What makes you think Slashbots have any love for the Obamacare site?
it's supposed to be a "market" but it's nothing of the sort. You can't actually see any products or prices. You are only allowed to "apply" and for that you need "register" and then to provide identifying information that Experian approves of.
If this were any industry website, my response would be "fuck that".
Even if the stupid thing were working as intended it would still be broken. It's broken by design.
> So you don't mind if they go hunting in the neighborhood? You're fine with it if your neighbors plow up the lawn, plant crops, and get a cow?
No, not really. I are proceeding from the false assumption that those of us that believe in personal property rights are flaming hypocrites.
Truth be told, there isn't much good hunting to be had in my neighborhood. That whole "urban" thing has scared off most of the wildlife. I am not sure how much you could make out of the few rabbits and squirrels that remain.
As far as "agriculture" goes, I don't have much tolerance for purely decorative landscaping anyways. I would much prefer it if all of the bushes and trees in the neighborhood provided something edible.
> And all of you clueless Obama-loving lberal weenies will still vote for her next election,
With alternatives like Palin and Romney one is left with little choice. One does not have to "love" Obama at all in order to realize just how TRULY BAD the alternatives are.
Obama is in office because of that fact.
I will reprhase that: Obama is in office because neocons refuse to stop drinking their own kool-aid and acknowledge that they are a minority in the electorate.
The nation has always been divided by 2 extremist minorities with a large middle that dislikes both of them.
> I'm reluctant to respond, since WTF does this Nobel Prize story have to do with Obama...
This is about the US sucking talent out of other nations. That means that people who are NOT BORN HERE work here.
As one of the key legal requirements for the US President is be that he is BORN HERE. That's how this relates to Obama. Schwarzenegger can be governor but not President.
Real work is whatever needs to get done. Chances are, you aren't going to be any good at guess what that is nor I. THAT is the real problem with curated tablet computing.
Any platform that starts out with the proposition "we know what's best for you" is ultimately doomed to failure as a productivity platform.
That's why PCs arose to begin with. People needed to get stuff done and the "IT management mindset" was getting in the way.
It really doesn't matter if that mindset is coming from Apple or some internal department. It's just as bogus either way.
> So what do you think happens when you add a bluetooth keyboard and mouse plus a full display via HDMI?
You end up with something far too awkward to be very portable anymore and something that's far too slow to be taken seriously as a modern desktop. On top of that, you have a whole host of limitations that make useful work harder.
> Notice how everyone points out their favorite political cause as the reason for the failure,
The real kicker here is the fact that there are State run exchanges that are do quite well in contrast. This includes both Blue states like California and Red states like Kentucky. The problems with the federal government as manifested by the Obamacare website don't seem to be simply problems of "big government" or "government in general".
> but the average user isn't going to pay for one environment to use for special tasks, and then set up a completely different FOSS environment where he'll do most of his work.
That's a false strawman. The beauty of Free Software is that it is generally platform agnostic. You don't have to do anything remotely like what you've just described. All your "special environment" requires is downloading some software.
It's no more burdensome than getting your flash and silverlight plugins sorted.
I once bluntly told a supervisor that they had just laid off all of the wrong people.
All of the old timers with the most direct experience and lots of tribal knowledge were just shown the door. Compared to that, what was left were just a bunch of "entry level graduates".
I have worked in large corporate environments where sitting at a desk in some building owned by the corporation really didn't add much value. I was still isolated from most of my colleagues as we were all spread to the 4 winds to begin with.
I suspect that these people that work at HP will still be telecommuting once they are forced to commute to an office.
That is possibly the reason they were allowed to telecommute to begin with. Their boss and their "customers" were already in another state.
He bailed out Apple in order to "preserve the market" or some such claptrap. How is treating Samsung differently remotely consistent here?
The subtleties of the two bans don't really matter since that wasn't the stated reason for giving Apple a free ride last time around.
Flaming hypocrisy.
Of course getting near the presidency will ensure that your candidate is just like any other corrupt white guy regardless of whether your candidate is black or a woman. No one should ever had any delusions in that regard.
The community will support a device long after the hardware vendor has tried to force you to give it up. That's because the guy that sold it to you wants you to buy something else. They need you to be on an upgrade treadmill so their bottom line looks good.
> Yes, but his point was that it doesn't benefit society if criminals go free.
Sure it does. That's a basic fundemental philosophical conflict here. Not everyone agrees with the authors statement. Not everyone takes it as an article of faith.
Many realize that it may be better to allow scofflaws then to harm everyone by enabling some sort of police state.
The imprisonment of Martha Stewart provided ZERO benefit to society. I doubt if it discouraged anyone from acting badly. It wasted money and it helped magnify the bullying power of the police.
Even before fail2ban came along, it occured to me to code up something roughly equivalent to it. It was a rather sad looking shell script but it did the job. This is something so un-new that there are pre-packaged workarounds for it now.
