You're making the same mistake that most people do in this situation. You're mis-reading "Chinese hackers" as "Chinese Government Hackers" which they may very well be... but all we really know is that a lot of hacking originates in the country with the largest population in the world. That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Not only that, but we don't even really know if it was coming from China. It could have been Americans operating out of compromised Chinese equipment. the truth is, we don't know a damned thing about it in truth. The article should just read "Hackers had access for over 10 years" and leave it at that. We have no proof, or even legitimate reason to suspect, they were Chinese.
Agreed. If I walked around enough and checked for where it got louder and not, I would eventually make my way to a wire or the headlight itself.
My hearing, despite not having that high range anymore, is still very acute. If I have my eyes closed and something leaves a room, I can hear the enough in the difference in the acoustics of the room to know that someone or something left. Imagine walking into a room that you are used to, that is normally full of furniture, but is now totally empty. You'd notice just by the ambient sound in the room that something was different. I can sense that when it's something as small as a chair or small table. I think a LOT of people have that sort of ability and just mistake it for a 6th sense or something silly.
I think there are people that have a sense of taste that is similar to my hearing. Good cooks can taste something and tell you different ingredients in it. That's more than training... that's an innate ability.
I had the same problem until I was in my mid-tweties. I could hear VERY high frequency sound. The ear doctors equipment tested me all the way up to the limit of his testing equipment. I could "hear" when the headlights were turned on in a car. I could hear radio towers when we drove by them. It was so high pitched it was more like I felt the noise than heard it, it was very hard for me to pin-point the source, it was not very "Directional"
But then, some time when I was around the age of 23, I went to a Motorhead concert. It cured me. I couldn't hear AT ALL for 2 days after the show, but after the ringing finally subsided I had normal hearing. Thank you Lemmy.
Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipes also have deadly consequences, including lung, larynx, esophageal, and oral cancers. http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/aag/osh.htm
I tried to find the article they had on deaths caused by marijuana, but they don't have one. Lucky we've got this new fancy new camera to make sure the American people are smoking the right stuff.
No, 100% of us don't matter. That's the funniest part of the wallstreet protests. You people think the governments screwing you at the behest of corporations. What's really going on is you work for one of those corporations. They're screwing you, the corporation, your church and half the time each other. They're not even using lube. And it's your patriotic duty to bend over, spread your cheeks and take it. Then they have one of their PR people tell you: "See that guy over there? He got lube... that's not fair now is it..." and you get mad... real mad. You walk over and say "Hey, he shouldn't get lube either damn it!" Then you watch him take it ruff just like you did, and feel good about yourself. Meanwhile the big guy behind you's got a smile on his face. Well played sucker.
And again, the government isn't here to help you. Figure that out and this all makes a lot more sense. The laws written to govern these industries, were written by the industries themselves. The government officials involve either worked for the very businesses they are now prosecuting prior to their government jobs, or will soon after retirement. You can't stop that, it's always going to happen. Government is always bad, but sadly necessary. The only real hope for freedom and justice is a weak, timid government that has little control over its people. We often look down upon a lot of the terribly mismanaged governments of Africa, but you're not likely to find a more free individual than someone living in central Africa far from the constraints of their inept government that's almost completely unable to interfere in his life. If a local business screws over enough people, the business owner could likely have his building burnt to the ground. Often the laws we have, written by those they are intended to punish, are really just shields for the guilty. "Look, we paid, we've been punished, we're now rid of any other consequences." Look at BP and the litigation cap our government put on their damages. They sat there, and signed that, right in front of all of us to see. People wailed, and complained, but they'll go right back out and vote for the same individuals that they did last time. As if they even had a choice. Democrats aren't evil. Republicans are not evil. Government is flawed, and works to its own ends. It will never "Help" you. Keep it week, keep it locked in the basement. Never trust it. Every once in a while throw it out and get a new one because you just can't bring yourself to look at it anymore. But for the love of God, never look at it as the source of Justice, or Right, or your benefactor. It's the most evil thing in your life you can not live without.
