Occupy is supposed to be about the will of the people, not a rally for any one political party Whichever Occupy groups you may be a member of, beware of those who are trying to co-opt the movement for their own agendas. Democracy not dictatorship!
My views are no more important than anyone elses. That's the beauty of Occupy. It looks like it may be the first truly democratic movement to ever wield the power of the internet. I've always believed that with the internet, we could achieve true democracy where people vote on Parliamentary/Senate/Congress issues DIRECTLY rather than through representatives. We're not there yet, but hopefully we will be soon.
While it's easy to set up some sort of system for voting, it'd be much harder to democratize the process of submitting legislation to be voted on.
The only thing I could suggest is something like the website the US government set up, where anyone can start a petitiion and any petition that collects a certain number of votes during a given time frame would be automatically tabled for voting by the general public.
I figure the same people who would be too apathetic to submit petitions, vote on them, or vote on the tabled legislation is also probably too apathetic to vote in our existing elections.
The Occupy groups are probably going to have to do something like that to narrow down the diversity of demands to a set that can actually be presented and acted upon. While reigning banks in may be a relatively clear goal in the US, the goals of the Occupy protests in the rest of the world are not so clear cut.
I think it's telling that anyone who advocates change that threatens the profits of the status quo is automatically labelled socialist, communist, hippie, or worse by them. It just goes to show how indefensible the position of the status quo is when they can't come up with a better argument than name-calling and labelling to support their abusive behaviour.
He wasn't a true American. He didn't earn millions or billions by offshoring his factories. He didn't profit by patenting his work. And he never sued anyone.
If you want a state memorial, you have to be a ruthless, immoral, no-holds-barred capitalist.
Occupy is supposed to be about the will of the people, not a rally for any one political party Whichever Occupy groups you may be a member of, beware of those who are trying to co-opt the movement for their own agendas. Democracy not dictatorship!
My views are no more important than anyone elses. That's the beauty of Occupy. It looks like it may be the first truly democratic movement to ever wield the power of the internet. I've always believed that with the internet, we could achieve true democracy where people vote on Parliamentary/Senate/Congress issues DIRECTLY rather than through representatives. We're not there yet, but hopefully we will be soon.
While it's easy to set up some sort of system for voting, it'd be much harder to democratize the process of submitting legislation to be voted on.
The only thing I could suggest is something like the website the US government set up, where anyone can start a petitiion and any petition that collects a certain number of votes during a given time frame would be automatically tabled for voting by the general public.
I figure the same people who would be too apathetic to submit petitions, vote on them, or vote on the tabled legislation is also probably too apathetic to vote in our existing elections.
The Occupy groups are probably going to have to do something like that to narrow down the diversity of demands to a set that can actually be presented and acted upon. While reigning banks in may be a relatively clear goal in the US, the goals of the Occupy protests in the rest of the world are not so clear cut.
I think it's telling that anyone who advocates change that threatens the profits of the status quo is automatically labelled socialist, communist, hippie, or worse by them. It just goes to show how indefensible the position of the status quo is when they can't come up with a better argument than name-calling and labelling to support their abusive behaviour.
Every single male teacher I know has been accused of molestation, abuse, or rape several times by veangeful students or by students who had a "crush" on them that were pissed off over being rejected. Several of the female teachers I know have also been accused, though thats far less common.
All these different music services, competing for the same catalogues of music, trying to get exclusives whenever they can.
At what point is the market deemed "saturated"?
And what good are all these services when they're only available in certain regions of the world (primarily US and UK.)? What about everyone else? Is Apple the only one who can negotiate international sales and streaming rights?
Personally I don't use the menu bars for most Windows or Linux applications, I use the right-mouse click to bring up context menus. I've been doing so for many years. It's not as obvious to the average user, but that's mainly a training issue.
Surely the Mac has outgrown that single-button mouse nonsense by now?
It's also one of my pet peeves with web apps -- the context menu has been stolen by the browser.
Most of the time I've read about media editing on the Mac, it was using third-party products. Unless Apple bought out all those software companies and dumbed-down their products, it's not Apple that's to blame.
I was hooked on Mafia Wars for a few months, until I realized how much time I was wasting for nothing. So-called "social media" games are anything but. There is no social aspect to them at all -- no in-game conversation, no player messaging support, nothing. Anyone with a headset and an XBox experiences more social interaction while gaming than on Crackbook.
