Granted, Odessa was nothing more than a conglomerate of people from different walks of life protecting fugitive Nazis, but it's always fun to have stories with Odessa planning for the resurrection of the Reich.
Did Cohen really share a cell with Michael Milken or did he stay at the same prison but at different times? I'd be more interested in reading about that if he did actually share the same cell.
Also, this author's credentials sound like something that could only qualify someone for work in San Francisco:
Violet Blue is author and editor of over a dozen sexual health books and erotica collections. She is a professional sex educator, lecturer, podcaster, video blogger, porn/erotica reviewer and machine artist. Violet is also a fetish model, a member of Survival Research Labs, an author at Metroblogging San Francisco; girl friday contributor at Fleshbot, a San Francisco native, and a pro blogger. For more information and links to Web sites discussed in Open Source Sex, go to Violet Blue's Web site, tinynibbles.com.
Please tell me I live in a sane world when I say even Dvorak or Cringley has better credentials.
I'm finally glad to see some truly wise words, not to be mistaken for the more popular cynical opinion I see. I have experienced this myself. With that said, I would hope the title reviewed does focus on how, as you appropriately quote, "accomplish their objectives with the programming tools at their disposal".
Hammers & paint @ home depot has not caused massive layoffs of contractors
Hold on a second!
I've spoken to many professional carpenters, and they have told me the day laborers have in fact cut the demand for those who have have done this as a lifetime trade. Most people, including well-to-do contractors, just want results and will hire day laborers because they have some experience whacking a hammer or stroking a paint brush. As one contractor told me, "a day laborer will make a wall smooth with dry wall, but a contractor will make a wall perfectly flat with dry wall."
Don't believe me? Look at all the people who get picked up for work in front of many Home Depots here in many corners of America.
I am not 100% sure if this is covered, but I do recall banks with FDIC insurance will let themselves have holes in their physical security to be robbed. The reason for this is that the banks can argue they were in the middle of numerous high value transactions, which wouldn't have been audited. This way they can get more money back from FDIC than they really lost.
I am not sure how this applies though with that type of theft.
The parent post is totally right on the money. Deputy Secretaries seem to be much more influential that most people like to think. Wolfowitz is a total war hawk and it was because of his viewpoints that put Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz at odds with Powell/Armitage. IMO Rumsfeld is more of a shrewd business man who was only following the president's policies. However, those policies were strongly enforced if not also influenced by Wolfowitz's policies.
The parent also makes a subtle point. A person does not need to be in a position if he already has the ear of the President. Current "unofficial" advisers such as Bush 1.0 (his daddy) and Newt Gingrich are people who make me concerned.
1. There was no single "dominant" navy as you want to imply. There were three navies which had the largest influence however: American, British, and guess what Japanese!
2. Here's a line that sums it up very nicely from the wiki article I cite above: It was the third largest navy in the world by 1920 behind United States Navy and Royal Navy,[1] and perhaps the most modern at the brink of World War II.
3. I know you want to say the US was dominant, but the Japanese were the ones who attacked the US as it was in the Japanese's way of being the dominant power in the Pacific.
Before you give me some malformed advice, take my advice to not be so fast to say the US as the dominant power.
The Japanese were already in play for power since the 1930s. They already had a well built navy, which actually was up and running since the turn of the 20th century. The Japanese navy didn't pop up over night. For you history buffs, you already know it was a large, modernized japanese navy which defeated the russians in the that little spat they had in the first decade.
At least give Parent Post a rating of "overrated".
since the age of 15 I've pretty much have never had to sleep alone unless I've wanted to, and many times I've pretty much had to knock back offers from attractive girls with a stick
I undestand people need to sometimes introduce themselves to add more credibility, but this is obviously someone who is illustrating some perverse form of false modesty. Please spare me!
I recall watching a few news programs saying the best places that preserve wildlife are military bases. Most of the base is never used, yet a buffer is kept around the areas that are used. Since people are prohibited from walking onto those bases with their hunting rifles and ATVs, these bases have actually become the best wildlife preserves, in fact better than those which are in place to protect wildlife.
Another program I saw was discussing the DMZ between north and south korea. Aside from the outposts that scatter the line, this long fuzzy border does not have a whole lot of foot traffic and has allowed for the some wildlife to retake what was once theirs. Ah, just dug up an article on this: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/ 22/korea.bio.dmz/ Funny how they mention the only threat to this "preserve" would be peace between the two countries.
