Eh, eh, EH! Cut the kid a break. He's still working on that humor merit badge.
Once he earns it, he'll be able to tell stories like this.... A guy is hunting. He wings a duck and it falls into a Farmer's front yard. He see's the no trespassing sign, but he wants the duck real bad so he climbs over the split rail fence and fetches the duck. Just as he picks it up he hears someone saying "Whatca doin?". He turns around and there's the Farmer. He says "Uh, I was hunting across the road and the duck I shot, fell in the yard... I was just getting it." The Farmer says "Don't see your name on it, and its in my yard!" The hunter says "I'm sorry, but I bagged it and I was just trying to take with me, without disturbing you." Farmer says "Looks like were going to have to settle this country style." The Hunter says "Hows that work" The Farmer says "Well, we face each other and kick t'other in the groin till one of us gives and the other get's the duck." The hunter looks crestfallen, but he wants his duck, so reluctantly he say "Okay, if that's the way it's got to be." Farmer says, my yard so I get first shot. The hunter hunches down and girds his loins the best he can. The farmer get's a running start and punts for glory. The Hunter, lands on his back curled up in fetal position crying like a newborn for 10 minutes. Finally he begins to regain his composure and says "Okay, now its my turn." The Farmer says "Eh, keep the duck."
"Destabilizing" in this case is a euphemism for restricting my corporate freedom to anally violate my customers. And it has a direct impact on the size of my next bonus, so by all means, use every legal and social weapon in the arsenal to overturn this odious decision.
Feminists complain that America is a rape culture. Men's rights advocates cry bull$h!t. While the Fortune 100 does the deed with impunity and most American are completely oblivious to who's actually screwing them.
I'll learn to live with copyright law (if they'll just stop giving corporations infinite, unending copyright.) But the reeking dung heap that is our current patent system is right on the verge of crushing our economy and ending innovation as we know it. It's high time we shoveled it into a proper sewage treatment facility, Removed the toxic waste out of environmental concern, and started over, predicated on actually protecting INVENTORS and not corporations or lawyers, for a short period, in the name of PROMOTING invention and economic growth. Of course this would presume that we had a party, any friggin party, representing the people and not just the people with money.
No, they used to serve shareholders, now they serve themselves and if they have to fabricate information to justify their big fat bonuses, they will spin doctor a warthog's rectum into a silk clutch and a lovely pair of ear rings to do so. All you have to do is look at the long line of investors who've had their collective financial asses handed to them over the last 5 years while CEOs continue to samba all the way to the bank. I think nowadays, a Fortune 100 CEO would have to actually wear a Lady Gaga style meat suit made of skinned live babies, to even raise an eyebrow.
And National Foundation for the Arts also promotes collaborative projects and plays and music and paintings and sculptures that millions enjoy and enrich the American Culture... culture being the operative word. If your argument is that the only beauty that exists is natural beauty I would argue vehemently. Beauty exists because the human mind is capable of experiencing it. The first beauty that we perceive is the beauty with which we are naturally sympathetic to, the beauty that resonates with our biology. That is the start and not the end of beauty. Human craft, language, ontology gives rise to creations and inventions of pure beauty, abstractions of thought and spiritual expressions. Beauty that transcends the nature from whence it is born. The fact that you don't respect the importance of, significance of or vital need for the promotion of art starting with children but persisting throughout life for all people tells me that their is a profound lack in your education or a significant deficiency in comprehending of what a critical role art plays in civilizing, nurturing and empowering vital human expression. It is the face of culture and the perhaps one of human kinds most civilizing endeavors.
I agree that people have and always will created art as a function of being alive. The problem with that art is that its transitory. For home consumption. So you end up with commercial art, which by its nature has to appeal to the masses so that it will have the greatest financial success... bankers make shitty art. At the other end is people listening to hoedowns at a neighborhood dance. Great art. Art that should be recorded and shared. Art that will happen once then be gone forever before the echo fades. There is art that should last. There are artists who should perform. Art contributes to society, makes it better, richer. It is part of the language of culture, and expression of a civilization, how we distinguish ourselves from the monkeys. You've heard that man does not live by bread alone? Liberty is essential. So is full self expression and art is by its very nature the essence of that full self expression.
