its not just the government. the hedge funds and banks love top buy securitized student loan debt - because it cant be washed away by bankruptcy. unlike subprime mortgages. you have an entire generation of endentured servants who have degrees from shit holes like Full Sail University.
If you work at a financial institituion, this is the kind of s**** that will lose millions of dollars.
There are a lot of things that only come up quarterly, or yearly, and things where the effects wont be known until months or years later.
so if someone does task X on February 15 but it doesnt show on a report until July, and then you shut it off on Feb 16th, that means it will be over a year before anyone finds out.
welcome to corporate america, you are responsible for shit you have no way to control or to fix.
just like everyone else.
those people who have to open those reports are in the same boat as you. if they dont open the report, then xyz doesnt get done, then a shit storm rolls down the hill and destroys the entire department.
in the public sector, your dick is measured by how big your budget is. why the fuck would you want to spend LESS money than you did last year? then your budget gets cut - not only do you have to fire some people, you destroy any chance of advancing up the hierarchy. not only that, you dont have anyone to sue if the 'solution' is behind schedule or doesnt work or, in healthcare, kills someone (Therac 25 anyone?).
Also, you typically get kickbacks from vendors for 'implementing' their 'solution' after a 'careful decision process involving all the stakeholders'.
The only people who believe in this open stuff are the nutcases like, you know, doctors and scientists. What the fuck do they know?
if you ever have a job where you have to sling around heavy rectangular objects all day, you will eventually realize that 'over packaging' is really the solution to most of the problems in the cycle.
it helps machines that auto-sort work faster and better
it helps people who handle stuff work faster
it helps the seller
it helps the buyer
if the industry had to 'coddle' every package it would slow down the entire line - from the machinery based roller setups to the people packing stuff in trucks to the people leaving stuff at your door.
it would almost make more sense for a shipping company to auto-matically 'repack' flimsily packaged items with the identical address and only ship them after doing so, just to avoid the hassle of people who dont understand how the system works.
The rough group of placentals from the wrong side of the tracks has a young placental who falls in love with a nice placental from the meadow.. but their parents disapprove...
there are a lot of bloggers who have exposed corruption etc who are in jail or who are under constant police harassment of themselves and their families, with employment blocked and all sorts of other problems that political dissidents have faced since time immemorial.
until people like Zhao Lianhai can live an ordinary free life in China, this talk of netizens fighting back the government is not convincing - it might simply be a bunch of propaganda and we all might be dupes in some kind of clever bureaucratic infighting inside the Communist Party hierarchy.
think about it. who leaked the video to him? who protected him from being arrested and sent to a labor camp for a year, like the girl who made a joke tweet a few years ago?
if you run a website you know damn well that having google put full res image download link will massively increase your bandwidth usage with absolutely 0 increase in traffic.
now lets imagine the energy consumed to create and power all of those factories in various quasi-modern countries (where building codes are substandard) and lets imagine all the enrgy consumed to ship it over seas on gigantic boats some of which sink then lets imagine all the energy to unload the boats then lets imagine the big trucks that move that stuff out over the country and then lets imagine all of the shopping outlets that the stuff goes into and lets imagine all the light, heat, water, etc, and all the power it takes to run those things and lets imagine what 'use' a shopping mall actually has. actually, none, which is why in the soviet era they probably didn't have "hot topic". the soviet era, however, was also massively inefficient and produced the worst environmental disasters in modern history many of them still secret, (other than whats happening in China, another communist country...)
so lets just stop bitching at everyone about what they use energy for and how 'wasteful' it is, unless you want to personally stop watching TV, stop eating meat, stop driving a car and having a job and just become homeless and live off of dumpster diving because that truly would be the most 'energy efficient' lifestyle (other than say being a hunter gatherer in the amazon forest - but alot of them have ipods and want to charge it. . . more 'waste' i guess).
its an aesthetic discipline not an objectively useful one.
alot of it turns out to be useful, sometimes hundreds or thousands of years after its first 'discovery'.
Quaternions would be a perfect example, imaginary numbers another.
so right now we have no idea what the usefulness of finding high primes is.
but in 200 years it might allow us to calculate the control points necessary to create an anti-matter damper for protonium neon flux casings in hyperdimensional warp transferrence beam generators.
since the exact mechanism of addiction will be discovered down to the last neuron, corporations can then exploit that information to guarantee addiction to whatever digital product they manufacture. id imagine it will be some kind of cross between the following
Slashdot Mirror
its not just the government. the hedge funds and banks love top buy securitized student loan debt - because it cant be washed away by bankruptcy. unlike subprime mortgages. you have an entire generation of endentured servants who have degrees from shit holes like Full Sail University.
If you work at a financial institituion, this is the kind of s**** that will lose millions of dollars.
There are a lot of things that only come up quarterly, or yearly, and things where the effects wont be known until months or years later.
so if someone does task X on February 15 but it doesnt show on a report until July, and then you shut it off on Feb 16th, that means it will be over a year before anyone finds out.
they will stick Debian on it and people will use it to port free software.
they do have a sunfire but it's almost out of disk space and there are tons of people using it already.
