Bingo! Unless Bubba was talking about how to make it bigger or talking about meds from Canada, I'm guessing he tripped the boo-hoo filter and they weren't going to let him post until he had the requisite number of happy adverbs!
The article speaks of how rife lying is in the Silicon Valley and that its unfair to put Scott Thompson on the rack when so many others have committed the same offense and go on their merry ways. First of all, this is a 5 year old's response to have been caught with your hand in the cookie jar. You are the CEO of a major company. You're the standard bearer, the head and to some degree the soul of your company. If you make lying, deceit and misrepresentation the norm, you undermine not just the integrity of your business, but its ability to perform and relate to others on a global scale.
I'm not certain this demands falling on a sword, but its time for some heroic coming clean. A wise leader nips something like this in the bud. How can they hold others in their organization to account when the CEO is guilty? It creates a gaping hole in the fabric of an enterprise's ability to hold people to account. Or if they do attempt to hold lower employees to a standard, the hypocrisy creates such a toxic stench that employee morale will certainly suffer.
The fact that profit or the pursuit thereof seems to have come before personal integrity, lawful operation or even human dignity in American business, is itself a powerful indictment that we're fast heading into dark water. It is high time that we stop this march to mediocrity and morale collapse and reclaim whatever it takes to recover our personal high ground. Perhaps it time for privately held companies with strong character to begin pushing these bad boys off the playing field. I for one would be overjoyed to take my business to a privately held company that put personal integrity ahead of profit.
If that was all he did it would be mind numbing. He also seeded dozens of sciences that wouldn't be sciences for 400 years. Fluid dynamics, aerodynamics and aeronautics, architecture and civil engineering, optics, light study, cognition and behavior, mechanics, physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and fascinating advances in mathematics. He was almost a one man scientific explosion, jump starting the renaissance. There is simply no way to overstate his brilliance.
I hate to be the one to inform you friend, but the line of folks preparing to bend you over is long, and sadly more than a couple of them are wearing black suits and narrow ties. Look at the bright side... constipation is a thing of the past!
Clearly you've not done much dissection. Besides being perhaps the greatest artist of his age, virtually invented from whole cloth 2 and 3 point point perspective, hyper-realistic painting, chiaroscuro, anatomically/proportionally correct artwork (look up the "Grotesques"), he was probably one of the greatest scientific minds of all time. His vision, perception was unrivaled. He sketched water flowing over rocks and captured eddies and micro-currents that we can see today only in super high speed stop motion photography. He broke down the relationships between math and the universe. He observed that art was science and that science was art and that everything was mathematics. His inventions are brilliant even by today's standard. He invented the glider, the helicopter, the tank, the submarine, and a thousand other things we'll never know about.
His dissection and further record of human anatomy was inspired because he saw the engineering of the human body, and appreciated the brilliance of its design. He was able to discern function from form and so rather than simply capturing an amorphous blob of body matter (what you or I might see), was able to distinguish critical structure and functional anatomy and record it in such a way that the information imparted rivals techniques and illustrations based on technology 500 years later. More than a genius, he transcended his own time by centuries, and points to a human potential that is at once shocking and exciting.
Back in the early history of personal computers way back in 1982... I worked on a PC produced by Epson America that ran on a proprietary version of CPM called TPM. The machine supported a 16 in 640 x 480 color display, with real time animation (and games), and made the IBM PC look like a trash compactor by comparison. But it was to built in application software, ValDocs written in Forth that were especially interesting. Full 256 character name document management system, built in WYSIWYG Word Processor and Spreadsheet, Full res color paint program, games, built in FAX, email, and print system, and basic online telecommunication software. All in a single package. Too bad it was so buggy. Forth is a bugger for large applications. We referred to it as a write only language.
A guy driving without license or registration, they just look suspicious, driving too careful, looking around, freaking out when a police car appears. When will people get it (including governments) when you have nothing to hide, when you aren't provoking a stupid reaction from the universe at large things go well. Case in point, screwing with people's freedom of choice is just wrong. You erect a wall in the middle of a highway, and pretend business as usual. Sorry, it doesn't work that way/ First you draw incredible unwanted attention. Then you start pissing off the locals. Finally, you inspire them in huge numbers to profound acts of civil disobedience.
