Yeah, it totally didn't stabilize dick, and I think we can all come out clean about that. It abused the commonality of currency to lift wealth from hidden vaults to pay for the mistakes of others, and nuked the financial savings of the majority.
The way this government (this government meaning this government of more than the past decade) has been running things is surprisingly similar to the way a certain Ukrainian nuclear reactor was run. That is to say, their monetary policy and frequent interventions is the fiscal equivalent of a large, positive void coefficient. The market cycles keep getting longer and deeper, with debt continuously increasing, and 'recoveries' shallower and shorter; an idiot can see a dangerously unstable reaction is taking place here. Someone sane, in a higher place than any of us, needs to remove the madmen from the control room.
Yes, but you know how it is with advertisements. It's a continual race to the bottom.
Last year's text ads aren't good enough, now everyone is doing Flash ads. Now Flash ads aren't good enough, everyone needs to do Flash pay-walls! And so on. Like predator / prey style evolution, eventually you end up with Adblock and NoScript style add-ons just so you don't hit 50 mb/s loading up msn.com.
Which is why you don't make no-tracking optional. Get rid of ads, and let the web evolve so only websites not reliant on annoying ads exist. It's purely intellectual laziness that prevents this ("Duuuuude, but ads work well enough for me! Why is everyone employing ad-block and stealing bandwidth from meeeeee?" "Because, bro, there is not contract between you and those who visit your website. The web was not built that way, and it will never work that way. You want people to pay for content? Have them sign up for an account with a credit card. Anything else is you playing fast and loose on the definitions of content and the provision thereof; you want to earn money off of your content, but you want to do it in a round-about way, knowing full well that if you locked everything down, people would move on, because your content isn't worth the amount those ads are bringing in for you. You get a $30 check a month for your blog, while with a subscription you get $10.").
Pay them more. It's the difference between a network admin needing to leave work by 4 PM to pick up his kids from soccer practice, because his family only has one car, and a slightly more flexible work routine (something which business can be blind to until a real crisis appears, then it becomes a choice of trying to put out the fire in the data center or having your kids hold this against you for the rest of your life). When the difference s $10,000 / year vs. $4,000,000 / hour, many of the people who manage to make it upstairs (and stay there) tend to choose the less expensive option.
You'd be amazed at the size of the Titanic-style crisis that has bankrupted many a mid-to-large corporation because they spent more time trying to make things lean in IT than paying attention to the screams of those in IT ("Why do we need all these blue cables? They're just laying around in boxes, all over the place. Tell IT that in the future, if they want any more of these blue cables, they need to submit paperwork to Accounting and setup a meeting with me." or "Why are we paying so much money for an internet connection? I have a cable / DSL connection at home, and it's more than fast enough. I'll get those Comcast guys out here next Tuesday to replace this 'T-3' we seem to be paying so much money for."). "What is it with IT, and their constant spending of money? They just keep spending, spending, and spending on toys and stuff. They need to learn how to budget things better, and only buy the things they really need."
Shhhhhh! We all know that, we're just waiting to see who joins this man in his follies. It will make the cleansing process easier if we get them all in one go.
Yes, but the tech sector will not have any of it. They're basically trying to make file-sharing illegal, which any tech of any worth knows isn't even on the negotiation table; instead, the mere mention of attempting to make it illegal is likely to summon the technological equivalent of the Kraken from the virtual realm to drag the unfortunate individual, or group of individuals, to that dark place that exists only in the corner of your eye.
In cases such as these, I'd prefer a shotgun. There are just some things that the human race has gone through one too many times, and will not tolerate again.
The south New Jersey turnpike is rather long, enough room for everyone involved in this sordid business. Because being a good person means never having to say "I wonder why that man and a few thousand of his friends are walking towards me, with torches and pitchforks in hand...does someone smell gasoline?"
Indeed. I imagine that Apple is taking particular note of this tonight -> that's their bread and butter he's talking about f*cking with.
While I am not a fan of Steve Jobs, I did relish his understanding of the entertainment industry: it's run by the mafia, and the only thing they understand is force. To that end, his persuasion of the various music companies to sign onto his service, at fixed prices, is nothing short of a miracle.
We will see if this new CEO understands that if he folds, gives even the appearance of folding, they will end up making him work for them.
Where would the human race be if not for the Dark Ages? Where would space technology be, if its research and design had not been all but forbidden to the general public for many years?
