Whats worse is seeing a project that IS making money and is NOT a redink sink being cancelled, even though it was making $2m a year in revenue out of 2.5 programmers fulltime. But we know how NASDAQ corporates like to inflate development costs by counting the managers time, the marketing staff, the HR and insurance rates etc... all up to about 120k/person even though the end person only gets 80k.
So typical company cancels the product while it is selling, and at the same time invests 100m+ into take overs that wont see a positive ROI for at least 3-4 years down the track, even with 30m in sales per year.
Damn politics and suck up managers.
Also seeing the company spend $45m per quarter on sales/marketing vs $15m per quarter on R&D is very sad too, considering that the sales/marketing staff get FREE "junkets" and meetings in great places like hawaii and paid for.
Are the engineers considered the 'farm workers' of the 21st century?
In a real gym, you put weights to slow you down to grow your muscles, so why not do the same with your brain. ie.
Force your brain to slow down or give it 'weights' and then 'excercise' some mental tests, so perhaps try programming while under lsd or pot. Or try anything that requires a sharp mind, but do it while bent, that way you train your mind to perform better under 'difficult' conditions, so when your normal, you'll be flying with ease.
If you dont like drugs, then do the mentally challanging stuff after not sleeping for 24hrs.
Thats why smart admins place the tarball/exe downloads on a seperate machine/subnet to the actual hosted website content.
Dont underestimate the stupidity of script kiddies doing hacking at 4am on coke. They can barely handle following a flow chart while looking at britny spears desktop.
And their pension funds probably invested 80% of their life savings in MS too.
Poor old people....
Buy some gold damn it, never fails. last 18months beat all indices, even warren buffet buys 100m onces of Silver (larger gains possible since its an industrial metal also).
ironically westerners in china are treated nicely, taxes are less than 10% and its easy to setup a busines, which my friend has done, although you earn less, the expenses are tiny and everything is dirt cheap, including upscale trendy apartments ($300/mo)
All this "china stops freedoms" is only to control the 1/2 psychotic population, so if you ever end up living there for more than 6monmths you'll find out that its a good thing.
Why do so many americans think that any place outside usa is backword 15th century? Often they are more advanced and cheaper and cleaner.
If they had a clue from Jan2004, they could have put all their money in EUROS, I mean christs, ask John Snow, hes whole plan is to devalue the US$, if the smart people place their $s outside USA before it happens, then bring them back after a 80% devaluation, then they come up on top, thats the plan, but if the accountants are too stupid, then let all the old people suffer, errrr... i mean the young people will suffer by paying 73% taxes, oh just let the oldies die.
A GDP of a country doesnt equal a market share value of a company. A GDP is more of how much activity there was, since it does count money moving several times, ie the same $100 note changing hands 5 times a day for 365 days.
A 'market value' of a country is probably all assets/land/people. A calculated value of assets of any country would be too high to even buy, ie there wouldnt be that much 'cash' available to buy it. At any one time there is always more 'market value in assets' than available cash at hand in the system.
So MS could be worth $700B based on shares, but only $45B based on book value. But a small country like Greece could be worth 25trillion if you add all the countries companies assets + peoples assets + govt assets.
This is how the Nazis found/killed all the jews, they did the census reports and imputed that data into their 'mechanical computers' the Holirinth systems made by yours truely IBM. Were it not for the mass 'spying' of people and instant database access (a crude sql in 1940), the nazis would have had it 10x more difficult to track/find people and to make sure trains and stuff run on time. Now that is not to say that they could have not done it with other competitors to IBM, but the others were not as good mainly due to IBM patents on every little tiny detail/process.
So you could see this 'monitoring' of the masses started out back in early 20th century.
or ill use my pocketpc with a detacheable KB thats in my jacket.
Any true geek/crim will use their own mini foldable KB they can plug into the PC usb slot, perhaps also with their own bootable linux CD, you cant infect a CDROM or a portable KB using dvorak and not qwerty, muwhahahaha.
maybe I should start up a "howto" on how to hide;_)
or ill do it all remotely and store ALL info in gmail.com, or some chineese based email service, or better yet, some russian one.
Trust me, if the LEOs are so good, they would be earning 120k in the industry, and not the govt, but then again, we know that the police get very good Super (govt retirement funds), as good as the govt politians.
