Jimmy pisses me off. He had the makings of a great President, honest, intelligent, morally upright, a vision of energy independence and environmental sanity and committed to service. His only mistake was hubris. He thought he was going to go into D.C. single handed and clean up the rat's nest that is Washington. In his first year he disenfranchised not only the Republicans but key members of his own party. He did it for the right reasons... he wanted to clean up the sewage, sadly there are a lot of fat happy rats in D.C. who like it just the way it is and thinking you can go in there and clean it up without first making it a blue glass ashtray, is deluded at best. Poor Jimmy got double digit inflation, obscene gas prices, gas lines and over 2 years of hostages in Iran. Now I'm not saying the whole thing was staged to make Jimmy look like an asshole, but if you consider the same half dozen or so people (all working through the oil companies, another group Jimmy pissed off) could have jerry rigged the hostage crisis through Saudi Arabia, got OPEC to put the screws to our economy by strangling oil availability and you have to admit is was just a little suspicious that the hostages came home 2 days after Reagan took office. So I think its fair to say D.C. handed him his ass. Thanks for playin' Jimmy. Y'all come back again, y'hear?
Which was fine because he almost destroyed it with nanites, lost his mom in a warp bubble, got himself killed for chasing a ball, blew up a friend and cadet in starfleet, got his ass chewed off by a shape shifting baby sitter. The kid was a one stop disaster area.
Didn't the series end with Janeway breaking all the rules, committing multiple acts of insubordination, to get her crew home through the Borg nexus more than 10 years early so Tuvok wouldn't be a vegetable, 7 of 9 wouldn't die, and Chakotay wouldn't end up a broken husk of a man?
Maybe that was the whole point of her character, the evolution from one who blindly followed rules to someone who chose to make her own rules. That and someone who put the needs of those she cared about and for above stroking her own ego. That's actually pretty cool if you think about it.
The problem is they wanted to carve out a completely new product space by copying the dominant leader. Doing that is a saturated market usually means you develop a fanatically loyal following in the cook islands or some other place equally pointless. Its like that great cartoon... Balmer makes a smart phone -> Then a miracle Happens -> and it garners a top market share. He needs to work on that middle part of the business plan a wee bit. Better yet, would someone give this poor man a dip into the clue bucket. For the love-o-jebus, I'm tired of seeing this lost soul twisting in the breeze.
Had Balmer a "BRAIN" he would have tasked the M$ software development tools division with coming up with an inspired development platform that would work on Windows, OSX and Linux, and would take one code in (Python? or better yet, a decoupled language front end of choice) and spit out apps for IOS, Android and WP8. If the tools were great, free and had a huge supported free community, it would have been natural for application developers to port their apps to as many platforms as possible and WP8 would have started out the gate with a health stable of goodies. Of course, all of this would have required that Balmer have a brain... enter zombie allusion... enter Wizard of Oz parody... perhaps he should consider politics.
How much would this have costed? $40 million? How much did they bet on WP8? Chump change. Instead, too little too late. Another poorly executed belly flop, with no attention to what the consumer wants. See, Americans live in the fscked up fantasy, that as long as "I'm" in power, and I have an advertising budget, I can tell you what you want. Steve got away with it, because he actually cared about leaving people blown away... (he was still an egomaniac, but he got off on giving people goosebumps) the money always came after (eg. Pixar.) You can't grab for the money first, and hope that people can later be convinced to love your schist. Balmer needs a Steve Jobs sans massive ego. He needs someone with the sensitivity, artfulness, style, intelligence and vision to create products and product experiences that people love. He needs a queer eye for the Geek guy. Good luck on that.
Its called "paraphrasing", if you need the call verbatim here is the actual call. In it, you will hear Mr. Zimmerman being far more concerned the black kid would "Get away" than the possibility that someone's life might be at stake, and that the dispatcher clearly informs him to leave it to the police. And though he is not legally required to obey the dispatcher (or even an officer had he been speaking to one) that places the onus of the subsequent events on his choice to pursue and ultimately precipitate a deadly shooting. He willfully placed himself in what was for him a threatening situation and then chose deadly force to resolve it, and I'm sorry, but the account in question simply doesn't make sense. He claims injuries he didn't have. If he lied about those, then how can we take the rest of his story with any seriousness. The problem here is not the gun. It is the vigilante and that is why we have the rule of law. Let me put this another way. If I take a bus to the middle of a ghetto, get out and walk down the street, and someone get's up in my face for being in the wrong place, and I get scared because this looks like its escalating to physical violence, do I have the right to shoot this man, and now that I've terrorized an entire neighborhood by that logic don't they all have the right shoot me? The kid was running away from perceived danger, it was right there on the call. Zimmerman was stalking the kid, and he had the gun. What else matters. He was free at every moment up to the final confrontation to walk away, only this black kid wasn't going to get away. And he didn't.
