Frontline's eight year old documentary called The Persuaders (specifically chapter 5, though it's all quite interesting) showed the pollsters going door to door, but before knocking they got all your data from Axciom or Lexis so they could tell you EXACTLY what you want to hear. Disingenuous? Nahh, it's just politics.
Germany didn't believe that WMD crap the last time
Apparently they didn't get the memo from Rummy, he had the receipts and the profit sharing to prove it. Not saying the attack on a sovereign nation would have been justified, just saying just because we say we didn't find them, doesn't mean they weren't there(or that we really didn't find them).
My initial reservations to allowing these yahoos handle my browsing experience have been quashed. Only a luser wouldn't trust these 'professionals' with his\her datas.
Sad but true. It's been posited by clients, family and friends I have a disorder because I do not charge enough for services rendered. I make enough, I can afford shelter, nutrition, some new tech toys/tools and maintain a small savings for emergencies. I also afford time to track the local wildlife, visit my family around the country, keep my 11yo truck running(maintaining it myself) and, lately, take a couple months off to help care for an ill family member. They say I'm weird. I say too bad we can't all be weird.
Haha, digital radio offered that carrot to subscribers when XM and Sirius were starting out and bleeding red...(still?). Did anyone really believe it would last? Just like every other new corporate retailer on the scene, eliminate the competition while running massive losses until you can turn around and charge $5 for a product that previously sold for $1. Home improvement chains, gas suppliers and drug pushers all know this is the path to long-term success. Viva greed!
Otherwise we will get even more dishonest and incompetent (but power-hungry) people in comparable positions.
Too late. The psychopaths have been driving the bus for most of the latter 20th century. The 21st version is all about 'coming out' and eliminating the legal obstacles for corp gluttony and fascism, it seems.
Was listening to this in the audio book just yesterday. Yeah, the book published seven years ago that already has a Disney cartoon made of it...With the recent awakening of the rover 'Opportunity' from it's winter slumber I am looking forward to new reports containing new info.
Now if we can only get a squeegee to mars to clean them panels.
I always wondered how seven street-thugs from Miami were going to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and launch a 'full ground war' against the United States with their only contact being an FBI agent selling fantasies and firearms. It was such a slam-dunk case it only took THREE TRIALS to convict most them.
The offensive provision from the so-called Patriot Act that makes FBI entrapment legal. Bullshit.
You are both right. The fund managers and their pet quants did not understand the whole process and the effects of their actions, all they knew was they were 'printing money' out of thin air every day. Cannot say they were not warned by many, including the father of quantitative analysis; the late, great Mr. Mandelbrot. Yeah, the fractal guy. Taleb was also an ardent 'wet blanket'. Both predicted this mess years before it happened. Nothing has changed, toxic assets are STILL accumulating in many funds' portfolios. Who cares? The Guv will bail them out after they're done raping the markets.
I concur, doctor. I also believe it can be improved upon. I hated HD and the 'you have to be within this area and this far from the screen' requirements. No matter if the unit wass a LCD, LED, Plasma or DLP, to me it looked as layered and 'swimmy' as a Viewmaster stereoscopic toy wherever I sat/stood. Things seem to have improved or I'm properly acclimated now. By any measurement I don't sit in the 'required range'. or at the optimum angle...small place and high placement makes it just not possible. However, watching hockey on a 48" DLP in HD is a phenomenal experience* and that's a really good thing because that's all I need it for. PS: GO YOTES!
* Almost as good as the deliberately downgraded(IMO) SD broadcast is meant to make me appreciate it. Talk about 1970's broadcast quality.
How is an environment that fosters and encourages the bare minimum effort for the maximum return a conspiracy? From what little I know of corporate law, the OP's comment is spot on. My father, his neighbor and a third associate all called me in the last month to help fix the worm-like behavior associated with their hotmail accounts. Of the very small sample of hotmail users I know, at least three of them fell victim to these account exploits. I can only guess how many more there are in the world and none of my contacts have yet received any acknowledgement or assurance from MS besides the automated response email. Perhaps a conspiracy of neglect...how hard is it for an email service provider to send a mass response? Perhaps they could take some pointers from the spammers that exploit their servers daily.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the title be "Google Scores Patent Wins..."? When Google buys Motorola mobile division they take ownership, no? And yeah, what has been/will undoubtedly be repeated, retool this joke we call 'Patent Law'.
However the odds that anyone directly employed by the government will take a fall for it are pretty low.
Oh, you saw the GSA hearing on CSPAN today too? I thought I was the only one. What a farce to see grown adults in positions of power playing 'hot potato' to see which dispensable underling will be burnt.
No, it's much like IRL: everyone is a liar, cheat and a thief until proven otherwise. You can wax whimsically about giving everyone a chance or opportunities lost and all the other fuzzy thoughts, but that does nothing to change the selfish nature of human nature. When society fosters and encourages half-truths, vacuous pitches and sociopaths who believe they deserve more(always more), what else should I expect? Integrity and restraint? Riiiiight.
