Liberal Arts majors would presumably get their education for free.
I understand this was satire, but the unfortunate reality is that I can see an army of English and Art majors lobbying this battle for the win. Its getting closer to moving out of American time, for the tide of idiocracy is becoming to strong.
Are we supposed to be cheering at the knowledge that we're not the only ones that f**ked up our money management?
No, I would say sighing at the fact the up and coming world governments haven't learned from the fallen, and the fact that we as well have chosen not to learn from failed predecessors either. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I feel the greed-driven will speed the entire global-economy off the rails in the coming years. When the big financial meltdown comes, I hope you're all ready. Inflationary capitalistic expansion will have its cost, and it will most likely end in human lives of those getting the trickle down from the top.
All those marketers, all those hedge-fund managers, all those financial instruments, the money printing, the interest rate hikes, the depletion of old-guard natural energy resources, the cost-cutting, the parasitic leeches of banks and speculative investment..they will kill the host before they kill themselves.
Unrelated to GPS tracking, I've heard people refer to Dearborn as Dearbornistan because things have gotten so bad in some areas. Its like the racial and ethnic barriers are being resurrected right back up, shame folks can't get past skin color, ethnicity, and religion. Some things never change.
Not sure if your being sarcastic or missed the hypothetical, insert any [x] mundane take for granted object and I imagine its a matter of time before a large majority of things are tracked at the current rate of growth. Either that or you whooshed me with your intended jesting.
This does not come as unexpected to me in the age of the Police State. Nothing to see here folks, move along. It will be interesting to see how the congresscircus handles this, if they try to skewer Apple like they did Google, along with the other countries that hemmed and hawed over Google data. You've got the apologists saying "oh, well, its not that bad", but in reality the more we become desensitized to location tracking, the worse it will get. How many years in the future until somebody discovers their shoes are posting their GPS data to local municipality receivers, and the apologist collectively say "oh well its only within 50 feet of accuracy, nothing to get concerned about."
Twas satire, but your contention raises valid points. It is a very difficult sport, and I apologize if I offended any players. Those offended will have plenty of time to reflect over these comments during each inning and between lulls in the action.
Next I hope they replace the players with robots. And then they could replace the umpires as well. And then they could replace the sportscasters. I am pretty sure all of those jobs could be performed by autonomous machines.
Then replace the audience with robots.
And then nuke the whole ensemble from orbit, and our baseball problem will be solved!
Oh..whats that you say...it wasn't a problem...?...I just really despise this sport. I am pretty sure you could write baseball AI in a couple lines.
while(FansNotBored)
{
If (IHaveBall)
ThrowBall();
else
StandStill();
}
On April 18th, Encyclopedia Dramatic was discovered terminated by an errant Lulz seeker. It was immediately replaced by its successor, OhInternet. On this third week in April, 2011 year of our FSM, it is hereby declared that the Lulz are officially dead, replaced by the SFW watered-down humor used to placate the whining and easily offended masses. Tis a sad day, and for years to come Lulz seekers will wander aimlessly in the walled-garden internet of new, an internet that has been sensitized for all of the most easily offended. This brave-new-world shalt be dubbed 'teh lamexors', and hence fourth shall be ignored in lieu of the Lulz-Seekers new found home of humor, IRL. IRL is a place in which censoring is much more difficult, for the evil bane of Westboro and CoS trolls from its IRL caves here, thus the Lulz seekers must migrate to IRL for the offendifags have all your base are belong to us'ed the great ED.
Rest in bits ED, for you were freaking hilarious. Catnarok hath past, and the days of your reckoning are upon thee.
I hate all the networks. The likes of Olberman, Maddow, Cooper, Grace, etc, they are all ass-hats. It is just F&F is an easy target and is hilarious. But all the others pundits are equally douchbaggish in my mindset. If you would like, feel free to peruse my other comments, I think you'll find they tend towards the libertarian. All the networks are bought and paid for. But if your seat-of-the-pants judgment is enough for you however, I apologize for the butt-hurt I inflicted, I hereby promise to not really care.
