Why arent you writing a slashdot article about Qatar, the UAE, and Bahrain?
I can barely tie my own shoelaces and put my pants on zipper-side-front, but I was somehow able to submit a slashdot story about Syria's internet. What is stopping you?
and it is attempting to draw lessons from IBM's history.
i thought it would be appropriate to discuss historical fact. especially if those facts contradict the theory that has been presented. its called the scientific method.
my phrase 'every country on the planet' was an exaggeration. it is true. IBM only had offices in a few dozen countries, including the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Vietnam (a French colony), Belgium, Hungary, Austria, Czechkoslovakia, Romania, etc etc etc. They did not, for example, have an office in Mauritania or Mongolia, that I know of.
Watson destroyed them, partly through competition, but partly through IBM's endless schmoozing with high government officials, including Nazis.
it would be like saying that Microsoft invested in R&D during the Great Recession. Of course they did. They also bribed teachers to teach students their products, forced Andriod phone makers and linux vendors to pay them protection money, launched a patent war (through SCO) against Linux, schmoozed with high government officials, etc.
but you realize, there are a huge number of unemployed biotech people who have started up their own 'DIY biotech' movement? they have 'hack spaces' but instead of soldering irons they have PCR machines.
the social security system was one of the most massive IT projects ever undertaken in history, when it came about in 1930s. IBM made massive amounts of money off of that project.
the German Census of 1936 was a massive operation and brought huge profits to IBM, as well as Hitler's grand plans for a massively centralized healthcare system which required vast amounts of data processing.
then there was the Soviet Union, which ran a planned economy - meaning that massive amounts of data had to be sifted in a centralized fashion. IBM was there too.
then there was Japan....
so its kind of easy for IBM to spend on R&D in the 1930s, considering that every government on the planet was pouring money into it's coffers.
man that was a good movie. with the little guy talking about 'meesa no jibber jabber', so great - a classic film. but think about how much they could improve it with modern special effects like computer graphics and realistic animation.
it's from the Tao Te Ching, and it applies to the FOIA.
you dont get what you want, but you get pieces of a puzzle, and slowly, over years, you piece the puzzle together. we are still finding out things about Nixon and the Pentagon Papers, we are still finding things out about war crimes in Vietnam, we are still finding out things about the Nazis, and about Stalin and the soviet Gulags and the NKVD.
the FOIA is a tool. its not perfect, but its one of the best tools we have.
forgive me for paraphrasing Carl Sagan about science in that last sentence.
the funniest thing about the 'violent video games debate' is a bunch of angry, aggressive people who play a lot of violent video games screaming at you that violent video games dont make them angry or aggressive.
if by 'mass riot' you mean 'people gathering in a public square to protest a stolen, fraudulent election run by a dictator who has been in power for 15+ years'
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now i have 12+ stories accepted. thanks malda.
you are right, that is a pretty horrible headline. i will try harder next time.
the details are all inside.
is the internet. which is open.
if you want closed, go back to Prodigy and Compuserve.
Why arent you writing a slashdot article about Qatar, the UAE, and Bahrain?
I can barely tie my own shoelaces and put my pants on zipper-side-front, but I was somehow able to submit a slashdot story about Syria's internet. What is stopping you?
and other 'enemies of the state', conscientious objectors, etc.
obviously that will improve security.
is another man's freedom?
used to, you could see the ban lists for irc channels (sometimes servers). they regularly did stuff like ban *.il or whatever.
and it is attempting to draw lessons from IBM's history.
i thought it would be appropriate to discuss historical fact. especially if those facts contradict the theory that has been presented. its called the scientific method.
my phrase 'every country on the planet' was an exaggeration. it is true. IBM only had offices in a few dozen countries, including the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Vietnam (a French colony), Belgium, Hungary, Austria, Czechkoslovakia, Romania, etc etc etc. They did not, for example, have an office in Mauritania or Mongolia, that I know of.
to IBM in the era, including several in europe.
Watson destroyed them, partly through competition, but partly through IBM's endless schmoozing with high government officials, including Nazis.
it would be like saying that Microsoft invested in R&D during the Great Recession. Of course they did. They also bribed teachers to teach students their products, forced Andriod phone makers and linux vendors to pay them protection money, launched a patent war (through SCO) against Linux, schmoozed with high government officials, etc.
for the next 5 years. j/k
but you realize, there are a huge number of unemployed biotech people who have started up their own 'DIY biotech' movement? they have 'hack spaces' but instead of soldering irons they have PCR machines.
the social security system was one of the most massive IT projects ever undertaken in history, when it came about in 1930s. IBM made massive amounts of money off of that project.
the German Census of 1936 was a massive operation and brought huge profits to IBM, as well as Hitler's grand plans for a massively centralized healthcare system which required vast amounts of data processing.
then there was the Soviet Union, which ran a planned economy - meaning that massive amounts of data had to be sifted in a centralized fashion. IBM was there too.
then there was Japan....
so its kind of easy for IBM to spend on R&D in the 1930s, considering that every government on the planet was pouring money into it's coffers.
banning entire blocks of addresses is ridiculously overzealous, injust, and indicates laziness and ignorance on the part of the administrator.
that didnt make me any friends in the irc ops.
and im talking about thomas jefferson
and romeo and juliet... it had been done hundreds of times before!
thanks alot. i was eating.
man that was a good movie. with the little guy talking about 'meesa no jibber jabber', so great - a classic film. but think about how much they could improve it with modern special effects like computer graphics and realistic animation.
dont tell me you are a global warming denier!
it's from the Tao Te Ching, and it applies to the FOIA.
you dont get what you want, but you get pieces of a puzzle, and slowly, over years, you piece the puzzle together. we are still finding out things about Nixon and the Pentagon Papers, we are still finding things out about war crimes in Vietnam, we are still finding out things about the Nazis, and about Stalin and the soviet Gulags and the NKVD.
the FOIA is a tool. its not perfect, but its one of the best tools we have.
forgive me for paraphrasing Carl Sagan about science in that last sentence.
between the declaration of independence and the first amendment.
both were supported heavily by the same guy.
i was referring to the fact that the video in question was about 10 times louder than the 'normal' audio on my system.
the funniest thing about the 'violent video games debate' is a bunch of angry, aggressive people who play a lot of violent video games screaming at you that violent video games dont make them angry or aggressive.
if incitement is illegal then basically every opinionated political speaker in the country would be in prison.
to the 'mass riot' that occured in december 2010.
if by 'mass riot' you mean 'people gathering in a public square to protest a stolen, fraudulent election run by a dictator who has been in power for 15+ years'
that whole first amendment thing was such a bother.
now we hooligans have learned that we cant get away with 'everything', like, i dont know, quoting the declaration of independence
i mean, after all, doesnt that document insight violence?