Imagine if these bot nets did something more subtle... like.. turning a single random pixel black or slightly fudging the movement of the mouse. Warranty Havoc!! Gawd that would suck.
To quote Robert Heinlein "Here is a way to spot space-research spinoffs: If it involves microminiaturization of any sort, minicomputers, miniaturized long-life power sources, highly reliable microswitches, remotely-controlled manipulators, image enhancers, small and sophisticated robotics or cybernetics, then, no matter where you find the item, at a critical point in its development it was part of our space program.
The most ironical thing about our space program is that there are thousands of people alive today who would be dead were it not for some item derived from space research--but are blissfully unaware of the fact--and complain about 'wasting all the money on stupid, useless space stunts when we have so many really important problems to solve right here on Earth."
If you are poor, elderly or uneducated TV should be the last thing you are worrying about.
This really gives some credit to the theory that the primary purpose of television is to pacify people and have them forget the real problems they face.
Uhm. Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust is not in The Bible.
It came from a Book of Common Prayers and is based on Genesis 3:19:
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return
This guy was clearly saying it's not a partisan issue because all people in authority abuse power, but for some reason you HAD to insist that he has 'liberal leanings' because he is criticizing the current administration.
"Democrats aren't performing very well. Largely because of rhetoric like your comment. Because of that, swing voters such as I are voting for Republicans."
Your comment implies that you (and many others) don't vote Democrat anymore because of how you perceive other Democrats at this particular time. It seems to me you don't really care about the issues at hand, you just care about how other people see you.
The parents post is correct. It doesn't really matter what party is in power. As long as there are people like you who encourage their fellow citizens to "keep their mouth shut" their rights will be trampled on and abused.
It is far from noble to allow others to be punished for your own transgressions.
Jesus didn't sacrifice his own life so that others could live. Jesus was resurrected and continues to live. So in reality he sacrified nothing other than having to endure being human for a while like the rest of us.
God sacrificed himself - to himself - because he couldn't live with the consequences of the laws he had created.
Any attribute that man possesses (good or bad) was imbued by God. God knew exactly what man was going to be when he created them.
Somehow we are supposed to see it as a gift that we were created flawed?
Somehow it is just to create man and then make laws against doing the very thing you intended for them to do from the start?
If I purposely create a mouse in a lab with a heart defect would I be considered merciful for giving it a heart transplant if and only if it successfully completes my maze? No! It would have been merciful not to create such an abomination in the first place.
You consider yourself an intellectual?! That is a riot!
Just because you can fake all the right words and cleverly connect bits and peices of information you gather off of the net to make a semi-logical argument does not make you an intellectual.
Like most people who consider themselves to be "intellectuals" you are probably totally self centered.
The reason these so-called "intellectuals" are prone to radicalism is because they don't really care about the welfare of others, all they care about is promoting their ideology. They are radical for the sake of being considered a radical.
It might do you some good to actually read the book and draw from your own experiences. Don't just cut and paste from wikipedia. This is why kids in the information age are doomed. A shame really.
You must be a child yourself because you don't seem to realize something that all adults know right off the bat: CHILDREN ARE STUPID.
They are not capable of making good decisions for themselves. They are short-sighted and lack the experience to know a good situation from a bad one.
A large portion of people under 18 are not "more knowledgable than adults", they just like to think so. Not even with information technology. I'd like to see how many people under 18 can write a hardware driver compared to the number of adults that can. Even if this were the case, it means nothing when it comes to being able to handle the pressures of adult life.
Children are FAR better off in a stable environment than a free one. I've had many peers in both situations and the ones who had total freedom all wish they had more stability and the ones who had stability while hating it as kids all grew up to realize the good it did for them.
You've read "Brave New World", good job. Next on your list should be "Lord of the Flies".
By designed I meant "crafted over a billion years of adapting to earths environment and natural selection". I like to say 'desiged' rather than 'randomly mutated' because it implies a direction and purpose -- an idea that obviously makes you uncomfortable.
Ecological catastrophe is in revelations. It must be fufilled so that the lord may return, clean it up and let the meek rule the world while the know-it-all science geeks get poked by demons for their materialistic ambitions and lack of faith. Amen.