Let's face it. There are two kinds of infringing acts perpetrated against media producers. 1. Illicit copy by the general public and 2. Illegal mass manufacture by bootleggers in developing countries. For the first shut up, leave them alone. Every single iota of evidence suggests the folks doing the heaviest bootlegging are your best customers and they're just sampling you're wares before going out and buying the friggin' 3D Blueray. They just want to know if this film or game or song is crap or worth adding to their huge collections. You want to sell more media, stop foisting heavily mass marketed feces on the public, and for the luv-o-jebus STOP KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE!!! as for number 2. Its the third world, how many copies of your movie, or song or game were you planning on selling in Mogadishu anyway? If your film is preventing kids from being on the street and ending up being co-opted into death squads, nominate yourself for a friggin Humanitarian award and figure out some way to monetize it. In either case, you haven't got a single logical leg to stand on, other than y'all are greedy control freaks who want to squeeze every last drop of blood from every human being with eyes and ears. Enough already. Call it a day. Your behavior has been reprehensible, your logic brain damaged, and you keep trying to force the earth to spin backwards. Figure out the world as it is, bring in people with functioning brains and hearts to create new business models and thrive like you never have before. Get a clue, hell get two, they're small.
Welcome to the Republicrat. Some are left handed and some are right, but any suggestion for more than a nanosecond that they in any significant way different beasts is clearly a comment made by someone who takes the window dressing seriously. For those of you with pet representatives, let me ask before you even say a word... are they the exception that proves the rule?
To paraphrase George Carlin "Americans live a sham, a lie, you think you have choice, you have no choice, you are given the freedom to make meaningless choices like Paper or Plastic, with or without fries, scrambled or sunny side up, all so you don't notice that where it matters your say has been gone a long time now."
Oh yeah, that worked so well for the Native Americans and AIM when the FBI came shooting to the reservation. Don't get me wrong, despots deserve an ass-kicking, you just have to remember that your government has been busy preparing for your upset now for about the last 15 years and they just about have you dialed in now "Ya big-ol-nasty terrorist you"!
Let's get real for just a moment... The XXIA will tie this up in court with mountains of legal toilet paper until hell freezes over and the devils go ice skating. The owners/operators of Dajaz1, will have been moldering in their graves for most of a millennium and by that time, the one remaining surviving descendent will probably have to take in winnings in cold pressed Latinum or some silly assed equivalent.
Here, here!!! Pot is not illegal because its a drug... Our nation is drowning in drugs. Its because the Pharmaceutical business can't monopolize it and make a hundred billion dollars. No chance cheap effective solutions like l-tryptophan for insomnia, or pot for nausea are going to be made available when they can sell you expensive drugs with terrible side effects that require more terrible drugs to cure the side effects with even more terrible side effects, etc., etc., etc.
Adam Smith warned of the key things to beware of with any Capitalistic Economy. 1. Avoid concentration of wealth and 2. Maintain a large and healthy middle class. Simple things. Vital to the operation of the game. We just let it go to hell, that's all.
Sadly, its become so hard to tell the who the master and the lapdog is these days. Is it a true Fascism and the Corporations are in control, in which case you just have political sock-puppets and the Government and Corporations are one and the same? Or is it still a Republic with one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel going to the highest bidder? Like I said, to close a race to tell at this point, and will probably require better minds than mine to distinguish.
In either case, any semblance of civil rights, personal freedom, decency, dignity or real due process seem to have been tossed out the window along with anything that might once have resembled true democracy or representation.
No... this bill looks like the bastard child of 'Mein Kampf" and Orwell's "1984". This is the obvious reaction to a society the has dispensed with with even the illusion of civil liberty. Its time for that very last bit of free self expression and communication to be squashed like a bug by our fascist masters. Shut up, get back to work, or you don't get your ration of gruel.
