I read the Salon piece, and I thought about it all.
Well since Amazon and Borders and everyone else is prbly selling records of what you buy to marketers, and if you buy with a credit card or debit card theres a record that can be sold or gotten by a court, is this news?
I'm trying to be paranoid here, but for craps sake, all these records are already tossed out in the public domain. Now the Feds are getting involved, that will last until it makes it to the Supreme Court, and in a more conservative court, this will get slapped down just like the IR survilance of dwellings did last year.
I just can't get upset about it. But then I don't buy my High Times or 2600 or booze related books and mags with plastic. The whole thing about not leaving a record for the Man is to use cash.
Military History, computer books, Car that's all plastic-able, "sensitive" things are for cash.
In a record player, typically there aren't as many parts that are static, humidity and voltage sensative.
Nor are there delicate bits of optical equipment with lenses and lasers and other solid state gear.
It's like comparing the amount of maintance an F-105 needed compared to an F-15. Or the Folk-Wulf crews that bitched about the work it took to keep a Me-262 flying.
My mom's Sony record player works like a charm, but it has about 1/8th the number of electrical systems a CD player has.
It's apples and oranges to compare a record player with a CD/DVD player. A better comparision would be a 1st Gen LaserDisk or one of those magneto-optical disk drives from the early 80s and a DVD player from today.
Saying Saddam Hussain is a Muslim is like saying Osama bin Ladin is a Muslim.
Both practice some very un-Koranic things.
Murder, assasination for both.
Torture, rape and genocide for Saddam.
I'm sure if these "wombs" have Saddam an edge he would bust his ass and his nation to get them on-line.
As for the USA breeding patriotic clones, I don't know that anyone has found a gene for that yet, let me know when they do.
The United States doesn't push it's way of life, it just gets accepted by everyone. Last I checked, the United States hadn't started a war to push it's culture, not like the United Kingdom did so it could sell opium in China.
The majority of Americans, including the President and most members of State and Federal elected officals don't care about the rest of the world.
If Europe and Asia go to American movies and McDonalds, it's not our fault.
How true is that? Clinton slowed down NASA the most of any President in the last 50 years, Reagan and Bush the First funded it more than any President since Johnson.
I would say that things like Delta, Titan, Saturn and the Solid Rocket Boosters for Shuttle are all straight out of military development, not the other way around.
The early manned rockets were offshoots of IRBMs and ICBMs. The solid fuel developed for the solid fuel boosters on Deltas, Titans and the Shuttle was first developed for the Minuteman and Posiden ICBMs and SLBMs.
World's fastest accelerating rocket, and very high G resistant components? The Sprint ABM system.
Carbon fibers and composites for space and civilian uses? Came out of military spending.
In the end, the technologies for space travel will be better developed if the money goes to the military.
The US military is perfectly set up so as not to be a kingmaker.
The Army and Navy are of equal size and almost equal political power, and both hate each other with 200+ years of animosity. The Marines (honor guards of the President) hate the Army and Navy, and the Air Force, the most powerful branch of the military is disliked by all the other branches.
In Rome it was different, you couldn't be Emperor later on unless you had lead the Legions to victory, or just lead the Legions, but in the United States, military leadership is rare for a President, generalship even more rare (Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Eisenhower).
The United States military is independant and independant minded, there is no percived role of Kingmaker there.
The Military and NASA have always worked hand in glove.
Many things that were too expensive for NASA were developed by the USAF.
Examples
The SpaceLab was simply the final name for an Air Force Manned Orbital Lab.
Shuttle's cargo bay was designed around the size of the spy sats.
NASA is the civilian arm of Space exploration and development while the real interesting stuff is being done in black projects by the Air Force who has the real budget.
I'm of the opinion that the real advances will come out of Air Force spending. Examples.
707 - That was designed as a military tanker to replace the K-97. Only after the USAF bought it did the airlines buy it.
747 - Was designed in the CX project that the C-5 won, then Boeing pushed it for a commercial aircraft.
Many of the advances in materials and propulsion technology come out of the Air Force because they have the money to spend.
The engines on a CRJ-70 aren't evil because they were developed for the A-10 and S-3. It's just an offshoot.
Since the 1940s scientists and "experts" have been saying X or Y will happen in the future.
None of it has happened. Mainly because the systems that make up the world and universe we live in are much more complex than we think.
Examples.
Nuclear War - In 1946 everyone figured there would be an atomic war by 1960. In 1960 it was 1980. In 1980 it was by 2000. The reality of it was, of the three biggest economies on Earth, only one was able to survive the build up of the Cold War, and the United States was nearly crippled by it. The other two, Europe and the Soviet Union either went into a recession that only massive social spending could solve or collapsed.
