When are the humans who run corps going to realise they
employ humans? Sheesh.
They mostly realize that the corps also ultimately belong to
humans, who, quite unlike the cannon fodder employed by
the said croporations, have a god-given right to the fattest
bottom-line.
Wake up and smell the coffee, boy! This is AMERIKA!
My tendinitis was caused by too much typing in a bad ergonomic
situation. But the supracondylar process reducing blood flow
made the tendinitis easier to contract and more difficult to
recover from.
There could be a predisposition; I've been spending on the
average 10 hours a day sitting on a keyboard, never with a favourable
ergonomic disposition (I find the keyboard-under-the-desk position
extremely silly and totally impractical - I prefer having the
keyboard right under the CRT (which is about 75 cm from my eyes),
so I can put some book or notepad "below" the keyboard),
and never had been bothered by the slightest smidgeon of any whiff
of a suggestion of a possible eventual occurence of tendinitis...
However, after I was able to decide on printer placement, I've
always made a point of putting the printer in a place where I'd
have to at least turn myself around to fetch the paper from it,
giving me a sufficient distraction to change my posture.
* * *
One would not think that running a train, reversing a switch
or swinging a lantern would give someone CTS, but I remember meeting
an Amtrak engineer who was running turbotrains in New-York State.
The "deadman pedal" on those trains is simply that
you had to touch intermittently a metal plate on the dashboard
(those trains don't have a control stand). So, touching the plate
developped into an automatism, and whenever he went for a beer
after his run, he'd simply touch the ashtray or the placemat or
whatever was contrasted on the table, like to reset the "deadman
pedal"...
IBM used to always be known as a very strict company, where
the dress policy didn't allow anything close to casual. What
was the cause of the company shifting from this, as they now
seem like they've loosened their collars a lot more, spaypainting
linux logos on sidewalks and such.
Well, it simply went from everyone wearing black suits &
ties to everyone wearing GAP khakis.
Exactly how do you verify this on the 'net? Is it enough
with a checkbox that says "Yes, mommy says it's OK"?
What about "Please enter dads credit card # and expiry
date"? Come on! I can debate the morality/legality of
requesting this kind of information from kids, but parental consent?
That's just ridiculous.
It's like Soupy
Sales who said, on TV, "Okay, kids, now go through your
parent's dresser and send me all the little green pieces of paper
you find"...
Actually, both BCE (which owns Sympatico internet service,
the CTV television network, a mini-satellite network, and a bunch
of newspapers), and CanWest Global (which owns the 'Global' television
network, a dizzying number of newspapers (or just has major interest
in some), movies and many other ventures) had been recently investigated
by the CRTC as part of their license renewal because of the fact
there is some concern that these companies hold far too much
control over the media and this threatens both the depth of coverage
of stories as well as the objectiveness of the journalists covering
them.
The problem is worse when the State-owned CBC
is told by politicos to become more "profitable", then
start to copycat the private media stations, and start competing
for a bigger share of the advertising market. So, the State television
becomes more like a whorthless popular pap provider like private
networks than quality content provider for the minority of people
who really understand culture (and are the only people who really
matter - as opposed to the masses of corporate fare-sucking unwashed
consumer hordes).
Interestingly, the people the most opposed to tha increase
of advertising share are the private broadcasters; they're the
most vocal in wanting to keep the CBC a State-operated network
so it won't intrude too much in their lucrative advertising.
But it seems it still won't please the likes of Konrad
Black, who would like the State minimized to the point that
it solely looks at Konrad's interests (as long as Konrad doesn't
pay any taxes for it), so Konrad keeps his crusade
to destroy the State as much as possible, especially if it
won't let him be anointed.
One thing that seems to bemuse foreigners about Britain is
the fact that the Kingdom punches above its weight in international
affairs.
Quite not. The britshit are totally decadent. And they are
one of the most hated people on earth.
One of the main reasons for this is the historical tradition
in Britain to rule over peoples and waves, since the days of
William the Conqueror. The British have always had a caste system
based on gearing the country to wage war, and to rule other countries.
The British upper classes are bred to lead over others, even
genetically speaking this can be seen - every president of America
has been of stout Anglo Saxon extraction.
The britshit ruled other lands because they depleted the meager
natural ressources on their puny island. They had no other choice
but develop the skills, laws and institution that allowd them
to rape, plunder and pillage the whole world.
