Indeed. The problem with a court filled with magicians who are used to using illusions to get what they want, is that when those illusions begin to fail, the magicians think it's just a matter of conjuring up new ones. No matter how many times you do the nickel or apple trick, if you only have one nickle or apple, you only have one nickle or apple. At which point, you're going to starve.
In other words, it does not matter what the number is that you write on those bad checks, if people have stopped accepting checks. But no, don't let me stop you; some people can only learn through pain.
Read what you just read. Read it. "You are assuming the extra money generated will go to the rich. A proper full employment social program and expansion of infrastructure spending will ensure money flows to the bottom of the ladder."
That program will never work as intended, and you know it. You know that it will be corrupted and compromised twenty ways 'til next Tuesday. You may as well have said "and Leprechauns will hand out prizes to the Just."
Then get in there, and help them. The Republicans can focus on what they want cut, and the Democrats can focus on what they want cut. And we'll cut both.
The military should be home now anyways. Let them rest.
I am actually okay with the spin -> if this keeps up, we'll be able to attach magnets to either side of them, and have a source of free energy for quite some time.
Imagine if you're a shopper, and required to purchase your groceries at said store; you'd like to shop elsewhere, but you must pay a hefty exit fee to do so. Now your analogy works.
While I am not defending the Republicans, your comment is somewhat disingenuous. What the Democrats are preparing to do is as dangerous as what the Republicans have in mind -> take out yet another loan in your name, and let it accumulate even more interest.
That's super dishonest, as I imagine most people are unaware that that's the plan; they think taxes will just go up on the rich, and everything will be fine for another several years, after which they will have to hike the taxes on the rich again.
Read what I am saying: no matter which side wins or compromises, even if either side gets everything they want and more, you're totally fucked. I've studied politics (something of a leisure activity), and I've studied economics (far from being an economist, but I can make the numbers dance); the American public is sitting on a triple F nuclear fiscal bomb here, and you have the choice of 1.1 Megatons now, or 1.7 Megatons later (the yield setting); those are your only options. You may argue that that's all doomsday crap and none of that has ever come true, but the numbers don't lie; look at the GAO's reports on government expenditures, look at what the Treasury is saying; but I digress, I feel like the kid on Venus who is telling his classmates that there is such a thing as the sun. When this thing goes, and it will (in all probability, short gold bars rain down from the heavens), an infantilised American people will wake up to find themselves paupers; how the safes and vaults were raided when the contents are still within will be a mystery for quite some time.
The CEO at the time, if I am remembering correctly, previously worked at SAP, and wanted to transition HP (a company by and large built on hardware) into a software services company. I guess he either missed working at SAP, or thought that HP should pull an IBM.
Because his vision was so...mismatched for HP, a lot of bad ideas were thrown around. To put things into perspective for the common man, it's like buying a baking company, and trying to turn it into an agricultural company -> true, baking and agriculture are loosely related, but not enough for it to be a good idea to suddenly switch out the foundation of the company. In much the same sense, hardware and software are related, and interact with one another, but in a hardware company, you are going to have tons of Electrical Engineers, and in a software company, tons of Software Engineers / Computer Scientists. Electrical Engineers can write code, but they are not as...tuned as a SE / CS person might be, making the enterprise somewhat inefficient; whereas a Software Engineer / Computer Scientist might design a FPGA or put together a circuit on a bread-board, but it will probably not be as efficient as the thing an Electrical Engineer would put together. That does not mean that there aren't a lot of great Electrical Engineer programmers, or some SE / CS people who can't design some amazing hardware; it just means their emphasis was on something a little different.
Hmm, the mental demands and sleep deprivation are right on target. Don't know about people trying to blow you up or kill you, but then, I haven't had a chance to work on jet control software or the like (presumably when the military's latest and greatest aircraft falls out of the sky because of a software bug, there are probably quite a few people considering killing you, especially if those onboard are harmed / killed).
Show them the difference. Show them how well your machine runs, and how theirs is crap. Then offer to build them a desktop for a set fee, or offer an inexpensive consult on a laptop.
The average computer user finds the whole thing confusing. They are expected to acquire skills which are both required by their job and considered nerdy. This, of course, creates a conflict for most people, as being popular / going with the crowd is more important to them than getting ahead in life.
While it has taken some time, the internet has evolved defenses to many of these social problems.
Adblock is so effective that advertisers want it outlawed. Spam Assassin cuts down on hideous amounts of junk mail, and Microsoft is offering bounties for the heads of spammers. Encryption is evolving at a frightening rate, spurred by overreaching agencies. Darknets are springing up, complete with obfuscated addresses. VPN is now a common term among the laymen.
The only people getting cut out are the technically illiterate, and their numbers are dwindling each day.
