggest factors in societal success or failure, even a slight advantage is enough to propel one person higher than another (even at the microcosmic scale of a university classroom, the smartest students are easily identified over the lower tiers). As humanity progresses towards modernity, the impact of intelligence is much greater than in primitive hunter-gatherer societies. A group with a high average intelligence will gradually (perhaps suddenly) outperform a group with low average intelligence.
This is not to say that average group intelligence applies to any particular individual within the group. As with any distribution there are outliers on both sides of the average. An above average individual in a lower average group could definitely outperform a below average individual from a high average group. The overlap is significant. However, looking at the groups as a whole, the tendency of the high average group to outperform the low average group is consistent.
Nurture, education, and nutrition play very significant roles in the underperformance of certain groups, but to discount genetics as a factor of intelligence and thus also societal success just because it seems racist is to be putting illogic and superstition above science.
Why should we study this? What good could come out of finding a certain group sufficiently deficient? The most obvious is to find ways of structuring society to maximize their potential. By pitting underachievers against overachievers, the result is reasonbly guaranteed to fall in favor of the overachiever. If the alternative to repeated failure is crime, then the underachiever is very tempted by the easier path of crime.
It's one thing to single out certain segments of the population for greater scrutiny if the greatest proportion of violent crimes is perpetrated by that group. It's another thing entirely to use that as an excuse to tag and release citizens just because they act like animals.
There has been very little that has been good since the DHS was formed. Maybe it's a matter of them preventing bad things from happening, but the tighter the grip, the more problems will seep through their fingers.
If you look at anime in toto, you'll find (as someone else in the comments section mentioned) an abundance of buxom adolescent schoolgirl characters flashing panties at every turn. If that serves any purpose other than to fulfill the fantasies of pedophiles, I am at a loss to explain it.
Yes, toddlers do indeed watch anime, and its because they don't understand yet the overt sexualization of the characters.
Anime being primarily an outlet for pedophiles does not preclude it from being a valid form of art. Erotica is primarily for the titillation of the audience, but certainly you'd say that there are works of great worth among the dreck (Lady Chatterly's Lover comes to mind immediately).
I don't remember Spirited Away having anything to do with the future.
I assume you watched it in translation and isolation. In context, it is perfectly clear what Miyazaki is doing.
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So what you are saying is that ISO is a corrupt standards body. Does that negate the value of ISO standards?
Should the baby be thrown out with the bathwater? And if not, then why only in this one case are you so willing to claim fraud? Surely if fraud was acceptable in this one case, there are other standards which have been similarly fraudulently accepted. And if that is the case, how can any of ISO's standards be acceptable?
The ICT industry has a long history of developing multiple standards providing similar functionalities. After a period of co-existence, it is basically the market that decides which survives. A past example within ISO concerned the SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and ODA (Office Document Architecture).
In this particular case, some claim that the Open Document Format (ODF), which is also an ISO/IEC standard (ISO/IEC 26300) and ISO/IEC 29500 are competing solutions to the same problem, while others claim that ISO/IEC 29500 provides additional functionalities, particularly with regard to legacy documents.
The ability to have both as International Standards was something that needed to be decided by the market place. ISO and IEC and their national members provided the JTC 1 infrastructure that facilitated such a decision by the market players.
What they were thinking was that someone offered a specification for standard and they saw the necessity of having a standard specification and they went ahead and approved it. Whatever PJ thinks is hardly relevant here. What any individual thinks about the new standard is irrelevant except to the extent that he needs to use it. Since OOXML is not the only specification out there, it behoves anyone with contrary feelings to promote their favorite standard rather than try to bring down OOXML.
Just because the metric system exists, it does not mean that the Imperial system should cease to exist. The practical applications of the "inferior" standard still exist, so it makes no sense to bitch and moan about it.
More than just which P2P app is most popular, I would like to get a report on which P2P app is the safest. Which one runs the lowest risk of being a trojan, spyware, or otherwise malware?
Limewire is popular. That's great. Do I want to install it?
Anime is nothing more than a legal outlet for the pent up frustrations of pedophiles. The cutesy art is designed to make the women characters seem more childlike and yet is unabashedly sexualizing and fetishizing the pre-pubescent female form.
Spielberg's comment on the timeliness of the genre seems a bit behind the times. Anime as a medium of storytelling has long since passed into the great abyss. Only hardcore fans and toddlers watch the crap now.
