the true effect of propaganda can be seen in the thousands of people on sites like slashdot who think that we entered the space race to fulfill some kind of technological utopian adventurous spirit of the human existential quandry alone in the universe.
we went to the moon to beat the soviet union, i.e., the commies. that was the only reason congress agreed to fund it. the only reason the soviets had a space program was because their leaders thought it was the only way to compete militarily with the US (stick nukes on rockets).
the entire space program was based around theoretical war with an enemy state.
now, communism is no longer the enemy - its our special friend that produces shiny gadgets we write code for, in huge factories we'd rather not think about, unless we work at Goldman Sachs and our job is to think about how much money they are making.
we all know those silly 'bean counters' contribute nothing to society. other than pointing out there were trillions of dollars hiding on some balance sheet that the government lied about. but hey. do accountants ever make cool apps for cellphones? dont think so.
modern economics does not use 'empiricism'. i.e., they dont care if their theories actually match what happens in the real world. talk to economists, they will tell you there is no such thing as a bubble, speculation doesn't affect the market, etc etc etc. most of academic economics is completely corrupted by wall street.
he did not 'dumb down' science to make Cosmos... he made it relevant. he translated a lot of jargon into not only english, but a sort of poetic english intermixed with visuals.
to paraphrase kurt vonnegut , if you cant explain what you are doing to a seven year old, there is a good chance all of your jargon and fancy equations are a bunch of horse shit.
brought about by mass fluctuations in economics, which in turn can sometimes be caused by mass changes in environment (which affects food supply, the basis of economics)
the entire buildup of aerospace in the United States in the 20th century was due to one, and only one, factor. The Cold War. Without the Soviet Union, there would be no Apollo Mission, there would be no Mercury program, there would be no Space Shuttle. The entire thing was a gigantic nuclear brinksmanship contest between two gigantic countries who narrowly missed blowing each other to bits in a holocaust.
And what of the Soviets? If they had no Cold War they wouldn't have been into space either. Korolev would never have gotten funding from the Politburo unless he had claimed (dubiously) that he could stick nukes on top of his space rockets (err.. i mean missiles comrade, of course).
foxconn factory workers very satisfied: 100%, with no dissent! amazing.
when interviewed, every last worker expressed their deepest appreciation for their bosses, and how much they love working together for harmonious success of the company, which they love and admire deeply.
if you have read the Anonymous dump of the HBGary emails, they already have tools that will scrape facebook. Then you can internetwork that with Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies stuff to make your own "Team Themis".
of various hodge podge pieces of source code all mashed together in an uncompilable, mountainous sploodge vomit of bizarre perversions of the once innocent C language
of something... i cant remember it right now, because, well, my text reading program has been optimized for ARM NEON, but my smart phone doesn't have NEON, or at least, this version of the driver i'm using doesn't work with NEON, and i tried to port it, but its like i can't find a good way to work around the specialized vectorization code inside of the Eigen2 library because it doesnt work on certain platforms. but if it did work, my text editor would be like 75% faster than some luser running it on a single CPU machine with no NEON optimization.
what im trying to say is, imagine a beowulf cluster, and then imagine you fill it with sand, and drain the sand out, and you film it.
and all the other sites that are just massive abuses of the 'good faith' idea.
its one thing to be a neutral admin. but lets compare youtube and wikipedia for a moment.
on wikipedia, if you see copyright violations, you can take them down yourself. or, you can report them to a specialized group on wiki that actually cares about removing copyrighted content that was uploaded without permission of the copyright holder. they also have a system to verify whether or not works have been granted permission, and whether they are in public domain, by a large amount of research done with licensing and legal systems around the world.
now, lets take youtube. its full of people just uploading music albums and putting a still photo as their 'video'. now, the only person who can ever report that as a copyright vio is the artist themselves. nevermind you could probably listen to their music for free on bandcamp or something. . . youtube is not going to provide a link to bandcamp. youtube just does not give a shit.
when they are locking up people on bogus Espionage Act charges, you don't seem to care... but take away your ability to get free porn and video games... omg they are worse than hitler.
if they wanted to stop piracy on youtube, they could just grep for "no copyright infringement intended" and "fair use", that would get about 500,000 hits and they could stop the "thing thats like Rhapsody only no commercials and you can play whatever song you want"
the fraud perpetrated by Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, BNP Paribas, etc, in one single day dwarfed by a dozen fold the fraud this mortgage guy perpetrated in his whole career.
where do you think they sold all those fraudulent mortgages?
or with pirate bay, or with any of these other sites.
