2.25% of a billion dollars is 22.5 million dollars. that is just enough money for some hedge fund douchebag to buy another house in connecticut, pay his child support to his 3 ex wives, hush money to his two favorite prostitutes, and still have enough left over to buy a week's worth of cocaine and diamond encrusted ice cream at some shitty, over-baroque palace in Las Vegas or Dubai.
that herbicide was banned for being dangerous for food crops while the war was still going on. what, then, were the peaceful uses of it, if it was banned for food production?
besides all this, 'wartime mentality' makes people produce things without worrying so much about the safety or purity, after all, 'we are in a war'. who has time to worry about the environment? are you with us or with the enemy? who cares about some small west virginia town, when we are defeating world communism? ramp up production as much as possible, make a profit, and win the war. the "war mentality" is what brings about factories like the one in Nitro.
without they war they wouldnt have made so much of it so quickly. it would have been easier for the scientists in FDA , EPA to stop it from being made.
science cannot claim 'neutral innocent bystander' in war profiteering on one hand and then claim that its products benefit society (an inherently non-neutral stand) on the other hand. its hypocrisy.
the only way to fight a multinational corporation is with a multinational labor movement. we should try to join together with the IT people in India and go on strikes, global world wide IT strikes, in order to bring the hedge fund managers and investment bankers to some kind of agreement.
unless this guy is willing to do that, i have little sympathy for him. i work next to plenty of highly skilled, educated people every day. you can go to any mall and find them working the cash registers.
its one thing to be manufacturing brass its another thing to be manufacturing brass as part of a company whose major business interest involves making bullet cartridges out of that brass. you can't argue its a "neutral product" when it goes right off of one line into the other where they make weapons.
the herbicide defoliant is similar here. Monsanto was a major manufacturer of agent orange - they needed the herbicide at the West Virginia plant in order to make agent orange. Acting like it was not produced for the purpose of the vietname war is, to borrow your phrase, "fucking bullshit".
evaluate its theories, and whether or not they match reality. because, as mentioned elsewhere, economics is the only 'science' where nobody cares about actually measuring reality. they come up with a bunch of theories, get payed fat 'consultant' bonuses by corrupt leaders, and live in a state of suspended, deluded animation.
a great example is from Ferguson's film "Inside Job", where he flat out proves that professors took money to lie about the state of Iceland's banking system right before it fell into the abyss circa 2008. in what other field of science do 'researchers' get payed hundreds of thousands of dollars to write up theories proving the conclusions of their benefactors? it would be like if electrical engineers were payed to say that 8 bit register can hold 500 different numbers. no, they cant.
wow, congratulations, after 150+ years, this 'science' is starting to maybe finally think about using the idea that you should use actual data from the real world in your formulation of theory. brilliant concept. let me know how it works out.
written about it, Thieves of Baghdad (9781582346458): by Matthew Bogdanos + William Patrick.
some iraqi troops used the museum as a base from which to fire at the invaders. so the US couldn't attack it, because it would have been completely wiped out by crossfire. but while those troops were based there, there was a massive theft. bogdanos was on a special unit that was sent purposely to try to secure the museum, and his team were able to recover a huge amount of material through somewhat ordinary police procedure (he had been a cop in new york), but his opinion is that there was probably an 'inside job' with someone in the iraqi bureaucracy looting the museum. i.e. in the case of the museum, the US did not have a good chance to secure it from the mobs... someone else had beaten the mobs to the punch.
that i myself dont really need much stuff 3d printed. i need to pay rent, pay for food, and pay for transportation, and heat/cooling.
