demand increases as price goes down... with one very important caveat.
all else must remain equal.
don't forget that caveat b/c it is *extremely* important. all else doesn't always remain equal. for example, if the price of $10k fur is marked down to $1k, some folks might think it is a fake and not be interested. or damaged goods. or stolen. or whatever.
linux is gaining market share, but it is different and people need an *incentive* to do different things. their incentive to learn windows was they wanted to be employable - so they learned windows even if they *hated* it.
business doesn't move away from windows due to the incompatibility issues caused by msft brass in order to maintain monopoly like control over the business desktop. the consumer market will go where the business market goes. if business went 100% linux tomorrow, nobody would remember msft in about 3 years.
the incentive for me to move to linux was that i value freedom, saving a few extra bucks and learning new things. i like the road less traveled. that is probably why i chose postgres over pgsql and i ended up trying the zone diet based on a glowing referral. i'm very happy with all three choices, too.
if linux wants to compete with msft, they need the business desktop in a big way. applications are important here and msft brass did a great job lockign most companies into msft dependent applications - so this is a tough sell.
an MIT lipid researcher found this out well over a decade ago and the ZONE diet was born.
the zone is a moderate carb, moderate protein, moderate fat diet that is designed to optimize one's hormonal response to what they eat.
the calorie in, calorie out folks don't realize that the body acts upon what it is fed and that this can make a big difference in how the body repsonds.
for example, take two twins and have them exercise the same and eat the same. they should turn out similar, no? my guess is they would. until you introduce anabolic steroids (muscle building portion of testosterone). now, both eat the same calories and exercise the same and what happens? will the anabolic steroid user gain more weight on the same amount of calories? i think it is patently obvious that he would, otherwise, anabolic steroids would be USELESS as one would just have to eat calories to get the same effect. you can't do that, so anabolic steroid sales is big business.
manuel uribe lost 400 lbs on the zone. more importantly, he lost his hunger and depression - and you *know* a 1230 lb guy has to have sopme serious hunger!
pbs scientific frontiers did a study on diets and robin was the zone participant. she lost 45 lbs in 6 months and her favorite part of the diet was that it made her feel GREAT!
dara torres, one of the original zone diet test subjects, recently set the 100m free swim american record with the second fastest time clocked this year.
AT 41 YEARS OF AGE (a 22 and 19 year old placed second and third)!
with just 16 months of training (after a 6 year retirement).
just 16 months after giving birth.
she does whatever makes sense to get that extra advantage - and she is a full throttle zoner.
the lady who recommended this diet to me was able to stop taking 12+ aspirin per day due to her repetitive strain injury. whe lost a ton of excess fat and had a ton of energy to do martial arts. her pain mostly disappeared.
a friend of mine who i turned onto the zone only had to wait one day for his multi-year acid reflux condition to completely vanish.
my testimonial is as follows:
1. i've lost 21 lbs since june (i'm about 5'10" and i dropped from 178.5 to 157.5). 2. after 20 years of ZERO weight training, i've gone from doing 10 lb flies to benching 175 lbs once on a day where i didn't feel so well (didn't eat a zone meal the night prior). i was doing 135 lbs 4 times in early september, i can do 145 lbs 8 times now. iow, i'v gained significant muscle mass while losing that net 21 lbs. 3. i've lost 3-4 inches off my waist. my chest, shoulders and arms have increased in size. 4. my lifelong allergy problem disappeared when i started supplementing epa and dha with ultra-refined fish oil. 5. at the ripe old age of 41, i'm closer to a six pack than i have ever been in my life. i wil
i had a friend who was contracting for a government agency. toward the end of the budget year, they had some dollars left over so they sent him off to a meaningless conference. he stayed at the RITZ FREAKING CARLTON while attending the conference he didn't need to attend. but they did need to spend those tax payer dollars or risk losing them.
they *ALL* know this is how government operates and they don't care as long as they get theirs. my friend was kinda stunned, actually. EVEN HE THOUGHT IT WAS STUPID! he sure did enjoy the ritz carlton, though.
greed will down any form of government given enough time.
america is no different. when we go down due to our inherent greed, the flames will burn bright.
1. you may not be alone. the carnage that could, and sometimes DOES, follow, shouldn't be risked. 2. you may well lose control and damage yourself and your vehicle. i don't want emergency services tied up and my insurance rates to go up for your immaturity.
if you want to drag race, do so in a controlled environment. yes, and PAY for the privilege.
slightly worse? what are you smoking? look, i live in san diego. my home was very close to a mandatory evacuation zone - and darn close to a big canyon full of flammable crap. we were one flying ember away from high risk of our house being burned down. you'd think i'd be partial to hyping up this tragedy but, truth be told, katrina was markedly worse than this. it happened almost all at once and much of the city was put under water (think 100,000s of homes damaged, not 1000 burned down).
the first part was critical since they didn't have time to think and plan. San Diego did. also, most folks in the shelters believe their homes are fine and most folks are right. in new orleans, EVERYONE knew their home was jacked.
look, these fires a re big deal, but that is no reason to kick sand in the face of new orleans.
