you realize the stars in the galaxy only account for less than 1% of the mass required to hold the galaxy together You forgot Step 7.5: "Assume that we know everything about all of the forces which hold galaxies together on the astronomical scale."
There's no money in globally regulating ESP. There's massive amount of taxpayer money to be siphoned off when funding and regulating particle accelerators, nuclear reactors, and telescopic arrays.
The primary driving motive behind 99% of everything which happens in the world: create debt, maintain debt, keep people in debt, work those people until they die from debt.
The industry is fifteen years down the wrong path. We (many of us) tried to warn our nontechnical peers before things came to this point. We tried to express the benefits of a diverse field. We tried to illustrate the merits of alternative technologies. We tried to sing the praises of other operating systems and other companies. The sad fact is that computer technology was wrestled away from the true technologists who invented it and was thrust headlong to the public sector by the businessmen, politicians, stock brokers, and bankers who saw a massive profit potential in it but had no real knowledge or appreciation of the intellectual advancements which created it.
Billions of dollars in taxpayer money were funnelled, through government grants, contracts, and subsidies, into social circles and corporations who had demonstrated a willingness to put aside the morals and values of the true scientists in favor of ensuring their own priveleged paychecks, pensions, and long term profit margins. The American taxpayers subsidized the startup of the.com bubble, we paid for the infrastructure on which the rest of the internet was built, and we paid for the products, the software, and the services on the consumer end. Where, then, did the profits from the.com bubble go? The profits went into the hands of the same major investment groups who have been carefully profiling and controlling the market for generations--people who, when the.com bubble became the.com bust, shrewdly bought the real estate being sold by the common people seeking to ameliorate their losses (which had been carefully planned by those people who were now buying their real estate at dirt cheap prices). When America began to return to consciousness after the.com blackout we now find that the same real estate which we sold to keep ourselves from bankruptcy is being rented or sold back to us--as condos, apartments, are housing communities--at three, four, ten, even hundreds of times the cost.
The pyramidscheme is so beautiful we could almost cry for joy if we were on the financial winning side of it. As it is we have no choice but to cope with a world where Motorola is relegated to handhelds, HP has partnered with Compaq and become just another x86 retailer, and Microsoft holds a betting majority of the chips when it comes to influencing the direction of software development and globally recognized protocols.
What good is insurance if you spend so much on it that you have nothing left to live on? Don't you think you need to actually do enough research to have some confidence in the results before instituting such costly measures? The answers to your questions, for concerned citizens, should be "insurance is no good" and "yes, we should". Realize, though, that concerned citizens do nothing but serve to keep each other occupied in a perpetual game of sh*tter tennis (aka Kansas City Shuffle) while the economy is controlled at a much higher level. The everyday investors and economists spend entire lives studying and analyzing markets whose trends are, in fact, very predictable to people several levels further up the chain.
While your thoughts are in the right place they cannot amount to any real impact until we take care of the larger problem: that there is an organized group of individuals whose sole purpose is to create debt, maintain debt, keep people in debt, and work those people until they die of debt.
While I value environmental protection as much as the next living and breathing human being I recognize that, until we solve the problem of centralized financial enslavement of the population, then these issues will never, can never, be addressed from an objective and unbiased point of view. While the reigning financial monopolists are still in control then every issue is just as likely another bounce in the game of sh*tter tennis (aka Kansas City Shuffle).
These days the platters spin so fast and the data density is so high that the math just might work out the same for a solid state device and the spinning disc--ie. the spinning disc may, mathematically, approximate the solid state device.
At first thought I agree, though. Maybe there's something inherent in the nature of the conducting materials which creates an asymptote, for conventional technologies, closing in around 30 mb/sec.
That's understating. When my Compaq V2000 arrived it was absolutely fettered with junk that filled nearly 20 gigs of the HD. A smooth reinstallation--careful to update drivers and not actually run vendor installs which often dump on the crapware--had the XP install to around 2 gigs and system performance was much more responsive. Not that the responsiveness of the XP install was the main point. The main point was to take back the HD space for LFS and Debian.
