Yes. Your points are taken. It does seem that a healthy economy might treat the USPS like a WPA works program: employ as many as possible in a function that binds the social fabric more tightly than without it.
Then? Get rid of FastTrack, and begin offering employment domestically in Toll-booths.:-) Instead of in Malaysian or Vietnamese RFID factories...
This was spun out so that it WOULD fail - creating opportunity for the FedEx/UPS bastards. They funded the campaigns of House Committee chairmen, and similar "Grima Wormtongue" types, to betray YOU and sell as a franchise, that which was core to national identity and shared purpose.
When they say "Free Market" they really mean regulatory policy to advantage themselves. You ARE smart enough to be a free thinker, and reject knee-jerk conventional wisdom, are you not?
Which operate over the PUBLIC airwaves, which by rights should also be under the appropriate level of management as national infrastructure - serving the purpose of a great nation, subject to the consent of it's people as a whole.
What's true for the post should have been true for the Telegraph - as it was in much of Europe after Napoleon.
That is, until the pirates and grafters took over completely, and brainwashed you lot into believing that if it didn't turn profit, then it had no value.
Without this "almost free" mail, another segment of the economy collapses. Print shops would disappear, for one.
Look at it this way: Advertisers hire people to create copy and design layout, which goes to print shops that buy ink and paper, then bulk send the result via a postal service to my home - where I retrieve the contents and promptly deposit them in the recycling bin.
But it doesn't end there! Then the waste management company comes to collect those, deliver them to paper mills that supply the print shops... Cue Elton John! It's the "Circle of Life"!
Somebody is gainfully employed at every stage of this pipeline, and it is no more or less absurd than any other form of socially connected human endeavour. Everything is social policy, like it or not. Wait on the mail? Only at an overall social cost which, like the beat of a butterfly wing, may be of inestimable consequence.
They could instead, go to MULTIPLE door-to-door deliveries per day.
This would INCREASE the time required, causing a shift to greater hiring, and increased overall employment. Then? More parents could buy cars, eat out and send their kids to college.
You see, the government is NOT a private business, and it does not "lose" money like a corporation, no matter how many MBA's it takes to screw-over a light bulb. In fact, "losing" more money on more postal service and more postal workers means MORE economic long-term gain, overall. This includes those private businesses that need customers. But short-term, zero-sum-game trained business management thinking just wants to eliminate workforce competition by public sector employment, and to create an extractive revenue model out of postal service.
I might remind you that it is postal service that was historically considered one of the foundation pillars for the creation of a nation, as the concept emerged in the late 18th century. You can't really claim to be at all patriotic, if you advocate the national abandonment of infrastructure to profiteers.
The business model for something like RT comes from the App Store. Problem? No device adoption = no participation by devs in your store. Chicken? Meet egg.
So? Microsoft gives away the RTs at cost to ship. There's a crack in the darkness. It's a last ditch, that sends the "bad money" already accounted for as loss, into possible asset generation.
Meanwhile? Having cheap RT slabs available means the "DVD Johns" take an interest in busting open the loader. A tiny, rounding error of users bother with this - but well worth the doing.
I was tired of my lady We'd been together too long Like a worn-out recording Of a favorite song So while she lay there sleeping I read the paper in bed And in the personal columns There was this letter I read
If you like Pina Coladas And getting caught in the rain If you're not into yoga If you have half a brain If you'd like making love at midnight In the dunes on the Cape Then I'm the love that you've looked for Write to me and escape.
I didn't think about my lady I know that sounds kind of mean But me and my old lady Have fallen into the same old dull routine So I wrote to the paper Took out a personal ad And though I'm nobody's poet I thought it wasn't half bad
Yes I like Pina Coladas And getting caught in the rain I'm not much into health food I am into champagne I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon And cut through all this red-tape At a bar called O'Malley's Where we'll plan our escape.