IF you could get 100 million people to make a change(or 100K, even) , it can have a dramatic effect on resources, waste and revenues. With larger numbers, effects of behavior change will be felt proportionally. This is all well and good, but if you peek behind the curtain you will see the forces that drive these trends(regulation/politics, manufacturing, supply, waste management) have little priority for any sort of common good. The decision makers are beholden to their masters to deliver more revenues, always more. Thus, innovation and progress continue to be interpreted to satisfy their ultimate objective and any incidental costs will always be relegated to someone else down the line to deal with. This model works well for them, as long as the unwashed continue to be divided and easily distracted, they will continue to profit off fear marketing,cherry-picking/obfuscating data and sleight of hand salesmanship. It's a wonder we've not hit critical mass...yet...
...and then the average dissatisfied user can remain in their mire if they don't care about better things...
You must be new here. Let me explain, self-wallowing and bitching are top past-times here on/.(and in humans, in general). Without the time constraints of hunting, gathering and finding suitable shelter we have found much less useful ways to pass the time. Welcome, please do try harder to bring something less useful to the discussion next time. Thanks.
You never worked at a restaurant? Maybe it's just breakfast restaurants. Between looking for the non-existent attic/basement for a non-existent bacon stretcher and figuring out how not to tap the grease trap in the parking lot(big mess), it's amazing I passed my 1st week dish dogging. Luckily I did, good times were had... If my parents only knew.
I've tried this on numerous occasions, the more advanced users eventually click 'Allow Scripts Globally", the less advanced keep calling me until I click 'Allow Scripts Globally".
I personally love it, easy-peasy black/white-list. My other apps do not stutter and bog whenever I scroll a page or open a new one. Pages load faster or not at all(both good IMO). Google's auto-search doesn't clog up my 1MB connection or freeze FF trying to force feed me their assumptions(must remove Goog from pre-loaded whitelist). Minimal ad tracking tools/cookies/malware collecting in my system, bleachbit completes in record time. My whitelist allows mo-add-ons page, my local library and some local devices. I'm typing now with/. & FSDN blocked. With the exception of moderation, the site suits me better with them blocked!
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Frontline's eight year old documentary called The Persuaders (specifically chapter 5, though it's all quite interesting) showed the pollsters going door to door, but before knocking they got all your data from Axciom or Lexis so they could tell you EXACTLY what you want to hear. Disingenuous? Nahh, it's just politics.
Germany didn't believe that WMD crap the last time
Apparently they didn't get the memo from Rummy, he had the receipts and the profit sharing to prove it. Not saying the attack on a sovereign nation would have been justified, just saying just because we say we didn't find them, doesn't mean they weren't there(or that we really didn't find them).
My initial reservations to allowing these yahoos handle my browsing experience have been quashed. Only a luser wouldn't trust these 'professionals' with his\her datas.
Calling them kids is being kind. Neurotic, entitled brats would be more apropo....trapped in adult bodies, of course.
Otherwise, bull's-eye.
Sad but true. It's been posited by clients, family and friends I have a disorder because I do not charge enough for services rendered. I make enough, I can afford shelter, nutrition, some new tech toys/tools and maintain a small savings for emergencies. I also afford time to track the local wildlife, visit my family around the country, keep my 11yo truck running(maintaining it myself) and, lately, take a couple months off to help care for an ill family member. They say I'm weird. I say too bad we can't all be weird.
Haha, digital radio offered that carrot to subscribers when XM and Sirius were starting out and bleeding red...(still?). Did anyone really believe it would last? Just like every other new corporate retailer on the scene, eliminate the competition while running massive losses until you can turn around and charge $5 for a product that previously sold for $1. Home improvement chains, gas suppliers and drug pushers all know this is the path to long-term success. Viva greed!
Otherwise we will get even more dishonest and incompetent (but power-hungry) people in comparable positions.
Too late. The psychopaths have been driving the bus for most of the latter 20th century. The 21st version is all about 'coming out' and eliminating the legal obstacles for corp gluttony and fascism, it seems.
Was listening to this in the audio book just yesterday. Yeah, the book published seven years ago that already has a Disney cartoon made of it...With the recent awakening of the rover 'Opportunity' from it's winter slumber I am looking forward to new reports containing new info.
Now if we can only get a squeegee to mars to clean them panels.
Roving Mars A good read.
I'll tattoo mine on my forearm. 'Never forget', right?
I always wondered how seven street-thugs from Miami were going to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and launch a 'full ground war' against the United States with their only contact being an FBI agent selling fantasies and firearms. It was such a slam-dunk case it only took THREE TRIALS to convict most them.
The offensive provision from the so-called Patriot Act that makes FBI entrapment legal. Bullshit.
