The singularity, or big bang, is the lowest common denominator state of the mass/energy of the multiverse. This universe is an expression of one of many higher order patterns which the multiverse can assume. Entropy and gravity are expressions of the universes inevitable degeneration back to the singular state. "Before" the big bang, there was another universe, and "After" the big bang, there will be another universe. Although that is misleading, because time is just another spatial dimension, and all of these universes exist simultaneously, connected at the singularity. None of this is infinite, just incredibly large and complex.
Understanding the shape of the multiverse is synonymous with understanding the laws of reality. Where the multiverse came from is beyond human experience, and not really a useful question to contemplate.
Criminalize Customer: Their really does seem to have been a massive switch to this. The customer should really be the boss the only one a company should have to please. But it appears more and more like the big companies view customers as the enemy to be accused, lied to, and forced to pay them.
You sound really naive. You think things used to be different? The same thing happened with the tape recorder, with the VCR, with the printing press. Capitalist companies have always been a small group of conspirators who view the population as sheep to be fleeced for their own benefit. That is the entirety of their motive. If they had a different motive, they would have chosen a different organizational structure. If they claim to have a different motive, but they didn't choose a structure that is more suited to a different motive, then they are lying.
The Internet is doing something quite useful. It's slowly and painfully eroding our cultural of naivety, and that's a good thing. Unless you've got your hand in the cookie jar.
Would you like a free rootkit with that CD? No? Tough shit.
I've got a permanent scar from the police beating I got after lying down in the snow and putting my hands behind my head. Police can do anything they want, just like you can, and they can get away with it just fine. According to the police report, I got the scar while trying to climb a fence and escape, and three officers attested to that in writing.
Cops are thugs who happen to work for the most powerful gang of all. That's it, that's all.
The reason MySQL is able to scale in that fashion is because it doesn't respect the integrity of your data. If you're building an application where occasional corruption is acceptable, that's all well and good, but if you need your database to be properly ACID compliant and still scale, you've got a more difficult task to deal with, one that MySQL doesn't even attempt. They made their compromises.
Skype seems to be having a lot of success scaling out PostgreSQL.
It's a shame that Monty has always been inclined to obfuscate these issues in the name of gathering market share for his little toy... personally, I don't trust him any further than I could throw him. He's got no integrity whatsoever...
You can't fight them. All fighting does is create destruction, it doesn't alleviate anything.
You can't protest. If you're protesting how other people are doing things, all you are is a would be dictator without the power to make your demands mandatory.
What you have to do is, you have to create a way to live that renders your enemy irrelevant. Don't trade with them, don't take advantage of their achievements, don't allow yourself to rely on them at all. Rely on yourself.
If you do this, you can walk away from them, and unless they actively seek you out, they have been rendered irrelevant to your life.
Of course, inevitably, they WILL seek you out. They will seek to destroy what you have wrought and bring you back under control. That is when you get to fight them, with the moral high ground, in defense of something good.
Your chances of success at that point will be measured in how many other people you have shown this way of life to, who will stand beside you to defend it.
Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Guitar Hero... those are just stupid open source projects for geeks, right?
Mozilla is building support for Theora and Vorbis into Firefox. Which means you can publish audio and video without paying a dime and expect that a significant portion of the population will be able to use them.
Is this significant enough to see massive abandonment of alternatives? No, probably not.
Is it significant enough that site operators can save a ton of money on licensing costs by encoding multiple versions and using Vorbis and Theora when the client software has support and using proprietary alternatives only when necessary?
What it does mean is that the bad apples spoil the reputation of the whole, and so part of what we as large groups in a good society should insist on is that "all bad apples get run out of town on a rail."
You are responsible for what you materially support. If you're a member of a group, you lend your support to that group the moment you self-identify as a member of that group. By that deed, and no more than that, you make yourself responsible. If your leader betrays you, that doesn't mean you get off the hook... it means you're responsible for being irresponsible enough to allow that to be possible in the first place, just like someone who leaves a loaded gun on the floor next to a child.
The first step towards getting out of this fucking mess is honestly assessing what's really going on and why it was able to happen. Buck-passing might make you feel good when you look in the mirror, but it's not going to earn you any forgiveness. Not when SCO does it, not when the Catholics do it, not when the Americans do it, not ever. Stop believing the lies you tell your children.
The people of North Korea are a good deal more self-sufficient than most because they have no choice, they have no significant trade. Contrast that with the US, where people think food and goods come from a magical place called "the store" and get their knowledge of the world from Fox. Seriously... the North Koreans are a good deal more in touch with reality than the Americans. Americans are so disconnected from that which keeps them alive that they are literally insane.
