I concur. The whole corpocratic oligarchy mess stems from giving corporations rights which should be reserved for actual people. Giving "rights" to entities like corporations, but without them having the same restrictions and motivations as an actual human being (like reason, conscience, morality and guilt) is the source of the biggest issues facing us since the later 20th century: the corporations are now in control of our government, our institutions and our resources. They have all this power but no real responsibility behind it.
They care only about one thing: making the most profit for their shareholders as possible. They will do anything, including killing people and destroying the planet, to achieve this goal. They are the ultimate parasite.
This new rock throwing game is destroying our caveman morality! We must stop it and only allow the throwing of rocks in the time-honored ritual fashion of our tribe!
It matters to me. Someone who is clearly Christian automatically loses much credibility with me. If he's willing to believe there's some invisible guy listening when he mumbles to himself, what other absurdities is he going to be ready to believe?
Heck, how about diamonds? They're not that rare or valuable (compared to say emeralds or rubies), but DeBeers made a very successful campaign at the turn of the last century to create a market for their product by convincing women (and men) that diamonds were the only jewel worth giving as a betrothal ring.
Heck, until Queen Victoria had a lavish, highly-publicized wedding, they were simple affairs usually involving only the immediate family and simple ceremonies often taking place at the home of the couple.
Lactose is only undigestible if you lack the protein to do so. Most people of Indo-European descent have this gene, which comes from a mutation that occurred something like 10-15k years ago.
Jackson is still the Executive Producer on the project, and special effects will be done by WETA. It will have the same overall feeling, I'm pretty sure.
The problem is not computer security but security, period. Most physical security (locks, alarm systems) is based on obscurity, barriers to entry that are easy to leap, and overall bad design. Why would it be different for computer security?
Just like the RIAA, the MPAA, and other such entities, the cellular and phone companies are dinosaurs of an early technological age, and they are holding us back.
Cellular networks should, just like line-based internet access utilities, be simply network providers that sell access to their network from any standards-compliant device we want to use. Everything would just be another end-point of the Internet on a TCP/IP network, with different applications providing diverse needs: voice, video, pictures, text are nothing but data. Sell your consumers data transfer and connection capabilities and let us choose what we want to do with this access, instead of trying to profit from stupid things like SMS and infinitely complex plans: in the end, the cellular providers would benefit from this kind of system, as more uses would emerge out of the free-market system and would end up giving them more customers. Things would be simpler, access would be cheaper too. Everyone would win.
The infantile death rate in the US is one of the highest in developed countries.
A significant portion of your population is affected by diseases that are mostly present in third-world countries and can be handled easily with proper health care and social measures.
And some of you still think universal health care is a bad idea?
Same here. Not that I never make errors (among other things, I've read a lot of old books, so my syntax tends to be old-fashioned and/or idiosyncratic), but my spelling and grammar are decent, and I make efforts to keep it so by refusing to overuse l33t sp34k, and using proper capitalization in all occasions.
The sumerians are not the hebrews. These theories are also pure speculation. Finally, having a reasonably accurate astronomical model of the solar system doesn't mean thinking that those other celestial bodies are similar to the earth.
In the same way Hollywood movies are based on history? Like, take as an example "Shakespeare in love", based on the (possibly) real, historical playwright. Doesn't mean the movie had anything to do with historical reality.
It's not because something is based on true events that it reflects those in any way that's historically accurate.
Conspiracy theories are almost always lunatic inventions of people with little rational thinking ability. Also, reality is usually a lot more complex than the simplistic plots those people contrive, but less conspiratorial. Very often people will do things for their own selfish reasons that may appear in hindsight to be planned or orchestrated, but is really a coincidence.
Number of internal IT guys with systems access: 5 Number of Google employees: 3 billions
Chance to identify and sue the pants off the leaker if he's internal: 99% Chance to sue Google and not get ass-raped by their robotic lawyers with laser eyes: Infinitesimal
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I concur. The whole corpocratic oligarchy mess stems from giving corporations rights which should be reserved for actual people. Giving "rights" to entities like corporations, but without them having the same restrictions and motivations as an actual human being (like reason, conscience, morality and guilt) is the source of the biggest issues facing us since the later 20th century: the corporations are now in control of our government, our institutions and our resources. They have all this power but no real responsibility behind it.
They care only about one thing: making the most profit for their shareholders as possible. They will do anything, including killing people and destroying the planet, to achieve this goal. They are the ultimate parasite.
