marx made his hay on the basic reality of early industrial technology: it was inherently capital-intensive.
the microprocessor & consumer electronics boom has essentially democratized production, so now the legacy producers are trying to restrict production by law, now that technology has passed them by.
a similar situation fortunately didn't transpire in the early 18th century in transportation: geo. washington invested in the potowmack canal, the predecessor to the c&o canal, which finally reached cumberland,md, after the r.r. did.
thankfully, g.w. didn't try to get the gummint to interfere w/ tech.advances. the reason british cities were still lit by gas well into the 20th cent. was that the muni.gas authorities threw legal roadblocks against electric lighting (ref: guns, germs & steel).
a colonial reenactor once told me that w.r. is a shooting term, referring to the ability to concentrate fire on an enemy.
this requires not only the posession of arms, but also the skill to use them, which is aquired only by constant practice, which in turn requires constant posession.
the reenactor also said militiamen were expected to supply their own arms, so handing out arms from the militia's armory to unskilled citizens is explicitly _not_ what the founders intended.
well, the current trend in 300lb+ football players is approaching the body's limits of heat dissipation...witness the rising # of heat strokes...so in that sense obesity's self-limiting;-}
> the bad people are the ultraconservative, underinformed, technically no-longer-qualified information security people...
amen to that, bro:-( i work on a project whose acronym i pronounce mudnuts...apt, believe me;-)
when i started i expected to continue doing the same work i'd been doing on the predecessor contract: putting gui wrappers around legacy codes, generally providing programming support to SMEs, who wrote/used algorithms, but weren't codepigs like me;-)
so i installed cygwin on the winbloze box the prime(so much 4 the "team" concept)-: stuck me on & adapted to microserfdom... until IT discovered i was COMPILING CODE!!!
major breach, sound the alarms...i was escorted from the building;-}
the security droid in charge of my re-education told me compiled code was a security risk...can't have people installing & running unauthorized s/w...
but what about the matlab scripts(which have full activeX access) or the v.b.macros(no risk there... not;-) i asked...
if they're not compiled, they're ok, in the view of IT security...
no, edison opposed alternating current b/c is was so dangerous (not to mention the technology of his competitor westinghouse;-)
so he commissioned demos @ state & county fairs where pens of sheep were electrocuted...actually, that word hadn't been invented yet, so edison called it being westinghoused;-)
is the apostrophe;-) b4 the computer, data storage used the same medium as data display. now they r separate, leading 2 this problem...
i think xerox developed a printing technology that allowed human-readable data 2 b reliably scanned.
As these types of tricks are discovered, ActiveState's team of spam analysts creates new heuristics to identify them, and provides these heuristics as part of the regular PureMessage SpamCheck updates.
A.S. don't want 2 solve the spam problem, they want 2 sell bandaids...
the _only_ solution is 2 charge 4 every byte sent, but that's a filthy capitalist/market-oriented idea unacceptable 2 marxist-befuddled computer "scientists"
>We (at least in the USA) are trained from birth to conform and not stand out.
>We are taught in school to ridicule and/or fear people who are different
perhaps u r thinking of japan, where kids are explicitly taught: "the protruding nail gets hammered down."
unfortunately, conformity is an innate human failing, exacerbated by our rampant materialist society, hollywood, advertizing...
overcoming human nature's less-desirable traits is why we invented religion, isn't it?
fantastic flick about a 17th cent. jesuit priest among the north american aborigines...chilling, if not p.c.;-}
interestingly, every reenactor i talked to (especially the injuns;-) at the battle of bushy run not only knew of it, 1 guy said he watched it weekly;-)
great flick, from the conceptual p.o.v., if not cinematic;-) but isn't all scifi that way;-)
my fave scene was when connery, trying to aclimate himself to the boredom of immortality, asks the computer to show him the evolution of automotive design. it responds with a rapid slideshow of still pix of cars thru the years, and he's dissatisfied...he wanted to see evolution, not history, as visualized by morphing from 1 model to another...
it wasn't until 1990 that his vision came to pass in the chrysler minivan ads, which showed the original boxy design morphing into the more streamlined 2nd gen...i think that was the 1st use of morphing in nat'l advertizing.
>burn victims who survived a perfect glimpse of Hell
not a glimpse, a life of:-( a friend of my brother survived a jeep roll-over, thanx 2 the advances in burn medicine brought about bby the viet nam war...he only had stumps left for fingers, and the skin around his eyes was so tight his eyes dried out & he had 2 use eyedrops constantly...
he said he wished he had died...there are fates worse than death:-(
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it's time to bring it into the 21st century: the right to compile & run your own code on your own h/w;-)
i had trouble parsing the original sentence, too...perhaps the following will help:
According to an estimate,
several billion feet of abandoned cable lies unused
(in the plenum spaces of buildings that allow air to circulate),
creating a fire hazard.