When North Korea uses nuclear weapons to destroy not one but several cities full of people, then maybe they'll be threatening... as it stands, that honour belongs to only one nation... the one that talks out of both corners of it's mouth.
Tesla must have been on some shit. Like mushrooms or some other psychotic food additives. It would help creativity, but gets one a bit loony too. Like, he did not only dream of powering light bulbs from a few meters, but providing free electricity to all the farmers in the whole world from his towers on Long Island. That's kinda loony, don't you agree? It's like microwaving everyone in NY just so you can send a decent power output to Texas from Long Island?
If you had ever read anything about what he was trying to do, you'd realize that he was trying to create electromagnetic waves that would travel across the entire globe, and feed the amplitude of that wave by precise timing of the bursts. The technology he was experimenting with was seized by the US government, and is currently being explored in the HAARP project.
The wealth of most of the northeastern United States can be traced to the Niagara Falls dam, and the vast amounts of energy it provides without the need for human effort. Which means it can be traced directly to Tesla. He's one of the greatest benefactors of the human race in recorded history. You might want to remember that when you're pissing on his name, and maybe question the way you calculate the measure of a man.
The vast majority of WWII US servicemen did not see service on the pointy head of the spear. The ones that did serve at the pointy head got ground up, but there are not enough battle-scarred combat veterans to create the mass-PTSD problem that you posit.
The significant trauma was not the war. It was the abandonment.
You people keep believing whatever you've been spoon fed... you're going to anyways. But cultures that didn't do this to themselves, India for example, they are going to be the significant players of the future. We are going to go out with a whimper, and most of us are never going to be able to understand why. Personally, I saw the writing on the wall 15 years ago, for the reasons I have described, and I have yet to be surprised. I did a short stint as an insurance salesman before I realized how immoral the whole thing was, and got to lay eyes on actuary and demographic tables that the governments and industries have been covering up since before I was born. It's not complex to understand, not even slightly, and the people who have access to the raw data always knew this would be coming.
Yep, you can pretty much say that the financial crises was caused by just about anyone, and you'd probably be right to some extant or another. Homeowners, loan officers, big banks, small banks, the FHA, AIG and companies like them, investors, the media, the non-journalistic media, republicans, democrats, and government regulators just to name a few and I'm sure you can come up with more if you try.
There's plenty of blame to go around, anyone who claims one group is responsible is pushing an agenda or very short sighted.
This happened because of WWII. An entire continent of men left for a decade, abandoning their women. This was an event unparalleled in recorded history, not because of a particularly war-like generation, but simply because we didn't have the technological means to implement such a thing.
The women, who used to have trust, became hard and bitter as they were forced into menial labor. Then the men came back shell shocked, traumatized and violent, and there was no tenderness awaiting them. This caused us to craft a civilization based around the premise that men and women cannot trust each other, and should not trust each other, and we should have an adversarial mechanism for them to reconcile their differences. Result, you can't invest in a future anymore, and the person you can trust least is your spouse.
Then we, as individuals, started chemically castrating ourselves because we saw the writing on the wall. And the rich and the powerful encouraged us, because single people make better wage slaves.
Because we did this, we have an imbalance between working age and dependent age. There are too many young and old and not enough working age adults to keep things running properly. That's why everything has going to shit. The money games are playing catch up with reality, not the other way around.
Our entire culture, our every cherished value, they all stem not from anything good, but from post traumatic stress.
There is no mortgage crisis. A society building more homes for their population is not a crisis. The crisis is, we can't take care of our elderly. Even though they outnumber us and can outvote us in a democracy, even though they hold all the money and economic power, they can't make us do more than we are capable of doing.
That's the long and the short of why we're having an economic meltdown. The rest of it is just theater.
If they embed advertising in a fashion that I can't remove it and am force to watch it, I'll drop em like a hot rock and never, ever go back. Any chance that I might have been a patron of their service would already be destroyed, because I won't fund a service that propagandizes my neighbours. They're misguided enough already.
The problem with this line is that the American consumers may have sunk billions into buying video cards, they were never promised any or all the knowledge required to build one. In other words, you bought a product, not the product design process process, and your line seems to suggest confusion on that part.
The claim to ownership is only as valid as the peoples preparedness to acknowledge it. Might be wise to keep that in mind unless you want to be tremendously unprepared for the future...