Government has one goal: Retaining and growing its own power. Much like a Guard dog that you need to protect your house. The Dogs real goal is to get you to feed it. It has no real intrest in protecting you. And the truth is, if you fell over dead it'd consider you dinner. So you build a fence so it'll stay where you want it. And you feed it when it barks at strangers, so it gets rewarded for doing it's job. You think, "what a good guard dog" but one day you notice it's barking when there's no-one around... he's figured out a loop-hole. Now you can't trust him to do his job, and you're rewarding him for nothing. So you give him to someone else, or take him down to the humain society, and you get a new dog. Train him again... and again, the new dog learns the same tricks. You go through 10 dogs, and it's always the same thing. They learn how to get what they want without doing what you put them there for. Eventually a few figure out the thieves will give them more food if they just let them by to rob your house while your away. Now you realize the dogs a liability, he's eating the food and inviting the thieves in. So you get the leash, go to get him... but this time it's different. He's got a good gig here. He's not giving up the free ride. So he bites you. Well, you don't want to get bit, so now you don't go out there. Now you've got a choice, try and give him more rewards than the thieves do? Or put him down like the dog he really is.
We've been shoveling kibble at these fuckers for 100years now. What is it going to take for people like you to learn: It's our house. They're staying here at our pleasure. They should fear and respect us. Tail between their legs when we're upset. Instead they piss on your leg every time you walk out of the house, and if you don't feed them YOU go in the kennel. It's time to put the dogs down folks.
Bullshit. Apple is a large, high-profile target. It makes perfect sense to go after them. Will Dell customers care? Nintendo? No. About the only tech consumers that are going to give a shit about this sort of thing are naive yuppies that can actually afford to pay the extra cost of having something manufactured by people making the same wage their teenage kids make at the local McDonalds.
I actually disagree with the point of the protests. As shitty as the jobs are to us they are great for someone that's facing subsistence farming or prostitution as an alternative. People don't jump off roofs because they're about to loose a job they hate. Would they rather have the ridiculously cushy jobs we have here? Hell yes, but the alternatives in their own country are far less appealing, and as much as you may dislike Foxcon, they are the conduit to better working conditions for this generations children. Just like the sweat shops of the 1900's were for the jobs we have now. Wealth drives fair labor practices. If you can make pay rent and put food on the table by working at McDonalds or a Gas station, you certainly wont put up with working in a shit-hole factory for the same money. But they aren't going to build those McDonalds until there are enough shit-hole factories around for customers to show up.
As predicted, the predictions are wrong. Man can not predict the weather. We simply do not understand it yet. Is it bad to mine trillions of tons of a chemical that's been trapped in the earth for millions of years and pump them into the atmosphere? Probably. Is there any chance we NOT mine all the hydrocarbons on earth and burn them for energy? No. So we had better start planning for what is likely to happen now and stop wasting money on trying to stop what we can't.
No, you're wrong. TAXES are evil. If we were both held captive in a cell, and they whipped you less than they whipped me because you bribed them... that's not wrong. Good for you for getting out of the whippings. We shouldn't be looking for ways to make the whippings more evenly distributed, all we'll achieve is that you get whipped just as much as I do, and neither of us is better off. What we should be work twords is getting out of the damned cell, and a progressive approach to the situation is never going to get us out. If anything it's just a distraction from the real problem, which in the our real situation is that the government demands and then spends far far too much money. Better still, I suspect that the majority of the things that our government does that you find hateful would also be some of the first things to go if they were strapped for cash.
First: You should have learned by now, life is not fair. If you spend your life spinning your wheels trying to make it fair, then you're going to lead a very un-rewarding life. Second: The Rich paid less. That's good. Now the poor should pay less as well. So, how does the government get more money? They don't. Maybe we'd invade a few less 3rd world countries if our congressmen didn't have the money to hire private jets to fly them all over the country.
Once again, an article written by someone that simply assumes that someone else, not paying enough in taxes, is a bad thing. It's not. PAYING TAXES IS A BAD THING. Yes, in our present system, with our present technology, we need a tax system... but that's unfortunate. It's not wrong, evil or unpatriotic to pay less in taxes. We should all pay less. There is no entity on earth less adept at managing money than a government. Much like an aquarium, a government operates at its most efficient and is healthiest when it's starved of food/money. Given more and more food/money, it eventually pollutes the water and makes the entire system unhealthy. Unfortunately for us, politicians generally just move to a new tank once they've ruined ours.
