If you have any evidence of wide-spread, or even common, retail vote-buying, or any other hunk of repulsive Republican propaganda intended to keep voting machines dishonest, please bring it forward now. Otherwise, you either look like a liar or a dupe.
Human communication evolved over a very, very long stretch of time to be an in-person interaction. It's hubris to imagine that we've characterized it well enough to simulate what's needed electronically, so no, this is just ludicrous.
so either learn to live with the problem, or just run away from it? you must be a real winner.
Some kinds of disagreement point to problems so fundamental in the higher-ups that it's not worth trying. Visceral rejection of free software is one of these.
"Some men, you just cain't reach." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o Since you don't have the option of clubbing this guy, get your interview on and find a job where they're not insane. This won't be the only, or even the biggest, moronic decision these people are making.
Maybe you missed this, but the Supreme Court came down on the side of the giant corporations and froze out the littler corporations. Seems your Randian glasses have gotten in the way of your reading comprehension.
It's silly to put basic research and (more generally) the development and maintenance of public goods in the hands of public companies because their motivations are not even vaguely in that ballpark. "The market" isn't good at providing the things that make markets possible, as the years since Reagan took office have shown. Markets are powerful tools for optimizing certain kinds of behavior, but they are not self-hosting.
If we as a society don't spend that money on basic research and other public goods like FLOSS, we're spending down our base assets and not replenishing them.
I'm curious as to why people are still interviewing Mr. Hertzfeld, given that his most recent successful project was the Mac. Even more puzzling is that he continues to be able to raise funds, attract developers, etc., in view of his decades-long track record of failure.
Storing it is one thing. Querying is a very different thing. What happens when somebody wants to find out something not specifically envisioned in the original experiment?
Katrina is fading in folks' memories and "Brownie", who took the fall for that cluster fuck, is long gone but the agency is still apparently still incredibly dysfunctional and run by incompetents.
That's true of most of the government. All the more reason to reduce the government's role in our lives rather than expand it.
This is the "piss on you an say it's raining" school of government indulged in by the Bushies and all their forbears back to Goldwater. When you deliberately place incompetents in government, you undermine it. There's nothing essential about incompetence anywhere, not even that giant bastion of incompetence, big business.
Excellence and failure both start at the top. When the head guy is incompetent, he will hire incompetents.
The truth is that the government will always be inept and inefficient regardless of who's at the top. But having someone at the top that you don't like makes you more prone to be more critical of the entire government apparatus even though the majority of the government apparatus does not change from administration to administration.
There is much better evidence for incompetent (but nonetheless gigantically paid) CEOs than for incompetent public servants. Public servants are subject to sunshine laws that would make the aforementioned CEOs run away screaming in terror. Libertarian duckspeak like the above paragraph just looks more and more ridiculous each year.
If these guys are scared of hanging onto their emails, they probably have something to be scared of, and it's not just discovery in the law case sense. It's discovery of actual crimes, and you're going to be an accessory to one sooner rather than later if you keep working there.
Let's see...somebody, a libertarian propagandist no doubt, decided that the "social" and "economic" liberties were going to be orthogonal (ridiculous on its face) and equal in weight.
Then we're supposed to go stare at the macho quiz that has questions of the form, "do you eat babies, or are you a libertarian" for awhile, and then put ourselves on this magical chart, and lo and behold, most of us come out as libertarians.
This is some pretty crude propaganda, and if you're swindled by it, you need to wake up and smell the bullshit.
I have this amazing idea. Rather than burying that waste and hoping for the best, what say reprocess it until it's not dangerous, getting power off it in the process? Surely nobody could have thought of that before.
The best disinfectant is fresh air and sunshine. When we make it illegal to sell closed-spec hardware, the hardware will be better if for no other reason than vanity.
Please explain what good purpose is served for us, the citizens and consumers, as opposed to the stockholders, by letting manufacturers hide this stuff.
