I'd win by challenging Mike Tyson to a fistfight . . . and then shooting him in the head. (Nothing personal, Mike). The government isn't playing fair . . . why should we?
This is why Snowden did what he did . . . he would have lost in a fistfight with the government in the courts, to get them to reveal the illegal stuff that they are doing. Instead, by going to the press, he was able to stick a Tabasco weed right up their ass.
Right now, the government is saying that they can only guarantee our safety and security from terrorist through massive surveillance an intrusions on our rights and privacy. I'd like to see some folks get elected who will have the courage to say, "Maybe there is another way . . . "
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Strange . . . that sounds like my upper management, talking about how we need to "tap into the power of social networks with modeling and visualization".
An elaborate "Subshuttle" subterranean rapid transit system was constructed during the 1970s, due to the vulnerability of air transportation to attack. The Subshuttles utilized a magnetic levitation rail system. They operated inside vactrain tunnels and ran at hundreds of miles per hour. The tunnel network was comprehensive enough to cover the entire globe. The PAX organization inherited the still-working system and used it to dispatch their teams of troubleshooters.
. . . created and produced by . . . Gene Roddenberry . . .
Why did I have to spend so much time in elementary school learning about The Constitution, when they were just going to deprecate it later on?
It would also be interesting to hear an new version of The Gettysburg Address, updated to reflect recent events. I'm not convinced that this "Of the people, by the people, for the people" stuff is really quite accurate these days.
I suppose you've also heard about plague, AIDS and the measles
Plague? I stopped sleeping with punk rock girls with pet rats in their beds back in the '80s.
AIDS? What do middle aged white guys care about AIDS? Not even their wives will have promiscuous sex with them.
Measles? Kids get inoculated before they can worry about becoming autistic from the inoculation.
It will be very difficult to rid the world of all human beings . . . we're like the toenail fungus of Mother Earth. Sure, take away our electricity and a lot of folks will suffer and die, but we'll still manage to get along somehow. We can't even destroy ourselves as a species, although we've put our best minds, leaders and efforts into the task.
You see, as this guy in a bar was just telling me the other night:
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals: so that, unlike them, he is not figure in the landscape - he is the shaper of the landscape... But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, by comparison with the grunion he has a rather crude survival kit; and yet - this is the paradox of the human condition - one that fits him to all environments.
. . . means 9 hours of no light pollution. Awesome, for watching the amazing aurora borealis! No TV? No Internet? Get outside, and look at a sky that you will never see again!
Of course, let's hope that hospitals and such are prepared . . .
If they are airtight, maybe some could float? If you bump into one of those 7000 while you are out jet skiing, can you take it home as yours? Finders keepers? Or does the shipping company still own the containers?
If he wants redemption, all he needs to do is to create The Steve and Connie Ballmer Foundation. He has plenty of cash.
Then the foundation can build toilets for folks in Africa, and cure diseases, and stuff. How about curing AIDS? That one's been kicking around for a while, waiting for somebody to do something about it.
Cure that, and it will by you plenty of love, instead of hate.
Unless you believe that someone would record child abuse on classified official documents.
Actually, this is what did happen in the US. The church kept records of known child abusing priests, and did not report them to the police. The priests were simply moved to new locations, instead. This is why victims were later able to sue the church diocese, instead of just the priest. The church was guilty of hiding the crimes of the priests.
Microsoft wanted a monopoly of the desktop OS, and they got it.
Well, with that monopoly, they also get a monopoly of hate. They just need to accept that. And I don't think that they really mind, as long as all those PCs are shipping with Windows already installed.
Now . . . if folks switched from Microsoft PCs to Android devices . . . that might hurt their feelings a bit . . .
Mossad is the sort of organization that will drive up next to you on a motorcycle in traffic and throw a magnetic grenade on your car.
That's a bit crude by their standards. Mossad took out one terrorist by indirectly giving him a cell phone with a bomb, that could be dentonated remotely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash
If they want to see evidence of an "alien invasion", one might look to the people that are coming from outside the UK - especially Africa and the Middle East.
It's not politically correct, but it is the truth.
If all those folks from Africa and the Middle East were arriving in flying saucers and spaceships, then it would be interesting and nobody would care if it was politically correct or not.
Very few people would support it, because very few people would believe that the tax money would actually go towards fixing that problem. The government will just spend it however they damn well please, as with anything else.
And even if the problem was fixed by the tax, they would keep the tax as permanent to spend elsewhere. Many taxes are declared "temporary" only to be made permanent later.
Maybe it's worth dying for the country, but it sure as hell ain't worth it dying for the politicians.
Unfortunately, this thing seems to be en vogue in the computer fashion industry. I just attended a conference where this phrase could some up a bunch of the presentations:
"We are modeling, tapping into the power of social networks, and doing visual analytics!"
