so what if if costs 500 to 800 billion dollars we spent way more then that in Iraq - 500 billion is quite reasonable for a good high speed rail system if we can spend more on Iraq
Yeah we spent that much in Iraq, and we're pretty well screwed because of it. Just because we spent that much screwing over Iraq doesn't mean we somehow have more to spend on a railway boondoggle.
After the award, it just reinforced that he didn't have to work, he could play victim, and he'd get rewards.
So it sounds like the school did an excellent job teaching the students how the real world works! A bit exaggerated (playing the victim won't get you the best rewards, usually) though.
Let's assume for a second that the kill-switch proponents are acting from the best of motives. They are worried about the potential for a huge, effective, external Internet attack on critical infrastructure, that could do the worst things - cut power, stop water , turn all the traffic lights red - you've seen the movies.
Yes we have, and so have the legislators. That's the problem.
The problem is working from the assumption that the "nightmare scenarios" in the movies are likely, or even possible.
"My guess is that if you look at the EULA carefully, it does specify that they are allowed to do this."
Because a company puts some shit in a EULA doesn't make that shit legal by default.
You don't HAVE to install the update. I've held off on doing it so far.
But of course, Sony doesn't have to let un-updated PS3s on their PSN network either. Nor do they have to make it so that new titles will work on your now-non-standard system.
Ummm no it didn't when this was a complete PR stunt. Interest in shuttle launches had be waning for years.
And interest in NASA had been waning in general since the moon landing. Right before the Apollo 13 accident occurred, they were worried because moon landings and space missions seem to have become ordinary.
This was an accident that did not had to happen as the late great Physicist Richard Feynman point out.
NASA has a history of taking chances with people's lives.
And the political pressure (from both inside and outside of NASA) grows even more the further behind you are. The commentator mentions it at the start of the Challenger flight: "After more delays than NASA cares to admit..."
Except under firefox for linux, which uses a HORRIBLE graphics zoomer.
Really, it's awful, and any graphics that aren't their native resolution are hideously blocky and pixelated. Firefox users in Linux zoom text only which works great for most sites except sites like Slashdot which assume text and graphics will always remain proportional to each other.
Chrome under Linux works much better with resizing graphics (it actually looks decent), but whatever firefox uses looks horrible, bad enough to not have graphics resizing be an option.
Hmmm, the preview for me has been broken in such a way for months... years? It's always, regardless of the connection, taken a good thirty seconds to get a preview.
In fact, just based on this one comment I just previewed, the new system is faster than the old.
Please mods, don't let this AC comment languish at Score:0. The grandparent's post still stands at Score: 4, Interesting, despite being factually incorrect.
Try this change in your lifestyle: give up passive consumption of "entertainment". Instead take up a hobby; woodwork, bee-keeping, radio ham, whatever.
Suddenly, avoiding companies such as those listed above is trivial.
On the other hand, not everyone wants to live a 19th century lifestyle. Asking people to make that choice is one the conglomerates are happy to do; it means they win.
I think it's the problem with giant conglomerates. You're not merely boycotting a single company, you're now boycotting most of society, because everything has come together under a single umbrella.
Of course. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They handle basically "things that come into the country." Customs has long had the responsibility of preventing "foreign knock-offs" from entering the country if they're pirated, in violation of US trademark, counterfeit, etc.
No-one who wants genuine change could get the media airtime required to stand a chance of being elected.
Perhaps, but that's not necessarily the media's fault. The big problem is that advertising, campaigning, these are all very expensive activities, and all that money needs to be privately raised.
100 to 1 still means there are 3 million of you, if you could congregate in one state then you should be able to guide political processes without worrying about the mouth breathing masses.
Yeah, but then they'd have to vote to make it happen.
Right, they'd have to actually get off their asses instead of just complaining that nothing can be done.
The state is not a business. They don't work anywhere close to the same way. Many people HAVE been brought in to "run the state like a business." That approach usually fails.
I agree completely, supporting a persons personal equipment in the office should not be your responsibility, no personal laptops on the domain, no personal cellphones on the company plan, if you end up supporting the gear you will be stuck with supporting it whenever there is a problem.
Of course that works on paper more often than it works in real life, CEO or an exec asks for assistance with there gadget, you probably are going to help
Companies that really crunch the numbers don't support personal devices either, as the endless amount of varieties and options make support costs skyrocket, trumping any miniscule savings that convenience and flexibility bring.
Hell, we don't even allow personal laptops access to the internal due to the possible trouble they can cause.
I'm not really a fan of Jerry Brown (or at least of former governor Brown), but somewhat along the way, something snapped and it seems like he's become more of a pragmatist. So color me... "cautiously optimistic."
I've noticed that the "spend money" propositions in California have been harder and harder to pass lately, fortunately. Six years ago several high-profile bond measures sold these propositions as free money. One of them even flat-out stated that a bond was a way of getting what we wanted/needed without having to pay for it (through taxes was the fine print).
Now voter information guides explicitly state what bonds are and what sort of debt they will incur and what that means for other spending in California.
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Remind me again what happened at the end of the Great Depression?
A big war?
so what if if costs 500 to 800 billion dollars
we spent way more then that in Iraq - 500 billion is quite reasonable for a good high speed rail system if we can spend more on Iraq
Yeah we spent that much in Iraq, and we're pretty well screwed because of it. Just because we spent that much screwing over Iraq doesn't mean we somehow have more to spend on a railway boondoggle.
After the award, it just reinforced that he didn't have to work, he could play victim, and he'd get rewards.
So it sounds like the school did an excellent job teaching the students how the real world works! A bit exaggerated (playing the victim won't get you the best rewards, usually) though.
