Is that really worse? On what planet do you work where non-techies have perfect data?
"I'm not gonna restore your accounting data because it could be off by a few thousand dollars. You're better off restarting from scratch, so you have a perfect data set." "I'm not gonna restore your patient records, because some addresses may be wrong. Better off waiting to let them call you and get their information then, rather than going through a suspect data set and verify it."
I mean, there's always going to be ''bad data'' out there in the real world ( yes, those are air-qutoes). They're trusting that shit data that data entry personnel, sales managers, and every other user on a keyboard is generation. Why would is be any different when a hard drive fails? By your logic, we should wipe every hard drive in existence.
I'm thinking it relates to the idea of inventory. If you have to pay taxes on goods and services, then service you performed and goods you have in stock are taxed. However, a program may not be a digital 'good' that you have in inventory for purposes of taxation ( How many 'programs' do you have in stock?). However a retail box package that happens to have install media for that software would be a good, obviously a physical good.
The reason the railroads were build was purely economic. I said nothing about the free-market or private industry. As a social democrat, I'm well aware of the government's involvement in the construction of the railroads. The reason the government financed the building of the railroad, was because, like all empires, they wanted a good transportation network to move raw materials from one end of the empire to the other.
Now maybe the slashdot audience understands. The point of war is not about annihilation; it's about getting a better bargaining position for political compromises. War is not a failure of politics; war is the extreme end of the spectrum of political maneuvering.
We need to think about space access as an economic stimulus on the nature of the trans-continental railroads. We need to build an infrastructure to get to orbit reliably, then the moon reliably, then the asteroids and beyond.
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. The reason you have trans-continental railroads is to move raw materials from one end of a continent to the other. Purely economic. In space, there's nothing out there. Nothing to breathe, nothing to eat, nothing to drink, and nothing to stay warm with. It's a complete waste of money, and there's nothing out there we could begin to dream about economically shipping back.
You missed the nail by a little bit -- the space program was not about trophies, but about perfecting ballistic missile technology to set up Mutually Assured Destruction. The science and moonwalks were a bonus.
What we really need is a Manhatten project crash program to save the biodiversity on the planets. Whatever we find in space will be virtually unchanged 100, 1,000, or 10,000 years from now. However, if we let these rapid extinctions continue, we will lose a free, ready-to-go library of millions of biochemicals that are out there for the plucking. We couldn't re-create that in a million years.
I guess so, but I thought a 'drama' was some kind of emotional denouement -- like a soap opera, like the end of Six Sense, where we find out that Bruce Willis always loved his wife.
Did you miss the lightning battle at the end of the movie with some interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft Marshmallow man? If that's not an action sequence, what is it?
I don't know, it ended with some kind of lightning battle with an interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft marshmallow man on the New York skyline... what category does that normally go in?
I'm all for Ghostbusters 3, but I don't understand this idea to put the original cast in it. They left Schwarzenegger out of Terminator 4 for a reason. Harrison Ford looked like a bad casting job in the latest Indiana Jones.
Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think. It's just a mis-match of the phases of human life and the plot of the story. Running around doing crazy shit is a young person's thing; a story where the cast is middle-aged should have the plot that involves the drama that a middle aged person gets involved in -- kids, grandkids, getting old, missed opportunities, rectifying relationships, taking on responsiblities, coming to terms with your life, etc.
I think the baby boomers represented the great consumerist generation, and the marketers are trying to squeeze the last dollars out of this demographic.
We like to think of our human rights as timeless and eternal, but think about this -- how much since would the freedom of the press in the second amendment make if we never had Gutenberg's printing press? In other words, what we think is important is dependent on our technological environment.
That being said, we live in an age where almost all of our actions can be tracked and aggregated online. All our our movements ( cellphone GPS ), our purchases, our medical records, our contacts and interactions ( multi-person GPS interactions and phone and email logs).
I think a beginning of an electronic bill of rights is the right to use end-to-end strong encryption and anonymizing technologies. Sure, you could say that you can be free from tracking, but how would you know? If you have a right to use encryption or anonymous communication, you can rest more assuredly that you're not being tracked or spied upon.
Another idea might be information symmetry. You're allowed to know what other people 'know' or 'say' about you -- sort of like a free credit report, only for everything.
No, he's wrong because his story is a supernatural story. It's a fairy tale, a story with a moral. These super-powerful spies ( spies! ) are able to perform a kind of mind-control by 'programming' college students by exposing them to certain professors. These spies have supernatural abilities -- the ability to program -- not convince, not indoctrinate, but program people because they took World History 101 with Professor Finkelstein.
Never mind all of the television and movies that these American kids watch, never mind all the advertising they're exposed to, never mind all the songs they hear, never mind all the ideas of their parents, friends, families, co-workers, fellow church-goers -- their whole worldview in *installed in their heads* by reading Das Kapital in their sophomore year at college.
