I agree with your sentiment. Forgive my cheeseball reference, but a singer once said:
"... Mr. President I hereby pardon you of your crimes, for they are just as much mine..."
"...Selfishness and separation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. The world is not my problem. I am the world. And you are the world..."
Then you clearly forget the esteem in which Clinton was held by the black electorate. People participate in a system in which they believe they are represented. Some forms of Democracy enforce representation for all constituents - our competitive "winner takes all" system does not (exactly). In any case, voter participation for people who feel (or are) disenfranchised is a long-term struggle. A well-educated and well-spoken man of Obama's ilk is compelling to more than just the minority electorate.
Do you intend to be an anchor against full sails unfurled with the gusts of hope? Some are not prepared to give the 44th a change under any circumstances. I can't accuse you of this, but it is my hope that this is not your intention. I've never voted on the right, but I gave each man a chance no matter what stripes he wore.
Bush gave us organized (a la Rove) deciet and worked at fear-inspired complicity from the nation like Bill Hicks would work a room - be cajoled, badgered, berated and intimidated. In a frenzy, and wanting to "kick ass" a majority complacently went down the river.
Then again, the history of the U.S. presidency is full of scandal:
Jefferson and his mix-race love child (pretty racy (forgive pun) at the time) U. Grant and W.G. Harding both got caught in financial scandals Dicky Nixon gets caught-out Ronnie Reagun dodges the bullet by letting Ollie North take the fall
I'd say G.W. Bush is far more responsible and accountable beyond "gee, sorry, I got some bad intel." Even so, you don't bully-pulpit that hard when in doubt. No, Bush fashions himself a shit-kicker and a decider. When things go wrong, you gotta buy the bag.
And, by-the-by, the scandal of no-bid contract robber-baroning WILL come to light and Bush (or a least a great many of his lackeys) WILL pay the piper on that.
I realize the constraints under which the major general operates, however, it seems as though the granting of this Q&A cum interview is a PR play. A "cyber" command is almost difficult to take seriously. It is obvious that a cyber command would be concerned with the flow and use of information - it would seem that the traditional apparatus within the Air Force for dealing with matters pertaining to information, intelligence, would best handle the newer aspects of information transmission. It does seem like the cyber command intends to attract and develop expertise related to systems design and development and for data communications infrastructure, the inclusion of this skill set into the Air Force is certainly welcome.
I have the same focus (2004 zx-3 2.3L PZEV) and I bought it in Virginia - I am certain that nobody had a fine levied on them due to the transaction. I can also corroborate that the warranty is standard (150,000 miles? I WISH). It's a pretty reliable car and is good on gas.
The company is in India, or China, or Indonesia or.... you get the point.
Hold your information close to your chest - there's a reason you used to pay a guy, an in-house guy mind you, the BIG BUCK$ to keep your information straight.
But noooooo...
We gotta OUTSOURCE because it looks good on a quarteryly statement.
"Oh yes, for sure we've treated artists fairly over the years. We've always payed their royalties promptly and fully." When the hand of the oppressor surveys itself and say "all is well," fools are baited.
Sure, the jobs are still here - and they are filled with H1B holders. I see mostly Indian H1B guys hovering around all the key IT-oriented office parks in town. There's jobs and then there's filling them with capable and willing citizens. This whole thing is a massive sham and there is NOBODY to protect us.
While I realize that Slashdot is an international website, I agree with your sentiment...
it's all good and well to talk about "yay! save money... yay! they're better programmers than we are (I call b.s. on this BTW)."
But there are careers and lives affected in the developed world too. Once offshoring to save a buck goes too far it'll be too late for the West - companies, governments and employees alike.
The destinations of offshoring are places all too happy to get a leg up and dominate.
Everything made where labor is cheap is going to be under sweatshop conditions. Are we willing to project the values of the situation around us at home elsewhere? if yes, you'll have cheap shit to buy. if no, you can't have all the toys you want.
Work your McJob here to afford cheap shit made under unsavory conditions there - that is your future.