Geez, I thought the USA is a capitalist country. This is normal in the rest of the world. The law of supply and demand you know - let the free market decide the pricing...
unless business labor is getting relatively scarce... then you outsouce and support illegal immigration to keep costs down and defeat internal supply and demand.
what is good for the good (the people) IS NOT good for the gander (business).
I happen to believe that should be a university's goal to produce equality of opportunity, but it's a question of your values.
doesn't this conflict with darwin's survival of the fittest?
this being/. and all, i'm assuming you are likely a survival of the fittest (sotf) kind of person. if i'm wrong, well, other sotf people who think as you've outlined can take note.
in modern times, the rich and powerful are the "fittest." if sotf is the rule of the day, what is wrong with them squashing down the less than fittest (ltf)? why can't jeffrey dahmer eat people who are aren't as fit as he is? why can't hitler try and taske over the world and it just be okay? why? why? why?
all this moral stuff is counter to the "natural" way of life (fittest extinguish the less than fittest) that so many dearly cling to, yet i see so many people trying to pretend it doesn't.
of course, i'm on the side of reasonable fairness, but i think "survival of the fittest" is evil and bad for a person and bad for a society of people.
95% of the ills in the world today can be summed up in one word - selfishness. i define it as not caring for others equal to oneself. make no mistake, it is a fatal flaw in human nature.
Whatever you think of patents, they do exist, and are there to protect inventors rights (whether the USPTO grants too many bogus ones is a different issue)
okay, time to move a little bit to the left so we can get outside of that bubble you are in right now and see the "big picture" instead of the picture that best suits your own personal interests.
the highest purpose of a patent IS NOT to protect *you*, the inventor. rather, it is to advance the progress of science and useful arts.
i'm not sure if this decision makes sense or not, given the #1 priority of patent law (no NOT TO PROTECT THE INVENTOR, but to advance science and the useful arts). i have to think about the potential ramifications a bit more.
however, i had to clear up your misunderstanding of the ultimate purpose of patents.
You can't just "cancel" your contract in a lot of cases. I know in my area, you have three choices: 1) use the cable provider (Comcast), 2) use dial-up, 3) go fuck yourself. It's a selective monopoly, and it seriously hurts a lot of consumers in a lot of less urban areas.
you obviously haven't thought this through. this is 2007. 3 isn't a valid option unless you have either 1 or 2.
repvik, imho, you have the cart before the horse. successful interpersonal information is infinitely more important than scientific information.
god would be remiss if he valued science over people. science exists for people, not people for science. once people learn to live together in peace, harmony and joy, THEN everything else can fall in place - including god revealing the very fabric of the universe, should he so desire.
a person who has perfect scientific knowledge isn't worth much when he killed during a mugging. or starves to death. or is in prison. or is a murderer.
we have so far to go in the realm of getting along together that focusing anywhere else will eventually get us all killed, if we were totally left up to our own devices.
Sure it does, if you consider rape, murder, incest, slavery, ethnic killings, torture, etc. to be "virtues."
oh stop it. the bible records actual events and - shock and horror - people do bad things. that's why they are recorded.
the bible doesn't instruct anyone to rape other people, murder other people, commit incest (adam and eve's close family didn't have much choice, if that is how it went down) and torture others. it doesn't teach these things as "virtues."
nor does it teach dishonesty as a virtue.
there was a time, long, long ago, where god worked through the physical nation israel and he did use them to execute evil peoples and communities (propel them into their yet future resurrection to learn how not be evil so they can be allowed to live forever). god never taught any person to go out and kill others based on their own desire to do so. never.
So when God sent an angel to wipe out the first born of every Egyptian, or commanded the Hebrews to commit ethnic cleansing on Canaanites in order to occupy their land, that wasn't an endorsement? May I ask, then, what is?
yes, it was an endorsement. do keep in mind that god has an eternal perspective. his goal IS NOT to maximize this short life span of dust and clay. those people who were "cleansed" by god, as it were, will rise again in a much better scenario - see ezekiel 37 for an account of just such a resurrrection (using israel as an example).
god didn't arbitrarily "cleanse" people, though. they had to be pretty darn evil as a person or as a society. i mean eeeeevil.
in fact, they will awake into a much better environment, pictured in ezekiel 37, in what they think will be instantaneously since they lie dead and unconscious in the ground - asleep, as it were.
Let me guess: whatever commands or actions by God that happen to be convenient to use for proselytizing. We can safely ignore the rest and chalk it up to "intrepretation."
nope, you pretty much nailed it. god had evil people and societies killed off at certain points in time. no doubt about it.
When my angel goes in front of you, and brings you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, you shall not bow down to their gods, or worship them, or follow their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces (Exodus 23.23-24).
When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, and he clears away many nations before you -- the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites...and when Yahweh your God gives them over to you...you must utterly destroy them...Show them no mercy...For you are a people holy to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession (Deuteronomy 7.1-11; see also 9.1-5; 11.8-9, 23, 31-32).
But as for the towns of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive. You shall annihilate them--the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites--just as Yahweh your God has commanded, so that they may not teach you to do all the abhorrent things that they do for their gods, and you thus sin against Yahweh your God (Deuteronomy 20.16-18).
yup.
Three different passages, from two different books, and and the same message from the mouth of God commanding the death of every man, woman, and child. Let me guess: it's taken "out of context," right? Or perhaps the message has been adulterated through man--in which case, what standard of measure do you have to claim any other aspect of the Bible hasn't been also.
