Humans will go where the carrots and sticks lead them. That's just human nature. I believe it would be better to focus on fixing the system to reduce the chance of carrots and sticks pushing human leaders to act a certain way.
For example, a constitutional amendment stripping companies of most person-like legal "rights", directly limiting campaigning contributions to small amounts, and strong anti-trust enforcement.
"Bad human; stop acting like a talking ape!" -- Uh, but we ARE talking apes.
They are just playing by the rules of the system, as is. Not sure you can fault them for that. We are mostly a plutocracy. If you don't want the players to play by the rules, then end the damned plutocracy.
Unfortunately, they've used their well-honed corporate marketing skills to dupe most of the population into thinking the fat cat plutocrats are blessed by God to be fat cat plutocrats. Thus, the sheep population won't vote to fix it. I'm not suggesting at all we make a 180-degree U-turn the other way, but Karl Marx did warn about this slippery slope: the rich are getting richer, and thus have more money to buy laws that keep allowing them to get yet richer to buy even more laws...
Slippery slope claims are usually considered a fallacy in debates, but for the past 35 years we've been "sloping" that way. Slippery slopes are generally considered a fallacy if they haven't actually happened yet, but they are no longer a fallacy if they're actually happening or have happened.
Our universe is interpreted, not compiled. It has Schrodinger Typing: many objects don't even know what type they are until you punch them in the face.
The survey respondents may have meant VB-Classic, VBA, and/or VB-Script.
Incidentally, they are generally fine for smaller projects in my opinion. It's when you try to build something complex with them that you get into knots. Languages best for big projects are rarely best for small projects and vice verse. Use the right tool for the job.
Indeed. I never understood that circular logic. Perhaps somebody of that persuasion can explain how it (allegedly) works for us.
Businesses want control, and if you don't properly regulate them, they'll use every method they have to gain their desired control. I see the government functioning like referees. Without referees a game would become a dirty slugfest instead of a skillfest. Basketball and wrestling would be the same sport. Sure, refs are sometimes stupid, but anybody in any institution can likewise be stupid.
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They were probably the 1 in 1000 who actually thought such speech was "cool". It's what drove them to seek and learn the Ways of the PHB.
PHB Master: "Grasshopper, snatch the pebble from my hand."
Grasshopper: "But Master, I do not see a pebble."
PHB: "If I am the boss and I want there to be a pebble, you DO see a pebble."
Grasshopper: "Ahhhh, I see it now...Boss!"
How is that a worse "sin" than polluting the Earth without others' permission?
To use an analogy, say we are all stuck with each other on a boat. You seem to be saying, "I can take a crap anywhere I want on this boat!".
Genghis Khan, this is from the east
Now we gotta compete with 1 billion people having IQ's of 300 and people skills.
Some signs are pretty obvious; you don't need experts:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap03...
Jeez, even electrons are going with this cloud fad.
It gives them a reason to blame a hated politician or party (even though prices have been bouncing all over since the 70's).
Tax gas and spend the proceeds on "green" R&D.
Doh!
Dice, invent an Undo, and I'll stop ragging on you.
Headline for the ages
We certainly have Corporate Chimphood.
Alcohol-sniffing dogs probably make Judge Ginsburg nervous:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...
Humans will go where the carrots and sticks lead them. That's just human nature. I believe it would be better to focus on fixing the system to reduce the chance of carrots and sticks pushing human leaders to act a certain way.
For example, a constitutional amendment stripping companies of most person-like legal "rights", directly limiting campaigning contributions to small amounts, and strong anti-trust enforcement.
"Bad human; stop acting like a talking ape!" -- Uh, but we ARE talking apes.
But Siri refused to open my pod bay door just yesterday. We're doomed!
They are just playing by the rules of the system, as is. Not sure you can fault them for that. We are mostly a plutocracy. If you don't want the players to play by the rules, then end the damned plutocracy.
Unfortunately, they've used their well-honed corporate marketing skills to dupe most of the population into thinking the fat cat plutocrats are blessed by God to be fat cat plutocrats. Thus, the sheep population won't vote to fix it. I'm not suggesting at all we make a 180-degree U-turn the other way, but Karl Marx did warn about this slippery slope: the rich are getting richer, and thus have more money to buy laws that keep allowing them to get yet richer to buy even more laws...
Slippery slope claims are usually considered a fallacy in debates, but for the past 35 years we've been "sloping" that way. Slippery slopes are generally considered a fallacy if they haven't actually happened yet, but they are no longer a fallacy if they're actually happening or have happened.
Just infect them with the Bender virus.
Our universe is interpreted, not compiled. It has Schrodinger Typing: many objects don't even know what type they are until you punch them in the face.
Its gonna be one hail ov a partie their!
So that's what he means by "integrated solution".
Excellent, I need help with a stubborn glitch we are having. How do I contact them?
Keep the beer, toss the phones
The survey respondents may have meant VB-Classic, VBA, and/or VB-Script.
Incidentally, they are generally fine for smaller projects in my opinion. It's when you try to build something complex with them that you get into knots. Languages best for big projects are rarely best for small projects and vice verse. Use the right tool for the job.
Crap, "Transformers" is becoming real.
Indeed. I never understood that circular logic. Perhaps somebody of that persuasion can explain how it (allegedly) works for us.
Businesses want control, and if you don't properly regulate them, they'll use every method they have to gain their desired control. I see the government functioning like referees. Without referees a game would become a dirty slugfest instead of a skillfest. Basketball and wrestling would be the same sport. Sure, refs are sometimes stupid, but anybody in any institution can likewise be stupid.
Perhaps this will stimulate the market for kit cars, where the parts are interchangeable enough that multiple vendors produce modules.