Did you know that once, you used to be able to purchase a piracy
license, hire a crew, and legally go on the high seas and plunder
and pillage non-britshit ships?
The result of all this is that the British can exert huge
influence abroad, and even today the pax Britannica continues,
through our proxies, the Americans, who inherited their ideals
from us.
Some pax! Just a heavy navy that went all over the place, and
whenever a britshit merchant wasn't able to pillage and plunder
to his content, they simply bombarded the shit out of the place
that had the guts to say no to some britshit swindler.
And to meddle in European affairs by instillating wars between
the countries to insure that no one would turn against the britshit.
One will remember Neville Chamberlain's accommodation with Hitler,
which allowed the latter fucker to plunder Europe unmolested until
it was almost too late!
The shining light of Celtic inventiveness and Anglo Saxon
ruling and liberty has meant that every corner of the globe has
had the values of liberty and democracy enforced upon it. America
would not exist were it not for the Mother country.
Anglo saxon "liberty" is only affordable to the richer,
those who are able to afford armies (of lawyers or soldiers -
some britshit croporations used to have their own private armies)
to defend their own liberty, at the expense of others, of course
(like Mc Donald's bludgeoning critics to death by suing them for
slander).
The secret services are trusted by the British people,
as they are composed of boarding school, cricket playing chaps
who have been steeped in playing 'the game' since childhood.
This tradition is why Britain was aware of the Soviet threat
before america, and managed to convince america to join us against
the Soviets. Same with Hitler - the Americans were to scared,
and thought he was no threat. But Britain nobly stood alone.
Those boarding school cricket players are the epitome of britshit
incompetence, as exemplified with the incompetent family-compact,
which was unable to keep their empire at the end of the war. And
the britshit appeased Hitler to the end, so talk about shitting
in one's pants!!!
In this laptop, we see the traditions of Old England and
Empire distilled to a pure essence : Trust noone, treat all fairly
and always some first - tho' 'tis no shame to come second, something
that our American children have perhaps forgotten.
Come second to last as it comes to intelligence and smartness,
indeed.
Long ago (10 years?) it was reported (rumored?) that the
NSA (who have their own fabs) uses microcircuits encapsulated
in packages that destroy the chip (chemically? thermochemically?)
if any attempt is made to pop the lid to examine it.
I remember, some 20 years ago, thinking about building a blue-box
on a breadboard with springs under the chips, all secured with
a lid. When you open the lid, to see what's in it, pop goes the
chips and an investigator would be at a loss in determining the
true purpose of the widget...
Personally I don't care if Campbell's Soup is being sued
or has lousy profits, I just want to eat my can of soup and go
on with life.
That's the problem with most of the public nowadays. They are
consumers rather than citizens. They don't care whether their
gizmos/food come from, they just want to enjoy it, without regards
to their social/health/ecological impacts, at home or abroad.
1) Crime would greatly decrease. We can see this already
in Britain with CCTV systems.
Utter oxdung. Whenever the limeys install pubic CCTV cameras
in one neighboorhood, the problems move elsewhere where there
is no CCTV. That's a typical anglo-saxon solution: drive the problem
elsewhere instead of solving the root causes.
Incidentally, why is the cost of living so high in the britshit
isles? Could this be a reason for the skyrocketting crime?
2) Greater honesty in society. People would no longer be
able to lie about their personal lives.
99.44% pure bullshit. People would find ways to conceal their
lives, and politicos and big-shots, by being big-shots, would
be able to suppress evidence. Power corrupts, and they will.
The kid's father says "Without 2600 (he would) probably
be one of those pot-smoking, crack-sniffing guys who gave up
on life a long time ago."
It's good to know that guy has high regard for his
own parenting skills. Dammit! If my son didn't meet those hackers
who would have raised him right?!
That's because his father is:
a federal government official with a law degree who
says he knows "absolutely nothing" about computers.
(There. This should score points with the "government
is evil" types)...
Truth is the greatest enemy of Communist oppression,
It is also the greatest enemy of retailing. Only because consumers
are kept ignorant, retailers are able to shove useless stuff upon
them and not only have pay huge amounts of money on it, but also
liking it a lot!
They're the ones consistently doing the speed limit and driving
safely.
I know a guy with a very expensive and flashy car who likes
to teases cops thus: whenever he sees a fuzz cruiser on the prowl,
he scrupulously drives 1 or 2 km/h below the limit. Most of the
times, he says that he sees the cops meticulously checking the
license plate (also kept impeccably clean), and then pull him
over to check him...