If 'HE's" getting pregnant, his reading material is the least thing of importance. Dad's gonna get rich on the royalties for the story alone. Slashdot Geekboy get's pregnant!!! Blames Cmdr. Taco!!! Read All About It!!!
I'm sorry friend... if you're taking about anthropologists going out for a drink after a particularly brisk lecture, by all means tribalism. The folks working out on the ocean collecting cores will never meet or hear from the poor bugger on a mountain top taking ice samples and neither of them will ever talk to or hear from the lady in the Amazon studying the effects of climate change on the carbon sequestering ability of tropical forests. These are vast different fields from individuals that work on different aspects of the planet all coming to the same conclusions because the earth is an interrelated phenomenon and once you see something happen in your little corner it points to the dynamics of the larger system. Today scientist from hundreds of different fields have collected evidence from thousands of completely different avenues of study, each a single piece in a growing mosaic. When we speak of Global Climate change we look at the whole mosaic. However, the people involved in collecting that information, each work in a narrow field so you can't honestly think they function in any semblance of unity, that would be like saying your Postman and Doctor are conspiring to deceive you about the price of Tuna... we call that behavior Psychosis.
Bravo!!! Paint cities white! Add iron sulfate to the ocean and cause algal blooms during large fish population influx. Pump up the ecosphere, stop burning down rain forest and build true rain forest economies (have the first world invest in large parcels of rain forest for the genetic value and the possible products that could be discovered.) Build huge solar arrays on blimps that float over the ocean, sucking up light and creating power, while cutting down on the heat that enters the ocean thermodynamic system. There are new biotechnologies capable of turning CO2 into fuels, petrochemicals, and pure carbon for new material technologies. The time is now to slap some serious creative thinking on the problem and we need to look forward not back. Fossil fuel is dead long live the future!!!
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Ah Yes!!! Family trees that look like bamboo!!! Time for a little chlorine in the shallow end of the gene pool!
And whatever you do, don't press the third shell.
Bingo! Unless Bubba was talking about how to make it bigger or talking about meds from Canada, I'm guessing he tripped the boo-hoo filter and they weren't going to let him post until he had the requisite number of happy adverbs!
The article speaks of how rife lying is in the Silicon Valley and that its unfair to put Scott Thompson on the rack when so many others have committed the same offense and go on their merry ways. First of all, this is a 5 year old's response to have been caught with your hand in the cookie jar. You are the CEO of a major company. You're the standard bearer, the head and to some degree the soul of your company. If you make lying, deceit and misrepresentation the norm, you undermine not just the integrity of your business, but its ability to perform and relate to others on a global scale.
I'm not certain this demands falling on a sword, but its time for some heroic coming clean. A wise leader nips something like this in the bud. How can they hold others in their organization to account when the CEO is guilty? It creates a gaping hole in the fabric of an enterprise's ability to hold people to account. Or if they do attempt to hold lower employees to a standard, the hypocrisy creates such a toxic stench that employee morale will certainly suffer.
The fact that profit or the pursuit thereof seems to have come before personal integrity, lawful operation or even human dignity in American business, is itself a powerful indictment that we're fast heading into dark water. It is high time that we stop this march to mediocrity and morale collapse and reclaim whatever it takes to recover our personal high ground. Perhaps it time for privately held companies with strong character to begin pushing these bad boys off the playing field. I for one would be overjoyed to take my business to a privately held company that put personal integrity ahead of profit.
If that was all he did it would be mind numbing. He also seeded dozens of sciences that wouldn't be sciences for 400 years. Fluid dynamics, aerodynamics and aeronautics, architecture and civil engineering, optics, light study, cognition and behavior, mechanics, physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and fascinating advances in mathematics. He was almost a one man scientific explosion, jump starting the renaissance. There is simply no way to overstate his brilliance.
I must bow to your powers of understatement!!!
I hate to be the one to inform you friend, but the line of folks preparing to bend you over is long, and sadly more than a couple of them are wearing black suits and narrow ties. Look at the bright side... constipation is a thing of the past!
