Right..., the pressure on the labor market has nothing at all to do with the erosion of Americans' spending power. All those living-wage jobs are gone just because we ran out of trees, oil, whatever, right. Must be damned inconvenient, then, to note that coal production has never been higher in the U.S. Oh, no. We don't actually use it here. We sell it to places where it's cheaper to use it; cheaper workforce and no spendy environmental regulations. Sorry, dude, but the facts just don't line up with your fantasy view of the way the world works.
That's really odd. I can afford a home and I'm not rich.
Nice, totally non-specific metric there, pal. The fact is that, for most Americans, we can afford much less home than we could in the past. As has been pointed out previously in the thread, the buying power of Americans has been in steady decline since the late '70's. Now, it often requires two incomes to afford the typical home purchase. The facts about this are as incontrovertible as they are readily accessible. One only needs to, you know, actually look at them. Or, one keep ignoring them and, safe in the temporary refuge of provincialist fallacy, believe that everything is just fine because it's just fine for you (currently).
for why the H-1B system ought to be massively reduced and US contracts should be awarded only to actual US companies instead of shell-game "subsidiaries."
More crazy talk from the left-wing, socialist, protectionist, wacko crowd. Ain't you not heard? This here's a global econuhmy now, and if we can't compete by sending U.S. jobs overseas, or by flooding the labor market with thousands of cheap imports, Wall Street will collapse. And you don't want that on your conscience now, do you? The nerve! To suggest that American business actually spend money on a quality domestic labor force. What kind of fantasy world do you pinko's live in?
Theaters that don't enforce no-talking/no-texting rules don't get my business anymore. If I go out to see a movie anymore, The Alamo Drafthouse gets my business. They don't set texters on fire, unfortunately, but they do deal effectively with those inconsiderate fucks.
Give in to it? No. Not now. Not ever.
I hope it fails, and fails big.
It's high time people stopped confusing Wall Street with "the economy". A very large part of Wall Street anymore is little more than a glorified casino.
Except for the fact that Joe Mainstreet still has large chunks of his "retirement" on account for the gamblers to use. When the gamblers go bust, so does Joe Mainstreet, thereby, lots of the businesses on Mainstreet, and those, without question, are "the economy".
No it's not. A classical networked system belongs to a single company, and there's a clear separation between the inside (which is mostly trusted) and the outside (which is not trusted). A cloud system blurs the distinction, so you never know if the stuff you're accessing is actually being used by untrusted people who are going to steal your secrets, blackmail you, etc.
Actually, it's not blurry at all, if you take the time to think about what you are doing,...or are encumbered by compliance issues that require you to care. If it's something that might be in any way sensitive, it can't be safely stored "in the cloud", without taking certain precautions, e.g. solid encryption. Likewise, if it's loss would be felt, storing a thing solely in the cloud is arguably foolish.
Stallman is right, in sofar that any sensible engineer should never have had his works, artefacts (sic), algorithms and data solely "in" the cloud. Period.
I would have thought it more important that divinitystudents take a basic science and engineering course, so they at least have some understanding of how things work, scientific method, and what a theory is.
TFTFY.
Please do not conflate the mindless adherence to religious dogma with open-minded wonder and the pursuit of the answers arising therefrom. Religion pretends to know the unknowable. Humanities disciplines offer something quite different, and that something can be of tremendous value to the scientist. It did set Bacon on his path, after all.
The humanities are subversive. They undermine the claims of all authorities,
BULLSHIT.
The "humanities" in modern American academia are so fucking orthodox they might as well be called the "government worship department."
This after conducting an exhaustive survey of "modern American academia's" humanities offerings, I suppose. Oh... no? Well then. Let me offer my own observation. Yes, it's equally provincial, but hey, you opened that door....
At the university _I_ attended, even the science and engineering departments had a fair share of skepticism, especially when it came to orthodox "authorities".
You might want to be a little more careful in your sweeping generalizations. More to the point, you might want to work on your logic. Just because your academic experience was light on humanities does not mean that they are not "subversive". That's rather the point of TFA - that academia, particularly science and engineering tracks, needs more of that.
So, is Smith & Wesson responsible for people in certain areas using guns as a currency?
No, of course not, but then Smith and Wesson never built/operated/regulated a system that enabled their products to be used as currency. Nice mixing of dissimilar fruits.
Uh, yeah, it did, the moment it became responsible for enabling the transactions. You can't have it both ways. It's either currency, or it is not. Jeezuz, what kind of geek fantasy world must one live in to think that bitcoin would actually become some legitimate alternate currency and then not end exactly the way it appears to be ending.
