Exactly, this is like clipping your kitties claws so it doesn't turn your furniture into confetti. Animal experts will tell you that allowing your cat to have sharp claws will promote its self confidence (knowing it can defend itself) but also promotes damage to furniture, injury to people and the spread of a number of diseases like cat-scratch fever (yeah, I know the album, but really there is a disease too.)
If you have a large parrot, it can do a significant amount of damage, they are strong birds with big wings. Most folks will trim the flight feathers (done by a trained professional so as not to hurt the animal) so the bird can't fly and it stops trying to do anything but walk. This might seem cruel to prevent a bird from flying, but it does in no way harm the bird (the feathers fall out all by themselves and are replaced with perfect new feathers just as your hair falls out and is replaced by perfectly good new hair.) The only question really is if a person should have a highly intelligent animal caged up in a human house as a pet. That's a moral question I have mixed feelings about especially considering that a lot of these animals are now seriously endangered in the wild.
Sadly the junior Bush was able to install 2 judges and the Reagan justice Scalia has been the cornerstone of a nearly fascist interpretation of the Constitution (ergo the Corporations are human beings decision.) So yes, we have had one of the most critical legs of our government subverted by those who would sell our nation out to the highest bidder... and Duhbyah said as much during his campaigns... referring to the wealthy and powerful as his constituency, he was being dead straight.
You two are actually saying the same thing... and that is, what now passes for a conservative (Save Ron Paul) is nothing of the sort. We've got racists, fascists, religious yeowwssss! But no conservatives. Personally I'm a social liberal, and a fiscal conservative. I don't have a problem with Government doing what would be very hard for states to do properly. That said, I think the Fed should give up about 60% of its power back to the states where it belongs, and that the entire Executive branch should be pruned back to the President's eye brows.
The problem is not that America is bad at picking leaders... its that you have some strange illusion that you are picking a leader. The system is precisely designed to select someone who is capable of taking 'X' dollars to represent the person who gave him 'X' dollars. That would be by definition a political whore. The folks who applied for the job because they were intelligent, knowledgeable, skilled and passionate, got passed over for the one who knew when to bend over. So I'm saying that the vast majority of American's wouldn't know a great candidate if one fell of the sky and landed on them... but you can't blame them, most folks under 50 have never seen a great candidate and under the current systems, its no surprise.
More importantly this lays bare the fact that there is now only one party in Washington D.C. and it suckles the teat of the highest bidder. Contrary to Rush Limbaugh and the bloated talking heads on either side of the aisle, there is no fundamental difference save the verbs in their patter. I'm betting you get the majority and minority whips to perform a live sex show on the Senate Floor if only Monsanto would sponsor it, and at least that would be an honest day's work for a whore. The Republicrats are for sale, and as such so is our Constitution, Civil Rights, Juris Prudence and the security of the Middle Class. Any sane act of remediation regarding our failing system of government or economics must first pass the test of whether or not its inconvenient to the wealthy and powerful. Which is why we have the best government money can buy,
Ahem, these are Republicans??? The joke about this years National Convention was that it was so ultra-uber-orgasmically white, that delegates has to wear shades to prevent snow blindness... They were sequestering albinos because they has eye color, Pink!... Anyone declared Off-White, had to sit in the cheap seats! IT WUZ SOOOOoooooo WHITE!!!
If you look at the charts in my reference, you'll see even the upper class, even most of the folks in the first quintile, will suffer dramatic loss of worth. The breaking line for win and lose has been set so high that far fewer than 5% of the population will do really well. Folks who are lucky enough not to suffer a serious disease, divorce, put too many kids through college (or have a huge brood to begin with) or experience a the death of a spouse or business partner will slowly creep up as long as leverage every possible financial instrument at their disposal. Folks who aren't as well informed about how to properly diversify and plan for an unstable and unhealthy economy or experience any combination of the personal disasters I mentioned will find themselves in a death spiral of financial hardship, growing debt, credit failure, property loss and ultimately poverty. The system as it currently stands is profoundly slanted against the vast majority of Americans.
Actually the middle class as traditionally displayed in the Census Data is the middle (3rd) quintile and is the "Working Class" usually with sufficient education to hold professional jobs and higher end service work. It was Adam Smith who said that the one key thing to be concerned about with a "Free Market" was the willful preservation of a healthy middle class because they are the heart of your economic engine. Lose them and be certain that you will lose your economy. So the concentration of wealth, like the concentration of global influence, begins to precipitate its own collapse by building on an increasingly unstable system, and at some point as the whole thing comes crashing down. In our economic system the government is the mediator, whether you believe it should be or not, that is one of its jobs in this system. The wholesale purchase of our government by the top 0.001% has created a predictably hostile environment to the poor but especially to the middle class. America can not survive as we know it in the absence of a healthy and productive middle class.
