Amazingly insightful post. Thanks, I really appreciate people that take the time to sort out coherent thoughts and put them into words. We need more of this.
VERY well-said, Mad-cat. A recent event involving the RCMP's inappropriate behaviour is getting a lot of attention these days.
FOUR(!) fit-for-service officers needed to use a Taser against one unruly individual? Were they afraid of getting their facial make-up smeared in an actual physical confrontation?
The RCMP *must* apologize (and compensate) for this sad event or risk losing worldwide respect.
To my mind, neither of these pursuits (sport, music) would be any the worse from having the business people removed from their operations.
It is becoming easier and easier to cut out the middleman for many business endeavours due to computers. This is inevitable and a good thing, but think about the resulting unemployment! What follow-on, 1/10th the pay job could these executives be suited (oops, sorry, my post preview made me notice the pun but I'll leave it there) to? Might they assemble and stage a Million Moron March on Washington threatening with raised Crackberries, waving printouts of PowerPoint presentations and pretending to call "their people"?
I had a thing or two to say about 8-tracks a couple of years ago in Good Riddance to Bad Tech
Is there some sort of hack/module/whatever that could port only the good kuro5hin posts over to Slashdot? Surely you wizards could cook up something like this. TIA, and regards.
That's exactly how we got to where we are with CO2-based climate change.
When I was growing up we read the Chicken Little story. The ending was to be a lesson. It troubles me to think that children today are watching "An Inconvenient Truth" and so many are trumping it up to be fact.
perhaps we should produce our own power and fuel domestically rather than rely on fickle foreign sources. In the past, this hasn't been a strong enough inducement, but with Opec restricting production to drive up price, we might be reconsidering that position.
Saudi is now promoting it's own oil as being more "cost-effective" than the Canadian oil that is poised to come into the US market over the next few years.
Map, (warning, large PDF) of producing, under-construction and planned heavy oil facilities in Alberta. Many of the "producing" facilities are in Phase 1 (low capacity pilot plants) or 2, with output being doubled, tripled or quadrupled via additional phases.
I will say the the government and the public need to have access to all documents and designs used in building and maintaining Nuclear plants.
Actually, these days, this is possible and relatively easy to do with the web and a (likely free, basic) 3D CAD viewer program installed on the user's computer. We do this regularly with process plant design reviews for project participants who are unable to interpret/understand 2D "blueprints".
People wouldn't really know what they're looking at, but they could post questions and have them answered in a forum format by an expert.
Executives in suits riding bicycles? What about feeling sweaty/smelling in meetings? A better solution would be to ride in sweats and change into the costume after a shower at the workplace. Oh wait, then the "powerful" would look just like any other plebe on a bike, so that would just not do.
the other US carriers, such as Qwest, Verizon, etc.
Holy crap! You guys now have carriers named after phone companies now? I thought the general idea was that they'd be named after dead (or at least expected-to-be-dead soon) ex-presidents.
Dummy, it's like that chaos butterfly thingie where anything can cause anything else depending on access to sympathetic mainstream media and grant money. Straighten up and fly right (err...left)!
How do we know that those that modded your comment up to +5 Informative are not buddies of yours or that Maxo-Texas is not just an alias for CowboyNeal? Just kidding, good comment.
Hey, some people think that we are only a hyper-realistic, self-aware video game simulation existing in some uber alien kid's computer (no doubt located in a basement somewhere else in the metaverses). Maybe someday he'll reset out of "hell-in-a-handbasket" mode after getting bored of toying with us.
But why would he? He's probably in fits of giggles watching us do it to our own puny software simulations of reality.
Apparently, some people consider having a part of their body that they have to "clean all the time" to be a waste of effort. Is it your opinion that the clitoris (maybe look it up) also has no practical purpose? Do earlobes actually "do" anything other than provide a fleshy part where one can hang shiny objects and make a social/political statement?
Hmmm, maybe removed foreskins could be used to grow new foreskins for those that never got to enjoy their own!
I am Canadian and have lived in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Alberta over the past 45 years. The "sneerers" are few and far between (many are mainstream media types and those who have inferiority complexes) but I guess that depends on who one chooses to hang around with.
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Amazingly insightful post. Thanks, I really appreciate people that take the time to sort out coherent thoughts and put them into words. We need more of this.
Excellent.
VERY well-said, Mad-cat. A recent event involving the RCMP's inappropriate behaviour is getting a lot of attention these days.
FOUR(!) fit-for-service officers needed to use a Taser against one unruly individual? Were they afraid of getting their facial make-up smeared in an actual physical confrontation?
