Well some of us whippersnappers in the U.S. tried to institute a shift in ideals during the last election with Ron Paul. Unfortunately our hopes were squelched effectively when the mainstream media made a point to shoot Ron Paul's election bid in the face before it had a chance to be recognized. It's hard to inspire motivation in a generation of U.S. citizens that has been consistently reminded that no matter how hard we kick and scream or what kind of political ruckus we make, there is always and over-aggressive government and ignorant/biased media to put us back in 'our place.'
Well, it's the kicking and screaming that's the problem. The 'whippersnappers' still behave like children trying to be the center of attention and blame what happened on others rather than like responsible adults trying to create change.
Couple this with the fact that all of us youngin's found a newfound breathe of fresh air and freedom in the internet, but now the government and media are also going through consistently more aggressive means to regulate and control this frontier and what we have is a general feeling of bleak hoplessness conquering us all. Yay!
You took advantage of the freedom like a teenager whose parents left town for the weekend and left the liquor cabinet unlocked. With the mound of beer bottles in the living room, the broken door to the back porch, and the police explaining to your parents why they impounded their car after you spun doughnuts in the grass at the local park... Is it any wonder you're being grounded?
You want to be taken seriously, act like an adult. But don't blame others for treating you like a child when you act like a child.
The pirate party has more members than three parties that currently has seats in parliament and might by the the end of the weekend have more than four of the seven.
And by the end of the month, the trend followers and the ADD fashionistas will have moved on to something else... And the Pirate Party will have great numbers on paper only.
Modern folks think they are required to have air conditioning
Tallahassee resident and former South Florida resident here. Sure, A/C isn't required. Neither is an internet connection. Neither is electricity, if you want to debate the meaning of "required". But all of those are necessary for modern life.
In other words, you want to handwave the definition of 'required' until you can force AC into it. (Or less politely, bullshit.)
Summers in Florida without A/C consist primarily of sitting on a porch, fanning yourself and drinking iced tea. It makes for a nice "Andy Griffith" tableau, but for those of us not benefiting from coastal breezes (like Jacksonville), we'd rather get some work done.
Yet, people got work done before air conditioning. Even in areas without coastal breezes. Or again, bullshit.
Great - so Southern FL loses more of it's already alarmingly shrunken natural habitat, places more strain on it's limited water supplies, some developer pockets big bucks in subsidies from the the taxpayers, and we get what...? Yet another development that's planned and promised to be great and wonderful and new, and ends up being just more crowding and cookie cutter ticky tacky - but with solar panels.
Unfortunately the sunniest places are also some of the hottest, requiring quite a lot of power-hungry air conditioning.
Modern folks think they are required to have air conditioning, sure. But I grew up in Jacksonville (Florida) in the 60's and 70's - and houses with air conditioning were the exception, not the norm. People got along just fine without it. We didn't have older folk or kids keeling over from the heat. Nobody panicked when it got over 75 F.
What changed in Florida was four things: 1) Cutting down all the shade trees when building new developments. 2) Building standard ranch tract houses rather than houses suited to the climate. 3) Massive waves of 'immigrants' and retirees from colder areas of the country who were unused to the heat. 4) Ongoing marketing by AC companies that AC was 'required' to be modern and up-to-date.
Recycling nuclear fuel rods isn't like recycling glass or aluminum, you don't just melt it down and reuse. There's considerable processing involved to remove to fission poisons and fission products that have accumulated and to cast and machine the fuel pins.
Which processing produces considerable waste, both in radioactive products and contaminated handling/processing equipment.
That's the point that you and pretty much the rest of the commenters seem to miss... And the AC hits squarely on the head. They don't care if you are doing nothing illegal. They do care when you are doing something otherwise legal in the furtherance of committing a crime because it shows intent.
Interesting, but difficult as hell because of the enormous amounts of power required, and the large antenna required, and the high pointing sensitivity required... Much simpler to put all that hardware on Earth, which can 'see' the majority of the solar system and the equipment can be easily gotten at for maintenance and upgrades.