As obnoxious as this is, I'm not afraid of Google. Google selling my information to the government or the government seizing Google's information for whatever purposes it deems fit... that has butt pucker value.
Somebody at Verizon needs to have their brain removed with a melon baller on public television at prime time for all to watch and learn. Patent an end to civilization, end up a fruit salad. Nuff said.
Back before Universal Studios was a tourist trap (back in the mid 60s,) people (with friends at the studio) could come to visit and with proper escorts could even watch filming on sets... and yes, there were some in fact tours and thinks so visitors to do. For instance you could play with props from "Land of the Giants" it was kinda fun. But the coolest thing I did was sit in the batmobile. I know, it was more of 60s pimp-mobile, but in the mid 60s it was the coolest thing you were gonna do that didn't involve strapping on a Saturn V. So the fact its up for auction is a little nostalgic for those of us in our dotage.
Y'all are making excuses for a much larger phenomenon. The implosion of the middle class. Here's a comparison of wage growth for Americans from 1967 until 2011. Look at the various jumps in the curve. You can see the big jump in the late sixties of the lowest quartile, the clear results of the war on poverty. The economic doldrums at the end of the Carter Administration. The sudden increase during the Reagan first term, but take special notice of how the rise benefits the upper quintile and even more so the top 5% (and if you could see the top 1% and top 0.01% I think you'd see something shocking.) The subsequent fall during the senior Bush Administration followed by the boom of the Clinton years (and make no mistake, the booms during both Reagan and Clinton involved huge economic expansions in industry, heavy industry for Reagan and information industries for Clinton. Then junior Bush's Terms, and here's where it get's interesting. Notice the steady decline in advancement. The majority of Americans are seeing their wages crashing towards stagnation or worse. In fact looking at the lowest quintile, over the last 10 years they've had a 20% drop in real wealth. Even the first quintile has remained stagnant with extreme fluctuation. So this is not just an IT thing. The only folks to see dramatic increase in personal wealth over the last 10 years I in a group smaller than the top 1%.
While that was going on, the real wealth of Americans at large has been disappearing. Here's a brilliant lecture on the looming collapse of the Middle Class and the economic forces responsible for the situations we all face today. Contrary to pundits conversations Americans spend significantly fewer inflation adjusted dollars on food, clothes, appliances and cars. Where they are getting killed is Cost of Housing, revolving credit and loan debt, Medical Insurance and drugs, Child Day Care, Cost of Fuel/Energy, that and there are new expenses surrounding electronic gadgets that have been a steadily growing part of the cost of living since the late 80s.
The Banks (both in banking, loans and real estate), Big Medicine/Pharma, and Energy have put the American Family in such a precarious position, that any small disruption or disturbance results in almost immediate financial collapse. The critical events facing Americans are Death of a spouse, Injury or Serious Illness, Divorce and extended Unemployment. Any of these (singly or in combination) are enough to initiate a cycle of debt, penalties and ultimate bankruptcy. Add to this growing inflation and the erosion of our savings and investments, and you can see that the American Family is under extraordinary financial stress. The American dream for a growing population is just being able to get by.
Or you could isolate trust dependent server components and put them on some cloud server for scalability sake, still offloading a significant amount of server's computational heavy lifting to the distributed network. Yes there is redundancy on the nodes, but you would keep the primary server lean, and that would minimize the cost of the environment per users.
There are so many ways to skin this cat, you just need bright babies and a desire. Make it open source so you get a lot of play, and once you have the gaming engine and clients, people can begin making all kinds of fun... a veritable play-verse.
There you go, a distributed processing game where you run a client but also host a piece of the global server. That way the game processing scales with the user base and there's nobody to say "See ya" except perhaps the game master controlling the distributed services. Wonder how you would minimize the latency problems? Oh well, I'm no gamer, this is for those among you more heroic than I.
Yeah, like the guy who was hired because the cool idea he's been working on for the last 15 years. If his company tries to claim it as theirs, and John can say yeah, here's my first cut 12 years before working you, and every cut since then until I started for you. Even if there is some overlap if you can demonstrate its your work, all you work, and that rather than you having received value from your company to finish your invention, it was the work on your invention before becoming an employee that made you the perfect person to help them on their own design.
