In THE United Fascist States of AMERICA programmers have these problems.
Which means no, intelligent people do have a choice who write software. Its called off shoring.
If the big guys can do it, so can the little guys, and too a much greater affect might I add.
So if your a company like Microsoft who has been blowing disinformation about not finding enough skilled labor like a lof of American companies do, surprise, you just might actually have that problem in the future and it might not actually be all lies.
If you are a talented programmer, move off shore: LOW medical expenses, LOW cost of living and virtually no legal issues.
People have to understand this whole thing is by design.
America is a fascist state, and now that all of government is controlled by unethical people in Wall Street and Banking, any competition to any other business the government favors is going to get whacked hard.
If I actually owned a business I would shut it down and move it off shore to the far east.
Good Luck Obama telling the Chinese how to run things. If you try you will get your arse kicked.
Since the fall of the republic last year we have converted to a fascist state.
Beware if you are in business for yourself and you live in the United States.
You are now considered an enemy of the state because you compete against government corporations.
If you make a car, then chances are your going to be attacked in some way...probably through industrial espionage. Government owned businesses like the Government Motors corporation we have in the USA do not like competition.
Microsoft is a government sanctioned software monopoly. I suspect open source is going to have a _really_ rough time of it.
With this kind of climate, I think it is ripe for a patent attack on open source, leading to open source being banned or more likely regulated by the government. (You must go through a government agency first before you create a open source project.)
Nice propaganda stunt, but if anyone here honestly believes we are going to make a dent on alternative ANYTHING that doesn't involve OIL is seriously whacked.
There is no way the 8 or so families in the world that control OIL distribution and production will permit someone to just walk in and destroy their wealth and power.
There is nothing hard about the problem of alternative energy to OIL. There is however, a political and power structure problem.
Gates is a fool.
He doesn't have the expertise or the education to make any meaningful comments about a free market that would be built upon alternative energy and how it would work.
Gates wealth was built on fraud, industrial espionage, theft and pay offs to judges and congressional leaders to operate an illegal monopoly in the United States. (Now, the United Fascist States of America.)
This is the last person I want commenting on anything....
The whole healthcare thing is a scam, which sorta works like this:
1) Insurance adjuster says they are changing plans, so your company has to enroll everyone again.
2) Insurance company threatens said company who bought plan for employees with exhorbitant rate hikes if they do not take the plan.
3) You can't make any claims for the first 6 months on the new enrollment.
3) Rinse and repeat every year or two. The reason? Insurance companies want that 6 months of free payments where they basically don't have to do jack.
Health Insurance, next to Wall Street is the biggest running scam right now in the US. Even if you do have corporate insurance, it is typically so bad, if you lost it you wouldn't be that much worse off anyway.
Half the time the plans don't pay for services they say they do, and if you do manage to get a claim from them, they will find a way to not renew your insurance.
For profit health insurance is just that. For profit. That means they make the most money by not insuring you.
Sounds like a awesome system doesn't it?
Unless of course your sick.
I really do not know what all the fuss is about losing corporate health insurance. It sucks anyway, and if you make any claims they will drop you or force your rates so high you can't pay.
Just go to the emergency room and if your illegal immigrant you don't have to pay anything anyway, if not just file for bankruptcy and go on disability like everyone else.
Better yet, since your not employed or not working their I would SERIOUSLY consider moving out of the country.
The USA is not a republic any more and all of our representatives wipe their arse with copies of the constitution. Every kid born today is a slave to the wealthy elite in the USA.
They only people that have stood up to these bankers have been Iceland'ers. I would consider moving their.
Who knows, maybe the banner of freedom will rise again in that cold far off little island.
1) I wouldn't do any of these things to anyone, who bought a computer from me.
2) If the state offered me a trillon dollars to build laptops with software like this I would not do it. (Even if they sent me to prison.)
There are plenty of ways to retrieve a stolen laptop without pictures or this kind of control, which is entirely not required.
3) It is a sad day when nobody even bothers remembering what tyranny was, and so how unsurprising it begins with scum bags like this to spy on our children just to start with.
I am getting the names of these guys in the area because they won't ever be working for my company.
I will also object to working with these scum bags on any technology project or new business I get. If the customer doesn't know what they are doing or why I object I will make sure to educate them.
People like this are a danger to our constitution, and should be pitied, and black balled.
Wait till they start genetically testing everyone with DNA requests for security purposes.
Thats when the fun will begin.
Expect to be denied loans based on life span and proclivities to all sorts of diseases they find you will contract.
Effectively they can prevent your student loans/grants to save money as they certainly do not want to invest in anyone who won't be around long enough to pay back that 100K.
All sorts of monkey business is planned. If you have a kid right now, the blood of every baby born in US hospitals MUST be saved by the department of homeland security for a genetic test for identification.
-Hack
PS: NO, they DO NOT tell you about that last part.
1) We the people, deny and do not believe the facts for man made climate change with regards to CO2 output. 2) We deny that such CO2 output is as classified a poisonous substance. 3) We do not believe the carbon credits derivatives markets are set up for the end purpose of anything but greed and creating a world tax system to fund the new world order, under the thinly veiled guise of "saving the planet". 4) Finally we the people do believe that there has been sufficient evidence recently of proof that the scientific community headed by the IMF has falsified data, fraudulently misrepresented data, hidden methods and determinations of all current conclusions including the suppression of contrary points of view, published by the IMF and UN of man made climate change under the pretext of the goals stated in #3.
The whole thing rather in a nutshell is a SCAM with Mr. Al Gore owning huge leveraged securities in 3 firms that would sell CO2 carbon credits and derivatives.
Its disgusting what they plan on doing to the third world with this system.
The poor and the powerless in this world ALREADY HAVE PLENTY OF CONSTRAINTS ON THEM TO KEEP THEM IN THEIR PLACE AND OFFER NO COMPETITION, Mr. Gore, thank you very much.
Which is what we need. It is going to happen anyway, because the USA will not be able to fund Universities at the level we are right now for very much longer. (We are within 10 years going to lose our reserve currency status. I figure half of the cities will look like Detroit in about 15-20 years from now, unless we have a complete revolution of some sort.)