This is all I needed to read at Amazon (from the editorial review), to understand why you recommend the book:
"...A well-known conservative columnist, author and economist, Sowell (A Personal Odyssey, etc.) presents an introductory course in economics with an emphasis on public policy. Forgoing jargon, equations, graphs and complicated exposition, he's produced a book that's easy to read and understand, though it tends to be superficial and is written in an angry tone, often accusing others of economic ignorance, as if that is the only possible explanation for disagreement with the author's views."
Would you suggest that some natural benevolence inherent in a market economy will "promote the general welfare" once we neuter the government?
I dunno, I agree that buying a vid card that costs more than a console is tough, but I think the mouse is a far superior input device for most FPS than a controller for a console. Consoles are what we played when I was a kid because the commodore 64 was far more expensive than an Atari etc (ditto Apple IIe).
I think the quality of PC games is always higher and some genres, like flight simulators, belong on a PC.
This is scary. The student body and the community deserve the right to have such alternative voices and it is part of the FCC's mission to do so.
I have another thread here where I sing the merits of a Hawaii station - KTUH - which is college radio. On the island of Kauai, they have KKCR, Kauai Community Radio, http://www.kkcr.org/ which I had the pleasure of direct exposure to (they have an online feed as well). THIS STATION is what "community radio" is all about.
If normal people in the United States do not become politically active (like people were in the 1960s) we are going to continue to LOSE! Offshoring anyone?
I am talking about the late 1980s. I do think our culture is far more stiffled by commerce and capitalism than even then. Our was a quasi-hippie/radical/anarchist/liberal/cerebral/in tellectual/rock-n-roll experience. However, we let ALL KINDS on, so we had a conservative or two on and it was FUN!
Sorry to hear that people who go to college now have non-representative college radio. Ours was run by for and of the students. Oh yeah, did I mention we were only 100 watts? What was interesting (and the subject of debate with the FCC over the years) was that we were allowed FAR MORE POWERFUL booster repeater stations to get our signal to elsewhere on the island and, on a good day, to other islands)
Let us not forget how powerful and important college radio can be. College radio certainly falls under this category and has been here for awhile. I was a program director at a college radio station in Hawaii in my college days (KTUH) and, in balance, I believe we offered more to the community than any other station (Public Radio excepted).
Not a single of your itemized demands will be met due to the inability of even the BEST retailer (the retailer of your wet dreams that seems to have been made exclusively for GabrielStrange) can compete on price. It gets no more logical than that.
Do you know what an inventory burden it is keeping anything you'd ever dream of in stock at any given time? Tower tried this for years (yes, the majority of product on their floor, in terms of dollars and units, is devoted to what they call in the biz "deep catalog") and have now obviously failed. Amazon can do "deep and wide" because they have a warehouse the size of the mall of america and the package freight handlers (UPS, FedEx, etc.) now have their operations down to a well-honed science. All you are missing is immediacy, which is what iTunes promises.
They can't play up their ability to offer instant gratification because the ability to carry the "blubber" of a fully-stocked deep catalog rode on the backs of the "Britney, Limp Bizkit, BT, Pink, or any other top-40 "artist"" that you rightly denigrate.
We can hem and haw about this that and the other, but once the critical mass of hits buyers left the building for Napster and MP3s, the support infrastructure weakened and is now collapsing.
This is not mass ignorance on the part of the retailer (although, they were always vulnerable as middle-men). The high prices accumulated like a snowball as the "product" changed hands. Granted, during the boom years, greed was riding high and $20 IS waaaaay too much when technology is supposed to be paying consumers back through efficiency-induced lowered operating/production costs.
You want immediacy? iTunes (and their ilk) and Kazaa. You want to play the old game but retain wide selection? Amazon. You want a retro experience from the "good old days?" You neighborhood shop will do:
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Or perhaps for some purposes, we'll eventually dispense with real vocalists altogether -- Vocaloid. A few quick examples of Miku Hatsune's work:
Reset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrCxVzocnyo
Uninstall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-fja9RtRBc
You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV5JH8jUeXY
BTW, if anyone has any other examples they're particularly fond of, please link below.
Perfume is a good example. I know they are completely synthetic, but as an aging lech, I like them.
I agree with your sentiment. Forgive my cheeseball reference, but a singer once said:
"... Mr. President I hereby pardon you of your crimes, for they are just as much mine..."
"...Selfishness and separation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. The world is not my problem. I am the world. And you are the world..."
