They have to pay taxes. Any company has to pay taxes unless they want to get audited and subsequently levied heavy fines and imprisonment or perhaps loose their charter.
Mozilla is sheer bloatware. I can name hundreds of apps that are bloated in some way too. Believe me linux can force you to upgrade almost as fast and as completely as windows can for the same type of apps. Usually this is not seen however. I remember in the linux magazines that having 16Mb of ram with X was sufficient. Well that flew out the window and I now doubt that I could get away with all the new apps with even 48 or 64. Probably close to 128 to get full action out of linux. That's slightly more than double.
How can a group of people who are in the business of helping flood/tornado/hurricana/desert/fire victims be an evil government arm? How is disaster relief in the least evil? I sure would like to be helped if my house were wiped out.
Hmm this seems really, really vulnerable to just setting up a completely new set of mirrors to my house and suddently I could have a T-3 like line without paying:) I mean really what kind of safeguards prevent hijacking the data stream of some backup system and inserting an infinite look of Jigglypuff's song instead?
Unless there a method that uses radio waves I can't see how that would be a problem. If you are using on/off states in binary to transfer informaion all the receiver needs to know is wheather there is light or not at any given time. I don't get it.
In it's goal? Really light beams are not terribly reliable as a technology for transmitting. I think a set of wireless transmitters would be better. Then for example you could connect to your linux server from your basement 100 stories underground when nuclear warheads are going off above you. Unless you get a bunch of little mirrors around and set them up all over the world it would fail. Of course it takes a few script kiddies (read vandals with black paper or baseball bats) to ruin your day. Maybe if you are sending the beams into space. But even then you would fail because it would take trillions and be almost like irridium was a spruce goose.
There have been people who have gone to the moon and you can ask them. Failing that you could take a telescope and see the American flag that is there.
Why would they give their strategy away? All Koresh would have to have do was watch TV. That being said I agree with the difficulty angel. It would take an AI or an army of artists and raytracing machines to do real time changes without intervention.
Slashdot's paranoid ramblings about unfounded information make Mulder look like a conservative man. Truth be told advertising is not exactly a big deal. What to I care that the cast of some crappy sitcom are running windows? I don't get that easily persuaded to do something. I make a choice because it's my choise not someone elses.
People actually have done radar soundings of the affected are. There was an English diving team that was sent to investigate. You could actually talk to the Russians themselves and maybe ask if they have any missing subs. All are sure ways to determine for sure.
People can only get so powerful before they are forcefully felled from the outside. Also why does he have to take it to just his paper? I say get a web site registered and then put it up as a link for people to access. Then give the details out to everyone in the whole earth. That would be pretty hard to quash. Just like the DeCSS code I would never dissappear and would eventually filter all the way through American society to it's very core. Like the fameous Thomas Jefferson era quote "Here sir, the people govern".
Even in the 1930's we didn't have this much nihilism. The most likely source is a bunch of disgruntled foreigners who insist (to everyone they ever meet out of the street) that the reason their lives are crappy is because of America and it's evil influences. The world is not comming to and end. There are always nasayers but they usually become like the bitter old man who just waits by the door for the mail to come every day just so he can redicule it to himself. Usually they write most of the complaint letters and die with more ulcers than swiss cheese. The toils and privations of this world aren't that extreme unless you happen to be a person who finds and critizes all of them daily.
actually are incredibly misquoted and cast in bad lights. I don't like Albert Gore but I don't think he is an idiot for something probably one of his personal speech writers wrote for him. That's one little fact you forget. Politicians usually don't write their own speeches. It's considered foolish and a good way for flub ups to occur. And actually if he was supposedly a network planner for AOL or whatever he was then for some people he did make the "Internet". Internet is a broad term. I personally don't think that a strict interpretation of it should be used. In fact common usage dictages that World WIde Web and "Internet" are virtually the same. It would be better to say that perhaps he didn't invent "networking" nor did he invent the underlying HTTP protocol but he did do things that to some are quite large scale.