This idea, that you can take an exam to memorize facts and then apply them to contrived problems, and then if you do not do well, for the rest of your career or any career for that matter automatically prevents you from learning further, is really at fault here. I would like to point out, all of the major players in science and technology from Newton (who at Cambridge was the most unremarkable student of all time.....C maybe even a D student....as well as Einstein which both where shut outs of the establishment.)
The whole test/exam to determine ones ability is just incidental argument, if you "cheated" or not. The whole thing has to be thrown out.
Besides, the way science works, is you "cheat" by looking at nature or others work and you build off of others work with your own ideas. Which, I would like to point out come from YOU, not anyone else.
Nothing ever in life will be a set of facts, from a contrived problem sitting there waiting for you to solve.
What we need is to get rid of test and exams, and replace them with peer review works or work based on merit on the college level so that your peers, your combined works on a topic of field, are recognized as a body of knowledge produced and of high enough quality for you to be granted a degree, by your peers.
In this context, you will be given projects to do, or work on with your peers, and then you will defend them with questions from your peers about your work. Typically these would be projects that look at unsolved problems in computer science (if you think your really above average.)
It is INCREDIBLY HARD to cheat in a environment like this, much harder than the test memorize exam crap we have now.
Besides, that is how the world works and that is how good science and learning actually works.
We no longer have a representative government. 85% OF congress is always re-elected, which really doesn't matter anyway because corporations put people in the places of power from either party. Your illusion of voting is there to keep the scenery of democracy recognizable so people are kept in line.
The differences between the two parties are really just to divert attention and amount to very little.
Some predictions on my part:
1) More of the US will become like Detroit, Mich. Mainly looking like a bombed out third world country.
2) Universities. Hey this is a prediction: Universities are next on the chopping block. Over priced, and under powered, American Universities are about to go the way of the do do bird.
The big "University" crashes will come in the next 5 years as the powers that be (Foreign Banks under direction of the Federal Reserve) finish gutting the financial system of the US. University campuses will probably be converted to low income housing "projects" developments for the poor, who are growing by leaps and bounds.
10 Years from now the wealthy will be sending their kids to China to learn Chinese, and to do research or get a job there. The rest of you poor bastards will end up working in a government job, or out on the streets in the projects where massive unrest will be common.
The fastest growing job is going to be in the "goon" squads the government hires to keep all of the mass unrest from getting out of control. (Luckily since the demise of the University system, you don't need a degree to be a goon, just naivety and loyalty to the government.)
So being a government goon wielding a baton is going to be a BIG growth industry.
3) The US Dollar. Wow, what a huge crash that one is going to be. In the next 5-10 years the US dollar will no longer be a reserve currency. The powers that be won't let it crash all at once of course, they will most likely do a controlled demolition. (Mainly to protect their own assets in the USA.)
They already have started the process using deflation so that those on the top have time to sell their US securities at a decent price before the next phase hits. That will probably come this summer with a huge financial crisis with the banks _again_.
Not sure what excuse they will use this time, last time it was because _the little people where to blame for borrowing money_. My guess is it will be something to do with commercial real estate.
Doesn't matter really, because all of you poor bastards are going to pay, and YOU WILL PAY whatever the Fed decides it wants for its cronies.
Each and every American owes 80,000 dollars. You WILL pay this debt off or your grand kids will...but it WILL be paid.
The end result will be lots of poor and impoverished people with big rolls of money in their pockets looking into super market windows lusting at all of the food on the shelves, but too poor to buy anything except maybe butter and a little bit of flour. (They won't be breaking those windows because the goons will be out in force on most street corners and businesses.)
4) Bombs. Wow this will be a cottage industry. 10 Years from now I see bombs going off all over the place. Washington DC will be transformed into a fortress with most of the government buildings moved or removed from the public eyes so they can't be hit by "terrorists" (i.e. People who are wondering why they have been robbed by the banks and have decided the political system doesn't work anymore and resort to violence to change it by assassinations on corporate and government leaders.)
I mean already all 10 heads of the Federal Reserve have private high tech militarys guarding their homes and families. All of them live in closed gated and heavily defended communities.
I wonder what they are afraid of? They couldn't possibly doing something illegal or criminal and are afraid of retribution could they?
5) Finally, a terrorist attack. Its going to happen. Not sure
I bet they get in at 8am, take their lunch and are home by 5PM.
I would bet on it, because I have never worked anywhere yet where executives work those sorts of hours.
If they do, they are small privately held companies and not publicly traded.
The only time I ever put those sort of hours in where for myself, at about $100 an hour.
There is no way I will ever do that for a corporation. In fact, as an individual, if you are seriously considering wrecking your health or your personal family relationships at that sort of work pace, why the hell would you do it for a corporation instead of your own private business?
"They're probably desperate from the declining numbers, and revenue, and are in financial trouble."
Them and half of the United States small businesses and local, state and Federal government.
It tisn't going to get better any time soon either.
-Hack
PS: Unless of course your a bank or Wall Street which is currently in the middle of another Ponzi scheme with the market going up, and everything else going down the crapper.
Since man made climate change data has been purposefully destroyed, or "enhanced" or otherwise manipulated in complete secrecy, along with major academic contributors absolutely refusing peer review, this sounds like a perfect match in my view.
Perhaps the CIA can give them pointers on how to not leak information or at the very least secure their computer systems.
1) Whatever happened to live performances and the "work ethic" of the tour? If singers and entertainers want to get paid, then they have to get out there and entertain. I don't consider a DVD a moral obligation to the entertainer any more so when I use to listen to the radio and heard the songs for free.
Same thing with Movies. Movies are played, I buy a ticket, and I go see them. Simply because I see one of them being played on a screen some place, I do not feel obligated to continue paying for the rest of my life every time I see it.
2) This entire mess is created by the middleman, who simply refuse to die and just want a check to be delivered to their door without any work involved. It is such a sick and disgusting practice that now governments are taxing people for media that has no chance of copying songs onto it.