Oil - In 1970 the world was supposed to be out of oil by 1985, in 1982 we were going to be out by 2005-2010, now, no one is sure, but there are more and more deposits being found.
Human Genome - In 1990 the Human Genome Project was going to solve all our problems, now it looks like even the understanding of the Genome doesn't tell us all we need to know. Cloning might be leap-frogged by stem cells, something unheard of just 2 years ago.
Fusion - In 1960 Fusion was just around the corner. Today we know that fusion is much more complex than we thought and it's still a struggle. Even though computer simulations and material science grows by leaps and bounds.
Some talk about how CPUs are growing faster and faster and transisters double, but that doesn't equal intelligence. Humans don't know how to fix brain damaged humans at this point, yet we are going to create robots that will learn faster and better than humans?
I doubt it.
If no one can make an operating system that learns and heals its self, how are we going to create virtual intelligence?
Not to mention in more upscale places or Mexican joints.
Bourbon Chicken all over, my GF does a mean Southern Comfort Chicken she picked up at a place in Seattle, and I love Cabo Wabo Tequila and lime soaked prawns.
Ummm...Tequila and shellfish.
In short, in the PacNW at least, you can't throw a goat without hitting a place that uses booze in a dish.
Gee, not sure where you've lived, but there are all kinds of dishes out here with some bourbon, tequila, whiskey, beer or liqueurs in them here on the West Coast.
Is it racism to point out the simple fact that 20 out of 20 9-11 terrorists and the famed Shoe-Bomber were those fellas with more consonants than vowels?
You know, if the United States Federal Government would get off it's duff, reform the tax system and be a little more responsable with where it spends money there would be the dollars for these things.
The EU won't foot the bill for a swarm of probes, so that leaves the US, Canada and Japan.
However, if they scaled up production of these things, the economy of scale would kick in and the overall price of these beasties would drop.
Right now, the probes are a one time knockoff and are as expensive as a Italian exotic sportscar is compared to a Lexus or Lincoln.
The coders and maintaners that meet thier five-year plan will get a silk banner with the logos of all the Linux Distributions.
No. In all seriousness, I don't know what Linux needs to solve this problem. But I know what it doesn't need. And that is a committee.
If you pay to play, make the game free to buy
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Now, I don't play Everquest or UO, mostly because I use a Mac most of the time and they didn't come out for the Mac, but I do play Starcraft and Diablo2 online.
It's my opinion that if you are going to charge the person to play the game, then you should give the game out for free.
If I'm playing a game on-line, then I'm already shelling out for bandwidth, then I have to pay to play...make the game free to aquire.
I've got enough bills the way it is, I don't need multiplayer games to cost money as well.
Bungie's servers for Myth and Myth2 didn't have that many lamers or serious cheats on them, so you can't use the elitism arguement that paying will eliminate losers.
I drank alcohol all the time at 18. I couldn't buy it legally, but I could drink it.
In the United States, at 18 one can vote in Local, State and Federal Elections, that's why they can also enlist in the military at that age. The right to buy booze doesn't equal adulthood.
Actually, a person in the United States can serve in the military when they are younger than 18, but it requires a parent's signature to do it.
In the United States, the Federal Government will not sentance a minor to death, but some states will. So your beef should be with those States.
This is a local government issue that is dealing with Zoning and licensing, so it's legal.
People can whine and moan all they want about Speech and Assembly rights, but that's not the issue, the issue is about Zones and the right of a local government to regulate businesses within it's jurisdiction.
"The City Council, responding to a fatal stabbing and other crimes at this Los Angeles suburb's many cyber cafes, placed a 45-day moratorium Tuesday on the opening of any more of the establishments."
This isn't about minors rights, or the right to speak or assemble, it's about a city legislating a business. It happens all the time with Bars, Porn Shops, Video Stores and whatnot, why should an arcade be treated differently?
I know that at my old job, the health plan accounted for 53% of the budget in a organization of 540 people.
With the narrow margins that companies like HP operate at, it could break the company.
As for despotics tactics, what's despotic about not giving a temp benefits? I don't see full-time employment or health care listed in the Constitution, Magna Carta or the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Anyone that is willing to make a change and make his/herself able to do a job can and will.
It doesn't take brains/spunk/determination to move somewhere with the same pay and lower cost of living. It doesn't take much to get a decent paying job.
