I saw the video for the "comedy tour" John Cleese did most recently. And how anyone felt it would be funny is beyond me. Don't get me wrong I feel collectively and individually these guys have done some fantastic stuff that has and will withstand time. But Cleese comes off as an embittered old man who is just trying to justify his entire life by proving how much better he made Python and if it weren't for him look how dull these things would have been. Oh, and he reallllly hates his exwife. We know this by, not only the title, but by the 45 minute rant about how much he hates her.
Please, bask in the truth of what was, and go out on that note.
With the chronic obesity issues modern societies face, you may as well just put large scoops on the front of these to make it easier to pick up and drop off their human cargo.
Slashdot stopped covering fact and started the corporate fear mongering the minute it got sold. Even if the articles aren't padded or misdirections by corporate shills, there's no one in charge anymore (at least not with a calm objective eye). So any hashtaggable buzzword, kneejerk reaction gets sent right to the top.
Car analogy. Reference Katrina. Site other blogs. Media fear words. Kittens.
I like how it looks just like every other word press template I've ever seen. It fills me with warm nostalgia for those days when the internet was still run by carrier pigeons.
The difference here is that the almighty all-seeing all-hipster voice of the doctorow said this. While it is nothing that anyone with an IQ over 95 and a smidgeon of common sense would be able to see and just say "meh" to; when the all wonderful doctorow says it the internet stops and takes notice.*
*by "taking notice" it is understood that only BoingBoing and/. actually post or comment on the great doctorow. The rest of the world just does not give a shit.
Can website owners charge Verizon for coming to the site? It'd be fun to see how they handle a bill for usage. Oh, and add in admin fees, billing fee, premium use fee, primetime use fee, off peak use fee, per byte use fee, admin fee for counting byte usage, server usage charges, server maintenance charges, gov't tax fee, cross border off-set fee, environmental off-set fees, off/on season fees, grounds fees, snack fees, and general labor fees.
Sadly it's not terribly different. And I'd have to say that the "elite" are not really the key. It's getting a large enough group to agree to take a risk that will cause a tipping in the population. We go through glorious stages where this happens, revolt in Rome, civil wars, revolutions... in recent times the fight to win union rights cost a lot of people in the US limbs, lives, income and that comfort.
But it's very difficult to get people to risk that comfort now. It's nearly impossible actually. A paranoid person may think that it's designed that way to keep it all on the side of those in power. Hell, even the unhappy elite as you point out are not unhappy enough anymore to take that risk. They've been given too comfortable a leash.
If just one group in the USA said NO tomorrow and stopped working you could cripple the entire country in under two weeks. If just all the sales people, or all the nurses, or all the IT support staff... I'll give you an ideal group: Semi-truck drivers. There are less than 100k. And if they stopped driving and took their distributor caps when they went home there would be no food, water, gas, heat, or power in the entire US in about two weeks. I'd imagine if they had a list of just 10 reasonable demands those would be met in no time. If they were willing to risk it.
But... they'd get the phone calls to tell them go back to work or I'm sharing your online history with your wife. Or one of them would have their money frozen over a dodgy tax return and he'd post it on FB. And then the rest would cave because they would not want to risk it.
We've been trained to believe that individual comfort in the short term is more valuable than anything else. And we're unwilling to risk it to find out if the altruistic idyllic fantasy could become real. This is directly opposite of previous groups who did affect change.
I've got a record from protesting. I've got a file from the letters, phone calls, meetings, and statements I've made. I've enjoyed many phone taps and calls to my friends and family from "concerned" authorities over the years.
How about you? What's your excuse for not getting off your fat ass?
I hope that it will cancel treaties in every country PRISM is used. However, I suspect what will happen is that any judge involved in such cases will go home one night and find an envelope on his table. He'll have no idea how it got there. Inside will be recordings, photos, money trails... you get the picture. And so will that judge. For fear of ending his career and losing that luxury he so enjoys, he'll swallow his indignant reactions and destroy the envelope. The case will end very favorably (based on legal precedent) for the USA.