The RCMP *must* apologize (and compensate) for this sad event or risk losing worldwide respect.
Good ending to the story!
To my mind, neither of these pursuits (sport, music) would be any the worse from having the business people removed from their operations.
It is becoming easier and easier to cut out the middleman for many business endeavours due to computers. This is inevitable and a good thing, but think about the resulting unemployment! What follow-on, 1/10th the pay job could these executives be suited (oops, sorry, my post preview made me notice the pun but I'll leave it there) to? Might they assemble and stage a Million Moron March on Washington threatening with raised Crackberries, waving printouts of PowerPoint presentations and pretending to call "their people"?
I am afraid for the future, we are all doomed.
I had a thing or two to say about 8-tracks a couple of years ago in Good Riddance to Bad Tech
Is there some sort of hack/module/whatever that could port only the good kuro5hin posts over to Slashdot? Surely you wizards could cook up something like this. TIA, and regards.
Peter Criss wrote & sang "Beth"
Correct. OMFG, I just realized that I LIKE some Kiss songs! I must be a dinosaur or unsophisticated or lame!
Helluvan actress.
That's exactly how we got to where we are with CO2-based climate change.
When I was growing up we read the Chicken Little story. The ending was to be a lesson. It troubles me to think that children today are watching "An Inconvenient Truth" and so many are trumping it up to be fact.
Please mod up parent post.
perhaps we should produce our own power and fuel domestically rather than rely on fickle foreign sources. In the past, this hasn't been a strong enough inducement, but with Opec restricting production to drive up price, we might be reconsidering that position.
Saudi is now promoting it's own oil as being more "cost-effective" than the Canadian oil that is poised to come into the US market over the next few years.
Map, (warning, large PDF) of producing, under-construction and planned heavy oil facilities in Alberta. Many of the "producing" facilities are in Phase 1 (low capacity pilot plants) or 2, with output being doubled, tripled or quadrupled via additional phases.
I thought we subscribers with good karma were supposed to promote rather than downmod.
I will say the the government and the public need to have access to all documents and designs used in building and maintaining Nuclear plants.
Actually, these days, this is possible and relatively easy to do with the web and a (likely free, basic) 3D CAD viewer program installed on the user's computer. We do this regularly with process plant design reviews for project participants who are unable to interpret/understand 2D "blueprints".
People wouldn't really know what they're looking at, but they could post questions and have them answered in a forum format by an expert.
Why is the parent post modded to -1?
If I'd have won I'd have had to live it down forever anyway.
Regards,
Paul
Executives in suits riding bicycles? What about feeling sweaty/smelling in meetings? A better solution would be to ride in sweats and change into the costume after a shower at the workplace. Oh wait, then the "powerful" would look just like any other plebe on a bike, so that would just not do.
It's all my fault. I emailed Taco quite some time ago complaining that the "author" attribution was misleading and suggested "editor". Sorry.
Maybe the title should be "Executive Story Approver".
The not-so-developed ones are tastier though. Lots of fat between the neurons makes for good eatin'!
the other US carriers, such as Qwest, Verizon, etc.
Holy crap! You guys now have carriers named after phone companies now? I thought the general idea was that they'd be named after dead (or at least expected-to-be-dead soon) ex-presidents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go
Catharsis via comedy.
Dummy, it's like that chaos butterfly thingie where anything can cause anything else depending on access to sympathetic mainstream media and grant money. Straighten up and fly right (err...left)!
How do we know that those that modded your comment up to +5 Informative are not buddies of yours or that Maxo-Texas is not just an alias for CowboyNeal? Just kidding, good comment.
James Bond at pipingdesign.org
Hey, some people think that we are only a hyper-realistic, self-aware video game simulation existing in some uber alien kid's computer (no doubt located in a basement somewhere else in the metaverses). Maybe someday he'll reset out of "hell-in-a-handbasket" mode after getting bored of toying with us.
But why would he? He's probably in fits of giggles watching us do it to our own puny software simulations of reality.
Apparently, some people consider having a part of their body that they have to "clean all the time" to be a waste of effort. Is it your opinion that the clitoris (maybe look it up) also has no practical purpose? Do earlobes actually "do" anything other than provide a fleshy part where one can hang shiny objects and make a social/political statement?
Hmmm, maybe removed foreskins could be used to grow new foreskins for those that never got to enjoy their own!
My son has a dent in the top of his head, I've never explained to him why.
Been to Canada much?
I am Canadian and have lived in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Alberta over the past 45 years. The "sneerers" are few and far between (many are mainstream media types and those who have inferiority complexes) but I guess that depends on who one chooses to hang around with.