I think it may be worse than that. The debate was purely based around email, giving an available back down position of saying 'not email' but leaving in everything else. Our publicly owned power companies are being sold off, firstly under the excuse of the financial crisis and now another one......for what? We are forecast to hit 5% growth. Post crisis just about every bank in NZ has had record profits, post the Chistchurch earthquake both the rebuilder and the largest insurer in NZ have posted record profits. Our last PM got a nice job overseas after losing, what is the bet this one does as well.
Interesting. I have just asked around the table who was able to watch videos at either tvnz news or tv3 news about the GCSB saga and found that out of three people, two had tried and neither were able to watch any of the clips. Admittedly, this is in a localised area but in my case I have been unable to watch any news video on the GCSB debate for the past two weeks. They just failed to load. Everything else seems to load fine but not videos related to the GCSB. Now I feel paranoid. It is probably a local problem, but has anyone else in NZ had this?
"The only effective society is one which overtly and deliberately puts a cap on power"
I wonder what a society and economy would look like if wealth was capped at $50,000,000 for companies and individuals. I have never found any study investigating this and I believe it would be an interesting read at least. Something along the lines of;
1) No individual or company may hold more than $50,000,000 worth of assets.
2) If a company reaches $50,000,001 it must split or become government property.
3) If an individual reaches $50,000,000 then all property over $50,000,000 becomes government property.
I would be interested to see what people think would happen, if anyone is keen to have a go.
No where yet in this conversation have I seen anything about the people failing. According to this website, nearly a third don't make it through to the second year. This leaves them with the debt, but none of the benefit.
In my own experience, many of the people I saw dropping out of tertiary education (in NZ) did so because of external pressures. Everything looked OK on paper and they were encouraged by society and the state to enroll but it only took a little change for things to go wrong. Arguing with your parent and having to leave home, a break up in a relationship and the depression afterwards, pregnancy, abusive families and relationships, losing a part time job, mental health problems (especially in the medical sector, where having a mental health problem can prevent you from ever working in the sector), drug addiction, travel problems,accidents, crime, racism, sexism, or an argument with a teacher. Some of these people make it a long way through, or try again when they have failed once only to fail again. Then they have the debt, none of the benefits, and usually large dose of depression from failing.
"Most people simply do not have the mental capacity to comprehend the meaning of 1 + 1 = 2, and if you do not believe me, go ask the people around you, why 1 + 1 = 2, and not 1 + 1 = 3 ?"
Are you suggesting that we hide maths entirely? Look, there are some things I maybe understand a little, many things I don't understand, and probably an infinite amount of things I don't know about. Just because I don't understand something doesn't mean you should hide the problem from me. If maths is the best way to understand something then it should be used. If an article refers to data or a paper then it should be referenced. If you hide things from me (lies to children?) then I have to repeat the work of others to come to the same result. That is called a waste of time.
You, and I, (if you and I exist) are in a situation where the supposed greatest minds of our race understand maybe 2% of the rules. Probably far less. Although it is far more comfortable to sit in frount of media, dealing in made up social structures, assuming that what I can see is real, pretending I know it all and living in a fantasy land. I would quite like to have an inkling of what I don't know. It makes me humble, and it makes me careful.
The map is not the terrain. The rules are not the reality. Shine me a torch to see. And if it is dark, tell me of the possibilty of light.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
(Also as a New Zealand citizen) I would like to add an apology for the rule of law going to hell here. The GCSB was caught out spying illegally on NZ citizens. Nobody was charged, no-one was even fired. We have become a country for the rich and by the rich, subject to foriegn powers. Our property is being sold out from underneath us, our laws have become mutable. There is little responsibilty in government, and even less in the corporate sector.
My mother died a little over a year ago. Photo's are great, but in my case the videos don't do a huge amount for me (although it is interesting to watch how she moved). My brother has her cell phone though, so when we call him we get her voice-mail message....I really miss that voice. Dad went through her travel diaries and typed them up so we all have a copy of those. That's nice because it records the way her mind worked in some of the happier times of her life. The smell of perfumes may also be important, coconut cream always reminds me of her and that phase happened when I was a very young child. Shopping lists, notes, and such are also important. Sometimes it is the way we do little things are say the most about how we were. Beware of recording to much of her in her final stages. They need to remember her as she lived, not as she was dying. Good luck though. You are in for a rough ride and it will take a long time to regain some sense of balance.
"It is utterly unmeritocratic: no matter how hard you work, you would be unable to succeed because you were genetically inferior. You fail because you simply aren't smart enough, or haven't enough stamina, or lack the inbuilt emotional intelligence or what have you"
No, that's evolution.