The next thing they did was make all the corporations democratically run by the workers. Which really pissed off the foreign owners who were milking the country dry. That's what the war was about, maintaining the enslavement of the people.
They recognized that the capitalists and the money changers were guilty of crimes against humanity, and they tried to liberate humanity. That's why the blitz worked, because the people in the various countries they invaded actually greeted them as liberators.
The reason you think what you think about the Nazi's is because you were raised on a diet of propaganda designed to hide the shame of your forefathers. That's not to say the things you think you know are defensible, because they're not. The point is, nothing you think you know about the subject is actually real.
Again, ~90% of the market.
If I could put that in bold 72pt flashing courier, I would. You cannot not develop for 90% of the market because you don't like their OS.
Right. Cause if I do, I'll spontaneously burst into flames?
You're one of those people who says "communism doesn't work" even though most of the population lives that way, aren't you?
Maybe the USA should make their own shit instead of living like parasites. It's easy to believe people should live in peace when you've got your teeth firmly embedded in someones neck. Not so easy when you're one of the ones being bled dry...
There's a big, huge, glaring hole in your argument.
Intel engaged in anti-competitive behavior. This is expensive to implement. It is also risky. If you get caught doing it, you could lose out big time.
There's only one reason you engage in anti-competitive behavior. That reason would be, you know what you're doing is easy enough that others could do it too, and most likely better than you're doing it, and for less cost.
So, while you might believe that it's incredibly hard and expensive to do what Intel does, Intel themselves demonstrated by their own deeds that they do not believe you are right.
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And here I thought the axis of evil was made up of United States, United Kingdom, and Israel...
The singularity, or big bang, is the lowest common denominator state of the mass/energy of the multiverse. This universe is an expression of one of many higher order patterns which the multiverse can assume. Entropy and gravity are expressions of the universes inevitable degeneration back to the singular state. "Before" the big bang, there was another universe, and "After" the big bang, there will be another universe. Although that is misleading, because time is just another spatial dimension, and all of these universes exist simultaneously, connected at the singularity. None of this is infinite, just incredibly large and complex.
Understanding the shape of the multiverse is synonymous with understanding the laws of reality. Where the multiverse came from is beyond human experience, and not really a useful question to contemplate.
For anyone who seriously uses Excel, there is no comparison. I just gave Calc a serious try, and I gave up after a week.
Don't be concerned... after the socio-economic meltdown is complete, there will be no use for your silly spreadsheets, and then you can switch!
Criminalize Customer: Their really does seem to have been a massive switch to this. The customer should really be the boss the only one a company should have to please. But it appears more and more like the big companies view customers as the enemy to be accused, lied to, and forced to pay them.
You sound really naive. You think things used to be different? The same thing happened with the tape recorder, with the VCR, with the printing press. Capitalist companies have always been a small group of conspirators who view the population as sheep to be fleeced for their own benefit. That is the entirety of their motive. If they had a different motive, they would have chosen a different organizational structure. If they claim to have a different motive, but they didn't choose a structure that is more suited to a different motive, then they are lying.
The Internet is doing something quite useful. It's slowly and painfully eroding our cultural of naivety, and that's a good thing. Unless you've got your hand in the cookie jar.
Would you like a free rootkit with that CD? No? Tough shit.
I've got a permanent scar from the police beating I got after lying down in the snow and putting my hands behind my head. Police can do anything they want, just like you can, and they can get away with it just fine. According to the police report, I got the scar while trying to climb a fence and escape, and three officers attested to that in writing.
Cops are thugs who happen to work for the most powerful gang of all. That's it, that's all.
The reason MySQL is able to scale in that fashion is because it doesn't respect the integrity of your data. If you're building an application where occasional corruption is acceptable, that's all well and good, but if you need your database to be properly ACID compliant and still scale, you've got a more difficult task to deal with, one that MySQL doesn't even attempt. They made their compromises.
Skype seems to be having a lot of success scaling out PostgreSQL.
http://highscalability.com/skype-plans-postgresql-scale-1-billion-users
It's a shame that Monty has always been inclined to obfuscate these issues in the name of gathering market share for his little toy... personally, I don't trust him any further than I could throw him. He's got no integrity whatsoever...
What are you talking about? Are you a communist or something?
He's ENTITLED to live idle forever while he laze$ about $pewing hi$ opinion. That'$ one of his God given Human Right$.
The fact that no one asked him to do this in advance is irrelevant.
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The trick of it all is, you need to walk away.