beyond that, when Geohotz and failoverflow got attacked by Sony for jailbreaking the PS3, he was accsed of the following:
Violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 1201) Violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2)(c)) Contributory copyright infringement (17 U.S.C. 501) Violating California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act ( 502) Breach of Contract (related to the PlayStation Network User Agreement) Tortious interference Misappropriation Trespass
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the Computer Fraud and Abuse act is far worse - its what they are using against Bradley Manning, its what they used against Thomas Drake, its basically criminalizing 'anything we dont like, when done on a computer'.
but since it has almost nothing to do with some 25 year old man-childs ability to download free copies of Transformers 8, the moronic fat assholes of the warez-o-sphere dont give a shit about it, and they wouldnt dream of writing endless tirades against the CFAA or its provisions.
you figured it out! the democratic party is totally getting a pass on all of their financial and corrupt misdeeds!
if only we could get 'the big, liberal, communist media' to start being 'fair and balanced', then every single politician would always have their party affiliation stamped on every story done about them. then we would realize the truth: Democrats are corrupt. and Republicans, of course, are not, because they just are totally, totally, different.
DMCA provided a mechanism for people to complain about copyright problems to the site owners in a reasonable and calm fashion. in the 'rest of the world', there is the rule of the fist, and copyright violations mean nothing - which by the way, means the GPL means nothing, because its entire existence is based on copyright law.
the only people who complain about the 'draconian DMCA' are fucktards who never actually create or build anything themselves.
dodd was on the fucking senate banking committee through the whole recession. he was part of the machine that pumped more and more money into fannie and freddie, and refused to look at the banks when they started acting like private versions of fannie and freddie, and he was asleep at the wheel through the whole subprime thing, the CLO thing, the CDO thing, the hedge funds inside of banks, etc etc etc. it was his job to regulate the banking system. the banking system collapsed. we all payed for it. trillions of dollars. we still pay for it.
and you and the moron apologists for these ass clowns have the nerve to lecture us about how they had nothing to do with the recession.
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the true effect of propaganda can be seen in the thousands of people on sites like slashdot who think that we entered the space race to fulfill some kind of technological utopian adventurous spirit of the human existential quandry alone in the universe.
we went to the moon to beat the soviet union, i.e., the commies. that was the only reason congress agreed to fund it. the only reason the soviets had a space program was because their leaders thought it was the only way to compete militarily with the US (stick nukes on rockets).
the entire space program was based around theoretical war with an enemy state.
now, communism is no longer the enemy - its our special friend that produces shiny gadgets we write code for, in huge factories we'd rather not think about, unless we work at Goldman Sachs and our job is to think about how much money they are making.
we all know those silly 'bean counters' contribute nothing to society. other than pointing out there were trillions of dollars hiding on some balance sheet that the government lied about. but hey. do accountants ever make cool apps for cellphones? dont think so.
modern economics does not use 'empiricism'. i.e., they dont care if their theories actually match what happens in the real world. talk to economists, they will tell you there is no such thing as a bubble, speculation doesn't affect the market, etc etc etc. most of academic economics is completely corrupted by wall street.
he did not 'dumb down' science to make Cosmos... he made it relevant. he translated a lot of jargon into not only english, but a sort of poetic english intermixed with visuals.
to paraphrase kurt vonnegut , if you cant explain what you are doing to a seven year old, there is a good chance all of your jargon and fancy equations are a bunch of horse shit.
brought about by mass fluctuations in economics, which in turn can sometimes be caused by mass changes in environment (which affects food supply, the basis of economics)
the entire buildup of aerospace in the United States in the 20th century was due to one, and only one, factor. The Cold War. Without the Soviet Union, there would be no Apollo Mission, there would be no Mercury program, there would be no Space Shuttle. The entire thing was a gigantic nuclear brinksmanship contest between two gigantic countries who narrowly missed blowing each other to bits in a holocaust.
And what of the Soviets? If they had no Cold War they wouldn't have been into space either. Korolev would never have gotten funding from the Politburo unless he had claimed (dubiously) that he could stick nukes on top of his space rockets (err.. i mean missiles comrade, of course).
its pretty simple - Apple asked for it. no other company is stupid enough to pretend it is a revolution
foxconn factory workers very satisfied: 100%, with no dissent! amazing.
when interviewed, every last worker expressed their deepest appreciation for their bosses, and how much they love working together for harmonious success of the company, which they love and admire deeply.
everyone knows that you can't hack linux! linux is secure!
if you have read the Anonymous dump of the HBGary emails, they already have tools that will scrape facebook. Then you can internetwork that with Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies stuff to make your own "Team Themis".
communism has won. of course, only half of it won - the half where you destroy unions, destroy civil society, and destroy democracy.