Maybe we need to take control. Letting the manufacturers make their own rules, also known as "setting the fox to guard the chicken coop," on this hasn't exactly worked out for us.
The way to fix this is to mandate that hardware manufacturers publish detailed specifications based upon which FLOSS drivers can be written. The way things stand now, the buggier their gear is, the more secretive they are about releasing anything about it.
Sunshine laws, not accommodation to the greedy, will fix this.
Please feel free to move to Somalia if like libertarians and other Repugnicans, you're against effective government. FEMA was, until it got staffed with loyal but totally unqualified "heck of a job" Bushies, an extremely effective and cheap agency.
We people of good will are sick and goddamned tired of the "piss down your back and tell you it's raining" style of anarchy, and we're removing the source. Have fun being powerless for a couple of generations:)
Uh, did you forget about that little 8 year long war they had against Iraq?
You mean the one Saddam started, using aggression as in unprovoked attack? The one we told him we'd be just fine with? That one?
Seriously, before making statements you should do a little research... while one might call the Iran - Iraq war a war of aggression on Iraq's part, they can only do so up until a certain point when Iran certainly was the aggressor.
Iraq was the aggressor, with our full blessings. Please to get your head out of your hat, or wherever it is that you've had it stuck.
If you read and analyze the Cold War context of the moves in Iran in 1953 it becomes a more gray issue. 'Democratically Elected' governments located that close to the USSR at the time had an unfortunate tendency to become 'One Man, One Vote, One Time' countries, similar to what has happened in Zimbabwe.
Let me get this straight. You're saying that in 1953, the US sponsored a coup which deposed a the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh, a man with no ties to the Soviet Union or to Communism in any form, on the basis of what was going to happen in a country which would not exist for another twenty-seven years?
This doesn't fully excuse the US-sponsored coup. It does, however place it into the proper context of 'two forces in struggle' not the ignorant 'pure evil US government and greedy Oil Companies' interpretaton that the class warriors who lost the Cold War try to frame it in.
Well, you've just shown what I would be very generous if I were to describe it as a misapprehension of the basic facts at hand here. Why should anybody trust your characterization of the rest?
Absolutely right. Neither Iran nor North Korea have waged wars of aggression in the past 50 years. If you're alleging that the US hasn't done so, you're being extremely naïf.
Re: your signature, please to note that "power" is not the same as "government power," and that moving power to the private sector does not change the corruption problem for the better. In fact, it moves the corruption from a place where there are at least in theory checks and balances in place to one where only market forces, which have a lousy track record on this kind of thing, apply.
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If you have any evidence of wide-spread, or even common, retail vote-buying, or any other hunk of repulsive Republican propaganda intended to keep voting machines dishonest, please bring it forward now. Otherwise, you either look like a liar or a dupe.
Human communication evolved over a very, very long stretch of time to be an in-person interaction. It's hubris to imagine that we've characterized it well enough to simulate what's needed electronically, so no, this is just ludicrous.
so either learn to live with the problem, or just run away from it? you must be a real winner.
Some kinds of disagreement point to problems so fundamental in the higher-ups that it's not worth trying. Visceral rejection of free software is one of these.
"Some men, you just cain't reach." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o
Since you don't have the option of clubbing this guy, get your interview on and find a job where they're not insane. This won't be the only, or even the biggest, moronic decision these people are making.
Nope. Kudos is Greek and singular, just like pathos :)
Maybe you missed this, but the Supreme Court came down on the side of the giant corporations and froze out the littler corporations. Seems your Randian glasses have gotten in the way of your reading comprehension.
It's silly to put basic research and (more generally) the development and maintenance of public goods in the hands of public companies because their motivations are not even vaguely in that ballpark. "The market" isn't good at providing the things that make markets possible, as the years since Reagan took office have shown. Markets are powerful tools for optimizing certain kinds of behavior, but they are not self-hosting.
If we as a society don't spend that money on basic research and other public goods like FLOSS, we're spending down our base assets and not replenishing them.
