You've got it all wrong. Higgs Boson is the harbinger of death! It is what gives mass to particles and thus, creates the black hole (mass singularity) of DOOM! DOOOOOM I say, DOOOOOOOOOM!
THIS is why class action lawsuits against the offending malware serving companies needs to be instituted, starting at the biggest baddest adware serving companies. If DoubleClick serves Malware, it is their responsibility and they need to be sued into oblivion.
Take the profit out of serving ANYTHING to everyone, and start making it cost money, and you'll see the changes you want.
It will buy you is the ability to reach the world - until the US Government pressures whoever does own the service you're using to shut your site down, just like they did with Wikileaks.
Wikileaks wasn't taken down by the US government. Nice try though. Besides, can you still find the Wikileaks docutments online? I can, so nobody has taking anything down.
Barn/Door/Horse, Streisand Effect, Whack-a-Mole; whatever you want to call it. It is cheap, easy and fully fault tolerant, and my point remains.
all other means to access millions of people, OUTSIDE internet
NO it isn't. Millions of people didn't know of "Little Green Footballs" before the story broke and was reported on NATIONAL TV NEWS programs. Millions of people who never seen it on the internet had the message re-broadcast to the TV viewing public.
Another Case in point WIKILEAKS and entirely Web/Internet based company has reached beyond the Internet, into all sorts of places that don't have internet.
Hell, if you want to be an idiot about it, a poor carpenter from a little known slice of desert from 2000 years ago, still has his message spread around the world (regardless of your view of him). Same can be said for Ghandi, Mohamed and many others who didn't have money, presses or otherwise "rich".
Your views are typical of class warfare socialist/communist types who think that only the rich can affect the world. Self limiting statements like you started out with are typical in the box thinking that limits people from their full potential.
To reach the world, all I need is less than $100 bucks and an internet access, which can be had for free if you're willing to troll Starbucks at a strip mall.
I can do the whole thing for free if given the inclination. It isn't reaching the hordes that is hard, it is getting them to listen. And to do that, you have to have a message that is coherent and persuasive, something YOU have failed to even mention.
To prove my point, Little Green Footballs broke the story that killed Dan Rather's career and left him embarrassed and looking every bit a fool that he turned out to be. Who was Little Green Footballs? Just a unheard of Blog trolling political news stories.
The Internet has changed the world in ways you fail to comprehend or worse, admit. It doesn't take a shitload of money to change the world. I print stuff everyday, just not on paper. I print stuff and reach thousands here on/. I get modded insightful and troll, often by the same people. My message though is consistent and exposes idiots like you who think the world is out to get them, and the only way to save it is collectivism, be it Corporatism or Socialism.
The ONLY way to secure your rights is for YOU to secure them for yourself, or die trying. Patrick Henry was right, "Give me Liberty or give me Death". Nobody is going to protect your rights better than you.
Yes, he was talking about liability, and I was sort of (read the rest of my post). What I said was that limited liability was not the SOLE reason for corporations. Sorry if that was not clear.
And yes, we need to add back into corporatism the concept of liability, via holding corporate officers and board members PERSONALLY liable for the ILLEGAL decisions they make, on behalf of the corporation. In addition, when a corporation becomes the corrupt beyond repair, the government ought to institute the corporate death penalty, where all assets are seized, liabilities dismissed, and charter dissolved, leaving shareholders with nothing but paper good for wiping their butts.
Too big to fail shouldn't be a reason to keep something around, as all it ends up being is an excuse to continue poor business practices and stealing from the tax payer.
I doubt I'll be able to afford a nice GM car in spite of my taxes going to prop it up.
Actually, you're only partially right. Corporations allow for economies of scale that pure private ownership cannot. The problem, as you've identified is lack of accountability in the form of liability.
One can have accountability and liability if the corporations actions were held against the board of Directors and the Senior staff. These two groups almost always get free ride on liability. Additionally if we instituted a corporate death penalty for extreme negligence and criminal acts by corporations, where the state would assume all assets, liabilities are dismissed and ownership of stock dissolved, the stakeholders would INSIST on acting responsibly.
I have one further twist on corporate management, that is tax the transfer of wealth between corporate entities, so that shell games of shifting money between wholly owned corporations are reduced. That way when XYZ Licensing Corp gets paid by XYZ Commercial Holdings, who got paid by XYZ Industries, to avoid tax liabilities in one jurisdiction is eliminated.
