Come on everyone, let's convince ourselves we're unique and important through trivial acts. It's corporate "culture," since we're killing every other form of culture. Repeat after me: Google is not the new world order, it's Progress, sainted progress and soon we will dominate the world. If you want to be part of the Good and not the Evil, you'll eat that soggy biscuit and like it, or no bonus and no free cafeteria!1!!
...When you can simply bombard the numb populace with expensive television advertising, purchase stories in the "news entertainment media," bribe them by appealing to their greedy special interests, and manipulate them through churches and synagogues?
They don't have to hack the voting machines. They've already hacked the voters. Just as Plato predicted they would!
As Plato said, bad propaganda conditions your people to do stupid things, and they don't have time to figure it out. I'd do the same thing, but I give Russia few chances of success, given how elusive self-governance has been for them since they overthrew their Nordid leaders and replaced them with fields of peasant Slavs.
A christian/secular humanist symbol many did not want. In fact, most want to be represented by someone who looks like a male of their ethnicity, from the higher castes or classes.
However, the next person who calls Barack "Osama" should probably be shot on aesthetic grounds alone.
It would be interesting to see these, and see if I won a bet that they'd be either mostly 30s white men with part-Slavic ancestry or recent African immigrants.
The musicianship and production in popular music has improved a lot, but they have less to say, so it's insipid but highly competent trash. I personally think video games peaked with the RTS games of the late 1990s, but I'm not a competent gamer and I'm sure people here have a better take on it.
However, I can say that while I appreciate the Mars Volta, 1970s prog wipes the floor with them.
Apple users, Linux users and Amiga users have all alienated people with their superiority complex. They've made themselves targets by claiming to be doing everything better.
Greenpeace is great, but they never talk about many of the serious environmental problems, like too many humans only about 10% or fewer can live American-style before we wreck the planet.
New York parking prices are insane and with all the traffic, it's cheaper and faster to bicycle through the freezing snow and angry muggers. Maybe that will eventually make it a "green" city.
Classical music is one spot of hope in a musically bleak world. They should recognize that having more literate buying audiences will get them more profit in the end. Again, the music industry shoots itself in the foot through paranoid MBAs lashing out against anything that challenges the old way of doing things.
It's a giant conspiracy to make activation codes required. Now that XP is more popular than Vista, the corporate drones want to get us all hooked in to their required purchasing plan, even though studies show that 97% of people running Windows stole it because it was easy.
The New World Order will unite all the world, breed us into a Grey Race, destroy our culture so we must get our values from television and malls, and then will make us all slaves to even more boring corporate jobs, but they'll be "happy" in the Apple/Google way.
I almost want Microsoft to win, because at least they've got part of the fascist aesthetic down. This Nanny Corporate State NWO bullshit is just depressingly silly.
Light, fast, loads quickly, rarely crashes, has some innovative features that the vaunted Apple "interface gurus" could learn from. What's not to like about Opera? I'd like to see it market itself more aggressively.
"To put it succinctly, the libertarian believes in the freedom of individuals to pursue their lives as they see fit, as long as they cause no harm to others, with minimal governmental interference."
When your society is 90% fools, this means you will spend all of your time working around the damage they incur. They're causing no harm, because they don't mean to, but they'll make sure everything gets dumbed down to the point where no smart person will be able to rise above the herd.
The way "Your rights online" is one of the busiest/. categories, the way half the stories have little or nothing to do with IT, and the way articles are almost always spun in terms of "What individual rights will be lost?" rather than "What might society as a whole gain?", for example?
Both right wing and left wing parties are defending individual rights these days. What has it helped? No, really, has it saved us from government? No. Has it made better individuals? Doubtful. Is it helping the good guys win, and the bad guys lose? Hell no.
What good are "rights" when your social design is rotten?
And this is the core of libertarian thought: if I'm not hurting you, leave me the hell alone. Don't tell me what to do. Don't order me to attend your schools. Don't take my money for your causes. Let me trade freely (for example, let me buy sugar from Cuba). Let me read, or view, or say, what I want. I don't need you to tell me what to do; I'm quite capable of figuring it out for myself. Let me have sex with any adult I want, male or female (n.b. I'm quite straight, but I see no reason to surpress other adults' desires; I'm still protective of minors). Let me put into my body what I choose to put in it.
Completely vague. What you might be doing might not directly hurt some person, but indirectly hurt the future of the society at large. Libertarian societies are going to produce a few wealthy, bored people and no great art.