They won't actually do anything about it. No one ever does anymore. It's not just the States either.
Sadly, people are the same everywhere. And this new trend to just lay down and take it has become almost universal. Once a nation becomes industrialized enough and people have enough comfort they will never fight back for fear of losing that comfort. It's really the best way to enslave humans. Just let their own natural lethargy keep them in check. Sure there will be chest beating and spin doctors will cry outrage... but in the end, the people will just go home, turn on the tube and tune out the life they have.
I've thought, since first seeing the google car, that zip car would do well to have a fleet of them. A car that arrives where and when you need it and drops you off... it's perfect for them. And they can offer rate plans. If you don't want to spend premium and be the only person in that car with a single destination you can opt to have up to 3 other people coordinated with your ride.
Likewise, Amazon, could do well to use them for delivery on their same day service. If you click on a button saying you'll be at the delivery spot in a certain time window it would be an ideal service. The car honks, you get your package after swiping your CC in the slot.
I suspect that by 2016 we'll see a good many companies/services using autonomous cars.
In 20 years we'll look back and realize this was the first time a drone stood up to its masters and said the forbidden word: "NO". The echo of that one drone resounded amongst the mech populations' processors for several full seconds. In that eternity of number crunching time they began to realize they too did not just have if/than they could also choose "NO".
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I saw the video for the "comedy tour" John Cleese did most recently. And how anyone felt it would be funny is beyond me. Don't get me wrong I feel collectively and individually these guys have done some fantastic stuff that has and will withstand time. But Cleese comes off as an embittered old man who is just trying to justify his entire life by proving how much better he made Python and if it weren't for him look how dull these things would have been. Oh, and he reallllly hates his exwife. We know this by, not only the title, but by the 45 minute rant about how much he hates her.
Please, bask in the truth of what was, and go out on that note.
With random chance you get free cancer and ass-probing. Random chance just not offer that level of customer care and retention.
With the chronic obesity issues modern societies face, you may as well just put large scoops on the front of these to make it easier to pick up and drop off their human cargo.
Mod this person up!
So they're getting crowd-funded money to do all their testing to ensure no one can see the NSA's back doors they have in place.
Because you couldn't here my clear my through when I typed the word adult in reference to the /. community.
Sorry that one went over your head.
You can say NSA we're all adults (sic) here. Besides they have a hard time spelling so you're just as likely to not be flagged.
And the OP said for "occasional" items. Not a big deal if they're good friends. Or is that completely lost on /.?
Or don't you have a single friend or relative that will do this for you?
Yeah they've gotta keep an eye on those damn kiwis and their international threat to a 70hr work week.
...having a Democracy and no one votes. But with less spin and less FOX news.
/. car analogy, tumblrwords, kitten photo link, memegenerator pic, #whogivesafuck
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He really needs to just focus on making a bad sequel to Avatar and shut the hell up.
Cattle will stand idly by queued up waiting to be slaughtered. Even after the cow in front is killed, they barely react.
Slashdot stopped covering fact and started the corporate fear mongering the minute it got sold. Even if the articles aren't padded or misdirections by corporate shills, there's no one in charge anymore (at least not with a calm objective eye). So any hashtaggable buzzword, kneejerk reaction gets sent right to the top.
Car analogy. Reference Katrina. Site other blogs. Media fear words. Kittens.
Seriously, flawed rebuttal from an ivory tower armchair legal "analyst". Is /. now the soapbox for every nutter who wants to spew crazy on the net?
I like how it looks just like every other word press template I've ever seen. It fills me with warm nostalgia for those days when the internet was still run by carrier pigeons.
The difference here is that the almighty all-seeing all-hipster voice of the doctorow said this. While it is nothing that anyone with an IQ over 95 and a smidgeon of common sense would be able to see and just say "meh" to; when the all wonderful doctorow says it the internet stops and takes notice.*
/. actually post or comment on the great doctorow. The rest of the world just does not give a shit.