First thing... try looser panties, clearly the ones you have on must be chafing.
Next Your sentence seems somewhat unclear, again probably due to that chafing problem. So just for clarity sake, are you saying You want Mr. Assange tried as a criminal or not. I ask because you imply he's a guilty criminal and the rule of law is a noble thing defended by the blood of untold millions while in the same breath saying betraying that is TOTALLY worthwhile.
So I would simply add, assuming that you want to pop Mr. Assange like a pimple, whistle blowers need to be protected, supported and held in the highest of esteem. Our government perpetrates atrocities at the drop of a tiny hat, and unless we open up the closed doors and closed emails to public scrutiny, that government get's away with it heinous acts with impunity. I would trade national secrets for government transparency in a femtosecond. The citizens of this country have a right to know what crimes it government perpetrated on their behalf. We need to hold out leaders to that very same rule of law. So if on the other hand you are saying that its is worthwhile to betray this moments rule of law for the greater good of government transparency to better honor the rule of law on a global scale, then I whole hearterly agree.
Its so much worse than that. They have deep informatics tools that don't even require that you ever said a word online that made anyone question your patriotism. All you have to do is visit the right sights, engage in conversations in the right places, buy the right books or talk to the right people and you might as well be burning he flag in Central Park. because the CIA will be up in your schist so fast you will get bowel lock. The power of looking for common informatics among certain social groups mean that you could get clumped with any number of very bad people just for having network habits that make your Government think they have something to worry about you.
I think we should have a class in fifth grade called "The Truth about History." It should start out most of what you hear is a lie. Because its one persons perspective and that view is going to be seen through the filter of that time, its society, politics, religion and social beliefs. So its a lie, less in most case by commission than omission and must be so as a personal expression. In fact truly great historians who have done truly brilliant works purely out of the belief that getting the unadulterated truth was more important than reporting on their point of view.
It should teach our children, its up to them to find the "True, true" (to paraphrase Cloud Atlas), and that starts with discovering that our Founding Fathers seriously looked at Anarchy because governments in general offended their sensibilities and rightfully so. Letting them know what a endless bunch of pigs and douchebags most of our nations representatives have been. Which is why its so remarkable when a true statesman arrives. Lincoln did so many things wrong, and he did so many things right. It would be interesting to see what might have happened to this country if Lincoln might have lived to bind up the Nations wounds. It might have been interesting if Kennedy had lived to pull us out of VietNam (he'd already made it clear to his brother Bobby that VietNam was another Korea without the interesting barbeque, and he was going to pull the American advisers out.) Its time we taught our children the truth, but also inspired them to appreciate, their actions are the history for tomorrows children and it will be their courage and genius that will make all the difference. We could use some of that right now.
That's America. A nation led and bred to love their government because we all know that's the patriotic thing to do. How do you explain to people the power of deep data and the enormous capacity to mine data for information. If Google can create a unique interest profile for one person from billions, and target that person for services and commerce, what can your Government do having trapped every bit that flows through its sphere of power. Moreover, What the Government hasn't got on you, it buys from the SuperMarkets and Search Engines you frequent. How many endless megabytes of data must exist for each person in this country. You'd have to live in a cave or be Amish to escape with your identity intact.
So I am grateful to Julian, and I'm happy to have him shout this from every mountain top. If he get's stiff nipples over getting the public spotlight, small price to pay. Of all the personality flaws I can think of, being a showboat is probably one of the least detrimental. Anyway, I wasn't looking to marry the guy. Just have him ream the government folks doing dirty deeds in the dark of night.
The two Bush Presidents dug holes in the wealth of children unborn, and the damage to the future by the later Bush won't even be fully appreciated in my lifetime, other than I know what's left of society is threadbare and broken all over. So the bloody horror that is the Bush debt is something you and I will suffer as long as we live.
