The challenge is, how do you sell a product to a demographic that is immune to traditional interruption marketing, sees sales as an evil profession, is more likely influenced by their online affinity circle than specifications documents, and brands corporations as evil? Simple. You go to the digital watering holes where these groups congregate. Like slash dot. And then you pretend to be one of them... You use a semantic listening tool to determine intent, and correlate that against the velocity of propagation (e.g. how messages spread from community to community) to build a key influencer map, identifying the potential evangelists in the community to create an online persona that speaks in a voice that will resonate with the community. It's not a conspiracy theory it's social media marketing 101.
Saying "Anyone who disagrees with me is a paid shill" is no different than "Either you accept the entirety of the progressive/liberal beliefs or you are a ignorant, racist, homophobic, xenophobic hayseed clinging to guns and religion evil rethugnikan" - A clear sign of an immature, deluded person who thinks with their emotions rather than their brain. And BTW I could have just easily picked a fundamental right wing Christian who says "Either you accept... or you're going straight to hell" IT'S THE SAME BEHAVIOR PATTERN but it's easier to pick on the progressives, they have extremely thin skins and come out of the woodwork like crazy when I make comments like that - it makes me howl with laughter. In tech it's more like "Your shit stinks. My shit smells like roses" -- and funny thing these are the people who generally act like prim a-donas but do mediocre work...
Braindead idiocy is rampant, absolutely everywhere at terrifying levels. It's a wonder that as a species we've gotten as far as we have...
Have a nice day, friend. I hope you and all those you care about are healthy, happy and fulfilled in their lives. May good fortune travel with you all of your days.
Thanks, and the same to you. When I hear the word "Internet" and "Regulate" or "Classify" in the same universe, let alone the same book, the same page, or the same sentence I react in horror - because I make my living off the Internet, as do all the people who work for me, and I care about my livelihood, and their livelihood very much. The last thing I need is more red tape just to make a living. This administration has done all it could to drive us out of business and we are still here. So yeah, I have some passion about this, OK?
EXACTLY! And if you're like most folks, you have a deep folder structure like work\client\job\artifactclass so being able to create libraries (symlinks) to what you're focused on this week saves you a LOT of time, With Windows 8 it's click, click, click, click over and over all day long just to get to the folder.
Your statement makes no sense. How can I "shift my income to dividends" exactly?
Double taxation refers to this: I get paid $1,000. I paid taxes on that. I put it in a savings account. I get $10 in interest. Taxing that $10 is double taxation.
This doesn't tell the whole story. The Obama Administration is operating off the 2008 budget passed by the Democratically controlled house and senate, and hasn't passed one since. They did this so they could maintain Federal Spending at the 2008 level, and let the mandatory yearly budget increases to continue to grow at 2008 levels. This has never been done before in the history of the country and the budgeting process. It's one of the reasons the debt is increasing so fast, tax revenues went down during the great recession (that is still going on) but spending went up based on 2008 increases.
They then played a little political game where they submit absurd budgets that have no chance of passing (Which are voted down by an overwhelming majority of his own party) - and blame the other side for not passing a budget. It's the Washington two step of the highest order.
The story is about a PROPOSED budget. A budget hasn't been passed since the 2008 Congress.
Agreed, and to make matters worse they FINALLY gave us sym links (libraries) in Windows 7 and then turned around and tried to cripple them in Windows 8 by making them harder to find - and use. Jeez Microsoft we had sym links on the VAX - Which is what Dave Cutler ripped off to make NT...
All large organizations (companies, political parties, government) pays trolls to post in forums/comment sections. It's the new name for "Public Relations"
Read any recent book on Marketing and PR and you'll learn this. Work in Digital Interactive and visit any large advertising agency and they are right there, in plain sight, busily typing away. It's up to you, the consumer of this content, to decide who is a real person and who is a paid troll.
In my opinion... if you see the same talking point all over the web -- it's the result of a coordinated troll army.
If you classify ISP's as common carriers, the FCC will create a department or a sub-department to manage them. This department will get a budget, and that budget will have a mandatory yearly increase (This is how the government WORKS for EVERYTHING).