Which is not to say that there isn't good anime out there. Grave of the Fireflies is a terrific movie which is made possible because of the medium. Most of the other crap out there, especially the idiotic futurism of Ghibli, deserves less attention than Japanophiles like to give it.
This portfolio/code sample thing has got me perplexed. With over 10 years of development experience out here in the real world, I honestly couldn't give you a code sample that meant anything. I can point you at consumer products, working systems, and other tangible things, but I couldn't ever show you any of that code.
Experience and recommendations precede me, not source code. But maybe it's because I work in a different area than you. Is the portfolio request common?
First, HR departments don't care where your degree is from.
Once you understand that, you need to understand yourself and your goals. What do you want to do with your degree? Do you want to be a sysadmin (face it, you can go to Devry and do that job competently), programmer, manager, researcher? These are things that should influence your decision. If you want to work in a research department (say PARC or MSR), you will need postgraduate degrees, and the best thing in that case is to choose the tech school. Other than that, you would probably have more fun at the liberal arts college.
You should also think about what kind of college experience you want. Do you want to go to a large school with many opportunities to meet a very diverse set of people? Do you want to go to a small school and be more than just another face in the crowd? Do you want to be involved in fraternities? Which school will give you the school experience you want?
Where are the schools located? Do you want to live in a small college town? How about a big city? Do you want the college to be your primary connection to the world, or do you want to explore outside the gates? How much cold weather can you stand? How much crime can you stand? Which school has the best location for you?
There are a great many factors in choosing a school. Do not limit your choices because you heard that one program is better than another. If you really don't know what you want to do yet, don't make the choice on program reputation alone. If you know you want the best program, then maybe that is the best choice, but in the end the "better" program is not going to prepare you much better than the "worser" program.
Oh, but you say they are already paying for phone coverage, well our phone network is getting over used, we need set priorities, so we are going to direct your call in 5 minutes while more important people (who paid extra) can make calls to out customers right now. Sounds stupid doesn't it.
Calling during the day time is typically more expensive than calling at night. If you want to make an important call during normal business hours, you will need to pay extra.
This also works with electricity. You pay more for daytime power than nighttime power. The demand on the system is greater during the day when businesses are all open and running all their appliances.
IT'S THE SAME THING THEY ARE PROPOSING.
Not really, but I suppose it's close enough that someone could play along.
I, for one, am shocked and appalled that a monopoly would abuse its position. Shame on you Bell Canada!
I'm sorry, that's a lie. I just can't get too excited about this type of thing. The only users who are really inconvenienced by traffic shaping are the system abusers. All others use a paltry amount of bandwidth which is not throttled.
The tumult over this neutrality business is boring. The only way to solve this is to enact and enforce draconian laws and heavy oversight to make sure that net neutrality is maintained. The cure is more expensive than the disease.
No, the slave labor conditions in Saipan were only added for color. The point has nothing to do with working conditions and everything to do with the perceived value of a good.
Do you think that a factory which has the ability to produce goods (and indeed does produce the goods for an OEM) should be barred from producing the same product for themselves?
You sure about that? DFI may contract for these boards, but the manufacture, test, and packaging is all done by the factory. What exactly is DFI providing?
Perhaps they could assert that buying a "genuine" DFI motherboard provides extra peace of mind and a valid warranty, but if all the parts come from the same materials and the same manufacturing techniques (in fact the same exact production line), then the difference is the label and warranty, right?
Or is the knowledge to build chips somehow purely DFI's to own?
In the small island of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (where some people might be surfing from this at this moment), they have slave labor factories for designer apparel makers like Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger, and J.Crew. The price of the merchandise is pretty steep compared to what you can get at Target, but some people really like to spend a little extra to look good in the latest duds from these designers.
On Saipan, though, you can get knock-off Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger, and J.Crew clothes for really cheap. Almost cheaper than the price of materials. These knock-offs are so good that even an expert wouldn't be able to tell a real one from a fake one.
The reason is that they are all real ones produced by the same factory. The only difference is whether the apparel was passed through proper distribution channels or swiped from a table at quitting time.
So, if I can save 80% of my money buying a "counterfeit" motherboard, is my little indiscretion going to break the global economy? Why can't I save a bit on the mobo and splurge a bit on something else? The design and manufacturing knowledge to build them is out there, shouldn't anyone be able to replicate the boards? And if they come from the same assembly line, what differentiates a real one from a fake one? Isn't "proper distribution channels" an artificial construct to bilk customers?
