The amazing amounts of "losses" that some theorists figures out are hilarious. Completely baseless and a waste of time and only riles someone up for what they think they have now lost.
Rather than getting people excited about, for example, books and reading. They scare people off from it. Take the SCO suit. It's not like they did not know that they have no valid claim in the first place. But I'm sure they lost a lot of business with that nonsense.
Agreed. Also some of the above posts are nothing but weak excuses for creating a problem. On top of it it's not the manufacturer who's at particular risk, it's all the users. One does the right thing regardless of the other party. Which should be a natural point of integrity for any person.
This kind of discussion is not useful without more specifics.
In Tampa, Clearwater, St Petersburg, for example, AT&T is much better than T-Mobile when it comes to coverage. Verizon and Sprint is probably pretty even with good coverage most everywhere. I don't know if AT&T is even with them.
At one point they also lobbied to get a law that would allow them to hack your computer and wipe out the content if they suspected you of having illegal music. Fortunately Congress did not agree.
Yes, better stop having books in school now! [Mod up parent.]
This is one of those stories you can't but help wondering if the story is correct. Well, the DOJ is not looking on life but on law, so that might be the difference.
The idea that we have to cripple the rest of us to even out the field is, certainly messed up.
OK, so the Americans with Disabilities Act, prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. But the idea that those without disabilities have to suffer is OK? I guess we should all stop driving because the blind certainly have a clear disadvantage! You can't give a drivers license to a blind, how's that for discrimination?
I must conclude that this is just some fool who managed to bend the intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act for no valid reason. All the talk about having "equal opportunity" is in my views highly altered from what is sensible. The fact that a blind person cannot activate the speech module without a seeing person available is not a good reason to not use them. The more they sell the more money will be available for additional R&D. Indeed they are supposed to come out with a version which a blind person can start in some six months.
[Mod parent up.] Exactly, but we need reasons to overcome peoples natural resistance to being drugged into oblivion. If every urge you have is a "decease" then more people will contribute to the income of the poor drug companies. If you can be convinced that, for example, anything perfectly normal such as being nervous when meeting your girlfriends parents is a sign of some newly discovered decease that they just happen to have a drug for, then it's harder to argue that it is not a decease because it sure makes you nervous. People who "suffer" from this can swear it is real, in spite of it being completely the wrong why. They have, for example, labeled jet lag as a mental decease. The fact that you are messing with your body's sleeping rhythm is really not the point - you need to be on drugs now to handle this problem. Of course the easy solution to jet lag, besides not flying over too many time zones, is just good ol' fashion sleep. The side effects if most of the drugs ARE insane. The drug will help you sleep, or solve something else, but might kill you or some such. Which is indeed the case, as a lot of people have died from these drugs. Depression is a very real thing to people who are depressed. But what if the natural solution was, let's say, being productive. If the insurance companies then instead of paying for drugs, paid you for doing some worthwhile work. Then you would be productive, something worthwhile was being done and you did not have to be on drugs. Of course there are people who want to be as close to oblivion as possible, who will take any drug to get there. But for everyone else to follow suit just because someone tells them they should be on drugs might not be the optimum way to go.
I agree with you. Though I really doubt all the different Unix like O/S's would have grown anywhere near what it has if Linux had not created all that interest w Linux. They had been around for decades but never managed to generate anything like the following Linux did. All the different BSD's got a huge boost from the attention Linux generated. I seriously doubt any of them would have grown much by themselves. Linux had, obviously, just the right mix to take off as it did.
Oh, and Happy birthday Linus!:)
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Mod parent up. The 'have a stick, will hit anything that moves, before properly investigating' shtick is getting very old.
If I remember correctly, the Church responded to slander and acted to stop dissemination of what they deemed very confidential and sensitive information. It was not an attack on free speech per say as simply trying to stop theft of intellectual property.
Indeed people who are harassing others often claim free speech when harassing, which is not at all what free speech is all about. Of course some people are afraid because they are guilty of something, and they don't want others to find out about it and try to shift attention to others. Scientology appears to be this thing you attack when you feel like attacking someone. Largely because it does things differently and has a cloud of mystery because people simple don't know anything about it. Of course we know about Tom Cruise and how overly excited he was about his, then, new fiancee on Oprah.
The horror claims I read about online, and occasionally in some paper, does not at all match what I have observed about Scientology, and no I don't work for them but I have taken some courses and things. I've observed my daughter become a productive citizen who is no longer shy and stands up for what she believes in, thanks to Scientology. Finished almost top of the whole school. Never mind things like more keys to cities than anyone else, more humanitarian awards than any other. Countries adopting Scientology to rehabilitate criminals, drug users, and it seems to go on and on. The volunteer ministers who fly in to disaster areas from all over helping the victims. It just does not reconcile with these grave injustices that some claim Scientology has committed.
