Don't forget they'll push more cartoon like characters into the mix just to liven things up.
So for episode VII I expect:
1) a Cameo from an aged Jar Jar or Miley Cyrus or any other Disney groomed actress/singer. Wait, maybe we'll see a Wookie twerking? 2) a new comical CGI generated character that will be a cross between goofy and daffy duck. 3) extensive merchandise tie-ins. 4) a script that will only appeal to people under the age of 14. 5) live acting on par with the talents of Keanu Reeves.
Having been to Newark a couple of times, I don't think $100 Mil would do much of anything except buy some big bulldozers and a wrecking crew.
As for the educational aspects our Education system has less to do about educating our kids and future leaders than it does to perpetuate what special interests want. All of these special interests and a detraction away from the mandate to educate coupled with kids in need means that our educators are put into multiple roles that they're not prepared to handle. We have administrators who are more interested in the "business of education" than educating our kids. We have teacher unions that fight any kind of curriculum reform or any accountability measure and then we have the federal government who thinks that people with children living below the poverty line is a good thing. I have had 4 kids go through the public education system and it's mind-boggling how much it's changed in my lifetime. When I was going to school my parents could come onto campus and talk to the teachers, campuses were wide open and you always felt safe. Now, schools are on lock down and most larger schools have dedicated police just to keep the outside world out. That's not an environment that you can expect anybody to do well in. So if Mr. Z gave a bribe, eventually that'll come out in some scandal or trial but I think it may have been an honest attempt to actually try and help. At least the optimist in me thinks so.
In 1933, when he turned 15, he taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra, infinite series, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus.
It seems like he had quite a propensity to go off and learn things on his own. Also at the time he was in school teachers were more focused on teaching rather than focused on political or union issues. Today teenagers at 15 are mostly consumed with worrying about their Facebook status.
What else were we supposed to do with it? We'd pretty much depleted our Saturn 1B launch systems, the last being used for the joint Apollo Soyuz mission and the shuttle wasn't going to fly for a few more years. The American public had already shown its propensity for being uninterested in the space program so congress wasn't willing to put funds towards keeping it in orbit and there were other problems with Skylab that needed to be fixed if it was going to be viable. This also happened during the Ford and Carter administrations, not the Nixon administration.
The N1 was a giant fiasco and it was doomed due to the same budgetary issues that plagued the US program. Unlike the US however if Von Braun and his team had failed, he probably wouldn't have been sent to Siberia to mine peat.
Also let's never associate members of congress with knowing anything about science or math or anything actually requiring much thought. That way we will never be disappointed when they cavalierly cut programs and focus on retarded issues that have no strategic bearing for the nation. As they say, "Bread and Circuses" right?
Well then you're saying the sheep want to be sheep. If that's the case, let the sheep be the sheep. I prefer not to get distilled spin from the same morons who bring us Kim Kardashian, Honey Boo Boo, Sean Hannity or Bill Maher.
Then there was the Constellation Program which was proposed by Dubya after the Columbia disaster and proposed to re-use technologies learned from Apollo and the Shuttle. It was actually going quite well but budget concerns crept in and it was de-funded in the 2011 Federal Budget and with that we now have the situation where the Shuttles were retired, we have no manned capability and we were expected to spend $6Billion on ferrying astronauts using Russian rockets. Of course real American heroes (Armsrtrong, Lovell, Cernan that have been to the Moon argued against killing Constellation but we now have Bolden who couldn't find his ass in broad daylight with both hands and now we are where we are with just continuing the Orion capsule development and choosing a heavy lift engine by 2015..
It wasn't NASA not preparing for a replacement after the shuttle, it's more or less the large behemoth that is NASA for not getting something in place quicker. In order to make significant investments like this for Space exploration, it takes substantial amounts of money and the political will to accomplish that if you're going after federal dollars. Unfortunately with continual trillion dollar plus deficits I fear we're going to have to get away from the NASA side of the equation and push to more private enterprise to get back to the moon or mars for that matter. Or we'll just watch the Chinese and Russians do it and say "woulda, shoulda, coulda"
So you advocate the only place of knowledge is in schools? Can't people study on their own and learn without beneficent overlords turning them into good shoppers and voters? If you lack the ambition to continue to learn, study and question the issues that affect you then you deserve to be sheep.
