In other news you will find many hundreds of hours of hour long public talks, courses and roundtable discussions on YouTube from Universities around the world.
Admittedly the entertainment is all about how in a certain Pharaohs reign the Egyptians had such a terrible economy they were digging up and re-purposing their ancestors coffins rather than having new ones made; how the mathematics of the Standard Model of particles at least catalogs them; or how the idea of a Goldstone boson led to the possibility of the Higgs Boson (Thanks Mr Leonard Susskind of Stanford); or how human perception of music works, or how the US Federal institute for energy security is funding all sorts of projects that could be game changers; or what evidence in the CMB points towards the idea of inflation in the early moments of the big bang. or... well you get the general idea. There's also Politics, Law, Genetics, Biology, Chemistry, Social Science, Education, Geology, Economics, Materials Science, Ethnology, History, Art History, pretty much any field of knowledge you care to mention all being disseminated somewhere at a level you will understand.
Go to advanced search on YouTube, set the length filter to >20 minutes, sort on most recent and search on university (and subject if you know what you are after - but its often the random stuff that entertains the most)
So no I don't have a TV, haven't had one since 1988 in fact, but I do watch quite a lot of interesting lectures on a large monitor these days. Its utterly brilliant programing with no advertising and at the point of use costs nothing, zilch, for free. Extraordinary.
Of course I might buy a boxed set of DVD's occasionally as well, but broadcast TV? mindless garbage for the most part as many posters have pointed out.
Is there really any sentient being still watching it apart from children being babysitted until they find something better to do?
I am 45 and older and I seem to be getting vast quantities of fantastic free video programs, just don't tell anyone or they might try and start charging for them!
Real management of course requires clear written communication, we even have an ISO standard for it ISO 9001:2008. I have no problem with the plebs doing all their day to day communicating by chat, just so long as they do what the management have asked them to do in the written Management System. I don't even mind the plebs thinking its uncool to write stuff down, a limited imagination confines them to their grades working for the man. Having said that its also true that a conversation is worth several emails when both parties can contribute so I even approve of talking as a means of communicating. Just remember that being cool doesn't often make money or cure cancer.
I think they have a point. 99% of us are going to see our living standards fall for the next ten years, up to a third of us will be unemployed, the old and the sick will be badly treated due to a lack of cash. Isn't this a good reason for protesting about the behavior of the banks who caused this. At the very least some of them should be in gaol and even more importantly we want something done to prevent them doing it again. Because right now they continue to sponge off the hard work of the 99% and will continue to pay themselves as much as they want out of our money. This recession is the only one in the last fifty years caused by the greed and poor behavior of a single group of people. If you don't think we should be protesting about that then maybe you deserve the lousy life that faces you.
Yes, I think my only interest in this case is if it is used to render Assange to the US which would clearly be a reprehensible act of revenge by the US and worthy of condemnation.
Other than that, good luck to him in explaining his offensive behavior towards the Swedish women. Its not likely to lead to very much more than a slapped wrist but it says quite a lot that he appears to have no cultural sensitivity, which may influence how we regard Wikileaks.
Stuff the manned space program, no one can afford to do anything useful with it except waste humanity's money - and that includes the Chinese who will shortly 'win' the 'space race'.
Get on with the science and send robots.
America is becoming the laughingstock of the world because of its useless politics driving everything the wrong way. Makes you wonder is democracy is actually a complete failure.
Agree. I have 6 offline email folders with 6 Gb of emails up to 5 years old. My corporate inbox falls over with 100MB in it. I use search of course but also archive by project. My email is a knowledge base that amplifies my memory in my technical role and is a productivity boost that most corporate IT and HR (delete all old email in case we get taken to court - by patent trolls & similar parasites) regard as a problem. Search alone does not give me context. The article is flawed if you use it to extend to all use cases.
I believe that this taxation system is the same method used by the Mafia to extort money from small businesses. Just small enough numbers to not make it worth risking the consequences of bringing in the law but plenty enough for the Mafia to live it large on the proceeds. Just like the Mafia these Patent Trolls are a cancer on society and the general population would quietly look the other way if someone found a way of killing them all and turning them into landfill. Since we are now too civilized to do that sort of thing I feel it incumbent on me to send them an email explaining how their business makes me want to vomit, I may even include some illustrative pictures of vomit to reinforce my opinion.