By the way, you overestimate the power of your generations ability to shape social policy in the current paradigm. More and more corporations are at the center of massive social re-engineering. Consider for a moment. Going to a MacDonalds today. How many of the employees are now white and in their 50s? 60s? 70s? That's new. You're looking at someone whose pension imploded and lost everything they had. That person was retired and had to go back to work to keep from ending up on the street. That or they simply couldn't find work, like tens of millions of others and simply had to take what they could. Worse, you can't make a living wage working at MickyDees (or 90% of the other service jobs now available), so that poor bastard is staring straight down the barrel of working 2 jobs to make their Social Security make ends meet for the rest of their life. I would call that a working slave class myself. One last sad thing, these used to be the starter jobs for young people to get work experience and develop a strong work ethic. So now people are being buggered at top and bottom of the age stack
We've already begun to criminalize poverty. You can't pay a bill, I promise it will snowball so fast that you will think you're on a rocket ride to hell. The minute you start to fail, there are a thousand cuts loss of credit rating, tax debts, fines and penalties, and the banks have gotten the laws passed that will ensure you can't get ahead again, huge interest fees, laws that prevent you from escaping debt. I'm clear that it would only take a few more laws along these lines to force entire classes into a slave labor state. Though it would start out economic, Look at the growing age discrimination going on across the board in business today. You think it would be hard to imagine that people over 60 being assigned mandatory work? I don't. We've gotten to a pretty dark place and I'm not at all certain how we'll avoid the worst if we don't change our course immediately.
You and the rest of us, I've watched my income literally shrivel from a high in 2001 of over $100,000 to under $20,000 last year. Between the gutting of personal wealth at the hands of Corporate America on the one side and the desperate attempt by Government to keep itself alive by printing money on the other, the middle class is being completely squeezed out of existence. This is a profound shift in the nature of what America is. It was a bastion of personal freedom, open markets, and governance postulated on a Constitution ensuring the rights and freedom for all. Over the last 30 years we've morphed into something different and deeply darker. We've become a nation of Corporations owning and operating a subsidiary Government whose purpose is to tighten the grip on human rights and freedom to make absolutely certain that those same corporations can and do squeeze every last penny of value from the American Public, and ultimately set them to labor endlessly for the benefit of a shocking few. These are neither men of wisdom or dignity. For the most part I see despots, sociopaths and men crazed by wealth and power living in some coke and hooker daze of hubris and self worship. This thing is broken and I pray that we can fix it without burning the whole thing down to the ground. I'll be honest and say I have deep concerns.
Now you're talking about fair... I get it, I really do. However, the mess we're in on every front was 100 years in coming with the exception of the triggering events caused by the idiots in the Whitehouse from 2000-2008 and the greedy buggers on WallStreet who precipitated a disaster constructed purely out of greed and self serving. There's nothing strange about the government spending the money of future generations. We have only recent paid off the VietNam war and we'll certainly be paying off the two Bush wars from colonies on Mars. Double digit inflation in the 70s put folks on fixed retirement incomes in the real danger of starving to death (it became a cliche' of the times, folks were reduced to eating dog and cat food.)
So if you're going to tie retirement payout to economic conditions, then by all means make the public sector pay wages comparable to the private sector so we can assure that good teachers are made available to our children While you're at it, put a tight rein on administrators wages and compensation, cut back on that waste see how much difference it makes in about 10 minutes.
In the end this is all moot. The problem isn't teachers are greedy. The problem is that the wealth has been sucked out of the middle class and its sitting in banks in Caribbean and Netherlands to avoid state and federal taxes so its not supporting the government and its not moving the economy, its just being hoarded and we are all feeling the shocking vacuum of American wealth. If that money were plowed back into the economy, there would be tremendous new wealth and nobody would be complaining about teachers or firemen. They only stand out in relief because the workers of the private sector have been bled, and we want those guys over there getting benefits to suffer the way we are. That's not however a sane conversation, that's an indignant five year old screaming because they aren't getting any. The problem is with the people holding the purse. The greedy bastards who've taken the wealth and then stashed it in banks in the Caribbean and Netherlands to avoid taxes. So that money sits, not supporting the government or feeding the economy. It just contributes to the growing economic vacuum in the United States and we all get just a little bit hungrier. So anyone who doesn't support taxing the rich needs to consider that there will soon be insufficient wealth left here to sustain a viable economy... The printing of money is just slight of hand to hide the fact that the wealth has already been pumped out. It would behoove us all to turn this around.. supply side has had this effect before. Perhaps now would be a good time to reinstate Glass-Steagall, implement a progressive flat tax (no dodges or loopholes) and end the Corporate entity as we know it.
Its time for a more free market, separation of business and state and making representation/public service a normal part of everyone's life experience. Take away the professional politicians. Oh... and we need to have IBM train Watson to handle business and financial law in this country to take the element of personal greed, self serving and idiocy out of the equation. As we get closer and closer to a working AI, place more and more government functions under its control, with the purpose to optimize and enhance human success, happiness, abundance and growth. We need to begin removing the darker aspects of primate behavior from our systems of governance and economy.
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That and its remarkably hard to crack down on a Corporate Officer while you're felating him in the hopes of getting a campaign contribution.