Clearly you've not done much dissection. Besides being perhaps the greatest artist of his age, virtually invented from whole cloth 2 and 3 point point perspective, hyper-realistic painting, chiaroscuro, anatomically/proportionally correct artwork (look up the "Grotesques"), he was probably one of the greatest scientific minds of all time. His vision, perception was unrivaled. He sketched water flowing over rocks and captured eddies and micro-currents that we can see today only in super high speed stop motion photography. He broke down the relationships between math and the universe. He observed that art was science and that science was art and that everything was mathematics. His inventions are brilliant even by today's standard. He invented the glider, the helicopter, the tank, the submarine, and a thousand other things we'll never know about.
His dissection and further record of human anatomy was inspired because he saw the engineering of the human body, and appreciated the brilliance of its design. He was able to discern function from form and so rather than simply capturing an amorphous blob of body matter (what you or I might see), was able to distinguish critical structure and functional anatomy and record it in such a way that the information imparted rivals techniques and illustrations based on technology 500 years later. More than a genius, he transcended his own time by centuries, and points to a human potential that is at once shocking and exciting.
Back in the early history of personal computers way back in 1982... I worked on a PC produced by Epson America that ran on a proprietary version of CPM called TPM. The machine supported a 16 in 640 x 480 color display, with real time animation (and games), and made the IBM PC look like a trash compactor by comparison. But it was to built in application software, ValDocs written in Forth that were especially interesting. Full 256 character name document management system, built in WYSIWYG Word Processor and Spreadsheet, Full res color paint program, games, built in FAX, email, and print system, and basic online telecommunication software. All in a single package. Too bad it was so buggy. Forth is a bugger for large applications. We referred to it as a write only language.
Then it is the farter that is being rude???!!! And what of the many Fartees?
Friggin Nerf Herders...
A guy driving without license or registration, they just look suspicious, driving too careful, looking around, freaking out when a police car appears. When will people get it (including governments) when you have nothing to hide, when you aren't provoking a stupid reaction from the universe at large things go well. Case in point, screwing with people's freedom of choice is just wrong. You erect a wall in the middle of a highway, and pretend business as usual. Sorry, it doesn't work that way/ First you draw incredible unwanted attention. Then you start pissing off the locals. Finally, you inspire them in huge numbers to profound acts of civil disobedience.
Let's face it. There are two kinds of infringing acts perpetrated against media producers. 1. Illicit copy by the general public and 2. Illegal mass manufacture by bootleggers in developing countries. For the first shut up, leave them alone. Every single iota of evidence suggests the folks doing the heaviest bootlegging are your best customers and they're just sampling you're wares before going out and buying the friggin' 3D Blueray. They just want to know if this film or game or song is crap or worth adding to their huge collections. You want to sell more media, stop foisting heavily mass marketed feces on the public, and for the luv-o-jebus STOP KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE!!! as for number 2. Its the third world, how many copies of your movie, or song or game were you planning on selling in Mogadishu anyway? If your film is preventing kids from being on the street and ending up being co-opted into death squads, nominate yourself for a friggin Humanitarian award and figure out some way to monetize it. In either case, you haven't got a single logical leg to stand on, other than y'all are greedy control freaks who want to squeeze every last drop of blood from every human being with eyes and ears. Enough already. Call it a day. Your behavior has been reprehensible, your logic brain damaged, and you keep trying to force the earth to spin backwards. Figure out the world as it is, bring in people with functioning brains and hearts to create new business models and thrive like you never have before. Get a clue, hell get two, they're small.
Welcome to the Republicrat. Some are left handed and some are right, but any suggestion for more than a nanosecond that they in any significant way different beasts is clearly a comment made by someone who takes the window dressing seriously. For those of you with pet representatives, let me ask before you even say a word... are they the exception that proves the rule?
To paraphrase George Carlin "Americans live a sham, a lie, you think you have choice, you have no choice, you are given the freedom to make meaningless choices like Paper or Plastic, with or without fries, scrambled or sunny side up, all so you don't notice that where it matters your say has been gone a long time now."