I've known people with all those conditions who have succeeded. I didn't say it was easy, probably easier to sit on sidewalk with a sign that says "will work for food", which most people know is a lie. They won't work, for anything, for any reason.
I've known enough people who have tried to help said "victims" of life and quite frankly, the results are the same for a vast majority. Exceptions do occur.
And here in the US of A and just about ANY post industrial country, there is no excuse for poverty, not going to school or not knowing how to read or write.
At some point, you have to be responsible for your life, and the choices you make. I learned this when I was about 20 and a drugged out coke fiend.
As for marketable skills, only one skill is needed for just about any job, desire. I bussed tables and washed dishes while going to college. I WORKED HARD to get there, I worked hard to stay there, I worked hard to get my degree. Now I have a good job. Coincidence?
I've been blessed along the way, and cursed (see my burn scars) too. Life has a way of kicking ass, and the only way to win, is to kick life's ass every day you can.
So, you see, I've been there, done that. You want to help someone, teach them how to kick themselves in the ass everyday to get out and do something to improve themselves. IT will be rewarded.
Lots of "extra hands" ("third hand"), clamps/stands that can be moved quickly and easily but stay in place when needed to hold things when Bob is not handy to hold something for you.
If you're a geek, then you understand the difficulty and ultimate futility of blocking a DNS entry to just the US and not the rest of the world truly is.
And exactly how was the US supposed to accomplish this impossible task?
If you suggest "international court", I'll laugh at you and call you arrogantly stupid. This is the same international community that thinks Libya is a good representative for human rights, and Obama was deserving of a Nobel Prize for his "potential".
I'm American, and I find my government to be dysfunctional tyrants. The only reason we're not enslaved is that we don't have any competent people there... yet.
And the government is getting a pass mostly because the people with the biggest problem with what the government is doing, are afraid to speak ill of the Messiah Kenyan running things at the moment, because they agree with him 90% of the time.
My point, be you (D) or (R) it doesn't matter, the government is the problem, not the solution. Security theater is wrong under Bush, it is even more wrong under Obama who has increased it to Pornscans and Sexual battery. WHERE are the liberals on this? WHY aren't they protesting with songs and PSAs and writing about how awful the Obama Administration is on HUMAN RIGHTS?
Don't get me wrong, the(R)s are just as bad, and worse in other areas. But I continue to wonder if Bush admin had done half the stuff Obama is doing what the reaction of the liberal media elites would be?
And all of this does not excuse Vigilante Justice by a bunch of wannabe hackers who hate the US. Which was my point. Perhaps they should DDOS the Pentagon and Whitehouse if they want to protest the US government, not VISA and Mastercard.
Of course they are too chicken from the comfort of their "command center" in mom's basement.
So, you think everyone of the "will work for food" signs is genuine? Even a majority? How about the fat chick with the "Hungry" sign?
Most of the "Working poor" aren't looking for the handout of "spare change" that I was addressing. And most of the homeless I've encountered are that way for a reason of their own making.
But other than that, you're exactly right, while missing the point entirely. And proof that people like yourself believe that feelings are more important than reality. I was talking about dysfunctional alcoholics and homeless bums, not "working poor". Working poor don't have time to stand on a corner begging for their next drink.
On the one hand we have people championing DDOS attacks on websites via vigilante action which inflict damage to innocent websites on the other hand, many of these same people are protesting a government with properly issued warrant shutting down websites.
The question is, for those that support the former, and not the latter, exactly what kind of society you are really wanting where laws are meaningless and mobs rule? I'm sure you're fine with it until the mob ruling isn't your kind of mob. What then??
It is more than accuracy. THIS is why Vigilantism is wrong.
The problem here is that the mob doesn't care about innocents that get caught up in their self righteous indignation. They are no better than the tyrants whom they oppose.
Do not misunderstand me. I don't give a whit about Julian or his leaking wikis, and the idiots trying to kill the messenger. I do care about the idiot that had access to all the secrets and charged with keeping them secret violating that trust. I also care about the "secrecy" of public knowledge many of the cables, and why it was classified. There is almost nothing in what I've seen in the latest release that surprises me or something I already knew. It is all a bunch of *yawn* for me and not the "treasure" people think it is. I also care equally about the vigilantism that is brewing in the wake of this mess. Criminals are criminals.