Love exists in every family, but we still have the Hatfields and the McCoys... a culture that promotes love and peace distinct from what can be shared between kin is the distinction between tribes and societies. Art is necessary for societies to thrive, and whether you can see that or not, its a vital part of making a life that is worth living.
The whole field of spintronics is opening up and includes quantum computing. Here's an interesting article on a new 3D spintronic memory which could produce new memory chips 1000s or even 1000,000s of times denser that existing devices with high speeds and all the advantage mentioned in this article mentioned about magnetic technologies.
This is just the beginning of a disruptive technology. I don't think the Lytro will necessarily be the answer for consumer products. If you look up "Super Resolution" and the "Pelican slimphone camera array" you'll see that there are emerging technologies that will be at least as effective and collecting both spatial and 3 dimensional data. In fact, its easy to imaging 6 -10 camera arrays being placed on the back of an iPad producing images with higher resolution that a top professional camera, as well as the spacial information needed to produce 3D video, stills and partial models. Just walk around an object and you have all the information to recreate it as a 3D model.
3D Printing, immersive 3D virtual reality, ubiquitous ultrahigh resolution imagery on smart phones, it will change the way we perceive the world.
Forgive the phrase... would you be happier with "Inalienable Rights", the point is that you are born with them, and no government or corporation can take them away unless you have "WILLFULLY" entered into contract. Deceits and dishonest transactions inflicted on the population do not merit consent, and its time for all free minded people to throw off the shackles of oppression and demand that our governments comply with their legal obligations or get out of our way.
This is like farming during the era of the giant RailRoad Monopolies. Farm all you like, be a great farmer and make exceptional produce. Need to get that to market. No problem, we're charging 99.9 cents on the dollar. "But", the farmer says "I can't live on that...", "Not my problem." says the Railroad.
You folks talk about garage bands. That's crap. The music business today is pretty faces and prepackaged homogenized sewage. If you're an amazing artist, world class, first rate, you're still boogered if you don't fit the current recording artist mold. You only truly succeed if you have your own publishing company and you only publish if your already a success. We need a way for great artists to make a decent living, I don't mean getting stupid wealthy (unless I guess they are in that top 0.1%) but a good living, so people can be artists without having to saw off an ear from the frustration and heart break of it.
As for getting a job, most artist have day jobs, because you can't live on being an artist... you've heard the term starving artist? Most of those starving artists died poor and their art today is priceless, because our society appreciates art but raises a middle finger to artists. Artists create and the hoards of middle men buy cheap, sell, resell, re-resell and suddenly this original print is worth a million and the artist can't afford coal to keep from freezing his fingers off. This is one of the reasons we created a National Arts Foundation, to support, sustain and promote the arts. This is the failure of the for profit model. How's the quote go "What profits a man if he should gain the world and lose his soul..." We don't need art. We don't need beauty or love or compassion either. If however we choose to have these things, then we should be accountable for their existence and subsidize the process through time, labor and money to ensure their ongoing presence. Or we should not complain when these precious things go away. In the end, as always, it is our choice.
Or the folks who couldn't wait and went with eBay instead, or NewEgg or whatever. There are a dozen reasons why a one hour delay might have impacted whether a particular purchase happened or not. Still you wouldn't expect that to impact more than several percent, which if you think about it would still be a few hundred thousand dollars.
One thing that might have had an even bigger impact, might be the fact that it would have impacted the ACTUAL cashflow today, even if the total sales is impacted only slightly there will still be a $5,000,000 hole on the day, and a day with a $5,000,000 hole on the last day of the month so the impact could have a significant FISCAL impact on the entire month. Accounting is one of those funny things and not knowing what Amazon's fiscal year or tax cycle looks like, having a $5,000,000 shortfall at the precise wrong moment could produce disproportionate harm. So, yes, the real impact is probably small, but there could be extenuating circumstances would amplify the impact of the event.
And when done traveling abroad you return home how? By ruby slipper?
The NSA has a massive listening post in England. Guess what? They've been listening to U.S Domestic calls for most of 20 years. You can tag all your correspondences with "Don't shoot, I'm one of you!" too. Good luck with that.
That's okay, recent changes in the law now make it possible to do anything we do to foreign nationals to be done to our own citizens. What could be fairer?