You can't fight them. All fighting does is create destruction, it doesn't alleviate anything.
You can't protest. If you're protesting how other people are doing things, all you are is a would be dictator without the power to make your demands mandatory.
What you have to do is, you have to create a way to live that renders your enemy irrelevant. Don't trade with them, don't take advantage of their achievements, don't allow yourself to rely on them at all. Rely on yourself.
If you do this, you can walk away from them, and unless they actively seek you out, they have been rendered irrelevant to your life.
Of course, inevitably, they WILL seek you out. They will seek to destroy what you have wrought and bring you back under control. That is when you get to fight them, with the moral high ground, in defense of something good.
Your chances of success at that point will be measured in how many other people you have shown this way of life to, who will stand beside you to defend it.
There is no other way to win.
You think OGG is ignored by the majority?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis#Usage
Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Guitar Hero... those are just stupid open source projects for geeks, right?
Mozilla is building support for Theora and Vorbis into Firefox. Which means you can publish audio and video without paying a dime and expect that a significant portion of the population will be able to use them.
Is this significant enough to see massive abandonment of alternatives? No, probably not.
Is it significant enough that site operators can save a ton of money on licensing costs by encoding multiple versions and using Vorbis and Theora when the client software has support and using proprietary alternatives only when necessary?
Damn straight it is.
What it does mean is that the bad apples spoil the reputation of the whole, and so part of what we as large groups in a good society should insist on is that "all bad apples get run out of town on a rail."
You are responsible for what you materially support. If you're a member of a group, you lend your support to that group the moment you self-identify as a member of that group. By that deed, and no more than that, you make yourself responsible. If your leader betrays you, that doesn't mean you get off the hook... it means you're responsible for being irresponsible enough to allow that to be possible in the first place, just like someone who leaves a loaded gun on the floor next to a child.
The first step towards getting out of this fucking mess is honestly assessing what's really going on and why it was able to happen. Buck-passing might make you feel good when you look in the mirror, but it's not going to earn you any forgiveness. Not when SCO does it, not when the Catholics do it, not when the Americans do it, not ever. Stop believing the lies you tell your children.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
The people of North Korea are a good deal more self-sufficient than most because they have no choice, they have no significant trade. Contrast that with the US, where people think food and goods come from a magical place called "the store" and get their knowledge of the world from Fox. Seriously... the North Koreans are a good deal more in touch with reality than the Americans. Americans are so disconnected from that which keeps them alive that they are literally insane.
When North Korea uses nuclear weapons to destroy not one but several cities full of people, then maybe they'll be threatening... as it stands, that honour belongs to only one nation... the one that talks out of both corners of it's mouth.
Tesla must have been on some shit. Like mushrooms or some other psychotic food additives. It would help creativity, but gets one a bit loony too. Like, he did not only dream of powering light bulbs from a few meters, but providing free electricity to all the farmers in the whole world from his towers on Long Island. That's kinda loony, don't you agree? It's like microwaving everyone in NY just so you can send a decent power output to Texas from Long Island?
If you had ever read anything about what he was trying to do, you'd realize that he was trying to create electromagnetic waves that would travel across the entire globe, and feed the amplitude of that wave by precise timing of the bursts. The technology he was experimenting with was seized by the US government, and is currently being explored in the HAARP project.
The wealth of most of the northeastern United States can be traced to the Niagara Falls dam, and the vast amounts of energy it provides without the need for human effort. Which means it can be traced directly to Tesla. He's one of the greatest benefactors of the human race in recorded history. You might want to remember that when you're pissing on his name, and maybe question the way you calculate the measure of a man.
Would that be before, or after, the Baby Boom?
After the baby boom. As/After the changes had been implemented.
The vast majority of WWII US servicemen did not see service on the pointy head of the spear. The ones that did serve at the pointy head got ground up, but there are not enough battle-scarred combat veterans to create the mass-PTSD problem that you posit.
The significant trauma was not the war. It was the abandonment.
You people keep believing whatever you've been spoon fed... you're going to anyways. But cultures that didn't do this to themselves, India for example, they are going to be the significant players of the future. We are going to go out with a whimper, and most of us are never going to be able to understand why. Personally, I saw the writing on the wall 15 years ago, for the reasons I have described, and I have yet to be surprised. I did a short stint as an insurance salesman before I realized how immoral the whole thing was, and got to lay eyes on actuary and demographic tables that the governments and industries have been covering up since before I was born. It's not complex to understand, not even slightly, and the people who have access to the raw data always knew this would be coming.