Why stop there. The government can just watch the "Silent Circle" and log the folks who go on their site on the presumption that if they want to hide their stuff, there must be reasonable cause for investigation.
That IS THE POINT! If I have a gun. And I willfully decide to stalk a black kid in a hoody who is 100 lbs lighter than I am, even after the police tell me to leave it alone. I am the one precipitated this event. I am the one who pulled the gun resulting in a needless death. Everything else is moot. I willfully chose to bring this situation to a life of death conflict knowing in advance I carried the power of life and death. Justify the behavior for me please, I want understand your reasoning
Yeah, like the persona a 17 year old black might create on the internet for the consumption of his friends and peers would never be exaggerated or puffed up to give himself greater street creed. This is like the poor guy that spent 20 years in jail because he lived in the same greater neighborhood as a girl that was murdered and he was caught drawing zombies and gore in his junior high home room. Kids do stupid things, its part of the growing up process, its why driving insurance for a 17 year old is astronomical. None that justifies hunting them down and executing them.
That doesn't change the fact that when Zimmerman reported he was FOLLOWING the kid, the police told him to stand down, and he said "No, I'm not letting him get away." It was Zimmerman that instigated the situation, brought deadly force to the scene, and made a host of claims that simply don't stand up under the slightest scrutiny. Trayvon could have been a howling asshole, a pretty common behavior these days. If thats all it takes to justify deadly force, then this nation is in serious trouble. You simply can't stalk people, hunt them down, then shoot them and claim self defense, it does't wash.
Or perhaps reading cogent facts about the case might have lead him to that conclusion? Fact, the young man (17 years old) was shot in the back and the evidence suggests he was shot at some distance, apparently trying to run for his life. Their has never been a single bit of corroborating evidence that Mr. Zimmerman was in any way assaulted. Video at the police station immediately after the incident showed Zimmerman laughing with the police with no injury to the face and no blood on his clothing (anyone who's broken a nose can attest to the flood of bleeding and the unmistakable swelling and bruising that follows.) The young man had no history of violence, was unarmed, and had exactly zero reason to interact with this clown save to defend himself against deadly force. And finally, when Mr. Zimmerman called the police about a suspect walking down the street, the police said to step down and they would handle it, to which he replied,"No way, he'll get away, I'm handling this." So, I don't know, maybe his sounds like science fiction story was true and an sweet unarmed 17 year old kid had a psychotic break and he had to put him down in fear of his life, its not beyond the realm of possibility, its just gonna be a mighty hard sell with the current set of evidence.
And who decided it was easier to stop investing in our infrastructure? We could have modernized.We could have developed cleaner, leaner methods and technologies for getting the job done. We could have demanded a balanced trade abroad and ensured that our middle class was protected from the devaluation of the dollar and loss of jobs to foreign nationals. You say the jobs went west and south, yeah west all the way to India and China, and south to latin America. The collapse of the rust belt may have begun in the 60s, but it lasted through the 80s. And not just the iron and heavy industry either. In 1984, 99% of the clothing people in this country wore came from manufacturers in the U.S. By 2005, less than 2% was made in this country. FACE IT, our government, paid and bought by the corporations are in the final phases of bleeding this nation dry.
why does this conversation look like a bunch of chickens discussing the finer points on the morality of being fricasseed?
Let's get this straight. The recording industry is interested in the executives of the recording industry. All others can snack on feces and die.
They will make money in the process if they can, but that's not important and its not the point.
The point is to make huge public example of a few people who will be so horribly mauled by the corporation that nobody will ever think of making that mistake.
The intention is to create a system that allows a vanishing few to own and control most or all IP to the point that you will have no freedom to hum to yourself without an executive somewhere getting paid.
This is about control, and ultimately the control of thought. This is about an entitled few who believe its their birthright to milk the entire human race dry.
Are we now clear about what is actually happening?
