Flashback IX
2005.03.14 11:02

#When Life Starts?
This argument is more religious than scientific. Continuation of life has been argued in religion. For example, in Buddhist belief, samsara-reincarnation beyond the limits of each individual not only humans but all living things. In Christianity, resurrection, advent, etc. It is generally accepted the beginning of individual life is zygote, but what is connecting between zygotes, what is the origin of life remain to be not well explicable yet by human knowledge.
#Colour of Money
In advanced countries, the average number of children of married couple has been less than 2. While the population has been upward slightly, which means we are facing an ageing society. Some argue that the inequilibrim between the young workers who pay premium and the old retired who receive might cause trouble, but that's a magic of figure in statistics. The young never pays premium for other than themselves. You see only those who had paid premium for more than 25 years are eligible to be a recipient of this social benefit. The number of young population counts for nothing. Still less whether the young pay respect to this social system doesn't matter at all. Those who don't work ought not to eat as well as those who hadn't paid premium have no chance to receive this social benefit at all. I mean even if the number of young decrease, the old who's eligible ought to be received fully. If the lack of fund in the future should be the problem, tax or other public fund have to be made up for the loss of it. There's no colour in money, but there's a right stream in itself.
#Write A Book
I like your style, style of description, development etc. very well, and I think you are talented in writing. So how about writing a book and why not try to publish it. I think it's a good idea. When you got personal wealth, it's your turn to spend it for the benefit of the poor. But first you yourself have to be rich. You are talented guy, don't hold on to your fruitful ideas only in yourself. Make them known in public.
404 file not found -soon after you started writing, I was reading but anyway I was unable to find the site now.
For my part, I don't intend to publish a book. I am writing a JE here, that's my calling. I will catch up with the forerunners like you, that's my aim.
#Fair
There was a very rich man and a very poor man. Both bought lottery at the same time. Lottery cannot judge which is better to win. Their probability to win is the same. Nature is cruel. Nature does not spend too much time and money to choose the one. If it does, that is the problem. Whatever the alternatives might be, it woudn't care.. Nature is cruel, but it's a subjective opinion. Nature is fair, in other words.
#Living Organism
Golden parachute is paid for those who contributed to major M&A and cut unnecessary personels and realised most efficient cost performance. Corporation is a viable living organism, has to change incessantly.
As a result of major M&A, many personels are cut inevitably. So those who devised it is worthy of millions of perks. An investment bank issue several hundred dollars worthy of CBs, which itself is a gamble but sometimes give them huge profit( 200-300 million dollars ), enables them to earn 10-20 million dollars incentives. They can earn money as a result of their direct transactions. They are worthy of golden parachute. So who to blame for what?
I learned it from freejung's 'we are railroaded' before. I am opposed to give corporations personhood as real people have, though indeed corporations are as if they were living organisms that they are under severe competitiveness as real life faces. It is inevitable for us individuals to form corporations to get along with this real world, because we are indeed too small to cope with any matter arisen in our life. Only very few can survive without the help of belonging to the corporations, but it rather belongs to the exceptions.
#Accumulation of Wealth
Accumulation of not only wealth but expertise as well over the centuries enables people to live sustainable enough without working hard in your country's case. UK is not built in a day. In my country's case at least 300 years behind the times. Those who noticed backwardness of our country go to sea. It's true.
Before automatic wickets were introduced at the station, people were reluctant to pay full amount of fare. Station building never got refurbished. But now because of the introduction of that, people have to pay fully which lead to a fine station building that eventually made us commuters more comfortable than before.
Our mobile phone is relatively expensive, but because we need them to use and unless we paid fully, we are unable to keep on using it, so we have to keep on paying. DoCoMo( giant mobile phone company ) enables to build a skyscraper everywhere, besides thanks to huge profit they made, they were able to use extra-fund to R&D of TV phone, now we were available one of advanced technologies.
I mean system is good enough, society's going to be affluent, even those who didn't contribute to the development of the society can be benefitted by this system. Because of the huge accumulation made over the centuries by your own country man, your country came to be affluent, affluent enough to sustain those who are unwilling to work, which itself is regardless of whether good or bad, certainly a criterion of a matured society as UK.
#Stockholder Has a Say
I just wonder you live in the same country as I live. We have taken it for granted that your country has already established a strong right and protection for stockholders much more than ours. Certainly our country/society has been changing, changing rapidly surprisingly enough from countries which have got an obsolete business custom as you described above to countries where stockholders do control the company in overall management. Plus highly tranparent corporate governance. But having said that, your country is a forerunner. I cannot help but say that what you noticed were not reflecting what today's America is, perhaps far from it - in my point of view, please check it again.
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Life(Score:2)
by Stargoat (658863) on 2005.03.14 12:22 (#11929738) (http://www.stargoat.com/ Last Journal: 2005.09.23 11:56)
What's life?
Re:Life(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) on 2005.03.16 1:03 (#11943605) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.09.24 14:16)
In a secular word, it is a resistance to destruction.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Parent ]
Re:Life(Score:2)
by Stargoat (658863) on 2005.03.16 9:55 (#11949027) (http://www.stargoat.com/ Last Journal: 2005.09.23 11:56)
My rock has a resistance to destruction. Or is life the opposite of entropy?[ Parent ]
Re:Life(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) on 2005.03.16 22:58 (#11952592) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.09.24 14:16)
Exactly. I meant life is an antithesis to the law of entropy increase.
Everything is liable to disperse and scatter if it were set left as it is. So everything tends to decay not going to refresh themselves, but life takes different direction, try to rejuvenile try to reorganise as much as possible, thus life succeeds to the future till the end of time.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Parent ]
Re:Life(Score:2)
by Stargoat (658863) on 2005.03.17 4:42 (#11956618) (http://www.stargoat.com/ Last Journal: 2005.09.23 11:56)
Unless of course life ceases to be. What should happen if the earth is destroyed in a cataclysm, like a giant meteor? Life would end then.
I guess another, perhaps better question would be, "is life more than a chemical reaction"?[ Parent ]
Re:Life(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) on 2005.03.17 23:32 (#11964596) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.09.24 14:16)
Mr Stargoat, don't worry, life would not end in the event of Apocalypse, would be remained in the form of microcosm, even if everything disappeared at one time somewhere sometime after the total annihilation took place, life appears from the very origin somewhere at the egde of vast space sometime between past and future in the endless line of time.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Parent ]
Re:Life(Score:2)
by Stargoat (658863) on 2005.03.20 15:33 (#11989252) (http://www.stargoat.com/ Last Journal: 2005.09.23 11:56)
Really? Because I thought life appeared at the bottom of a sea trench, where some steamers and some water and some randomly floating proteins happened to meet and have an interesting party.