"No one wants to live in a slum... except the millions of people moving from rural areas into slums every year. They're not all completely ignorant, it's just that the countryside around the city is even more of a hellhole than the slums."
That not true. Lots of people go to cities for work to make money and then return home after a few years to their farms and family to "retire". Others are driven off their farms b/c large Agribusinesses have forcedpushed them out or pushed prices so low small farms can not compete. Of course there are also populations issues that force people to the cities, as well as the persistent myths that one can "make it big" in the city b/c a few have manged to do so.
The slums are a means of exploitation. Period. Anything positive about them is secondary, like breaking your arm is good b/c you didn't have to go to work for awhile. While there may be interesting cultural facts to discern from them, they are nothing to extol.
I have a much better idea. Get rid of the gTLDs altogether. They are an arbitrary crutch to begin with. Without them we could have freeform domain names and end the silly quabbles over myname.everytldthereis.
What they are up to now looks more like damn money making scheme.
Exactly. The problem with GM is not the tech itself. The tech can certainly be used for good --increased vitamin content for instance. But we were lied to. Instead of using GM to produce better food, all those government/taxpayer research dollars went to produce lower quality food for the sake of higher yields and thus higher profits. We already know that pesticides are bad for us. Now they use GM's to allow 10x more to be used. It's criminal really. But that seems to be the way of everything today.
There is a difference. Freedom of Speech is considered a fundamental right. When we compromise our principles for others we risk loosing them for ourselves.
How about you stop being a sucker. Try buying a real printer (I recommend a Xerox Phaser Solid-Ink printer). Yes you spend a large chuck of change up front, but guess what? You will SAVE money on ink over the life time of the printer, and best of all the printer actually works and works well. Oh, you might think that cheap inkjet printer works fine, but believe me by comparison it's a piece of junk.
Don't you see? The "shareholders" never had any intention of letting this go to market. This is not about an attempt to steal intellectual property. It's about eliminating competition for similar proprietary technology (Nook, Kindle, Apple's eventual tablet, etc.) The large media players are doing everything they can to reign in the Internet. The ruination of the CrunchPad is a victory for them.
Do they even have a reason to collect the taxes? Or is that just what the politico-bot does?
Fact is, Online buyers have to pay shipping too. A tax equal to brick-and-morter's would be burdensome, especially for small online retailers.
Moreover, if there is going be some sort of tax, then why not apply it where the administration and infrastructure is already setup to collect it --the shipping companies.
The return on investment from an educated populace is of the greatest value. Indeed it underlies the future of anything being valuable.
It is likely that the exploitation and persecution of students in the United States (while other countries ensure free educations of their citizenry) will be her most immediate undoing.
They should be more involved in getting optical computing on the table. That more than any other tech will have a profound effect on energy requirements. And given some of the latest R&D, the tech is getting very close to reality.
What greedy bastard came up with the idea of parking meters anyway? What a royal pain in the ass for our citizenry. And what a stupid waste of time and resources.
No, don't give me the silly story about needing revenues for the roads and getting it from those who use them. That's horse shit. We've all used them at some point, and likewise we should be willing to contribute to have them available should we ever need them in the future.
As for selling them off to a private company... just another corrupt and greedy bastard's bright idea.
People of Chicago! Form flash mobs and obliterate those damn meter machines!
Bush's "goals" were all a setup. There is no real intention of a manned mission to Mars. His father did the same kind of thing when he was in office. Make big promises only to have the whole thing undercut quietly later on.
We need open media standards! I wish flash would just die. I'm a web designer and when asked to produce flash content, I say "N O". And explain to my client why.
Just imagine how the Internet would be if Adobe controlled your image file format too.
That real convenient. They've been sucking up all the government research funds for renewable energy research and now that the gov has not more money for them they are all done with it.
The problem with the Oil companies is they constitute a cartel. They control Energy. There is no free market here and the plan to keep it that way.
They still can't make sense of the last series b/c they messed it up so bad -- they kept telling us they had a plan, oh really? what "plan"? it was a random mess.
And Boomer and clones got so "fraked-up" I don't think it's even possible to square it with any logical consistency.
Perhaps it's not the "pay-for-broadcast" model that's flawed, but a whole economic system structured in such a way that no company can stay afloat offering a decent service any more.
It's not just Radio. Look around. Every product and serive today is fighting for your last dollar in a race straight to the bottom.
XM/Sirius can't stay in business b/c they are being eaten alive by excessive CEO compensation, government regulation and taxation, and a fixed stock market casino.
There is only one right solution to this problem: OUTLAW HEALTH INSURANCE.
If you make people pay for care out of their own pocket and to an actual doctor/hospital, then you will receive the best care for the money. period.
No middle men, no admin overhead, no formularies, to kickbacks, none of this b.s. Insurance companies have become a form of corporatized communism --the worst of both economic systems.
Our State governments could then provide cost effective universal life-and-limb coverage, which is the only condition under which insurance is required or effective.
Slashdot Mirror
"No one wants to live in a slum... except the millions of people moving from rural areas into slums every year. They're not all completely ignorant, it's just that the countryside around the city is even more of a hellhole than the slums."
That not true. Lots of people go to cities for work to make money and then return home after a few years to their farms and family to "retire". Others are driven off their farms b/c large Agribusinesses have forcedpushed them out or pushed prices so low small farms can not compete. Of course there are also populations issues that force people to the cities, as well as the persistent myths that one can "make it big" in the city b/c a few have manged to do so.