Whoa boy, where to start: "Since the creations by Walt Disney of Space Mountain and EPCOT, progressives have attempted to show us a picture of how technology will affect our future lives. 1. It's a lot older than Disney World. 1939 World's fair, anyone? Or before that, how about a more radical example, like the Italian Futurists.
You're going in the right direction with the World's Fair comment, but you can go a bit further back to 1851. Turns out the World's Fair has been running since then. Looking up the Great Exhibition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition) indicates that it was a "the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry".
It also appears the Great Exhibition was a British reaction to the French Industrial Exposition of 1844 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Industrial_Ex position_of_1844). The wikipedia article clearly indicates this expo was "one in a series of eleven French national industrial expositions held to encourage improvements in progressive agriculture and in technology, that had their origins in 1798". Note the use of the word "progressive".
I'm not sure what you meant by the italian furturists. Were you talking about the ones at the turn of the 20th century? Or the renaissance?
I see the common response of "there's a difference between developers, designers, and directors". Yeah, the difference lies in the job description, but not the ethnic background. Most developers, designers, and directors are either white or of some asian/pacific background. Look at the demographics which are in the industry and you'll see mostly white followed by asian/pacific.
As far as I'm concerned, these games are made for white people by white people using blacks, latinos, and asians merely as content. A difference can be made if the game was made by a better mix of people than the usual bunch. I'm not saying it would be more politically correct, but it would definitely be more entertaining and enjoyable.
PS - I'm American of Mexican descent. Before you jump on the bandwagon and start talking about being a woman in a world of men, take note if you add all latinos and latinas in the gaming industry it's still smaller than the count of white women.
I respect your effort to buy American. I try to buy stuff from America or at least countries that are somewhat reputable for labor practices. One tricky point though -- I know "made in America" doesn't entail most of the process was done here.
A slight tangent -- I found it interesting you point out Mexico. One fact I've heard is the factory worker in Mexico earns four times as much as his Chinese equivalent.
Don't generalize volvo drivers as either members of the "ownership" class or the "liberal" movement.
I'm a developer and I saved up my pennies for a volvo s60r because I wanted something with a lot of kick and yet different, ie, not a glorified toyota (Lexus) or some car made by former Luftwaffe contractors of the Third Reich. I think this same type of thinking made me get my Powerbook in early 02 (well before the "Think Different" campaign).
Also keep in mind, people who buy volvos understand *part* of the cost is due to the European (primarily Swedish)labor costs.
Sure, you can disagree with me on why I got my Volvo, but I paid for it, not you.
Now, back to the article. I think this is appalling, and if it holds true, I will gladly get rid of my iPod. I find it disgusting that such a pricey piece of hardware shouldn't cost so much especially if the technology isn't really anything new nor if the labor is so low in cost. It's a total rip!
Oh, and a final thing to this parent: Kindly fuck off for generalizing me into something like that, thanks. Ownership class my ass.
So so true. What scares me the most are these paranoid folk on here who are so quick to abuse terminology only to name the US as a "police state" because they know a guy who knows a guy who read an article about a guy who was "supposedly arrested, detained, and tortured" for holding Star Wars Episode 1.
Honestly, when was the last time any of you Americans were dragged out and beaten by the police for just being in the minority on religion (or lack thereof), political view, or ripping CDs?
No way in hell. Regardless of their similar religious followings, these companies have way different cultures. I'm not just talking about Japanese and American. I'm speaking more as of what the culture is within each of these companies.
Let's also not forget Apple caters to a high-end market. Granted they have products that are aimed toward some middle ground, but the fact is Apple still has an exclusiveist aire to it. Nintendo presently aims for utilizing low-priced, efficient, time-proven technology. We see this in products such as the Wii and DS.
you hit the nail on the head. Let's not forget another point -- in order to play some PC games, you must have Admin rights. This is not the case with the games and developers you mention on the mac.
... at these illegal immgrants coming into the country my great grandparents worked hard to get into fairly.
FYI, I see myself as American first and foremost, and my latino heritage does not conflict with my views on this matter. In fact, there's a growing group known as "you don't speak for me" which has gained some notoriety after the founder Col. Al Rodriguez (Ret.) held a press conference over a month ago. Look at http://dontspeakforme.org/ for more information as well as the cspan archives for Rodriguez's conference.
I see a lot non-latino (mostly white) "sympathisers" talking about immigration reform. I also see a lot of you folk on here talking about immigration reform as well, yet it surprises me none of you guys do a thourough enough RCA to determine the problem originates within Mexico's borders. Mexico has had problems with their economy and government(s) since day 0, the day of their independence. They have a true have/have-not mentality over there, plus there is the Indian population which is in constant rebellion due to the lack of representation. Bush seemed very eager to do regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he should have looked closer and considered cleaning house in Mexico first.