Once I stepped back from them, I realized you couldn't even really call them "games". There is no winning or losing, only perpetual grinding for enough points/items to accomplish a mission, after which you eternally move on to the next mission that they've added in the meantime.
There is no skill involved, no choice involved, and no thought involved. Just keep clicking long enough, and you'll get to the "next level."
I'd call them Ponzi schemes, except you were never promised anything of use or value if you choose to spend real money on them.
My gut feeling is that Einstein's "law" of relativity won't hold up throughout the universe. I suspect that some "constants" aren't as constant as we think they are, and may vary at different points in the universe.
I have absolutely no physics or math to back that instinct up.
My problem is usually having to raise the desk somehow. At 6' 2", my legs are long enough that my knees are brushing the desktop if I don't. I can't fit at a desk that has a drawer or keyboard tray.
Microsoft Natural series keyboard here, trackball instead of a mouse (you'd be surprised how much stress there is on your wrist from lifting and moving the mouse all day), and monitor raised so that the top of the screen is 2" above eye level.
Whoa, Nellie. Small difference between looking and fantasizing, huge difference between fantasizing and doing.
Consider this: It is not the consumption of illicit drugs that is illegal, but the mere possession of them.
Possession of child pornography is no different than actual child abuse in my books, because the abusive images came from somewhere and by collecting them, you are providing the "customer demand" for more abuse of children.
Any organization has a responsibility to report child pornography and child abuse. But the church still has this bizarre idea that they're above the law and can deal with the issue "internally". Even the First Nations with their tribal councils don't try to shield molestors or abusers around here, and they're about as militant as you can get about meting out justice through their system instead of the courts.
Do you think the business world is going to continue to respect the degrees issued by a school that has become nothing more than an online video library?
I don't think he's even being a publicity hound. I think he's just having fun with the opportunity and planning to hang with the Apple fanboys who join the line-up for shits and giggles.
He even said he's already got a couple being shipped to his house. It could just as easily have been a case, and he wouldn't have had to leave home at all.
Besides, what would he need the publicity for? I could see Apple wanting the publicity, but I can't imagine Apple coming up with any incentives that would lure him into doing it if he didn't think it would be a fun stunt.
Amen to that. Apple fanboys are notoriously bad at understanding that Apple is a stellar integrator and marketer of technology, but very little of what they have integrated was actually invented by them. Kudos to Apple's marketing and physical design teams, but the rest of it is just integration and hard work, not actuall innovation or invention.
If there ever comes a time that Apple really is the most inventive and innovative company out there, then I'll worry -- because it means all the billions spent on R&D by Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and a host of SMBs is being incompetently wasted and resulting in nothing useful. And that flat out ain't gonna happen.
Path Intelligence national sales manager Kerry Baddeley stressed that no mobile phone user names or numbers could be accessed.
"All we do is log the movement of a phone around an area and aggregate this to provide trend data for businesses,'' she said.
Having worked for telcos many years, I know there is no way to get detailed information from a cell phone without hacking it or getting the user to install a tracking app. I'm actually surprised that they even found a way to identify a phone by passively monitoring it's signals, and am quite curious as to how they accomplish this.
This is no more intrusive than the sensor belts used to monitor traffic flow on a highway, and is not worth panicing over.
Go back to worrying about Crackbook cookies -- those really do track you as an identified individual.
The tools become more and more powerful and do more and more of the "grunt work" of programming, but I've yet to see or hear of a tool that can automate the creativity needed for implementing business logic, appealing GUI design, useful/readable report layouts, etc.
As pleased as I am with my own tools, I still wouldn't be so foolish as to claim they could eliminate the need for programmers. The hordes of junior copy-paste-edit juniors, yeah, but those aren't programmers -- they're meat-based xerox machines.
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Occupy is supposed to be about the will of the people, not a rally for any one political party Whichever Occupy groups you may be a member of, beware of those who are trying to co-opt the movement for their own agendas. Democracy not dictatorship!
My views are no more important than anyone elses. That's the beauty of Occupy. It looks like it may be the first truly democratic movement to ever wield the power of the internet. I've always believed that with the internet, we could achieve true democracy where people vote on Parliamentary/Senate/Congress issues DIRECTLY rather than through representatives. We're not there yet, but hopefully we will be soon.