So I waited with high hopes And she walked in the place I knew her smile in an instant I knew the curve of her face It was my own lovely lady And she said, "Oh it's you." Then we laughed for a moment And I said, "I never knew."
That you like Pina Coladas Getting caught in the rain And the feel of the ocean And the taste of champagne If you'd like making love at midnight In the dunes of the Cape You're the lady I've looked for Come with me and escape
The news here is compatibility improvement for file formats and import/export.
Way rockin' good. I can try jettisoning Office 2011, soon. Libre on Ubuntu was close enough, two years ago - but still enough different for me to run Crossover.
The obstacle is getting an unsigned ARM image to load. Surface has been unworthy of the challenge at its original price. Android pads are like a date in the Tenderloin: cheap and easy (and likely male:-) ).
But a near-free WART from MS? That changes things.
So? This wouldn't be to fix an inventory accounting problem. It wouldn't be to "stuff" a channel. It wouldn't be to sell below cost for illegal competitive advantage - or barely.
These tablets are now fiscal landfill. Selling at a price to recover distribution and delivery costs (so they don't bleed more) is a better plan than many.
And give us opportunity to HACK THE LOADER!
I wouldn't try cracking firmware on a device of questionable value, that cost me several hundred. But a sub-100 cheapie? Go for it!
Yeah. There's NO form of engagement today, that would not have been considered an atrocity 90 years ago, or a war crime, 35-50 years back.
Most folks have also begun to twig that the "Government" has become just a shell-company, to hold baggage for constituent corporations. The idea of "fighting for our freedoms and defending liberty" doesn't even seem quaint, anymore...
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Signaled with lamps, lit in the church steeple. "One if by land..."
Subsidising "entertainment" in media mass markets? That's just sending money to lawyers.... ;-)
Yes. Your points are taken. It does seem that a healthy economy might treat the USPS like a WPA works program: employ as many as possible in a function that binds the social fabric more tightly than without it.
Then? Get rid of FastTrack, and begin offering employment domestically in Toll-booths. :-) Instead of in Malaysian or Vietnamese RFID factories...
Re-nationalise it. Now.
This was spun out so that it WOULD fail - creating opportunity for the FedEx/UPS bastards. They funded the campaigns of House Committee chairmen, and similar "Grima Wormtongue" types, to betray YOU and sell as a franchise, that which was core to national identity and shared purpose.
When they say "Free Market" they really mean regulatory policy to advantage themselves. You ARE smart enough to be a free thinker, and reject knee-jerk conventional wisdom, are you not?
Which operate over the PUBLIC airwaves, which by rights should also be under the appropriate level of management as national infrastructure - serving the purpose of a great nation, subject to the consent of it's people as a whole.
What's true for the post should have been true for the Telegraph - as it was in much of Europe after Napoleon.
That is, until the pirates and grafters took over completely, and brainwashed you lot into believing that if it didn't turn profit, then it had no value.
Without this "almost free" mail, another segment of the economy collapses. Print shops would disappear, for one.
Look at it this way: Advertisers hire people to create copy and design layout, which goes to print shops that buy ink and paper, then bulk send the result via a postal service to my home - where I retrieve the contents and promptly deposit them in the recycling bin.
But it doesn't end there! Then the waste management company comes to collect those, deliver them to paper mills that supply the print shops... Cue Elton John! It's the "Circle of Life"!
Somebody is gainfully employed at every stage of this pipeline, and it is no more or less absurd than any other form of socially connected human endeavour. Everything is social policy, like it or not. Wait on the mail? Only at an overall social cost which, like the beat of a butterfly wing, may be of inestimable consequence.
No such thing as implementation of NTSB RFP.
All future speculation... :-)
How sad.
They could instead, go to MULTIPLE door-to-door deliveries per day.
This would INCREASE the time required, causing a shift to greater hiring, and increased overall employment. Then? More parents could buy cars, eat out and send their kids to college.