It is well beyond creepy, and if this is to be the normal state of affairs between "our" government and us (we, whose consent is the sole authority for that government to do absolutely anything), then "the terrorists" have most certainly won.
Oh. So all those cameras that are keeping us safe from teh terrorists are a bad thing? Is that what you're saying? That's just crazy talk, you socialist terrorist lover.
...I'd explain that they are really just machines, created to do work. Just because we are able to interact with some of them in much the same way we do with people does not make them people. So worrying about their feelings is nonsense.
But the Star Wars droids are not real, so worrying about their feelings is, well, still nonsense.
“There are billions and billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs at stake in this supply chain,” said Rothenberg, who called the browser makers “oligopolies” with excessive power to make decisions affecting the workings of the Internet. “It should be done with stakeholders’ input.”
Mr. Rothenberg, you keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means. The "stakeholders" in this are the users of the browsers, not the web site operators. Get that part right, at least. It is my browser, not the web site operators. If I don't want it to allow me to be tracked through the use of third-party cookies, I should have that choice, just like it's the web site operator's choice to deny me access if I don't allow such tracking. It's all about choice and when it comes to what my browser should or should not do, that choice is mine.
I don't suppose the house is planning to actually pay for the enormous expense of putting a permanent human colony on a different planet?
Of course not. Don't be silly. What they do want to do is divert attention away from the real issues by making much noise about "cool stuff" like space programs.
The right to face your accuser. In a regular court, all evidence being used against a person has to be in both the prosecutors and defenses possession. I watch enough Law and Order to know this:) (Also, my neighbours are lawyers)
...and probably terrorists. What kind of pinko, socialist, anti-American nonsense is this? How dare you suggest that some lofty notion like liberty or privacy supersedes our government's need to protect us from "teh evil-dooers'?
I know that the military, who has a substantial need to be "up to speed" in this arena has, historically, been way behind. To be fair, it's tough to for them to recruit talent from that particular pool.
I believe that the NSA has an easier time of it (recruiting the necessary talent), but that's conjecture, so let's not bother debating what neither of us can substantiate in the least.
I know that the federal government, at the policy making level, at least, is seriously clue-challenged when it comes to this arena. I was at one of the few "town hall" meetings. in 2001, where the then "President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board" solicited input from IT and security pros. While there was no shortage of complete tools who stepped up to the mic to give Richard Clarke and his entourage "advice", there were a few serious security types there. I mean major-league talent. There were lots of sidelong glances amongst that cadre and just as many bored expressions on the faces of the government types. Lay the blame where you like, but they didn't communicate well. I have no reason to believe that much has changed since then, and thus no reason to believe that policy is based on anything but the most pedestrian understanding of the issues.
You've left out a very big, very important detail - Where do the spooks get all these phone numbers? That's right. From a great big "phone book", built from the traffic of every phone in the country. You had no right to collect that data. Period. No..., it does not fucking matter that you aren't doing anything with my phone number, yet. Who I call, when I call, where I am when I call them, where they are when I call them, etc., is none of your fucking business unless you have reason to believe that I am, or one of the people in my circle is, up to no good. And no, Mr. President, it does not fucking matter that you aren't "actually listening to my phone calls". You don't need to do that to gather a rather astounding detailed profile of my life. And no, Mr. President, Congressman, and anyone from the mainstream media who is actually curious enough to understand this issue., I do not fucking care that you may have stopped "teh terrorists" from blowing up a subway. First of all, you can do what you've been doing without collecting all the data you've been collecting. Dig up the probable cause, get a warrant and then start collecting. But do not think, for one second, that I am willing to trade my precious rights to privacy for you to save a little detective work. I am not. And I vote. Whistle blowers are heroes. They deserve a national holiday.
...of meeting the Chinese (or whomever) on this battlefield, but the sad fact is that we are not. Oh, we're death on "the threat" to RIAA and MPIAA interests, and we damned sure are doing what it takes to smoke out "teh terrorists" (all the while laying waste to our citizens liberties), but as a match for concerted, state-run effort the one we face with China, we're all but unarmed.
Wow, now that's a sense of entitlement. See, there's no reason why society should be forced to pay for and play in your fantasy. If I tried to identify as another species, not only would others not go along (like police), but I'd be ridiculed for such idiocy. The same applies here, it's just that the political correctness queens have designated this fetish as some kind of 'identity' for the sake of their political strategy.
If the body is male (has penis/gonads/musculature), you're male. If the body is female (uterus/ovaries etc), you're female. End of story. What you 'feel' is irrelevant.
Really, mods? This ignorant bigotry gets +Insightful. Seriously?
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...weak.