Did you know that if you take nation by nation the count of billionaires, Mexico is within that top 10? That money they spend in the US is minimal compared to the money they wire back to mexico, which ends up back in the pockets of those billionaires.
Vicente Fox doesn't worry about government change as the weak US immigration policy bandaids the Mexican mess.
In fairness, NAFTA has more or less failed Mexico, or should I say "give everyone exactly what they wanted"? In addition, I've read a Chinese laborer in China works at 1/4th the cost of a Mexican laborer of the same job in Mexico. So will the people who use that "they do the work no one else wants to do" argument say the chinese are doing the work mexicans don't want to do?
Oh and you western europeans, don't even talk. I know you guys have much stricter legislation and what not against immigrants despite the EU being around. I also know specific groups are alienated, such as the Romani (Gypsy).
No, not entirely right. The thing you forget is that with these new inventions, it gives new workloads the person didn't have to do beforehand.
You give a great example but unfortunately don't cover this. The scribe doesn't use these inventions so he can go to lunch. Now, with all this free time he can do new tasks like type make coffee, prepare presentations, and many other things.
On top of this, these new inventions the lazy and industrious scribes created inventions which lessen the need for someone specialized in a specific task.
If anything, you could argue a smaller workpool is needed to do tasks as time and inventions progress. However, in order to make that a possiblity, a number of industries would need to be created to cater to that. I'm not sure if the new industries would balance out the number of people not needed in the aforementioned scenerio.
You make a great point with the Mongols, but I wished you emphasized your last point. The Mongols had a very simple shamanistic religion, but would convert to the religion of whatever was domininant in a particular region. For instance, I recall that at a point when a lot of Muslim land was taken, the Khan at the time converted to Islam. In fact, some of the greatest Mosques at the time were created by the Mongols.
Actually, I'd argue it was a Jewish invention. Granted it was bankrolled by the US Government and was developed in the United States, but a clear majority of those participating in the design of the Atom bomb were of Jewish descent. It's somewhat ironic, as many of these were from Axis territories. If the Thrid Reich didn't have an anti-semetic policy, they could have been the first to develop it.
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Granted, Odessa was nothing more than a conglomerate of people from different walks of life protecting fugitive Nazis, but it's always fun to have stories with Odessa planning for the resurrection of the Reich.
Did Cohen really share a cell with Michael Milken or did he stay at the same prison but at different times? I'd be more interested in reading about that if he did actually share the same cell.
Also, this author's credentials sound like something that could only qualify someone for work in San Francisco:
Violet Blue is author and editor of over a dozen sexual health books and erotica collections. She is a professional sex educator, lecturer, podcaster, video blogger, porn/erotica reviewer and machine artist. Violet is also a fetish model, a member of Survival Research Labs, an author at Metroblogging San Francisco; girl friday contributor at Fleshbot, a San Francisco native, and a pro blogger. For more information and links to Web sites discussed in Open Source Sex, go to Violet Blue's Web site, tinynibbles.com.
Please tell me I live in a sane world when I say even Dvorak or Cringley has better credentials.
I'm finally glad to see some truly wise words, not to be mistaken for the more popular cynical opinion I see. I have experienced this myself. With that said, I would hope the title reviewed does focus on how, as you appropriately quote, "accomplish their objectives with the programming tools at their disposal".
Hammers & paint @ home depot has not caused massive layoffs of contractors
Hold on a second!
I've spoken to many professional carpenters, and they have told me the day laborers have in fact cut the demand for those who have have done this as a lifetime trade. Most people, including well-to-do contractors, just want results and will hire day laborers because they have some experience whacking a hammer or stroking a paint brush. As one contractor told me, "a day laborer will make a wall smooth with dry wall, but a contractor will make a wall perfectly flat with dry wall."
Don't believe me? Look at all the people who get picked up for work in front of many Home Depots here in many corners of America.
I am not 100% sure if this is covered, but I do recall banks with FDIC insurance will let themselves have holes in their physical security to be robbed. The reason for this is that the banks can argue they were in the middle of numerous high value transactions, which wouldn't have been audited. This way they can get more money back from FDIC than they really lost.
I am not sure how this applies though with that type of theft.
