Slight of hand is about distraction with one hand while doing something with another. The booms are the distraction, who cares about the booms? These four words are the meat and potatoes of this; "and oil response efforts". I watched the CNN guy's report and he was discussing how reporters weren't allowed near a med station treating workers. They were also shooed away from the shots of the birds. "Oil response efforts" is a pretty broad brush and I am sure it covers workers. It's probably hard to interview someone from 20 meters away.
Again, I say, forget the booms. Why would they not want reporters around the med station or the birds? This is a Democrat ran administration, and classically Democrats have lots of touchy-feely tree huggers who seriously love showing such events so that they can punctuate their political goals. Anything less that 100% transparency on this, especially to the "Clinton News Network", seems a bit out of character to me. If they use this to stonewall reporters from other things, this should be alarming to us. If it's just about the booms, who cares? Staying 20 meters away something named a "Boom" sounds like a good idea and I don't even know what one is. One could run up and bite me and I wouldn't know it. But staying out of one's way sounds like just good sense. But is that just the slight of hand?
What I find more interesting is the motivation to do any slight of hand to begin with? It's not like we haven't seen oil spills before, so what's the big deal? It's not like it's a cover up, it can be seen from space and we have known about it for months. I think the clue is a.) keeping them away from the med station and b.) keep them away from the gathered wild life. This makes me want to ask, is there something screwy going on with this particular oil spill in regards to how it's effecting the wildlife and those working the spill? Has any independent labs/scientists/geeks gathered up any samples of the wild life effected? Or done any tests on this oil that is washing up?
What is the worse that could be happening? Is there some ancient bacteria in this oil that is now released into our ecosystem? Is there some new toxic hell in this stuff that will present us with some new nightmare to deal with and they just want to keep us all from panicking? Or is this just about the booms and perhaps BP with all of it's money trying to keep from looking like the douchebags that they are? All of the above? None of the above? What?
The Incredible phones are really part of a conspiracy to enslave us all and take our money little nibbles at a time through some fiendish plot of impulse buying cute and interesting little apps.
Consider the Internet a frontier still, and its in its Wild West phase of development. Anonymity which we are cloaked in now, will at some phase of development be discarded. Then poor behavior will not be tolerated for there will be repercussions to ones actions. Exposure of one's genitals in public is a crime, and when anonymity is gone, it will be an enforceable law. I am not advocating these changes, but I think that eventually something is going to change the way the Internet effects us all or we it. Governments thrive on governing and given the opportunity they will.
Events like this with the blatant vulgarity on chatroulette are part of the formula for change. It will help in the transition, just as piracy will, or any other questionable activity. The main ingredient will be something very substantial, such as a major terrorist event via the Internet as a tool. Once an event of that magnitude happens, we will have "a new sheriff in town" and anonymity will be the first thing to change.
Broadband shortage. Seriously, when are people going to wake up to corporations and their games they play with the gullible public? This is a situation of giving a service with the minimum of expense for the maximum of profit. Instead of ponying up the money to update whatever it is that is lacking. They flatly refuse, then leave the people fall into some sort of accepting mindset, pointing fingers at "whomever of the users is the problem". By the public accepting this like the sheep that they are these days, they further the "minimum expense for maximum profit" maxim. If you think the politicians are going to step in and do the right thing, you are delusional. Corporate interests is all that is being served by any industrialized government these days. Politicians are quite the bargain and well worth the effort to farm.
Face it, if the average/. user spent one quarter of the time hounding his or her "representatives" (I use that term loosely and sarcastically) that they do HERE, we might influence the dimwitted clods that get elected. Its doubtful though, politicians seem to be selected for the larger quantities of bone content in their skulls these days. It stands to reason, the ignorant are easier to control.
On a practical side, look for alternatives to work around this. This is a fairly bright crowd, surely someone has an alternative. Individuals and small groups can move with lightning speed in contrast to corporations. The trick is to stay ahead of the lumbering behemoths. This is what I admire about Linux, its a monkey wrench in gears of the huge mechanical sacred cow of the status quo of capitalism. Its an evolved way of thinking that makes it so impressive and dangerous to those representing the status quo. Its what the Age of Information is about, being freed from archaic systems and mindsets with innovation from all. What annoys me is how this archaic systems impedes progress with its greed. Its not enough for it to make a living, it wants as much as it can extract from us. The problem with that is THEY ALL want to extract as much as they can from us, and as people, we are a limited resource. There is only so much we can do, this is evident as we each month ponder how to delegate our money to pay ever mounting bills and prices.