They were anti Bush because it was fashionable to anti Bush.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you were totally full of crap and missed how the press didn't stop sucking Bush's cock until Katrina.
Hint: when you grow up you'll find there's more to world than the press.
But even before that, no voter in the United States could have supported Bush in 2004 if they were actually objective for two seconds, and that includes his own mother.
An opinion, not a fact. Learn to tell the difference.
Meanwhile, those few of us who (regardless of our personal stance on Bush) tried to explain that the two parties never give up powers and perks gained by the other party were shouted down as 'haters' or ignored as 'irrelevant fossils' or even worse pejoratives.
Another problem with your storyline: guess who has led and continues to lead opposition to executive power grabbing, and they aren't Libertarians or independents.
Well, I give up - because it isn't Democrats or Republicans either. While both (at various times) make noises about such opposition, they don't actually do anything about it. Or it could just be that you are a clueless idiot, a supposition supported by the balance of your reply.
Google's strategy is not simply about creating or acquiring ubiquitous online services regardless of profitability.
It's not clear that Google even has a strategy.
Their biggest fear is not whether a product is losing money; it is that nobody is using it and therefore there is no data to mine. All these serivces are just carrots they dangle for the end-user. Their true customers are those who pay for the data they collect from us.
Is such income listed in their financials? (Last time I looked, advertising income, not data sales, dominated their income by a wide margin.)
They had lots of stone and knew where to get more back then too... The reason ancient buildings were scavenged was because the stone was already cut to a manageable size, and was generally handily located.
Except stone isn't low value - otherwise Stonehenge, the Pyramids, and many lesser known buildings wouldn't have been scavenged over the centuries. Even today, with stone not being a primary building material, it is still valued for decoration and used as a component in concrete.
These people don't design, they take a design and create web pages from it.
Yeah. Like creating web pages is a rote task that anyone can do. Not.
Though they may not design the UI/appearance - they are as much designers as the structural engineer who realizes the UI/appearnce of a building designed by an architect. Just because you aren't in the top box on the organization chart doesn't mean you aren't applying creative and design skills.
And ultimately - that's the problem. If it's not entertainment, the post Boomer generation couldn't care less. As you say, in one ear and out the other.
Just goes to show that you don't really need to know anything to teach web design. I have no formal IT training, and other than maintaining a couple of crappy websites a decade ago, have no formal IT experience.
There's a reason they're doing this in New York, and not Boston
Yeah - and the reason is that there's so much weird shit going on in New York at any given time, nobody will notice the tweenbots. Not to mention that New York is (in)famous for being the rudest city in the US. If a tweenbot can survive there, it can survive anywhere.
Nuclear weapons can be built to have very low fallout.
Sure, nuclear weapons can be built to have less fallout - in the same sense that a.45 shot through your heart will leave a smaller hole than a 5-inch shell. But neither is exactly fun for the recipient.
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Even if he doesn't show up - there's been quite a bit of paper and leg work to get to this point.
You haven't a fucking clue.
That has to be the most masterful and gentle re-phrasing of the "them darkies don't want freedom, they enjoy slavery" argument I've ever read.
But it's still bullshit.
Well, it's the kicking and screaming that's the problem. The 'whippersnappers' still behave like children trying to be the center of attention and blame what happened on others rather than like responsible adults trying to create change.
You took advantage of the freedom like a teenager whose parents left town for the weekend and left the liquor cabinet unlocked. With the mound of beer bottles in the living room, the broken door to the back porch, and the police explaining to your parents why they impounded their car after you spun doughnuts in the grass at the local park... Is it any wonder you're being grounded?
You want to be taken seriously, act like an adult. But don't blame others for treating you like a child when you act like a child.
And by the end of the month, the trend followers and the ADD fashionistas will have moved on to something else... And the Pirate Party will have great numbers on paper only.
In other words, you want to handwave the definition of 'required' until you can force AC into it. (Or less politely, bullshit.)
Yet, people got work done before air conditioning. Even in areas without coastal breezes. Or again, bullshit.
