I'd trust the military with nuclear; they've done well with the many devices so far. Naturally, this is impossible because we can't let strictly disciplined government servants do what we blindly belief private corps can always do better... its just all that government regulation that keeps us from Utopia...;-)
Now this only would work as long as the military kept its over funding and kept the paranoia that holds back complacency. - What I'd like to see, is a connection between the nations where industry controls perception (USA) and more free nations. Figures the USA would be less impacted, we are also the biggest coal and oil suckers plus our medical "system" is embarrassing (its hardly even justifiable to call it a system.) What surprises me is how/. is suckered so much on nuclear; but the USA user count is high and geeks are not immune from propaganda. I bet most people do not know the IAEA is the industry PR group as well?
Al Gore is a lawyer and a former politician, that is bad enough. His work on climate change is legit and he is not profiteering; that is just smear tactics -- partially because of his history in politics (religious nature of today's dysfunctional politics) and because he became the figurehead of the global warming issue (which is just the nature of any career politician) the industry will attack any representative.... We have industry backed global conspiracy theories against all climate scientists worldwide! See one of their bought off orgs: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-26-2011/weathering-fights---science---what-s-it-up-to-
Gore was not chicken little, he always was on the most positive side and almost always minimized things - I was following the issue before his slideshows; he was quite conservative on many points... sure, he does talk about long term projections which sound extreme but those always do in that they are taken out for X years until the extreme case occurs (so its not extreme, maybe the tactic of logical progression could be considered as extreme.) Gore puts the years for those end results further out than most climate scientists I followed. This was just modern political marketing at work; people wouldn't pay attention unless it impacted them and something extreme was the result down the road. It sounds totally different to claim weather will get worse in your life time than to say sea level rise will flood the coasts of your grandchildren. Both can be totally proven but which one do you think will motivate the public? The "alarmist" types who are like "Dr. Doom" have been saying all the same horrible things (plus more) but with a much shorter timelines and that we will be locked in unable to fix it really soon, likely before enough political will exists to counter the corporate dominance. The social pressure is great on these people, like Dr. Doom on the economic collapse-- they belittled him with that name they gave him and his peers did it as well-- and who was spot on in the end? He was. Yet the ones who were totally wrong still get on TV as experts and he's not lost the nickname.
If you didn't hear about it, some polls showed higher approval of communism than this Congress which is so low that it is approaching being within the margin of error of 0% approval! (I was surprised Castro was the only one lower.)
Today's Republicans are not the same as the ones from the past, they can't compromise anymore than the Taliban can. The misinformed public is unable to see the difference or have a historical perspective so to them it seems like both sides are just acting normal. This is not the case at all. They are boxed in by the over effectiveness of their propaganda; they even have suckers getting elected who believe the hype! (that was never the intent)
Personally, I am GLAD they failed and wanted them to do so; the democrats have conveniently wimped out so much that too many people are realizing they are just the good cops in the good/bad cop scam that has been going on far too long. We need more people involved not more disillusioned non-voters! The stupid people are not smart enough to become disillusioned, they continue to vote and fall prey to the marketing tactics.
Do you think such a HUGE cut to military spending is even possible today? This failure to STEAL money from the public trusts (they are not entitlements!) at the expense of the military is a good sign that there is some limit to how far they'll go. If this is how we cut military spending then its all we can get at this point and I'd take it.
Consequences for failures? Yes they do! The modern Republicans run against government then screw it up themselves resulting in benefits for their party (and their corporate masters who are not deterred) even if they lose a little in the short term. Meanwhile, the pro-government Democrats are harmed when government doesn't function properly. The message wars are so unbalanced that the Dems stepped back from government and the word Liberal has become a dirty word. What is odd about all this is how Democracy itself has become meaningless on multiple levels; the word has died as well. (Leave it to lawyers and PR people and they'll kill the effectiveness of the common language...)
Democratic government is run by the people; therefore, if the government sucks so does the democracy and it reflects poorly on its populace. This is all OUR fault. Take some responsibility for a change, Americans.
It has nothing to do with "save the princess." Its about game play.
Table Tennis has NO plot at all and is just a ball bouncing a short distance! Yet somehow it is in the Olympics? Golf involves different hills of the same grass that you play fetch with yourself in... Football involves the same thing over and over... Checkers has almost no purpose. yet people still play it. Pinball has only 2 buttons and you just watch a rolling ball the whole time!
Video games are not a "sport" (neither is golf) but that does not mean they can't involve developing skills and have enough depth to entertain somebody who has developed the skills.
New movies largely suck; video game movies largely suck even when some of them now out perform Hollywood. Many people do not want an interactive movie that is drawn out for 10x the length of time; I know I do not.
