at some point we're going to end up with a civilization like in Star Trek TNG where people choose to work
Even Star Trek had jobs that suck. Like, wearing a red shirt. That job sucked. They always had to do the shit jobs, and got killed. That took care of the unemployment problem in the wearing red shirt business.
We used to have a cocktail back in my university days called "The Vulcan Mind Probe" . . . that was more like 155%. I remember that there was grain alcohol and peppermint schnapps in it, but I don't remember what else was in it.
And frankly, after drinking that, no one really remembers very much anyway.
And I want a cut of the money you collect as well.
I'd be just fine with taxing like other entertainment businesses. There's no reason that a company that promotes sing-along concerts about Jewish fairy tales should avoid the IRS, while "poor" Disney has to pay taxes on screening its Star Wars flicks. Both are just peddling the same merchandise.
I'm fine with anyone choosing to practice whatever gobble-gook religion that they think they believe . . . as long as they try to force it on others. I am not fine with them making a business out of their religion, while using tax-free revenue to force their own views on others.
The Catholic Church is a real estate and financial empire, with a well-documented history of impeding justice while promoting child abuse. They should be whacked with a RICO case.
The Russian Raja "You know I'm, Vlad, I'm bad," Putin declared that he has annexed the territory of the plane, which is now part of the Russian Federation, on wishes of the Russian-speaking passengers of the plane.
The plane was carrying rebel NSA operatives, who are part of a Mulder-Scullyist-Snowden freedom-fries-fighters group known as "The Stoned Gunmen", who were trying to flee to China via Malaysia from Indonesia on their way to the asylum known as "Sancuary" for people over 30 years old, because they uncovered the Truth, that is out there, that the NSA is blackmailing Barack Obama into submission with false documentation of his birth in Indonesia and identity of his real father, Haji Muhammad Suharto, the former Indonesian dictator, which is false, because it is clearly documented that Obama was born in Kenya, and is the grandson of Haile Selassie, so the NSA activated their back orifice devices, which were in the personal electronic devices of all the passengers on the plane, which may be turned on when the Captain indicates that it is safe to do so, which have the collective power to divert the course of the plane in the direction of the NSA Dr. Evil Island US Air Force Base of Diego Garcia, where "The Stoned Gunmen" were to be treated with the pacifying mind control drugs secretly distributed by Obamacare, that will allow the NSA to direct Obama to change the Constitution, or just plain ignore it, like the government has been doing recently, so that Obama can serve as the NSA stooge as the President of the United States of America, until the NSA decides that they have no further use for him, so the US really has all the radar data on the flight path of the plane, which can be seen on the "Big Board" in the "War Room", where fighting is not allowed, but the NSA won't give out the flight path information, since that would lead everyone to Diego Garcia, but Putin knows this anyway, and was planning to invade the island, but the NSA carefully orchestrated the current Crimean crisis to distract "You know I'm, Vlad, I'm bad," Putin's military, so that his only chance of granting "The Stoned Gunmen" asylum in the Snowden Sheraton was to declare the plane as part of the Russian Federation.
It all fits together nicely, when you just stop to think about it.
Unfortunately for the NSA, Hillary Clinton is not pleased with the NSA plans to keep on Obama as President indefinitely, so she is rallying her forces in a counter-plot, where she has found an unlikely ally in Sarah Palin and her militia of redneck duck hunters, with the intention of installing a new regime in the US, with Hillary Clinton as President, and Sarah Palin as Vice-President, which will reveal the Truth about the plane, but the NSA is trying to counter this counter-plot, by . . .
This is more of a matter for the UN Security Council. The government of the USA has just declared war on all the sysadmins of the world. Note, I said the government of the US, and not the citizens.
. . . oh, I forgot . . . the US government has a veto vote on the UN Security Council, so good luck with that . . .
I wonder how that will affect business, like in, "I can't do business with you . . . we are in a state of war with you . .."
It all seems trivial if he is successful building this.
When he makes a public apology for funding SCO to try to destroy Linux . . . then I'll forgive him.
Although, I like his "Turd Torcher". He's taken the concept of "Fart Lighting" one step further. Other folks are trying to build "Smarter Cities". Gates is building "Smarter Shitters" . . .
Armed insurrection is our only option at this point. We need to form something like the "Molly Maguires": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
It's not mentioned in the article, but they used to lop off the heads of mine managers who were exploiting destitute immigrant miners in the late 1800's. The Maguires obviously couldn't strike back at the Robber Barons who owned the mines, so they attacked the henchmen of the Robber Barons. They would drop the heads off on the doorsteps of other ruthless mine managers to give them a message. My high school history teacher attended a funeral in Eastern Pennsylvania, and the funeral parlor manager said that they still had some unidentified heads in jars in the basement.