You are talking out of your arse, 50 is old enough to be out of touch with some of the social uses of electronic communications my dear spawn. But I don't agree that we are out of touch with the technology, after all we have been using it a lot longer than you. Back in the day before everything became magic, you might buy a computer for fun that you programmed with machine code. I imagine that we know far better how the guts of the world work than you do.
Now if you want to moan about the fact that society is run by Philosophy Politics and Economics graduates then you might have stumbled upon something. How any person can be allowed to run for elected office who doesn't have a clue how industry, technology, biology is shaping our society is beyond me.
Just a random enquiry, do you think that getting your stomach ripped out in Afghanistan by an IUD full of nails is solvable by picking up some power up pills off the floor just like the awesome video games that you play?
The UK is a centre left country with respect to the USA, we have a fully free health service and a huge range of other social benefits to help the less well off and the less able to live decent lives. Unfortunately there is a group of people who don't want to be part of our society, whether its through greed, loss of hope because of lack of opportunity or expectations set by left wing apologists isn't clear. But you can bet your bottom dollar that the bulk of tax payers view this current rioting as nothing more than opportunist looting and it has done terrible damage to fulfilling the legitimate needs of poor people and less able people in the eyes of those people paying for it. About a third of the money that people earning the average wage goes to fund our State but the current mindless vandalism isnt going to persuade them that spending more money this way is a good idea. This is a dreadful day for the socialists and they are very much mistaken if they think that they can make political capital out of it.
Been shaving whilst commuting since 83, have had several (4) minor shunts at junctions over the years all due to mine or other driver errors. None of them on a commute. Having perfect situational awareness will not prevent someone running into the back of you at a junction or your pulling out into the back of someone who puts the brakes on unexpectedly, or the brain is tricked about what it sees. Shaving can only be done when you are on the open road with plenty of stopping distance behind and in front of you in good conditions, its far less of a distraction than changing channels on a radio or replying to a passenger because you are still looking at the road not something inside the vehicle. Conclusion, don't allow anything ever to distract you where the traffic changes speed - e.g. junctions. Otherwise, situational awareness including your level of distraction and defensive driving seems to work. Oh and remember that if you have a bad cold or are dead tired your reactions are not much better than a drunk driver, though I haven't noticed any legislation about it despite the number of people falling asleep and driving off the road.
I think the problem that most people have with the status quo is that there is a privileged layer of parasites in the US system who leach off of entrepreneurship and contribute nothing to society except for an unfair tax - people are sick of the default wealth redistribution system that grants $ to the parasites who damage the western economy. The lawyers should be a service to the economy not the rulers of it. If the lawyers are running your society then you can bet your bottom dollar that another society that keeps them in check is going to fuck your ass and employ your children as rest room cleaners. Western society is well on its way to the most pathetic car crash in history. Have you paid off your 14 trillion debt yet uber-capitalist arsehole? Successful anarchy is not something you beat by sticking your head in the sand. Going on the biggest borrowing binge in history after 9-11 was the stupidest thing in history and the rest of us who subscribe to free democracy and the rule of law are utterly pissed off with the ruin of western democratic ideals that this has led to. Take your stupid bankrupt ideas and shove them up your arse.
unless they steal the source code of your implementation then I think all patents are shit for humanity as the only people who benefit are blood sucking parasite lawyers who should be working on assault and fraud cases rather than taxing the working people of the world. Death is too good for them. Chopping them into little pieces and jumping up and down on them should be a civic duty.
The IRA destroyed the lives of thousands of innocent civilians with their sick US funded terrorist war, we have the even more vile bin laden to thank for cutting off their funds. There was nothing romantic about them, their main occupation was organised crime and their hobby was shooting the kneecaps off their own people they had dissagreements with. We are fighting hard for a political solution in the UK and listening to driveling idiots like you suggest that bringing back the violence is a great idea because it only cost the UK government money is not on. You have obviously been watching their old propaganda as you havent the slightest grasp of what they actually did. Go learn some history or bugger off back into that cave you belong in.
I don't think that Slashdot would be improved by narrowing the subject matters discussed on here - the fact that items that are not directly related to technology are well subscribed suggests that the audience is up for it. If you prefer to live in a silo and not to consider anything outside your comfort zone, then why not take up religious Jihad-ism for example, where you would never have to worry about the real world in all its messy glory. Alternately why don't you use some of the filters that the site provides?