I remember in a Discovery Channel special about the Titanic they mentioned that the plates were torn apart at the seams rather than gashed through by the ice. The amount of force with which the ship hit the ice was low enough that it should not have ruptured.
So many years later, I wonder if it is worth it to hold the shipmaker accountable for the tragic loss of life. The stowaways in the galley climbing the railing at the bow shouting their claims to the throne of the earth were all taken under, and though they found love in the last hours of the Titanic, I can't help but wonder what sort of lives such rapscallions would have lived had they landed in New York City. Instead, at the bottom of the sea is the blue gem, shining brightly in the ghostly beams of the research submarines, so far away from the hands which let it fall to the seafloor in remembrance of the short, brilliant, flash of love in those few hours whose imprint upon Rose lasted her whole life.
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I will direct your attention to this Wikipedia entry regarding Ashkenazi Jews who as a group have a markedly higher average intelligence than other ethnic groups.
And again, it's not a predisposition to commit a crime. It is a predisposition to lower average group intelligence. The group as a whole will underachieve in a society where they are surrounded by groups of higher average group intelligence. So individuals can succeed and fail on their own merits, but statistically they will fall into the distribution of the group from which they are genetically derived.
Lower average performance leads to lower standards of living, and that leads to malnutrition and other factors which exacerbate the situation for the underperforming group. As the groups diverge, the underperforming group realizes fewer and fewer opportunities to succeed and crime becomes a problem.
The crime (of the type we are discussing here) is a result of a societal failure to provide productive outlets for these underperforming groups. Frustration and hopelessness are caused by constant failure and inability to succeed.
"Smartness" and "intelligence" are certainly controversial, but it is a mistake to think that these terms haven't been defined sufficiently. Mental flexibility, analytical skill, and memory among others are all part of intelligence. These are the traits that bring success in the modern world. To deny this and claim that there exist other traits that are critical to success in general society, I think, is a mistake and does a disservice to those whom you are trying to protect from relegation to second class citizenship.
Well, their main competitor Ubuntu is basically giving away the OS for free. How can RedHat expect to compete with that?
Personally, I find Linux to be great as a server OS doing very specific things for my home network. Webserver, you bet. Fileserver, yep. Firewall, no doubt. Mail server, of course. But on the desktop, I find that Windows (XP) just works without any fuss. I've tried "desktop Linuces" and found them all pretty clunky for the stuff I wanted to do.
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The argument isn't that blacks are genetically predisposed to committing crime. That is a strawman and it unfairly preempts any discussion on genetic differences between races.
The argument is that groups of people who share relatively close genetic markers will share the phenotypic traits defined by the DNA. Identical twins share identical DNA, so they look and behave very similarly to each other. Not only their physical attributes, but also their mental attributes and temperament come from the sharing of DNA. Similarly, children will share traits (both physical and mental) with their parents.
As anthropological history shows, humans have lived in relatively small groups and intermarried amongst relatives for most of history. In small closed societies, specific traits become more prevalent. White skin, curly hair, bone density, height, nose shape, and yes, intelligence. These differences are real and specifically linked to the history of our genes. There is no "genetic lottery". You get the genes that your parents have, and they got theirs from their parents. The only lottery is to which parents a person is born, and except in the most colloquial of terms such a thing can hardly be called chance.
Since intelligence is one of biggest factors in societal success or failure, even a slight advantage is enough to propel one person higher than another (even at the microcosmic scale of a university classroom, the smartest students are easily identified over the lower tiers). As humanity progresses towards modernity, the impact of intelligence is much greater than in primitive hunter-gatherer societies. A group with a high average intelligence will gradually (perhaps suddenly) outperform a group with low average intelligence.
This is not to say that average group intelligence applies to any particular individual within the group. As with any distribution there are outliers on both sides of the average. An above average individual in a lower average group could definitely outperform a below average individual from a high average group. The overlap is significant. However, looking at the groups as a whole, the tendency of the high average group to outperform the low average group is consistent.
Nurture, education, and nutrition play very significant roles in the underperformance of certain groups, but to discount genetics as a factor of intelligence and thus also societal success just because it seems racist is to be putting illogic and superstition above science.
Why should we study this? What good could come out of finding a certain group sufficiently deficient? The most obvious is to find ways of structuring society to maximize their potential. By pitting underachievers against overachievers, the result is reasonbly guaranteed to fall in favor of the overachiever. If the alternative to repeated failure is crime, then the underachiever is very tempted by the easier path of crime.