> exclusive control over production
marx made his hay on the basic reality of early industrial technology: it was inherently capital-intensive.
the microprocessor & consumer electronics boom has essentially democratized production, so now the legacy producers are trying to restrict production by law, now that technology has passed them by.
a similar situation fortunately didn't transpire in the early 18th century in transportation: geo. washington invested in the potowmack canal, the predecessor to the c&o canal, which finally reached cumberland,md, after the r.r. did.
thankfully, g.w. didn't try to get the gummint to interfere w/ tech.advances. the reason british cities were still lit by gas well into the 20th cent. was that the muni.gas authorities threw legal roadblocks against electric lighting (ref: guns, germs & steel).
same shit, different century:-(
uh, that would b the marroons who voted 4 nadir;-)
because the only name on every lunar lander's plaque is richard m. nixon...
a colonial reenactor once told me that w.r. is a shooting term, referring to the ability to concentrate fire on an enemy.
this requires not only the posession of arms, but also the skill to use them, which is aquired only by constant practice, which in turn requires constant posession.
the reenactor also said militiamen were expected to supply their own arms, so handing out arms from the militia's armory to unskilled citizens is explicitly _not_ what the founders intended.
hmmm, let's see, the west has produced, just 2 name a few:
sanitation
abolition
vaccination
electricity
flight
looks like it's skewed 4 a very good reason;-)
well, the current trend in 300lb+ football players is approaching the body's limits of heat dissipation...witness the rising # of heat strokes...so in that sense obesity's self-limiting;-}
> the bad people are the ultraconservative, underinformed, technically no-longer-qualified information security people...
amen to that, bro:-( i work on a project whose acronym i pronounce mudnuts...apt, believe me;-)
when i started i expected to continue doing the same work i'd been doing on the predecessor contract: putting gui wrappers around legacy codes, generally providing programming support to SMEs, who wrote/used algorithms, but weren't codepigs like me;-)
so i installed cygwin on the winbloze box the prime(so much 4 the "team" concept)-: stuck me on & adapted to microserfdom... until IT discovered i was COMPILING CODE!!!
major breach, sound the alarms...i was escorted from the building;-}
the security droid in charge of my re-education told me compiled code was a security risk...can't have people installing & running unauthorized s/w...
but what about the matlab scripts(which have full activeX access) or the v.b.macros(no risk there... not;-) i asked...
if they're not compiled, they're ok, in the view of IT security...
ur tax $$$ @ work:-(
no, edison opposed alternating current b/c is was so dangerous (not to mention the technology of his competitor westinghouse;-)
so he commissioned demos @ state & county fairs where pens of sheep were electrocuted...actually, that word hadn't been invented yet, so edison called it being westinghoused;-)
yup, que the marischino cherry;-) the pix in your head r always the best, but the music is a big factor in how vivid they r:-)8-O;-)
hope paddy kingsland(sp?) of the radiophonic workshop does the music & sound effects again...
"...previous translations all the way back to the partial translation of William Tynsdale published 90 years earlier..."
but i consider that a mention;-)
is the apostrophe;-) b4 the computer, data storage used the same medium as data display. now they r separate, leading 2 this problem... i think xerox developed a printing technology that allowed human-readable data 2 b reliably scanned.
i think the answer to that question was addressed in the s-f flick "forbidden planet"
most car operators (i won't credit them with the term _driver_;-) don't lose control, they abdicate:-{
movie? hell, i remember _mr_wizard;-)
> Tests carried out in the United States ...i'd be a _lot_ happier in the us than in tibet;-);-);-)
>We (at least in the USA) are trained from birth to conform and not stand out.
>We are taught in school to ridicule and/or fear people who are different
perhaps u r thinking of japan, where kids are explicitly taught: "the protruding nail gets hammered down."
unfortunately, conformity is an innate human failing, exacerbated by our rampant materialist society, hollywood, advertizing...
overcoming human nature's less-desirable traits is why we invented religion, isn't it?
ooooh, they have cameras that can read minds now? will wonders never cease;-}
fantastic flick about a 17th cent. jesuit priest among the north american aborigines...chilling, if not p.c.;-}
interestingly, every reenactor i talked to (especially the injuns;-) at the battle of bushy run not only knew of it, 1 guy said he watched it weekly;-)
great flick, from the conceptual p.o.v., if not cinematic;-) but isn't all scifi that way;-)
my fave scene was when connery, trying to aclimate
himself to the boredom of immortality, asks the computer to show him the evolution of automotive design. it responds with a rapid slideshow of still pix of cars thru the years, and he's dissatisfied...he wanted to see evolution, not history, as visualized by morphing from 1 model to another...
it wasn't until 1990 that his vision came to pass in the chrysler minivan ads, which showed the original boxy design morphing into the more streamlined 2nd gen...i think that was the 1st use of morphing in nat'l advertizing.
or how dr.seuss would write 4 the internet generation;-)
unless u r an aborigine whose ancestral lands r now flooded;-}
hey, let's flood the grand canyon...
>burn victims who survived a perfect glimpse of Hell
not a glimpse, a life of:-( a friend of my brother survived a jeep roll-over, thanx 2 the advances in burn medicine brought about bby the viet nam war...he only had stumps left for fingers, and the skin around his eyes was so tight his eyes dried out & he had 2 use eyedrops constantly...
he said he wished he had died...there are fates worse than death:-(