Once the basic job has been done, and the processes are in place - what will these people do? They will want to keep their jobs secure. This is how HUMANS function in organizational hierarchies. They will do this by creating new reasons for their existence, new things that need to be regulated, new systems that need to be put in place, new needs for more people to increase the fiefdom.
This is how absolutely everything in government works. Every time a new regulation is written... or a law is passed - this is what happens. This is exactly why we have a bloated Federal Government that's increasingly intrusive. It's do-gooders and well intentioned folks who fail to understand how this shit actually gets implemented that are the problem.
So create a straw man (Did I say that regulating ISP's was EVIL? I did not) - and call me names all you want. I'm telling you HOW this grand idea is actually going to WORK in something called THE REAL WORLD. Once you flip the switch and do this, you won't be able to go back... ever. You will have created a monster that will simply grow, and grow, and grow consuming as much wealth as it can.
So next you'll accuse me of not wanting to regulate anything, and you'll tell me I am against clean air and water, and if that doesn't work, then I am a racist. So boring, and so predictable it all is.
The problem is once you build the agency... that will regulate the ISP's... it's sole mission will quickly become one of continuing it's existence, and getting ever larger automatic budget increases every year. The way you do this is to create new "crisis's" that require more regulation, and more people to enforce the regulations.
This is exactly how we got into the mess we are in on the Federal level. Because after the cry "There ought to be a law" nobody ever thinks about what's going to happen five, ten, twenty years down the road.
Public infrastructure is political code speak for a multi-generational money laundering machine, that transfers money out of the hands of the wealth creators, and into the pockets of greedy politicians, who then live rich lives of plenty. There are no exceptions, none at all.
What you fail to realize is that these things came about in spite of the government, not because of it.
Sure, on the surface the politicians tell you that they care about little people like you, and that this act, or that imperial decree is for your benefit. But on closer examination you would discover that big government and big business are simply two shades of exactly the same thing, and that they have much more in common than they have different.
The worst thing that could happen is that the mighty government decides it needs to squeeze more blood from the Internet industry in order to buy votes, pay for lavish vacations, and generally fulfill it's greedy nature. Of course this greedy move will be sold as something entirely different...
There is nothing in your essay here that I disagree with. It is well written, spot on, and absolutely correct.
If you were to read my comments on Slashdot you'd find that I am often engaged in battles with people who are perverting science as a way to further a political agenda... arguing that politics and money have significantly corrupted certain scientific disciplines, debating people who make wild assertions that "Science is settled", and of course the folks who want to group scientists into diametrically opposed camps. I get a lot of flame for this, and have been called every name in the book because of it.
Personally I'd like to see someone dare to draw comparisons between progressive ideology and religion, as my progressive friends and my Christian friends behave exactly the same in so many ways. This observation will result in some major flame coming my way. I can't accept any doctrine where I either believe all of it without question - or I am declared the enemy....
I too believed that Religion and Science had nothing at all in common until I read Quantum Leap, it changed my mind - and I discovered they do have some things in common.
I'm a proponent of Religious Science, and yes, there is such a thing. Religious Science in a nut shell says that there is something to religion - and that it should be studied, scientifically - to determine why it works for so many people. Of course such a broad world view means surely I am going to hell, right?
You should look into Religious Science it is very close to what you have figured out. Religious Science starts with the premise that all religions have some value, and that whatever belief you have - if it works for you - is proof of the power of consciousness. So what we need to do is look at Religion - using a scientific method.
It asks questions like "Why, exactly, does prayer work for some people?" and "What beliefs do all Religions share, and why?"
That's because "progressives" tout moral relativism (e.g. If it feels good, do it) - Which to a Christian appears to be a lack of a moral compass. Moral relativism is just a fancy name for atheist, isn't it?
Moral relativism always seems to turn out to be a giant rationalization process, leading to absurd statements such as "The end justifies the means". The truth is that most of the atheists I have met are full of rationalizations that end up sounding just like the moral directives they so distaste in religion. But when you question these rationalizations you get the same "yer going to hell" mindset you get from the Christians... Except they prefer name calling (ignorant, stupid, dangerous, bad for America, racist, homophobe, xenophobe, etc.)