I know: whatever happens to be convenient to believe.
it depends on what you mean by "taken out of context." of course god executed their temporary vessels of clay.
if you suggest that doing so makes god the "bad guy," yeah, you've taken it out of context. the "bad guys" were killed by god - due in part to the misery they caused other people and the misery they heaped upon themselves.
in proper context, god shortened their suffering and catapulted them into the resurrection where they will learn god's way of life - to care for others equal to oneself.
when these folks have a proper view and a proper context, they will agree they deserved to die - and much worse, to die forever. they will be thankful that god cut short their misery and now offers his way of life that automatically generates peace, happiness and joy for the individual and the community - for eternity.
so, yeah, god killed vessels of clay in order to further his efforts to maximize ETERNAL joy and prosperity for those same people, as well as the community of all humans who will ever live.
god is still love.
The main problem is quite simply overpopulation. I've often wished I could wake up one morning and discover that around 70%-75% of the global population had simply disappeared during the night. The sociological improvement that would be experienced by the 25% that were left would be astronomical. Every human problem that you can think of would be either completely solved or radically reduced in severity by that one incident. People would start actually giving a damn about things again. The individual would be considered worth something, rather than merely a drop in a collectivist bucket as is the case now. We would no longer have to contend with corporations staffed by demoniacs. The burden on the environment would be incalculably eased, and at least until the population rose again, sociopathic amorality and pathological lying would cease to be the basis of society.
while some things would be better for those folks who weren't part of the 75% wiped out, i think you've reached a false conclusion.
first, there was a time when the population was 1/4 what it is now and the killing and strife that has continued through today went on back then, too.
second, you seem to imply that selfishness (the root of all evil - failing to care for others equal to oneself, not more, not less) is correlated to relative population size.
i put forth the history of the world as evidence your hypothesis is wrong.
do you have anything, beyond a vivid imagination based upon hope, that suggests it is right?
-- Even if a god did exist, why the fsck should I worship it?
i'm not sure if your question desired an answer, but the answer is simple.
god has the "secret sauce" required in order for both the individual and the community to live together in peace, harmony and joy.
the world you see around you is a result of our rejection of god's way. let's see, 150,000,000 - 200,000,000 war dead over the last 100 years or so?
i believe 10,000 people are dying due to starvation daily, at the present time.
when it is your time to become one of the war dead or starve to death, you will develop a keen new insight into why god's way, once understood, is the only way to get it done right. until that time, though, vanity will likely continue to reign supreme.
**yes, the religious right masquerading as representatives of christ are a terrible example of what christ *really* represented (actually, all people do a bad job representing god as we have too many failings and selfishness reigns in our lives). in fact, almost all christian organization do god a severe injustice, but if one is interested in learning how god's "program" works, one has the source code to available to them.
"...more crime is committed in the cities, where more people tend to be black..." - pudge
you must live in a city, then, based upon your crime against reason, detailed above.
you can do one of three things:
1. cite your empirical evidence that excludes everything but skin pigment as the (primary) cause for increased rates of crime.
2. admit that there are a myriad of social factors that have worked against the black community to cause the marginally higher crime rate compared to other races (hmmmm, what could that be? dagnabbit, there has to be something going on here, right?).
3. admit you are about 6 beers short of a 6 pack. you know, your elevator doesn't get off the ground floor.
before posting inciting words, get educated first.
no, inciting isn't a derivative of insightful.
the fatal flaw in your argument is that you assume everyone else is a narcissist like yourself.
this isn't true.
i have a kid and he's one of the most important and cherished things in my life.
All sales "count" regardless of the channel by which they arrive.
i don't think anybody said they didn't. however, your view is myopic. i'll keep it simple. let's say msft sells 20 million copied into the "channel and not a single end user has bought a copy.
now, let's say msft sold 20 million copies into the channel and 20 million copies were purchased by end users.
accordign to you, both scenarios appear equal - after all 20 million is 20 million and they both "count."
for the rest of us, though, we see a difference. of course, i exaggerated for effect - hopefully you can get the concept based on this exaggerated illustration.
funny! i also noticed that msft has chosen to compare one month of vista to two months of xp. my guess is they know the 2nd month is much slower than the first month, so they thought they'd manipulate the numbers a bit. if vista comes in at 25 million after two months, for example, vista will have don MUCH WORSE than xp, given the market has doubled.
i'm 100% (u/k/x/edu)buntu right now - and i'm liking it. yeah, i use xp at work and some of my older h/w still dual boots into it, but i just don't go there much anymore.
No, the earth is about 6500 years old. It says so right in the Bible, so it must be true.
uh, no, it doesn't.
the bible doesn't state how old the earth is.
the problem with most people is that 1. they input into text what isn't there and 2. they tend to listen to what everyone else in their group believes, regardless of the data that contradicts their view.
gen 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
yes, in the beginning, god created the universe. then, at some undisclosed point in time after that event, god took a formless and void earth and did some more creating. you and others ASSUME verse 2 occurred instantaneously after the event described in verse 1, but that doesn't have to be the case.