Zelda is as far as I'm willing to stretch it; the puzzles are fun and the premises are simple. Batman is a good game but its a slow motion ok movie I just am not willing to put my time into finish. If I want to fight against depressing situations I'll break out a mindless shooter. Better yet, do something in the real world rather than appease your humanity by proxy... your subconscious does not know the difference which is why escapes work so well as a substitute.
I'll stop Zelda when they think we are too stupid to read, like most games.
So... when involving lawyers to find edge cases and holes in the agreement, how does it save you money if most contracts have minor or major issues resulting in costly legal disputes? Unless you have a perfect iron-clad legal agreement some lawyer properly motivated ($$$) will find a way to cost you money disputing it. If you are small, a mega corp could likely tie you up in court until you are broke even if you have the perfect contract agreement and would win in the end.
Not to mention it could help provide legitimate funding to universities to counter all this corporate and patent corruption that has been reaching into them.
Totally spot on. Why do people believe their government's assertions just because a few POLITICIANS on "opposing" sides repeat some of the same talking points?
Of course, the best answers are not important and neither is science because its lawyers thinking not scientists; the truth is not relevant. The whole mode of thought is to have a political policy (likely set by somebody else) and defend it like a guilty murderer. Win or lose you still profit. Later, you are payed privately to represent some corp (arguably they do that while in office already.)
Given massive deaths of honey bees in recent years, isn't it too soon to be having bees and bee suits in a Mario game?!
Mario trashes and breaks things all the time while squishing or killing many creatures - he even rips the shells of turtles and beats them to death with it! What about all those disposable stars and consumed fire flowers (or are fire flowers ok... E.L.F.?)
Remember the penguin suit a few years ago? How inhumane and politically incorrect! Penguins do not shoot ice balls at things! Racoons don't hit things with their tails or fly, what will kids grow up thinking?
anybody who trained in speed reading knows the goal is training your brain to recognize words, phrases and whole lines at an instant-- it is far more like recognizing an icon or doing huge numbers of complex flash cards --- more seeing the forest than it is bothering with the trees. (and misspellings may cause one to focus on a word because it stands out or it may go completely unnoticed because its close enough-- since image recognition of the brain is fuzzy and tolerant by nature.)
These games with text work best if you can maintain the visual recognition level and I suspect somebody somewhere is working on the aspects of this recognition process to decide what shapes are noticed how the brain spots such shapes despite differing fonts and sizes etc. Its not a literal photo matching process as the text games illustrate because the word can look visually quite different with the letters shifted slightly. More research will happen (if we fund it.)
The Japanese are already diluting contaminated food with good food! I read not long ago about them mixing in bad rice with good rice to dilute the radiation exposure; making more 'bad' food as a result. I realize this sort of thinking is just fine for all our food, like how rats and mice are in our grain products and are spread out or how much shit their is in McDonalds low grade meat (look it up, its all real.)
Eating a little shit is NOT the same as a little nuclear waste. I don't want some particle in me increasing my risk of cancer later on; or being stuck in me for some reason for a long period of time (which will give me cancer.) I would like to know how the body takes these things up actually-- where is the data on that? Mercury is highly toxic but what makes it especially bad is how it bio-accumulates, how long it sticks around and the nature of the damage.
With so much in the ocean and so little known; I won't be surprised if all the seafood from the pacific is impacted before too long. As these things go, we end up with unexplained difficult to prove increases in statistics which people barely ponder the possible causes for the increase. World cancer rates could jump approximately around the proper time to connect it to this disaster and it'll be so diluted that we won't be allowed to make a connection -- politicians know this. Dilution of blame is one of their tools.
I would love to setup an ISP; however, ignoring all the regulations I find that I still have a massive logistics problem and do not have sufficient funds to run the cables to the high paying customers.
I also am short of telephone poles, since no regulations are there to allow me to use the existing ones. I looked at wireless but tests indicate there is too much noise from competing services running into the bandwidth I wanted to use, along with the differing pockets of open bandwidth between locations there is also a risk that somebody will jam up my signals after I installed my network. At least I'm free to attempt anything I want, being that there are no more regulations... Maybe I'll just pull down power to run my computer to lower my power bill... I don't think my neighbors should watch TV anyhow...
1) The EDF is a heavily government tied organization! They are an essential service and a monopoly power PLUS their hands in government gives them more influence than most elected individuals. If EDF is functionally a form of government then it is nowhere near what is thought of as civil disobedience because its a gov backed corp.
2) Civil disobedience is a subtle definition; its not literally breaking some laws: That wasn't robbery, I was doing "civil disobedience" that wasn't trespassing it was "civil disobedience..." not murder, its only "civil disobedience!"
