nobody will fucking read it or comment on it. "oh but they will" NO THEY WONT.
thats why sites like NPR.org have to beg for money, while sites like Huffington Post can rumor they are going to IPO. Yes, Huffpo is a giant pile of ass. but thats what 'the people' want. and thats all that matters in a capitalist system , what the customers are willing to pay for (or put their eyeballs on, so that advertisers can pay for).
Look at the past. Discovery, History Channel, Court TV, and Tech TV.
Now we have Discovery, History Channel, TruTV, and G4.
Discovery and History are now full of reality shows like 'I got bit by a gater" and "Fat dudes screaming at each other".
TruTV is now game shows.
G4 is porn and violence.
Those other people simply do not exist.
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Wait, how can I say this? Because I write slashdot articles. And if they arent 'hip' enough, they dont go to the front page. They have to hit. they have to draw people in. You have to take some boring ass story, like some guy being charged for leaking documents, and find the nut, "ex NSA mathematician says the government is reading our email". its not a lie, its actually true, there actually is an ex-NSA mathematitican who says the government is reading our email. its right in there in the middle of the story. the long, 15 page story that discusses obscure legal theory, has long stretches of biographical information i can guarantee you 80% of geeks skip right over, etc. You just have to figure out how to 'translate' what many people view as a bureaucratic infighting story, and take it and make it 'real' for the geek audience , a large percentage of whom have ADHD.
people who dont get this have never tried to write for any audience other than, i dont know, their professor or something. you cant have a New England Journal of Medicine style product in the modern era. Even 2600 does this shit. Thats how the world works. If you dont like it, support Occupy Wall Street. . . because until someone takes every single hedge fund manager, private equity fund ivy league douchebag, and stuffs cannoli down their fat throats until they gag and choke and stop ass raping their employees for an extra 0.001% profit per quarter, then nothing will change.
since the beginning of time. Aristotle talked about monopolies in The Politics
Steve Jobs didn't invent monopoly or branding or lock-in or planned obsolescence. That is how modern corporations work, every modern corporation. Most business people, though, do not understand that those things are simply means to an end, they are a way to support the important stuff... like font systems and tablets and smartphones and laser printers for everybody.... and the real important stuff.... the people who use these things.
They live their whole lives attempting to deny the fact that they love, absolutely love, hot multi-switching. They live a double life, unable to reveal their true feelings to their friends and neighbors. Every night they pray to their God to take away the horrible lust and debauched thoughts screaming through their mind every hour of the day. In the grocery store checkout, they think about hot multi-OS action. In their car, driving to work. In the shower, trying to sing contemporary spiritual music so loud that it will drown out the evil thoughts, they think about hot multi-OS action. And even some of the preachers and imams, while they are delivering another fire-brand sermon straight from God to the people, are, in the back of their mind, thinking about hot multi-OS action.
Only when our society has gone through another generation or two, and hot multi-OS is no longer branded with the stigma of 'perversion' and 'sin', will we begin to see some sort of social acceptance. The laws against hot multi-OS will fall, piece by piece, one by one. Eventually, we may even see hot multi-OS allowed in the military.
"say, i couldnt help but notice you are trying to sell a mobile phone. all sorts of people might want to sue you over that, you know, what with patents and all. why dont you pay us, say, 10% of your income, and we can arrange it sos nobody patent sues you?"
operate without a judge, a jury, or a set of laws. no due process, no checks and balances. just a bunch of megacorporations, unaccountable to anyone, going out there and 'hunting down' people they dont like.
real engineers build things that can kill people if they do things wrong. they have all the same pressures from management, but they still (theoretically) have standards, and licensing bodies, and like, rules and stuff.
Leah McGrath Goodman describes this event in her book about Nymex (the USA petrolleum futures exchange)
those pits are almost entirely gone today, replaced by electronic trading. the pit traders were a rare breed - excessively physically aggressive, and during the greenpeace protest, they almost killed some people. in her book, alot of them could not deal with 'screen trading' and wound up driving cabs.
stock & commodities exchanges - tens of thousands of traders out of work
checkout registers - countless cashiers out of work
news aggregators - tens of thousands of journalists out of work
lawyering - tons of laywers from top schools cannot find jobs other than 'document highlighting monkey' paying 12/hour
libraries - people with MLS degrees now say 'oh, reboot it' all day long
book stores - experts in literatue, classic, and modern, now say 'you need to upgrade your firmware' and 'venti or grande'
banks - they replaced mortgage lending clerks with 'robo signing' software.... now, they wiped away several centuries of property law, and accidentally screwed up the entire global economy in the process, but hey. it sure was efficient. and they got bailed out by the taxpayer in the end so.. whatever.
