if I had any belief at all that the current system led to a rich public domain of material before that material was largely devoid of value and/or forgotten due to publisher/creator neglect.
One need only look at Mohammed's wife to be unsurprised that even today, Muslim businesswomen aren't exactly unheard of. Sure, there are oppressive countries, but that's government, not a core facet of Islam.
Snowden is fine and well, but I want to see the prize go to Malala Yousafzai. If you aren't familiar with her, she's the girl who recently spoke before the UN about education. She's also the girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for going to school and insisting she would go even if she had to sit on the floor.
I haven't found an across-the-board sensible party yet. so far, the Libertarians come the closest, but have major malfunctions within their party. In particular, I find some of their goals as a party to fall dangerously far toward anarchist as opposed to simply libertarian. not a lot of them, but certainly a fair number. Just enough important ones.
The Greens have some nice ideas, but I generally find your analysis of their economic standpoint to be catastrophic.
I tend to judge leaders by those they choose to surround themselves with. Delegating is one of the most important tasks any leader or executive has, and choosing to whom you will be doing so is the most vital decision they can make.
Therefore, I refuse to judge Ballmer as a leader, since I haven't really examined who he keeps company with. However, I still generally dislike Microsoft's products and strategies.
I quite agree. Even then, I'm reminded of the saying that I'm just not going to take the time to find. It's something along the lines of "you don't get change by forcing it. You get change by bringing something to the table that people see and wonder how they got by without it." This government-mandated system is the exact opposite of that.
This is from the same government that brought us the VA hospital system. I work in HIT myself, and I see nothing good coming of these new technology mandates.
There is nothing necessary about what they're mandating.
Thanks to the way Washington, D.C., works, the end result will be smug bureaucrats patting each other on the back, and doctors wondering if they should just find a different field to work in.
I'm not sure how many others around here actually understood your post, but this basically confirms everything I was thinking as soon as I found out it was an Asiana flight. It's not a race thing, but a culture one (as evidenced by your Korean USAF pilot friend).
Korean pilots have a reputation that they aren't doing anything to counteract, and some of what I've seen causes me to share your amazement that there are not more incidents than there are.
DefCon has merely advised the Feds that it is probably not the best time for them to attend, and that they would prefer that they not be in attendance due to the likelihood of malicious attacks upon any suspected Feds. Not that they may not attend, but at least then DefCon has made it quite clear that they are perfectly aware of the risks and don't want to see it get ugly.
DefCon is being prudent, not exclusionary. They know there will be Feds, and they know that now that DefCon has covered their arses by identifying a likely hazard and giving a fair notification to those who ignore their warnings. It's like a parking lot that reminds you not to leave valuables in your car. People do it anyway, but it's hard at that point to blame the parking lot.
I think it's fascinating that you think urbanites to be superior to rural dwellers.
You are of course correct that major cities form around waterways and today in places where roads or railroads intersect. That's due to the transportation of goods through that area, necessitating people to manage the processing of those goods from one route to the next or to provide support services for the people who are there to move, route, and otherwise facilitate the goods.
However, it is vital to understand that today's increasingly information-based careers are a very new development, and are increasingly less dependent upon location.
Both rural and urban environments offer different advantages and disadvantages. I don't expect the two groups to agree upon which are more important, as clearly if there were a "right" answer, one group would either cease to exist.
Neither is inherently more valuable than the other without subjective judgment. Urban people would find it difficult to get by without food, and rural people would lose a good many conveniences they enjoy if the trade (both the benefits they take in and the products they ship out) that needs cities to thrive were to disappear.
You seem to have a strong desire to claim that things are legitimate just because we presently have them. that's not enough justification for an increasing number of citizens at this point. In fact, the article hurts your position more than it helps it.
The assumption that farmers are poor is erroneous. Most farmers are the wealthy at this point...rich investors who own the land. The people running these farms are generally employees, not the families our legislators would have you believe they were every time they push for a subsidy, "farm bill", or other corporate welfare bill that claims to be helping farmers.
There are very few topics which justify scheduled print at this point. It's important, for example, to have print newspapers so kidnappers can confirm in photograph that their hostage is alive today and not a fortnight ago.
