First of all, the whole damn point of this "Take Back Your Time" thing is that we need to start saying LOUDLY the things you're saying in your post.
Secondly, I didn't volunteer to work a 40+ hour work week with (last year) 2 hours of mandatory overtime every day all summer. And a lousy 2 wks vacation and a smattering of personal days. I want what those 'lazy' Europeans have! Saying it's MY fault is ASSuming there's competition in the job market. The entire american system is designed around the idea of exploiting the worker as much as possible and the only reason we have what we have now is the strength of the labor movement and pro-worker legislation of the past. Before there were unions, workers from about age 8 on up put in 16 hour days in places, under the most horrendous working conditions.
Some would argue that business has learned its lesson and knows worker satisfaction drives customer satisfaction, but that's just self-delusional bullshit. If the bosses thought they could get away with it, they'd turn the labor clock back to the 1800's in a second, which is basically what they're doing by moving all those american jobs to other countries.
The biggest social problem of today is TOO MUCH CONTROL and inspection of our personal lives. Most people today feel like we can't take a dump in america without somebody having something to say about it. If we felt we were opening up a new frontier, even if we ourselves didn't get to go, we'd feel better about our miserable cubicles.
"Really, neither should be socially acceptable - especially in mediums so easily accessed by children. Violence and Sexuality expose children to concepts that they don't know how to deal with and end up just emulating them"
This naive rant is a common fallacy used these days to justify censorship of all kinds. How are kids supposed to learn how to deal with these issues? Talking it over in a loving, supportive environment? People, especially primates, learn by seeing, doing, and emulating. Why are Americans attitudes about sex/nudity/violence/swearing to insane? No proper examples to grow up with. American men today don't know what a real woman looks like without her clothes on, so they now think gigantic plastic tits are desirable instead of freakish. Or that _any_ body fat is undesirable because you never see it on TV.
Bonobo chimpanzees have sex constantly right out in the open and the young chimps are right there poking a hand in between the adults figuring it all out. And they have the least amount of violence in their society of _any primate_.
You're in your tiny little room watching tv _on your refrigerator_ because you don't have the wherewithal to have a separate device or separate rooms to put them in.
Maybe you should spend less time "sucking the glass tit" (as Harlan Ellison put it) and spend more time reading thoughtful prose. Or being more thoughtful. Maybe try sitting quietly for a while each day.
NAFTA. Bosnia. The Military-Industrial Complex. Any of these ring any bells? Clinton was a better servant to the Establishment because we had the distracting sideshow/blow. W lacks subtlety.Every large-scale conflict (and lots of small ones) in the entire history of america is powered by the need to 'Open Markets' or otherwise protect the priviledges of the rich.
Not private enterprise. When a large capitalist organization can go around harassing and even ruining people's lives with carte blanche, there's something seriously wrong. Corporations are not people, they're property. Why do they have the same legal rights as people? Because the Supreme Court has given corporations these rights bit by bit in over 200 decisions over the centuries. We humans, OTOH, have to AMEND THE CONSTITUTION to get rights.
It's just a mechanism. Nobody can explain where the infrasound might be coming from. (at least not in the article). The arrogance of the analytical mind is astounding. "If there's no explanation for it that fits my rules, it's not happening."
Saying things don't need a manual is assuming everyone's brain works the same. Preposterous! Every brain/mind/whatever test out there shows clearly there are numerous different styles of learning. Therefore some people will always need a manual.
Ha-ha; "especially when yo consider that gorillas are so poorly endowed when compared to their chimp cousins". This assumes it's the male gorilla and female chimp. Your statement itself provides ample motivation for female gorillas to seek out male chimps, and we all know what sluts male chimps are... And no, species don't _magically_ transform from on to another. They evolve that way. Now I've heard, but not seen it myself, that bacteria have been observed changing into something else under the microscope. Though that's hearsay of course.
Youthinks sounding like a wounded prey animal specific to this creature isn't clever; could you do it? Could you do it well enough to fool the predator? Smug armchair naturalists..
According to pretty much everyone who has thought about it at ALL, everyone in the United States is a lawbreaker. The pervasiveness and invasiveness and huge bewildering variety of laws makes it completely impossible to not break some laws sometimes. Go see the ACLU website.
And not only that, but breaking the law is an important means of gaining/maintaining our freedoms, dumbass. Would you have preferred those Boston Teaparty vandals to be hanged as the law allowed then? Should civil rights protesters have simply been locked up for trespassing?
