here's the shocking truth about your brain and your language:
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they become monopolies or oligopolies, and warp the marketplace so only they benefit
the greatest enemy of the free marketplace, true capitalism, is not socialism or communism, but monopolies and oligopolies. people need to understand the difference between capitalism and corporatism
capitalism is the engine of growth of any economy, and the country that is able to keep the marketplaces as close to free as possible is the country that prospers. corporatism meanwhile is all about the larger players in the marketplace paying off the government, abusing natural defects in the marketplace, and otherwise ossifying and abusing their size to squash innovation and consumers to maximize profit. what's most important is to realize that the only tool you have against capitalism devolving into corporatism is a government with strong regulatory powers. the players in the mark place won't self-regulate, ever... well, they WILL self-regulate, if by that you mean the degenrate meaning of merely consolidating their power at the expense of the free market
the "shocking" realization for the libertarian free market fundamentalist is that the friend of the true capitalist is a strong central government with lots of regulations. it seems contradictory to the common rhetoric, but its absolutely true. perhaps the common rhetoric has been bought and paid for by corporatists. perhaps those who fight government, whether out of being propagandized or being naive, are actually working for the oligopolies whose true desire is to crush the individual and the marketplace (for then they profit more)
if you are a true libertarian, your greatest enemy are oligopolies, not communists
we need a sea change on the right in terms of seeing that large corporations are not their friends, and represent a greater threat to their beliefs and their country than any bleeding heart liberal could ever be
they provide no extra information. they are the grammatical equivalent of wearing a suit: uncomfortable, extra effort, pointless. you understood what i wrote perfectly
yes, certain brittle fragile minds can't deal with novel formatting. this drives brittle fragile minds away from my words. and so i win, because then i don't have to wade through mediocre comment replies from brittle fragile minds
its a simple and effective form of social filtration
why do some people cover themselves in tattoos? for some people, dealing with someone covered in tattoos is like a ringing inside their head: they simply can't deal with it. for other people, if you're covered in tattoos, so what? i deal with you as well and as easily and as honestly as someone wearing a suit. so the tattoo covered person has a convenient social filter against the mediocre in their society
the mediocre mind trusts suits, but doesn't trust tattooed people. and plenty of snake oil salesman, demagogues, and charlatans throughout history have presented themselves as perfect specimens of respectability, manipulating the simple social cues, all the while lying their asses off, and yet mediocre minds listen, because they trust to the social convention, rather than the actual words
if you want poisoned prose, deal with the guy who writes his placid lies in sterling pointless grammatical convention. if you want the ugly truth, deal with me. i'm not here to impress you or cater to your comfort
that is, the economics of the attack is not a common one: your average podunk company offers what, exactly? and i'm not even talking in terms of financial possibilities, i'm talking in terms of corporate and political espionage, which the chinese government is interested in, not common robbery. because with google, if you break in, you get such a huge payoff in terms of strategic intelligence, unlike any other exploitable entity. so somewhere in china, a stable of minds are focused like a laser on you
and structurally, security wise, the problem is the same as terrorism: the good guys have to be vigilant all the time, they can't fail ever. while the bad guys: they can screw up time and again, that's ok. they learn even. they only need to get in once. so even if you are google, no, ESPECIALLY if you are google because you're such a fabled target, you are at a strategic disadvantage, even with all your resources, to be hacked. those who want to hack you are ready to invest heavily into hacking you: its a good investment, because the payoff is gargantuan, the economics of the security situation works against google
the REAL lesson is for us, the common joe blows of the world: don't put all of your eggs in one basket. have an ecosystem of interdepndent accounts with different companies. don't do EVERYTHING at google, or their exposure is your exposure
the death panels have been in existence for years: their called healthcare corporations
they make more money when they deny you care. you do understand that, right?
this is in explicit comparison to the govt, where transparency and accountability can be mandated, investigated, and adhered to. which do you think is better at keeping secrets? the govt where the other party is always looking for secrets to embarrass their opponents? or a corporation, accountable to no one except the almighty buck, who profits when they keep secrets?
the government will waste money and screw up due to incompetence, of course, absolutely do i agree believe and understand that. but do you honestly trust a corporation whose job is to take care of its shareholders over such a government? and do you honestly believe that dealing with a healthcare company isn't bureaucratic and incompetent?
both govt and corporations suck when it comes to healthcare. but the govt sucks LESS. corporations EXPLICITLY consider their #1 priority to be making a profit, and #2 priority is taking care of you. when push comes to shove, which is more important to a corporation? your health or your money?
