Exactly. Check out yesterday's big Washington Post exposé on the national security state, we have almost a million people with Top Secret clearance, Christ how many intelligence agencies and spies do we need? And they can't even catch morons like the underwear bomber because all the agencies are busy protecting their 'information' and feeding each other disinfo, and always the solution is one more agency to contain them all, kinda like the CIA was supposed to be at one time. This has gotten beyond ridiculous.
the one way to make sure a currency is usable in daily trade is for it to be accepted as tax payment by local government.
huhhuh you said 'tax payment' - sorry, no cigar because no government will be in the transaction chain even in a monitoring capacity, much less an enforcement capacity.
The issue here is not whether you can take a good picture from 65 feet or not. The issue is that we are currently experiencing a corporate bioterror attack across the entire eastern seaboard, which, as it slowly renders coastline mile after mile uninhabitable, could be compared to a string of dirty bombs running all along the coast. Sensationalist? This event will be observable in the damn fossil record a million years from now, it is a 'Significant Event' on a geologic scale. So when someone says we don't have the right to look closely at the operations that are taking place to supposedly combat this event, well that just really doesn't rub me the right way.
A friggin Felony? Let me remind you that there are laws already in place against damaging federal property, interfering with performance of duties, there's even laws against ramming Coast Guard ships, believe it or not. So when they say that we need an additional draconian layer of legal protection against some hypothetical mob of journalists that are vandalizing oil booms and running their boats into the poor defenseless BP and Coast Guard ships who are just trying to help if we would get out of their way.
Forget about the stupid 65 feet and whether or not you can get a picture from 66 feet.. if they can do this without anyone calling them on it, then tomorrow there will be a little noticed press release where the directive is adjusted to 1 mile or whatever they want, citing the previously legal directive as 'precedent'. Hasn't anybody learned anything from the Patriot Act and the gigantic national security apparatus built on a single event almost a decade ago?
Too late, the government has already been doing this for decades with HAARP. Armed with the ability to heat a patch of the ionosphere along with the computational ability to determine the point of greatest effect, entire weather systems can be moved, the jet stream can be pushed down to ground level, and earthquakes can be triggered for fun and profit.
We have a similar scheme in Austin TX. They come out and replace your old mechanical thermostat and install a programmable one for free. They don't 'control' your AC. All it does is smooth out the demand spikes by delaying the activation of your AC by up to 5 minutes, if the utility is at a certain level of capacity. I get a smarter energy saving thermostat, and the utility gets one more tool to avoid rolling blackouts.
I find it interesting to see some of the uncompromising attitudes, "I want my cheap unlimited power, gosh darnit this is America!"
Oil is now $100 barrel, it now takes $900 to purchase 1 oz of gold, our military can no longer protect the petro-dollar - we are at the cusp of a radically different reality where we must pay market price for energy with a devaluing currency - something tells me that running our air conditioning for our 5 bedroom McMansions will soon be the least of our problems.
Windows has become a legacy plugin for us.
I work in a small automated equipment manufacturer where a majority of our software development takes place in Windows and all of our products run Windows, yet we are almost entirely an Apple shop. Our setup for everyone is a 24" Dell FPD and a Macbook with wireless keyboard and mouse. Development takes place in Windows 2000 running on the phenomenal Parallels 3.0. Because of 3rd party hardware and legacy software, our product runs on Windows, specifically 2000 pro. A brief foray into XP was cut short when a customer had to replace a vision board in their $250K machine and XP required reauthorization. Try talking a Malaysian tech through the process of calling an 800 number and reading long sequences of characters to someone at an Indian call center, when the equipment is not connected to the internet and is separated from the nearest outside line by an airlock, all the while the downtime is costing them $10,000/hr - all held hostage by a company that thinks we're ripping off their $200 software.
On the server side we're running samba, svn, apache, everything but the kitchen sink on Suse, ~500 day uptime so far.