The parent post is totally right on the money. Deputy Secretaries seem to be much more influential that most people like to think. Wolfowitz is a total war hawk and it was because of his viewpoints that put Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz at odds with Powell/Armitage. IMO Rumsfeld is more of a shrewd business man who was only following the president's policies. However, those policies were strongly enforced if not also influenced by Wolfowitz's policies.
The parent also makes a subtle point. A person does not need to be in a position if he already has the ear of the President. Current "unofficial" advisers such as Bush 1.0 (his daddy) and Newt Gingrich are people who make me concerned.
...my bullshitting friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_navy
1. There was no single "dominant" navy as you want to imply. There were three navies which had the largest influence however: American, British, and guess what Japanese!
2. Here's a line that sums it up very nicely from the wiki article I cite above: It was the third largest navy in the world by 1920 behind United States Navy and Royal Navy,[1] and perhaps the most modern at the brink of World War II.
3. I know you want to say the US was dominant, but the Japanese were the ones who attacked the US as it was in the Japanese's way of being the dominant power in the Pacific.
Before you give me some malformed advice, take my advice to not be so fast to say the US as the dominant power.
So bullshit is all over your face!
The Japanese were already in play for power since the 1930s. They already had a well built navy, which actually was up and running since the turn of the 20th century. The Japanese navy didn't pop up over night. For you history buffs, you already know it was a large, modernized japanese navy which defeated the russians in the that little spat they had in the first decade.
At least give Parent Post a rating of "overrated".
since the age of 15 I've pretty much have never had to sleep alone unless I've wanted to, and many times I've pretty much had to knock back offers from attractive girls with a stick
I undestand people need to sometimes introduce themselves to add more credibility, but this is obviously someone who is illustrating some perverse form of false modesty. Please spare me!
I recall watching a few news programs saying the best places that preserve wildlife are military bases. Most of the base is never used, yet a buffer is kept around the areas that are used. Since people are prohibited from walking onto those bases with their hunting rifles and ATVs, these bases have actually become the best wildlife preserves, in fact better than those which are in place to protect wildlife.
/ 22/korea.bio.dmz/ Funny how they mention the only threat to this "preserve" would be peace between the two countries.
Another program I saw was discussing the DMZ between north and south korea. Aside from the outposts that scatter the line, this long fuzzy border does not have a whole lot of foot traffic and has allowed for the some wildlife to retake what was once theirs. Ah, just dug up an article on this: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08
This is the end of our civil liberties, right to arm bears, freedom to download pirated software, and anything else we want to do!
You're going in the right direction with the World's Fair comment, but you can go a bit further back to 1851. Turns out the World's Fair has been running since then. Looking up the Great Exhibition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibitio
It also appears the Great Exhibition was a British reaction to the French Industrial Exposition of 1844 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Industrial_E
I'm not sure what you meant by the italian furturists. Were you talking about the ones at the turn of the 20th century? Or the renaissance?
Thanks
I see the common response of "there's a difference between developers, designers, and directors". Yeah, the difference lies in the job description, but not the ethnic background. Most developers, designers, and directors are either white or of some asian/pacific background. Look at the demographics which are in the industry and you'll see mostly white followed by asian/pacific.
As far as I'm concerned, these games are made for white people by white people using blacks, latinos, and asians merely as content. A difference can be made if the game was made by a better mix of people than the usual bunch. I'm not saying it would be more politically correct, but it would definitely be more entertaining and enjoyable.
PS - I'm American of Mexican descent. Before you jump on the bandwagon and start talking about being a woman in a world of men, take note if you add all latinos and latinas in the gaming industry it's still smaller than the count of white women.
Thanks smarty. I meant to say the switch campaign.
I respect your effort to buy American. I try to buy stuff from America or at least countries that are somewhat reputable for labor practices. One tricky point though -- I know "made in America" doesn't entail most of the process was done here.
A slight tangent -- I found it interesting you point out Mexico. One fact I've heard is the factory worker in Mexico earns four times as much as his Chinese equivalent.
Don't generalize volvo drivers as either members of the "ownership" class or the "liberal" movement.
I'm a developer and I saved up my pennies for a volvo s60r because I wanted something with a lot of kick and yet different, ie, not a glorified toyota (Lexus) or some car made by former Luftwaffe contractors of the Third Reich. I think this same type of thinking made me get my Powerbook in early 02 (well before the "Think Different" campaign).
Also keep in mind, people who buy volvos understand *part* of the cost is due to the European (primarily Swedish)labor costs.
Sure, you can disagree with me on why I got my Volvo, but I paid for it, not you.
