Thats pretty cool, I played Falcon 3.0 and their game was very good. Military grade simulation software =) It was definitely worth the custom treatment.
In other words, buying power and market influence are not the #1 measure of power in the world. It may appear to be so, but that is divided up among many corporations and institutions. Rightly so, you don't want one group to hold all of the cards.
Redhat is a small segment of a larger Linux community which is a smaller segment of a yet larger community of OS's, yet they are both very influential without owning the markets.
2007: Patent power
IBM has been granted more US patents than any other company. From 1993 to 2007, IBM was awarded over 38,000 US patents and has invested about $5 billion a year in research, development and engineering since 1996. IBM's current active portfolio is about 26,000 patents in the US and over 40,000 patents worldwide is a direct result of that investment.[238] 2008: IBM Roadrunner No.1 Supercomputer
For a record-setting ninth consecutive time, IBM takes the No.1 spot in the ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The IBM computer built for the Roadrunner project at Los Alamos National Laboratory: the first in the world to operate at speeds faster than one quadrillion calculations per second: remains the world speed champion. The Los Alamos system is twice as energy efficient as the No. 2 computer, using about half the electricity to maintain the same level of computing power.[239]
They are still major players as far as DoD or government projects go. I wager they have a lot of involvement in classified projects that I couldn't really begin to guess at. Because I have no clue about those types of things =)
So I guess it depends on your definition of evil empire;p or whether you liked Mr Eisenhower's opinions or not. Needless to say corporations are fronts and IBM has been given a lot of power in the form of patents and contracts over the years. In IBM's defense, they did help us lead in Aerospace for a very long time and earned their place in the world.
It's called a meme generator and I would think someone with a 5k UID would be on board with that one... maybe it did not exist on Usenet so I can't help you there.
To above and below, the idea of this healthcare bill is to provide the working class with health care better or more on par with what the ultra rich get by doing it communally, socialist. Because teamwork is better then doing it by yourself. Because groups are stronger then individuals.
But I don't get why you guys are ragin so hard, you have your utopian nightmare. I'm just pointing out that its not so damn utopian as you might think.
As ive seen pictures of peoples massive 6 monitor setups...
Though as someone who's been a gamer since duke nukem... and the ultima games... I don't see what all the hype is about. The colors aught to be much nicer on a 4k display, but I know I won't be spending money on one until their dirt cheap or I get one as a gift (which means they'll be dirt cheap by then).
Then again you can make a pretty game, that gets pretty boring pretty fast =) I've played some hideous monstrosities with the worst interfaces known to man just because the actual game was fun.
The universal health-care is overwhelmingly in favor of health care corporations and not nearly as much in favor of actually providing a really good social health care system for everyone to participate in equally. Meanwhile the ultra-rich can still pay for the best private medicine known to man.
It goes for understanding that things are never usually black and white, libertarian or not. So what party do you recommend following? Ron wouldn't have destroyed everything we've worked for. The picture you you paint is one of extremism untempered by a working republic. Which is what were heading towards, just in a socialist fascist sense instead of a libertarian form.
Revolution won't fix anything as it stands now, it would be a peasants revolt and no one would be left running the show, we'd be left squabbling over how and who to run it so rule that out until you see a succession and leadership make a lawful stand with a declaration of their sovereignty. I don't see anyone volunteering for that one any time soon.
Otherwise were left with voting and we all know thats a rigged game. So enjoy the show while it lasts. No Andrew Jacksons around to save our asses at the moment.
I think libertarian ideals are far to under-represented to make such sweeping generalizations. But the argument stems from without regulation corporations would rape us. It doesn't matter as it stands now the corporations are raping us all through regulation.
Now the FCC has had some positive effects and I cannot sit here and throw rotten tomatoes at their past actions. But reading the summary makes me think we just got shat on one more time. The cable and cellular industry does not inspire non-biased for the people (proles) warm fuzzies in my heart.
Again I do not know the person nominated or his policies, I have not done any research or heard anything particularly ill over main stream media or throughout the "other media" about this individual. So here I am browsing through comments looking for a reason I should support this or possibly not and chalk it up to a for sure were fucked again bit of news.
I detect internet rage from an anonymous individual with an unknown UID... if your going to tell people to get off your lawn at least wave your beard tangled cane in their faces and let them know who you are.
I agree. This is a badly written trolly summary, I could have done better if I bothered to spell check one of my own. I actually clicked the discussion link to see if there were any sane posts at all below.
But since its a public utility, I support their administration of it however they see fit. Hopefully communities have input and not just special interests over there in the UK...
When this is the response to what amounts to 2 douche bag gang bangers who barely fit the term "terrorist" by a stretch of the imagination. Besides privacy is not an issue in "public" (it was covered by reams of civil legislation) government surveillance use to be.
