The thing is the government itself if full of petty cowards. You ever seen what happens to a petty coward when they're legitimately threatened or challenged? Petty cowards show courage when they're walking around with a clipboard citing laws and regulations and they have you over a barrel with protocol. When protocol is gone and you're enacting the laws of nature they crack - quickly. If the people wanted an old fashioned rabble - the modern equivalent of showing up with pitchforks and torches, maybe a tar and feathering or two would take care of it.
I know here in the U.S. our law enforcement, especially the sheriffs departments, being decentralized and pretty much independent in each case were things as bad here as they are there would probably in many counties stand with the people. So would many of our veterans, which is just as good if not better in many cases.
Unfortunately I'm afraid your description of Germany is probably what's accurate, the Germans are famous for keeping excellent records and making sure their systems work smoothly meaning it's unlikely anyone in the power structure would side with the people and the people are too whipped into believing delegated power is supreme.
I constantly preach to stay off the dole, be responsible for yourself, vote against ANY regulation or increase in authority for government and take care of your own - however you define that - and encourage them to do the same. It's the people I know and other like them that are keeping things in check and prevented us from going over the edge like Germany has. We're dangerously close to that edge, most metropolitan areas in the U.S. have already slipped over and are being held back from actually falling by more rural areas.
I'm not saying "work within the system" the system is corrupt and does not represent it's people, any attempt to work with the system just creates more prisoners. The people have a duty to replace their government with a government that represents them.
Someone should do a "Boy Bears are Bad" Little Critter spoof cover. I'm not much of an artist, but I may attempt it anyways, of course attributing the book to Marissa Mayer.
I lost 40 lbs after high school, part of it because I couldn't afford to eat. I was a little over weight when I graduated but not really bad, I had a lot of muscle because I biked all over the place, I lost a lot of that too.
I lived in a fishing shack for $500 a month for quite a while (after school).
I learned I could make a tank of gas stretch three weeks in my Tacoma (very first model when they still got good mileage) while driving to work and school every day.
I found I could eat for more than a week by paying $2 for two huge cans of pork and beans at Costco using someone elses' card and $2 for a big bag of generic hot dog wieners at the local grocery store.
Yes I did have some advantages, my parents did buy my truck and pay the insurance during my time in school, and when I just flat couldn't make rent - I got paid twice a month and my rent was greater than one of those checks - they bailed me out.
I believe in taking care of your own - like my parents did when they bailed me out and by helping to keep me in a vehicle. It would have been a very different experience otherwise. Honestly people on food stamps ate a lot better than I did. Thanks to now being divorced with a kid in Texas people on food stamps eat better than me now. I know this for a fact, a former in-law was on them and always had lots of food.
Being a boot-straps type is a good thing. If everybody was one we wouldn't need the benefits system - because people take care of their own. What is "your own?" That's up for you to decide. Obviously family comes to mind and most people that would qualify. Close friends certainly qualify, people from your job you work closely with, people from your church if you're religious, maybe someone from your bowling league, whatever, it's up to you to decide. A boot-straps attitude and loyal circles of people keep people going. In fact I would argue it works better than government benefits systems. Government benefits short-circuit the natural village support system, people just expect big-brother to step in and it stops those support systems from happening.
I would like to go to a more rural place. Even with a pay cut I could do better than if I continued to live in a metropolis. I seriously considered some "stationed" out of the country rotate in and out work, but with a toddler I can't, and with a child from a previous marriage I'm pretty much held hostage in the city I'm in. I've given some serious thought to finding a place in flyover country, some old has-been town that happens to be on some fiber backbone and setting up my own data centric business where location doesn't matter, but building your own business isn't always a "just out of the gate" thing the millennials need.
I got to where I was at without riding the benefits bandwagon, even though I certainly qualified for it. The need for government handouts is an illusion, and the student loan debt is so high BECAUSE those programs exist to ensure it. The last sentence is right, you just want the problem to be worse so it can be fixed....
but I look at the turnover rate at companies these days and I realize stable employment is nearing a thing of the past, especially for younger people starting out. I don't care if they want stable employment, they're probably not going to get it. I look at what percentage of my own income rent is, then my health insurance which is nearly as high as that. Even without any revolving entertainment bills like over-priced cable there's not a huge amount left if you're regularly employed, and if you're someone who has to constantly search for the next gig and have to be prepared for a dry spell there's even less.
We need to get a little government out of employment, the rates companies have to pay big brother (which includes healthcare and other mandatory funds) to actually employ people makes it difficult to keep someone around when you don't have a specific pressing need.