You are both right. The fund managers and their pet quants did not understand the whole process and the effects of their actions, all they knew was they were 'printing money' out of thin air every day. Cannot say they were not warned by many, including the father of quantitative analysis; the late, great Mr. Mandelbrot. Yeah, the fractal guy. Taleb was also an ardent 'wet blanket'. Both predicted this mess years before it happened. Nothing has changed, toxic assets are STILL accumulating in many funds' portfolios. Who cares? The Guv will bail them out after they're done raping the markets.
I concur, doctor. I also believe it can be improved upon. I hated HD and the 'you have to be within this area and this far from the screen' requirements. No matter if the unit wass a LCD, LED, Plasma or DLP, to me it looked as layered and 'swimmy' as a Viewmaster stereoscopic toy wherever I sat/stood. Things seem to have improved or I'm properly acclimated now. By any measurement I don't sit in the 'required range'. or at the optimum angle...small place and high placement makes it just not possible. However, watching hockey on a 48" DLP in HD is a phenomenal experience* and that's a really good thing because that's all I need it for.
PS: GO YOTES!
* Almost as good as the deliberately downgraded(IMO) SD broadcast is meant to make me appreciate it. Talk about 1970's broadcast quality.
How is an environment that fosters and encourages the bare minimum effort for the maximum return a conspiracy? From what little I know of corporate law, the OP's comment is spot on. My father, his neighbor and a third associate all called me in the last month to help fix the worm-like behavior associated with their hotmail accounts. Of the very small sample of hotmail users I know, at least three of them fell victim to these account exploits. I can only guess how many more there are in the world and none of my contacts have yet received any acknowledgement or assurance from MS besides the automated response email. Perhaps a conspiracy of neglect...how hard is it for an email service provider to send a mass response? Perhaps they could take some pointers from the spammers that exploit their servers daily.
110010% ?
Bonus benefit, free neodymium super-magnets to amaze your friends! If it's a platter device, anyway.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the title be "Google Scores Patent Wins..."? When Google buys Motorola mobile division they take ownership, no? And yeah, what has been/will undoubtedly be repeated, retool this joke we call 'Patent Law'.
However the odds that anyone directly employed by the government will take a fall for it are pretty low.
Oh, you saw the GSA hearing on CSPAN today too? I thought I was the only one. What a farce to see grown adults in positions of power playing 'hot potato' to see which dispensable underling will be burnt.
No, it's much like IRL: everyone is a liar, cheat and a thief until proven otherwise. You can wax whimsically about giving everyone a chance or opportunities lost and all the other fuzzy thoughts, but that does nothing to change the selfish nature of human nature. When society fosters and encourages half-truths, vacuous pitches and sociopaths who believe they deserve more(always more), what else should I expect? Integrity and restraint? Riiiiight.
No mod points, sadly.
IF you could get 100 million people to make a change(or 100K, even) , it can have a dramatic effect on resources, waste and revenues. With larger numbers, effects of behavior change will be felt proportionally. This is all well and good, but if you peek behind the curtain you will see the forces that drive these trends(regulation/politics, manufacturing, supply, waste management) have little priority for any sort of common good. The decision makers are beholden to their masters to deliver more revenues, always more. Thus, innovation and progress continue to be interpreted to satisfy their ultimate objective and any incidental costs will always be relegated to someone else down the line to deal with. This model works well for them, as long as the unwashed continue to be divided and easily distracted, they will continue to profit off fear marketing,cherry-picking/obfuscating data and sleight of hand salesmanship. It's a wonder we've not hit critical mass...yet...
...and then the average dissatisfied user can remain in their mire if they don't care about better things...
You must be new here. Let me explain, self-wallowing and bitching are top past-times here on /.(and in humans, in general). Without the time constraints of hunting, gathering and finding suitable shelter we have found much less useful ways to pass the time. Welcome, please do try harder to bring something less useful to the discussion next time. Thanks.
Or you could ensure their long-term survival by declaring 'War' on them...
What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
You never worked at a restaurant? Maybe it's just breakfast restaurants. Between looking for the non-existent attic/basement for a non-existent bacon stretcher and figuring out how not to tap the grease trap in the parking lot(big mess), it's amazing I passed my 1st week dish dogging. Luckily I did, good times were had... If my parents only knew.
Oh yeah? If it's oregano, you can use it in your soup!
I've tried this on numerous occasions, the more advanced users eventually click 'Allow Scripts Globally", the less advanced keep calling me until I click 'Allow Scripts Globally".
I personally love it, easy-peasy black/white-list. My other apps do not stutter and bog whenever I scroll a page or open a new one. Pages load faster or not at all(both good IMO). Google's auto-search doesn't clog up my 1MB connection or freeze FF trying to force feed me their assumptions(must remove Goog from pre-loaded whitelist). Minimal ad tracking tools/cookies/malware collecting in my system, bleachbit completes in record time. My whitelist allows mo-add-ons page, my local library and some local devices. I'm typing now with /. & FSDN blocked. With the exception of moderation, the site suits me better with them blocked!