We hear these horror stories from people who are disaffected and may even have worked in Scientology. When I think of what people do and say about ex-employees, how they try to make themselves look good and the employer bad, that's what I think of when I hear their stories. Talk about fear mongering.
But we all make that judgment call deciding how much faith we put in what people claim. I choose to stand up for what I think is right and wrong.
The thing to keep in mind about the above "open and free" is that so far, MS has the intention of erasing OpenSource as we know it. To make the point I use a brutal analogy, just to make the point. Which is how Nazi Germany had many officers that were honorable men, but there could be no doubt what Nazi Germany intended to accomplish. Unfortunate Jews believed they would not be killed by the people who tortured and killed Jews whenever they felt like it. The alternative was too hard to imagine so they held on to an unrealistic hope of surviving by the good intentions of their captors. [I have slept in Auschwitz and have some personal experience with Nazi Germany's intentions.]
Though obviously Microsoft employee's are not Nazi's, and have not killed anyone, nor held any people hostage, they do lock you in to their platform, and their business intentions are equally clear to anyone looking on MS's history. Just because they feed you does not mean they intend to have you around when its all said and done.
Look at one of the old scams from when there was no remote access or control to fuel pumps. The scammer would fill up 3/4 of his tank. Reset it back to zero and fill the last quart which he then paid for. Every now and then he would stop by and give the owner some money because he "forgot to pay the other day". Which of course was only done to create this false sense of being honorable.
No, Microsoft has a long way to go, a very very long way, to even show they intend to coexist with OpenSource. My guess is that we will never see it, at the very least, as long as current management are in place.
The term fear mongering applies when there is nothing to fear, but the fear itself. Hand picking some points that at best appear to be in the good of the public and then use that as the evidence of Microsoft being pro-OpenSource, is called things like ignorance and stupidity. Or an enemy action.
There is too much crying terrorist which only numbs us to what is real terrorist activities. Much like crying wolf. Ditto with the government threat levels, in itself it statistically has added more terror than real terrorists has.
By not correctly identify a lot of actions, this thing simply adds more to the general feeling of unknown and unspecific threats. Much like news media who concentrate on creating an unbalanced sense of risk and threat to the viewers. Now there is danger at every corner! Probably these people are only looking at lining their own pockets. No doubt pursuing the dream of somehow getting in line for government funds.
As some pointed out, there is such a thing as integrity. Some lost theirs so long ago they don't even realize it. Of course it varies from person to person. I knew one woman who felt guilty about cookies she took from her mom as a kid. Her husband on the other hand did everything except touch other women, but he sure worked hard at playing around them. As far as I'm concerned he did violate her trust by his behavior. Flirting with other women even if you never go beyond that is not exactly what you would call setting a good example. Imagine their kids, other family, friends seeing that! I would be so ashamed I would not want to know myself. It is best to not violate your own integrity, who's left to like you when you stopped? - Probably not the kind of people you want around...
It's really good that it works well for you! Really!
However, as the masses can testify, that is not the norm. The complexity in the O/S makes it very susceptible and prone to conflicts. Some people argue that you need to know how to make it work properly, which is true, but should not require that amount of dedication just to have some service up and running.
In the 90's I had a 486 w 8 MB RAM run as my web server, DNS, mail server, SQL server and acted as a router with a firewall on a dialup connection. Later I added another 8MB so that I could also run the GUI.
It's due to the superior simplicity of the UNIX design.
Windows is heavy on complexity, thus less manageable, and more prone to problems. Clearly a lot of people have a working Windows setup, but I'd say many more people have massive stability issues. UNIX was not designed with security in mind, but because of the simple modular design can be modified to work with it in mind.
Now if you don't work with different O/S over time in environments where you can really compare O/S's handling different situations you might not realize how much easier it is to, for example, manage Linux servers compared to Windows. I think the number is something like 12 servers per admin. You could possibly reach 100 servers per admin under a UNIX like O/S. Again, due to simplicity over complexity.
For those of us who have had the pleasure of knowing other O/S's, we can testify to the pleasure level of getting off Windows. For those who love Windows - good for you! It has certainly gotten better over the decades. Is more stable and so on.
That was always part of my successful action. Being a bit proactive goes a long way towards happy users. You call it slacking off to walk around and talk to each user, but it really should be part of the job description. As someone else pointed out technology makes people feel stupid and they tend to attack whomever is related to the problem.
