Re:Ha! Holy shit, you're the next Sam Kinnison!
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OK, let's take a look at the dictionary again. Productivity doesn't mean "worked to death". We aren't lazy, we just believe that there is more to life than work - and act like it. Just because you have the beginnings of an inferiority complex doesn't make you right.
Try driving through the North when there isn't a ceasefire...
I live in London, and my maternal half of the family live in Donegal. So the quickest way home is to drive through the north. My parents and I were doing this one evening about 20 years ago and we got lost (I think we had gone to see a distant cousin as a detour). We were driving up a country lane when suddenly a bush stands up and holds up a HALT sign. Soldiers surround the car and the first thing the corporal says is "have you got lost or something? Normally, you drive down the xyz road." Freaked me out. My parents had a box of sausage rolls open and my mother shares one with the corporal. We get help with the directions and set off again. The important point to ponder is that we did not go through a checkpoint to enter Northern Ireland.
Needless to say we got lost again, so when we actually turned up at the exit checkpoint (big armoured buildings, loads of sniper-screens, heavy MG/RPG proof concrete bunkers etc. - helps defend against all the arms bought with US money). The sergeant steps out and again, the first thing he says is "What took you so long? Have you got any more sausage rolls, we're starving!".
The point of this rambling screed is you don't need face-recognition to obtain a surveillance society - just a will and a society that asks for it. (in whatever way)
The (not so) small problem is that in a few years time forging notes will be so easy that you won't be able to use cash efectively - hence the slow experimentation with smartcards. They aren't needed now, but most governments are keen to see the likes of Visa, Mastercard and the major banks get skilled in the use of these before they have to stop printing large denomination notes. Already, the Royal Mint in the UK doesn't print anything over £50, and trying to spend one is getting more and more difficult - most pubs won't accept them anymore. The Aussies have taken a different approach, by making their notes out of plastic (still looks like paper) which is covered in all kinds of anti-fraud technologies. Even there, large denomination notes are being printed in smaller and smaller numbers...
Smart cards don't have to be about cash though, the most successful trials I have seen have been to do with local government services. In a trial locally, one card was your bus/rail season ticket, your library card, your social security benefit book, your school meals voucher (for kids of course) and so-on. The only issue was that so many of the muppets who need these services lost the cards that the scheme was three times more expensive than estimated. It was shelved very rapidly, but with the greater acceptance of cards=cash=valuable, the people involved might take more care in future. I think what also helped to make the project fail was the fact that the people involved weren't charged for the loss - take £5 out of their benefits for each lost card and they would either starve or learn.
I think a lot of the posts here have missed the point a little. The main problem with this concept is the RF noise. Everything else is fairly simple.
All the system has to do is transmit to a substation (in the UK this already happens as the national grid makes a "packet" (har har) out of their Energis telco subsidiary) and then "transform" (I'm on form today) the signal to a high RF signal for the last mile. At the user's house, they have to get a replacement electricity meter (usually heavily subsidised by the electricity company if they want to take advantage of items like human-free meter reading) which contains both a power output/fuse box and also ethernet RJ45 ports.
The kicker is noise, both inside and outside the system. In tests in the UK a few years ago, whenever the fridge started up, you lost your connection (too much noise for too long - so everything timed out). Wire transmission caused no end of trouble too - nobody could listen to an FM station if they lived within 100 yards of the substation. These are the big faults, so if they have been solved, we have a viable alternative. Otherwise, it's just about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
You are kidding right? NASA is just a terrible spender. I have ranted about this before - NASA keeps the cost of launch artificially high - and THAT KEEPS US ON PLANET. The day we can get to orbit as cheaply as a flight around the world (which is the fundamental cost) is the day that we will really see development and growth. NASA doesn't mean to be silly but it has no commercial imperative. Dan Goldin's move to get "Faster, Better, Cheaper" was the right attitude - he just forgot about the people who work for him. There is nothing better at destroying money than a mid-level government staffer trying to protect his empire.
Hoi dimbo! Just think for a moment. Just because you think that God created Americans to be special doesn't make it so. Criminal jurisdictions must be respected - or wait until the Chinese start kidnapping your citizens so they can stand trial in their courts???? Maybe it will take that to make the USA realise that you are not the arbiters of everything - especially in the light of Kyoto and the Bioweapons treaty (yet another deal you have broken in the interests of shitting on everyone (except yourselves).