We prohibit it because if you've ever installed it, it constantly reports back to Google and we don't know what all it's reporting. EVEN IF you uninstall it the normal ways services remain in startup that keep reporting back to Google. My boss has a video he took of a process monitor on a server (VM, the video was recorded outside the VM) of Chrome not even being launched and pegging the CPU. Combine that with the recent reveal that Chrome leaks active directory login info like a siv and it makes me wonder how any company can allow it. I really don't like allowing it on the systems we've been arm-twisted into allowing it on. Dare I say it - I would prefer our users just use Edge or Safari instead. (still Chrome before IE)
In fact the organization I'm a sysadmin at doesn't allow Chrome on systems without valid reason usually someone has to work with a website that is Google browser only.
I find it disturbing that in this day and age we once again have website that only work with one browser - it reminds me of the bad-old-day of corporate Internet Explorer only websites.
Like Atheist never killed anyone in the name of their beliefs. The communist killed millions in the 20th Century and don't give me that crap about it being in the name of communism, they did it to promote atheism as well.
The NAS idea isn't so bad, considering that FireWire supported networking anyways and it doesn't have to be I.P. networking to be networking (remember protocols before the whole world jumped on the TCP I/P bandwagon? some weren't so bad IPX excelled in LAN setups without having to configure anything). Also I had a couple of NAS drives from the era that were natively Ethernet and they had dismal read/write speeds that didn't come anywhere close to saturating a 10 Mbps connection, much less the 100 Mbps they actually "supported". Something actually capable of getting close to the 400 or 800 speeds they were supposed to have would have been awesome. I didn't have NAS in mind so much as a SAN style file lock coupled with a MUX style time share, where instead of muxing every other byte or whatever it would be a set number of blocks when they both tried to access the drive at the same time, more of a time share. I don't think it would have been ideal for a "build your own professional SAN", but for a few home systems wanting to share data without building a complicated file server I think it could have been great. What I used my super-slow iOmega 1TB NAS drive (which I got a killer deal on for the era, about $70 buck when a 1TB drive on it's own was closer to $100) was storing movies. Before I got into XBMC/Kodi I simply ripped and compressed my DVDs and stored them on the iOmega drive that had a UPNP server on it, my LG Blu-Ray player could play the Power Puff Girls all day long off of that and my daughter couldn't have been happier. It wasn't hard to setup and it worked fine, but a FireWire implementation like we just talked about would have been so easy my parent could have done it.
I will argue that had they actually solved it we would be using FireWire revision H or so by now and they company that actually solved how to make it work cheaply would have made so much money licensing we would have a new power player in the data market (unless of course it was an existing power player).
That was the problem with FireWire. FireWire was supposed to be able to do nearly everything we're doing with Thunderbolt (just not as fast). The problem was the people making the peripherals rarely made them right. Theoretically I should be able to plug a FireWire cable from my computer, to a hard drive, to an external CD drive, to another computer. Both computers should have access to both peripherals and they should be able to network with one another over the cable.
I was never able to get two computers to share a peripheral. From what I understood the drive manufacturers just didn't care about implementing parts of the protocol they didn't have to.
Still, there is a 1394C standard that's never been implemented. If Intel won't open up Thunderbolt to AMD then maybe AMD should look into resurrecting that standard and blending it with Doc-Port or something.
That's not even Internet access. That's a BBS. When they start pulling that shit not only will they lose all of their customers they'll run afoul of some U.N. rules that call for sanctions.
We need to fight against regulations (which benefit established players but prevent new comers) and court system abuse. If anything regulation and protectionism has enabled the mess we have with limited ISP choice.
I don't care if there's zero regulation on neutrality, if we get the protectionism out of the picture and new companies are allowed to compete we the people will vote with our wallets. We will have net neutrality for the same reason we no longer have obnoxious roaming charges and long distance charges are a thing of the past (at least within the country). Someone offered a better product and people began switching to it forcing everyone else to fall in line. Right now protectionism and lawsuit abuse keep that someone else from popping up.
There are less publicized incidents reported from people close to the source who stated Steve Jobs ranted about how much he hated free CODECs. Feel free to do your own research now. These companies would rather you become a competitors customer than nobodies customer.
I still buy CD's. I've experienced bit-rot, but it's usually with DVD's. I find it cheaper to buy used then rip and compress, 100% legal, cost saving, and the quality is good enough for my ears.
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The thing is the government itself if full of petty cowards. You ever seen what happens to a petty coward when they're legitimately threatened or challenged? Petty cowards show courage when they're walking around with a clipboard citing laws and regulations and they have you over a barrel with protocol. When protocol is gone and you're enacting the laws of nature they crack - quickly. If the people wanted an old fashioned rabble - the modern equivalent of showing up with pitchforks and torches, maybe a tar and feathering or two would take care of it.
I know here in the U.S. our law enforcement, especially the sheriffs departments, being decentralized and pretty much independent in each case were things as bad here as they are there would probably in many counties stand with the people. So would many of our veterans, which is just as good if not better in many cases.