3d printing really doesnt help me do any of these things. i cannot 3d print food. i cannot 3d print land. i cannot 3d print fuel or energy.
it will revolutionize a lot of things, but what will it do to the economy? even more unemployment, even less chance for anyone to move up the social ladder and rise out of subsitence poverty and wage slavery.
its like saying that helicopters are not weapons. they only enable the planning and use of weapons. well, fine, technically, guns arent even weapons, they dont kill people - bullets kill people.
people who have actually worked in a library do not believe in this bullshit. you are NOT protecting freedom of speech - you are destroying the freedom of kids to come into the library. the only people who believe in this idiotic idea of 'freedom' are pedophiles and ignorant, narrowminded douchebags who cannot manage to place themselves into another persons shoes.
public libraries are, as they are, already a magnet for streakers, public masturbators, etc. its the unspoken secret of library work. assholes like to come into libraries and do awful stuff. i dont know what it is about libraries, but they do it.
you cannot allow some guy to come in and watch porn while kids are around. there is nothing at all about 'free speech' involved in that concept. who decides what porn is? the librarians and the users of the library.
you dont need a filter to enforce this rule, its just a tool that makes it easier and less labor intensive. because, the same fucktards who scream about 'free speech' would never in a million years attend a city council meeting to try to get more funds for the libraries, or to raise library salaries, or to help out with a library fundraiser. no, but hey, you want to kick out the convicted sex offender who jacks off in front of 5 year old kids, all of a sudden you are 'big brother' restricting freedom. its bullshit. the whole argument is bullshit.
when are we going to realize that the system's only purpose is to bend you over a bench and extract your intrinsic value for the benefit of shareholders and hedge funds?
so therefore it is relevant. without the 'emotional rhetoric' about the threat of the communist chinese, the domino effect, etc etc etc, there would have been no need to kill a million people with various weapons like agent orange. so there would have been no need to manufacture it.
i only hope that your railing against 'emotional rhetoric' expands to the well payed, well rewarded PR industry that is at constant beck and call of industry and government to rile the people up so that they, in fact, allow Monsanto to pour carcinogens all over thousands of people in exchange for money.
jesus christ, this is quite possibly the dumbest, most racist pile of shit i have seen on slashdot in a long time. fucktards like you are what keeps the financial industry from actually being reformed - people don't want to be lumped along with hitler (who shared your sentiments, word for word)
i have a good understanding about linux. but not just the 'gui' stuff like 'gnome' or 'kde'. i also use something called a 'command line'. you can find it in most linux distributions, but most people don't know about it.
it is usually hidden under some obscure menu, and called something like 'the terminal'. but you can usually open one, even if the administrator has tried to lock you out, by hitting ctrl-alt-t. this opens up the 'terminal window' where you can type your 'command line'.
from there, i can use programs like 'ls', to list the files in a 'directory' (its like a folder, but the unix interpretation of what folders are). also i can start up chrome right from the command line; simply type in
chrome-browser
and instantly chrome starts up. i have timed this with a stopwatch, and it is saving me about 30% of my startup time if i run browsers from the command line.
with all of that, i just have to ask, does your precious apple have a 'command line'? do you even know how to find it, or did they 'cut you off' from your freedom, and your human dignity? i just have to ask you, if you hit ctrl-alt-t on a mac, what happens? do mac users even know there is a command called 'ls'?
the film J Edgar got it right. the Venona files would make incredibly poor evidence in a courtroom. many of them are partial and/or missing huge bits. if you just go and read them, and read the FBI papers on the surveillance done of some of the suspected agents, a large amount of it is a waste of our police time. "sep 1943. ms x went to get groceries. she went to visit mr y. she came home. dec 1943. ms x went to a book store. jan 1944. ms x had a baby. surveillance stopped."
of course, one of the major problems was that Wild Bill Donovan, the head of the OSS (prototype of the CIA) believed that the soviets were great allies, and wanted to invite the NKVD to come collaborate with the FBI. of course the congress would never go after the CIA - that would be unpatriotic or something. but they would go after some third string hollywood writer who had attended a meeting 10 years ago during the great depression, when people were dying in the street from malnutrition in Los Angeles county.
there were actual Soviet agents in the government and many were caught. they weren't caught because of mccarthy, they were caught because of ordinary police men doing their job, which is to gather evidence and present it to a court, not play hero in front of the media.