While it's easy to set up some sort of system for voting, it'd be much harder to democratize the process of submitting legislation to be voted on.
The only thing I could suggest is something like the website the US government set up, where anyone can start a petitiion and any petition that collects a certain number of votes during a given time frame would be automatically tabled for voting by the general public.
I figure the same people who would be too apathetic to submit petitions, vote on them, or vote on the tabled legislation is also probably too apathetic to vote in our existing elections.
The Occupy groups are probably going to have to do something like that to narrow down the diversity of demands to a set that can actually be presented and acted upon. While reigning banks in may be a relatively clear goal in the US, the goals of the Occupy protests in the rest of the world are not so clear cut.
I think it's telling that anyone who advocates change that threatens the profits of the status quo is automatically labelled socialist, communist, hippie, or worse by them. It just goes to show how indefensible the position of the status quo is when they can't come up with a better argument than name-calling and labelling to support their abusive behaviour.
He wasn't a true American. He didn't earn millions or billions by offshoring his factories. He didn't profit by patenting his work. And he never sued anyone.
If you want a state memorial, you have to be a ruthless, immoral, no-holds-barred capitalist.
Occupy is supposed to be about the will of the people, not a rally for any one political party Whichever Occupy groups you may be a member of, beware of those who are trying to co-opt the movement for their own agendas. Democracy not dictatorship!
My views are no more important than anyone elses. That's the beauty of Occupy. It looks like it may be the first truly democratic movement to ever wield the power of the internet. I've always believed that with the internet, we could achieve true democracy where people vote on Parliamentary/Senate/Congress issues DIRECTLY rather than through representatives. We're not there yet, but hopefully we will be soon.
While it's easy to set up some sort of system for voting, it'd be much harder to democratize the process of submitting legislation to be voted on.
The only thing I could suggest is something like the website the US government set up, where anyone can start a petitiion and any petition that collects a certain number of votes during a given time frame would be automatically tabled for voting by the general public.
I figure the same people who would be too apathetic to submit petitions, vote on them, or vote on the tabled legislation is also probably too apathetic to vote in our existing elections.
The Occupy groups are probably going to have to do something like that to narrow down the diversity of demands to a set that can actually be presented and acted upon. While reigning banks in may be a relatively clear goal in the US, the goals of the Occupy protests in the rest of the world are not so clear cut.
I think it's telling that anyone who advocates change that threatens the profits of the status quo is automatically labelled socialist, communist, hippie, or worse by them. It just goes to show how indefensible the position of the status quo is when they can't come up with a better argument than name-calling and labelling to support their abusive behaviour.
Every single male teacher I know has been accused of molestation, abuse, or rape several times by veangeful students or by students who had a "crush" on them that were pissed off over being rejected. Several of the female teachers I know have also been accused, though thats far less common.
There, fixed it for you.
All these different music services, competing for the same catalogues of music, trying to get exclusives whenever they can.
At what point is the market deemed "saturated"?
And what good are all these services when they're only available in certain regions of the world (primarily US and UK.)? What about everyone else? Is Apple the only one who can negotiate international sales and streaming rights?
Can't have women drooling over a geek. Even if it's only an actor playing a geek. 'tis not natural. /jk
Personally I don't use the menu bars for most Windows or Linux applications, I use the right-mouse click to bring up context menus. I've been doing so for many years. It's not as obvious to the average user, but that's mainly a training issue.
Surely the Mac has outgrown that single-button mouse nonsense by now?
It's also one of my pet peeves with web apps -- the context menu has been stolen by the browser.
Most of the time I've read about media editing on the Mac, it was using third-party products. Unless Apple bought out all those software companies and dumbed-down their products, it's not Apple that's to blame.
I shudder to think how much money I actually fed those old machines, a quarter at a time.
I don't think so. MMOs and such use the microtransaction approach as well, but even they have more social interaction than so-called "social" games.
Shifting to microtransactions doesn't mean you have to abandon the idea of providing a good game experience.
I guess all these windowless services running in the background on my box are figments of my imagination.