What is the point of colonizing other planets when we are struggling to survive on a planet we are designed to live on? When you can't even properly distribute food and water and shelter to people on earth, what makes you think we can do it across planets? I have plenty of vision, but all the problems we face on earth arn't going to suddenly disappear because we can travel space.
Meanwhile, back in Pakistan they wait for aid while China and the US debate who will spend the most resources to control the totally barren lifeless peice of junk orbiting the earth.
I don't know the particular circumstances of your maid, she may come from a unionized maid service or you may just pay her well above market. However, in general maids make an average of $9.00\hr in the US. In New Orleans they generally make about $5.50, mostly because they do not belong to any unions unlike maids in New York City or San Francisco who make about $15.00\hr. It is generally a shitty job. $15.00/hr in New York just does not cut it. If you are paying your graphic artist less than this they are getting screwed especially if they are good at it.
You accuse me of being 'elitist', yet you yourself admit you would never allow you or your children to have the kinds of jobs your parents had. You clearly see that there are different 'classes' of jobs. If you turned out so well from being ignored why isn't this good enough for your own children?
Now do you think your parents busted their ass and ignored you because they chose to or because they had to due to the nature of their work?
Also, I am curious what does your maid do that you and your wife wouldn't do yourselves to save your own marriage?
Maid is a very good example -- this is where the middle class and rich are starting to merge closer as the parent poster suggests.
Alot of these maids and nannys immigrate to this country and leave behind their own children in their own country to go and clean up after the children of rich people and send the money home.
The problem with this is nobody is there to take care of their children, so they don't get the proper attention they need and these kids will eventually end up working as maids as well.
I'm not saying it's enitrely wrong to do so, but you do have to recognize that when you buy a service from someone you are in fact buying them for a period of time and this has all sorts of social and economic consequences.
Corporations are owned by shareholders, but they elect a board of directors to oversee the management and policies of the business. The board of directors are almost exclsuively super-rich.
When you look at money as a means to buy goods, then yes, the rich and middle class don't have much difference, but when it comes to social power and influence (even on technological development) there is a huge gap.
Your missing something:
The rich have employees, there is no equivalent to that for the middle class.
This is the fundamental difference between the middle class and upper class. The middle class think about WHAT they can buy, the upper class thinks about WHO they can buy.
Mark: I think that moon is a bit of a spy. Yes I do. There was a moon like that on the summer of my sixteenth year. Some say I was sixteen but [sigh] I don't know. And there was a girl, too; her name was Marie. At night together we would walk down by the sea and oh my god if you could see the body on this woman. The way at night her long legs would stick into the moist night sand like gods own barge poles, you know. And I longed to tell her the feeling I had in my heart for her but the words would not come, they would not come through my spotty adolescent face, they would not come through my angry hair or my sweaty feet or any other part on this body that I know call a man. So the words je t'aime were never passed between us but the moon, yes, that moon spied on us.
[He takes a drink of wine then passes the bottle to Bruce]
Bruce: The moon is bright over Lebanon tonight! The Lebanese moon looks down shim! sham! shikam!!! Cattle Explodes! Cow shrapnel drips off a tree cascades into a mothers tear. Poor little boy who goes into battle and comes back dead or worse comes back a man. Why don't you warn them moon? Why don't you say duck or scram? But the moon will not. The moon just sits there grinning like a corpse at a Dean Martin roast. What are you laughing at moon? Why don't you share it with the whole class moon? The moon laughs knowingly, the moon laughs, the moon, the.
[He takes a drink of wine and passes the bottle to Dave]
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Imagine if these bot nets did something more subtle... like.. turning a single random pixel black or slightly fudging the movement of the mouse. Warranty Havoc!! Gawd that would suck.
Where do you live? D.C., New York, Silicon Valley? The vast majority of Americans are not like that at all.
What's your point? Sounds to me you probably would have been better off in the military.