I think this thought crystallizes exactly how annoying the drones are who are lined up behind the war on drugs and the consequent funding of a criminal subculture. The harm done by drugs pales into insignificance compared to the harm done by the criminal subculture its illegality funds.
I too am completely and utterly fed up to the back teeth with these self righteous morons with or with out their sky fairy telling the rest of us that drugs are immoral and that this justifies forcing poor people to live with infestations of murderous criminal gangs funded by the untaxed sale of drugs.
Also I would personally rather have the long term health risks of pot than alcohol as my social drug of choice - which is currently not possible as it has been made totally illegal in the UK again.
First rule of the Web, don't ever reply to anything that you don't want. I bet you paste random scripts into your web browser whilst you are logged into facebook too. I guess with gullible morons flooding the on-line world there is probably plenty of money to be made off of them by simple con jobs like Linkedin. Just because we get prurient pleasure from watching wannabe jerks exposing their sordid personalities on television doesn't mean that you will become a superstar by exposing your life on-line - because the only people interested in your super star life are vicious money making businesses who will sell your personal information to the highest bidder - be it Russian gangsters who want your credit card account or banks who want your pay check to pay no interest on and sell you particularly expensive shit investments to over your lifetime - hey we even sell you a ridiculously overpriced coffin as our valued customer of 50 years, during which we screwed you by at least 3/4 of a percent over the base rate and sold you an under-performing pension plan. Its all very nice believing that nothing should be private anymore now that all information wants to be free, but just watch the creativity of people who will use your information to screw your dead carcass to make their own pile of cash.
Wake up people, your personal information is worth a lot more than you are giving it away for. Go out and take what you want when you need it, don't just give them your balls on a plate. Of course the really smart people are still networking in real life, cuts the bandwidth down to quality if you keep away from the on-line plebs.
I agree with every word you say. Linkedin is only something you use when you are bored and take a look to see if any old work collegues are still around. Does anyone seriously think that they can make money out of this dead web site? I look for work on jobs sites, Linkedin is just a way of keeping track of people you used to work with in different industries. Its a huge joke.
Screw the plaintiffs, this sort of nonsense puts western civilisation at risk of total failure. The Plaintiffs need to realise that they are the enemy of the western world before we realise it and take the fools out with machetes.
Disney can go fuck themselves if they do this. I shall spend the rest of my life telling people that Disney deserve to die if they actually get this legal piece of ordure. What sort of society are we living in when a money grabbing litigious private business can create a licence to a non existent government department in order to screw the punters. I am revolted by this news story, maybe the enemies of the united states have a point.
This is the release we have to skip because the thirteen year olds designed the user interface isnt it? Ribbons are a market differentiation weapon and have completely fucked Microsoft Office and the youngsters who will have to learn a proper interface latter.
Actually the article isn't about the lack of a technology, it was saying that most people are too thick to understand that the laws of physics and chemistry rule out interplanetary flight (I bet you all the tea in china that a human never visits our nearest star). You kids have been spoilt by Moors law, yes we can double compute power every 18 months - but get this - you are still driving an automobile which is no more efficient than one from 100 years ago. The American government cant even afford to go back to the moon forty years after its first visit because the rockets cant get any cheaper. The only thing that will make space travel possible isn't a new technology - its a new science - and get this, unless the LHC can find some then there wont be any in your lifetime. I'm actually quite pleased about this because you dont deserve to live in a society that has space travel.
Oh its ok, my apologies for posting to myself, I was wrong, turns out that that point and click Microsoft windows slider gadget lets you see as much as you want. Brilliant. The trouble with Wiki leaks is that it is context free, no editors, no journalism. Ok fine it leaks stuff but to be honest unless you live in Iran or Libya its pointless reading any of their releases until you can see what investigative journalists have done with the information. By the way, well done to Mr Obama for getting the world together to kill that scum bag Gadaffi.
talking of editing, what the hell happened to Slashdot?, I cant get a flat view back, all I get is the first line of comments - what happened? all of a sudden the most erudite conversation I know of on the net got reduced to a one line tweet.
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In other news you will find many hundreds of hours of hour long public talks, courses and roundtable discussions on YouTube from Universities around the world.