Cut the crap? Okay by the numbers, 2% of our population is in prison, more than any developed nation on the planet, and with prisons everywhere switching over to private institutions, and prisoners working for $0.50 an hour welcome to the future of the American laborer. Since 2000 there have been half a dozen economic crashes destroying jobs and combined with corporations outsourcing jobs to India, China and a dozen other countries, entire regions have suffered economic collapse and acquired names like "The rust belt". Since the last major disaster, millions have lost jobs they will never see again. In fact the new jobs that have become available since 2008 are predominantly service jobs that forces 50 and 60 somethings to utter the phrase "Would you like fries with that burger?" Retirement accounts gone. Pensions gone. Health care gone, Benefits evaporating. Just this week our nation set an all time record for the number of people receiving food stamps. The top 400 richest people in America now have the same wealth as the poorest 165,000,000. The average wage is shrinking faster than the number of honest men in our government. Inflation, due to printing endless tons dollars to cover the bad debt of the bankers, is imploding the American economy, and fast destroying what little buying power remains in the middle class. The corporations are no longer loyal to America and have sucked it dry and are now in the process of throwing away the dry husk... so what part of this sounds to you like bull shit, because I can speak from personal experience, this decade of the corporation has ruined me financially, and I have so many friends and acquaintances that have suffered the same its almost a cliche.
When those charged with our safety and protection, ask for the right to commit crimes and atrocities against the very people whom they're deign to protect, it is fair to say the machine is broken. The appropriate answer to this request is "HELL NO!!! Are you smoking crack!!! You can't enforce the law by wiping your ass on it, and you can't protect liberty by gutting it. NO, HELL NO!!!!
You want to create a reaction surface that can change its charge (i.e. stickiness) in the same way that hemoglobin can pick up oxygen or carbon dioxide in one place and release it in another. There should be all kinds of mechanisms including local ph that would allow you to perform the tasks you describe.
I', sorry, that will require a technology capable of manipulating object 3 to 5 orders of magnitude smaller. No, these tools should be just about right to manipulate the politician's brain or a lawyer sense of honesty.
Forgive the description of the general public. My lack of empathy is with a government and an educational system that would spend more energy on making people into said "Consumption units" than rational, self evolving, intellectual beings capable growing and developing into wise and learned members of a society who love truth and knowledge for its own sake. Instead the average American get's his daily dose of thought from corporate owned infotainment, and that's the ones who even bother with the news. I volunteer a tremendous amount of my time tutoring and working adult literacy, so please don't assume I lack either compassion or empathy. I simply find myself angered by the ignorance and depravity of those whose job it is to dispel ignorance.
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Jimmy pisses me off. He had the makings of a great President, honest, intelligent, morally upright, a vision of energy independence and environmental sanity and committed to service. His only mistake was hubris. He thought he was going to go into D.C. single handed and clean up the rat's nest that is Washington. In his first year he disenfranchised not only the Republicans but key members of his own party. He did it for the right reasons... he wanted to clean up the sewage, sadly there are a lot of fat happy rats in D.C. who like it just the way it is and thinking you can go in there and clean it up without first making it a blue glass ashtray, is deluded at best. Poor Jimmy got double digit inflation, obscene gas prices, gas lines and over 2 years of hostages in Iran. Now I'm not saying the whole thing was staged to make Jimmy look like an asshole, but if you consider the same half dozen or so people (all working through the oil companies, another group Jimmy pissed off) could have jerry rigged the hostage crisis through Saudi Arabia, got OPEC to put the screws to our economy by strangling oil availability and you have to admit is was just a little suspicious that the hostages came home 2 days after Reagan took office. So I think its fair to say D.C. handed him his ass. Thanks for playin' Jimmy. Y'all come back again, y'hear?
Which was fine because he almost destroyed it with nanites, lost his mom in a warp bubble, got himself killed for chasing a ball, blew up a friend and cadet in starfleet, got his ass chewed off by a shape shifting baby sitter. The kid was a one stop disaster area.
And Jar Jar is the Snirkles of Star Wars and the circle is complete.
Didn't the series end with Janeway breaking all the rules, committing multiple acts of insubordination, to get her crew home through the Borg nexus more than 10 years early so Tuvok wouldn't be a vegetable, 7 of 9 wouldn't die, and Chakotay wouldn't end up a broken husk of a man?
Maybe that was the whole point of her character, the evolution from one who blindly followed rules to someone who chose to make her own rules. That and someone who put the needs of those she cared about and for above stroking her own ego. That's actually pretty cool if you think about it.
Why don't you port a 'C' compiler and we'll give it a go ;-)
Does the Architect own a tanto? Has been required to use it?
Hard to compete in a gun fight when all ya got are knives.
No, they have a gun, but it fires potatoes... hey, the russets hurt like hell!
Nailed it...
The problem is they wanted to carve out a completely new product space by copying the dominant leader. Doing that is a saturated market usually means you develop a fanatically loyal following in the cook islands or some other place equally pointless. Its like that great cartoon... Balmer makes a smart phone -> Then a miracle Happens -> and it garners a top market share. He needs to work on that middle part of the business plan a wee bit. Better yet, would someone give this poor man a dip into the clue bucket. For the love-o-jebus, I'm tired of seeing this lost soul twisting in the breeze.