> What's Yiddish for "Always throwing your Jewish heritage into every fucking conversation"?
There isn't an English word for this concept because the Xians spent the last 2000 years trying to keep everyone illiterate and ignorant rather than making you pass a literacy test before you could breed.
In other words, the parents that already are able to blow large sums of money on the education of their children will have yet another way to do so in future.
You also know what's competition? The back catalog.
Every band, every label, every directory, every studio has to compete in an environment where creative media of all kinds is cheap and plentiful. I simply don't have to be stuck as a member of a captive audience being forcibly subjected to today's dreck. I can choose from all of the classics of the last 100 years and they are for the most part dirt cheap.
We are awash in a glut of media. Supply and demand dictates that prices will fall even without piracy.
A watched a new movie and a 50 year old TV show last night. Most of my music was acquired before the turn of the century.
The golden age of recorded music just prior to 1999 gave us such classics as "Cherry Pie" and a high level of base pandering forced upon musicians by label management.
I also still recall this rather funny ad for a radio station that ran on TV. It's premise was basically that all of the other radio stations were all playing the same Bon Jovi song.
> Does anyone believe the world consumes half the amount of recorded music as it did in 1999? No
Given that the music industry was on a physical format churn gravy train prior to 1999, I would say that it is VERY plausible that the world consumes "half the amount" of recorded music as it did in 1999.
People simply don't have to buy stuff over anymore. Digital is a terminal format. Computers as media appliances mean that your music collection will never wear out or become obsolete EVER.
I never have to buy another copy of Master of Puppets ever again. That's money that the publishers are missing out on and money that's a total waste.
That was not the only thing artificially inflating music sales numbers in 1999. The industry was actively trying to kill off the single and force everyone to buy only complete albums at increased cost. Both piracy and iTunes put an end to that nonsense.
It's easy to think the world is ending when your mark gets wise to your con.
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> People are mobile now, walking around,
No, not really.
"Mobile" in this instance means little more than sitting some place besides the living room in front of the living room TV.
It might not even mean that.
What makes you think Slashbots have any love for the Obamacare site?
it's supposed to be a "market" but it's nothing of the sort. You can't actually see any products or prices. You are only allowed to "apply" and for that you need "register" and then to provide identifying information that Experian approves of.
If this were any industry website, my response would be "fuck that".
Even if the stupid thing were working as intended it would still be broken. It's broken by design.
> So you don't mind if they go hunting in the neighborhood? You're fine with it if your neighbors plow up the lawn, plant crops, and get a cow?
No, not really. I are proceeding from the false assumption that those of us that believe in personal property rights are flaming hypocrites.
Truth be told, there isn't much good hunting to be had in my neighborhood. That whole "urban" thing has scared off most of the wildlife. I am not sure how much you could make out of the few rabbits and squirrels that remain.
As far as "agriculture" goes, I don't have much tolerance for purely decorative landscaping anyways. I would much prefer it if all of the bushes and trees in the neighborhood provided something edible.
> And all of you clueless Obama-loving lberal weenies will still vote for her next election,
With alternatives like Palin and Romney one is left with little choice. One does not have to "love" Obama at all in order to realize just how TRULY BAD the alternatives are.
Obama is in office because of that fact.
I will reprhase that: Obama is in office because neocons refuse to stop drinking their own kool-aid and acknowledge that they are a minority in the electorate.
The nation has always been divided by 2 extremist minorities with a large middle that dislikes both of them.
The Jews have been the biggest geeks in Europe for 2000 years. Attempting to claim stuff done in Israel is of "western origin" is rather disengenous.
...either that or a student of history and someone that actually follows the news.
> I'm reluctant to respond, since WTF does this Nobel Prize story have to do with Obama...
This is about the US sucking talent out of other nations. That means that people who are NOT BORN HERE work here.
As one of the key legal requirements for the US President is be that he is BORN HERE. That's how this relates to Obama. Schwarzenegger can be governor but not President.
Real work is whatever needs to get done. Chances are, you aren't going to be any good at guess what that is nor I. THAT is the real problem with curated tablet computing.
Any platform that starts out with the proposition "we know what's best for you" is ultimately doomed to failure as a productivity platform.
That's why PCs arose to begin with. People needed to get stuff done and the "IT management mindset" was getting in the way.
It really doesn't matter if that mindset is coming from Apple or some internal department. It's just as bogus either way.
> So what do you think happens when you add a bluetooth keyboard and mouse plus a full display via HDMI?
You end up with something far too awkward to be very portable anymore and something that's far too slow to be taken seriously as a modern desktop. On top of that, you have a whole host of limitations that make useful work harder.
The ARM echo chamber is just kidding itself.
