i dont know what happened! we payed like 1000 guys top dollar to run society, and then all of a sudden these unwashed masses show up, screaming about 'food' and 'medicine' and 'water'. the fuck? maybe if we just payed them MORE, they would do a better job, and all the masses would shut up.
i have edited and written articles on the VIPR teams, on various information gathering programs (FBI case files, etc), and so forth and so on.
these people running the national security state are essentially engaged in criminal activity. what do criminals fear most? the simple, objective reporting of basic facts about their activities, and the structure of their organizations.
the purpose of computers is to serve customers, and if open source lowers prices for customers, its called 'capitalism'. artificial inefficiency is a hilarious thing to 'fight for' in a supposedly modern society. i imagine all these crying IT people never gave a second thought to all the factory workers etc they put out of work with their 'innovation'.'
how about a nice Oracle license to go with it? as part of this special slashdot offer, this amazing software can be yours for the low, low price of only $4999.99. But wait! There's more. If you call now.... you will get not only a one hundred, but a two hundred seat license! That's more than enough for any small church! Act fast, this offer is only good for the next 24 hours!
sure, they close down a lot. but have you seen any budgets shrink? no, we are at a massive, mind boggling record. if you asked people in the 80s if we would ever get this deep, 10 trillion plus, they would have said we were insane. but its happened.
TARP, the iraq war, etc etc etc. who got the money? who owns the debt?
Obama should have shut down Citigroup, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and the other bailed-out banks that have IT operations scattered all over the planet. Ask JP Morgan if it has fully integrated and 'streamlined' all of the crap it bought with Bear Stearns? Ask one division of Citigroup if it has any idea how to communicate with another - ask Citigroup's IT managers if they even have a half-decent estimate of what kinds of software licenses their massive, behemoth organization has. They won't be able to give you an answer. And yet, our tax dollars bailed them out and continue to do so.
So Obama closed a bunch of federal IT shops. Sorry, not impressed.
is that i did not look at the front page when i wrote it. i just remembered back to the sort of thing going on in the comments and story queue... eric raymond fan-fic was what popped to mind.
and so i go back there, 10 years later, looking at the front page... what is there? same damn thing. eric raymond fan fic.
They invented the artificial heart... but most its population could not receive the simplest of medical care. That was called 'backwards' and 'repressive', and yet we are slowly reproducing the same model in the US.
this headline is kind of hard to understand. its like saying 'doctors shouldnt perscribe drugs', when the real problem is not that doctors perscribe drugs. that's their job, its part of what being a doctor is. the real problems are that drug companies bribe some doctors, that perscriptions cost too much, that doctors write sloppy sometimes, that patients share meds with others, etc etc etc.
i mean, who the hell do you want to make laws? someone has to do it, and it better be elected representatives, not some cabal of know it all technocrats.
maybe our elected representatives have become incredibly corrupt... im not ready to throw away that whole 'democracy' thing just yet though.
then i will agree that the US is like 1920s germany.
not saying it couldnt happen. just saying... im not convinced. WWI was fundamental to the german experience in the 20s, with masses of ex soldiers bitter and angry at society.
we do not have masses of ex soldiers - they make up a tiny percentage of the US population. there are unlikely to be putsches by people who spend their late teens playing skyrim instead of being involved in trench warfare and forced to starve on the street unless they join some paramilitary brigade.
is because idiots at JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and others are 1. hoarding it, 2. looting and pillaging the paper money system of the planet.
in essence -- you act like the 'free market' should govern our societies big ideas. well, the free market doesnt. free will does. and we have decided to throw it down the toilet, on wars, on stupid financial crimes, on smoke and mirrors. gold's value is false.
the value of scientific research is real, it is fundamental. you can feel it. you can feel it in your soul, if you have one.
got started up in 2002? Where are you when we spend a trillion a year on boondoggles like Trailblazer or Turbulence? How about the VIPR teams - know how much we spent on those last year?
Answer: enough to hire a crapload of scientists to study rocks and tell us the future of the planet. you know, that big ball where we actually live, that gives us food and water and everything we need to survive.
all of the replies to this comment seem to have that 'good' work stuck in there.
i wonder who decides who is 'good' and who isnt?
because in the past, those people were considered 'good', they thought of themselves as 'good', and now they are making 8 bucks an hour bagging groceries.
you should ask yourself, are you trying to convince me? or are you trying to convince yourself that it will never happen to you?
you realize a lot of those people working in apple stores, radio shack, and target are also experienced software and electronics engineers? some with decades of experience?
im not saying its impossible, im just saying, good luck to you.
