a lot of criminal gangs infiltrated the 'well regulated' prostitution industry in holland. when an illiegal immigrant is brought to holland illegally by gangsters and forced to work in a brothel, the 'regulators' are not going to accomplish much to save her.
as we see in the US financial system, 'regulated industries' are not always well regulated. regulators are frequently corrupt and/or incompetent. and they have conflicts of interest.
first of all, it was a joke, so i didnt mean to harsh on you. i love all scanning projects. its the saviour of civilization (what is left of it).
But now that i have actually visited your site, i notice you are claiming copyright on the works of Isaac Newton, who died over 300 years ago. I don't know what kind of opyright law they have in the UK, but in the US all of this stuff would be, technically, public domain.
It is awesome to bring it to the public. on the other hand, where are the pdf files? Can you download it to your ipad? etc etc etc? No.
So, although my post was 'in jest', i hate to say that it is rooted in truth, even in your highly commendable and worthwhile, admirable project.
the masses: we need digitize our books. google is doing it, why cant we?
library admin: i understand. let me find a vendor.
vendor a: our product costs 5 billion
vendor b: our product cost 8 billion, but we will give you kickbacks
vendor c: our product cost 3 billion
library admin: dear management, i need 8 billion dollars
management: wow cool. so we can be like a real business right? ive always wanted to play business man and make a profit
library admin: yes, we will own copyright on all materials, and our special interface will provide centralized control so we can keep out the riff raff
hippie: but arent you a taxpayer funded institution whose job is to disseminate information as efficiently as possible?
management: have the hippie shot
library admin: consider it done
4 years later...
library admin + manager: press release! our new surfable hierarchy tiered book access gateway (SHiTBAG) allows students all over the country to improve their lea blah blah blah blah blah
oracle sales manager: so, we are looking at a 4 year contract, and that will be 50,000 seats, so basically we are looking at 10 billion dollars
libray admin: awesome. the more money i am in control of, the more power i have inside the bureaucracy. ps, can i get an invite to your sweet conference in boca this year?
users: what the fuck is this shit? java plugin has crashed? please set your JAVA HOME? what the fuck is JAVA HOME?
users buddy: nevermind all that, let me show you this thing called 'bit torrent'
imagine if you poured all of your text into a machine and it came out looking like a 3rd graders imitation of 19th century typesetting? oh, thats TeX!
also, you can do math formulas, or "maths formulas" if you are an ex-colonial empire member. they come out looking like the indecipherable bullshit at the top of any wikipedia math (maths) article.
why do people write shit for slashdot? because they are intensely interested in a subject.
why are they intensely interested? because the subject moves them emotionally.
you have an inherent conflict of interest. you need to be emotionally detached to be a good reporter, but you wouldnt be writing in the first place (for free no less) unless you had some emotional spark that inspired you to do it.
normally, editors will balance the emotions of the reporter, but slashdot editors often leave stuff in that a newspaper editor might remove. on the other hand, newspaper editors are increasingly beholden to their corporate masters these days. so whatever.
when i wrote a story saying an innocent man was innocent, people said i was being too emotional. well, i disagreed, but i cant disagree that it is right to question authors about this type of thing. its the nature of writing.
its short for 'catastrophe bonds'. hedge funds buy and sell them so they can get rich when there is a hurricane, tornado, or 9/11 style event. people will absolutely profit from this war.
secondly, the stock markets do not crash during wars. they crash when investors realize theyve been being scammed and duped by fraud for years on end by 'financial professionals'. (1929, 1987, 2008).
thirdly, the bond markets go apeshit during war. governments love LOVE LOVE to borrow money during war. that means bonds. bonds out the ass.
fourthly, we now have these things called 'credit default swaps', which are essentially gambling on the bond market. they will go super triple-dog ape shit when there is a war with iran, and the investment banks that hold them like JP Morgan, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Paribas, etc etc etc, will make tons of money.
and since JP Morgan is feeding intelligence to the US government (if you dont believe me, do a search for 'jp morgan' in the wikileaks files) they have even more of an inside edge.
and i wont even get into 'mortality swaps' and 'longevity swaps'.
oh wait. WWII was actually pretty awesome if you were a corporation. the nation-states needed you to make bombs, guns, airplanes (flying guns and bombs), etc. even if you are run by war criminals, use slave labor, participate in the holocaust, mass-execute civilians, and perpetrate genocide, you don't get shut down after a war. no, instead, your directors and executives continue to operate in the new 'liberated' government, and they run a PR campaign if some pesky human right whiner dares to complain about it.
the US stock market usually falls because of fraud and corruption coming to an apex (a bubble). good book: "Devil take the hindmost, A history of financial speculation" by edward chancellor.
there was a huge migration of Jewish people and other people out of Russia to Israel after the fall of most european communism, and the Soviet government was no longer around to prevent people from leaving it's constituent countries.
if you read enough spy history you will realize that every country has agents penetrated into every other country's intelligence service. Sometimes they are double, sometimes even triple agents. it can take decades for the truth to ever come out.