The question asked is rather easy actually. As per normal turn it around. Is it moral to refuse treatment to a colour blind person knowing that you can fix the perceived problem?
Oh, and btw, the universe doesn't give a shit. There is no god. Morals are just another social construct to protect the inferior and the dominant.
You forgot; "William Hayward Pickering ONZ KBE (24 December 1910 — 15 March 2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space."*
I emailed Rocket Labs for a better time table as I should be able to get a good view of the launch, and they said;
"Thank you for your interest.
We have a media contingent going and one of them may be doing something, but we have no plans at this stage to provide live updates.
If the weather is good, it'll likely be between 6am and 7am Monday 30th."
Redemption. It is hoped that this act will haunt the perpetrators for the rest of their lives because they are human. If you don't believe they have a chance to redeem themselves, if only in their own eyes or in the eyes of the people who love them, then they should have been killed as soon as they were found guilty. A lifetime is a very long time though, some of us make mistakes. Some of us make horrendous mistakes.It is hoped that we would learn from them.
Don't go hacking my heart
I could if I tried
Honey please forget my wireless
Baby I'm not that kind
Don't go hacking my heart
You take the beat out of me
Honey when you knocked on my port
My heart gave you my key
Nobody knows it
When I was down
I was your pawn
Nobody knows it
Right from the start
You stopped my heart
You stopped my heart
So don't go hacking my heart
I won't go hacking your heart
Don't go hacking my heart
On a slighly different note. I wonder if Captain Crunch could freak an ear implant?
"Everyone knows that Jesus was born to Mary after she immaculately conceived him by receiving God's seed somehow." Whilst simultaneously being of the line of David.........Work that one out.
"It's another thing to not consider putting the car in neutral when something like this is encountered." People panic. I was in a car where a friend had his shoelace closed in the door and panicked about not being able to reach the brake. It never crossed his mind to use his other foot, or the handbrake.
Slashdot Mirror
Due to the current government, I'm not going to believe that is true until after the TPP is out.
Wouldn't a better idea be to change the speedometer so it only shows 50km/hr in a 50km/hr zone and 100km/hr in a 100km/hr zone?
Love, TEPCO.
I believe you mean is.
It's perfectly normal. Been happening for thousands of years. Your forgetting that these are people, not a bell curve.
I think it may be worse than that. The debate was purely based around email, giving an available back down position of saying 'not email' but leaving in everything else. Our publicly owned power companies are being sold off, firstly under the excuse of the financial crisis and now another one......for what? We are forecast to hit 5% growth. Post crisis just about every bank in NZ has had record profits, post the Chistchurch earthquake both the rebuilder and the largest insurer in NZ have posted record profits. Our last PM got a nice job overseas after losing, what is the bet this one does as well.
Interesting. I have just asked around the table who was able to watch videos at either tvnz news or tv3 news about the GCSB saga and found that out of three people, two had tried and neither were able to watch any of the clips. Admittedly, this is in a localised area but in my case I have been unable to watch any news video on the GCSB debate for the past two weeks. They just failed to load. Everything else seems to load fine but not videos related to the GCSB. Now I feel paranoid. It is probably a local problem, but has anyone else in NZ had this?
I wonder what a society and economy would look like if wealth was capped at $50,000,000 for companies and individuals. I have never found any study investigating this and I believe it would be an interesting read at least. Something along the lines of;
1) No individual or company may hold more than $50,000,000 worth of assets.
2) If a company reaches $50,000,001 it must split or become government property.
3) If an individual reaches $50,000,000 then all property over $50,000,000 becomes government property.
I would be interested to see what people think would happen, if anyone is keen to have a go.
No where yet in this conversation have I seen anything about the people failing. According to this website, nearly a third don't make it through to the second year. This leaves them with the debt, but none of the benefit.
In my own experience, many of the people I saw dropping out of tertiary education (in NZ) did so because of external pressures. Everything looked OK on paper and they were encouraged by society and the state to enroll but it only took a little change for things to go wrong. Arguing with your parent and having to leave home, a break up in a relationship and the depression afterwards, pregnancy, abusive families and relationships, losing a part time job, mental health problems (especially in the medical sector, where having a mental health problem can prevent you from ever working in the sector), drug addiction, travel problems ,accidents, crime, racism, sexism, or an argument with a teacher. Some of these people make it a long way through, or try again when they have failed once only to fail again. Then they have the debt, none of the benefits, and usually large dose of depression from failing.
It isn't a court. It's a quasi legal jump through these hoops before you can go to court so we can settle your case at a lower cost to the government.
Firstly you go to the ERA then to the Employment Court.
This would all be far more interesting if he had a twin.
