I REALLY REALLY think we need to see a head on the chopping block speaking into a large microphone to a large panel of lawyers and congress critters explaining to the 14million some off people why they were so fucking stupid!
the administration was responsible. The head of the administration should be on the chopping block. In other words, it's an impeachable offense. C'mon, how many times are they going to get away with it? Doesn't wikileaks and Snowden and fast and furious and benghazi and the list goes on give us enough smoke to realize there's a fire out there?
Perhaps the reason Congress does nothing about it is all the info the administration has collected about people like Hastert. If he could payoff cash to avoid exposure why not political favors too? Prime rib for foreign intelligence.
I admit, Im angry because I agreed to get a clearance once and my SF-86 is in the trawler's belly too.
For that matter, in fact, I suspect (closer to home) the reason politics in California is so frustratingly stupid is because a large part of California Pols are in the pockets of various asian governments. It was only a few years ago the entire state employee database was accidentally left out in the open on some webserver for just anyone to download...
You failed your metaphor test yourself. Swartz didn't use anything but bandwidth that would have gone wasted otherwise. There is no real physical metaphor that makes sense. And it was JSTOR that cut off access, not Swartz: "MIT was harmed in the process, Grimson said, with 10,000 researchers denied an important resource for several days as JSTOR sought to cut off the mass downloading."
JSTOR, not Swartz, cut off access: "MIT was harmed in the process, Grimson said, with 10,000 researchers denied an important resource for several days as JSTOR sought to cut off the mass downloading."
hahahaha! this is a great little flame series! Here's some anecdotal digression:
When I lived in AZ I would ride my bike a great distance (mostly flat in Maricopa County, no car, decades and centuries fairly common). When I went shooting I would just sling my rifle and head out into the desert. After a while I realized there was a great improvement in the quality of the experience when I biked with a rifle. Drivers paid more attention and respected my space. Sheriff's Deputies confronted me a couple of times tho and warned me the BIA Police might try to harass me, and to call them if there was a problem. This was pre-Arpaio, don't know how it is now.
The idea that "The idea that Congress is constitutionally mandated to prepare a budget is one of many tea party memes" is also a strawman. But you Taxers of course always know what is best for us for us to think and do. I leave you with this delightful thought from C.S. Lewis, you little would-be dogooder:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
You projecting again, Democrat-Fascist-Party-Cheerleader-Boy? I'm saying that any tyranny or identity theft or any other negative consequence is not intended. In fact, it seems dubious that healthcare reform is anything other than a "voiced" objective. I'm saying the real objective is blowing lots of money, with the expected incidental benefit that some will land in the pockets of the well-connected. The whole thing is articulated to appear as a just and noble endeavor. This helps enlist foolish nanny-state-government-cheerleaders such as yourself to cheer the whole thing on whilst heaping condescending vitriol upon anyone who dares to point out the obvious....
It's Gall's Law in action. All the way down. Forever. Like turtles.
Folks, it's the second decade of the 21st Century. Why is we still let the government spend money on stuff like this? No only can they not get it right, they'll never say it's wrong until we're a few $Billion into it. Face it, universal top-down-imposed-government solutions are only effective at one thing: blowing lots of cash. Everything else it incidental, even accidental. The tyranny, the identity theft, you name it: all unintended consequences. But I'm sure that anyone who said whoa-whoa-whoa let's do X right in the course of the project was told to quit screwing up the gravy train and take a hike.
Fourth: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". Given that, the "exclusive Right" mentioned in Article I Section 8 cannot be the exclusive right to speak, perform, or publish a piece; only the exclusive right to sell it. Laws against non-commercial sharing and use are a violation of the First Amendment.
Obvious to you, obvious to me - not obvious to the entertainment industry lawyers, congress, and other people with big money at stake.
I was dealing with some balky expletive packaging and instructed the datacenter manager to bring in a "5-pound sledge and a short wrecking bar (aka crowbar to some)". He came back with a 2kg sledge. They seem to find use on every trip to the datacenter now.
Also turns out cordless screwdrivers are not up with real screwing around - probably best to maintain a decent drill with a wide assortment of good-quality bits.
At another site the HVAC tech tried to kill me with some threaded rod, so I treat it like a construction site now. hard hats.
you need to heat the disk fragments above the curie point to make sure recovery is impossible. Thermite is helpful in this scenario. Or a charcoal grill with a blow dryer...
When I returned to my career a few months later, that passion and drive "for the team/project/company" was gone. I realized what most other people realize by their 30s --- that companies don't give a fuck and you shouldn't either.