I think it's more likely that "Picky" and "Unrealistic" people eventually gravitate towards online dating because it allows them to be "Picky" and "Unrealistic" over a much larger selection of people they can eventually reject on superficial grounds. The majority of the people I know that are using these services are Fat, over 50, have bad jobs, and they want to meet people that are slender, under 30 and make good money. The few people I've met that have gotten a relationship off of one of these sites are usually nuts, and the relationship ends up being the kind you read about in the paper eventually.
If you want to meet a romantic interest you have 2 options: 1. Pick your favorite hobby, take classes, go on retreats, workshops, do the hobby with large groups of people... you will run into someone eventually. 2. Go to a bar, get drunk, hope you wake up next to someone you find attractive. (This has the highest probability of success.)
Right, and there are artists doing exactly what is suggested there and making a lot of money doing it. The problem is they no longer need a record company to do it. The problem isn't that free access to music hurts musicians (it's actually very good for them) it's that the DISTRIBUTION of the music is now free... which used to be handled by the corporate music business. What's getting hurt are the corporate interests that used to control the distribution. For a while these businesses had them on their side, but the musicians are slowly starting to realize that for under $20k they can turn a room in their house and basically become their own label.
All of this is Good for music. Now we just need to find a way to kill Ticketmaster.
Clearly the president is totally out of touch with the Jobs situation... but I can understand the hiring companies point of view. I work on a team of 2... and my co-worker went out sick about 6months ago... I've been screwed ever since. Management finally decided that he might not be coming back so we started the interview process last week. We had 3 kinds of candidates: 1. Kids, currently in school, usually for the wrong thing with no practical experience. 2. Guy's with several masters degrees in multiple fields. Knew every programming language I'd ever heard of, had worked at Google, Apple, IBM, ATT, and every other hightech giant you could think of... but had been out of work for a year or more... and were asking a minimum of $150k. 3. Older people that only knew 2 or 3 languages, usually something like Cobol, show no interest in learning anything new despite our assurances that we'll pay for classes. I actually had one guy tell me "Oh I could do that (referring to an example I gave him of something I written) but I'd do it in Cobol." Well, we don't use that... no one here works on that... how are we supposed to maintain it? These guys still wanted $75k+ This is an entry level position... for someone with limited but at least some experience in a languages that are less that 20yrs old. If you've got 30 years of experience in languages left over from the 70's, well yea... there aren't jobs out there for that.
Then we have our interns from India. We asked one of them for help until we find someone and she said "Ok" went home, learned the relevant material over the weekend and came in Monday already swimming circles around me. Luckily for me the interns are very transient and never stay in one place for long. They're always looking for the better job, or going off to get married (their weddings are 2 month long deals) and the Job I have really needs someone that knows the inner workings of the company and how all our tables fit together.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty....And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." -- Thomas Jefferson : November 13, 1787
Helping a totalitarian regime pretend like they allow free speech by allowing only speech they approve, furthers their goals. Google is playing the roll of Uncle Tom or the Jewish police in the Nazi ghettos. When they allow Syria to censor speech, what argument will they have when the US government asks them to censor speech? Do you really think that's not coming? The world is slipping into a very dark place right now, and every concession that providers like Google make, will be looked upon with shame by future generations.
The beauty of a Mill is that it's a self improving tool. One of a machinists favorite things to work on is his mill. There are entire forums dedicated to buying these cheap harbor freight mills and then using them to make new, better quality parts to improve them with. The real trouble is finding the material relatively cheaply to make the parts with. Buying new steel or aluminum is expensive. If you work somewhere that has scrap, or know someone that can get it, you can do it pretty cheaply. A buddy of mine built his own smelter and melts down aluminum rims and engine blocks to pour his own ingots.