This new rock throwing game is destroying our caveman morality! We must stop it and only allow the throwing of rocks in the time-honored ritual fashion of our tribe!
It matters to me. Someone who is clearly Christian automatically loses much credibility with me. If he's willing to believe there's some invisible guy listening when he mumbles to himself, what other absurdities is he going to be ready to believe?
His main skillset obviously being lying through his teeth about a product that doesn't actually work.
Truly a fantastic example of rehabilitation in the corporate world of today!
Laches might still apply.
Heck, how about diamonds? They're not that rare or valuable (compared to say emeralds or rubies), but DeBeers made a very successful campaign at the turn of the last century to create a market for their product by convincing women (and men) that diamonds were the only jewel worth giving as a betrothal ring.
Heck, until Queen Victoria had a lavish, highly-publicized wedding, they were simple affairs usually involving only the immediate family and simple ceremonies often taking place at the home of the couple.
Reimburse them for what?
Lactose is only undigestible if you lack the protein to do so. Most people of Indo-European descent have this gene, which comes from a mutation that occurred something like 10-15k years ago.
Good analogy. Shame the moderators didn't like it, maybe they'd rather have another car analogy.
Jackson is still the Executive Producer on the project, and special effects will be done by WETA. It will have the same overall feeling, I'm pretty sure.
I liked what you said, but the grammar and spelling were rather bad and significantly detracted from your message.
Sometimes, form does need to follow if you want your message to serve its function.
Only if you use it to chat with Ozzie Ozbourne on MSN Messenger.
The problem is not computer security but security, period. Most physical security (locks, alarm systems) is based on obscurity, barriers to entry that are easy to leap, and overall bad design. Why would it be different for computer security?
Just like the RIAA, the MPAA, and other such entities, the cellular and phone companies are dinosaurs of an early technological age, and they are holding us back.
Cellular networks should, just like line-based internet access utilities, be simply network providers that sell access to their network from any standards-compliant device we want to use. Everything would just be another end-point of the Internet on a TCP/IP network, with different applications providing diverse needs: voice, video, pictures, text are nothing but data. Sell your consumers data transfer and connection capabilities and let us choose what we want to do with this access, instead of trying to profit from stupid things like SMS and infinitely complex plans: in the end, the cellular providers would benefit from this kind of system, as more uses would emerge out of the free-market system and would end up giving them more customers. Things would be simpler, access would be cheaper too. Everyone would win.
The infantile death rate in the US is one of the highest in developed countries.
A significant portion of your population is affected by diseases that are mostly present in third-world countries and can be handled easily with proper health care and social measures.
And some of you still think universal health care is a bad idea?
Same here. Not that I never make errors (among other things, I've read a lot of old books, so my syntax tends to be old-fashioned and/or idiosyncratic), but my spelling and grammar are decent, and I make efforts to keep it so by refusing to overuse l33t sp34k, and using proper capitalization in all occasions.
The sumerians are not the hebrews. These theories are also pure speculation. Finally, having a reasonably accurate astronomical model of the solar system doesn't mean thinking that those other celestial bodies are similar to the earth.
In the same way Hollywood movies are based on history? Like, take as an example "Shakespeare in love", based on the (possibly) real, historical playwright. Doesn't mean the movie had anything to do with historical reality.
It's not because something is based on true events that it reflects those in any way that's historically accurate.
Conspiracy theories are almost always lunatic inventions of people with little rational thinking ability. Also, reality is usually a lot more complex than the simplistic plots those people contrive, but less conspiratorial. Very often people will do things for their own selfish reasons that may appear in hindsight to be planned or orchestrated, but is really a coincidence.
Yep. In my book, stupidity is necessary for evil.
At the speed commercial IT moves right now? No.
Eventually? I think it would be in the best interest of everyone to work toward making this the normal operation in CS.
Religion. Making specious arguments and re-defining the meaning of words since Marduk created the world.
Leto, not Paul became the God-Emperor.
Yes, I'm a Dune geek.
You're assuming Windows CAN switch GPUs. Those that kind of feature exist on Windows-based laptops?
Nah, they just cloned their actual employees a few times over.
Number of internal IT guys with systems access: 5
Number of Google employees: 3 billions
Chance to identify and sue the pants off the leaker if he's internal: 99%
Chance to sue Google and not get ass-raped by their robotic lawyers with laser eyes: Infinitesimal