"in the beginning, i was born. now it came to pass that i had a college final exam."
is my exam necessarily the instant after i was born? would you assume it IN CONTEXT? of course not. yet that is EXACTLY what you do with genesis verses 1 and 2.
the bible speaks of original creation being perfect and beautiful and not "without form and void." the "without form and void" state could have occurred billions of years after the event described in verse 1.
the bible is 100% consistent with an earth billions of years old.
btw, reading into scripture what isn't there and valuing the traditions of men are EXACTLY why the false belief in an eternal hell exists (leveraged by selfish people in order to ultimately control people to suit their own ends - knowingly or not). a parable about regretting a lack of kindness after a resurrection from the dead has been twisted and distorted to mean something that was never intended and blatantly contradicts on topic scriptures.
yeah, people engulfed in flames are going to ask for a drop of water to cure dry mouth. that flame sure must've been hot to make dry mouth the rich man's #1 physical concern! -lol-
the wages of sin is death (ro 6:23) and the dead know nothing (ec 9:5).
look it up yourself. not many people teach these basic truths, instead, they teach death is life and love is torture and the masses eat it up like cherry pie on the weekend.
apparently, they do not know god is love (1jo4:16) and love does NO HARM TO ITS NEIGHBOR (ro 13:10). an eternal torture chamber for billions of people IS NOT LOVE AND CONTRADICTS THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE BIBLE*, yet almost every "christian" organization teaches it and nobody speaks out against it. the irony is that a god of love is consistent with the bible and inconsistent with the traditions of men (like plato's inferno hellfire), yet, "christians" tend to latch onto the traditions.
the facts that death is the wages paid to sinners (actually earned by sinners - failing to care for others EQUAL to oneself) and the death means one knows nothing are both are concise and on point teaching in the bible. most modern day christians REJECT these simple teachings so they can hold on to their traditions.
and, no, death != eternal life. read ro 6:23 - death is CONTRASTED to eternal life. death is exactly what ec 9:5 says it is... a state of knowing nothing, like before you were born.
read ezekiel 37 to see a time pictured when the great masses (in his case the whole house of israel) are resurrected to life from their state of knowing nothing (death!) and learn of god ways - well after this first life has passed away.
you won't find many modern day "christian" churches teaching this truth, either. yet, there it is for someone to see if they put aside their biases and believe what is written.
* yes, god did some physically harsh things to people, but remember that his actions were taken against clay, as it were. he ended a pretty miserable existence and will resurrect those people (see ez 37 for an example) to a much brighte
it is pretty amazing to me that a guy riding a donkey comes off as much more sophisticated in human relationships then folks with 2000 years more history and all the technological advantages we've seen in that time.
the donkey rider proclaimed a future world where peace, prosperity, joy and happiness would be the rule of the day. peace, prosperity, joy and happiness are effects that require a root cause.
that root cause is morality - and the donkey rider defined it as caring for others EQUAL to yourselves.
if humanity FAILS to do this, and they will with 100% certainty, humanity will eventually topple under the weight of the self inflicted ills of selfishness.
if you look over history, the concept that selfishness leads to pain for the community is every bit a law as the law of gravity.
this is the true message of the bible* that has been lost amongst the selfish people trying to use the bible for selfish reasons.
morality, caring for others EQUAL to ourselves, is the only practical cause for a peaceful, productive and happy eternity.
isn't this as obvious as 2+2=4?
even if you don't believe in eternity, are you going to argue this life wouldn't be better if folks cared for others EQUAL to themselves (should i rape here kill her family or should i respect her and her family and deal with my issues another way?) should i loot this company in a stock scam, or should i respect the stockholders and adjust my value system so i'm not so greedy and selfish? should i loot the public coffers and enslave middle america's grandchildren for life, or should i be responsible and act fiscally reasonable?)? i know, i know, it is pollyana... but that is why god tells us to love him - he's the source of the value system that turns pollyana into reality.
one person at a time.
raise up your perspective a bit... the danger facing humanity is as grave as ever. one day, almost all nations will possess nuclear power... and the day that gas becomes extremely expensive and the greed of the nations will have to decide to kill and control others so they can remain mobile is creeping up on us one day at a time. it may be a while, i'm not trying to be alarmist, but it is coming.
The Bible contains all sorts of statements that we now know to be false, in the sense that they contradict all available evidence. The religious respond by going into elaborate contortions to maintain their beliefs (see, for example, "God put the dinosaur fossils there to test us").
first, a disclaimer. it is my observation that most people latch onto god to further their own selfish agenda - to do so is wrong and those people aren't acting in accordance with what the bible is all about. jesus said many would come in his name and deceive many... so don't rely on a self proclaimed christian, me or anyone else, to reflect the reality that is god.
back on topic, you assume that the people who believe dinosaurs didn't exist properly represent what the bible teaches. while what they say is *possible*, in the sense anything is *possible*, it isn't what the bible says. nowhere does the bible say, "and god made dinosaur bones to fool humans."
IT AIN'T THERE!
having said that, the bible doesn't teach creation occurred 8,000 +/- years ago, either.
IT AIN'T THERE.
what it does say is this...
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
some have ASSUMED that there is no time gap between verse 1 and 2. but the words DON'T SAY THAT! it must be ASSUMED!