The problem is the difference between the letter and the spirit of the law. A well educated third grader can interpret the spirit of the oath of office.
But a President today can simply puts a Scalia onto the bench of the Supreme Court, who will gladly interpret the Constitution in a way that sounds more like Mein Kampf. We are drowning in lawyers, making noises like Bill Clinton's "...that depends what "IS" is..". Duplicitous self serving scumbags who will print the Bill of Rights on rolls that are squeezably soft, while kissing babies and glad handing corporate giants holding fat checks. We've been bought and sold by little men.
Doom and Gloom would be letting this lie. Nonsense, would be ignoring the vital need to take back what is our God given liberty in the face of our culture being destroyed one word at a time. It is the government that must stand transparent, naked before the people, and not the other way.
I'm sorry but nobody asks for power they don't at some time in the future intend to use. Even the power to drop nukes has been used to strategic ends for the last 70 years. So, I have no idea as to the consequences associated with governments being able to tell what you had for dinner by the smell of the gas you pass, but from my experience, it can't be good, and my imagination is picturing wildly dystopian possibilities as personal privacy and civil rights are being mulched into the sod.
My deepest and most unhappy concern is that governments around the world are laying down the legal and operational infrastructure required to provide complete transparency into the lives of people so that corporations can can watch us all with complete impunity and autonomy. If I were the gambling kind, I might think that this entire process is a ruse to make herding the sheep easier, and give the IP providers a final means to put and keep their thumb on us.
Oh yeah, its not like every multinational corporation on the planet based in the U.S. isn't marching right up every global citizen's junk, with the U.S, Government running defense... nah, that's not happening. Go back to sleep, everything's just fine.
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I think a cleft is developing... maybe we'll all have to carry staffs?
Eh, eh, EH! Cut the kid a break. He's still working on that humor merit badge.
Once he earns it, he'll be able to tell stories like this.... A guy is hunting. He wings a duck and it falls into a Farmer's front yard. He see's the no trespassing sign, but he wants the duck real bad so he climbs over the split rail fence and fetches the duck. Just as he picks it up he hears someone saying "Whatca doin?". He turns around and there's the Farmer. He says "Uh, I was hunting across the road and the duck I shot, fell in the yard... I was just getting it." The Farmer says "Don't see your name on it, and its in my yard!" The hunter says "I'm sorry, but I bagged it and I was just trying to take with me, without disturbing you." Farmer says "Looks like were going to have to settle this country style." The Hunter says "Hows that work" The Farmer says "Well, we face each other and kick t'other in the groin till one of us gives and the other get's the duck." The hunter looks crestfallen, but he wants his duck, so reluctantly he say "Okay, if that's the way it's got to be." Farmer says, my yard so I get first shot. The hunter hunches down and girds his loins the best he can. The farmer get's a running start and punts for glory. The Hunter, lands on his back curled up in fetal position crying like a newborn for 10 minutes. Finally he begins to regain his composure and says "Okay, now its my turn." The Farmer says "Eh, keep the duck."
"Destabilizing" in this case is a euphemism for restricting my corporate freedom to anally violate my customers. And it has a direct impact on the size of my next bonus, so by all means, use every legal and social weapon in the arsenal to overturn this odious decision.
Feminists complain that America is a rape culture. Men's rights advocates cry bull$h!t. While the Fortune 100 does the deed with impunity and most American are completely oblivious to who's actually screwing them.
I'll learn to live with copyright law (if they'll just stop giving corporations infinite, unending copyright.) But the reeking dung heap that is our current patent system is right on the verge of crushing our economy and ending innovation as we know it. It's high time we shoveled it into a proper sewage treatment facility, Removed the toxic waste out of environmental concern, and started over, predicated on actually protecting INVENTORS and not corporations or lawyers, for a short period, in the name of PROMOTING invention and economic growth. Of course this would presume that we had a party, any friggin party, representing the people and not just the people with money.
What are you? Some kind of Rocket MAN... burning out your fuse up here alone?
No, they used to serve shareholders, now they serve themselves and if they have to fabricate information to justify their big fat bonuses, they will spin doctor a warthog's rectum into a silk clutch and a lovely pair of ear rings to do so. All you have to do is look at the long line of investors who've had their collective financial asses handed to them over the last 5 years while CEOs continue to samba all the way to the bank. I think nowadays, a Fortune 100 CEO would have to actually wear a Lady Gaga style meat suit made of skinned live babies, to even raise an eyebrow.
