Work has nothing to do with it. Almost all natural resources, government contracts, land, capital, even menial jobs are locked up, and the only way to get to them is though politics, nepotism, and outright crime. People work their asses off their whole lives and never move beyond grunt wages. To be successful you have to work smart and dirty, not hard. You literally have to take advantage of other people's misfortunes.
At some point one realizes that everyone else, on average, has been alive on this planet the same amount of time that I have, and I *KNOW* they aren't working as hard as I am. Why? Because I am out there doing the grunt work and I don't see anybody about to break $1 mil. And, yet, the people around me are losing ground. You're analysis is 'blame the victim' in the economic sense. You would tell slaves 'you just need to work harder.' Arbeit Macht Frei my friend.
There is (was) hundreds of millions of dollars to be made in e-voting. We did not need e-voting, but politically connect companies needed e-voting machine contracts. The whole concept of replacing a piece of paper with a multi-thousand dollar computer that is used once every couple years is ludicrous. Politicians can't just give your tax money to their buddies. That is a crime.
Sorry, a big 'duh' has to go along with this comment. Unless there are some out there that think that border fences cost $10 million per mile, embassies cost $500 mil, and 120,000 soldiers are spending $400 million a day.
You can buy a pay as you go phone and use it with regular service. These cost under $40. Of course the cell store won't tell you this and won't display these phones other than 'pay as you go'.
I take offense to your proposition that people are "trained" into anything. People excel on their own merits. The only thing companies do is make it economically feasible and advantageous for a person to develop new skills. I find this "act of creation" is a common view of management types who absolutely must have credit where none is due. Its one thing to take credit for a successful project, but another to take credit for someone else's skill.
"I've nothing against the tapping in and of itself"
Of course not. To put it bluntly, you and I are nobodies.
Do you work at a corporation? Just about everyone in power wants to know your company's secrets: what contracts are they working on, what products will they be offering, what their next move it. This information is now being fed into a black box and probably ending up in criminal hands. If your company loses that contract, you could be out of a job.
Do you like criminals in your town? You'll never hear about the crimes they commit if the local television stations are all under blackmail from recorded phone conversations.
Do you have a favorite candidate to clean up Washington? Its not going to happen when their next campaign appearance or platform is countered beforehand, or worse.
I could go on, but you get the point. I really get tired of "I don't have any problem with wiretapped."
"One of the reason skyscraper builders have cranes is because the NEED them. Building skyscrapers without them is nearly unmanageable. Skyscrape blueprints are huge, complex, only occasionally and accidentally orthogonal, and in my experience mostly very poorly documented."
"Meanwhile, my entire treehouse blueprints, suitable for fully implementing a treehouse, fits in about two and a half feet of binders."
"Welders are practically mandated if you want to work with any material as difficult as steel."
"I develop many buildings at work. Its a core part of my job. I mostly enjoy working on treehouses, and think about skyscrapers. Treehouse blueprints are small, well-thought-out and are simple. I find very few parts of a skyscraper that have these traits."
"I've rarely felt the need for more engineering support than a tape measure and a bucket of nails. The problems tend to be simpler and more easily uncovered. Nailguns are nice, and appear to take many of the good things about rivet guns and leave much of the weight behind. For some projects, it's very useful. For others, it's overkill."
Birds insects and slugs are much smaller than humans. As land animals approach the size of humans, their layout becomes closer to a human's. It should also be noted that, on earth, only humanoid organisms have been able to leave the planet. It seems likely that, if one believes nature works the same everywhere, humanoids would be the most probable of space travel. The human form is due to our environment. We have legs for efficient travel, sensors up high and in front to detect other organisms, and two of everything. Symmetry allows some natural advantages such as walking, stereo vision and hearing, and backup organs. These advantages exist everywhere the rules are the same as or close to what they are on earth. It would be more interesting and a great technological advantage to find an organism that isn't human-like but is capable of space travel. However, I think it is more likely that any space traveling organism would be human-like.
Problem is managers hand out promotions like candy to a degree paper and ignore the incredible work and experience of the guys that are actually better at it. Exactly. Employers want cheap, highly skilled labor. Skills will get you a job, but only a degree will get you the correct salary. Employers do not reward skills on their own. They reward the ability of a person to leave and get a job somewhere else. When changing jobs, degrees represent a third party endorsement and make it much easier to change jobs.
The idea that individual skills get rewarded is what keeps the country running on budget.