Now, back to the article. I think this is appalling, and if it holds true, I will gladly get rid of my iPod. I find it disgusting that such a pricey piece of hardware shouldn't cost so much especially if the technology isn't really anything new nor if the labor is so low in cost. It's a total rip!
Oh, and a final thing to this parent: Kindly fuck off for generalizing me into something like that, thanks. Ownership class my ass.
So so true. What scares me the most are these paranoid folk on here who are so quick to abuse terminology only to name the US as a "police state" because they know a guy who knows a guy who read an article about a guy who was "supposedly arrested, detained, and tortured" for holding Star Wars Episode 1.
Honestly, when was the last time any of you Americans were dragged out and beaten by the police for just being in the minority on religion (or lack thereof), political view, or ripping CDs?
No way in hell. Regardless of their similar religious followings, these companies have way different cultures. I'm not just talking about Japanese and American. I'm speaking more as of what the culture is within each of these companies.
Let's also not forget Apple caters to a high-end market. Granted they have products that are aimed toward some middle ground, but the fact is Apple still has an exclusiveist aire to it. Nintendo presently aims for utilizing low-priced, efficient, time-proven technology. We see this in products such as the Wii and DS.
you hit the nail on the head. Let's not forget another point -- in order to play some PC games, you must have Admin rights. This is not the case with the games and developers you mention on the mac.
... at these illegal immgrants coming into the country my great grandparents worked hard to get into fairly.
FYI, I see myself as American first and foremost, and my latino heritage does not conflict with my views on this matter. In fact, there's a growing group known as "you don't speak for me" which has gained some notoriety after the founder Col. Al Rodriguez (Ret.) held a press conference over a month ago. Look at http://dontspeakforme.org/ for more information as well as the cspan archives for Rodriguez's conference.
I see a lot non-latino (mostly white) "sympathisers" talking about immigration reform. I also see a lot of you folk on here talking about immigration reform as well, yet it surprises me none of you guys do a thourough enough RCA to determine the problem originates within Mexico's borders. Mexico has had problems with their economy and government(s) since day 0, the day of their independence. They have a true have/have-not mentality over there, plus there is the Indian population which is in constant rebellion due to the lack of representation. Bush seemed very eager to do regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he should have looked closer and considered cleaning house in Mexico first.
Did you know that if you take nation by nation the count of billionaires, Mexico is within that top 10? That money they spend in the US is minimal compared to the money they wire back to mexico, which ends up back in the pockets of those billionaires.
Vicente Fox doesn't worry about government change as the weak US immigration policy bandaids the Mexican mess.
In fairness, NAFTA has more or less failed Mexico, or should I say "give everyone exactly what they wanted"? In addition, I've read a Chinese laborer in China works at 1/4th the cost of a Mexican laborer of the same job in Mexico. So will the people who use that "they do the work no one else wants to do" argument say the chinese are doing the work mexicans don't want to do?
Oh and you western europeans, don't even talk. I know you guys have much stricter legislation and what not against immigrants despite the EU being around. I also know specific groups are alienated, such as the Romani (Gypsy).
I'm really pissed off at you people.
No, not entirely right. The thing you forget is that with these new inventions, it gives new workloads the person didn't have to do beforehand.
You give a great example but unfortunately don't cover this. The scribe doesn't use these inventions so he can go to lunch. Now, with all this free time he can do new tasks like type make coffee, prepare presentations, and many other things.
On top of this, these new inventions the lazy and industrious scribes created inventions which lessen the need for someone specialized in a specific task.
If anything, you could argue a smaller workpool is needed to do tasks as time and inventions progress. However, in order to make that a possiblity, a number of industries would need to be created to cater to that. I'm not sure if the new industries would balance out the number of people not needed in the aforementioned scenerio.
You make a great point with the Mongols, but I wished you emphasized your last point. The Mongols had a very simple shamanistic religion, but would convert to the religion of whatever was domininant in a particular region. For instance, I recall that at a point when a lot of Muslim land was taken, the Khan at the time converted to Islam. In fact, some of the greatest Mosques at the time were created by the Mongols.
Actually, I'd argue it was a Jewish invention. Granted it was bankrolled by the US Government and was developed in the United States, but a clear majority of those participating in the design of the Atom bomb were of Jewish descent. It's somewhat ironic, as many of these were from Axis territories. If the Thrid Reich didn't have an anti-semetic policy, they could have been the first to develop it.
How does something happily execute? Either it executes or doesn't execute. I swear, people wanting to through in their adverbs.