Most of us have been conditioned to understand that the same word can have different meanings in different contexts.
If that were true, then phrases such as "Pro-Life" and "Freedom of Choice" wouldn't be so effective on the masses.
No, highly charged words cross a threshold that most people don't even realize exists. Marketing relies on this phenomenon. I would dare say that even people who expect it, like you and me, are susceptible. In fact, our willingness to believe that we are impervious to this effect might even make us more susceptible.
Agreed, but they're using the word "value" purely in the financial sense, not as a measure of your worth as a human being or anything.
Of course they are. It's how you use language as a tool of control. Notice also that the same word is used for "loyalty" to a company and loyalty to a family or creed.
We have been conditioned to see ourselves in terms of our value to the ownership class.
Tyler Cowen writes in MIT Technology Review that the improved measurement of worker performance through information technology is beginning to allow employers to measure value fairly precisely
Your value has nothing to do with anything your employer can measure.
This is how we got to be such a sick culture, by thinking that the profits we can generate for our employer equals our value. And if your employer valued the "value" of an employee, how many CEOs would be making 8-digit salaries with golden parachutes and stock options?
The new credit cards in the US with chips are good, but why chip and signature? Why not chip and pin like much of the world does?
Because every American would set his PIN to "4444".
And, it might take a millisecond longer to buy a Big Gulp and bag of chips and if there's one thing you never want to do, it's make an American wait an extra millisecond for his Big Gulp and bag of chips.
I used to think she was exaggerating how people specialized in not medical training, but in translating doctor's diagnosis into something the government could grok. One day about 5 years ago she brought over a binder that converted ailments to codes, I couldn't believe it. It was about 300 pages of stuff on something minor, like stitches and shots. She works for Kaiser and said they had as many coders as they had nurses, coders being people who converted diagnostics into codes for the government.
I can see how having 70k codes can track issues, but I have to wonder a) what is this going to cost; and b) how in hell do they think people making 20k/year are going to do a good job at entering codes?
You have to wonder why the insurance industry's lobbyists wrote the ACA this way, don't you?
I couldn't find a single politician in the membership list. There were 156 member states.
Here is a list of the past heads of the IAEA.
"No politicians"? You didn't really look, did you?
Here is a list of the Secretaries General of the IAEA, in chronological order:
1) W. Sterling Cole, former Republican member of the US House of Representatives. 2) Sigvard Eklund, "Starting in 1950, Eklund was the deputy to the managing director of AB Atomenergi. He was also the director of the reactor development division at AB Atomenergi from 1957 to 1961." Industry insider. 3) Hans Blix chaired the Swedish Liberal Party's campaign during the 1980 referendum on nuclear power, campaigning in favor of retention of the Swedish nuclear energy program. 4) Mohamed ElBaradei, former member of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 5) Yukiya Amano, former member of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
I'm not saying the IAEA doesn't do some good work, or doesn't have a place in the discussion, but let's not pretend that they don't have an agenda.
Why would the IAEA be the only part of the United Nations without an agenda?
The reason smoking is so bad for you is that nicotine increases the risk of cancer throughout one's body due to the way it disrupts apoptosis.
Do you have any idea how much nicotine S C Wright, J Zhong, H Zheng and J W Larrick had to give to lab rats to get to a level where apoptosis was sufficiently inhibited to promote tumor growth? And did you know that the tumors already had to be caused by something else, that wasn't nicotine?
If nicotine had any medicinal properties, why is it not a pharmaceutical?
You think there are no pharmaceuticals that are poisons? Don't be a fool. Shall we list the pharmaceuticals that also inhibit apoptosis? They're using caspase inhibitors right now to treat spinal cord injuries with drugs that have about 100 times more apoptosis inhibition than nicotine.
Why do we use it as a pesticide?
For that matter, why do we use pesticides on our food? Why do we design special GMOs just so we can use more pesticides on our food?
Don't be so simple-minded. Nicotine at the levels casual users use does not cause cancer. It's the delivery system in smoking that causes cancer. And do you not know that there's arsenic in apples? Will you now start posting anti-apple FUD?
Slashdot is a pretty provincial, chauvinistic and bigoted publication... as long as these qualities are directed in an anti-US manner.