People seem to think they are entitled to something more than doing work. Manual labor is what makes industry work, just as you can't win a war without some grunts on the ground, you can't operate a company without some people filling boxes. When I was in College I would have killed for that job and 8 bucks an hour. Because, like I said in another post, I grew up doing farm work. I never thought I was entitled to anything.
The man isn't keeping these people down, the people are keeping the people down.
I'm from South Dakota, in South Dakota right now a majority of jobs pay around 8 dollars an hour, in South Dakota the cost of living is about 1/6th that of Silicon Valley California. In South Dakota the unemployment rate is around 2%.
The fellow in the article said "The events of this day alone are grounds to start a revolution."
On what grounds? He's making 8 dollars an hour, doing grunt work. Sure his hands are getting cut up, where I grew up, the summer work was prying rocks out of dirt roads with 6 foot iron pry-bars, 8-15 miles from, town for 8 hours a day with no breaks. That really motivated me to stay in College.
All these people that drive for 2 hours each way to work, they have locked themselves into what they get because they are either too foolish or too lazy to move. A work visa into the US doesn't mean you have to move to Texas, California or New York, there are thousands of places out there that need stable workers, that want people, of any nationality to move there.
Turning the place Union won't help, temp workers are temp because they want to be.
If the Japanese hadn't built things out of wood and paper, the B-25s and later B-29s wouldn't have dropped bombs designed to start fires.
In war, you use the weapons that will do the most damage to the foe.
I don't see you complaining about the Imperial Japanese Navy using amor-piercing bombs against the sailors on the US, British or Dutch warships in the Second World War, those were designed to kill the crews of the ships, the innocent cooks and loaders, not the combatants of the warships.
It's war, you use what is effective to bring about an end of the war.
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I read the Salon piece, and I thought about it all.
Well since Amazon and Borders and everyone else is prbly selling records of what you buy to marketers, and if you buy with a credit card or debit card theres a record that can be sold or gotten by a court, is this news?
I'm trying to be paranoid here, but for craps sake, all these records are already tossed out in the public domain. Now the Feds are getting involved, that will last until it makes it to the Supreme Court, and in a more conservative court, this will get slapped down just like the IR survilance of dwellings did last year.
I just can't get upset about it. But then I don't buy my High Times or 2600 or booze related books and mags with plastic. The whole thing about not leaving a record for the Man is to use cash.
Military History, computer books, Car that's all plastic-able, "sensitive" things are for cash.
It's not just because of the parts.
In a record player, typically there aren't as many parts that are static, humidity and voltage sensative.
Nor are there delicate bits of optical equipment with lenses and lasers and other solid state gear.
It's like comparing the amount of maintance an F-105 needed compared to an F-15. Or the Folk-Wulf crews that bitched about the work it took to keep a Me-262 flying.
My mom's Sony record player works like a charm, but it has about 1/8th the number of electrical systems a CD player has.
It's apples and oranges to compare a record player with a CD/DVD player. A better comparision would be a 1st Gen LaserDisk or one of those magneto-optical disk drives from the early 80s and a DVD player from today.
Saying Saddam Hussain is a Muslim is like saying Osama bin Ladin is a Muslim.
Both practice some very un-Koranic things.
Murder, assasination for both.
Torture, rape and genocide for Saddam.
I'm sure if these "wombs" have Saddam an edge he would bust his ass and his nation to get them on-line.
As for the USA breeding patriotic clones, I don't know that anyone has found a gene for that yet, let me know when they do.
The United States doesn't push it's way of life, it just gets accepted by everyone. Last I checked, the United States hadn't started a war to push it's culture, not like the United Kingdom did so it could sell opium in China.
The majority of Americans, including the President and most members of State and Federal elected officals don't care about the rest of the world.
If Europe and Asia go to American movies and McDonalds, it's not our fault.
If you think there aren't many radio free areas left, you've not drove from Rapid City to Walla Walla :)
Crap, I did mean Grant.
Crap, crap.
Long day at work, sucked mind away.
Lincoln was in the state Milita during a war against the Indians, but he didn't make it above Sargent if I recall it right.
Oopsy
Putting a Republican in office slows down things?
How true is that? Clinton slowed down NASA the most of any President in the last 50 years, Reagan and Bush the First funded it more than any President since Johnson.
I would say that things like Delta, Titan, Saturn and the Solid Rocket Boosters for Shuttle are all straight out of military development, not the other way around.
The early manned rockets were offshoots of IRBMs and ICBMs. The solid fuel developed for the solid fuel boosters on Deltas, Titans and the Shuttle was first developed for the Minuteman and Posiden ICBMs and SLBMs.
