Theres a huge huge disconnect between what a lot of people believe to be true and any semblance of reality because of the crap spewed forth by various organizations on the topic.
Hell, my grandmother was 19 before she was pregnant with her first child/and they made fun of her for being an old maid/. If you weren't knocked up by 16 or 17 there was something wrong with you in those days.
So there, counter anecdote, so that TheKidWho doesn't have to provide one ^_^.
In MY day we RAN fifteen Miles, UPHILL, in a hail storm. If we were lucky, we got shoes to do it in too.
In all seriousness though, I did something quote similar to this too, but some people just can't, and those of us that have worked hard generally tend to be bitter towards those we perceive as not working hard.
The reality is, down to a certain point, these people may actually be working to the end of their limits. There are a myriad of factors including low metabolism and a deficiency in producing the nutrients our bodies acquire during sleep cycles that will contribute to... guess what.... heres the shocker... different people being DIFFERENT.
Indeed, the general state of sexual repression in the world that makes girls think that they're dirty for wanting sex and men think that girls just don't want sex is absolutely horrible.
The day I realized that most everyone is absolutely full of shit on this matter(when I was about 14 ish) was probably the best day of my life.
I mean, if half of the species really didn't want sex how the hell would we even still be around? As best the scientists etc can figure it isn't most of the reason our species lived long enough to become dominant on the planet that we f#@$ like rabbits?
Back on topic: I like this idea. For the first 2-3 hours in the morning when I was a teenager(and even now, I just kill it with caffeine) I was nearly a zombie. Its definitely worth looking in to. Maybe everyone should start work at 10 am too ^_^.
The problem is usually user-related in this case. If you execute something and "click away" all the little warnings that are liable to pop up that this thing is doing something nasty, you can, without even knowing, escalate the program privileges straight to the top where the antivirus/firewall can't do jack all about it.
Many Anti-Virus packages these days will attempt to deny you access to that part of the computer but I've seen people disable their anti-virus so many times to get "The cute squigglie mouse" to come up on their screen that it actually sickens me. Once thats done if the computer is on a trusted network breaking everything else on the network is relatively trivial unless each machine is set up as its own island fortress which within a company network isn't a good solution as it will also interfere with a lot of day-to-day useful apps.
Sweden is a good example of going a little too far. I like to use Canada as a good example because well... it is one.
You get the benefits of both worlds for the most part.
Of course if you want to ride the Libertarian band wagon all the way to the end, you have fun when robots have been created to do nearly every single job on the face of the planet, you've got nothing to fall back on, and the "free market" has actually devolved into those with money playing poker with each other. Which is more or less what happened when a truly free market actually did exist. Anyone that had money, used their money to get more money, restricting the freedoms of everyone around them in the process to do it.
It wouldn't come to that, however much the sensationalist fools want to make you believe it would.
However if it is proven that you choose not to practice proper hygiene then certainly denying you the free care that everyone else enjoys because YOU are not being diligent in the basic day to day taking care of yourself certainly isn't out of the question, to me.
In reality in any modern socialist country you wouldn't be forced to do any of that and you would still be entitled to your health care when something eventually happens because of it.
Ok then, explain how the Canadian Government has been successfully doing that and raising the limit on tax free income when its necessary, not decreasing it.
Oh... you can't? Well... sorry... you'll just have to live with your FUD.
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Yes, the government forcing, and then helping if you are unable to do it yourself with the forcing, you take care of yourself is definitely a bad thing. This bill actually doesn't go far enough to socialize your health care, and your taxes need to go up to support it as well as pay down debt, but your health care premiums disappear in exchange. Don't raise taxes for the little guy, but the capital gains tax, and the taxes on anyone making over $250,000 a year definitely need to rise. Raise the capital gains tax but build in a $50,000 buffer so that the little guy that makes some money on the home he built doesn't get screwed, but make that a yearly limit not a per-event limit. Tax the upper 5% a little heavier, they can certainly afford it, and hey, guess what, once you're done taxing them more heavily/they'll still be rich/.
