2011-04-08, 05:26 | Link #12941 | |
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Indeed, if it wasn't for the ideal of constant innovation (practically translated to trying to make a product that seems better and costs less every 10 minutes), then standardization wouldn't be too much of an issue. The problem is that each country has its preferences and its gimmicks in how businesses operate. Making it so that every country works the same is a double-edged sword. The keyword there is "game," particularly because large businesses are treating people's lives like some kind of game without really trying to understand what really makes life easier and better for them and prefer to think about how much money they can spend on them |
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2011-04-08, 05:29 | Link #12942 | |
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I think a better word would be bloodfest in your context. Either that or the terminology of the "game" you are referring to is the type Romans watch at the Colosseum thousands of years ago - profit maximisation has become such a key point that competing teams are willing to make others bleed for their own benefit.
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2011-04-08, 05:32 | Link #12944 |
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Well yes, it's pretty much like in the Colosseo, except this time the arena is the entire world, especially when you consider people's lives depend on how well they do in this game. If the idea of this game was not unlike Monopoly then maybe the context would be rather different, and people wouldn't be after getting rid of competition, but cherishing it.
Agreed, tho that's not the type of innovation I was referring to. There's "innovation" that turns kites to planes, and there's "innovation" that turns the iPad to the iPad2 (which aren't too different but is a clever way to earn more money from people). |
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At least I can eat, cooking and hunt my own food in the flavour I want, dance around the fire with my fellow human beings instead of stabbing them in the back for my own survival, and do any girl I want in the village behind the bush by just simply scratching her palm of her hand. *sarcastic* Quote:
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2011-04-08, 05:34 | Link #12946 |
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The problem with that is, when people's lives don't depend on it, they tend to get lazy. There's a reason why huge amounts of technological advancement came as a result of trying to kill other people or trying to avoid being killed by other people.
When there's no price for failure, nobody much really has a problem with failing. Constantly. The problem now isn't that there's no price for failure, or that there's not enough price for failure. The problem now is the price of success is stratospheric and disproportionately difficult to pay. It should be bad if you fail--which makes you not want to fail--but it shouldn't also be bad if you're competent and useful to society!
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2011-04-08, 05:39 | Link #12947 | |
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2011-04-08, 06:06 | Link #12948 |
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Here's something interesting.
Glenn Beck ending his daily Fox News show Somewhere out there, Americans are either booing, crying, celebrating with joy or just going "meh". While the rest of the world is saying: "Glenn who?" And now...this. Trump hammers away at Obama's citizenship question Three words to the Trump; Give. It. Up. No matter how much you claim that Presiednt Obama wasn't born in the US, you just end up looking more foolish than you ever been since many of these Birther theories have debunked. (Note: Do not post any absurd Birther theories!) Here's a tip: If you want to run for President, then make legitimate goals on how you want to help America, not telling absurd conspiracy theories that have no actual claim. Doing the latter means your a man of talk, not a man of action.
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2011-04-08, 09:11 | Link #12949 | |
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GE bets $600 million on solar, sees plant up by 2013
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Besides, it will only be twice its amount only if the Republicans start privatising the energy sector. Otherwise, it is going to stay at 1.5 or 1.75, making it affordable for everyone.
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2011-04-08, 10:51 | Link #12950 |
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Prospects fade for military overthrow of Gaddafi
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7270JP20110408
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2011-04-08, 12:53 | Link #12952 |
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Hmmm. I imagine that if tactics from 70 years ago were in use stll, those issues with loyalist Libyan forces wouldn't be issues...since they'd just carpet bomb the city or use whatever they can from fighter-bombers and just accept civilian losses to get the job done.
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2011-04-08, 16:30 | Link #12958 |
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With no budget deal, government shutdown looms
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7321P120110408
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2011-04-08, 16:31 | Link #12959 |
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You think? Nowadays, we hunt it with rifles. And there are so many of us, needing so much room for our fields instead of forests. Oh, and let's not forget roadkills. If 99% of us died due to absent medical care and famine, and were reduced to running after animals with sharpened sticks, don't you think said animals would fare a lot better?
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2011-04-08, 17:48 | Link #12960 |
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At least until the sun ran out of hydrogen to fuse, entered the red giant stage and sterilized the planet.
Face it, we're better than animals because without us, they're doomed. We're the only species capable of leaving the planet. We're the only hope of every lifeform on this planet after the end of our star's main sequence stage.
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