See, the problem here is, it's my time, and my life. And they're affecting it, destroying my chances at a happier future, a better life, and enjoyment of the things I care about. To this end, it has become a personal war against myself, and my kind. Let them be wiped from the face of the earth, and forgotten.
It will be particularly touching when he claims that this farce is somehow connected to capitalism and the American way. I might even shed a tear (of laughter) while listening to it; the man truly has no shame.
Well, you have to admit that he has appealed to the right people -> the US Congress's response to someone offering them a chance at greater power is frighteningly similar to that of the average goldfish being offered a food pellet. Hell, on the basis of that alone, his chances are 50 / 50.
But yes, if a meteor is to strike the earth tonight, let it hit him.
Frankly I'm surprised this man is still alive. It's not what he has said here, but his wanton display of stolen power, and his willingness to put every day Americans to the sword and shield if it furthers his interests even a fathom is just purely disgusting. He just declared war on the tech sector!
"Have Congress approve each new technology before being put into use" my ass. The technology world moves the fastest, the world of law the slowest. This man would have us all become slaves of those corrupt politicians and lobbyists occupying unearned seats of power; he would have us returned to the world of feudalism, where a vassal had to ask his lord permission whether he could replace his thatched roof with something sturdier. The human race has no need of this type, nothing more than a vestigial appendage of some bygone era. But if this means nothing to you, consider how much poorer we will all become, as Americans, when the Asian and European communities bypass this stumbling block; we will spend the next two hundred years fighting over whether some new found technology changes the way we live to the detriment of entrenched interests, while they will have long adopted it and moved onto the stars. Hahaha, just commercial space projects are finally being approved in the US, and showing some promise, some asshat on an unrelated trajectory moves to destroy its foundation.
Nonsense. The US has reached the point in its lifecycle when it sacrifices the young to try to save the old, but fails, as every civilization does when it attempts such an injustice. New companies where sacrificed, with that large bailout and quantitative easements, to save older ones; so too now will new technologies be sacrificed to maintain older ones.
"It's the ones behind the curtain controlling things."
Indeed. The ones behind the curtain controlling things, the ones whose bodies are composed of delicious, delicious 'power behind the throne' flesh. Pity they're so hard to catch.
I find it surprising how easily 'teh evil' manages to acquire funding in this world. You'd think it'd be easier to fund a charity that gives food to blind orphans in some remote country than it is to put together a tiny empire hell-bent on rendering a fair portion of the world uninhabitable, but you might be wrong. It's...well, it's almost embarrassing.
Indeed. The problem I've faced myself in the workplace is when 1.) I know that the idea being fielded is a terrible (not bad, but terrible) idea, and 2.) I have to weigh being polite / nice / sticking to social norms against the possibility of not pushing back hard enough. The problem is one of giving the appearance of a dictator (only my way will work) as opposed to a general guide (sure, we can try to make a clone of MS Office using internal resources, but I really think you want to give this idea a miss).
The more bad ideas I encounter on a daily basis, typically the worse I get (it's like playing dodge ball on an emotional level). The worst place to be, of course, is in the middle of a shitstorm, where at all hours the bad ideas are festering and procreating, and there is nothing I can do, but sit there, and listen to criminal level stupidity.
Or use Windows or possibly Gnome...or do OpenCl or OpenGl programming...or-
The list goes on. The fact that people are still selling craptacular integrated video chipsets in this day and age saddens me greatly. Guys, it's 2012...pony up for a dedicated video card with dedicated video ram. Quit trying to save a buck or two on a component you really don't want to be cheap on.
Listening to the constant roar of bullsh*t over integrated video cards vs. dedicated video cards, and how 'it will only matter to a gamer' ranks up there with the mindless debates about whether a regular user 'needs' an aluminum or copper heatsink. The answer is yes to copper (unless you can get something better, like silver), and yes to a dedicated video card.
Do you know what video card a hard-core gamer is going to use? Whatever it is, it will be 2 or 3 of them in a CrossFire of whatever configuration. That's a gamer.
Or IT. If someone is working on your machine, and says "that's interesting," typically with a furrowed eye-brow, he / she has probably just encountered an error they've never seen before.
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Yeah, it totally didn't stabilize dick, and I think we can all come out clean about that. It abused the commonality of currency to lift wealth from hidden vaults to pay for the mistakes of others, and nuked the financial savings of the majority.