On another note socialist health care has FAR more up sides than down sides. The entire argument from the perspective of the common guy in america once you get past all the bullshit he's been fed by those looking to protect their extortion racke... ahem, I mean business models is that they know a guy(or they themselves) who went to a hospital somewhere else and "It wasn't as nice". Basically it wasn't a hotel. Which a hospital should not be to begin with.
This bill, from what I've read doesn't go far enough in getting your health care system rectified. What you actually need in order to fix it is an elimination of health insurance along with the companies altogether. Hospitals still run themselves but Government is the one with their hand on the cash bag. Almost everyone in america seems to think of government as inefficient and lax. Well, as someone who has worked in more than one large corporation as well as in a Government(albeit the canadian government) department, the government wins on the efficiency scale, by a fair margin.
For one, hey, sure, some government officials will get kick backs from other people for doing them favors. However this isn't nearly as bad as it is in big insurance companies etc where the guys literally just cut themselves checks out of YOUR money. There are no checks and balances, stockholders don't really give a rats ass what these guys do as long as their profits are protected, which means these guys are out to screw you in as many ways as they can possibly get away with doing. Don't ever think that your health insurance companies are the best way to go, you're paying for all of the corruption and greed within the organizations as well as the profits demanded by the shareholders before anything ever gets passed along to you for the premiums you're paying. With government you end up with a few lazy people working there because its a little harder to get fired and costs go up on workers generally by about 50% because of this. Considering some insurance companies exec bonuses alone dwarf their entire wage budget, without including profits, shareholder dividends etc, how the hell can anyone even begin to say this is a better way of doing things?
They will still control 48%, which means they will still effectively control the company as someone else would have to A) buy 49% of the vote and make sure not enough of the remaining 3% vote with Page and Brin, which is going to be a daunting task to say the least, B) buy 50.1%, even closer to being impossible than the 49%, or C) get greater than 92.3% of the votes NOT directly controlled by Page and Brin to back them. Given that a single investment firm controlling investments from perhaps hundreds or thousands of people could back Brin and Page and nullify anything anyone else could do, I don't think we have to worry too much about Brin and Page losing control any time soon.
Indeed. Mod parent up, look what happened to the illustrious US manufacturing industry. Its still going strong, but only employs about 5% of the bodies that it used to.
As more and more modern tech automates everything around us we're going to be forced to either move to a socialist government type or suffer the consequences of everyone being unemployed, hungry, and pissed off.
It had horrendous DRM that broke the game after the first quest if it decided that you had 'pirated' the game.
I amongst others threw good money into that black pit and never got anything out of it. Iron Lore was bankrupted because of THAT, it had nothing to do with the quality of their game. Which you, as many others have pointed out as well, say was actually pretty good. This was also coupled with a piss-poor/non-existant marketing scheme of course, however what press they did get was really bad due to folks like myself, and indeed, even the pirates, complaining that the game was severely broken. It didn't tell you to buy the game or anything even. It just crashed to desktop upon completion of the first quest without a word.
This is a situation where a Zero DRM scheme would have saved an otherwise good company from bankruptcy. So what do they do when they go out of business? They blame the pirates(http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/03/thq-blames-pira/).
Also, how were NEITHER of the Baldurs Gates mentioned yet?
SW: KotoR, SW: KotoR 2
Amazingly, there are still people working on finishing the other... you know... 40% of SW:KotoR 2, they can be found here: http://www.team-gizka.org/, although I think progress, and what seems to be so close to the end product, has stalled.
Incorrect. Apple CLAIMS that Nokia has demanded unfair rates.
Since the only thing I've seen amounts to 1-2% royalties(and thats from the apple camp) and Nokias patents covers the vast majority of the tech thats actually used to make the the iPhone a, you know, phone, I don't think its too outrageous, do you?
From what I can gather the truth to the story is that Nokia, going about business as usual, decided to up their royalty rates by.5%(approximately). Certainly this decision could have been hurried because Apple was about to enter negotiations, but thats also business as usual for any company. Once it was in place with Apple they likely were going to institute it in their other agreements elsewhere once those agreements expired. Where the big problem seems to come in is the actual dollar figure of $6-$12 per every iPhone.