Let's assume for a second that the kill-switch proponents are acting from the best of motives. They are worried about the potential for a huge, effective, external Internet attack on critical infrastructure, that could do the worst things - cut power, stop water , turn all the traffic lights red - you've seen the movies.
Yes we have, and so have the legislators. That's the problem.
The problem is working from the assumption that the "nightmare scenarios" in the movies are likely, or even possible.
True, and you don't have to get those games either! It's optional, but newer games won't work with the older standards.
(Hi Palshife!)
"My guess is that if you look at the EULA carefully, it does specify that they are allowed to do this."
Because a company puts some shit in a EULA doesn't make that shit legal by default.
You don't HAVE to install the update. I've held off on doing it so far.
But of course, Sony doesn't have to let un-updated PS3s on their PSN network either. Nor do they have to make it so that new titles will work on your now-non-standard system.
Ummm no it didn't when this was a complete PR stunt. Interest in shuttle launches had be waning for years.
And interest in NASA had been waning in general since the moon landing. Right before the Apollo 13 accident occurred, they were worried because moon landings and space missions seem to have become ordinary.
This was an accident that did not had to happen as the late great Physicist Richard Feynman point out.
NASA has a history of taking chances with people's lives.
And the political pressure (from both inside and outside of NASA) grows even more the further behind you are. The commentator mentions it at the start of the Challenger flight: "After more delays than NASA cares to admit..."
That depends on your view distance too. :-)
Except under firefox for linux, which uses a HORRIBLE graphics zoomer.
Really, it's awful, and any graphics that aren't their native resolution are hideously blocky and pixelated. Firefox users in Linux zoom text only which works great for most sites except sites like Slashdot which assume text and graphics will always remain proportional to each other.
Chrome under Linux works much better with resizing graphics (it actually looks decent), but whatever firefox uses looks horrible, bad enough to not have graphics resizing be an option.
Hmmm, the preview for me has been broken in such a way for months... years? It's always, regardless of the connection, taken a good thirty seconds to get a preview.
In fact, just based on this one comment I just previewed, the new system is faster than the old.
I would rank Clint Eastwood towards the top of the list for his overall stunning directorial work.
Well, I would if The Hereafter didn't suck so much. :(
Uhm - that's amazing customer service given that he has been dead since 2004.
But still - great strings and a good company to deal with.
He interacts with his customers through an online psychic medium.
I'm joking, but I can totally see a number of groups taking that idea seriously.
Please mods, don't let this AC comment languish at Score:0. The grandparent's post still stands at Score: 4, Interesting, despite being factually incorrect.
> Are you sure about that?
Yes, quite sure thank you.
Try this change in your lifestyle: give up passive consumption of "entertainment". Instead take up a hobby; woodwork, bee-keeping, radio ham, whatever.
Suddenly, avoiding companies such as those listed above is trivial.
On the other hand, not everyone wants to live a 19th century lifestyle. Asking people to make that choice is one the conglomerates are happy to do; it means they win.
Yes, boycotts are mostly unworkable.
I think it's the problem with giant conglomerates. You're not merely boycotting a single company, you're now boycotting most of society, because everything has come together under a single umbrella.
Also . . . ICE? Immigration? WTF?
Of course. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They handle basically "things that come into the country." Customs has long had the responsibility of preventing "foreign knock-offs" from entering the country if they're pirated, in violation of US trademark, counterfeit, etc.
No-one who wants genuine change could get the media airtime required to stand a chance of being elected.
Perhaps, but that's not necessarily the media's fault. The big problem is that advertising, campaigning, these are all very expensive activities, and all that money needs to be privately raised.
The cheapest thing would be to yank health insurance for everyone and say to hell with society, let darwinism weed out the weak links of society.
Not humane, but it is economical. Unless of course, human life, comfort, and dignity have a measurable value.
Everyone would have to be a Christian Scientist in order for that to happen!
100 to 1 still means there are 3 million of you, if you could congregate in one state then you should be able to guide political processes without worrying about the mouth breathing masses.
Yeah, but then they'd have to vote to make it happen.
Right, they'd have to actually get off their asses instead of just complaining that nothing can be done.
So you were a registered voter, informed about more than the two dem/repub choices and you STILL refused to vote?
Jesus Christ.
Thanks a lot, now I have -no- hope for our political future.
The state is not a business. They don't work anywhere close to the same way.
Many people HAVE been brought in to "run the state like a business." That approach usually fails.
I agree completely, supporting a persons personal equipment in the office should not be your responsibility, no personal laptops on the domain, no personal cellphones on the company plan, if you end up supporting the gear you will be stuck with supporting it whenever there is a problem.
Of course that works on paper more often than it works in real life, CEO or an exec asks for assistance with there gadget, you probably are going to help
Companies that really crunch the numbers don't support personal devices either, as the endless amount of varieties and options make support costs skyrocket, trumping any miniscule savings that convenience and flexibility bring.
Hell, we don't even allow personal laptops access to the internal due to the possible trouble they can cause.
I'm not really a fan of Jerry Brown (or at least of former governor Brown), but somewhat along the way, something snapped and it seems like he's become more of a pragmatist. So color me... "cautiously optimistic."
I've noticed that the "spend money" propositions in California have been harder and harder to pass lately, fortunately. Six years ago several high-profile bond measures sold these propositions as free money. One of them even flat-out stated that a bond was a way of getting what we wanted/needed without having to pay for it (through taxes was the fine print).
Now voter information guides explicitly state what bonds are and what sort of debt they will incur and what that means for other spending in California.
...especially when attached to a pin and stuck into a large Starbucks straw.
Well now I'm going to have to go and get myself thrown out of my favorite coffee house. Thanks a lot.
I get myself thrown out of Starbucks all the time, but usually it's because I'm shooting peas out of a straw at fellow customers, the servers, etc.