Each month I would talk to the dept heads about their needs and making plans for implementing things that would make their job easier. Of course I switched all the servers from Windows to Linux so I could do a lot of things with much less effort. Some of the things they asked for were for the birds, but giving them the opportunity to tell someone about their ideas did not exactly hurt me.
Some of those collaborations ended up making fundamental changes to how things were done. People like to know that they matter, that they are appreciated and valuable. Simply listening to someone can easily make that happen.
"Which means it is likely he was in internal waters..."
No, international waters start 24 miles out. It used to be 3 miles, which is out side of how far a cannon ball could fly.
Pres. Reagan extended it to 12 and Pres. Clinton to 24 miles.
Even it it still was 3 miles they were at the dock. Of course we see that the captain had activated the ship's satelite service. Which apparently is stronger than the closest cell tower.
What about supporting open media formats like OGG and FLAC?!! The owner talks bout being a long time OSS supporter, but ignores these vital formats! Weak!
It's very interesting to see how many people think they can be brainwashed or hypnotized by the mere flick of a finger or flash of an image or a 'hypnotic' phrase. Even people who are hypnotized are not in complete control of the hypnotist, even though it seems like it with the silly things they make them do. Brainwashing per the old movie (forgot the name) where the soldiers who had been operating in the Far East where brainwashed to kill the president or whatever, is not very workable.
I personally knew a person who had the misfortune of going under the needle by someone trying to brainwash him over a period of several months. Ditto I've known a guy who was a "test dummy" from a concentration camp (Auschwitz) in Poland. To break down the human psyche is not an easy undertaking. The end result is a very non functioning person, and anything but someone who would easily fit into society, never mind functioning in an organization.
There was at one point people who had infiltrated Scientology with the goal to make personal financial gain, but they were all discovered and kicked back in, oh, sometime in early -80's. Obviously the more responsibility you have the more you stand to gain, and loose. But people, including management, in Scientology is not there because they want to make a lot of money. They are there because they want to help people. A very unselfish lot if you ask me.
My company got a call to service a phone system for a local church, and the tech that went there came back and said that he'd heard about Scientology before but did not actually know anything. He was also very surprised over how friendly everybody was. Usually, a company would have an average cut of society and their fair share of "nasties". He was really taken back by how nice everyone was and kept on repeating it. Does not sound like brainwashed people, as they are anything but nice.
As I've pointed out before my daughter has taken courses there and has come out of her shy "shell" and is a very happy and productive young woman. I used to wonder why she would not say Thank you, after receiving some pleasantry from some of my friends or business contacts. Turned out that she was too shy to say anything. Well, that's long gone and she has certainty on who she is and what she can do and does very well for herself. Last summer she did a lot of community volunteer work, which is a first. She can tell right and wrong apart and is very helpful.
In my estimate people are afraid of unknown things and don't learn enough about it before they yell "Burn them at the stake!", or some similar type of thinking. We hear someone saying something like "Obama is a terrorist!", and immediately believe it, because it was said with certainty. (Did you see the Ungodly commercial that was run by Congress woman Dole against her competitor? I saw it and was horrified. Turned out I was not the only one fooled by the dubbed voice. Dole is now facing a deformation lawsuit.) The IRS spent several decades investigating the church and came back saying that it is a bona fide religion. These guys read every document, every policy, every lecture. Had spies inside and so on and could not find any evidence of wrong doing after all those decades.
Yeah, there is the issue of copyright lawsuits. I've never had the opportunity to discuss it with their attorneys so I can't say. But as a copyright owner I know about the necessity to defend copyrighted materials. They might not have been popular but you have little choice if you want to keep them. For you, old enough, will remember how Xerox lost the right on "xerox copy" because they did not defend the use of it. It was as common, back then, as it is to say "google it" these days. The Lisa McPherson(?)'s case was fumbled by one of the Medical Examiners, who later fessed up to misreporting it, which ended that case.
In the end I think that there is a small group of people who feel better going around and being destructive instead of constructive, and when you add that with the common fear o
Haha! It is without a doubt one of the most interesting solutions I've read in a long time!:) I've had the misfortune to run into some of these cats at various lists, and they all seem to be short of something. And very annoying if you are trying to accomplish anything. The idea of presenting a bunch of people like this to someone who's trying to figure us out, for their own not so benevolent purpose, would be hilarious!
You are partly right. Unfortunately they are counted as real money. They show up on the bottom line on banks. They are processed and credited and debited all over as real money. They cause the inflation we have.
When a bank makes a loan they add it to their bottom line. Then they turn around and sell it to someone at a discount. The amount of money we have in the US, grows every time they make a loan. I know, it sounds crazy, but that's how it's been for along time.