Boy, isn't that scary? How superpowerful these mind control techniques are! Why anybody around you could be 'infected'! You never know if your co-worker is one of "them". How could we ever hope to fight back?
Fortuneately, there is hope. We can fight back. We need to fight these advanced brainwashing techniques with our own counter-programming. We need kids reading Adam Smith's _Wealth of Nations_. We need them saying the pledge at the beginning of each school day. We need them going to church and believing in God. We can fight back against those commie memes, with our own mind programming.
That, my friend, is a Phillip K. Dick science fiction plot. It's something straight out of Videodrome. Brainwashing is a complete fiction.
This guy, Yuri Bezmenov, is nothing more than a Russian Curveball ( Curveball is the Iraqi spy who fed bullshit to the US, telling the Bush administration what they wanted to hear, in exchange for money). His thesis is Freeper porn. All he's saying is exactly what rabid anti-communists want to believe -- our society is being penetrated on every level by communist ideology. It's a nightmare paranoid fantasy. He;s telling you want you want to hear. In short, it is a crock of shit.
No, Russia was not concerned about nuclear missiles pointed at Russia, how much oil reserves the US had, how many cars were rolling out of Detroit. What they really wanted was a few professors. And what would have been the appropriate response? "American patriotism." Yeah, sure, we need to fight these commie professors by having the kids stand up and say the pledge more often, and join the boy scouts. Tell me, why are pinko professors so powerful in 'programming' and 'indoctrinating' our youth, while all the television, movies, and advertisements are utterly powerless to do anything to 'program' the generation? Most folks don't even go to college, much less read any marxist literature while they are there.
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism....
This sounds like Michael Savage tripe. It belongs in a science fiction movie.
I like some of the movie adaptations of his work, but to me, his real life outshadows all the ideas presented in his work.
Check out Robert Crumb's The Religious Experience of Phillip K. Dick. Basically Dick began to have visions of a past life in ancient Rome as a crypto-Christian. These visions literally saved his son's life when he rushed him to the hospital. Turned out the boy had a hernia and would have been dead in hours. Other most interesting events, too.
I heard a few years ago there was supposed to be such a film with Paul Giamatti as Dick, but you know how these things go. I think it might be merged with V.A.L.I.S.
unix has these interfaces as a matter of historical accident, what was an excellent design at the time.
No, UNIX has these interfaces because they get the job done. People tried all sorts of other interfaces and none of them caught on.
Is this really evidence that there isn't a better solution out there, or rather that it's hard to unseat an established standard?
Why in the hell is the government entitled to tribute for refraining from interfering in something that's none of their business in the first place?
Does the government have a right to tax at all? Do they have a right to tax some things, but not this? Why would this be none of their business? Is anything their business to tax?
If you want things ( maybe one day recreational drugs and prostitution ) to stay safe and enjoyable , we need taxes for police, courts, FDAs, and public infrastructure like roads, electricity, and sewers, etc.
For all their self-righteousness, I never have heard of any libertarians moving to the middle of the Amazon or Somalia. Somalia has been free of the tyranny of government and taxes going on twenty years now.
As I said in an earlier comment, this is about maintaining public order, not about law enforcement. Too many soccer moms were seeing ads for prostitution when they went to sell their TV or whatever. They complained to the authorities to shut this down. Now, the police aren't going to be able to get rid of all prostitution, and in a lot of cases, they really don't want to. They just have to keep it out of the faces of decent, upstanding citizens.
This is about the "Order" part of law and order. They can't get rid of all prostitutions, and in a lot of cases, they may not really want to. However, they just have to make sure that good, decent citizens don't run into prostitutes on the street corner or while looking for apartments to rent.
Dude, turn off the Bill O'Reilly and get some facts. A few years ago they were defending Rush Limbaugh's right not to have his medical records released in court. They routinely defend things like free speech, privacy, right to an attorney, right to a trial, the right to vote, the right to practice religion, especially unpopular ones like Judaism or Wicca, etc. You only hear about separation issues because that's the right wing's favorite whipping boy, to gin up support from evangelicals.
It's a sad state of affairs, but I don't believe that the rule of law goes out the window just because a few rules were broken. We don't live in a perfect world; we always must strive to live up to our ideals.
I had a privacy issue that I wanted some info on (and some help with) with my landlord.
The ACLU wouldn't take your case when you has a problem with your landlord? Hos did this get modded Informative?
Here's a clue: the Constitution and the Bill of Rights protects you from the government, not another private individual that you enter into contract with.
aclu IS worthless to the average person.
It's not their job to provide free legal service to everybody in the US. Call them when the government prevents you from practicing your religion, or when you get locked up in a cell without charges or a lawyer.
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Do you know what's worse than "No Data"?
Bad Data.