Saw something the other day on TV about how Amtrak can
only carry passengers legally, which means that all the real
money being made by railroads is being made by the privately
owned ones that can carry mail and freight.
Not exactly true.
When the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
(Amtrak's legal name) was founded in 1971, it was to relieve MEMBER
RAILROADS of their legal obligations to maintain given
passenger services. In exchange for rolling stock, Railroads joining
Amtrak would no longer be required to keep those trains operating.
Incidentally, not all railroads who had passenger trains did elect
to join. For example, the Chicago, Rock-Island & Pacific
did not join until 1976, the Southern Railway until
about 1979 (the latter kept operating a very highly-rated luxury
service between Washington and New-Orleans), the Denver
& Rio Grande Western kept operating the famous California
Zephyr (oddly, only between Denver and Salt-Lake City)
until the mid 1980's. The D&RGW still operates
a very famous ski train.
Nowadays, in addition to many commuter authorities, there are
a few short lines that operate tourist trains throughout the USA
nowadays.
However, no one can start a passenger rail service that competes
with Amtrak (however, Amtrak is very open about operating private
cars on it's trains, where for an extra-fee, you can have a very
luxurious accommodation and food).
Here in Boston (and many other cities), the commuter rail
is run by AMTRAK. So not riding AMTRAK means not going to work
for a lot of people.
Not really. Amtrak only's got your name if you had a reservation,
and commuter trains are *NEVER* reserved (heaven forbid).
You either have a ticket (which often you buy from a vending machine)
or a monthly pass. In the latter case, the pass will carry your
name, but the pass is *NEVER* for a particular time or
date, so they'd be hard-pressed to find you out; all they'd know
is that you can ride between Southbinghamdeadtown and Boston for
a given month...
You can always pay your ticket cash and give a bogus name (unlike
with the FAA, there is no FRA requirement that each
passenger shall have it's name disclosed), or just board the train
without a ticket and pay cash to the conductor.
Most likely, this will be a charge-by-bandwidth deal. not
what i'm looking for. I want my wireless connection to be dedicated, meaning
my PDA is always connected to my home computer, even using my home computer's
hard drives for storage. I want to be able to stream my mp3s without loss
and talk into my PDA (as if it were a cellphone) to a friend (on another
PDA or some other internet phone) at the same time....and this wouldn't
financially be possible without an unlimited plan.
So, basically, you want your cake, and eat it at the same time...
I have a collection of publications from the steam and
electric utility industries 1880 - 1920. Around 1900 there were
thousands of suppliers of switchgear, generator, transformers,
motors, fuseboxes, electric irons, etc. People were trying to
electrify everything from stoves (successful) to dog walking
(unsuccessful). Companies came and went with incredible speed,
fortunes were won and lost, etc. Sound familiar?
Yup, it just looks like the railroad craze in the 1850's...
In the mid 1850's, the GREAT EASTERN was the largest ship ever launched. When it was scrapped, they discovered a skeleton within a sealed compartment of the hull, the poor worker having been sealed in when the ship was being built.
Where I used to work, there was a *HUGE* CHUBB junction box in a cabinet. The company haven't used a CHUBB alarm for some 8 years, yet the box was still there.
So, one day, to install a new PBX, we just yanked the CHUBB box out of the way.
Within 2 hours, a CHUBB security patrol car stopped by with a guard & a tech and they demanded access to some junction box or whatever.
Of course, we played the stupids, but did not net the security guard enter our premises; we had to threaten to call the fuzz, though (fortunately, here, these bozos aren't allowed to carry firearms).
Turns out that a bank some 4 blocks from us had it's alarm routed through that box... I guess they had to wait a few days to get new phone lines through...
(Note: "San-Antonio" is the French equivalent of James Bond, except that it's funnier, more violent and has (of course) more sex. Plus, there is upwards of 200 stories rather than about 20).
When I was 12, I was reading H.P. Lovecraft novels, and it made me yawn.
I got scared shitless reading a book some 20 years later, and it was the "San-Antonio" novel, "Faut être logique" (let's be logical). In San-Antonio, there is **ALWAYS** a logical explanation for whatever bizzare happens.
In that case, it was a haunted farmhouse. At night, you'd hear moaning and groaning coming from the walls.