Is one any more enlightened than the other? No. They are both practicing the same form of "I'm cool and you suck" - and striving to ensure that no real discourse takes place. What's the difference between calling me a racist (because I disagree with you) and telling me I'm going to hell? Not much...
Spot on. OT to your thread but the truth of the matter is that Religion and Science have more in common than they have different - They are both offering theories about how the Universe works, and striving to convince people that they are right.
A great read is "Quantum Leap" (Dean Nelson and Karl Giberson) - it dives deeply into how religion and science are connected. As far as I can remember it does not mention Kirk and Spock...
There's a fascinating article in Der Speigal (not exactly a right wing publication) about the colossal failure that is Germany's wind farm, and how "Electricity is now a luxury good". But don't let the MYTH interfere with REALITY, right? I can heat my house with a MYTH, can't I?
The key word in the article above is that it hasn't really happened, it's just a marketing announcement. On other words, a dream.
Seems that Yachtworld has a mobile version. Sorry. I was looking for a site that wouldn't give away anybody as I wouldn't want my client reading anything bad about their app.
I understand you love you're Windows Phone and you think I'm trying to bash it. I'm not. We lost our asses building an app for the thing - for a large well known client - because the browser doesn't have enough memory. Last time I tried I could crash it pretty quickly on non mobile optimized websites. I listened to my staff cry for weeks about the thing.
The Surface is a different story, we've written a couple of apps for that and other than the fact that it lies about the screen resolution, it rocks. No, it's not an iPad AIR but the iPad AIR doesn't run Windows:-)
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Man after my own heart as Marina Wi-Fi absolutely sucks,
What, no stapler?
Best answer yet. Do you have the floppies that make a sound akin to a coat hanger being beaten against a pie pan, or do you have the newer ones?
Once one has heard that sound... one never forgets it.
Thanks for the explanation. So would it be correct to say that these guys have come up with a new type of waveguide then?
The challenge is, how do you sell a product to a demographic that is immune to traditional interruption marketing, sees sales as an evil profession, is more likely influenced by their online affinity circle than specifications documents, and brands corporations as evil? Simple. You go to the digital watering holes where these groups congregate. Like slash dot. And then you pretend to be one of them... You use a semantic listening tool to determine intent, and correlate that against the velocity of propagation (e.g. how messages spread from community to community) to build a key influencer map, identifying the potential evangelists in the community to create an online persona that speaks in a voice that will resonate with the community. It's not a conspiracy theory it's social media marketing 101.
... or you're going straight to hell" IT'S THE SAME BEHAVIOR PATTERN but it's easier to pick on the progressives, they have extremely thin skins and come out of the woodwork like crazy when I make comments like that - it makes me howl with laughter. In tech it's more like "Your shit stinks. My shit smells like roses" -- and funny thing these are the people who generally act like prim a-donas but do mediocre work...
Saying "Anyone who disagrees with me is a paid shill" is no different than "Either you accept the entirety of the progressive/liberal beliefs or you are a ignorant, racist, homophobic, xenophobic hayseed clinging to guns and religion evil rethugnikan" - A clear sign of an immature, deluded person who thinks with their emotions rather than their brain. And BTW I could have just easily picked a fundamental right wing Christian who says "Either you accept
Braindead idiocy is rampant, absolutely everywhere at terrifying levels. It's a wonder that as a species we've gotten as far as we have...
Have a nice day, friend. I hope you and all those you care about are healthy, happy and fulfilled in their lives. May good fortune travel with you all of your days.
Thanks, and the same to you. When I hear the word "Internet" and "Regulate" or "Classify" in the same universe, let alone the same book, the same page, or the same sentence I react in horror - because I make my living off the Internet, as do all the people who work for me, and I care about my livelihood, and their livelihood very much. The last thing I need is more red tape just to make a living. This administration has done all it could to drive us out of business and we are still here. So yeah, I have some passion about this, OK?
