I always use the opening, "Only a fucking retard would believe..." That way, they remember that everyone who thinks Saddam was in on 9/11 is a fucking retard.
Well, my apologies for not fully comprehending your articulate approach to pointless generalizations that have enough outs built in to make you feel safe in your argument.
Fair enough. Don't expect very much of your view to ever prevail. But, I'm not going to pretend I don't get where you're coming from. The system is endlessly disappointing.
You're just a right-wing nut. I should have known better.
Who was President in 1973? What party was he from?
BTW, the market did cause the healthcare crisis. There is an economic phenomenon called "cost disease" that occurs when a skill that can only turn out so much efficiency (such as surgery) fails to keep up with the broader market (which, at large, is in fact efficient and therefore surpasses its inefficient sections). It is no mistake that medicine became a problem around the time that efficiency took off.
QUOTE: How about instead of "freeing up" research based on money that is stolen, we just stop the steal-and-pay mentality of government research grants, and let the market economy support what it needs and deny what it doesn't need?
I find this funny considering you're posting this comment on the INTERNET of all places.
Research requires patronage. And that patronage will fund a lot of broken and useless crap.
Also, the efficient markets theory isn't true. Companies fund tons of useless, unmarketable crap, too. Look at half the semiconductor and pharm industries.
A lot of research is useless. But you don't always know until you get in there and see what things really do. And people do abuse the system. It doesn't matter what system you use. Every system is prone to abuse because there will always being people looking to abuse the system. All the market does is give capitalist interests an excuse to claim their abuses are profitable and therefore no one should bitch because the consumer gets to foot the bill.
Think about market-driven research itself before thinking it is so great. Some monkey actually sat down and built the actuarial tables and policies that today are screwing up the healthcare system and making sure that even people who have insurance somehow don't get procedures covered. Yep. Market-driven research really did a lot of good there.
Rubin was tearing Colombia a new asshole for fucking up one of his pet projects. He's the boss now, and frankly I don't blame him for rubbing Colombia's nose into the stain they made on his carpet.
"knowledge that helps people survive survives, other knowledge dies out" is a flawed argument on a practical level. The simple reason is that knowledge is not the only means whereby people survive. An inferior civilization can, and often does, overwhelm a superior civilization by weight of numbers, by disease and even by dumb luck.
If all human civilization were wiped out tomorrow and all its knowledge were to disappear with it, that does not negate the value of the knowledge lost, or even imply the collapse was the fault of technologies they used. At best it implies maybe we needed a little more knowledge.
Just from a brief overview of AMD's releases, there seems to be some voodoo built in for combining iterative operations into a single execution. Of course, most things from AMD have limited meaning until they have chips in developers' hands. But, this has the potential to offer more efficient processing.
"knowledge that helps people survive survives, other knowledge dies out."
Yeah, because the formula from medieval India for rust-proof iron had no application. Greek fire probably wouldn't have been handy, either. Or huge portions of the Roman surgical practices. All utterly useless.
There are other factors involved besides basic utility. For example, war. Vast amounts of knowledge have been lost thanks to war. As I said, how much knowledge was lost when the Germans decided to commit industrial-scale genocide? Keep in mind how many Nobel prizes and Fields medals have gone to Ashkenazi Jews. You're really telling me that we lost nothing of the collective knowledge in the Holocaust?
Or are we just taking a Social Darwinist view that blitzkrieg was more valuable? After all, the Jews did decide it was more valuable, judging by the modern state of Israel.
Also, don't forget that the basis of modern civilization is the agricultural revolutions of the late 1700s and the mid 1900s. When 2% (instead of 75%) of a society is making food, 98% get to work in industries that advance knowledge and technology. Anything that alters that balance will alter the transmission of knowledge.
Put more simply, a lot more knowledge has been lost to depopulation and the collapse of civilizations than to simple lack of utility. It is only reasonable to assume the same will happen again.
Knowledge actually travels very poorly over time. For example, we barely know anything about the world prior to the Renaissance. Once you get before the time of Charlemagne, we're talking about a handful of sources from any one culture, even the advanced ones like the Romans. And once you go before the Romans and the early Chinese there is practically nothing.
Even really big knowledge like algebra (which 'round these parts is BIG stuff) is only 1100 years old. And even then, huge chunks of math figured out in the Middle Ages in the Middle East and India got lost.
How much knowledge was lost every time the Library in Alexandria got torched? How much knowledge was probably lost when the Mongols sacked Baghdad? How much knowledge was lost when the Nazis started killing Jewish scientists?
Actually, Western Digital is significantly more undervalued as a stock than Seagate right now. Not a knock on Seagate; just pointing it out as a value investor.
