Radio Free Hawaii, may it rest in peace, had a neat way of creating playlists. At lots of places around town, they left voting boxes. You could fill out a form with the 10 artists or songs you liked and drop it in the box. Every saturday, they'd have a top 40 and that would determine the playlist for that week. There was even a method of 'sledgehammering' songs off of the station permanently, but sadly i don't remember how it worked.
The result was the coolest station I had ever or since heard. Dont know exactly what killed them, but i yearn for something half that cool among all the clearchannel stations i have to fight with.
The average person doesn't have the intellectual maturity and education to wield the political power that is the vote.
Bitch,moan,gripe...If you can come up with a better method of choosing representatives, I'm all ears. As im sure you realize, the individual vote isn't a whole lot of power. It was further diluted by the indirect elections of the president and formerly senators. The problems inheirent in our republic are the result of the scaling of our government under the constitution from a nation of a few million to one of hundreds of million.s
Democracy doesn't work. The average person doesn't have the intellectual maturity and education to wield the political power that is the vote. I would rather lose my right to vote and know that my representative truly is a peer than have an aristocrat lord over me like I'm a sheep that needs to be herded.
If you lost your right to vote, he would no longer be your representative, he would be your lord. Without accountability, there is no check that the power a representative wields is in your best interest. Yes, there are many problems in our government, but universal suffrage certainly is not one of them.
Credit Checks are part of security. If you are privy to sensitive information, you might be tempted to sell it via industrial espionage if you were in deep desperate debt.
Im not trying to justify them, just explaining the rationale. The military does the same thing when clearing someone for Top Secret.
I did read that! That was the funniest piece of fiction since the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy! I still can't help but chuckle whenever I see shirtsleeves, a necktie and a nametag.
I realize that this was a joke, but it's interesting to keep in perspective that it was tobacco, as a cash crop, that allowed the American colonies to first become self-sustaining. No tobacco, no USA.
it's a shame you didnt have more opportunity to use iDrive. It is a little counter intuitive at first, but what was it that I read about the nipple being the only intuitive interface? Once you get a hang of where things are, the force feedback in the knob makes controlling anything VERY easy. Different features feel different. Plus the knob is where I'd have my hand anyway, so there's no reaching for anything.
If you get another chance to drive the 745, try to learn it. Once you can do it without looking, you'll agree.
i wonder if kling built his article specifically to troll slashdot based upon keywords. Let's see: 1) Mention notable figure (lessig) check! 2) Take contrarian view (content creators are sewage) check! 3)Include buzzword (bayesian filter) check! 4) For bonus points, if at all possible, namedrop Google. check!
I got the same thing. I don't know how, but in seventh grade i started getting physical mail spam from recruiters. The funny part is that it didnt stop when I enlisted. Even when i was in an officer accession program, my parents were still getting calls from recruiters.
Why do I believe in miracles? I'll just say: personal *private* experience, supports it -- but I did believe that they occur, long before I had such personal experience.
Did it occur to you that your prior belief in miracles may have colored your opinion of that *private* experience? It seems likely to me that you're molding whatever empirical data to fit your hypothesis.
There are now lots of people who really have no reason to exist and nothing to offer society. They are a liability, rather than an asset.
I dont't really know what to make of this. Are you a nihilist or a bitter misanthrope? Who are you to say they have no reason to exist? And to whom are they a liability? A better explanation is that with rising populations, concentrated populations, and concentrated wealth, your 'new problem' is simply another manifestion of the competition of resources i'm talking about.
This is a large topic, I hope I have at least made you question the timeline of the infamous "military-industrial complex"
Yes, it is a big topic and history is a continuum, and there are antecedents to everything, which is why when referring to the 'military-industrial complex' i confine the topic to the modern american model, which started with roosevelt and the second world war.
Today, between the military, related industry, government bureauocracy, and the nearly 25% of our people employed in the educational system, a free country based on free market principles no longer exists and sadly has not for a long time.
Exactly my point in raising Keynes.
Other things have resulted surely, but life, HUMAN life as it once used to be, free, limitless, dangerous, were lost as a result.
I think youre wearing rose colored glasses. The past wasn't as free or limitless or romantic as you'd like to believe. Dangerous perhaps.
Did you not read my original post? When I say revolution, I am not referring to a bunch of pussy hippies listening to shitty music and getting stoned on weed. I am talking about the real deal.
The 1960s were the closest this country has come to revolution since the civil war. It is my argument that it peaked with the resignation of Nixon. Not all revolutionaries were 'pussy hippies' Maybe you should read up on the Weathermen or the Black Panthers.