What saddens me is how enslaved into the system we are. Contrast our different lives and you can see differences in the workloads we tolerate. Most can't even fathom real freedom anymore, and thus being an unknown, it becomes frightening and something to distrust. To beat this, we have to be smarter than it and collectively work to out pace and out maneuver it. The only alternative is to destroy the entire system, to reset society back to some point where we have to rebuild and only with those intelligent and/or strong enough to survive. The last is a horrifying thought and hardly a solution, but it might be in a "big picture" way, the only option should we all become enslaved to it.
Frankly this whole issue is revolving around old and dead tech and it just needs to die off and let something fresh and new take its place. With broadband being close to everywhere in so many forms, a universal subscription service for all music would be the smart way to solve this. A monthly fee to listen to whatever you want, whenever or where ever you want. The artists are paid according to a percentage based off of how much each of their works are played. This would provide a level playing field for artists, and give the subscribers fresh music as well as an archive. Seriously, consider how outdated the concept of "storing" ones music becomes with the ability for it to be accessed from a central storage.
Kudos to Arizona for having the backbone to stand up in this foolhardy clime we live in and fight for what is right. We have been overran with illegal immigration. Our politicians have lacked the character and backbone to enforce the laws of the land. It's reached critical mass at last; we are about to explode. Globalization is a concept fed to the foolish to excuse corporate imperialism about the globe. This sick, fallacy riddled logic has found foothold in our education system where it thrives and propagates. It doesn't help that the US has accelerated backwards in the realm of education, in fact it's entire attitude towards education has become mocking. With such slack standards, its no wonder it has fostered forth the mindsets that rail against the sound logic of Arizona's new laws.
Behold now the hysterical rhetoric that will spew forth about this situation. We must wake up to the facts of our present day condition. We can't let a masochistic mindset that "we are the evil white people, we should bow our heads in guilt" cloud our reasoning. The border situation is wildly out of control, and by the time its consequences reached the high ivory towers where those who reside scorn Arizona, and rattle them from their delusions with bone jarring abruptness and clarity, it will be far too late. We must face the simple facts of the matter; we must fight even ourselves in these matters to save ourselves. We are at a crossroads, if we don't face the hard fight now, the campaign to our salvation will never be won. Too much ground has been lost, the wrong people have had ample time to gain power and traction. We see even here, on/., the fragments of a war of mindsets.
It is time to make a stand, to call fools out for what they are, and enforce the rule of law.
The fact that we soon won't be able to board an airplane without some Government bureaucrat looking at our genitals on a computer monitor tells me that the terrorists won.
They won big time. Cost effective to the damage they have done to us, it's a seriously big win. Who else won? Our own government and it's puppet masters won. Yes, they have proved they can unleash the war machine by frightening the stupid bleating population, then they can bilk us dry feeding it and the war profiteers. We have proved we will line up like dumb animals to get in our airplanes and for the most ignorant of reasons, they can subject us to whatever they wish. It's not a security act, it's a display of power upon us. Frisking grannies in Des Moines is either a thumb in our eyes just because they can or they are either so damn stupid, it's frighteningly comical. In which case if the later is true, then God seriously help us.
Those sheep are lucky and should be thankful they were anesthetized or else they might have died of heart attacks from being jacked up on meth then subjected to the terrifying experience of being sadistically tazered. We should all be grateful to those at the company for having such considerations for their test animal subjects, not wanting them to writhe around in terror and agony and possibly die. Such responsibilities in the manufacturer are comforting when these devices are in the hands of so many cops who must use them on the likes of rampaging grandmothers, or just not putting themselves at risk of exertion from using the outdated methods of physical restraint.
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As Americans we are responsible for this run-amuck government of ours. Just like the German people were ultimately responsible for letting the Nazis run unchecked until the rest of the world had to come hammer them all into the dirt, we are responsible for this out of hand government. I think the rest of the world should come to the realization for it's own good that the average American people aren't ever going to grow any backbone and do the right thing. Corporations own us heart, soul and mind, as they will everyone else they deem worthy of the effort. Democracy here is a failed experiment, it's downfall being we have the finest politicians, bureaucrats, and officials that money can buy.
My advice for the rest of the world hoping to make democracy work. Make your politicians, bureaucrats and officials work for ONLY what they are paid. Anything else, "campaign donations" "soft money", all that is a bribe, and treasonous by all parties and you brutally execute everyone involved publicly, swiftly without a slight hint of mercy or long trials.
Try to remember when all of you other countries take enough and at last come here to blow us all to hell, that not all of us are evil. We are just brainwashed and dumb and just want happy lives not bothering or hurting anyone. Ironic isn't it that the "land of the free and the home of the brave" is now land of the enslaved and home of the lemming cowards. Our founding fathers must be turning in their graves like gyroscopes.