To quote Robert Heinlein
"Here is a way to spot space-research spinoffs: If it involves microminiaturization of any sort, minicomputers, miniaturized long-life power sources, highly reliable microswitches, remotely-controlled manipulators, image enhancers, small and sophisticated robotics or cybernetics, then, no matter where you find the item, at a critical point in its development it was part of our space program.
The most ironical thing about our space program is that there are thousands of people alive today who would be dead were it not for some item derived from space research--but are blissfully unaware of the fact--and complain about 'wasting all the money on stupid, useless space stunts when we have so many really important problems to solve right here on Earth."
Oh, okay. How about you you make all your inboxes publically accessible from your website? You arn't doing anything wrong, right?
I beleive this is called "gloating"
If you are poor, elderly or uneducated TV should be the last thing you are worrying about.
This really gives some credit to the theory that the primary purpose of television is to pacify people and have them forget the real problems they face.
Uhm. Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust is not in The Bible.
It came from a Book of Common Prayers and is based on Genesis 3:19:
By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return
Wow. You really need to learn to read.
This guy was clearly saying it's not a partisan issue because all people in authority abuse power, but for some reason you HAD to insist that he has 'liberal leanings' because he is criticizing the current administration.
"Democrats aren't performing very well. Largely because of rhetoric like your comment. Because of that, swing voters such as I are voting for Republicans."
Your comment implies that you (and many others) don't vote Democrat anymore because of how you perceive other Democrats at this particular time. It seems to me you don't really care about the issues at hand, you just care about how other people see you.
The parents post is correct. It doesn't really matter what party is in power. As long as there are people like you who encourage their fellow citizens to "keep their mouth shut" their rights will be trampled on and abused.
It is far from noble to allow others to be punished for your own transgressions.
Jesus didn't sacrifice his own life so that others could live. Jesus was resurrected and continues to live. So in reality he sacrified nothing other than having to endure being human for a while like the rest of us.
God sacrificed himself - to himself - because he couldn't live with the consequences of the laws he had created.
Any attribute that man possesses (good or bad) was imbued by God. God knew exactly what man was going to be when he created them.
Somehow we are supposed to see it as a gift that we were created flawed?
Somehow it is just to create man and then make laws against doing the very thing you intended for them to do from the start?
If I purposely create a mouse in a lab with a heart defect would I be considered merciful for giving it a heart transplant if and only if it successfully completes my maze? No! It would have been merciful not to create such an abomination in the first place.
Couldn't it just be that we no longer find the idealistic Christian view of the world compatable with our experience as adults?
Maybe we just don't see anything just or right about sacrificing the innocent to save the guilty.
Perhaps we understand the 'greater story', but we find it inherently evil and decide to align ourselves with good.
You consider yourself an intellectual?! That is a riot!
Just because you can fake all the right words and cleverly connect bits and peices of information you gather off of the net to make a semi-logical argument does not make you an intellectual.
Like most people who consider themselves to be "intellectuals" you are probably totally self centered.
The reason these so-called "intellectuals" are prone to radicalism is because they don't really care about the welfare of others, all they care about is promoting their ideology. They are radical for the sake of being considered a radical.
LOL. Too funny.
It might do you some good to actually read the book and draw from your own experiences. Don't just cut and paste from wikipedia. This is why kids in the information age are doomed. A shame really.
You must be a child yourself because you don't seem to realize something that all adults know right off the bat: CHILDREN ARE STUPID.
They are not capable of making good decisions for themselves. They are short-sighted and lack the experience to know a good situation from a bad one.
A large portion of people under 18 are not "more knowledgable than adults", they just like to think so. Not even with information technology. I'd like to see how many people under 18 can write a hardware driver compared to the number of adults that can. Even if this were the case, it means nothing when it comes to being able to handle the pressures of adult life.
Children are FAR better off in a stable environment than a free one. I've had many peers in both situations and the ones who had total freedom all wish they had more stability and the ones who had stability while hating it as kids all grew up to realize the good it did for them.
You've read "Brave New World", good job. Next on your list should be "Lord of the Flies".
By designed I meant "crafted over a billion years of adapting to earths environment and natural selection". I like to say 'desiged' rather than 'randomly mutated' because it implies a direction and purpose -- an idea that obviously makes you uncomfortable.