Unfortunately I'm afraid your description of Germany is probably what's accurate, the Germans are famous for keeping excellent records and making sure their systems work smoothly meaning it's unlikely anyone in the power structure would side with the people and the people are too whipped into believing delegated power is supreme.
I constantly preach to stay off the dole, be responsible for yourself, vote against ANY regulation or increase in authority for government and take care of your own - however you define that - and encourage them to do the same. It's the people I know and other like them that are keeping things in check and prevented us from going over the edge like Germany has. We're dangerously close to that edge, most metropolitan areas in the U.S. have already slipped over and are being held back from actually falling by more rural areas.
I'm not saying "work within the system" the system is corrupt and does not represent it's people, any attempt to work with the system just creates more prisoners. The people have a duty to replace their government with a government that represents them.
You're surrounded by those here on Slashdot as it is.....
Someone should do a "Boy Bears are Bad" Little Critter spoof cover. I'm not much of an artist, but I may attempt it anyways, of course attributing the book to Marissa Mayer.
For my Toddler. Go write some more when you're done!
Now that non-InfoWars.com and Coast to Coast news organizations are talking about this it's been upgraded to "real news".
I lost 40 lbs after high school, part of it because I couldn't afford to eat. I was a little over weight when I graduated but not really bad, I had a lot of muscle because I biked all over the place, I lost a lot of that too.
I lived in a fishing shack for $500 a month for quite a while (after school).
I learned I could make a tank of gas stretch three weeks in my Tacoma (very first model when they still got good mileage) while driving to work and school every day.
I found I could eat for more than a week by paying $2 for two huge cans of pork and beans at Costco using someone elses' card and $2 for a big bag of generic hot dog wieners at the local grocery store.
Yes I did have some advantages, my parents did buy my truck and pay the insurance during my time in school, and when I just flat couldn't make rent - I got paid twice a month and my rent was greater than one of those checks - they bailed me out.
I believe in taking care of your own - like my parents did when they bailed me out and by helping to keep me in a vehicle. It would have been a very different experience otherwise. Honestly people on food stamps ate a lot better than I did. Thanks to now being divorced with a kid in Texas people on food stamps eat better than me now. I know this for a fact, a former in-law was on them and always had lots of food.
Being a boot-straps type is a good thing. If everybody was one we wouldn't need the benefits system - because people take care of their own. What is "your own?" That's up for you to decide. Obviously family comes to mind and most people that would qualify. Close friends certainly qualify, people from your job you work closely with, people from your church if you're religious, maybe someone from your bowling league, whatever, it's up to you to decide. A boot-straps attitude and loyal circles of people keep people going. In fact I would argue it works better than government benefits systems. Government benefits short-circuit the natural village support system, people just expect big-brother to step in and it stops those support systems from happening.
I would like to go to a more rural place. Even with a pay cut I could do better than if I continued to live in a metropolis. I seriously considered some "stationed" out of the country rotate in and out work, but with a toddler I can't, and with a child from a previous marriage I'm pretty much held hostage in the city I'm in. I've given some serious thought to finding a place in flyover country, some old has-been town that happens to be on some fiber backbone and setting up my own data centric business where location doesn't matter, but building your own business isn't always a "just out of the gate" thing the millennials need.
I got to where I was at without riding the benefits bandwagon, even though I certainly qualified for it. The need for government handouts is an illusion, and the student loan debt is so high BECAUSE those programs exist to ensure it. The last sentence is right, you just want the problem to be worse so it can be fixed....
but I look at the turnover rate at companies these days and I realize stable employment is nearing a thing of the past, especially for younger people starting out. I don't care if they want stable employment, they're probably not going to get it. I look at what percentage of my own income rent is, then my health insurance which is nearly as high as that. Even without any revolving entertainment bills like over-priced cable there's not a huge amount left if you're regularly employed, and if you're someone who has to constantly search for the next gig and have to be prepared for a dry spell there's even less.
We need to get a little government out of employment, the rates companies have to pay big brother (which includes healthcare and other mandatory funds) to actually employ people makes it difficult to keep someone around when you don't have a specific pressing need.
We prohibit it because if you've ever installed it, it constantly reports back to Google and we don't know what all it's reporting. EVEN IF you uninstall it the normal ways services remain in startup that keep reporting back to Google. My boss has a video he took of a process monitor on a server (VM, the video was recorded outside the VM) of Chrome not even being launched and pegging the CPU. Combine that with the recent reveal that Chrome leaks active directory login info like a siv and it makes me wonder how any company can allow it. I really don't like allowing it on the systems we've been arm-twisted into allowing it on. Dare I say it - I would prefer our users just use Edge or Safari instead. (still Chrome before IE)
In fact the organization I'm a sysadmin at doesn't allow Chrome on systems without valid reason usually someone has to work with a website that is Google browser only.