Funny I coined that term on friday, July 4 while working in the repair center at the local phone company. Sitting there wishing like hell the day would end, when some less insightful induhvidual calls in to complain about his dialup connect speed. I thought "Get the hell out of the house you idiot! Go to the park, eat a picnic, see the fireworks! Live your life directly instead of through the little glass screen!"
When the economy sucks, the capitalists rape the employees, demanding more and more, squeezing them like a lemon for their drinks. When the economy booms, the employees demand more and more for themselves.
What's the difference? People are acting like shits either way, and they're both doing wrong, but you also have to look at where the harm is. Do I harm the company by demanding more money and benefits? Maybe; they factor that into their costs. If they can't make money the company tanks. But: the executives do the same thing whether the economy is good or bad and often, these days, drive the company into the ground themselves.
On the other hand if the company squeezes the employees, the employees suffer not just hurt, but harm. They don't like the stress; yeah it's unpleasant, but there are also real-world effects from this stress. Their health suffers. Their families suffer. When the employee comes home and has half an hour to eat, clean house, discipline their kids and try to come down from a bad day, something important is going to get skipped. Their children end up being raised by Jerry Springer and MTV. A frustrated employee lashes out at their spouse, their kids, and everyone they encounter. That anger passes into society, and the poorly-raised children grow up to commit crimes, or have emotional problems. People have all this money and no time to spend it living life, so they throw it away in empty consumerism. The employee is now driving a vehicle twice the size of a '75 Buick, and the environment is filled with pollution and garbage as all this crud spreads throughout the world.
That yahoo above who says terms like "warmth" and "roundness" are useless and unquantifiable. Why are they useless? Useless to you, maybe, because you're overly-analytical. If you would get off your lazy ass and actually compare how it sounds to your ear instead of just analyzing graphs and statistics you'd maybe learn something.
This is a very common problem in modern science and the entire western approach to life. People assume if there's no way to put a number on it, it doesn't exist. These boundaries between everything are as imaginary as the bigfoot, UFOs, psychic phenomena and everything else nerd typically scoff at. Pay attention to the world around you, not the screen in front of you.
With AT&T anyway, the gov't said "Will you bring telephone service to _EVERYONE?_ and ATT says "Sure. But only if we can operate as a monopoly." The government, then faced with either getting tight-assed Americans to pony up more taxes to benefit the little guy or create a government-regulated monopoly, decided to go where the blame was least. They created Ma Bell. Now the same thing is going on; Telcos whine and say "we won't built out DSL unless we can operate as a monopoly, after all why should WE have to pay to build all that and not get every penny we can squeeze out of it?" Well, folks, SSDD.
Damn str8 on Zelazny. Donnerjack is a VR killer
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One of Zelazny's last books, and one of the few really good collaborations he did. Called the internet/VR/Matrix world 'the Virtu' and the real (non-Matrix) world 'the Verite'.
Gene Wolfe is a great writer, and the New Sun books are terrificly/terribly beautiful. If only there wasn't so much weird christian bias. Like reading CS Lewis, another great.
Japanese subways! Hit 100 people at once!
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I can just imagine the first use of this on a Japanese subway, the land where groping/fondling is rampant and people are shoved in so tight they're touching each other all the time. Even an accidental discharge would rocket through the entire car, filling the air with smell of ozone and burning hair, punctuated by the piquant aroma of overheated hair gel, and cries of "Yamate! Yamate kudasai!"
Our lives are so overly-analytical we don't know where we come from or where we're going. The analytical approach (cutting things into smaller and smaller _separate_ pieces, building walls, barriers lines etc) is so pervasive it's in danger of damaging or even destroying society.
What's great about making things ourselves is that we are connected to those things in a world where connections (real ones not electronics illusions thereof) are more and more difficult to come by.
When we learn how to do things for ourselves rather than just buying things, we get a better sense of how things work and where they come from . I would like to see neighborhood butcher shops where locally-raised animals would be slaughtered on the premises. Killing our own meat (or seeing it done) would make some people vegetarian, and others would have more appreciation of the sacrifice other beings make for us. That's just one example of course.
Yeah, really! Posting this on/. is likely to only get responses like "Coober Pedy opal mines!" or "How 'bout building a dome over the Great Western Desert?" Seriously looking for empty space in Sydney is better off googled etc.
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First of all, the whole damn point of this "Take Back Your Time" thing is that we need to start saying LOUDLY the things you're saying in your post.