Exactly, this is like clipping your kitties claws so it doesn't turn your furniture into confetti. Animal experts will tell you that allowing your cat to have sharp claws will promote its self confidence (knowing it can defend itself) but also promotes damage to furniture, injury to people and the spread of a number of diseases like cat-scratch fever (yeah, I know the album, but really there is a disease too.)
If you have a large parrot, it can do a significant amount of damage, they are strong birds with big wings. Most folks will trim the flight feathers (done by a trained professional so as not to hurt the animal) so the bird can't fly and it stops trying to do anything but walk. This might seem cruel to prevent a bird from flying, but it does in no way harm the bird (the feathers fall out all by themselves and are replaced with perfect new feathers just as your hair falls out and is replaced by perfectly good new hair.) The only question really is if a person should have a highly intelligent animal caged up in a human house as a pet. That's a moral question I have mixed feelings about especially considering that a lot of these animals are now seriously endangered in the wild.
Sadly the junior Bush was able to install 2 judges and the Reagan justice Scalia has been the cornerstone of a nearly fascist interpretation of the Constitution (ergo the Corporations are human beings decision.) So yes, we have had one of the most critical legs of our government subverted by those who would sell our nation out to the highest bidder... and Duhbyah said as much during his campaigns... referring to the wealthy and powerful as his constituency, he was being dead straight.
You two are actually saying the same thing... and that is, what now passes for a conservative (Save Ron Paul) is nothing of the sort. We've got racists, fascists, religious yeowwssss! But no conservatives. Personally I'm a social liberal, and a fiscal conservative. I don't have a problem with Government doing what would be very hard for states to do properly. That said, I think the Fed should give up about 60% of its power back to the states where it belongs, and that the entire Executive branch should be pruned back to the President's eye brows.
The problem is not that America is bad at picking leaders... its that you have some strange illusion that you are picking a leader. The system is precisely designed to select someone who is capable of taking 'X' dollars to represent the person who gave him 'X' dollars. That would be by definition a political whore. The folks who applied for the job because they were intelligent, knowledgeable, skilled and passionate, got passed over for the one who knew when to bend over. So I'm saying that the vast majority of American's wouldn't know a great candidate if one fell of the sky and landed on them... but you can't blame them, most folks under 50 have never seen a great candidate and under the current systems, its no surprise.
More importantly this lays bare the fact that there is now only one party in Washington D.C. and it suckles the teat of the highest bidder. Contrary to Rush Limbaugh and the bloated talking heads on either side of the aisle, there is no fundamental difference save the verbs in their patter. I'm betting you get the majority and minority whips to perform a live sex show on the Senate Floor if only Monsanto would sponsor it, and at least that would be an honest day's work for a whore. The Republicrats are for sale, and as such so is our Constitution, Civil Rights, Juris Prudence and the security of the Middle Class. Any sane act of remediation regarding our failing system of government or economics must first pass the test of whether or not its inconvenient to the wealthy and powerful. Which is why we have the best government money can buy,
Ahem, these are Republicans??? The joke about this years National Convention was that it was so ultra-uber-orgasmically white, that delegates has to wear shades to prevent snow blindness... They were sequestering albinos because they has eye color, Pink!... Anyone declared Off-White, had to sit in the cheap seats! IT WUZ SOOOOoooooo WHITE!!!
If you look at the charts in my reference, you'll see even the upper class, even most of the folks in the first quintile, will suffer dramatic loss of worth. The breaking line for win and lose has been set so high that far fewer than 5% of the population will do really well. Folks who are lucky enough not to suffer a serious disease, divorce, put too many kids through college (or have a huge brood to begin with) or experience a the death of a spouse or business partner will slowly creep up as long as leverage every possible financial instrument at their disposal. Folks who aren't as well informed about how to properly diversify and plan for an unstable and unhealthy economy or experience any combination of the personal disasters I mentioned will find themselves in a death spiral of financial hardship, growing debt, credit failure, property loss and ultimately poverty. The system as it currently stands is profoundly slanted against the vast majority of Americans.
Actually the middle class as traditionally displayed in the Census Data is the middle (3rd) quintile and is the "Working Class" usually with sufficient education to hold professional jobs and higher end service work. It was Adam Smith who said that the one key thing to be concerned about with a "Free Market" was the willful preservation of a healthy middle class because they are the heart of your economic engine. Lose them and be certain that you will lose your economy. So the concentration of wealth, like the concentration of global influence, begins to precipitate its own collapse by building on an increasingly unstable system, and at some point as the whole thing comes crashing down. In our economic system the government is the mediator, whether you believe it should be or not, that is one of its jobs in this system. The wholesale purchase of our government by the top 0.001% has created a predictably hostile environment to the poor but especially to the middle class. America can not survive as we know it in the absence of a healthy and productive middle class.
