Its shut down, just not closed, you can thank the warmongering congress for that
What's that supposed to mean? That he signed an executive order saying that it was "shut down" while signing into law the 2012 Fiscal Year NDAA which in it basically forbids the transfer of "inmates" in Guantanamo Bay to other countries essentially keeping it open indefinitely (among other provisions)?
you mean enemies of the state involved with terrorists in foreign lands propagating war acts? you know what treason means right?
You know what due process means, right? Its one thing if these American citizens were killed while actively shooting at US troops. It would be perfectly justified if they were in a firefight allied with some terrorist group shooting at US troops and in that firefight they got killed. But that wasn't what happened. Instead Obama and his administration unilaterally decided that an American citizen would die by drone. There was no effort to put him on trial for treason, instead Obama and his buddies acted as judge, jury and executioner.
we have more military in berlin
Which I also disagree with, but more on topic we aren't fighting in Berlin, we aren't propping up "rebels" for US interests in Berlin and chances are due to our presence in Berlin we won't fight another war 10, 20 years later like we have in.... well, just about every country we've meddled in their affairs. We try to stop the Soviets in Afghanistan and end up propping up Muslim extremists there, etc.
oh here we go, someones tent was bombed while acting like an ass and waving around a rocket launcher
That's what you might think, but the fact is we'll never know for sure since our ever so transparent President doesn't release official statistics.
he wont even be a footnote in tomorrows paper, I havent even heard of the fuck and its the night before.
Perhaps he won't be in the paper, but Johnson is polling at a large enough percentage to "cost" the Republicans and Democrats the White House based on recent numbers.
This should be interesting not because of their relevance to the elections tomorrow because as much as I'd rather have Johnson, Stein, Goode or Anderson as our next president rather than 4 more years of Obamney, I think there is a general discord among people of both the Republican and Democratic parties about their candidates the last couple of years. McCain and Romney haven't really pushed for smaller government or for auditing the Fed, Obama hasn't closed Gitmo nor has he been a very peaceful, anti-war president after murdering a couple of American citizens as judge, jury and executioner via drones, involved the US in yet another war (Libya) and won't even release real statistics of how many innocent Pakistanis our Peace Prize winning president has killed (instead, if they are military-aged males they must be "enemy combatants").
Because of this, I think Stein and Johnson will help to shape the Democratic and Republican party platforms if they manage to get enough votes. If Johnson ends up getting 5% of the national vote (unlikely but he's at 5.2% in national polling...) it could radically change the American political landscape.
Nothing is ever "sustainable". Oil isn't "sustainable", coal isn't "sustainable", solar panels aren't "sustainable", wind isn't "sustainable", nuclear isn't "sustainable". But what everyone who is focused on sustainability ignores is that technology changes and habits change. If we ever do start running out of a resource there is much more motivation to create real solutions to get around it. We aren't going to wake up one morning, check on Facebook and see that the world's oil supply is gone and there's no more gas to put in our cars. That won't happen. Instead, if oil starts to get truly scarce (which it isn't currently and won't be for another couple hundred years) we'll move on to a different energy source. 300 years ago we could say that today we'd run out of grazing ground for horses in 2012 if things kept going the way they were going. But things change. Don't underestimate humans, if there is really a problem, it will get fixed.
Ethanol is bad for engines. While chances are it isn't going to destroy your modern car's engine, good luck getting your chainsaw, mower, etc. or if you store fuel long-term (backup generators, etc.)
There is no reason why the US can't have a long-term service-based economy. Consider for example Switzerland, a country that aside from agriculture and high-end watches, doesn't really produce a whole heck of a lot. But they have (historically, sadly not as much anymore) excellent banking and financial services which has kept the country very prosperous and well within the top 10 countries in term of per-capita wealth.
The problem is, just like Rome the US has a corrupt political system. The number of people receiving government benefits (Social Security, Medicare, Welfare, or have a government job) vastly overwhelms those who do not and in a democracy those people who do get government benefits will always vote for more of those benefits.