This is the hidden cost of bad management. Bad management can turn even the most excellent performer into a time-server and lose the value the person could have contributed to the enterprise. Most people with bad management who need to keep their jobs for whatever reason tend to become less able over time. When you're laid off it can take a while to get over it, if you can - for some people it's like a case of clinical depression. Paul Graham has some excellent insights for techies in his essays. If you're laid off you probably have time to read up....
At this point, arguing about what form the imposition of taxation should take is salt in the wounds of the common taxpayer. Unfortunately the merits of taxation are completely diminished by the out of control spending at all levels of a government which is lurching it's way ever more quickly towards bureaucratic despotism. Everyone must alter their behavior to survive in thrall to the monster, and those who thrive typically leverage their influence or position to achieve a favored position.
Unbalanced government steals an ever larger piece of an ever shrinking pie, taking from the actual economy the means of sustenance and growth. Government doesn't really produce anything and as an investment vehicle it's plagued by conflict of interest and poor performance. It's a monopoly that can not be addressed by anti-trust laws, a monopoly that takes pleasure in eradicating competition with extreme prejudice.
The morality of enslaving people for their own good will never again face serious examination by the slaveowners. Popular Sovereignty has been corrupted into Popular Servitude. Which is why this system will eventually fly apart in bloody catastrophe and reform at a lower standard of living. There is no lower limit to your standard of living, by the way, only an upper limit.
"The United States is not a party to the 1954 OAS Convention on Diplomatic Asylum and does not recognize the concept of diplomatic asylum as a matter of international law,"
hey, where's that coming from? The obama administration? could it be a proto-tyranny?
Yahoo seem to not be bothered in fixing the billing system, many can't log in to even create a billing account, others can't pay or renew what they have.
Wow! Good point. Seems like a common anti-pattern throughout the industry. I could fix this, and I know of a dozen others who could too. Who's responsible for the Flickr brand?
'This is the sound of Yahoo becoming a technology company again,'
This seems to be a the latest fad corporate makeover meme (but it's been around a few times). Somebody realizes that only outfits with lots of good technology and technology people are going to dominate in technology-based business. Except, oops, the technology people were all driven away to brighter realms. All the company has left for technical staff are operations/engineering/sysadmin "do-ers" who "just do it" despite the institutionalized anti-patterns. Now a new ceo comes on board and they want to "bring back the technology culture". Most of the time the non-technical CEO turns out to be a cargo-cultist...YMMV with those funny religions.
So in other words, you got incredibly lucky and you don't care about the others, the ones with shittier luck.
Got it. Every man for himself and all that.
yes, he is lucky in that he is a hard worker. Not everyone wants to be that lucky. Some people want it to be true that rhetorical fallacy makes for an honest living. Too bad for them. When they get control of a government, too bad for us.
It really does only take one inconvenient fact to disprove the theory of AGW as a catastrophe requiring a tyranny to prevent, and this cannot be overcome by disparaging the skeptics.
really, if you're going to argue that way and turn us all into warmists and deniers...
warmists are sure that a terrible catastrophe will ensue if we don't adopt stringent tyranny to prevent it, including: ostracism of countervailing viewpoints through ridicule, suppression, and criminalization; placing decision-making about everyone's future into the hands of a select elite; Lies touted as truths because it's for the common good, the adoption of any justification to promote the agenda of control is justifiable because the alleged consequences are so obvious; Suppression of data to prevent criticism which would undermine main points; Multitudes of rhetorical and logical fallacy directed at any criticism.
"Deniers" aren't sure it's so clear, and they don't have to prove it because the warmists need to prove the initial claim without using fraud, and the political foundation of warmism repeatedly dances around the issue of "falsifiable" theory, ie having actual theories, instead of treating every conjecture as fact. Suppression of the free exchange of ideas and freedom of individuals to decide for themselves among conflicting points of view is prima facie evidence of fraud on the part of the warmists. This WSJ article represents the perspective of scientists who have reviewed the claims and the data and find that not only is the evidence insufficient, that even if the evidence was sufficient to prove there is anthropogenic global warming (AGW) it is not sufficient to justify imposing economic tyranny upon the world. The article is a summary of the conclusion.
BTW it is not credible for warmists to assert the 16 scientists are not qualified to review evidence and come to their own conclusions because they "not the right kind of scientists" or because the article was published in the Wall Street Journal or through some other fallacy. This kind of assertion serves only to undermine all science, and implicitly the alleged scientific basis of the policies promoted by the warmists. The fact that AGW proponents in the scientific world seized upon these kinds of fallacy (review the Hadley CRU Data dump for yourselves, anyone?) to harness the IPCC and government bureaucrats in the cause of suppressing dissent is prima facie evidence of insufficiency, instead of evidence of overwhelming certainty.