Both of you reference medication presumptuously--as if to create a public image that is tarnished by a need for medication. What's your connection together? Are the two of you butt-banging homo friends?
Marxist Hacker 42, until you decide to spread as many apologies as you have spread mud, then I cannot help you. You have created your own work: apologize you worthless piece of camel excrement.
I think you meant to say the people who create the groundbreaking ideas which the managers love to steal and present as their own. Innovators.
Prima donnas are described by m-w.com: "a vain or undisciplined person who finds it difficult to work under direction or as part of a team". Those would be the ones who, with proper political support, are promoted to upper management. Those who are not promoted to upper management are shuffled into sales jobs.
How does one tell the difference between an innovator and a prima donna? The innovators get fired when they ask for a raise. The prima donnas receive unemployment until they move to sales, HR, or PR.
Whether it is a mining town or a fishing town or a technology town, people appreciate Not as much as the upper management appreciates knowing both your wages and how much it costs your family to eat every month. Think modern day companies with in-house bank branches and with the right to scrape your screen when you check your ledger balance or recent transactions online at work.
What do you do when wages and cost of food begin to approach each other? At what point is the foul acknowledged when wages = CoF - 1 ?
If you haven't used it in a year then, with 95% probability, it can be thrown away. That other 5% is for items which are prohibitively expensive to replace. Decorative objects are not subject to this rule.
Computer archives are the same way: if you haven't used it in the last year then, with 95% probability, you'll never need it again. That other 5% is reserved for archives of your own personal projects which you may be emotionally attached to.
E-mail communication invariably falls within the 95% segment. If my employer wants to archive my e-mail that's their business. With respect to any e-mail client which I have personal control over, though, very little has a lifespan longer than 30 days. I keep one e-mail from each contact (I'm paranoid of address book scrapers) and I archive e-mails which have important bookmarks. Everything else gets tossed.
It is important to face reality: you will forget more information than you will ever know. Stop fighting it needlessly. Do not become attached to collections for the mere sake of collecting. Sure, everyone has a collection of something somewhere but when their life becomes a clutter of collections then it becomes a problem--a sign of a deeper cranial issue (such as the inability to face reality).
Please spare me the troll responses which list special case arguments such as "but what about..." or "I have a collection of..."
In order to obtain your pass to ride the shared corporate transit system you will need to sign an NDA which amounts to "silence must be kept at all times". Video and audio recorders mounted within the bus will ensure that employees who have displeased their managers will be fired for saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes while employees who "give it up" to their management will be allowed to trade hot stock tips and infrastructure design improvements with their peers from other companies.
Google will do what all companies do: Identify the largest portion of the employee population, usually those making less than $80k/year, and will initiate a program of attrition. Yearly raises will be slashed, performance reviews will be capped, and the incoming salary offers for non-priveleged candidates (ie. everyday technological associates) will be levelled off. Middle and lower managers will receive bonuses based upon how flat they can keep their budgets and not based upon any real technological performance--maybe a more preferred stock offering will be available to managers whose budgets increase by only justified amounts. In order to maintain a good image Google, as a corporate entity, will remind incoming candidates that "We may not be able to offer the same compensation as our competitors but we do offer transportation to and from work which we see as a valuable fringe benefit which both enhances the employee paycheck and works to preserve the environment."
A life-saver in this "MS-we-know-what-you're trying-to-do" world I felt an enormous sigh of relief, as if a thousand pounds of stress had just left me, when I read that at least one other person in the world has experienced this.
Whenever I'm forced to use Windows I often have Notepad open just as a sanitizer for my copy/paste buffer because, under the hood of the MS proprietary in-home Big Brother spy system, there's no telling what extra crap is pulled along with every copy and paste.
I wasn't talking to you. I do not care for your responses. You know what you need to do. Rather than trailing me around and slinging mud at me you should be making amends for your repeated demonstrations of "wrong theory of mind". Your entire history here on Slashdot is a wrong theory of mind.