To make a long story short, for the most part, it seems to me that Apple is getting nailed by their own Apple tax and they're not fans of the feeling.
He's reposting word for word what happens on a daily basis and its his model? Is anyone else slightly confused by this?
Though TFA does at least mention "This model makes sense on a number of levels and may well have been implemented already."
Theres even underground exchanges between the various botnet holders to some extent. If botnet controller A does not have enough(or any) compromised machines related to a target in one of his customers shopping lists he'll go to botnet controller B, C, or d-z in order to find what he needs. Obviously they don't trust each other much but there is some level of cooperation.
Even targeted hacks will often try the same methods as used to spread botnets in the first place, if you're in that line of business and there are somewhat reliable sources of compromised machines out there that will get you what you need faster and thus a) reduce your own work load and headaches and b) end up with a happier customer for a prompt job completion. (aka they'll think you're the shit and come back again if they need something else, every business out there, legal or otherwise, needs return customers)
Come on, these guys are doing highly illegal, highly technical, very high problem solving ability oriented tasks for a living. You think they haven't been doing this for, oh, over a decade now? Thats about how dated my information is... I think its a safe bet to assume its still going on.
Different altogether. Japan is whale hunting but even if its not for scientific purposes I see no evidence to state that it isn't sustainable in its current form.
The Sea Shepherd on the other hand has actually put many many lives in danger, besides their own. People need to wake up and smell the crazy.
Unfortunately I've had the experience of dealing with the Sea Shepherd and her crew, and any group that supports those escaped mental patients deserves to be called crackpots and everything else in the book.
The crew and Captain of the Sea Shepherd are terrorists hiding behind a good cause and nothing more. Its time they were treated as such.
How many paid Corporate Shills do we have on slashdot these days?
Really... the smell is getting unbearable.
"At least she is not a coward" pfft. Sounds like something the overpaid Apple marketing department would come up with.
What is in question here is NOT the usefulness of the device for very particular tasks. What is in question here is why the hell do we even give a shit when there are/have been devices that do exactly the same thing and more besides for years now?
No, no, nevermind. You go use your Apple products with your zero viruses(call me when people actually start targeting macs because they're no longer insignificant), super functionality(oh wait...), and incredible level of customization ability(you can still change the color on your window title bars, right? or did they take that away too?).
I will listen to others interests... as long as they're somewhat related to mine, or I have a passing interest in them. This actually covers nearly every scientific field there is, psychology, construction, mechanics... most of the things that everyone else says "Oh, thats what you do with your time? You don't do X or X?" and they deem you a bore because at best these are supposed to be "work" pursuits and nothing more.
I do not have any interest in what Barbara said to Ashley friday night that is now causing Jim to freak out. I am also not interested in which college football team won last night. As such I wouldn't have anything in common with someone who had these things as their main interests, so talking to them on a regular basis is not only going to be boring, but also mind-numbingly annoying.
In the case of sports I do not even have a passing interest and if all of the various sports on the planet disappeared tomorrow, if it weren't for the yowling of those that did care, I wouldn't even notice.
This doesn't mean that because something is not important to ME that its not important... but if I have no interest in it, why the devil am I going to waste my time talking to someone who is nearly only interested in that particular thing?
Also, by the time the metal in a coin gets thin enough on the outer walls to allow a sd card inside would there be enough metal left in those areas to counteract such an EM field?
I meant the GGP as a joke of course but now I'm curious ^_^.
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When they were 14 even.
Theres a huge huge disconnect between what a lot of people believe to be true and any semblance of reality because of the crap spewed forth by various organizations on the topic.
Hell, my grandmother was 19 before she was pregnant with her first child /and they made fun of her for being an old maid/. If you weren't knocked up by 16 or 17 there was something wrong with you in those days.
So there, counter anecdote, so that TheKidWho doesn't have to provide one ^_^.
