As I have pointed out before- there is one resource just waiting to be tapped; the infinite supply of unemployed CS/EE/IT/programmer/software engineer/etc's out there. Sure, some of them are lame...but if you have an infinite supply of IT professionals, sooner or later some of them are going to crank out a POSIX compliant real-time operating system or something. Anything that you as a soverign being can do that can make use of an infinite supply of energy from an infinite supply of unemployed CS people, is obviously well worth taking, from a purely economic standpoint; and factory lines form some of the best outcomes from that point of view.
Someone on slashdot once said that they would spend 120% as much effort/resources on something if it employed technology as opposed to not...would this qualify perhaps, and if you sir are out there will you please stand up? I mean yes it took him more effort programming the damn thing than learning the subject but woudln't this also give him *programming experience* and therefor something more valuable than whatever it is he was learning?(although math is valuable.) So not only does this guy deserve credit, but he also did the smart thing...and i just saw lightning. mabye I should shut off my computer. hrm...
Mabye, SERVER, praise be, wants all the slashdot geeks to actually get some work done. Is there a project that requires dire help recently that anyone knows about? I just started my project wool clock folding@home team but that is not nearly the scope that I'm thinking is necessary. Does SCO need to be destroyed, do we need a filesystem to compete with Microsoft? Post under this thread, what you think the MOST important thing you ccould be doing, other than reading slashdot is, specifically geeky things. on topic: mabye the X prize teams needs some last minute help?, or mabye we need to design a moon base?
"we aren't going back to teepees and granola."
Supply and Demand. Teepees and granola, afaik are an largely unmet demand. This could mean the first entrepeneur to market them will profit. well mabye not the granola[that exists]...but teepees. Course...neohippies may not always be the richest in the world...
So to sum up
1. Sell Teepees and Granola to annoying anthro-hippies
2. Profit!
I don't know about that guy but I have smoked marijuana and Bernie S was in deep legal trouble for the possession of a small rock that could have possibly been used to commit telecommunications fraud, if it were put into a circuit and used on said telecommunications system.
2600 printed a cover awhile back of an american law prohibiting the distribution of blueprints or instructions of certain things during wartime. Oh here it is.
Doesn't Congress *make* the laws of the land, and therefor can say that anything is against the laws of the land in virtue of their ability to create new laws for whatever they say to fall under?
I'm Canadian, and may not have a full understanding of the american legal system, but there appear to have been quite a few laws in the past 20 years or so that have made regular,
harmless, day-to-day things illegal, sometimes possibly for the effect that they will serve as a catchall for people committing crimes not yet on the books.
"If you keep treating these kids like terrorists and criminals, sooner or later they are going to start acting like them"-Emmanuel Goldstein.
3) Start your own company. Helps if you have a fixer who can get you signed with Satan.
4) Commit Suicide. This choice is always an option. Gotta keep your options open.
5)
[could be 3] Group several fellow unemployed people together;
group a few employed ones with them;
institute a food conspiracy with eventual plans of self-sustained life;
6) [my choice] create art representative of the situation and hope for the best.
btw if this were 1984, Micheal Moore would not vaporise, but rather become something that if you are caught listening to and or taking seriously, you'd dissapear. Micheal Moore serves as an excellent tool for finding those who do not blindly follow the official party line. 'Why would you want to see Farenheight 9/11? It's terrorist propeganda! You aren't supporting terrorism are you?' That's the 1984ish way of dealing with micheal moore, not to make him vanish. Or at least to have him vanish then replace him with emmanuel goldstein or something to let the people have their rebellion, in a manner that won't get your administration knocked off.
btw wtf is with the [IMG] alt tags on the images today? "Welcome to Slashdot [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]..."
anyone else see these today?
The difference between public and privatized healthcare would be the difference between me seeing a doctor after 50 hours and not even going to the ER because I'm broke. privatization MEANS elimination if you aren't above the poverty line, and that's who needs healthcare the most.
No one has to work in workplaces who blatantly ignore health & safety standards if they aren't totally afraid of losing their home in the next month, but many people do have this fear, and so they will continue to work at these places.
Would privatization mean elimenation of healthcare for everybody? of course not; but it would mean making life worse for people who are allready have it pretty bad in the first place.