Yep, you can pretty much say that the financial crises was caused by just about anyone, and you'd probably be right to some extant or another. Homeowners, loan officers, big banks, small banks, the FHA, AIG and companies like them, investors, the media, the non-journalistic media, republicans, democrats, and government regulators just to name a few and I'm sure you can come up with more if you try. There's plenty of blame to go around, anyone who claims one group is responsible is pushing an agenda or very short sighted.
This happened because of WWII. An entire continent of men left for a decade, abandoning their women. This was an event unparalleled in recorded history, not because of a particularly war-like generation, but simply because we didn't have the technological means to implement such a thing.
The women, who used to have trust, became hard and bitter as they were forced into menial labor. Then the men came back shell shocked, traumatized and violent, and there was no tenderness awaiting them. This caused us to craft a civilization based around the premise that men and women cannot trust each other, and should not trust each other, and we should have an adversarial mechanism for them to reconcile their differences. Result, you can't invest in a future anymore, and the person you can trust least is your spouse.
Then we, as individuals, started chemically castrating ourselves because we saw the writing on the wall. And the rich and the powerful encouraged us, because single people make better wage slaves.
Because we did this, we have an imbalance between working age and dependent age. There are too many young and old and not enough working age adults to keep things running properly. That's why everything has going to shit. The money games are playing catch up with reality, not the other way around.
Our entire culture, our every cherished value, they all stem not from anything good, but from post traumatic stress.
There is no mortgage crisis. A society building more homes for their population is not a crisis. The crisis is, we can't take care of our elderly. Even though they outnumber us and can outvote us in a democracy, even though they hold all the money and economic power, they can't make us do more than we are capable of doing.
That's the long and the short of why we're having an economic meltdown. The rest of it is just theater.
If they embed advertising in a fashion that I can't remove it and am force to watch it, I'll drop em like a hot rock and never, ever go back. Any chance that I might have been a patron of their service would already be destroyed, because I won't fund a service that propagandizes my neighbours. They're misguided enough already.
Does this amazing shift in human nature happen through concentration camps or forced eugenics or something?
Yes. It does.
The problem with this line is that the American consumers may have sunk billions into buying video cards, they were never promised any or all the knowledge required to build one. In other words, you bought a product, not the product design process process, and your line seems to suggest confusion on that part.
The claim to ownership is only as valid as the peoples preparedness to acknowledge it. Might be wise to keep that in mind unless you want to be tremendously unprepared for the future...
The next thing they did was make all the corporations democratically run by the workers. Which really pissed off the foreign owners who were milking the country dry. That's what the war was about, maintaining the enslavement of the people.
They recognized that the capitalists and the money changers were guilty of crimes against humanity, and they tried to liberate humanity. That's why the blitz worked, because the people in the various countries they invaded actually greeted them as liberators.
The reason you think what you think about the Nazi's is because you were raised on a diet of propaganda designed to hide the shame of your forefathers. That's not to say the things you think you know are defensible, because they're not. The point is, nothing you think you know about the subject is actually real.
they say those that fail to heed the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. Germany seems well down that path now I'd say.
Hopefully they won't fuck it up this time...
Again, ~90% of the market. If I could put that in bold 72pt flashing courier, I would. You cannot not develop for 90% of the market because you don't like their OS.
Right. Cause if I do, I'll spontaneously burst into flames?
You're one of those people who says "communism doesn't work" even though most of the population lives that way, aren't you?
Try to exercise a bit of sensitivity... they're concerned that a disease is named after something that is unclean.
Perhaps they would like the Purity Flu?
Maybe the USA should make their own shit instead of living like parasites. It's easy to believe people should live in peace when you've got your teeth firmly embedded in someones neck. Not so easy when you're one of the ones being bled dry...
You seem to be saying that anti-competitive behavior is only used by companies who already have an absolute monopoly and are afraid of losing it.
No, I'm saying that anti-competitive behavior is only used by companies who are doing something that it is easy for others to do.
There's a big, huge, glaring hole in your argument.
Intel engaged in anti-competitive behavior. This is expensive to implement. It is also risky. If you get caught doing it, you could lose out big time.
There's only one reason you engage in anti-competitive behavior. That reason would be, you know what you're doing is easy enough that others could do it too, and most likely better than you're doing it, and for less cost.
So, while you might believe that it's incredibly hard and expensive to do what Intel does, Intel themselves demonstrated by their own deeds that they do not believe you are right.
Explain to me why I am wrong. If you can.