There will come a time when the nations of the world will cease to exist. When the anachronisms of state and country are finally crushed by the inexorable juggernaut of total corporate domination. When five monolithic Corporations are the new world powers. When the lives of billions are the sole property of the companies that employ them. -- Corporation Core Rules
The idea is nonsensical that the US can remain the font of research, innovation, design, and engineering while the country ceases to make things. Research and product development invariably follow manufacturing. Now even business schools that were cheerleaders for offshoring of US jobs are beginning to wise up. In a recent report, "Next Generation Offshoring: The Globalization of Innovation," Duke University's Fuqua School of Business finds that product development is moving to China to support the manufacturing operations that have located there. -- A Workforce Betrayed: Watching Greed Murder the Economy, Paul Craig Roberts
Oh, there’s a construction site, sitting on a dry hillside just out of town. And for years, AUIS shamelessly showed “virtual video” of that site as it’s supposed to look, if and when it’s ever finished, as if it already were the campus. It may never be finished; already the university hired and finally fired a local construction firm which missed every deadline it was set. A Turkish company has the contract now, adding to the Turks’ domination of all business in Iraqi Kurdistan.
When anyone at AUIS dared to suggest that it wasn’t very honest to keep up the “virtual tour” fiction, Mitchell and Agresto had a stock response: “We’re a startup operation!” It reminded me of a stand-up comic’s line: “I try to remain new on the job as long as possible.
One reason we accepted shocks like the nonexistent campus so docilely was that, when our minders met us at the Suli airport, they gave us a nice little packet containing a cellphone and $5000 cash “to help [us] settle in.”
We have tons of Royalty in the United States, Lords and Kings, etc. We might want to "clean house" here first before we start telling the British how to run things.
They have a national health service and lots of other lovely socialist things (they are working on getting rid of them, but still), we have King Don Blankenship of West Virginia who isn't nearly as charming as Her Majesty and has a lot more real world power.
What's more likely? That you've found some one-in-a-billion Tesla genius who really can do the same job in 1/40th of the time, or that you've found some lying SOB who just claims to?
Hmm, sets.google.com can be your friend here. Type in 5 things you like, and it will come up with a list of things that are related to them in a set (note, the more unique the names or phrases used, the better the results.)
In my opinion, the best counter for this is to start with a theme, and then go from there. If you come up with a theme, and still have to many choices, narrow it further.
It's usually pretty hard to fit movies into a theme if you narrow it far enough.
You can start by making a list of your five favorite films and choose one of those to base the theme on. It's fun! You can even plan your menu around the theme.
Yes, but on the other hand, Cesare is more like a classic zombie than the hungry dead of a Romero film, "According to the tenets of Vodou, a dead person can be revived by a bokor, or sorcerer. Zombies remain under the control of the bokor since they have no will of their own. " -- Zombie
Besides, the Infected from 28 Days Later are not dead, and that usually gets included in a list of zombie movies.
Well, I disagree on two levels. This isn't anthropomorphism (this thing is a man) but animism (this thing is alive). It happens on a subconscious level, we start to treat complex machines as if they were creatures even if we consciously know better. Most people have done the same things with their cars, "Start you #$@#@!"
I'm not too worried about a Machine Rights movement, the Animal Rights movement has basically accomplished nothing. Human treatment of lesser creatures is more vile and disgusting today than it was back when the Romans were crucifying dogs to celebrate holidays. This is despite the fact that animals, at least, are cute, warm and furry. Try selling that with a sewage pump or a toaster, no matter how smart it is.
I also don't agree that machines will never think, although I think the first thinking machines will cheat and be cyborgs with animal brains running the machinery. I think a fully artificial, thinking creature would be possible because thinking creatures are possible. That doesn't mean it wouldn't be radically different than our modern computers, I'm sure it would.
I studied a zombie movie in my modern drama class, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an important milestone in German film and a chilling insight into the stress between authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism in Weimar Germany.
"For the record, Nintendo was responsible for the Night Trap and Mortal Kombat outtake videos used by Lieberman's committee to illustrate their concern - again driving home the point that Sega was in large part responsible, if not totally responsible, for putting 'this stuff' in the homes of unsuspecting children. Armed with this 'evidence' and with endlessly hyped stories in the press about children going on violent rampages supposedly due to videogames, Lieberman and fellow senator Howard Kohl (D, Wisconson) eventually called for nothing less than a total ban on violent videogames and the dismantling of companies that promoted such fare - including Sega, the chief culprit behind the spread of violent videogames." -- SegaBase Volume 4 - Sega CD / Mega CD
No, the CCA Joker wasn't even a little bit disturbing, he was just goofy.
Not that it matters to me, I hate superhero comics and would prefer they were a tiny, tiny niche.
"Fuck superheroes, frankly. The notion that these things dominate an entire genre is absurd. It's like every bookstore in the planet having ninety percent of its shelves filled by nurse novels. Imagine that. You want a new novel, but you have to wade through three hundred new books about romances in the wards before you can get at any other genre. A medium where the relationship of fiction about nurses outweighs mainstream literary fiction by a ratio of one hundred to one. Superhero comics are like bloody creeping fungus, and they smother everything else." -- The Old Bastard's Manifesto
We can thank Frederic Wertham for killing off the best comic book company (E. C.) and every genre of comics but funny animals and superheroes. He's worthy of eternal hatred for that.