Having given you a loan for let's say $100K, they then turn around and make another loan to someone else based on the money you will one day have paid them. The famous 10-20% down comes largely from the amount they need to deposit with the Fed before making a loan. This "money" is in your bank account and you can spend it. So it's real enough. You use that credit to buy something else. Which in turn is paying for something.
The problem is the interest we pay. Nationally, it becomes it a bigger and bigger burden each time they make a loan because they are in effect creating money out of your promise to pay. So we as a society are continuously owing more and more as more. Eventually the total debt will be so large it will collapse.
When that happens the bankers will own everything. You've heard about the international bankers. Some people think it's some urban legend, but all it is is a dozen or so bankers from various countries that made a business partnership. They are often referred to as the international bankers.
They are raising their control more and more by being owed the interest on all loans made from their banks. In the US they actually control the printing of the dollar, thanks to a weekend bill that was sneaked in and then signed by Pres. Wilson.
Before the -29 crash and the two leading up to it, they got some new type of loans out, which people could not sustain. Banks who made the loans could not collect and pay it back. They forclosed and these cats wiped out all of the banking competition. For those who don't know, before the -29 crash, each bank printed their own legal tender (money). After the Federal Reserve was created, this banking group controlled it. (It was promoted as a solution to not having another crash.) It was a great business move, especially if you don't care about all the people who lost everything.
This depression is also made, and with the US owing China all these trillions of dollars which it's not going to be able to pay back when the dollar sinks. I wonder who will offer to help, and at what cost?
Of course the $700+ Billions is not either going to be paid back. When the dollar collapses guess who will now own a lot of private business because they were part of the bailout?
I think some cannot get enough. Enough is never enough is no doubt their company mission statement.
Exactly, that's how one can easily arrive at 62 times the original amount. Truth be told it's probably worse. If you look at some basic numbers; the world production is measured to be about $50 trillion. The secondary money market (known as derivatives) in the US, is $500 trillion. This means that the primary lending source (banks) sells the loans to someone else. Who incidentally, unlike banks, are totally unregulated. Who in turn then sells it too, and so it goes...
This is done with loans so many times over that we 10X the worlds total production. Think about that. A country's currency is really worth what the country produces. Just like any persons worth is what he has made. Countries used to say they are worth their weight in gold but that fact is only in history books. (Don't tell those who speculate because they make money on other people's work by driving it up and down.) Not gold on hand or anything like that. Which the Fed has all but lost anyway. The dollar is so overrated at this point it's not going to be pretty once the world starts looking closer.
My guess it's going to occur right around the time gold starts its climb back up. Gold has been going down for a long time. As I see it, all stocks and bonds are going to be worthless soon, and gold will be the only thing not only retaining value, but with currencies going down gold will go up.
Increase the score for mrbill1234 for the above link. Congress would do well to see it too. Too few people bother to learn what is going on, and now we pay the price for our ignorance.
If you have paid attention last week to the news a representative of the Federal Reserve actually came out and said it. For every dollar the bank has - 10 is lent out. His point was that removing 700 Billion means they lost 7 Trillion. Which is not correct because they just make more for each loan. It has nothing to do with Congress, that's just how the banking industry works.
With some simple research you can discover how the international banking world caused the -29 crash, and the two leading up to it as a business move. A move that let them come in as the saviors and start the Federal Reserve. This they said will stop it from happening again. You'll find for example that Pres. Woodrow Wilson on his death bed declared that he had sold out his country when he signed it into law. (Federal Reserve.)
Everybody figures that someone else is keeping an eye on things. As it was, our Sec of Treasury, and the Federal Reserve, went out and significantly lowered the requirements to get a home loan. Allowing people who could never afford it, to get a house loan. That's what I call creating a problem.
Yep, which is why security consultants in the know, like Schneier, teach that security should be trained on behavior not looking for someone from any particular group. Certainly a terrorist would not consider it wrong to kill, but very few people have killed so much, and faced death enough times to be blase about it. Then as someone pointed out, facing failure at a check point is an entirely different story. In the end there are not many who will make it without showing some sign of distress. Of course this sensor thing is entirely insane. Machines are not what one rely on to tell what is going on but some on the scene intelligence that can make the evaluation. Thus having minimum pay, or close to it, security people is plain dumb. Cops for example are trained in noticing people who are hiding something. That same training is what is needed. Then drop all the other crap that does not work and only cost money.
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The amazing amounts of "losses" that some theorists figures out are hilarious. Completely baseless and a waste of time and only riles someone up for what they think they have now lost.
