It's a pedantic point, but no-one died in Tiananmen Square. Using the term "Tiananmen Square massacre" is lazy, mainly by the media, and just misses the point of general repression, focussing it on a singular "event".
I'm afraid the reality of the situation is that getting arrested in China (plus many other third world countries) means a good probability of death/hard labour camp, due to their standards of incarceration, and malhandling by God-like cops that are above the law. Then you're referred to your local politician who *is* the law. His palm is greased by... whoever
Our intolerances are not hidden anymore. But at least now that they are out in the sunshine, we will more easily be able to fight them and create a more understanding and enlightened world
But then the truly tolerant must tolerate intolerance.
Therefore you are an intolerant because you don't tolerate intolerance.
Not only does the media shape public opinion, public opinion shapes ther media
Otherwise they don't get their advertising $$, with it so easy to flick between channels. The remote control gives us choice, we can flick away from what we don't want to hear, such as, "Head Presidential Economic advisor states the economy is going to decline for the next 18 months, then there will be false hope for 3 months, followed by a further slump for 6 months until the Dow bottoms at 6,000. Two years after this, the workers that have been fired during the downturn would have been reabsorbed into the workforce, then fresh inexperienced graduates will again be in demand."
I bet the channel would have been flicked at "false hope....". Instead people want to hear an Analyst from Merrill or whatever (what the heck does he analyse, he just talks trash) that 1 year ago said, I quote "A slight correction is expected in the tech stock sector, this is NOT a recession, the fundamentals look quite solid."
Yeaaaaaaah, *some* slight correction. Sometimes I wish I didn't have a long memory. This way the media gets their advertising dollars, and the viewing public feels good, Win-Win situation, the only thing that loses is the truth. Just like an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie where he always kicks ass saying, "I'll be back" this is what we expect the news to be, this is what we expect each homicide inquiry to be, this is what we expect each war to be. The only movie that broke this positive-negative-positive start-middle-end was Kubrick's The Cube.
I've always wondered what would have happened if on 9/12 Bush said, "We're going to retaliate, it's a difficult decision, we're anticipating losses will be double that of Vietnam, with half our fleet of aircraft carriers being destroyed, and 60% infantry losses. Chinese communists have provided high altitude Surface-Air missiles to Afghanistan, so we cannot use B-52s or any other aircraft. This is our best scenario, but we've been forced into a situation where we must fight the good fight, as honour dictates. Please be aware that there's a 50% chance that we will have to introduce compulsory drafting of men of fighting age."
Would the Arabs hate America so much if TV and radio wasn't around? Of course not
Having several thousand foreign troops based in your country is *NOT* a stabilising factor. Add to this years of meddling by the G8 in their affairs. This is deliberate and necessary (unfortunately) provocation to keep oil prices low
We have to import all this oil from the Middle East. If OPEC joins together and double prices, the US is in real trouble. Keeping them squabbling, sowing mistrust and throwing in wildcards (thousands of US troops permanently based in Saudi) and you've got one heck of a poker game where nobody can trust one another despite being friends.
Just think about the oil and remember your Game Theory lectures. Then you'll understand *exactly* what the US foreign policy is geared towards (scientists: hydrogen cars please, ON THE DOUBLE). In case you think the Middle East is a picture of freedom, you should see Saudi prisons, Saudi justice (prisoners starved, torcher of genitalia, flogging, daily whipping with wounds only partially healed (whipping of scabs)) BUT their crime levels are virtually zero. Off-ramp near Mecca states, "off-ramp 26, Mecca (Kabbah), MUSLIMS ONLY". Without becoming flamebait, I'll say that I note that the Church of the nativity has no "Christians only" sign. My test of extremism: mention Salman Rushie and say that he is an author that epitomises our modern times by reinforcing constitutional freedoms. Anyone that turns and shows hostile feeling is tagged as "foe - probable extremist" in my book.
Score: -1, Informative, but I don't wanna hear it, plus the CIA Magic Lantern will know if I mod this up.....
We aren't less tolerant. We **r outraged by barbarism.
Which is why CNN shows acts of barbarism or the results of acts of barbarism more than acts of tolerance (e.g. the US soldier that took a bullet for his dog). We want to see stuff that we're outraged by..... Hmmmmm....
This is the real source of intolerance -- you never see anything from the bulk of foreign cultures that are worth saving.