I also wonder why the idiots running the vigilante mobs have targeted Sarah Palin for her comments, but not anyone in the Obama Administration for similar comments? Gee whiz, if that isn't transparent juvenile politics and a great reason why all the (R) bad (D) good types (and visa versa) should be simply ignored from now on.
Or, you can be a good little liberal and give the homeless bum a $100 bill for the Holidays and then read three days later that he's dead, died of acute alcohol poisoning. Because that is how liberalism works. It gives without consideration of the results because it is all about intentions, not the results. You feel good because at least you "tried".
The problem is, one cannot say the homeless bum is dysfunctional alcoholic not worthy of giving $100 bucks to, because he'll just drink himself to death, because that is just "heartless" And you certainly cannot round them up and put them into state run facilities and actually try to help them, against their will, because well that is just "heartless" institutionalization.
In fact the only thing a liberal is allowed to do is continue to enable the dysfunction, but in smaller doses of cash, and get warm fuzzy feelings that you're "helping" the poor and downtrodden homeless bum by getting his next fix of booze. Just not enough booze to kill him,
REAL people realize that you can only help people who want to help themselves. And no amount of generosity and/or government programs is going to help those that refuse to change the things that make them parasites of society. So we keep our eyes open for those rare few people that are just "stuck" and help them, quietly and without the fanfare of politicians announcing the next great program or philanthropic dogooders and their endowments named after themselves.
Mat 6:2 Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
I actually like this idea. Have a voluntary botnet where people can sign up for DDOS attacks on a website, and have the botnet client actually execute the DDOS automatically to the user's wishes. Have the list updated periodically to reflect current "most hated" status. However, I want it to be politically neutral, targeting anyone deserving of the ire of the collective, be it right or left, commercial or non-profit.
If you're being paid salary then ask for "comp time" for extraordinary duties. If they don't, then refuse those duties. You might want to be clear on what extraordinary duties are:)
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No no no no no.
You've got it all wrong. Higgs Boson is the harbinger of death! It is what gives mass to particles and thus, creates the black hole (mass singularity) of DOOM! DOOOOOM I say, DOOOOOOOOOM!
More proof the Mayans are right!
THIS is why class action lawsuits against the offending malware serving companies needs to be instituted, starting at the biggest baddest adware serving companies. If DoubleClick serves Malware, it is their responsibility and they need to be sued into oblivion.
Take the profit out of serving ANYTHING to everyone, and start making it cost money, and you'll see the changes you want.
Actually, it could be either Cue or Queue, depending on the meaning desired by the author.
Cue: To clue in. "I took that as a cue to start posting witty retorts"
Queue: To line up. "The witty retorts are lined up in the queue"
I have no idea which one the author intended, and neither do you.
Wikileaks wasn't taken down by the US government. Nice try though. Besides, can you still find the Wikileaks docutments online? I can, so nobody has taking anything down.
Barn/Door/Horse, Streisand Effect, Whack-a-Mole; whatever you want to call it. It is cheap, easy and fully fault tolerant, and my point remains.
Nice try though.
NO it isn't. Millions of people didn't know of "Little Green Footballs" before the story broke and was reported on NATIONAL TV NEWS programs. Millions of people who never seen it on the internet had the message re-broadcast to the TV viewing public.
Another Case in point WIKILEAKS and entirely Web/Internet based company has reached beyond the Internet, into all sorts of places that don't have internet.
Hell, if you want to be an idiot about it, a poor carpenter from a little known slice of desert from 2000 years ago, still has his message spread around the world (regardless of your view of him). Same can be said for Ghandi, Mohamed and many others who didn't have money, presses or otherwise "rich".
Your views are typical of class warfare socialist/communist types who think that only the rich can affect the world. Self limiting statements like you started out with are typical in the box thinking that limits people from their full potential.
To reach the world, all I need is less than $100 bucks and an internet access, which can be had for free if you're willing to troll Starbucks at a strip mall.
I can do the whole thing for free if given the inclination. It isn't reaching the hordes that is hard, it is getting them to listen. And to do that, you have to have a message that is coherent and persuasive, something YOU have failed to even mention.
To prove my point, Little Green Footballs broke the story that killed Dan Rather's career and left him embarrassed and looking every bit a fool that he turned out to be. Who was Little Green Footballs? Just a unheard of Blog trolling political news stories.