Of course we absolve LBJ from any of this considering he had to curtail most of NASA's activities to pay for Vietnam the Great Society. Even back in the mid 1960s Johnson's administration was looking for a way out and even contemplated doing joint missions with the Soviets. After the 1967 Outer Space treaty NASA's budget was cut, which was before old RMN was in office. Yeah, LBJ he fostered NASA for years in congress and nearly killed it in his own presidency.
For decades now we've treated the Internet like an open house with everybody welcome and everybody allowed to come in and browse. As more and more technologies/designs/secrets have been put into computer systems they've been linked via Intranets within organizations and more importantly, and stupidly, on the Internet in the name of saving time or they've just been exposed because the people who are supposed to protect that information are incompetent idiots. That's the root cause here, not protecting the information that's held in those systems. China and other governments have employed script kiddies and any other tactics like purchased vulnerabilities to dig in, but again it's up to the holders of that data to protect it and to know what kind of enemies they're up against. Industrial espionage is nothing new, it's been around for centuries so why are we all shocked that this is allowed to happen? The secrets of the A-Bomb were leaked out of Los Alamos by sympathetic spies and some were executed for it. The B-29 bomber, a program that cost more than the A-Bomb to develop, was completely reverse engineered from one aircraft that made an emergency landing in the Soviet Union. It was copied right down to the same overheating engine problem that destroyed many of the aircraft. Chinese spies have recently been sent to prison for espionage so why is this suddenly news?
While I'm glad that the US Govt. is trying to do something about all of this it's a bit late and ultimately it's up to all the industries that have technology worth stealing to start taking steps to protect their IP and their confidential information. This also means protecting yourself from the US government because as we all know the NSA is also passively watching everything you do. My suggesting is that there should be sufficient air gaps between your R&D/Competitive information and Intranets/Internet for starters and also start employing a risk mitigation strategy in your data handling practices because chances are your sensitive information is probably already public knowledge somewhere.
Why is this guy still called a General, he's a fucking politician already, a political appointee and from his spintalk he's learning the DC shuffle pretty well. A real general would lead his troops into battle and kill the fucking enemy, not continually spy on the citizens or trample on the constitution he's sworn to protect. You have soliders to fight wars, not play political games and trying to color everything with spintalk.
The Lavabit case kind of makes cooperating with the government a no-brainer from a business perspective. If you try and defend the privacy of your users you'll just have a judge basically say "fuck you, I'm the law" and you either capitulate or get slapped with contempt of court which means your ass is in jail until you decide to do what the judge says. Either you cooperate or your out of business and in jail which is sad really because even though the FBI was pursuing Snowden and wound up on Lavabit's doorstep which then eliminated the whole service for everybody via judicial action. Not saying that Snowden peed in the pool but the American Justice System was the culprit here and they're they ones that peed all over our Privacy rights in this case. The only way this will be solved is if there's a constitutional amendment reaffirming the 4th and 5th amendments along with your right to Privacy. I don't expect to see that in my lifetime because we have too many big players who want to intrude on your privacy. From Google to Facebook to License Plate Scanning companies, they are making money off of your actions and they'll be the first whiney bitches in front of congress any time there's any kind of legislation pending that could disturb their revenue stream. Wake up America, time to take your country back! Wait, nobody? Meh. Fuck it then.
I did read it and I do get my news from multiple sources. Unfortunately since I gave away a lot of money in Federal Taxes last year, not including Self Employment Tax and spent a lot on local taxes and sales taxes and licenses and franchise taxes in multiple states I'm a bit, call it what it is, jaded. That means I have absolutely no fucking sympathy for any plans where people claim that more money is needed from our pockets. Fuck that, they need to make adjustments like we all do. They need to make prudent decisions on where they're spending or defer things if they can't afford it. If they've done all that and exhausted all options then come and talk to me. Are they doing any of that? No, they're not doing that, they're just taxing and spending as usual because the sheep still vote the same way so they must be okay with the deficit spending and gridlock.