Just like Rome the US is debasing its currency to nothingness and just like Rome the US is having productive people leave the US in droves to countries that on the surface might seem "less free" but in reality offer far more freedom than the US has. To quote Salvian the Presbyter, "Thus, far and wide, they migrate either to the Goths or to the Bagaudae, or to other barbarians everywhere in power; yet they do not repent of having migrated. They prefer to live as freemen under an outward form of captivity, than as captives under the appearance of liberty. Therefore, the name of Roman citizens, at one time not only greatly valued, but dearly bought, is now repudiated and fled from, and it is almost considered not only base, but even deserving of abhorrence."
Of course, Rome didn't collapse in a day and neither will the US. But the time is coming.
Except for the fact that it encourages people to use company time to get nothing done. What does this accomplish? Do I really want to spend 15 minutes out of my day to say:
Worked on testing X program
Fixed X Bug
Discovered X bug
Worked on patching X bug
Wrote e-mail about patching X bug
The life of most IT workers is fairly boring and honestly, who wants to read about it? Business communication is stressful enough for a good chunk of workers I hardly consider having to write more business communication an incentive. In fact, I know that me and a good chunk of my immediate co-workers we hate the "business" atmosphere, we'd much rather just get stuff done, produce good, reliable code that works rather than worrying about a "business atmosphere".
The root problem with politics is that government, at its very core, is based on actions, based on aggression that when committed by anyone else other than "the government" would be rightfully condemned by everyone. If someone outside of government would implement taxation people would rightfully view it as theft. If someone outside of government introduced conscription people would rightfully view it as slavery. Those who have understood this naturally view politics as repulsive, just as we view working for the mafia as repulsive.
Just look at how public entities are formed. By theft. If I don't want to support X Corp, I don't buy X Corp's products. They get none of my revenue. If I oppose, say, a government's war, I must fund it or get tossed in jail.
A corporation's goal is to make money. In a free market they can only get money by making products or producing services that people want. A government's goal is control. Since the end of the gold standard, the government doesn't even have to make money, it can just print it and devalue the money of everyone else.
The ideal society is not run by the mafia, but, the government IS very similar to the mafia, the only difference is that the mafia is looked at (rightfully!) as an evil gang whereas the state is looked at as having redeeming qualities.
That's a pretty rapid pace, eclipsing Android Jelly Bean's 2-month adoption levels of 1.2% easily
Of course Jelly Bean's adoption level is very low because what, 3-4 devices support Jelly Bean officially? And those 3-4 devices are a small percentage of all Android devices. Heck, even the "flagship" Android phone the Galaxy S III won't be getting Jelly Bean until the end of September or later. While all iOS devices are Apple phones/tablets/media players and the iOS 6 update is available for all of them made within the past couple of years.
Copyright is a stupid idea. It tries to create scarcity out of non-scarce things. Attempting to apply property law to things that are not scarce will always create more problems than it solves.
There should be laws against fraud. For example, you can't claim that you wrote a book that someone else wrote, but the book itself should be able to be read, published, and redistributed by anyone.
Just get a good case (Otterbox anyone?) and save the money on insurance. Phone insurance is a good thing if, say, you are a college student, but otherwise I just don't see the point.
Looking at Nokia's official stat-sheet, I don't see any mention of a Micro-SD card, although it does have the memory at a much more usable 32 GB of internal storage.
Not having a micro-SD slot on a phone is quite stupid these days. Heck, my last 3 "dumbphones" have had SD card slots (though I think one was mini-SD) and all of my smartphones have had one. On my current phone (Samsung Captivate Glide) I've got a 32 GB one in so I can take my reasonably sized music library (~25 GB) with me without having to lug around yet another device. 8 GB is pathetic for a smartphone, sure, you might be able to get all of your applications on there, but not much else. To put this in perspective, 8 GB is the same amount of memory the lowest-end version of the iPod touch which came out back in 2007.
Here's the great thing about (unregulated) capitalism. It forces businesses to create products and services for people to use or else they lose money or eventually go bankrupt.
The problem with the 2 things you mentioned is that we have regulation, we have a distorted market based on coercion (by the government) rather than freedom. In the case of telecoms, the government gave lots of money to "modernize" America or "modernize" a town meaning that the large telecoms got ahead without concern to their customers. In the case of pharmaceuticals the free market is distorted by both patents and the FDA.