Had Balmer a "BRAIN" he would have tasked the M$ software development tools division with coming up with an inspired development platform that would work on Windows, OSX and Linux, and would take one code in (Python? or better yet, a decoupled language front end of choice) and spit out apps for IOS, Android and WP8. If the tools were great, free and had a huge supported free community, it would have been natural for application developers to port their apps to as many platforms as possible and WP8 would have started out the gate with a health stable of goodies. Of course, all of this would have required that Balmer have a brain... enter zombie allusion... enter Wizard of Oz parody... perhaps he should consider politics.
How much would this have costed? $40 million? How much did they bet on WP8? Chump change. Instead, too little too late. Another poorly executed belly flop, with no attention to what the consumer wants. See, Americans live in the fscked up fantasy, that as long as "I'm" in power, and I have an advertising budget, I can tell you what you want. Steve got away with it, because he actually cared about leaving people blown away... (he was still an egomaniac, but he got off on giving people goosebumps) the money always came after (eg. Pixar.) You can't grab for the money first, and hope that people can later be convinced to love your schist. Balmer needs a Steve Jobs sans massive ego. He needs someone with the sensitivity, artfulness, style, intelligence and vision to create products and product experiences that people love. He needs a queer eye for the Geek guy. Good luck on that.
Its called "paraphrasing", if you need the call verbatim here is the actual call. In it, you will hear Mr. Zimmerman being far more concerned the black kid would "Get away" than the possibility that someone's life might be at stake, and that the dispatcher clearly informs him to leave it to the police. And though he is not legally required to obey the dispatcher (or even an officer had he been speaking to one) that places the onus of the subsequent events on his choice to pursue and ultimately precipitate a deadly shooting. He willfully placed himself in what was for him a threatening situation and then chose deadly force to resolve it, and I'm sorry, but the account in question simply doesn't make sense. He claims injuries he didn't have. If he lied about those, then how can we take the rest of his story with any seriousness. The problem here is not the gun. It is the vigilante and that is why we have the rule of law. Let me put this another way. If I take a bus to the middle of a ghetto, get out and walk down the street, and someone get's up in my face for being in the wrong place, and I get scared because this looks like its escalating to physical violence, do I have the right to shoot this man, and now that I've terrorized an entire neighborhood by that logic don't they all have the right shoot me? The kid was running away from perceived danger, it was right there on the call. Zimmerman was stalking the kid, and he had the gun. What else matters. He was free at every moment up to the final confrontation to walk away, only this black kid wasn't going to get away. And he didn't.
Why stop there. The government can just watch the "Silent Circle" and log the folks who go on their site on the presumption that if they want to hide their stuff, there must be reasonable cause for investigation.
That IS THE POINT! If I have a gun. And I willfully decide to stalk a black kid in a hoody who is 100 lbs lighter than I am, even after the police tell me to leave it alone. I am the one precipitated this event. I am the one who pulled the gun resulting in a needless death. Everything else is moot. I willfully chose to bring this situation to a life of death conflict knowing in advance I carried the power of life and death. Justify the behavior for me please, I want understand your reasoning
Yeah, like the persona a 17 year old black might create on the internet for the consumption of his friends and peers would never be exaggerated or puffed up to give himself greater street creed. This is like the poor guy that spent 20 years in jail because he lived in the same greater neighborhood as a girl that was murdered and he was caught drawing zombies and gore in his junior high home room. Kids do stupid things, its part of the growing up process, its why driving insurance for a 17 year old is astronomical. None that justifies hunting them down and executing them.
That doesn't change the fact that when Zimmerman reported he was FOLLOWING the kid, the police told him to stand down, and he said "No, I'm not letting him get away." It was Zimmerman that instigated the situation, brought deadly force to the scene, and made a host of claims that simply don't stand up under the slightest scrutiny. Trayvon could have been a howling asshole, a pretty common behavior these days. If thats all it takes to justify deadly force, then this nation is in serious trouble. You simply can't stalk people, hunt them down, then shoot them and claim self defense, it does't wash.
Only for people of color...