EXACTLY! And if you're like most folks, you have a deep folder structure like work\client\job\artifactclass so being able to create libraries (symlinks) to what you're focused on this week saves you a LOT of time, With Windows 8 it's click, click, click, click over and over all day long just to get to the folder.
Your statement makes no sense. How can I "shift my income to dividends" exactly?
Double taxation refers to this: I get paid $1,000. I paid taxes on that. I put it in a savings account. I get $10 in interest. Taxing that $10 is double taxation.
We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, and under the Obama administration taxes on the wealthy have been increased.
What has the result been? Growing income inequality.
Sometimes the PRESCRIPTION for fixing a problem is just WRONG. It takes a brave person to admit this.
This doesn't tell the whole story. The Obama Administration is operating off the 2008 budget passed by the Democratically controlled house and senate, and hasn't passed one since. They did this so they could maintain Federal Spending at the 2008 level, and let the mandatory yearly budget increases to continue to grow at 2008 levels. This has never been done before in the history of the country and the budgeting process. It's one of the reasons the debt is increasing so fast, tax revenues went down during the great recession (that is still going on) but spending went up based on 2008 increases.
They then played a little political game where they submit absurd budgets that have no chance of passing (Which are voted down by an overwhelming majority of his own party) - and blame the other side for not passing a budget. It's the Washington two step of the highest order.
The story is about a PROPOSED budget. A budget hasn't been passed since the 2008 Congress.
Agreed, and to make matters worse they FINALLY gave us sym links (libraries) in Windows 7 and then turned around and tried to cripple them in Windows 8 by making them harder to find - and use. Jeez Microsoft we had sym links on the VAX - Which is what Dave Cutler ripped off to make NT...
All large organizations (companies, political parties, government) pays trolls to post in forums/comment sections. It's the new name for "Public Relations"
Read any recent book on Marketing and PR and you'll learn this. Work in Digital Interactive and visit any large advertising agency and they are right there, in plain sight, busily typing away. It's up to you, the consumer of this content, to decide who is a real person and who is a paid troll.
In my opinion... if you see the same talking point all over the web -- it's the result of a coordinated troll army.
Yep. Mostly the people who have money, which are exactly the people the government needs....
If you classify ISP's as common carriers, the FCC will create a department or a sub-department to manage them. This department will get a budget, and that budget will have a mandatory yearly increase (This is how the government WORKS for EVERYTHING).
Once the basic job has been done, and the processes are in place - what will these people do? They will want to keep their jobs secure. This is how HUMANS function in organizational hierarchies. They will do this by creating new reasons for their existence, new things that need to be regulated, new systems that need to be put in place, new needs for more people to increase the fiefdom.
This is how absolutely everything in government works. Every time a new regulation is written... or a law is passed - this is what happens. This is exactly why we have a bloated Federal Government that's increasingly intrusive. It's do-gooders and well intentioned folks who fail to understand how this shit actually gets implemented that are the problem.
So create a straw man (Did I say that regulating ISP's was EVIL? I did not) - and call me names all you want. I'm telling you HOW this grand idea is actually going to WORK in something called THE REAL WORLD. Once you flip the switch and do this, you won't be able to go back... ever. You will have created a monster that will simply grow, and grow, and grow consuming as much wealth as it can.
So next you'll accuse me of not wanting to regulate anything, and you'll tell me I am against clean air and water, and if that doesn't work, then I am a racist. So boring, and so predictable it all is.
The ultimate monopoly is the Federal Government...
The problem is once you build the agency... that will regulate the ISP's... it's sole mission will quickly become one of continuing it's existence, and getting ever larger automatic budget increases every year. The way you do this is to create new "crisis's" that require more regulation, and more people to enforce the regulations.
This is exactly how we got into the mess we are in on the Federal level. Because after the cry "There ought to be a law" nobody ever thinks about what's going to happen five, ten, twenty years down the road.
Public infrastructure is political code speak for a multi-generational money laundering machine, that transfers money out of the hands of the wealth creators, and into the pockets of greedy politicians, who then live rich lives of plenty. There are no exceptions, none at all.
What you fail to realize is that these things came about in spite of the government, not because of it.