No, you may not suggest anything. Any suggestion you make is received as predatory. You are a backwoods hick who ran a part time overnight BBS from his dorm room in college. You see Slashdot as the reincarnation of your lost dream to be SysOp and lord and master of all the users around you.
The average citizen receives the pride of knowing that they are playing their preordained part in the ten thousand year old game of social control: Create debt, maintain debt, keep people in debt, work them until they die of debt.
There are higher motivations for promoting a society in which people recognize the value of (as opposed to assigning arbitrary value to) the things they choose to accumulate. The overly fanatical attachment to mere collections, without any sense of real worth, is detrimental to self-improvement. I don't mind living in a society which has some social groups of packrats--but I wouldn't want to live in a society composed entirely (or even primarily) of packrats. Packrats, like everyone, have a few customary idiosyncracies in the way they see the world. I do not share them all.
There's a difference between setting up a camera for the express purpose of identifying your customers and setting up a camera to keep your advertising department safe They want the intent of their network of surveillance cameras back.
Some people become attached to their collections--no matter what the collection is. It is psychologically difficult for some people to face the reality that some things are simply not worth saving.
I advocate a training program for those people: once each year they should practice archiving everything they might ever want to save to one CD. Just one typical data CD. Not a DVD. One single CD. Anything which doesn't make it to the CD is random number filled.
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them until they die of debt.
The Federal budget deficit creates debt for parents. Parents must work to pay debt. Children are allowed to find trouble because the parents are working to pay debt. Legal action resulting from the trouble creates more Federal budget debt. The Federal budget deficit creates more debt for the parents.
The system is to simple to be a coincidence. Somewhere there is an organized group of accountants who planned this whole thing out.
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them until they die of debt.
Asserting, even somewhat humorously, that the government should pay for the age verification does nothing but lend to the debt system. If the government is asked to pay they'll simply find a way to milk it out of the taxpayers--further selling them into debt. The Senators and Representatives will also, most likely, be much closer to the profit pile from whichever company receives the government contract to verify internet age. That's the way a pyramid scheme works--take from everyone and give back only to a priveleged few.
Of course asserting that a company should pay for it is the same up-and-over loop but doesn't reach the height of the government. Eventually the cost is always passed on to the general consumer while the profits are funnelled most prominently to the executives, directors, and VPs.
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There's no money in globally regulating ESP. There's massive amount of taxpayer money to be siphoned off when funding and regulating particle accelerators, nuclear reactors, and telescopic arrays.
The primary driving motive behind 99% of everything which happens in the world: create debt, maintain debt, keep people in debt, work those people until they die from debt.
The industry is fifteen years down the wrong path. We (many of us) tried to warn our nontechnical peers before things came to this point. We tried to express the benefits of a diverse field. We tried to illustrate the merits of alternative technologies. We tried to sing the praises of other operating systems and other companies. The sad fact is that computer technology was wrestled away from the true technologists who invented it and was thrust headlong to the public sector by the businessmen, politicians, stock brokers, and bankers who saw a massive profit potential in it but had no real knowledge or appreciation of the intellectual advancements which created it.
.com bubble, we paid for the infrastructure on which the rest of the internet was built, and we paid for the products, the software, and the services on the consumer end. Where, then, did the profits from the .com bubble go? The profits went into the hands of the same major investment groups who have been carefully profiling and controlling the market for generations--people who, when the .com bubble became the .com bust, shrewdly bought the real estate being sold by the common people seeking to ameliorate their losses (which had been carefully planned by those people who were now buying their real estate at dirt cheap prices). When America began to return to consciousness after the .com blackout we now find that the same real estate which we sold to keep ourselves from bankruptcy is being rented or sold back to us--as condos, apartments, are housing communities--at three, four, ten, even hundreds of times the cost.