"in june, 1973, i was born. now, my hair was messy and my college exam was in the afternoon."
does this mean i went to college the INSTANT after i was born? i don't think so. there is some CONTEXT that leads us to the conclusion that SOME AMOUNT OF TIME HAD PASSED BETWEEN THE EVENTS.
the bible is the context of scripture.
what do we know about creation? i can't find the specific verse now, but the speaks of the original creation being very good or perfect. "formless and empty" doesn't sound like a very good initial creation.
psalms speaks of a renewing of the face of the earth... this could be where verse 2 picks up... a renewing of an initial glorious creation that, for some reason, had become formless and empty.
Ps 104:30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth.
so, how much time took place between gen verse 1 and 2?
nobody on earth knows, but it could've been billions of years.
as i read it, the bible doesn't tell us for sure.
You're missing the point. Ideas all by themselves are worthless. You have to actually take big risks to do something with them to create value.
worthless is actually better than burning $500k on 6 people and a blog, no?
you've entirely missed the point, imho. *if* one turns in so much spam, no compensation should be required or expected. BUT, should someone share the idea THAT SAVED THE FREAKING ECONOMIST, that person should be duly rewarded - much more so that 6 people running a blog groveling for free ideas.
you see, if they *really* want the idea from the smart guy, they won't get it this way - so they've already defeated their purpose. what's wrong with offering $100k to the person with a successful submission? heck, they have no problem spending ~$500k on 6 folks who OBVIOUSLY don't have "the idea." it seems the person with "the idea" is the power broker in this equation, no?
who are you going to work for - the person who pays you or the person who will put your name on a web page as they rake in millions off of your work?
COME ON! this is the freaking ECONOMIST HERE! do they know NOTHING about, well, micro-ECONOMICS?
perhaps a remedial econ 101 class is their first step in this process.
Anybody who thought of the next "most incredible media company" has 3 options,
you've missed the point again. this isn't about a person with "the idea" who wants to strike it rich... it is about 6 people paid to generate "the idea," BUT CAN'T!
what are their choices? groveling for a "hail mary bailout" is obviously one such choice.
1- interrupt their busy schedule, miss their kids soccer games, likely quite their job, and then dedicate a good portion of their lives trying to get seed money.
2- share it with their bar buddies and tell themselves it would probably never work anyway.
3 - or toss their idea at Red Stripe and see if it sticks.
but why? this is the ECONOMIST. why should the person with "the idea" spend any time trying to save a group pulling in ~$500k for a large corporation? why? i would ASSUME the ECONOMIST covers micro-economics, no?
again, you asked the wrong question. "the idea" guy isn't groveling here, the 6 "the idea, NOT!" people are in a world of hurt, not "the idea" guy / gal.
The corresponding risk/reward scenario is then
1 - Huge risk, give up tons of family time, maybe declare bankruptcy, maybe kill your marriage, and MAYBE make your idea work and get rich.
2 - no risk, your buddies might think you're clever for a minute or 2.
3 - No risk again, but your idea might take flight and you might get some small credit.
iow, effectively NO REWARD. what does micro-economics say about situations such as this? the worse the reward, the better the ideas that will flow in - s that where these guys/gals are at in their knowledge level? have these ECONOMIST employees exposed an INCREDIBLE gap in understanding regarding econ 101 principles and concepts?
Now... which risk-reward proposition do you think sounds the most attractive to most people?
effectively no reward == effectively no time spent on project sounds the best. don't you agree?
how many times have you stopped by and helped out a business THAT DOESN'T PAY YOU. i'll bet you can add value to what they do... so why don't you stop by and add value FOR FREE? after all, your idea to add value to this company is worthless unless they implement it, right? so, go help every company you can for free.
Again, ideas are totally worthless by themselves.
not as "worthless" as 6 people without "the idea" - they COST ~$500k per year.
Here on Earth, it's risk and effort that create value and earn rewards.
there is no reward to give "the idea." the guy at the bar won't bother leaving the table to help these 6 "the idea, NOT!" people out. don't you get it? these guys h
you have to have javascript turned on or their submission form doesn't work. they haven't even figured out how to make their entry form fail gracefully for people who don't have JS enabled.
what can i say... this is like asking someone else for an answer while saying, "i already know the anwer, i just want to see if you do, too."
frankly, i think this is in poor taste - those 6 folks are pulling in ~$500k per year and they want to add value by using the insight of others without compensation?
they must abhor gratitude as much as they abhor closed environments.
do they need to follow minimum wage laws? if not, how long until we get the...
"i need people to run my business effectively. i'm not paying - but i'll give you credit on the company website. i can't wait to hear from you!"
they let you have computer time for your jail cell again?**
telling people to break the law and go to jail is just absurd.