Sure, on the surface the politicians tell you that they care about little people like you, and that this act, or that imperial decree is for your benefit. But on closer examination you would discover that big government and big business are simply two shades of exactly the same thing, and that they have much more in common than they have different.
The worst thing that could happen is that the mighty government decides it needs to squeeze more blood from the Internet industry in order to buy votes, pay for lavish vacations, and generally fulfill it's greedy nature. Of course this greedy move will be sold as something entirely different...
I was exactly there until I read Quantum Leap, It's worth the effort.
There is nothing in your essay here that I disagree with. It is well written, spot on, and absolutely correct.
If you were to read my comments on Slashdot you'd find that I am often engaged in battles with people who are perverting science as a way to further a political agenda... arguing that politics and money have significantly corrupted certain scientific disciplines, debating people who make wild assertions that "Science is settled", and of course the folks who want to group scientists into diametrically opposed camps. I get a lot of flame for this, and have been called every name in the book because of it.
Personally I'd like to see someone dare to draw comparisons between progressive ideology and religion, as my progressive friends and my Christian friends behave exactly the same in so many ways. This observation will result in some major flame coming my way. I can't accept any doctrine where I either believe all of it without question - or I am declared the enemy....
I too believed that Religion and Science had nothing at all in common until I read Quantum Leap, it changed my mind - and I discovered they do have some things in common.
I'm a proponent of Religious Science, and yes, there is such a thing. Religious Science in a nut shell says that there is something to religion - and that it should be studied, scientifically - to determine why it works for so many people. Of course such a broad world view means surely I am going to hell, right?
You should look into Religious Science it is very close to what you have figured out. Religious Science starts with the premise that all religions have some value, and that whatever belief you have - if it works for you - is proof of the power of consciousness. So what we need to do is look at Religion - using a scientific method.
It asks questions like "Why, exactly, does prayer work for some people?" and "What beliefs do all Religions share, and why?"
That's because "progressives" tout moral relativism (e.g. If it feels good, do it) - Which to a Christian appears to be a lack of a moral compass. Moral relativism is just a fancy name for atheist, isn't it?
Moral relativism always seems to turn out to be a giant rationalization process, leading to absurd statements such as "The end justifies the means". The truth is that most of the atheists I have met are full of rationalizations that end up sounding just like the moral directives they so distaste in religion. But when you question these rationalizations you get the same "yer going to hell" mindset you get from the Christians... Except they prefer name calling (ignorant, stupid, dangerous, bad for America, racist, homophobe, xenophobe, etc.)
Is one any more enlightened than the other? No. They are both practicing the same form of "I'm cool and you suck" - and striving to ensure that no real discourse takes place. What's the difference between calling me a racist (because I disagree with you) and telling me I'm going to hell? Not much...
Spot on. OT to your thread but the truth of the matter is that Religion and Science have more in common than they have different - They are both offering theories about how the Universe works, and striving to convince people that they are right.
A great read is "Quantum Leap" (Dean Nelson and Karl Giberson) - it dives deeply into how religion and science are connected. As far as I can remember it does not mention Kirk and Spock...
There's a fascinating article in Der Speigal (not exactly a right wing publication) about the colossal failure that is Germany's wind farm, and how "Electricity is now a luxury good". But don't let the MYTH interfere with REALITY, right? I can heat my house with a MYTH, can't I?
The key word in the article above is that it hasn't really happened, it's just a marketing announcement. On other words, a dream.
Seems that Yachtworld has a mobile version. Sorry. I was looking for a site that wouldn't give away anybody as I wouldn't want my client reading anything bad about their app.
:-)
I understand you love you're Windows Phone and you think I'm trying to bash it. I'm not. We lost our asses building an app for the thing - for a large well known client - because the browser doesn't have enough memory. Last time I tried I could crash it pretty quickly on non mobile optimized websites. I listened to my staff cry for weeks about the thing.
The Surface is a different story, we've written a couple of apps for that and other than the fact that it lies about the screen resolution, it rocks. No, it's not an iPad AIR but the iPad AIR doesn't run Windows