Oh yeah, this is unrelated to the spreading of radionucliotide contamination. So ingesting these substances are dangerous to human health, and life, in general, as opposed to big heaping spoonfuls of cesium-137 and strontium-90, which are safe, and can be used as flavorings in gourmet cooking.
And it has been pointed out that they (MS) have the technology to do their own Skype if they want to.
Therefore: They are buying Skype to kill it off. Period.
They will have much flowery speech about "best of breed solutions" and "innovating new technologies for a better future" etc. But in the end, it's about drinking blood, and spitting out the bones.
They are counting on the FTC not doing anything credible to stop them. Otherwise they would not proceed with this.
Yes. This was a hard-sell item to Queen Isabella, too.
Nor was Spain able to monopolize all the profits. Can you imagine how to even calculate what the "value" of those profits is? We're talking about the "New World".
Now - this is not going to happen in our "Isabella" lifetimes. Whether we ever break Faster Than Light travel or not. But multiply that above "value" times tens, or hundreds of thousands of worlds.
On the other hand, if I were the US military, I would have maybe thought about flying-in an add-on to this mission, with an extra chunk of helicopter "wreckage" that was mocked-up out at some workshop in Palmdale, by a bunch of stoner laid off Hollywood prop designers. Then I'd make up a story about losing a helicopter in the mission, and dump it overboard as we left.
Then I'd laugh my ass off as everyone fought over the bits and pieces and tried to spend billions trying to figure out what it was, and how to make it work.
Well, it's a long long way from "in theory, this kind of shape should do X" - to, "it actually flies, in a battlefield environment." (and in this case, apparently, it's not the most functional design, if it had issues getting enough lift - granted, this was not an ideal operating environment. But to make it work in the "real world" - that's the Top Secret part.
And sometimes, what civilian experts believe "should work" - doesn't actually work "that way" when you put it together. (as in: "gee, it's still really loud, WTF?").
There is a LOT to *HATE* about the iPod. But I loved the nano, in particular, because the click-wheel made it so damn easy to navigate a "large" library of tunes. For the very limited UI of that postage-stamp of an lcd screen, this was the best compromise. I even tried an iPod touch, and hated it. It was much more difficult to use. (and of course, 8 GB? Really? who the f*ck is so limited in their musical taste that 8 GB isn't going to bore the crap out of them in the space of a few days? The MP3 format is all about convenience. The 8 GB space limit, when the technology could easily been 32, or 64, was, if nothing else, ANTI-convenience.)
But only the iPod had that click-wheel.
The fact that you're pretty much almost forced to use iTunes to load your iPod (an the fact that the new iPods all pretty much suck ass) - are the primary reasons why I have not replaced my old, busted nano (and sold my iPod touch).
I tried a zune, and two different (VERY different) samsung players. They were all just a fucking pain in the ass to navigate.
How many companies have been purchased exactly for this reason? (to be shut down - so competition can be eliminated from the marketplace). (to the naysayers - you have not been there, you do not know. Of course it is illegal. And of course it is impossible to prove "intent" in a corporate act, and it is folly to prosecute after the fact, because it is impossible to calculate damages or reparations, and impossible to carry out an adequate sentence).
[i]With today's government oversight and teleco mentality could it end any other way?[/i]
given that "oversight" is more used as a way for lawmakers to shakedown corporations for campaign donations, (thus, silencing individual voters, and, depriving us of actual, effective regulation and oversight), of course, it could NOT end any other way.
The real irony here, is that this is a media industry - and we're talking about a free market response to a content and bandwidth glut, (and a real shortage in personal free-time) - by pressuring price downward. And the industry is responding by flexing their monopoly control to bring prices back up in line - because that same channel is also used for mass communication, and by enforcing artificial scarcity on that bandwidth, they can continue to price "Free Speech" out of the hands of the rest of us, while continuing to make it into a "tax" we pay to the content industry, through which they can influence lawmakers.
As a civilian, standing in the line of fire, and considering it was Iranian hackers who supposedly pulled off the SSL cert hack last month, I'm not looking forward to the escalation of this little war.
Well, the fact is, no company can do jack squat, until they blow some hot air out their ass, and get the financiers all hot-and-bothered. Who do you think runs the world, anyway? Until SpaceX brings in revenue, they need to keep the lights on. And the only way they do that, is by sweet talking the banks. It is a smarmy, distasteful, slimy business, about the level of used-car salesmanship. Nowhere near as glamorous as actually blasting rockets into space. Unfortunately. But the fuckers who print the money get to have their say-so.
Until Elon figures out how to put a W-33 on top of a one of his missiles, and point it at Goldman Sachs. THEN he won't need to do much talking anymore.
