Hmmm. I suppose that's true. While I personally don't know what OT references there are to adultery, I suppose it's possible he was expanding on another one. That just seemed the most likely one, however, a Talmudic scholar, I'm not, so I could easily be wrong about the specific principal being expanded.
I mean it's either: . 1) An arbitrary definition made up on the spot. . 2) An expansion of a definition of sin based on the only "principals" known at the time (i.e. old testament's 10 commandments).
I neither agree nor disagree with the point per se. The basics are logically indeterminate and therefore, not arguable in any epistemologically meaningful sense.
Doesn't appear to be a principle as such. Looks like he was attempting to broaden the definition of one of the 10 commandments, which I guess was taken as a fundamental principle in that cultural context.
Quote: "But the US is hardly helpless. With smart processes and the proper incentives, U.S. companies can keep jobs here in America . Managers rarely care, and even more rarely, have the technical expertise to handle labor decisions in ways that benefit themselves and the country. Their entire focus is getting that next bonus. If they have to move 75% of their operations to lower Slobbovia to do it, they will, rather than spend the 15 minutes of googling and thinking that would allow them to do the job more efficiently and cheaply in the USA. . Unfortunately, in the USA, most managers have MBAs but nothing else, an education which seems to leave most of them with the ability to do almost anything financial except understand and run a business in real time.
Open Office doesn't *have* to be as good. It's more than good enough for 99% of what most companies need to do, and the price is right. Moreover, the hidden IT costs (MANY person-hours) of having to diddle with Microsoft's licensing disappears too.
>Is there an easy way to quit using the government? Sigh. No easy way. After all, all ecologies develop symbiotic parasites, including social ecologies. So, you can move, but unless the local social ecology is sparse, you can't avoid an infection of government. The trick is finding one that's minimally pathological.
I think we're violently agreeing on that point. It was the conservative christian = no porn thing I was trying to figure out. Seemed implied by your post.
Well, that and the drugs. As I understand it, after enrolling at Southeast Missouri State University, he dropped out after two semesters. Rumor has it that he "flunked everything", even a modern ballroom dancing class. . Maybe the small brain size thing preceded obesity in this case.
Is that in the bible or something? Seriously, I get the prohibitions in Leviticus and the admonition not to covet your neighbor's wife (Presumably, their daughter is OK), but I don't recall any specific restrictions on watching sex acts on the internet. I'm guessing that their partners are not their wives.
Sorry, but that's the bottom line. Move your data to the cloud; kiss the privacy of that data goodbye. Move your voicemail to the phone company. Same issue. Get your code developed in [offshore country of your choice], you can rest assured that some of that code will go to a competitor in [insert country of choice]. . Anytime there's an entity between you and your data/property/money, etc. it's no longer really yours. You don't control it any longer.
Sometimes that doesn't matter. Sometimes it does. Big time. Plan accordingly.
Not bad if it's understood that it's the commonly practiced entertainment/educational activity noted earlier (Not that there's anything wrong with that!).
Been both self-employed and employed by others in life. Plenty of choices. Most are lousy economic dead-ends (Gee! I think I'll learn Modula-2!). Recognizing this is highly adaptive. Ignoring it, highly maladaptive.
Note: If the best engineering always won, would we all be using (ugh) Windows?
I repeat, Software is about money or masturbation. Learn the difference.
Pure evil is found by gang of dedicated software testers. Evil is fixed in a patch update, and terminator robots suddenly stop killing everyone and start serving margaritas and cupcakes.
In short, if you work doing something productive in the USA, you will be screwed by any and all organizations because you cost more. Will the last person left with "loyalty to country" please turn off the lights when you go? . Personally, I think anyone that hires executive talent in the USA is getting a bad deal. I suggest that we outsource all management to India and China where wages are low. . And what the heck, the management couldn't get much worse.
That would seem to be the bigger story. Up to now, it's looked like some form of mental masturbation popular only with computer science professors in academia and kids living in Mom's basement.
What's lacking is creativity. Exciting stuff is happening in AI, genetic algorithms, quantum computing, microfluidics, etc. any one of which may one day be profitably applied to a plain jane IT job (some now). You just can't get all your information from the talking heads or industry news.
Well, it's not being done that way. The idea behind what the Europeans are doing is to simulate actual neuronal behavior. The results were quite interesting in that it seems to behave much like a real piece of neural tissue (http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/19767/).
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But isn't his tinfoil hat just lovely?
Hmmm. I suppose that's true. While I personally don't know what OT references there are to adultery, I suppose it's possible he was expanding on another one. That just seemed the most likely one, however, a Talmudic scholar, I'm not, so I could easily be wrong about the specific principal being expanded.
I mean it's either:
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1) An arbitrary definition made up on the spot.