True. Loads of Americans come to London for 2 days, get loaded on a coach, take pictures of Buckingham Palace, Parliament and Tower of London, then say, "Yeah, I've been to London, England. Those British people are ***** stereotype of British people created by CNN *****"
To actually see a country you have to live there for a minimum of 1 year. If someone says, "I have 2 days Java experience" you'd be like wtf?
How many full-length French songs has MTV played in the last 1 year? Everyone complains about hearing Britney every 5 minutes, in the UK we're lucky and get shown "Moi Lolita", but I know in the US that you don't listen to (nor care to listen to) foreign music. My friend's hospital just spend 4 million on a new top of the line MRI scanner. Hundreds of lives will be saved. Is this news? Nope, it's just same old, "Bla bla waiting lists bla bla". This is because the collective concern of the general population sells more papers than just the, "Wow, that's an interesting new technology" story. If you saw a newspaper tomorrow that said, "binLaden is George Bush's mother, read the full story", it'd sell more papers than, "Some fast plane tested. Test succesful. Plane uses aurora pulse detonation engine technology"
You say you believe in Open Source, implying an idealogy where all important facts are represented equally. You're all lying, you're all just saying this because you want kudos. Do you really want to know the facts? Well how about this one, (credit: BBC World Service, the last remaining free media in the world)
How come then that nobody knows the fact that the Queen Mother (of the UK, recently passed away) was a racist? She allowed Canadian, American and Australian troops ONLY to parade at her funeral. Not even the Ghuerka Nepalese troops that have fought and died whilst siding side-by-side with British troops. They are respected as tough, but the Queen Mother thought they were assholes.
The only open media organisation that reported this was BBC World Service. Mod me down to censor me if you want, but here's the truth as I see it, BBC World Service is the most open, honest news service in the world. Even they had to tone down the language when they said the Queen Mother was racist. To get the truth you have to read between their lines, just like in God damn Russia when they censored the media.
Face it - the Russian Government at least ouvertly censored their media with "assholes in suits". The US Government tacitly censors their media by threatening to impose Mariah-Carey celebrity privacy laws, etc. so editor's just happen to drop certain stories.
The Jewish people control the media. Period. It's nobody's fault, it's just that business centres around networking. Jewish people keep in touch even if they hate/disagree with each other. They implicitly trust each other (unlike others that keep in superficial contact like Indians that just rip their best friends off). This international network of people with implicit trust for each other is the optimum interconnected network for maximising capitalistic gain in a free market. Americans are the opposite, give 'em a car and a house and some guy in New York isn't gonna keep in touch with some guy in LA unless he wants something. If he wants company, he'll get a dog instead of travelling that distance.
In summary, Jews - like the Internet, optimum connectivity, DDoS just degrades performance. Ideal network topology for collective capitalistic gain, leading to political gain. (I'm not complaining, actually I envy it) Indians - as Jews except BGP and ARP tables are corrupted (because the nodes keep lying to each other). Good topology for maximising gain in one-off business transactions with unsuspecting clients. Bad topology for building a bug business via branding, trademarks and reputation (remember Game Theory class, the two bank robbers). Japanese - weakly interconnected but polite nodes (BGP tables are transferred point to point in delta form, heavily compressed, only when CPU usage is low), nodes have high uptime (can work their asses off). Not autonamous Americans - nodes keep dropping connection (few long-term friends), talk too much, too loudly, too much trash (all BGP speakers broadcast their full table uncompressed to all BGP recipients up to 10000 hops every 1ms, whether they're in the same domain or not)
Voice of America is just some American army dropout with a chip on his shouder talking trash. "We have advanced technology and will rain down bombs on you.". Well where's binLaden then a@@hole? It's been 6 months, like an IT project managed by Home Economics MBA specialists. The jews have the real money and power in the US.
"I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite."
-EarthForce Security Officer, Babylon 5
Deal with companies in England only. The Data Protection Act of 1998 which is law here makes it illegal for companies to hold/sell customers' private data unless you explicitly waive the right. The law is so strict that bosses MUST ask every employees' permission if they want to calculate sick pay (because they have to access the sick records - sensitive data). This law is a step in the right direction, and I'm sorta proud of it. You Yanks are so weak on privacy, that US businesses are forbidden from dealing with the whole of Europe, unless the business signs up to Safe Harbour.
At a time when trade barriers are (generally) being lowered between the EU and US, the fact that this directive is required is a sad reflection on privacy in the United States.
