really need to learn a little about the guy. The Vanity Fair story itself says that for years he had only two outfits. He sleeps on people's couches, for heaven's sake.
The Brussels hotel mentioned in the Vanity Fair article has 4/four stars with a price of roughly $250/night for a single - hardly a pauper's choice.
To fork "the internet" and create a so-called "citizen's internet" is one of the most cretin idea ever brainfarted. The fact it got so much public support on left-dominated forums such as Slashdot is just further proof of that:-)
As usual, nothing bigger than a local network for an apartment complex or a few houses can really be done by *citizens* themselves. They will need an agent - which can only be either a municipality or a corporation.
If it's a corporation we're back to square one.
If it's a municipality we're talking about using public funds to compete on what's supposed to be free market (regulated, but still free). I know many lefties are actually pushing for that, but the question is where exactly will such enterprise lead? To me the answer is clear.
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You're so full of pretentious shit...
"The concept"? There is no concept, sweetheart. Time to stop pretending, okay?
"urban environment"? the fact that you can't spell "city" only increases my belief that you're a pretentious moron, one of which his / her own family feels embarrassed.
"to see what happens" is that artsy for you? How about we spit on some wall "to see what happens"? Or we place a banana peel on the sidewalk "to see what happens"? Got my point? Ouh, almost forgot how stupid you are: "to see what happens" has zero conenction with art or in general with meaning.
"creating a parallel (and sllightly subversive) infrastructure"? Honey, you can't create anything at all, stop dreaming. Pretentious idiots can't even understand what "subversive" means, too.
"in new and original ways"? LOL
"as we say in Art"? Frankly most of the times I think people like you are just caricatures, made-up ideas with no real counterpart in real life. Wow!
Why do the websites of lunatics always seem to be based on the same template from some horribly awful site made for Mosaic in 1995? Does crazy dictate design?
The most important is that companies in Germany elect a workers council, democratically elected representatives of the employees (you do like democracy, don't you?) which have a right to have a say in such matters.
This sounds exactly like corporatism, the economic side of the fascism. "Democracy" inside a company, on other people's money? You must be brainwashed...
First, you can review performance, set goals, measure them, and all that.
You can't review performance if (1) the reviewee can't be fired and (2) the state is banning proper documenting of their work. How do you review a slacked who knows he can't be fired and his job is 100% computer-based, when you're not allowed to monitor computer and Internet usage?
Second, of course you can fire. You just can't do it without reason
Funny how reasonable/unreasonable is not left to the firing person, or to the employment contract, but to a special work courthosue fully bending to the will of the unions.
Three, just like pretty much everywhere else in the world, it is idiotic to make one blanket statement about the whole country. There are certainly companies where your words are pretty much true, and there are others where employees would die laughing if they read them.
My words are "pretty true" when saying that I believe you are a brainwashed fascist, corporatist moron who's dividing his own people into "citizens" and "sub-citizens". Shame on you.
My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.
Perhaps you think your sig is either smart, funny, or both = except that it isn't. We don't give a shit about your knowledge of German, or my own knowledge of French, or his knowledge of Spanish, or her knowledge of Mandarin Chinese...
in most of Europe there's still a belief in social safety nets (avoiding that people fall too far into poverty) and social fairness (avoiding that those with more resources, like rich individuals and large companies, get more benefits than those with less resources), ideas which in the US would be shouted-away by the brainwashed ignorant masses as communism.
As an European I can proudly say: but they ARE communist ideas.
here in Europe we actually believe in protecting and putting our citizens above corporations
I am an European myself and I can call bullshit.
That's a nazi concept: that only employees are citizens. What about managers? What about shareholders? They are just as entitled to "citizenship" as the employees (and sometimes these groups are not entirely separated: someone can be self-employed; some employees can also be sharehoders; some managers can have a 2nd job as employees).
Unfortunately the *union* people really do think the way you express it, and unfortunately there are some union-owned governments: Germany, Denmark, Sweden, etc.
First of all the "citizens" seem to be protected (and thus considered "citizens") only if they are employees. Strange. I thought the managers and the shareholders are also citizens...