If you are REALLY hardcore, you can 'almost' build a mill entirely from scratch. First you need to build a smelter, which is not very difficult, then make some parts out of wood... cast them, pour them, sand... sand... sand... then there are tricks for making parts that are totally smooth that again involve a lot of sanding. In the end you have to buy bearings, the chuck, some other odds and ends. You can make the motor, but you're really trying to do it the hard way if you do. Once you have all of that done, you have a mostly aluminum mill. Which you quickly use to make steel parts for your next mill, because it sucks. But it can be done. The point is, once you have a mill, you can make nearly anything given enough time.
That's right, despite the fact the republicans haven't had control over the government for nearly 10 years, their secret plots and alliances with evil corporations still allow them to kick 2 British guys for making a bad joke in an airport. It's not at all possible that the the 2 parties are identical in their goal: Power. And you, being able to say whatever the hell you want to doesn't help in that goal.
Sorry, but these things suck. Every non-mechanically inclined "geek" I know wants one... then I point out that a Combo Lathe/Mill is far far far more useful, can do metal, plastic, wood, whatever you want... and they still tell me this is better somehow... when there's only a single material medium it can work in, and that medium has an ultra low melting point for obvious reasons, isn't very durable and the damned printer costs as much as some of the nicer mills out there. Granted you can blow $100k on a mill if you really wanted to, but you could do everything you can do with a 3D printer with a mill thats under $1k and spend another $500 making it CNC... and the objects you build with it could be made out of nearly any material you can think of short of solid rock...
So after Google tells them to go screw themselves, what are they going to do? Ban the operating system?
The solutions to these problems are simple. If you have 100 customers, and you have 100MB/s of bandwidth on your network, don't sell them all 5MB/s plans. ITS SIMPLE MATH. To blame this on Google is like an all-you-can-eat buffet complaining to a local taxi service that they're dropping off too many fat people. Who do you expect to pay for all-you-can-eat? Twiggy?
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You're making the same mistake that most people do in this situation. You're mis-reading "Chinese hackers" as "Chinese Government Hackers" which they may very well be... but all we really know is that a lot of hacking originates in the country with the largest population in the world. That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Not only that, but we don't even really know if it was coming from China. It could have been Americans operating out of compromised Chinese equipment. the truth is, we don't know a damned thing about it in truth. The article should just read "Hackers had access for over 10 years" and leave it at that. We have no proof, or even legitimate reason to suspect, they were Chinese.
Agreed. If I walked around enough and checked for where it got louder and not, I would eventually make my way to a wire or the headlight itself.
My hearing, despite not having that high range anymore, is still very acute. If I have my eyes closed and something leaves a room, I can hear the enough in the difference in the acoustics of the room to know that someone or something left. Imagine walking into a room that you are used to, that is normally full of furniture, but is now totally empty. You'd notice just by the ambient sound in the room that something was different. I can sense that when it's something as small as a chair or small table. I think a LOT of people have that sort of ability and just mistake it for a 6th sense or something silly.
I think there are people that have a sense of taste that is similar to my hearing. Good cooks can taste something and tell you different ingredients in it. That's more than training... that's an innate ability.
I had the same problem until I was in my mid-tweties. I could hear VERY high frequency sound. The ear doctors equipment tested me all the way up to the limit of his testing equipment. I could "hear" when the headlights were turned on in a car. I could hear radio towers when we drove by them. It was so high pitched it was more like I felt the noise than heard it, it was very hard for me to pin-point the source, it was not very "Directional"
But then, some time when I was around the age of 23, I went to a Motorhead concert. It cured me. I couldn't hear AT ALL for 2 days after the show, but after the ringing finally subsided I had normal hearing. Thank you Lemmy.
The Burden of Tobacco Use
Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipes also have deadly consequences, including lung, larynx, esophageal, and oral cancers.
http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/aag/osh.htm
I tried to find the article they had on deaths caused by marijuana, but they don't have one. Lucky we've got this new fancy new camera to make sure the American people are smoking the right stuff.