If you think in the entire history of human civilization, the 1960's is at all relevant you really need to read up more.
It was in the 1960s that the current conservative moment coalesced, leading to Reagan, Bush and the current Republican persona dramatae. Furthermore, it was during this decade that many of those people were 'formed' politically and philosophically.
The point of my post is the Military-Industrial complex was foisted upon the nation as a foundation of our economy, but the end result was a huge military was created.
You're confusing cause and effect. The large military was required in response to the second world war. The military-industrial complex is the product of this war. It continued strategically in response to the soviet threat, but economically as a great Keynesian support to the economy.
To prevent that military from causing trouble here in the United States, they were spread all around the world. That way, more guns weapons, and people could be employed by that System without fear of revolution caused by that military machine.
I disagree on two counts. First there was a perceived threat from the Soviets and the communist Chinese both directly and by proxy through their client states. Second, military presence, particularly naval presence helps to open trade and to minimize the costs associated with it. A prime example of this would be the tanker war of the 1980s.
Summary: the primary motivation for forward deployment is strategic and economic, not to forestall revolution.
Between the millions of veterans, national guardsmen, reserves, and active duty personal we have a huge cadre of personal trained and ready to wreck havoc.
A population of which I am a member. There are numerous problems with your hypothesis for revolution from amongst the military and/or veterans. Among them, only a fraction of servicemen are directly in combat arms. It takes alot of supply sergeants and desk lieutenants for every infantry platoon. The closest perhaps to your idea might be the Marine Corps, where "Every Marine a Rifleman." Even still, a tiny minority are what might be called hardened combat veterans. Also, a majority of servicemen and veterans are 'conservative'. In that i mean interested in maintaining the status quo as far as the government is concerned. It is the foundation of that government, the constitution, that these servicemen swore to uphold and defend.
As the world economy collapses, the civilized order which allowed hippies to march freely on streets in the 1960's will cease to exist.
You assume that it will. Regardless, let's run with your assumption. If the economy collapses, the political institutions will still exist and have an enormous imperative to restore what prosperity might have previously existed. In a world-wide scenario, this would likely manifest as national competition for scarce resources leading to open warfare. Economic collapse and warfare can lead to revolution as evidenced best by russia, but in the modern, nuclear proliferated world, the consequences are much more grave than lenin and trotsky.
Your preparations for revolution are best spent in digging bombshelters in cheneyesque undisclosed locations, not in target practice with your AR-15 and rereading that dogeared copy of "The martyrdom of randy weaver"
Revolution IS just around the corner. Foreign games will only delay the inevitable.
Sorry, the revolution has already happened. And we lost. It was sown with the conservative response to the 1960s counterculture and was reaped with the election of a CIA chief and now his son. Hate the break the news to you.
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The result was the coolest station I had ever or since heard. Dont know exactly what killed them, but i yearn for something half that cool among all the clearchannel stations i have to fight with.
For those of us who do not read Japanese, does that read "internet explorer" or whatever the japanese equivalent might be?
Bitch,moan,gripe...If you can come up with a better method of choosing representatives, I'm all ears. As im sure you realize, the individual vote isn't a whole lot of power. It was further diluted by the indirect elections of the president and formerly senators. The problems inheirent in our republic are the result of the scaling of our government under the constitution from a nation of a few million to one of hundreds of million.s
Democracy doesn't work. The average person doesn't have the intellectual maturity and education to wield the political power that is the vote. I would rather lose my right to vote and know that my representative truly is a peer than have an aristocrat lord over me like I'm a sheep that needs to be herded.
If you lost your right to vote, he would no longer be your representative, he would be your lord. Without accountability, there is no check that the power a representative wields is in your best interest. Yes, there are many problems in our government, but universal suffrage certainly is not one of them.
Im not trying to justify them, just explaining the rationale. The military does the same thing when clearing someone for Top Secret.
I did read that! That was the funniest piece of fiction since the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy! I still can't help but chuckle whenever I see shirtsleeves, a necktie and a nametag.
But how does it feel to be the only old school hacker with a 6 digit /. User ID?
I realize that this was a joke, but it's interesting to keep in perspective that it was tobacco, as a cash crop, that allowed the American colonies to first become self-sustaining. No tobacco, no USA.
Easy solution to this problem: Copywrite Trinitron and lobby Congress to extend your rights for another 50 years.
The witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead!
I only wish we could fire bush here... two more years...
If you get another chance to drive the 745, try to learn it. Once you can do it without looking, you'll agree.
Troll complete!
...but what if criminals WROTE the source code?
I had a substitute teacher in 8th grade whose name was "Everlasting Omnipotent Peace" E.O. Peace. The drugs in the 70s must have been damn good...
