Americans are docile because they have easy access to cheap high-calorie food, cheap entertainment and cheap antidepressant psychotropics at the local drugstore or Vitamin Shoppe (i.e. St. John's Wort, SAM-E, Holy Basil) as well as cheap energy for heating and cooling. When this is no longer the case, a hot/cold, hungry, un-entertained, hungover populace will lose that docility with extraordinary speed.
And DON'T change the speed of light or otherwise, all the timing circuits will be off and I'll have to reboot the servers *every* day to get the time sync right.
This strikes me as fairly immodest, particularly if done outside in a cafe bistro on a Sunday morning while drinking a Mai Tai or whatever the young people drink for brunch these days.
We're talking teen-agers here. Emotional connection is probably not as big a factor as looks. Subsidize their prostitutes and I guarantee the hacking will decline.
Sure. Life is crueler, but more expensive to the taxpayer. Death is kinder and cheaper. In either case, the problem is solved regardless of jury biases.
You can't turn off the justice system because juries are bigots.
That and the fact that it rarely works, unless by "rehabilitation" you mean "execution" which is 100% effective and which I would recommend for all armed robbers, con men and wealthy people who double-park.
"I'm thinking, mount this bad boy on a turret on an island somewhere, and use it to destroy asteroids in threat range. " Given the amount of actual power involved, I'm thinking, "Mount this bad boy on a toilet somewhere, and use it to destroy hemorrhoids in threat range."
You meet regularly to discuss the software features for the release. Everyone complains about the meeting time. You track progress on those software features during each meeting. The Agile head honcho complains about the progress and adjustments are made. You regularly change the feature based on feedback and the input of the designers, users and testers who complain about the lousy interface, performance or something else in the meetings. You know when you're finished with a feature because everyone stopped complaining about that feature. At some point, you know you've finished all the features because everyone has stopped complaining enough to bother you, and you're ready to release.
That's it. The rest is details. Now pay me $999 for my consulting advice.
The English language is a hodgepodge of inconsistent and somewhat nonsensical rules. For example, "To boldly go where no man has gone before" (Split infinitive) vs. "To go boldly go where no man has gone before" (Equally bombastic, but grammatically correct).
Grammar and punctuation rules should be followed where they make sense. In a 140 character tweet, they are sensibly dispensed with (Oopsie! Preposition at the end of a sentence).
But don't get me started on spelling and semantic redundancy. (Gasp! Beginning a word with "But" or "And!")
The fact is, that the vast majority of business people would do honest business and not try to screw anyone, even in the complete absence of government. Kid, have you ever actually *worked* anywhere? Most of the business owners I've known or worked for would have sold mud as peanut butter and had their employees pay *them* if they had any chance of getting away with it.
Sociopathic tendencies increase as you ascend in management. If you don't know it yet, you'll find out.
Actually, I doubt this. I think that Romney is being set up by the RNC to fail. Look, the RNC leadership knows what's coming. The economy isn't going to get magically "better" or start to grow in any *significant* way, ever. By the time we get to either debt forgiveness, or debt payback, the energy resource problem starts rearing it's ugly little head (i.e. ever declining energy return - not quantity), energy prices rise globally, and down the world's economies go again.
Who the hell wants to be the party in power as all *that* happens? Better to let the lobbyist checks keep rolling into campaign coffers and the numbered anonymous accounts offshore and let the Democrats take the hits.
This is a human factors issue. Look, the form factor for tablets and phones is just wrong for most *work*. WORK. Remember that stuff? Sure, I can watch videos or play games on my phone, but I'm not going to be editing a spreadsheet, editing an engineering drawing, or typing a novel on my tablet any time soon. Servers and portables with keyboards are going to be around until we get practically useful direct neural I/O.
Um. No. That's how we got a financial crisis in the first place. The repeal of Glass-Steagal during the Clinton administration is how banks in the USA got the ability to gamble with *your* money instead of their own. Building a socio-economic environment without regulation is a bit like building a house without any building codes. Firewalls, plumbing and wiring codes exist for a reason. Ditto for financial regulations. It's to the advantage of the wealthiest gamblers NOT to have regulations. For the rest of us who will never win the capitalist lottery in a big way, the regulations protect us.
Oh, and might I point out that the most successful economy in Europe, is highly regulated AND they have universal health care. Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway aren't doing so poorly either with their regulated economies. Of course, the Swedes were smart enough to let the banks fail and be sold off during their last banking crisis. We, sadly, were not.
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Americans are docile because they have easy access to cheap high-calorie food, cheap entertainment and cheap antidepressant psychotropics at the local drugstore or Vitamin Shoppe (i.e. St. John's Wort, SAM-E, Holy Basil) as well as cheap energy for heating and cooling. When this is no longer the case, a hot/cold, hungry, un-entertained, hungover populace will lose that docility with extraordinary speed.