There was a Czech agent, for example, during WWII, who everyone thought was some big anti-Nazi hero. Turns out, he wasn't. he just made a bunch of shit up and fooled everyone - he had actually been a Nazi agent and was trying to cover his ass (play both sides) when they lost. His name was Agent A-54. This is only known because Czech researchers and academics went back into the archives and figured it out. Their books are as yet untranslated into English. And they were only published a few years ago, 60+ years after the fact.
Anything connected to Espionage or intelligence services is suffused with copious amounts of propaganda, PR work, and bullshit. it can take decades to figure out what really happened.
occam's razor doesn't work w intelligence agencies
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the FOIA sites at fbi.gov and cia.gov are full of bizarre, unbeilevable stuff.
is it likely that the US military deliberately administered LSD to people to see if it would be a good mind control drug, and that one of them leaped out of a window and died? no, but it happened.
is it likely that the Nazi government was thoroughly penetrated with Soviet agents? no, but it was.
is it likely that Israel and it's neighbors would go to war in 1967? No, but they did.
is it likely that Israel would repeatedly shoot and napalm a ship flying a huge US flag? no, but it happened.
is it likely that the head of the US OSS would come up with a plan to invite NKVD officers to the US for 'joint exercises' with US law enforcement? No, but it happened.
is it likely that the Department of Justice would charge someone with Espionage for telling a journalist that North Korea would probably test a nuclear weapon? No, but it happened.
and neither did Hitler (the ultimate 'suicide bomber')
we cannot trust any government with nuclear weapons, but every government will eventually have an arsenal. what is the solution? find a spaceship to fly to another planet, and study the human mind and social organizations so as to create systems which minimize the chance for a repeat of the self-immolation events like World War II, and the coming nuclear holocaust.
typically the output of centrifuges is chained together. the output of the last centrifuge is much more enriched than the first. and where does the output of the last centrifuge go? to some holding tank? what if that last centrifuge has an accident that affects the holding tank? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_centrifuge
we dont know the specific layout of their centrifuge operation. what if they are using some sort of arrangement we dont know about?
yes it is incredibly, massively unlikely. on the other hand.
that is the same attitude held by the various managers and dead people you can find described in this article:
the massive number of pointless military bases, oceans of bureaucracy, contractors that chage twice as much to do the same work as govt employees, contractors with corrupt links to govt leaders who decide who gets the money, pointless projects that spend billions and are cancelled halfway through planning stages.
the US military is essentially one gigantic social welfare program.
the only way to get a space program going is to spread the production out to various places, so that congress can suckle the fat teat of mother federal government and bring that bacon home to their districts.
A group of congress people killed it , on purpose, by making it pay-forward its pension fund for 75 years. Almost no company could survive that.
Is that what any of the news reports say? No. Most of them say "oh, email killed it". complete horse shit. if they hadn't had to pre-fund their pension, they would have been rather profitable in recent years. Unlike, say, Goldman Sachs, Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia, General Motors, Chrysler, and every other bailed out shit hole full of ivy league douchebags and hedge fund assholes.
the fish argument is not about water itself, its about hypothetical fish scientists thinking that a water-permeated environment is necessary for life, simply because they have not bothered to visit the air and find out that there are things called 'birds'.
just like us, we used to think there was no life at ocean-bottom. oh, but there is, we discovered worms when we went there. all based on the venting from the earths interior, not on the sunlight foodchain.
in this manner, the 'special earth theory' is exactly what fish scientists would come up with. the location of a species that creates a theory is related to the nature and assumptions of the theory. that is a fundamental theorem of intergalactic sociology. read about it in my new book, available from maxi megalon publishing next cycle.
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a lot of criminal gangs infiltrated the 'well regulated' prostitution industry in holland.
when an illiegal immigrant is brought to holland illegally by gangsters and forced to work in a brothel, the 'regulators' are not going to accomplish much to save her.
as we see in the US financial system, 'regulated industries' are not always well regulated. regulators are frequently corrupt and/or incompetent. and they have conflicts of interest.
first of all, it was a joke, so i didnt mean to harsh on you. i love all scanning projects. its the saviour of civilization (what is left of it).