"Of course to the ignorant it looks as if the whole system doesn't work. That's not the case at all. "
I'm sorry, but waiting in the emergency room for 50 hours without seeing a doctor when I was pissing blood(pretty much nonstop the first day), and seeing a kid with a broken arm come in, and end up going home because his dad gave up because they were waiting so damn long, amongst other things...something is wrong with the healthcare system here and it is not just 'ignorant' people or conservatives that feel that way. Personally, I think universal healthcare is a necessary goal to persue and well worth our taxdollars...but cmon, let's not ignore the lineups, shall we?
did the word 'bush' occur in my post? beyond the title (which was clearly *in response* to something)
americans, comrade, americans are guilty of setting up their own coffin. not the republican americans, not the democratic americans, americans. up until 2000. now, they are just fucked...much like the rest of us.
If you beleive anything you see on television without thinking that it's a fabrication designed to get a point across you are either extremely naieve or just plain stupid. A documentary is just entertainment, nothign more. Do you accept without consideration content from other documentaries perhaps on TLC, History, or Discovery despite commercials very obviously showing powerful entities with a vested interest in programming?
don't forget the prisons. how many people are in prison, on probation, or have been in prison or on probation in united states for drug related charges, and non-drug related charges again?
Would it matter whether that specific plant made weather and communication satillites? Somewhere in america, a factory is building munitions, or missiles.
The point stands : america carpet bombs nations when the majority of americans a) don't care b) don't know three cities in that nation. and c) america at large is in the slightest surprised when teen-violence occurs. For good or bad, america has a relationship with violence, and that's the truth.
Slashdot Mirror
"since it will no longer be practical to incarcerate everyone... or will it?"
We allready knows what happens at that point: Gas Chambers. But only at that point, no sooner.
As I have pointed out before- there is one resource just waiting to be tapped; the infinite supply of unemployed CS/EE/IT/programmer/software engineer/etc's out there. Sure, some of them are lame...but if you have an infinite supply of IT professionals, sooner or later some of them are going to crank out a POSIX compliant real-time operating system or something. Anything that you as a soverign being can do that can make use of an infinite supply of energy from an infinite supply of unemployed CS people, is obviously well worth taking, from a purely economic standpoint; and factory lines form some of the best outcomes from that point of view.
Someone on slashdot once said that they would spend 120% as much effort/resources on something if it employed technology as opposed to not...would this qualify perhaps, and if you sir are out there will you please stand up? I mean yes it took him more effort programming the damn thing than learning the subject but woudln't this also give him *programming experience* and therefor something more valuable than whatever it is he was learning?(although math is valuable.) So not only does this guy deserve credit, but he also did the smart thing...and i just saw lightning. mabye I should shut off my computer. hrm...
Use DoubleThink.
DoubleThink: Now in new Exotic Vanilla Flavour!
I think it's an omen.
Mabye, SERVER, praise be, wants all the slashdot geeks to actually get some work done. Is there a project that requires dire help recently that anyone knows about? I just started my project wool clock folding@home team but that is not nearly the scope that I'm thinking is necessary. Does SCO need to be destroyed, do we need a filesystem to compete with Microsoft? Post under this thread, what you think the MOST important thing you ccould be doing, other than reading slashdot is, specifically geeky things. on topic: mabye the X prize teams needs some last minute help?, or mabye we need to design a moon base?
the new colours look great in elinks.
I do consider frozen sperm cells alive, so then the answer to my question would be in the affirmative.
"we aren't going back to teepees and granola." Supply and Demand. Teepees and granola, afaik are an largely unmet demand. This could mean the first entrepeneur to market them will profit. well mabye not the granola[that exists]...but teepees. Course...neohippies may not always be the richest in the world... So to sum up
1. Sell Teepees and Granola to annoying anthro-hippies
2. Profit!
Have scientists now just created [prion] life from scratch[protein], or am I just confused?
"Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood.
Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit."
Thus spoke Zarathustra
you sir, are the first person in awhile to have me agreeing in any way with a non-free music future. bravo.
hey i think the EU is ok too but would the EU really be OK if the US just up and collapsed on them? how would the euro faire?
odd...my low risk...retirement portfolio included microsoft. they called it 'ethical funds.'
and i'm now broke. go figure.
are you joking?