So as long as we can keep using downgrade licenses and deploy 2K, Microsoft will keep getting our money, but if we're ever forcibly migrated to XP or God forbid Vista, we will finally have to face the fact that Windows in not an industrial O.S. and we'll have to port to Linux.
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Exactly. Check out yesterday's big Washington Post exposé on the national security state, we have almost a million people with Top Secret clearance, Christ how many intelligence agencies and spies do we need? And they can't even catch morons like the underwear bomber because all the agencies are busy protecting their 'information' and feeding each other disinfo, and always the solution is one more agency to contain them all, kinda like the CIA was supposed to be at one time. This has gotten beyond ridiculous.
the one way to make sure a currency is usable in daily trade is for it to be accepted as tax payment by local government.
huhhuh you said 'tax payment' - sorry, no cigar because no government will be in the transaction chain even in a monitoring capacity, much less an enforcement capacity.
A friggin Felony? Let me remind you that there are laws already in place against damaging federal property, interfering with performance of duties, there's even laws against ramming Coast Guard ships, believe it or not. So when they say that we need an additional draconian layer of legal protection against some hypothetical mob of journalists that are vandalizing oil booms and running their boats into the poor defenseless BP and Coast Guard ships who are just trying to help if we would get out of their way. Forget about the stupid 65 feet and whether or not you can get a picture from 66 feet.. if they can do this without anyone calling them on it, then tomorrow there will be a little noticed press release where the directive is adjusted to 1 mile or whatever they want, citing the previously legal directive as 'precedent'. Hasn't anybody learned anything from the Patriot Act and the gigantic national security apparatus built on a single event almost a decade ago?
Too late, the government has already been doing this for decades with HAARP. Armed with the ability to heat a patch of the ionosphere along with the computational ability to determine the point of greatest effect, entire weather systems can be moved, the jet stream can be pushed down to ground level, and earthquakes can be triggered for fun and profit.
We have a similar scheme in Austin TX. They come out and replace your old mechanical thermostat and install a programmable one for free. They don't 'control' your AC. All it does is smooth out the demand spikes by delaying the activation of your AC by up to 5 minutes, if the utility is at a certain level of capacity. I get a smarter energy saving thermostat, and the utility gets one more tool to avoid rolling blackouts.
I find it interesting to see some of the uncompromising attitudes, "I want my cheap unlimited power, gosh darnit this is America!"
Oil is now $100 barrel, it now takes $900 to purchase 1 oz of gold, our military can no longer protect the petro-dollar - we are at the cusp of a radically different reality where we must pay market price for energy with a devaluing currency - something tells me that running our air conditioning for our 5 bedroom McMansions will soon be the least of our problems.
Windows has become a legacy plugin for us. I work in a small automated equipment manufacturer where a majority of our software development takes place in Windows and all of our products run Windows, yet we are almost entirely an Apple shop. Our setup for everyone is a 24" Dell FPD and a Macbook with wireless keyboard and mouse. Development takes place in Windows 2000 running on the phenomenal Parallels 3.0. Because of 3rd party hardware and legacy software, our product runs on Windows, specifically 2000 pro. A brief foray into XP was cut short when a customer had to replace a vision board in their $250K machine and XP required reauthorization. Try talking a Malaysian tech through the process of calling an 800 number and reading long sequences of characters to someone at an Indian call center, when the equipment is not connected to the internet and is separated from the nearest outside line by an airlock, all the while the downtime is costing them $10,000/hr - all held hostage by a company that thinks we're ripping off their $200 software.
On the server side we're running samba, svn, apache, everything but the kitchen sink on Suse, ~500 day uptime so far.
So as long as we can keep using downgrade licenses and deploy 2K, Microsoft will keep getting our money, but if we're ever forcibly migrated to XP or God forbid Vista, we will finally have to face the fact that Windows in not an industrial O.S. and we'll have to port to Linux.