But now that i have actually visited your site, i notice you are claiming copyright on the works of Isaac Newton, who died over 300 years ago. I don't know what kind of opyright law they have in the UK, but in the US all of this stuff would be, technically, public domain.
It is awesome to bring it to the public. on the other hand, where are the pdf files? Can you download it to your ipad? etc etc etc? No.
So, although my post was 'in jest', i hate to say that it is rooted in truth, even in your highly commendable and worthwhile, admirable project.
the masses: we need digitize our books. google is doing it, why cant we?
library admin: i understand. let me find a vendor.
vendor a: our product costs 5 billion
vendor b: our product cost 8 billion, but we will give you kickbacks
vendor c: our product cost 3 billion
library admin: dear management, i need 8 billion dollars
management: wow cool. so we can be like a real business right? ive always wanted to play business man and make a profit
library admin: yes, we will own copyright on all materials, and our special interface will provide centralized control so we can keep out the riff raff
hippie: but arent you a taxpayer funded institution whose job is to disseminate information as efficiently as possible?
management: have the hippie shot
library admin: consider it done
4 years later...
library admin + manager: press release! our new surfable hierarchy tiered book access gateway (SHiTBAG) allows students all over the country to improve their lea blah blah blah blah blah
oracle sales manager: so, we are looking at a 4 year contract, and that will be 50,000 seats, so basically we are looking at 10 billion dollars
libray admin: awesome. the more money i am in control of, the more power i have inside the bureaucracy. ps, can i get an invite to your sweet conference in boca this year?
users: what the fuck is this shit? java plugin has crashed? please set your JAVA HOME? what the fuck is JAVA HOME?
users buddy: nevermind all that, let me show you this thing called 'bit torrent'
of a good 'back in the old days... things were better than they were today' cliche.
just nevermind those 2 trillion dollars worth of bailouts from the taxpayers.
dont see why you wouldn't. all those companies are doing very well.
how do you mark just a single word for copy paste, or a couple of lines, but half of the third line?
how about a 'help file'
what about insert from external file?
justification?
how about pgup, pg down? move to end of line? move to begin of line? move to end of file, begin of file?
imagine if you poured all of your text into a machine and it came out looking like a 3rd graders imitation of 19th century typesetting? oh, thats TeX!
also, you can do math formulas, or "maths formulas" if you are an ex-colonial empire member. they come out looking like the indecipherable bullshit at the top of any wikipedia math (maths) article.
it's not condescending. it assumes you have memorized dozens of little one-letter commands.
why do people write shit for slashdot? because they are intensely interested in a subject.
why are they intensely interested? because the subject moves them emotionally.
you have an inherent conflict of interest. you need to be emotionally detached to be a good reporter, but you wouldnt be writing in the first place (for free no less) unless you had some emotional spark that inspired you to do it.
normally, editors will balance the emotions of the reporter, but slashdot editors often leave stuff in that a newspaper editor might remove. on the other hand, newspaper editors are increasingly beholden to their corporate masters these days. so whatever.
when i wrote a story saying an innocent man was innocent, people said i was being too emotional. well, i disagreed, but i cant disagree that it is right to question authors about this type of thing. its the nature of writing.
its short for 'catastrophe bonds'. hedge funds buy and sell them so they can get rich when there is a hurricane, tornado, or 9/11 style event. people will absolutely profit from this war.
secondly, the stock markets do not crash during wars. they crash when investors realize theyve been being scammed and duped by fraud for years on end by 'financial professionals'. (1929, 1987, 2008).
thirdly, the bond markets go apeshit during war. governments love LOVE LOVE to borrow money during war. that means bonds. bonds out the ass.
fourthly, we now have these things called 'credit default swaps', which are essentially gambling on the bond market. they will go super triple-dog ape shit when there is a war with iran, and the investment banks that hold them like JP Morgan, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Paribas, etc etc etc, will make tons of money.
and since JP Morgan is feeding intelligence to the US government (if you dont believe me, do a search for 'jp morgan' in the wikileaks files) they have even more of an inside edge.
and i wont even get into 'mortality swaps' and 'longevity swaps'.
oh wait. WWII was actually pretty awesome if you were a corporation. the nation-states needed you to make bombs, guns, airplanes (flying guns and bombs), etc. even if you are run by war criminals, use slave labor, participate in the holocaust, mass-execute civilians, and perpetrate genocide, you don't get shut down after a war. no, instead, your directors and executives continue to operate in the new 'liberated' government, and they run a PR campaign if some pesky human right whiner dares to complain about it.
the US stock market usually falls because of fraud and corruption coming to an apex (a bubble). good book: "Devil take the hindmost, A history of financial speculation" by edward chancellor.
there was a huge migration of Jewish people and other people out of Russia to Israel after the fall of most european communism, and the Soviet government was no longer around to prevent people from leaving it's constituent countries.
if you read enough spy history you will realize that every country has agents penetrated into every other country's intelligence service. Sometimes they are double, sometimes even triple agents. it can take decades for the truth to ever come out.