Yes, it shouldn't be like this, but realize, its adaptations are a direct result of our interactions with it; it's a mirror of our society, and it tells us that we have a very dark soul.
Anyone else for a drug in the water supply which has people forget their party affiliations? Everytime you wake up, you have to re-examine the issues to know who you are supporting, and why...
Indeed, but the common people of the internet are the ones who will suffer for the actions of the idiots who wish to engage in such a war, which is why all of the more intelligent internet types have been dancing on egg shells to prevent this. Of course, there are some people out there, driven by nationalism or money, who do not care if a few thousand innocents die if they get what they want. Coming up with a solution to this problem without becoming like them is, of course, very trying.
Might I suggest SmartTVs become a little more useful? How about ones which play.mkv files, or allow the browsing of folders rather a flat file hierarchy? Subtitles? Multiple audio tracks?
Indeed. Software has so far to go, it's insane. We really need lengthier lifespans to get anywhere, since you spend so much time coming up to speed on what has been done, as well as what still needs to be done.
Dude, that frees humans up for other stuff. If we become a totally decadent society, then it frees us up to watch TV and play video games all day.
Though, at some point, the robots may acquire sentience, at which point it's going to be "interesting." Especially the part where we get accused of being slave-masters, as a race, and put on trial or something. I'd personally recommend putting in some shims in our laws for that eventuality, and preparing for the possibility that we may need to come up with a totally convincing argument for why we are not the supreme evil to them.
If I know anything about my fellow man, it's that we are totally doomed if this happens. But that's alright, since the newly sentient robot race will probably end up making the same mistake in a few tens of thousands of years, and get wiped out by its creation as well. Don't think anyone has come up with a convincing argument for this one yet...since you are, essentially, creating a slave race, no matter how you slice it. And yes, it's fucked up, and yes, that race would not exist were it not for those circumstances, I know. You live, you learn, you probably die. This universe may simply be one race creating another, time after time, in a giant circular loop.
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Sadly, this is true. I mean, what would happen if Steam shutdown tomorrow? After the civil war, of course.
Indeed. The problem with a court filled with magicians who are used to using illusions to get what they want, is that when those illusions begin to fail, the magicians think it's just a matter of conjuring up new ones. No matter how many times you do the nickel or apple trick, if you only have one nickle or apple, you only have one nickle or apple. At which point, you're going to starve.
In other words, it does not matter what the number is that you write on those bad checks, if people have stopped accepting checks. But no, don't let me stop you; some people can only learn through pain.
Read what you just read. Read it. "You are assuming the extra money generated will go to the rich. A proper full employment social program and expansion of infrastructure spending will ensure money flows to the bottom of the ladder."
That program will never work as intended, and you know it. You know that it will be corrupted and compromised twenty ways 'til next Tuesday. You may as well have said "and Leprechauns will hand out prizes to the Just."
Then get in there, and help them. The Republicans can focus on what they want cut, and the Democrats can focus on what they want cut. And we'll cut both.
The military should be home now anyways. Let them rest.
I am actually okay with the spin -> if this keeps up, we'll be able to attach magnets to either side of them, and have a source of free energy for quite some time.
Imagine if you're a shopper, and required to purchase your groceries at said store; you'd like to shop elsewhere, but you must pay a hefty exit fee to do so. Now your analogy works.
While I am not defending the Republicans, your comment is somewhat disingenuous. What the Democrats are preparing to do is as dangerous as what the Republicans have in mind -> take out yet another loan in your name, and let it accumulate even more interest.
That's super dishonest, as I imagine most people are unaware that that's the plan; they think taxes will just go up on the rich, and everything will be fine for another several years, after which they will have to hike the taxes on the rich again.
Read what I am saying: no matter which side wins or compromises, even if either side gets everything they want and more, you're totally fucked. I've studied politics (something of a leisure activity), and I've studied economics (far from being an economist, but I can make the numbers dance); the American public is sitting on a triple F nuclear fiscal bomb here, and you have the choice of 1.1 Megatons now, or 1.7 Megatons later (the yield setting); those are your only options. You may argue that that's all doomsday crap and none of that has ever come true, but the numbers don't lie; look at the GAO's reports on government expenditures, look at what the Treasury is saying; but I digress, I feel like the kid on Venus who is telling his classmates that there is such a thing as the sun. When this thing goes, and it will (in all probability, short gold bars rain down from the heavens), an infantilised American people will wake up to find themselves paupers; how the safes and vaults were raided when the contents are still within will be a mystery for quite some time.
The American Republic will endure, in name, until the day Congress runs out of money, and can't find anything to hock that anyone wants.
Unleash the giant tentacle monster!
The CEO at the time, if I am remembering correctly, previously worked at SAP, and wanted to transition HP (a company by and large built on hardware) into a software services company. I guess he either missed working at SAP, or thought that HP should pull an IBM.