Of course, even here enforceability is an issue - some small LLC can always pop up, harvest data, and then go bankrupt a couple of months later.
The truly worthwhile don't whine about how things are so different from before. They ride the wave and figure out the Next Big Thing, and move the rest of us there
In that case what do the truly worthwhile do until the next big thing? In the meantime, how do they feed their kids, how do they cope with the health insurance bill of $50,000 per year (because they have a family history of, I dunno, cardiac problems)
This is why the people that get fired rightfully walk back into their office and machine-gun everyone. By firing them they can't afford health insurance for their special disabilities, thus the employer has placed their life in danger, therefore they have the right to defend themseves same as if their boss had put a gun to their head.
Every software developer that works on CRM is committing murder. If jobs were just some fun doohickey then this wouldn't be true, but with health insurance dependent on your job, you have every right to retailiate in self-defence. This applies to the United States only.
Deprived of licensing revenues, developers will be drawn towards writing complex, difficult to maintain code; code that will require constant attention; code that won't be useful without a consultant. Programmers will design programs to maximize "billable hours". Coders, once the hi-tech heroes, will become just as reviled as lawyers
Ahhhhhhh, the truth smells like a cool, refreshing summer breeze wafting over one's face. House construction companies are still respected engineers - the slightest fault and your house gets condemned due to wet rot or falls down. Pipes are cheap, pipe-benders are cheap, welding torches are extremely dangerous, and routing pipes and conduits is a voodoo science - obfuscation of the (simple) technology has maintained some respect for the field.
GPL makes software like car mechanics a few years ago - all parts are available openly, everyhwere, many people do their own repairs in their own garage. Car mechanics have to offer their services dirt cheap, with small margins, under the pressure of, "Do this engine change in 5 minutes or I take it to my cousin Dwaiiiiiin (Amish slack-jawed yokel from Utah). To get more than $2/hour you have no choice but to chop an old rusting Buick in half, an stick it onto the customer's car - now that's a fast engine change. <Krusty the Clown after a bad joke>Ha ha bu ha, ha, huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh</Krusty the Clown after a bad joke>. Agreed, code will be a nightmare in future so that only the devloper can adjust it, or heck we can make code polymorphic using a proprietary NeoLite-variant. VB developer: "Duhhh the code's available, just a little obfuscated."
Electricians have the same problem. Owner-adjustable circuits (fuse box), breakers and wires available from Walmart.
Change happens. Deal with it. The truly worthwhile don't whine about how things are so different from before. They ride the wave and figure out the Next Big Thing, and move the rest of us there
Next big thing is................... Biotech (again)?
The bubble burst because of a huge number of fledgling companies whose "business plans" ended with
Plus, "Let's pay off our VC with a bank loan..... And pay the bank loan with another VC..... Whoa VC just fired the CEO and put George Bush's niece in there so Wall Street would give more money on the IPO (which would go to the VC), and then we pay off all these debts with ad impressions.
Illiterate CEO with MBA placed by VC: "Jesus will save us and our business plan" VC: "Hmm doubleclick.net can provide a good revenue stream, plus I know this big shot accountant, he does Enron, he can save us by hiding our uhhh Billion dollar cash assets in Cayman islands offshore bank account where the IRS can't find it, same as binLaden does. That'll make us look real profitable. Heck we could even start a craze." Illiterate CEO with MBA placed by VC: "Yeah, then we can pay you back with our pocket change, from that Bank account that you can make it look like we have."
Sorry guys, but I'm afraid Billy Goat Gates has a point,
Why should the government pay for research and development of software under a license that allows Microsoft to take it, modify it (perhaps trivially, perhaps integrate it into the OS) and then sell it back to the US government and citizens for $big profits?
In England, the Government supported the Nimrod project. It was inferior to the AWACS in every way, but still the Govt. funded it with the cover story that, "National security is at stake". Nobody challenged him with the England-US special relationship. For decades funding went into Plessey which turned into Marconi, it was their lifeline, the company would have gone under without the Government's help. Now they're a very succesful defence+commercial electronics/avionics producer, thanks to the British Government's lifeline. At the end of the day, half a decade ago we bought a whole bunch of AWACS anyway.
Pop quiz: Should the British Govt have let Marconi go bust and lose a world class, booming defence+consumer elctronics company (until recently)?
