While the corporations are probobly getting treated better than your average citizen, I doubt they really enjoy the way our political environment exists today any more than we do. The problem isn't the rich, or corporations, that's just a red herring thrown at you by the REAL problem: The Democrat and Republican parties. The left blame the rich, the right blame the media. None of it is true. The laws are passed by 2 political parties that have the same goal: Power
The easiest scenario to understand would be: Full tub with sprayer in the tub filling it up Water main downhill from you breaks (This happens ALL the time in Africa. We lost water pressure three times in one week) Water pours out the main... you lose pressure The hose sitting in the tub now works in reverse and siphons the contents of the tub into the main water supply lines. They fix the broken main Now imagine this happening in a city of 5million + where 80% of the population has intestinal parasites Your clean drinking water literally may have been someone else's bathwater just hours before. This completely discounts the fact that the water pipes themselves are now breading grounds for bacteria. Lastly, this is only 1 example. There are hundreds of other problems with the infrastructure. This was just the most glaringly obvious to me.
Having been to Africa, I can tell you that more freshwater wont solve the problem in the least. The water they get is not contaminated at the source. Much of it comes from wells, or Rivers and lakes. The rivers and lakes may have "Some" contamination... but that's not what the real problem is. The real problem is their horrible infrastructure. They lack even basic building inspection laws. Plumbing is done on-site, by whomever happens to be there. With no training in the field. The result is a haphazard public water supply infrastructure that is subject to contamination from the user.
A simple example is: Every bathtub that I saw in Africa did not have a shower. It had a sprayer that had a hose that led back to the side of the faucet. There was a hanger on the wall for... in every case that I saw the hanger had been long broken, and the sprayer lay in the bottom of the tub. If you fill the tub while leaving the sprayer laying in the water, you can get a siphon effect fairly easily. This draws dirty water from the tub back into the water supply. It's irrelevant where that water came from, it could have been triple distilled, it's now contaminated. This sort of setup is illegal in the united states for that very reason. There were thousands of other problems like this. Now imagine that your city had this sort of problem... ALL of the plumbing would have to be replaced... from the well to your faucet. The whole thing. How could you fix that? Now imagine it's an entire continent... and now you have a grasp of the size of the problem.
Sorry, you're off base. Dark matter, whatever it is, has mass but does not interact with other matter or energy. This doesn't just mean that it doesn't give off or reflect light and radiation. It also means that it's transparent to light and radiation. Per observation, there are huge swaths of "dark matter" between us and other stars/galaxies. Yet we can see these radiation emitting bodies undistorted, so whatever is there generating the gravitational effect must be totally transparent to every form of radiation we can measure. "dark matter" was a poor choice in a name. It's not dark, and it very likely is not even matter.
Personally I've seen employers leaning away from formal educations as a way of determining a potential employees skill level. How many times have you seen someone get hired with all sorts of college education, come in and not have even the faintest hint of common sense? We've got a guy that has PhDs left and right... was even a college computer science professor in his last job. But just does stupid stuff, like write a program that sends out an email... but it never arrived. He didn't know why. I find out he was sending it with no return address, so the exchange server is rejecting it. So he "fixes it" by putting in a return email address and 2 weeks later the exchange server starts rejecting ALL email from our own mail server. He'd put in a return email address but made it "fake@fake.fake" or something and the exchange server was resolving the domain as not real. After it accumulated enough errors it decided that our own mail server was trying to attack us and black listed it. The guy shut down our email system for nearly 2hrs before we figured out what was going on.
Meanwhile we've got people with no formal education that worked their way up from the support center and they are some of the best coders we have. Yet they make half what our "professor" does. To make matters worse, he rides a recumbent bicycle to work. No lie.
as stupid as windows user are... and I'll grant you they ARE stupid... Absolutely nothing compares to the apple market. There's a price to be paid for making your OS so easy to use that you don't even need to be smart enough to tie your own shoes to use it... namely, that your OS will attract all of the people not smart enough to tie their own shoes.