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2) An expansion of a definition of sin based on the only "principals" known at the time (i.e. old testament's 10 commandments).
I neither agree nor disagree with the point per se. The basics are logically indeterminate and therefore, not arguable in any epistemologically meaningful sense.
Doesn't appear to be a principle as such. Looks like he was attempting to broaden the definition of one of the 10 commandments, which I guess was taken as a fundamental principle in that cultural context.
Quote: "But the US is hardly helpless. With smart processes and the proper incentives, U.S. companies can keep jobs here in America
.
Managers rarely care, and even more rarely, have the technical expertise to handle labor decisions in ways that benefit themselves and the country. Their entire focus is getting that next bonus. If they have to move 75% of their operations to lower Slobbovia to do it, they will, rather than spend the 15 minutes of googling and thinking that would allow them to do the job more efficiently and cheaply in the USA.
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Unfortunately, in the USA, most managers have MBAs but nothing else, an education which seems to leave most of them with the ability to do almost anything financial except understand and run a business in real time.
Open Office doesn't *have* to be as good. It's more than good enough for 99% of what most companies need to do, and the price is right. Moreover, the hidden IT costs (MANY person-hours) of having to diddle with Microsoft's licensing disappears too.
Just trying to disambiguate here. It's early. And with Ellison involved....Well, you know.
>Is there an easy way to quit using the government?
Sigh. No easy way. After all, all ecologies develop symbiotic parasites, including social ecologies. So, you can move, but unless the local social ecology is sparse, you can't avoid an infection of government. The trick is finding one that's minimally pathological.
I think we're violently agreeing on that point. It was the conservative christian = no porn thing I was trying to figure out. Seemed implied by your post.
Well, that and the drugs. As I understand it, after enrolling at Southeast Missouri State University, he dropped out after two semesters. Rumor has it that he "flunked everything", even a modern ballroom dancing class.
.
Maybe the small brain size thing preceded obesity in this case.
Is that in the bible or something? Seriously, I get the prohibitions in Leviticus and the admonition not to covet your neighbor's wife (Presumably, their daughter is OK), but I don't recall any specific restrictions on watching sex acts on the internet. I'm guessing that their partners are not their wives.
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Sorry. Christians are very confusing to me.
Sorry, but that's the bottom line. Move your data to the cloud; kiss the privacy of that data goodbye. Move your voicemail to the phone company. Same issue. Get your code developed in [offshore country of your choice], you can rest assured that some of that code will go to a competitor in [insert country of choice].
.
Anytime there's an entity between you and your data/property/money, etc. it's no longer really yours. You don't control it any longer.
Sometimes that doesn't matter. Sometimes it does. Big time. Plan accordingly.
Touche'
Not bad if it's understood that it's the commonly practiced entertainment/educational activity noted earlier (Not that there's anything wrong with that!).
Ummm. No.
Been both self-employed and employed by others in life. Plenty of choices. Most are lousy economic dead-ends (Gee! I think I'll learn Modula-2!). Recognizing this is highly adaptive. Ignoring it, highly maladaptive.
Note: If the best engineering always won, would we all be using (ugh) Windows?
I repeat, Software is about money or masturbation. Learn the difference.
Another next biggest thing for the "guys in Mom's basement" crowd.
Learn C#, Java, C++ or VB.Net. Get a job.
Learn {obscure fad language of the month created by college students who don't have to make money}, stay unemployed.
It's either about money or masturbation guys. Learn the difference.
Wow, can I get this kind of slack where I work?
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Excuse me, I have to go visit the office of some loud co-workers....
The assassins are those two little guys in front to the left of the Verizon guy.
Pure evil is found by gang of dedicated software testers. Evil is fixed in a patch update, and terminator robots suddenly stop killing everyone and start serving margaritas and cupcakes.
The horror.... the horror.....
Can't we just clone him to a computer? Cheaper. More fun to play with ala Sim torture.
In short, if you work doing something productive in the USA, you will be screwed by any and all organizations because you cost more. Will the last person left with "loyalty to country" please turn off the lights when you go?
.
Personally, I think anyone that hires executive talent in the USA is getting a bad deal. I suggest that we outsource all management to India and China where wages are low.
.
And what the heck, the management couldn't get much worse.
That would seem to be the bigger story. Up to now, it's looked like some form of mental masturbation popular only with computer science professors in academia and kids living in Mom's basement.
What's lacking is creativity. Exciting stuff is happening in AI, genetic algorithms, quantum computing, microfluidics, etc. any one of which may one day be profitably applied to a plain jane IT job (some now). You just can't get all your information from the talking heads or industry news.
Well, it's not being done that way. The idea behind what the Europeans are doing is to simulate actual neuronal behavior. The results were quite interesting in that it seems to behave much like a real piece of neural tissue (http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/19767/).