the other problem is the people like William Shirer, a journalist and historian of the Nazis, and Carl Foreman, the man who wrote High Noon, were kicked out of the US for basically no reason. they had nothing to do with actual soviet infiltration.
after all, he stole someone else's copyrighted material, and used it without permission for his own personal benefit. he should be in jail in accordance with the damage he has done to the owners of the copyright.
it is too bad SOPA didn't pass, he could be branded a terrorist.
and everything that the lives of ordinary people depend on, there has been no inflation.
oh wait, maybe the modern 'science' of economics is a gigantic pile of horse shit? maybe 'inflation' is a political number manipulated by assholes at the Fed in order to support various fucked up ideologies, policies that benefit the already rich, and whichever corrupt bribery machine happens to be in power at the moment?
and who will be the 'bookrunner' for this IPO? who will suck up untold millions of dollars, while hundreds of thousands of joe blow investors get screwed by the IPO process? who are the favored few hedge funders and well-connected who get to make a lifetime's savings in a few seconds simply for knowing the right people?
is it Goldman Sachs, is it Merrill Lynch? Morgan Stanley?
Well, there is one thing we know for sure: the Bookrunner would not exist, unless you, your tax dollars, bailed them out in 2008. Because god knows, without these hard working wall street guys and hedge fund managers skimming tens of millions off of the process of an IPO, there is no way that we could ever have innovation or progress.
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2.25% of a billion dollars is 22.5 million dollars. that is just enough money for some hedge fund douchebag to buy another house in connecticut, pay his child support to his 3 ex wives, hush money to his two favorite prostitutes, and still have enough left over to buy a week's worth of cocaine and diamond encrusted ice cream at some shitty, over-baroque palace in Las Vegas or Dubai.
that herbicide was banned for being dangerous for food crops while the war was still going on. what, then, were the peaceful uses of it, if it was banned for food production?
besides all this, 'wartime mentality' makes people produce things without worrying so much about the safety or purity, after all, 'we are in a war'. who has time to worry about the environment? are you with us or with the enemy? who cares about some small west virginia town, when we are defeating world communism? ramp up production as much as possible, make a profit, and win the war. the "war mentality" is what brings about factories like the one in Nitro.
without they war they wouldnt have made so much of it so quickly. it would have been easier for the scientists in FDA , EPA to stop it from being made.
science cannot claim 'neutral innocent bystander' in war profiteering on one hand and then claim that its products benefit society (an inherently non-neutral stand) on the other hand. its hypocrisy.
the only way to fight a multinational corporation is with a multinational labor movement. we should try to join together with the IT people in India and go on strikes, global world wide IT strikes, in order to bring the hedge fund managers and investment bankers to some kind of agreement.
unless this guy is willing to do that, i have little sympathy for him. i work next to plenty of highly skilled, educated people every day. you can go to any mall and find them working the cash registers.
its one thing to be manufacturing brass its another thing to be manufacturing brass as part of a company whose major business interest involves making bullet cartridges out of that brass. you can't argue its a "neutral product" when it goes right off of one line into the other where they make weapons.
the herbicide defoliant is similar here. Monsanto was a major manufacturer of agent orange - they needed the herbicide at the West Virginia plant in order to make agent orange. Acting like it was not produced for the purpose of the vietname war is, to borrow your phrase, "fucking bullshit".
evaluate its theories, and whether or not they match reality. because, as mentioned elsewhere, economics is the only 'science' where nobody cares about actually measuring reality. they come up with a bunch of theories, get payed fat 'consultant' bonuses by corrupt leaders, and live in a state of suspended, deluded animation.
a great example is from Ferguson's film "Inside Job", where he flat out proves that professors took money to lie about the state of Iceland's banking system right before it fell into the abyss circa 2008. in what other field of science do 'researchers' get payed hundreds of thousands of dollars to write up theories proving the conclusions of their benefactors? it would be like if electrical engineers were payed to say that 8 bit register can hold 500 different numbers. no, they cant.