For the supposed scientists in this thread who advocate global tyranny using the precautionary principle (ie if it were true, the consequences are so horrible we must force people to action to prevent it) as a guideline, you should consider the consequences of unrestrained tyranny on the future of the human race. After all there is more than ample evidence from the 20th century of how tyranny in the name of the common good can lead to human megadeath in short order in isolated populations, imagine what the consequence of global tyranny could be? It doesn't do any good to save the world when the side effects can be just as bad as the problem.
Not that I have anything against 3D printing but I don't think a house is the ideal application for it...[]...A massive house-printing robot will most likely be owned by some megacorp who will charge you the same and ensure the construction is just as shoddy as a Mexican-built house except they'll make more money from it.
yeah, it's cool but kind of silly because it optimizes for things we don't really need. Solution looking for problem. Of course, if someone needs to quickly throw up tracts of enslavement hives this could come in handy.
The smaller units working with ceramic clay could be extremely useful for industrial scale work, but that's not as sexy an application...
If you think a new tax will solve anything in and of itself, without any other changes or reforms, you are either not paying attention or you are willfully ignoring the situation for whatever ideological reasons you may possess.
amen. amen. i am sick of the taxers. Taxers steal our wealth for petty nonsense and temporary power. I'm sick of it. I don't care about the pretty arguments any more, I've been around long enough to see it's just more slick crapola. I don't care to compromise because I know the result: more spending to help those gaming the system transfer our wealth into their pockets.
I have never supported a tax system that would have me pay less. Grow up.
Well then, how much extra should we pay? 10%? 50% Everything you've got? Did you pay more? I gave you a link with the information about how to pay more. Why don't you just pay more? Where's the proof that you've paid more and thus demonstrate the courage of your mature convictions?
Or maybe there's not a point in paying more when it has no impact on spending...?
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I REALLY REALLY think we need to see a head on the chopping block speaking into a large microphone to a large panel of lawyers and congress critters explaining to the 14million some off people why they were so fucking stupid!
the administration was responsible. The head of the administration should be on the chopping block. In other words, it's an impeachable offense. C'mon, how many times are they going to get away with it? Doesn't wikileaks and Snowden and fast and furious and benghazi and the list goes on give us enough smoke to realize there's a fire out there?
Perhaps the reason Congress does nothing about it is all the info the administration has collected about people like Hastert. If he could payoff cash to avoid exposure why not political favors too? Prime rib for foreign intelligence.
I admit, Im angry because I agreed to get a clearance once and my SF-86 is in the trawler's belly too.
For that matter, in fact, I suspect (closer to home) the reason politics in California is so frustratingly stupid is because a large part of California Pols are in the pockets of various asian governments. It was only a few years ago the entire state employee database was accidentally left out in the open on some webserver for just anyone to download...
That's not a firing offense in any sane programming shop.
Yes, that's not management, that's insane cowardice. It's all the rage around the bay.
yep, thought so, going from version 6 of the flagship product to version 10. What could go wrong? It's just a label, heheh.
Hey, That's a great idea! I'll make leather hide teepees and sell them to well-heeled techies as upscale "natural" outdoors eqt! thx!
You failed your metaphor test yourself. Swartz didn't use anything but bandwidth that would have gone wasted otherwise. There is no real physical metaphor that makes sense. And it was JSTOR that cut off access, not Swartz: "MIT was harmed in the process, Grimson said, with 10,000 researchers denied an important resource for several days as JSTOR sought to cut off the mass downloading."
JSTOR, not Swartz, cut off access: "MIT was harmed in the process, Grimson said, with 10,000 researchers denied an important resource for several days as JSTOR sought to cut off the mass downloading."
shhh. don't mention this. it's a secret weapon. well, it has limitations, but it's very useful under the covers.
hahahaha! this is a great little flame series! Here's some anecdotal digression:
When I lived in AZ I would ride my bike a great distance (mostly flat in Maricopa County, no car, decades and centuries fairly common). When I went shooting I would just sling my rifle and head out into the desert. After a while I realized there was a great improvement in the quality of the experience when I biked with a rifle. Drivers paid more attention and respected my space. Sheriff's Deputies confronted me a couple of times tho and warned me the BIA Police might try to harass me, and to call them if there was a problem. This was pre-Arpaio, don't know how it is now.