Getting a perfect harmony and scale of a random person's voice is not a trivial task in and of itself. Personally I don't see how it could be flawless without repeated samplings of the president's voice in different cirsumstances. Also auditory emissions change to match their surroundings so that if you were to say something people could pick up on it. Also this isn't exactly news when people have had control of newspapers. What was to stop an editor from taking a lieing about the content of the president's speech about the Treaty of Versailes? Well usually it was much more effective to denounce and interpret things very broadly out of context such as the fameous debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A. Douglas. That was a result of verbal trickery to make what would be known then as the Missouri Doctrine. Also that's what libel suits are for. How would Ted Turner react if he suddently got slapped with a libel suit, an audit, and an investigation by the NSA (things which have been known to happen with even the best presidents to political and personal enemies aka Richard Milhouse Nixon).
Americans are not stupid. They have actually grown smarter in the years that we have had television and all. I am not going to be bullied by an arrogant social darwinist who thinks that Americans are stupid and everyone else is just an oracle. Nothing personal buy I disagree with your seemingly contradictory statements about Americans being stupid and their *eeeeevvvvvviillll* televisions. If you aren't an American you are bordering on being racist, if you are you are very bigoted. That's like the people who say all people are dumb but in the final analysis they exclude themselves. This has nothing to do with your occupation unless you are actively implimenting video editing techniques or are actively acting against them in yopur professional life what you do is irrevelent. This is my area of expertice and yours is running computers for a companies. I have studied social trends formally and informally for most of my life. CS is more of an expected career jaunt for me. I could easily be a professor. When do mp3s get into the conversation anyway? I just don't follow you. But now that you have made it a topic I quite frankly don't care. They way I see it if the evil US government is bad then perhaps you need to as a keen phrase back in the McCarthy era "Get your red ass back to Russia". Believe me most other countires only create an illusion of security and freedom for so long until they are threatened. The pax romana "roman peace" (for non latin speakers) lasted almost as long as the US is old now. That's one long time to have peace and liberty. But even then they got midevil (or more accurately ancient) on the asses of dissidents and barbarians alike. Another nation when pressed could and (I feel strongly) would take away personal liberties of the peseants when things get harsh. Or failing that if they don't the next conqueror down the road will take them away too. The world is not in a giant conspiracy at all. Conspiracies such as the infameous "new world order" and such and individuals who think this is some conspiracy and the like. People who think that the whole world is out to get them. Firstly utopian ideals have given sentiments like "one world order" for centuries. The Summerians used things like this, the Bablyonians, the Syrians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Phonicians, The Turks, Russians, Germans : unification of german state under pseudo-military governor in 1871 and with Hitler in 1939), USSR under communism, Post WWI Europe undewr such peole like Woodrow Wilson and the like. You post was actually totally irrelevent to the topic at hand in any way. Personal feelings and logic and topicality are several seperate areas. I invite measured proof of your statements. And please don't tell me how to conduct myself in relation to your comments that is just against Patrian mannerisms and Emily Post frowns on such things.
The Freedom of Information Act (FoIA in gov speak) is actually a good means of getting data from various agencies. I have seen form letters that you can use to get your entire dossier (assuming you are important enough to have one) from the FBI. Ever heard of things like the Pentgon papers back in the 70's. What about the recent scans from area 51. Also the recent release of data about individuals spying in Iran as well. Modern people have more information than did their parents before them. Really most of the "secrets" and "conspiracies" in three letter agencies are usually things like military hardware hostiles shouldn't have and how much the NSA spends for floppy disks. Spying and assassinations usually are rarer events since the CIA was scentured a while back for their misdeads.
Perhaps to liven up a documentary or a schoolish intructional video just have a random porno scene or perhaps replace Professor Frink with Ammy Bubbles (appropriately non-attired). "Now what happens if we take CaC03 and mix..wait this bra is getting too tight...there. And then add HCl to it?"
That filler material is usually pieces that are from such areas like the Associated press and the like (at least in my paper). All the meaningless driver like "Billy's cat coughed up a hair ball" or "Hammers are getting more sleek in the 21st century" are usually in the area you would expect news. Ads are also the way yhe paper is paid for. Classified ads pay for about 90% of the fees in the paper and the rest is in professional advertising that is also but there.