Its time for the middleman to die and any additional revenue that would be earned on TShirts, or songs go to the artists instead.
I am sure people remember the Western Digital Drives that would refuse to store.mp3 files??? Put there by the middle man. Oh and did I mention it is immoral to sell backup devices which DO NOT BACKUP YOUR STUFF.
3) Finally, the intrusion on our liberties and property rights by these middleman to place rootkits on DVD's, or media to subert the use of property is really outrageous. Even more outrageous practically nothing was done too Sony.
They should be out of business, period.
I have seen a great deal many posts about this topic and people have to understand Bono is not dumb. But, he is not constrained by the same life everyone else on here leads and in many ways, has way too much money and free time on his hands to understand why anyone would be opposed to giving any entity the right to track anything.
It is sad, that people who have wealth very rarely see any of the real problems in the world.
I call it the Marie Antoinette "Let them Eat Cake" syndrome.
Entropy exists in all systems, on earth, in space, with our without a sun, and it has the same effect.
It makes no difference what energy is applied to a system, the end result is the same. order->disorder.
I would also like to point out, simply having energy in a system, does not mean it will create life. I think you need to study Biochemistry a bit more, energy input has an entirely different meaning of course to sustain life once it has arose, but for it to arise in the first place is just one of a large list of problems, that cannot be solved...yet.
So, no, I don't believe you.
For my own opinion, I believe Entropy prevents life from organizing. Until I see new life forms all kinds coming out of a lab some place, I am going to stick with entropy.
But unlike your fellow climate "researchers" I don't drink Kool-Aid. I want evidence, and I want proof.
As for your other idea that any of the communications leaked are a non issue, well of COURSE they are. Everyone knows the Emails were planted by the creationists and religious extremists!
I mean these communications that were leaked were such a non issue that is why Phil Jones had to step down, because it was all faked!!
-Hack
PS: You sir are a NON ISSUE. Why don't you go and trade some carbon credits with your Wall Street friends, Bankers and Oil Industrialists and the majority of the worlds Billionaires at the Copenhagan Conference.
...(Thats only true for closed systems, earth is not a closed system (hint: big glowing day-star is shining plenty of energy on us).
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Guy, you have to be kidding me.
You are telling me that entropy doesn't apply outside of the Earth in the known universe, simply because we have a Sun?
You need a serious science lesson.
Unfortunately, you probably have been hanging around with the guy in here who thinks I am a creationist.
He needs a science lesson to, because what he is practicing is religion.
Oh, and say Hi to your fellow research buddies over there in England for me would ya? You know, who are researching the "climate change ""science"" ".
I hear they recently leaked a few Emails....and I hear he had to step down.
That is too bad.
-Hack
PS: Really it is. No worry though, Luthor broke away from Rome and formed his own Church. Maybe you Darwinists and the Climate Change guys could get together and form your own Church too?
Sorry if you don't hang around with the guy in England, what is his name???? Oh well, can't remember...probably like a lot of his "research".
No alternative theory can exist because you "priests of Darwinism" won't allow anything other than Darwinism to explain your view of the world.
If it is different than yours you immediately bring God into the picture and claim I am a religious nut cake.
Just remember though, you assumed I was a creationist and I am not, a creationist.
I simply observed all you people desperately, want to kill "God". Why you people always respond to any critique of the evolutionary BIBLE of Darwin as a attack by an imaginary being is beyond me.
You see, my position I don't care which is which, I want the facts.
Until biochemistry can solve all of these riddles and we begin to produce species out of the lab all the "quaint" little You Tube videos in the world are not going to convince me that Darwin is correct.
You change ONE freakin protein in the eye and it all comes falling apart.
One guy on here even thinks the whole thing is deterministic and doesn't work by chance and that "somehow natural selection" makes it work, ywet won't explain what the difference is between random probability and natural selection!
What a bunch of bull. If natural selection makes it work, then if it is that well understood, make a new species from a frog then. I want four eyes on the frog, and I want it purple with speckled poka dots.
Since it is very well understood "theory" then it shouldn't be too hard to do.
You Darwinists are so full of yourselves and you point at creationists that can't provide proof of God, yet turn around and endorse a theory of how life works, yet can't produce one freakin new species.
Your all hypocrites and THAT is one thing you have in common with creationists.
First of all, the internet I am talking about is the one corporate people are complaining about.
I would remind everyone here, that the corporate internet that is in use today, didn't actually become useful till around 1996. The Internet I would argue didn't actually come into existence, and was still mainly "DarpaNET" until LINUX came onto the scene.
I think the reason is because of Linux OS Kernel.
LINUX is a OS kernel, it is not all of the driver packages that come with it, many of which as pointed out here are not GPL'ed.
Lastly, lots of applications have been pointed out here that are not GPL which form the plumbing of the corporate internet in which I speak of, tis true.
However, I would like to make a counter point: corporate America makes all of those "different" licenses "go" through the use of the LINUX OS kernel. (Which, congratulations RedHat on another outstanding year, may it continue!)
I would also like all of you to think about WHY a GPL'ed kernel excelled, and positively beat the pants off of BSD using a supposedly "free-er" license with fewer "restrictions". Not just from a technology perspective, but through also the understanding of how to make money building software.
I would also like to ask everyone to think about why companies continue to steal GPL code, when BSD style licensed alternatives clearly exist.
(Most recent Microsoft cases and "gadget" makers etc which I am sure all of you are aware of as slashdot readers in the recent weeks postings.)
I think that the statement it proves evolutionary theory is a bit, strong.
The are issues with evolutionary theory, and I think people get confused about certain things like, a species ability to adapt to its environment, is that it fails to explain how a completely different species evolves, number one.
For example, Polar Bears, which yes due to climate change (Man made or otherwise...) are losing their environment, are adapting by interbreeding with Grizzily bears and producing offspring. This is happening because the Polar bears are forced to move south because of lack of Icepak.
Certain ideas about them being seperate species are about to shatter some of the ideas of evolutionary theory, but like a lot of evidence due to climate change, it is being surpressed or just tossed out because it doesn't support the idea species change can only happen in a said species, not by interbreeding between "species".