What is CRM? What is Knowledge Management? It's real life borg, taking knowledge of employees away and storing it in a multi-dimensional cube database, sapping their tacit knowledge. All employees will be trivially sackable, nudge nudge wink wink give me a genetic sample otherwise we can fire you in a second - your entire job activities are stored in SQL server. If you're fired all you'll ever add up to is a footnote is some computer's database (Episode 18 Assessment TotalRecall2070)
I've watched businesses, and 10% is the software product, and 90% is HOT AIR sales, managers, procurement, accountants whose job it is to just speak trash, to trash.
If GPL software was good enough to replace all commercial software, this would happen to all companies:
R&D: Free GPL software available => sack all software developers, except for superficial adaptation - file formats, couple of extra features. IT Support: IRC support and official Redhat.com are a lot cheaper than Microsoft => fire all IT support. Worldwide KM system can take over, since everyone uses the same apps (free GPL) Sales: Free software => everybody in Sales is fired. CRM apps makes top Sales into a $2/hour hire-fire job Procurement: Shrink-wrapped software is available free => procurement costs and jobs only monitor downloading of (ftp://xxxx/file.exe). Marketing: Web designer does this job, KM system augmented with AI learns his job and fires him. Managers: Fire 99% of them, KM can make these jobs into $2/hour hire-fires Accountants: Not required, see above (zero profit, zero loss, zero tax), etc.
So the death of commercial software takes all those hot air sales+manager people with it. Has anyone stopped to think that maybe free software (which the GPL seems to be very condusive to) is the cause of the dotcom crash, and we all wrongly blamed it on Wall Street and Venture Capitalists?
In the Industrial revolution, mechanical engineers were in high demand, then they foolishly designed and built production lines that would automate and therefore remove their own jobs, they dug their own grave, placed themselves in a coffin, lowered themselves, and dynamited the grave shut. Are we doing the same?
/. people tend to be free software/freedom people, many from California and other high tech areas. What were you thinking posting your question here? You've probably noticed that you're getting a pretty biased opinion. Here's my view (heh, i'll try not to be biased)
America is legally-oriented, an unusually high number of computer-literate Americans regard copying music as something the RIAA will bust your door down for, the law is merely delayed in some dark think tank/committee somewhere. For this demographic a discrete "I wrote this software, please please please *cute puppy look from a homeless child* gimme some money works. These high tech people empathise with poor coders eating plain pizza base (ewwwwww) and do actually pay, these people are about 0.0001% of the worldwide population and between 0.01% (book-keeping apps, etc.) to 95% (custom EJB, support DLL, etc.) of your potential customers.
1. Simple products for simple people e.g. a Calculator or screensaver, then give couple of screenshots, platform requirments and a direct download link, form appears in IE during download saying, "If you feel like it, fill in your details while the app downloads", on app startup a nag screen. Software stops working after 14 days and gives loads of registration requests with uninstall prompt.
2. Simple products for technical people e.g./. comments archiver, then pop up version screen for 2 seconds "Arubasoft converter, 30 days eval remaining". Registration via some obscure Help->Register menu. Personal cheque and email mandatory, address+phone not required but recommended
3. Complex products for simple people e.g. ERP. Deep end => 12 month trial, decreased to 3 months if load exceeds 10 transactions per second for 48 hours (i.e. deployed). At trial end, software gives a warning, 14 days later introduces delay loops, 28 days later shows nag screen and 12 hour time limit OR calls Ctrl-Alt-Del followed by nagscreen, after 60 days shuts down. Users are marketing types, so obnoxious nag screens every 10 minutes.
4. Complex software for complex people, e.g. Rational Rose, half second nag screen "Non-redistributable version of Rational Rose, 120 days remaining". At trial end pops up a discreet nag screen "This software developer is using an illegal version of Rational Rose please email piracy@rational.com" OR pingflood -> 127.0.0.1 OR wait 30 seconds on each save with nagscreen OR nagscreen("The user on this workstation is affiliated with Osama binLaden, please call 911, or register this software").
If selling in Russia, China, Singapore, Malaysia then throw away your PC and do accountancy in KPMG, or pirate your own software for $1 per CDR. If you can't beat them join them.
I haven't done a survey, the percentages above are to be regarded as best guess Mr. Sulu, Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Programmers need to get paid, but come on, they make what -- between $50,000 and $200,000 a year? This is more money than what working people have for their whole retirement!
