All treaties become part of the constitution. The Universal Deceleration of Human Rights is such a treaty. Now read Article 23 and tell me if that doesn't make nonpayment of a living wage illegal.
Expensive compared to operating costs. In Great Britian they tried privatizing the water companies. Each company got control of a regional natural monopoly, and people outside city centers were not served. Don't argue that the free market would do this better, because it was tried and it didn't work.
I am from his school. He is smart, but really shortsighted in his decisionmaking. He has a 2.0 GPA, and all of his grades were A's or F's. Needless to say he did not graduate. But he is really, really, talented.
You cannot efficiently implement Scheme in Java due to the lack of first-class continuations. The java libraries and the internal architecture of the JVM are geared towards statically typed languages without higher-order functions, continuations, or better concurrency models. Full numeric towers are painful to implement in Java as the bound check needs to be done in Java bytecode, rather then optimized assembler as in a Scheme bytecode engine.
Unless you need to work with big numbers or exact arithmetic, or multithreading. In SML, Scheme and Haskell all are very simple. In Java you need to switch from infix notation to making method calls for your bignums. Methods that accept normal integers will have problems working with bignums. Multithreading is filled with pitfalls and deadlocks. I like PLT, and the depressing thing about it is all the problems people have with programing languages have all been solved, but they are to stupid/lazy to reach for the solution. ObjC and D are the two commerical languages that actually solve some of the problems with code. But as for Java, 1967 called and wants Simula back.
Your logic is wrong. If a bank waits five weeks to grant credit to do a criminal background check it won't help a bit if the guy they are giving the cash to is not the guy who they checked out.
Here is an illustration from an earlier era. Rich people used to have staff, who would do all sorts of routine work for them -- now even the poorest can have fast and efficient transportation, clean tea-making implements, fast way to wash their clothes and beddings.
You are lamenting the fate of all those poor maids, who lost their jobs to dishwashers and electric kettles. The right approach is to celebrate their having their dishes and tea done for them by machines and the freeing of sentient beings from having to perform these mind-numbing chores.
Great. Now what about the rest of the people, as in all the people who live in Africa and Asia? Not everyone lives in the west. You misunderstood the parent. He's not saying machines are bad, he's saying the way the benefit of machines has been divided up is bad.
So why hasn't that happened in the West? The real issue with African poverty is not technological or sociological, it's political. Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the most valuable mineral resources on earth, but because the governments of those areas are weak they cannot use them effectively. The source of this weakness: The west.
Human life is much, much cheaper in that part of the world
Right, because people who don't have the good fortune to be born in America don't deserve to be treated like actual human beings. The foundation of ethics is that everyone deserves to be treated fairly.
Asimov didn't create the three laws as a practical proposal for robot designers. He created them as a way to put constraints on his fiction to avoid it becoming sensational, and as the background to the logic problems that much of his robot fiction involves.
Like a nice, new, high-speed network right? How's that deregulation working out in America? Ever notice how Europe has much higher average last mile connection speeds then America?
Or what about the end of the days when you could feed 3 people one the wages of one? Economic realities have a lot more to do with parents letting the boob tube educate their kids then their choice does.
A rich man buys a ten dollar camera, while a man out of work does not vs. A rich man and a working man buying 15 dollar cameras, one each. I think I know which scenario I want to be in.
Slashdot Mirror
All treaties become part of the constitution. The Universal Deceleration of Human Rights is such a treaty. Now read Article 23 and tell me if that doesn't make nonpayment of a living wage illegal.
Expensive compared to operating costs. In Great Britian they tried privatizing the water companies. Each company got control of a regional natural monopoly, and people outside city centers were not served. Don't argue that the free market would do this better, because it was tried and it didn't work.
Is the injunction in favor, or the decision?
Like kidnapping people, then torturing them, and finally dumping them in rural Albania by the side of the road is not a crime?
I am from his school. He is smart, but really shortsighted in his decisionmaking. He has a 2.0 GPA, and all of his grades were A's or F's. Needless to say he did not graduate. But he is really, really, talented.
You cannot efficiently implement Scheme in Java due to the lack of first-class continuations. The java libraries and the internal architecture of the JVM are geared towards statically typed languages without higher-order functions, continuations, or better concurrency models. Full numeric towers are painful to implement in Java as the bound check needs to be done in Java bytecode, rather then optimized assembler as in a Scheme bytecode engine.
Unless you need to work with big numbers or exact arithmetic, or multithreading. In SML, Scheme and Haskell all are very simple. In Java you need to switch from infix notation to making method calls for your bignums. Methods that accept normal integers will have problems working with bignums. Multithreading is filled with pitfalls and deadlocks. I like PLT, and the depressing thing about it is all the problems people have with programing languages have all been solved, but they are to stupid/lazy to reach for the solution. ObjC and D are the two commerical languages that actually solve some of the problems with code. But as for Java, 1967 called and wants Simula back.
Where's the giant storm?
Your logic is wrong. If a bank waits five weeks to grant credit to do a criminal background check it won't help a bit if the guy they are giving the cash to is not the guy who they checked out.
MathML is very kludge compared to latex. Tell me when MathML becomes Turing complete.
Wind has a lot of political opposition, and markets suck at preparing for inevitable events a long way off. Look at this week for an example.
Interest rates are much higher then inflation.
I heard it was because some monk lost count, and so Jesus of Nazareth was born in 17 BC, so they changed it to save the Bible.
So why hasn't that happened in the West? The real issue with African poverty is not technological or sociological, it's political. Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the most valuable mineral resources on earth, but because the governments of those areas are weak they cannot use them effectively. The source of this weakness: The west.
If I hold a gun to your head as you vote, and you live because you vote the way I tell you, that is fair because you got your life.
Sure they are. Just wait until someone has more then they can watch over all the time, and take it all until they notice.
Human life is much, much cheaper in that part of the world
Right, because people who don't have the good fortune to be born in America don't deserve to be treated like actual human beings. The foundation of ethics is that everyone deserves to be treated fairly.
Asimov didn't create the three laws as a practical proposal for robot designers. He created them as a way to put constraints on his fiction to avoid it becoming sensational, and as the background to the logic problems that much of his robot fiction involves.
Like a nice, new, high-speed network right? How's that deregulation working out in America? Ever notice how Europe has much higher average last mile connection speeds then America?
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they really aren't out to get you.
Or what about the end of the days when you could feed 3 people one the wages of one? Economic realities have a lot more to do with parents letting the boob tube educate their kids then their choice does.
So that's why we kept the free market during WWII.
A rich man buys a ten dollar camera, while a man out of work does not vs. A rich man and a working man buying 15 dollar cameras, one each. I think I know which scenario I want to be in.
Yahoo is making money of people who are acting altuistically. It's like charging for band-aids when a bomb has gone off outside your store.