I find it disturbing that in this day and age we once again have website that only work with one browser - it reminds me of the bad-old-day of corporate Internet Explorer only websites.
Like Atheist never killed anyone in the name of their beliefs. The communist killed millions in the 20th Century and don't give me that crap about it being in the name of communism, they did it to promote atheism as well.
Let's just agree humans are assholes.
The NAS idea isn't so bad, considering that FireWire supported networking anyways and it doesn't have to be I.P. networking to be networking (remember protocols before the whole world jumped on the TCP I/P bandwagon? some weren't so bad IPX excelled in LAN setups without having to configure anything). Also I had a couple of NAS drives from the era that were natively Ethernet and they had dismal read/write speeds that didn't come anywhere close to saturating a 10 Mbps connection, much less the 100 Mbps they actually "supported". Something actually capable of getting close to the 400 or 800 speeds they were supposed to have would have been awesome. I didn't have NAS in mind so much as a SAN style file lock coupled with a MUX style time share, where instead of muxing every other byte or whatever it would be a set number of blocks when they both tried to access the drive at the same time, more of a time share. I don't think it would have been ideal for a "build your own professional SAN", but for a few home systems wanting to share data without building a complicated file server I think it could have been great. What I used my super-slow iOmega 1TB NAS drive (which I got a killer deal on for the era, about $70 buck when a 1TB drive on it's own was closer to $100) was storing movies. Before I got into XBMC/Kodi I simply ripped and compressed my DVDs and stored them on the iOmega drive that had a UPNP server on it, my LG Blu-Ray player could play the Power Puff Girls all day long off of that and my daughter couldn't have been happier. It wasn't hard to setup and it worked fine, but a FireWire implementation like we just talked about would have been so easy my parent could have done it.
I will argue that had they actually solved it we would be using FireWire revision H or so by now and they company that actually solved how to make it work cheaply would have made so much money licensing we would have a new power player in the data market (unless of course it was an existing power player).
That was the problem with FireWire. FireWire was supposed to be able to do nearly everything we're doing with Thunderbolt (just not as fast). The problem was the people making the peripherals rarely made them right. Theoretically I should be able to plug a FireWire cable from my computer, to a hard drive, to an external CD drive, to another computer. Both computers should have access to both peripherals and they should be able to network with one another over the cable.
I was never able to get two computers to share a peripheral. From what I understood the drive manufacturers just didn't care about implementing parts of the protocol they didn't have to.
Still, there is a 1394C standard that's never been implemented. If Intel won't open up Thunderbolt to AMD then maybe AMD should look into resurrecting that standard and blending it with Doc-Port or something.
I wouldn't wait on integration. Even after it gets integrated into the CPU how long will it take Apple to switch to that CPU model?
Then how long will it take for them to change motherboards to ones that support on-chip?
THEN exactly how long will it take until the peripherals perform well enough for it to make a difference?
Sure it's probably better to have the on-chip version, but the rest of the ducks are going to take their time lining up.
I consider a math error of that magnitude better than I dunno.
That's not even Internet access. That's a BBS. When they start pulling that shit not only will they lose all of their customers they'll run afoul of some U.N. rules that call for sanctions.
THIS is the real problem.
We need to fight against regulations (which benefit established players but prevent new comers) and court system abuse. If anything regulation and protectionism has enabled the mess we have with limited ISP choice.
I don't care if there's zero regulation on neutrality, if we get the protectionism out of the picture and new companies are allowed to compete we the people will vote with our wallets. We will have net neutrality for the same reason we no longer have obnoxious roaming charges and long distance charges are a thing of the past (at least within the country). Someone offered a better product and people began switching to it forcing everyone else to fall in line. Right now protectionism and lawsuit abuse keep that someone else from popping up.
It's already that way.
My ISP has different packages, some with metered use, some without, and different speeds for each.
In fact, the first time I signed up for DSL back in 1999 I had similar options.
That being said Ogg works with BSD - with very common native support.
Why do you suppose Apple has chosen to remove that support?
Since you're too lazy and accusatory to do any of your own work:
Here's a Microsoft Example.
Apple specifically opposed Ogg in HTML 5.
There are less publicized incidents reported from people close to the source who stated Steve Jobs ranted about how much he hated free CODECs. Feel free to do your own research now. These companies would rather you become a competitors customer than nobodies customer.
I still buy CD's. I've experienced bit-rot, but it's usually with DVD's. I find it cheaper to buy used then rip and compress, 100% legal, cost saving, and the quality is good enough for my ears.
Because you don't want the cattle to realize they're better off without a rancher.