Just a quick point, the national deficit is like 7.5trillion, total cash on the books at all banks combined in usa banks (ie deposits) is 5.1 trillion.
Imagine a typical worker on 55k having 8million in credit card debt at 4%. Thats USA.
source: financialsense.com / federalreserve.gov (BUT ITS A 100% PRIVATE COMPANY WITH SECRET DIRECTORS, ITS NOT A GOVERNMENT ENTITY EVEN THO ITS FAKING IT) All your US DOLLARS are privately OWNED.
a) we will start running out of oil b) food will be 10x more xpensive c) millions will loose jobs d) massive resource shortages would happen
People will go nuts when they have no food/water to feed their children so they will run into walmart with a gun to 'take' what they want, or else they just die at home.
This is what the govt is scared off, but then again, the govt is full of normal plebs, so why are they part of the 'authority', are they blinded by their easy workload and good wages and steady jobs? or just are they plain dumb-asses with barely a free self determination?
Personally, govts should have a max size, since too many people voting for one direction, mean a split in the people as the recent electios in many countries show you. Perhaps democracy isnt suited to large central govts, but smaller , less than one million people areas. So that people can move to their 'prefered' democracy, rather than 'vote' and have 50% of the people unhappy, why not delcare lots of small different regions, and people can 'vote' with their feet by moving to the different regions. In todays passport/immigration controlled world, its a lot harder, but if we divided countries into lots of smaller self controlled mini countries with freedom of movement that would be the ultimate freedom society. Dont like IP laws, move to city-xyz which doesnt have em.
The fight will happen forever until either side dies or admits defeat, and people doing it for love and freedom will do it forever, people doing it for a weekly pay check will do it only 5 days a week until they are sacked.
Trust me, when the world gets to a massive Depression Mark II, (C) will be the least of concerns to both sides, FOOD will be #1.
Now back to copying music, kids did it in the 80s, swapping mix tapes, did that hurt the industry? The industry doesnt deserve 500 billion status, they made the fake distribution model in such a way that it would maximize profits (like the mafia does), so they have no intention to switching to a zero cost model to give music to the people for 1/10th the price. Uber greed is uber greed, they had their 5 trillion $$$ worth of money for the last 50 years, time to give some back.
Message to musos, make your money on concerts, not CDs, CDs are a free method to 'advertise' your concerts.
Why dont you force a transparent proxy to make sure ALL IE requests are BANNED except for the websites that are NEEDED to be used by IE. And let mozilla requests go thru.
That will fix all , also you should install MYIE, its a wrapper app for the IE engine, could be safer.
Companies are only as good as its best engineers, and yet top managers think engineers are dime a dozen like an accountant, so the bean counters do what they can do reduce costs and get subpar loosers who only program because its a job, not a passion and get subpar crud as result.
Why is there a work position such as 'manager' that has no real format training/dicipline like engineering and yet command 2-3x the salary? In our real worl, the engineers should get the 80k, and the manager should be on 60k.
One such 'charity' is Redcross collecting blood for free which is on sold at $400 per pint, or $20000 per BARREL, much more valuable than OIL.
If hospitals want more blood, then they should cut a deal with patients. Offer reduced insurance costs and medical bills in exchange for 1pint 4 weeks before your in, and 1 pint when your in, and another 1 4weeks later. Ofcourse this cuts out the middle men, taxes etc... which is a NONO in super corporate america.
Or better yet, together with the request, add the hash/crc sum of what you have, so the server can respond, and say, "sorry dude, u alreayd have the latest"
Not every game system can run its coarse forever, they are all finite, and most economies practically run for about 83 years before dieing.
So your saying USA protects its self by lending out soooo much or diluting so much USD in the world that it practically like the mafia makes the rest of the business partners "in crime" and part of the family, so they cant "get out" and are locked in. A bit like MS eh.
Foreign countries will still lend out to USA, but the question is , is it in USD, or their local currencies. Or will the USA threaten them with NUKES?
Or is the plan for USA to so interconnect the world, that a fall in USA means a fall in everyone? ie what Greenspan said before, "to minimize risk by spreading the risk between more parties, so no one party may FAIL bad, but at the same time, everyone cant fail at the same time"
Its a new plan, no history, we shall see if it works. Maybe the concept of debt/lending/currencies is about to end and be replaced with a ONE true global unique currency with no owner to fake it. Ala StarTrek Credits? Gold based tokens? Silver tokens?