but at least its job description is to take care of you
corporations meanwhile, their job description is to take care of the shareholder, not you, explicitly
so you choose:
1. an entity whose job is to take care of you, even if it does a bad job of that 2. an entity whose job is to NOT take care of you, and in fact, when they don't take care of you, they make more money
to me, both #1 and #2 suck. but #1 sounds better than #2
robin williams made this movie in 2004
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The Final Cut is a film written and directed by Omar Naim, released in 2004. The cast includes Robin Williams, James Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Christopher Britton, and Genevieve Buechner. It was produced by the Canadian production company, Lions Gate Entertainment and filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and in Berlin, Germany. The film featured original music by Brian Tyler. The story takes place in a near future in which people can pay to have their babies implanted with memory chips. These "Zoe Implants", developed by EYE Tech company, record every moment of their lives, so that they may be viewed by loved ones after one's death. The plot centers on Alan Hakman (Williams), a cutter, whose job it is to edit the Zoe footage into a feature-film length piece, called a "Rememory".
driving into st. johns from mainland newfoundland (st. johns is on a peninsula) you experience, in the span of about 15 minutes time: downpour of hard rain, then blissful sunshine, then deep fog, then heavy snow, then overcast clouds
the deeper observation is that weather is so fickle in the north atlantic latitudes, that the wind can and will shift back and forth from canada/ europe plenty of times throughout the weeks that this volcanoe blows
the downside is that you never know what will be canceled when or for how long
the upside is that you are still going to get to travel somewhere after a smallish delay (as opposed to canceled flights for weeks on end)
there are bean counters in the airline industry that would say "hey boss, the cost of grounding the whole fleet is $x, and the cost in lawsuits and replacement planes of a crash is $y. and as you can see, at a z% crash rate, we will still make money flying in the ash cloud"
this same calculus governs the automobile industry: why spend bazillions on safety devices when the half dozen lawsuits from deaths every year from not using the safety component is cheaper?
the point is: you need government regulation. you need strong government regulation because companies can NOT be relied upon to police themselves. that feedback from the market is NOT a valid safety mechanism. the free market fairy can in fact very often decide AGAINST saving human life. we need a strong regulatory government agency (as opposed to the clinton-bush era "dismantle all regulations in finance industry" bullshit philosophy) to simply say: "sorry, there is something more important than the bottom line, and that's the lives of our citizens, so you will not fly in the ash cloud, and you will build expensive safeguards in your automobiles. at your expense conglomerates. shut up and deal with it"
and guess what: you will pay taxes for these regulations and their enforcement, and you will not whine about bureaucracy and red tape, and you will not balk at the cost of these regulations. you will happy these government functions are there to save your life (regardless of the downgraded value of your life according to your own free market worship ideology)
my whole point is: the free market fairy does NOT solve all problems. it only maximizes profit. and maximizing profit can at times be in direct conflict with simple morality, lives and health (as we see in the health care "industry")
because the conservatives in the usa have denied us an ability to do so
if the liberals truly were in charge, rather than hamstrung by the conservative obstructionist party, then we could have a first rate european style healthcare sysytem
but thank you, at least we have you to:
1. claim we don't have the best, 2. point to liberals as the reason why we don't (when the liberals clearly want the best), 3. then obstruct any ability for us to have the best (assuming you are a conservative)
the usa will improve when all the fundamentalist believers in the free market fairy shut the fuck up in shame at what their moronic ideology has reaped
they have much more bandwidth at much lower prices
oh no, but they're SOCIALIST countries!
you know, that evil scary word that blocks out all common sense because we worship the free market fairy
the free market fairy solves all problems and is always superior to public solutions, always. look how far ahead our bandwidths are than evil socialist countries, dealing as we do with loving corporations like comcast that always have our needs at heart </sarcasm>
they have a sterling track record in dealing with waste disposal, and they always have your well-being as their paramount concern
</sarcasm>
nobody in the healthcare debate believes government will handle healthcare super-efficiently and without bureaucracy or waste. it will simply be BETTER than what we had beforehand. at least the government has a mandate to take care of YOU rather than some shareholders
all supervillain cave headquarters have a rocket launchpad room
all evil supervillains in b grade hollywood movies want to launch rockets at somebody from hidden rocket launch sites. whether syndrome in the incredibles, blofeld in you only live twice, rogue russians in vin diesel's xxx, whomever
to cool down their ridiculously huge server complex then is a simple matter of opening the dome over the launch pad
Slashdot Mirror
and your unwritten analogy is that javascript is the machine language of the internet
here's the shocking truth about your brain and your language:
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php
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http://brian.teeman.net/mister-men/do-we-need-vowels.html
people will boot netbook-iphone hybrids directly into the browser
javascript will be the new c++. yes, that's a somewhat horrifying thought: the future of UI development will be javascript, gulp
they become monopolies or oligopolies, and warp the marketplace so only they benefit
the greatest enemy of the free marketplace, true capitalism, is not socialism or communism, but monopolies and oligopolies. people need to understand the difference between capitalism and corporatism