Admittedly the entertainment is all about how in a certain Pharaohs reign the Egyptians had such a terrible economy they were digging up and re-purposing their ancestors coffins rather than having new ones made; how the mathematics of the Standard Model of particles at least catalogs them; or how the idea of a Goldstone boson led to the possibility of the Higgs Boson (Thanks Mr Leonard Susskind of Stanford); or how human perception of music works, or how the US Federal institute for energy security is funding all sorts of projects that could be game changers; or what evidence in the CMB points towards the idea of inflation in the early moments of the big bang. or ... well you get the general idea. There's also Politics, Law, Genetics, Biology, Chemistry, Social Science, Education, Geology, Economics, Materials Science, Ethnology, History, Art History, pretty much any field of knowledge you care to mention all being disseminated somewhere at a level you will understand.
Go to advanced search on YouTube, set the length filter to >20 minutes, sort on most recent and search on university (and subject if you know what you are after - but its often the random stuff that entertains the most)
So no I don't have a TV, haven't had one since 1988 in fact, but I do watch quite a lot of interesting lectures on a large monitor these days. Its utterly brilliant programing with no advertising and at the point of use costs nothing, zilch, for free. Extraordinary.
Of course I might buy a boxed set of DVD's occasionally as well, but broadcast TV? mindless garbage for the most part as many posters have pointed out.
Is there really any sentient being still watching it apart from children being babysitted until they find something better to do?
I am 45 and older and I seem to be getting vast quantities of fantastic free video programs, just don't tell anyone or they might try and start charging for them!
Real management of course requires clear written communication, we even have an ISO standard for it ISO 9001:2008. I have no problem with the plebs doing all their day to day communicating by chat, just so long as they do what the management have asked them to do in the written Management System. I don't even mind the plebs thinking its uncool to write stuff down, a limited imagination confines them to their grades working for the man. Having said that its also true that a conversation is worth several emails when both parties can contribute so I even approve of talking as a means of communicating. Just remember that being cool doesn't often make money or cure cancer.
I think they have a point. 99% of us are going to see our living standards fall for the next ten years, up to a third of us will be unemployed, the old and the sick will be badly treated due to a lack of cash. Isn't this a good reason for protesting about the behavior of the banks who caused this. At the very least some of them should be in gaol and even more importantly we want something done to prevent them doing it again. Because right now they continue to sponge off the hard work of the 99% and will continue to pay themselves as much as they want out of our money. This recession is the only one in the last fifty years caused by the greed and poor behavior of a single group of people. If you don't think we should be protesting about that then maybe you deserve the lousy life that faces you.
Yes, I think my only interest in this case is if it is used to render Assange to the US which would clearly be a reprehensible act of revenge by the US and worthy of condemnation.
Other than that, good luck to him in explaining his offensive behavior towards the Swedish women. Its not likely to lead to very much more than a slapped wrist but it says quite a lot that he appears to have no cultural sensitivity, which may influence how we regard Wikileaks.
Stuff the manned space program, no one can afford to do anything useful with it except waste humanity's money - and that includes the Chinese who will shortly 'win' the 'space race'.
Get on with the science and send robots.
America is becoming the laughingstock of the world because of its useless politics driving everything the wrong way. Makes you wonder is democracy is actually a complete failure.
Agree. I have 6 offline email folders with 6 Gb of emails up to 5 years old. My corporate inbox falls over with 100MB in it. I use search of course but also archive by project. My email is a knowledge base that amplifies my memory in my technical role and is a productivity boost that most corporate IT and HR (delete all old email in case we get taken to court - by patent trolls & similar parasites) regard as a problem. Search alone does not give me context. The article is flawed if you use it to extend to all use cases.
I believe that this taxation system is the same method used by the Mafia to extort money from small businesses. Just small enough numbers to not make it worth risking the consequences of bringing in the law but plenty enough for the Mafia to live it large on the proceeds. Just like the Mafia these Patent Trolls are a cancer on society and the general population would quietly look the other way if someone found a way of killing them all and turning them into landfill. Since we are now too civilized to do that sort of thing I feel it incumbent on me to send them an email explaining how their business makes me want to vomit, I may even include some illustrative pictures of vomit to reinforce my opinion.