Call me if we have a revolution, I am far too cowardly to start one myself and probably will hide under my bed anyway if we did have one. My best excuse is; It's too late to do anything about it anyway...oh well.
Buy your kid World of Warcraft, get them playing it and they will be virgins for the foreseeable future. And they will have plenty of company to act as a support group, millions of other virgins.
I seriously agree with this. WoW is a good deal for a gamer and why mess with anything else? WoW will eat up more than enough of your spare time for gaming. Also, single player games, all piracy aside, are lame. You will never get the dollar value out of them like you will WoW. Most single player games have what, a week or a month of game play to them before you are done with it? I have supported the $200 a month gaming habit and I am not going back to it.
How about the great games that got destroyed by hackers? Forget pirates, I hate game hackers. Battlezone was an AWESOME game that I enjoyed playing over the modem with a friend, but get it on the internet and people hacked it so bad it was ruined. Battlenet was like that in the beginning. I can remember trying to play Diablo on Battlenet and it was a hackfest of punks ruining the game. Interstate 76 was another one the scumbags wrecked with hacks.
At least with an MMO there is a staff at least trying to foil these punks. Single player games, they toss out a product that is bug filled and that you will as sure as God made little green apples have to patch, and if it's a TCP/IP game or mutilplayer game via the net, it's going to be hacked by some cheating douchebag. What is the point of buying it? Do people even LAN anymore? At least on a LAN game, if someone loads up a hack or cheats, they are THERE, you can pounded their head off the desk until they get some manners. But again, why deal with it? Why like a game that is going to make you insane when it's ruined? Valve at least has some effort to curb cheaters, but frankly I wonder how good their security is? I remember when PunkBuster was the standard for Team Fortress and Counter Strike, you felt pretty solid about security from hacked punks wrecking a game.
I played WoW since the two open betas and it's pretty solid on security. Sure I have come across a few hacks, which I of course reported IMMEDIATELY, but it was nothing game breaking. Asheron's Call was pretty secure as well. There was a few quirky things that got exploited, but it wasn't game breaking obviously.
Frankly this is how I feel about it all. If a game company isn't smart enough to a. Protect themselves from getting ripped off; b. Not smart enough to protect the players and the game's integrity, then they aren't smart enough to be a game company and they need weeded out of the pack for the good of us all.
WoW right now is the 400lb gorilla of the gaming industry and it wants your lunch. This isn't a pioneer field, if you can't learn from what works and what doesn't, then again, you aren't smart enough to be in this business. You can't legislate better conditions for the stupid, nor should you even try.
I am glad we at least have Blizzard. The early days of computer gaming and it's success I am afraid has weeded out the real talent. Like what happened to the Duke Nukem people? Did success send these guys off to some tropic island where they are doing bongs by the beach with oodles of hot women? Did they all OD? Did money project them up and out of the state of geeky nerdom that propagated their mindset for their success? What do we have now? A bunch of wanna-be game makers who try to follow "some pattern of success" and can't think outside the box enough with the technology to come up with the newest boldest thing? Has it all become such an epic production that you can't just dream it up and do it without some batch of bean counting morons hampering you at every turn?
At least Blizzard survived from those humble days and didn't disintegrate like most of them have. At least they have the deep pockets needed to pull off a decent production.
At the very core of it all I think I know what the problem is. It's about the bean counters. It's about all the vultures out there wanting to cash in on the gamer dollar. Its no longer about the game, but about the dollar. The dreamers are no longer even close to being in control.
Remember the days when it was about "Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a game where
One thing seems for certain, Laboratory Rats are a miserable lot. They seem to be susceptible to cancer and just about everything else you can imagine. Why not test something really hardy instead? Why not politicians? Nothing seems to effect them, thus if you find something that does, we should eschew it for sure. After all, if it can effect a politician, it would lay waste to the normal person. We also wouldn't have the trauma of them dying to tests that we do with laboratory rats. Imagine the damage we could save to the psych of lab technicians and scientists by testing politicians instead of poor laboratory rats? The latest grief ratio of death of politician to laboratory rat is rated 5,684 to 1,(USD Grief Ratio 1998) so the numbers are there for support of such a protocol change. Another point, I feel if we tested politicians instead, could we not anticipate a more urgent response to the very issues we are testing over? After all, politicians are embedded in the heart of the political system and have much more influence politically than laboratory rats do, even though the rats are generally more liked by the public and their support comes from grass roots, literally...anyway, it's 2010, it's it time we took the rat out of the laboRATory? Hmm?