Your line of thinking ignores the key point of the previous poster which was freedom. A more accurate view would be to look at food. If you don't like McDonalds, you don't have to go, you don't have to support them. If you want a burger you can go to the local grocery store (of which there are several) and buy the hamburger yourself and grill it yourself. Or, you can go to Burger King, Wendy's or a multitude of fast food restaurants. If you don't want a fast food burger go to a multitude of sit-down restaurants, diners etc. and get a burger.
What is the difference between the market for burgers and the market for pharmaceuticals and internet? The key difference is freedom. While there might be some patents involved in cooking a burger, most things are simply trade secrets and every restaurant is allowed to try to copy and improve their competitor's recipes. There is comparatively little bureaucracy involved in food service, sure, there are health departments and the FDA to make sure that the food service is sanitary and that the food won't kill you unlike the regulations involved in pharmaceuticals which take potential cures from dying patients because they might not be "effective".
A normal person -would- use the same vendor for everything because in general it "just works". The cable box/DVR "just works" for them, if it breaks they just call Comcast/Dish/DirectTV and get another one. Its the geek option to go for MythTV and the like. And honestly, even the Google option is going to give you much more freedom than the average person has now with an HDTV, Cable Box, DVR and blu-Ray player.
Perhaps because its not all that bad? Assuming there would be no possible way for the government to use this information (which is really the main threat) how is being able to have more relevant ads directed at you a bad thing? Especially if it means cheaper hardware?
Consider cable TV for instance, despite the fact you are paying your cable provider who is then paying the networks for content, you still have ads with few exceptions. Even the networks that don't run ads still have annoying interruptions (this is especially true in radio also).
When it comes down to it though, as long as the content is being displayed on your device and runs through your local network, you have the ability to control it and you always will.
I think the problem is how do you come up with attractive designs that don't borrow from the physical world. The thing about obsolete things is that they stay as that item in the mind and are often distinctive. Even when they don't stay as that item they still can be used as a concrete representation of an abstract concept, take for instance the floppy disk. Even if you don't know what a floppy disk is, you do know its the symbol for "Save" and I think that would be hard to replace.
Sure, we could have spartan UIs with no decoration and they'd still be functional, but they'd lack the attractiveness and little touches like Apple's "stitching" on iCal, things that make Apple products what they are. The digital world is filled with abstract concepts that need an easy reference for people to use. Text takes up too much space if its supposed to be readable so a picture is about the only option and it needs to be distinctive and not easily confused with something else.
I think the point is cheap rather than "green" (and really, cheap matters a heck of a lot more than "green").
With gas at 3.50 per gallon and 20 MPG (about 32 KM/G) you end up with a cost of about 10 cents per kilometer. If you can make a reliable car that will go a kilometer on a penny that is a significant savings. Especially if the car itself is cheap like most Indian cars.
Exactly. The sort of nice thing about this is, its public. You can see, you KNOW if your account is breached, its really done in a non-malicious way. I'd much rather have my personal information leaked in a big leak like this than have some guy accessing my account and I have no knowledge about it.
How about lets make cars that can't go faster than XX miles per hour? How about we put a chip in the car that automatically finds where the car is via GPS and will throttle the engine so it can't break the speed limit?
Just because something is technically possible doesn't mean its worth the damage to freedom.
I don't think this is a problem for the Chinese dissidents. Heck, just look at the number of Chinese who come to the west to study abroad and still go back to China willingly. The Chinese dissidents who want to read uncensored news easily have the ability to. From what I've observed life in "communist" China seems to be like how life was in the later part of "communist" Russia, that the government pretends to control them and they pretend to be controlled.
The thing is, China is a whole lot more collectivist than the US where even if they had the ability to do something, they wouldn't because they've been told lies all their life about how you've got to give up freedoms to have prosperity for others...
The value of this is not the data, it is the cart itself. Just because everyone knows what the Mona Lisa looks like and you can buy a nice replica for $5 at a decoration store and a nice hand painted copy for $50 doesn't mean the original painting is only worth $50 or $100.
That doesn't mean that its any less entertaining, but its a staged show bringing in far more interesting things than what the average pawn shop owner would ever see in their lifetime.
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Its shut down, just not closed, you can thank the warmongering congress for that
What's that supposed to mean? That he signed an executive order saying that it was "shut down" while signing into law the 2012 Fiscal Year NDAA which in it basically forbids the transfer of "inmates" in Guantanamo Bay to other countries essentially keeping it open indefinitely (among other provisions)?
you mean enemies of the state involved with terrorists in foreign lands propagating war acts? you know what treason means right?