Actually, it's funny. The Joker started out as a homicidal lunatic, but of course when the comics code got done with him he was robbing banks without guns and saying "Drat!" and "Curses!"
Slashdot Mirror
"What a healthy child! And such plentiful organs!"
The UK is in a state of total disaster, please pay attention.
"The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote."
TANSTAAFM: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Market.
I'm sure it was many years before Terminus overtook Trantor in the sciences as well.
Oh, I get it, "La Palin" is a World Noble.
Some argue that the Banksy sequence's gray and forlorn atmosphere more accurately depicts the sweatshop-like conditions in _________.
Coming soon to a country near you, thanks to Austerity (tm).
I Was a Professor at the Horribly Corrupt American University of Iraq... Until the Neocons Fired Me
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If Pepsi does TV commercials, TV commercials become a requirement for Coke.
If Pepsi does Facebook advertising...
We have tons of Royalty in the United States, Lords and Kings, etc. We might want to "clean house" here first before we start telling the British how to run things.
They have a national health service and lots of other lovely socialist things (they are working on getting rid of them, but still), we have King Don Blankenship of West Virginia who isn't nearly as charming as Her Majesty and has a lot more real world power.
I'm just sayin' is all...
Sounds like a pilot I watched recently...
Proper URL is http://labs.google.com/sets
Hmm, sets.google.com can be your friend here. Type in 5 things you like, and it will come up with a list of things that are related to them in a set (note, the more unique the names or phrases used, the better the results.)
In my opinion, the best counter for this is to start with a theme, and then go from there. If you come up with a theme, and still have to many choices, narrow it further.
It's usually pretty hard to fit movies into a theme if you narrow it far enough.
You can start by making a list of your five favorite films and choose one of those to base the theme on. It's fun! You can even plan your menu around the theme.
Myself, I'm still upset at the devastation that that upstart Gutenberg caused to Medieval Mnemonics!
Yes, but on the other hand, Cesare is more like a classic zombie than the hungry dead of a Romero film, "According to the tenets of Vodou, a dead person can be revived by a bokor, or sorcerer. Zombies remain under the control of the bokor since they have no will of their own. " -- Zombie
Besides, the Infected from 28 Days Later are not dead, and that usually gets included in a list of zombie movies.
Well, I disagree on two levels. This isn't anthropomorphism (this thing is a man) but animism (this thing is alive). It happens on a subconscious level, we start to treat complex machines as if they were creatures even if we consciously know better. Most people have done the same things with their cars, "Start you #$@#@!"
I'm not too worried about a Machine Rights movement, the Animal Rights movement has basically accomplished nothing. Human treatment of lesser creatures is more vile and disgusting today than it was back when the Romans were crucifying dogs to celebrate holidays. This is despite the fact that animals, at least, are cute, warm and furry. Try selling that with a sewage pump or a toaster, no matter how smart it is.
I also don't agree that machines will never think, although I think the first thinking machines will cheat and be cyborgs with animal brains running the machinery. I think a fully artificial, thinking creature would be possible because thinking creatures are possible. That doesn't mean it wouldn't be radically different than our modern computers, I'm sure it would.
Don't date robots!
I studied a zombie movie in my modern drama class, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an important milestone in German film and a chilling insight into the stress between authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism in Weimar Germany.
"For the record, Nintendo was responsible for the Night Trap and Mortal Kombat outtake videos used by Lieberman's committee to illustrate their concern - again driving home the point that Sega was in large part responsible, if not totally responsible, for putting 'this stuff' in the homes of unsuspecting children. Armed with this 'evidence' and with endlessly hyped stories in the press about children going on violent rampages supposedly due to videogames, Lieberman and fellow senator Howard Kohl (D, Wisconson) eventually called for nothing less than a total ban on violent videogames and the dismantling of companies that promoted such fare - including Sega, the chief culprit behind the spread of violent videogames."
-- SegaBase Volume 4 - Sega CD / Mega CD
No, the CCA Joker wasn't even a little bit disturbing, he was just goofy.
Not that it matters to me, I hate superhero comics and would prefer they were a tiny, tiny niche.
"Fuck superheroes, frankly. The notion that these things dominate an entire genre is absurd. It's like every bookstore in the planet having ninety percent of its shelves filled by nurse novels. Imagine that. You want a new novel, but you have to wade through three hundred new books about romances in the wards before you can get at any other genre. A medium where the relationship of fiction about nurses outweighs mainstream literary fiction by a ratio of one hundred to one. Superhero comics are like bloody creeping fungus, and they smother everything else." -- The Old Bastard's Manifesto
We can thank Frederic Wertham for killing off the best comic book company (E. C.) and every genre of comics but funny animals and superheroes. He's worthy of eternal hatred for that.
Actually, it's funny. The Joker started out as a homicidal lunatic, but of course when the comics code got done with him he was robbing banks without guns and saying "Drat!" and "Curses!"
Now he's back to being a homicidal lunatic again.
Lucas just wants to "wet his beak."*
*"Wet his beak"(TM) is a trademark of Francis Ford Coppola, all rights reserved.