I tried to shop at local stores to keep as much of my own money out of Wal-Marts hands, but here is the problem. I will just end up buying the same junk but only at a higher marked price. In my minds eye, I was hoping to find that our local shops carried good quality, American made products, that I would be willing to pay extra for to; a) support our economy, b) have a higher quality product. This was wishful, naive thinking I found out. So much is NOT made here and what is, I am dismayed at their prices.
This trade deficit will be our downfall if nothing else I am afraid. We have lost local manufactures here in the heartland, those that we never dreamed would leave. I feel as though we have been sold out by politicians to corporate interests. We seem to have the finest bureaucrats, officials and politicians that money can buy here in America.
I am currently in college retraining for something else to do for a job, and the "globalism is good, nationalism is bad" message being shoveled down my throat in my Geography class is something I just ignore lest I just snap.
This is a trade war that we are losing with China. I am glad Google is firing a shot over their bow...no matter what their reason. Perhaps it might inspire some of our cowardly/corrupt politicians to follow suit. Chances of that are like throwing a roll of quarters into the air and they land, break, scatter, roll around and all stop on their edges. Optimistic and liberal with my odds, no?
Big brother seems to have fewer blocks from running over our rights these days. I have watched this country hand over it's basic civil rights since 9/11 in the name of patriotism, law and order and nationalism. Read some history, this is how the Nazi's rose to power, using dogma so akin to what we hear these days. Some people say the terrorists won, I disagree. Someone more sinister and evil than them won, they were just the vehicle for it, the excuse.
You do NOT take power away from a government once it has it without a great struggle. In our fear, we have with blind trust handed over our freedoms, leaving common sense behind us. This is just one dangerous step down a wide path to destruction by allowing such flimsy standards for law enforcement. Sure, the reasons they use may on the surface and the moment seem justified, but it sets a dangerous president that will erode our rights even further. Ask yourself, how far will they go to probe us to find our resistance? When will we if ever cry out for a stop to this madness? At what point will we say "enough is enough"?
History shows us how the people of Germany failed to stop the Nazis. The Nazis were few in number, one would think the German people could have rose up and crushed them. But they were fearful, law abiding and followed the dogma. They thought they were doing the right thing. A monster was loosed on the world because of their inaction. How much of a monster will we Americans unleash on the world if we fail to control our nation? If you don't think it can happen here, don't be foolish. The German people didn't think it could happen to them. They didn't all wake up and decide to be world villains, wringing their hands and laughing madly with each other over plans of world domination. How are we different than them? What strange magic protects us from evil men? Our Constitution? It is but a document, words on paper that can't stop an ant from crawling over it. It has to live in our hearts and minds and we have to be vigilant to defend what we believe in. Only then do those words have any power.
What can you do? For now you can vote. You should do it and be responsible to cast that vote to support your ideals, not the flavor of the year dogma. We should all be thankful that we can vote. When the day comes that we can't, we will wish so hard we could because the struggle back to the vote will be long and hard and most likely brutal.
Attacks on our freedoms cannot be suffered and ignored; tolerance in this case is a form of defeat.
I doubt they are cancer victims or their families. Would they quibble about the price if it was their health in question? I find it a paradox that the more humans there are, the less humanity you find.
It's easier to maintain the temp and air quality of a room without a human being in it. Isolate the servers in a *cleanroom*. Sure this hasn't been required for a very long time, but the principle is sound. A small isolated round is easier to cool without the heat of a human body in it. Dust is mostly generated by human skin flaking, so yet another reason not to share time in the room with it.
You could then wire various sensors to the room for temp, sound levels, humidity, fire, water, etc. This also is a chance to enhance security for the room can further be isolated with locks that only a select few have keys to, or perhaps and entire security system can be installed with sophisticated locks.
Access all of this via a control room next to it that is human user friendly. Make no mistake, what could be termed as "creature comforts" are efficient for the company. Food storage and production devices saves time that the human operator wastes seeking sustenance. Many such devices will augment and enhance the performance of the human operator, i.e. a quality coffee machine serves to boost the human operators awareness and energy levels.
Human operators are subject to emotional levels that can sometimes dip low and effect performance. Hence moral enhancement should be factored into the human operator's environment. Such devices as a quality stereo have proven to augment human operator moral to higher levels.
Do not ignore the synergy between the optimal environments for both man and machine when you seek to couple them for optimal performance. To ignore such factors would indeed be illogical.