Billions of dollars in taxpayer money were funnelled, through government grants, contracts, and subsidies, into social circles and corporations who had demonstrated a willingness to put aside the morals and values of the true scientists in favor of ensuring their own priveleged paychecks, pensions, and long term profit margins. The American taxpayers subsidized the startup of the
The pyramid scheme is so beautiful we could almost cry for joy if we were on the financial winning side of it. As it is we have no choice but to cope with a world where Motorola is relegated to handhelds, HP has partnered with Compaq and become just another x86 retailer, and Microsoft holds a betting majority of the chips when it comes to influencing the direction of software development and globally recognized protocols.
While your thoughts are in the right place they cannot amount to any real impact until we take care of the larger problem: that there is an organized group of individuals whose sole purpose is to create debt, maintain debt, keep people in debt, and work those people until they die of debt.
Supporting evidence is contained in the discussion of two NYTimes articles referenced in these journal entries.
While I value environmental protection as much as the next living and breathing human being I recognize that, until we solve the problem of centralized financial enslavement of the population, then these issues will never, can never, be addressed from an objective and unbiased point of view. While the reigning financial monopolists are still in control then every issue is just as likely another bounce in the game of sh*tter tennis (aka Kansas City Shuffle).
These days the platters spin so fast and the data density is so high that the math just might work out the same for a solid state device and the spinning disc--ie. the spinning disc may, mathematically, approximate the solid state device.
At first thought I agree, though. Maybe there's something inherent in the nature of the conducting materials which creates an asymptote, for conventional technologies, closing in around 30 mb/sec.
That's understating. When my Compaq V2000 arrived it was absolutely fettered with junk that filled nearly 20 gigs of the HD. A smooth reinstallation--careful to update drivers and not actually run vendor installs which often dump on the crapware--had the XP install to around 2 gigs and system performance was much more responsive. Not that the responsiveness of the XP install was the main point. The main point was to take back the HD space for LFS and Debian.
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Both of you reference medication presumptuously--as if to create a public image that is tarnished by a need for medication. What's your connection together? Are the two of you butt-banging homo friends?
Marxist Hacker 42, until you decide to spread as many apologies as you have spread mud, then I cannot help you. You have created your own work: apologize you worthless piece of camel excrement.
Naive much? Or just trolling? Don't be ashamed to admit it.
I think you meant to say the people who create the groundbreaking ideas which the managers love to steal and present as their own. Innovators.
Prima donnas are described by m-w.com: "a vain or undisciplined person who finds it difficult to work under direction or as part of a team". Those would be the ones who, with proper political support, are promoted to upper management. Those who are not promoted to upper management are shuffled into sales jobs.
How does one tell the difference between an innovator and a prima donna? The innovators get fired when they ask for a raise. The prima donnas receive unemployment until they move to sales, HR, or PR.
What do you do when wages and cost of food begin to approach each other? At what point is the foul acknowledged when wages = CoF - 1 ?
If you haven't used it in a year then, with 95% probability, it can be thrown away. That other 5% is for items which are prohibitively expensive to replace. Decorative objects are not subject to this rule.
Computer archives are the same way: if you haven't used it in the last year then, with 95% probability, you'll never need it again. That other 5% is reserved for archives of your own personal projects which you may be emotionally attached to.
E-mail communication invariably falls within the 95% segment. If my employer wants to archive my e-mail that's their business. With respect to any e-mail client which I have personal control over, though, very little has a lifespan longer than 30 days. I keep one e-mail from each contact (I'm paranoid of address book scrapers) and I archive e-mails which have important bookmarks. Everything else gets tossed.
It is important to face reality: you will forget more information than you will ever know. Stop fighting it needlessly. Do not become attached to collections for the mere sake of collecting. Sure, everyone has a collection of something somewhere but when their life becomes a clutter of collections then it becomes a problem--a sign of a deeper cranial issue (such as the inability to face reality).
Please spare me the troll responses which list special case arguments such as "but what about..." or "I have a collection of..."