It's Science
It's one thing to single out certain segments of the population for greater scrutiny if the greatest proportion of violent crimes is perpetrated by that group. It's another thing entirely to use that as an excuse to tag and release citizens just because they act like animals.
There has been very little that has been good since the DHS was formed. Maybe it's a matter of them preventing bad things from happening, but the tighter the grip, the more problems will seep through their fingers.
It's just a goddamned piece of paper!
I have a rock that keeps tigers away.
If you look at anime in toto, you'll find (as someone else in the comments section mentioned) an abundance of buxom adolescent schoolgirl characters flashing panties at every turn. If that serves any purpose other than to fulfill the fantasies of pedophiles, I am at a loss to explain it.
Yes, toddlers do indeed watch anime, and its because they don't understand yet the overt sexualization of the characters.
Anime being primarily an outlet for pedophiles does not preclude it from being a valid form of art. Erotica is primarily for the titillation of the audience, but certainly you'd say that there are works of great worth among the dreck (Lady Chatterly's Lover comes to mind immediately).
I don't remember Spirited Away having anything to do with the future.
I assume you watched it in translation and isolation. In context, it is perfectly clear what Miyazaki is doing.
So what you are saying is that ISO is a corrupt standards body. Does that negate the value of ISO standards?
Should the baby be thrown out with the bathwater? And if not, then why only in this one case are you so willing to claim fraud? Surely if fraud was acceptable in this one case, there are other standards which have been similarly fraudulently accepted. And if that is the case, how can any of ISO's standards be acceptable?
Until their heads were chopped off, in any case.
What they were thinking was that someone offered a specification for standard and they saw the necessity of having a standard specification and they went ahead and approved it. Whatever PJ thinks is hardly relevant here. What any individual thinks about the new standard is irrelevant except to the extent that he needs to use it. Since OOXML is not the only specification out there, it behoves anyone with contrary feelings to promote their favorite standard rather than try to bring down OOXML.
Just because the metric system exists, it does not mean that the Imperial system should cease to exist. The practical applications of the "inferior" standard still exist, so it makes no sense to bitch and moan about it.
As a 48 yo grandmother, and C programmer, I find that offensive.
Fuck you, you knocked up whore.
See? This is why we can't have nice things!
More than just which P2P app is most popular, I would like to get a report on which P2P app is the safest. Which one runs the lowest risk of being a trojan, spyware, or otherwise malware?
Limewire is popular. That's great. Do I want to install it?
Anime is nothing more than a legal outlet for the pent up frustrations of pedophiles. The cutesy art is designed to make the women characters seem more childlike and yet is unabashedly sexualizing and fetishizing the pre-pubescent female form.
Spielberg's comment on the timeliness of the genre seems a bit behind the times. Anime as a medium of storytelling has long since passed into the great abyss. Only hardcore fans and toddlers watch the crap now.
Which is not to say that there isn't good anime out there. Grave of the Fireflies is a terrific movie which is made possible because of the medium. Most of the other crap out there, especially the idiotic futurism of Ghibli, deserves less attention than Japanophiles like to give it.
So you're saying that for all the effort you put into graduating from the first prestigious school, the HR folks didn't even notice it?
Now where did I ever get the idea that HR doesn't care about that sort of thing?
This portfolio/code sample thing has got me perplexed. With over 10 years of development experience out here in the real world, I honestly couldn't give you a code sample that meant anything. I can point you at consumer products, working systems, and other tangible things, but I couldn't ever show you any of that code.
Experience and recommendations precede me, not source code. But maybe it's because I work in a different area than you. Is the portfolio request common?
First, HR departments don't care where your degree is from.
Once you understand that, you need to understand yourself and your goals. What do you want to do with your degree? Do you want to be a sysadmin (face it, you can go to Devry and do that job competently), programmer, manager, researcher? These are things that should influence your decision. If you want to work in a research department (say PARC or MSR), you will need postgraduate degrees, and the best thing in that case is to choose the tech school. Other than that, you would probably have more fun at the liberal arts college.
You should also think about what kind of college experience you want. Do you want to go to a large school with many opportunities to meet a very diverse set of people? Do you want to go to a small school and be more than just another face in the crowd? Do you want to be involved in fraternities? Which school will give you the school experience you want?
