I had lunch with Richard Stallman, way back in 1996 through a mutual acquaintance in Harvard Square. He was talking about privacy and how companies were going to have access to realtime data about everything in your life through mobile devices. I thought he was a whiny, paranoid fool, and who cares.
The fact is, he was way ahead of his time, and saw things way more clearly than almost anyone else.
Thank you for quoting FZ. He also says something with regard to the fact that democracy is doomed to fail because the average American does not have the reasoning capability to distinguish between what is true and what is false.
Totally disagree with this. This whole program started with 9/11 and was instituted by the people who supposedly champion smaller government, lower taxes, and no social services.
I'm not a big Obama fan, but most of the critics of Obama criticize him for the wrong reasons. Newsweek aired a cover article "Why are Obama's Critics so Dumb?", and most of the critics in this forum prove that article's point. They blame him for the economy when he inherited the worst recession in history (that was not a depression). Or they say he should have turned around the economy sooner or that his stimulus didn't work. If you want to criticize Obama, how about doing it for real reasons, like his signing NDAA on New Year's Eve when he should have vetoed it (as a former constitutional law professor), or how trillions escaped from the Federal Reserve in zero percent interest loans to banks, which turned around and reinvested in U.S. treasury bonds, which amounted to our taxes turning their losses into profits. How about criticizing him for being Wall Street's butt boy? Or saying one thing and his justice department doing something different altogether? Or for not closing Guantanamo?
Exactly. This bill is way worse than SOPA. When this new bill started I emailed a bunch of people, but got no response. I guess the theory by these congressmen is to push one draconian bill after another so that a) people get tired of hearing about congress b) people opposed to them sound like "cry wolfers" and c) they can probably sneak at least one through. If you look at most of the bills passed since NDAA on New Year's Eve, they have all been uber-draconian, limiting our freedom type bills. NDAA was treason against the United States citizen with hardly any congressmen opposing it.
Interesting to come across this article. I had the idea for a business that trucks around one of these multi-sheet scanners (probably higher-end than the fujitsu previously mentioned but same brand), and scans your documents, with shredding service if needed. After this post, I'm realizing that a small office with voting-booth style setups where you can rent time on a scanner and computer that goes directly to memory stick would be good. It could use some version of steadystate where the information on the computer is wiped and rebooted at the end of each session. Shredders would also be available.
Why I didn't comment? Impossible deadlines where you just have to get the shit done fast in languages (like Java) not meant for getting shit done fast.
You're just another example of misconceptions. Are you gay? Then you don't know what you're talking about. But idiots like you like to speak for gay people and let me tell you my opinion is "shut the fuck up." I'm tired of ignorant dumbfucks like yourself talking for me.
If you don't like the "gay cure" app don't download it. I'm gay - I won't. I know that homosexuality can't be "cured". But I don't like this politically correct stuff that you have to remove these things because they offend people. I don't want some people deciding what I can see and can't see.
I'm a software developer. I've been using Open Office for years so that I wouldn't have to boot up a stupid windows system just to do my office type communications - development specs, read spreadsheets, etc. It's worked great for me, and I've actually found that it doesn't have some well-known unfixed bugs that M$ has as it continues to wow people with new features instead of long-standing bugs.
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I had lunch with Richard Stallman, way back in 1996 through a mutual acquaintance in Harvard Square. He was talking about privacy and how companies were going to have access to realtime data about everything in your life through mobile devices. I thought he was a whiny, paranoid fool, and who cares. The fact is, he was way ahead of his time, and saw things way more clearly than almost anyone else.
I'm going to need a magnifying glass to see the actual article. Are cockroaches running slashdot?
Exactly - I was like 99 cents! I need a new phone. AT&T?? - close tab.
Thank you for quoting FZ. He also says something with regard to the fact that democracy is doomed to fail because the average American does not have the reasoning capability to distinguish between what is true and what is false.
Totally disagree with this. This whole program started with 9/11 and was instituted by the people who supposedly champion smaller government, lower taxes, and no social services.
Obama, the constitutional law professor, also signed NDAA unlimited detention of United States citizens by the military without trial.
I'm not a big Obama fan, but most of the critics of Obama criticize him for the wrong reasons. Newsweek aired a cover article "Why are Obama's Critics so Dumb?", and most of the critics in this forum prove that article's point. They blame him for the economy when he inherited the worst recession in history (that was not a depression). Or they say he should have turned around the economy sooner or that his stimulus didn't work. If you want to criticize Obama, how about doing it for real reasons, like his signing NDAA on New Year's Eve when he should have vetoed it (as a former constitutional law professor), or how trillions escaped from the Federal Reserve in zero percent interest loans to banks, which turned around and reinvested in U.S. treasury bonds, which amounted to our taxes turning their losses into profits. How about criticizing him for being Wall Street's butt boy? Or saying one thing and his justice department doing something different altogether? Or for not closing Guantanamo?
L. Ron Hubbard is actually quite a good and unique science fiction writer. "The Invaders' Plan" was a humorous and strange - but engaging - work. http://www.amazon.com/Invaders-Plan-Mission-Earth/dp/1592120229/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331087999&sr=1-2
I like the idea of a popular veto, especially where our congress is so far out of step with what the public wants.
Might work better if the site were readable.
Exactly. This bill is way worse than SOPA. When this new bill started I emailed a bunch of people, but got no response. I guess the theory by these congressmen is to push one draconian bill after another so that a) people get tired of hearing about congress b) people opposed to them sound like "cry wolfers" and c) they can probably sneak at least one through. If you look at most of the bills passed since NDAA on New Year's Eve, they have all been uber-draconian, limiting our freedom type bills. NDAA was treason against the United States citizen with hardly any congressmen opposing it.
Interesting to come across this article. I had the idea for a business that trucks around one of these multi-sheet scanners (probably higher-end than the fujitsu previously mentioned but same brand), and scans your documents, with shredding service if needed. After this post, I'm realizing that a small office with voting-booth style setups where you can rent time on a scanner and computer that goes directly to memory stick would be good. It could use some version of steadystate where the information on the computer is wiped and rebooted at the end of each session. Shredders would also be available.
Why I didn't comment? Impossible deadlines where you just have to get the shit done fast in languages (like Java) not meant for getting shit done fast.
You're just another example of misconceptions. Are you gay? Then you don't know what you're talking about. But idiots like you like to speak for gay people and let me tell you my opinion is "shut the fuck up." I'm tired of ignorant dumbfucks like yourself talking for me.
If you don't like the "gay cure" app don't download it. I'm gay - I won't. I know that homosexuality can't be "cured". But I don't like this politically correct stuff that you have to remove these things because they offend people. I don't want some people deciding what I can see and can't see.
What also ruins the experience is that windows stinks and has all kinds of viruses. Vote with your feet - stop buying outdated software.
We're verifying elections all over the world - Afghanistan, Iraq, countries in Africa, etc. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
MS Office has a bug where it does not export CSV's correctly. I've had to use Open Office to overcome this bug.
I'm a software developer. I've been using Open Office for years so that I wouldn't have to boot up a stupid windows system just to do my office type communications - development specs, read spreadsheets, etc. It's worked great for me, and I've actually found that it doesn't have some well-known unfixed bugs that M$ has as it continues to wow people with new features instead of long-standing bugs.
Yeah I just love allocating all my memory, and processing input one character at a time. C's so efficient I haven't used it since college.