Duh! bought by the US military! Won't see that again!!! I have had a GPRS phone for a year now - not worth the money (by the way, Europe has been having fun with these for a while - shouldn't have sold off quite so much of the spectrum eh?) It just means that WAP isn't quite so crap as before...
Right then. There is no such thing as human. There can only be huperson as it is insulting to wopersons to be called a huMAN.
Give me a break. The sooner you push the chip off your shoulder you will realise that being obsessed about how another person terms you gives the other control over you. Enjoy being under a white man's control do you? Dark is the opposite of light. Why use a negative? It has nothing to do with racism. The most tolerant group of human beings on earth has to be the geek. They are the only one's who can tolerate their own kind - never mind anyone with social skills. We do not, will not and cannot engage in racism because it simply doesn't occur to us.
Please, please please grow up. If you do then you will stop wasting your time pissing off people who until now hadn't even thought about racism in the last week. Congratulations! Now we are pissed off at someone, and it's about race! I realise that your childish moronic riposte will be "but at least you are thinking about it". WRONG! We understood the issues at the age of ten, and realised that color-blindness is the only way - and promptly got on with it. Why don't you try some too. You will never change the redneck (talk about subhuman - just take a look in an alabama trailer park some day) - so ignore them...
Just my two cents...
BTW. Not a chance that wireless will sort out your problems. All of the 3g freqs are taken by... wait for it...... the tv companies! You haven't got a hope in hell of getting 3g before 2015. Japan and most European countries were much more miserly (or they handed the freqs to the military earlier) so they can handle 3g phones/data...
Oh well. I suppose you could string up billions of 802.11b points. Everywhere. Then hack the hardware.
So, who's up for it?
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OK, let's take a look at the dictionary again. Productivity doesn't mean "worked to death". We aren't lazy, we just believe that there is more to life than work - and act like it. Just because you have the beginnings of an inferiority complex doesn't make you right.
Have to keep those revenues flowing...
Try driving through the North when there isn't a ceasefire...
I live in London, and my maternal half of the family live in Donegal. So the quickest way home is to drive through the north. My parents and I were doing this one evening about 20 years ago and we got lost (I think we had gone to see a distant cousin as a detour). We were driving up a country lane when suddenly a bush stands up and holds up a HALT sign. Soldiers surround the car and the first thing the corporal says is "have you got lost or something? Normally, you drive down the xyz road." Freaked me out. My parents had a box of sausage rolls open and my mother shares one with the corporal. We get help with the directions and set off again. The important point to ponder is that we did not go through a checkpoint to enter Northern Ireland.
Needless to say we got lost again, so when we actually turned up at the exit checkpoint (big armoured buildings, loads of sniper-screens, heavy MG/RPG proof concrete bunkers etc. - helps defend against all the arms bought with US money). The sergeant steps out and again, the first thing he says is "What took you so long? Have you got any more sausage rolls, we're starving!".
The point of this rambling screed is you don't need face-recognition to obtain a surveillance society - just a will and a society that asks for it. (in whatever way)
The (not so) small problem is that in a few years time forging notes will be so easy that you won't be able to use cash efectively - hence the slow experimentation with smartcards. They aren't needed now, but most governments are keen to see the likes of Visa, Mastercard and the major banks get skilled in the use of these before they have to stop printing large denomination notes. Already, the Royal Mint in the UK doesn't print anything over £50, and trying to spend one is getting more and more difficult - most pubs won't accept them anymore. The Aussies have taken a different approach, by making their notes out of plastic (still looks like paper) which is covered in all kinds of anti-fraud technologies. Even there, large denomination notes are being printed in smaller and smaller numbers...
Smart cards don't have to be about cash though, the most successful trials I have seen have been to do with local government services. In a trial locally, one card was your bus/rail season ticket, your library card, your social security benefit book, your school meals voucher (for kids of course) and so-on. The only issue was that so many of the muppets who need these services lost the cards that the scheme was three times more expensive than estimated. It was shelved very rapidly, but with the greater acceptance of cards=cash=valuable, the people involved might take more care in future. I think what also helped to make the project fail was the fact that the people involved weren't charged for the loss - take £5 out of their benefits for each lost card and they would either starve or learn.