Secondly, it is not clear even from a biological point of view how a new complex system can arise by random chance, such as developing an entirely different organ for example in a very gradual way. We already know how intricate DNA is, and the instructions to build cellular organs number in the billions of proteins. How all 1 billion of those proteins arose by chance over time is a huge problem for evolutionary proponents. Not just mathematically speaking, but no mechnism in biochemistry has been pointed out so far, that would allow for random variations in biochemisty to produce anything but proteins or instruction which kill the organism outright.
Third and finally, there are certain things about the theory that the laws of thermodynamics seem to be in violation, particularly entropy which states systems move from complexity to simplicity, not the other way around.
Something odd is going on with life, for sure.
As we learn more about life, the case of how life works gets even more odd.
I don't believe in the "religion" of evolutionary theory, and I think it has held back science for a century in making any real progress in the basic questions in biochemistry, which if you do not tow the line your papers don't get published or funded.
But I wish evolutionary "priests" of the science would stop trying to kill "God" and let talented young people with new ideas about how biochemistry works and the mechnisms for change to be done in a more tolerant environment.
You know I get sort of sick of hearing about how the GPL should be more business friendly.
The internet was basically built on the GPL, and most of the code that makes it go was built using the GPL.
Don't like what the GPL has done or has to offer?
Why don't you try and imagine a internet only built for the highest paid players for a moment?
Yeah I sort of though so, so stop your whining corporate America and just be HAPPY most of us GPL authors don't organize and actually make you play by your own rules.
For one thing, making you pay for all of our code you are secretly using for free. Slightly hypocritical, yeah, but that is how business is. It is only business if you can rip someone off in a "unresticted" manner.
That is completely OK.
I for one have had enough of the whining about the GPL and how restrictive it is.
It seems to me, its only restrictions is you can't rip people off.
Well, if I wanted to start a new "country" I would:
1) Keep the standards closed and proprietary. However, at the same time, I would promote the idea of open standards and indicate that the reason why we cannot publish the standards that run the countries government is because they are currently a work in progress, and doesn't exist.
But, we have everyones best interests in mind because we hold open conferences that discuss open standards. (Just not government ones that run the country.)
2) We would invite the world to review our new standards. However, the proprietary panel would be only space we would actually book. The "others" could just go home or stand around in the cold and discuss whatever.
3) Finally, we would publish that the "others" cannot agree on a standard and we where working around the clock to come up with one. Internally however, the proprietary bookings we made would just go ahead an inact a standard, definately not open are you kidding me?
Scientific Research should be published and available freely to the public, and transparent.
This is not what is happening with the Climate Research.
Why is this not a simple thing?
The reason why is because these people are not interested in Climate Research, that is why.
They want to set a precedent to tax all nations on earth, they don't care what the topic is....if it is to make believe we can control the climate on Earth, so be it.
Science always goes wrong when people close it. I know they come up with all sorts of excuses....Well, we cannot have THEM looking at our research, they aren't qualified!
Oh, we can't have the public look at it, they are too stupid to understand the papers WE write.
Oh, our data is PROPRIETARY, we are sorry, you can't look at it.
I have read and seen every single line and its CRAP.
Give you another example how insidious this is. I got a Email from a prof, here at UW-Madison soliciting work on a cool wireless project, with new cutting edge hardware. I wrote back and said I am interested to learn about the hardware as long as I don't have to sign a non disclosure agreement and it wasn't a broadcom device which if it was no need to reply.
Haven't heard anything.
Wireless is a sticking point with me. Everyone knows what goes on with wireless stuff. Especially when dealing with Broadcom devices on linux. Closure of the hardware gets me very angry, and I started shouting about the crap that happens behind the scenes between Microsoft's licensing of wireless and companies that provide or even hint at opening their drivers. Essentially Microsoft will threaten or imply the drivers API may or may not change and arbitrarily not including them in the installation process for Windows out of the box.
The second thing I do not like about not sharing information, whether it is to lock in markets like broadcom and microsoft alliance tries to do, or why wireless N took 5 years to approve, or JUST PLAIN F'IN GOOD OLE AMERICAN CORPORATE GREED, you basically end up with bad products.
So is it not anyones surprise, that just like trying to use a closed wireless hardware device and be all secretive and crap, you get crappy working devices, likewise you close climate research or research in general, you get crappy research.
In this case, research with a purpose to keep scientists busy by buying their silence, while you use the results of the work to establish a nefarious world wide governmental bureaucracy, to make trillions.
Meanwhile, people will die by the millions, which I sometimes wonder if Copenhagen meetings real issue they discuss is population control.
As history demonstrates, the most dangerous times to live in is when a Empire, particularly a bankrupt one is losing power.
To shore up the losses, at first legions of goon squads will become quite common place as those will be the best jobs. (I love the propaganda on the "goon mobiles" or public police squad cars. I watched one video where one officer beat a unarmed mentally deficient man while the other tasered him with the Camera in one "Goon Mobile" capturing the side of the other "Goon Mobile" that had "Protect Honor Public Safety" written on it.)
I think Bugs Bunny said it best: "What a Maroon!"
Don't fight the Goon...at least not yet. Wait till the Empire is sufficiently weakened to the point where even the goons don't hold any loyalty or they are forced to shoot or incarcerate their own mothers or children.
Then you know its time to organize as time will be on your side.
But until then, your going to get run over, beaten, electrocuted or even Microwaved to a slow simmer so don't resist the goon squad.
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I would like to point out was invented using American tax payers money.
It belongs to the American people, not to our government, and certainly not to any foreign individual, corporation or government.
If the American people want to play hands off, it should be voted on.
I vote "NO" to ending American management of the internet.
Leave our friggin internet alone.
-Hack
In THE United Fascist States of AMERICA programmers have these problems.
Which means no, intelligent people do have a choice who write software. Its called off shoring.
If the big guys can do it, so can the little guys, and too a much greater affect might I add.