Rather than getting people excited about, for example, books and reading. They scare people off from it. Take the SCO suit. It's not like they did not know that they have no valid claim in the first place. But I'm sure they lost a lot of business with that nonsense.
Agreed. Also some of the above posts are nothing but weak excuses for creating a problem. On top of it it's not the manufacturer who's at particular risk, it's all the users. One does the right thing regardless of the other party. Which should be a natural point of integrity for any person.
This kind of discussion is not useful without more specifics.
In Tampa, Clearwater, St Petersburg, for example, AT&T is much better than T-Mobile when it comes to coverage. Verizon and Sprint is probably pretty even with good coverage most everywhere. I don't know if AT&T is even with them.
At one point they also lobbied to get a law that would allow them to hack your computer and wipe out the content if they suspected you of having illegal music. Fortunately Congress did not agree.
Yes, better stop having books in school now! [Mod up parent.]
This is one of those stories you can't but help wondering if the story is correct. Well, the DOJ is not looking on life but on law, so that might be the difference.
The idea that we have to cripple the rest of us to even out the field is, certainly messed up.
OK, so the Americans with Disabilities Act, prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. But the idea that those without disabilities have to suffer is OK? I guess we should all stop driving because the blind certainly have a clear disadvantage! You can't give a drivers license to a blind, how's that for discrimination?
I must conclude that this is just some fool who managed to bend the intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act for no valid reason. All the talk about having "equal opportunity" is in my views highly altered from what is sensible. The fact that a blind person cannot activate the speech module without a seeing person available is not a good reason to not use them. The more they sell the more money will be available for additional R&D. Indeed they are supposed to come out with a version which a blind person can start in some six months.
Which makes little sense when you see that even game developers are using OpenGL. (Something is wrong if your CPU is running 40-50%.)
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Exactly, but we need reasons to overcome peoples natural resistance to being drugged into oblivion. If every urge you have is a "decease" then more people will contribute to the income of the poor drug companies.
If you can be convinced that, for example, anything perfectly normal such as being nervous when meeting your girlfriends parents is a sign of some newly discovered decease that they just happen to have a drug for, then it's harder to argue that it is not a decease because it sure makes you nervous. People who "suffer" from this can swear it is real, in spite of it being completely the wrong why.
They have, for example, labeled jet lag as a mental decease. The fact that you are messing with your body's sleeping rhythm is really not the point - you need to be on drugs now to handle this problem. Of course the easy solution to jet lag, besides not flying over too many time zones, is just good ol' fashion sleep.
The side effects if most of the drugs ARE insane. The drug will help you sleep, or solve something else, but might kill you or some such. Which is indeed the case, as a lot of people have died from these drugs.
Depression is a very real thing to people who are depressed. But what if the natural solution was, let's say, being productive. If the insurance companies then instead of paying for drugs, paid you for doing some worthwhile work. Then you would be productive, something worthwhile was being done and you did not have to be on drugs.
Of course there are people who want to be as close to oblivion as possible, who will take any drug to get there. But for everyone else to follow suit just because someone tells them they should be on drugs might not be the optimum way to go.
I agree with you. Though I really doubt all the different Unix like O/S's would have grown anywhere near what it has if Linux had not created all that interest w Linux. They had been around for decades but never managed to generate anything like the following Linux did. All the different BSD's got a huge boost from the attention Linux generated. I seriously doubt any of them would have grown much by themselves. Linux had, obviously, just the right mix to take off as it did.
Oh, and Happy birthday Linus! :)
Mod parent up. The 'have a stick, will hit anything that moves, before properly investigating' shtick is getting very old.
If I remember correctly, the Church responded to slander and acted to stop dissemination of what they deemed very confidential and sensitive information. It was not an attack on free speech per say as simply trying to stop theft of intellectual property.
Indeed people who are harassing others often claim free speech when harassing, which is not at all what free speech is all about. Of course some people are afraid because they are guilty of something, and they don't want others to find out about it and try to shift attention to others. Scientology appears to be this thing you attack when you feel like attacking someone. Largely because it does things differently and has a cloud of mystery because people simple don't know anything about it. Of course we know about Tom Cruise and how overly excited he was about his, then, new fiancee on Oprah.
The horror claims I read about online, and occasionally in some paper, does not at all match what I have observed about Scientology, and no I don't work for them but I have taken some courses and things. I've observed my daughter become a productive citizen who is no longer shy and stands up for what she believes in, thanks to Scientology. Finished almost top of the whole school. Never mind things like more keys to cities than anyone else, more humanitarian awards than any other. Countries adopting Scientology to rehabilitate criminals, drug users, and it seems to go on and on. The volunteer ministers who fly in to disaster areas from all over helping the victims. It just does not reconcile with these grave injustices that some claim Scientology has committed.
