AT&T wants to charge Google for carrying Google Net traffic, even if Google isn't directly connected to AT&T. Let's say Google is connected to GCom, which is connected to AT&T, and Google users are connected to UCom, which is connected to AT&T (of course there are really many more intermediaries, but the system works exactly the same). Google pays GCom for its traffic, while users pay UCom for their traffic. GCom and UCom each pay AT&T to carry their traffic. AT&T gets paid its portion by Google and its users through those intermediaries. AT&T gets paid twice, once in each direction, for every transaction, without marketing the traffic: Google does that risky part.
AT&T just wants to doublecharge Google, because 1: Google has money, and 2: AT&T has a blackmail toolkit, including the huge network used by so many people, and Congress. If they just raised their rates, the traffic would flow over the redundant Internet to their cheaper competitors. So they're getting their cartel^Windustry to add a new kind of charge that everyone will collect, killing competition.
What does the telecom carrier industry plan beyond just ripping off everyone paying for our distributed Net access? To start, they're planning to suck up the "fast lane" with video, IPTV, to "compete" with cable companies and independent distributors. Including YouTube and any other upstart not in the telco club. Charging competitors outside the cartel too much to stay in the game, just like they killed the DSL competition. They'll also squeeze out any upstart VoIP competition, so their core voice business can keep its 20th Century domain intact.
Of course, along the way, they'll kick the crap out of any independent media they carry which tells the truth to the people. With voice, video and data under their privileged control, as well as the government, how can they lose?
No, you're right. I conflated two variances in Orion: their drift along their trajectory since the Big Bang, and their precession around the Earth's sky as the Earth precesses its rotational axis every 25My.
You are more accurate talking about Hancock, who does nothing but write about work like Bauval's, and tie together stories tested only for plausibility. Bauval is an archaelogist, who deduced that there were other pyramids and predicted their discovered locations, combining data, hypothesis, theory, prediction and failable tests - which didn't fail.
I don't know why people are so insistent on discarding these clearly coherent theories about these monuments, proven by testing their predictions. That stubborn refusal to update one's model that fit only the previous data to accomodate the new data is clearly antiscientific.
Actually, Bauval discovered the correspondence and the other pyramids. Hancock writes books, Bauval produces science. I'm interested in the science, and the better picture of the world it paints. The books are fun, though.
Thank you for your tireless work keeping people persuaded by a snotty Internet post from getting in the way as we discuss these historical scientific devices.
The Broadcasting Standards Commission investigated that BBC show and found it had unfairly edited to exclude rebuttals of the "debunking" from scientists and the authors.
I don't know about Hancock's 12.5Ky-old cataclysm. He's a recent investigator selling books. But he used the Pyramids/Orion existing data of stars and pyramids to uncover 2 "new" pyramids, which is successful deductive science that validates his model. Moreover, his Pyramid model is robust, revealing a cohesive principle for the Pyramids that explains other architectural features, including their extremely precise North/South alignment (more precise than the modern Greenwich Prime Meridian), and the shafts from chambers to the sky. Which are consistent with the inscriptions on the monuments, many of them previously unintelligible without the ritual context. The "sky map" model is no speculation: it's a proven model that's been tested by analysis and prediction.
As for the "weird idea" that a global civilization's towns and structures were built on the coast (unrelated to the inland Pyramids), I reiterate what another reply to your post says about today's civilization. Most of our current towns and structures, especially our emblematic ones, are built on the coast. And lower-tech roots of our current civilization are even more concentrated on coasts and riverbanks. Why should the old ones be any different?
I don't see China moving from violence, as they still enforce their laws with neighborhood cops who kill people, all the way up to capital punishment for, say, bootleggers. And they keep people in line with the threat of violence outside the legal system, in the political system instead. Their fascism has coopted real "communists" into harmless pets among their fake "Communist" propaganda.
They are very much "national socialists". They succeeded in their purges during their "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution". Sexism and homophobia aren't fascist, though they are used by fascists to target weak groups for propaganda and militarizing the remainder. China targets weak (weaker than the government) groups that actually represent a threat to fascist power, like the Falun Gong and Muslim theocrats, real and "imagined", to the same effect.
China has been through generations of unrestrained fascism. They are moving towards the purer form, with less of a balance between government corporations and corporate government. A lot of their means to the fascist end have run their course as they've become more fascist from merely authoritarian, so they've retired the cattlecars and roving streetgangs enforcing ideology. But they're a corporate government, communicating with the people only through violence and propaganda: fascist.
I don't think they can stay that way. I think that their economic and tech development has produced decentralized forces of demand, expectation and interconnectedness that mere violence and propaganda can't control. Mainly the vulnerability of the "official truth" to distributed media spells the end of their current model. I expect they will see fragmentation from "separatists", which serves the more developed provinces who want to keep more of the money while exploiting the resources (including labor and dumps) of the less developed provinces. Some kind of feedback through the government to the people will develop, though the sinking degree of democracy in the US as an example and partner bodes ill for real "democracy" in China.