I think that is rather insulting seeing as I am a human being and I have college educated people in my family. In general there is not a vast cartel to control the media and what it's content is. This was made expresely clear in my class in American government many years ago. In general there are different interests which control what the media prints. Just like the government you have various factions competiting for what will be done, where, how, how, with how much money, and in what manner. The news has to pay for it's airtime somehow and they do that through that commercials and tailoring content to fit what them deem as a suitable demographic through a system that I dont' exactly know about but I am sure involves statistical samples and taking the mean of said samples with low standard deviation. Also the people who actually act as anchors are probably not wanting to have their content tailored to foolish levels. The system works and will continue to work. People are becomming more and more educated as the tech boom continues. Peple are entering colleges at a good rate. That's better than back in the 40's-50's when television started. Drop out rates are also lower. I think you better look at the stats and then come back and claim that people are stupider now than they were before. Focus has shifted. Maybe the fact that a number of the skilled people are spending more time on the internet and reading books and working more might just be an answer. Even if I have a doctorate degree I can't alter the content that I see on television or the radio until I own them. PS. Actually I didn't have a televion for many years in my house as a child and then it broke and we didn't have one for a number more. I know that constitutes good and bad television and I have seen things that I don't currently like. But I don't act like a nihilist and bemoan my fate. Please if you think they should do better by all means get into broadcasting. They need less pretty boys weith pretty armani suits and nice teeth and hair. In fact by being on slashdot you have probably taken the first step into becomming more informed. Excelsior to you sir!
Kennedy wasn't exactly part of a conspiracy about much of anything about his death. There are several popular theories that were investigated by the Warren commission by the United States congress: 1. Oswald acted alone --- The best theory that has actually stood the test of time. 2. Governmental faction assassinated the president --- Not too likely. Far easier to do it at an embasy dinner, private party, apply bomb in car traveling in unpopulated area, etc. Not too likely if you wanted to remain anonymous. 3. Oswald acted with support of the KGB -- Best one of the kook theories and would be a nice addition to the first. Oswald did indeed travel to Russia and did marry his wife from out of the ranks of the KGB. It could be likely that because of possible anti-government leanings that he wouldn't have batted an eye at the prospect of killing Kennedy. Also the Russians didn't exactly care for Kennedy at all. Basically he already had several strikes against him from the Russians. The shooting down of the U-2 carrying Garry Powers and his subsequent capture during the time of Krutchev, the bay of pigs invarion of Cuba by supporters of the United States (Cuba was essentially allied with the USSR), and numerous assassination attempts on said dictator, Korea, and revent intervention of "advisers" in the former French republic of indochina (Vietnam). A very nice one. 4. Oswald acted as a tool of organized crime -- Not too thoroughly explored. Various reform acts that removed some of the former corruption of the presidency made that governmental branch hostile to crime syndicates. Harry truman came from Kansas City and actually was proposed as a candiate for US Senate from a local political crime boss. Truman was a relatively honest man (that we know of but was also a Republican and thus not sympathetic in many ways to the mob. Kennedy also was supposed to have created a new gold standard of monetary support which could have hurt them. 5. Grassy Knoll attack -- At least one person thought that perhaps allies with Oswald was another man who would also fire shots at the president if Oswald's Manlicher Carcano riffle didn't do the job (it wasn't the best for rapid assault snipping which was what Oswald tried to do). Also never been proven to logical ends.
No there are few conspiracies that actually work because eventually rats them out. COnspiracies are usually the domain of the X-files.
It takes just one reporter who was watching CNN and then checks his notes later that day to screw the censorers. Later that same day legislation is passed banning the technology to be utilized unless by authorization of a presidential directive. Simply put it would kill their own invention. Then everyone is against it and it gets corrected as a public injustice.
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They have to pay taxes. Any company has to pay taxes unless they want to get audited and subsequently levied heavy fines and imprisonment or perhaps loose their charter.