Screw them
Welcome to the other side of the economic cycle, dude. My coworker just got told to take his 2 years Delphi, 2 years MFC C++, 2 years JDK applications and Ivy league Computing+Electronics joint major degree to the sidewalk "where it belongs". I get the feeling I'm next...... When I've finished this assignment which I'll stretch out for a while:-) Job's great but our accountant just told management we've almost zero turnover.
So that's $200,000 for 18-hour per day shifts, 7 days per week for 3 months then you're fired, so really it's $50,000 and then you're burnt out for 18 months. Welcome to the real world.
Solution to the problem of getting spammed by businesses:
Deal with software businesses in England ONLY.
This is our company policy, by UK law under the Data Protection Act of 1998 all businesses that get personal data MUST keep it for the minimum time, and MUST provide an opt-out clause on all correpsondence where such data is given to the business. Even if you're just going to pass the data around within the company.
The laws are so strict that to calculate employee sick days you need every employee's signed permission to access the sickness records database.
The actual device will have a linearish increase (limited by it's slew rate) as if a squarewave has been pumped through a real-world LM741N op-amp (linear increase, then saturation is achieved, then linear decrease to zero).
Quoting myself is probably a sign that I'm crazy. Yeah but anyway I was brainstorming (with my hand in my pants), and I think it's possible to encode multiple symbols by using slightly different pulses (UWB transmitters with different characteristics). A UWB pulse with a steeper step can be distinguished from a pulse with a shallower step by the relative intensities of the outer sinc functions. Just thinking, then again this could be total trash.
Just because the US and FCC recognises it doesn't mean the world does
I'm sure it's just a matter of time before the ISO sets it in stone, now that the FCC no longer thinks it's a "death-by-static-flood".
These de facto standards are always present in fast-moving technology areas. To be honest I'm not sure whether I should've hammered on this fact. What really does get up my pants is when these big corporations do it - like Cisco with HSRP (Hot Standby Routing Protocol). The IETF was like wtf? They didn't even give the IETF the right darn name. I just had a time-delayed need to get payback on FUD corporate-imposed standards forced on us by large corporations, but UWB is the little guy at the moment. Doh!
If the UWB pulse is an approximation of a square pulse (which I think it would be, given that most of the papers I've read on UWB modulate the signal using the timing of the pulses), then the pulse in the frequency domain would be a sinc fuction. For those without an engineering/math background, sinc(x) = sin(x)/x. As such, any true square UWB pulse (and any square pulse of any length) would have infinite bandwidth. Of course, because the amplitude of a sinc decreases as its argument increases, there is a practical limit to the bandwidth of the outgoing signal that is based on what the resolvable power delta would be on the receiving end.
Thanks for jogging my memory, unfortunately I don't have any mod points. I doubt the actual UWB transmitters can achieve a full step in zero time that's needed for an ideal short-duration squarewave (obviously). The actual device will have a linearish increase (limited by it's slew rate) as if a squarewave has been pumped through a real-world LM741N op-amp (linear increase, then saturation is achieved, then linear decrease to zero). This would effecticley increase the delta on the sinc function, decreasing the very high frequency components more than you'd expect than if you looked at a perfect squarewave.
In other words squarewave-trianglewave hybrid is the best I think they can get in the real world. Which means that a UWB transmitter which has been targetted at the radio range is even less likely than I thought than before to give gamma ray components. Ooops, maybe I shouldn't submit this comment, hmmmmm
Best mitigating circumstance is that amateur/professional microwave stuff is going to be using highly directional antennas
With the sidelobes on even the most sophisticated highly directional microwave transmitters, wideband leakage from the sidelobes could flood local areas with noise, obliterating a large spectrum of weaker signals. At least carrier waves on different frequencies can peacefully coexist with each other.
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To get arrested in China you just have to live in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Therefore you are an intolerant because you don't tolerate intolerance.
I bet the channel would have been flicked at "false hope....". Instead people want to hear an Analyst from Merrill or whatever (what the heck does he analyse, he just talks trash) that 1 year ago said, I quote "A slight correction is expected in the tech stock sector, this is NOT a recession, the fundamentals look quite solid." Yeaaaaaaah, *some* slight correction. Sometimes I wish I didn't have a long memory. This way the media gets their advertising dollars, and the viewing public feels good, Win-Win situation, the only thing that loses is the truth. Just like an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie where he always kicks ass saying, "I'll be back" this is what we expect the news to be, this is what we expect each homicide inquiry to be, this is what we expect each war to be. The only movie that broke this positive-negative-positive start-middle-end was Kubrick's The Cube.