What??? You didn't have a Univac in the coat closet? The local Jr. College was dumping there's... not only a great machine... a fine space heater!
Oh! Oh! I know! Just add that it has to be performed on Tuesday at 8:43 AM by a trained seal named Fernando! Yeah... that'll do it
And National Foundation for the Arts also promotes collaborative projects and plays and music and paintings and sculptures that millions enjoy and enrich the American Culture... culture being the operative word. If your argument is that the only beauty that exists is natural beauty I would argue vehemently. Beauty exists because the human mind is capable of experiencing it. The first beauty that we perceive is the beauty with which we are naturally sympathetic to, the beauty that resonates with our biology. That is the start and not the end of beauty. Human craft, language, ontology gives rise to creations and inventions of pure beauty, abstractions of thought and spiritual expressions. Beauty that transcends the nature from whence it is born. The fact that you don't respect the importance of, significance of or vital need for the promotion of art starting with children but persisting throughout life for all people tells me that their is a profound lack in your education or a significant deficiency in comprehending of what a critical role art plays in civilizing, nurturing and empowering vital human expression. It is the face of culture and the perhaps one of human kinds most civilizing endeavors.
I agree that people have and always will created art as a function of being alive. The problem with that art is that its transitory. For home consumption. So you end up with commercial art, which by its nature has to appeal to the masses so that it will have the greatest financial success... bankers make shitty art. At the other end is people listening to hoedowns at a neighborhood dance. Great art. Art that should be recorded and shared. Art that will happen once then be gone forever before the echo fades. There is art that should last. There are artists who should perform. Art contributes to society, makes it better, richer. It is part of the language of culture, and expression of a civilization, how we distinguish ourselves from the monkeys. You've heard that man does not live by bread alone? Liberty is essential. So is full self expression and art is by its very nature the essence of that full self expression.
Love exists in every family, but we still have the Hatfields and the McCoys... a culture that promotes love and peace distinct from what can be shared between kin is the distinction between tribes and societies. Art is necessary for societies to thrive, and whether you can see that or not, its a vital part of making a life that is worth living.
The whole field of spintronics is opening up and includes quantum computing. Here's an interesting article on a new 3D spintronic memory which could produce new memory chips 1000s or even 1000,000s of times denser that existing devices with high speeds and all the advantage mentioned in this article mentioned about magnetic technologies.
This is just the beginning of a disruptive technology. I don't think the Lytro will necessarily be the answer for consumer products. If you look up "Super Resolution" and the "Pelican slimphone camera array" you'll see that there are emerging technologies that will be at least as effective and collecting both spatial and 3 dimensional data. In fact, its easy to imaging 6 -10 camera arrays being placed on the back of an iPad producing images with higher resolution that a top professional camera, as well as the spacial information needed to produce 3D video, stills and partial models. Just walk around an object and you have all the information to recreate it as a 3D model.
3D Printing, immersive 3D virtual reality, ubiquitous ultrahigh resolution imagery on smart phones, it will change the way we perceive the world.
Forgive the phrase... would you be happier with "Inalienable Rights", the point is that you are born with them, and no government or corporation can take them away unless you have "WILLFULLY" entered into contract. Deceits and dishonest transactions inflicted on the population do not merit consent, and its time for all free minded people to throw off the shackles of oppression and demand that our governments comply with their legal obligations or get out of our way.
This is like farming during the era of the giant RailRoad Monopolies. Farm all you like, be a great farmer and make exceptional produce. Need to get that to market. No problem, we're charging 99.9 cents on the dollar. "But", the farmer says "I can't live on that...", "Not my problem." says the Railroad.
You folks talk about garage bands. That's crap. The music business today is pretty faces and prepackaged homogenized sewage. If you're an amazing artist, world class, first rate, you're still boogered if you don't fit the current recording artist mold. You only truly succeed if you have your own publishing company and you only publish if your already a success. We need a way for great artists to make a decent living, I don't mean getting stupid wealthy (unless I guess they are in that top 0.1%) but a good living, so people can be artists without having to saw off an ear from the frustration and heart break of it.
