I was not talking about who can have kids, I was talking about our lack of concern about how they are raised. Often times the people who raise children (that is, imprinting basic beliefs and social norms) are under educated, under experienced, and even financially incapable of doing the job. We incentivize this via social programs that virtually guarantee the process will repeat itself. People are having kids and being paid by the state to raise them in a setting that will often perpetuate the cycle... that's just stupid. So, if you are going to have a kid, and you need state help to raise it, you take classes and pass exams to show you have enough on the ball mentally to do the job. If not, no state aid, and at some point you will probably lose the right to raise the kid via either it's actions or yours. You could never weed out the psycho's that want to raise kids with a particular ideology, they aren't going to be asking for help anyway. But you might be able to ameliorate a lot of issues with simple training and testing.
The problem is to even have a shot at making something like this work right now, you'd have to have actual humans vet and whitelist websites, videos and everything else on a one-by-one basis.
Not only that, but you will immediately have problems with cross culture compatibility... I'm pretty sure you would not get objections from the Amish, but pretty much every other group will want things skewed to {support / justify / defend} the basic cultural prejudice required by said groups.
You need a license to drive a car but any moron can raise a Dahmer or even a Hitler in their own home.
Hey, you're only being asked to open your email account to a domain registered in Libya, it's not like anything bad could happen... crap, I think I broke my own sarcasm meter.
... unless credibility can be expressed as a negative value!
In which case I believe you are required to register the organization as a major political party. On the up side you can then commence the solicitation of funds to support your noble efforts. Oh, wait...
Ok, I'm going to need $250,000,000 right away to get "Project Early Bird" up and running... let's just hope we have enough time to breed the correct giant mutant birds.
...that's like saying a keyboard is safe from illiterate people because it has letters printed on the keys.
Sadly, that statement is true. An illiterate person will shy away from a keyboard, an on screen (TV) menu, a newspaper, etc. the same way someone who is broke is embarrassed by the sight of a checkbook or wallet... it becomes a reflex. I know someone who is a good intuitive mechanic, but somehow managed to get to adulthood with less than third grade reading and writing skills. Left to himself, a typical 5 page job application takes a couple of hours and many phone calls to complete. Now he has a 2 year old son, and it is beginning to dawn on him that by the time the son is 8 or 9 he will be left in the dust... I can only hope he chooses to grow rather than try and retard the advancement of his son...
This is a great idea! I always thought the "cloud" thing was lame anyways, so lets just start calling it "The Basket". Once the IT people start using it, middle management will pick up on it just to sound like they are in the know.
Boss to IT guy: How is the migration of all our services to the cloud going? IT guy: We don't call it that anymore sir, bad connotations from the Amazon episode. Boss: Well what do we call it now? IT guy: Sir, we now refer to it as "The Basket". Boss: Because all of our eggs are in it? IT guy: Oh no sir, because it is a large, self supporting structure of many interwoven members. Boss: Oh, OK. Please make sure marketing is aware of the new terminology, we would not want to look out of date! IT guy: Yes sir, just as soon as I finish with our eggs...
Damn, all this time I've been calling it "American Idle"... I guess that's from never watching the show. The other one with the truncated name (America's Got Talent [ but you won't be seeing it here ] is still alive as well. This tells me that the measuring device will not only take off (vote for your favorites with brain waves) but I think it could later be used to sculpt or spin news and political commentary. If they could have the feedback live in the control room people could literally hear exactly what they want to hear... without all that burdensome thinking and possible cognitive dissonance.
Can't argue the halving of IQ when the adrenaline gets going.
My own IQ marker has alway been the size of a group of males. Individually, any one of the boys might be pretty bright. But, two boys together share half the IQ that they started with. Three boys together halve their IQ's again. By the time you get four boys together, they don't have enough smarts to pour piss out of a boot. Larger groups are likely to die of asphyxiation, because they aren't smart enough to breathe.
Combine my law with yours, and get a group of 4 adrenaline junkies together, and they probably suck the IQ out of anyone around them. Kind of like a black hole sucks energy and matter.
Since when does the government have a right to monitor the movements of an entire city's population when 99% have probably done nothing wrong.
The whole point of the current structure of the law is that EVERYONE is in some manor, a violator of some local, state, or federal statute. This makes it a lot easier to get all but a few people to shut up, move along, and keep their heads down... lest the focus of law enforcement swing towards them....