So does a digital currency = central control = bad ? or shall we go back to a physical based currency based on gold/silver? ie 1 silver gram = 1 days average labour?
Drop the USA currency down to asian levels where 1USD = 1 yuan (ie 90% fall) and then it might be happier, but the world would be pissed off.
On a second point; Economist have ONE fundamental FLAW, they have / plan / expect to have a indefinite increase/inflation forever with out any baring on the physical limits of EARTH and HUMANS. You cant grow a country at 5% ongoingly for 100000 years. You cannot have 2500million cars using oil that doesnt exist, or have 10billion people eating so much food, that doesnt exist on earth, of 10billion people require 70% of the available arable land on earth,then how are 15billion going to survive? What if that 70% land gets ruined by a soil virus or salt or terrorist using nukes? You cannot have 5billion people using 2000watts/hour/each 24/7. Thats like more power than 10000 nuke plants.
Try fitting in 10000 ants in an ant farm, with only 1 dead cricket as food each month. Theres a fundamental limit on the amount of livable animals that can live in any defined space. Current earth can not handle > 1 billion modern humans , especially fat ones driving SUVs all the time. Either we kill 4.5billion of em, and live nicely, or we all go back 1000 years and live in filth.
That doesnt include the actions of insane dictators waging wars because of lack of resources.
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Whats worse is seeing a project that IS making money and is NOT a redink sink being cancelled, even though it was making $2m a year in revenue out of 2.5 programmers fulltime. But we know how NASDAQ corporates like to inflate development costs by counting the managers time, the marketing staff, the HR and insurance rates etc... all up to about 120k/person even though the end person only gets 80k.
So typical company cancels the product while it is selling, and at the same time invests 100m+ into take overs that wont see a positive ROI for at least 3-4 years down the track, even with 30m in sales per year.
Damn politics and suck up managers.
Also seeing the company spend $45m per quarter on sales/marketing vs $15m per quarter on R&D is very sad too, considering that the sales/marketing staff get FREE "junkets" and meetings in great places like hawaii and paid for.
Are the engineers considered the 'farm workers' of the 21st century?
So why does the UN promote canabis prohibtion, even if it has zero THC in it. Even for just hemp??
They're all con artist scum that just love money, and not true freedom and honesty.
In a real gym, you put weights to slow you down to grow your muscles, so why not do the same with your brain. ie.
Force your brain to slow down or give it 'weights' and then 'excercise' some mental tests, so perhaps try programming while under lsd or pot. Or try anything that requires a sharp mind, but do it while bent, that way you train your mind to perform better under 'difficult' conditions, so when your normal, you'll be flying with ease.
If you dont like drugs, then do the mentally challanging stuff after not sleeping for 24hrs.
Thats why smart admins place the tarball/exe downloads on a seperate machine/subnet to the actual hosted website content.
Dont underestimate the stupidity of script kiddies doing hacking at 4am on coke. They can barely handle following a flow chart while looking at britny spears desktop.
And their pension funds probably invested 80% of their life savings in MS too.
Poor old people....
Buy some gold damn it, never fails. last 18months beat all indices, even warren buffet buys 100m onces of Silver (larger gains possible since its an industrial metal also).
ironically westerners in china are treated nicely, taxes are less than 10% and its easy to setup a busines, which my friend has done, although you earn less, the expenses are tiny and everything is dirt cheap, including upscale trendy apartments ($300/mo)
All this "china stops freedoms" is only to control the 1/2 psychotic population, so if you ever end up living there for more than 6monmths you'll find out that its a good thing.
Why do so many americans think that any place outside usa is backword 15th century? Often they are more advanced and cheaper and cleaner.
If they had a clue from Jan2004, they could have put all their money in EUROS, I mean christs, ask John Snow, hes whole plan is to devalue the US$, if the smart people place their $s outside USA before it happens, then bring them back after a 80% devaluation, then they come up on top, thats the plan, but if the accountants are too stupid, then let all the old people suffer, errrr... i mean the young people will suffer by paying 73% taxes, oh just let the oldies die.