The idea that "The idea that Congress is constitutionally mandated to prepare a budget is one of many tea party memes" is also a strawman. But you Taxers of course always know what is best for us for us to think and do. I leave you with this delightful thought from C.S. Lewis, you little would-be dogooder:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
"what idiot told you that?"
You projecting again, Democrat-Fascist-Party-Cheerleader-Boy? I'm saying that any tyranny or identity theft or any other negative consequence is not intended. In fact, it seems dubious that healthcare reform is anything other than a "voiced" objective. I'm saying the real objective is blowing lots of money, with the expected incidental benefit that some will land in the pockets of the well-connected. The whole thing is articulated to appear as a just and noble endeavor. This helps enlist foolish nanny-state-government-cheerleaders such as yourself to cheer the whole thing on whilst heaping condescending vitriol upon anyone who dares to point out the obvious....
It's Gall's Law in action. All the way down. Forever. Like turtles.
Folks, it's the second decade of the 21st Century. Why is we still let the government spend money on stuff like this? No only can they not get it right, they'll never say it's wrong until we're a few $Billion into it. Face it, universal top-down-imposed-government solutions are only effective at one thing: blowing lots of cash. Everything else it incidental, even accidental. The tyranny, the identity theft, you name it: all unintended consequences. But I'm sure that anyone who said whoa-whoa-whoa let's do X right in the course of the project was told to quit screwing up the gravy train and take a hike.
Obvious to you, obvious to me - not obvious to the entertainment industry lawyers, congress, and other people with big money at stake.
Let's not forget to sign the petition to Fire U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz
I was dealing with some balky expletive packaging and instructed the datacenter manager to bring in a "5-pound sledge and a short wrecking bar (aka crowbar to some)". He came back with a 2kg sledge. They seem to find use on every trip to the datacenter now.
Also turns out cordless screwdrivers are not up with real screwing around - probably best to maintain a decent drill with a wide assortment of good-quality bits.
At another site the HVAC tech tried to kill me with some threaded rod, so I treat it like a construction site now. hard hats.
you need to heat the disk fragments above the curie point to make sure recovery is impossible. Thermite is helpful in this scenario. Or a charcoal grill with a blow dryer...
When I returned to my career a few months later, that passion and drive "for the team/project/company" was gone. I realized what most other people realize by their 30s --- that companies don't give a fuck and you shouldn't either.
This is the hidden cost of bad management. Bad management can turn even the most excellent performer into a time-server and lose the value the person could have contributed to the enterprise. Most people with bad management who need to keep their jobs for whatever reason tend to become less able over time. When you're laid off it can take a while to get over it, if you can - for some people it's like a case of clinical depression. Paul Graham has some excellent insights for techies in his essays. If you're laid off you probably have time to read up....
At this point, arguing about what form the imposition of taxation should take is salt in the wounds of the common taxpayer. Unfortunately the merits of taxation are completely diminished by the out of control spending at all levels of a government which is lurching it's way ever more quickly towards bureaucratic despotism. Everyone must alter their behavior to survive in thrall to the monster, and those who thrive typically leverage their influence or position to achieve a favored position.
Unbalanced government steals an ever larger piece of an ever shrinking pie, taking from the actual economy the means of sustenance and growth. Government doesn't really produce anything and as an investment vehicle it's plagued by conflict of interest and poor performance. It's a monopoly that can not be addressed by anti-trust laws, a monopoly that takes pleasure in eradicating competition with extreme prejudice.
The morality of enslaving people for their own good will never again face serious examination by the slaveowners. Popular Sovereignty has been corrupted into Popular Servitude. Which is why this system will eventually fly apart in bloody catastrophe and reform at a lower standard of living. There is no lower limit to your standard of living, by the way, only an upper limit.
"The United States is not a party to the 1954 OAS Convention on Diplomatic Asylum and does not recognize the concept of diplomatic asylum as a matter of international law,"
hey, where's that coming from? The obama administration? could it be a proto-tyranny?
Yahoo seem to not be bothered in fixing the billing system, many can't log in to even create a billing account, others can't pay or renew what they have.
Wow! Good point. Seems like a common anti-pattern throughout the industry. I could fix this, and I know of a dozen others who could too. Who's responsible for the Flickr brand?