Libertarianism by itself is a dummy solution. It liberates the individual, and lets society go to rot, which leads to a third world state with a few rich people in it. That sounds totally exciting, and it's what's going to happen anyway in the USA.
Groups of individuals all wanting to be kings are oppressive.
I have libertarian leanings in that I want smart people to be unfettered by the mob of individual kings, who seem to want to tear down anyone who rises above.
I'm also a realist. I know we need strong leadership.
I'm also a leftist in that I think Social Darwinism is a lie. Economics does not reward the best technology, or the best people. It rewards the best products and the most useless people.
All of these ideas are best stated in Plato's Republic and to a more articulate degree in Nietzsche's On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense, minus the obvious critique of capitalism.
I do not trust a capitalist, democratic society any more than I would trust a communist, authoritarian one. Both suppress the best of humanity so that most people can be comfortable with their miniscule role in the cosmos, inflated by human pretense.
They love widgets at LiveJournal, or is that FaceBook? Or MyFace or whatever it's called.
Anyway, write a widget. It stores the URL and two unique phrases, visible only to the owner of the widget, it must find on that page. Every night at midnight, it scans your links and if it doesn't find those phrases, temporarily yanks the link and drops you an IM.
Or is LiveJournal too primitive for this? If so, maybe they need to fix that. The future is the widget, man.
It's really simple to write English correctly. If you can't do it, you're probably a monkey someone taught to code C++, and should probably be exterminated. These are very basic rules. You don't see me whinging about any of the more esoteric English. But it's/its? That's obvious. Get it right, or admit you're a one-trick pony.
Hacker: "Your honor, I've ported the monitoring system to Linux so you pigs can watch me not hack but also not have to deal with the fucking animated dog when I want to search for files."
Judge: "Actually, we're just moving you to Vista..."
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Come on everyone, let's convince ourselves we're unique and important through trivial acts. It's corporate "culture," since we're killing every other form of culture. Repeat after me: Google is not the new world order, it's Progress, sainted progress and soon we will dominate the world. If you want to be part of the Good and not the Evil, you'll eat that soggy biscuit and like it, or no bonus and no free cafeteria!1!!
...When you can simply bombard the numb populace with expensive television advertising, purchase stories in the "news entertainment media," bribe them by appealing to their greedy special interests, and manipulate them through churches and synagogues?
They don't have to hack the voting machines. They've already hacked the voters. Just as Plato predicted they would!
As Plato said, bad propaganda conditions your people to do stupid things, and they don't have time to figure it out. I'd do the same thing, but I give Russia few chances of success, given how elusive self-governance has been for them since they overthrew their Nordid leaders and replaced them with fields of peasant Slavs.
A christian/secular humanist symbol many did not want. In fact, most want to be represented by someone who looks like a male of their ethnicity, from the higher castes or classes.
However, the next person who calls Barack "Osama" should probably be shot on aesthetic grounds alone.
Most human beings are dumb; at least half of them are 100 IQ points or fewer.
What's so sacred about being human? YOUR FEAR?
Proposed names for black holes:
1. American culture
2. Human environmental conscience
3. Good TV
4. Disco Comeback
5. Emo
6. Proof of Jesus
7. D.A.R.E.
Giant failures, humanity!
It would be interesting to see these, and see if I won a bet that they'd be either mostly 30s white men with part-Slavic ancestry or recent African immigrants.
The musicianship and production in popular music has improved a lot, but they have less to say, so it's insipid but highly competent trash. I personally think video games peaked with the RTS games of the late 1990s, but I'm not a competent gamer and I'm sure people here have a better take on it.
However, I can say that while I appreciate the Mars Volta, 1970s prog wipes the floor with them.
Apple users, Linux users and Amiga users have all alienated people with their superiority complex. They've made themselves targets by claiming to be doing everything better.
Greenpeace is great, but they never talk about many of the serious environmental problems, like too many humans only about 10% or fewer can live American-style before we wreck the planet.
New York parking prices are insane and with all the traffic, it's cheaper and faster to bicycle through the freezing snow and angry muggers. Maybe that will eventually make it a "green" city.
Classical music is one spot of hope in a musically bleak world. They should recognize that having more literate buying audiences will get them more profit in the end. Again, the music industry shoots itself in the foot through paranoid MBAs lashing out against anything that challenges the old way of doing things.
The hardware is flaky but pretty, and very expensive.
The CEO and company seem neurotic.
Most of the users are self-indulgent, arty, smug, pretentious types.
The average person wants nothing to do with this.
The real question is, if Apple got all of these people to start running a desktop UNIX, what can Linux do to follow that lead?