The way this government (this government meaning this government of more than the past decade) has been running things is surprisingly similar to the way a certain Ukrainian nuclear reactor was run. That is to say, their monetary policy and frequent interventions is the fiscal equivalent of a large, positive void coefficient. The market cycles keep getting longer and deeper, with debt continuously increasing, and 'recoveries' shallower and shorter; an idiot can see a dangerously unstable reaction is taking place here. Someone sane, in a higher place than any of us, needs to remove the madmen from the control room.
Yes, but you know how it is with advertisements. It's a continual race to the bottom.
Last year's text ads aren't good enough, now everyone is doing Flash ads. Now Flash ads aren't good enough, everyone needs to do Flash pay-walls! And so on. Like predator / prey style evolution, eventually you end up with Adblock and NoScript style add-ons just so you don't hit 50 mb/s loading up msn.com.
Which is why you don't make no-tracking optional. Get rid of ads, and let the web evolve so only websites not reliant on annoying ads exist. It's purely intellectual laziness that prevents this ("Duuuuude, but ads work well enough for me! Why is everyone employing ad-block and stealing bandwidth from meeeeee?" "Because, bro, there is not contract between you and those who visit your website. The web was not built that way, and it will never work that way. You want people to pay for content? Have them sign up for an account with a credit card. Anything else is you playing fast and loose on the definitions of content and the provision thereof; you want to earn money off of your content, but you want to do it in a round-about way, knowing full well that if you locked everything down, people would move on, because your content isn't worth the amount those ads are bringing in for you. You get a $30 check a month for your blog, while with a subscription you get $10.").
Pay them more. It's the difference between a network admin needing to leave work by 4 PM to pick up his kids from soccer practice, because his family only has one car, and a slightly more flexible work routine (something which business can be blind to until a real crisis appears, then it becomes a choice of trying to put out the fire in the data center or having your kids hold this against you for the rest of your life). When the difference s $10,000 / year vs. $4,000,000 / hour, many of the people who manage to make it upstairs (and stay there) tend to choose the less expensive option.
You'd be amazed at the size of the Titanic-style crisis that has bankrupted many a mid-to-large corporation because they spent more time trying to make things lean in IT than paying attention to the screams of those in IT ("Why do we need all these blue cables? They're just laying around in boxes, all over the place. Tell IT that in the future, if they want any more of these blue cables, they need to submit paperwork to Accounting and setup a meeting with me." or "Why are we paying so much money for an internet connection? I have a cable / DSL connection at home, and it's more than fast enough. I'll get those Comcast guys out here next Tuesday to replace this 'T-3' we seem to be paying so much money for."). "What is it with IT, and their constant spending of money? They just keep spending, spending, and spending on toys and stuff. They need to learn how to budget things better, and only buy the things they really need."
Okay, I'm done for now.
Shhhhhh! We all know that, we're just waiting to see who joins this man in his follies. It will make the cleansing process easier if we get them all in one go.
Yes, but the tech sector will not have any of it. They're basically trying to make file-sharing illegal, which any tech of any worth knows isn't even on the negotiation table; instead, the mere mention of attempting to make it illegal is likely to summon the technological equivalent of the Kraken from the virtual realm to drag the unfortunate individual, or group of individuals, to that dark place that exists only in the corner of your eye.
In cases such as these, I'd prefer a shotgun. There are just some things that the human race has gone through one too many times, and will not tolerate again.
The south New Jersey turnpike is rather long, enough room for everyone involved in this sordid business. Because being a good person means never having to say "I wonder why that man and a few thousand of his friends are walking towards me, with torches and pitchforks in hand...does someone smell gasoline?"
Indeed. I imagine that Apple is taking particular note of this tonight -> that's their bread and butter he's talking about f*cking with.
While I am not a fan of Steve Jobs, I did relish his understanding of the entertainment industry: it's run by the mafia, and the only thing they understand is force. To that end, his persuasion of the various music companies to sign onto his service, at fixed prices, is nothing short of a miracle.
We will see if this new CEO understands that if he folds, gives even the appearance of folding, they will end up making him work for them.
Where would the human race be if not for the Dark Ages? Where would space technology be, if its research and design had not been all but forbidden to the general public for many years?
See, the problem here is, it's my time, and my life. And they're affecting it, destroying my chances at a happier future, a better life, and enjoyment of the things I care about. To this end, it has become a personal war against myself, and my kind. Let them be wiped from the face of the earth, and forgotten.