That's not what this is about. You're arguing what people have, not what is necessary. I live in the country myself. My phone has the direct line to the local dispatch office, and coverage in the area is good. The local phone lines on the other hand...good luck whenever it rains.
Much like other government regulations, these subsidies were written with certain assumptions that haven't been reassessed over the years. In this case, the assumption that a couple copper wires were the primary driving factor in whether someone had access to modern telecommunications. Today, wires aren't actually necessary in most cases in the first place. The land line for dedicated voice service at home is rapidly fading into obscurity, and even home access to Internet services in some rural areas is arguably losing the wires and transmitting to antennas or mobile devices where conventional wired broadband is unavailable.
I'm just having a really hard time seeing this subsidy as necessary in this day and age.
I'm looking at this and figuring out what part of it really changes anything. Lumping together gaming and hardware is silly, for example. I remember a hiring freeze at MS Gaming Studios across the entirety of their projects, regardless of whether specific groups were turning a profit. An easy metric to examine when your teams are scattered across the nation (world?), but they didn't bother.
Now MS Gaming Studios is lumped in with the group responsible for Zune and Surface? and presumably Windows Phone? One more reason to go PS4 if you really need a next-gen console.
I love how this article fails to mention Windows 8 and focuses entirely on tablets. I haven't even owned a desktop since about 2006, instead using a laptop, but even at the office, anything with multiple cores has been fine so far as long as we have plenty of RAM.
I've been replacing a few Pentium 4 (pre-HT with 512MB-1GB RAM) systems here and there, but that's about it.
I agree in principle. In practice though the term "cloud" is a misnomer in the first place. I don't care how they run their backend, a storage service is a storage service. Doesn't matter if you're running your own or someone else is, for the end user it's still client/server in principle, even if the details get sketchy once you connect as to what goes on in the background.
The real appeal of Dropbox is the simplicity of the accompanying service for the average user who doesn't have the know-how to run a server in the first place.
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if I had any belief at all that the current system led to a rich public domain of material before that material was largely devoid of value and/or forgotten due to publisher/creator neglect.
One need only look at Mohammed's wife to be unsurprised that even today, Muslim businesswomen aren't exactly unheard of. Sure, there are oppressive countries, but that's government, not a core facet of Islam.
Nobody lets the wolves guard their sheep. If Google and so forth are letting the NSA in, there's no reason to let them hold your data.
Snowden is fine and well, but I want to see the prize go to Malala Yousafzai. If you aren't familiar with her, she's the girl who recently spoke before the UN about education. She's also the girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for going to school and insisting she would go even if she had to sit on the floor.
I haven't found an across-the-board sensible party yet. so far, the Libertarians come the closest, but have major malfunctions within their party. In particular, I find some of their goals as a party to fall dangerously far toward anarchist as opposed to simply libertarian. not a lot of them, but certainly a fair number. Just enough important ones.
The Greens have some nice ideas, but I generally find your analysis of their economic standpoint to be catastrophic.
That may be RAND's verdict, but I don't know a lot of veterans who would agree with their results being better.
I tend to judge leaders by those they choose to surround themselves with. Delegating is one of the most important tasks any leader or executive has, and choosing to whom you will be doing so is the most vital decision they can make.
Therefore, I refuse to judge Ballmer as a leader, since I haven't really examined who he keeps company with. However, I still generally dislike Microsoft's products and strategies.
I quite agree. Even then, I'm reminded of the saying that I'm just not going to take the time to find. It's something along the lines of "you don't get change by forcing it. You get change by bringing something to the table that people see and wonder how they got by without it." This government-mandated system is the exact opposite of that.
This is from the same government that brought us the VA hospital system. I work in HIT myself, and I see nothing good coming of these new technology mandates.
There is nothing necessary about what they're mandating.
Thanks to the way Washington, D.C., works, the end result will be smug bureaucrats patting each other on the back, and doctors wondering if they should just find a different field to work in.
I'm not sure how many others around here actually understood your post, but this basically confirms everything I was thinking as soon as I found out it was an Asiana flight. It's not a race thing, but a culture one (as evidenced by your Korean USAF pilot friend).
Korean pilots have a reputation that they aren't doing anything to counteract, and some of what I've seen causes me to share your amazement that there are not more incidents than there are.