BIG MISTAKE!!! Now you're gonna be getting all kinds of geek guys asking for any videos that fall out of this... so wrong!!!
As obnoxious as this is, I'm not afraid of Google. Google selling my information to the government or the government seizing Google's information for whatever purposes it deems fit... that has butt pucker value.
Somebody at Verizon needs to have their brain removed with a melon baller on public television at prime time for all to watch and learn. Patent an end to civilization, end up a fruit salad. Nuff said.
Back before Universal Studios was a tourist trap (back in the mid 60s,) people (with friends at the studio) could come to visit and with proper escorts could even watch filming on sets... and yes, there were some in fact tours and thinks so visitors to do. For instance you could play with props from "Land of the Giants" it was kinda fun. But the coolest thing I did was sit in the batmobile. I know, it was more of 60s pimp-mobile, but in the mid 60s it was the coolest thing you were gonna do that didn't involve strapping on a Saturn V. So the fact its up for auction is a little nostalgic for those of us in our dotage.
Y'all are making excuses for a much larger phenomenon. The implosion of the middle class. Here's a comparison of wage growth for Americans from 1967 until 2011. Look at the various jumps in the curve. You can see the big jump in the late sixties of the lowest quartile, the clear results of the war on poverty. The economic doldrums at the end of the Carter Administration. The sudden increase during the Reagan first term, but take special notice of how the rise benefits the upper quintile and even more so the top 5% (and if you could see the top 1% and top 0.01% I think you'd see something shocking.) The subsequent fall during the senior Bush Administration followed by the boom of the Clinton years (and make no mistake, the booms during both Reagan and Clinton involved huge economic expansions in industry, heavy industry for Reagan and information industries for Clinton. Then junior Bush's Terms, and here's where it get's interesting. Notice the steady decline in advancement. The majority of Americans are seeing their wages crashing towards stagnation or worse. In fact looking at the lowest quintile, over the last 10 years they've had a 20% drop in real wealth. Even the first quintile has remained stagnant with extreme fluctuation. So this is not just an IT thing. The only folks to see dramatic increase in personal wealth over the last 10 years I in a group smaller than the top 1%.
While that was going on, the real wealth of Americans at large has been disappearing. Here's a brilliant lecture on the looming collapse of the Middle Class and the economic forces responsible for the situations we all face today. Contrary to pundits conversations Americans spend significantly fewer inflation adjusted dollars on food, clothes, appliances and cars. Where they are getting killed is Cost of Housing, revolving credit and loan debt, Medical Insurance and drugs, Child Day Care, Cost of Fuel/Energy, that and there are new expenses surrounding electronic gadgets that have been a steadily growing part of the cost of living since the late 80s.
The Banks (both in banking, loans and real estate), Big Medicine/Pharma, and Energy have put the American Family in such a precarious position, that any small disruption or disturbance results in almost immediate financial collapse. The critical events facing Americans are Death of a spouse, Injury or Serious Illness, Divorce and extended Unemployment. Any of these (singly or in combination) are enough to initiate a cycle of debt, penalties and ultimate bankruptcy. Add to this growing inflation and the erosion of our savings and investments, and you can see that the American Family is under extraordinary financial stress. The American dream for a growing population is just being able to get by.
Or you could isolate trust dependent server components and put them on some cloud server for scalability sake, still offloading a significant amount of server's computational heavy lifting to the distributed network. Yes there is redundancy on the nodes, but you would keep the primary server lean, and that would minimize the cost of the environment per users.
There are so many ways to skin this cat, you just need bright babies and a desire. Make it open source so you get a lot of play, and once you have the gaming engine and clients, people can begin making all kinds of fun... a veritable play-verse.
There you go, a distributed processing game where you run a client but also host a piece of the global server. That way the game processing scales with the user base and there's nobody to say "See ya" except perhaps the game master controlling the distributed services. Wonder how you would minimize the latency problems? Oh well, I'm no gamer, this is for those among you more heroic than I.
Yeah, like the guy who was hired because the cool idea he's been working on for the last 15 years. If his company tries to claim it as theirs, and John can say yeah, here's my first cut 12 years before working you, and every cut since then until I started for you. Even if there is some overlap if you can demonstrate its your work, all you work, and that rather than you having received value from your company to finish your invention, it was the work on your invention before becoming an employee that made you the perfect person to help them on their own design.