Civil disobedience pretty much is an OPEN PUBLIC ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE, it falls under the classification of protest. A secret protest is stupid if not impossible. This is why civil disobedience is done openly, with time/place/date and what is going to be done -- in advance, if not calling the press beforehand or during the act.
3) Greenpeace is a free speech organization which provides many people an organized voice of opposition to corporations/governments who have more resources than individuals. Like all advocacy organizations-- they are collectives of free speech. Greenpeace messing with EDL in ways that draw public attention is the job their donors want (since bribery doesn't seem to work for them like it does for corporations.) EDL messing around with a free speech representative organization to undermine their ability to communicate is not "civil disobedience" anymore than me jumping you at a protest and duct taping your mouth shut and stealing your sign. It is a form of censorship - doesn't matter if you like it or not.
This is what democratic government is for; the majority forces everybody to contribute for the benefit of all. (note: I specified democratic; obviously, a broken one is no longer functioning as democracy and is so only a democracy in name...)
Yes. I am. It is called "externalized cost" and its part of every MBA's indoctrination these days. Its not a business cost so its not a problem. One can see how this warped thinking causes many problems in society. It is FREE ENERGY because its made and stored already; you just have to collect and refine it and that cost is non-obvious for some reason so it appears to be cheap (up until pesky science started pointing out inconvenient issues.) So to my pocketbook, I'm only paying the direct costs; as an American, I don't need to think beyond mammon (or at least I don't vote beyond it.)
Don't waste time citing things to me, I don't think somebody taking my position is going to care. I've argued with a few of them long enough (they are MBAs) that I think I understand their position and why you do not get much traction with them. I'm actually on your side of this; sorry to disappoint you, I almost posted something saying you made me see the error of my ways... but how constructive is that? Anyhow; That liberal google? paying for bias studies? How about a non liberal den of evil? Well, if you find one, they'll easily become labeled either liberal or crooks. Krugman? ha! easily taken out. Nobel prize is a joke they gave it to Gore and Obama. (actually I'm upset over Obama getting one; almost as bad as Kissinger's.) The Tea Party owners paying Berkley for a study that backs global warming--- that one is easy: it was a mistake to think they could make fanatic liberals honest by paying them... I'm not making this up, this is the kind of tripe I have to deal with.
You don't get it, they don't make their minds up with good sources and evidence based reasoning -- you may require it, especially when you are on the side of reality-- Its like arguing GOD, they do the same BS because its pure belief as well. In fact its PART OF THEIR IDENTITY which is the strategy that worked so well in the USA by hijacking the republican/conservative identity that they recreated the campaign in Australia and now they've had a huge decline in people believing in global warming despite their nation getting some of the worst of it to date. It has nothing to do with the issue itself, its about their sense of self; its psychological. The conservative mindset is a defensive position opposing change, by definition (for many reasons, sometimes valid reasons) so I think it is more susceptible to identity manipulation than a liberal mindset more willing to change/adapt aspects of their life-- possibly they are this way because they have fewer things that define them or different kinds of things that define their identities. When it is an issue that actually is part of their identity they may be no different. I'm undecided; however, I see a clear difference between liberal/conservative on their identities.
What you can and all of us reality based people NEED DESPERATELY is a way to get through to these alternate reality people and wake them up or change their self identity so they can retain their emotional needs but lose the BS sold to them.
Dead fuel is free energy; its that simple. Chemically stored energy from the past that you only have to extract and refine for a huge gain for the effort put into it. Naturally, this costs less, its power ratio is quite high and that goes a long way for making costly production cheaper.
On the other side you have new energy production that has to PRODUCE ALL the actual energy all by itself from nothing so to speak. This is a much lower power ratio; and to compete production cost has to be extremely low--- its not really about it costing a lot: its about costing so little that total production from a weak power source can compete against "free energy" harvesting!
Energy just is going to have to cost something; remember we subsidize many aspects of traditional fuel sources and by a far greater amount than the alternatives get (even today this continues.) Alternatives already compete and beat unsubsidized traditional power systems-- that time is already here and we don't see it because the system is skewed.
Say you do invent the replacement tomorrow; its true cost will be covered up by misinformation (from the competition) and remember the "to market in 5 years" statement that was said so much that it developed an additional sarcastic meaning?? Going to production with some new tech can take a long time. So in 5 years your invention is in the market (if lucky) but by that time, you may lose against new cheaper alternatives and then its too late to fix climate change.
Energy demands will drive prices up and demands are crazy high as the population gets crazy high there are limits which we can easily hit starting in a few hundred years. Stop having kids; being so selfish.