capitalism is the engine of growth of any economy, and the country that is able to keep the marketplaces as close to free as possible is the country that prospers. corporatism meanwhile is all about the larger players in the marketplace paying off the government, abusing natural defects in the marketplace, and otherwise ossifying and abusing their size to squash innovation and consumers to maximize profit. what's most important is to realize that the only tool you have against capitalism devolving into corporatism is a government with strong regulatory powers. the players in the mark place won't self-regulate, ever... well, they WILL self-regulate, if by that you mean the degenrate meaning of merely consolidating their power at the expense of the free market
the "shocking" realization for the libertarian free market fundamentalist is that the friend of the true capitalist is a strong central government with lots of regulations. it seems contradictory to the common rhetoric, but its absolutely true. perhaps the common rhetoric has been bought and paid for by corporatists. perhaps those who fight government, whether out of being propagandized or being naive, are actually working for the oligopolies whose true desire is to crush the individual and the marketplace (for then they profit more)
if you are a true libertarian, your greatest enemy are oligopolies, not communists
we need a sea change on the right in terms of seeing that large corporations are not their friends, and represent a greater threat to their beliefs and their country than any bleeding heart liberal could ever be
they provide no extra information. they are the grammatical equivalent of wearing a suit: uncomfortable, extra effort, pointless. you understood what i wrote perfectly
yes, certain brittle fragile minds can't deal with novel formatting. this drives brittle fragile minds away from my words. and so i win, because then i don't have to wade through mediocre comment replies from brittle fragile minds
its a simple and effective form of social filtration
why do some people cover themselves in tattoos? for some people, dealing with someone covered in tattoos is like a ringing inside their head: they simply can't deal with it. for other people, if you're covered in tattoos, so what? i deal with you as well and as easily and as honestly as someone wearing a suit. so the tattoo covered person has a convenient social filter against the mediocre in their society
the mediocre mind trusts suits, but doesn't trust tattooed people. and plenty of snake oil salesman, demagogues, and charlatans throughout history have presented themselves as perfect specimens of respectability, manipulating the simple social cues, all the while lying their asses off, and yet mediocre minds listen, because they trust to the social convention, rather than the actual words
if you want poisoned prose, deal with the guy who writes his placid lies in sterling pointless grammatical convention. if you want the ugly truth, deal with me. i'm not here to impress you or cater to your comfort
matched the target
that is, the economics of the attack is not a common one: your average podunk company offers what, exactly? and i'm not even talking in terms of financial possibilities, i'm talking in terms of corporate and political espionage, which the chinese government is interested in, not common robbery. because with google, if you break in, you get such a huge payoff in terms of strategic intelligence, unlike any other exploitable entity. so somewhere in china, a stable of minds are focused like a laser on you
and structurally, security wise, the problem is the same as terrorism: the good guys have to be vigilant all the time, they can't fail ever. while the bad guys: they can screw up time and again, that's ok. they learn even. they only need to get in once. so even if you are google, no, ESPECIALLY if you are google because you're such a fabled target, you are at a strategic disadvantage, even with all your resources, to be hacked. those who want to hack you are ready to invest heavily into hacking you: its a good investment, because the payoff is gargantuan, the economics of the security situation works against google
the REAL lesson is for us, the common joe blows of the world: don't put all of your eggs in one basket. have an ecosystem of interdepndent accounts with different companies. don't do EVERYTHING at google, or their exposure is your exposure
in a theoretical device, i have been theoretically impressed
is a fool's errand
let it go wherever it wants, for free, and profit off the ancillary revenue streams of such an attitude
the alternative approach assumes that you have more control than you can ever have, even theoretically
even our founding fathers were media "pirates"
the death panels have been in existence for years: their called healthcare corporations
they make more money when they deny you care. you do understand that, right?
this is in explicit comparison to the govt, where transparency and accountability can be mandated, investigated, and adhered to. which do you think is better at keeping secrets? the govt where the other party is always looking for secrets to embarrass their opponents? or a corporation, accountable to no one except the almighty buck, who profits when they keep secrets?
the government will waste money and screw up due to incompetence, of course, absolutely do i agree believe and understand that. but do you honestly trust a corporation whose job is to take care of its shareholders over such a government? and do you honestly believe that dealing with a healthcare company isn't bureaucratic and incompetent?
both govt and corporations suck when it comes to healthcare. but the govt sucks LESS. corporations EXPLICITLY consider their #1 priority to be making a profit, and #2 priority is taking care of you. when push comes to shove, which is more important to a corporation? your health or your money?
but at least its job description is to take care of you
corporations meanwhile, their job description is to take care of the shareholder, not you, explicitly
so you choose:
1. an entity whose job is to take care of you, even if it does a bad job of that
2. an entity whose job is to NOT take care of you, and in fact, when they don't take care of you, they make more money
to me, both #1 and #2 suck. but #1 sounds better than #2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(2004_film)
if you get illinois, kentucky and tennessee to legislate over something silly, that's a time zone time wasting bingo you know
is kentucky the free space?
i'm not really sure why, but in my mind, wisconsin means cheese and badgers
i'm not sure if that association is normal or random
PANIC! A SNAKE! SNAKE, AUGH SNAKE.... Aaargh, it's a Snake!!!