Now, I know all you apple "power users" are going to get all mad and scream "You're calling me dumb! I'm not dumb!" I'm not saying you're dumb... I'm saying all your friends are dumb... and you make bad technology choices... I'm sure you made a very smart, well informed decision when you chose the wrong operating system.
Unless he's lieing. If you were unaware, he's a politician. He can stand at a podium and quote smart people all day long to get votes... but when it comes to collecting his bribes, kickbacks, and campaign contributions, is he willing to lose his office and live like an middle class person to stand up for what he believes? I doubt it.
We'll not have real democracies in this world until Organized groups, like corporations, lose their citizenship.
Mr Larson, by posting this on his blog, has proven EXACTLY why you need an NDA. He just disclose that he would never sign an NDA... Now, in the future, whenever he's working on a project, it's clear to anyone that can do a google search that the company in question did not require an NDA... Which not only opens him up to offers from competing projects/companies, but everyone on the project.
When you're working for someone, you keep your god damn mouth shut and do the job they hired you for. If you intend to do that, you'll have no problem signing. If you do not intend to let the project owner/lead do the public speaking, then you certainly shouldn't be on the project.
I don't necessarily disagree with your arguments but I'd like to offer arguments to each:
1. Googles target audience is not the corporate user. It's people at home that want to backup photos and such. These people will probobly have a google account, a dropbox account, etc... etc.. The more places you can backup your data the better. If Google drops the product, oh well.
2. I don' think this needs a "Good amount of users" Much like microsoft, Google wants to offer you every option. They don't want to force you to use another companies product simply because they don't offer a "google version" The biggest threat that Google would ever face would be a company offering something they do not, and then that something becoming ubiquitous enough that the rival company could offer the same service that Google does and kill off their business (see facebook)
3. Google, like every other corporation on earth, doesn't give a shit about anti-competition regulation. They can, just like Apple, Microsoft, and everyone else, just ignore it... then, when sued, draw out the court battle so long that the companies in question will die long before any litigation is resolved. Even if they do not, the fines levied are almost always so small they are a joke. If I get a speeding ticket, the fine is about 3 days pay for me. How about when a buisness gets a fine they get a similar fine... 3days gross income. Well, that's another topic.
I'd argue that any organization, whether it be a Government or an business having control over the internet is a direct threat to it. Including Google. I think the one thing that the internet has taught us is just how shackled we were before it came along. The guards are quickly trying to put the chains back in place, and in fact, replacing the older ones with new and improved ones. We must all hope, that we'll eventually find a way to communicate that can not be controlled, monitored, manipulated... Technology is both freedom and a prison.
I'd normally agree with you, but this is the state government doing it, not the federal government. The states have the right to do this under the constitution (well, the state constitution could prevent it) I'd prefer that the state not mandate such things, and I sure wish these idiots would just get diseases and die without infecting the rest of us. But unfortunately that's not the case. The vaccine does not work on us all, and when large numbers of people fall for this idiocy, they put everyone at risk, not just themselves.
Armed vigilantes? It's our constitutional right to carry firearms. You're understanding of the term "vigilante" is a bit off. Neither of us have any idea what happened in this case. The simple fact that Al Sharpton is right in the middle of it should make you immediately suspect anything and everything coming out of the news media. So far there has been no evidence released to the public that shows either of the 2 men involved did anything illegal. Police departments are almost always woefully unprepared to deal with the media frenzy that surrounds cases like this. Their actions going forward should be almost entirely suspect. The D.A. as well. Half the public officials in the county are diving for cover while the other half are scrambling for camera time. A lot of shit is about to happen, the only thing you can be sure of is that the truth probably will not come out and justice will most assuredly not be done.
Jobs that are paid for by tax money are not jobs. It's like a snake eating its own tail. It helps the individuals that got hired but is a net loss for society as a whole.