wow, congratulations, after 150+ years, this 'science' is starting to maybe finally think about using the idea that you should use actual data from the real world in your formulation of theory. brilliant concept. let me know how it works out.
the whole point of defoliation was to prevent the enemy from having any sort of cover. how is that not a weapon or an instrument of warfare?
it is not like traditional chemical weapons in that it does not destroy people's lungs or skin, but it is still a weapon.
perhaps the best category would be 'environmental weapon'.
written about it, Thieves of Baghdad (9781582346458): by Matthew Bogdanos + William Patrick.
some iraqi troops used the museum as a base from which to fire at the invaders. so the US couldn't attack it, because it would have been completely wiped out by crossfire. but while those troops were based there, there was a massive theft. bogdanos was on a special unit that was sent purposely to try to secure the museum, and his team were able to recover a huge amount of material through somewhat ordinary police procedure (he had been a cop in new york), but his opinion is that there was probably an 'inside job' with someone in the iraqi bureaucracy looting the museum. i.e. in the case of the museum, the US did not have a good chance to secure it from the mobs... someone else had beaten the mobs to the punch.
in the university system. they should be thanked, and perhaps given high paying 'security consultant' jobs.
before they make conclusions.
you, obviously, did not even bother to read the article.
that i myself dont really need much stuff 3d printed.
i need to pay rent, pay for food, and pay for transportation, and heat/cooling.
3d printing really doesnt help me do any of these things. i cannot 3d print food. i cannot 3d print land. i cannot 3d print fuel or energy.
it will revolutionize a lot of things, but what will it do to the economy? even more unemployment, even less chance for anyone to move up the social ladder and rise out of subsitence poverty and wage slavery.
its like saying that helicopters are not weapons. they only enable the planning and use of weapons. well, fine, technically, guns arent even weapons, they dont kill people - bullets kill people.
people who have actually worked in a library do not believe in this bullshit. you are NOT protecting freedom of speech - you are destroying the freedom of kids to come into the library. the only people who believe in this idiotic idea of 'freedom' are pedophiles and ignorant, narrowminded douchebags who cannot manage to place themselves into another persons shoes.
public libraries are, as they are, already a magnet for streakers, public masturbators, etc. its the unspoken secret of library work. assholes like to come into libraries and do awful stuff. i dont know what it is about libraries, but they do it.
you cannot allow some guy to come in and watch porn while kids are around. there is nothing at all about 'free speech' involved in that concept. who decides what porn is? the librarians and the users of the library.
you dont need a filter to enforce this rule, its just a tool that makes it easier and less labor intensive. because, the same fucktards who scream about 'free speech' would never in a million years attend a city council meeting to try to get more funds for the libraries, or to raise library salaries, or to help out with a library fundraiser. no, but hey, you want to kick out the convicted sex offender who jacks off in front of 5 year old kids, all of a sudden you are 'big brother' restricting freedom. its bullshit. the whole argument is bullshit.
when are we going to realize that the system's only purpose is to bend you over a bench and extract your intrinsic value for the benefit of shareholders and hedge funds?
so therefore it is relevant. without the 'emotional rhetoric' about the threat of the communist chinese, the domino effect, etc etc etc, there would have been no need to kill a million people with various weapons like agent orange. so there would have been no need to manufacture it.
i only hope that your railing against 'emotional rhetoric' expands to the well payed, well rewarded PR industry that is at constant beck and call of industry and government to rile the people up so that they, in fact, allow Monsanto to pour carcinogens all over thousands of people in exchange for money.
anyone who thinks 'only 2 lines can screw up someone elses's code' is a ridiculous thing, should go after Microsoft SCO, and leave GNU alone.