You know what due process means, right? Its one thing if these American citizens were killed while actively shooting at US troops. It would be perfectly justified if they were in a firefight allied with some terrorist group shooting at US troops and in that firefight they got killed. But that wasn't what happened. Instead Obama and his administration unilaterally decided that an American citizen would die by drone. There was no effort to put him on trial for treason, instead Obama and his buddies acted as judge, jury and executioner.
we have more military in berlin
Which I also disagree with, but more on topic we aren't fighting in Berlin, we aren't propping up "rebels" for US interests in Berlin and chances are due to our presence in Berlin we won't fight another war 10, 20 years later like we have in.... well, just about every country we've meddled in their affairs. We try to stop the Soviets in Afghanistan and end up propping up Muslim extremists there, etc.
oh here we go, someones tent was bombed while acting like an ass and waving around a rocket launcher
That's what you might think, but the fact is we'll never know for sure since our ever so transparent President doesn't release official statistics.
he wont even be a footnote in tomorrows paper, I havent even heard of the fuck and its the night before.
Perhaps he won't be in the paper, but Johnson is polling at a large enough percentage to "cost" the Republicans and Democrats the White House based on recent numbers.
This should be interesting not because of their relevance to the elections tomorrow because as much as I'd rather have Johnson, Stein, Goode or Anderson as our next president rather than 4 more years of Obamney, I think there is a general discord among people of both the Republican and Democratic parties about their candidates the last couple of years. McCain and Romney haven't really pushed for smaller government or for auditing the Fed, Obama hasn't closed Gitmo nor has he been a very peaceful, anti-war president after murdering a couple of American citizens as judge, jury and executioner via drones, involved the US in yet another war (Libya) and won't even release real statistics of how many innocent Pakistanis our Peace Prize winning president has killed (instead, if they are military-aged males they must be "enemy combatants").
Because of this, I think Stein and Johnson will help to shape the Democratic and Republican party platforms if they manage to get enough votes. If Johnson ends up getting 5% of the national vote (unlikely but he's at 5.2% in national polling...) it could radically change the American political landscape.
Nothing is ever "sustainable". Oil isn't "sustainable", coal isn't "sustainable", solar panels aren't "sustainable", wind isn't "sustainable", nuclear isn't "sustainable". But what everyone who is focused on sustainability ignores is that technology changes and habits change. If we ever do start running out of a resource there is much more motivation to create real solutions to get around it. We aren't going to wake up one morning, check on Facebook and see that the world's oil supply is gone and there's no more gas to put in our cars. That won't happen. Instead, if oil starts to get truly scarce (which it isn't currently and won't be for another couple hundred years) we'll move on to a different energy source. 300 years ago we could say that today we'd run out of grazing ground for horses in 2012 if things kept going the way they were going. But things change. Don't underestimate humans, if there is really a problem, it will get fixed.
Ethanol is bad for engines. While chances are it isn't going to destroy your modern car's engine, good luck getting your chainsaw, mower, etc. or if you store fuel long-term (backup generators, etc.)
There is no reason why the US can't have a long-term service-based economy. Consider for example Switzerland, a country that aside from agriculture and high-end watches, doesn't really produce a whole heck of a lot. But they have (historically, sadly not as much anymore) excellent banking and financial services which has kept the country very prosperous and well within the top 10 countries in term of per-capita wealth.
The problem is, just like Rome the US has a corrupt political system. The number of people receiving government benefits (Social Security, Medicare, Welfare, or have a government job) vastly overwhelms those who do not and in a democracy those people who do get government benefits will always vote for more of those benefits.
Just like Rome the US is debasing its currency to nothingness and just like Rome the US is having productive people leave the US in droves to countries that on the surface might seem "less free" but in reality offer far more freedom than the US has. To quote Salvian the Presbyter, "Thus, far and wide, they migrate either to the Goths or to the Bagaudae, or to other barbarians everywhere in power; yet they do not repent of having migrated. They prefer to live as freemen under an outward form of captivity, than as captives under the appearance of liberty. Therefore, the name of Roman citizens, at one time not only greatly valued, but dearly bought, is now repudiated and fled from, and it is almost considered not only base, but even deserving of abhorrence."
