I would love to see simple fluorescent fliers start to show up in everyone's cable bills:
Your bill has increased by $xx due to purchasing infrastructure required for the government monitoring of all your online activities and communications. Have a nice day.
What a shock: moving to a state that places corporations above people - especially w.r.t. taxes.
Just like the foreign car companies that only open factories in the southeast US, where the politicians are literal fatcats and the workers are suicidally anti-Union.
Yes, I praise Google for doing at least some sourcing and assembling in the USA, but remember: they did this just for a very niche product that they know they won't sell many of for two reasons. First, it is at least 1.5 times the cost of similar multimedia devices. Secondly, it cannot stream ANY local media; an as-designed flaw mainly to help bump up Google Music usage.
This is another Google experiment they will kill sometime next year after the hype of embarrasing Apple for building just about everything in China dies down. Also: don't hold your breath for any Nexus phones or tablets to be built in the USA - not sure they actually could be anyways.
How gracefully do underground power lines age? Are there any (of a statisically significant amount) that are even 40 years old? Yes, hanging wire does seem like folly, but the critics seem to be screaming 'free lunch' as a care-free alternative. I have to wonder how prevalent underground placement is in earthquake-prone areas like Italy or Turkey. And replacing underground wire runs would be even more expensive than replacing sewer lines (assuming here the cables are in housings, not buried 'naked').
On the other hand, underground power cables could really help thin the heard of slack-jawed idiots running rented backhoes without getting the utilities marked out first.
Close to Gulf oil plays, yes. But it also makes exporting pork-subsidized crude and natural gas to more lucrative foreign markets mere childs play. That's the main reason for Keystone XL transporting corrosive tar sands instead of refined products: the option to export it instead of lowering domestic US prices by even five cents.
Half-joking, but I wonder if contracting out a community-speced and community-funded motherboard would be possible. It might be worthwhile if for no other reason than to possibly catch MS leaning on contract manufacturers from even considering fabbing a motherboard outside of their control.
I'd still put down $100 in Las Vegas that within 4 years (regardless if the prez election is rigged or not), 'open-source' 3D printers will be made illegal, justified by BS allegations of IP piracy.
Of course, HP will be allowed to offer their tawdry wares with an average print cost somewhere around $500 per cubic centimeter...
The all-hallowed 'Job Creators' (boy, the GOP can create epic BS phrases) have already decided the election by willfully shutting down hiring (exempting cheap, compliant H1-B folks of course) to crater the economy and ensure the election of Mr. Magic Underwear as prez. Only after the innauguration will they consider hiring again (in a zero regulation, zero rights, zero health & safety environment).
Read the English-language Al Jazeera [aljazeera.com]. They are a fantastic source for whenever you are worried that your views on the Middle East are being colored by Western propaganda.
When you need to have your spectrum re-tinted by Middle Eastern propaganda. Everyone has an agenda.
Or you could, you know, stop watching/listening to all this stuff (even for 'free') and tell the content creators explicitly why you won't be bothering with their works until *they* are willing to cut out the Content Lords and deal with their fans directly in an honest and fair (affordable and DRM-free) manner. And if they won't (due to greed) why would you want to pay them or even pay attention to them anyway? Even copying their stuff helps keep a corrupt, democratically corrosive system going.
And if we cannot truly go without the luxury of entertainment (to keep us distracted from contemplating how empty and meaningless our lives are or some peer pressure 'did you see...' BS), then we have to take the first step and admit we're nothing but an addict.
Chilling to note that the real reasons Western democracies hadn't turned their countries into police states before had nothing to do with lofty ideals about freedom and the rule of law, but merely because of the modest hurdles of efficacy and transactional costs.
I think it is a matter of time before US media is banned from reporting on the findings by computer security experts - especially the uncontrollable ones in Russia and Finland - under the guise that it aides and abets terrerists.
Time to turn control of All Things Internet over to the UN - that august body that also asks tin-pot dictators to lend a hand in promoting international tourism.
Trust me. They know how to keep diseases contained.
Except when craven, arrogant, ignorant politicians overule the smart people and move an animal disease center from an isolated island to the edge of a large university campus - in eyesight of the stadium, coliseum, rec center, *and* the vet/med emergency room. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bio_and_Agro-Defense_Facility
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I would love to see simple fluorescent fliers start to show up in everyone's cable bills:
Your bill has increased by $xx due to purchasing infrastructure required for the government monitoring of all your online activities and communications. Have a nice day.
What a shock: moving to a state that places corporations above people - especially w.r.t. taxes.