Thats a bit hard to swallow since religion has been doing it since before anyone even knew what a STD was.
In MY day we RAN fifteen Miles, UPHILL, in a hail storm. If we were lucky, we got shoes to do it in too.
In all seriousness though, I did something quote similar to this too, but some people just can't, and those of us that have worked hard generally tend to be bitter towards those we perceive as not working hard.
The reality is, down to a certain point, these people may actually be working to the end of their limits. There are a myriad of factors including low metabolism and a deficiency in producing the nutrients our bodies acquire during sleep cycles that will contribute to... guess what.... heres the shocker... different people being DIFFERENT.
Burned out geniuses are burned out.
Not in MY country they won't!
We'll more than happily sacrifice education on the altar of better football players.
Indeed, the general state of sexual repression in the world that makes girls think that they're dirty for wanting sex and men think that girls just don't want sex is absolutely horrible.
The day I realized that most everyone is absolutely full of shit on this matter(when I was about 14 ish) was probably the best day of my life.
I mean, if half of the species really didn't want sex how the hell would we even still be around? As best the scientists etc can figure it isn't most of the reason our species lived long enough to become dominant on the planet that we f#@$ like rabbits?
Back on topic: I like this idea. For the first 2-3 hours in the morning when I was a teenager(and even now, I just kill it with caffeine) I was nearly a zombie. Its definitely worth looking in to. Maybe everyone should start work at 10 am too ^_^.
The problem is usually user-related in this case. If you execute something and "click away" all the little warnings that are liable to pop up that this thing is doing something nasty, you can, without even knowing, escalate the program privileges straight to the top where the antivirus/firewall can't do jack all about it.
Many Anti-Virus packages these days will attempt to deny you access to that part of the computer but I've seen people disable their anti-virus so many times to get "The cute squigglie mouse" to come up on their screen that it actually sickens me. Once thats done if the computer is on a trusted network breaking everything else on the network is relatively trivial unless each machine is set up as its own island fortress which within a company network isn't a good solution as it will also interfere with a lot of day-to-day useful apps.
Sweden is a good example of going a little too far. I like to use Canada as a good example because well... it is one.
You get the benefits of both worlds for the most part.
Of course if you want to ride the Libertarian band wagon all the way to the end, you have fun when robots have been created to do nearly every single job on the face of the planet, you've got nothing to fall back on, and the "free market" has actually devolved into those with money playing poker with each other. Which is more or less what happened when a truly free market actually did exist. Anyone that had money, used their money to get more money, restricting the freedoms of everyone around them in the process to do it.
It wouldn't come to that, however much the sensationalist fools want to make you believe it would.
However if it is proven that you choose not to practice proper hygiene then certainly denying you the free care that everyone else enjoys because YOU are not being diligent in the basic day to day taking care of yourself certainly isn't out of the question, to me.
In reality in any modern socialist country you wouldn't be forced to do any of that and you would still be entitled to your health care when something eventually happens because of it.
>> Yeah, because if I'm only going to make $9 million this year instead of $10 million, there's just no point in my even getting up in the morning.
Exactly.
Warren Buffet himself has said this.
People need to get the hell off the stupid pills.
Ok then, explain how the Canadian Government has been successfully doing that and raising the limit on tax free income when its necessary, not decreasing it.
Oh... you can't? Well... sorry... you'll just have to live with your FUD.
Yes, the government forcing, and then helping if you are unable to do it yourself with the forcing, you take care of yourself is definitely a bad thing. This bill actually doesn't go far enough to socialize your health care, and your taxes need to go up to support it as well as pay down debt, but your health care premiums disappear in exchange. Don't raise taxes for the little guy, but the capital gains tax, and the taxes on anyone making over $250,000 a year definitely need to rise. Raise the capital gains tax but build in a $50,000 buffer so that the little guy that makes some money on the home he built doesn't get screwed, but make that a yearly limit not a per-event limit. Tax the upper 5% a little heavier, they can certainly afford it, and hey, guess what, once you're done taxing them more heavily /they'll still be rich/.