I happen to be reading The Psychology of Computer Programming, Silver Anniversary Edition" right now. An interesting quote:
The only thing that's changed here in twenty-five years is the fact that the funds dedicated by executive to eliminating programmers from their payrolls have become far more staggering than I imagined back then. And, now, I finally recognize in this executive desire a pattern so strong, so emotional, that it has blinded these executives to two facts:
1. None of these schemes has succeeded in eliminating programmers . (We have now at least ten times as many as we did then.)
2. Every one of these schemes has been concocted by programmers themselves, the very people the executives want so passionately to eliminate.
So, although people say that programmers lack interpersonal skills, they evidently have a skill at persuasion that surpasses that of the late, great P:T: Barum, famous for his theory: "There's a sucker born every minute."
I guess if I need some money for something from executive, I'll tell them that I need it to model, tap into the power of social networks and do visual analytics. That ought to get me my funds.
This is the problem with non-free airplanes. If the blueprints had been free under a freedom preserving license I'm sure the problem that caused the hiccup had been found.
. . . and the plane could have been printed on an off the shelf 3D printer . . .
I wouldn't leave anything up to luck. It's all calculated long term strategy. And it has worked for 28 years in the same company. Although, I have moved somewhere else in the company, when I decided that one area was doomed.
In a big, healthy company, it is inevitable that you will get "infected" with a bad manager somewhere, sometime. I see it like a body catching a cold. Instead of "inertia", I like to think of a company as having a "immune system" to combat colds. If the immune system is strong enough, it will be able to get rid of the "cold", the bad manager.
However, if the top level of management all gets the Ebola virus, the whole company is going to bleed to death with them. I won't stay around if that happens.
Come back in two years, and ask me if I am still working for the same company . . . and, more importantly, if I have the same middle management, or if I am in a different are of the company. I'm curious myself about that answer!
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I'd win by challenging Mike Tyson to a fistfight . . . and then shooting him in the head. (Nothing personal, Mike). The government isn't playing fair . . . why should we?
This is why Snowden did what he did . . . he would have lost in a fistfight with the government in the courts, to get them to reveal the illegal stuff that they are doing. Instead, by going to the press, he was able to stick a Tabasco weed right up their ass.
Right now, the government is saying that they can only guarantee our safety and security from terrorist through massive surveillance an intrusions on our rights and privacy. I'd like to see some folks get elected who will have the courage to say, "Maybe there is another way . . . "
. . . you can't beat the good old Brown Note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
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Strange . . . that sounds like my upper management, talking about how we need to "tap into the power of social networks with modeling and visualization".
Yes! I remember this idea from when I was growing up in the early 70s.
Yep. Some TV science fiction movies were even made featuring it back then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_(film)
An elaborate "Subshuttle" subterranean rapid transit system was constructed during the 1970s, due to the vulnerability of air transportation to attack. The Subshuttles utilized a magnetic levitation rail system. They operated inside vactrain tunnels and ran at hundreds of miles per hour. The tunnel network was comprehensive enough to cover the entire globe. The PAX organization inherited the still-working system and used it to dispatch their teams of troubleshooters.
. . . created and produced by . . . Gene Roddenberry . . .
No, just stamp "[deprecated]" on it.
Why did I have to spend so much time in elementary school learning about The Constitution, when they were just going to deprecate it later on?
It would also be interesting to hear an new version of The Gettysburg Address, updated to reflect recent events. I'm not convinced that this "Of the people, by the people, for the people" stuff is really quite accurate these days.
I suppose you've also heard about plague, AIDS and the measles
Plague? I stopped sleeping with punk rock girls with pet rats in their beds back in the '80s.
AIDS? What do middle aged white guys care about AIDS? Not even their wives will have promiscuous sex with them.
Measles? Kids get inoculated before they can worry about becoming autistic from the inoculation.
It will be very difficult to rid the world of all human beings . . . we're like the toenail fungus of Mother Earth. Sure, take away our electricity and a lot of folks will suffer and die, but we'll still manage to get along somehow. We can't even destroy ourselves as a species, although we've put our best minds, leaders and efforts into the task.
You see, as this guy in a bar was just telling me the other night:
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals: so that, unlike them, he is not figure in the landscape - he is the shaper of the landscape ... But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, by comparison with the grunion he has a rather crude survival kit; and yet - this is the paradox of the human condition - one that fits him to all environments.
In reality, he's actually Richard Stallman's secret half brother
Maybe if Richard Stallman shaved off all his hair, we'd be able to see the family resemblance . . . ?
Or we could photoshop one of Amanda Bynes' wigs onto Steve Ballmer and see if he looked like Stallman . . . ?
Actually, Steve Ballmer, wearing an Amanda Bynes wig . . . would look frighteningly like Amanda Bynes . . . wearing an Amanda Bynes wig.
In other words it's images of athletes linked in a particular way to via a social network.
Haven't porn sites been doing this already for years?
Their definitions of "athletes", "playing field" and "player positions" are just a bit different . . .
9 hours no electricity?
. . . means 9 hours of no light pollution. Awesome, for watching the amazing aurora borealis! No TV? No Internet? Get outside, and look at a sky that you will never see again!
Of course, let's hope that hospitals and such are prepared . . .