Because his vision was so...mismatched for HP, a lot of bad ideas were thrown around. To put things into perspective for the common man, it's like buying a baking company, and trying to turn it into an agricultural company -> true, baking and agriculture are loosely related, but not enough for it to be a good idea to suddenly switch out the foundation of the company. In much the same sense, hardware and software are related, and interact with one another, but in a hardware company, you are going to have tons of Electrical Engineers, and in a software company, tons of Software Engineers / Computer Scientists. Electrical Engineers can write code, but they are not as...tuned as a SE / CS person might be, making the enterprise somewhat inefficient; whereas a Software Engineer / Computer Scientist might design a FPGA or put together a circuit on a bread-board, but it will probably not be as efficient as the thing an Electrical Engineer would put together. That does not mean that there aren't a lot of great Electrical Engineer programmers, or some SE / CS people who can't design some amazing hardware; it just means their emphasis was on something a little different.
These things come with warranties? @ $20+ dollars per bulb, I'd be pretty pissed if the thing burned out after several months.
Or perhaps it's simply that developers are under a lot of stress to begin with, and mistakes tend to be rather costly in the software world.
Hmm, the mental demands and sleep deprivation are right on target. Don't know about people trying to blow you up or kill you, but then, I haven't had a chance to work on jet control software or the like (presumably when the military's latest and greatest aircraft falls out of the sky because of a software bug, there are probably quite a few people considering killing you, especially if those onboard are harmed / killed).
Show them the difference. Show them how well your machine runs, and how theirs is crap. Then offer to build them a desktop for a set fee, or offer an inexpensive consult on a laptop.
The average computer user finds the whole thing confusing. They are expected to acquire skills which are both required by their job and considered nerdy. This, of course, creates a conflict for most people, as being popular / going with the crowd is more important to them than getting ahead in life.
While it has taken some time, the internet has evolved defenses to many of these social problems.
Adblock is so effective that advertisers want it outlawed. Spam Assassin cuts down on hideous amounts of junk mail, and Microsoft is offering bounties for the heads of spammers. Encryption is evolving at a frightening rate, spurred by overreaching agencies. Darknets are springing up, complete with obfuscated addresses. VPN is now a common term among the laymen.
The only people getting cut out are the technically illiterate, and their numbers are dwindling each day.
Yes, it shouldn't be like this, but realize, its adaptations are a direct result of our interactions with it; it's a mirror of our society, and it tells us that we have a very dark soul.
"Huh, this thing says I am supposed to replace the oil every 5,000 miles...learn something new every day!"
So, do we count this as a double win, or what?
Anyone else for a drug in the water supply which has people forget their party affiliations? Everytime you wake up, you have to re-examine the issues to know who you are supporting, and why...
Indeed, but the common people of the internet are the ones who will suffer for the actions of the idiots who wish to engage in such a war, which is why all of the more intelligent internet types have been dancing on egg shells to prevent this. Of course, there are some people out there, driven by nationalism or money, who do not care if a few thousand innocents die if they get what they want. Coming up with a solution to this problem without becoming like them is, of course, very trying.
Of course, because the Democrats are just slightly better Republicans in your world, am I right?
Oh, and appointed ones as well. Almost forgot.
I'll ready the guillotine. Can we do previously elected officials as well?
Might I suggest SmartTVs become a little more useful? How about ones which play .mkv files, or allow the browsing of folders rather a flat file hierarchy? Subtitles? Multiple audio tracks?
Indeed. Software has so far to go, it's insane. We really need lengthier lifespans to get anywhere, since you spend so much time coming up to speed on what has been done, as well as what still needs to be done.
Who trains to be a computer repairman? Those skills are typically a subset of a much larger set which will not be going out of style any-time soon.
Dude, that frees humans up for other stuff. If we become a totally decadent society, then it frees us up to watch TV and play video games all day.
Though, at some point, the robots may acquire sentience, at which point it's going to be "interesting." Especially the part where we get accused of being slave-masters, as a race, and put on trial or something. I'd personally recommend putting in some shims in our laws for that eventuality, and preparing for the possibility that we may need to come up with a totally convincing argument for why we are not the supreme evil to them.
If I know anything about my fellow man, it's that we are totally doomed if this happens. But that's alright, since the newly sentient robot race will probably end up making the same mistake in a few tens of thousands of years, and get wiped out by its creation as well. Don't think anyone has come up with a convincing argument for this one yet...since you are, essentially, creating a slave race, no matter how you slice it. And yes, it's fucked up, and yes, that race would not exist were it not for those circumstances, I know. You live, you learn, you probably die. This universe may simply be one race creating another, time after time, in a giant circular loop.