No, 100% of us don't matter. That's the funniest part of the wallstreet protests. You people think the governments screwing you at the behest of corporations. What's really going on is you work for one of those corporations. They're screwing you, the corporation, your church and half the time each other. They're not even using lube. And it's your patriotic duty to bend over, spread your cheeks and take it. Then they have one of their PR people tell you: "See that guy over there? He got lube... that's not fair now is it..." and you get mad... real mad. You walk over and say "Hey, he shouldn't get lube either damn it!" Then you watch him take it ruff just like you did, and feel good about yourself. Meanwhile the big guy behind you's got a smile on his face. Well played sucker.
And again, the government isn't here to help you. Figure that out and this all makes a lot more sense. The laws written to govern these industries, were written by the industries themselves. The government officials involve either worked for the very businesses they are now prosecuting prior to their government jobs, or will soon after retirement. You can't stop that, it's always going to happen. Government is always bad, but sadly necessary. The only real hope for freedom and justice is a weak, timid government that has little control over its people. We often look down upon a lot of the terribly mismanaged governments of Africa, but you're not likely to find a more free individual than someone living in central Africa far from the constraints of their inept government that's almost completely unable to interfere in his life. If a local business screws over enough people, the business owner could likely have his building burnt to the ground. Often the laws we have, written by those they are intended to punish, are really just shields for the guilty. "Look, we paid, we've been punished, we're now rid of any other consequences." Look at BP and the litigation cap our government put on their damages. They sat there, and signed that, right in front of all of us to see. People wailed, and complained, but they'll go right back out and vote for the same individuals that they did last time. As if they even had a choice. Democrats aren't evil. Republicans are not evil. Government is flawed, and works to its own ends. It will never "Help" you. Keep it week, keep it locked in the basement. Never trust it. Every once in a while throw it out and get a new one because you just can't bring yourself to look at it anymore. But for the love of God, never look at it as the source of Justice, or Right, or your benefactor. It's the most evil thing in your life you can not live without.
WOW, you still believe in Santa-clause I bet.
Government has one goal: Retaining and growing its own power.
Much like a Guard dog that you need to protect your house. The Dogs real goal is to get you to feed it. It has no real intrest in protecting you. And the truth is, if you fell over dead it'd consider you dinner. So you build a fence so it'll stay where you want it. And you feed it when it barks at strangers, so it gets rewarded for doing it's job. You think, "what a good guard dog" but one day you notice it's barking when there's no-one around... he's figured out a loop-hole. Now you can't trust him to do his job, and you're rewarding him for nothing. So you give him to someone else, or take him down to the humain society, and you get a new dog. Train him again... and again, the new dog learns the same tricks. You go through 10 dogs, and it's always the same thing. They learn how to get what they want without doing what you put them there for. Eventually a few figure out the thieves will give them more food if they just let them by to rob your house while your away. Now you realize the dogs a liability, he's eating the food and inviting the thieves in. So you get the leash, go to get him... but this time it's different. He's got a good gig here. He's not giving up the free ride. So he bites you. Well, you don't want to get bit, so now you don't go out there. Now you've got a choice, try and give him more rewards than the thieves do? Or put him down like the dog he really is.
We've been shoveling kibble at these fuckers for 100years now. What is it going to take for people like you to learn: It's our house. They're staying here at our pleasure. They should fear and respect us. Tail between their legs when we're upset. Instead they piss on your leg every time you walk out of the house, and if you don't feed them YOU go in the kennel. It's time to put the dogs down folks.
Bullshit. Apple is a large, high-profile target. It makes perfect sense to go after them. Will Dell customers care? Nintendo? No. About the only tech consumers that are going to give a shit about this sort of thing are naive yuppies that can actually afford to pay the extra cost of having something manufactured by people making the same wage their teenage kids make at the local McDonalds.
I actually disagree with the point of the protests. As shitty as the jobs are to us they are great for someone that's facing subsistence farming or prostitution as an alternative. People don't jump off roofs because they're about to loose a job they hate. Would they rather have the ridiculously cushy jobs we have here? Hell yes, but the alternatives in their own country are far less appealing, and as much as you may dislike Foxcon, they are the conduit to better working conditions for this generations children. Just like the sweat shops of the 1900's were for the jobs we have now. Wealth drives fair labor practices. If you can make pay rent and put food on the table by working at McDonalds or a Gas station, you certainly wont put up with working in a shit-hole factory for the same money. But they aren't going to build those McDonalds until there are enough shit-hole factories around for customers to show up.