We have a local theater that we lovingly refer to as the "Cheap seats" It's basically an older, failed, theater that someone bought and they show movies that either not in theaters any longer or are just barely still in theaters. They have about 6 theaters going at once and 1 is pretty much dedicated to some random childrens movie of the past.. Disney, pixar, whatever... Then they have 1 that shows movies that never really made it to most theaters. Indie films and the like. Then the rest of them play either not-so-new releases, or older releases that haven't been in theaters in decades. You can even rent a theater and pick a movie for all of your friends. There are several clubs in the area that do this sort of thing for different cult films. You can even throw kids birthday parties right in the theater. As far as I can tell the theaters doing really well... and tickets are only about $5. I see MANY more movies there than a regular theater. I think the movie industry as a whole has a lot to learn from places like our little cheap seats.
That's just silly. You have NO options when you vote in our 2 party system. Glen Beck and Oprah serve to focus your attention on non-issues, get your riled up about them so you'll participate in a completely meaningless process. The 2 parties have the entire system fixed so that no 3rd party can get involved in any way. They'd have you believe the most important topics of the day are completely pointless issues that no-one can do anything about, like "Jobs" There isn't a president in history that's "created" a Job. Who can we vote for that wont raise our taxes to even more ridiculous heights? Who can we vote for that wont invade yet another 3rd world country? Who can we vote for that wont have a whose-who of special interest groups visiting their office daily? The only special interest group they should be listening to is the constituency that elected them to office.
If you're voting for Republicans or Democrats, YOU are the problem.
I know what happened here. Your interviewer met this chick in a bar... at a club... something... she talked him into this. She gave him her number so he could do the "interview" and he's like "OH YEA" Nice rack and all but seriously, where are your editors? You've got to review this stuff before you put it up. This WAS an advertisement, your reviewer got paid with a wink and a low cut shirt.
I'm not sure what you're using it for, but if you want to do anything on any OS, you could go with VMware. It's not cheap but you can emulate just about any modern OS on it. You can either have it totally sandboxed (for testing or security) or you can allow it to share data between OS's. One of the problems I've had with Duel booting or just having multiple systems is getting data from one to the other easily. VMware lets you just cut and paste from a window running windows to a window running mac or linux.
It definitely has it's downsides (price mainly) but its good for tech support for sure. The customer has trouble with your software and has it installed on Windows95... What??! Are you really going to keep a PC sitting around with a Win95 install on it?
Everyone seems to be forgetting how terrible TV is now-a-days. Reality TV is awful. They have shows about parking meter attendants? Pawn Shops? Random slutty women that marry rich and then spend their days gossiping about each other? How many carbon copies of "Star Search" are they going to make? The only decent TV is on AMC, HBO and Showtime. All of which you can get on DVD/Netflix after the seasons over. Network and cable TV is doomed.
"No more Disabilities in 50 years (so yea everyone with a disability now will magicly vanish in 50 years, right?)" <-- The Germans almost pulled this off in the 1940's
We all know the netflix model is definitely not what the movie industry wants, but so far it is the only viable alternative to piracy I've seen. People will pay because it's easier and legal. If there is one simple truth about humans it's that they are lazy above all other things, including "morality" if you want to call it that. So they can make it watching their movies in a way they disprove of as illegal as they want, but people are always going to chose the easier route. For most people netflix is easier than piracy, get rid of netflix and the next easiest thing is... piracy. Every other model they've tried has been harder, and therefor not an option.
The Media industry is about to bankrupt themselves trying to fight the internet all because they can stand the thought of their profit margins going from "Holy fucking shit I can wash my fleet of cars caviar" to "What do you mean I can't afford my own private jet with my name printed on the side anymore?" This has nothing to do with piracy and has everything to do with price gouging, market manipulation and price collusion.