World's fastest accelerating rocket, and very high G resistant components? The Sprint ABM system.
Carbon fibers and composites for space and civilian uses? Came out of military spending.
In the end, the technologies for space travel will be better developed if the money goes to the military.
The US military is perfectly set up so as not to be a kingmaker.
The Army and Navy are of equal size and almost equal political power, and both hate each other with 200+ years of animosity. The Marines (honor guards of the President) hate the Army and Navy, and the Air Force, the most powerful branch of the military is disliked by all the other branches.
In Rome it was different, you couldn't be Emperor later on unless you had lead the Legions to victory, or just lead the Legions, but in the United States, military leadership is rare for a President, generalship even more rare (Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Eisenhower).
The United States military is independant and independant minded, there is no percived role of Kingmaker there.
The Military and NASA have always worked hand in glove.
Many things that were too expensive for NASA were developed by the USAF.
Examples
The SpaceLab was simply the final name for an Air Force Manned Orbital Lab.
Shuttle's cargo bay was designed around the size of the spy sats.
NASA is the civilian arm of Space exploration and development while the real interesting stuff is being done in black projects by the Air Force who has the real budget.
I'm of the opinion that the real advances will come out of Air Force spending. Examples.
707 - That was designed as a military tanker to replace the K-97. Only after the USAF bought it did the airlines buy it.
747 - Was designed in the CX project that the C-5 won, then Boeing pushed it for a commercial aircraft.
Many of the advances in materials and propulsion technology come out of the Air Force because they have the money to spend.
The engines on a CRJ-70 aren't evil because they were developed for the A-10 and S-3. It's just an offshoot.
Like in FIFA 2001 or 2002, it fits the game, same with an NBA, Baseball or NFL game.
Otherwise it's distracting.
Since the 1940s scientists and "experts" have been saying X or Y will happen in the future.
None of it has happened. Mainly because the systems that make up the world and universe we live in are much more complex than we think.
Examples.
Nuclear War - In 1946 everyone figured there would be an atomic war by 1960. In 1960 it was 1980. In 1980 it was by 2000. The reality of it was, of the three biggest economies on Earth, only one was able to survive the build up of the Cold War, and the United States was nearly crippled by it. The other two, Europe and the Soviet Union either went into a recession that only massive social spending could solve or collapsed.
Oil - In 1970 the world was supposed to be out of oil by 1985, in 1982 we were going to be out by 2005-2010, now, no one is sure, but there are more and more deposits being found.
Human Genome - In 1990 the Human Genome Project was going to solve all our problems, now it looks like even the understanding of the Genome doesn't tell us all we need to know. Cloning might be leap-frogged by stem cells, something unheard of just 2 years ago.
Fusion - In 1960 Fusion was just around the corner. Today we know that fusion is much more complex than we thought and it's still a struggle. Even though computer simulations and material science grows by leaps and bounds.
Some talk about how CPUs are growing faster and faster and transisters double, but that doesn't equal intelligence. Humans don't know how to fix brain damaged humans at this point, yet we are going to create robots that will learn faster and better than humans?
I doubt it.
If no one can make an operating system that learns and heals its self, how are we going to create virtual intelligence?
I see it all the time.
Even at places like Red Robin or TGI Fridays.
Not to mention in more upscale places or Mexican joints.
Bourbon Chicken all over, my GF does a mean Southern Comfort Chicken she picked up at a place in Seattle, and I love Cabo Wabo Tequila and lime soaked prawns.
Ummm...Tequila and shellfish.
In short, in the PacNW at least, you can't throw a goat without hitting a place that uses booze in a dish.
Sheri's and Denny's excluded.
Gee, not sure where you've lived, but there are all kinds of dishes out here with some bourbon, tequila, whiskey, beer or liqueurs in them here on the West Coast.
It's not just wine.
Racism.
Is it racism to point out the simple fact that 20 out of 20 9-11 terrorists and the famed Shoe-Bomber were those fellas with more consonants than vowels?
You know, if the United States Federal Government would get off it's duff, reform the tax system and be a little more responsable with where it spends money there would be the dollars for these things.
The EU won't foot the bill for a swarm of probes, so that leaves the US, Canada and Japan.
However, if they scaled up production of these things, the economy of scale would kick in and the overall price of these beasties would drop.
Right now, the probes are a one time knockoff and are as expensive as a Italian exotic sportscar is compared to a Lexus or Lincoln.
There are meaningful orbits higher than GEO.