Oh yeah, that worked so well for the Native Americans and AIM when the FBI came shooting to the reservation. Don't get me wrong, despots deserve an ass-kicking, you just have to remember that your government has been busy preparing for your upset now for about the last 15 years and they just about have you dialed in now "Ya big-ol-nasty terrorist you"!
Let's get real for just a moment... The XXIA will tie this up in court with mountains of legal toilet paper until hell freezes over and the devils go ice skating. The owners/operators of Dajaz1, will have been moldering in their graves for most of a millennium and by that time, the one remaining surviving descendent will probably have to take in winnings in cold pressed Latinum or some silly assed equivalent.
Here, here!!! Pot is not illegal because its a drug... Our nation is drowning in drugs. Its because the Pharmaceutical business can't monopolize it and make a hundred billion dollars. No chance cheap effective solutions like l-tryptophan for insomnia, or pot for nausea are going to be made available when they can sell you expensive drugs with terrible side effects that require more terrible drugs to cure the side effects with even more terrible side effects, etc., etc., etc.
Adam Smith warned of the key things to beware of with any Capitalistic Economy. 1. Avoid concentration of wealth and 2. Maintain a large and healthy middle class. Simple things. Vital to the operation of the game. We just let it go to hell, that's all.
Only when the real people in power don't own the government and own the jails.
Sadly, its become so hard to tell the who the master and the lapdog is these days. Is it a true Fascism and the Corporations are in control, in which case you just have political sock-puppets and the Government and Corporations are one and the same? Or is it still a Republic with one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel going to the highest bidder? Like I said, to close a race to tell at this point, and will probably require better minds than mine to distinguish.
In either case, any semblance of civil rights, personal freedom, decency, dignity or real due process seem to have been tossed out the window along with anything that might once have resembled true democracy or representation.
No... this bill looks like the bastard child of 'Mein Kampf" and Orwell's "1984". This is the obvious reaction to a society the has dispensed with with even the illusion of civil liberty. Its time for that very last bit of free self expression and communication to be squashed like a bug by our fascist masters. Shut up, get back to work, or you don't get your ration of gruel.
This guys a bigot against folks born of parthenogenesis!
If 'HE's" getting pregnant, his reading material is the least thing of importance. Dad's gonna get rich on the royalties for the story alone. Slashdot Geekboy get's pregnant!!! Blames Cmdr. Taco!!! Read All About It!!!
I see your Far Freddy's Cat and raise you a Dirty Duck, and a Cerebus!!!
I'm sorry friend... if you're taking about anthropologists going out for a drink after a particularly brisk lecture, by all means tribalism. The folks working out on the ocean collecting cores will never meet or hear from the poor bugger on a mountain top taking ice samples and neither of them will ever talk to or hear from the lady in the Amazon studying the effects of climate change on the carbon sequestering ability of tropical forests. These are vast different fields from individuals that work on different aspects of the planet all coming to the same conclusions because the earth is an interrelated phenomenon and once you see something happen in your little corner it points to the dynamics of the larger system. Today scientist from hundreds of different fields have collected evidence from thousands of completely different avenues of study, each a single piece in a growing mosaic. When we speak of Global Climate change we look at the whole mosaic. However, the people involved in collecting that information, each work in a narrow field so you can't honestly think they function in any semblance of unity, that would be like saying your Postman and Doctor are conspiring to deceive you about the price of Tuna... we call that behavior Psychosis.
Bravo!!! Paint cities white! Add iron sulfate to the ocean and cause algal blooms during large fish population influx. Pump up the ecosphere, stop burning down rain forest and build true rain forest economies (have the first world invest in large parcels of rain forest for the genetic value and the possible products that could be discovered.) Build huge solar arrays on blimps that float over the ocean, sucking up light and creating power, while cutting down on the heat that enters the ocean thermodynamic system. There are new biotechnologies capable of turning CO2 into fuels, petrochemicals, and pure carbon for new material technologies. The time is now to slap some serious creative thinking on the problem and we need to look forward not back. Fossil fuel is dead long live the future!!!