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Slight of hand is about distraction with one hand while doing something with another. The booms are the distraction, who cares about the booms? These four words are the meat and potatoes of this; "and oil response efforts". I watched the CNN guy's report and he was discussing how reporters weren't allowed near a med station treating workers. They were also shooed away from the shots of the birds. "Oil response efforts" is a pretty broad brush and I am sure it covers workers. It's probably hard to interview someone from 20 meters away.
Again, I say, forget the booms. Why would they not want reporters around the med station or the birds? This is a Democrat ran administration, and classically Democrats have lots of touchy-feely tree huggers who seriously love showing such events so that they can punctuate their political goals. Anything less that 100% transparency on this, especially to the "Clinton News Network", seems a bit out of character to me. If they use this to stonewall reporters from other things, this should be alarming to us. If it's just about the booms, who cares? Staying 20 meters away something named a "Boom" sounds like a good idea and I don't even know what one is. One could run up and bite me and I wouldn't know it. But staying out of one's way sounds like just good sense. But is that just the slight of hand?
What I find more interesting is the motivation to do any slight of hand to begin with? It's not like we haven't seen oil spills before, so what's the big deal? It's not like it's a cover up, it can be seen from space and we have known about it for months. I think the clue is a.) keeping them away from the med station and b.) keep them away from the gathered wild life. This makes me want to ask, is there something screwy going on with this particular oil spill in regards to how it's effecting the wildlife and those working the spill? Has any independent labs/scientists/geeks gathered up any samples of the wild life effected? Or done any tests on this oil that is washing up?
What is the worse that could be happening? Is there some ancient bacteria in this oil that is now released into our ecosystem? Is there some new toxic hell in this stuff that will present us with some new nightmare to deal with and they just want to keep us all from panicking? Or is this just about the booms and perhaps BP with all of it's money trying to keep from looking like the douchebags that they are? All of the above? None of the above? What?
The Incredible phones are really part of a conspiracy to enslave us all and take our money little nibbles at a time through some fiendish plot of impulse buying cute and interesting little apps.
Consider the Internet a frontier still, and its in its Wild West phase of development. Anonymity which we are cloaked in now, will at some phase of development be discarded. Then poor behavior will not be tolerated for there will be repercussions to ones actions. Exposure of one's genitals in public is a crime, and when anonymity is gone, it will be an enforceable law. I am not advocating these changes, but I think that eventually something is going to change the way the Internet effects us all or we it. Governments thrive on governing and given the opportunity they will.
Events like this with the blatant vulgarity on chatroulette are part of the formula for change. It will help in the transition, just as piracy will, or any other questionable activity. The main ingredient will be something very substantial, such as a major terrorist event via the Internet as a tool. Once an event of that magnitude happens, we will have "a new sheriff in town" and anonymity will be the first thing to change.
Broadband shortage. Seriously, when are people going to wake up to corporations and their games they play with the gullible public? This is a situation of giving a service with the minimum of expense for the maximum of profit. Instead of ponying up the money to update whatever it is that is lacking. They flatly refuse, then leave the people fall into some sort of accepting mindset, pointing fingers at "whomever of the users is the problem". By the public accepting this like the sheep that they are these days, they further the "minimum expense for maximum profit" maxim. If you think the politicians are going to step in and do the right thing, you are delusional. Corporate interests is all that is being served by any industrialized government these days. Politicians are quite the bargain and well worth the effort to farm.
Face it, if the average /. user spent one quarter of the time hounding his or her "representatives" (I use that term loosely and sarcastically) that they do HERE, we might influence the dimwitted clods that get elected. Its doubtful though, politicians seem to be selected for the larger quantities of bone content in their skulls these days. It stands to reason, the ignorant are easier to control.
On a practical side, look for alternatives to work around this. This is a fairly bright crowd, surely someone has an alternative. Individuals and small groups can move with lightning speed in contrast to corporations. The trick is to stay ahead of the lumbering behemoths. This is what I admire about Linux, its a monkey wrench in gears of the huge mechanical sacred cow of the status quo of capitalism. Its an evolved way of thinking that makes it so impressive and dangerous to those representing the status quo. Its what the Age of Information is about, being freed from archaic systems and mindsets with innovation from all. What annoys me is how this archaic systems impedes progress with its greed. Its not enough for it to make a living, it wants as much as it can extract from us. The problem with that is THEY ALL want to extract as much as they can from us, and as people, we are a limited resource. There is only so much we can do, this is evident as we each month ponder how to delegate our money to pay ever mounting bills and prices.