So post the names of NSA employees publicly, and let's start collecting heads. The NSA is an enemy of the United States of America now, and all the values of the Founding Fathers. The system of checks and balances has been destroyed by a rogue branch of the US government.
Wow, this is new for Slashdot! Most folks complain that they want a flying car . . . and here you are, and say that you would be happy with one that just swims!
OK Try IBM. Worked for them in the 90's [...] There must have been 30 of us on the same flight. They tried to get the other 20 making up the same party on the same flight but it was full.
Was IBM doing one of their so-called "Resource Actions" at the time . . . ?
Did your manager look surprised when you returned from the event . . . ?
Bond Villain Voice:"Ah, Mr. IBMer! . . . I wasn't expecting you . ..
And where are we gonna get the water, gas , food etc for all these 12 Billion people ?
That answers itself . . . just make one out of the other . . . Soylent Green.
As to gas, on my last trip to a mall in the US, I was wondering about all that fat that is stored up in people. After all, fat is energy. If we could start harvesting fat from people to create energy, all our energy problems would be solved.
Water? There's plenty in the ocean. Just pump it into the water system without any desalination. If people complain that it tastes salty, just say that it is "Margarita Style".
Slum neighborhoods, crime, ghetto. With the influx of google/facebook employees however the neighborhood is slowly gentrifying.
. . . so where do all the slum, crime and ghetto folks go when the place gets gentrified . . . a couple of blocks down the road . . . ? With all those rich folks moving in . . . I'd think it would make it a much more attractive place to commit crimes.
More tiny,shiny, expensive devices to ApplePick . . .
If you are a political leader and are afraid of Facebook and Youtube, then you are afraid of your own people. In the case of Erdogan, he is just another Muslim Brotherhood goon trying to tighten the screws on society to slowly squeeze Turkey into becoming an Islamic Republic. His first move to achieve this was jailing thousands of officers in the Turkish military, who were schooled in the thoughts of Kemal Atatürk, the "Father of the Turks".
As a brief description of what Kemal Atatürk was all about, I'll just lift this from Wikipedia:
His military campaigns led to victory in the Turkish War of Independence. Atatürk then embarked upon a program of political, economic, and cultural reforms, seeking to transform the former Ottoman Empire into a modern, secular, and democratic nation-state. Under his leadership, thousands of new schools were built, primary education was made free and compulsory, and women were given equal civil and political rights, while the burden of taxation on peasants was reduced.[3] The principles of Atatürk's reforms, upon which modern Turkey was established, are referred to as Kemalism.
Not bad, considering that this was in the late 1920's! He even introduced a new Latin based alphabet, that replaced the old Arabic script! Can you image a political leader today, who would have the balls and the support to just say, "Oh, let's just switch our alphabet."
The strategy of Muslim Brotherhood cretins, is to get elected claiming to be "moderately Islamic", without showing their true intentions. Then they use the courts to jail any political opposition and then slowly implement restrictions on society to transform it into an Islamic state. With the army now out of his way, there are only a few brave folks left who stage protests. When his corruption was exposed, he thought that he was far enough down the Islamic path that he can just act like a caliph now.
It would really be a sad loss for humanity, if all those enlightened thoughts of Atatürk get stomped into the ground, and Turkey is forced into the shackles of Islam in their place.
Try explaining to your cat what happened, or did not happen, to Schrödinger's Cat.
It might, or might not, work.
Anyway, the UK used to have some artificial food stuff called Turkey Twizzlers that were kinda sorta artificial. But celebrity twat chef Jamie Oliver made a fuss about them, so they got banned from school lunches. Kids seemed to like them with chips (fries), though.
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at some point we're going to end up with a civilization like in Star Trek TNG where people choose to work
Even Star Trek had jobs that suck. Like, wearing a red shirt. That job sucked. They always had to do the shit jobs, and got killed. That took care of the unemployment problem in the wearing red shirt business.
We used to have a cocktail back in my university days called "The Vulcan Mind Probe" . . . that was more like 155%. I remember that there was grain alcohol and peppermint schnapps in it, but I don't remember what else was in it.
And frankly, after drinking that, no one really remembers very much anyway.
that poor bastard.
that poor, rich, bastard would be more appropriate now.
And I want a cut of the money you collect as well.
I'd be just fine with taxing like other entertainment businesses. There's no reason that a company that promotes sing-along concerts about Jewish fairy tales should avoid the IRS, while "poor" Disney has to pay taxes on screening its Star Wars flicks. Both are just peddling the same merchandise.