The best and brightest are in the financial industry gambling away your pension plans (on purpose.) The almost 2 million green jobs we should have by the end of this year should out weigh the only 80,000 coal workers... but coal workers are somehow better than green jobs...
WTF are we wasting our money to prop of the military industrial complex if they are going to start outsourcing all those jobs?? The rich owner in each district bribing officials? Is that going to be enough to keep us from finally exercising reason on our foolish military budget? Perhaps there is a good side to this?
The US government, as should most governments, need to require any work they contract out to be LOCAL so at least they creating a closed loop of job creation. At least then the military is less of a burden... For the majority of this nation we didn't include military as employed because they are not a net positive for the economy but this is just making it so much worse.
What little guy? us little people have so little in the game that it can't hurt us that much. Meanwhile the USA economy is largely money games while the real economy falls apart; the REAL economy pays transaction taxes already and did back when it was booming. Now the real economy is in bad shape and as the main source of government revenue is significantly down but it was going down for decades as the financial industry took a bigger share of the economy and didn't pay taxes.
Just to make it more clear, lets pretend that people can just shift to financial jobs from the real economy and everything is equal and the economy is doing great. As you shift the GDP from REAL goods which are taxed to virtual goods which are not taxed you'll see a decrease in government revenue. This is just part of the problem today.
As far as the rampant gambling which harm the real economy and caused todays mess, that could be curbed by transaction taxing; especially if you put a time limit hook on the taxes to encourage long term planning vs short term gains (and computer games where trading happens too fast for a human to handle... making things into a contest between big chess playing computers which is NOT the purpose for the capital markets. plus it robs us of brainpower that could be doing more constructive things than working on video games.)
The problem with all of this is that once you let something bad happen it becomes hugely disruptive to fix it and they know it going in-- so all the big banks get entrenched heavily. This is one reason why nobody seriously tried to put the 1999 regulations back to prevent another banking mess; in less than 10 years they made it improbable to go back without a depression and I bet many bankers would be perfectly happy to vindictively cause one if you pull the plug on them. This is why such levels of corruption of systems can't be fixed without a painful shutdown and reinstall... but nobody has the stomach for it, including the public. So we stall and give up our earned benefits to the robber barons waiting for the big crash to come; at which point we try to reinstall a new clean system (naturally, the wrong people will be trying to infect it during that whole process.) History repeats.
Class warfare is as old as human civilization and will never end. To think it hasn't been going on is to be so naive and clueless constructive conversation is improbable. The war has been 1 sided for decades and the system immediately gets the stupid drones to shout them down... ironically, calling the messengers the class warriors simply by them pointing out the truth. Its like calling Paul Revere a Red Coat and dismissing him as he rides bye saying, "The Red Coats are coming!"
If you want to prohibit concentration of power to protect liberty (a necessity to keep liberty) you must limit all places where too much power can be concentrated which includes outside the government (democratic or otherwise) and one way we have is the "free press" 4th branch of government which for its own protection is separated. Another way to do that is to limit the concentration of MONEY. The inheritance/estate taxes are old and were created to prevent a wealthy class who can corrupt and rule; but it only was for individuals.... corporations are now the dominant institutions (and they are not democratic.)
As far as taxing transactions, if you tax the REAL ECONOMY transactions then I fail to see why the casino economy should be except from taxation, especially when they are not providing industry capital as they were intended but instead they work for the game itself and gamble like an addict while bribing and blackmailing to pay for their habit.
Bill Gates can say anything he wants but until he LOBBIES it will not matter; 1 party may suck up and worship their rich masters but when one of them goes all "socialist" they won't pay attention unless somebody pays them. The other party just says 1 thing and bows to big money. Excluding of course the "true believer" suckers who were never intended to get into office (Mrs Bachmann) and the couple honest ones.
Do not fall into the popular myth that all opinions (or skepticism) are equal. All opinions are not equal (nor are they facts as more American college students seem to think...)
Real scientists have work to do and don't need to be wasting our time with every asshat armchair skeptic who believes whatever propaganda and conspiracy theory they happen to be listening (passively) to.
Belief that the world's experts in a particular field of study; a "science" if you will, is not the same as believing in God or a Spaghetti Monster.
Because we elect new figureheads who appoint new staffers largely picked from within or by corporations (lobbyists,) duh!
Naturally the temp guys who get in are going to be given access to everything and the civil servants will cooperate 110%.... except for that 1 time when the head of the CIA said there was a "need to know" or something of that sort to a President's information request; resulting in him being fired (along with an army worth of CIA agents) and then appointed somebody out of the loop... about 40 years ago.