What saddens me is how enslaved into the system we are. Contrast our different lives and you can see differences in the workloads we tolerate. Most can't even fathom real freedom anymore, and thus being an unknown, it becomes frightening and something to distrust. To beat this, we have to be smarter than it and collectively work to out pace and out maneuver it. The only alternative is to destroy the entire system, to reset society back to some point where we have to rebuild and only with those intelligent and/or strong enough to survive. The last is a horrifying thought and hardly a solution, but it might be in a "big picture" way, the only option should we all become enslaved to it.
Frankly this whole issue is revolving around old and dead tech and it just needs to die off and let something fresh and new take its place. With broadband being close to everywhere in so many forms, a universal subscription service for all music would be the smart way to solve this. A monthly fee to listen to whatever you want, whenever or where ever you want. The artists are paid according to a percentage based off of how much each of their works are played. This would provide a level playing field for artists, and give the subscribers fresh music as well as an archive. Seriously, consider how outdated the concept of "storing" ones music becomes with the ability for it to be accessed from a central storage.
This would be very handy for activating an aggressive nano-bot swarm delivered to the US via Wal-Mart stores.
Kudos to Arizona for having the backbone to stand up in this foolhardy clime we live in and fight for what is right. We have been overran with illegal immigration. Our politicians have lacked the character and backbone to enforce the laws of the land. It's reached critical mass at last; we are about to explode. Globalization is a concept fed to the foolish to excuse corporate imperialism about the globe. This sick, fallacy riddled logic has found foothold in our education system where it thrives and propagates. It doesn't help that the US has accelerated backwards in the realm of education, in fact it's entire attitude towards education has become mocking. With such slack standards, its no wonder it has fostered forth the mindsets that rail against the sound logic of Arizona's new laws.
Behold now the hysterical rhetoric that will spew forth about this situation. We must wake up to the facts of our present day condition. We can't let a masochistic mindset that "we are the evil white people, we should bow our heads in guilt" cloud our reasoning. The border situation is wildly out of control, and by the time its consequences reached the high ivory towers where those who reside scorn Arizona, and rattle them from their delusions with bone jarring abruptness and clarity, it will be far too late. We must face the simple facts of the matter; we must fight even ourselves in these matters to save ourselves. We are at a crossroads, if we don't face the hard fight now, the campaign to our salvation will never be won. Too much ground has been lost, the wrong people have had ample time to gain power and traction. We see even here, on /., the fragments of a war of mindsets.
It is time to make a stand, to call fools out for what they are, and enforce the rule of law.
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The question is who is the client????
China is probably the client...lol. Hey, they own Wal-Mart, Arkansas, Bill Clinton...etc..why not these guys too?
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The fact that we soon won't be able to board an airplane without some Government bureaucrat looking at our genitals on a computer monitor tells me that the terrorists won.
They won big time. Cost effective to the damage they have done to us, it's a seriously big win. Who else won? Our own government and it's puppet masters won. Yes, they have proved they can unleash the war machine by frightening the stupid bleating population, then they can bilk us dry feeding it and the war profiteers. We have proved we will line up like dumb animals to get in our airplanes and for the most ignorant of reasons, they can subject us to whatever they wish. It's not a security act, it's a display of power upon us. Frisking grannies in Des Moines is either a thumb in our eyes just because they can or they are either so damn stupid, it's frighteningly comical. In which case if the later is true, then God seriously help us.
It stood up to China and now its trying to stand up to the DoJ.
I seriously have a problem figuring out which of these two is the lesser evil, China or the DoJ.
Those sheep are lucky and should be thankful they were anesthetized or else they might have died of heart attacks from being jacked up on meth then subjected to the terrifying experience of being sadistically tazered. We should all be grateful to those at the company for having such considerations for their test animal subjects, not wanting them to writhe around in terror and agony and possibly die. Such responsibilities in the manufacturer are comforting when these devices are in the hands of so many cops who must use them on the likes of rampaging grandmothers, or just not putting themselves at risk of exertion from using the outdated methods of physical restraint.
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As Americans we are responsible for this run-amuck government of ours. Just like the German people were ultimately responsible for letting the Nazis run unchecked until the rest of the world had to come hammer them all into the dirt, we are responsible for this out of hand government. I think the rest of the world should come to the realization for it's own good that the average American people aren't ever going to grow any backbone and do the right thing. Corporations own us heart, soul and mind, as they will everyone else they deem worthy of the effort. Democracy here is a failed experiment, it's downfall being we have the finest politicians, bureaucrats, and officials that money can buy.
My advice for the rest of the world hoping to make democracy work. Make your politicians, bureaucrats and officials work for ONLY what they are paid. Anything else, "campaign donations" "soft money", all that is a bribe, and treasonous by all parties and you brutally execute everyone involved publicly, swiftly without a slight hint of mercy or long trials.