If they purchased gold using 50% of their cash, they would be up... 100%+
And who said economist are smart? its just a big follow the leader herd.
financialsense.com is ur saviour
A GDP of a country doesnt equal a market share value of a company. A GDP is more of how much activity there was, since it does count money moving several times, ie the same $100 note changing hands 5 times a day for 365 days.
A 'market value' of a country is probably all assets/land/people. A calculated value of assets of any country would be too high to even buy, ie there wouldnt be that much 'cash' available to buy it. At any one time there is always more 'market value in assets' than available cash at hand in the system.
So MS could be worth $700B based on shares, but only $45B based on book value. But a small country like Greece could be worth 25trillion if you add all the countries companies assets + peoples assets + govt assets.
This is how the Nazis found/killed all the jews, they did the census reports and imputed that data into their 'mechanical computers' the Holirinth systems made by yours truely IBM. Were it not for the mass 'spying' of people and instant database access (a crude sql in 1940), the nazis would have had it 10x more difficult to track/find people and to make sure trains and stuff run on time. Now that is not to say that they could have not done it with other competitors to IBM, but the others were not as good mainly due to IBM patents on every little tiny detail/process.
So you could see this 'monitoring' of the masses started out back in early 20th century.
Smokedot is cool too. :_) though you wont see EA Gardener Sim,
:)
maybe EA DEA
Maybe criminals should just outsource their activities to call centers in India.
ill use a tablet PC with no keyboard.
;_)
Or ill use an old sunsparc laptop.
or ill install Netbsd.
or ill use my pocketpc with a detacheable KB thats in my jacket.
Any true geek/crim will use their own mini foldable KB they can plug into the PC usb slot, perhaps also with their own bootable linux CD, you cant infect a CDROM or a portable KB using dvorak and not qwerty, muwhahahaha.
maybe I should start up a "howto" on how to hide
or ill do it all remotely and store ALL info in gmail.com, or some chineese based email service, or better yet, some russian one.
Trust me, if the LEOs are so good, they would be earning 120k in the industry, and not the govt, but then again, we know that the police get very good Super (govt retirement funds), as good as the govt politians.
just use old paper and pencil in coded squigly lines that no camera could see because its toooo fine a point size. .1 pixel
Or communicate UNDER WATER in the bath tub or pool, ehehehheheeheh.
Just a quick point, the national deficit is like 7.5trillion, total cash on the books at all banks combined in usa banks (ie deposits) is 5.1 trillion.
Imagine a typical worker on 55k having 8million in credit card debt at 4%. Thats USA.
source: financialsense.com / federalreserve.gov (BUT ITS A 100% PRIVATE COMPANY WITH SECRET DIRECTORS, ITS NOT A GOVERNMENT ENTITY EVEN THO ITS FAKING IT) All your US DOLLARS are privately OWNED.
Maybe the govt types know that in the future ;
a) we will start running out of oil
b) food will be 10x more xpensive
c) millions will loose jobs
d) massive resource shortages would happen
People will go nuts when they have no food/water to feed their children so they will run into walmart with a gun to 'take' what they want, or else they just die at home.
This is what the govt is scared off, but then again, the govt is full of normal plebs, so why are they part of the 'authority', are they blinded by their easy workload and good wages and steady jobs? or just are they plain dumb-asses with barely a free self determination?
Personally, govts should have a max size, since too many people voting for one direction, mean a split in the people as the recent electios in many countries show you. Perhaps democracy isnt suited to large central govts, but smaller , less than one million people areas. So that people can move to their 'prefered' democracy, rather than 'vote' and have 50% of the people unhappy, why not delcare lots of small different regions, and people can 'vote' with their feet by moving to the different regions. In todays passport/immigration controlled world, its a lot harder, but if we divided countries into lots of smaller self controlled mini countries with freedom of movement that would be the ultimate freedom society. Dont like IP laws, move to city-xyz which doesnt have em.
They could have just used 711 ;-)
The fight will happen forever until either side dies or admits defeat, and people doing it for love and freedom will do it forever, people doing it for a weekly pay check will do it only 5 days a week until they are sacked.
Trust me, when the world gets to a massive Depression Mark II, (C) will be the least of concerns to both sides, FOOD will be #1.