We hear these horror stories from people who are disaffected and may even have worked in Scientology. When I think of what people do and say about ex-employees, how they try to make themselves look good and the employer bad, that's what I think of when I hear their stories. Talk about fear mongering.
But we all make that judgment call deciding how much faith we put in what people claim. I choose to stand up for what I think is right and wrong.
The thing to keep in mind about the above "open and free" is that so far, MS has the intention of erasing OpenSource as we know it. To make the point I use a brutal analogy, just to make the point. Which is how Nazi Germany had many officers that were honorable men, but there could be no doubt what Nazi Germany intended to accomplish. Unfortunate Jews believed they would not be killed by the people who tortured and killed Jews whenever they felt like it. The alternative was too hard to imagine so they held on to an unrealistic hope of surviving by the good intentions of their captors. [I have slept in Auschwitz and have some personal experience with Nazi Germany's intentions.]
Though obviously Microsoft employee's are not Nazi's, and have not killed anyone, nor held any people hostage, they do lock you in to their platform, and their business intentions are equally clear to anyone looking on MS's history. Just because they feed you does not mean they intend to have you around when its all said and done.
Look at one of the old scams from when there was no remote access or control to fuel pumps. The scammer would fill up 3/4 of his tank. Reset it back to zero and fill the last quart which he then paid for. Every now and then he would stop by and give the owner some money because he "forgot to pay the other day". Which of course was only done to create this false sense of being honorable.
No, Microsoft has a long way to go, a very very long way, to even show they intend to coexist with OpenSource. My guess is that we will never see it, at the very least, as long as current management are in place.
The term fear mongering applies when there is nothing to fear, but the fear itself. Hand picking some points that at best appear to be in the good of the public and then use that as the evidence of Microsoft being pro-OpenSource, is called things like ignorance and stupidity. Or an enemy action.
You're dead on.
There is too much crying terrorist which only numbs us to what is real terrorist activities. Much like crying wolf.
Ditto with the government threat levels, in itself it statistically has added more terror than real terrorists has.
By not correctly identify a lot of actions, this thing simply adds more to the general feeling of unknown and unspecific threats. Much like news media who concentrate on creating an unbalanced sense of risk and threat to the viewers. Now there is danger at every corner!
Probably these people are only looking at lining their own pockets. No doubt pursuing the dream of somehow getting in line for government funds.
As some pointed out, there is such a thing as integrity. Some lost theirs so long ago they don't even realize it. Of course it varies from person to person. I knew one woman who felt guilty about cookies she took from her mom as a kid. Her husband on the other hand did everything except touch other women, but he sure worked hard at playing around them. As far as I'm concerned he did violate her trust by his behavior.
Flirting with other women even if you never go beyond that is not exactly what you would call setting a good example. Imagine their kids, other family, friends seeing that! I would be so ashamed I would not want to know myself.
It is best to not violate your own integrity, who's left to like you when you stopped? - Probably not the kind of people you want around...
It's really good that it works well for you!
Really!
However, as the masses can testify, that is not the norm. The complexity in the O/S makes it very susceptible and prone to conflicts. Some people argue that you need to know how to make it work properly, which is true, but should not require that amount of dedication just to have some service up and running.
In the 90's I had a 486 w 8 MB RAM run as my web server, DNS, mail server, SQL server and acted as a router with a firewall on a dialup connection. Later I added another 8MB so that I could also run the GUI.
It's due to the superior simplicity of the UNIX design.
Windows is heavy on complexity, thus less manageable, and more prone to problems. Clearly a lot of people have a working Windows setup, but I'd say many more people have massive stability issues. UNIX was not designed with security in mind, but because of the simple modular design can be modified to work with it in mind.
Now if you don't work with different O/S over time in environments where you can really compare O/S's handling different situations you might not realize how much easier it is to, for example, manage Linux servers compared to Windows. I think the number is something like 12 servers per admin. You could possibly reach 100 servers per admin under a UNIX like O/S. Again, due to simplicity over complexity.
For those of us who have had the pleasure of knowing other O/S's, we can testify to the pleasure level of getting off Windows. For those who love Windows - good for you! It has certainly gotten better over the decades. Is more stable and so on.
That was always part of my successful action. Being a bit proactive goes a long way towards happy users. You call it slacking off to walk around and talk to each user, but it really should be part of the job description. As someone else pointed out technology makes people feel stupid and they tend to attack whomever is related to the problem.
