This is what happened to (neo-)Malthusianism. Every generation since Malthus has predicted disaster at some invented threshold, and over and over these thresholds are surpassed.
That's obviously because the thresholds were incorrectly defined. I've a project manager who works on the same principles.
But even a not-great one routinely outperforms the US system. There are horror stories to be found in both, but they're a lot easier to find in the US.
Citation needed. Sorry, but us folk outside the US are well aware of the legal system in the States - and (in the same breath - bear with me) the Jerry Springer show. The former means that people tend to publicize and sue to get the $$$ available from malpractice suites. The latter is an example of a media item that allows nation-wide publicity.
Consider also China, or India. Would you expect their healthcare system to be better or worse than the US? What data is there to support that view?
This is exactly how Rockefeller was thinking: when you come across talent, you hire, then you adapt your business based on the people available. Even if in the short term it does not fit in an existing MS-Project plan, over the years you build a strong core and the team is driving the business, not the other way around.
Excellent comment. I've worked in several areas where a bunch of talented people were assembled, did the work, released the project and then broken up. Staff were blown to the four winds. Rocky would have us looking at what we can do with what we have, rather than what we want to do and who we get to do that.
But I think reality is harsher - businesses are there to make money and do the whims of the CEO/Shareholders, not employ people.
Koko:.... so I consulted the Attorney-General, the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the Judge Ordinary and the Lord Chancellor. They 're all of the same opinion. Never knew such unanimity on a point of law in my life !
Agreed. I don't think my personal data is that interesting. Identity theft is a mild concern - but I don't really if anyone else knows that I had asthma as a child, 40 years ago. If they're that interested in mindless trivia, good luck to them...
It's the twitter/facetube generation. They think that "everything I think of is worthy of publishing on the net, and data about ME is as fascinating to everyone else as it is to me".
I'll respond to (1) and email in which I can make money (Income related, Nigerians in dire straits, etc.), (2) easy-to-answer emails, and (3) all others. I apparently have no friends.
I doubt that will last for much longer. If you're replying to Nigerians with deceased relatives I'm sure you'll soon have lots of friends.
And ass-kissing has been around since Chaucer's time.
You're referring to the Miller's tale? That's a different type of ass-kissing. The tale uses ass-kissing as a joke (the comedy is in the confusion of a bearded man) not in a pandering-to-the-boss sense. But if you know Chaucer, you know this.
Imagine trying to build an iPhone in 1990. Sure, the first clunky models would be kind of cool even though they required you to drag a half-ton trailer around with you, but would also be utterly pointless until technology had improved enough in other areas to eliminate that half-ton truck.
I worked in an Infrastructure team in the mid 90s in the UK - we were buying big, clunky mobile phones with massive battery packs, for people to use when they tripped around Europe. If we'd waited... well, we couldn't. They wanted to call home from Berlin/Warsaw/Amsterdam. People need the solution, not the technology. Give them solutions first and then improve it.
I've been working on Unisys mainframes/Enterprise servers for years (decades...) and they run their OS on top on a "hardened" Windows server (2008 on the latest). I never get to that level (thank god) and it's the poor engineers who fiddle with it.
And it causes problems - Windows device drivers aren't as flexible as Unisys ones. And for that reason the latest Unisys Clearpaths have lost the Microsoft layer entirely - run on Firmware that runs on the chips. Safer, more controllable, in-house. So, IBM are following Unisys by about a decade... ho hum.
.. an IT leadership coach... uh-huh. Veiled message is "take my course, buy my book". I'm still employed using skills I learnt in 1980. Eric Bloom can get the hell off my lawn.
The majority of the human population might therefore eventually live "enroute" on various stations. OK, so what?
- yeah, let's just decide that we want to enslave generations of people to live in a tin can their entire lives without having any choice on the matter whatsoever.
If they don't like it? Well, they can always just commit an interstellar suicide and open the hatches somehow or blow it up to smithereens.
Let me guess, you aren't a big believer in individual human rights, are you?
Define "tin can". People have lived in wooden boxes (i.e. old-style sailing ships) for years, if not decades at a time. Magellan's round-the-world trip took five years.
Anyhow - we ought to give people the option. If they want to volunteer, great. Make sure they know the risks, the costs, the terms... and I bet some people would still be in the line-up. No-one's enslaving anyone with that set-up.
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Reasons:
a) One large US army in Iraq
b) One large US army in Afghanistan
c) Elections coming close
This is what happened to (neo-)Malthusianism. Every generation since Malthus has predicted disaster at some invented threshold, and over and over these thresholds are surpassed.
That's obviously because the thresholds were incorrectly defined. I've a project manager who works on the same principles.
True - I'm sure if we look hard enough, we could also find someone who would not be dead if not for the NHS.
Me. I was a sickly kid, NHS (care, Great Ormand street hospital. etc) kept me around.
So that's two of us. I'm no Stephen Hawking though (though conversely, he's no Kittenman..)