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While the corporations are probobly getting treated better than your average citizen, I doubt they really enjoy the way our political environment exists today any more than we do. The problem isn't the rich, or corporations, that's just a red herring thrown at you by the REAL problem: The Democrat and Republican parties. The left blame the rich, the right blame the media. None of it is true. The laws are passed by 2 political parties that have the same goal: Power
The easiest scenario to understand would be:
Full tub with sprayer in the tub filling it up
Water main downhill from you breaks (This happens ALL the time in Africa. We lost water pressure three times in one week)
Water pours out the main...
you lose pressure
The hose sitting in the tub now works in reverse and siphons the contents of the tub into the main water supply lines.
They fix the broken main
Now imagine this happening in a city of 5million + where 80% of the population has intestinal parasites
Your clean drinking water literally may have been someone else's bathwater just hours before.
This completely discounts the fact that the water pipes themselves are now breading grounds for bacteria.
Lastly, this is only 1 example. There are hundreds of other problems with the infrastructure. This was just the most glaringly obvious to me.
Having been to Africa, I can tell you that more freshwater wont solve the problem in the least. The water they get is not contaminated at the source. Much of it comes from wells, or Rivers and lakes. The rivers and lakes may have "Some" contamination... but that's not what the real problem is. The real problem is their horrible infrastructure. They lack even basic building inspection laws. Plumbing is done on-site, by whomever happens to be there. With no training in the field. The result is a haphazard public water supply infrastructure that is subject to contamination from the user.
A simple example is: Every bathtub that I saw in Africa did not have a shower. It had a sprayer that had a hose that led back to the side of the faucet. There was a hanger on the wall for... in every case that I saw the hanger had been long broken, and the sprayer lay in the bottom of the tub. If you fill the tub while leaving the sprayer laying in the water, you can get a siphon effect fairly easily. This draws dirty water from the tub back into the water supply. It's irrelevant where that water came from, it could have been triple distilled, it's now contaminated. This sort of setup is illegal in the united states for that very reason. There were thousands of other problems like this. Now imagine that your city had this sort of problem... ALL of the plumbing would have to be replaced... from the well to your faucet. The whole thing. How could you fix that? Now imagine it's an entire continent... and now you have a grasp of the size of the problem.
Sorry, you're off base. Dark matter, whatever it is, has mass but does not interact with other matter or energy. This doesn't just mean that it doesn't give off or reflect light and radiation. It also means that it's transparent to light and radiation. Per observation, there are huge swaths of "dark matter" between us and other stars/galaxies. Yet we can see these radiation emitting bodies undistorted, so whatever is there generating the gravitational effect must be totally transparent to every form of radiation we can measure. "dark matter" was a poor choice in a name. It's not dark, and it very likely is not even matter.
Personally I've seen employers leaning away from formal educations as a way of determining a potential employees skill level. How many times have you seen someone get hired with all sorts of college education, come in and not have even the faintest hint of common sense? We've got a guy that has PhDs left and right... was even a college computer science professor in his last job. But just does stupid stuff, like write a program that sends out an email... but it never arrived. He didn't know why. I find out he was sending it with no return address, so the exchange server is rejecting it. So he "fixes it" by putting in a return email address and 2 weeks later the exchange server starts rejecting ALL email from our own mail server. He'd put in a return email address but made it "fake@fake.fake" or something and the exchange server was resolving the domain as not real. After it accumulated enough errors it decided that our own mail server was trying to attack us and black listed it. The guy shut down our email system for nearly 2hrs before we figured out what was going on.
Meanwhile we've got people with no formal education that worked their way up from the support center and they are some of the best coders we have. Yet they make half what our "professor" does. To make matters worse, he rides a recumbent bicycle to work. No lie.
as stupid as windows user are... and I'll grant you they ARE stupid... Absolutely nothing compares to the apple market. There's a price to be paid for making your OS so easy to use that you don't even need to be smart enough to tie your own shoes to use it... namely, that your OS will attract all of the people not smart enough to tie their own shoes.
Now, I know all you apple "power users" are going to get all mad and scream "You're calling me dumb! I'm not dumb!" I'm not saying you're dumb... I'm saying all your friends are dumb... and you make bad technology choices... I'm sure you made a very smart, well informed decision when you chose the wrong operating system.