Second, I see many people saying the employees should instead be managed by reviewing their performance based on existing goals. If only Germany would allow that. You see, those "citizens" (translation: slacky employees) know that they can't be fired (unless eating babies alive, or some other gruesome act). Since they can't be fired, they don't work. Since it's all "computer work", the management can't simply declare them slackers, because it will lack proper cause = no proof. The goals are per month, and simply not achieving them repeatedly is not a good enough cause for firing.
So the only way to get rid of slackers is to document their crap. But this law took care of making such documenting impossible.
So please Mr. German, spare me your totalitarian idea that some category is the "citizen" while the others are "non-citizens" (or shall I say... "sub-citizens"??? as in "sub-humans").
It's a union-dominated government, nothing new or unexpected in such law.
Basically in Germany: (1) a company can't check its employees how are they using company property (such as computers and Internet connection); (2) a company board should have representatives of the union (once the company employee count is above a very small number); (3) an employee can't be fired "at will" and the number of steps required to finally fire someone are long and complex, making the process of firing very stressful for the company.
So no, such law is not about protecting privacy of the workers, it's about letting capitalist pigs know who's the master: the unionized masses, which control the government and demand bogus "rights" paid with OPM ("other people's money").
[Warning: I am the original poster] Your optimism is so refreshing:-)
I don't need popular support, it already exists. Most of the people are pedestrians and they are overwhelmed by the traffic issues. What I need is a technology cheap enough for us to buy it, offer it to the government, then buy it again and again from generated fines.
[Warning: I am the original poster] I people don't think, their own wallets will make them think. Yes, in the long term (10-20 years), making speeding and reckless driving socially unacceptable will win the war.
But right now, the battle has to be win as fast as possible.
[Warning: I am the original poster] I want less accidents and less *fatalities*. if you get hit by a car at 20 mph, you have chances of survival. if you get hit at 70mph, not so much. Especially if your body will land between other hundreds of cars also speeding.
[Warning: I am the original poster] The goal is not to make a fortune, but make a system that can self finance and self replicate. We are *putting* money in, not taking.
I am sorry for not making things more clear: what I want is not a Charles Bronson vigilante thing. I want a system that is approved by the city government (the equivalent of a city hall in the EU or USA) and operated on a revenue sharing basis (therefore the city will have a financial incentive in allowing it to run).
Our share of the generated speeding tickets will be reinvested in new radars, thus making the system self-financing and self-replicating.
I don't want a city wide system, costing millions of dollars. I want *ONE* radar installed on the main road. This first radar will sooner or later pay for itself then will generate the funds to buys a 2nd radar. Now, having 2 radars installed, generating the money for the 3rd radar will be faster. Got my point?
I don't want a complicated system that needs uber professional engineers and urban managers. I want a rugged, simple radar + camera that can be used to identify which car went faster than X speed. Once we have *ONE* such radar, the tickets can be issued. Once drivers learn their speeding is affecting their wallets, they will obey at least the speed limits (thus decreasing the number of accidents and therefore the number of fatalities).
Yes, I am aware there are some American companies offering radar guns etc. But a radar + camera seems to cost in excess of $10,000, and that's a huge sum for us and for the speeding tickets to cover. I believe with an Open Source approach we can build one such system with much less money, therefore decreasing the time it takes to finance installing a new one from funds obtained through fining speeders.
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What are you talking about?
really need to learn a little about the guy. The Vanity Fair story itself says that for years he had only two outfits. He sleeps on people's couches, for heaven's sake.
The Brussels hotel mentioned in the Vanity Fair article has 4/four stars with a price of roughly $250/night for a single - hardly a pauper's choice.
http://www.booking.com/hotel/be/leopoldhotel.html?tab=1&error_url=%2Fhotel%2Fbe%2Fleopoldhotel.en-gb.html%3Flabel%3Dgog235jc%3Bsid%3D14f579ade59379298649b58fe2e3ca4e%3B&do_availability_check=on&label=gog235jc&lang=en-gb&sid=14f579ade59379298649b58fe2e3ca4e&checkin_monthday=19&checkin_year_month=2011-1&checkout_monthday=20&checkout_year_month=2011-1
Hotel Sandton Leopold Brussels http://www.sandton.eu/nl/brusselsleopold
To fork "the internet" and create a so-called "citizen's internet" is one of the most cretin idea ever brainfarted. The fact it got so much public support on left-dominated forums such as Slashdot is just further proof of that :-)
As usual, nothing bigger than a local network for an apartment complex or a few houses can really be done by *citizens* themselves. They will need an agent - which can only be either a municipality or a corporation.