I think a lot of the posts here have missed the point a little. The main problem with this concept is the RF noise. Everything else is fairly simple.
All the system has to do is transmit to a substation (in the UK this already happens as the national grid makes a "packet" (har har) out of their Energis telco subsidiary) and then "transform" (I'm on form today) the signal to a high RF signal for the last mile. At the user's house, they have to get a replacement electricity meter (usually heavily subsidised by the electricity company if they want to take advantage of items like human-free meter reading) which contains both a power output/fuse box and also ethernet RJ45 ports.
The kicker is noise, both inside and outside the system. In tests in the UK a few years ago, whenever the fridge started up, you lost your connection (too much noise for too long - so everything timed out). Wire transmission caused no end of trouble too - nobody could listen to an FM station if they lived within 100 yards of the substation. These are the big faults, so if they have been solved, we have a viable alternative. Otherwise, it's just about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Yes, where you live... Some of us don't live in the USA as you repeatedly fail to realise.
Simple - Sensor packs don't work in microgravity. If the fans are off, the air doesn't mix.
You are kidding right? NASA is just a terrible spender. I have ranted about this before - NASA keeps the cost of launch artificially high - and THAT KEEPS US ON PLANET. The day we can get to orbit as cheaply as a flight around the world (which is the fundamental cost) is the day that we will really see development and growth. NASA doesn't mean to be silly but it has no commercial imperative. Dan Goldin's move to get "Faster, Better, Cheaper" was the right attitude - he just forgot about the people who work for him. There is nothing better at destroying money than a mid-level government staffer trying to protect his empire.
They're communist - there is a difference...
Truly simple: If you are a foreigner you get what you are used to. If not, you don't get into the compound - for "security reasons"...
Hoi dimbo! Just think for a moment. Just because you think that God created Americans to be special doesn't make it so. Criminal jurisdictions must be respected - or wait until the Chinese start kidnapping your citizens so they can stand trial in their courts???? Maybe it will take that to make the USA realise that you are not the arbiters of everything - especially in the light of Kyoto and the Bioweapons treaty (yet another deal you have broken in the interests of shitting on everyone (except yourselves).
Just a thought. Wouldn't half the population be below average?
Duh! bought by the US military! Won't see that again!!! I have had a GPRS phone for a year now - not worth the money (by the way, Europe has been having fun with these for a while - shouldn't have sold off quite so much of the spectrum eh?) It just means that WAP isn't quite so crap as before...
Right then. There is no such thing as human. There can only be huperson as it is insulting to wopersons to be called a huMAN. Give me a break. The sooner you push the chip off your shoulder you will realise that being obsessed about how another person terms you gives the other control over you. Enjoy being under a white man's control do you? Dark is the opposite of light. Why use a negative? It has nothing to do with racism. The most tolerant group of human beings on earth has to be the geek. They are the only one's who can tolerate their own kind - never mind anyone with social skills. We do not, will not and cannot engage in racism because it simply doesn't occur to us. Please, please please grow up. If you do then you will stop wasting your time pissing off people who until now hadn't even thought about racism in the last week. Congratulations! Now we are pissed off at someone, and it's about race! I realise that your childish moronic riposte will be "but at least you are thinking about it". WRONG! We understood the issues at the age of ten, and realised that color-blindness is the only way - and promptly got on with it. Why don't you try some too. You will never change the redneck (talk about subhuman - just take a look in an alabama trailer park some day) - so ignore them... Just my two cents...
Grow up. You're as bad as the redneck earlier. What would you prefer? Ethnically-challenged-fibre? Pigmented-fibre?
BTW. Not a chance that wireless will sort out your problems. All of the 3g freqs are taken by... wait for it... ... the tv companies! You haven't got a hope in hell of getting 3g before 2015. Japan and most European countries were much more miserly (or they handed the freqs to the military earlier) so they can handle 3g phones/data...
Oh well. I suppose you could string up billions of 802.11b points. Everywhere. Then hack the hardware.
So, who's up for it?
Scum. This is for people with an IQ over 10. Get out of our discussion. Go tan your neck.
Why can't you realise that it is never ever the parent's fault? Hah, hmmm.
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