There was a Czech agent, for example, during WWII, who everyone thought was some big anti-Nazi hero. Turns out, he wasn't. he just made a bunch of shit up and fooled everyone - he had actually been a Nazi agent and was trying to cover his ass (play both sides) when they lost. His name was Agent A-54. This is only known because Czech researchers and academics went back into the archives and figured it out. Their books are as yet untranslated into English. And they were only published a few years ago, 60+ years after the fact.
Anything connected to Espionage or intelligence services is suffused with copious amounts of propaganda, PR work, and bullshit. it can take decades to figure out what really happened.
the FOIA sites at fbi.gov and cia.gov are full of bizarre, unbeilevable stuff.
is it likely that the US military deliberately administered LSD to people to see if it would be a good mind control drug, and that one of them leaped out of a window and died? no, but it happened.
is it likely that the Nazi government was thoroughly penetrated with Soviet agents? no, but it was.
is it likely that Israel and it's neighbors would go to war in 1967? No, but they did.
is it likely that Israel would repeatedly shoot and napalm a ship flying a huge US flag? no, but it happened.
is it likely that the head of the US OSS would come up with a plan to invite NKVD officers to the US for 'joint exercises' with US law enforcement? No, but it happened.
is it likely that the Department of Justice would charge someone with Espionage for telling a journalist that North Korea would probably test a nuclear weapon? No, but it happened.
and neither did Hitler (the ultimate 'suicide bomber')
we cannot trust any government with nuclear weapons, but every government will eventually have an arsenal. what is the solution?
find a spaceship to fly to another planet, and study the human mind and social organizations so as to create systems which minimize the chance for a repeat of the self-immolation events like World War II, and the coming nuclear holocaust.
how could running an experiment that simulated an 'emergency shutdown' possibly lead to a criticality accident? no, that would never happen.
i tried, i really did. i even tried google translate.
typically the output of centrifuges is chained together. the output of the last centrifuge is much more enriched than the first. and where does the output of the last centrifuge go? to some holding tank? what if that last centrifuge has an accident that affects the holding tank? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_centrifuge
we dont know the specific layout of their centrifuge operation. what if they are using some sort of arrangement we dont know about?
yes it is incredibly, massively unlikely. on the other hand.
that is the same attitude held by the various managers and dead people you can find described in this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident
may i recommend the following article, for a nice list of dead people who thought "this could never happen in a million years"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident
"i enjoy prostitutes and cocaine" and it says "i enjoy being treasury secretary"
the massive number of pointless military bases, oceans of bureaucracy, contractors that chage twice as much to do the same work as govt employees, contractors with corrupt links to govt leaders who decide who gets the money, pointless projects that spend billions and are cancelled halfway through planning stages.
the US military is essentially one gigantic social welfare program.
the only way to get a space program going is to spread the production out to various places, so that congress can suckle the fat teat of mother federal government and bring that bacon home to their districts.
... oh wait.
The commies are now running sweatshops that make our cellphones. Ah well.
A group of congress people killed it , on purpose, by making it pay-forward its pension fund for 75 years. Almost no company could survive that.
Is that what any of the news reports say? No. Most of them say "oh, email killed it". complete horse shit. if they hadn't had to pre-fund their pension, they would have been rather profitable in recent years. Unlike, say, Goldman Sachs, Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia, General Motors, Chrysler, and every other bailed out shit hole full of ivy league douchebags and hedge fund assholes.
i remember the last great party i went to. tons of lawyer jokes. TONS. not old, not outdated! just like moon boots and friendship bracelets.
the fish argument is not about water itself, its about hypothetical fish scientists thinking that a water-permeated environment is necessary for life, simply because they have not bothered to visit the air and find out that there are things called 'birds'.
just like us, we used to think there was no life at ocean-bottom. oh, but there is, we discovered worms when we went there. all based on the venting from the earths interior, not on the sunlight foodchain.
in this manner, the 'special earth theory' is exactly what fish scientists would come up with. the location of a species that creates a theory is related to the nature and assumptions of the theory. that is a fundamental theorem of intergalactic sociology. read about it in my new book, available from maxi megalon publishing next cycle.