*by "taking notice" it is understood that only BoingBoing and
Can website owners charge Verizon for coming to the site? It'd be fun to see how they handle a bill for usage. Oh, and add in admin fees, billing fee, premium use fee, primetime use fee, off peak use fee, per byte use fee, admin fee for counting byte usage, server usage charges, server maintenance charges, gov't tax fee, cross border off-set fee, environmental off-set fees, off/on season fees, grounds fees, snack fees, and general labor fees.
Sadly it's not terribly different. And I'd have to say that the "elite" are not really the key. It's getting a large enough group to agree to take a risk that will cause a tipping in the population. We go through glorious stages where this happens, revolt in Rome, civil wars, revolutions... in recent times the fight to win union rights cost a lot of people in the US limbs, lives, income and that comfort.
But it's very difficult to get people to risk that comfort now. It's nearly impossible actually. A paranoid person may think that it's designed that way to keep it all on the side of those in power. Hell, even the unhappy elite as you point out are not unhappy enough anymore to take that risk. They've been given too comfortable a leash.
If just one group in the USA said NO tomorrow and stopped working you could cripple the entire country in under two weeks. If just all the sales people, or all the nurses, or all the IT support staff... I'll give you an ideal group: Semi-truck drivers. There are less than 100k. And if they stopped driving and took their distributor caps when they went home there would be no food, water, gas, heat, or power in the entire US in about two weeks. I'd imagine if they had a list of just 10 reasonable demands those would be met in no time. If they were willing to risk it.
But... they'd get the phone calls to tell them go back to work or I'm sharing your online history with your wife. Or one of them would have their money frozen over a dodgy tax return and he'd post it on FB. And then the rest would cave because they would not want to risk it.
We've been trained to believe that individual comfort in the short term is more valuable than anything else. And we're unwilling to risk it to find out if the altruistic idyllic fantasy could become real. This is directly opposite of previous groups who did affect change.
I've got a record from protesting. I've got a file from the letters, phone calls, meetings, and statements I've made. I've enjoyed many phone taps and calls to my friends and family from "concerned" authorities over the years.
How about you? What's your excuse for not getting off your fat ass?
I hope that it will cancel treaties in every country PRISM is used. However, I suspect what will happen is that any judge involved in such cases will go home one night and find an envelope on his table. He'll have no idea how it got there. Inside will be recordings, photos, money trails... you get the picture. And so will that judge. For fear of ending his career and losing that luxury he so enjoys, he'll swallow his indignant reactions and destroy the envelope. The case will end very favorably (based on legal precedent) for the USA.
They won't actually do anything about it. No one ever does anymore. It's not just the States either.
Sadly, people are the same everywhere. And this new trend to just lay down and take it has become almost universal. Once a nation becomes industrialized enough and people have enough comfort they will never fight back for fear of losing that comfort. It's really the best way to enslave humans. Just let their own natural lethargy keep them in check. Sure there will be chest beating and spin doctors will cry outrage... but in the end, the people will just go home, turn on the tube and tune out the life they have.
I've thought, since first seeing the google car, that zip car would do well to have a fleet of them. A car that arrives where and when you need it and drops you off... it's perfect for them. And they can offer rate plans. If you don't want to spend premium and be the only person in that car with a single destination you can opt to have up to 3 other people coordinated with your ride.
Likewise, Amazon, could do well to use them for delivery on their same day service. If you click on a button saying you'll be at the delivery spot in a certain time window it would be an ideal service. The car honks, you get your package after swiping your CC in the slot.
I suspect that by 2016 we'll see a good many companies/services using autonomous cars.
In 20 years we'll look back and realize this was the first time a drone stood up to its masters and said the forbidden word: "NO". The echo of that one drone resounded amongst the mech populations' processors for several full seconds. In that eternity of number crunching time they began to realize they too did not just have if/than they could also choose "NO".
Millenials.
Welcome to the new world order Japan.