Yeah, but not at cracking. The whole point of cracking is NOT to publicize it so that one can go about using his or her software in peace. Writing an article about a crack serves no purpose other than to motivate tougher code protection, or to identify yourself as a 'elite terrorist hacker' if the story were to gain attention (which could happen these days in which little nobody.coms become very important to stock holders very fast). What normally would be a.txt file tucked away on some obscure web site is neatly packaged article which blares out "Skype Is Hackable!!". In this case its not some shareware game, its potentially some mba type's business plan, ferrari, and six figure salary that have been attacked.
Further, cracking is nothing new. I felt the author had limited exposure to this. Perhaps, coming from an apple viewpoint, this is new stuff, disassembling becomes reverse-engineering, hex editing becomes "designing the patch", and cracking becomes "patching". Maybe it will stick, and then what will we call the old "patching"?
What you probably didn't see on the news was the fact that there were clerics out there trying to stop the mob from burning down buildings. The reason a mob is called a mob is because they can't be controlled.
As for denouncing radicalism, we have the same problem here in the states. For every church that is actively campaigning against radicalism, there are four more that are promoting it.
People will find the message they want to hear. You can't control radicalism. Can someone shut down hate preachers like Pat Roberson or James Dobson? No, they have a lot of money and supporters.
The best way to break a gaming addiction is to cheat, so add in some convienient cheats. After cheating through the game a few times, the interest will wane.
"You can be the most gifted programmer or 3d modeler in the world, but you will be relegated to 'programmer hell' forever if you cannot communicate & articulate your ideas AND play nice with others"
Come off it. You really mean: "If you don't want to do any real work and just want to be IN games instead of WORKING ON games, you have to kiss some ass, a lot."
I've seen ass kissers first hand. I'm talking *leads* that didn't write a line of code over a several year span because they were too busy hanging out in the boss's office. Posers who hang out in the office and do god knows what except to make the scene.
And suits are the worst kind of hangers-on. They don't even show up until the money is flowing.
Its always been that way. Man wants to prevent others from breeding, while wanting himself to breed like bunnies. This is the true premise behind sex laws, so called conservatism, and aristocracy.
The word warfighter causes enragement (at least when I read it) because it tries to bring people who fight in wars up to the level of "carpenter" or "school teacher". The context it is used in implies that fighting wars should be or is commonplace and an everyday thing.
Naturally, people who make their living making weapons and military equipment would like to believe that war is a way of life and someone needs shooting 7 days a week, because otherwise they would be out of a job.
Soldiers are not necessarily warfighters, they can be guards, MPs, cooks, engineers, etc.
The term is only used by people who are hoping to profit by keeping the fire lit, so to speak.
Heres some major annoyances that IT people have to deal with:
-Talking on speakerphone at maximum level (everyone in the office thats not IT) -Whispering about coworkers in the next cube over (I can hear every word if no ones on speaker phone) -Slamming doors -Arguing with coworkers in the hallway (go somewhere else) -Changing the thermostat every time your personal temperature fluctuates.
You pissed a lot of people off with your snotty post.
First thing you have to realize is that your only value to other people is in how your existance and actions promote THEIR survival. Humans are animals and, excluding disease, are only concerned with survival. Hence, Friendships are simple arrangements in which two people have similar concerns regarding survival. Its no coincidence that people form friendships based on race, social class, same geographic location, common interest/knowledge sharing.
On the same token, if you have not already formed a rapport with people they will regard you as a tentative enemy. So for people replying to your post, you have to just say fuck em and ignore.
Don't ask people for life advice, people don't want you to survive unless it helps them to survive. They don't give a shit. Sad, but thats the world we live in.
As far as school is concerned, you probably should take a couple years off. School to most people is to establish a pecking order. The herd goes to school because the higher up in the pecking order, the less work you have to do. Don't go to college unless/until your reason is to kick other peoples asses.
I don't think radiation works that way. Once you leave the area, the radiation doesn't follow you (if you didn't roll around in the material). Its not a chemical like mercury. You don't soak it up until you meet some magical tumor line. If you don't develop tissue damage while irradiated you won't mysteriously develop it later just because you were irradiated.
"If France and Germany had had their way, there wouldn't be ANY contracts to award in Iraq, so I don't know why they think they are entitled to some now."
You tell em. The best way to keep those commie French and Germans from getting our contracts is not have a war in the first place. Plus we would get $160 billion extra spending money to boot. Why didn't we do that?
Considering that the RIAA is not a law enforcement agency or even a government entity, wouldn't they be doing a little bit better finding someone with some experience in civil suits. What can a former ATF director offer to this private organization?
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Wrong.
Work has nothing to do with it. Almost all natural resources, government contracts, land, capital, even menial jobs are locked up, and the only way to get to them is though politics, nepotism, and outright crime. People work their asses off their whole lives and never move beyond grunt wages. To be successful you have to work smart and dirty, not hard. You literally have to take advantage of other people's misfortunes.