'This is the sound of Yahoo becoming a technology company again,'
This seems to be a the latest fad corporate makeover meme (but it's been around a few times). Somebody realizes that only outfits with lots of good technology and technology people are going to dominate in technology-based business. Except, oops, the technology people were all driven away to brighter realms. All the company has left for technical staff are operations/engineering/sysadmin "do-ers" who "just do it" despite the institutionalized anti-patterns. Now a new ceo comes on board and they want to "bring back the technology culture". Most of the time the non-technical CEO turns out to be a cargo-cultist...YMMV with those funny religions.
Earnings Per Share sits in final judgement...
So in other words, you got incredibly lucky and you don't care about the others, the ones with shittier luck.
Got it. Every man for himself and all that.
yes, he is lucky in that he is a hard worker. Not everyone wants to be that lucky. Some people want it to be true that rhetorical fallacy makes for an honest living. Too bad for them. When they get control of a government, too bad for us.
It really does only take one inconvenient fact to disprove the theory of AGW as a catastrophe requiring a tyranny to prevent, and this cannot be overcome by disparaging the skeptics.
really, if you're going to argue that way and turn us all into warmists and deniers...
warmists are sure that a terrible catastrophe will ensue if we don't adopt stringent tyranny to prevent it, including:
ostracism of countervailing viewpoints through ridicule, suppression, and criminalization;
placing decision-making about everyone's future into the hands of a select elite;
Lies touted as truths because it's for the common good, the adoption of any justification to promote the agenda of control is justifiable because the alleged consequences are so obvious;
Suppression of data to prevent criticism which would undermine main points;
Multitudes of rhetorical and logical fallacy directed at any criticism.
"Deniers" aren't sure it's so clear, and they don't have to prove it because the warmists need to prove the initial claim without using fraud, and the political foundation of warmism repeatedly dances around the issue of "falsifiable" theory, ie having actual theories, instead of treating every conjecture as fact. Suppression of the free exchange of ideas and freedom of individuals to decide for themselves among conflicting points of view is prima facie evidence of fraud on the part of the warmists. This WSJ article represents the perspective of scientists who have reviewed the claims and the data and find that not only is the evidence insufficient, that even if the evidence was sufficient to prove there is anthropogenic global warming (AGW) it is not sufficient to justify imposing economic tyranny upon the world. The article is a summary of the conclusion.
BTW it is not credible for warmists to assert the 16 scientists are not qualified to review evidence and come to their own conclusions because they "not the right kind of scientists" or because the article was published in the Wall Street Journal or through some other fallacy. This kind of assertion serves only to undermine all science, and implicitly the alleged scientific basis of the policies promoted by the warmists. The fact that AGW proponents in the scientific world seized upon these kinds of fallacy (review the Hadley CRU Data dump for yourselves, anyone?) to harness the IPCC and government bureaucrats in the cause of suppressing dissent is prima facie evidence of insufficiency, instead of evidence of overwhelming certainty.
For the supposed scientists in this thread who advocate global tyranny using the precautionary principle (ie if it were true, the consequences are so horrible we must force people to action to prevent it) as a guideline, you should consider the consequences of unrestrained tyranny on the future of the human race. After all there is more than ample evidence from the 20th century of how tyranny in the name of the common good can lead to human megadeath in short order in isolated populations, imagine what the consequence of global tyranny could be? It doesn't do any good to save the world when the side effects can be just as bad as the problem.
Not that I have anything against 3D printing but I don't think a house is the ideal application for it...[]...A massive house-printing robot will most likely be owned by some megacorp who will charge you the same and ensure the construction is just as shoddy as a Mexican-built house except they'll make more money from it.
yeah, it's cool but kind of silly because it optimizes for things we don't really need. Solution looking for problem. Of course, if someone needs to quickly throw up tracts of enslavement hives this could come in handy.
The smaller units working with ceramic clay could be extremely useful for industrial scale work, but that's not as sexy an application...
If you think a new tax will solve anything in and of itself, without any other changes or reforms, you are either not paying attention or you are willfully ignoring the situation for whatever ideological reasons you may possess.
amen. amen. i am sick of the taxers. Taxers steal our wealth for petty nonsense and temporary power. I'm sick of it. I don't care about the pretty arguments any more, I've been around long enough to see it's just more slick crapola. I don't care to compromise because I know the result: more spending to help those gaming the system transfer our wealth into their pockets.
I have never supported a tax system that would have me pay less. Grow up.
Well then, how much extra should we pay? 10%? 50% Everything you've got? Did you pay more? I gave you a link with the information about how to pay more. Why don't you just pay more? Where's the proof that you've paid more and thus demonstrate the courage of your mature convictions?
Or maybe there's not a point in paying more when it has no impact on spending...?