As for getting a job, most artist have day jobs, because you can't live on being an artist... you've heard the term starving artist? Most of those starving artists died poor and their art today is priceless, because our society appreciates art but raises a middle finger to artists. Artists create and the hoards of middle men buy cheap, sell, resell, re-resell and suddenly this original print is worth a million and the artist can't afford coal to keep from freezing his fingers off. This is one of the reasons we created a National Arts Foundation, to support, sustain and promote the arts. This is the failure of the for profit model. How's the quote go "What profits a man if he should gain the world and lose his soul..." We don't need art. We don't need beauty or love or compassion either. If however we choose to have these things, then we should be accountable for their existence and subsidize the process through time, labor and money to ensure their ongoing presence. Or we should not complain when these precious things go away. In the end, as always, it is our choice.
Sorry, the topic is about Chinese hacking not Michael Jackson. please get with the program...
Oh yeah, Because Gawd knows, there aren't enough Chinese running around on the planet...
And that's why America's yearning to each and every one be unique in exactly the same way, make them superior to your average Chinese person.
Was that the Enterprise whooshing by???
Oh, so sorry, someone should have told you... it only looks that way because we lock them in the same room as the trolls.
Or the folks who couldn't wait and went with eBay instead, or NewEgg or whatever. There are a dozen reasons why a one hour delay might have impacted whether a particular purchase happened or not. Still you wouldn't expect that to impact more than several percent, which if you think about it would still be a few hundred thousand dollars.
One thing that might have had an even bigger impact, might be the fact that it would have impacted the ACTUAL cashflow today, even if the total sales is impacted only slightly there will still be a $5,000,000 hole on the day, and a day with a $5,000,000 hole on the last day of the month so the impact could have a significant FISCAL impact on the entire month. Accounting is one of those funny things and not knowing what Amazon's fiscal year or tax cycle looks like, having a $5,000,000 shortfall at the precise wrong moment could produce disproportionate harm. So, yes, the real impact is probably small, but there could be extenuating circumstances would amplify the impact of the event.
And when done traveling abroad you return home how? By ruby slipper?
The NSA has a massive listening post in England. Guess what? They've been listening to U.S Domestic calls for most of 20 years. You can tag all your correspondences with "Don't shoot, I'm one of you!" too. Good luck with that.
That's okay, recent changes in the law now make it possible to do anything we do to foreign nationals to be done to our own citizens. What could be fairer?
The problem is the difference between the letter and the spirit of the law. A well educated third grader can interpret the spirit of the oath of office.
But a President today can simply puts a Scalia onto the bench of the Supreme Court, who will gladly interpret the Constitution in a way that sounds more like Mein Kampf. We are drowning in lawyers, making noises like Bill Clinton's "...that depends what "IS" is..". Duplicitous self serving scumbags who will print the Bill of Rights on rolls that are squeezably soft, while kissing babies and glad handing corporate giants holding fat checks. We've been bought and sold by little men.
Doom and Gloom would be letting this lie. Nonsense, would be ignoring the vital need to take back what is our God given liberty in the face of our culture being destroyed one word at a time. It is the government that must stand transparent, naked before the people, and not the other way.
I'm sorry but nobody asks for power they don't at some time in the future intend to use. Even the power to drop nukes has been used to strategic ends for the last 70 years. So, I have no idea as to the consequences associated with governments being able to tell what you had for dinner by the smell of the gas you pass, but from my experience, it can't be good, and my imagination is picturing wildly dystopian possibilities as personal privacy and civil rights are being mulched into the sod.
My deepest and most unhappy concern is that governments around the world are laying down the legal and operational infrastructure required to provide complete transparency into the lives of people so that corporations can can watch us all with complete impunity and autonomy. If I were the gambling kind, I might think that this entire process is a ruse to make herding the sheep easier, and give the IP providers a final means to put and keep their thumb on us.
Or fog... Can you see what they're doing? Nah, I can see what they're doing, can you see what they're doing?
Oh yeah, its not like every multinational corporation on the planet based in the U.S. isn't marching right up every global citizen's junk, with the U.S, Government running defense... nah, that's not happening. Go back to sleep, everything's just fine.