Clinton was just doing what any decent man should in position. And I'm sorry, but Lewinsky had easily exploitable chick written all over her. In permanent marker. Clinton's only real crime was friggin nasty ass Paula Jones. But, that was how Clinton got down. That's between him, his penis, maybe his God and perhaps the robot who is his wife.
Look at Office Space, Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill. Judge's humor is so close to his subject that it is hard to see where parody/insult ends and identification/sympathy begins.
Look at "Fuck you, I'm eating." It's funny as a down your nose look at how dumb society's low expectations are. It is also just plain dumb funny.
Because companies that aren't looking for specialists are usually too poor to hire all the positions they require. In fact, look up the origin of the phrase "Jack of all trades" and you will end up at the word journeyman. It pretty much is a concept that is interchangeable with systemic poverty. Go find a specialty, or get used to being underpaid.
The guy who operates the backhoe in the accounting department has said that Google may see two or three fewer truckloads of hundred dollar bills each hour.
The truth is, price floors are almost meaningless in a world in which Walmart can break any manufacturer's back. I'm sure that every person holding shares of INTC and AMD wish their companies knew how the hell to implement a price floor.
There is no replacement for a year of your life. Ignore every single idiot who tells you grades are important. If your grades are that important compared to you, your time and your actual work output then to be blunt you are not very important to anyone. If you can't use that extra year to do something more worthy than get grades, then you're a lump of useless carbon anyhow.
Write a manifesto, but no complaints when the feds haul your cabin off on the back of a flatbed. Face facts: either you like the modern life enough to pay its price of admission or you don't.
How many years has the music industry had to get its act together under pressure from tech? The movie business hasn't done much better, they just have a better product that's also harder to DL. Major industries in America have an impressive inertia. Even as markets are lost and advertising goes completely haywire, watch the TV industry desperately cling to outmoded models. Worse, as young viewers become untraceable thanks to DVR and BT, the industry will just blame the trend on an aging population that prefers to watch CBS.
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I always use the opening, "Only a fucking retard would believe..." That way, they remember that everyone who thinks Saddam was in on 9/11 is a fucking retard.
Well, my apologies for not fully comprehending your articulate approach to pointless generalizations that have enough outs built in to make you feel safe in your argument.
Fair enough. Don't expect very much of your view to ever prevail. But, I'm not going to pretend I don't get where you're coming from. The system is endlessly disappointing.
You're just a right-wing nut. I should have known better.
Who was President in 1973? What party was he from?
BTW, the market did cause the healthcare crisis. There is an economic phenomenon called "cost disease" that occurs when a skill that can only turn out so much efficiency (such as surgery) fails to keep up with the broader market (which, at large, is in fact efficient and therefore surpasses its inefficient sections). It is no mistake that medicine became a problem around the time that efficiency took off.
QUOTE: How about instead of "freeing up" research based on money that is stolen, we just stop the steal-and-pay mentality of government research grants, and let the market economy support what it needs and deny what it doesn't need?
I find this funny considering you're posting this comment on the INTERNET of all places.
Research requires patronage. And that patronage will fund a lot of broken and useless crap.
Also, the efficient markets theory isn't true. Companies fund tons of useless, unmarketable crap, too. Look at half the semiconductor and pharm industries.
A lot of research is useless. But you don't always know until you get in there and see what things really do. And people do abuse the system. It doesn't matter what system you use. Every system is prone to abuse because there will always being people looking to abuse the system. All the market does is give capitalist interests an excuse to claim their abuses are profitable and therefore no one should bitch because the consumer gets to foot the bill.
Think about market-driven research itself before thinking it is so great. Some monkey actually sat down and built the actuarial tables and policies that today are screwing up the healthcare system and making sure that even people who have insurance somehow don't get procedures covered. Yep. Market-driven research really did a lot of good there.
Rubin was tearing Colombia a new asshole for fucking up one of his pet projects. He's the boss now, and frankly I don't blame him for rubbing Colombia's nose into the stain they made on his carpet.
"knowledge that helps people survive survives, other knowledge dies out" is a flawed argument on a practical level. The simple reason is that knowledge is not the only means whereby people survive. An inferior civilization can, and often does, overwhelm a superior civilization by weight of numbers, by disease and even by dumb luck.
If all human civilization were wiped out tomorrow and all its knowledge were to disappear with it, that does not negate the value of the knowledge lost, or even imply the collapse was the fault of technologies they used. At best it implies maybe we needed a little more knowledge.
Go on to AVSForum.com. There is no excuse for bad OTA reception if you're willing to spend a couple hundred bucks.