Take a look at NASA's Jtrack sometime, turn on all the satts and zoom all the way out.
What Linux needs is a five-year plan.
The coders and maintaners that meet thier five-year plan will get a silk banner with the logos of all the Linux Distributions.
No. In all seriousness, I don't know what Linux needs to solve this problem. But I know what it doesn't need. And that is a committee.
Now, I don't play Everquest or UO, mostly because I use a Mac most of the time and they didn't come out for the Mac, but I do play Starcraft and Diablo2 online.
It's my opinion that if you are going to charge the person to play the game, then you should give the game out for free.
If I'm playing a game on-line, then I'm already shelling out for bandwidth, then I have to pay to play...make the game free to aquire.
I've got enough bills the way it is, I don't need multiplayer games to cost money as well.
Bungie's servers for Myth and Myth2 didn't have that many lamers or serious cheats on them, so you can't use the elitism arguement that paying will eliminate losers.
So does granite.
I wonder how they get around that.
A local government, being elected by the people of that area, have the right to do what is best (in thier mind) for the people of that area.
A town, city, county, parish, state, has the right to regulate the zoning and licensing in that area.
This issue, being a local issue, should be regulated at the local level.
I drank alcohol all the time at 18. I couldn't buy it legally, but I could drink it.
In the United States, at 18 one can vote in Local, State and Federal Elections, that's why they can also enlist in the military at that age. The right to buy booze doesn't equal adulthood.
Actually, a person in the United States can serve in the military when they are younger than 18, but it requires a parent's signature to do it.
In the United States, the Federal Government will not sentance a minor to death, but some states will. So your beef should be with those States.
Of course it's legal.
This is a local government issue that is dealing with Zoning and licensing, so it's legal.
People can whine and moan all they want about Speech and Assembly rights, but that's not the issue, the issue is about Zones and the right of a local government to regulate businesses within it's jurisdiction.
"The City Council, responding to a fatal stabbing and other crimes at this Los Angeles suburb's many cyber cafes, placed a 45-day moratorium Tuesday on the opening of any more of the establishments."
This isn't about minors rights, or the right to speak or assemble, it's about a city legislating a business. It happens all the time with Bars, Porn Shops, Video Stores and whatnot, why should an arcade be treated differently?
400 bucks a month for how many workers?
I know that at my old job, the health plan accounted for 53% of the budget in a organization of 540 people.
With the narrow margins that companies like HP operate at, it could break the company.
As for despotics tactics, what's despotic about not giving a temp benefits? I don't see full-time employment or health care listed in the Constitution, Magna Carta or the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
BS.
Anyone that is willing to make a change and make his/herself able to do a job can and will.
It doesn't take brains/spunk/determination to move somewhere with the same pay and lower cost of living. It doesn't take much to get a decent paying job.
People seem to think they are entitled to something more than doing work. Manual labor is what makes industry work, just as you can't win a war without some grunts on the ground, you can't operate a company without some people filling boxes. When I was in College I would have killed for that job and 8 bucks an hour. Because, like I said in another post, I grew up doing farm work. I never thought I was entitled to anything.
The man isn't keeping these people down, the people are keeping the people down.
I'm from South Dakota, in South Dakota right now a majority of jobs pay around 8 dollars an hour, in South Dakota the cost of living is about 1/6th that of Silicon Valley California. In South Dakota the unemployment rate is around 2%.
The fellow in the article said "The events of this day alone are grounds to start a revolution."
On what grounds? He's making 8 dollars an hour, doing grunt work. Sure his hands are getting cut up, where I grew up, the summer work was prying rocks out of dirt roads with 6 foot iron pry-bars, 8-15 miles from, town for 8 hours a day with no breaks. That really motivated me to stay in College.
All these people that drive for 2 hours each way to work, they have locked themselves into what they get because they are either too foolish or too lazy to move. A work visa into the US doesn't mean you have to move to Texas, California or New York, there are thousands of places out there that need stable workers, that want people, of any nationality to move there.
Turning the place Union won't help, temp workers are temp because they want to be.
If the Japanese hadn't built things out of wood and paper, the B-25s and later B-29s wouldn't have dropped bombs designed to start fires.
In war, you use the weapons that will do the most damage to the foe.
I don't see you complaining about the Imperial Japanese Navy using amor-piercing bombs against the sailors on the US, British or Dutch warships in the Second World War, those were designed to kill the crews of the ships, the innocent cooks and loaders, not the combatants of the warships.
It's war, you use what is effective to bring about an end of the war.