Does the system need to be "fair?" Yes. So when Warren Buffet or this Fucking Oil guy pay the same percentages I do, then they can complain, but they don't because they've gamed the system and the tax codes in their favor. That's at the heart of this whole discussion, right? A guy says he's paying too little and it should be raised, so why doesn't he voluntarily give Oklahoma money? Yeah right I don't see any Billionaire saying "hey, I have too much money, I'll give some to the government." When you see that the next thing you'd see is spouses and lawyers all arguing for conservatorship over the money in court. "He's crazy your honor, he wants to give money to the federal government! He's crazy!"
Unfortunately that means it's a disproportionate burden to the folks in the middle because we don't have the influence and unfortunately my co-voters out here are all starry eyed on whatever candidate or issue is en-vogue. Oh and that retarded "If you make X dollars your taxes won't go up" bullshit flies about as much as "If you like your doctor you can keep him/her." It's all fucking lies meant to buy votes because the nice retard in the White House sez so so it must be true, hallelujah! unless you're in the 1% we're all paying more.
Government won't solve the spending problem because there's no incentive for them to solve it and as long as we're willing to put up with them reaching into our pockets, they'll keep doing it. That's the nature of things and It's all driven by bought votes and special interest money, with a mentality that the next generation(s) will pay for it. Spend now! Pay later! That's unsustainable and we're the only country in the world it seems that spends money like that and feeding any more money into this beast is a lose-lose situation for everybody. It's time for taxpayers in this country to start calling bullshit on it. But that requires votes and most of the voters out there will just vote along the party line drinking in the air of uninformed ignorance because their party listens to them and knows what's best.
Don't believe me? There was a plan put together called Simpson-Bowles that at least started addressing the deficit problem. It received a lot of attention and lip service but look to what happened with that to realize that more taxes are not the answer.
No, I don't come here to rant but it's liberal retards with a Robin Hood complex that cause me to re-think my stance on gun control!
Mesh has it's pros and cons, it can be more secure but the tradeoff is that you suffer a performance penalty the more hops that are incurred. This doesn't give you some of the layer three switching optimizations that are available now in most backbone networks. I'm not saying it couldn't be accomplished but it's not there now. Secondly it doesn't have to be wireless, it could be but it doesn't have to be. I think there's also some great opportunity with the emerging MIMO over Multimode Fiber (MMF) work that's going on which helps solve the traversal of traffic going to a few places. It's in the research stages but probably in the next 5 to 10 years we could probably see an order of magnitude or more in performance over existing links if the research is successful. Of course we'll have to probably wait another 5 years for all the players to come up with standards etc. to properly dominate, er commercialize the tech.
When RFC 791 was introduced, IP was given the ability to enable loose or strict Source Routing. It's just that over the years there's been very few Internet based uses that I can think of where Source Routing is applied in a practical sense and a lot Channel based ISPs (and Network Admins) don't respect it. In fact, I doubt a lot of people realize it's even in there but it gives peers the ability to choose the best route either for security or for performance. It's really up to the peers to decide and for the interceding hops to allow and respect the Source Routing information. The VLAN concept pretty much obviates Source Routing as well since you have a virtual network infrastructure presented may not show any hops at all for example.
While $100 million sounds like a lot of money it isn't and while a lot of these posts are doing a Nelson on Zuck "Ha! Ha!" I'd say that at least he put up some money to try and make a difference. Are we that jaded nowadays that when somebody makes an honest effort that we mock the effort? I mean sure it was naive given the circumstances but at least he tried. How many other billionaires out there are willing to pony up their checkbooks and contribute? We should at least applaud the effort and work towards fixing the system so that the next time somebody ponies up some much needed funds, it goes to the kids and not to a bunch of consultants and union reps looking to milk the situation.
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Don't forget they'll push more cartoon like characters into the mix just to liven things up.
So for episode VII I expect:
1) a Cameo from an aged Jar Jar or Miley Cyrus or any other Disney groomed actress/singer. Wait, maybe we'll see a Wookie twerking?
2) a new comical CGI generated character that will be a cross between goofy and daffy duck.
3) extensive merchandise tie-ins.