Unless he's lieing. If you were unaware, he's a politician. He can stand at a podium and quote smart people all day long to get votes... but when it comes to collecting his bribes, kickbacks, and campaign contributions, is he willing to lose his office and live like an middle class person to stand up for what he believes? I doubt it.
We'll not have real democracies in this world until Organized groups, like corporations, lose their citizenship.
Well... at least it wasn't an add... but seriously, a story about art and show no art? come on...
Mr Larson, by posting this on his blog, has proven EXACTLY why you need an NDA. He just disclose that he would never sign an NDA... Now, in the future, whenever he's working on a project, it's clear to anyone that can do a google search that the company in question did not require an NDA... Which not only opens him up to offers from competing projects/companies, but everyone on the project.
When you're working for someone, you keep your god damn mouth shut and do the job they hired you for. If you intend to do that, you'll have no problem signing. If you do not intend to let the project owner/lead do the public speaking, then you certainly shouldn't be on the project.
I don't necessarily disagree with your arguments but I'd like to offer arguments to each:
1. Googles target audience is not the corporate user. It's people at home that want to backup photos and such. These people will probobly have a google account, a dropbox account, etc... etc.. The more places you can backup your data the better. If Google drops the product, oh well.
2. I don' think this needs a "Good amount of users" Much like microsoft, Google wants to offer you every option. They don't want to force you to use another companies product simply because they don't offer a "google version" The biggest threat that Google would ever face would be a company offering something they do not, and then that something becoming ubiquitous enough that the rival company could offer the same service that Google does and kill off their business (see facebook)
3. Google, like every other corporation on earth, doesn't give a shit about anti-competition regulation. They can, just like Apple, Microsoft, and everyone else, just ignore it... then, when sued, draw out the court battle so long that the companies in question will die long before any litigation is resolved. Even if they do not, the fines levied are almost always so small they are a joke. If I get a speeding ticket, the fine is about 3 days pay for me. How about when a buisness gets a fine they get a similar fine... 3days gross income. Well, that's another topic.
I'd argue that any organization, whether it be a Government or an business having control over the internet is a direct threat to it. Including Google. I think the one thing that the internet has taught us is just how shackled we were before it came along. The guards are quickly trying to put the chains back in place, and in fact, replacing the older ones with new and improved ones. We must all hope, that we'll eventually find a way to communicate that can not be controlled, monitored, manipulated... Technology is both freedom and a prison.
I'd normally agree with you, but this is the state government doing it, not the federal government. The states have the right to do this under the constitution (well, the state constitution could prevent it) I'd prefer that the state not mandate such things, and I sure wish these idiots would just get diseases and die without infecting the rest of us. But unfortunately that's not the case. The vaccine does not work on us all, and when large numbers of people fall for this idiocy, they put everyone at risk, not just themselves.
Armed vigilantes?
It's our constitutional right to carry firearms.
You're understanding of the term "vigilante" is a bit off.
Neither of us have any idea what happened in this case. The simple fact that Al Sharpton is right in the middle of it should make you immediately suspect anything and everything coming out of the news media.
So far there has been no evidence released to the public that shows either of the 2 men involved did anything illegal.
Police departments are almost always woefully unprepared to deal with the media frenzy that surrounds cases like this. Their actions going forward should be almost entirely suspect. The D.A. as well. Half the public officials in the county are diving for cover while the other half are scrambling for camera time.
A lot of shit is about to happen, the only thing you can be sure of is that the truth probably will not come out and justice will most assuredly not be done.
One of the key features of a "fad" is that the item in question is usually overpriced.
'It's hard to know what's causing the low repurchase rate.'
No it's not, it's called a "fad"
Jobs that are paid for by tax money are not jobs. It's like a snake eating its own tail. It helps the individuals that got hired but is a net loss for society as a whole.