Fox & Friends: "Mr Cosm, how would you describe the modern American economy?"
Cosm: "Well, we have primarily shifted to a PTE based model."
Fox's Token Blond: "What's that? Is that like China?"
Cosm: "Polished Turd Economics, you should be quite familiar with it by now."
Snide Male Co-Host: "You mean like the democrats?"
Cosm: "...well..kind of...that would make the Republicans unpolished..."
Blond: "[winces] Hey now....We'll be back folks after this commercial break." commercial fade-in: "The new iPad 4G from....fades off..."
I would venture to say it is censorshipbecause these sites have to operate this way because if they explicitly stated they are gambling business, they would be turned away at the banks. Whilst the laws being broken are not directly related to gambling, they are being broken because Americans politicians want to censor the idea of gambling from the national conscience. Wasn't Capone brought in for tax evasion? They use whatever law is on the books, but the those subsidiary laws are broken as a symptom of a greater underlying law. IE Prohibition and all that jazz. If these gambling sites are rigged or are really just straight stealing money without offering real odds and certified RNGs, then I see your point, otherwise I see it as censorship.
Yes! Go Department of Justice! The world is now safe! Keep nannying us please! I can't control my gambling habit, so you doing it for me solves the problem! Oh, things like state-run-lotteries, white-collar gambling on stock market derivatives and other ill-formulated market bundles, that is all well and good. But those evil-online-poker sites, they are causing the downfall of the US! Just like the millions spent on the Barry Bonds trial! All the victims of gambling and steroid use in baseball now can see that justice be served! The file-shares, go get them too! Litigate Litigate Litigate! You are the bastion of liberty in the free-world, 'O DoJ, I salute your valiant efforts at keeping us all safe.
I was being a bit satirical, I do understand the important global ramifications of our great communication medium, but I still split the blame equally between evil botnet operators and poor IT practices. I would agree that the necessity for government intervention is there, albeit with things like the Patriot Act and aforementioned ICE-raids I get leary when things like this start to set precedents.
The Connecticut criminal complaint said a Michigan real estate company lost more than $115,000 to fraudulent wire transfers because of the Coreflood virus. A South Carolina law firm lost more than $78,000, and a North Carolina investment company lost more than $151,000, the complaint said. A defense contractor in Tennessee lost more than $241,000 due to the botnet, the complaint said.
Emphasis mine. I wouldn't expect any less out of firms like this first of all. They really need to change the keyboarding classes in high-school to teach basic do-not-download-stupid-shit classes. And second of all, FTA:
"Botnets and the cyber criminals who deploy them jeopardize the economic security of the United States and the dependability of the nation's information infrastructure," Shawn Henry...said in a statement.
Obviously, the internet is now truly Serious Business. DHS, Ice-Raids, I hate to say it but as other/.ers have said in the past, we are entering the downward slope of the golden age of the internet, the gub'ment is now all up in our intertubes for good. Hide yo pron hide yo second life.
Hah! In this day and age I have completely given up on expecting any sort of journalistic integrity. We have been overridden by Twitterphilia, Facebookitis, and the social internet. The signal to noise ratio shinks every day, with good content on the internet slowly being diluted by every socialite's pingbacksand retweet. Oh Web 2.0, how I long for the Geocities days of yore. At least then you had to manually choose to visit crap like MySpace and the ilk; now it is forced upon us at every corner of the interwebs. I can't even comment on most news sites now because it's all Facebook Connect. End Rant.
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Liberal Arts majors would presumably get their education for free.
I understand this was satire, but the unfortunate reality is that I can see an army of English and Art majors lobbying this battle for the win. Its getting closer to moving out of American time, for the tide of idiocracy is becoming to strong.
Are we supposed to be cheering at the knowledge that we're not the only ones that f**ked up our money management?