DefCon has merely advised the Feds that it is probably not the best time for them to attend, and that they would prefer that they not be in attendance due to the likelihood of malicious attacks upon any suspected Feds. Not that they may not attend, but at least then DefCon has made it quite clear that they are perfectly aware of the risks and don't want to see it get ugly.
DefCon is being prudent, not exclusionary. They know there will be Feds, and they know that now that DefCon has covered their arses by identifying a likely hazard and giving a fair notification to those who ignore their warnings. It's like a parking lot that reminds you not to leave valuables in your car. People do it anyway, but it's hard at that point to blame the parking lot.
Have it your way. I really just don't care enough about the topic to bother.
I think it's fascinating that you think urbanites to be superior to rural dwellers.
You are of course correct that major cities form around waterways and today in places where roads or railroads intersect. That's due to the transportation of goods through that area, necessitating people to manage the processing of those goods from one route to the next or to provide support services for the people who are there to move, route, and otherwise facilitate the goods.
However, it is vital to understand that today's increasingly information-based careers are a very new development, and are increasingly less dependent upon location.
Both rural and urban environments offer different advantages and disadvantages. I don't expect the two groups to agree upon which are more important, as clearly if there were a "right" answer, one group would either cease to exist.
Neither is inherently more valuable than the other without subjective judgment. Urban people would find it difficult to get by without food, and rural people would lose a good many conveniences they enjoy if the trade (both the benefits they take in and the products they ship out) that needs cities to thrive were to disappear.
You seem to have a strong desire to claim that things are legitimate just because we presently have them. that's not enough justification for an increasing number of citizens at this point. In fact, the article hurts your position more than it helps it.
I'm not sure why you used a question mark. You made a pretty clear and accurate statement there.
The assumption that farmers are poor is erroneous. Most farmers are the wealthy at this point...rich investors who own the land. The people running these farms are generally employees, not the families our legislators would have you believe they were every time they push for a subsidy, "farm bill", or other corporate welfare bill that claims to be helping farmers.
There are very few topics which justify scheduled print at this point. It's important, for example, to have print newspapers so kidnappers can confirm in photograph that their hostage is alive today and not a fortnight ago.
Well, I'd rather cut the subsidy entirely, but if we're going to subsidize it we may as well get the public benefit.
That's not what this is about. You're arguing what people have, not what is necessary. I live in the country myself. My phone has the direct line to the local dispatch office, and coverage in the area is good. The local phone lines on the other hand...good luck whenever it rains.
Much like other government regulations, these subsidies were written with certain assumptions that haven't been reassessed over the years. In this case, the assumption that a couple copper wires were the primary driving factor in whether someone had access to modern telecommunications. Today, wires aren't actually necessary in most cases in the first place. The land line for dedicated voice service at home is rapidly fading into obscurity, and even home access to Internet services in some rural areas is arguably losing the wires and transmitting to antennas or mobile devices where conventional wired broadband is unavailable.
I'm just having a really hard time seeing this subsidy as necessary in this day and age.
I'm looking at this and figuring out what part of it really changes anything. Lumping together gaming and hardware is silly, for example. I remember a hiring freeze at MS Gaming Studios across the entirety of their projects, regardless of whether specific groups were turning a profit. An easy metric to examine when your teams are scattered across the nation (world?), but they didn't bother.
Now MS Gaming Studios is lumped in with the group responsible for Zune and Surface? and presumably Windows Phone? One more reason to go PS4 if you really need a next-gen console.
I love how this article fails to mention Windows 8 and focuses entirely on tablets. I haven't even owned a desktop since about 2006, instead using a laptop, but even at the office, anything with multiple cores has been fine so far as long as we have plenty of RAM.
I've been replacing a few Pentium 4 (pre-HT with 512MB-1GB RAM) systems here and there, but that's about it.
Given the way military contracts work, I think it's largely the government doing it to themselves.
I agree in principle. In practice though the term "cloud" is a misnomer in the first place. I don't care how they run their backend, a storage service is a storage service. Doesn't matter if you're running your own or someone else is, for the end user it's still client/server in principle, even if the details get sketchy once you connect as to what goes on in the background.
The real appeal of Dropbox is the simplicity of the accompanying service for the average user who doesn't have the know-how to run a server in the first place.