clearly, OsX is a white rabbit , about 6 feet tall, whose name is Charlie. He gives me carrots if I sing American Pie in falsetto while on tiptoe. I told him that I shall stop, for the store sells carrots for 6 pence and 3 shillings. He told me very well.
considering that i wrote most of the wikipedia articles about these projects, that i am one of the people who filed FOIA requests about them, and that ive spent hundreds of hours reading about it, youd think id know this.
however, 60+ hour weeks and staying up too late trying to write slashdot summaries can fell the basic reading comprehension of anyone.
and no they dont have editors. they have curators who expect their authors to do a good job which i have clearly been failing at lately.
while Alexander is preaching this stuff, his crew and/or the contractors who are being payed billions of taxpayer dollars are hard at work building the next version of Stuxnet.
its pure marketing.
but there is absolutely almost zero common ground between the fundamental ethos of the 2600 types - namely, the search for truth, knowledge, and wisdom, and the fundamental ethos of the military - destroy the enemy. sure, the military needs some smart folks to help it do its work, and sometimes its necessary. but to confuse the two, is to risk hubris, and to flaunt the fact that you apparently don't read enough Aeschylus.
is that its not like some psycho in a movie theatre. one minute you are there, eating popcorn, the next minute you are in the afterlife. no
cancer last for years. sometimes 10 years sometimes 30. you never know. and what do you get to do while you are waiting? sit around on a fucking tube while your body wastes into some kind of alien being while you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on $9 advils and whatever. but you cant get marijuana, that would be 'wrong'. just a fuckton of morphine. its all fucking bullshit.
in my less angry mode, i remember talking about salyl ride when i was a kid. these were real people we could look up to. i dont know if they have a name for that kind of idealism of youth but i still think it is worth something, even after all we have been through and all we have learned about our own failures and mistakes as a species.
the patterns of the seams were shared by numerous ancient civilizations, separated by centuries, that had no contact with each other. and yet, they all share the same markings.
they are not even paper. they are bits in a computer. when the Fed wants to 'print more money' what they do is click some button to up a counter in a database. thats what money has become. there is nothing backing US currency or the Euro for that matter except for the faith of the human species.
doesnt mean that its factually incorrect. Goldman Sachs has a huge influence in the white house and in congress, and anyone who studies the history of the early 21st century will have to study Goldman Sachs.
you can read countless articles about Goldman trades within the past 10 years, since they became a public company especially, and find numerous examples of where Goldman 'analysts' or 'consultants' were wishy washy with the 'trading' folks , either their own or others.
just becasue finance schools teach 'chinese walls' and they talk about it in presentations doesnt mean it actually happens.
Lantinga was at one of the first linux game companies, Loki Software, way way way back in the day, the company was trying to port windows games to linux and make a profit. Didn't work out so hot, but Lantinga made SDL out of it, and then he got the job at Blizzard .
headlines have to be short , especially when you are trying to 'scoop' the entire rest of the internet news sites. unfortunately when your story sits in the slashdot queue for several hours, the entire internet "scoops you"
globofucker incorporated decides to almost completely monopolize the gadget_x industry, buying up competition, selling off entire factories, firing thousands of people, then jacking up prices, and most of all
introducing 'planned obsolescence' into their production process. i.e. they make crap thats supposed to break.
you can see the results of this by visiting any apartment complex dumpster on a weekend morning. vacuum cleaners are a particular favorite - you'd think that after a 100+ years of development, capitalism would have produced the finest vacuum cleaner in existence.
instead, it is actually producing WORSE vacuum cleaners that break more quickly than ever before. my parents had a metal vacuum cleaner that lasted for 50 years. meanwhile the average vacuum you buy in a store now will cease to function within 5 years or maybe a decade.
in otherwords. this stuff about 'durability' and 'reliability' doesnt matter anymore -we live in a world where it is profitable for corporations to produce unreliable, undurable garbage that breaks all the time so we have to buy more of it.
this is where 3d printing is having its first successes. you can go on thingiverse and find knobs and buttons for various appliances and gadgets - knobs and buttons which were obviously designed to break or designed without thought as to durability.
instead of having to throw out your old gadget, which is the dream of the finance people working inside FuckemCorp, you can now keep it running for a few more years.
its like chess. the point of the thing isn't to "solve problems", it is to exercise the problem solving center of the brain. its supposed to be somewhat amusing and/or entertaining. if you make sudoku so hard that only a computer can solve it, you have kind of defeated the purpose of the game in the first place. like trying to play basketball with 20 foot high hoops
we already have abundant resources being harvested and processed mostly by automated engines. for example, wheat is almost entirely processed by gigantic computer controlled combines.
and yet there are millions of people starving in places like ethiopia (still).
if robots are harvesting material it doesnt really matter unless you actually own a robot, own the land they are taking the material from, etc.
look at what is going on in spain.50 % unemployment for youth. the hyper efficient society doesnt necessarily mean that that efficiency's products are spread around. it more likely means that a massive number of people will be considered 'superfluous' and essentially placed in an 'apartheid' system. think of great britain in the industrial revolution , and what it did to ireland (mass starvation, mass forced emigration, etc)
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clearly, OsX is a white rabbit , about 6 feet tall, whose name is Charlie. He gives me carrots if I sing American Pie in falsetto while on tiptoe. I told him that I shall stop, for the store sells carrots for 6 pence and 3 shillings. He told me very well.
I went to the store. No carrots.