No, I would say sighing at the fact the up and coming world governments haven't learned from the fallen, and the fact that we as well have chosen not to learn from failed predecessors either. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I feel the greed-driven will speed the entire global-economy off the rails in the coming years. When the big financial meltdown comes, I hope you're all ready. Inflationary capitalistic expansion will have its cost, and it will most likely end in human lives of those getting the trickle down from the top.
All those marketers, all those hedge-fund managers, all those financial instruments, the money printing, the interest rate hikes, the depletion of old-guard natural energy resources, the cost-cutting, the parasitic leeches of banks and speculative investment..they will kill the host before they kill themselves.
WHOOSH
Which operating system was this again?
EvolutionSoft PEBCAC 2011
Stop that! Stop that!
Unrelated to GPS tracking, I've heard people refer to Dearborn as Dearbornistan because things have gotten so bad in some areas. Its like the racial and ethnic barriers are being resurrected right back up, shame folks can't get past skin color, ethnicity, and religion. Some things never change.
Not sure if your being sarcastic or missed the hypothetical, insert any [x] mundane take for granted object and I imagine its a matter of time before a large majority of things are tracked at the current rate of growth. Either that or you whooshed me with your intended jesting.
This does not come as unexpected to me in the age of the Police State. Nothing to see here folks, move along. It will be interesting to see how the congresscircus handles this, if they try to skewer Apple like they did Google, along with the other countries that hemmed and hawed over Google data. You've got the apologists saying "oh, well, its not that bad", but in reality the more we become desensitized to location tracking, the worse it will get. How many years in the future until somebody discovers their shoes are posting their GPS data to local municipality receivers, and the apologist collectively say "oh well its only within 50 feet of accuracy, nothing to get concerned about."
Am I being charged with anything officer?
Move along.
Twas satire, but your contention raises valid points. It is a very difficult sport, and I apologize if I offended any players. Those offended will have plenty of time to reflect over these comments during each inning and between lulls in the action.
Next I hope they replace the players with robots. And then they could replace the umpires as well. And then they could replace the sportscasters. I am pretty sure all of those jobs could be performed by autonomous machines.
Then replace the audience with robots.
And then nuke the whole ensemble from orbit, and our baseball problem will be solved!
Oh..whats that you say...it wasn't a problem...?...I just really despise this sport. I am pretty sure you could write baseball AI in a couple lines.
while(FansNotBored)
{
If (IHaveBall)
ThrowBall();
else
StandStill();
}
Obituary for ED - (2004-2011)
Death by Moralfags
On April 18th, Encyclopedia Dramatic was discovered terminated by an errant Lulz seeker. It was immediately replaced by its successor, OhInternet. On this third week in April, 2011 year of our FSM, it is hereby declared that the Lulz are officially dead, replaced by the SFW watered-down humor used to placate the whining and easily offended masses. Tis a sad day, and for years to come Lulz seekers will wander aimlessly in the walled-garden internet of new, an internet that has been sensitized for all of the most easily offended. This brave-new-world shalt be dubbed 'teh lamexors', and hence fourth shall be ignored in lieu of the Lulz-Seekers new found home of humor, IRL. IRL is a place in which censoring is much more difficult, for the evil bane of Westboro and CoS trolls from its IRL caves here, thus the Lulz seekers must migrate to IRL for the offendifags have all your base are belong to us'ed the great ED.
Rest in bits ED, for you were freaking hilarious. Catnarok hath past, and the days of your reckoning are upon thee.
For those who didn't see the whoosh....
Remorse Remorse Remorse
I beg to differ.
I started getting nostalgic for Roland's postings of yore, but I think this has quashed that quite regretfully.