Secondly, I didn't volunteer to work a 40+ hour work week with (last year) 2 hours of mandatory overtime every day all summer. And a lousy 2 wks vacation and a smattering of personal days. I want what those 'lazy' Europeans have! Saying it's MY fault is ASSuming there's competition in the job market. The entire american system is designed around the idea of exploiting the worker as much as possible and the only reason we have what we have now is the strength of the labor movement and pro-worker legislation of the past. Before there were unions, workers from about age 8 on up put in 16 hour days in places, under the most horrendous working conditions.
Some would argue that business has learned its lesson and knows worker satisfaction drives customer satisfaction, but that's just self-delusional bullshit. If the bosses thought they could get away with it, they'd turn the labor clock back to the 1800's in a second, which is basically what they're doing by moving all those american jobs to other countries.
"... to make a jig, and viola, no stupid restrictions."
For some reason many slashdotters reverse the vowels in Voila.
The biggest social problem of today is TOO MUCH CONTROL and inspection of our personal lives. Most people today feel like we can't take a dump in america without somebody having something to say about it. If we felt we were opening up a new frontier, even if we ourselves didn't get to go, we'd feel better about our miserable cubicles.
"Really, neither should be socially acceptable - especially in mediums so easily accessed by children. Violence and Sexuality expose children to concepts that they don't know how to deal with and end up just emulating them"
This naive rant is a common fallacy used these days to justify censorship of all kinds. How are kids supposed to learn how to deal with these issues? Talking it over in a loving, supportive environment? People, especially primates, learn by seeing, doing, and emulating. Why are Americans attitudes about sex/nudity/violence/swearing to insane? No proper examples to grow up with. American men today don't know what a real woman looks like without her clothes on, so they now think gigantic plastic tits are desirable instead of freakish. Or that _any_ body fat is undesirable because you never see it on TV.
Bonobo chimpanzees have sex constantly right out in the open and the young chimps are right there poking a hand in between the adults figuring it all out. And they have the least amount of violence in their society of _any primate_.
You're in your tiny little room watching tv _on your refrigerator_ because you don't have the wherewithal to have a separate device or separate rooms to put them in.
Maybe you should spend less time "sucking the glass tit" (as Harlan Ellison put it) and spend more time reading thoughtful prose. Or being more thoughtful. Maybe try sitting quietly for a while each day.
NAFTA. Bosnia. The Military-Industrial Complex. Any of these ring any bells? Clinton was a better servant to the Establishment because we had the distracting sideshow/blow. W lacks subtlety.Every large-scale conflict (and lots of small ones) in the entire history of america is powered by the need to 'Open Markets' or otherwise protect the priviledges of the rich.
Not private enterprise. When a large capitalist organization can go around harassing and even ruining people's lives with carte blanche, there's something seriously wrong. Corporations are not people, they're property. Why do they have the same legal rights as people? Because the Supreme Court has given corporations these rights bit by bit in over 200 decisions over the centuries. We humans, OTOH, have to AMEND THE CONSTITUTION to get rights.
Time for us to take back what is OURS.
It's just a mechanism. Nobody can explain where the infrasound might be coming from. (at least not in the article). The arrogance of the analytical mind is astounding. "If there's no explanation for it that fits my rules, it's not happening."
Saying things don't need a manual is assuming everyone's brain works the same. Preposterous! Every brain/mind/whatever test out there shows clearly there are numerous different styles of learning. Therefore some people will always need a manual.
Ha-ha; "especially when yo consider that gorillas are so poorly endowed when compared to their chimp cousins". This assumes it's the male gorilla and female chimp. Your statement itself provides ample motivation for female gorillas to seek out male chimps, and we all know what sluts male chimps are...
And no, species don't _magically_ transform from on to another. They evolve that way. Now I've heard, but not seen it myself, that bacteria have been observed changing into something else under the microscope. Though that's hearsay of course.
Youthinks sounding like a wounded prey animal specific to this creature isn't clever; could you do it? Could you do it well enough to fool the predator? Smug armchair naturalists..
According to pretty much everyone who has thought about it at ALL, everyone in the United States is a lawbreaker. The pervasiveness and invasiveness and huge bewildering variety of laws makes it completely impossible to not break some laws sometimes. Go see the ACLU website.
And not only that, but breaking the law is an important means of gaining/maintaining our freedoms, dumbass. Would you have preferred those Boston Teaparty vandals to be hanged as the law allowed then? Should civil rights protesters have simply been locked up for trespassing?