Taiwan makes more than 66% of the notebooks on which we read that spam, so they're actually overperforming on the content:reader ratio. I wish they'd get more into eBooks.
I haven't heard whether the antikythera actually worked to accurately show the sky, but I expect that further tests will show that it did.
The Pyramids aren't "incorrectly placed" to represent the stars of "Orion". Their positions are different from Orion's exact shape today, but are exactly correct for their slightly different positions 13.5Ky ago - and again about 12Ky in the future. Discovering that correspondence allowed the discoverers to find 2 previously undocumented pyramids buried nearby, corresponding to other stars in the constellation. FWIW, the "Greek" who knew the Earth was round, even calculating its circumference within 1% accuracy, was Eratosthenes, actually an "Egyptian" (or neighboring "Libyan").
Angkor Wat is sync'ed to "Draco", also 13.5Ky ago. Other global monuments reflect other constellations, including all kinds of Greek monuments.
Stonehenge wasn't merely a sundial, but rather a calibration to various celestial events throughout the year and the centuries.
These devices were used to navigate around a global civilization that shared a celestial framework. Not just markers, but also a consistent framework of stories of supernatural characters that ensured their perpetuation across the world and through time. Because that knowledge was accepted on faith by most, just like most people accept GPS, watches and Web reservation systems on faith today, they're "religious" objects. I hope our exposure to more ancient versions will help us examine our own mystification of current practices at least as much as it demystifies ancient practice.
The point is that now that the working OpenBSD drivers include the info required for any OS driver to work, Linux drivers shouldn't be far behind. If in fact the unavailability of that info is what's stopping Linux developers from implementing them. The OpenBSD lead shouldn't last long.
Otherwise there are clearly other factors. We'll get to see.
It's a navigational device that used the night sky, available to everyone in perfect sync, instead of the many calendars that many Old World societies didn't even have. Maps with directions could encode "turning points" or durations in terms of stars and planets, then limit access to them to only those with the antikythera tech.
The really interesting question is how that portable machine relates to the ancient monuments like the Pyramids, Chichen Itza, and Angkor Wat which replicate star patterns on the ground for the ages.
You can call secret meetings with public officials to take rights from the people to create property for corporations "democracy", but that's your problem.
China is fascist. The British Empire and mercantile Holland were fascist outside Britain and Holland, in their colonies. And less than fascist at home in the same measure that they were constitutional democracies.
Fascism is the government face on the corporate body. It thereby communicates with propaganda covering its violence, to prevent the people from organizing to resist - and keep them hurting each other. The US is marching down the same fascist road paved by its British predecessor, with Britain following as closely as its better organized people allow.
These fascisms are pretty obvious to me. The degree to which fascism is unclear to Americans in those countries and at home is a measure of how American fascist propaganda and violence have already succeeded.
Yet the much smaller BSD developer community has enough people with even rarer skills?
And even if so, doesn't that demolish the excuse that Linux lacks drivers because of proprietary tech blocking the path? Rather, the reason is that Linux developers just don't produce the drivers they could.
I don't believe either of those propositions. That's why I believe the BSD lead will be short-lived.
If those OpenBSD drivers are under the BSD license, doesn't that mean anyone (except the very few under some kind of other legal constraint for some other reason) with the chops can port them to Linux? And those chops don't have to be as tight as the original BSD coders. Shouldn't the lead be very short-lived?
The most important feature of any office app is its ability to use the vast amount of existing data, mostly stored in Microsoft format. That's Microsoft's second most powerful self-perpetuating monopoly abuse, after pure momentum.
Google has unprecedented access to computer power, smart people and example files, without the baggage of backwards compatibility to any of its own proprietary formats. Their most powerful feature would be freely interconverting all the office docs (including Excel) stored around the Net to other formats, including open formats. Slap just about any GUI that puts PEMDAS algebra in cell grids on that engine, and they've got a winner.
Or the awaited ingredients for the world's tiniest cellphone, ringing in a movie theater just for you, by the quadrillion - and impossible to grab and turn off.
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Let's break it down even simpler:
AT&T wants to charge Google for carrying Google Net traffic, even if Google isn't directly connected to AT&T. Let's say Google is connected to GCom, which is connected to AT&T, and Google users are connected to UCom, which is connected to AT&T (of course there are really many more intermediaries, but the system works exactly the same). Google pays GCom for its traffic, while users pay UCom for their traffic. GCom and UCom each pay AT&T to carry their traffic. AT&T gets paid its portion by Google and its users through those intermediaries. AT&T gets paid twice, once in each direction, for every transaction, without marketing the traffic: Google does that risky part.