At some point one realizes that everyone else, on average, has been alive on this planet the same amount of time that I have, and I *KNOW* they aren't working as hard as I am. Why? Because I am out there doing the grunt work and I don't see anybody about to break $1 mil. And, yet, the people around me are losing ground. You're analysis is 'blame the victim' in the economic sense. You would tell slaves 'you just need to work harder.' Arbeit Macht Frei my friend.
There is (was) hundreds of millions of dollars to be made in e-voting. We did not need e-voting, but politically connect companies needed e-voting machine contracts. The whole concept of replacing a piece of paper with a multi-thousand dollar computer that is used once every couple years is ludicrous. Politicians can't just give your tax money to their buddies. That is a crime.
Sorry, a big 'duh' has to go along with this comment. Unless there are some out there that think that border fences cost $10 million per mile, embassies cost $500 mil, and 120,000 soldiers are spending $400 million a day.
You can buy a pay as you go phone and use it with regular service. These cost under $40. Of course the cell store won't tell you this and won't display these phones other than 'pay as you go'.
"you don't need a CS/IT degree to work in the field"
Right, but non-degrees are going to be paid 10-20k less than degreed people. Employers love non-degreed, skilled people.
I take offense to your proposition that people are "trained" into anything. People excel on their own merits. The only thing companies do is make it economically feasible and advantageous for a person to develop new skills. I find this "act of creation" is a common view of management types who absolutely must have credit where none is due. Its one thing to take credit for a successful project, but another to take credit for someone else's skill.
So you hire certified EEs but couldn't hire certified CSs because they would cost too much. What makes CSs more expensive than EEs?
"I've nothing against the tapping in and of itself"
Of course not. To put it bluntly, you and I are nobodies.
Do you work at a corporation? Just about everyone in power wants to know your company's secrets: what contracts are they working on, what products will they be offering, what their next move it. This information is now being fed into a black box and probably ending up in criminal hands. If your company loses that contract, you could be out of a job.
Do you like criminals in your town? You'll never hear about the crimes they commit if the local television stations are all under blackmail from recorded phone conversations.
Do you have a favorite candidate to clean up Washington? Its not going to happen when their next campaign appearance or platform is countered beforehand, or worse.
I could go on, but you get the point. I really get tired of "I don't have any problem with wiretapped."
"One of the reason skyscraper builders have cranes is because the NEED them. Building skyscrapers without them is nearly unmanageable. Skyscrape blueprints are huge, complex, only occasionally and accidentally orthogonal, and in my experience mostly very poorly documented."
"Meanwhile, my entire treehouse blueprints, suitable for fully implementing a treehouse, fits in about two and a half feet of binders."
"Welders are practically mandated if you want to work with any material as difficult as steel."
"I develop many buildings at work. Its a core part of my job. I mostly enjoy working on treehouses, and think about skyscrapers. Treehouse blueprints are small, well-thought-out and are simple. I find very few parts of a skyscraper that have these traits."
"I've rarely felt the need for more engineering support than a tape measure and a bucket of nails. The problems tend to be simpler and more easily uncovered. Nailguns are nice, and appear to take many of the good things about rivet guns and leave much of the weight behind. For some projects, it's very useful. For others, it's overkill."
That's not bad if you are a tech or assistant. I hope you are not doing any software work at those wages.
Birds insects and slugs are much smaller than humans. As land animals approach the size of humans, their layout becomes closer to a human's. It should also be noted that, on earth, only humanoid organisms have been able to leave the planet. It seems likely that, if one believes nature works the same everywhere, humanoids would be the most probable of space travel. The human form is due to our environment. We have legs for efficient travel, sensors up high and in front to detect other organisms, and two of everything. Symmetry allows some natural advantages such as walking, stereo vision and hearing, and backup organs. These advantages exist everywhere the rules are the same as or close to what they are on earth. It would be more interesting and a great technological advantage to find an organism that isn't human-like but is capable of space travel. However, I think it is more likely that any space traveling organism would be human-like.
The idea that individual skills get rewarded is what keeps the country running on budget.
Would You Hire a Former Black Hat?
Only if they were also good at nunchuck skills and bowhunting skills. Companies only want people who have great skills.
"Maxxuss is definitely making a name for himself"
.coms become very important to stock holders very fast). What normally would be a .txt file tucked away on some obscure web site is neatly packaged article which blares out "Skype Is Hackable!!". In this case its not some shareware game, its potentially some mba type's business plan, ferrari, and six figure salary that have been attacked.