All of the aforementioned is possible due to cheap energy and a functioning financial system. What could go wrong? http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/large+government+ammo+purchase
Oooooh, tough negotiator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases. So Kudos to Mr. Harris for seeing beyond this.
It's the new Lingua Franca! No, wait...
Soylent Green chips are People!
And DON'T change the speed of light or otherwise, all the timing circuits will be off and I'll have to reboot the servers *every* day to get the time sync right.
Windows will finally run at acceptable speed?
Replace "hacker" with "rock star, athlete or biker" and most women will go for these guys voluntarily. Of course, they'll all deny that verbally.
You should have tried the crazier christian groups - the nuttier the better. Now *those* gals will go wild if you give them any chance at all.
This strikes me as fairly immodest, particularly if done outside in a cafe bistro on a Sunday morning while drinking a Mai Tai or whatever the young people drink for brunch these days.
We're talking teen-agers here. Emotional connection is probably not as big a factor as looks. Subsidize their prostitutes and I guarantee the hacking will decline.
Having encountered the species MBAes hedupasses on numerous occasions, I think that she has a far better shot than some goofball like Carly Fiona.
Their commercials are funnier too.
Which is just stupid. Plain and simple.
Sure. Life is crueler, but more expensive to the taxpayer. Death is kinder and cheaper. In either case, the problem is solved regardless of jury biases.
You can't turn off the justice system because juries are bigots.
That and the fact that it rarely works, unless by "rehabilitation" you mean "execution" which is 100% effective and which I would recommend for all armed robbers, con men and wealthy people who double-park.
"I'm thinking, mount this bad boy on a turret on an island somewhere, and use it to destroy asteroids in threat range. " Given the amount of actual power involved, I'm thinking, "Mount this bad boy on a toilet somewhere, and use it to destroy hemorrhoids in threat range."
You meet regularly to discuss the software features for the release. Everyone complains about the meeting time.
You track progress on those software features during each meeting. The Agile head honcho complains about the progress and adjustments are made.
You regularly change the feature based on feedback and the input of the designers, users and testers who complain about the lousy interface, performance or something else in the meetings.
You know when you're finished with a feature because everyone stopped complaining about that feature.
At some point, you know you've finished all the features because everyone has stopped complaining enough to bother you, and you're ready to release.
That's it. The rest is details. Now pay me $999 for my consulting advice.
The English language is a hodgepodge of inconsistent and somewhat nonsensical rules. For example, "To boldly go where no man has gone before" (Split infinitive) vs. "To go boldly go where no man has gone before" (Equally bombastic, but grammatically correct).
Grammar and punctuation rules should be followed where they make sense. In a 140 character tweet, they are sensibly dispensed with (Oopsie! Preposition at the end of a sentence).
But don't get me started on spelling and semantic redundancy. (Gasp! Beginning a word with "But" or "And!")
The fact is, that the vast majority of business people would do honest business and not try to screw anyone, even in the complete absence of government.
Kid, have you ever actually *worked* anywhere? Most of the business owners I've known or worked for would have sold mud as peanut butter and had their employees pay *them* if they had any chance of getting away with it.
Sociopathic tendencies increase as you ascend in management. If you don't know it yet, you'll find out.
Except now they're called "NYPD." This is how my grandfather ended up in a Siberian gulag.
Actually, I doubt this. I think that Romney is being set up by the RNC to fail. Look, the RNC leadership knows what's coming. The economy isn't going to get magically "better" or start to grow in any *significant* way, ever. By the time we get to either debt forgiveness, or debt payback, the energy resource problem starts rearing it's ugly little head (i.e. ever declining energy return - not quantity), energy prices rise globally, and down the world's economies go again.
Who the hell wants to be the party in power as all *that* happens? Better to let the lobbyist checks keep rolling into campaign coffers and the numbered anonymous accounts offshore and let the Democrats take the hits.
This is a human factors issue. Look, the form factor for tablets and phones is just wrong for most *work*. WORK. Remember that stuff? Sure, I can watch videos or play games on my phone, but I'm not going to be editing a spreadsheet, editing an engineering drawing, or typing a novel on my tablet any time soon. Servers and portables with keyboards are going to be around until we get practically useful direct neural I/O.
It's the gut-level certainty of most small business owners that things will get worse that's keeping them from hiring.
Um. No. That's how we got a financial crisis in the first place. The repeal of Glass-Steagal during the Clinton administration is how banks in the USA got the ability to gamble with *your* money instead of their own. Building a socio-economic environment without regulation is a bit like building a house without any building codes. Firewalls, plumbing and wiring codes exist for a reason. Ditto for financial regulations. It's to the advantage of the wealthiest gamblers NOT to have regulations. For the rest of us who will never win the capitalist lottery in a big way, the regulations protect us.
Oh, and might I point out that the most successful economy in Europe, is highly regulated AND they have universal health care. Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway aren't doing so poorly either with their regulated economies. Of course, the Swedes were smart enough to let the banks fail and be sold off during their last banking crisis. We, sadly, were not.