On another note socialist health care has FAR more up sides than down sides. The entire argument from the perspective of the common guy in america once you get past all the bullshit he's been fed by those looking to protect their extortion racke... ahem, I mean business models is that they know a guy(or they themselves) who went to a hospital somewhere else and "It wasn't as nice". Basically it wasn't a hotel. Which a hospital should not be to begin with.
This bill, from what I've read doesn't go far enough in getting your health care system rectified. What you actually need in order to fix it is an elimination of health insurance along with the companies altogether. Hospitals still run themselves but Government is the one with their hand on the cash bag. Almost everyone in america seems to think of government as inefficient and lax. Well, as someone who has worked in more than one large corporation as well as in a Government(albeit the canadian government) department, the government wins on the efficiency scale, by a fair margin.
For one, hey, sure, some government officials will get kick backs from other people for doing them favors. However this isn't nearly as bad as it is in big insurance companies etc where the guys literally just cut themselves checks out of YOUR money. There are no checks and balances, stockholders don't really give a rats ass what these guys do as long as their profits are protected, which means these guys are out to screw you in as many ways as they can possibly get away with doing. Don't ever think that your health insurance companies are the best way to go, you're paying for all of the corruption and greed within the organizations as well as the profits demanded by the shareholders before anything ever gets passed along to you for the premiums you're paying. With government you end up with a few lazy people working there because its a little harder to get fired and costs go up on workers generally by about 50% because of this. Considering some insurance companies exec bonuses alone dwarf their entire wage budget, without including profits, shareholder dividends etc, how the hell can anyone even begin to say this is a better way of doing things?
They will still control 48%, which means they will still effectively control the company as someone else would have to A) buy 49% of the vote and make sure not enough of the remaining 3% vote with Page and Brin, which is going to be a daunting task to say the least, B) buy 50.1%, even closer to being impossible than the 49%, or C) get greater than 92.3% of the votes NOT directly controlled by Page and Brin to back them. Given that a single investment firm controlling investments from perhaps hundreds or thousands of people could back Brin and Page and nullify anything anyone else could do, I don't think we have to worry too much about Brin and Page losing control any time soon.
Indeed. Mod parent up, look what happened to the illustrious US manufacturing industry. Its still going strong, but only employs about 5% of the bodies that it used to.
As more and more modern tech automates everything around us we're going to be forced to either move to a socialist government type or suffer the consequences of everyone being unemployed, hungry, and pissed off.
It had horrendous DRM that broke the game after the first quest if it decided that you had 'pirated' the game.
I amongst others threw good money into that black pit and never got anything out of it. Iron Lore was bankrupted because of THAT, it had nothing to do with the quality of their game. Which you, as many others have pointed out as well, say was actually pretty good. This was also coupled with a piss-poor/non-existant marketing scheme of course, however what press they did get was really bad due to folks like myself, and indeed, even the pirates, complaining that the game was severely broken. It didn't tell you to buy the game or anything even. It just crashed to desktop upon completion of the first quest without a word.
This is a situation where a Zero DRM scheme would have saved an otherwise good company from bankruptcy. So what do they do when they go out of business? They blame the pirates(http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/03/thq-blames-pira/).
Bah, Civ 4. Civ 3 ftw!
Also, how were NEITHER of the Baldurs Gates mentioned yet?
SW: KotoR, SW: KotoR 2
Amazingly, there are still people working on finishing the other... you know... 40% of SW:KotoR 2, they can be found here: http://www.team-gizka.org/, although I think progress, and what seems to be so close to the end product, has stalled.
I would agree with you if TitanQuest had ever actually, you know, worked.
DRM Vendors 1, Game Developers & Consumers 0
Incorrect. Apple CLAIMS that Nokia has demanded unfair rates.
Since the only thing I've seen amounts to 1-2% royalties(and thats from the apple camp) and Nokias patents covers the vast majority of the tech thats actually used to make the the iPhone a, you know, phone, I don't think its too outrageous, do you?