Yeah, but not at cracking. The whole point of cracking is NOT to publicize it so that one can go about using his or her software in peace. Writing an article about a crack serves no purpose other than to motivate tougher code protection, or to identify yourself as a 'elite terrorist hacker' if the story were to gain attention (which could happen these days in which little nobody
Further, cracking is nothing new. I felt the author had limited exposure to this. Perhaps, coming from an apple viewpoint, this is new stuff, disassembling becomes reverse-engineering, hex editing becomes "designing the patch", and cracking becomes "patching". Maybe it will stick, and then what will we call the old "patching"?
What you probably didn't see on the news was the fact that there were clerics out there trying to stop the mob from burning down buildings. The reason a mob is called a mob is because they can't be controlled.
As for denouncing radicalism, we have the same problem here in the states. For every church that is actively campaigning against radicalism, there are four more that are promoting it.
People will find the message they want to hear. You can't control radicalism. Can someone shut down hate preachers like Pat Roberson or James Dobson? No, they have a lot of money and supporters.
The best way to break a gaming addiction is to cheat, so add in some convienient cheats. After cheating through the game a few times, the interest will wane.
"You can be the most gifted programmer or 3d modeler in the world, but you will be relegated to 'programmer hell' forever if you cannot communicate & articulate your ideas AND play nice with others"
Come off it. You really mean: "If you don't want to do any real work and just want to be IN games instead of WORKING ON games, you have to kiss some ass, a lot."
I've seen ass kissers first hand. I'm talking *leads* that didn't write a line of code over a several year span because they were too busy hanging out in the boss's office. Posers who hang out in the office and do god knows what except to make the scene.
And suits are the worst kind of hangers-on. They don't even show up until the money is flowing.
Its always been that way. Man wants to prevent others from breeding, while wanting himself to breed like bunnies. This is the true premise behind sex laws, so called conservatism, and aristocracy.
The word warfighter causes enragement (at least when I read it) because it tries to bring people who fight in wars up to the level of "carpenter" or "school teacher". The context it is used in implies that fighting wars should be or is commonplace and an everyday thing.
Naturally, people who make their living making weapons and military equipment would like to believe that war is a way of life and someone needs shooting 7 days a week, because otherwise they would be out of a job.
Soldiers are not necessarily warfighters, they can be guards, MPs, cooks, engineers, etc.
The term is only used by people who are hoping to profit by keeping the fire lit, so to speak.
Heres some major annoyances that IT people have to deal with:
-Talking on speakerphone at maximum level (everyone in the office thats not IT)
-Whispering about coworkers in the next cube over (I can hear every word if no ones on speaker phone)
-Slamming doors
-Arguing with coworkers in the hallway (go somewhere else)
-Changing the thermostat every time your personal temperature fluctuates.
LOL,
You pissed a lot of people off with your snotty post.
First thing you have to realize is that your only value to other people is in how your existance and actions promote THEIR survival. Humans are animals and, excluding disease, are only concerned with survival. Hence, Friendships are simple arrangements in which two people have similar concerns regarding survival. Its no coincidence that people form friendships based on race, social class, same geographic location, common interest/knowledge sharing.
On the same token, if you have not already formed a rapport with people they will regard you as a tentative enemy. So for people replying to your post, you have to just say fuck em and ignore.
Don't ask people for life advice, people don't want you to survive unless it helps them to survive. They don't give a shit. Sad, but thats the world we live in.
As far as school is concerned, you probably should take a couple years off. School to most people is to establish a pecking order. The herd goes to school because the higher up in the pecking order, the less work you have to do. Don't go to college unless/until your reason is to kick other peoples asses.
When this movie comes out to video make sure to find a copy of the ridiculous Jerry Falwell "documentary" about Clinton.
Should be an entertaining comparison of right vs left.
I don't think radiation works that way. Once you leave the area, the radiation doesn't follow you (if you didn't roll around in the material). Its not a chemical like mercury. You don't soak it up until you meet some magical tumor line. If you don't develop tissue damage while irradiated you won't mysteriously develop it later just because you were irradiated.
LOL.
We have 7000 nuclear warheads to keep us cozy at night and safe from tyrannical dictators. Or did you forget about that part?
"If France and Germany had had their way, there wouldn't be ANY contracts to award in Iraq, so I don't know why they think they are entitled to some now."
You tell em. The best way to keep those commie French and Germans from getting our contracts is not have a war in the first place. Plus we would get $160 billion extra spending money to boot. Why didn't we do that?
Considering that the RIAA is not a law enforcement agency or even a government entity, wouldn't they be doing a little bit better finding someone with some experience in civil suits. What can a former ATF director offer to this private organization?