Mozilla is sheer bloatware. I can name hundreds of apps that are bloated in some way too. Believe me linux can force you to upgrade almost as fast and as completely as windows can for the same type of apps. Usually this is not seen however. I remember in the linux magazines that having 16Mb of ram with X was sufficient. Well that flew out the window and I now doubt that I could get away with all the new apps with even 48 or 64. Probably close to 128 to get full action out of linux. That's slightly more than double.
Been a while since I really thought about it.
And they don't cooperate I think that alone would disprove that statement.
How can a group of people who are in the business of helping flood/tornado/hurricana/desert/fire victims be an evil government arm?
How is disaster relief in the least evil? I sure would like to be helped if my house were wiped out.
Hmm this seems really, really vulnerable to just setting up a completely new set of mirrors to my house and suddently I could have a T-3 like line without paying :) I mean really what kind of safeguards prevent hijacking the data stream of some backup system and inserting an infinite look of Jigglypuff's song instead?
That's what you do currently with a standard voice line you lease it if I remember correctly.
Unless there a method that uses radio waves I can't see how that would be a problem. If you are using on/off states in binary to transfer informaion all the receiver needs to know is wheather there is light or not at any given time. I don't get it.
In it's goal? Really light beams are not terribly reliable as a technology for transmitting. I think a set of wireless transmitters would be better. Then for example you could connect to your linux server from your basement 100 stories underground when nuclear warheads are going off above you. Unless you get a bunch of little mirrors around and set them up all over the world it would fail. Of course it takes a few script kiddies (read vandals with black paper or baseball bats) to ruin your day. Maybe if you are sending the beams into space. But even then you would fail because it would take trillions and be almost like irridium was a spruce goose.
There have been people who have gone to the moon and you can ask them. Failing that you could take a telescope and see the American flag that is there.
Why would they give their strategy away? All Koresh would have to have do was watch TV.
That being said I agree with the difficulty angel. It would take an AI or an army of artists and raytracing machines to do real time changes without intervention.
Slashdot's paranoid ramblings about unfounded information make Mulder look like a conservative man.
Truth be told advertising is not exactly a big deal. What to I care that the cast of some crappy sitcom are running windows? I don't get that easily persuaded to do something. I make a choice because it's my choise not someone elses.
People actually have done radar soundings of the affected are. There was an English diving team that was sent to investigate. You could actually talk to the Russians themselves and maybe ask if they have any missing subs. All are sure ways to determine for sure.
People can only get so powerful before they are forcefully felled from the outside. Also why does he have to take it to just his paper? I say get a web site registered and then put it up as a link for people to access. Then give the details out to everyone in the whole earth. That would be pretty hard to quash.
Just like the DeCSS code I would never dissappear and would eventually filter all the way through American society to it's very core.
Like the fameous Thomas Jefferson era quote "Here sir, the people govern".
Albert Einstein is fair game pretty much because of two reasons.
1. He is dead.
2. His estate (if he has one) dosn't care or is dead as well.
Even in the 1930's we didn't have this much nihilism. The most likely source is a bunch of disgruntled foreigners who insist (to everyone they ever meet out of the street) that the reason their lives are crappy is because of America and it's evil influences.
The world is not comming to and end. There are always nasayers but they usually become like the bitter old man who just waits by the door for the mail to come every day just so he can redicule it to himself. Usually they write most of the complaint letters and die with more ulcers than swiss cheese.
The toils and privations of this world aren't that extreme unless you happen to be a person who finds and critizes all of them daily.
actually are incredibly misquoted and cast in bad lights.
I don't like Albert Gore but I don't think he is an idiot for something probably one of his personal speech writers wrote for him. That's one little fact you forget. Politicians usually don't write their own speeches. It's considered foolish and a good way for flub ups to occur. And actually if he was supposedly a network planner for AOL or whatever he was then for some people he did make the "Internet".
Internet is a broad term. I personally don't think that a strict interpretation of it should be used. In fact common usage dictages that World WIde Web and "Internet" are virtually the same.
It would be better to say that perhaps he didn't invent "networking" nor did he invent the underlying HTTP protocol but he did do things that to some are quite large scale.