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i dont know what happened! we payed like 1000 guys top dollar to run society, and then all of a sudden these unwashed masses show up, screaming about 'food' and 'medicine' and 'water'. the fuck? maybe if we just payed them MORE, they would do a better job, and all the masses would shut up.
i have edited and written articles on the VIPR teams, on various information gathering programs (FBI case files, etc), and so forth and so on.
these people running the national security state are essentially engaged in criminal activity. what do criminals fear most? the simple, objective reporting of basic facts about their activities, and the structure of their organizations.
might actually have to ---summarize a topic instead of copy-pasting the first fucking paragraph---
what will become of the site?
the purpose of computers is to serve customers, and if open source lowers prices for customers, its called 'capitalism'. artificial inefficiency is a hilarious thing to 'fight for' in a supposedly modern society. i imagine all these crying IT people never gave a second thought to all the factory workers etc they put out of work with their 'innovation'.'
how about a nice Oracle license to go with it? as part of this special slashdot offer, this amazing software can be yours for the low, low price of only $4999.99. But wait! There's more. If you call now.... you will get not only a one hundred, but a two hundred seat license! That's more than enough for any small church! Act fast, this offer is only good for the next 24 hours!
dont computerize it
and a crapload of other aviation stuff that has been in oklahoma historically.
anyways.
the data centers count you!!!
sure, they close down a lot. but have you seen any budgets shrink? no, we are at a massive, mind boggling record. if you asked people in the 80s if we would ever get this deep, 10 trillion plus, they would have said we were insane. but its happened.
TARP, the iraq war, etc etc etc. who got the money? who owns the debt?
Obama should have shut down Citigroup, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and the other bailed-out banks that have IT operations scattered all over the planet. Ask JP Morgan if it has fully integrated and 'streamlined' all of the crap it bought with Bear Stearns? Ask one division of Citigroup if it has any idea how to communicate with another - ask Citigroup's IT managers if they even have a half-decent estimate of what kinds of software licenses their massive, behemoth organization has. They won't be able to give you an answer. And yet, our tax dollars bailed them out and continue to do so.
So Obama closed a bunch of federal IT shops. Sorry, not impressed.
because, hey, you know? freelancer.com just doesnt have enough 'passion' involved.
is that i did not look at the front page when i wrote it. i just remembered back to the sort of thing going on in the comments and story queue... eric raymond fan-fic was what popped to mind.
and so i go back there, 10 years later, looking at the front page... what is there? same damn thing. eric raymond fan fic.
lets see... was it somewhere in between people writing about eric raymond's sexual adventures and people asking Rusty where the money went?
will have a paragraph or two about the amoral technocrats who enabled it.
then some authors, like goth and aly, or black, write entire books about technocracy.
thank the Dalkon Shield, and several dozen other money grubbing, lying murderers who caused the FDA to behave like it does.
They invented the artificial heart... but most its population could not receive the simplest of medical care. That was called 'backwards' and 'repressive', and yet we are slowly reproducing the same model in the US.
this headline is kind of hard to understand. its like saying 'doctors shouldnt perscribe drugs', when the real problem is not that doctors perscribe drugs. that's their job, its part of what being a doctor is. the real problems are that drug companies bribe some doctors, that perscriptions cost too much, that doctors write sloppy sometimes, that patients share meds with others, etc etc etc.
i mean, who the hell do you want to make laws? someone has to do it, and it better be elected representatives, not some cabal of know it all technocrats.
maybe our elected representatives have become incredibly corrupt ... im not ready to throw away that whole 'democracy' thing just yet though.
its for a certain machine that i shall not mention, but its awesome.
then i will agree that the US is like 1920s germany.
not saying it couldnt happen. just saying... im not convinced. WWI was fundamental to the german experience in the 20s, with masses of ex soldiers bitter and angry at society.
we do not have masses of ex soldiers - they make up a tiny percentage of the US population. there are unlikely to be putsches by people who spend their late teens playing skyrim instead of being involved in trench warfare and forced to starve on the street unless they join some paramilitary brigade.
is because idiots at JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and others are 1. hoarding it, 2. looting and pillaging the paper money system of the planet.
in essence -- you act like the 'free market' should govern our societies big ideas. well, the free market doesnt. free will does. and we have decided to throw it down the toilet, on wars, on stupid financial crimes, on smoke and mirrors. gold's value is false.
the value of scientific research is real, it is fundamental. you can feel it. you can feel it in your soul, if you have one.
got started up in 2002? Where are you when we spend a trillion a year on boondoggles like Trailblazer or Turbulence? How about the VIPR teams - know how much we spent on those last year?
Answer: enough to hire a crapload of scientists to study rocks and tell us the future of the planet. you know, that big ball where we actually live, that gives us food and water and everything we need to survive.
if people spent as much time fixing bugs as they do ranting on slashdot...
all of the replies to this comment seem to have that 'good' work stuck in there.
i wonder who decides who is 'good' and who isnt?
because in the past, those people were considered 'good', they thought of themselves as 'good', and now they are making 8 bucks an hour bagging groceries.
you should ask yourself, are you trying to convince me? or are you trying to convince yourself that it will never happen to you?
you realize a lot of those people working in apple stores, radio shack, and target are also experienced software and electronics engineers? some with decades of experience?
im not saying its impossible, im just saying, good luck to you.
Intel x86 CPU
single motherboard
exchangable RAM modules
cabled disk drives coming off motherboard
standardized bus architecture for 3rd party manufacturers
open design that allows easy cloning by anonymous hordes of skilled Asian laborers
sorry, where is the 'dead' part?
wikipedia - citation!!