Whatever, I don't leave my loft (f u basement dwellers) anyway.
I believe the idea of the extension was for the government to get payed back and in theory us, because it would lessen the burden of our taxes enforcing monopolies. Thus being a fairer form of monopoly for the sake of "forced advancement of the arts".
I wasn't griping about google they are just a tool to parse the information out there. But whatever floods that tool with bad results is not googles fault. Googles database is increasingly becoming cluttered with useless information. I don't think its a great conspiracy, but I think its being encouraged somehow maybe by certain parties with a lot of money, power, influence.
For instance on freenet there was a documentary by a Russian on a motorbike about their drive through Chernobyl. Was the daughter of a nuclear physicist. It was a very blog like thing done before there were blogs. Its not easy to find on google and if you search around for it now you end up with a lot of results from mainstream blogs who plagiarized and edited the content. Nothing about it was very politically controversial except that it slammed down hard on how the Soviets handled the situation. Tidbits like that are becoming increasingly rare and you end up with 25 results for either porn or MSN, CNN, or slashdot affiliates.
The funny thing is in most tyrannies people can say the same thing. You don't know what you've lost until you lose it or have it used against you or become one of the oppressed.
This is the hardest concept to get across to people who say "this is no big deal" "I never was stopped from watching my official youtube video". Thats right you never were. But when you are because you happen to be one of those "other people" you read about.
When your looking for a reliable source of journalism and that source gets shut down, bought out, shoved 25 pages back on google and replaced with shit. When you have to spend 20 hours researching something instead of 5 minutes to find real sources citing real incidents that matter. You will understand. Information is becoming MUCH harder to get without peeling through layers of government and corporate propaganda and advertisement. The next step is to make it even harder to go outside of regular plain web google.
The saddest things is TOR is used for a lot of crap and very little good stuff, there still is better information outside of tor pertaining to real world events. So tor gets little love from the people that SHOULD be supporting it and all the attention of the people that hate it.
Don't be all excited about loosing it before you had a chance to need it.
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Thats pretty cool, I played Falcon 3.0 and their game was very good. Military grade simulation software =) It was definitely worth the custom treatment.
In other words, buying power and market influence are not the #1 measure of power in the world. It may appear to be so, but that is divided up among many corporations and institutions. Rightly so, you don't want one group to hold all of the cards.
Redhat is a small segment of a larger Linux community which is a smaller segment of a yet larger community of OS's, yet they are both very influential without owning the markets.
Perhaps. If you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM and look at the time line you will see:
2007: Patent power
IBM has been granted more US patents than any other company. From 1993 to 2007, IBM was awarded over 38,000 US patents and has invested about $5 billion a year in research, development and engineering since 1996. IBM's current active portfolio is about 26,000 patents in the US and over 40,000 patents worldwide is a direct result of that investment.[238]
2008: IBM Roadrunner No.1 Supercomputer
For a record-setting ninth consecutive time, IBM takes the No.1 spot in the ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The IBM computer built for the Roadrunner project at Los Alamos National Laboratory: the first in the world to operate at speeds faster than one quadrillion calculations per second: remains the world speed champion. The Los Alamos system is twice as energy efficient as the No. 2 computer, using about half the electricity to maintain the same level of computing power.[239]
They are still major players as far as DoD or government projects go. I wager they have a lot of involvement in classified projects that I couldn't really begin to guess at. Because I have no clue about those types of things =)
So I guess it depends on your definition of evil empire ;p or whether you liked Mr Eisenhower's opinions or not. Needless to say corporations are fronts and IBM has been given a lot of power in the form of patents and contracts over the years. In IBM's defense, they did help us lead in Aerospace for a very long time and earned their place in the world.
Awesome link =) He seems to indeed have a brain.
IBM is still a very large part of the evil empire ;p
It's called a meme generator and I would think someone with a 5k UID would be on board with that one... maybe it did not exist on Usenet so I can't help you there.
To above and below, the idea of this healthcare bill is to provide the working class with health care better or more on par with what the ultra rich get by doing it communally, socialist. Because teamwork is better then doing it by yourself. Because groups are stronger then individuals.
But I don't get why you guys are ragin so hard, you have your utopian nightmare. I'm just pointing out that its not so damn utopian as you might think.
As ive seen pictures of peoples massive 6 monitor setups...
Though as someone who's been a gamer since duke nukem... and the ultima games... I don't see what all the hype is about. The colors aught to be much nicer on a 4k display, but I know I won't be spending money on one until their dirt cheap or I get one as a gift (which means they'll be dirt cheap by then).