Getting a perfect harmony and scale of a random person's voice is not a trivial task in and of itself. Personally I don't see how it could be flawless without repeated samplings of the president's voice in different cirsumstances. Also auditory emissions change to match their surroundings so that if you were to say something people could pick up on it.
Also this isn't exactly news when people have had control of newspapers. What was to stop an editor from taking a lieing about the content of the president's speech about the Treaty of Versailes? Well usually it was much more effective to denounce and interpret things very broadly out of context such as the fameous debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A. Douglas. That was a result of verbal trickery to make what would be known then as the Missouri Doctrine.
Also that's what libel suits are for. How would Ted Turner react if he suddently got slapped with a libel suit, an audit, and an investigation by the NSA (things which have been known to happen with even the best presidents to political and personal enemies aka Richard Milhouse Nixon).
Americans are not stupid. They have actually grown smarter in the years that we have had television and all.
I am not going to be bullied by an arrogant social darwinist who thinks that Americans are stupid and everyone else is just an oracle.
Nothing personal buy I disagree with your seemingly contradictory statements about Americans being stupid and their *eeeeevvvvvviillll* televisions.
If you aren't an American you are bordering on being racist, if you are you are very bigoted. That's like the people who say all people are dumb but in the final analysis they exclude themselves.
This has nothing to do with your occupation unless you are actively implimenting video editing techniques or are actively acting against them in yopur professional life what you do is irrevelent.
This is my area of expertice and yours is running computers for a companies. I have studied social trends formally and informally for most of my life. CS is more of an expected career jaunt for me. I could easily be a professor.
When do mp3s get into the conversation anyway? I just don't follow you. But now that you have made it a topic I quite frankly don't care. They way I see it if the evil US government is bad then perhaps you need to as a keen phrase back in the McCarthy era "Get your red ass back to Russia". Believe me most other countires only create an illusion of security and freedom for so long until they are threatened. The pax romana "roman peace" (for non latin speakers) lasted almost as long as the US is old now. That's one long time to have peace and liberty. But even then they got midevil (or more accurately ancient) on the asses of dissidents and barbarians alike.
Another nation when pressed could and (I feel strongly) would take away personal liberties of the peseants when things get harsh. Or failing that if they don't the next conqueror down the road will take them away too. The world is not in a giant conspiracy at all. Conspiracies such as the infameous "new world order" and such and individuals who think this is some conspiracy and the like. People who think that the whole world is out to get them. Firstly utopian ideals have given sentiments like "one world order" for centuries. The Summerians used things like this, the Bablyonians, the Syrians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Phonicians, The Turks, Russians, Germans : unification of german state under pseudo-military governor in 1871 and with Hitler in 1939), USSR under communism, Post WWI Europe undewr such peole like Woodrow Wilson and the like.
You post was actually totally irrelevent to the topic at hand in any way. Personal feelings and logic and topicality are several seperate areas. I invite measured proof of your statements.
And please don't tell me how to conduct myself in relation to your comments that is just against Patrian mannerisms and Emily Post frowns on such things.
The Freedom of Information Act (FoIA in gov speak) is actually a good means of getting data from various agencies. I have seen form letters that you can use to get your entire dossier (assuming you are important enough to have one) from the FBI. Ever heard of things like the Pentgon papers back in the 70's. What about the recent scans from area 51. Also the recent release of data about individuals spying in Iran as well. Modern people have more information than did their parents before them. Really most of the "secrets" and "conspiracies" in three letter agencies are usually things like military hardware hostiles shouldn't have and how much the NSA spends for floppy disks. Spying and assassinations usually are rarer events since the CIA was scentured a while back for their misdeads.
Perhaps to liven up a documentary or a schoolish intructional video just have a random porno scene or perhaps replace Professor Frink with Ammy Bubbles (appropriately non-attired). "Now what happens if we take CaC03 and mix..wait this bra is getting too tight...there. And then add HCl to it?"