If it's a corporation we're back to square one.
If it's a municipality we're talking about using public funds to compete on what's supposed to be free market (regulated, but still free). I know many lefties are actually pushing for that, but the question is where exactly will such enterprise lead? To me the answer is clear.
That's overly compressed video. Completely unusable from a professional perspective.
What the pro needs (and also the semi-pro) is ability to record uncompressed HD (or "visually lossless" HD using codecs such as Cineon).
Huge difference in throughput
Thank God you didn't forget to post the above message as an "Anonymous Coward"!
I shiver to think what your punishment would be from the "secrative" cabal that goes back far before Babylon.
Tinfoil much?
You're so full of pretentious shit...
"The concept"? There is no concept, sweetheart. Time to stop pretending, okay?
"urban environment"? the fact that you can't spell "city" only increases my belief that you're a pretentious moron, one of which his / her own family feels embarrassed.
"to see what happens" is that artsy for you? How about we spit on some wall "to see what happens"? Or we place a banana peel on the sidewalk "to see what happens"? Got my point? Ouh, almost forgot how stupid you are: "to see what happens" has zero conenction with art or in general with meaning.
"creating a parallel (and sllightly subversive) infrastructure"? Honey, you can't create anything at all, stop dreaming. Pretentious idiots can't even understand what "subversive" means, too.
"in new and original ways"? LOL
"as we say in Art"? Frankly most of the times I think people like you are just caricatures, made-up ideas with no real counterpart in real life. Wow!
Or you get picked up by companies whose CEOs also think Larry Ellison is a dick
For example Microsoft - oh, wait...
"The 1940's saw jet engines"
First jet engine was made in 1910 (by an inventor called H. Coanda).
Android is not a consumer brand, therefore its flavors can't raise or sink the brand. The whole premise is flawed.
Why do the websites of lunatics always seem to be based on the same template from some horribly awful site made for Mosaic in 1995? Does crazy dictate design?
Stop picking on Craigslist, you insensitive clod!
The most important is that companies in Germany elect a workers council, democratically elected representatives of the employees (you do like democracy, don't you?) which have a right to have a say in such matters.
This sounds exactly like corporatism, the economic side of the fascism. "Democracy" inside a company, on other people's money? You must be brainwashed...
First, you can review performance, set goals, measure them, and all that.
You can't review performance if (1) the reviewee can't be fired and (2) the state is banning proper documenting of their work. How do you review a slacked who knows he can't be fired and his job is 100% computer-based, when you're not allowed to monitor computer and Internet usage?
Second, of course you can fire. You just can't do it without reason
Funny how reasonable/unreasonable is not left to the firing person, or to the employment contract, but to a special work courthosue fully bending to the will of the unions.
Three, just like pretty much everywhere else in the world, it is idiotic to make one blanket statement about the whole country. There are certainly companies where your words are pretty much true, and there are others where employees would die laughing if they read them.
My words are "pretty true" when saying that I believe you are a brainwashed fascist, corporatist moron who's dividing his own people into "citizens" and "sub-citizens". Shame on you.
Let me guess: you never had to manage human beings, right?
My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.
Perhaps you think your sig is either smart, funny, or both = except that it isn't. We don't give a shit about your knowledge of German, or my own knowledge of French, or his knowledge of Spanish, or her knowledge of Mandarin Chinese...
in most of Europe there's still a belief in social safety nets (avoiding that people fall too far into poverty) and social fairness (avoiding that those with more resources, like rich individuals and large companies, get more benefits than those with less resources), ideas which in the US would be shouted-away by the brainwashed ignorant masses as communism.
As an European I can proudly say: but they ARE communist ideas.
here in Europe we actually believe in protecting and putting our citizens above corporations
I am an European myself and I can call bullshit.