Is that really worse? On what planet do you work where non-techies have perfect data?
"I'm not gonna restore your accounting data because it could be off by a few thousand dollars. You're better off restarting from scratch, so you have a perfect data set." "I'm not gonna restore your patient records, because some addresses may be wrong. Better off waiting to let them call you and get their information then, rather than going through a suspect data set and verify it."
I mean, there's always going to be ''bad data'' out there in the real world ( yes, those are air-qutoes). They're trusting that shit data that data entry personnel, sales managers, and every other user on a keyboard is generation. Why would is be any different when a hard drive fails? By your logic, we should wipe every hard drive in existence.
I'm thinking it relates to the idea of inventory. If you have to pay taxes on goods and services, then service you performed and goods you have in stock are taxed. However, a program may not be a digital 'good' that you have in inventory for purposes of taxation ( How many 'programs' do you have in stock?). However a retail box package that happens to have install media for that software would be a good, obviously a physical good.
If you don't know what you're talking about, don't.
If I don't know what I'm talking about, don't... know what I'm talking about?
The reason the railroads were build was purely economic. I said nothing about the free-market or private industry. As a social democrat, I'm well aware of the government's involvement in the construction of the railroads. The reason the government financed the building of the railroad, was because, like all empires, they wanted a good transportation network to move raw materials from one end of the empire to the other.
"All roads lead to Rome".
Now maybe the slashdot audience understands. The point of war is not about annihilation; it's about getting a better bargaining position for political compromises. War is not a failure of politics; war is the extreme end of the spectrum of political maneuvering.
then it would see that not many peace talks actually work
Haven't nearly all wars ended in peace talks?
We need to think about space access as an economic stimulus on the nature of the trans-continental railroads. We need to build an infrastructure to get to orbit reliably, then the moon reliably, then the asteroids and beyond.
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. The reason you have trans-continental railroads is to move raw materials from one end of a continent to the other. Purely economic. In space, there's nothing out there. Nothing to breathe, nothing to eat, nothing to drink, and nothing to stay warm with. It's a complete waste of money, and there's nothing out there we could begin to dream about economically shipping back.
You missed the nail by a little bit -- the space program was not about trophies, but about perfecting ballistic missile technology to set up Mutually Assured Destruction. The science and moonwalks were a bonus.
What we really need is a Manhatten project crash program to save the biodiversity on the planets. Whatever we find in space will be virtually unchanged 100, 1,000, or 10,000 years from now. However, if we let these rapid extinctions continue, we will lose a free, ready-to-go library of millions of biochemicals that are out there for the plucking. We couldn't re-create that in a million years.
I guess so, but I thought a 'drama' was some kind of emotional denouement -- like a soap opera, like the end of Six Sense, where we find out that Bruce Willis always loved his wife.
Did you miss the lightning battle at the end of the movie with some interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft Marshmallow man? If that's not an action sequence, what is it?
I don't know, it ended with some kind of lightning battle with an interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft marshmallow man on the New York skyline... what category does that normally go in?
I'm all for Ghostbusters 3, but I don't understand this idea to put the original cast in it. They left Schwarzenegger out of Terminator 4 for a reason. Harrison Ford looked like a bad casting job in the latest Indiana Jones.
Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think. It's just a mis-match of the phases of human life and the plot of the story. Running around doing crazy shit is a young person's thing; a story where the cast is middle-aged should have the plot that involves the drama that a middle aged person gets involved in -- kids, grandkids, getting old, missed opportunities, rectifying relationships, taking on responsiblities, coming to terms with your life, etc.
I think the baby boomers represented the great consumerist generation, and the marketers are trying to squeeze the last dollars out of this demographic.
This line of thinking is extremely important.
We like to think of our human rights as timeless and eternal, but think about this -- how much since would the freedom of the press in the second amendment make if we never had Gutenberg's printing press? In other words, what we think is important is dependent on our technological environment.
That being said, we live in an age where almost all of our actions can be tracked and aggregated online. All our our movements ( cellphone GPS ), our purchases, our medical records, our contacts and interactions ( multi-person GPS interactions and phone and email logs).
I think a beginning of an electronic bill of rights is the right to use end-to-end strong encryption and anonymizing technologies. Sure, you could say that you can be free from tracking, but how would you know? If you have a right to use encryption or anonymous communication, you can rest more assuredly that you're not being tracked or spied upon.
Another idea might be information symmetry. You're allowed to know what other people 'know' or 'say' about you -- sort of like a free credit report, only for everything.
Okay. Does the government have a legitimate power to tax? If yes, please describe :)
Fantastic. So I guess those people who became entrapped in cults weren't brainwashed either?
So a few people have joined cults; therefore the whole United States was brainwashed by the KGB via university professors. Brilliant.