I've heard of it... does your employer allow this nonproductive time?
First thing... try looser panties, clearly the ones you have on must be chafing.
Next Your sentence seems somewhat unclear, again probably due to that chafing problem. So just for clarity sake, are you saying You want Mr. Assange tried as a criminal or not. I ask because you imply he's a guilty criminal and the rule of law is a noble thing defended by the blood of untold millions while in the same breath saying betraying that is TOTALLY worthwhile.
So I would simply add, assuming that you want to pop Mr. Assange like a pimple, whistle blowers need to be protected, supported and held in the highest of esteem. Our government perpetrates atrocities at the drop of a tiny hat, and unless we open up the closed doors and closed emails to public scrutiny, that government get's away with it heinous acts with impunity. I would trade national secrets for government transparency in a femtosecond. The citizens of this country have a right to know what crimes it government perpetrated on their behalf. We need to hold out leaders to that very same rule of law. So if on the other hand you are saying that its is worthwhile to betray this moments rule of law for the greater good of government transparency to better honor the rule of law on a global scale, then I whole hearterly agree.
Its so much worse than that. They have deep informatics tools that don't even require that you ever said a word online that made anyone question your patriotism. All you have to do is visit the right sights, engage in conversations in the right places, buy the right books or talk to the right people and you might as well be burning he flag in Central Park. because the CIA will be up in your schist so fast you will get bowel lock. The power of looking for common informatics among certain social groups mean that you could get clumped with any number of very bad people just for having network habits that make your Government think they have something to worry about you.
I think we should have a class in fifth grade called "The Truth about History." It should start out most of what you hear is a lie. Because its one persons perspective and that view is going to be seen through the filter of that time, its society, politics, religion and social beliefs. So its a lie, less in most case by commission than omission and must be so as a personal expression. In fact truly great historians who have done truly brilliant works purely out of the belief that getting the unadulterated truth was more important than reporting on their point of view.
It should teach our children, its up to them to find the "True, true" (to paraphrase Cloud Atlas), and that starts with discovering that our Founding Fathers seriously looked at Anarchy because governments in general offended their sensibilities and rightfully so. Letting them know what a endless bunch of pigs and douchebags most of our nations representatives have been. Which is why its so remarkable when a true statesman arrives. Lincoln did so many things wrong, and he did so many things right. It would be interesting to see what might have happened to this country if Lincoln might have lived to bind up the Nations wounds. It might have been interesting if Kennedy had lived to pull us out of VietNam (he'd already made it clear to his brother Bobby that VietNam was another Korea without the interesting barbeque, and he was going to pull the American advisers out.) Its time we taught our children the truth, but also inspired them to appreciate, their actions are the history for tomorrows children and it will be their courage and genius that will make all the difference. We could use some of that right now.
That's America. A nation led and bred to love their government because we all know that's the patriotic thing to do. How do you explain to people the power of deep data and the enormous capacity to mine data for information. If Google can create a unique interest profile for one person from billions, and target that person for services and commerce, what can your Government do having trapped every bit that flows through its sphere of power. Moreover, What the Government hasn't got on you, it buys from the SuperMarkets and Search Engines you frequent. How many endless megabytes of data must exist for each person in this country. You'd have to live in a cave or be Amish to escape with your identity intact.
So I am grateful to Julian, and I'm happy to have him shout this from every mountain top. If he get's stiff nipples over getting the public spotlight, small price to pay. Of all the personality flaws I can think of, being a showboat is probably one of the least detrimental. Anyway, I wasn't looking to marry the guy. Just have him ream the government folks doing dirty deeds in the dark of night.
The two Bush Presidents dug holes in the wealth of children unborn, and the damage to the future by the later Bush won't even be fully appreciated in my lifetime, other than I know what's left of society is threadbare and broken all over. So the bloody horror that is the Bush debt is something you and I will suffer as long as we live.