I've always wondered what would have happened if on 9/12 Bush said, "We're going to retaliate, it's a difficult decision, we're anticipating losses will be double that of Vietnam, with half our fleet of aircraft carriers being destroyed, and 60% infantry losses. Chinese communists have provided high altitude Surface-Air missiles to Afghanistan, so we cannot use B-52s or any other aircraft. This is our best scenario, but we've been forced into a situation where we must fight the good fight, as honour dictates. Please be aware that there's a 50% chance that we will have to introduce compulsory drafting of men of fighting age."
We have to import all this oil from the Middle East. If OPEC joins together and double prices, the US is in real trouble. Keeping them squabbling, sowing mistrust and throwing in wildcards (thousands of US troops permanently based in Saudi) and you've got one heck of a poker game where nobody can trust one another despite being friends.
Just think about the oil and remember your Game Theory lectures. Then you'll understand *exactly* what the US foreign policy is geared towards (scientists: hydrogen cars please, ON THE DOUBLE). In case you think the Middle East is a picture of freedom, you should see Saudi prisons, Saudi justice (prisoners starved, torcher of genitalia, flogging, daily whipping with wounds only partially healed (whipping of scabs)) BUT their crime levels are virtually zero. Off-ramp near Mecca states, "off-ramp 26, Mecca (Kabbah), MUSLIMS ONLY". Without becoming flamebait, I'll say that I note that the Church of the nativity has no "Christians only" sign. My test of extremism: mention Salman Rushie and say that he is an author that epitomises our modern times by reinforcing constitutional freedoms. Anyone that turns and shows hostile feeling is tagged as "foe - probable extremist" in my book.
Score: -1, Informative, but I don't wanna hear it, plus the CIA Magic Lantern will know if I mod this up.....
"Yeah, I've been to London, England. Those British people are ***** stereotype of British people created by CNN *****"
To actually see a country you have to live there for a minimum of 1 year. If someone says, "I have 2 days Java experience" you'd be like wtf?
How many full-length French songs has MTV played in the last 1 year? Everyone complains about hearing Britney every 5 minutes, in the UK we're lucky and get shown "Moi Lolita", but I know in the US that you don't listen to (nor care to listen to) foreign music. My friend's hospital just spend 4 million on a new top of the line MRI scanner. Hundreds of lives will be saved. Is this news? Nope, it's just same old, "Bla bla waiting lists bla bla". This is because the collective concern of the general population sells more papers than just the, "Wow, that's an interesting new technology" story. If you saw a newspaper tomorrow that said, "binLaden is George Bush's mother, read the full story", it'd sell more papers than, "Some fast plane tested. Test succesful. Plane uses aurora pulse detonation engine technology"
Nobody wants to know the truth.
You say you believe in Open Source, implying an idealogy where all important facts are represented equally. You're all lying, you're all just saying this because you want kudos. Do you really want to know the facts? Well how about this one, (credit: BBC World Service, the last remaining free media in the world)
How come then that nobody knows the fact that the Queen Mother (of the UK, recently passed away) was a racist? She allowed Canadian, American and Australian troops ONLY to parade at her funeral. Not even the Ghuerka Nepalese troops that have fought and died whilst siding side-by-side with British troops. They are respected as tough, but the Queen Mother thought they were assholes.
The only open media organisation that reported this was BBC World Service. Mod me down to censor me if you want, but here's the truth as I see it, BBC World Service is the most open, honest news service in the world. Even they had to tone down the language when they said the Queen Mother was racist. To get the truth you have to read between their lines, just like in God damn Russia when they censored the media.
Face it - the Russian Government at least ouvertly censored their media with "assholes in suits". The US Government tacitly censors their media by threatening to impose Mariah-Carey celebrity privacy laws, etc. so editor's just happen to drop certain stories.
The Jewish people control the media. Period. It's nobody's fault, it's just that business centres around networking. Jewish people keep in touch even if they hate/disagree with each other. They implicitly trust each other (unlike others that keep in superficial contact like Indians that just rip their best friends off). This international network of people with implicit trust for each other is the optimum interconnected network for maximising capitalistic gain in a free market. Americans are the opposite, give 'em a car and a house and some guy in New York isn't gonna keep in touch with some guy in LA unless he wants something. If he wants company, he'll get a dog instead of travelling that distance.