China is full of people who want to reach out to the other countries and talk with us... how can it be good to break them off?
ever heard of Fusion Centers, the TSA, the NSA , etc etc etc?
granted we dont have widespread extortion and bribery - often because those programs are supposed to be secret.
welcome to corporate america, you are responsible for shit you have no way to control or to fix.
just like everyone else.
those people who have to open those reports are in the same boat as you. if they dont open the report, then xyz doesnt get done, then a shit storm rolls down the hill and destroys the entire department.
have you heard of 'flashback'?
in the public sector, your dick is measured by how big your budget is. why the fuck would you want to spend LESS money than you did last year? then your budget gets cut - not only do you have to fire some people, you destroy any chance of advancing up the hierarchy. not only that, you dont have anyone to sue if the 'solution' is behind schedule or doesnt work or, in healthcare, kills someone (Therac 25 anyone?).
Also, you typically get kickbacks from vendors for 'implementing' their 'solution' after a 'careful decision process involving all the stakeholders'.
The only people who believe in this open stuff are the nutcases like, you know, doctors and scientists. What the fuck do they know?
as some kind of leet hacker haven. its full of the same horse shit you find all over those places
"need powerpoint conversion ASAP!"
"java lx2e zorbog buzzheavy lightyear lcick layer"
Warning: Adobe has detected this file may be infected. Click here to report this to Corporate IT security and secure your workstation.
... oh wait...
if you ever have a job where you have to sling around heavy rectangular objects all day, you will eventually realize that 'over packaging' is really the solution to most of the problems in the cycle.
it helps machines that auto-sort work faster and better
it helps people who handle stuff work faster
it helps the seller
it helps the buyer
if the industry had to 'coddle' every package it would slow down the entire line - from the machinery based roller setups to the people packing stuff in trucks to the people leaving stuff at your door.
it would almost make more sense for a shipping company to auto-matically 'repack' flimsily packaged items with the identical address and only ship them after doing so, just to avoid the hassle of people who dont understand how the system works.
The rough group of placentals from the wrong side of the tracks has a young placental who falls in love with a nice placental from the meadow.. but their parents disapprove...
there are a lot of bloggers who have exposed corruption etc who are in jail or who are under constant police harassment of themselves and their families, with employment blocked and all sorts of other problems that political dissidents have faced since time immemorial.
until people like Zhao Lianhai can live an ordinary free life in China, this talk of netizens fighting back the government is not convincing - it might simply be a bunch of propaganda and we all might be dupes in some kind of clever bureaucratic infighting inside the Communist Party hierarchy.
think about it. who leaked the video to him? who protected him from being arrested and sent to a labor camp for a year, like the girl who made a joke tweet a few years ago?
does that come in chocolate?
if you run a website you know damn well that having google put full res image download link will massively increase your bandwidth usage with absolutely 0 increase in traffic.
and all it did was send requests to google and re-display them without ads or with different ads, then google would be the one complaining.
now lets imagine the energy consumed to create and power all of those factories in various quasi-modern countries (where building codes are substandard) and lets imagine all the enrgy consumed to ship it over seas on gigantic boats some of which sink then lets imagine all the energy to unload the boats then lets imagine the big trucks that move that stuff out over the country and then lets imagine all of the shopping outlets that the stuff goes into and lets imagine all the light, heat, water, etc, and all the power it takes to run those things and lets imagine what 'use' a shopping mall actually has. actually, none, which is why in the soviet era they probably didn't have "hot topic". the soviet era, however, was also massively inefficient and produced the worst environmental disasters in modern history many of them still secret, (other than whats happening in China, another communist country...)
so lets just stop bitching at everyone about what they use energy for and how 'wasteful' it is, unless you want to personally stop watching TV, stop eating meat, stop driving a car and having a job and just become homeless and live off of dumpster diving because that truly would be the most 'energy efficient' lifestyle (other than say being a hunter gatherer in the amazon forest - but alot of them have ipods and want to charge it. . . more 'waste' i guess).
its an aesthetic discipline not an objectively useful one.
alot of it turns out to be useful, sometimes hundreds or thousands of years after its first 'discovery'.
Quaternions would be a perfect example, imaginary numbers another.
so right now we have no idea what the usefulness of finding high primes is.
but in 200 years it might allow us to calculate the control points necessary to create an anti-matter damper for protonium neon flux casings in hyperdimensional warp transferrence beam generators.
its built into th tv
"OSI President Emeritus Eric Raymond serving as advisers."
do not want.
and all of its promises are bullshit.
when you hear old Jazz musicians talk about New York, they frequently reminisce about the day they got their Union card.
the tech industry is so anti-union it would make people from the 50s blush.
so basically thats the end of music. except for auto-tuned horse shit puked out by quasi strippers who can't sing.
Truly, this is the Triumph of the Nerds.
since the exact mechanism of addiction will be discovered down to the last neuron, corporations can then exploit that information to guarantee addiction to whatever digital product they manufacture. id imagine it will be some kind of cross between the following
1. Home shopping network
2. Online gambling
3. MMO gaming
4. Pornography
is like the earth thinking