Certainly a ring of truth to that.
Then you clearly forget the esteem in which Clinton was held by the black electorate. People participate in a system in which they believe they are represented. Some forms of Democracy enforce representation for all constituents - our competitive "winner takes all" system does not (exactly). In any case, voter participation for people who feel (or are) disenfranchised is a long-term struggle. A well-educated and well-spoken man of Obama's ilk is compelling to more than just the minority electorate.
I am very grateful that he did.
I think you are ignoring his achievements if this is all you associate him with.
Do you intend to be an anchor against full sails unfurled with the gusts of hope? Some are not prepared to give the 44th a change under any circumstances. I can't accuse you of this, but it is my hope that this is not your intention. I've never voted on the right, but I gave each man a chance no matter what stripes he wore.
Don't you mean WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and not WCF (Windows Communication Foundation)?
Sounds like a variation on the Chinese Macro Miners in various MMPORGs.
Life is cheap in China.
Bush gave us organized (a la Rove) deciet and worked at fear-inspired complicity from the nation like Bill Hicks would work a room - be cajoled, badgered, berated and intimidated. In a frenzy, and wanting to "kick ass" a majority complacently went down the river.
Then again, the history of the U.S. presidency is full of scandal:
Jefferson and his mix-race love child (pretty racy (forgive pun) at the time)
U. Grant and W.G. Harding both got caught in financial scandals
Dicky Nixon gets caught-out
Ronnie Reagun dodges the bullet by letting Ollie North take the fall
I'd say G.W. Bush is far more responsible and accountable beyond "gee, sorry, I got some bad intel." Even so, you don't bully-pulpit that hard when in doubt. No, Bush fashions himself a shit-kicker and a decider. When things go wrong, you gotta buy the bag.
And, by-the-by, the scandal of no-bid contract robber-baroning WILL come to light and Bush (or a least a great many of his lackeys) WILL pay the piper on that.
I realize the constraints under which the major general operates, however, it seems as though the granting of this Q&A cum interview is a PR play. A "cyber" command is almost difficult to take seriously. It is obvious that a cyber command would be concerned with the flow and use of information - it would seem that the traditional apparatus within the Air Force for dealing with matters pertaining to information, intelligence, would best handle the newer aspects of information transmission. It does seem like the cyber command intends to attract and develop expertise related to systems design and development and for data communications infrastructure, the inclusion of this skill set into the Air Force is certainly welcome.
I have the same focus (2004 zx-3 2.3L PZEV) and I bought it in Virginia - I am certain that nobody had a fine levied on them due to the transaction. I can also corroborate that the warranty is standard (150,000 miles? I WISH). It's a pretty reliable car and is good on gas.
The company is in India, or China, or Indonesia or.... you get the point.
Hold your information close to your chest - there's a reason you used to pay a guy, an in-house guy mind you, the BIG BUCK$ to keep your information straight.
But noooooo...
We gotta OUTSOURCE because it looks good on a quarteryly statement.
Stew in it boyos, STEW IN IT!
The # reason for flagging interest in computing/IT degrees is....
OUTSOURCING TO INDIA/CHINA/WHOMEVER
And don't kid yourself or waste your time on any other reasons.
In the states, we also have the insidious slave-labour scheme called H1B. The use and abuse of the H1B is widespread and pervasive.
"Oh yes, for sure we've treated artists fairly over the years. We've always payed their royalties promptly and fully." When the hand of the oppressor surveys itself and say "all is well," fools are baited.
Sure, the jobs are still here - and they are filled with H1B holders. I see mostly Indian H1B guys hovering around all the key IT-oriented office parks in town. There's jobs and then there's filling them with capable and willing citizens. This whole thing is a massive sham and there is NOBODY to protect us.
You really don't know much about science do you? It is TOTALLY propelled by concensus.
While I realize that Slashdot is an international website, I agree with your sentiment...
it's all good and well to talk about "yay! save money... yay! they're better programmers than we are (I call b.s. on this BTW)."
But there are careers and lives affected in the developed world too. Once offshoring to save a buck goes too far it'll be too late for the West - companies, governments and employees alike.
The destinations of offshoring are places all too happy to get a leg up and dominate.
Rampant offshoring WILL bite the west in the ass.