Try to remember when all of you other countries take enough and at last come here to blow us all to hell, that not all of us are evil. We are just brainwashed and dumb and just want happy lives not bothering or hurting anyone. Ironic isn't it that the "land of the free and the home of the brave" is now land of the enslaved and home of the lemming cowards. Our founding fathers must be turning in their graves like gyroscopes.
Call me if we have a revolution, I am far too cowardly to start one myself and probably will hide under my bed anyway if we did have one. My best excuse is; It's too late to do anything about it anyway...oh well.
Buy your kid World of Warcraft, get them playing it and they will be virgins for the foreseeable future. And they will have plenty of company to act as a support group, millions of other virgins.
I seriously agree with this. WoW is a good deal for a gamer and why mess with anything else? WoW will eat up more than enough of your spare time for gaming. Also, single player games, all piracy aside, are lame. You will never get the dollar value out of them like you will WoW. Most single player games have what, a week or a month of game play to them before you are done with it? I have supported the $200 a month gaming habit and I am not going back to it.
How about the great games that got destroyed by hackers? Forget pirates, I hate game hackers. Battlezone was an AWESOME game that I enjoyed playing over the modem with a friend, but get it on the internet and people hacked it so bad it was ruined. Battlenet was like that in the beginning. I can remember trying to play Diablo on Battlenet and it was a hackfest of punks ruining the game. Interstate 76 was another one the scumbags wrecked with hacks.
At least with an MMO there is a staff at least trying to foil these punks. Single player games, they toss out a product that is bug filled and that you will as sure as God made little green apples have to patch, and if it's a TCP/IP game or mutilplayer game via the net, it's going to be hacked by some cheating douchebag. What is the point of buying it? Do people even LAN anymore? At least on a LAN game, if someone loads up a hack or cheats, they are THERE, you can pounded their head off the desk until they get some manners. But again, why deal with it? Why like a game that is going to make you insane when it's ruined?
Valve at least has some effort to curb cheaters, but frankly I wonder how good their security is? I remember when PunkBuster was the standard for Team Fortress and Counter Strike, you felt pretty solid about security from hacked punks wrecking a game.
I played WoW since the two open betas and it's pretty solid on security. Sure I have come across a few hacks, which I of course reported IMMEDIATELY, but it was nothing game breaking. Asheron's Call was pretty secure as well. There was a few quirky things that got exploited, but it wasn't game breaking obviously.
Frankly this is how I feel about it all. If a game company isn't smart enough to a. Protect themselves from getting ripped off; b. Not smart enough to protect the players and the game's integrity, then they aren't smart enough to be a game company and they need weeded out of the pack for the good of us all.
WoW right now is the 400lb gorilla of the gaming industry and it wants your lunch. This isn't a pioneer field, if you can't learn from what works and what doesn't, then again, you aren't smart enough to be in this business. You can't legislate better conditions for the stupid, nor should you even try.
I am glad we at least have Blizzard. The early days of computer gaming and it's success I am afraid has weeded out the real talent. Like what happened to the Duke Nukem people? Did success send these guys off to some tropic island where they are doing bongs by the beach with oodles of hot women? Did they all OD? Did money project them up and out of the state of geeky nerdom that propagated their mindset for their success? What do we have now? A bunch of wanna-be game makers who try to follow "some pattern of success" and can't think outside the box enough with the technology to come up with the newest boldest thing? Has it all become such an epic production that you can't just dream it up and do it without some batch of bean counting morons hampering you at every turn?
At least Blizzard survived from those humble days and didn't disintegrate like most of them have. At least they have the deep pockets needed to pull off a decent production.
At the very core of it all I think I know what the problem is. It's about the bean counters. It's about all the vultures out there wanting to cash in on the gamer dollar. Its no longer about the game, but about the dollar. The dreamers are no longer even close to being in control.
Remember the days when it was about "Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a game where
One thing seems for certain, Laboratory Rats are a miserable lot. They seem to be susceptible to cancer and just about everything else you can imagine. Why not test something really hardy instead? Why not politicians? Nothing seems to effect them, thus if you find something that does, we should eschew it for sure. After all, if it can effect a politician, it would lay waste to the normal person. We also wouldn't have the trauma of them dying to tests that we do with laboratory rats. Imagine the damage we could save to the psych of lab technicians and scientists by testing politicians instead of poor laboratory rats? The latest grief ratio of death of politician to laboratory rat is rated 5,684 to 1,(USD Grief Ratio 1998) so the numbers are there for support of such a protocol change. Another point, I feel if we tested politicians instead, could we not anticipate a more urgent response to the very issues we are testing over? After all, politicians are embedded in the heart of the political system and have much more influence politically than laboratory rats do, even though the rats are generally more liked by the public and their support comes from grass roots, literally...anyway, it's 2010, it's it time we took the rat out of the laboRATory? Hmm?