So if your a company like Microsoft who has been blowing disinformation about not finding enough skilled labor like a lof of American companies do, surprise, you just might actually have that problem in the future and it might not actually be all lies.
If you are a talented programmer, move off shore: LOW medical expenses, LOW cost of living and virtually no legal issues.
People have to understand this whole thing is by design.
America is a fascist state, and now that all of government is controlled by unethical people in Wall Street and Banking, any competition to any other business the government favors is going to get whacked hard.
If I actually owned a business I would shut it down and move it off shore to the far east.
Good Luck Obama telling the Chinese how to run things. If you try you will get your arse kicked.
-Hack
Since the fall of the republic last year we have converted to a fascist state.
Beware if you are in business for yourself and you live in the United States.
You are now considered an enemy of the state because you compete against government corporations.
If you make a car, then chances are your going to be attacked in some way...probably through industrial espionage. Government owned businesses like the Government Motors corporation we have in the USA do not like competition.
Expect any part of your supply chain to be a target if it is in the USA for example: http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/toyota/toyota-consumer-safety-advisory-102572.aspx
Microsoft is a government sanctioned software monopoly. I suspect open source is going to have a _really_ rough time of it.
With this kind of climate, I think it is ripe for a patent attack on open source, leading to open source being banned or more likely regulated by the government.
(You must go through a government agency first before you create a open source project.)
-Hack
Gates is part of the establishment.
That being, OIL.
Nice propaganda stunt, but if anyone here honestly believes we are going to make a dent on alternative ANYTHING that doesn't involve OIL is seriously whacked.
There is no way the 8 or so families in the world that control OIL distribution and production will permit someone to just walk in and destroy their wealth and power.
There is nothing hard about the problem of alternative energy to OIL. There is however, a political and power structure problem.
Gates is a fool.
He doesn't have the expertise or the education to make any meaningful comments about a free market that would be built upon alternative energy and how it would work.
Gates wealth was built on fraud, industrial espionage, theft and pay offs to judges and congressional leaders to operate an illegal monopoly in the United States.
(Now, the United Fascist States of America.)
This is the last person I want commenting on anything....
Seriously.
-Hack
Seriously.
The whole healthcare thing is a scam, which sorta works like this:
1) Insurance adjuster says they are changing plans, so your company has to enroll everyone again.
2) Insurance company threatens said company who bought plan for employees with exhorbitant rate hikes if they do not take the plan.
3) You can't make any claims for the first 6 months on the new enrollment.
3) Rinse and repeat every year or two. The reason? Insurance companies want that 6 months of free payments where they basically don't have to do jack.
Health Insurance, next to Wall Street is the biggest running scam right now in the US. Even if you do have corporate insurance, it is typically so bad, if you lost it you wouldn't be that much worse off anyway.
Half the time the plans don't pay for services they say they do, and if you do manage to get a claim from them, they will find a way to not renew your insurance.
For profit health insurance is just that. For profit. That means they make the most money by not insuring you.
Sounds like a awesome system doesn't it?
Unless of course your sick.
I really do not know what all the fuss is about losing corporate health insurance. It sucks anyway, and if you make any claims they will drop you or force your rates so high you can't pay.
Just go to the emergency room and if your illegal immigrant you don't have to pay anything anyway, if not just file for bankruptcy and go on disability like everyone else.
Better yet, since your not employed or not working their I would SERIOUSLY consider moving out of the country.
The USA is not a republic any more and all of our representatives wipe their arse with copies of the constitution. Every kid born today is a slave to the wealthy elite in the USA.
They only people that have stood up to these bankers have been Iceland'ers. I would consider moving their.
Who knows, maybe the banner of freedom will rise again in that cold far off little island.
-Hack.
Some comments:
1) I wouldn't do any of these things to anyone, who bought a computer from me.
2) If the state offered me a trillon dollars to build laptops with software like this I would not do it.
(Even if they sent me to prison.)
There are plenty of ways to retrieve a stolen laptop without pictures or this kind of control, which is entirely not required.
3) It is a sad day when nobody even bothers remembering what tyranny was, and so how unsurprising it begins with scum bags like this to spy on our children just to start with.
I am getting the names of these guys in the area because they won't ever be working for my company.
I will also object to working with these scum bags on any technology project or new business I get. If the customer doesn't know what they are doing or why I object I will make sure to educate them.
People like this are a danger to our constitution, and should be pitied, and black balled.
-Hack
Wait till they start genetically testing everyone with DNA requests for security purposes.
Thats when the fun will begin.
Expect to be denied loans based on life span and proclivities to all sorts of diseases they find you will contract.
Effectively they can prevent your student loans/grants to save money as they certainly do not want to invest in anyone who won't be around long enough to pay back that 100K.
All sorts of monkey business is planned. If you have a kid right now, the blood of every baby born in US hospitals MUST be saved by the department of homeland security for a genetic test for identification.
-Hack
PS: NO, they DO NOT tell you about that last part.
That was just plain stupid.
It is a fact the climate of the earth changes.
What idiots.
If they would have said:
1) We the people, deny and do not believe the facts for man made climate change with regards to CO2 output.
2) We deny that such CO2 output is as classified a poisonous substance.
3) We do not believe the carbon credits derivatives markets are set up for the end purpose of anything but greed and creating a world tax system to fund the new world order, under the thinly veiled guise of "saving the planet".
4) Finally we the people do believe that there has been sufficient evidence recently of proof that the scientific community headed by the IMF has falsified data, fraudulently misrepresented data, hidden methods and determinations of all current conclusions including the suppression of contrary points of view, published by the IMF and UN of man made climate change under the pretext of the goals stated in #3.
The whole thing rather in a nutshell is a SCAM with Mr. Al Gore owning huge leveraged securities in 3 firms that would sell CO2 carbon credits and derivatives.
Its disgusting what they plan on doing to the third world with this system.
The poor and the powerless in this world ALREADY HAVE PLENTY OF CONSTRAINTS ON THEM TO KEEP THEM IN THEIR PLACE AND OFFER NO COMPETITION, Mr. Gore, thank you very much.