I get the feeling Slashdot is provincial, but in the sense that their province is the basement and they hate everyone outside it.
Me, I only hate Australia because they have death adders and kangaroo, who are not at all cute and cuddly. They're mean and they just want to kick your ass all the time.
Europe, US, South America, Asia. As long as I can get a decent meal, they're all OK in my book. But you can't get a decent meal in Australia, unless by "decent meal" you mean getting bitten by death adders and your ass kicked by a surly kangaroo. Even koalas you can't trust. They're cute until you get close enough for them to pull a death adder out of their marsupial sack and then it's your ass.
The reality is the smartphone market is garbage; and any selection is one of tradeoffs and compromises. I've found that Android is the best compromise for me so far.
I just hate the targeting of kids with the freemium games and other types of social engineering.
If my kid wants to play games, she can use her 3DS. But no, you don't get to put in a credit card number.
If you look around you can find information on a number of health benefits to tobacco, many of which are legitimate.
Listen to drinky. Nicotine is a really pretty great medicinal. It was Adderall before there was Big Pharma, and it's not a fluke that Native Americans made it a sacrament. The main problem with smoking is not the drug, but the delivery system.
You stated that manned space flight is irrational; the public sector pursued manned space flight, the private sector chose not to. Which of the two actors acted more rationally when it comes to manned space flight?
Rational? I don't know about that. But I do know it's the public sector's job to do the things that the private sector is unable to do. Things that don't show immediate profit.
If you doubt that there was profit from the Apollo program, I suggest looking at the device on which you are reading this.
Oh, "the private sector" is excellent at identifying risk-free boondoggles, crony capitalism, and government handouts, which is exactly what a manned NASA mission to Mars would be... and what you advocate.
I am against a manned mission to Mars. I'd rather see the money spent on something that will do some good, like infrastructure investment.
We didn't do the moon missions until after the interstate highway system was built and we had Social Security and Medicare. We have to prioritize better.
If you'd seen me trying to fix the vacuum cleaner this afternoon, you wouldn't so proud. I was working in the living room (!) because I didn't want to miss any of the football game. I put newspaper down and was doing fine until I started up the dismantled vacuum cleaner with the hose and wand assembly removed for cleaning. A cloud of dust and other unspeakable stuff blew up in my face covering the furniture and the drapes. The living room looked like Mt St Helen's had gone off in it. Every time I walk past my wife she says, "You are really an idiot, you know that?"
Hollywood does it every year for $50-200M a pop. Most of the people in this country believe all the impossible stuff they do in the movies is real anyway
The fact that most people actually believe we had men on the moon in 1968 is proof of that.
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If that were true, then phrases such as "Pro-Life" and "Freedom of Choice" wouldn't be so effective on the masses.
No, highly charged words cross a threshold that most people don't even realize exists. Marketing relies on this phenomenon. I would dare say that even people who expect it, like you and me, are susceptible. In fact, our willingness to believe that we are impervious to this effect might even make us more susceptible.
Of course they are. It's how you use language as a tool of control. Notice also that the same word is used for "loyalty" to a company and loyalty to a family or creed.
We have been conditioned to see ourselves in terms of our value to the ownership class.
Your value has nothing to do with anything your employer can measure.
This is how we got to be such a sick culture, by thinking that the profits we can generate for our employer equals our value. And if your employer valued the "value" of an employee, how many CEOs would be making 8-digit salaries with golden parachutes and stock options?
IT has become just another tool of control.
Most everywhere in the US doesn't require a signature for anything less than $50. Just swipe your card and you're off.
Because every American would set his PIN to "4444".
And, it might take a millisecond longer to buy a Big Gulp and bag of chips and if there's one thing you never want to do, it's make an American wait an extra millisecond for his Big Gulp and bag of chips.
No, the "marsupial pouch" is where they keep their babies. The "marsupial sack" is where they keep the death adders.
You have to wonder why the insurance industry's lobbyists wrote the ACA this way, don't you?
Here is a list of the past heads of the IAEA.
"No politicians"? You didn't really look, did you?
Here is a list of the Secretaries General of the IAEA, in chronological order:
1) W. Sterling Cole, former Republican member of the US House of Representatives.