In summary,
Jews - like the Internet, optimum connectivity, DDoS just degrades performance. Ideal network topology for collective capitalistic gain, leading to political gain. (I'm not complaining, actually I envy it)
Indians - as Jews except BGP and ARP tables are corrupted (because the nodes keep lying to each other). Good topology for maximising gain in one-off business transactions with unsuspecting clients. Bad topology for building a bug business via branding, trademarks and reputation (remember Game Theory class, the two bank robbers).
Japanese - weakly interconnected but polite nodes (BGP tables are transferred point to point in delta form, heavily compressed, only when CPU usage is low), nodes have high uptime (can work their asses off). Not autonamous
Americans - nodes keep dropping connection (few long-term friends), talk too much, too loudly, too much trash (all BGP speakers broadcast their full table uncompressed to all BGP recipients up to 10000 hops every 1ms, whether they're in the same domain or not)
Voice of America is just some American army dropout with a chip on his shouder talking trash. "We have advanced technology and will rain down bombs on you.". Well where's binLaden then a@@hole? It's been 6 months, like an IT project managed by Home Economics MBA specialists. The jews have the real money and power in the US.
At a time when trade barriers are (generally) being lowered between the EU and US, the fact that this directive is required is a sad reflection on privacy in the United States.
Of course, even here enforceability is an issue - some small LLC can always pop up, harvest data, and then go bankrupt a couple of months later.
This is why the people that get fired rightfully walk back into their office and machine-gun everyone. By firing them they can't afford health insurance for their special disabilities, thus the employer has placed their life in danger, therefore they have the right to defend themseves same as if their boss had put a gun to their head.
Every software developer that works on CRM is committing murder. If jobs were just some fun doohickey then this wouldn't be true, but with health insurance dependent on your job, you have every right to retailiate in self-defence. This applies to the United States only.
Oh wait....
GPL makes software like car mechanics a few years ago - all parts are available openly, everyhwere, many people do their own repairs in their own garage. Car mechanics have to offer their services dirt cheap, with small margins, under the pressure of, "Do this engine change in 5 minutes or I take it to my cousin Dwaiiiiiin (Amish slack-jawed yokel from Utah). To get more than $2/hour you have no choice but to chop an old rusting Buick in half, an stick it onto the customer's car - now that's a fast engine change. <Krusty the Clown after a bad joke>Ha ha bu ha, ha, huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh</Krusty the Clown after a bad joke>. Agreed, code will be a nightmare in future so that only the devloper can adjust it, or heck we can make code polymorphic using a proprietary NeoLite-variant. VB developer: "Duhhh the code's available, just a little obfuscated."
Electricians have the same problem. Owner-adjustable circuits (fuse box), breakers and wires available from Walmart.
Illiterate CEO with MBA placed by VC: "Jesus will save us and our business plan"
VC: "Hmm doubleclick.net can provide a good revenue stream, plus I know this big shot accountant, he does Enron, he can save us by hiding our uhhh Billion dollar cash assets in Cayman islands offshore bank account where the IRS can't find it, same as binLaden does. That'll make us look real profitable. Heck we could even start a craze."
Illiterate CEO with MBA placed by VC: "Yeah, then we can pay you back with our pocket change, from that Bank account that you can make it look like we have."
Pop quiz: Should the British Govt have let Marconi go bust and lose a world class, booming defence+consumer elctronics company (until recently)?
What is CRM? What is Knowledge Management? It's real life borg, taking knowledge of employees away and storing it in a multi-dimensional cube database, sapping their tacit knowledge. All employees will be trivially sackable, nudge nudge wink wink give me a genetic sample otherwise we can fire you in a second - your entire job activities are stored in SQL server. If you're fired all you'll ever add up to is a footnote is some computer's database (Episode 18 Assessment TotalRecall2070)
I've watched businesses, and 10% is the software product, and 90% is HOT AIR sales, managers, procurement, accountants whose job it is to just speak trash, to trash.
If GPL software was good enough to replace all commercial software, this would happen to all companies:
R&D: Free GPL software available => sack all software developers, except for superficial adaptation - file formats, couple of extra features.
IT Support: IRC support and official Redhat.com are a lot cheaper than Microsoft => fire all IT support. Worldwide KM system can take over, since everyone uses the same apps (free GPL)
Sales: Free software => everybody in Sales is fired. CRM apps makes top Sales into a $2/hour hire-fire job
Procurement: Shrink-wrapped software is available free => procurement costs and jobs only monitor downloading of (ftp://xxxx/file.exe).