I'm curious as to why people are still interviewing Mr. Hertzfeld, given that his most recent successful project was the Mac. Even more puzzling is that he continues to be able to raise funds, attract developers, etc., in view of his decades-long track record of failure.
Storing it is one thing. Querying is a very different thing. What happens when somebody wants to find out something not specifically envisioned in the original experiment?
This is the "piss on you an say it's raining" school of government indulged in by the Bushies and all their forbears back to Goldwater. When you deliberately place incompetents in government, you undermine it. There's nothing essential about incompetence anywhere, not even that giant bastion of incompetence, big business.
There is much better evidence for incompetent (but nonetheless gigantically paid) CEOs than for incompetent public servants. Public servants are subject to sunshine laws that would make the aforementioned CEOs run away screaming in terror. Libertarian duckspeak like the above paragraph just looks more and more ridiculous each year.
If these guys are scared of hanging onto their emails, they probably have something to be scared of, and it's not just discovery in the law case sense. It's discovery of actual crimes, and you're going to be an accessory to one sooner rather than later if you keep working there.
The existence of the word, "socioeconomic" would be a tiny hint.
Let's see...somebody, a libertarian propagandist no doubt, decided that the "social" and "economic" liberties were going to be orthogonal (ridiculous on its face) and equal in weight.
Then we're supposed to go stare at the macho quiz that has questions of the form, "do you eat babies, or are you a libertarian" for awhile, and then put ourselves on this magical chart, and lo and behold, most of us come out as libertarians.
This is some pretty crude propaganda, and if you're swindled by it, you need to wake up and smell the bullshit.
I have this amazing idea. Rather than burying that waste and hoping for the best, what say reprocess it until it's not dangerous, getting power off it in the process? Surely nobody could have thought of that before.
The best disinfectant is fresh air and sunshine. When we make it illegal to sell closed-spec hardware, the hardware will be better if for no other reason than vanity.
Please explain what good purpose is served for us, the citizens and consumers, as opposed to the stockholders, by letting manufacturers hide this stuff.
Maybe we need to take control. Letting the manufacturers make their own rules, also known as "setting the fox to guard the chicken coop," on this hasn't exactly worked out for us.
The way to fix this is to mandate that hardware manufacturers publish detailed specifications based upon which FLOSS drivers can be written. The way things stand now, the buggier their gear is, the more secretive they are about releasing anything about it.
Sunshine laws, not accommodation to the greedy, will fix this.
Please feel free to move to Somalia if like libertarians and other Repugnicans, you're against effective government. FEMA was, until it got staffed with loyal but totally unqualified "heck of a job" Bushies, an extremely effective and cheap agency.
We people of good will are sick and goddamned tired of the "piss down your back and tell you it's raining" style of anarchy, and we're removing the source. Have fun being powerless for a couple of generations :)
Paul is dead.
You mean the one Saddam started, using aggression as in unprovoked attack? The one we told him we'd be just fine with? That one?
Iraq was the aggressor, with our full blessings. Please to get your head out of your hat, or wherever it is that you've had it stuck.
Let me get this straight. You're saying that in 1953, the US sponsored a coup which deposed a the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh, a man with no ties to the Soviet Union or to Communism in any form, on the basis of what was going to happen in a country which would not exist for another twenty-seven years?
Well, you've just shown what I would be very generous if I were to describe it as a misapprehension of the basic facts at hand here. Why should anybody trust your characterization of the rest?
Overthrowing the dictator we installed isn't a "war of aggression." At most, it's self-defense.
Absolutely right. Neither Iran nor North Korea have waged wars of aggression in the past 50 years. If you're alleging that the US hasn't done so, you're being extremely naïf.
Do you think I can get away with denying I'm a geek? ;)
Re: your signature, please to note that "power" is not the same as "government power," and that moving power to the private sector does not change the corruption problem for the better. In fact, it moves the corruption from a place where there are at least in theory checks and balances in place to one where only market forces, which have a lousy track record on this kind of thing, apply.