AT&T just wants to doublecharge Google, because 1: Google has money, and 2: AT&T has a blackmail toolkit, including the huge network used by so many people, and Congress. If they just raised their rates, the traffic would flow over the redundant Internet to their cheaper competitors. So they're getting their cartel^Windustry to add a new kind of charge that everyone will collect, killing competition.
What does the telecom carrier industry plan beyond just ripping off everyone paying for our distributed Net access? To start, they're planning to suck up the "fast lane" with video, IPTV, to "compete" with cable companies and independent distributors. Including YouTube and any other upstart not in the telco club. Charging competitors outside the cartel too much to stay in the game, just like they killed the DSL competition. They'll also squeeze out any upstart VoIP competition, so their core voice business can keep its 20th Century domain intact.
Of course, along the way, they'll kick the crap out of any independent media they carry which tells the truth to the people. With voice, video and data under their privileged control, as well as the government, how can they lose?
"But nothing in life is free" - Moonie^WWashington Times editorial
That Moonie editorial isn't merely "confused", unless you want to call fascist zombies "confused". It's evil.
No, you're right. I conflated two variances in Orion: their drift along their trajectory since the Big Bang, and their precession around the Earth's sky as the Earth precesses its rotational axis every 25My.
You are more accurate talking about Hancock, who does nothing but write about work like Bauval's, and tie together stories tested only for plausibility. Bauval is an archaelogist, who deduced that there were other pyramids and predicted their discovered locations, combining data, hypothesis, theory, prediction and failable tests - which didn't fail.
I don't know why people are so insistent on discarding these clearly coherent theories about these monuments, proven by testing their predictions. That stubborn refusal to update one's model that fit only the previous data to accomodate the new data is clearly antiscientific.
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No one expects the 700 Club Inquisition!
Bad religion is one of the ways people are bad. Who's blaming anyone else?
"dumb, unconstitutional, and anyway should be debated domestically first"
AND WE'RE DOING IT ANYWAY. That's the New American Way, in the New American Century. Four more years!
Who cares? What the hell are you talking about?
Your obnoxious post, Anonymous dogma Coward, reeks of pernicious unquestioned beliefs masquerading as faith. Pat Robertson, is that you?
I didn't say what we "should" do. That sounds like an unquestioned belief to me.
No matter what we should do, we're not waiting. Therefore, expect space to hold the same species deathtrap, on a grander scale.
When we bring unquestioned beliefs into space along with our inevitable faith, we'll eventually make space the same species deathtrap as Earth.
Actually, Bauval discovered the correspondence and the other pyramids. Hancock writes books, Bauval produces science. I'm interested in the science, and the better picture of the world it paints. The books are fun, though.
Thank you for your tireless work keeping people persuaded by a snotty Internet post from getting in the way as we discuss these historical scientific devices.
The Broadcasting Standards Commission investigated that BBC show and found it had unfairly edited to exclude rebuttals of the "debunking" from scientists and the authors.
I don't know about Hancock's 12.5Ky-old cataclysm. He's a recent investigator selling books. But he used the Pyramids/Orion existing data of stars and pyramids to uncover 2 "new" pyramids, which is successful deductive science that validates his model. Moreover, his Pyramid model is robust, revealing a cohesive principle for the Pyramids that explains other architectural features, including their extremely precise North/South alignment (more precise than the modern Greenwich Prime Meridian), and the shafts from chambers to the sky. Which are consistent with the inscriptions on the monuments, many of them previously unintelligible without the ritual context. The "sky map" model is no speculation: it's a proven model that's been tested by analysis and prediction.
As for the "weird idea" that a global civilization's towns and structures were built on the coast (unrelated to the inland Pyramids), I reiterate what another reply to your post says about today's civilization. Most of our current towns and structures, especially our emblematic ones, are built on the coast. And lower-tech roots of our current civilization are even more concentrated on coasts and riverbanks. Why should the old ones be any different?
I don't see China moving from violence, as they still enforce their laws with neighborhood cops who kill people, all the way up to capital punishment for, say, bootleggers. And they keep people in line with the threat of violence outside the legal system, in the political system instead. Their fascism has coopted real "communists" into harmless pets among their fake "Communist" propaganda.
They are very much "national socialists". They succeeded in their purges during their "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution". Sexism and homophobia aren't fascist, though they are used by fascists to target weak groups for propaganda and militarizing the remainder. China targets weak (weaker than the government) groups that actually represent a threat to fascist power, like the Falun Gong and Muslim theocrats, real and "imagined", to the same effect.
China has been through generations of unrestrained fascism. They are moving towards the purer form, with less of a balance between government corporations and corporate government. A lot of their means to the fascist end have run their course as they've become more fascist from merely authoritarian, so they've retired the cattlecars and roving streetgangs enforcing ideology. But they're a corporate government, communicating with the people only through violence and propaganda: fascist.