Just like the foreign car companies that only open factories in the southeast US, where the politicians are literal fatcats and the workers are suicidally anti-Union.
Yes, I praise Google for doing at least some sourcing and assembling in the USA, but remember: they did this just for a very niche product that they know they won't sell many of for two reasons. First, it is at least 1.5 times the cost of similar multimedia devices. Secondly, it cannot stream ANY local media; an as-designed flaw mainly to help bump up Google Music usage.
This is another Google experiment they will kill sometime next year after the hype of embarrasing Apple for building just about everything in China dies down. Also: don't hold your breath for any Nexus phones or tablets to be built in the USA - not sure they actually could be anyways.
How gracefully do underground power lines age? Are there any (of a statisically significant amount) that are even 40 years old? Yes, hanging wire does seem like folly, but the critics seem to be screaming 'free lunch' as a care-free alternative. I have to wonder how prevalent underground placement is in earthquake-prone areas like Italy or Turkey. And replacing underground wire runs would be even more expensive than replacing sewer lines (assuming here the cables are in housings, not buried 'naked').
On the other hand, underground power cables could really help thin the heard of slack-jawed idiots running rented backhoes without getting the utilities marked out first.
You get wrapped up in an arrest warrant for Theft of Services - and placed on a permanent list of suspected pot growers.
Close to Gulf oil plays, yes. But it also makes exporting pork-subsidized crude and natural gas to more lucrative foreign markets mere childs play. That's the main reason for Keystone XL transporting corrosive tar sands instead of refined products: the option to export it instead of lowering domestic US prices by even five cents.
Half-joking, but I wonder if contracting out a community-speced and community-funded motherboard would be possible. It might be worthwhile if for no other reason than to possibly catch MS leaning on contract manufacturers from even considering fabbing a motherboard outside of their control.
July 4th, 2012: the world declares high-end physics independence from the US Empire.
At least we're still cutting-edge when it comes to pipelines for tar sand.
"My anaconda don't want none 'less you got bosons, hun."
I'd still put down $100 in Las Vegas that within 4 years (regardless if the prez election is rigged or not), 'open-source' 3D printers will be made illegal, justified by BS allegations of IP piracy.
Of course, HP will be allowed to offer their tawdry wares with an average print cost somewhere around $500 per cubic centimeter...
This willful ignorance is breathtaking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock
* The weasels are already crafting Son of ACTA. They will never stop.
The all-hallowed 'Job Creators' (boy, the GOP can create epic BS phrases) have already decided the election by willfully shutting down hiring (exempting cheap, compliant H1-B folks of course) to crater the economy and ensure the election of Mr. Magic Underwear as prez. Only after the innauguration will they consider hiring again (in a zero regulation, zero rights, zero health & safety environment).
When you need to have your spectrum re-tinted by Middle Eastern propaganda. Everyone has an agenda.
Or you could, you know, stop watching/listening to all this stuff (even for 'free') and tell the content creators explicitly why you won't be bothering with their works until *they* are willing to cut out the Content Lords and deal with their fans directly in an honest and fair (affordable and DRM-free) manner. And if they won't (due to greed) why would you want to pay them or even pay attention to them anyway? Even copying their stuff helps keep a corrupt, democratically corrosive system going.
And if we cannot truly go without the luxury of entertainment (to keep us distracted from contemplating how empty and meaningless our lives are or some peer pressure 'did you see...' BS), then we have to take the first step and admit we're nothing but an addict.
Chilling to note that the real reasons Western democracies hadn't turned their countries into police states before had nothing to do with lofty ideals about freedom and the rule of law, but merely because of the modest hurdles of efficacy and transactional costs.
Make it look like IE6: anyone seeing that would roll their eyes and think the data belongs to a clueless grandmother.
I think it is a matter of time before US media is banned from reporting on the findings by computer security experts - especially the uncontrollable ones in Russia and Finland - under the guise that it aides and abets terrerists.
#Duh
I seriously do wonder if even corporations in 1930s Italy had this much power.
Time to turn control of All Things Internet over to the UN - that august body that also asks tin-pot dictators to lend a hand in promoting international tourism.
No way they allow that experiment to yield dangerous results. The House will zero out that budget.
Except when craven, arrogant, ignorant politicians overule the smart people and move an animal disease center from an isolated island to the edge of a large university campus - in eyesight of the stadium, coliseum, rec center, *and* the vet/med emergency room. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bio_and_Agro-Defense_Facility
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
Microsecond greed is better.
I think of telephone sanitizers...