4) a script that will only appeal to people under the age of 14.
5) live acting on par with the talents of Keanu Reeves.
Having been to Newark a couple of times, I don't think $100 Mil would do much of anything except buy some big bulldozers and a wrecking crew.
As for the educational aspects our Education system has less to do about educating our kids and future leaders than it does to perpetuate what special interests want. All of these special interests and a detraction away from the mandate to educate coupled with kids in need means that our educators are put into multiple roles that they're not prepared to handle. We have administrators who are more interested in the "business of education" than educating our kids. We have teacher unions that fight any kind of curriculum reform or any accountability measure and then we have the federal government who thinks that people with children living below the poverty line is a good thing. I have had 4 kids go through the public education system and it's mind-boggling how much it's changed in my lifetime. When I was going to school my parents could come onto campus and talk to the teachers, campuses were wide open and you always felt safe. Now, schools are on lock down and most larger schools have dedicated police just to keep the outside world out. That's not an environment that you can expect anybody to do well in. So if Mr. Z gave a bribe, eventually that'll come out in some scandal or trial but I think it may have been an honest attempt to actually try and help. At least the optimist in me thinks so.
From... here.
In 1933, when he turned 15, he taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra, infinite series, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus.
It seems like he had quite a propensity to go off and learn things on his own. Also at the time he was in school teachers were more focused on teaching rather than focused on political or union issues. Today teenagers at 15 are mostly consumed with worrying about their Facebook status.
What else were we supposed to do with it? We'd pretty much depleted our Saturn 1B launch systems, the last being used for the joint Apollo Soyuz mission and the shuttle wasn't going to fly for a few more years. The American public had already shown its propensity for being uninterested in the space program so congress wasn't willing to put funds towards keeping it in orbit and there were other problems with Skylab that needed to be fixed if it was going to be viable. This also happened during the Ford and Carter administrations, not the Nixon administration.
The N1 was a giant fiasco and it was doomed due to the same budgetary issues that plagued the US program. Unlike the US however if Von Braun and his team had failed, he probably wouldn't have been sent to Siberia to mine peat.
Also let's never associate members of congress with knowing anything about science or math or anything actually requiring much thought. That way we will never be disappointed when they cavalierly cut programs and focus on retarded issues that have no strategic bearing for the nation. As they say, "Bread and Circuses" right?
Well then you're saying the sheep want to be sheep. If that's the case, let the sheep be the sheep. I prefer not to get distilled spin from the same morons who bring us Kim Kardashian, Honey Boo Boo, Sean Hannity or Bill Maher.
horseshit. There was the X-33 which died because of costs and projected technical issues.
Then there was the Constellation Program which was proposed by Dubya after the Columbia disaster and proposed to re-use technologies learned from Apollo and the Shuttle. It was actually going quite well but budget concerns crept in and it was de-funded in the 2011 Federal Budget and with that we now have the situation where the Shuttles were retired, we have no manned capability and we were expected to spend $6Billion on ferrying astronauts using Russian rockets. Of course real American heroes (Armsrtrong, Lovell, Cernan that have been to the Moon argued against killing Constellation but we now have Bolden who couldn't find his ass in broad daylight with both hands and now we are where we are with just continuing the Orion capsule development and choosing a heavy lift engine by 2015..
It wasn't NASA not preparing for a replacement after the shuttle, it's more or less the large behemoth that is NASA for not getting something in place quicker.
In order to make significant investments like this for Space exploration, it takes substantial amounts of money and the political will to accomplish that if you're going after federal dollars. Unfortunately with continual trillion dollar plus deficits I fear we're going to have to get away from the NASA side of the equation and push to more private enterprise to get back to the moon or mars for that matter. Or we'll just watch the Chinese and Russians do it and say "woulda, shoulda, coulda"
When the Amtrak funding runs out?
So you advocate the only place of knowledge is in schools? Can't people study on their own and learn without beneficent overlords turning them into good shoppers and voters? If you lack the ambition to continue to learn, study and question the issues that affect you then you deserve to be sheep.
So Frank Zappa is to blame? "Oh My God!" does it make you "Barf Out!?"