this is not 'buggy whip manufacturers'. this is mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale. there is no 'automobile industry' to replace the "buggy whip industry" in 2011, there is just a yawning, gaping void. once you automate automation itself, there is nothing to go on to. people cannot afford to go back to college a 2nd or 3rd time and get retrained, owing $40,000 in loans, and then, 3 years later, have to go back again and get re-retrained. computer science graduates are a dime a dozen, and a bunch of them are serving lattes and saying 'thank you for calling Verizon how can i help you'.
the middle east and spain and other areas of the world are full of highly educated, highly trained youth with no jobs and no money. they are trying to immigrate, alot of them cant. they just sit there. no work experience, no opportunity, no nothing. its like the people who run society would prefer that they simply ceased to exist. "oh but they simply arent willing to work"...yes, they arent willing to work as prostitutes or slaves. Dubai is a perfect example. half the people are prostitutes and slaves who die by the dozen in construction projects, the rest are over stuffed, well fed man-children living in a fake economic bubble that is set to burst any time.
it is echoes of the early 1900s (especially the 10s and the 30s). the only thing we are missing is a world war and mass starvations to prompt some kind of revolution where dogmatists can take power and engage in bizarre social experiements like bolshevism or maoism. if millions of people are starving to death, 'why the hell not, lets get rid of property.. my whole family just died, i dont give a shit, anything is better than the existing system'
people in their ivory towers are the last to understand what is happening in the street.
against any bet that presupposes 'people 200 years ago were stupid! not like us smarties! with our holocaust and gulags and labor camps,,, look how tolerant we are!'
there isn't a single manufacturer of computers that is going to 'come back to the US' unless the US allows mass dumping of toxic chemicals from the tech process to be dumped into the local river, and protestors put into labor camps.
because thats what they do in China, and it saves a bundle of money.
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nobody will fucking read it or comment on it. "oh but they will" NO THEY WONT.
thats why sites like NPR.org have to beg for money, while sites like Huffington Post can rumor they are going to IPO. Yes, Huffpo is a giant pile of ass. but thats what 'the people' want. and thats all that matters in a capitalist system , what the customers are willing to pay for (or put their eyeballs on, so that advertisers can pay for).
Look at the past. Discovery, History Channel, Court TV, and Tech TV.
Now we have Discovery, History Channel, TruTV, and G4.
Discovery and History are now full of reality shows like 'I got bit by a gater" and "Fat dudes screaming at each other".
TruTV is now game shows.
G4 is porn and violence.
Those other people simply do not exist.
------
Wait, how can I say this? Because I write slashdot articles. And if they arent 'hip' enough, they dont go to the front page. They have to hit. they have to draw people in. You have to take some boring ass story, like some guy being charged for leaking documents, and find the nut, "ex NSA mathematician says the government is reading our email". its not a lie, its actually true, there actually is an ex-NSA mathematitican who says the government is reading our email. its right in there in the middle of the story. the long, 15 page story that discusses obscure legal theory, has long stretches of biographical information i can guarantee you 80% of geeks skip right over, etc. You just have to figure out how to 'translate' what many people view as a bureaucratic infighting story, and take it and make it 'real' for the geek audience , a large percentage of whom have ADHD.
people who dont get this have never tried to write for any audience other than, i dont know, their professor or something. you cant have a New England Journal of Medicine style product in the modern era. Even 2600 does this shit. Thats how the world works. If you dont like it, support Occupy Wall Street. . . because until someone takes every single hedge fund manager, private equity fund ivy league douchebag, and stuffs cannoli down their fat throats until they gag and choke and stop ass raping their employees for an extra 0.001% profit per quarter, then nothing will change.
since the beginning of time. Aristotle talked about monopolies in The Politics
Steve Jobs didn't invent monopoly or branding or lock-in or planned obsolescence. That is how modern corporations work, every modern corporation. Most business people, though, do not understand that those things are simply means to an end, they are a way to support the important stuff... like font systems and tablets and smartphones and laser printers for everybody.... and the real important stuff.... the people who use these things.
steve wozniak: "hey check out this l33t floppy drive controller i made! sweet eh?"
steve jobs: "we can sell this"
ordinary people: "i did this on my mac. no, i didnt need an $8,000 workstation"
school children: "fd 40; rt 80; fd 40; lt 80;"
apple is dead. steve jobs is dead. the personal computer is dead. 1984 is coming back.
all we have left now is linux.
all we are now is hedge fund managers and checkout clerks.
no more steve jobs.
no more big ideas.
They live their whole lives attempting to deny the fact that they love, absolutely love, hot multi-switching. They live a double life, unable to reveal their true feelings to their friends and neighbors. Every night they pray to their God to take away the horrible lust and debauched thoughts screaming through their mind every hour of the day. In the grocery store checkout, they think about hot multi-OS action. In their car, driving to work. In the shower, trying to sing contemporary spiritual music so loud that it will drown out the evil thoughts, they think about hot multi-OS action. And even some of the preachers and imams, while they are delivering another fire-brand sermon straight from God to the people, are, in the back of their mind, thinking about hot multi-OS action.