Then again you can make a pretty game, that gets pretty boring pretty fast =) I've played some hideous monstrosities with the worst interfaces known to man just because the actual game was fun.
The universal health-care is overwhelmingly in favor of health care corporations and not nearly as much in favor of actually providing a really good social health care system for everyone to participate in equally. Meanwhile the ultra-rich can still pay for the best private medicine known to man.
It goes for understanding that things are never usually black and white, libertarian or not. So what party do you recommend following? Ron wouldn't have destroyed everything we've worked for. The picture you you paint is one of extremism untempered by a working republic. Which is what were heading towards, just in a socialist fascist sense instead of a libertarian form.
Revolution won't fix anything as it stands now, it would be a peasants revolt and no one would be left running the show, we'd be left squabbling over how and who to run it so rule that out until you see a succession and leadership make a lawful stand with a declaration of their sovereignty. I don't see anyone volunteering for that one any time soon.
Otherwise were left with voting and we all know thats a rigged game. So enjoy the show while it lasts. No Andrew Jacksons around to save our asses at the moment.
I think libertarian ideals are far to under-represented to make such sweeping generalizations. But the argument stems from without regulation corporations would rape us. It doesn't matter as it stands now the corporations are raping us all through regulation.
Now the FCC has had some positive effects and I cannot sit here and throw rotten tomatoes at their past actions. But reading the summary makes me think we just got shat on one more time. The cable and cellular industry does not inspire non-biased for the people (proles) warm fuzzies in my heart.
Again I do not know the person nominated or his policies, I have not done any research or heard anything particularly ill over main stream media or throughout the "other media" about this individual. So here I am browsing through comments looking for a reason I should support this or possibly not and chalk it up to a for sure were fucked again bit of news.
It looks like a linuxgerian scam...
"If your telling", it took me a minute to think about it, a minute more of my life wasted on the internet. Thanks.
I detect internet rage from an anonymous individual with an unknown UID... if your going to tell people to get off your lawn at least wave your beard tangled cane in their faces and let them know who you are.
I agree. This is a badly written trolly summary, I could have done better if I bothered to spell check one of my own. I actually clicked the discussion link to see if there were any sane posts at all below.
Also camera's are less prone to abuse their power and more prone to be abused by those in power =p
But since its a public utility, I support their administration of it however they see fit. Hopefully communities have input and not just special interests over there in the UK...
When this is the response to what amounts to 2 douche bag gang bangers who barely fit the term "terrorist" by a stretch of the imagination. Besides privacy is not an issue in "public" (it was covered by reams of civil legislation) government surveillance use to be.
Whatever, I don't leave my loft (f u basement dwellers) anyway.
I believe the idea of the extension was for the government to get payed back and in theory us, because it would lessen the burden of our taxes enforcing monopolies. Thus being a fairer form of monopoly for the sake of "forced advancement of the arts".
You just gave me a great idea, why don't they make the customers shave their own noodles? The savings would be immense!
And I'm just writing to you all to say bronze fucking sucks...
*p.s. that last sentence is sarcasm if you don't get it.
I wasn't griping about google they are just a tool to parse the information out there. But whatever floods that tool with bad results is not googles fault. Googles database is increasingly becoming cluttered with useless information. I don't think its a great conspiracy, but I think its being encouraged somehow maybe by certain parties with a lot of money, power, influence.
For instance on freenet there was a documentary by a Russian on a motorbike about their drive through Chernobyl. Was the daughter of a nuclear physicist. It was a very blog like thing done before there were blogs. Its not easy to find on google and if you search around for it now you end up with a lot of results from mainstream blogs who plagiarized and edited the content. Nothing about it was very politically controversial except that it slammed down hard on how the Soviets handled the situation. Tidbits like that are becoming increasingly rare and you end up with 25 results for either porn or MSN, CNN, or slashdot affiliates.
The funny thing is in most tyrannies people can say the same thing. You don't know what you've lost until you lose it or have it used against you or become one of the oppressed.
This is the hardest concept to get across to people who say "this is no big deal" "I never was stopped from watching my official youtube video". Thats right you never were. But when you are because you happen to be one of those "other people" you read about.
When your looking for a reliable source of journalism and that source gets shut down, bought out, shoved 25 pages back on google and replaced with shit. When you have to spend 20 hours researching something instead of 5 minutes to find real sources citing real incidents that matter. You will understand. Information is becoming MUCH harder to get without peeling through layers of government and corporate propaganda and advertisement. The next step is to make it even harder to go outside of regular plain web google.
The saddest things is TOR is used for a lot of crap and very little good stuff, there still is better information outside of tor pertaining to real world events. So tor gets little love from the people that SHOULD be supporting it and all the attention of the people that hate it.
Don't be all excited about loosing it before you had a chance to need it.