I'm fine with anyone choosing to practice whatever gobble-gook religion that they think they believe . . . as long as they try to force it on others. I am not fine with them making a business out of their religion, while using tax-free revenue to force their own views on others.
The Catholic Church is a real estate and financial empire, with a well-documented history of impeding justice while promoting child abuse. They should be whacked with a RICO case.
The plane is in Russia.
The Russian Raja "You know I'm, Vlad, I'm bad," Putin declared that he has annexed the territory of the plane, which is now part of the Russian Federation, on wishes of the Russian-speaking passengers of the plane.
The plane was carrying rebel NSA operatives, who are part of a Mulder-Scullyist-Snowden freedom-fries-fighters group known as "The Stoned Gunmen", who were trying to flee to China via Malaysia from Indonesia on their way to the asylum known as "Sancuary" for people over 30 years old, because they uncovered the Truth, that is out there, that the NSA is blackmailing Barack Obama into submission with false documentation of his birth in Indonesia and identity of his real father, Haji Muhammad Suharto, the former Indonesian dictator, which is false, because it is clearly documented that Obama was born in Kenya, and is the grandson of Haile Selassie, so the NSA activated their back orifice devices, which were in the personal electronic devices of all the passengers on the plane, which may be turned on when the Captain indicates that it is safe to do so, which have the collective power to divert the course of the plane in the direction of the NSA Dr. Evil Island US Air Force Base of Diego Garcia, where "The Stoned Gunmen" were to be treated with the pacifying mind control drugs secretly distributed by Obamacare, that will allow the NSA to direct Obama to change the Constitution, or just plain ignore it, like the government has been doing recently, so that Obama can serve as the NSA stooge as the President of the United States of America, until the NSA decides that they have no further use for him, so the US really has all the radar data on the flight path of the plane, which can be seen on the "Big Board" in the "War Room", where fighting is not allowed, but the NSA won't give out the flight path information, since that would lead everyone to Diego Garcia, but Putin knows this anyway, and was planning to invade the island, but the NSA carefully orchestrated the current Crimean crisis to distract "You know I'm, Vlad, I'm bad," Putin's military, so that his only chance of granting "The Stoned Gunmen" asylum in the Snowden Sheraton was to declare the plane as part of the Russian Federation.
It all fits together nicely, when you just stop to think about it.
Unfortunately for the NSA, Hillary Clinton is not pleased with the NSA plans to keep on Obama as President indefinitely, so she is rallying her forces in a counter-plot, where she has found an unlikely ally in Sarah Palin and her militia of redneck duck hunters, with the intention of installing a new regime in the US, with Hillary Clinton as President, and Sarah Palin as Vice-President, which will reveal the Truth about the plane, but the NSA is trying to counter this counter-plot, by . . .
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ... vowed yesterday to 'eradicate Twitter.'
"In democratic Turkey, Twitter eradicates you, Mr Erdogan!
I really hope he fails to turn Turkey into an Islamic North Korea.
This is more of a matter for the UN Security Council. The government of the USA has just declared war on all the sysadmins of the world. Note, I said the government of the US, and not the citizens.
. . . oh, I forgot . . . the US government has a veto vote on the UN Security Council, so good luck with that . . .
I wonder how that will affect business, like in, "I can't do business with you . . . we are in a state of war with you . . ."
why not simply reinstate torture? That's basically what she seems to want.
No . . . just some light S&M.
(no we shouldn't do that)
"Oh, you're no fun any more!"
It all seems trivial if he is successful building this.
When he makes a public apology for funding SCO to try to destroy Linux . . . then I'll forgive him.
Although, I like his "Turd Torcher". He's taken the concept of "Fart Lighting" one step further. Other folks are trying to build "Smarter Cities". Gates is building "Smarter Shitters" . . .
Sounds like the perfect place to sell burial plots to the rich.
Better yet, sell the rich bottled Chernobyl water.
"Drink Chernobyl Water and you will never age! It will keep you young forever!
Once again, Slashdot fails to deliver on its promise of "Nudes for Nerds" . . .
Armed insurrection is our only option at this point. We need to form something like the "Molly Maguires": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
It's not mentioned in the article, but they used to lop off the heads of mine managers who were exploiting destitute immigrant miners in the late 1800's. The Maguires obviously couldn't strike back at the Robber Barons who owned the mines, so they attacked the henchmen of the Robber Barons. They would drop the heads off on the doorsteps of other ruthless mine managers to give them a message. My high school history teacher attended a funeral in Eastern Pennsylvania, and the funeral parlor manager said that they still had some unidentified heads in jars in the basement.