** oh, you mean you do pay your taxes so you aren't in jail, but you advise others to break the law.
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demand increases as price goes down... with one very important caveat. all else must remain equal. don't forget that caveat b/c it is *extremely* important. all else doesn't always remain equal. for example, if the price of $10k fur is marked down to $1k, some folks might think it is a fake and not be interested. or damaged goods. or stolen. or whatever. linux is gaining market share, but it is different and people need an *incentive* to do different things. their incentive to learn windows was they wanted to be employable - so they learned windows even if they *hated* it. business doesn't move away from windows due to the incompatibility issues caused by msft brass in order to maintain monopoly like control over the business desktop. the consumer market will go where the business market goes. if business went 100% linux tomorrow, nobody would remember msft in about 3 years. the incentive for me to move to linux was that i value freedom, saving a few extra bucks and learning new things. i like the road less traveled. that is probably why i chose postgres over pgsql and i ended up trying the zone diet based on a glowing referral. i'm very happy with all three choices, too. if linux wants to compete with msft, they need the business desktop in a big way. applications are important here and msft brass did a great job lockign most companies into msft dependent applications - so this is a tough sell.
you are exactly right.
an MIT lipid researcher found this out well over a decade ago and the ZONE diet was born.
the zone is a moderate carb, moderate protein, moderate fat diet that is designed to optimize one's hormonal response to what they eat.
the calorie in, calorie out folks don't realize that the body acts upon what it is fed and that this can make a big difference in how the body repsonds.
for example, take two twins and have them exercise the same and eat the same. they should turn out similar, no? my guess is they would. until you introduce anabolic steroids (muscle building portion of testosterone). now, both eat the same calories and exercise the same and what happens? will the anabolic steroid user gain more weight on the same amount of calories? i think it is patently obvious that he would, otherwise, anabolic steroids would be USELESS as one would just have to eat calories to get the same effect. you can't do that, so anabolic steroid sales is big business.
the zone is the unifying dietary theory.
here is a diet comparison:
http://www.zoneliving.com/ZoneLiving/Zoneversusotherdiets/tabid/62/Default.aspx
read through these testimonials:
http://drsears.com/Testimonials/tabid/473/Default.aspx
here are some more:
http://www.zoneliving.com/Default.aspx?tabid=93
and more:
http://www.epinions.com/well-Nutrition-Diets-All-The_Zone_Diet/sec_~opinion_list/display_~reviews/pp_~1/pa_~1#list
manuel uribe lost 400 lbs on the zone. more importantly, he lost his hunger and depression - and you *know* a 1230 lb guy has to have sopme serious hunger!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6612719.stm
pbs scientific frontiers did a study on diets and robin was the zone participant. she lost 45 lbs in 6 months and her favorite part of the diet was that it made her feel GREAT!
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1401/features/robin.htm
dara torres, one of the original zone diet test subjects, recently set the 100m free swim american record with the second fastest time clocked this year.
AT 41 YEARS OF AGE (a 22 and 19 year old placed second and third)!
with just 16 months of training (after a 6 year retirement).
just 16 months after giving birth.
she does whatever makes sense to get that extra advantage - and she is a full throttle zoner.
the lady who recommended this diet to me was able to stop taking 12+ aspirin per day due to her repetitive strain injury. whe lost a ton of excess fat and had a ton of energy to do martial arts. her pain mostly disappeared.
a friend of mine who i turned onto the zone only had to wait one day for his multi-year acid reflux condition to completely vanish.
my testimonial is as follows:
1. i've lost 21 lbs since june (i'm about 5'10" and i dropped from 178.5 to 157.5).
2. after 20 years of ZERO weight training, i've gone from doing 10 lb flies to benching 175 lbs once on a day where i didn't feel so well (didn't eat a zone meal the night prior). i was doing 135 lbs 4 times in early september, i can do 145 lbs 8 times now. iow, i'v gained significant muscle mass while losing that net 21 lbs.
3. i've lost 3-4 inches off my waist. my chest, shoulders and arms have increased in size.
4. my lifelong allergy problem disappeared when i started supplementing epa and dha with ultra-refined fish oil.
5. at the ripe old age of 41, i'm closer to a six pack than i have ever been in my life. i wil
i had a friend who was contracting for a government agency. toward the end of the budget year, they had some dollars left over so they sent him off to a meaningless conference. he stayed at the RITZ FREAKING CARLTON while attending the conference he didn't need to attend. but they did need to spend those tax payer dollars or risk losing them.
they *ALL* know this is how government operates and they don't care as long as they get theirs. my friend was kinda stunned, actually. EVEN HE THOUGHT IT WAS STUPID! he sure did enjoy the ritz carlton, though.
greed will down any form of government given enough time.
america is no different. when we go down due to our inherent greed, the flames will burn bright.
yes, it matters.
1. you may not be alone. the carnage that could, and sometimes DOES, follow, shouldn't be risked.
2. you may well lose control and damage yourself and your vehicle. i don't want emergency services tied up and my insurance rates to go up for your immaturity.
if you want to drag race, do so in a controlled environment. yes, and PAY for the privilege.
slightly worse? what are you smoking? look, i live in san diego. my home was very close to a mandatory evacuation zone - and darn close to a big canyon full of flammable crap. we were one flying ember away from high risk of our house being burned down. you'd think i'd be partial to hyping up this tragedy but, truth be told, katrina was markedly worse than this. it happened almost all at once and much of the city was put under water (think 100,000s of homes damaged, not 1000 burned down). the first part was critical since they didn't have time to think and plan. San Diego did. also, most folks in the shelters believe their homes are fine and most folks are right. in new orleans, EVERYONE knew their home was jacked. look, these fires a re big deal, but that is no reason to kick sand in the face of new orleans.
doesn't this conflict with darwin's survival of the fittest?
this being
in modern times, the rich and powerful are the "fittest." if sotf is the rule of the day, what is wrong with them squashing down the less than fittest (ltf)? why can't jeffrey dahmer eat people who are aren't as fit as he is? why can't hitler try and taske over the world and it just be okay? why? why? why?
all this moral stuff is counter to the "natural" way of life (fittest extinguish the less than fittest) that so many dearly cling to, yet i see so many people trying to pretend it doesn't.
of course, i'm on the side of reasonable fairness, but i think "survival of the fittest" is evil and bad for a person and bad for a society of people.