From what I can gather the truth to the story is that Nokia, going about business as usual, decided to up their royalty rates by .5%(approximately). Certainly this decision could have been hurried because Apple was about to enter negotiations, but thats also business as usual for any company. Once it was in place with Apple they likely were going to institute it in their other agreements elsewhere once those agreements expired. Where the big problem seems to come in is the actual dollar figure of $6-$12 per every iPhone.
To make a long story short, for the most part, it seems to me that Apple is getting nailed by their own Apple tax and they're not fans of the feeling.
He's reposting word for word what happens on a daily basis and its his model? Is anyone else slightly confused by this?
Though TFA does at least mention "This model makes sense on a number of levels and may well have been implemented already."
Theres even underground exchanges between the various botnet holders to some extent. If botnet controller A does not have enough(or any) compromised machines related to a target in one of his customers shopping lists he'll go to botnet controller B, C, or d-z in order to find what he needs. Obviously they don't trust each other much but there is some level of cooperation.
Even targeted hacks will often try the same methods as used to spread botnets in the first place, if you're in that line of business and there are somewhat reliable sources of compromised machines out there that will get you what you need faster and thus a) reduce your own work load and headaches and b) end up with a happier customer for a prompt job completion. (aka they'll think you're the shit and come back again if they need something else, every business out there, legal or otherwise, needs return customers)
Come on, these guys are doing highly illegal, highly technical, very high problem solving ability oriented tasks for a living. You think they haven't been doing this for, oh, over a decade now? Thats about how dated my information is... I think its a safe bet to assume its still going on.
Different altogether. Japan is whale hunting but even if its not for scientific purposes I see no evidence to state that it isn't sustainable in its current form.
The Sea Shepherd on the other hand has actually put many many lives in danger, besides their own. People need to wake up and smell the crazy.
Unfortunately I've had the experience of dealing with the Sea Shepherd and her crew, and any group that supports those escaped mental patients deserves to be called crackpots and everything else in the book.
The crew and Captain of the Sea Shepherd are terrorists hiding behind a good cause and nothing more. Its time they were treated as such.
How many paid Corporate Shills do we have on slashdot these days?
Really... the smell is getting unbearable.
"At least she is not a coward" pfft. Sounds like something the overpaid Apple marketing department would come up with.
What is in question here is NOT the usefulness of the device for very particular tasks. What is in question here is why the hell do we even give a shit when there are/have been devices that do exactly the same thing and more besides for years now?
No, no, nevermind. You go use your Apple products with your zero viruses(call me when people actually start targeting macs because they're no longer insignificant), super functionality(oh wait...), and incredible level of customization ability(you can still change the color on your window title bars, right? or did they take that away too?).
This is true, to a point.
I will listen to others interests... as long as they're somewhat related to mine, or I have a passing interest in them. This actually covers nearly every scientific field there is, psychology, construction, mechanics... most of the things that everyone else says "Oh, thats what you do with your time? You don't do X or X?" and they deem you a bore because at best these are supposed to be "work" pursuits and nothing more.
I do not have any interest in what Barbara said to Ashley friday night that is now causing Jim to freak out. I am also not interested in which college football team won last night. As such I wouldn't have anything in common with someone who had these things as their main interests, so talking to them on a regular basis is not only going to be boring, but also mind-numbingly annoying.
In the case of sports I do not even have a passing interest and if all of the various sports on the planet disappeared tomorrow, if it weren't for the yowling of those that did care, I wouldn't even notice.
This doesn't mean that because something is not important to ME that its not important... but if I have no interest in it, why the devil am I going to waste my time talking to someone who is nearly only interested in that particular thing?
Also, by the time the metal in a coin gets thin enough on the outer walls to allow a sd card inside would there be enough metal left in those areas to counteract such an EM field?
I meant the GGP as a joke of course but now I'm curious ^_^.
Now I have to start running everyone who enters and leaves through a giant EM field?
Sigh... the shareholders aren't going to like the cost of those generators and the shielding...
More than that, how do I sufficiently shield the porn they bring in with them? If that gets damaged there'll be hell to pay.