Ecological catastrophe is in revelations. It must be fufilled so that the lord may return, clean it up and let the meek rule the world while the know-it-all science geeks get poked by demons for their materialistic ambitions and lack of faith.
Amen.
What is the point of colonizing other planets when we are struggling to survive on a planet we are designed to live on? When you can't even properly distribute food and water and shelter to people on earth, what makes you think we can do it across planets? I have plenty of vision, but all the problems we face on earth arn't going to suddenly disappear because we can travel space.
Meanwhile, back in Pakistan they wait for aid while China and the US debate who will spend the most resources to control the totally barren lifeless peice of junk orbiting the earth.
Wallace and Gromit meet the Brothers Quay.
I don't know the particular circumstances of your maid, she may come from a unionized maid service or you may just pay her well above market. However, in general maids make an average of $9.00\hr in the US. In New Orleans they generally make about $5.50, mostly because they do not belong to any unions unlike maids in New York City or San Francisco who make about $15.00\hr. It is generally a shitty job. $15.00/hr in New York just does not cut it. If you are paying your graphic artist less than this they are getting screwed especially if they are good at it.
You accuse me of being 'elitist', yet you yourself admit you would never allow you or your children to have the kinds of jobs your parents had. You clearly see that there are different 'classes' of jobs. If you turned out so well from being ignored why isn't this good enough for your own children?
Now do you think your parents busted their ass and ignored you because they chose to or because they had to due to the nature of their work?
Also, I am curious what does your maid do that you and your wife wouldn't do yourselves to save your own marriage?
Maid is a very good example -- this is where the middle class and rich are starting to merge closer as the parent poster suggests.
Alot of these maids and nannys immigrate to this country and leave behind their own children in their own country to go and clean up after the children of rich people and send the money home.
The problem with this is nobody is there to take care of their children, so they don't get the proper attention they need and these kids will eventually end up working as maids as well.
I'm not saying it's enitrely wrong to do so, but you do have to recognize that when you buy a service from someone you are in fact buying them for a period of time and this has all sorts of social and economic consequences.
Corporations are owned by shareholders, but they elect a board of directors to oversee the management and policies of the business. The board of directors are almost exclsuively super-rich. When you look at money as a means to buy goods, then yes, the rich and middle class don't have much difference, but when it comes to social power and influence (even on technological development) there is a huge gap.
Your missing something: The rich have employees, there is no equivalent to that for the middle class. This is the fundamental difference between the middle class and upper class. The middle class think about WHAT they can buy, the upper class thinks about WHO they can buy.
Mark: Hey, see that moon? No that one there.
Dave and Bruce: Ahh.
Mark: I think that moon is a bit of a spy. Yes I do. There was a moon like that on the summer of my sixteenth year. Some say I was sixteen but [sigh] I don't know. And there was a girl, too; her name was Marie. At night together we would walk down by the sea and oh my god if you could see the body on this woman. The way at night her long legs would stick into the moist night sand like gods own barge poles, you know. And I longed to tell her the feeling I had in my heart for her but the words would not come, they would not come through my spotty adolescent face, they would not come through my angry hair or my sweaty feet or any other part on this body that I know call a man. So the words je t'aime were never passed between us but the moon, yes, that moon spied on us.
[He takes a drink of wine then passes the bottle to Bruce]
Bruce: The moon is bright over Lebanon tonight! The Lebanese moon looks down shim! sham! shikam!!! Cattle Explodes! Cow shrapnel drips off a tree cascades into a mothers tear. Poor little boy who goes into battle and comes back dead or worse comes back a man. Why don't you warn them moon? Why don't you say duck or scram? But the moon will not. The moon just sits there grinning like a corpse at a Dean Martin roast. What are you laughing at moon? Why don't you share it with the whole class moon? The moon laughs knowingly, the moon laughs, the moon, the.
[He takes a drink of wine and passes the bottle to Dave]
[Dave looks nervous]
Dave: Gee , I wonder who owns that moon?
[Dave sighs disappointedly]
Mark and Bruce: Yes...yes...yes...yes.