Explain that to me? Will you?
considering that i wrote most of the wikipedia articles about these projects, that i am one of the people who filed FOIA requests about them, and that ive spent hundreds of hours reading about it, youd think id know this.
however, 60+ hour weeks and staying up too late trying to write slashdot summaries can fell the basic reading comprehension of anyone.
and no they dont have editors. they have curators who expect their authors to do a good job which i have clearly been failing at lately.
while Alexander is preaching this stuff, his crew and/or the contractors who are being payed billions of taxpayer dollars are hard at work building the next version of Stuxnet.
its pure marketing.
but there is absolutely almost zero common ground between the fundamental ethos of the 2600 types - namely, the search for truth, knowledge, and wisdom, and the fundamental ethos of the military - destroy the enemy. sure, the military needs some smart folks to help it do its work, and sometimes its necessary. but to confuse the two, is to risk hubris, and to flaunt the fact that you apparently don't read enough Aeschylus.
is that its not like some psycho in a movie theatre. one minute you are there, eating popcorn, the next minute you are in the afterlife. no
cancer last for years. sometimes 10 years sometimes 30. you never know. and what do you get to do while you are waiting? sit around on a fucking tube while your body wastes into some kind of alien being while you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on $9 advils and whatever. but you cant get marijuana, that would be 'wrong'. just a fuckton of morphine. its all fucking bullshit.
in my less angry mode, i remember talking about salyl ride when i was a kid. these were real people we could look up to. i dont know if they have a name for that kind of idealism of youth but i still think it is worth something, even after all we have been through and all we have learned about our own failures and mistakes as a species.
god i fucking hate cancer.
the patterns of the seams were shared by numerous ancient civilizations, separated by centuries, that had no contact with each other. and yet, they all share the same markings.
more money, more problems.
they are not even paper. they are bits in a computer. when the Fed wants to 'print more money' what they do is click some button to up a counter in a database. thats what money has become. there is nothing backing US currency or the Euro for that matter except for the faith of the human species.
"[China is going like Adam Smith on Steroids]"
if Adam Smith had believed in slavery, child labor, repression of free speech, and quasi socialist corporations part owned by the military
doesnt mean that its factually incorrect. Goldman Sachs has a huge influence in the white house and in congress, and anyone who studies the history of the early 21st century will have to study Goldman Sachs.
im a little confused as to what you would actually consider 'stealing'.
my favorite definition is from Jennifer Aniston's character in Office Space.
you take something thats not yours. and then it becomes yours.
you can read countless articles about Goldman trades within the past 10 years, since they became a public company especially, and find numerous examples of where Goldman 'analysts' or 'consultants' were wishy washy with the 'trading' folks , either their own or others.
just becasue finance schools teach 'chinese walls' and they talk about it in presentations doesnt mean it actually happens.
Lantinga was at one of the first linux game companies, Loki Software, way way way back in the day, the company was trying to port windows games to linux and make a profit. Didn't work out so hot, but Lantinga made SDL out of it, and then he got the job at Blizzard .
Cmon folks lets get his name right.
and how can we stop them?
didn't end well. we all wound up going back to DRAM eventually
this whole situation is like rain on my wedding day.
or maybe Ira "I dont know how she got in that trunk in my closet" Einhorn?
recently about how Huffington Post can put up the same story with an inflammatory title and get 10 times more hits than the New York Times.
headlines have to be short , especially when you are trying to 'scoop' the entire rest of the internet news sites. unfortunately when your story sits in the slashdot queue for several hours, the entire internet "scoops you"
the old school type of geometry, where you just have a straightedge and a compass to draw circles around a point.
so... here is the situation.
globofucker incorporated decides to almost completely monopolize the gadget_x industry, buying up competition, selling off entire factories, firing thousands of people, then jacking up prices, and most of all
introducing 'planned obsolescence' into their production process. i.e. they make crap thats supposed to break.
you can see the results of this by visiting any apartment complex dumpster on a weekend morning. vacuum cleaners are a particular favorite - you'd think that after a 100+ years of development, capitalism would have produced the finest vacuum cleaner in existence.
instead, it is actually producing WORSE vacuum cleaners that break more quickly than ever before. my parents had a metal vacuum cleaner that lasted for 50 years. meanwhile the average vacuum you buy in a store now will cease to function within 5 years or maybe a decade.
in otherwords. this stuff about 'durability' and 'reliability' doesnt matter anymore -we live in a world where it is profitable for corporations to produce unreliable, undurable garbage that breaks all the time so we have to buy more of it.
this is where 3d printing is having its first successes. you can go on thingiverse and find knobs and buttons for various appliances and gadgets - knobs and buttons which were obviously designed to break or designed without thought as to durability.
instead of having to throw out your old gadget, which is the dream of the finance people working inside FuckemCorp, you can now keep it running for a few more years.
please check http://oeis.org/
Largest square = sum of squares of divisors of n.
1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 49, 49, 81, 81, 121, 121, 196, 169, 225
its like chess. the point of the thing isn't to "solve problems", it is to exercise the problem solving center of the brain. its supposed to be somewhat amusing and/or entertaining. if you make sudoku so hard that only a computer can solve it, you have kind of defeated the purpose of the game in the first place. like trying to play basketball with 20 foot high hoops
we already have abundant resources being harvested and processed mostly by automated engines. for example, wheat is almost entirely processed by gigantic computer controlled combines.
and yet there are millions of people starving in places like ethiopia (still).
if robots are harvesting material it doesnt really matter unless you actually own a robot, own the land they are taking the material from, etc.
look at what is going on in spain .50 % unemployment for youth. the hyper efficient society doesnt necessarily mean that that efficiency's products are spread around. it more likely means that a massive number of people will be considered 'superfluous' and essentially placed in an 'apartheid' system. think of great britain in the industrial revolution , and what it did to ireland (mass starvation, mass forced emigration, etc)