Very well said!
Funny I coined that term on friday, July 4 while working in the repair center at the local phone company. Sitting there wishing like hell the day would end, when some less insightful induhvidual calls in to complain about his dialup connect speed. I thought "Get the hell out of the house you idiot! Go to the park, eat a picnic, see the fireworks! Live your life directly instead of through the little glass screen!"
When the economy sucks, the capitalists rape the employees, demanding more and more, squeezing them like a lemon for their drinks. When the economy booms, the employees demand more and more for themselves.
What's the difference? People are acting like shits either way, and they're both doing wrong, but you also have to look at where the harm is. Do I harm the company by demanding more money and benefits? Maybe; they factor that into their costs. If they can't make money the company tanks. But: the executives do the same thing whether the economy is good or bad and often, these days, drive the company into the ground themselves.
On the other hand if the company squeezes the employees, the employees suffer not just hurt, but harm. They don't like the stress; yeah it's unpleasant, but there are also real-world effects from this stress. Their health suffers. Their families suffer. When the employee comes home and has half an hour to eat, clean house, discipline their kids and try to come down from a bad day, something important is going to get skipped. Their children end up being raised by Jerry Springer and MTV. A frustrated employee lashes out at their spouse, their kids, and everyone they encounter. That anger passes into society, and the poorly-raised children grow up to commit crimes, or have emotional problems. People have all this money and no time to spend it living life, so they throw it away in empty consumerism. The employee is now driving a vehicle twice the size of a '75 Buick, and the environment is filled with pollution and garbage as all this crud spreads throughout the world.
All due to the greed of the company.
Some Amish guy is going to be reading this and get really pissed... oh wait..
The thief looks at their scanner and goes right on by, just like most consumers. Then steals a PS2 out of the next vehicle over.
That yahoo above who says terms like "warmth" and "roundness" are useless and unquantifiable. Why are they useless? Useless to you, maybe, because you're overly-analytical. If you would get off your lazy ass and actually compare how it sounds to your ear instead of just analyzing graphs and statistics you'd maybe learn something.
This is a very common problem in modern science and the entire western approach to life. People assume if there's no way to put a number on it, it doesn't exist. These boundaries between everything are as imaginary as the bigfoot, UFOs, psychic phenomena and everything else nerd typically scoff at. Pay attention to the world around you, not the screen in front of you.
With AT&T anyway, the gov't said "Will you bring telephone service to _EVERYONE?_ and ATT says "Sure. But only if we can operate as a monopoly." The government, then faced with either getting tight-assed Americans to pony up more taxes to benefit the little guy or create a government-regulated monopoly, decided to go where the blame was least. They created Ma Bell. Now the same thing is going on; Telcos whine and say "we won't built out DSL unless we can operate as a monopoly, after all why should WE have to pay to build all that and not get every penny we can squeeze out of it?"
Well, folks, SSDD.
One of Zelazny's last books, and one of the few really good collaborations he did. Called the internet/VR/Matrix world 'the Virtu' and the real (non-Matrix) world 'the Verite'.
Gene Wolfe is a great writer, and the New Sun books are terrificly/terribly beautiful. If only there wasn't so much weird christian bias. Like reading CS Lewis, another great.
I can just imagine the first use of this on a Japanese subway, the land where groping/fondling is rampant and people are shoved in so tight they're touching each other all the time. Even an accidental discharge would rocket through the entire car, filling the air with smell of ozone and burning hair, punctuated by the piquant aroma of overheated hair gel, and cries of "Yamate! Yamate kudasai!"
Our lives are so overly-analytical we don't know where we come from or where we're going. The analytical approach (cutting things into smaller and smaller _separate_ pieces, building walls, barriers lines etc) is so pervasive it's in danger of damaging or even destroying society.
What's great about making things ourselves is that we are connected to those things in a world where connections (real ones not electronics illusions thereof) are more and more difficult to come by.
When we learn how to do things for ourselves rather than just buying things, we get a better sense of how things work and where they come from . I would like to see neighborhood butcher shops where locally-raised animals would be slaughtered on the premises. Killing our own meat (or seeing it done) would make some people vegetarian, and others would have more appreciation of the sacrifice other beings make for us. That's just one example of course.
Yeah, really! Posting this on /. is likely to only get responses like "Coober Pedy opal mines!" or "How 'bout building a dome over the Great Western Desert?" Seriously looking for empty space in Sydney is better off googled etc.