Where are the schools located? Do you want to live in a small college town? How about a big city? Do you want the college to be your primary connection to the world, or do you want to explore outside the gates? How much cold weather can you stand? How much crime can you stand? Which school has the best location for you?
There are a great many factors in choosing a school. Do not limit your choices because you heard that one program is better than another. If you really don't know what you want to do yet, don't make the choice on program reputation alone. If you know you want the best program, then maybe that is the best choice, but in the end the "better" program is not going to prepare you much better than the "worser" program.
Oh, but you say they are already paying for phone coverage, well our phone network is getting over used, we need set priorities, so we are going to direct your call in 5 minutes while more important people (who paid extra) can make calls to out customers right now. Sounds stupid doesn't it.
Calling during the day time is typically more expensive than calling at night. If you want to make an important call during normal business hours, you will need to pay extra.
This also works with electricity. You pay more for daytime power than nighttime power. The demand on the system is greater during the day when businesses are all open and running all their appliances.
IT'S THE SAME THING THEY ARE PROPOSING.
Not really, but I suppose it's close enough that someone could play along.
How frequently would one need to download a Linux distro? Is this a common thing for you?
Not everybody surfxors the Interwebs for pr0n and MP3z you know....
That's just blatantly untrue. Unless you are also including people who don't have access to computers and the internet.
I, for one, am shocked and appalled that a monopoly would abuse its position. Shame on you Bell Canada!
I'm sorry, that's a lie. I just can't get too excited about this type of thing. The only users who are really inconvenienced by traffic shaping are the system abusers. All others use a paltry amount of bandwidth which is not throttled.
The tumult over this neutrality business is boring. The only way to solve this is to enact and enforce draconian laws and heavy oversight to make sure that net neutrality is maintained. The cure is more expensive than the disease.
Makes me sleepy... zedzedzed...
No, the slave labor conditions in Saipan were only added for color. The point has nothing to do with working conditions and everything to do with the perceived value of a good.
Do you think that a factory which has the ability to produce goods (and indeed does produce the goods for an OEM) should be barred from producing the same product for themselves?
You sure about that? DFI may contract for these boards, but the manufacture, test, and packaging is all done by the factory. What exactly is DFI providing?
Perhaps they could assert that buying a "genuine" DFI motherboard provides extra peace of mind and a valid warranty, but if all the parts come from the same materials and the same manufacturing techniques (in fact the same exact production line), then the difference is the label and warranty, right?
Or is the knowledge to build chips somehow purely DFI's to own?
Wouldn't these companies be producing chips whether they were getting paid or not? Real chipmakers do it because it's what they love to do.
I wasn't going to pay full price for a super-duper chip anyway. It's not like they lost a sale on me.
In the small island of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (where some people might be surfing from this at this moment), they have slave labor factories for designer apparel makers like Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger, and J.Crew. The price of the merchandise is pretty steep compared to what you can get at Target, but some people really like to spend a little extra to look good in the latest duds from these designers.
On Saipan, though, you can get knock-off Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger, and J.Crew clothes for really cheap. Almost cheaper than the price of materials. These knock-offs are so good that even an expert wouldn't be able to tell a real one from a fake one.
The reason is that they are all real ones produced by the same factory. The only difference is whether the apparel was passed through proper distribution channels or swiped from a table at quitting time.
So, if I can save 80% of my money buying a "counterfeit" motherboard, is my little indiscretion going to break the global economy? Why can't I save a bit on the mobo and splurge a bit on something else? The design and manufacturing knowledge to build them is out there, shouldn't anyone be able to replicate the boards? And if they come from the same assembly line, what differentiates a real one from a fake one? Isn't "proper distribution channels" an artificial construct to bilk customers?
I remember in a Discovery Channel special about the Titanic they mentioned that the plates were torn apart at the seams rather than gashed through by the ice. The amount of force with which the ship hit the ice was low enough that it should not have ruptured.
So many years later, I wonder if it is worth it to hold the shipmaker accountable for the tragic loss of life. The stowaways in the galley climbing the railing at the bow shouting their claims to the throne of the earth were all taken under, and though they found love in the last hours of the Titanic, I can't help but wonder what sort of lives such rapscallions would have lived had they landed in New York City. Instead, at the bottom of the sea is the blue gem, shining brightly in the ghostly beams of the research submarines, so far away from the hands which let it fall to the seafloor in remembrance of the short, brilliant, flash of love in those few hours whose imprint upon Rose lasted her whole life.