-Hack
Which is what we need. It is going to happen anyway, because the USA will not be able to fund Universities at the level we are right now for very much longer.
(We are within 10 years going to lose our reserve currency status. I figure half of the cities will look like Detroit in about 15-20 years from now, unless we have a complete revolution of some sort.)
This idea, that you can take an exam to memorize facts and then apply them to contrived problems, and then if you do not do well, for the rest of your career or any career for that matter automatically prevents you from learning further, is really at fault here. I would like to point out, all of the major players in science and technology from Newton (who at Cambridge was the most unremarkable student of all time.....C maybe even a D student....as well as Einstein which both where shut outs of the establishment.)
The whole test/exam to determine ones ability is just incidental argument, if you "cheated" or not. The whole thing has to be thrown out.
Besides, the way science works, is you "cheat" by looking at nature or others work and you build off of others work with your own ideas. Which, I would like to point out come from YOU, not anyone else.
Nothing ever in life will be a set of facts, from a contrived problem sitting there waiting for you to solve.
What we need is to get rid of test and exams, and replace them with peer review works or work based on merit on the college level so that your peers, your combined works on a topic of field, are recognized as a body of knowledge produced and of high enough quality for you to be granted a degree, by your peers.
In this context, you will be given projects to do, or work on with your peers, and then you will defend them with questions from your peers about your work. Typically these would be projects that look at unsolved problems in computer science (if you think your really above average.)
It is INCREDIBLY HARD to cheat in a environment like this, much harder than the test memorize exam crap we have now.
Besides, that is how the world works and that is how good science and learning actually works.
-Hackus
is of course finished.
We no longer have a representative government. 85% OF congress is always re-elected, which really doesn't matter anyway because corporations put people in the places of power from either party. Your illusion of voting is there to keep the scenery of democracy recognizable so people are kept in line.
The differences between the two parties are really just to divert attention and amount to very little.
Some predictions on my part:
1) More of the US will become like Detroit, Mich. Mainly looking like a bombed out third world country.
2) Universities. Hey this is a prediction: Universities are next on the chopping block. Over priced, and under powered, American Universities are about to go the way of the do do bird.
The big "University" crashes will come in the next 5 years as the powers that be (Foreign Banks under direction of the Federal Reserve) finish gutting the financial system of the US. University campuses will probably be converted to low income housing "projects" developments for the poor, who are growing by leaps and bounds.
10 Years from now the wealthy will be sending their kids to China to learn Chinese, and to do research or get a job there. The rest of you poor bastards will end up working in a government job, or out on the streets in the projects where massive unrest will be common.
The fastest growing job is going to be in the "goon" squads the government hires to keep all of the mass unrest from getting out of control.
(Luckily since the demise of the University system, you don't need a degree to be a goon, just naivety and loyalty to the government.)
So being a government goon wielding a baton is going to be a BIG growth industry.
3) The US Dollar. Wow, what a huge crash that one is going to be. In the next 5-10 years the US dollar will no longer be a reserve currency. The powers that be won't let it crash all at once of course, they will most likely do a controlled demolition. (Mainly to protect their own assets in the USA.)
They already have started the process using deflation so that those on the top have time to sell their US securities at a decent price before the next phase hits. That will probably come this summer with a huge financial crisis with the banks _again_.
Not sure what excuse they will use this time, last time it was because _the little people where to blame for borrowing money_. My guess is it will be something to do with commercial real estate.
Doesn't matter really, because all of you poor bastards are going to pay, and YOU WILL PAY whatever the Fed decides it wants for its cronies.
Each and every American owes 80,000 dollars. You WILL pay this debt off or your grand kids will...but it WILL be paid.
The end result will be lots of poor and impoverished people with big rolls of money in their pockets looking into super market windows lusting at all of the food on the shelves, but too poor to buy anything except maybe butter and a little bit of flour.
(They won't be breaking those windows because the goons will be out in force on most street corners and businesses.)
4) Bombs. Wow this will be a cottage industry. 10 Years from now I see bombs going off all over the place. Washington DC will be transformed into a fortress with most of the government buildings moved or removed from the public eyes so they can't be hit by "terrorists" (i.e. People who are wondering why they have been robbed by the banks and have decided the political system doesn't work anymore and resort to violence to change it by assassinations on corporate and government leaders.)
I mean already all 10 heads of the Federal Reserve have private high tech militarys guarding their homes and families. All of them live in closed gated and heavily defended communities.
I wonder what they are afraid of? They couldn't possibly doing something illegal or criminal and are afraid of retribution could they?
5) Finally, a terrorist attack. Its going to happen. Not sure
Woops!
Wrong government.
Sorry.
-Hack
I bet they get in at 8am, take their lunch and are home by 5PM.
I would bet on it, because I have never worked anywhere yet where executives work those sorts of hours.
If they do, they are small privately held companies and not publicly traded.
The only time I ever put those sort of hours in where for myself, at about $100 an hour.
There is no way I will ever do that for a corporation. In fact, as an individual, if you are seriously considering wrecking your health or your personal family relationships at that sort of work pace, why the hell would you do it for a corporation instead of your own private business?
Dumb.
-Hack
"They're probably desperate from the declining numbers, and revenue, and are in financial trouble."
Them and half of the United States small businesses and local, state and Federal government.
It tisn't going to get better any time soon either.
-Hack
PS: Unless of course your a bank or Wall Street which is currently in the middle of another Ponzi scheme with the market going up, and everything else going down the crapper.
Since man made climate change data has been purposefully destroyed, or "enhanced" or otherwise manipulated in complete secrecy, along with major academic contributors absolutely refusing peer review, this sounds like a perfect match in my view.
Perhaps the CIA can give them pointers on how to not leak information or at the very least secure their computer systems.
http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_n52/climate-warming-global.html
-Hack
First of all:
1) Whatever happened to live performances and the "work ethic" of the tour? If singers and entertainers want to get paid, then they have to get out there and entertain. I don't consider a DVD a moral obligation to the entertainer any more so when I use to listen to the radio and heard the songs for free.