Or perhaps reading cogent facts about the case might have lead him to that conclusion? Fact, the young man (17 years old) was shot in the back and the evidence suggests he was shot at some distance, apparently trying to run for his life. Their has never been a single bit of corroborating evidence that Mr. Zimmerman was in any way assaulted. Video at the police station immediately after the incident showed Zimmerman laughing with the police with no injury to the face and no blood on his clothing (anyone who's broken a nose can attest to the flood of bleeding and the unmistakable swelling and bruising that follows.) The young man had no history of violence, was unarmed, and had exactly zero reason to interact with this clown save to defend himself against deadly force. And finally, when Mr. Zimmerman called the police about a suspect walking down the street, the police said to step down and they would handle it, to which he replied,"No way, he'll get away, I'm handling this." So, I don't know, maybe his sounds like science fiction story was true and an sweet unarmed 17 year old kid had a psychotic break and he had to put him down in fear of his life, its not beyond the realm of possibility, its just gonna be a mighty hard sell with the current set of evidence.
And who decided it was easier to stop investing in our infrastructure? We could have modernized.We could have developed cleaner, leaner methods and technologies for getting the job done. We could have demanded a balanced trade abroad and ensured that our middle class was protected from the devaluation of the dollar and loss of jobs to foreign nationals. You say the jobs went west and south, yeah west all the way to India and China, and south to latin America. The collapse of the rust belt may have begun in the 60s, but it lasted through the 80s. And not just the iron and heavy industry either. In 1984, 99% of the clothing people in this country wore came from manufacturers in the U.S. By 2005, less than 2% was made in this country. FACE IT, our government, paid and bought by the corporations are in the final phases of bleeding this nation dry.
why does this conversation look like a bunch of chickens discussing the finer points on the morality of being fricasseed?
Let's get this straight. The recording industry is interested in the executives of the recording industry. All others can snack on feces and die.
They will make money in the process if they can, but that's not important and its not the point.
The point is to make huge public example of a few people who will be so horribly mauled by the corporation that nobody will ever think of making that mistake.
The intention is to create a system that allows a vanishing few to own and control most or all IP to the point that you will have no freedom to hum to yourself without an executive somewhere getting paid.
This is about control, and ultimately the control of thought. This is about an entitled few who believe its their birthright to milk the entire human race dry.
Are we now clear about what is actually happening?
Cut the crap? Okay by the numbers, 2% of our population is in prison, more than any developed nation on the planet, and with prisons everywhere switching over to private institutions, and prisoners working for $0.50 an hour welcome to the future of the American laborer. Since 2000 there have been half a dozen economic crashes destroying jobs and combined with corporations outsourcing jobs to India, China and a dozen other countries, entire regions have suffered economic collapse and acquired names like "The rust belt". Since the last major disaster, millions have lost jobs they will never see again. In fact the new jobs that have become available since 2008 are predominantly service jobs that forces 50 and 60 somethings to utter the phrase "Would you like fries with that burger?" Retirement accounts gone. Pensions gone. Health care gone, Benefits evaporating. Just this week our nation set an all time record for the number of people receiving food stamps. The top 400 richest people in America now have the same wealth as the poorest 165,000,000. The average wage is shrinking faster than the number of honest men in our government. Inflation, due to printing endless tons dollars to cover the bad debt of the bankers, is imploding the American economy, and fast destroying what little buying power remains in the middle class. The corporations are no longer loyal to America and have sucked it dry and are now in the process of throwing away the dry husk... so what part of this sounds to you like bull shit, because I can speak from personal experience, this decade of the corporation has ruined me financially, and I have so many friends and acquaintances that have suffered the same its almost a cliche.
When those charged with our safety and protection, ask for the right to commit crimes and atrocities against the very people whom they're deign to protect, it is fair to say the machine is broken. The appropriate answer to this request is "HELL NO!!! Are you smoking crack!!! You can't enforce the law by wiping your ass on it, and you can't protect liberty by gutting it. NO, HELL NO!!!!
In a word... YES.
You want to create a reaction surface that can change its charge (i.e. stickiness) in the same way that hemoglobin can pick up oxygen or carbon dioxide in one place and release it in another. There should be all kinds of mechanisms including local ph that would allow you to perform the tasks you describe.
I', sorry, that will require a technology capable of manipulating object 3 to 5 orders of magnitude smaller. No, these tools should be just about right to manipulate the politician's brain or a lawyer sense of honesty.
Forgive the description of the general public. My lack of empathy is with a government and an educational system that would spend more energy on making people into said "Consumption units" than rational, self evolving, intellectual beings capable growing and developing into wise and learned members of a society who love truth and knowledge for its own sake. Instead the average American get's his daily dose of thought from corporate owned infotainment, and that's the ones who even bother with the news. I volunteer a tremendous amount of my time tutoring and working adult literacy, so please don't assume I lack either compassion or empathy. I simply find myself angered by the ignorance and depravity of those whose job it is to dispel ignorance.