I guess that eventually one half of the population will be watching the other half....Actually, if you include YouTube, that might already be true.
"Excuse me sir. What do you do for a living?"
"I'm a professional voyeur!"
The fact that you think that non-Caucasians AREN'T getting the good jobs probably means that you have been focusing primarily on your job and not the bigger picture of what your job means to the environment and society. It's easy to get tunnel-vision and focus on the immediate benefits of some particular product or technology. What is harder to see is the unintended consequences that are usually negative and range from annoying to deadly. There is getting to be a preponderance of evidence that our current Western model of doing business around the world is having serious negative consequences to society and the environment and the first people to really come to grips with this are the Caucasions. We are the ones that have been living and breathing it for the longest and have had the most personal experiences with the consequences.
If you enjoy feeding the corporate "beast" that's up to you but don't drink the kool-aid. Lazy, undisciplined Caucasions isn't the only reason, and probably isn't even the primary reason, that there aren't more Caucasions working for corporations in research and development.
Maybe engineers tend to believe Creationism because they've seen how many things can go wrong even when there is a modicum of intelligence behind the design. A functioning planet like Earth, with its diverse biomes, million-plus species, and resilient ecosystems makes them look really stupid because they can't do better than supposed "random interactions" and survival of the fittest.
Your statement implies that the current incarnation of capitalism is the only one possible. My rant against globalization and "for-profit" corporations doesn't mean that I am against capitalism. Commerce can take place, and has taken place for hundreds of years, without corporations and without global movements of business operations to take advantage of cheap labor and fewer government restrictions. What I am against is a system that works well for fewer and fewer people.
People need to be able to work and make a "livable wage" otherwise people will resort to crime or become dependent on government handouts. People also need to live in an environment that is non-toxic otherwise they will fight whatever is destroying their environment or find a new place to live. I believe, and feel free to come up with your own theory, that corporations have become the biggest impediment to healthy capitalism because they are chartered to encourage greed and allow people to avoid a sense of personal responsibility. They have leveraged technological advances and global disparities in standards of living to make money at the expense of the environment and the long-term impacts on workers. They have been able to do this because people failed to understand the impact corporations would have. That is changing.
Sure globalization is great if you ignore the niggling minor problems like pollution and exploitation of desperate workers. Also you would have to arbitrarily decide that dying from chronic diseases from living older is better than dying younger from acute diseases. And of course since there is no objective way to measure quality of life we'll just assume that people with the most stuff are the happiest. It validates the American lifestyle so Americans, at least, have to approve to avoid cognitive dissonance.
The best thing any government could do would be to eliminate the formation of "for-profit" corporations. Their "it's all about the profit" charters have made them a danger to the planet. They have used globalization to avoid doing the right thing environmentally and socially. They have no conscience because no one in a corporation feels personally responsible for the negative impacts of the company. As they say: "It's not personal, it's just business". Globalization is really a corporate phenomena that takes advantage of foolish people who would rather chase what they want rather than what they need.
If you have to lie to your parents to maintain your relationship with them then the bomb was already planted a long time ago. It was only a matter of time for it to go off. I don't condone what the hackers did but they can't actually destroy anyone that isn't already primed for destruction.
If you want to argue that you should be able to live whatever kind of twisted life you want without interference from anyone else then you should take it up with God.
If the overseer is expected to have a degree in Computer Science it's likely that they are expected to be a technical manager that understands the process and pitfalls of creating software. This requires years of experience and to get those years of experience you need to start as a "code monkey". Asking a recent Computer Science graduate to manage a team of Indian coders is a recipe for disaster.
Isn't that the truth!
Where the global economy has become more of a "confidence game" than a true measure of productivity because of fiat money. Where government subsidies, bailouts and entitlement programs create enormous distortions in the true strength of an economy, you have to wonder if anyone really knows what's going on.
I would agree with you, except for the biology part. Not because there hasn't been some startling developments in the area of biology but because it takes a longer time to see the blowback from the discoveries in biology than in other fields. All you have to do is read a book like "Why Things Bite Back" by Edward Tenner to see that "the more things change, the more they stay the same".
You can't debate with a religious fundamentalist who already knows The Truth.
Exactly, but you make it sound like a bad thing. We can't all be experts on everything so we clearly recognize who is correct. Even if we could, that would still exclude epiphanies, revelations, and other suprarational means of understanding life. I think many people on Slashdot have watched too much Star Trek. It's entertainment not reality.
Yes indeed! Ignorance is bliss! And you can always rationalize that it's not your JOB to actually understand the problems, just make them go away.
Until, of course, that ignorance has lead you down the garden path to your own demise. I certainly wish it was true that "what you don't know won't hurt you". Unfortunately, in IT in particular, that has never held true for me.
Speaking for the antimatter, I believe that there is a misconception. We don't appreciate being called the "anti" matter. We are the other-matter to you. From our perspective, you are the antimatter! You don't like it very much when someone calls YOU antimatter do you. I wish we could all just get along but it was not meant to be. We will continue to annihilate any of you that try to contact us. Please! Just leave us alone!!!!
Thank You
If you want to get your ethics from a real person instead of a book I'd be happy to oblige. You see, I was born under a "lucky" star so everyone who wasn't should send me money. Since you get your advice from "real people", you obviously weren't born under a "lucky" star and are what we call an unlucky person. Please let me know if PayPal works for you because that is the most ethical method for you to send me money.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