2) Sigvard Eklund, "Starting in 1950, Eklund was the deputy to the managing director of AB Atomenergi. He was also the director of the reactor development division at AB Atomenergi from 1957 to 1961." Industry insider.
3) Hans Blix chaired the Swedish Liberal Party's campaign during the 1980 referendum on nuclear power, campaigning in favor of retention of the Swedish nuclear energy program.
4) Mohamed ElBaradei, former member of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
5) Yukiya Amano, former member of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
I'm not saying the IAEA doesn't do some good work, or doesn't have a place in the discussion, but let's not pretend that they don't have an agenda.
Why would the IAEA be the only part of the United Nations without an agenda?
Do you have any idea how much nicotine S C Wright, J Zhong, H Zheng and J W Larrick had to give to lab rats to get to a level where apoptosis was sufficiently inhibited to promote tumor growth? And did you know that the tumors already had to be caused by something else, that wasn't nicotine?
You think there are no pharmaceuticals that are poisons? Don't be a fool. Shall we list the pharmaceuticals that also inhibit apoptosis? They're using caspase inhibitors right now to treat spinal cord injuries with drugs that have about 100 times more apoptosis inhibition than nicotine.
For that matter, why do we use pesticides on our food? Why do we design special GMOs just so we can use more pesticides on our food?
Don't be so simple-minded. Nicotine at the levels casual users use does not cause cancer. It's the delivery system in smoking that causes cancer. And do you not know that there's arsenic in apples? Will you now start posting anti-apple FUD?
No. In fact, it was named Churyumov-Garasimenko so that Russian scientists could get a chuckle out of watching US scientists trying to pronounce it.
Rosetta has a nice pair of comets, if you catch my drift.
I get the feeling Slashdot is provincial, but in the sense that their province is the basement and they hate everyone outside it.
Me, I only hate Australia because they have death adders and kangaroo, who are not at all cute and cuddly. They're mean and they just want to kick your ass all the time.
Europe, US, South America, Asia. As long as I can get a decent meal, they're all OK in my book. But you can't get a decent meal in Australia, unless by "decent meal" you mean getting bitten by death adders and your ass kicked by a surly kangaroo. Even koalas you can't trust. They're cute until you get close enough for them to pull a death adder out of their marsupial sack and then it's your ass.
No sir. I do not like Australia.
Everybody's got their big 5G in everyone else's backdoor.
It's not about countries any more, anyway. It's about corporations and control. And they've got their 5G all lubed up for your back door.
I just hate the targeting of kids with the freemium games and other types of social engineering.
If my kid wants to play games, she can use her 3DS. But no, you don't get to put in a credit card number.
What, are you some kind of communist?
Whoa there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Listen to drinky. Nicotine is a really pretty great medicinal. It was Adderall before there was Big Pharma, and it's not a fluke that Native Americans made it a sacrament. The main problem with smoking is not the drug, but the delivery system.
Rational? I don't know about that. But I do know it's the public sector's job to do the things that the private sector is unable to do. Things that don't show immediate profit.
If you doubt that there was profit from the Apollo program, I suggest looking at the device on which you are reading this.
Of course you're right. Here's proof:
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
"Rational policies"? I'm going to have to ask for a citation there. Anything in the past decade will do.
Here in the US, we have the good sense to trample other countries to death in order to pay homage to our magical sky-god.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
Yeah, that's pretty clear.
I am against a manned mission to Mars. I'd rather see the money spent on something that will do some good, like infrastructure investment.
We didn't do the moon missions until after the interstate highway system was built and we had Social Security and Medicare. We have to prioritize better.
If you'd seen me trying to fix the vacuum cleaner this afternoon, you wouldn't so proud. I was working in the living room (!) because I didn't want to miss any of the football game. I put newspaper down and was doing fine until I started up the dismantled vacuum cleaner with the hose and wand assembly removed for cleaning. A cloud of dust and other unspeakable stuff blew up in my face covering the furniture and the drapes. The living room looked like Mt St Helen's had gone off in it. Every time I walk past my wife she says, "You are really an idiot, you know that?"
Not my proudest moment as a tool-using ape.
The fact that most people actually believe we had men on the moon in 1968 is proof of that.