Mushroom Mushroom!
the 2 other major countries in north america are currently in pandemonium, experiencing
1. insurrection by narcoterrorist drug mafia and
2. insurrection by antigovernment mindless zealots, respectively
(to seriously answer your question, the maple leaf symbolizes canada, which is affected by the volcano, not the usa)
the iceland economy, that died in 2008, stipulated in its last wishes that its ashes be spread over europe
delicious
driving into st. johns from mainland newfoundland (st. johns is on a peninsula) you experience, in the span of about 15 minutes time: downpour of hard rain, then blissful sunshine, then deep fog, then heavy snow, then overcast clouds
the deeper observation is that weather is so fickle in the north atlantic latitudes, that the wind can and will shift back and forth from canada/ europe plenty of times throughout the weeks that this volcanoe blows
the downside is that you never know what will be canceled when or for how long
the upside is that you are still going to get to travel somewhere after a smallish delay (as opposed to canceled flights for weeks on end)
there are bean counters in the airline industry that would say "hey boss, the cost of grounding the whole fleet is $x, and the cost in lawsuits and replacement planes of a crash is $y. and as you can see, at a z% crash rate, we will still make money flying in the ash cloud"
this same calculus governs the automobile industry: why spend bazillions on safety devices when the half dozen lawsuits from deaths every year from not using the safety component is cheaper?
the point is: you need government regulation. you need strong government regulation because companies can NOT be relied upon to police themselves. that feedback from the market is NOT a valid safety mechanism. the free market fairy can in fact very often decide AGAINST saving human life. we need a strong regulatory government agency (as opposed to the clinton-bush era "dismantle all regulations in finance industry" bullshit philosophy) to simply say: "sorry, there is something more important than the bottom line, and that's the lives of our citizens, so you will not fly in the ash cloud, and you will build expensive safeguards in your automobiles. at your expense conglomerates. shut up and deal with it"
and guess what: you will pay taxes for these regulations and their enforcement, and you will not whine about bureaucracy and red tape, and you will not balk at the cost of these regulations. you will happy these government functions are there to save your life (regardless of the downgraded value of your life according to your own free market worship ideology)
my whole point is: the free market fairy does NOT solve all problems. it only maximizes profit. and maximizing profit can at times be in direct conflict with simple morality, lives and health (as we see in the health care "industry")
because the conservatives in the usa have denied us an ability to do so
if the liberals truly were in charge, rather than hamstrung by the conservative obstructionist party, then we could have a first rate european style healthcare sysytem
but thank you, at least we have you to:
1. claim we don't have the best,
2. point to liberals as the reason why we don't (when the liberals clearly want the best),
3. then obstruct any ability for us to have the best (assuming you are a conservative)
the usa will improve when all the fundamentalist believers in the free market fairy shut the fuck up in shame at what their moronic ideology has reaped
they have much more bandwidth at much lower prices
oh no, but they're SOCIALIST countries!
you know, that evil scary word that blocks out all common sense because we worship the free market fairy
the free market fairy solves all problems and is always superior to public solutions, always. look how far ahead our bandwidths are than evil socialist countries, dealing as we do with loving corporations like comcast that always have our needs at heart </sarcasm>
they have a sterling track record in dealing with waste disposal, and they always have your well-being as their paramount concern
</sarcasm>
nobody in the healthcare debate believes government will handle healthcare super-efficiently and without bureaucracy or waste. it will simply be BETTER than what we had beforehand. at least the government has a mandate to take care of YOU rather than some shareholders
then what IS he being charged with
"San Francisco policy at the time was that passwords would only be given to the Mayor"
no city the size of san francisco would ever have such a policy
you're a baldfaced lying sleazebag
do you clear everything with the ceo in person?
sound reasonable?
all supervillain cave headquarters have a rocket launchpad room
all evil supervillains in b grade hollywood movies want to launch rockets at somebody from hidden rocket launch sites. whether syndrome in the incredibles, blofeld in you only live twice, rogue russians in vin diesel's xxx, whomever
to cool down their ridiculously huge server complex then is a simple matter of opening the dome over the launch pad
duh!