Right..., the pressure on the labor market has nothing at all to do with the erosion of Americans' spending power. All those living-wage jobs are gone just because we ran out of trees, oil, whatever, right. Must be damned inconvenient, then, to note that coal production has never been higher in the U.S. Oh, no. We don't actually use it here. We sell it to places where it's cheaper to use it; cheaper workforce and no spendy environmental regulations. Sorry, dude, but the facts just don't line up with your fantasy view of the way the world works.
That's really odd. I can afford a home and I'm not rich.
Nice, totally non-specific metric there, pal. The fact is that, for most Americans, we can afford much less home than we could in the past. As has been pointed out previously in the thread, the buying power of Americans has been in steady decline since the late '70's. Now, it often requires two incomes to afford the typical home purchase. The facts about this are as incontrovertible as they are readily accessible. One only needs to, you know, actually look at them. Or, one keep ignoring them and, safe in the temporary refuge of provincialist fallacy, believe that everything is just fine because it's just fine for you (currently).
for why the H-1B system ought to be massively reduced and US contracts should be awarded only to actual US companies instead of shell-game "subsidiaries."
More crazy talk from the left-wing, socialist, protectionist, wacko crowd. Ain't you not heard? This here's a global econuhmy now, and if we can't compete by sending U.S. jobs overseas, or by flooding the labor market with thousands of cheap imports, Wall Street will collapse. And you don't want that on your conscience now, do you? The nerve! To suggest that American business actually spend money on a quality domestic labor force. What kind of fantasy world do you pinko's live in?
Hope it's good, because it is never going to happen.
Theaters that don't enforce no-talking/no-texting rules don't get my business anymore. If I go out to see a movie anymore, The Alamo Drafthouse gets my business. They don't set texters on fire, unfortunately, but they do deal effectively with those inconsiderate fucks.
Give in to it? No. Not now. Not ever.
I hope it fails, and fails big. It's high time people stopped confusing Wall Street with "the economy". A very large part of Wall Street anymore is little more than a glorified casino.
Except for the fact that Joe Mainstreet still has large chunks of his "retirement" on account for the gamblers to use. When the gamblers go bust, so does Joe Mainstreet, thereby, lots of the businesses on Mainstreet, and those, without question, are "the economy".
No it's not. A classical networked system belongs to a single company, and there's a clear separation between the inside (which is mostly trusted) and the outside (which is not trusted). A cloud system blurs the distinction, so you never know if the stuff you're accessing is actually being used by untrusted people who are going to steal your secrets, blackmail you, etc.
Actually, it's not blurry at all, if you take the time to think about what you are doing, ...or are encumbered by compliance issues that require you to care. If it's something that might be in any way sensitive, it can't be safely stored "in the cloud", without taking certain precautions, e.g. solid encryption. Likewise, if it's loss would be felt, storing a thing solely in the cloud is arguably foolish.
Stallman is right, in sofar that any sensible engineer should never have had his works, artefacts (sic), algorithms and data solely "in" the cloud. Period.
TFTFY... Period.
I would have thought it more important that divinitystudents take a basic science and engineering course, so they at least have some understanding of how things work, scientific method, and what a theory is.
TFTFY.
Please do not conflate the mindless adherence to religious dogma with open-minded wonder and the pursuit of the answers arising therefrom. Religion pretends to know the unknowable. Humanities disciplines offer something quite different, and that something can be of tremendous value to the scientist. It did set Bacon on his path, after all.
The humanities are subversive. They undermine the claims of all authorities,
BULLSHIT.
The "humanities" in modern American academia are so fucking orthodox they might as well be called the "government worship department."
This after conducting an exhaustive survey of "modern American academia's" humanities offerings, I suppose. Oh... no? Well then. Let me offer my own observation. Yes, it's equally provincial, but hey, you opened that door....
At the university _I_ attended, even the science and engineering departments had a fair share of skepticism, especially when it came to orthodox "authorities".
You might want to be a little more careful in your sweeping generalizations. More to the point, you might want to work on your logic. Just because your academic experience was light on humanities does not mean that they are not "subversive". That's rather the point of TFA - that academia, particularly science and engineering tracks, needs more of that.
+1, sir. I will do my best to "think of the children" next time I whoosh.
So, is Smith & Wesson responsible for people in certain areas using guns as a currency?
No, of course not, but then Smith and Wesson never built/operated/regulated a system that enabled their products to be used as currency. Nice mixing of dissimilar fruits.
Uh, yeah, it did, the moment it became responsible for enabling the transactions. You can't have it both ways. It's either currency, or it is not. Jeezuz, what kind of geek fantasy world must one live in to think that bitcoin would actually become some legitimate alternate currency and then not end exactly the way it appears to be ending.