Great - so Southern FL loses more of it's already alarmingly shrunken natural habitat, places more strain on it's limited water supplies, some developer pockets big bucks in subsidies from the the taxpayers, and we get what...? Yet another development that's planned and promised to be great and wonderful and new, and ends up being just more crowding and cookie cutter ticky tacky - but with solar panels.
Modern folks think they are required to have air conditioning, sure. But I grew up in Jacksonville (Florida) in the 60's and 70's - and houses with air conditioning were the exception, not the norm. People got along just fine without it. We didn't have older folk or kids keeling over from the heat. Nobody panicked when it got over 75 F.
What changed in Florida was four things: 1) Cutting down all the shade trees when building new developments. 2) Building standard ranch tract houses rather than houses suited to the climate. 3) Massive waves of 'immigrants' and retirees from colder areas of the country who were unused to the heat. 4) Ongoing marketing by AC companies that AC was 'required' to be modern and up-to-date.
Recycling nuclear fuel rods isn't like recycling glass or aluminum, you don't just melt it down and reuse. There's considerable processing involved to remove to fission poisons and fission products that have accumulated and to cast and machine the fuel pins.
Which processing produces considerable waste, both in radioactive products and contaminated handling/processing equipment.
That's the point that you and pretty much the rest of the commenters seem to miss... And the AC hits squarely on the head. They don't care if you are doing nothing illegal. They do care when you are doing something otherwise legal in the furtherance of committing a crime because it shows intent.
But the people who wear them for safety reasons, don't wear them into banks and don't wear them with the intent to conceal their identity.
Interesting, but difficult as hell because of the enormous amounts of power required, and the large antenna required, and the high pointing sensitivity required... Much simpler to put all that hardware on Earth, which can 'see' the majority of the solar system and the equipment can be easily gotten at for maintenance and upgrades.
Hint: when you grow up you'll find there's more to world than the press.
An opinion, not a fact. Learn to tell the difference.
Well, I give up - because it isn't Democrats or Republicans either. While both (at various times) make noises about such opposition, they don't actually do anything about it. Or it could just be that you are a clueless idiot, a supposition supported by the balance of your reply.
It's not clear that Google even has a strategy.
Is such income listed in their financials? (Last time I looked, advertising income, not data sales, dominated their income by a wide margin.)
They had lots of stone and knew where to get more back then too... The reason ancient buildings were scavenged was because the stone was already cut to a manageable size, and was generally handily located.
Except stone isn't low value - otherwise Stonehenge, the Pyramids, and many lesser known buildings wouldn't have been scavenged over the centuries. Even today, with stone not being a primary building material, it is still valued for decoration and used as a component in concrete.
Yeah. Like creating web pages is a rote task that anyone can do. Not.
Though they may not design the UI/appearance - they are as much designers as the structural engineer who realizes the UI/appearnce of a building designed by an architect. Just because you aren't in the top box on the organization chart doesn't mean you aren't applying creative and design skills.
And ultimately - that's the problem. If it's not entertainment, the post Boomer generation couldn't care less. As you say, in one ear and out the other.
Just goes to show that you don't really need to know anything to teach web design. I have no formal IT training, and other than maintaining a couple of crappy websites a decade ago, have no formal IT experience.
But I understood every word.
Yeah - and the reason is that there's so much weird shit going on in New York at any given time, nobody will notice the tweenbots. Not to mention that New York is (in)famous for being the rudest city in the US. If a tweenbot can survive there, it can survive anywhere.
Sure, nuclear weapons can be built to have less fallout - in the same sense that a .45 shot through your heart will leave a smaller hole than a 5-inch shell. But neither is exactly fun for the recipient.
I don't know about Sweden or the UK - but in the US cast-iron job security means the assholes and the dolts too...
It's a government job, probably with all the crap that comes with government jobs. What's to want?
It's not that you get tired of looking, it's that you become jaded.
It's not a job you'd want. After the first 100 or 1000 sites you visit, it becomes just another site rather than a perv's dream.