Each month I would talk to the dept heads about their needs and making plans for implementing things that would make their job easier. Of course I switched all the servers from Windows to Linux so I could do a lot of things with much less effort. Some of the things they asked for were for the birds, but giving them the opportunity to tell someone about their ideas did not exactly hurt me.
Some of those collaborations ended up making fundamental changes to how things were done.
People like to know that they matter, that they are appreciated and valuable. Simply listening to someone can easily make that happen.
"Which means it is likely he was in internal waters..."
No, international waters start 24 miles out. It used to be 3 miles, which is out side of how far a cannon ball could fly.
Pres. Reagan extended it to 12 and Pres. Clinton to 24 miles.
Even it it still was 3 miles they were at the dock. Of course we see that the captain had activated the ship's satelite service. Which apparently is stronger than the closest cell tower.
What about supporting open media formats like OGG and FLAC?!! The owner talks bout being a long time OSS supporter, but ignores these vital formats! Weak!
It's very interesting to see how many people think they can be brainwashed or hypnotized by the mere flick of a finger or flash of an image or a 'hypnotic' phrase.
Even people who are hypnotized are not in complete control of the hypnotist, even though it seems like it with the silly things they make them do.
Brainwashing per the old movie (forgot the name) where the soldiers who had been operating in the Far East where brainwashed to kill the president or whatever, is not very workable.
I personally knew a person who had the misfortune of going under the needle by someone trying to brainwash him over a period of several months. Ditto I've known a guy who was a "test dummy" from a concentration camp (Auschwitz) in Poland. To break down the human psyche is not an easy undertaking. The end result is a very non functioning person, and anything but someone who would easily fit into society, never mind functioning in an organization.
There was at one point people who had infiltrated Scientology with the goal to make personal financial gain, but they were all discovered and kicked back in, oh, sometime in early -80's. Obviously the more responsibility you have the more you stand to gain, and loose. But people, including management, in Scientology is not there because they want to make a lot of money. They are there because they want to help people. A very unselfish lot if you ask me.
My company got a call to service a phone system for a local church, and the tech that went there came back and said that he'd heard about Scientology before but did not actually know anything. He was also very surprised over how friendly everybody was. Usually, a company would have an average cut of society and their fair share of "nasties". He was really taken back by how nice everyone was and kept on repeating it. Does not sound like brainwashed people, as they are anything but nice.
As I've pointed out before my daughter has taken courses there and has come out of her shy "shell" and is a very happy and productive young woman. I used to wonder why she would not say Thank you, after receiving some pleasantry from some of my friends or business contacts. Turned out that she was too shy to say anything. Well, that's long gone and she has certainty on who she is and what she can do and does very well for herself. Last summer she did a lot of community volunteer work, which is a first. She can tell right and wrong apart and is very helpful.
In my estimate people are afraid of unknown things and don't learn enough about it before they yell "Burn them at the stake!", or some similar type of thinking. We hear someone saying something like "Obama is a terrorist!", and immediately believe it, because it was said with certainty. (Did you see the Ungodly commercial that was run by Congress woman Dole against her competitor? I saw it and was horrified. Turned out I was not the only one fooled by the dubbed voice. Dole is now facing a deformation lawsuit.) The IRS spent several decades investigating the church and came back saying that it is a bona fide religion. These guys read every document, every policy, every lecture. Had spies inside and so on and could not find any evidence of wrong doing after all those decades.
Yeah, there is the issue of copyright lawsuits. I've never had the opportunity to discuss it with their attorneys so I can't say. But as a copyright owner I know about the necessity to defend copyrighted materials. They might not have been popular but you have little choice if you want to keep them. For you, old enough, will remember how Xerox lost the right on "xerox copy" because they did not defend the use of it. It was as common, back then, as it is to say "google it" these days. The Lisa McPherson(?)'s case was fumbled by one of the Medical Examiners, who later fessed up to misreporting it, which ended that case.
In the end I think that there is a small group of people who feel better going around and being destructive instead of constructive, and when you add that with the common fear o
Haha! It is without a doubt one of the most interesting solutions I've read in a long time! :)
I've had the misfortune to run into some of these cats at various lists, and they all seem to be short of something. And very annoying if you are trying to accomplish anything. The idea of presenting a bunch of people like this to someone who's trying to figure us out, for their own not so benevolent purpose, would be hilarious!
No, no. This is not insightful. It is FUNNY!
You are partly right. Unfortunately they are counted as real money. They show up on the bottom line on banks. They are processed and credited and debited all over as real money. They cause the inflation we have.
When a bank makes a loan they add it to their bottom line. Then they turn around and sell it to someone at a discount. The amount of money we have in the US, grows every time they make a loan. I know, it sounds crazy, but that's how it's been for along time.