No, he's wrong because his story is a supernatural story. It's a fairy tale, a story with a moral. These super-powerful spies ( spies! ) are able to perform a kind of mind-control by 'programming' college students by exposing them to certain professors. These spies have supernatural abilities -- the ability to program -- not convince, not indoctrinate, but program people because they took World History 101 with Professor Finkelstein. Never mind all of the television and movies that these American kids watch, never mind all the advertising they're exposed to, never mind all the songs they hear, never mind all the ideas of their parents, friends, families, co-workers, fellow church-goers -- their whole worldview in *installed in their heads* by reading Das Kapital in their sophomore year at college.
Boy, isn't that scary? How superpowerful these mind control techniques are! Why anybody around you could be 'infected'! You never know if your co-worker is one of "them". How could we ever hope to fight back?
Fortuneately, there is hope. We can fight back. We need to fight these advanced brainwashing techniques with our own counter-programming. We need kids reading Adam Smith's _Wealth of Nations_. We need them saying the pledge at the beginning of each school day. We need them going to church and believing in God. We can fight back against those commie memes, with our own mind programming.
That, my friend, is a Phillip K. Dick science fiction plot. It's something straight out of Videodrome. Brainwashing is a complete fiction.
No, Russia was not concerned about nuclear missiles pointed at Russia, how much oil reserves the US had, how many cars were rolling out of Detroit. What they really wanted was a few professors. And what would have been the appropriate response? "American patriotism." Yeah, sure, we need to fight these commie professors by having the kids stand up and say the pledge more often, and join the boy scouts. Tell me, why are pinko professors so powerful in 'programming' and 'indoctrinating' our youth, while all the television, movies, and advertisements are utterly powerless to do anything to 'program' the generation? Most folks don't even go to college, much less read any marxist literature while they are there.
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism....
This sounds like Michael Savage tripe. It belongs in a science fiction movie.
Are the rainforests dry? They're pretty hot.
I like some of the movie adaptations of his work, but to me, his real life outshadows all the ideas presented in his work.
Check out Robert Crumb's The Religious Experience of Phillip K. Dick . Basically Dick began to have visions of a past life in ancient Rome as a crypto-Christian. These visions literally saved his son's life when he rushed him to the hospital. Turned out the boy had a hernia and would have been dead in hours. Other most interesting events, too.
I heard a few years ago there was supposed to be such a film with Paul Giamatti as Dick, but you know how these things go. I think it might be merged with V.A.L.I.S.
unix has these interfaces as a matter of historical accident, what was an excellent design at the time. No, UNIX has these interfaces because they get the job done. People tried all sorts of other interfaces and none of them caught on.
Is this really evidence that there isn't a better solution out there, or rather that it's hard to unseat an established standard?
Why in the hell is the government entitled to tribute for refraining from interfering in something that's none of their business in the first place?
Does the government have a right to tax at all? Do they have a right to tax some things, but not this? Why would this be none of their business? Is anything their business to tax?
If you want things ( maybe one day recreational drugs and prostitution ) to stay safe and enjoyable , we need taxes for police, courts, FDAs, and public infrastructure like roads, electricity, and sewers, etc.
For all their self-righteousness, I never have heard of any libertarians moving to the middle of the Amazon or Somalia. Somalia has been free of the tyranny of government and taxes going on twenty years now.
As I said in an earlier comment, this is about maintaining public order, not about law enforcement. Too many soccer moms were seeing ads for prostitution when they went to sell their TV or whatever. They complained to the authorities to shut this down. Now, the police aren't going to be able to get rid of all prostitution, and in a lot of cases, they really don't want to. They just have to keep it out of the faces of decent, upstanding citizens.
This is about the "Order" part of law and order. They can't get rid of all prostitutions, and in a lot of cases, they may not really want to. However, they just have to make sure that good, decent citizens don't run into prostitutes on the street corner or while looking for apartments to rent.
Dude, turn off the Bill O'Reilly and get some facts. A few years ago they were defending Rush Limbaugh's right not to have his medical records released in court. They routinely defend things like free speech, privacy, right to an attorney, right to a trial, the right to vote, the right to practice religion, especially unpopular ones like Judaism or Wicca, etc. You only hear about separation issues because that's the right wing's favorite whipping boy, to gin up support from evangelicals.
It's a sad state of affairs, but I don't believe that the rule of law goes out the window just because a few rules were broken. We don't live in a perfect world; we always must strive to live up to our ideals.
I had a privacy issue that I wanted some info on (and some help with) with my landlord.
The ACLU wouldn't take your case when you has a problem with your landlord? Hos did this get modded Informative?
Here's a clue: the Constitution and the Bill of Rights protects you from the government, not another private individual that you enter into contract with.
aclu IS worthless to the average person.
It's not their job to provide free legal service to everybody in the US. Call them when the government prevents you from practicing your religion, or when you get locked up in a cell without charges or a lawyer.