But even a not-great one routinely outperforms the US system. There are horror stories to be found in both, but they're a lot easier to find in the US.
Citation needed. Sorry, but us folk outside the US are well aware of the legal system in the States - and (in the same breath - bear with me) the Jerry Springer show. The former means that people tend to publicize and sue to get the $$$ available from malpractice suites. The latter is an example of a media item that allows nation-wide publicity.
Consider also China, or India. Would you expect their healthcare system to be better or worse than the US? What data is there to support that view?
Sorry, thought this was a slashdot poll. Anyone else remember the hubble and the problems there?
... will soon mean "Being totally wiped out and then coming back just to prove a scientific point by some nit-pickers".
This is exactly how Rockefeller was thinking: when you come across talent, you hire, then you adapt your business based on the people available. Even if in the short term it does not fit in an existing MS-Project plan, over the years you build a strong core and the team is driving the business, not the other way around.
Excellent comment. I've worked in several areas where a bunch of talented people were assembled, did the work, released the project and then broken up. Staff were blown to the four winds. Rocky would have us looking at what we can do with what we have, rather than what we want to do and who we get to do that.
But I think reality is harsher - businesses are there to make money and do the whims of the CEO/Shareholders, not employ people.
Koko:. ... so I consulted the Attorney-General, the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the Judge Ordinary and the Lord Chancellor. They 're all of the same opinion. Never knew such unanimity on a point of law in my life !
It's the twitter/facetube generation. They think that "everything I think of is worthy of publishing on the net, and data about ME is as fascinating to everyone else as it is to me".
Didn't see this one coming. What's next: "Linux is Dead"? "Apple is Dead"? "God is Dead"? (Oblig. Nietzsche ref)
I'll respond to (1) and email in which I can make money (Income related, Nigerians in dire straits, etc.), (2) easy-to-answer emails, and (3) all others. I apparently have no friends.
I doubt that will last for much longer. If you're replying to Nigerians with deceased relatives I'm sure you'll soon have lots of friends.
We're having Christmas with an old friend of the wife's, who works as a homeopath. I'm not letting her (the homeopath) mix the drinks.
A good promo for Facebook ... gets it in the news without mentioning 'security' Dammit, I just did.
I wait for comments ... a do many other fans.
And ass-kissing has been around since Chaucer's time.
You're referring to the Miller's tale? That's a different type of ass-kissing. The tale uses ass-kissing as a joke (the comedy is in the confusion of a bearded man) not in a pandering-to-the-boss sense. But if you know Chaucer, you know this.
"the quick and the dead" (pretty much the only place in modern English where "quick" still means alive instead of fast).
You've cut me to the quick with that remark.
Light pollution - pah ... I was up at 3am to take the dog out and the sky was just glorious. Oh, I live in the southern hemisphere...
How am I supposed to take the test and then share the results on Facebook?
You're on Facebook? Turn in your geekcard now.
Imagine trying to build an iPhone in 1990. Sure, the first clunky models would be kind of cool even though they required you to drag a half-ton trailer around with you, but would also be utterly pointless until technology had improved enough in other areas to eliminate that half-ton truck.
I worked in an Infrastructure team in the mid 90s in the UK - we were buying big, clunky mobile phones with massive battery packs, for people to use when they tripped around Europe. If we'd waited ... well, we couldn't. They wanted to call home from Berlin/Warsaw/Amsterdam. People need the solution, not the technology. Give them solutions first and then improve it.
Yeah, that'll work. The attorney general will certainly read an unsolicited email that he's been CCed onto.
And it causes problems - Windows device drivers aren't as flexible as Unisys ones. And for that reason the latest Unisys Clearpaths have lost the Microsoft layer entirely - run on Firmware that runs on the chips. Safer, more controllable, in-house. So, IBM are following Unisys by about a decade... ho hum.
Testudo aubreii? Or the anomalous phalanges of...
I'm here for you ...
.. an IT leadership coach ... uh-huh. Veiled message is "take my course, buy my book". I'm still employed using skills I learnt in 1980. Eric Bloom can get the hell off my lawn.
The majority of the human population might therefore eventually live "enroute" on various stations. OK, so what?
- yeah, let's just decide that we want to enslave generations of people to live in a tin can their entire lives without having any choice on the matter whatsoever.
If they don't like it? Well, they can always just commit an interstellar suicide and open the hatches somehow or blow it up to smithereens.
Let me guess, you aren't a big believer in individual human rights, are you?
Define "tin can". People have lived in wooden boxes (i.e. old-style sailing ships) for years, if not decades at a time. Magellan's round-the-world trip took five years.
Anyhow - we ought to give people the option. If they want to volunteer, great. Make sure they know the risks, the costs, the terms ... and I bet some people would still be in the line-up. No-one's enslaving anyone with that set-up.
(Also, I like the song better than the original too and so does my 1.8 yr old toddler.)
You express your toddler's age as a decimal number, despite there being 12 months in the year? Not sure if that's amazing or really sad ...