I got the same thing. I don't know how, but in seventh grade i started getting physical mail spam from recruiters. The funny part is that it didnt stop when I enlisted. Even when i was in an officer accession program, my parents were still getting calls from recruiters.
Sheesh, how many points did Wolfram end up with?
Did it occur to you that your prior belief in miracles may have colored your opinion of that *private* experience? It seems likely to me that you're molding whatever empirical data to fit your hypothesis.
Reputable....Slashdot....does...not...compute...
I dont't really know what to make of this. Are you a nihilist or a bitter misanthrope? Who are you to say they have no reason to exist? And to whom are they a liability? A better explanation is that with rising populations, concentrated populations, and concentrated wealth, your 'new problem' is simply another manifestion of the competition of resources i'm talking about.
This is a large topic, I hope I have at least made you question the timeline of the infamous "military-industrial complex"
Yes, it is a big topic and history is a continuum, and there are antecedents to everything, which is why when referring to the 'military-industrial complex' i confine the topic to the modern american model, which started with roosevelt and the second world war.
Today, between the military, related industry, government bureauocracy, and the nearly 25% of our people employed in the educational system, a free country based on free market principles no longer exists and sadly has not for a long time.
Exactly my point in raising Keynes.
Other things have resulted surely, but life, HUMAN life as it once used to be, free, limitless, dangerous, were lost as a result.
I think youre wearing rose colored glasses. The past wasn't as free or limitless or romantic as you'd like to believe. Dangerous perhaps.
The 1960s were the closest this country has come to revolution since the civil war. It is my argument that it peaked with the resignation of Nixon. Not all revolutionaries were 'pussy hippies' Maybe you should read up on the Weathermen or the Black Panthers.
If you think in the entire history of human civilization, the 1960's is at all relevant you really need to read up more.
It was in the 1960s that the current conservative moment coalesced, leading to Reagan, Bush and the current Republican persona dramatae. Furthermore, it was during this decade that many of those people were 'formed' politically and philosophically.
The point of my post is the Military-Industrial complex was foisted upon the nation as a foundation of our economy, but the end result was a huge military was created.
You're confusing cause and effect. The large military was required in response to the second world war. The military-industrial complex is the product of this war. It continued strategically in response to the soviet threat, but economically as a great Keynesian support to the economy.
To prevent that military from causing trouble here in the United States, they were spread all around the world. That way, more guns weapons, and people could be employed by that System without fear of revolution caused by that military machine.
I disagree on two counts. First there was a perceived threat from the Soviets and the communist Chinese both directly and by proxy through their client states. Second, military presence, particularly naval presence helps to open trade and to minimize the costs associated with it. A prime example of this would be the tanker war of the 1980s.
Summary: the primary motivation for forward deployment is strategic and economic, not to forestall revolution.
Between the millions of veterans, national guardsmen, reserves, and active duty personal we have a huge cadre of personal trained and ready to wreck havoc.
A population of which I am a member. There are numerous problems with your hypothesis for revolution from amongst the military and/or veterans. Among them, only a fraction of servicemen are directly in combat arms. It takes alot of supply sergeants and desk lieutenants for every infantry platoon. The closest perhaps to your idea might be the Marine Corps, where "Every Marine a Rifleman." Even still, a tiny minority are what might be called hardened combat veterans. Also, a majority of servicemen and veterans are 'conservative'. In that i mean interested in maintaining the status quo as far as the government is concerned. It is the foundation of that government, the constitution, that these servicemen swore to uphold and defend.
As the world economy collapses, the civilized order which allowed hippies to march freely on streets in the 1960's will cease to exist.
You assume that it will. Regardless, let's run with your assumption. If the economy collapses, the political institutions will still exist and have an enormous imperative to restore what prosperity might have previously existed. In a world-wide scenario, this would likely manifest as national competition for scarce resources leading to open warfare. Economic collapse and warfare can lead to revolution as evidenced best by russia, but in the modern, nuclear proliferated world, the consequences are much more grave than lenin and trotsky.
Your preparations for revolution are best spent in digging bombshelters in cheneyesque undisclosed locations, not in target practice with your AR-15 and rereading that dogeared copy of "The martyrdom of randy weaver"
Sorry, the revolution has already happened. And we lost. It was sown with the conservative response to the 1960s counterculture and was reaped with the election of a CIA chief and now his son. Hate the break the news to you.
Random question: Was that the same Jefferies for whom the (in)famous Jefferies tubes are named?
NO CARRIER
So do you link to them at autopr0n?
Never. MacGyver only posts at K5.