You see, the government is NOT a private business, and it does not "lose" money like a corporation, no matter how many MBA's it takes to screw-over a light bulb. In fact, "losing" more money on more postal service and more postal workers means MORE economic long-term gain, overall. This includes those private businesses that need customers. But short-term, zero-sum-game trained business management thinking just wants to eliminate workforce competition by public sector employment, and to create an extractive revenue model out of postal service.
I might remind you that it is postal service that was historically considered one of the foundation pillars for the creation of a nation, as the concept emerged in the late 18th century. You can't really claim to be at all patriotic, if you advocate the national abandonment of infrastructure to profiteers.
FIFY
NTSB Calls For Wireless Tech To Enable Vehicles To SPY ON Each Other
"I say! That 2015 Ford Bronco is doing 95 Mph, changing 3 lanes in as many seconds!"
"I Came, I Thorium, I Barium".
The business model for something like RT comes from the App Store. Problem? No device adoption = no participation by devs in your store. Chicken? Meet egg.
So? Microsoft gives away the RTs at cost to ship. There's a crack in the darkness. It's a last ditch, that sends the "bad money" already accounted for as loss, into possible asset generation.
Meanwhile? Having cheap RT slabs available means the "DVD Johns" take an interest in busting open the loader. A tiny, rounding error of users bother with this - but well worth the doing.
I was tired of my lady
We'd been together too long
Like a worn-out recording
Of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read
If you like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the Cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for
Write to me and escape.
I didn't think about my lady
I know that sounds kind of mean
But me and my old lady
Have fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half bad
Yes I like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food
I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
And cut through all this red-tape
At a bar called O'Malley's
Where we'll plan our escape.
So I waited with high hopes
And she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant
I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady
And she said, "Oh it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."
That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape
You're the lady I've looked for
Come with me and escape
It does. Right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system...
It's already DOSed. ;-)
BTW. Where IS the ARM DOS port? What a great project!
Best joke of the day. Thank you, Sir!
Jalapeño subs? Wow. I've been settling for pepperocini on mine!
Not any more...
WE have seen SkyNet, and they are us.
Features? Smeachers!
The news here is compatibility improvement for file formats and import/export.
Way rockin' good. I can try jettisoning Office 2011, soon. Libre on Ubuntu was close enough, two years ago - but still enough different for me to run Crossover.
The obstacle is getting an unsigned ARM image to load. Surface has been unworthy of the challenge at its original price. Android pads are like a date in the Tenderloin: cheap and easy (and likely male :-) ).
But a near-free WART from MS? That changes things.
They already took the loss.
So? This wouldn't be to fix an inventory accounting problem. It wouldn't be to "stuff" a channel. It wouldn't be to sell below cost for illegal competitive advantage - or barely.
These tablets are now fiscal landfill. Selling at a price to recover distribution and delivery costs (so they don't bleed more) is a better plan than many.
And give us opportunity to HACK THE LOADER!
I wouldn't try cracking firmware on a device of questionable value, that cost me several hundred. But a sub-100 cheapie? Go for it!
HACK THE LOADER.
Ubuntu tablet for $75 USD.
So?
HACK THE LOADER!
Yes, but they were identified as atrocity. Now? Only when "they do it".
My Lai is a near daily occurrence. Lt Calley is nearly every Lieutenant and nearly every village is destroyed to save it...
OK.
Kill people, who are non-combatant. Do it for "Liberty". Feel good, because you did the right thing.
Google is a commercial subsidiary of the NSA. Or the NSA is a federal op by Google. I forget which.
Dr Eric Schmidt seems to work on behalf of both... You know what they say... Former spy? How can I tell if you have stopped lying to me?
Yeah. There's NO form of engagement today, that would not have been considered an atrocity 90 years ago, or a war crime, 35-50 years back.
Most folks have also begun to twig that the "Government" has become just a shell-company, to hold baggage for constituent corporations. The idea of "fighting for our freedoms and defending liberty" doesn't even seem quaint, anymore...