Same thing with Movies. Movies are played, I buy a ticket, and I go see them. Simply because I see one of them being played on a screen some place, I do not feel obligated to continue paying for the rest of my life every time I see it.
2) This entire mess is created by the middleman, who simply refuse to die and just want a check to be delivered to their door without any work involved. It is such a sick and disgusting practice that now governments are taxing people for media that has no chance of copying songs onto it.
Its time for the middleman to die and any additional revenue that would be earned on TShirts, or songs go to the artists instead.
I am sure people remember the Western Digital Drives that would refuse to store .mp3 files??? Put there by the middle man. Oh and did I mention it is immoral to sell backup devices which DO NOT BACKUP YOUR STUFF.
3) Finally, the intrusion on our liberties and property rights by these middleman to place rootkits on DVD's, or media to subert the use of property is really outrageous. Even more outrageous practically nothing was done too Sony.
They should be out of business, period.
I have seen a great deal many posts about this topic and people have to understand Bono is not dumb. But, he is not constrained by the same life everyone else on here leads and in many ways, has way too much money and free time on his hands to understand why anyone would be opposed to giving any entity the right to track anything.
It is sad, that people who have wealth very rarely see any of the real problems in the world.
I call it the Marie Antoinette "Let them Eat Cake" syndrome.
-Hack
Maybe a government bailout is in order for our poor writer?
-Hack
Entropy exists in all systems, on earth, in space, with our without a sun, and it has the same effect.
It makes no difference what energy is applied to a system, the end result is the same. order->disorder.
I would also like to point out, simply having energy in a system, does not mean it will create life. I think you need to study Biochemistry a bit more, energy input has an entirely different meaning of course to sustain life once it has arose, but for it to arise in the first place is just one of a large list of problems, that cannot be solved...yet.
So, no, I don't believe you.
For my own opinion, I believe Entropy prevents life from organizing. Until I see new life forms all kinds coming out of a lab some place, I am going to stick with entropy.
But unlike your fellow climate "researchers" I don't drink Kool-Aid. I want evidence, and I want proof.
As for your other idea that any of the communications leaked are a non issue, well of COURSE they are. Everyone knows the Emails were planted by the creationists and religious extremists!
I mean these communications that were leaked were such a non issue that is why Phil Jones had to step down, because it was all faked!!
-Hack
PS: You sir are a NON ISSUE. Why don't you go and trade some carbon credits with your Wall Street friends, Bankers and Oil Industrialists and the majority of the worlds Billionaires at the Copenhagan Conference.
...(Thats only true for closed systems, earth is not a closed system (hint: big glowing day-star is shining plenty of energy on us).
-
Guy, you have to be kidding me.
You are telling me that entropy doesn't apply outside of the Earth in the known universe, simply because we have a Sun?
You need a serious science lesson.
Unfortunately, you probably have been hanging around with the guy in here who thinks I am a creationist.
He needs a science lesson to, because what he is practicing is religion.
Oh, and say Hi to your fellow research buddies over there in England for me would ya? You know, who are researching the "climate change ""science"" ".
I hear they recently leaked a few Emails....and I hear he had to step down.
That is too bad.
-Hack
PS: Really it is. No worry though, Luthor broke away from Rome and formed his own Church. Maybe you Darwinists and the Climate Change guys could get together and form your own Church too?
Sorry if you don't hang around with the guy in England, what is his name???? Oh well, can't remember...probably like a lot of his "research".
Whoever said I was a creationist?
Which is my point.
No alternative theory can exist because you "priests of Darwinism" won't allow anything other than Darwinism to explain your view of the world.
If it is different than yours you immediately bring God into the picture and claim I am a religious nut cake.
Just remember though, you assumed I was a creationist and I am not, a creationist.
I simply observed all you people desperately, want to kill "God". Why you people always respond to any critique of the evolutionary BIBLE of Darwin as a attack by an imaginary being is beyond me.
You see, my position I don't care which is which, I want the facts.
Until biochemistry can solve all of these riddles and we begin to produce species out of the lab all the "quaint" little You Tube videos in the world are not going to convince me that Darwin is correct.
You change ONE freakin protein in the eye and it all comes falling apart.
One guy on here even thinks the whole thing is deterministic and doesn't work by chance and that "somehow natural selection" makes it work, ywet won't explain what the difference is between random probability and natural selection!
What a bunch of bull. If natural selection makes it work, then if it is that well understood, make a new species from a frog then. I want four eyes on the frog, and I want it purple with speckled poka dots.
Since it is very well understood "theory" then it shouldn't be too hard to do.
You Darwinists are so full of yourselves and you point at creationists that can't provide proof of God, yet turn around and endorse a theory of how life works, yet can't produce one freakin new species.
Your all hypocrites and THAT is one thing you have in common with creationists.
-Hack
First of all, the internet I am talking about is the one corporate people are complaining about.
I would remind everyone here, that the corporate internet that is in use today, didn't actually become useful till around 1996. The Internet I would argue didn't actually come into existence, and was still mainly "DarpaNET" until LINUX came onto the scene.
I think the reason is because of Linux OS Kernel.
LINUX is a OS kernel, it is not all of the driver packages that come with it, many of which as pointed out here are not GPL'ed.
Lastly, lots of applications have been pointed out here that are not GPL which form the plumbing of the corporate internet in which I speak of, tis true.
However, I would like to make a counter point: corporate America makes all of those "different" licenses "go" through the use of the LINUX OS kernel.
(Which, congratulations RedHat on another outstanding year, may it continue!)
I would also like all of you to think about WHY a GPL'ed kernel excelled, and positively beat the pants off of BSD using a supposedly "free-er" license with fewer "restrictions". Not just from a technology perspective, but through also the understanding of how to make money building software.
I would also like to ask everyone to think about why companies continue to steal GPL code, when BSD style licensed alternatives clearly exist.
(Most recent Microsoft cases and "gadget" makers etc which I am sure all of you are aware of as slashdot readers in the recent weeks postings.)
-Hack
I think that the statement it proves evolutionary theory is a bit, strong.