It will be particularly touching when he claims that this farce is somehow connected to capitalism and the American way. I might even shed a tear (of laughter) while listening to it; the man truly has no shame.
Well, you have to admit that he has appealed to the right people -> the US Congress's response to someone offering them a chance at greater power is frighteningly similar to that of the average goldfish being offered a food pellet. Hell, on the basis of that alone, his chances are 50 / 50.
But yes, if a meteor is to strike the earth tonight, let it hit him.
Frankly I'm surprised this man is still alive. It's not what he has said here, but his wanton display of stolen power, and his willingness to put every day Americans to the sword and shield if it furthers his interests even a fathom is just purely disgusting. He just declared war on the tech sector!
"Have Congress approve each new technology before being put into use" my ass. The technology world moves the fastest, the world of law the slowest. This man would have us all become slaves of those corrupt politicians and lobbyists occupying unearned seats of power; he would have us returned to the world of feudalism, where a vassal had to ask his lord permission whether he could replace his thatched roof with something sturdier. The human race has no need of this type, nothing more than a vestigial appendage of some bygone era. But if this means nothing to you, consider how much poorer we will all become, as Americans, when the Asian and European communities bypass this stumbling block; we will spend the next two hundred years fighting over whether some new found technology changes the way we live to the detriment of entrenched interests, while they will have long adopted it and moved onto the stars. Hahaha, just commercial space projects are finally being approved in the US, and showing some promise, some asshat on an unrelated trajectory moves to destroy its foundation.
You give it to them every day that you do not tell them "Enough."
Nonsense. The US has reached the point in its lifecycle when it sacrifices the young to try to save the old, but fails, as every civilization does when it attempts such an injustice. New companies where sacrificed, with that large bailout and quantitative easements, to save older ones; so too now will new technologies be sacrificed to maintain older ones.
Might makes right. Who are you to question the will of the majority?
Mmmm. Where there's smoke, there's usually a fire. Makes you wonder what other things might be wrong with them.
"It's the ones behind the curtain controlling things."
Indeed. The ones behind the curtain controlling things, the ones whose bodies are composed of delicious, delicious 'power behind the throne' flesh. Pity they're so hard to catch.
Why assassinate when a subcutaneous speaker and some mind-enhancing drugs can make someone your willing pawn?
They'll even believe they're doing your bidding of their own free will...
I find it surprising how easily 'teh evil' manages to acquire funding in this world. You'd think it'd be easier to fund a charity that gives food to blind orphans in some remote country than it is to put together a tiny empire hell-bent on rendering a fair portion of the world uninhabitable, but you might be wrong. It's...well, it's almost embarrassing.
Indeed. The problem I've faced myself in the workplace is when 1.) I know that the idea being fielded is a terrible (not bad, but terrible) idea, and 2.) I have to weigh being polite / nice / sticking to social norms against the possibility of not pushing back hard enough. The problem is one of giving the appearance of a dictator (only my way will work) as opposed to a general guide (sure, we can try to make a clone of MS Office using internal resources, but I really think you want to give this idea a miss).
The more bad ideas I encounter on a daily basis, typically the worse I get (it's like playing dodge ball on an emotional level). The worst place to be, of course, is in the middle of a shitstorm, where at all hours the bad ideas are festering and procreating, and there is nothing I can do, but sit there, and listen to criminal level stupidity.
Meth is a hell of a drug.
Or use Windows or possibly Gnome...or do OpenCl or OpenGl programming...or-
The list goes on. The fact that people are still selling craptacular integrated video chipsets in this day and age saddens me greatly. Guys, it's 2012...pony up for a dedicated video card with dedicated video ram. Quit trying to save a buck or two on a component you really don't want to be cheap on.
Listening to the constant roar of bullsh*t over integrated video cards vs. dedicated video cards, and how 'it will only matter to a gamer' ranks up there with the mindless debates about whether a regular user 'needs' an aluminum or copper heatsink. The answer is yes to copper (unless you can get something better, like silver), and yes to a dedicated video card.
Do you know what video card a hard-core gamer is going to use? Whatever it is, it will be 2 or 3 of them in a CrossFire of whatever configuration. That's a gamer.
I believe you forgot the part where "the motherland will provide!"
But you're probably too young to know what that's referencing.
Or IT. If someone is working on your machine, and says "that's interesting," typically with a furrowed eye-brow, he / she has probably just encountered an error they've never seen before.
Gotta do something to keep those nerds in their place.
Yes, yes it does; especially compared to JavaScript.