The government is; just to start off, opening up with a hundred billion (dollars) worth of reconstruction work. Anything that endangers the future of the nuclear industry - or the reconstruction, including "scaremongering" about contamination on the land on which they will be rebuilding. . . is going to be considered "illegal information". And you better believe that media entities outside of Japan will honor this. This is an international finance concern now.
There *have* already been many stories of early cancers in those who are in the evacuation zone; stories which are not in the mainstream media; (and these accounts are rapidly disappearing from social media sites). Personal stories from survivors. Some are among people who should have evacuated and didn't; but also in areas where no evacuation warning was ever posted. (because they were based on a strict radial basis, instead of actual locations where contamination was detected). We can suspect there will be more such stories in the coming months - but we will not hear them.
Different measurement systems have their uses. For example. When measuring radiation contamination, Bequerels, rems, rads, curies, (etc, ad nauseum. . . literally) can serve to obfuscate real information. Thus; the newsmedia turns to more familiar and helpful units of measurements, like, "equivalent of eating a banana a day" or "3 chest x rays a year" or "flying from New York to Paris". For example, the leaking unit 2 at Fukushima, today, was measured to be releasing up to 5000 bananas per hour. Isn't this useful?
Probably the most justified use of such technology, and the most practically useless, given the state of no-fault-divorce laws. If you're married, and your spouse is cheating with a dozen other people all over town, in most states, that doesn't mean jack shit at your divorce trial. Even if they bring videos for the judge to watch and enjoy.
It might reflect on parental fitness in a custody hearing, but that actually depends entirely on whether one has a decent lawyer. Seriously.
Actually, you'd think that the RIAA/MIAA copyright troll folks would be pushing for IPv6 adoption by the ISPs. Then, every home device would have a static IP, (no DHCP, no NAT) and then they could identify illegal downloaders, and sue them for certain.
I think I likes my IPv4+NAT+DHCP world of uncertainty and pseudo-anonymity.
. . . and think about what your opponent (management) will be thinking. And they will be thinking: "The devil we know, is better than the devil we don't." That is: the employee they have. You are the devil they DO know. And can take advantage of, who knows the job, and is somewhat entangled, socially, and entrapped, are a better deal for them. However - most employers don't *know* this. Or they do - but they don't show it, in the compensation, advancement, and opportunity department. But this is really one of the huge reasons why employees get "stuck" at one level. Why promote an employee when you'll have to invest in a replacement?
So, go to a new employer -- you become the devil they do not know. You bring all that the previous employer valued (and failed to reward you for) to the table. The new employer should be rewarding you for bringing that.
All this said - every time I have had an internal promotion, it has been a huge disappointment, mostly.
Every time I have had a "forced" job change, it's been a decline in pay or compensation, one way or another.
When I have changed employers on my own, it's always been somewhat of a risky proposition, (you never know if there are going to be bad factors; unreliable or psycho bosses or coworkers . . . bad business model. . . bad market position. . . etc.) but it's ALWAYS been a huge bump in salary and standard of living for me.
yeah, no launch vehicle, no significant reusable structural components. . . ?
But I guess an astronaut can bring his or her cell-phone and laptop from one flight to the next, right?
I completely hate everything this design and vehicle represents. But, I still think it's totally cool. I still want to see it fly. Just not on that horrid abortion that was Ares.
maybe it's the mushrooms, but, wouldn't it be WEIRD, if the universe, for some reason, just, dropped a dimension right now? Like, we hit some critical energy level in our expansion, then BOOM! Scarlett Johannsen is back to an A-cup!
It is not merely pay, it's work-conditions, security, etc.
Tech companies have long perpetrated systematic age discrimination in this country. If you're over 45, and you're not a manager, you are screwed, in this industry. You're just waiting for your "day before retirement" layoff notice. The safe exception used to be the defense industry.
Then, where do you go when you need to resume your career? Nobody wants to go into a line of work where they're going to be left twisting in the wind like that.
I'm Just Another Fucking Anonymous Coward. And I understand that the fuckers in the KKK wore hoods for a reason. But then again, the perpetrators of the original Boston Tea Party dressed up like Natives for a reason too.
. . . in other words, this vote consists of nothing more than political posturing, for the purpose of shaking down big telecom companies for more campaign contributions in the next election cycle. Thanks SCOTUS, for breaking our government even worse!
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I don't see the "alarmist" tag?
Oh yeah, this is unrelated to the spreading of radionucliotide contamination. So ingesting these substances are dangerous to human health, and life, in general, as opposed to big heaping spoonfuls of cesium-137 and strontium-90, which are safe, and can be used as flavorings in gourmet cooking.