Are you suggesting that we hide maths entirely? Look, there are some things I maybe understand a little, many things I don't understand, and probably an infinite amount of things I don't know about. Just because I don't understand something doesn't mean you should hide the problem from me. If maths is the best way to understand something then it should be used. If an article refers to data or a paper then it should be referenced. If you hide things from me (lies to children?) then I have to repeat the work of others to come to the same result. That is called a waste of time.
You, and I, (if you and I exist) are in a situation where the supposed greatest minds of our race understand maybe 2% of the rules. Probably far less. Although it is far more comfortable to sit in frount of media, dealing in made up social structures, assuming that what I can see is real, pretending I know it all and living in a fantasy land. I would quite like to have an inkling of what I don't know. It makes me humble, and it makes me careful.
The map is not the terrain. The rules are not the reality. Shine me a torch to see. And if it is dark, tell me of the possibilty of light.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
(Also as a New Zealand citizen) I would like to add an apology for the rule of law going to hell here. The GCSB was caught out spying illegally on NZ citizens. Nobody was charged, no-one was even fired. We have become a country for the rich and by the rich, subject to foriegn powers. Our property is being sold out from underneath us, our laws have become mutable. There is little responsibilty in government, and even less in the corporate sector.
Untrue. Otherwise we could ask people to remove their clothes and they would comply.
From the Onion.
Err....I dunno.
I am not saying that America is Bahrain. I am merely using it as an example of how you may be shooting yourself in the foot with a law like that.
My mother died a little over a year ago. Photo's are great, but in my case the videos don't do a huge amount for me (although it is interesting to watch how she moved). My brother has her cell phone though, so when we call him we get her voice-mail message....I really miss that voice. Dad went through her travel diaries and typed them up so we all have a copy of those. That's nice because it records the way her mind worked in some of the happier times of her life. The smell of perfumes may also be important, coconut cream always reminds me of her and that phase happened when I was a very young child. Shopping lists, notes, and such are also important. Sometimes it is the way we do little things are say the most about how we were.
Beware of recording to much of her in her final stages. They need to remember her as she lived, not as she was dying. Good luck though. You are in for a rough ride and it will take a long time to regain some sense of balance.
"that you are black and some is chanting "nigger nigger nigger nigger" in your face"
You're at a Rap concert?
"The new bacteria replicated over a billion times, producing copies that contained and were controlled by the constructed, synthetic DNA." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm
Yes, it really is life.
Or we Pluto it :)
"It is utterly unmeritocratic: no matter how hard you work, you would be unable to succeed because you were genetically inferior. You fail because you simply aren't smart enough, or haven't enough stamina, or lack the inbuilt emotional intelligence or what have you"
No, that's evolution.
The question asked is rather easy actually. As per normal turn it around. Is it moral to refuse treatment to a colour blind person knowing that you can fix the perceived problem?
Oh, and btw, the universe doesn't give a shit. There is no god. Morals are just another social construct to protect the inferior and the dominant.
You forgot;
"William Hayward Pickering ONZ KBE (24 December 1910 — 15 March 2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space."*
I emailed Rocket Labs for a better time table as I should be able to get a good view of the launch, and they said;
"Thank you for your interest.
We have a media contingent going and one of them may be doing something,
but we have no plans at this stage to provide live updates.
If the weather is good, it'll likely be between 6am and 7am Monday 30th."
*quoted from Wikipedia
Redemption. It is hoped that this act will haunt the perpetrators for the rest of their lives because they are human. If you don't believe they have a chance to redeem themselves, if only in their own eyes or in the eyes of the people who love them, then they should have been killed as soon as they were found guilty. A lifetime is a very long time though, some of us make mistakes. Some of us make horrendous mistakes.It is hoped that we would learn from them.
Don't go hacking my heart
I could if I tried
Honey please forget my wireless
Baby I'm not that kind
Don't go hacking my heart
You take the beat out of me
Honey when you knocked on my port
My heart gave you my key
Nobody knows it
When I was down
I was your pawn
Nobody knows it
Right from the start
You stopped my heart
You stopped my heart
So don't go hacking my heart
I won't go hacking your heart
Don't go hacking my heart
On a slighly different note. I wonder if Captain Crunch could freak an ear implant?
"Everyone knows that Jesus was born to Mary after she immaculately conceived him by receiving God's seed somehow."
Whilst simultaneously being of the line of David.........Work that one out.
"It's another thing to not consider putting the car in neutral when something like this is encountered."
People panic. I was in a car where a friend had his shoelace closed in the door and panicked about not being able to reach the brake. It never crossed his mind to use his other foot, or the handbrake.