In order to obtain your pass to ride the shared corporate transit system you will need to sign an NDA which amounts to "silence must be kept at all times". Video and audio recorders mounted within the bus will ensure that employees who have displeased their managers will be fired for saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes while employees who "give it up" to their management will be allowed to trade hot stock tips and infrastructure design improvements with their peers from other companies.
Google will do what all companies do: Identify the largest portion of the employee population, usually those making less than $80k/year, and will initiate a program of attrition. Yearly raises will be slashed, performance reviews will be capped, and the incoming salary offers for non-priveleged candidates (ie. everyday technological associates) will be levelled off. Middle and lower managers will receive bonuses based upon how flat they can keep their budgets and not based upon any real technological performance--maybe a more preferred stock offering will be available to managers whose budgets increase by only justified amounts. In order to maintain a good image Google, as a corporate entity, will remind incoming candidates that "We may not be able to offer the same compensation as our competitors but we do offer transportation to and from work which we see as a valuable fringe benefit which both enhances the employee paycheck and works to preserve the environment."
Whenever I'm forced to use Windows I often have Notepad open just as a sanitizer for my copy/paste buffer because, under the hood of the MS proprietary in-home Big Brother spy system, there's no telling what extra crap is pulled along with every copy and paste.
I wasn't talking to you. I do not care for your responses. You know what you need to do. Rather than trailing me around and slinging mud at me you should be making amends for your repeated demonstrations of "wrong theory of mind". Your entire history here on Slashdot is a wrong theory of mind.
No, you may not suggest anything. Any suggestion you make is received as predatory. You are a backwoods hick who ran a part time overnight BBS from his dorm room in college. You see Slashdot as the reincarnation of your lost dream to be SysOp and lord and master of all the users around you.
G-F-Y.
The average citizen receives the pride of knowing that they are playing their preordained part in the ten thousand year old game of social control: Create debt, maintain debt, keep people in debt, work them until they die of debt.
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them until they die of debt.
What part of that system would government subsidy fit into? The solution to the problem described above is decentralization.
You make it sound like a conspiracy.
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them until they die of debt.
I can see how the system you've described fits this. It also explains why the Federal government takes the approach that it does.
I've never lost mail read with pine. :)
There are higher motivations for promoting a society in which people recognize the value of (as opposed to assigning arbitrary value to) the things they choose to accumulate. The overly fanatical attachment to mere collections, without any sense of real worth, is detrimental to self-improvement. I don't mind living in a society which has some social groups of packrats--but I wouldn't want to live in a society composed entirely (or even primarily) of packrats. Packrats, like everyone, have a few customary idiosyncracies in the way they see the world. I do not share them all.
Some people become attached to their collections--no matter what the collection is. It is psychologically difficult for some people to face the reality that some things are simply not worth saving.
I advocate a training program for those people: once each year they should practice archiving everything they might ever want to save to one CD. Just one typical data CD. Not a DVD. One single CD. Anything which doesn't make it to the CD is random number filled.
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them until they die of debt.
The Federal budget deficit creates debt for parents. Parents must work to pay debt. Children are allowed to find trouble because the parents are working to pay debt. Legal action resulting from the trouble creates more Federal budget debt. The Federal budget deficit creates more debt for the parents.
The system is to simple to be a coincidence. Somewhere there is an organized group of accountants who planned this whole thing out.
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them until they die of debt.
Asserting, even somewhat humorously, that the government should pay for the age verification does nothing but lend to the debt system. If the government is asked to pay they'll simply find a way to milk it out of the taxpayers--further selling them into debt. The Senators and Representatives will also, most likely, be much closer to the profit pile from whichever company receives the government contract to verify internet age. That's the way a pyramid scheme works--take from everyone and give back only to a priveleged few.
Of course asserting that a company should pay for it is the same up-and-over loop but doesn't reach the height of the government. Eventually the cost is always passed on to the general consumer while the profits are funnelled most prominently to the executives, directors, and VPs.