Everything made where labor is cheap is going to be under sweatshop conditions. Are we willing to project the values of the situation around us at home elsewhere? if yes, you'll have cheap shit to buy. if no, you can't have all the toys you want.
Work your McJob here to afford cheap shit made under unsavory conditions there - that is your future.
VB.NET is useless - use C#
This is all I needed to read at Amazon (from the editorial review), to understand why you recommend the book:
"...A well-known conservative columnist, author and economist, Sowell (A Personal Odyssey, etc.) presents an introductory course in economics with an emphasis on public policy. Forgoing jargon, equations, graphs and complicated exposition, he's produced a book that's easy to read and understand, though it tends to be superficial and is written in an angry tone, often accusing others of economic ignorance, as if that is the only possible explanation for disagreement with the author's views."
Would you suggest that some natural benevolence inherent in a market economy will "promote the general welfare" once we neuter the government?
The pine barrens in Southern New Jersey are beautiful.
I dunno, I agree that buying a vid card that costs more than a console is tough, but I think the mouse is a far superior input device for most FPS than a controller for a console. Consoles are what we played when I was a kid because the commodore 64 was far more expensive than an Atari etc (ditto Apple IIe).
I think the quality of PC games is always higher and some genres, like flight simulators, belong on a PC.
J-
This is scary. The student body and the community deserve the right to have such alternative voices and it is part of the FCC's mission to do so.
I have another thread here where I sing the merits of a Hawaii station - KTUH - which is college radio. On the island of Kauai, they have KKCR, Kauai Community Radio, http://www.kkcr.org/ which I had the pleasure of direct exposure to (they have an online feed as well). THIS STATION is what "community radio" is all about.
If normal people in the United States do not become politically active (like people were in the 1960s) we are going to continue to LOSE! Offshoring anyone?
I am talking about the late 1980s. I do think our culture is far more stiffled by commerce and capitalism than even then. Our was a quasi-hippie/radical/anarchist/liberal/cerebral/in tellectual/rock-n-roll experience. However, we let ALL KINDS on, so we had a conservative or two on and it was FUN!
Sorry to hear that people who go to college now have non-representative college radio. Ours was run by for and of the students. Oh yeah, did I mention we were only 100 watts? What was interesting (and the subject of debate with the FCC over the years) was that we were allowed FAR MORE POWERFUL booster repeater stations to get our signal to elsewhere on the island and, on a good day, to other islands)
Let us not forget how powerful and important college radio can be. College radio certainly falls under this category and has been here for awhile. I was a program director at a college radio station in Hawaii in my college days (KTUH) and, in balance, I believe we offered more to the community than any other station (Public Radio excepted).
Not a single of your itemized demands will be met due to the inability of even the BEST retailer (the retailer of your wet dreams that seems to have been made exclusively for GabrielStrange) can compete on price. It gets no more logical than that.
:-);
Do you know what an inventory burden it is keeping anything you'd ever dream of in stock at any given time? Tower tried this for years (yes, the majority of product on their floor, in terms of dollars and units, is devoted to what they call in the biz "deep catalog") and have now obviously failed. Amazon can do "deep and wide" because they have a warehouse the size of the mall of america and the package freight handlers (UPS, FedEx, etc.) now have their operations down to a well-honed science. All you are missing is immediacy, which is what iTunes promises.
They can't play up their ability to offer instant gratification because the ability to carry the "blubber" of a fully-stocked deep catalog rode on the backs of the "Britney, Limp Bizkit, BT, Pink, or any other top-40 "artist"" that you rightly denigrate.
We can hem and haw about this that and the other, but once the critical mass of hits buyers left the building for Napster and MP3s, the support infrastructure weakened and is now collapsing.
This is not mass ignorance on the part of the retailer (although, they were always vulnerable as middle-men). The high prices accumulated like a snowball as the "product" changed hands. Granted, during the boom years, greed was riding high and $20 IS waaaaay too much when technology is supposed to be paying consumers back through efficiency-induced lowered operating/production costs.
You want immediacy? iTunes (and their ilk) and Kazaa. You want to play the old game but retain wide selection? Amazon. You want a retro experience from the "good old days?" You neighborhood shop will do:
Rasputin's; Plan 9 - not the OS
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