I suppose if you mean 'render' as 'can use without logging in'... or mabye i'm justing an old version of dillo?
I don't know about that guy but I have smoked marijuana and Bernie S was in deep legal trouble for the possession of a small rock that could have possibly been used to commit telecommunications fraud, if it were put into a circuit and used on said telecommunications system.
2600 printed a cover awhile back of an american law prohibiting the distribution of blueprints or instructions of certain things during wartime. Oh here it is.
Doesn't Congress *make* the laws of the land, and therefor can say that anything is against the laws of the land in virtue of their ability to create new laws for whatever they say to fall under?
I'm Canadian, and may not have a full understanding of the american legal system, but there appear to have been quite a few laws in the past 20 years or so that have made regular, harmless, day-to-day things illegal, sometimes possibly for the effect that they will serve as a catchall for people committing crimes not yet on the books.
"If you keep treating these kids like terrorists and criminals, sooner or later they are going to start acting like them"-Emmanuel Goldstein.
Supply.
Demand.
questions?
great post, btw.
3) Start your own company. Helps if you have a fixer who can get you signed with Satan.
4) Commit Suicide. This choice is always an option. Gotta keep your options open.
5) [could be 3] Group several fellow unemployed people together;
group a few employed ones with them;
institute a food conspiracy with eventual plans of self-sustained life;
6) [my choice] create art representative of the situation and hope for the best.
btw if this were 1984, Micheal Moore would not vaporise, but rather become something that if you are caught listening to and or taking seriously, you'd dissapear. Micheal Moore serves as an excellent tool for finding those who do not blindly follow the official party line. 'Why would you want to see Farenheight 9/11? It's terrorist propeganda! You aren't supporting terrorism are you?' That's the 1984ish way of dealing with micheal moore, not to make him vanish. Or at least to have him vanish then replace him with emmanuel goldstein or something to let the people have their rebellion, in a manner that won't get your administration knocked off.
..."
anyone else see these today?
btw wtf is with the [IMG] alt tags on the images today? "Welcome to Slashdot [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
The difference between public and privatized healthcare would be the difference between me seeing a doctor after 50 hours and not even going to the ER because I'm broke. privatization MEANS elimination if you aren't above the poverty line, and that's who needs healthcare the most. No one has to work in workplaces who blatantly ignore health & safety standards if they aren't totally afraid of losing their home in the next month, but many people do have this fear, and so they will continue to work at these places.
Would privatization mean elimenation of healthcare for everybody? of course not; but it would mean making life worse for people who are allready have it pretty bad in the first place.
"Of course to the ignorant it looks as if the whole system doesn't work. That's not the case at all. "
I'm sorry, but waiting in the emergency room for 50 hours without seeing a doctor when I was pissing blood(pretty much nonstop the first day), and seeing a kid with a broken arm come in, and end up going home because his dad gave up because they were waiting so damn long, amongst other things...something is wrong with the healthcare system here and it is not just 'ignorant' people or conservatives that feel that way. Personally, I think universal healthcare is a necessary goal to persue and well worth our taxdollars...but cmon, let's not ignore the lineups, shall we?
but where will you get your oil?
did the word 'bush' occur in my post? beyond the title (which was clearly *in response* to something)
americans, comrade, americans are guilty of setting up their own coffin. not the republican americans, not the democratic americans, americans. up until 2000. now, they are just fucked...much like the rest of us.
If you beleive anything you see on television without thinking that it's a fabrication designed to get a point across you are either extremely naieve or just plain stupid. A documentary is just entertainment, nothign more. Do you accept without consideration content from other documentaries perhaps on TLC, History, or Discovery despite commercials very obviously showing powerful entities with a vested interest in programming?
don't forget the prisons. how many people are in prison, on probation, or have been in prison or on probation in united states for drug related charges, and non-drug related charges again?
Would it matter whether that specific plant made weather and communication satillites? Somewhere in america, a factory is building munitions, or missiles.
The point stands : america carpet bombs nations when the majority of americans a) don't care b) don't know three cities in that nation. and c) america at large is in the slightest surprised when teen-violence occurs. For good or bad, america has a relationship with violence, and that's the truth.