intelligence agencies don't want to change because the people there are rich boy refugees from skull and bones who don't want to grow up. and why should they when daddy can swing an appointment into another prestigious club where they can pretend they're saving the world from from austin powers, doctor demento, or octapussy.
or... they don't want to change because they can't get out of the cold war framework. and why should they -- all those spook houses were set up during the cold war for cold war purposes, and getting out of the cold war mentality would mean dismantling the entire spook apparatus.
or... the brilliant minds in america's spook houses don't want to admit that they are incompetent thugs who couldn't even see the impending collapse of the ussr. changing their ways would imply that their ways were previously sub-optimal. how embarrasing.
just because people in the us congress are idiots doesn't mean that the people in the 'intelligence community' are not. they come from the same class of people and tend to gravitate towards the same stupidities.
the Japanese put some cultural practices over profit (which is one of the reasons their banking industry is in such bad shape), so it would probably stop at the point where it conflicts with accepted cultural practices. In America a never-ending supply of corporate shills would be constantly pushing it past any boundaries, obsessed only with eking out a few more dollars.
bullshit!
Do you honestly believe that Japan would have the number two economy in the world with such constraints on profit? For the roots of Japan's banking crisis, you would do better looking at economics and what sort of FINANCIAL transactions they have made. Look at what they actually did in the bubble years rather than spreading some bogus nihonjinron.
Then look at what Japanese employers ask of their workers and tell me that they aren't concerned about squeezing them for everything they can get.
This picture [tiger-marmalade.com] says it all. We are all doomed. He could use some more grit and mass around his jiggly elbows. Why don't people build muscle anymore? For crying out loud.
well, when you consider that if you know what you are doing, getting an indigo's skin off is a piece of cake, you have to figure that he was deliberately trying to build muscle. press a couple tabs and that's it. this was less a nifty case mod than a waste of an indigo mobo.
What does Slashdot provide really? Links to news stories that readers dig up. Discussion of said news stories by Slashdot readers. Jon Katz? Most people would pay for him _not_ to write. Oh. Polls. That's about it. Anyone who would pay for Slashdot is a fool. You provide the content, and hey, you get to pay for it, too! You might as well send your cheques to me.
would advertisers pay millions of dollars to advertise during the Super Bowl if they found out that there was a technology that a good population of TV watchers are using to block the super bowl ads?
no they wouldn't. and contrary to what you say, that would be a good thing. look at commercial television and tell me again that advertising generates 'quality'. how about u.s. newspapers, chockfull of adverts? crap, all of them. or t.v. news? good stuff, eh?
it's hard to imagine you could do worse than the current model.
sonny bono, die-hard republican. well, actually, it was probably some infotainment industry lawyers who wrote it, but it was sonny boy who put his name on it. (we all owe that tree a big round of applause -- take a bow tree)
as for libertarians, all politicians compete with each other to do favours for people with big bucks. the ones who render the most services get to stick around and render even more. "libertarians" offer no better: "we'll sell the country to the highest bidder, so y'allk'n smoke pot if you buy it from rjreynolds or archerdaniels midland or novartis."
geezus, people, wake up and smell the coffee. the country has ALREADY been sold and your collective asses are floatin' down the river.
come on. my wife has a ten year old laptop -- an apple powerbook 100. my crusty thinkpad will be 5 in march to boot. so... i'd have to say that the guy there was full of it.
a sparc with a lunchbox chassis can be had for 10 bucks or so. the monitor would be a problem, but i suppose an lcd monitor could make it portable enough. the sound was good for 1989. yet another use for an old sparc.
even better, an sgi indy is very rugged, has decent sound, is luggable (pizza box chassis), and can be had fairly cheaply these days. the indybag would be really useful in this situation, but unfortunately, they sometimes cost more than the machines themselves. irix can be a pain, especially if your on the cheap, but linux will run on the indy. i think the audio chip is one that linux supports.
in my opinion, this sort of cheap and otherwise thought-to-be-useless stuff makes the best gear. feel free to disagree.
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intelligence agencies don't want to change because the people there are rich boy refugees from skull and bones who don't want to grow up. and why should they when daddy can swing an appointment into another prestigious club where they can pretend they're saving the world from from austin powers, doctor demento, or octapussy.
or... they don't want to change because they can't get out of the cold war framework. and why should they -- all those spook houses were set up during the cold war for cold war purposes, and getting out of the cold war mentality would mean dismantling the entire spook apparatus.
or... the brilliant minds in america's spook houses don't want to admit that they are incompetent thugs who couldn't even see the impending collapse of the ussr. changing their ways would imply that their ways were previously sub-optimal. how embarrasing.
just because people in the us congress are idiots doesn't mean that the people in the 'intelligence community' are not. they come from the same class of people and tend to gravitate towards the same stupidities.
bullshit!
Do you honestly believe that Japan would have the number two economy in the world with such constraints on profit? For the roots of Japan's banking crisis, you would do better looking at economics and what sort of FINANCIAL transactions they have made. Look at what they actually did in the bubble years rather than spreading some bogus nihonjinron. Then look at what Japanese employers ask of their workers and tell me that they aren't concerned about squeezing them for everything they can get.
well, when you consider that if you know what you are doing, getting an indigo's skin off is a piece of cake, you have to figure that he was deliberately trying to build muscle. press a couple tabs and that's it. this was less a nifty case mod than a waste of an indigo mobo.
no they wouldn't. and contrary to what you say, that would be a good thing. look at commercial television and tell me again that advertising generates 'quality'. how about u.s. newspapers, chockfull of adverts? crap, all of them. or t.v. news? good stuff, eh?
it's hard to imagine you could do worse than the current model.
answer: no.
then who did?
sonny bono, die-hard republican. well, actually, it was probably some infotainment industry lawyers who wrote it, but it was sonny boy who put his name on it. (we all owe that tree a big round of applause -- take a bow tree)
as for libertarians, all politicians compete with each other to do favours for people with big bucks. the ones who render the most services get to stick around and render even more. "libertarians" offer no better: "we'll sell the country to the highest bidder, so y'allk'n smoke pot if you buy it from rjreynolds or archerdaniels midland or novartis."
geezus, people, wake up and smell the coffee. the country has ALREADY been sold and your collective asses are floatin' down the river.
come on. my wife has a ten year old laptop -- an apple powerbook 100. my crusty thinkpad will be 5 in march to boot. so... i'd have to say that the guy there was full of it.
this will date me, but...
a sparc with a lunchbox chassis can be had for 10 bucks or so. the monitor would be a problem, but i suppose an lcd monitor could make it portable enough. the sound was good for 1989. yet another use for an old sparc.
even better, an sgi indy is very rugged, has decent sound, is luggable (pizza box chassis), and can be had fairly cheaply these days. the indybag would be really useful in this situation, but unfortunately, they sometimes cost more than the machines themselves. irix can be a pain, especially if your on the cheap, but linux will run on the indy. i think the audio chip is one that linux supports.
in my opinion, this sort of cheap and otherwise thought-to-be-useless stuff makes the best gear. feel free to disagree.
mb