I hate all the networks. The likes of Olberman, Maddow, Cooper, Grace, etc, they are all ass-hats. It is just F&F is an easy target and is hilarious. But all the others pundits are equally douchbaggish in my mindset. If you would like, feel free to peruse my other comments, I think you'll find they tend towards the libertarian. All the networks are bought and paid for. But if your seat-of-the-pants judgment is enough for you however, I apologize for the butt-hurt I inflicted, I hereby promise to not really care.
karma whoring, had to look up b-ark, good analogy btw
No kidding, I am considering changing majors from my current STEM track to a TsD, or a Doctorate of Turdshinology.
Fox & Friends: "Mr Cosm, how would you describe the modern American economy?"
Cosm: "Well, we have primarily shifted to a PTE based model."
Fox's Token Blond: "What's that? Is that like China?"
Cosm: "Polished Turd Economics, you should be quite familiar with it by now."
Snide Male Co-Host: "You mean like the democrats?"
Cosm: "...well..kind of...that would make the Republicans unpolished..."
Blond: "[winces] Hey now....We'll be back folks after this commercial break."
commercial fade-in: "The new iPad 4G from....fades off..."
I would venture to say it is censorshipbecause these sites have to operate this way because if they explicitly stated they are gambling business, they would be turned away at the banks. Whilst the laws being broken are not directly related to gambling, they are being broken because Americans politicians want to censor the idea of gambling from the national conscience. Wasn't Capone brought in for tax evasion? They use whatever law is on the books, but the those subsidiary laws are broken as a symptom of a greater underlying law. IE Prohibition and all that jazz. If these gambling sites are rigged or are really just straight stealing money without offering real odds and certified RNGs, then I see your point, otherwise I see it as censorship.
Yes! Go Department of Justice! The world is now safe! Keep nannying us please! I can't control my gambling habit, so you doing it for me solves the problem! Oh, things like state-run-lotteries, white-collar gambling on stock market derivatives and other ill-formulated market bundles, that is all well and good. But those evil-online-poker sites, they are causing the downfall of the US! Just like the millions spent on the Barry Bonds trial! All the victims of gambling and steroid use in baseball now can see that justice be served! The file-shares, go get them too! Litigate Litigate Litigate! You are the bastion of liberty in the free-world, 'O DoJ, I salute your valiant efforts at keeping us all safe.
Fucking Assholes.
Thanks for that...MOD UP!
I was being a bit satirical, I do understand the important global ramifications of our great communication medium, but I still split the blame equally between evil botnet operators and poor IT practices. I would agree that the necessity for government intervention is there, albeit with things like the Patriot Act and aforementioned ICE-raids I get leary when things like this start to set precedents.
Best slant rhyme I could come up with at the time, maybe
hide yo pron hide yo russian wife
The Connecticut criminal complaint said a Michigan real estate company lost more than $115,000 to fraudulent wire transfers because of the Coreflood virus. A South Carolina law firm lost more than $78,000, and a North Carolina investment company lost more than $151,000, the complaint said. A defense contractor in Tennessee lost more than $241,000 due to the botnet, the complaint said.
Emphasis mine. I wouldn't expect any less out of firms like this first of all. They really need to change the keyboarding classes in high-school to teach basic do-not-download-stupid-shit classes. And second of all, FTA:
"Botnets and the cyber criminals who deploy them jeopardize the economic security of the United States and the dependability of the nation's information infrastructure," Shawn Henry...said in a statement.
Obviously, the internet is now truly Serious Business. DHS, Ice-Raids, I hate to say it but as other /.ers have said in the past, we are entering the downward slope of the golden age of the internet, the gub'ment is now all up in our intertubes for good. Hide yo pron hide yo second life.
Hah! In this day and age I have completely given up on expecting any sort of journalistic integrity. We have been overridden by Twitterphilia, Facebookitis, and the social internet. The signal to noise ratio shinks every day, with good content on the internet slowly being diluted by every socialite's pingbacksand retweet. Oh Web 2.0, how I long for the Geocities days of yore. At least then you had to manually choose to visit crap like MySpace and the ilk; now it is forced upon us at every corner of the interwebs. I can't even comment on most news sites now because it's all Facebook Connect. End Rant.
RMAO