As predicted, the predictions are wrong. Man can not predict the weather. We simply do not understand it yet. Is it bad to mine trillions of tons of a chemical that's been trapped in the earth for millions of years and pump them into the atmosphere? Probably. Is there any chance we NOT mine all the hydrocarbons on earth and burn them for energy? No. So we had better start planning for what is likely to happen now and stop wasting money on trying to stop what we can't.
So I install this, collect my $25 and continue to not use Chrome just as I have for years now. Sounds like a good deal to me.
ah... you think the government has your best interest at heart. The truth is, they don't... and they don't want you finding that out.
No, you're wrong. TAXES are evil. If we were both held captive in a cell, and they whipped you less than they whipped me because you bribed them... that's not wrong. Good for you for getting out of the whippings. We shouldn't be looking for ways to make the whippings more evenly distributed, all we'll achieve is that you get whipped just as much as I do, and neither of us is better off. What we should be work twords is getting out of the damned cell, and a progressive approach to the situation is never going to get us out. If anything it's just a distraction from the real problem, which in the our real situation is that the government demands and then spends far far too much money. Better still, I suspect that the majority of the things that our government does that you find hateful would also be some of the first things to go if they were strapped for cash.
First: You should have learned by now, life is not fair. If you spend your life spinning your wheels trying to make it fair, then you're going to lead a very un-rewarding life.
Second: The Rich paid less. That's good. Now the poor should pay less as well. So, how does the government get more money? They don't. Maybe we'd invade a few less 3rd world countries if our congressmen didn't have the money to hire private jets to fly them all over the country.
Once again, an article written by someone that simply assumes that someone else, not paying enough in taxes, is a bad thing. It's not. PAYING TAXES IS A BAD THING. Yes, in our present system, with our present technology, we need a tax system... but that's unfortunate. It's not wrong, evil or unpatriotic to pay less in taxes. We should all pay less. There is no entity on earth less adept at managing money than a government. Much like an aquarium, a government operates at its most efficient and is healthiest when it's starved of food/money. Given more and more food/money, it eventually pollutes the water and makes the entire system unhealthy. Unfortunately for us, politicians generally just move to a new tank once they've ruined ours.
I think it's more likely that "Picky" and "Unrealistic" people eventually gravitate towards online dating because it allows them to be "Picky" and "Unrealistic" over a much larger selection of people they can eventually reject on superficial grounds. The majority of the people I know that are using these services are Fat, over 50, have bad jobs, and they want to meet people that are slender, under 30 and make good money. The few people I've met that have gotten a relationship off of one of these sites are usually nuts, and the relationship ends up being the kind you read about in the paper eventually.
If you want to meet a romantic interest you have 2 options:
1. Pick your favorite hobby, take classes, go on retreats, workshops, do the hobby with large groups of people... you will run into someone eventually.
2. Go to a bar, get drunk, hope you wake up next to someone you find attractive. (This has the highest probability of success.)
Ok: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clap_Your_Hands_Say_Yeah
I'd show you dozens more, but you said just one so...
Right, and there are artists doing exactly what is suggested there and making a lot of money doing it. The problem is they no longer need a record company to do it. The problem isn't that free access to music hurts musicians (it's actually very good for them) it's that the DISTRIBUTION of the music is now free... which used to be handled by the corporate music business. What's getting hurt are the corporate interests that used to control the distribution. For a while these businesses had them on their side, but the musicians are slowly starting to realize that for under $20k they can turn a room in their house and basically become their own label.
All of this is Good for music. Now we just need to find a way to kill Ticketmaster.