I tried to shop at local stores to keep as much of my own money out of Wal-Marts hands, but here is the problem. I will just end up buying the same junk but only at a higher marked price. In my minds eye, I was hoping to find that our local shops carried good quality, American made products, that I would be willing to pay extra for to; a) support our economy, b) have a higher quality product. This was wishful, naive thinking I found out. So much is NOT made here and what is, I am dismayed at their prices. This trade deficit will be our downfall if nothing else I am afraid. We have lost local manufactures here in the heartland, those that we never dreamed would leave. I feel as though we have been sold out by politicians to corporate interests. We seem to have the finest bureaucrats, officials and politicians that money can buy here in America. I am currently in college retraining for something else to do for a job, and the "globalism is good, nationalism is bad" message being shoveled down my throat in my Geography class is something I just ignore lest I just snap. This is a trade war that we are losing with China. I am glad Google is firing a shot over their bow...no matter what their reason. Perhaps it might inspire some of our cowardly/corrupt politicians to follow suit. Chances of that are like throwing a roll of quarters into the air and they land, break, scatter, roll around and all stop on their edges. Optimistic and liberal with my odds, no?
The military, and medical experiments, isn't this how bad movies and good video games start from?
Big brother seems to have fewer blocks from running over our rights these days. I have watched this country hand over it's basic civil rights since 9/11 in the name of patriotism, law and order and nationalism. Read some history, this is how the Nazi's rose to power, using dogma so akin to what we hear these days. Some people say the terrorists won, I disagree. Someone more sinister and evil than them won, they were just the vehicle for it, the excuse.
You do NOT take power away from a government once it has it without a great struggle. In our fear, we have with blind trust handed over our freedoms, leaving common sense behind us. This is just one dangerous step down a wide path to destruction by allowing such flimsy standards for law enforcement. Sure, the reasons they use may on the surface and the moment seem justified, but it sets a dangerous president that will erode our rights even further. Ask yourself, how far will they go to probe us to find our resistance? When will we if ever cry out for a stop to this madness? At what point will we say "enough is enough"?
History shows us how the people of Germany failed to stop the Nazis. The Nazis were few in number, one would think the German people could have rose up and crushed them. But they were fearful, law abiding and followed the dogma. They thought they were doing the right thing. A monster was loosed on the world because of their inaction. How much of a monster will we Americans unleash on the world if we fail to control our nation? If you don't think it can happen here, don't be foolish. The German people didn't think it could happen to them. They didn't all wake up and decide to be world villains, wringing their hands and laughing madly with each other over plans of world domination. How are we different than them? What strange magic protects us from evil men? Our Constitution? It is but a document, words on paper that can't stop an ant from crawling over it. It has to live in our hearts and minds and we have to be vigilant to defend what we believe in. Only then do those words have any power.
What can you do? For now you can vote. You should do it and be responsible to cast that vote to support your ideals, not the flavor of the year dogma. We should all be thankful that we can vote. When the day comes that we can't, we will wish so hard we could because the struggle back to the vote will be long and hard and most likely brutal.
Attacks on our freedoms cannot be suffered and ignored; tolerance in this case is a form of defeat.
I doubt they are cancer victims or their families. Would they quibble about the price if it was their health in question? I find it a paradox that the more humans there are, the less humanity you find.
You could then wire various sensors to the room for temp, sound levels, humidity, fire, water, etc. This also is a chance to enhance security for the room can further be isolated with locks that only a select few have keys to, or perhaps and entire security system can be installed with sophisticated locks.
Access all of this via a control room next to it that is human user friendly. Make no mistake, what could be termed as "creature comforts" are efficient for the company. Food storage and production devices saves time that the human operator wastes seeking sustenance. Many such devices will augment and enhance the performance of the human operator, i.e. a quality coffee machine serves to boost the human operators awareness and energy levels.
Human operators are subject to emotional levels that can sometimes dip low and effect performance. Hence moral enhancement should be factored into the human operator's environment. Such devices as a quality stereo have proven to augment human operator moral to higher levels.
Do not ignore the synergy between the optimal environments for both man and machine when you seek to couple them for optimal performance. To ignore such factors would indeed be illogical.