Where are they going with this?
Monopoly trial oversight ends this year.
And it has been pointed out that they (MS) have the technology to do their own Skype if they want to.
Therefore: They are buying Skype to kill it off. Period.
They will have much flowery speech about "best of breed solutions" and "innovating new technologies for a better future" etc. But in the end, it's about drinking blood, and spitting out the bones.
They are counting on the FTC not doing anything credible to stop them. Otherwise they would not proceed with this.
Yes. This was a hard-sell item to Queen Isabella, too.
Nor was Spain able to monopolize all the profits. Can you imagine how to even calculate what the "value" of those profits is? We're talking about the "New World".
Now - this is not going to happen in our "Isabella" lifetimes. Whether we ever break Faster Than Light travel or not.
But multiply that above "value" times tens, or hundreds of thousands of worlds.
The word "Profit" seems trite.
On the other hand, if I were the US military, I would have maybe thought about flying-in an add-on to this mission, with an extra chunk of helicopter "wreckage" that was mocked-up out at some workshop in Palmdale, by a bunch of stoner laid off Hollywood prop designers. Then I'd make up a story about losing a helicopter in the mission, and dump it overboard as we left.
Then I'd laugh my ass off as everyone fought over the bits and pieces and tried to spend billions trying to figure out what it was, and how to make it work.
Well, it's a long long way from "in theory, this kind of shape should do X" - to, "it actually flies, in a battlefield environment." (and in this case, apparently, it's not the most functional design, if it had issues getting enough lift - granted, this was not an ideal operating environment. But to make it work in the "real world" - that's the Top Secret part.
And sometimes, what civilian experts believe "should work" - doesn't actually work "that way" when you put it together. (as in: "gee, it's still really loud, WTF?").
There is a LOT to *HATE* about the iPod. But I loved the nano, in particular, because the click-wheel made it so damn easy to navigate a "large" library of tunes. For the very limited UI of that postage-stamp of an lcd screen, this was the best compromise. I even tried an iPod touch, and hated it. It was much more difficult to use. (and of course, 8 GB? Really? who the f*ck is so limited in their musical taste that 8 GB isn't going to bore the crap out of them in the space of a few days? The MP3 format is all about convenience. The 8 GB space limit, when the technology could easily been 32, or 64, was, if nothing else, ANTI-convenience.)
But only the iPod had that click-wheel.
The fact that you're pretty much almost forced to use iTunes to load your iPod (an the fact that the new iPods all pretty much suck ass) - are the primary reasons why I have not replaced my old, busted nano (and sold my iPod touch).
I tried a zune, and two different (VERY different) samsung players. They were all just a fucking pain in the ass to navigate.
exactly right.
How many companies have been purchased exactly for this reason?
(to be shut down - so competition can be eliminated from the marketplace).
(to the naysayers - you have not been there, you do not know. Of course it is illegal. And of course it is impossible to prove "intent" in a corporate act, and it is folly to prosecute after the fact, because it is impossible to calculate damages or reparations, and impossible to carry out an adequate sentence).
Yeah right.
The inhabitants of Easter Island also thought they could do without trees.
a little bit like. . . OpenStep? eh?
[i]With today's government oversight and teleco mentality could it end any other way?[/i]
given that "oversight" is more used as a way for lawmakers to shakedown corporations for campaign donations, (thus, silencing individual voters, and, depriving us of actual, effective regulation and oversight), of course, it could NOT end any other way.
The real irony here, is that this is a media industry - and we're talking about a free market response to a content and bandwidth glut, (and a real shortage in personal free-time) - by pressuring price downward. And the industry is responding by flexing their monopoly control to bring prices back up in line - because that same channel is also used for mass communication, and by enforcing artificial scarcity on that bandwidth, they can continue to price "Free Speech" out of the hands of the rest of us, while continuing to make it into a "tax" we pay to the content industry, through which they can influence lawmakers.
As a civilian, standing in the line of fire, and considering it was Iranian hackers who supposedly pulled off the SSL cert hack last month, I'm not looking forward to the escalation of this little war.
Well, the fact is, no company can do jack squat, until they blow some hot air out their ass, and get the financiers all hot-and-bothered. Who do you think runs the world, anyway? Until SpaceX brings in revenue, they need to keep the lights on. And the only way they do that, is by sweet talking the banks. It is a smarmy, distasteful, slimy business, about the level of used-car salesmanship. Nowhere near as glamorous as actually blasting rockets into space. Unfortunately. But the fuckers who print the money get to have their say-so.
Until Elon figures out how to put a W-33 on top of a one of his missiles, and point it at Goldman Sachs. THEN he won't need to do much talking anymore.
Are you kidding?