95% of the ills in the world today can be summed up in one word - selfishness. i define it as not caring for others equal to oneself. make no mistake, it is a fatal flaw in human nature.
you obviously haven't thought this through. this is 2007. 3 isn't a valid option unless you have either 1 or 2.
repvik, imho, you have the cart before the horse. successful interpersonal information is infinitely more important than scientific information.
god would be remiss if he valued science over people. science exists for people, not people for science. once people learn to live together in peace, harmony and joy, THEN everything else can fall in place - including god revealing the very fabric of the universe, should he so desire.
a person who has perfect scientific knowledge isn't worth much when he killed during a mugging. or starves to death. or is in prison. or is a murderer.
we have so far to go in the realm of getting along together that focusing anywhere else will eventually get us all killed, if we were totally left up to our own devices.
oh stop it. the bible records actual events and - shock and horror - people do bad things. that's why they are recorded.
the bible doesn't instruct anyone to rape other people, murder other people, commit incest (adam and eve's close family didn't have much choice, if that is how it went down) and torture others. it doesn't teach these things as "virtues."
nor does it teach dishonesty as a virtue.
there was a time, long, long ago, where god worked through the physical nation israel and he did use them to execute evil peoples and communities (propel them into their yet future resurrection to learn how not be evil so they can be allowed to live forever). god never taught any person to go out and kill others based on their own desire to do so. never.
agree or disagree, fine. but don't be dishonest.
the fatal flaw in your argument is that you assume everyone else is a narcissist like yourself. this isn't true. i have a kid and he's one of the most important and cherished things in my life.
funny! i also noticed that msft has chosen to compare one month of vista to two months of xp. my guess is they know the 2nd month is much slower than the first month, so they thought they'd manipulate the numbers a bit. if vista comes in at 25 million after two months, for example, vista will have don MUCH WORSE than xp, given the market has doubled.
i'm 100% (u/k/x/edu)buntu right now - and i'm liking it. yeah, i use xp at work and some of my older h/w still dual boots into it, but i just don't go there much anymore.
uh, no, it doesn't.
the bible doesn't state how old the earth is.
the problem with most people is that 1. they input into text what isn't there and 2. they tend to listen to what everyone else in their group believes, regardless of the data that contradicts their view.
gen 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
yes, in the beginning, god created the universe. then, at some undisclosed point in time after that event, god took a formless and void earth and did some more creating. you and others ASSUME verse 2 occurred instantaneously after the event described in verse 1, but that doesn't have to be the case.
"in the beginning, i was born. now it came to pass that i had a college final exam."
is my exam necessarily the instant after i was born? would you assume it IN CONTEXT? of course not. yet that is EXACTLY what you do with genesis verses 1 and 2.
the bible speaks of original creation being perfect and beautiful and not "without form and void." the "without form and void" state could have occurred billions of years after the event described in verse 1.
the bible is 100% consistent with an earth billions of years old.
btw, reading into scripture what isn't there and valuing the traditions of men are EXACTLY why the false belief in an eternal hell exists (leveraged by selfish people in order to ultimately control people to suit their own ends - knowingly or not). a parable about regretting a lack of kindness after a resurrection from the dead has been twisted and distorted to mean something that was never intended and blatantly contradicts on topic scriptures.
yeah, people engulfed in flames are going to ask for a drop of water to cure dry mouth. that flame sure must've been hot to make dry mouth the rich man's #1 physical concern! -lol-
the wages of sin is death (ro 6:23) and the dead know nothing (ec 9:5).
look it up yourself. not many people teach these basic truths, instead, they teach death is life and love is torture and the masses eat it up like cherry pie on the weekend.
apparently, they do not know god is love (1jo4:16) and love does NO HARM TO ITS NEIGHBOR (ro 13:10). an eternal torture chamber for billions of people IS NOT LOVE AND CONTRADICTS THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE BIBLE*, yet almost every "christian" organization teaches it and nobody speaks out against it. the irony is that a god of love is consistent with the bible and inconsistent with the traditions of men (like plato's inferno hellfire), yet, "christians" tend to latch onto the traditions.
the facts that death is the wages paid to sinners (actually earned by sinners - failing to care for others EQUAL to oneself) and the death means one knows nothing are both are concise and on point teaching in the bible. most modern day christians REJECT these simple teachings so they can hold on to their traditions.
and, no, death != eternal life. read ro 6:23 - death is CONTRASTED to eternal life. death is exactly what ec 9:5 says it is... a state of knowing nothing, like before you were born.
read ezekiel 37 to see a time pictured when the great masses (in his case the whole house of israel) are resurrected to life from their state of knowing nothing (death!) and learn of god ways - well after this first life has passed away.
you won't find many modern day "christian" churches teaching this truth, either. yet, there it is for someone to see if they put aside their biases and believe what is written.