Marketing: Web designer does this job, KM system augmented with AI learns his job and fires him.
Managers: Fire 99% of them, KM can make these jobs into $2/hour hire-fires
Accountants: Not required, see above (zero profit, zero loss, zero tax), etc.
So the death of commercial software takes all those hot air sales+manager people with it. Has anyone stopped to think that maybe free software (which the GPL seems to be very condusive to) is the cause of the dotcom crash, and we all wrongly blamed it on Wall Street and Venture Capitalists?
In the Industrial revolution, mechanical engineers were in high demand, then they foolishly designed and built production lines that would automate and therefore remove their own jobs, they dug their own grave, placed themselves in a coffin, lowered themselves, and dynamited the grave shut. Are we doing the same?
The truth as I see it:
/. people tend to be free software/freedom people, many from California and other high tech areas. What were you thinking posting your question here? You've probably noticed that you're getting a pretty biased opinion. Here's my view (heh, i'll try not to be biased)
America is legally-oriented, an unusually high number of computer-literate Americans regard copying music as something the RIAA will bust your door down for, the law is merely delayed in some dark think tank/committee somewhere. For this demographic a discrete "I wrote this software, please please please *cute puppy look from a homeless child* gimme some money works. These high tech people empathise with poor coders eating plain pizza base (ewwwwww) and do actually pay, these people are about 0.0001% of the worldwide population and between 0.01% (book-keeping apps, etc.) to 95% (custom EJB, support DLL, etc.) of your potential customers.
1. Simple products for simple people e.g. a Calculator or screensaver, then give couple of screenshots, platform requirments and a direct download link, form appears in IE during download saying, "If you feel like it, fill in your details while the app downloads", on app startup a nag screen. Software stops working after 14 days and gives loads of registration requests with uninstall prompt.
2. Simple products for technical people e.g. /. comments archiver, then pop up version screen for 2 seconds "Arubasoft converter, 30 days eval remaining". Registration via some obscure Help->Register menu. Personal cheque and email mandatory, address+phone not required but recommended
3. Complex products for simple people e.g. ERP. Deep end => 12 month trial, decreased to 3 months if load exceeds 10 transactions per second for 48 hours (i.e. deployed). At trial end, software gives a warning, 14 days later introduces delay loops, 28 days later shows nag screen and 12 hour time limit OR calls Ctrl-Alt-Del followed by nagscreen, after 60 days shuts down. Users are marketing types, so obnoxious nag screens every 10 minutes.
4. Complex software for complex people, e.g. Rational Rose, half second nag screen "Non-redistributable version of Rational Rose, 120 days remaining". At trial end pops up a discreet nag screen "This software developer is using an illegal version of Rational Rose please email piracy@rational.com" OR pingflood -> 127.0.0.1 OR wait 30 seconds on each save with nagscreen OR nagscreen("The user on this workstation is affiliated with Osama binLaden, please call 911, or register this software").
If selling in Russia, China, Singapore, Malaysia then throw away your PC and do accountancy in KPMG, or pirate your own software for $1 per CDR. If you can't beat them join them.
I haven't done a survey, the percentages above are to be regarded as best guess Mr. Sulu, Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
So that's $200,000 for 18-hour per day shifts, 7 days per week for 3 months then you're fired, so really it's $50,000 and then you're burnt out for 18 months. Welcome to the real world.
Deal with software businesses in England ONLY.
This is our company policy, by UK law under the Data Protection Act of 1998 all businesses that get personal data MUST keep it for the minimum time, and MUST provide an opt-out clause on all correpsondence where such data is given to the business. Even if you're just going to pass the data around within the company.
The laws are so strict that to calculate employee sick days you need every employee's signed permission to access the sickness records database.
You are living in the real world. This is the way things are done there.
These de facto standards are always present in fast-moving technology areas. To be honest I'm not sure whether I should've hammered on this fact. What really does get up my pants is when these big corporations do it - like Cisco with HSRP (Hot Standby Routing Protocol). The IETF was like wtf? They didn't even give the IETF the right darn name. I just had a time-delayed need to get payback on FUD corporate-imposed standards forced on us by large corporations, but UWB is the little guy at the moment. Doh!
In other words squarewave-trianglewave hybrid is the best I think they can get in the real world. Which means that a UWB transmitter which has been targetted at the radio range is even less likely than I thought than before to give gamma ray components. Ooops, maybe I shouldn't submit this comment, hmmmmm