Having given you a loan for let's say $100K, they then turn around and make another loan to someone else based on the money you will one day have paid them. The famous 10-20% down comes largely from the amount they need to deposit with the Fed before making a loan. This "money" is in your bank account and you can spend it. So it's real enough. You use that credit to buy something else. Which in turn is paying for something.
The problem is the interest we pay. Nationally, it becomes it a bigger and bigger burden each time they make a loan because they are in effect creating money out of your promise to pay. So we as a society are continuously owing more and more as more. Eventually the total debt will be so large it will collapse.
When that happens the bankers will own everything. You've heard about the international bankers. Some people think it's some urban legend, but all it is is a dozen or so bankers from various countries that made a business partnership. They are often referred to as the international bankers.
They are raising their control more and more by being owed the interest on all loans made from their banks. In the US they actually control the printing of the dollar, thanks to a weekend bill that was sneaked in and then signed by Pres. Wilson.
Before the -29 crash and the two leading up to it, they got some new type of loans out, which people could not sustain. Banks who made the loans could not collect and pay it back. They forclosed and these cats wiped out all of the banking competition. For those who don't know, before the -29 crash, each bank printed their own legal tender (money). After the Federal Reserve was created, this banking group controlled it. (It was promoted as a solution to not having another crash.) It was a great business move, especially if you don't care about all the people who lost everything.
This depression is also made, and with the US owing China all these trillions of dollars which it's not going to be able to pay back when the dollar sinks. I wonder who will offer to help, and at what cost?
Of course the $700+ Billions is not either going to be paid back. When the dollar collapses guess who will now own a lot of private business because they were part of the bailout?
I think some cannot get enough. Enough is never enough is no doubt their company mission statement.
Only that the planetary GDP is about $50 Trillion and the derivatives hit something like $550 Trillion.
Exactly, that's how one can easily arrive at 62 times the original amount. Truth be told it's probably worse. If you look at some basic numbers; the world production is measured to be about $50 trillion.
The secondary money market (known as derivatives) in the US, is $500 trillion. This means that the primary lending source (banks) sells the loans to someone else. Who incidentally, unlike banks, are totally unregulated. Who in turn then sells it too, and so it goes...
This is done with loans so many times over that we 10X the worlds total production. Think about that. A country's currency is really worth what the country produces. Just like any persons worth is what he has made. Countries used to say they are worth their weight in gold but that fact is only in history books. (Don't tell those who speculate because they make money on other people's work by driving it up and down.) Not gold on hand or anything like that. Which the Fed has all but lost anyway. The dollar is so overrated at this point it's not going to be pretty once the world starts looking closer.
My guess it's going to occur right around the time gold starts its climb back up. Gold has been going down for a long time. As I see it, all stocks and bonds are going to be worthless soon, and gold will be the only thing not only retaining value, but with currencies going down gold will go up.
Increase the score for mrbill1234 for the above link. Congress would do well to see it too. Too few people bother to learn what is going on, and now we pay the price for our ignorance.
If you have paid attention last week to the news a representative of the Federal Reserve actually came out and said it. For every dollar the bank has - 10 is lent out. His point was that removing 700 Billion means they lost 7 Trillion. Which is not correct because they just make more for each loan. It has nothing to do with Congress, that's just how the banking industry works.
With some simple research you can discover how the international banking world caused the -29 crash, and the two leading up to it as a business move. A move that let them come in as the saviors and start the Federal Reserve. This they said will stop it from happening again. You'll find for example that Pres. Woodrow Wilson on his death bed declared that he had sold out his country when he signed it into law. (Federal Reserve.)
Everybody figures that someone else is keeping an eye on things. As it was, our Sec of Treasury, and the Federal Reserve, went out and significantly lowered the requirements to get a home loan. Allowing people who could never afford it, to get a house loan. That's what I call creating a problem.
One has to be significantly out of it to even remotely think that a machine is alive. A machine is a machine regardless of what it appears to be.
Yep, which is why security consultants in the know, like Schneier, teach that security should be trained on behavior not looking for someone from any particular group.
Certainly a terrorist would not consider it wrong to kill, but very few people have killed so much, and faced death enough times to be blase about it. Then as someone pointed out, facing failure at a check point is an entirely different story. In the end there are not many who will make it without showing some sign of distress.
Of course this sensor thing is entirely insane. Machines are not what one rely on to tell what is going on but some on the scene intelligence that can make the evaluation. Thus having minimum pay, or close to it, security people is plain dumb.
Cops for example are trained in noticing people who are hiding something. That same training is what is needed. Then drop all the other crap that does not work and only cost money.