I was hooked on Mafia Wars for a few months, until I realized how much time I was wasting for nothing. So-called "social media" games are anything but. There is no social aspect to them at all -- no in-game conversation, no player messaging support, nothing. Anyone with a headset and an XBox experiences more social interaction while gaming than on Crackbook.
Once I stepped back from them, I realized you couldn't even really call them "games". There is no winning or losing, only perpetual grinding for enough points/items to accomplish a mission, after which you eternally move on to the next mission that they've added in the meantime.
There is no skill involved, no choice involved, and no thought involved. Just keep clicking long enough, and you'll get to the "next level."
I'd call them Ponzi schemes, except you were never promised anything of use or value if you choose to spend real money on them.
My gut feeling is that Einstein's "law" of relativity won't hold up throughout the universe. I suspect that some "constants" aren't as constant as we think they are, and may vary at different points in the universe.
I have absolutely no physics or math to back that instinct up.
If I were to generously say 50 people showed up at Occupy Regina, that would mean we had a whopping 0.05% turnout for a city of 100,000+.
Harper and his cronies win by default.
The opposing team never took the field.
I'm so depressed.
My problem is usually having to raise the desk somehow. At 6' 2", my legs are long enough that my knees are brushing the desktop if I don't. I can't fit at a desk that has a drawer or keyboard tray.
Microsoft Natural series keyboard here, trackball instead of a mouse (you'd be surprised how much stress there is on your wrist from lifting and moving the mouse all day), and monitor raised so that the top of the screen is 2" above eye level.
Consider this: It is not the consumption of illicit drugs that is illegal, but the mere possession of them.
Possession of child pornography is no different than actual child abuse in my books, because the abusive images came from somewhere and by collecting them, you are providing the "customer demand" for more abuse of children.
Any organization has a responsibility to report child pornography and child abuse. But the church still has this bizarre idea that they're above the law and can deal with the issue "internally". Even the First Nations with their tribal councils don't try to shield molestors or abusers around here, and they're about as militant as you can get about meting out justice through their system instead of the courts.
Was there any doubt Open Office would die after Libre Office was forked?
When a project is forked, one fork usually takes off while the other withers and dies.
News at 11.
Occupy!
It won't be too many years before someone would have posted in response to your comment:
"What's a typewriter?"
Just a matter of time. My nieces were already baffled by a couple cassettes I had lying around.
Ooo. A web app. That really deserved the front page of Slashdot.
Tomorrow on Slashdot: Someone compiles a program.
Do you think the business world is going to continue to respect the degrees issued by a school that has become nothing more than an online video library?
I don't think he's even being a publicity hound. I think he's just having fun with the opportunity and planning to hang with the Apple fanboys who join the line-up for shits and giggles.
He even said he's already got a couple being shipped to his house. It could just as easily have been a case, and he wouldn't have had to leave home at all.
Besides, what would he need the publicity for? I could see Apple wanting the publicity, but I can't imagine Apple coming up with any incentives that would lure him into doing it if he didn't think it would be a fun stunt.
Amen to that. Apple fanboys are notoriously bad at understanding that Apple is a stellar integrator and marketer of technology, but very little of what they have integrated was actually invented by them. Kudos to Apple's marketing and physical design teams, but the rest of it is just integration and hard work, not actuall innovation or invention.
If there ever comes a time that Apple really is the most inventive and innovative company out there, then I'll worry -- because it means all the billions spent on R&D by Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and a host of SMBs is being incompetently wasted and resulting in nothing useful. And that flat out ain't gonna happen.
Having worked for telcos many years, I know there is no way to get detailed information from a cell phone without hacking it or getting the user to install a tracking app. I'm actually surprised that they even found a way to identify a phone by passively monitoring it's signals, and am quite curious as to how they accomplish this.
This is no more intrusive than the sensor belts used to monitor traffic flow on a highway, and is not worth panicing over.
Go back to worrying about Crackbook cookies -- those really do track you as an identified individual.
The tools become more and more powerful and do more and more of the "grunt work" of programming, but I've yet to see or hear of a tool that can automate the creativity needed for implementing business logic, appealing GUI design, useful/readable report layouts, etc.
As pleased as I am with my own tools, I still wouldn't be so foolish as to claim they could eliminate the need for programmers. The hordes of junior copy-paste-edit juniors, yeah, but those aren't programmers -- they're meat-based xerox machines.