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And without pretending that he can fix the world. Which is fatuous and provides a cover for business to continue as usual. Ellison is satisfied with being destructive in one domain of affairs. Gates isn't happy with just screwing up computing. He has to poop other people's parties, too.
Give me Ellison over Gates any day.
> high-end residential
lol
> The whole cleaning industry could be changed.
By making it obsolete maybe. Sounds like unemployment.
Obnoxiousness isn't the right word.
Had to be Government students.
The Gates Foundation's answer to the thousands of public libraries Carnegie built is . . . the Khan Academy?
>Bill Gates is not a Western country
Except that the Gates Foundation acts like one. Its endowment is larger than the GDP about half of the countries of the world. It exists to promote a "creative capitalism" in which the domain of public, governmental services is now understood to be yet another market open for business (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/billg/speeches/2008...).
Not sure why you need a cognitive explanation for what, outside rightist establishments, is hardly a controversial sentiment.
Western countries telling the rest of the world what to do is not only condescending; it repackages old imperial propagandas of improvement, development, dependency, etc., and serves to further entrench Western power abroad.
What rule is there against condemning your own ancestors?
Rich whites were specified.
Let's hope the Martians fare better than the Native Americans.
Why is psychoanalysis a problem in the humanities? Humanists aren't doing brain surgery. American psychology departments don't give them clinical psychology PhDs.
Psychoanalysis isn't popular because it gives an accurate depiction of reality. It's popular for an opposite reason. It helps talk about things that aren't present in the world. How do you propose the laboratory to account for that?
BLDGBLOG is a gold-mine for these kind of things.
And a terribly overrated one that won't go away...
Among the Western public this might be true. But among intellectuals the bigger prejudice is that numbers are "hard." I certainly find them to be so, and have felt like this since high school algebra.
At root it seems to be an epistemological problem, complicated in higher learning by over-specialization in all disciplines.