You are talking out of your arse, 50 is old enough to be out of touch with some of the social uses of electronic communications my dear spawn. But I don't agree that we are out of touch with the technology, after all we have been using it a lot longer than you. Back in the day before everything became magic, you might buy a computer for fun that you programmed with machine code. I imagine that we know far better how the guts of the world work than you do.
Now if you want to moan about the fact that society is run by Philosophy Politics and Economics graduates then you might have stumbled upon something. How any person can be allowed to run for elected office who doesn't have a clue how industry, technology, biology is shaping our society is beyond me.
Just a random enquiry, do you think that getting your stomach ripped out in Afghanistan by an IUD full of nails is solvable by picking up some power up pills off the floor just like the awesome video games that you play?
The UK is a centre left country with respect to the USA, we have a fully free health service and a huge range of other social benefits to help the less well off and the less able to live decent lives. Unfortunately there is a group of people who don't want to be part of our society, whether its through greed, loss of hope because of lack of opportunity or expectations set by left wing apologists isn't clear. But you can bet your bottom dollar that the bulk of tax payers view this current rioting as nothing more than opportunist looting and it has done terrible damage to fulfilling the legitimate needs of poor people and less able people in the eyes of those people paying for it. About a third of the money that people earning the average wage goes to fund our State but the current mindless vandalism isnt going to persuade them that spending more money this way is a good idea. This is a dreadful day for the socialists and they are very much mistaken if they think that they can make political capital out of it.
Been shaving whilst commuting since 83, have had several (4) minor shunts at junctions over the years all due to mine or other driver errors. None of them on a commute. Having perfect situational awareness will not prevent someone running into the back of you at a junction or your pulling out into the back of someone who puts the brakes on unexpectedly, or the brain is tricked about what it sees. Shaving can only be done when you are on the open road with plenty of stopping distance behind and in front of you in good conditions, its far less of a distraction than changing channels on a radio or replying to a passenger because you are still looking at the road not something inside the vehicle. Conclusion, don't allow anything ever to distract you where the traffic changes speed - e.g. junctions. Otherwise, situational awareness including your level of distraction and defensive driving seems to work. Oh and remember that if you have a bad cold or are dead tired your reactions are not much better than a drunk driver, though I haven't noticed any legislation about it despite the number of people falling asleep and driving off the road.
I think the problem that most people have with the status quo is that there is a privileged layer of parasites in the US system who leach off of entrepreneurship and contribute nothing to society except for an unfair tax - people are sick of the default wealth redistribution system that grants $ to the parasites who damage the western economy. The lawyers should be a service to the economy not the rulers of it. If the lawyers are running your society then you can bet your bottom dollar that another society that keeps them in check is going to fuck your ass and employ your children as rest room cleaners. Western society is well on its way to the most pathetic car crash in history. Have you paid off your 14 trillion debt yet uber-capitalist arsehole? Successful anarchy is not something you beat by sticking your head in the sand. Going on the biggest borrowing binge in history after 9-11 was the stupidest thing in history and the rest of us who subscribe to free democracy and the rule of law are utterly pissed off with the ruin of western democratic ideals that this has led to. Take your stupid bankrupt ideas and shove them up your arse.
Move to China, that's where you can truly benefit from the fruits of your own labor. Ironic eh?
unless they steal the source code of your implementation then I think all patents are shit for humanity as the only people who benefit are blood sucking parasite lawyers who should be working on assault and fraud cases rather than taxing the working people of the world. Death is too good for them. Chopping them into little pieces and jumping up and down on them should be a civic duty.
The IRA destroyed the lives of thousands of innocent civilians with their sick US funded terrorist war, we have the even more vile bin laden to thank for cutting off their funds. There was nothing romantic about them, their main occupation was organised crime and their hobby was shooting the kneecaps off their own people they had dissagreements with. We are fighting hard for a political solution in the UK and listening to driveling idiots like you suggest that bringing back the violence is a great idea because it only cost the UK government money is not on. You have obviously been watching their old propaganda as you havent the slightest grasp of what they actually did. Go learn some history or bugger off back into that cave you belong in.
I don't think that Slashdot would be improved by narrowing the subject matters discussed on here - the fact that items that are not directly related to technology are well subscribed suggests that the audience is up for it. If you prefer to live in a silo and not to consider anything outside your comfort zone, then why not take up religious Jihad-ism for example, where you would never have to worry about the real world in all its messy glory. Alternately why don't you use some of the filters that the site provides?