jesus christ, this is quite possibly the dumbest, most racist pile of shit i have seen on slashdot in a long time. fucktards like you are what keeps the financial industry from actually being reformed - people don't want to be lumped along with hitler (who shared your sentiments, word for word)
guys, until you read 'running money' by andy kessler, you have no idea what a Tech IPO is, why it exists, and who benefits from it.
hint: it's not geeks, it's not investors, and it's not tech.
things that are basically obvious to people with ordinary knowledge needed by any industrial worker, well, you cant keep them secret.
nuclear weapons, for example, are not hard to build. the hard part is scraping together enough enriched uranium.
during the election cycle. so its bullshit.
i have a good understanding about linux. but not just the 'gui' stuff like 'gnome' or 'kde'. i also use something called a 'command line'. you can find it in most linux distributions, but most people don't know about it.
it is usually hidden under some obscure menu, and called something like 'the terminal'. but you can usually open one, even if the administrator has tried to lock you out, by hitting ctrl-alt-t. this opens up the 'terminal window' where you can type your 'command line'.
from there, i can use programs like 'ls', to list the files in a 'directory' (its like a folder, but the unix interpretation of what folders are). also i can start up chrome right from the command line; simply type in
chrome-browser
and instantly chrome starts up. i have timed this with a stopwatch, and it is saving me about 30% of my startup time if i run browsers from the command line.
with all of that, i just have to ask, does your precious apple have a 'command line'? do you even know how to find it, or did they 'cut you off' from your freedom, and your human dignity? i just have to ask you, if you hit ctrl-alt-t on a mac, what happens? do mac users even know there is a command called 'ls'?
the film J Edgar got it right. the Venona files would make incredibly poor evidence in a courtroom. many of them are partial and/or missing huge bits. if you just go and read them, and read the FBI papers on the surveillance done of some of the suspected agents, a large amount of it is a waste of our police time. "sep 1943. ms x went to get groceries. she went to visit mr y. she came home. dec 1943. ms x went to a book store. jan 1944. ms x had a baby. surveillance stopped."
of course, one of the major problems was that Wild Bill Donovan, the head of the OSS (prototype of the CIA) believed that the soviets were great allies, and wanted to invite the NKVD to come collaborate with the FBI. of course the congress would never go after the CIA - that would be unpatriotic or something. but they would go after some third string hollywood writer who had attended a meeting 10 years ago during the great depression, when people were dying in the street from malnutrition in Los Angeles county.
there were actual Soviet agents in the government and many were caught. they weren't caught because of mccarthy, they were caught because of ordinary police men doing their job, which is to gather evidence and present it to a court, not play hero in front of the media.
the other problem is the people like William Shirer, a journalist and historian of the Nazis, and Carl Foreman, the man who wrote High Noon, were kicked out of the US for basically no reason. they had nothing to do with actual soviet infiltration.
after all, he stole someone else's copyrighted material, and used it without permission for his own personal benefit. he should be in jail in accordance with the damage he has done to the owners of the copyright.
it is too bad SOPA didn't pass, he could be branded a terrorist.
and everything that the lives of ordinary people depend on, there has been no inflation.
oh wait, maybe the modern 'science' of economics is a gigantic pile of horse shit? maybe 'inflation' is a political number manipulated by assholes at the Fed in order to support various fucked up ideologies, policies that benefit the already rich, and whichever corrupt bribery machine happens to be in power at the moment?
and who will be the 'bookrunner' for this IPO? who will suck up untold millions of dollars, while hundreds of thousands of joe blow investors get screwed by the IPO process? who are the favored few hedge funders and well-connected who get to make a lifetime's savings in a few seconds simply for knowing the right people?
is it Goldman Sachs, is it Merrill Lynch? Morgan Stanley?
Well, there is one thing we know for sure: the Bookrunner would not exist, unless you, your tax dollars, bailed them out in 2008. Because god knows, without these hard working wall street guys and hedge fund managers skimming tens of millions off of the process of an IPO, there is no way that we could ever have innovation or progress.