The are issues with evolutionary theory, and I think people get confused about certain things like, a species ability to adapt to its environment, is that it fails to explain how a completely different species evolves, number one.
For example, Polar Bears, which yes due to climate change (Man made or otherwise...) are losing their environment, are adapting by interbreeding with Grizzily bears and producing offspring. This is happening because the Polar bears are forced to move south because of lack of Icepak.
Certain ideas about them being seperate species are about to shatter some of the ideas of evolutionary theory, but like a lot of evidence due to climate change, it is being surpressed or just tossed out because it doesn't support the idea species change can only happen in a said species, not by interbreeding between "species".
Secondly, it is not clear even from a biological point of view how a new complex system can arise by random chance, such as developing an entirely different organ for example in a very gradual way. We already know how intricate DNA is, and the instructions to build cellular organs number in the billions of proteins. How all 1 billion of those proteins arose by chance over time is a huge problem for evolutionary proponents. Not just mathematically speaking, but no mechnism in biochemistry has been pointed out so far, that would allow for random variations in biochemisty to produce anything but proteins or instruction which kill the organism outright.
Third and finally, there are certain things about the theory that the laws of thermodynamics seem to be in violation, particularly entropy which states systems move from complexity to simplicity, not the other way around.
Something odd is going on with life, for sure.
As we learn more about life, the case of how life works gets even more odd.
I don't believe in the "religion" of evolutionary theory, and I think it has held back science for a century in making any real progress in the basic questions in biochemistry, which if you do not tow the line your papers don't get published or funded.
But I wish evolutionary "priests" of the science would stop trying to kill "God" and let talented young people with new ideas about how biochemistry works and the mechnisms for change to be done in a more tolerant environment.
-Hack
You know I get sort of sick of hearing about how the GPL should be more business friendly.
The internet was basically built on the GPL, and most of the code that makes it go was built using the GPL.
Don't like what the GPL has done or has to offer?
Why don't you try and imagine a internet only built for the highest paid players for a moment?
Yeah I sort of though so, so stop your whining corporate America and just be HAPPY most of us GPL authors don't organize and actually make you play by your own rules.
For one thing, making you pay for all of our code you are secretly using for free. Slightly hypocritical, yeah, but that is how business is. It is only business if you can rip someone off in a "unresticted" manner.
That is completely OK.
I for one have had enough of the whining about the GPL and how restrictive it is.
It seems to me, its only restrictions is you can't rip people off.
-Hack
Well, if I wanted to start a new "country" I would:
1) Keep the standards closed and proprietary. However, at the same time, I would promote the idea of open standards and indicate that the reason why we cannot publish the standards that run the countries government is because they are currently a work in progress, and doesn't exist.
But, we have everyones best interests in mind because we hold open conferences that discuss open standards. (Just not government ones that run the country.)
2) We would invite the world to review our new standards. However, the proprietary panel would be only space we would actually book. The "others" could just go home or stand around in the cold and discuss whatever.
3) Finally, we would publish that the "others" cannot agree on a standard and we where working around the clock to come up with one. Internally however, the proprietary bookings we made would just go ahead an inact a standard, definately not open are you kidding me?
-Hack
Very simple.
Scientific Research should be published and available freely to the public, and transparent.
This is not what is happening with the Climate Research.
Why is this not a simple thing?
The reason why is because these people are not interested in Climate Research, that is why.
They want to set a precedent to tax all nations on earth, they don't care what the topic is....if it is to make believe we can control the climate on Earth, so be it.
Science always goes wrong when people close it. I know they come up with all sorts of excuses....Well, we cannot have THEM looking at our research, they aren't qualified!
Oh, we can't have the public look at it, they are too stupid to understand the papers WE write.
Oh, our data is PROPRIETARY, we are sorry, you can't look at it.
I have read and seen every single line and its CRAP.
Give you another example how insidious this is. I got a Email from a prof, here at UW-Madison soliciting work on a cool wireless project, with new cutting edge hardware. I wrote back and said I am interested to learn about the hardware as long as I don't have to sign a non disclosure agreement and it wasn't a broadcom device which if it was no need to reply.
Haven't heard anything.
Wireless is a sticking point with me. Everyone knows what goes on with wireless stuff. Especially when dealing with Broadcom devices on linux. Closure of the hardware gets me very angry, and I started shouting about the crap that happens behind the scenes between Microsoft's licensing of wireless and companies that provide or even hint at opening their drivers. Essentially Microsoft will threaten or imply the drivers API may or may not change and arbitrarily not including them in the installation process for Windows out of the box.
The second thing I do not like about not sharing information, whether it is to lock in markets like broadcom and microsoft alliance tries to do, or why wireless N took 5 years to approve, or JUST PLAIN F'IN GOOD OLE AMERICAN CORPORATE GREED, you basically end up with bad products.
So is it not anyones surprise, that just like trying to use a closed wireless hardware device and be all secretive and crap, you get crappy working devices, likewise you close climate research or research in general, you get crappy research.
In this case, research with a purpose to keep scientists busy by buying their silence, while you use the results of the work to establish a nefarious world wide governmental bureaucracy, to make trillions.
Meanwhile, people will die by the millions, which I sometimes wonder if Copenhagen meetings real issue they discuss is population control.
-Hack
As history demonstrates, the most dangerous times to live in is when a Empire, particularly a bankrupt one is losing power.
To shore up the losses, at first legions of goon squads will become quite common place as those will be the best jobs.
(I love the propaganda on the "goon mobiles" or public police squad cars. I watched one video where one officer beat a unarmed mentally deficient man while the other tasered him with the Camera in one "Goon Mobile" capturing the side of the other "Goon Mobile" that had "Protect Honor Public Safety" written on it.)
I think Bugs Bunny said it best: "What a Maroon!"
Don't fight the Goon...at least not yet. Wait till the Empire is sufficiently weakened to the point where even the goons don't hold any loyalty or they are forced to shoot or incarcerate their own mothers or children.
Then you know its time to organize as time will be on your side.
But until then, your going to get run over, beaten, electrocuted or even Microwaved to a slow simmer so don't resist the goon squad.
-Hack