That's a nazi concept: that only employees are citizens. What about managers? What about shareholders? They are just as entitled to "citizenship" as the employees (and sometimes these groups are not entirely separated: someone can be self-employed; some employees can also be sharehoders; some managers can have a 2nd job as employees).
Unfortunately the *union* people really do think the way you express it, and unfortunately there are some union-owned governments: Germany, Denmark, Sweden, etc.
First of all the "citizens" seem to be protected (and thus considered "citizens") only if they are employees. Strange. I thought the managers and the shareholders are also citizens...
Second, I see many people saying the employees should instead be managed by reviewing their performance based on existing goals. If only Germany would allow that. You see, those "citizens" (translation: slacky employees) know that they can't be fired (unless eating babies alive, or some other gruesome act). Since they can't be fired, they don't work. Since it's all "computer work", the management can't simply declare them slackers, because it will lack proper cause = no proof. The goals are per month, and simply not achieving them repeatedly is not a good enough cause for firing.
So the only way to get rid of slackers is to document their crap. But this law took care of making such documenting impossible.
So please Mr. German, spare me your totalitarian idea that some category is the "citizen" while the others are "non-citizens" (or shall I say... "sub-citizens"??? as in "sub-humans").
It's a union-dominated government, nothing new or unexpected in such law.
Basically in Germany: (1) a company can't check its employees how are they using company property (such as computers and Internet connection); (2) a company board should have representatives of the union (once the company employee count is above a very small number); (3) an employee can't be fired "at will" and the number of steps required to finally fire someone are long and complex, making the process of firing very stressful for the company.
So no, such law is not about protecting privacy of the workers, it's about letting capitalist pigs know who's the master: the unionized masses, which control the government and demand bogus "rights" paid with OPM ("other people's money").
[Warning: I am the original poster] I want the system under government control. No Charles Bronson thing :-)
[Warning: I am the original poster] Your optimism is so refreshing :-)
I don't need popular support, it already exists. Most of the people are pedestrians and they are overwhelmed by the traffic issues. What I need is a technology cheap enough for us to buy it, offer it to the government, then buy it again and again from generated fines.
[Warning: I am the original poster] The city limit is 50 km/h. There are still chances of survival. If the cars are driving at 90 km/h... much less.
I don't want a magical solution. I just want less accidents and less deaths.
[Warning: I am the original poster] I people don't think, their own wallets will make them think. Yes, in the long term (10-20 years), making speeding and reckless driving socially unacceptable will win the war.
But right now, the battle has to be win as fast as possible.
[Warning: I am the original poster] I want less accidents and less *fatalities*. if you get hit by a car at 20 mph, you have chances of survival. if you get hit at 70mph, not so much. Especially if your body will land between other hundreds of cars also speeding.
[Warning: I am the original poster] The goal is not to make a fortune, but make a system that can self finance and self replicate. We are *putting* money in, not taking.
I am sorry for not making things more clear: what I want is not a Charles Bronson vigilante thing. I want a system that is approved by the city government (the equivalent of a city hall in the EU or USA) and operated on a revenue sharing basis (therefore the city will have a financial incentive in allowing it to run).
Our share of the generated speeding tickets will be reinvested in new radars, thus making the system self-financing and self-replicating.
I don't want a city wide system, costing millions of dollars. I want *ONE* radar installed on the main road. This first radar will sooner or later pay for itself then will generate the funds to buys a 2nd radar. Now, having 2 radars installed, generating the money for the 3rd radar will be faster. Got my point?
I don't want a complicated system that needs uber professional engineers and urban managers. I want a rugged, simple radar + camera that can be used to identify which car went faster than X speed. Once we have *ONE* such radar, the tickets can be issued. Once drivers learn their speeding is affecting their wallets, they will obey at least the speed limits (thus decreasing the number of accidents and therefore the number of fatalities).
Yes, I am aware there are some American companies offering radar guns etc. But a radar + camera seems to cost in excess of $10,000, and that's a huge sum for us and for the speeding tickets to cover. I believe with an Open Source approach we can build one such system with much less money, therefore decreasing the time it takes to finance installing a new one from funds obtained through fining speeders.