We have a local theater that we lovingly refer to as the "Cheap seats" It's basically an older, failed, theater that someone bought and they show movies that either not in theaters any longer or are just barely still in theaters. They have about 6 theaters going at once and 1 is pretty much dedicated to some random childrens movie of the past.. Disney, pixar, whatever... Then they have 1 that shows movies that never really made it to most theaters. Indie films and the like. Then the rest of them play either not-so-new releases, or older releases that haven't been in theaters in decades. You can even rent a theater and pick a movie for all of your friends. There are several clubs in the area that do this sort of thing for different cult films. You can even throw kids birthday parties right in the theater. As far as I can tell the theaters doing really well... and tickets are only about $5. I see MANY more movies there than a regular theater. I think the movie industry as a whole has a lot to learn from places like our little cheap seats.
I didn't even know they drank tea in Azerbaijan.
You're a fucking retard. Steal $100 from 181000 people and how much did you just get?
That's just silly. You have NO options when you vote in our 2 party system. Glen Beck and Oprah serve to focus your attention on non-issues, get your riled up about them so you'll participate in a completely meaningless process. The 2 parties have the entire system fixed so that no 3rd party can get involved in any way. They'd have you believe the most important topics of the day are completely pointless issues that no-one can do anything about, like "Jobs" There isn't a president in history that's "created" a Job. Who can we vote for that wont raise our taxes to even more ridiculous heights? Who can we vote for that wont invade yet another 3rd world country? Who can we vote for that wont have a whose-who of special interest groups visiting their office daily? The only special interest group they should be listening to is the constituency that elected them to office.
If you're voting for Republicans or Democrats, YOU are the problem.
I know what happened here. Your interviewer met this chick in a bar... at a club... something... she talked him into this. She gave him her number so he could do the "interview" and he's like "OH YEA" Nice rack and all but seriously, where are your editors? You've got to review this stuff before you put it up. This WAS an advertisement, your reviewer got paid with a wink and a low cut shirt.
I'm not sure what you're using it for, but if you want to do anything on any OS, you could go with VMware. It's not cheap but you can emulate just about any modern OS on it. You can either have it totally sandboxed (for testing or security) or you can allow it to share data between OS's. One of the problems I've had with Duel booting or just having multiple systems is getting data from one to the other easily. VMware lets you just cut and paste from a window running windows to a window running mac or linux.
It definitely has it's downsides (price mainly) but its good for tech support for sure. The customer has trouble with your software and has it installed on Windows95... What??! Are you really going to keep a PC sitting around with a Win95 install on it?
Anyway, just an idea.
Everyone seems to be forgetting how terrible TV is now-a-days. Reality TV is awful. They have shows about parking meter attendants? Pawn Shops? Random slutty women that marry rich and then spend their days gossiping about each other? How many carbon copies of "Star Search" are they going to make? The only decent TV is on AMC, HBO and Showtime. All of which you can get on DVD/Netflix after the seasons over. Network and cable TV is doomed.
"No more Disabilities in 50 years (so yea everyone with a disability now will magicly vanish in 50 years, right?)" <-- The Germans almost pulled this off in the 1940's
We all know the netflix model is definitely not what the movie industry wants, but so far it is the only viable alternative to piracy I've seen. People will pay because it's easier and legal. If there is one simple truth about humans it's that they are lazy above all other things, including "morality" if you want to call it that. So they can make it watching their movies in a way they disprove of as illegal as they want, but people are always going to chose the easier route. For most people netflix is easier than piracy, get rid of netflix and the next easiest thing is... piracy. Every other model they've tried has been harder, and therefor not an option.
The Media industry is about to bankrupt themselves trying to fight the internet all because they can stand the thought of their profit margins going from "Holy fucking shit I can wash my fleet of cars caviar" to "What do you mean I can't afford my own private jet with my name printed on the side anymore?" This has nothing to do with piracy and has everything to do with price gouging, market manipulation and price collusion.