The Internet has changed the world in ways you fail to comprehend or worse, admit. It doesn't take a shitload of money to change the world. I print stuff everyday, just not on paper. I print stuff and reach thousands here on /. I get modded insightful and troll, often by the same people. My message though is consistent and exposes idiots like you who think the world is out to get them, and the only way to save it is collectivism, be it Corporatism or Socialism.
The ONLY way to secure your rights is for YOU to secure them for yourself, or die trying. Patrick Henry was right, "Give me Liberty or give me Death". Nobody is going to protect your rights better than you.
You can do it the easy way, or the hard way, your choice.
Applies to all sorts of things that have "opt out" options that involve giving up our rights.
Yes, he was talking about liability, and I was sort of (read the rest of my post). What I said was that limited liability was not the SOLE reason for corporations. Sorry if that was not clear.
And yes, we need to add back into corporatism the concept of liability, via holding corporate officers and board members PERSONALLY liable for the ILLEGAL decisions they make, on behalf of the corporation. In addition, when a corporation becomes the corrupt beyond repair, the government ought to institute the corporate death penalty, where all assets are seized, liabilities dismissed, and charter dissolved, leaving shareholders with nothing but paper good for wiping their butts.
Too big to fail shouldn't be a reason to keep something around, as all it ends up being is an excuse to continue poor business practices and stealing from the tax payer.
I doubt I'll be able to afford a nice GM car in spite of my taxes going to prop it up.
Actually, you're only partially right. Corporations allow for economies of scale that pure private ownership cannot. The problem, as you've identified is lack of accountability in the form of liability.
One can have accountability and liability if the corporations actions were held against the board of Directors and the Senior staff. These two groups almost always get free ride on liability. Additionally if we instituted a corporate death penalty for extreme negligence and criminal acts by corporations, where the state would assume all assets, liabilities are dismissed and ownership of stock dissolved, the stakeholders would INSIST on acting responsibly.
I have one further twist on corporate management, that is tax the transfer of wealth between corporate entities, so that shell games of shifting money between wholly owned corporations are reduced. That way when XYZ Licensing Corp gets paid by XYZ Commercial Holdings, who got paid by XYZ Industries, to avoid tax liabilities in one jurisdiction is eliminated.
But that is just me.
So criminal behavior is protected free speech? And stopping criminals from committing crimes is the same as censorship?
Wow.
Lawyers should learn that people believe that shit.
Um
I've known people with all those conditions who have succeeded. I didn't say it was easy, probably easier to sit on sidewalk with a sign that says "will work for food", which most people know is a lie. They won't work, for anything, for any reason.
I've known enough people who have tried to help said "victims" of life and quite frankly, the results are the same for a vast majority. Exceptions do occur.
And here in the US of A and just about ANY post industrial country, there is no excuse for poverty, not going to school or not knowing how to read or write.
At some point, you have to be responsible for your life, and the choices you make. I learned this when I was about 20 and a drugged out coke fiend.
As for marketable skills, only one skill is needed for just about any job, desire. I bussed tables and washed dishes while going to college. I WORKED HARD to get there, I worked hard to stay there, I worked hard to get my degree. Now I have a good job. Coincidence?
I've been blessed along the way, and cursed (see my burn scars) too. Life has a way of kicking ass, and the only way to win, is to kick life's ass every day you can.
So, you see, I've been there, done that. You want to help someone, teach them how to kick themselves in the ass everyday to get out and do something to improve themselves. IT will be rewarded.
Lots of "extra hands" ("third hand"), clamps /stands that can be moved quickly and easily but stay in place when needed to hold things when Bob is not handy to hold something for you.
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SO, exactly, how does one Partially block a website in the US?
If you're a geek, then you understand the difficulty and ultimate futility of blocking a DNS entry to just the US and not the rest of the world truly is.
And exactly how was the US supposed to accomplish this impossible task?
If you suggest "international court", I'll laugh at you and call you arrogantly stupid. This is the same international community that thinks Libya is a good representative for human rights, and Obama was deserving of a Nobel Prize for his "potential".
I'm American, and I find my government to be dysfunctional tyrants. The only reason we're not enslaved is that we don't have any competent people there ... yet.
And the government is getting a pass mostly because the people with the biggest problem with what the government is doing, are afraid to speak ill of the Messiah Kenyan running things at the moment, because they agree with him 90% of the time.
My point, be you (D) or (R) it doesn't matter, the government is the problem, not the solution. Security theater is wrong under Bush, it is even more wrong under Obama who has increased it to Pornscans and Sexual battery. WHERE are the liberals on this? WHY aren't they protesting with songs and PSAs and writing about how awful the Obama Administration is on HUMAN RIGHTS?