It's the logical explanation that scared me: turns out that a guy was walled-in some 10 years before and left for dead. Turns out he wasn't dead, and he managed to survive all that time by drinking from a dripping water pipe going through where he was, and eating from grain that was leaking from the silo (in France, farmhouses and barns are in the same building).
However, the story didn't say how he managed to shit (and it's not that San-Antonio would not go to those kind of details)...
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They mostly realize that the corps also ultimately belong to humans, who, quite unlike the cannon fodder employed by the said croporations, have a god-given right to the fattest bottom-line.
Wake up and smell the coffee, boy! This is AMERIKA!
--
There could be a predisposition; I've been spending on the average 10 hours a day sitting on a keyboard, never with a favourable ergonomic disposition (I find the keyboard-under-the-desk position extremely silly and totally impractical - I prefer having the keyboard right under the CRT (which is about 75 cm from my eyes), so I can put some book or notepad "below" the keyboard), and never had been bothered by the slightest smidgeon of any whiff of a suggestion of a possible eventual occurence of tendinitis...
However, after I was able to decide on printer placement, I've always made a point of putting the printer in a place where I'd have to at least turn myself around to fetch the paper from it, giving me a sufficient distraction to change my posture.
* * *
One would not think that running a train, reversing a switch or swinging a lantern would give someone CTS, but I remember meeting an Amtrak engineer who was running turbotrains in New-York State.
The "deadman pedal" on those trains is simply that you had to touch intermittently a metal plate on the dashboard (those trains don't have a control stand). So, touching the plate developped into an automatism, and whenever he went for a beer after his run, he'd simply touch the ashtray or the placemat or whatever was contrasted on the table, like to reset the "deadman pedal"...
--
Well, it simply went from everyone wearing black suits & ties to everyone wearing GAP khakis.
But still, everyone dresses the same.
--
Er. You're a guy, right?
--
It's like Soupy Sales who said, on TV, "Okay, kids, now go through your parent's dresser and send me all the little green pieces of paper you find"...
--
The problem is worse when the State-owned CBC is told by politicos to become more "profitable", then start to copycat the private media stations, and start competing for a bigger share of the advertising market. So, the State television becomes more like a whorthless popular pap provider like private networks than quality content provider for the minority of people who really understand culture (and are the only people who really matter - as opposed to the masses of corporate fare-sucking unwashed consumer hordes).
Interestingly, the people the most opposed to tha increase of advertising share are the private broadcasters; they're the most vocal in wanting to keep the CBC a State-operated network so it won't intrude too much in their lucrative advertising.
But it seems it still won't please the likes of Konrad Black, who would like the State minimized to the point that it solely looks at Konrad's interests (as long as Konrad doesn't pay any taxes for it), so Konrad keeps his crusade to destroy the State as much as possible, especially if it won't let him be anointed.
--
Quite not. The britshit are totally decadent. And they are one of the most hated people on earth.
The britshit ruled other lands because they depleted the meager natural ressources on their puny island. They had no other choice but develop the skills, laws and institution that allowd them to rape, plunder and pillage the whole world.
Did you know that once, you used to be able to purchase a piracy license, hire a crew, and legally go on the high seas and plunder and pillage non-britshit ships?
Some pax! Just a heavy navy that went all over the place, and whenever a britshit merchant wasn't able to pillage and plunder to his content, they simply bombarded the shit out of the place that had the guts to say no to some britshit swindler.
And to meddle in European affairs by instillating wars between the countries to insure that no one would turn against the britshit. One will remember Neville Chamberlain's accommodation with Hitler, which allowed the latter fucker to plunder Europe unmolested until it was almost too late!
Anglo saxon "liberty" is only affordable to the richer, those who are able to afford armies (of lawyers or soldiers - some britshit croporations used to have their own private armies) to defend their own liberty, at the expense of others, of course (like Mc Donald's bludgeoning critics to death by suing them for slander).
Those boarding school cricket players are the epitome of britshit incompetence, as exemplified with the incompetent family-compact, which was unable to keep their empire at the end of the war. And the britshit appeased Hitler to the end, so talk about shitting in one's pants!!!
Come second to last as it comes to intelligence and smartness, indeed.
--
I remember, some 20 years ago, thinking about building a blue-box on a breadboard with springs under the chips, all secured with a lid. When you open the lid, to see what's in it, pop goes the chips and an investigator would be at a loss in determining the true purpose of the widget...