You should have bought a Yamaha
Of course we absolve LBJ from any of this considering he had to curtail most of NASA's activities to pay for Vietnam the Great Society. Even back in the mid 1960s Johnson's administration was looking for a way out and even contemplated doing joint missions with the Soviets. After the 1967 Outer Space treaty NASA's budget was cut, which was before old RMN was in office. Yeah, LBJ he fostered NASA for years in congress and nearly killed it in his own presidency.
For decades now we've treated the Internet like an open house with everybody welcome and everybody allowed to come in and browse. As more and more technologies/designs/secrets have been put into computer systems they've been linked via Intranets within organizations and more importantly, and stupidly, on the Internet in the name of saving time or they've just been exposed because the people who are supposed to protect that information are incompetent idiots. That's the root cause here, not protecting the information that's held in those systems. China and other governments have employed script kiddies and any other tactics like purchased vulnerabilities to dig in, but again it's up to the holders of that data to protect it and to know what kind of enemies they're up against. Industrial espionage is nothing new, it's been around for centuries so why are we all shocked that this is allowed to happen? The secrets of the A-Bomb were leaked out of Los Alamos by sympathetic spies and some were executed for it. The B-29 bomber, a program that cost more than the A-Bomb to develop, was completely reverse engineered from one aircraft that made an emergency landing in the Soviet Union. It was copied right down to the same overheating engine problem that destroyed many of the aircraft. Chinese spies have recently been sent to prison for espionage so why is this suddenly news?
While I'm glad that the US Govt. is trying to do something about all of this it's a bit late and ultimately it's up to all the industries that have technology worth stealing to start taking steps to protect their IP and their confidential information. This also means protecting yourself from the US government because as we all know the NSA is also passively watching everything you do. My suggesting is that there should be sufficient air gaps between your R&D/Competitive information and Intranets/Internet for starters and also start employing a risk mitigation strategy in your data handling practices because chances are your sensitive information is probably already public knowledge somewhere.
Big Fucking Rottweiler or a Big Fucking Doberman. They work cheap and love chewing up the occasional squirrel that happens to come into the yard.
Why is this guy still called a General, he's a fucking politician already, a political appointee and from his spintalk he's learning the DC shuffle pretty well. A real general would lead his troops into battle and kill the fucking enemy, not continually spy on the citizens or trample on the constitution he's sworn to protect. You have soliders to fight wars, not play political games and trying to color everything with spintalk.
The Lavabit case kind of makes cooperating with the government a no-brainer from a business perspective. If you try and defend the privacy of your users you'll just have a judge basically say "fuck you, I'm the law" and you either capitulate or get slapped with contempt of court which means your ass is in jail until you decide to do what the judge says. Either you cooperate or your out of business and in jail which is sad really because even though the FBI was pursuing Snowden and wound up on Lavabit's doorstep which then eliminated the whole service for everybody via judicial action. Not saying that Snowden peed in the pool but the American Justice System was the culprit here and they're they ones that peed all over our Privacy rights in this case. The only way this will be solved is if there's a constitutional amendment reaffirming the 4th and 5th amendments along with your right to Privacy. I don't expect to see that in my lifetime because we have too many big players who want to intrude on your privacy. From Google to Facebook to License Plate Scanning companies, they are making money off of your actions and they'll be the first whiney bitches in front of congress any time there's any kind of legislation pending that could disturb their revenue stream. Wake up America, time to take your country back! Wait, nobody? Meh. Fuck it then.
Who knows, it was Leahy's call.
Just watch an episode of Hardcore Pawn and you'll know all you need to know about Detroit!
I could see the old Packard Plant being used as a maker space. Wait, I was just there a year ago, bulldoze the whole city and start over.
Is it me or is Adobe really taking a dump in terms of product and reliability?
I did read it and I do get my news from multiple sources. Unfortunately since I gave away a lot of money in Federal Taxes last year, not including Self Employment Tax and spent a lot on local taxes and sales taxes and licenses and franchise taxes in multiple states I'm a bit, call it what it is, jaded. That means I have absolutely no fucking sympathy for any plans where people claim that more money is needed from our pockets. Fuck that, they need to make adjustments like we all do. They need to make prudent decisions on where they're spending or defer things if they can't afford it. If they've done all that and exhausted all options then come and talk to me. Are they doing any of that? No, they're not doing that, they're just taxing and spending as usual because the sheep still vote the same way so they must be okay with the deficit spending and gridlock.