> Notice how everyone points out their favorite political cause as the reason for the failure,
The real kicker here is the fact that there are State run exchanges that are do quite well in contrast. This includes both Blue states like California and Red states like Kentucky. The problems with the federal government as manifested by the Obamacare website don't seem to be simply problems of "big government" or "government in general".
Both of those are refuted by the examples cited.
> but the average user isn't going to pay for one environment to use for special tasks, and then set up a completely different FOSS environment where he'll do most of his work.
That's a false strawman. The beauty of Free Software is that it is generally platform agnostic. You don't have to do anything remotely like what you've just described. All your "special environment" requires is downloading some software.
It's no more burdensome than getting your flash and silverlight plugins sorted.
I once bluntly told a supervisor that they had just laid off all of the wrong people.
All of the old timers with the most direct experience and lots of tribal knowledge were just shown the door. Compared to that, what was left were just a bunch of "entry level graduates".
I have worked in large corporate environments where sitting at a desk in some building owned by the corporation really didn't add much value. I was still isolated from most of my colleagues as we were all spread to the 4 winds to begin with.
I suspect that these people that work at HP will still be telecommuting once they are forced to commute to an office.
That is possibly the reason they were allowed to telecommute to begin with. Their boss and their "customers" were already in another state.
He bailed out Apple in order to "preserve the market" or some such claptrap. How is treating Samsung differently remotely consistent here?
The subtleties of the two bans don't really matter since that wasn't the stated reason for giving Apple a free ride last time around.
Flaming hypocrisy.
Of course getting near the presidency will ensure that your candidate is just like any other corrupt white guy regardless of whether your candidate is black or a woman. No one should ever had any delusions in that regard.
> It's not really true though, is it?
Sure it is.
The community will support a device long after the hardware vendor has tried to force you to give it up. That's because the guy that sold it to you wants you to buy something else. They need you to be on an upgrade treadmill so their bottom line looks good.
The community has no such conflict of interest.
> Yes, but his point was that it doesn't benefit society if criminals go free.
Sure it does. That's a basic fundemental philosophical conflict here. Not everyone agrees with the authors statement. Not everyone takes it as an article of faith.
Many realize that it may be better to allow scofflaws then to harm everyone by enabling some sort of police state.
The imprisonment of Martha Stewart provided ZERO benefit to society. I doubt if it discouraged anyone from acting badly. It wasted money and it helped magnify the bullying power of the police.
An armed adult gunned down an unarmed kid in the absence of witnesses.
That doesn't even pass muster by "Wild West" standards.
"ownership" of creative works are supposed to expire and these tapes are probably older than you are.
Even before fail2ban came along, it occured to me to code up something roughly equivalent to it. It was a rather sad looking shell script but it did the job. This is something so un-new that there are pre-packaged workarounds for it now.
> What's Yiddish for "Always throwing your Jewish heritage into every fucking conversation"?
There isn't an English word for this concept because the Xians spent the last 2000 years trying to keep everyone illiterate and ignorant rather than making you pass a literacy test before you could breed.
Sure. Want me to give you the finger in person?
Improve your result. Don't expect special consideration if your results aren't satisfactory.
Otherwise I will take a page out of the book of Linus.
In other words, the parents that already are able to blow large sums of money on the education of their children will have yet another way to do so in future.
So nothing changes really.
You also know what's competition? The back catalog.
Every band, every label, every directory, every studio has to compete in an environment where creative media of all kinds is cheap and plentiful. I simply don't have to be stuck as a member of a captive audience being forcibly subjected to today's dreck. I can choose from all of the classics of the last 100 years and they are for the most part dirt cheap.
We are awash in a glut of media. Supply and demand dictates that prices will fall even without piracy.
A watched a new movie and a 50 year old TV show last night. Most of my music was acquired before the turn of the century.
The golden age of recorded music just prior to 1999 gave us such classics as "Cherry Pie" and a high level of base pandering forced upon musicians by label management.
I also still recall this rather funny ad for a radio station that ran on TV. It's premise was basically that all of the other radio stations were all playing the same Bon Jovi song.
Yes. It was truly a golden age.
> Does anyone believe the world consumes half the amount of recorded music as it did in 1999? No
Given that the music industry was on a physical format churn gravy train prior to 1999, I would say that it is VERY plausible that the world consumes "half the amount" of recorded music as it did in 1999.
People simply don't have to buy stuff over anymore. Digital is a terminal format. Computers as media appliances mean that your music collection will never wear out or become obsolete EVER.
I never have to buy another copy of Master of Puppets ever again. That's money that the publishers are missing out on and money that's a total waste.
That was not the only thing artificially inflating music sales numbers in 1999. The industry was actively trying to kill off the single and force everyone to buy only complete albums at increased cost. Both piracy and iTunes put an end to that nonsense.
It's easy to think the world is ending when your mark gets wise to your con.