By the way, you overestimate the power of your generations ability to shape social policy in the current paradigm. More and more corporations are at the center of massive social re-engineering. Consider for a moment. Going to a MacDonalds today. How many of the employees are now white and in their 50s? 60s? 70s? That's new. You're looking at someone whose pension imploded and lost everything they had. That person was retired and had to go back to work to keep from ending up on the street. That or they simply couldn't find work, like tens of millions of others and simply had to take what they could. Worse, you can't make a living wage working at MickyDees (or 90% of the other service jobs now available), so that poor bastard is staring straight down the barrel of working 2 jobs to make their Social Security make ends meet for the rest of their life. I would call that a working slave class myself. One last sad thing, these used to be the starter jobs for young people to get work experience and develop a strong work ethic. So now people are being buggered at top and bottom of the age stack
We've already begun to criminalize poverty. You can't pay a bill, I promise it will snowball so fast that you will think you're on a rocket ride to hell. The minute you start to fail, there are a thousand cuts loss of credit rating, tax debts, fines and penalties, and the banks have gotten the laws passed that will ensure you can't get ahead again, huge interest fees, laws that prevent you from escaping debt. I'm clear that it would only take a few more laws along these lines to force entire classes into a slave labor state. Though it would start out economic, Look at the growing age discrimination going on across the board in business today. You think it would be hard to imagine that people over 60 being assigned mandatory work? I don't. We've gotten to a pretty dark place and I'm not at all certain how we'll avoid the worst if we don't change our course immediately.
You and the rest of us, I've watched my income literally shrivel from a high in 2001 of over $100,000 to under $20,000 last year. Between the gutting of personal wealth at the hands of Corporate America on the one side and the desperate attempt by Government to keep itself alive by printing money on the other, the middle class is being completely squeezed out of existence. This is a profound shift in the nature of what America is. It was a bastion of personal freedom, open markets, and governance postulated on a Constitution ensuring the rights and freedom for all. Over the last 30 years we've morphed into something different and deeply darker. We've become a nation of Corporations owning and operating a subsidiary Government whose purpose is to tighten the grip on human rights and freedom to make absolutely certain that those same corporations can and do squeeze every last penny of value from the American Public, and ultimately set them to labor endlessly for the benefit of a shocking few. These are neither men of wisdom or dignity. For the most part I see despots, sociopaths and men crazed by wealth and power living in some coke and hooker daze of hubris and self worship. This thing is broken and I pray that we can fix it without burning the whole thing down to the ground. I'll be honest and say I have deep concerns.
Now you're talking about fair... I get it, I really do. However, the mess we're in on every front was 100 years in coming with the exception of the triggering events caused by the idiots in the Whitehouse from 2000-2008 and the greedy buggers on WallStreet who precipitated a disaster constructed purely out of greed and self serving. There's nothing strange about the government spending the money of future generations. We have only recent paid off the VietNam war and we'll certainly be paying off the two Bush wars from colonies on Mars. Double digit inflation in the 70s put folks on fixed retirement incomes in the real danger of starving to death (it became a cliche' of the times, folks were reduced to eating dog and cat food.)
So if you're going to tie retirement payout to economic conditions, then by all means make the public sector pay wages comparable to the private sector so we can assure that good teachers are made available to our children While you're at it, put a tight rein on administrators wages and compensation, cut back on that waste see how much difference it makes in about 10 minutes.
In the end this is all moot. The problem isn't teachers are greedy. The problem is that the wealth has been sucked out of the middle class and its sitting in banks in Caribbean and Netherlands to avoid state and federal taxes so its not supporting the government and its not moving the economy, its just being hoarded and we are all feeling the shocking vacuum of American wealth. If that money were plowed back into the economy, there would be tremendous new wealth and nobody would be complaining about teachers or firemen. They only stand out in relief because the workers of the private sector have been bled, and we want those guys over there getting benefits to suffer the way we are. That's not however a sane conversation, that's an indignant five year old screaming because they aren't getting any. The problem is with the people holding the purse. The greedy bastards who've taken the wealth and then stashed it in banks in the Caribbean and Netherlands to avoid taxes. So that money sits, not supporting the government or feeding the economy. It just contributes to the growing economic vacuum in the United States and we all get just a little bit hungrier. So anyone who doesn't support taxing the rich needs to consider that there will soon be insufficient wealth left here to sustain a viable economy... The printing of money is just slight of hand to hide the fact that the wealth has already been pumped out. It would behoove us all to turn this around.. supply side has had this effect before. Perhaps now would be a good time to reinstate Glass-Steagall, implement a progressive flat tax (no dodges or loopholes) and end the Corporate entity as we know it.
Its time for a more free market, separation of business and state and making representation/public service a normal part of everyone's life experience. Take away the professional politicians. Oh... and we need to have IBM train Watson to handle business and financial law in this country to take the element of personal greed, self serving and idiocy out of the equation. As we get closer and closer to a working AI, place more and more government functions under its control, with the purpose to optimize and enhance human success, happiness, abundance and growth. We need to begin removing the darker aspects of primate behavior from our systems of governance and economy.