It is well beyond creepy, and if this is to be the normal state of affairs between "our" government and us (we, whose consent is the sole authority for that government to do absolutely anything), then "the terrorists" have most certainly won.
Oh. So all those cameras that are keeping us safe from teh terrorists are a bad thing? Is that what you're saying? That's just crazy talk, you socialist terrorist lover.
...I'd explain that they are really just machines, created to do work. Just because we are able to interact with some of them in much the same way we do with people does not make them people. So worrying about their feelings is nonsense.
But the Star Wars droids are not real, so worrying about their feelings is, well, still nonsense.
“There are billions and billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs at stake in this supply chain,” said Rothenberg, who called the browser makers “oligopolies” with excessive power to make decisions affecting the workings of the Internet. “It should be done with stakeholders’ input.”
Mr. Rothenberg, you keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means. The "stakeholders" in this are the users of the browsers, not the web site operators. Get that part right, at least. It is my browser, not the web site operators. If I don't want it to allow me to be tracked through the use of third-party cookies, I should have that choice, just like it's the web site operator's choice to deny me access if I don't allow such tracking. It's all about choice and when it comes to what my browser should or should not do, that choice is mine.
I don't suppose the house is planning to actually pay for the enormous expense of putting a permanent human colony on a different planet?
Of course not. Don't be silly. What they do want to do is divert attention away from the real issues by making much noise about "cool stuff" like space programs.
The right to face your accuser. In a regular court, all evidence being used against a person has to be in both the prosecutors and defenses possession. I watch enough Law and Order to know this :) (Also, my neighbours are lawyers)
...and probably terrorists. What kind of pinko, socialist, anti-American nonsense is this? How dare you suggest that some lofty notion like liberty or privacy supersedes our government's need to protect us from "teh evil-dooers'?
I know that the military, who has a substantial need to be "up to speed" in this arena has, historically, been way behind. To be fair, it's tough to for them to recruit talent from that particular pool.
I believe that the NSA has an easier time of it (recruiting the necessary talent), but that's conjecture, so let's not bother debating what neither of us can substantiate in the least.
I know that the federal government, at the policy making level, at least, is seriously clue-challenged when it comes to this arena. I was at one of the few "town hall" meetings. in 2001, where the then "President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board" solicited input from IT and security pros. While there was no shortage of complete tools who stepped up to the mic to give Richard Clarke and his entourage "advice", there were a few serious security types there. I mean major-league talent. There were lots of sidelong glances amongst that cadre and just as many bored expressions on the faces of the government types. Lay the blame where you like, but they didn't communicate well. I have no reason to believe that much has changed since then, and thus no reason to believe that policy is based on anything but the most pedestrian understanding of the issues.
You've left out a very big, very important detail - Where do the spooks get all these phone numbers? That's right. From a great big "phone book", built from the traffic of every phone in the country. You had no right to collect that data. Period. No..., it does not fucking matter that you aren't doing anything with my phone number, yet. Who I call, when I call, where I am when I call them, where they are when I call them, etc., is none of your fucking business unless you have reason to believe that I am, or one of the people in my circle is, up to no good. And no, Mr. President, it does not fucking matter that you aren't "actually listening to my phone calls". You don't need to do that to gather a rather astounding detailed profile of my life. And no, Mr. President, Congressman, and anyone from the mainstream media who is actually curious enough to understand this issue., I do not fucking care that you may have stopped "teh terrorists" from blowing up a subway. First of all, you can do what you've been doing without collecting all the data you've been collecting. Dig up the probable cause, get a warrant and then start collecting. But do not think, for one second, that I am willing to trade my precious rights to privacy for you to save a little detective work. I am not. And I vote. Whistle blowers are heroes. They deserve a national holiday.
...of meeting the Chinese (or whomever) on this battlefield, but the sad fact is that we are not. Oh, we're death on "the threat" to RIAA and MPIAA interests, and we damned sure are doing what it takes to smoke out "teh terrorists" (all the while laying waste to our citizens liberties), but as a match for concerted, state-run effort the one we face with China, we're all but unarmed.
Wow, now that's a sense of entitlement. See, there's no reason why society should be forced to pay for and play in your fantasy. If I tried to identify as another species, not only would others not go along (like police), but I'd be ridiculed for such idiocy. The same applies here, it's just that the political correctness queens have designated this fetish as some kind of 'identity' for the sake of their political strategy.
If the body is male (has penis/gonads/musculature), you're male. If the body is female (uterus/ovaries etc), you're female. End of story. What you 'feel' is irrelevant.
Really, mods? This ignorant bigotry gets +Insightful. Seriously?
Nothing has really changed...
Quite correct. So...?