Don't get me wrong, the(R)s are just as bad, and worse in other areas. But I continue to wonder if Bush admin had done half the stuff Obama is doing what the reaction of the liberal media elites would be?
And all of this does not excuse Vigilante Justice by a bunch of wannabe hackers who hate the US. Which was my point. Perhaps they should DDOS the Pentagon and Whitehouse if they want to protest the US government, not VISA and Mastercard.
Of course they are too chicken from the comfort of their "command center" in mom's basement.
So, you think everyone of the "will work for food" signs is genuine? Even a majority? How about the fat chick with the "Hungry" sign?
Most of the "Working poor" aren't looking for the handout of "spare change" that I was addressing. And most of the homeless I've encountered are that way for a reason of their own making.
But other than that, you're exactly right, while missing the point entirely. And proof that people like yourself believe that feelings are more important than reality. I was talking about dysfunctional alcoholics and homeless bums, not "working poor". Working poor don't have time to stand on a corner begging for their next drink.
On the one hand we have people championing DDOS attacks on websites via vigilante action which inflict damage to innocent websites on the other hand, many of these same people are protesting a government with properly issued warrant shutting down websites.
The question is, for those that support the former, and not the latter, exactly what kind of society you are really wanting where laws are meaningless and mobs rule? I'm sure you're fine with it until the mob ruling isn't your kind of mob. What then??
It is more than accuracy. THIS is why Vigilantism is wrong.
The problem here is that the mob doesn't care about innocents that get caught up in their self righteous indignation. They are no better than the tyrants whom they oppose.
Do not misunderstand me. I don't give a whit about Julian or his leaking wikis, and the idiots trying to kill the messenger. I do care about the idiot that had access to all the secrets and charged with keeping them secret violating that trust. I also care about the "secrecy" of public knowledge many of the cables, and why it was classified. There is almost nothing in what I've seen in the latest release that surprises me or something I already knew. It is all a bunch of *yawn* for me and not the "treasure" people think it is. I also care equally about the vigilantism that is brewing in the wake of this mess. Criminals are criminals.
I also wonder why the idiots running the vigilante mobs have targeted Sarah Palin for her comments, but not anyone in the Obama Administration for similar comments? Gee whiz, if that isn't transparent juvenile politics and a great reason why all the (R) bad (D) good types (and visa versa) should be simply ignored from now on.
Or, you can be a good little liberal and give the homeless bum a $100 bill for the Holidays and then read three days later that he's dead, died of acute alcohol poisoning. Because that is how liberalism works. It gives without consideration of the results because it is all about intentions, not the results. You feel good because at least you "tried".
The problem is, one cannot say the homeless bum is dysfunctional alcoholic not worthy of giving $100 bucks to, because he'll just drink himself to death, because that is just "heartless" And you certainly cannot round them up and put them into state run facilities and actually try to help them, against their will, because well that is just "heartless" institutionalization.
In fact the only thing a liberal is allowed to do is continue to enable the dysfunction, but in smaller doses of cash, and get warm fuzzy feelings that you're "helping" the poor and downtrodden homeless bum by getting his next fix of booze. Just not enough booze to kill him,
REAL people realize that you can only help people who want to help themselves. And no amount of generosity and/or government programs is going to help those that refuse to change the things that make them parasites of society. So we keep our eyes open for those rare few people that are just "stuck" and help them, quietly and without the fanfare of politicians announcing the next great program or philanthropic dogooders and their endowments named after themselves.
Mat 6:2 Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
I actually like this idea. Have a voluntary botnet where people can sign up for DDOS attacks on a website, and have the botnet client actually execute the DDOS automatically to the user's wishes. Have the list updated periodically to reflect current "most hated" status. However, I want it to be politically neutral, targeting anyone deserving of the ire of the collective, be it right or left, commercial or non-profit.
Who's with me on this??
My sig, always appropriate for crowds
The answer to your questions: $$$
If you're being paid salary then ask for "comp time" for extraordinary duties. If they don't, then refuse those duties. You might want to be clear on what extraordinary duties are :)
Define "work" in such a way that it is not PC centric and we may already be there.
Are Linux Servers "PCs"?
Are MySQL, Apache servers "PCs" ?
Are Email, Messaging and chat "PC" ?