Does the system need to be "fair?" Yes. So when Warren Buffet or this Fucking Oil guy pay the same percentages I do, then they can complain, but they don't because they've gamed the system and the tax codes in their favor. That's at the heart of this whole discussion, right? A guy says he's paying too little and it should be raised, so why doesn't he voluntarily give Oklahoma money? Yeah right I don't see any Billionaire saying "hey, I have too much money, I'll give some to the government." When you see that the next thing you'd see is spouses and lawyers all arguing for conservatorship over the money in court. "He's crazy your honor, he wants to give money to the federal government! He's crazy!"
Unfortunately that means it's a disproportionate burden to the folks in the middle because we don't have the influence and unfortunately my co-voters out here are all starry eyed on whatever candidate or issue is en-vogue. Oh and that retarded "If you make X dollars your taxes won't go up" bullshit flies about as much as "If you like your doctor you can keep him/her." It's all fucking lies meant to buy votes because the nice retard in the White House sez so so it must be true, hallelujah! unless you're in the 1% we're all paying more.
Government won't solve the spending problem because there's no incentive for them to solve it and as long as we're willing to put up with them reaching into our pockets, they'll keep doing it. That's the nature of things and It's all driven by bought votes and special interest money, with a mentality that the next generation(s) will pay for it. Spend now! Pay later! That's unsustainable and we're the only country in the world it seems that spends money like that and feeding any more money into this beast is a lose-lose situation for everybody. It's time for taxpayers in this country to start calling bullshit on it. But that requires votes and most of the voters out there will just vote along the party line drinking in the air of uninformed ignorance because their party listens to them and knows what's best.
Don't believe me? There was a plan put together called Simpson-Bowles that at least started addressing the deficit problem. It received a lot of attention and lip service but look to what happened with that to realize that more taxes are not the answer.
No, I don't come here to rant but it's liberal retards with a Robin Hood complex that cause me to re-think my stance on gun control!
Mesh has it's pros and cons, it can be more secure but the tradeoff is that you suffer a performance penalty the more hops that are incurred. This doesn't give you some of the layer three switching optimizations that are available now in most backbone networks. I'm not saying it couldn't be accomplished but it's not there now. Secondly it doesn't have to be wireless, it could be but it doesn't have to be. I think there's also some great opportunity with the emerging MIMO over Multimode Fiber (MMF) work that's going on which helps solve the traversal of traffic going to a few places. It's in the research stages but probably in the next 5 to 10 years we could probably see an order of magnitude or more in performance over existing links if the research is successful. Of course we'll have to probably wait another 5 years for all the players to come up with standards etc. to properly dominate, er commercialize the tech.
When RFC 791 was introduced, IP was given the ability to enable loose or strict Source Routing. It's just that over the years there's been very few Internet based uses that I can think of where Source Routing is applied in a practical sense and a lot Channel based ISPs (and Network Admins) don't respect it. In fact, I doubt a lot of people realize it's even in there but it gives peers the ability to choose the best route either for security or for performance. It's really up to the peers to decide and for the interceding hops to allow and respect the Source Routing information. The VLAN concept pretty much obviates Source Routing as well since you have a virtual network infrastructure presented may not show any hops at all for example.
Ted Stevens is still dead.
CQCQCQDX..
While $100 million sounds like a lot of money it isn't and while a lot of these posts are doing a Nelson on Zuck "Ha! Ha!" I'd say that at least he put up some money to try and make a difference. Are we that jaded nowadays that when somebody makes an honest effort that we mock the effort? I mean sure it was naive given the circumstances but at least he tried. How many other billionaires out there are willing to pony up their checkbooks and contribute? We should at least applaud the effort and work towards fixing the system so that the next time somebody ponies up some much needed funds, it goes to the kids and not to a bunch of consultants and union reps looking to milk the situation.