The government is; just to start off, opening up with a hundred billion (dollars) worth of reconstruction work.
Anything that endangers the future of the nuclear industry - or the reconstruction, including "scaremongering" about contamination on the land on which they will be rebuilding. . . is going to be considered "illegal information". And you better believe that media entities outside of Japan will honor this. This is an international finance concern now.
There *have* already been many stories of early cancers in those who are in the evacuation zone; stories which are not in the mainstream media; (and these accounts are rapidly disappearing from social media sites). Personal stories from survivors. Some are among people who should have evacuated and didn't; but also in areas where no evacuation warning was ever posted. (because they were based on a strict radial basis, instead of actual locations where contamination was detected). We can suspect there will be more such stories in the coming months - but we will not hear them.
Different measurement systems have their uses. For example. When measuring radiation contamination, Bequerels, rems, rads, curies, (etc, ad nauseum. . . literally) can serve to obfuscate real information. Thus; the newsmedia turns to more familiar and helpful units of measurements, like, "equivalent of eating a banana a day" or "3 chest x rays a year" or "flying from New York to Paris". For example, the leaking unit 2 at Fukushima, today, was measured to be releasing up to 5000 bananas per hour. Isn't this useful?
Probably the most justified use of such technology, and the most practically useless, given the state of no-fault-divorce laws. If you're married, and your spouse is cheating with a dozen other people all over town, in most states, that doesn't mean jack shit at your divorce trial. Even if they bring videos for the judge to watch and enjoy.
It might reflect on parental fitness in a custody hearing, but that actually depends entirely on whether one has a decent lawyer. Seriously.
Actually, you'd think that the RIAA/MIAA copyright troll folks would be pushing for IPv6 adoption by the ISPs. Then, every home device would have a static IP, (no DHCP, no NAT) and then they could identify illegal downloaders, and sue them for certain.
I think I likes my IPv4+NAT+DHCP world of uncertainty and pseudo-anonymity.
. . . and think about what your opponent (management) will be thinking.
And they will be thinking: "The devil we know, is better than the devil we don't."
That is: the employee they have. You are the devil they DO know. And can take advantage of, who knows the job, and is somewhat entangled, socially, and entrapped, are a better deal for them. However - most employers don't *know* this. Or they do - but they don't show it, in the compensation, advancement, and opportunity department. But this is really one of the huge reasons why employees get "stuck" at one level. Why promote an employee when you'll have to invest in a replacement?
So, go to a new employer -- you become the devil they do not know.
You bring all that the previous employer valued (and failed to reward you for) to the table. The new employer should be rewarding you for bringing that.
All this said - every time I have had an internal promotion, it has been a huge disappointment, mostly.
Every time I have had a "forced" job change, it's been a decline in pay or compensation, one way or another.
When I have changed employers on my own, it's always been somewhat of a risky proposition, (you never know if there are going to be bad factors; unreliable or psycho bosses or coworkers . . . bad business model. . . bad market position. . . etc.) but it's ALWAYS been a huge bump in salary and standard of living for me.
"People don't want to watch TV on their computers. TV is for turning your brain off. Computers are for turning your brain on." -- Steve Jobs
yeah, no launch vehicle, no significant reusable structural components. . . ?
But I guess an astronaut can bring his or her cell-phone and laptop from one flight to the next, right?
I completely hate everything this design and vehicle represents. But, I still think it's totally cool. I still want to see it fly. Just not on that horrid abortion that was Ares.
maybe it's the mushrooms, but, wouldn't it be WEIRD, if the universe, for some reason, just, dropped a dimension right now? Like, we hit some critical energy level in our expansion, then BOOM! Scarlett Johannsen is back to an A-cup!
It is not merely pay, it's work-conditions, security, etc.
Tech companies have long perpetrated systematic age discrimination in this country. If you're over 45, and you're not a manager, you are screwed, in this industry. You're just waiting for your "day before retirement" layoff notice. The safe exception used to be the defense industry.
Then, where do you go when you need to resume your career? Nobody wants to go into a line of work where they're going to be left twisting in the wind like that.
I'm Just Another Fucking Anonymous Coward.
And I understand that the fuckers in the KKK wore hoods for a reason.
But then again, the perpetrators of the original Boston Tea Party dressed up like Natives for a reason too.
yes. NOW there was a third blast.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_earthquake_nuclear_crisis
Awesome! I did not know this! Finally, I can rob the network of useful TIPS again!
The Senate is unlikely to pass the resolution."
. . . in other words, this vote consists of nothing more than political posturing, for the purpose of shaking down big telecom companies for more campaign contributions in the next election cycle. Thanks SCOTUS, for breaking our government even worse!