Now back to copying music, kids did it in the 80s, swapping mix tapes, did that hurt the industry? The industry doesnt deserve 500 billion status, they made the fake distribution model in such a way that it would maximize profits (like the mafia does), so they have no intention to switching to a zero cost model to give music to the people for 1/10th the price. Uber greed is uber greed, they had their 5 trillion $$$ worth of money for the last 50 years, time to give some back.
Message to musos, make your money on concerts, not CDs, CDs are a free method to 'advertise' your concerts.
Why dont you force a transparent proxy to make sure ALL IE requests are BANNED except for the websites that are NEEDED to be used by IE. And let mozilla requests go thru.
That will fix all , also you should install MYIE, its a wrapper app for the IE engine, could be safer.
Companies are only as good as its best engineers, and yet top managers think engineers are dime a dozen like an accountant, so the bean counters do what they can do reduce costs and get subpar loosers who only program because its a job, not a passion and get subpar crud as result.
Why is there a work position such as 'manager' that has no real format training/dicipline like engineering and yet command 2-3x the salary? In our real worl, the engineers should get the 80k, and the manager should be on 60k.
One such 'charity' is Redcross collecting blood for free which is on sold at $400 per pint, or $20000 per BARREL, much more valuable than OIL.
If hospitals want more blood, then they should cut a deal with patients. Offer reduced insurance costs and medical bills in exchange for 1pint 4 weeks before your in, and 1 pint when your in, and another 1 4weeks later. Ofcourse this cuts out the middle men, taxes etc... which is a NONO in super corporate america.
If they put 250k in euros now, then when the $$$ goes down, they can transfer back and make even more of a profit.
At the least hedge it by putting 30% in USA gold certificates at kitco.com and 30% in Euro banks, and 30% in USA cash funds earning SFA.
Microsoft will probably spend $9billion to buy 51% share in NYT, then refuse the adds.
Or better yet, together with the request, add the hash/crc sum of what you have, so the server can respond, and say, "sorry dude, u alreayd have the latest"
/readnews.rss?mycrc=9287429874
ie
GET
Not every game system can run its coarse forever, they are all finite, and most economies practically run for about 83 years before dieing.
,then how are 15billion going to survive? What if that 70% land gets ruined by a soil virus or salt or terrorist using nukes? You cannot have 5billion people using 2000watts/hour/each 24/7. Thats like more power than 10000 nuke plants.
So your saying USA protects its self by lending out soooo much or diluting so much USD in the world that it practically like the mafia makes the rest of the business partners "in crime" and part of the family, so they cant "get out" and are locked in. A bit like MS eh.
Foreign countries will still lend out to USA, but the question is , is it in USD, or their local currencies. Or will the USA threaten them with NUKES?
Or is the plan for USA to so interconnect the world, that a fall in USA means a fall in everyone? ie what Greenspan said before, "to minimize risk by spreading the risk between more parties, so no one party may FAIL bad, but at the same time, everyone cant fail at the same time"
Its a new plan, no history, we shall see if it works. Maybe the concept of debt/lending/currencies is about to end and be replaced with a ONE true global unique currency with no owner to fake it. Ala StarTrek Credits? Gold based tokens? Silver tokens?
So does a digital currency = central control = bad ?
or shall we go back to a physical based currency based on gold/silver? ie 1 silver gram = 1 days average labour?
Drop the USA currency down to asian levels where 1USD = 1 yuan (ie 90% fall) and then it might be happier, but the world would be pissed off.
On a second point;
Economist have ONE fundamental FLAW, they have / plan / expect to have a indefinite increase/inflation forever with out any baring on the physical limits of EARTH and HUMANS. You cant grow a country at 5% ongoingly for 100000 years. You cannot have 2500million cars using oil that doesnt exist, or have 10billion people eating so much food, that doesnt exist on earth, of 10billion people require 70% of the available arable land on earth
Try fitting in 10000 ants in an ant farm, with only 1 dead cricket as food each month. Theres a fundamental limit on the amount of livable animals that can live in any defined space. Current earth can not handle > 1 billion modern humans , especially fat ones driving SUVs all the time. Either we kill 4.5billion of em, and live nicely, or we all go back 1000 years and live in filth.
That doesnt include the actions of insane dictators waging wars because of lack of resources.
Do the math.