The slums are a means of exploitation. Period. Anything positive about them is secondary, like breaking your arm is good b/c you didn't have to go to work for awhile. While there may be interesting cultural facts to discern from them, they are nothing to extol.
I have a much better idea. Get rid of the gTLDs altogether. They are an arbitrary crutch to begin with. Without them we could have freeform domain names and end the silly quabbles over myname.everytldthereis.
What they are up to now looks more like damn money making scheme.
Exactly. The problem with GM is not the tech itself. The tech can certainly be used for good --increased vitamin content for instance. But we were lied to. Instead of using GM to produce better food, all those government/taxpayer research dollars went to produce lower quality food for the sake of higher yields and thus higher profits. We already know that pesticides are bad for us. Now they use GM's to allow 10x more to be used. It's criminal really. But that seems to be the way of everything today.
There is a difference. Freedom of Speech is considered a fundamental right. When we compromise our principles for others we risk loosing them for ourselves.
Prior Art?
Errr.. How about an A-frame lid on the light so the snow can just fall off.
How about you stop being a sucker. Try buying a real printer (I recommend a Xerox Phaser Solid-Ink printer). Yes you spend a large chuck of change up front, but guess what? You will SAVE money on ink over the life time of the printer, and best of all the printer actually works and works well. Oh, you might think that cheap inkjet printer works fine, but believe me by comparison it's a piece of junk.
Don't you see? The "shareholders" never had any intention of letting this go to market. This is not about an attempt to steal intellectual property. It's about eliminating competition for similar proprietary technology (Nook, Kindle, Apple's eventual tablet, etc.) The large media players are doing everything they can to reign in the Internet. The ruination of the CrunchPad is a victory for them.
Do they even have a reason to collect the taxes? Or is that just what the politico-bot does?
Fact is, Online buyers have to pay shipping too. A tax equal to brick-and-morter's would be burdensome, especially for small online retailers.
Moreover, if there is going be some sort of tax, then why not apply it where the administration and infrastructure is already setup to collect it --the shipping companies.
The return on investment from an educated populace is of the greatest value. Indeed it underlies the future of anything being valuable.
It is likely that the exploitation and persecution of students in the United States (while other countries ensure free educations of their citizenry) will be her most immediate undoing.
You want to tkdiff a bunch of B.S.? I got one commit for you:
$ git commit -m "revolution"
They should be more involved in getting optical computing on the table. That more than any other tech will have a profound effect on energy requirements. And given some of the latest R&D, the tech is getting very close to reality.
What greedy bastard came up with the idea of parking meters anyway? What a royal pain in the ass for our citizenry. And what a stupid waste of time and resources.
No, don't give me the silly story about needing revenues for the roads and getting it from those who use them. That's horse shit. We've all used them at some point, and likewise we should be willing to contribute to have them available should we ever need them in the future.
As for selling them off to a private company... just another corrupt and greedy bastard's bright idea.
People of Chicago! Form flash mobs and obliterate those damn meter machines!
Without our biggest dreams, even our smallest hopes are lost.
And so the Spirit of our country is lost.
Bush's "goals" were all a setup. There is no real intention of a manned mission to Mars. His father did the same kind of thing when he was in office. Make big promises only to have the whole thing undercut quietly later on.
We need open media standards! I wish flash would just die. I'm a web designer and when asked to produce flash content, I say "N O". And explain to my client why.
Just imagine how the Internet would be if Adobe controlled your image file format too.
That real convenient. They've been sucking up all the government research funds for renewable energy research and now that the gov has not more money for them they are all done with it.
The problem with the Oil companies is they constitute a cartel. They control Energy. There is no free market here and the plan to keep it that way.
Wasn't it the Illinois Legislature that passed a bill declaring Pi equal to 3?
Drop Kick the Cable Box
Drop Kick the Cable Box:
http://7r4n5.com/blog/?p=10
Yea right.
They still can't make sense of the last series b/c they messed it up so bad -- they kept telling us they had a plan, oh really? what "plan"? it was a random mess.
And Boomer and clones got so "fraked-up" I don't think it's even possible to square it with any logical consistency.
BSG no longer falls under SciFi, it's FrakedFi.
Perhaps it's not the "pay-for-broadcast" model that's flawed, but a whole economic system structured in such a way that no company can stay afloat offering a decent service any more.
It's not just Radio. Look around. Every product and serive today is fighting for your last dollar in a race straight to the bottom.
XM/Sirius can't stay in business b/c they are being eaten alive by excessive CEO compensation, government regulation and taxation, and a fixed stock market casino.
In the end I suspect this means they'll be putting GPU support cores directly on the die with CPU cores.
Repeato ad absurdium...
All these fancy features, but we are still using filename extensions (eg. .zip) to specify data types.
Did OOP even happen?
There is only one right solution to this problem: OUTLAW HEALTH INSURANCE.
If you make people pay for care out of their own pocket and to an actual doctor/hospital, then you will receive the best care for the money. period.
No middle men, no admin overhead, no formularies, to kickbacks, none of this b.s. Insurance companies have become a form of corporatized communism --the worst of both economic systems.
Our State governments could then provide cost effective universal life-and-limb coverage, which is the only condition under which insurance is required or effective.