of various hodge podge pieces of source code all mashed together in an uncompilable, mountainous sploodge vomit of bizarre perversions of the once innocent C language
of something... i cant remember it right now, because, well, my text reading program has been optimized for ARM NEON, but my smart phone doesn't have NEON, or at least, this version of the driver i'm using doesn't work with NEON, and i tried to port it, but its like i can't find a good way to work around the specialized vectorization code inside of the Eigen2 library because it doesnt work on certain platforms. but if it did work, my text editor would be like 75% faster than some luser running it on a single CPU machine with no NEON optimization.
what im trying to say is, imagine a beowulf cluster, and then imagine you fill it with sand, and drain the sand out, and you film it.
is awesome. especially when dealing with complex systems.
was two sizes, too small!
and all the other sites that are just massive abuses of the 'good faith' idea.
its one thing to be a neutral admin. but lets compare youtube and wikipedia for a moment.
on wikipedia, if you see copyright violations, you can take them down yourself. or, you can report them to a specialized group on wiki that actually cares about removing copyrighted content that was uploaded without permission of the copyright holder. they also have a system to verify whether or not works have been granted permission, and whether they are in public domain, by a large amount of research done with licensing and legal systems around the world.
now, lets take youtube. its full of people just uploading music albums and putting a still photo as their 'video'. now, the only person who can ever report that as a copyright vio is the artist themselves. nevermind you could probably listen to their music for free on bandcamp or something. . . youtube is not going to provide a link to bandcamp. youtube just does not give a shit.
when they are locking up people on bogus Espionage Act charges, you don't seem to care... but take away your ability to get free porn and video games... omg they are worse than hitler.
if they wanted to stop piracy on youtube, they could just grep for "no copyright infringement intended" and "fair use", that would get about 500,000 hits and they could stop the "thing thats like Rhapsody only no commercials and you can play whatever song you want"
the fraud perpetrated by Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, BNP Paribas, etc, in one single day dwarfed by a dozen fold the fraud this mortgage guy perpetrated in his whole career.
where do you think they sold all those fraudulent mortgages?
or with pirate bay, or with any of these other sites.
beyond that, when Geohotz and failoverflow got attacked by Sony for jailbreaking the PS3, he was accsed of the following:
Violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 1201)
Violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2)(c))
Contributory copyright infringement (17 U.S.C. 501)
Violating California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act ( 502)
Breach of Contract (related to the PlayStation Network User Agreement)
Tortious interference
Misappropriation
Trespass
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the Computer Fraud and Abuse act is far worse - its what they are using against Bradley Manning, its what they used against Thomas Drake, its basically criminalizing 'anything we dont like, when done on a computer'.
but since it has almost nothing to do with some 25 year old man-childs ability to download free copies of Transformers 8, the moronic fat assholes of the warez-o-sphere dont give a shit about it, and they wouldnt dream of writing endless tirades against the CFAA or its provisions.
you figured it out! the democratic party is totally getting a pass on all of their financial and corrupt misdeeds!
if only we could get 'the big, liberal, communist media' to start being 'fair and balanced', then every single politician would always have their party affiliation stamped on every story done about them. then we would realize the truth: Democrats are corrupt. and Republicans, of course, are not, because they just are totally, totally, different.
by the way, he patented it... so you will be getting a call from his lawyers.
DMCA provided a mechanism for people to complain about copyright problems to the site owners in a reasonable and calm fashion. in the 'rest of the world', there is the rule of the fist, and copyright violations mean nothing - which by the way, means the GPL means nothing, because its entire existence is based on copyright law.
the only people who complain about the 'draconian DMCA' are fucktards who never actually create or build anything themselves.
dodd was on the fucking senate banking committee through the whole recession. he was part of the machine that pumped more and more money into fannie and freddie, and refused to look at the banks when they started acting like private versions of fannie and freddie, and he was asleep at the wheel through the whole subprime thing, the CLO thing, the CDO thing, the hedge funds inside of banks, etc etc etc. it was his job to regulate the banking system. the banking system collapsed. we all payed for it. trillions of dollars. we still pay for it.
and you and the moron apologists for these ass clowns have the nerve to lecture us about how they had nothing to do with the recession.
"On the brink" by hank paulson
"the sellout" by charles gasparino
"the big short" by michael lewis
"econned" by yves smith
"confidence game" by christine s richard
"house of cards" by william a cohan
"and then the roof caved in" by david faber
"the trillion dollar meltdown" by charles morris
"diary of a very bad year" by anonymous hedge fund manager + keith gessen
"lost trust" by lang gibson
"a colossal failure of common sense" by lawrence mcdonald + patrick robinson
"all the devils are here" by joe nocera and bethany mclean
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read all that, then you will not embarass yourself with your ignorance.