* yes, god did some physically harsh things to people, but remember that his actions were taken against clay, as it were. he ended a pretty miserable existence and will resurrect those people (see ez 37 for an example) to a much brighte
it is pretty amazing to me that a guy riding a donkey comes off as much more sophisticated in human relationships then folks with 2000 years more history and all the technological advantages we've seen in that time.
morality isn't philosophy.
morality isn't biology.
morality *IS* practicality.
the donkey rider proclaimed a future world where peace, prosperity, joy and happiness would be the rule of the day. peace, prosperity, joy and happiness are effects that require a root cause.
that root cause is morality - and the donkey rider defined it as caring for others EQUAL to yourselves.
if humanity FAILS to do this, and they will with 100% certainty, humanity will eventually topple under the weight of the self inflicted ills of selfishness.
if you look over history, the concept that selfishness leads to pain for the community is every bit a law as the law of gravity.
this is the true message of the bible* that has been lost amongst the selfish people trying to use the bible for selfish reasons.
morality, caring for others EQUAL to ourselves, is the only practical cause for a peaceful, productive and happy eternity.
isn't this as obvious as 2+2=4?
even if you don't believe in eternity, are you going to argue this life wouldn't be better if folks cared for others EQUAL to themselves (should i rape here kill her family or should i respect her and her family and deal with my issues another way?) should i loot this company in a stock scam, or should i respect the stockholders and adjust my value system so i'm not so greedy and selfish? should i loot the public coffers and enslave middle america's grandchildren for life, or should i be responsible and act fiscally reasonable?)? i know, i know, it is pollyana... but that is why god tells us to love him - he's the source of the value system that turns pollyana into reality.
one person at a time.
raise up your perspective a bit... the danger facing humanity is as grave as ever. one day, almost all nations will possess nuclear power... and the day that gas becomes extremely expensive and the greed of the nations will have to decide to kill and control others so they can remain mobile is creeping up on us one day at a time. it may be a while, i'm not trying to be alarmist, but it is coming.
worthless is actually better than burning $500k on 6 people and a blog, no? you've entirely missed the point, imho. *if* one turns in so much spam, no compensation should be required or expected. BUT, should someone share the idea THAT SAVED THE FREAKING ECONOMIST, that person should be duly rewarded - much more so that 6 people running a blog groveling for free ideas. you see, if they *really* want the idea from the smart guy, they won't get it this way - so they've already defeated their purpose. what's wrong with offering $100k to the person with a successful submission? heck, they have no problem spending ~$500k on 6 folks who OBVIOUSLY don't have "the idea." it seems the person with "the idea" is the power broker in this equation, no? who are you going to work for - the person who pays you or the person who will put your name on a web page as they rake in millions off of your work? COME ON! this is the freaking ECONOMIST HERE! do they know NOTHING about, well, micro-ECONOMICS? perhaps a remedial econ 101 class is their first step in this process.
you've missed the point again. this isn't about a person with "the idea" who wants to strike it rich... it is about 6 people paid to generate "the idea," BUT CAN'T! what are their choices? groveling for a "hail mary bailout" is obviously one such choice.
but why? this is the ECONOMIST. why should the person with "the idea" spend any time trying to save a group pulling in ~$500k for a large corporation? why? i would ASSUME the ECONOMIST covers micro-economics, no? again, you asked the wrong question. "the idea" guy isn't groveling here, the 6 "the idea, NOT!" people are in a world of hurt, not "the idea" guy / gal.
iow, effectively NO REWARD. what does micro-economics say about situations such as this? the worse the reward, the better the ideas that will flow in - s that where these guys/gals are at in their knowledge level? have these ECONOMIST employees exposed an INCREDIBLE gap in understanding regarding econ 101 principles and concepts?
effectively no reward == effectively no time spent on project sounds the best. don't you agree? how many times have you stopped by and helped out a business THAT DOESN'T PAY YOU. i'll bet you can add value to what they do... so why don't you stop by and add value FOR FREE? after all, your idea to add value to this company is worthless unless they implement it, right? so, go help every company you can for free.
not as "worthless" as 6 people without "the idea" - they COST ~$500k per year.
there is no reward to give "the idea." the guy at the bar won't bother leaving the table to help these 6 "the idea, NOT!" people out. don't you get it? these guys h
you have to have javascript turned on or their submission form doesn't work. they haven't even figured out how to make their entry form fail gracefully for people who don't have JS enabled. what can i say... this is like asking someone else for an answer while saying, "i already know the anwer, i just want to see if you do, too." frankly, i think this is in poor taste - those 6 folks are pulling in ~$500k per year and they want to add value by using the insight of others without compensation? they must abhor gratitude as much as they abhor closed environments. do they need to follow minimum wage laws? if not, how long until we get the... "i need people to run my business effectively. i'm not paying - but i'll give you credit on the company website. i can't wait to hear from you!"
they let you have computer time for your jail cell again?** telling people to break the law and go to jail is just absurd. ** oh, you mean you do pay your taxes so you aren't in jail, but you advise others to break the law. nice.