Oh well said.
I think this thought crystallizes exactly how annoying the drones are who are lined up behind the war on drugs and the consequent funding of a criminal subculture. The harm done by drugs pales into insignificance compared to the harm done by the criminal subculture its illegality funds.
I too am completely and utterly fed up to the back teeth with these self righteous morons with or with out their sky fairy telling the rest of us that drugs are immoral and that this justifies forcing poor people to live with infestations of murderous criminal gangs funded by the untaxed sale of drugs.
Also I would personally rather have the long term health risks of pot than alcohol as my social drug of choice - which is currently not possible as it has been made totally illegal in the UK again.
First rule of the Web, don't ever reply to anything that you don't want. I bet you paste random scripts into your web browser whilst you are logged into facebook too. I guess with gullible morons flooding the on-line world there is probably plenty of money to be made off of them by simple con jobs like Linkedin. Just because we get prurient pleasure from watching wannabe jerks exposing their sordid personalities on television doesn't mean that you will become a superstar by exposing your life on-line - because the only people interested in your super star life are vicious money making businesses who will sell your personal information to the highest bidder - be it Russian gangsters who want your credit card account or banks who want your pay check to pay no interest on and sell you particularly expensive shit investments to over your lifetime - hey we even sell you a ridiculously overpriced coffin as our valued customer of 50 years, during which we screwed you by at least 3/4 of a percent over the base rate and sold you an under-performing pension plan. Its all very nice believing that nothing should be private anymore now that all information wants to be free, but just watch the creativity of people who will use your information to screw your dead carcass to make their own pile of cash.
Wake up people, your personal information is worth a lot more than you are giving it away for. Go out and take what you want when you need it, don't just give them your balls on a plate. Of course the really smart people are still networking in real life, cuts the bandwidth down to quality if you keep away from the on-line plebs.
I agree with every word you say. Linkedin is only something you use when you are bored and take a look to see if any old work collegues are still around. Does anyone seriously think that they can make money out of this dead web site? I look for work on jobs sites, Linkedin is just a way of keeping track of people you used to work with in different industries. Its a huge joke.
Screw the plaintiffs, this sort of nonsense puts western civilisation at risk of total failure. The Plaintiffs need to realise that they are the enemy of the western world before we realise it and take the fools out with machetes.
Disney can go fuck themselves if they do this. I shall spend the rest of my life telling people that Disney deserve to die if they actually get this legal piece of ordure. What sort of society are we living in when a money grabbing litigious private business can create a licence to a non existent government department in order to screw the punters. I am revolted by this news story, maybe the enemies of the united states have a point.
This is the release we have to skip because the thirteen year olds designed the user interface isnt it? Ribbons are a market differentiation weapon and have completely fucked Microsoft Office and the youngsters who will have to learn a proper interface latter.
Apparently we are to bet the future on the basis of unknown unknowns rather than anything we do know - surely this verging on optimistic fantasy?
Actually the article isn't about the lack of a technology, it was saying that most people are too thick to understand that the laws of physics and chemistry rule out interplanetary flight (I bet you all the tea in china that a human never visits our nearest star). You kids have been spoilt by Moors law, yes we can double compute power every 18 months - but get this - you are still driving an automobile which is no more efficient than one from 100 years ago. The American government cant even afford to go back to the moon forty years after its first visit because the rockets cant get any cheaper. The only thing that will make space travel possible isn't a new technology - its a new science - and get this, unless the LHC can find some then there wont be any in your lifetime. I'm actually quite pleased about this because you dont deserve to live in a society that has space travel.
Oh its ok, my apologies for posting to myself, I was wrong, turns out that that point and click Microsoft windows slider gadget lets you see as much as you want. Brilliant. The trouble with Wiki leaks is that it is context free, no editors, no journalism. Ok fine it leaks stuff but to be honest unless you live in Iran or Libya its pointless reading any of their releases until you can see what investigative journalists have done with the information. By the way, well done to Mr Obama for getting the world together to kill that scum bag Gadaffi.
talking of editing, what the hell happened to Slashdot?, I cant get a flat view back, all I get is the first line of comments - what happened? all of a sudden the most erudite conversation I know of on the net got reduced to a one line tweet.