Only when our society has gone through another generation or two, and hot multi-OS is no longer branded with the stigma of 'perversion' and 'sin', will we begin to see some sort of social acceptance. The laws against hot multi-OS will fall, piece by piece, one by one. Eventually, we may even see hot multi-OS allowed in the military.
its almost as good as Mississippi due process in the 60s.
we went around to villages executing civilians because they were "aiding the enemy". how did we know? we just knew. stop asking questions hippie.
of course, when a radical leftist president starts executing right wing militia people without due process, rush limbaugh will shit a brick. .
i dont remember congress declaring war. did i miss something?
there are 'people in washington' who might not approve of your 'tone'.
"say, i couldnt help but notice you are trying to sell a mobile phone. all sorts of people might want to sue you over that, you know, what with patents and all. why dont you pay us, say, 10% of your income, and we can arrange it sos nobody patent sues you?"
operate without a judge, a jury, or a set of laws. no due process, no checks and balances. just a bunch of megacorporations, unaccountable to anyone, going out there and 'hunting down' people they dont like.
i.e. barbarianism.
real engineers build things that can kill people if they do things wrong. they have all the same pressures from management, but they still (theoretically) have standards, and licensing bodies, and like, rules and stuff.
no vigilantism here. doo de doo. nope. not a bit.
when he was running around stealing people's personal information?
oh wait. that was a business opportunity for Microsoft.
are you saying that steve jobs is a douche?
Leah McGrath Goodman describes this event in her book about Nymex (the USA petrolleum futures exchange)
those pits are almost entirely gone today, replaced by electronic trading. the pit traders were a rare breed - excessively physically aggressive, and during the greenpeace protest, they almost killed some people. in her book, alot of them could not deal with 'screen trading' and wound up driving cabs.
there is the 'future earnings booked to present' bonus
there is the executive who leaves to start a hedge fund golden parachute
there is his right hand man who leaves with him golden parachute
there is the bonus payed to the executive committee that looks for a new executive to fill his spot
there is a hiring bonus for this new guy
then some more golden parachutes and hush money when a couple people leave because they find him snorting coke in the boardroom
then there are the bonuses for performance increases
then there are the bonuses for paying out bonuses
etc etc etc.
i heard you like threads, so i put a CPU in your CPU so you could give all your money to Larry Ellsion while you give all your money to Larry Ellison!
could get the 'hash' and the 'salt'. then you add the pepper, and your goose is cooked.
brazil does...
stock & commodities exchanges - tens of thousands of traders out of work
checkout registers - countless cashiers out of work
news aggregators - tens of thousands of journalists out of work
lawyering - tons of laywers from top schools cannot find jobs other than 'document highlighting monkey' paying 12/hour
libraries - people with MLS degrees now say 'oh, reboot it' all day long
book stores - experts in literatue, classic, and modern, now say 'you need to upgrade your firmware' and 'venti or grande'
banks - they replaced mortgage lending clerks with 'robo signing' software .... now, they wiped away several centuries of property law, and accidentally screwed up the entire global economy in the process, but hey. it sure was efficient. and they got bailed out by the taxpayer in the end so.. whatever.
this is not 'buggy whip manufacturers'. this is mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale. there is no 'automobile industry' to replace the "buggy whip industry" in 2011, there is just a yawning, gaping void. once you automate automation itself, there is nothing to go on to. people cannot afford to go back to college a 2nd or 3rd time and get retrained, owing $40,000 in loans, and then, 3 years later, have to go back again and get re-retrained. computer science graduates are a dime a dozen, and a bunch of them are serving lattes and saying 'thank you for calling Verizon how can i help you'.
the middle east and spain and other areas of the world are full of highly educated, highly trained youth with no jobs and no money. they are trying to immigrate, alot of them cant. they just sit there. no work experience, no opportunity, no nothing. its like the people who run society would prefer that they simply ceased to exist. "oh but they simply arent willing to work" .. .yes, they arent willing to work as prostitutes or slaves. Dubai is a perfect example. half the people are prostitutes and slaves who die by the dozen in construction projects, the rest are over stuffed, well fed man-children living in a fake economic bubble that is set to burst any time.
it is echoes of the early 1900s (especially the 10s and the 30s). the only thing we are missing is a world war and mass starvations to prompt some kind of revolution where dogmatists can take power and engage in bizarre social experiements like bolshevism or maoism. if millions of people are starving to death, 'why the hell not, lets get rid of property.. my whole family just died, i dont give a shit, anything is better than the existing system'
people in their ivory towers are the last to understand what is happening in the street.
against any bet that presupposes 'people 200 years ago were stupid! not like us smarties! with our holocaust and gulags and labor camps,,, look how tolerant we are!'
there isn't a single manufacturer of computers that is going to 'come back to the US' unless the US allows mass dumping of toxic chemicals from the tech process to be dumped into the local river, and protestors put into labor camps.
because thats what they do in China, and it saves a bundle of money.