Of course, Rome didn't collapse in a day and neither will the US. But the time is coming.
Except for the fact that it encourages people to use company time to get nothing done. What does this accomplish? Do I really want to spend 15 minutes out of my day to say:
Worked on testing X program
Fixed X Bug
Discovered X bug
Worked on patching X bug
Wrote e-mail about patching X bug
The life of most IT workers is fairly boring and honestly, who wants to read about it? Business communication is stressful enough for a good chunk of workers I hardly consider having to write more business communication an incentive. In fact, I know that me and a good chunk of my immediate co-workers we hate the "business" atmosphere, we'd much rather just get stuff done, produce good, reliable code that works rather than worrying about a "business atmosphere".
The root problem with politics is that government, at its very core, is based on actions, based on aggression that when committed by anyone else other than "the government" would be rightfully condemned by everyone. If someone outside of government would implement taxation people would rightfully view it as theft. If someone outside of government introduced conscription people would rightfully view it as slavery. Those who have understood this naturally view politics as repulsive, just as we view working for the mafia as repulsive.
Just look at how public entities are formed. By theft. If I don't want to support X Corp, I don't buy X Corp's products. They get none of my revenue. If I oppose, say, a government's war, I must fund it or get tossed in jail.
A corporation's goal is to make money. In a free market they can only get money by making products or producing services that people want. A government's goal is control. Since the end of the gold standard, the government doesn't even have to make money, it can just print it and devalue the money of everyone else.
The ideal society is not run by the mafia, but, the government IS very similar to the mafia, the only difference is that the mafia is looked at (rightfully!) as an evil gang whereas the state is looked at as having redeeming qualities.
That's a pretty rapid pace, eclipsing Android Jelly Bean's 2-month adoption levels of 1.2% easily
Of course Jelly Bean's adoption level is very low because what, 3-4 devices support Jelly Bean officially? And those 3-4 devices are a small percentage of all Android devices. Heck, even the "flagship" Android phone the Galaxy S III won't be getting Jelly Bean until the end of September or later. While all iOS devices are Apple phones/tablets/media players and the iOS 6 update is available for all of them made within the past couple of years.
Copyright is a stupid idea. It tries to create scarcity out of non-scarce things. Attempting to apply property law to things that are not scarce will always create more problems than it solves.
There should be laws against fraud. For example, you can't claim that you wrote a book that someone else wrote, but the book itself should be able to be read, published, and redistributed by anyone.
By definition all governments are repressive and corrupt.
Just google "political activist no fly list" and you'll find several. Just look at this: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/No-fly-blacklist-snares-political-activists-2791720.php http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/10/1073245/-Occupy-activist-filmmaker-put-on-no-fly-list
Just get a good case (Otterbox anyone?) and save the money on insurance. Phone insurance is a good thing if, say, you are a college student, but otherwise I just don't see the point.
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications/Lumia_920/
Looking at Nokia's official stat-sheet, I don't see any mention of a Micro-SD card, although it does have the memory at a much more usable 32 GB of internal storage.
Not having a micro-SD slot on a phone is quite stupid these days. Heck, my last 3 "dumbphones" have had SD card slots (though I think one was mini-SD) and all of my smartphones have had one. On my current phone (Samsung Captivate Glide) I've got a 32 GB one in so I can take my reasonably sized music library (~25 GB) with me without having to lug around yet another device. 8 GB is pathetic for a smartphone, sure, you might be able to get all of your applications on there, but not much else. To put this in perspective, 8 GB is the same amount of memory the lowest-end version of the iPod touch which came out back in 2007.
Here's the great thing about (unregulated) capitalism. It forces businesses to create products and services for people to use or else they lose money or eventually go bankrupt.
The problem with the 2 things you mentioned is that we have regulation, we have a distorted market based on coercion (by the government) rather than freedom. In the case of telecoms, the government gave lots of money to "modernize" America or "modernize" a town meaning that the large telecoms got ahead without concern to their customers. In the case of pharmaceuticals the free market is distorted by both patents and the FDA.