Clearly the president is totally out of touch with the Jobs situation... but I can understand the hiring companies point of view. I work on a team of 2... and my co-worker went out sick about 6months ago... I've been screwed ever since. Management finally decided that he might not be coming back so we started the interview process last week. We had 3 kinds of candidates: 1. Kids, currently in school, usually for the wrong thing with no practical experience. 2. Guy's with several masters degrees in multiple fields. Knew every programming language I'd ever heard of, had worked at Google, Apple, IBM, ATT, and every other hightech giant you could think of... but had been out of work for a year or more... and were asking a minimum of $150k. 3. Older people that only knew 2 or 3 languages, usually something like Cobol, show no interest in learning anything new despite our assurances that we'll pay for classes. I actually had one guy tell me "Oh I could do that (referring to an example I gave him of something I written) but I'd do it in Cobol." Well, we don't use that... no one here works on that... how are we supposed to maintain it? These guys still wanted $75k+ This is an entry level position... for someone with limited but at least some experience in a languages that are less that 20yrs old. If you've got 30 years of experience in languages left over from the 70's, well yea... there aren't jobs out there for that.
Then we have our interns from India. We asked one of them for help until we find someone and she said "Ok" went home, learned the relevant material over the weekend and came in Monday already swimming circles around me. Luckily for me the interns are very transient and never stay in one place for long. They're always looking for the better job, or going off to get married (their weddings are 2 month long deals) and the Job I have really needs someone that knows the inner workings of the company and how all our tables fit together.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." -- Thomas Jefferson : November 13, 1787
Helping a totalitarian regime pretend like they allow free speech by allowing only speech they approve, furthers their goals. Google is playing the roll of Uncle Tom or the Jewish police in the Nazi ghettos. When they allow Syria to censor speech, what argument will they have when the US government asks them to censor speech? Do you really think that's not coming? The world is slipping into a very dark place right now, and every concession that providers like Google make, will be looked upon with shame by future generations.
The beauty of a Mill is that it's a self improving tool. One of a machinists favorite things to work on is his mill. There are entire forums dedicated to buying these cheap harbor freight mills and then using them to make new, better quality parts to improve them with. The real trouble is finding the material relatively cheaply to make the parts with. Buying new steel or aluminum is expensive. If you work somewhere that has scrap, or know someone that can get it, you can do it pretty cheaply. A buddy of mine built his own smelter and melts down aluminum rims and engine blocks to pour his own ingots.
If you are REALLY hardcore, you can 'almost' build a mill entirely from scratch. First you need to build a smelter, which is not very difficult, then make some parts out of wood... cast them, pour them, sand... sand... sand... then there are tricks for making parts that are totally smooth that again involve a lot of sanding. In the end you have to buy bearings, the chuck, some other odds and ends. You can make the motor, but you're really trying to do it the hard way if you do. Once you have all of that done, you have a mostly aluminum mill. Which you quickly use to make steel parts for your next mill, because it sucks. But it can be done. The point is, once you have a mill, you can make nearly anything given enough time.
http://www.grizzly.com/products/Combo-Lathe-w-Milling-Attachment/G0516
That's right, despite the fact the republicans haven't had control over the government for nearly 10 years, their secret plots and alliances with evil corporations still allow them to kick 2 British guys for making a bad joke in an airport. It's not at all possible that the the 2 parties are identical in their goal: Power. And you, being able to say whatever the hell you want to doesn't help in that goal.
Sorry, but these things suck. Every non-mechanically inclined "geek" I know wants one... then I point out that a Combo Lathe/Mill is far far far more useful, can do metal, plastic, wood, whatever you want... and they still tell me this is better somehow... when there's only a single material medium it can work in, and that medium has an ultra low melting point for obvious reasons, isn't very durable and the damned printer costs as much as some of the nicer mills out there. Granted you can blow $100k on a mill if you really wanted to, but you could do everything you can do with a 3D printer with a mill thats under $1k and spend another $500 making it CNC... and the objects you build with it could be made out of nearly any material you can think of short of solid rock...
So after Google tells them to go screw themselves, what are they going to do? Ban the operating system?
The solutions to these problems are simple. If you have 100 customers, and you have 100MB/s of bandwidth on your network, don't sell them all 5MB/s plans. ITS SIMPLE MATH. To blame this on Google is like an all-you-can-eat buffet complaining to a local taxi service that they're dropping off too many fat people. Who do you expect to pay for all-you-can-eat? Twiggy?