Apple's real advantage is standardized hardware, which we all thought was obsolete in the 1990s.
+5, insightful
It's a giant conspiracy to make activation codes required. Now that XP is more popular than Vista, the corporate drones want to get us all hooked in to their required purchasing plan, even though studies show that 97% of people running Windows stole it because it was easy.
The New World Order will unite all the world, breed us into a Grey Race, destroy our culture so we must get our values from television and malls, and then will make us all slaves to even more boring corporate jobs, but they'll be "happy" in the Apple/Google way.
I almost want Microsoft to win, because at least they've got part of the fascist aesthetic down. This Nanny Corporate State NWO bullshit is just depressingly silly.
Light, fast, loads quickly, rarely crashes, has some innovative features that the vaunted Apple "interface gurus" could learn from. What's not to like about Opera? I'd like to see it market itself more aggressively.
"It's a disease, I tell you. The apparent inability to accept the fact that we're not all a uniform gray paste." http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects /2007-February/001131.html
"To put it succinctly, the libertarian believes in the freedom of individuals to pursue their lives as they see fit, as long as they cause no harm to others, with minimal governmental interference."
When your society is 90% fools, this means you will spend all of your time working around the damage they incur. They're causing no harm, because they don't mean to, but they'll make sure everything gets dumbed down to the point where no smart person will be able to rise above the herd.
Like in Norway.
The way "Your rights online" is one of the busiest /. categories, the way half the stories have little or nothing to do with IT, and the way articles are almost always spun in terms of "What individual rights will be lost?" rather than "What might society as a whole gain?", for example?
Both right wing and left wing parties are defending individual rights these days. What has it helped? No, really, has it saved us from government? No. Has it made better individuals? Doubtful. Is it helping the good guys win, and the bad guys lose? Hell no.
What good are "rights" when your social design is rotten?
And this is the core of libertarian thought: if I'm not hurting you, leave me the hell alone. Don't tell me what to do. Don't order me to attend your schools. Don't take my money for your causes. Let me trade freely (for example, let me buy sugar from Cuba). Let me read, or view, or say, what I want. I don't need you to tell me what to do; I'm quite capable of figuring it out for myself. Let me have sex with any adult I want, male or female (n.b. I'm quite straight, but I see no reason to surpress other adults' desires; I'm still protective of minors). Let me put into my body what I choose to put in it.
Completely vague. What you might be doing might not directly hurt some person, but indirectly hurt the future of the society at large. Libertarian societies are going to produce a few wealthy, bored people and no great art.
Libertarianism by itself is a dummy solution. It liberates the individual, and lets society go to rot, which leads to a third world state with a few rich people in it. That sounds totally exciting, and it's what's going to happen anyway in the USA.
Whatever
Groups of individuals all wanting to be kings are oppressive.
I have libertarian leanings in that I want smart people to be unfettered by the mob of individual kings, who seem to want to tear down anyone who rises above.
I'm also a realist. I know we need strong leadership.
I'm also a leftist in that I think Social Darwinism is a lie. Economics does not reward the best technology, or the best people. It rewards the best products and the most useless people.
All of these ideas are best stated in Plato's Republic and to a more articulate degree in Nietzsche's On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense, minus the obvious critique of capitalism.
I do not trust a capitalist, democratic society any more than I would trust a communist, authoritarian one. Both suppress the best of humanity so that most people can be comfortable with their miniscule role in the cosmos, inflated by human pretense.
My solution can be found at CORRUPT.
They love widgets at LiveJournal, or is that FaceBook? Or MyFace or whatever it's called.
Anyway, write a widget. It stores the URL and two unique phrases, visible only to the owner of the widget, it must find on that page. Every night at midnight, it scans your links and if it doesn't find those phrases, temporarily yanks the link and drops you an IM.
Or is LiveJournal too primitive for this? If so, maybe they need to fix that. The future is the widget, man.
It's really simple to write English correctly. If you can't do it, you're probably a monkey someone taught to code C++, and should probably be exterminated. These are very basic rules. You don't see me whinging about any of the more esoteric English. But it's/its? That's obvious. Get it right, or admit you're a one-trick pony.
Hacker: "Your honor, I've ported the monitoring system to Linux so you pigs can watch me not hack but also not have to deal with the fucking animated dog when I want to search for files."
Judge: "Actually, we're just moving you to Vista..."
It's goal is to point out both the technical areas in which the CCNA falls short, and to teach the reader the non-Cisco aspects of running a network.
It's = It is
Its = possessive, belonging to It