If they are airtight, maybe some could float? If you bump into one of those 7000 while you are out jet skiing, can you take it home as yours? Finders keepers? Or does the shipping company still own the containers?
If he wants redemption, all he needs to do is to create The Steve and Connie Ballmer Foundation. He has plenty of cash.
Then the foundation can build toilets for folks in Africa, and cure diseases, and stuff. How about curing AIDS? That one's been kicking around for a while, waiting for somebody to do something about it.
Cure that, and it will by you plenty of love, instead of hate.
Unless you believe that someone would record child abuse on classified official documents.
Actually, this is what did happen in the US. The church kept records of known child abusing priests, and did not report them to the police. The priests were simply moved to new locations, instead. This is why victims were later able to sue the church diocese, instead of just the priest. The church was guilty of hiding the crimes of the priests.
Most of the posts are hate
Microsoft wanted a monopoly of the desktop OS, and they got it.
Well, with that monopoly, they also get a monopoly of hate. They just need to accept that. And I don't think that they really mind, as long as all those PCs are shipping with Windows already installed.
Now . . . if folks switched from Microsoft PCs to Android devices . . . that might hurt their feelings a bit . . .
. . . we're still number one in obesity, right?
. . . and . . . how come I never get those programmers when my company outsources . . . ?
But if they're hiring park rangers I'll be in line!
Oh, I know what you are really after: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_on_the_moon
Mossad is the sort of organization that will drive up next to you on a motorcycle in traffic and throw a magnetic grenade on your car.
That's a bit crude by their standards. Mossad took out one terrorist by indirectly giving him a cell phone with a bomb, that could be dentonated remotely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash
If they want to see evidence of an "alien invasion", one might look to the people that are coming from outside the UK - especially Africa and the Middle East.
It's not politically correct, but it is the truth.
If all those folks from Africa and the Middle East were arriving in flying saucers and spaceships, then it would be interesting and nobody would care if it was politically correct or not.
Very few people would support it, because very few people would believe that the tax money would actually go towards fixing that problem. The government will just spend it however they damn well please, as with anything else.
And even if the problem was fixed by the tax, they would keep the tax as permanent to spend elsewhere. Many taxes are declared "temporary" only to be made permanent later.
Maybe it's worth dying for the country, but it sure as hell ain't worth it dying for the politicians.
Unfortunately, this thing seems to be en vogue in the computer fashion industry. I just attended a conference where this phrase could some up a bunch of the presentations:
"We are modeling, tapping into the power of social networks, and doing visual analytics!"
I happen to be reading The Psychology of Computer Programming, Silver Anniversary Edition" right now. An interesting quote:
The only thing that's changed here in twenty-five years is the fact that the funds dedicated by executive to eliminating programmers from their payrolls have become far more staggering than I imagined back then. And, now, I finally recognize in this executive desire a pattern so strong, so emotional, that it has blinded these executives to two facts:
1. None of these schemes has succeeded in eliminating programmers . (We have now at least ten times as many as we did then.)
2. Every one of these schemes has been concocted by programmers themselves, the very people the executives want so passionately to eliminate.
So, although people say that programmers lack interpersonal skills, they evidently have a skill at persuasion that surpasses that of the late, great P:T: Barum, famous for his theory: "There's a sucker born every minute."
I guess if I need some money for something from executive, I'll tell them that I need it to model, tap into the power of social networks and do visual analytics. That ought to get me my funds.
I can't think of anywhere with a greater concentration of slashdotters.
. . . and how do you know where we all live . . . ? Have you been dipping into our meta-data, or something . . . ?
This is the problem with non-free airplanes. If the blueprints had been free under a freedom preserving license I'm sure the problem that caused the hiccup had been found.
. . . and the plane could have been printed on an off the shelf 3D printer . . .
Well, the French did give the US the Statue of Liberty. Maybe it is stuffed full of spy gear? Maybe nobody bothered to check it back then . . . ?
Maybe French Intelligence services have been spying on all those immigrants back then, and all those tourists right now!
Yeah, but you run into one of those Crayola Crayons type of philosophical problems:
. . . is the sea "Yellow-Green" . . . or "Green-Yellow" . . . ?
. . . you know, like A.D., as in, "Anno Disneyi" . . . ?
. . . and BCE . . . "Before Crap Era" . . .
I wouldn't leave anything up to luck. It's all calculated long term strategy. And it has worked for 28 years in the same company. Although, I have moved somewhere else in the company, when I decided that one area was doomed.
In a big, healthy company, it is inevitable that you will get "infected" with a bad manager somewhere, sometime. I see it like a body catching a cold. Instead of "inertia", I like to think of a company as having a "immune system" to combat colds. If the immune system is strong enough, it will be able to get rid of the "cold", the bad manager.
However, if the top level of management all gets the Ebola virus, the whole company is going to bleed to death with them. I won't stay around if that happens.
Come back in two years, and ask me if I am still working for the same company . . . and, more importantly, if I have the same middle management, or if I am in a different are of the company. I'm curious myself about that answer!