I think I might have an old KAYPro IIsystem laying around in a shed... It looked like a portable sewing machine when closed. I also think a buddy has an old Osborne 1 somewhere. In that time frame, both of them were pretty interesting devices.
The U.S. version had a commercial for BBY's Geek Squad.
Hey, that's an interesting marketing twist: "We can't take care of our own shit, so how about we mess with your stuff instead" P.S. Mention this email and we will give you a 50% discount... So you'll only be paying twice what other shops would charge you!
What you posit may be correct in a few cases, but I think using the app to evade detection is the more likely scenario. And not long after that the market place will kick in and here is what will happen:
A lawyer trying to sue a drunk driver for injury and or death caused wholly by egregious negligence will check the defendants phone usage and find this app was accessed minutes before the tragic accident. Prior phone usage/GPS data will show the defendant did deviate from their normal path of travel after being alerted to a check point. So, not only did the app allow the defendant to avoid possible detection, it did, in fact, set the defendant on their new and tragic path.
So now everyone is in the payee pool... the coder, the company that sold or released the app, the store front that provided access to the app, any and all persons that provided information about the check point, the carrier that did not block access to the data... and anyone else that might rather settle than be dragged into the mess.
Because when you are suing someone, the more pockets the better. And the deep pockets would rather write a check than sit there watching the jury look at little Timmy in a wheelchair...
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All people serving in congress are congressmen.
You know, I always thought there was something odd about some of the females that have been elected, this explains it. They're tucked and taped!
Bruce Willis agrees with you...
Mr. Galt, is that you? I'm not a big "Randophile" but sometimes current events remind me of Atlas Shrugged.
I was not talking about who can have kids, I was talking about our lack of concern about how they are raised. Often times the people who raise children (that is, imprinting basic beliefs and social norms) are under educated, under experienced, and even financially incapable of doing the job. We incentivize this via social programs that virtually guarantee the process will repeat itself. People are having kids and being paid by the state to raise them in a setting that will often perpetuate the cycle... that's just stupid. So, if you are going to have a kid, and you need state help to raise it, you take classes and pass exams to show you have enough on the ball mentally to do the job. If not, no state aid, and at some point you will probably lose the right to raise the kid via either it's actions or yours. You could never weed out the psycho's that want to raise kids with a particular ideology, they aren't going to be asking for help anyway. But you might be able to ameliorate a lot of issues with simple training and testing.
The problem is to even have a shot at making something like this work right now, you'd have to have actual humans vet and whitelist websites, videos and everything else on a one-by-one basis.
Not only that, but you will immediately have problems with cross culture compatibility... I'm pretty sure you would not get objections from the Amish, but pretty much every other group will want things skewed to {support / justify / defend} the basic cultural prejudice required by said groups.
You need a license to drive a car but any moron can raise a Dahmer or even a Hitler in their own home.
Hey, you're only being asked to open your email account to a domain registered in Libya, it's not like anything bad could happen...
crap, I think I broke my own sarcasm meter.
Oh that's because they were using an i-Phone
It was a pin-hole camera, not a pin-head camera.
Cue Larry the Cable Guy:
"Now that's funny I don't care who you are..."
I post because I have no points to give.
Impossible.
... unless credibility can be expressed as a negative value!
In which case I believe you are required to register the organization as a major political party.
On the up side you can then commence the solicitation of funds to support your noble efforts. Oh, wait...
Ok, I'm going to need $250,000,000 right away to get "Project Early Bird" up and running... let's just hope we have enough time to breed the correct giant mutant birds.
Making power is easy. Storing it, not so much. Storing it in a cheap, safe, and efficient form? Worth trillions of dollars.
Also, a reasonable amount of portability is a big plus...
...that's like saying a keyboard is safe from illiterate people because it has letters printed on the keys.
Sadly, that statement is true. An illiterate person will shy away from a keyboard, an on screen (TV) menu, a newspaper, etc. the same way someone who is broke is embarrassed by the sight of a checkbook or wallet... it becomes a reflex. I know someone who is a good intuitive mechanic, but somehow managed to get to adulthood with less than third grade reading and writing skills. Left to himself, a typical 5 page job application takes a couple of hours and many phone calls to complete. Now he has a 2 year old son, and it is beginning to dawn on him that by the time the son is 8 or 9 he will be left in the dust... I can only hope he chooses to grow rather than try and retard the advancement of his son...