Your line of thinking ignores the key point of the previous poster which was freedom. A more accurate view would be to look at food. If you don't like McDonalds, you don't have to go, you don't have to support them. If you want a burger you can go to the local grocery store (of which there are several) and buy the hamburger yourself and grill it yourself. Or, you can go to Burger King, Wendy's or a multitude of fast food restaurants. If you don't want a fast food burger go to a multitude of sit-down restaurants, diners etc. and get a burger.
What is the difference between the market for burgers and the market for pharmaceuticals and internet? The key difference is freedom. While there might be some patents involved in cooking a burger, most things are simply trade secrets and every restaurant is allowed to try to copy and improve their competitor's recipes. There is comparatively little bureaucracy involved in food service, sure, there are health departments and the FDA to make sure that the food service is sanitary and that the food won't kill you unlike the regulations involved in pharmaceuticals which take potential cures from dying patients because they might not be "effective".
A normal person -would- use the same vendor for everything because in general it "just works". The cable box/DVR "just works" for them, if it breaks they just call Comcast/Dish/DirectTV and get another one. Its the geek option to go for MythTV and the like. And honestly, even the Google option is going to give you much more freedom than the average person has now with an HDTV, Cable Box, DVR and blu-Ray player.
Perhaps because its not all that bad? Assuming there would be no possible way for the government to use this information (which is really the main threat) how is being able to have more relevant ads directed at you a bad thing? Especially if it means cheaper hardware?
Consider cable TV for instance, despite the fact you are paying your cable provider who is then paying the networks for content, you still have ads with few exceptions. Even the networks that don't run ads still have annoying interruptions (this is especially true in radio also).
When it comes down to it though, as long as the content is being displayed on your device and runs through your local network, you have the ability to control it and you always will.
I think the problem is how do you come up with attractive designs that don't borrow from the physical world. The thing about obsolete things is that they stay as that item in the mind and are often distinctive. Even when they don't stay as that item they still can be used as a concrete representation of an abstract concept, take for instance the floppy disk. Even if you don't know what a floppy disk is, you do know its the symbol for "Save" and I think that would be hard to replace.
Sure, we could have spartan UIs with no decoration and they'd still be functional, but they'd lack the attractiveness and little touches like Apple's "stitching" on iCal, things that make Apple products what they are. The digital world is filled with abstract concepts that need an easy reference for people to use. Text takes up too much space if its supposed to be readable so a picture is about the only option and it needs to be distinctive and not easily confused with something else.
I think the point is cheap rather than "green" (and really, cheap matters a heck of a lot more than "green").
With gas at 3.50 per gallon and 20 MPG (about 32 KM/G) you end up with a cost of about 10 cents per kilometer. If you can make a reliable car that will go a kilometer on a penny that is a significant savings. Especially if the car itself is cheap like most Indian cars.
Exactly. The sort of nice thing about this is, its public. You can see, you KNOW if your account is breached, its really done in a non-malicious way. I'd much rather have my personal information leaked in a big leak like this than have some guy accessing my account and I have no knowledge about it.
How about lets make cars that can't go faster than XX miles per hour? How about we put a chip in the car that automatically finds where the car is via GPS and will throttle the engine so it can't break the speed limit?
Just because something is technically possible doesn't mean its worth the damage to freedom.
I don't think this is a problem for the Chinese dissidents. Heck, just look at the number of Chinese who come to the west to study abroad and still go back to China willingly. The Chinese dissidents who want to read uncensored news easily have the ability to. From what I've observed life in "communist" China seems to be like how life was in the later part of "communist" Russia, that the government pretends to control them and they pretend to be controlled.
The thing is, China is a whole lot more collectivist than the US where even if they had the ability to do something, they wouldn't because they've been told lies all their life about how you've got to give up freedoms to have prosperity for others...
The value of this is not the data, it is the cart itself. Just because everyone knows what the Mona Lisa looks like and you can buy a nice replica for $5 at a decoration store and a nice hand painted copy for $50 doesn't mean the original painting is only worth $50 or $100.
Because Pawn Stars is a TV show, they run a real Pawn Shop but many episodes are filmed with actors "recreating" moments that might have happened. Just look at http://centraltendencies.com/2011/03/pawn-stars-is-fake/
That doesn't mean that its any less entertaining, but its a staged show bringing in far more interesting things than what the average pawn shop owner would ever see in their lifetime.