--
That's the problem with most of the public nowadays. They are consumers rather than citizens. They don't care whether their gizmos/food come from, they just want to enjoy it, without regards to their social/health/ecological impacts, at home or abroad.
--
Utter oxdung. Whenever the limeys install pubic CCTV cameras in one neighboorhood, the problems move elsewhere where there is no CCTV. That's a typical anglo-saxon solution: drive the problem elsewhere instead of solving the root causes.
Incidentally, why is the cost of living so high in the britshit isles? Could this be a reason for the skyrocketting crime?
99.44% pure bullshit. People would find ways to conceal their lives, and politicos and big-shots, by being big-shots, would be able to suppress evidence. Power corrupts, and they will.
--
Hey, dude, you're talking about CRACKERS, not HACKERS.
Hacker != cracker.
--
That's because his father is:
(There. This should score points with the "government is evil" types)...
--
--
It is also the greatest enemy of retailing. Only because consumers are kept ignorant, retailers are able to shove useless stuff upon them and not only have pay huge amounts of money on it, but also liking it a lot!
--
I know a guy with a very expensive and flashy car who likes to teases cops thus: whenever he sees a fuzz cruiser on the prowl, he scrupulously drives 1 or 2 km/h below the limit. Most of the times, he says that he sees the cops meticulously checking the license plate (also kept impeccably clean), and then pull him over to check him...
--
Not exactly true.
When the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak's legal name) was founded in 1971, it was to relieve MEMBER RAILROADS of their legal obligations to maintain given passenger services. In exchange for rolling stock, Railroads joining Amtrak would no longer be required to keep those trains operating. Incidentally, not all railroads who had passenger trains did elect to join. For example, the Chicago, Rock-Island & Pacific did not join until 1976, the Southern Railway until about 1979 (the latter kept operating a very highly-rated luxury service between Washington and New-Orleans), the Denver & Rio Grande Western kept operating the famous California Zephyr (oddly, only between Denver and Salt-Lake City) until the mid 1980's. The D&RGW still operates a very famous ski train.
Nowadays, in addition to many commuter authorities, there are a few short lines that operate tourist trains throughout the USA nowadays.
However, no one can start a passenger rail service that competes with Amtrak (however, Amtrak is very open about operating private cars on it's trains, where for an extra-fee, you can have a very luxurious accommodation and food).
--
Not really. Amtrak only's got your name if you had a reservation, and commuter trains are *NEVER* reserved (heaven forbid). You either have a ticket (which often you buy from a vending machine) or a monthly pass. In the latter case, the pass will carry your name, but the pass is *NEVER* for a particular time or date, so they'd be hard-pressed to find you out; all they'd know is that you can ride between Southbinghamdeadtown and Boston for a given month...
You can always pay your ticket cash and give a bogus name (unlike with the FAA, there is no FRA requirement that each passenger shall have it's name disclosed), or just board the train without a ticket and pay cash to the conductor.
--
Who do you think you are? A big croporation???
--
Yup, it just looks like the railroad craze in the 1850's...
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http://www.snopes2.com/titanic/trapped.htm
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So, one day, to install a new PBX, we just yanked the CHUBB box out of the way.
Within 2 hours, a CHUBB security patrol car stopped by with a guard & a tech and they demanded access to some junction box or whatever.
Of course, we played the stupids, but did not net the security guard enter our premises; we had to threaten to call the fuzz, though (fortunately, here, these bozos aren't allowed to carry firearms).
Turns out that a bank some 4 blocks from us had it's alarm routed through that box... I guess they had to wait a few days to get new phone lines through...
--
When I was 12, I was reading H.P. Lovecraft novels, and it made me yawn.
I got scared shitless reading a book some 20 years later, and it was the "San-Antonio" novel, "Faut être logique" (let's be logical). In San-Antonio, there is **ALWAYS** a logical explanation for whatever bizzare happens.
In that case, it was a haunted farmhouse. At night, you'd hear moaning and groaning coming from the walls.
It's the logical explanation that scared me: turns out that a guy was walled-in some 10 years before and left for dead. Turns out he wasn't dead, and he managed to survive all that time by drinking from a dripping water pipe going through where he was, and eating from grain that was leaking from the silo (in France, farmhouses and barns are in the same building).
However, the story didn't say how he managed to shit (and it's not that San-Antonio would not go to those kind of details)...
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