So post the names of NSA employees publicly, and let's start collecting heads. The NSA is an enemy of the United States of America now, and all the values of the Founding Fathers. The system of checks and balances has been destroyed by a rogue branch of the US government.
(the one I want is the Schwimmwagen, though!)
Wow, this is new for Slashdot! Most folks complain that they want a flying car . . . and here you are, and say that you would be happy with one that just swims!
Here you go . . . pick one out: http://www.vw166.com/
OK Try IBM. Worked for them in the 90's [...] There must have been 30 of us on the same flight. They tried to get the other 20 making up the same party on the same flight but it was full.
Was IBM doing one of their so-called "Resource Actions" at the time . . . ?
Did your manager look surprised when you returned from the event . . . ?
Bond Villain Voice: "Ah, Mr. IBMer! . . . I wasn't expecting you . . .
And where are we gonna get the water, gas , food etc for all these 12 Billion people ?
That answers itself . . . just make one out of the other . . . Soylent Green.
As to gas, on my last trip to a mall in the US, I was wondering about all that fat that is stored up in people. After all, fat is energy. If we could start harvesting fat from people to create energy, all our energy problems would be solved.
Water? There's plenty in the ocean. Just pump it into the water system without any desalination. If people complain that it tastes salty, just say that it is "Margarita Style".
when a string bends in the 4th dimension it creates the effects of dark matter.
. . . but only if there is someone there in the 4th dimension to hear it.
In an attempt to spin this correctly, Google announced that it will be giving out free jet fuel for SF area slum kids to sniff!
Slum neighborhoods, crime, ghetto. With the influx of google/facebook employees however the neighborhood is slowly gentrifying.
. . . so where do all the slum, crime and ghetto folks go when the place gets gentrified . . . a couple of blocks down the road . . . ? With all those rich folks moving in . . . I'd think it would make it a much more attractive place to commit crimes.
More tiny,shiny, expensive devices to ApplePick . . .
Take a quick look at what is posted on Facebook and YouTube . . . the bar isn't set very high . . .
If you are a political leader and are afraid of Facebook and Youtube, then you are afraid of your own people. In the case of Erdogan, he is just another Muslim Brotherhood goon trying to tighten the screws on society to slowly squeeze Turkey into becoming an Islamic Republic. His first move to achieve this was jailing thousands of officers in the Turkish military, who were schooled in the thoughts of Kemal Atatürk, the "Father of the Turks".
As a brief description of what Kemal Atatürk was all about, I'll just lift this from Wikipedia:
His military campaigns led to victory in the Turkish War of Independence. Atatürk then embarked upon a program of political, economic, and cultural reforms, seeking to transform the former Ottoman Empire into a modern, secular, and democratic nation-state. Under his leadership, thousands of new schools were built, primary education was made free and compulsory, and women were given equal civil and political rights, while the burden of taxation on peasants was reduced.[3] The principles of Atatürk's reforms, upon which modern Turkey was established, are referred to as Kemalism.
Not bad, considering that this was in the late 1920's! He even introduced a new Latin based alphabet, that replaced the old Arabic script! Can you image a political leader today, who would have the balls and the support to just say, "Oh, let's just switch our alphabet."
The strategy of Muslim Brotherhood cretins, is to get elected claiming to be "moderately Islamic", without showing their true intentions. Then they use the courts to jail any political opposition and then slowly implement restrictions on society to transform it into an Islamic state. With the army now out of his way, there are only a few brave folks left who stage protests. When his corruption was exposed, he thought that he was far enough down the Islamic path that he can just act like a caliph now.
It would really be a sad loss for humanity, if all those enlightened thoughts of Atatürk get stomped into the ground, and Turkey is forced into the shackles of Islam in their place.
Maybe they have cameras in their shoes...
. . . please don't give Google any more ideas about where to mount their glasses . . .
In North Korea all people do low protein diet.
In North Korea, Kim Jong-un's relatives are the dog's diet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet
Unfortunately, if you stick to a Mediterranean Diet, you get stuck with a Mediterranean Economy . . .
Try explaining to your cat what happened, or did not happen, to Schrödinger's Cat.
It might, or might not, work.
Anyway, the UK used to have some artificial food stuff called Turkey Twizzlers that were kinda sorta artificial. But celebrity twat chef Jamie Oliver made a fuss about them, so they got banned from school lunches. Kids seemed to like them with chips (fries), though.
However, it is neither greener, nor more efficient or even easier really.
The "Green Mountain" in their company names refers to the piles of green dollars that they are making with this crap.