This is a great idea! I always thought the "cloud" thing was lame anyways, so lets just start calling it "The Basket". Once the IT people start using it, middle management will pick up on it just to sound like they are in the know.
Boss to IT guy:
How is the migration of all our services to the cloud going?
IT guy:
We don't call it that anymore sir, bad connotations from the Amazon episode.
Boss:
Well what do we call it now?
IT guy:
Sir, we now refer to it as "The Basket".
Boss:
Because all of our eggs are in it?
IT guy:
Oh no sir, because it is a large, self supporting structure of many interwoven members.
Boss:
Oh, OK. Please make sure marketing is aware of the new terminology, we would not want to look out of date!
IT guy:
Yes sir, just as soon as I finish with our eggs...
Moses had the first tablets, right?
Maybe true, but they had poor durability and no back or recovery...
Now put the ear buds back in please.
and push them in until they touch each other...
Damn, all this time I've been calling it "American Idle"... I guess that's from never watching the show. The other one with the truncated name (America's Got Talent [ but you won't be seeing it here ] is still alive as well. This tells me that the measuring device will not only take off (vote for your favorites with brain waves) but I think it could later be used to sculpt or spin news and political commentary. If they could have the feedback live in the control room people could literally hear exactly what they want to hear... without all that burdensome thinking and possible cognitive dissonance.
Can't argue the halving of IQ when the adrenaline gets going.
My own IQ marker has alway been the size of a group of males. Individually, any one of the boys might be pretty bright. But, two boys together share half the IQ that they started with. Three boys together halve their IQ's again. By the time you get four boys together, they don't have enough smarts to pour piss out of a boot. Larger groups are likely to die of asphyxiation, because they aren't smart enough to breathe.
Combine my law with yours, and get a group of 4 adrenaline junkies together, and they probably suck the IQ out of anyone around them. Kind of like a black hole sucks energy and matter.
Well, now I understand the "Jackass" movies...
I'm pretty sure he can go to another country and work. AFAIK, American judges are limited to American turf.
Right, as long as he never wants to come back. As far as I know there is no statute of limitations on being found in contempt and judges really dislike being ignored. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court#United_States
Since when does the government have a right to monitor the movements of an entire city's population when 99% have probably done nothing wrong.
The whole point of the current structure of the law is that EVERYONE is in some manor, a violator of some local, state, or federal statute. This makes it a lot easier to get all but a few people to shut up, move along, and keep their heads down... lest the focus of law enforcement swing towards them....
Is Bill O' as good?
Take him off his meds. If that doesn't do the job a weekend immersion training with Charlie Sheen* should have him ranting** along nicely...
*abusable substances available on a cost plus basis
**resulting rants not guaranteed entertaining
Every time you do that god kills a kitten...
and uses the fur to wrap a pair of handcuffs so you can get off the way you should, via punishment!
I think I might have an old KAYPro IIsystem laying around in a shed... It looked like a portable sewing machine when closed. I also think a buddy has an old Osborne 1 somewhere. In that time frame, both of them were pretty interesting devices.
The U.S. version had a commercial for BBY's Geek Squad.
Hey, that's an interesting marketing twist:
"We can't take care of our own shit, so how about we mess with your stuff instead"
P.S. Mention this email and we will give you a 50% discount... So you'll only be paying twice what other shops would charge you!
Well, mostly open. Except when it isn't.
I had a wife like that...
I meant to say PAYER pool, not payee pool...
What you posit may be correct in a few cases, but I think using the app to evade detection is the more likely scenario. And not long after that the market place will kick in and here is what will happen:
A lawyer trying to sue a drunk driver for injury and or death caused wholly by egregious negligence will check the defendants phone usage and find this app was accessed minutes before the tragic accident. Prior phone usage/GPS data will show the defendant did deviate from their normal path of travel after being alerted to a check point. So, not only did the app allow the defendant to avoid possible detection, it did, in fact, set the defendant on their new and tragic path.
So now everyone is in the payee pool... the coder, the company that sold or released the app, the store front that provided access to the app, any and all persons that provided information about the check point, the carrier that did not block access to the data... and anyone else that might rather settle than be dragged into the mess.
Because when you are suing someone, the more pockets the better. And the deep pockets would rather write a check than sit there watching the jury look at little Timmy in a wheelchair...