I don't think they can stay that way. I think that their economic and tech development has produced decentralized forces of demand, expectation and interconnectedness that mere violence and propaganda can't control. Mainly the vulnerability of the "official truth" to distributed media spells the end of their current model. I expect they will see fragmentation from "separatists", which serves the more developed provinces who want to keep more of the money while exploiting the resources (including labor and dumps) of the less developed provinces. Some kind of feedback through the government to the people will develop, though the sinking degree of democracy in the US as an example and partner bodes ill for real "democracy" in China.
Taiwan makes more than 66% of the notebooks on which we read that spam, so they're actually overperforming on the content:reader ratio. I wish they'd get more into eBooks.
I haven't heard whether the antikythera actually worked to accurately show the sky, but I expect that further tests will show that it did.
The Pyramids aren't "incorrectly placed" to represent the stars of "Orion". Their positions are different from Orion's exact shape today, but are exactly correct for their slightly different positions 13.5Ky ago - and again about 12Ky in the future. Discovering that correspondence allowed the discoverers to find 2 previously undocumented pyramids buried nearby, corresponding to other stars in the constellation. FWIW, the "Greek" who knew the Earth was round, even calculating its circumference within 1% accuracy, was Eratosthenes, actually an "Egyptian" (or neighboring "Libyan").
Angkor Wat is sync'ed to "Draco", also 13.5Ky ago. Other global monuments reflect other constellations, including all kinds of Greek monuments.
Stonehenge wasn't merely a sundial, but rather a calibration to various celestial events throughout the year and the centuries.
These devices were used to navigate around a global civilization that shared a celestial framework. Not just markers, but also a consistent framework of stories of supernatural characters that ensured their perpetuation across the world and through time. Because that knowledge was accepted on faith by most, just like most people accept GPS, watches and Web reservation systems on faith today, they're "religious" objects. I hope our exposure to more ancient versions will help us examine our own mystification of current practices at least as much as it demystifies ancient practice.
The point is that now that the working OpenBSD drivers include the info required for any OS driver to work, Linux drivers shouldn't be far behind. If in fact the unavailability of that info is what's stopping Linux developers from implementing them. The OpenBSD lead shouldn't last long.
Otherwise there are clearly other factors. We'll get to see.
It's a navigational device that used the night sky, available to everyone in perfect sync, instead of the many calendars that many Old World societies didn't even have. Maps with directions could encode "turning points" or durations in terms of stars and planets, then limit access to them to only those with the antikythera tech.
The really interesting question is how that portable machine relates to the ancient monuments like the Pyramids, Chichen Itza, and Angkor Wat which replicate star patterns on the ground for the ages.
You can call secret meetings with public officials to take rights from the people to create property for corporations "democracy", but that's your problem.
China is fascist. The British Empire and mercantile Holland were fascist outside Britain and Holland, in their colonies. And less than fascist at home in the same measure that they were constitutional democracies.
Fascism is the government face on the corporate body. It thereby communicates with propaganda covering its violence, to prevent the people from organizing to resist - and keep them hurting each other. The US is marching down the same fascist road paved by its British predecessor, with Britain following as closely as its better organized people allow.
These fascisms are pretty obvious to me. The degree to which fascism is unclear to Americans in those countries and at home is a measure of how American fascist propaganda and violence have already succeeded.
Yet the much smaller BSD developer community has enough people with even rarer skills?
And even if so, doesn't that demolish the excuse that Linux lacks drivers because of proprietary tech blocking the path? Rather, the reason is that Linux developers just don't produce the drivers they could.
I don't believe either of those propositions. That's why I believe the BSD lead will be short-lived.
If those OpenBSD drivers are under the BSD license, doesn't that mean anyone (except the very few under some kind of other legal constraint for some other reason) with the chops can port them to Linux? And those chops don't have to be as tight as the original BSD coders. Shouldn't the lead be very short-lived?
In my US intellect bracket, we call "()} parentheses, "[]" "brackets", and "{}" "braces", in that order in PEMDAS.
SOHCAHTOA, baby!
Can it open or save Excel spreadsheets?
The most important feature of any office app is its ability to use the vast amount of existing data, mostly stored in Microsoft format. That's Microsoft's second most powerful self-perpetuating monopoly abuse, after pure momentum.
Google has unprecedented access to computer power, smart people and example files, without the baggage of backwards compatibility to any of its own proprietary formats. Their most powerful feature would be freely interconverting all the office docs (including Excel) stored around the Net to other formats, including open formats. Slap just about any GUI that puts PEMDAS algebra in cell grids on that engine, and they've got a winner.
Or the awaited ingredients for the world's tiniest cellphone, ringing in a movie theater just for you, by the quadrillion - and impossible to grab and turn off.