"Apparently, NBC wants me to be so desperate to watch the shows that I would support their outright greed."
I'm judging you never watched the movie Wall Street... greed is good.
Just from a brief overview of AMD's releases, there seems to be some voodoo built in for combining iterative operations into a single execution. Of course, most things from AMD have limited meaning until they have chips in developers' hands. But, this has the potential to offer more efficient processing.
"knowledge that helps people survive survives, other knowledge dies out."
Yeah, because the formula from medieval India for rust-proof iron had no application. Greek fire probably wouldn't have been handy, either. Or huge portions of the Roman surgical practices. All utterly useless.
There are other factors involved besides basic utility. For example, war. Vast amounts of knowledge have been lost thanks to war. As I said, how much knowledge was lost when the Germans decided to commit industrial-scale genocide? Keep in mind how many Nobel prizes and Fields medals have gone to Ashkenazi Jews. You're really telling me that we lost nothing of the collective knowledge in the Holocaust?
Or are we just taking a Social Darwinist view that blitzkrieg was more valuable? After all, the Jews did decide it was more valuable, judging by the modern state of Israel.
Also, don't forget that the basis of modern civilization is the agricultural revolutions of the late 1700s and the mid 1900s. When 2% (instead of 75%) of a society is making food, 98% get to work in industries that advance knowledge and technology. Anything that alters that balance will alter the transmission of knowledge.
Put more simply, a lot more knowledge has been lost to depopulation and the collapse of civilizations than to simple lack of utility. It is only reasonable to assume the same will happen again.
Knowledge actually travels very poorly over time. For example, we barely know anything about the world prior to the Renaissance. Once you get before the time of Charlemagne, we're talking about a handful of sources from any one culture, even the advanced ones like the Romans. And once you go before the Romans and the early Chinese there is practically nothing.
Even really big knowledge like algebra (which 'round these parts is BIG stuff) is only 1100 years old. And even then, huge chunks of math figured out in the Middle Ages in the Middle East and India got lost.
How much knowledge was lost every time the Library in Alexandria got torched? How much knowledge was probably lost when the Mongols sacked Baghdad? How much knowledge was lost when the Nazis started killing Jewish scientists?
Knowledge has a terrible shelf life.
Every year we have to watch as SlashDot continues to be ignored for being "too black".
Actually, Western Digital is significantly more undervalued as a stock than Seagate right now. Not a knock on Seagate; just pointing it out as a value investor.
Clinton was just doing what any decent man should in position. And I'm sorry, but Lewinsky had easily exploitable chick written all over her. In permanent marker. Clinton's only real crime was friggin nasty ass Paula Jones. But, that was how Clinton got down. That's between him, his penis, maybe his God and perhaps the robot who is his wife.
Look at Office Space, Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill. Judge's humor is so close to his subject that it is hard to see where parody/insult ends and identification/sympathy begins.
Look at "Fuck you, I'm eating." It's funny as a down your nose look at how dumb society's low expectations are. It is also just plain dumb funny.
Medieval II may be one of the most artistic games out there.
Surface dwelling intel critters were just the beginning. And God forgive them if they ever make us unleash the sharks with frickin laser beams!!
Because companies that aren't looking for specialists are usually too poor to hire all the positions they require. In fact, look up the origin of the phrase "Jack of all trades" and you will end up at the word journeyman. It pretty much is a concept that is interchangeable with systemic poverty. Go find a specialty, or get used to being underpaid.
The guy who operates the backhoe in the accounting department has said that Google may see two or three fewer truckloads of hundred dollar bills each hour.
And will remain so for many, many, many years to come.
The truth is, price floors are almost meaningless in a world in which Walmart can break any manufacturer's back. I'm sure that every person holding shares of INTC and AMD wish their companies knew how the hell to implement a price floor.
There is no replacement for a year of your life. Ignore every single idiot who tells you grades are important. If your grades are that important compared to you, your time and your actual work output then to be blunt you are not very important to anyone. If you can't use that extra year to do something more worthy than get grades, then you're a lump of useless carbon anyhow.
Write a manifesto, but no complaints when the feds haul your cabin off on the back of a flatbed. Face facts: either you like the modern life enough to pay its price of admission or you don't.
How many years has the music industry had to get its act together under pressure from tech? The movie business hasn't done much better, they just have a better product that's also harder to DL. Major industries in America have an impressive inertia. Even as markets are lost and advertising goes completely haywire, watch the TV industry desperately cling to outmoded models. Worse, as young viewers become untraceable thanks to DVR and BT, the industry will just blame the trend on an aging population that prefers to watch CBS.