That filler material is usually pieces that are from such areas like the Associated press and the like (at least in my paper). All the meaningless driver like "Billy's cat coughed up a hair ball" or "Hammers are getting more sleek in the 21st century" are usually in the area you would expect news. Ads are also the way yhe paper is paid for. Classified ads pay for about 90% of the fees in the paper and the rest is in professional advertising that is also but there.
I think that is rather insulting seeing as I am a human being and I have college educated people in my family.
In general there is not a vast cartel to control the media and what it's content is. This was made expresely clear in my class in American government many years ago. In general there are different interests which control what the media prints. Just like the government you have various factions competiting for what will be done, where, how, how, with how much money, and in what manner.
The news has to pay for it's airtime somehow and they do that through that commercials and tailoring content to fit what them deem as a suitable demographic through a system that I dont' exactly know about but I am sure involves statistical samples and taking the mean of said samples with low standard deviation.
Also the people who actually act as anchors are probably not wanting to have their content tailored to foolish levels.
The system works and will continue to work. People are becomming more and more educated as the tech boom continues. Peple are entering colleges at a good rate. That's better than back in the 40's-50's when television started. Drop out rates are also lower.
I think you better look at the stats and then come back and claim that people are stupider now than they were before. Focus has shifted. Maybe the fact that a number of the skilled people are spending more time on the internet and reading books and working more might just be an answer.
Even if I have a doctorate degree I can't alter the content that I see on television or the radio until I own them.
PS. Actually I didn't have a televion for many years in my house as a child and then it broke and we didn't have one for a number more. I know that constitutes good and bad television and I have seen things that I don't currently like. But I don't act like a nihilist and bemoan my fate. Please if you think they should do better by all means get into broadcasting. They need less pretty boys weith pretty armani suits and nice teeth and hair. In fact by being on slashdot you have probably taken the first step into becomming more informed. Excelsior to you sir!
Kennedy wasn't exactly part of a conspiracy about much of anything about his death.
There are several popular theories that were investigated by the Warren commission by the United States congress:
1. Oswald acted alone --- The best theory that has actually stood the test of time.
2. Governmental faction assassinated the president --- Not too likely. Far easier to do it at an embasy dinner, private party, apply bomb in car traveling in unpopulated area, etc. Not too likely if you wanted to remain anonymous.
3. Oswald acted with support of the KGB -- Best one of the kook theories and would be a nice addition to the first. Oswald did indeed travel to Russia and did marry his wife from out of the ranks of the KGB. It could be likely that because of possible anti-government leanings that he wouldn't have batted an eye at the prospect of killing Kennedy. Also the Russians didn't exactly care for Kennedy at all. Basically he already had several strikes against him from the Russians. The shooting down of the U-2 carrying Garry Powers and his subsequent capture during the time of Krutchev, the bay of pigs invarion of Cuba by supporters of the United States (Cuba was essentially allied with the USSR), and numerous assassination attempts on said dictator, Korea, and revent intervention of "advisers" in the former French republic of indochina (Vietnam). A very nice one.
4. Oswald acted as a tool of organized crime -- Not too thoroughly explored. Various reform acts that removed some of the former corruption of the presidency made that governmental branch hostile to crime syndicates. Harry truman came from Kansas City and actually was proposed as a candiate for US Senate from a local political crime boss. Truman was a relatively honest man (that we know of but was also a Republican and thus not sympathetic in many ways to the mob. Kennedy also was supposed to have created a new gold standard of monetary support which could have hurt them.
5. Grassy Knoll attack -- At least one person thought that perhaps allies with Oswald was another man who would also fire shots at the president if Oswald's Manlicher Carcano riffle didn't do the job (it wasn't the best for rapid assault snipping which was what Oswald tried to do). Also never been proven to logical ends.
No there are few conspiracies that actually work because eventually rats them out. COnspiracies are usually the domain of the X-files.
It takes just one reporter who was watching CNN and then checks his notes later that day to screw the censorers. Later that same day legislation is passed banning the technology to be utilized unless by authorization of a presidential directive. Simply put it would kill their own invention. Then everyone is against it and it gets corrected as a public injustice.