FYI, Clinton declassified the JFK stuff which "didn't exist" showing there was no magic bullet; and plenty of proof of a coverup. So it DOES sometimes work; when the documents are held to be released in 60 years you can get your elected executive to let them out early. I leave it to the reader to find the medical reports and other evidence which directly contradicted official report and that is why they were classified.
A credit union is not a bank it is member owned and democratically run; there are no customers or consumers; no authoritarian model with a dictator at the top. It is no more socialist or communist than democracy itself.
People who preach democracy and profess democracy need to begin to practice it and support it.
I made a sandbox for firefox because mozilla won't put in the effort; like MOST developers. It is powerful and rather nice, see examples at/usr/share/sandbox/
I bet Apple has a standard sandbox file for use on default apps; developers needing more either submit details which generate a sandbox file or provide a sandbox file which then can be included with the app and perhaps verified so they are not merely allowing everything which would be the natural response to requiring a sandbox file.
I see it as a permissions system for programs that is LONG LONG OVERDO and still don't understand how unix people were happy with the chroot jail hack (or why windows was happy to give apps root access) for such a long time.
Sandbox files are LISP like structures like this: (allow file-write* file-read-data file-read-metadata file-read-xattr
(regex "^/Users/[^/]+/Desktop")) (allow file-ioctl
(literal "/dev/urandom")) (allow process-fork) (allow job-creation) (allow network*) (allow process-exec
(literal "/usr/sbin/netstat"))
Abstraction. Since the desktop user doesn't care, then why mess it up for the rest who do care?? The simple users don't care if you have some convoluted process behind the scenes because even the simple stuff is convoluted to them.
Leave unix alone! if a desktop user can't handle it then they should stick to the GUI.
Proxies... hmm... make a more clear directory like;/binaries and/library and fill it with symlinks to help those people... GUI tools can run a script which auto populates those... or you could mount a virtual FS to handle those (like/proc or/dev) Then you keep things proper and the losers can go the easy route... software however can continue to properly function the same way (because those people should be able to grasp the concepts.)
Actually, I think the package systems could use a bunch of wrapper features-- a package file handles install, removal and most importantly acts as a proxy for the App-- so you can run, drag and drop, install and delete with the package/receipt file. Then it seems easy and simple like Apple does but is more flexible. A package manager is a special directory where you search for packages and drag/drop to install stuff; the "copy" process is actually download and installation. The user can THINK their app is located in their home directory but its really just a proxy for a standard install. In fact you could even allow them to "run" the app directly from the package system directory; where it downloads and installs then execs and from that point it execs instantly from that location (but can be copied to other locations and run.) This would be the most desktop user friendly. Permissions could be handled in various ways... for example, if you can access the proxy, then you are allowed to run it. For GUI apps this would be a fine system...
Its sending a message to future agitators that the law means nothing; they will ruin you in the long run. Cut your money etc. All without ANY legal process.
Its not even rape but everybody reports it as rape charges. He wasn't even CHARGED with anything it was just about questioning!!! They dropped the matter before a crook politician took over and handed their legal system to the bidding of the US State Dept. The questioning premise is pure BS because it was initially to find out if he had any STDs and by now their free healthcare system has been able to determine if the two women caught any STDs.
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I'd trust the military with nuclear; they've done well with the many devices so far. Naturally, this is impossible because we can't let strictly disciplined government servants do what we blindly belief private corps can always do better... its just all that government regulation that keeps us from Utopia... ;-)
Now this only would work as long as the military kept its over funding and kept the paranoia that holds back complacency. /. is suckered so much on nuclear; but the USA user count is high and geeks are not immune from propaganda. I bet most people do not know the IAEA is the industry PR group as well?
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What I'd like to see, is a connection between the nations where industry controls perception (USA) and more free nations. Figures the USA would be less impacted, we are also the biggest coal and oil suckers plus our medical "system" is embarrassing (its hardly even justifiable to call it a system.) What surprises me is how
Al Gore is a lawyer and a former politician, that is bad enough. His work on climate change is legit and he is not profiteering; that is just smear tactics -- partially because of his history in politics (religious nature of today's dysfunctional politics) and because he became the figurehead of the global warming issue (which is just the nature of any career politician) the industry will attack any representative.... We have industry backed global conspiracy theories against all climate scientists worldwide! See one of their bought off orgs: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-26-2011/weathering-fights---science---what-s-it-up-to-
Gore was not chicken little, he always was on the most positive side and almost always minimized things - I was following the issue before his slideshows; he was quite conservative on many points... sure, he does talk about long term projections which sound extreme but those always do in that they are taken out for X years until the extreme case occurs (so its not extreme, maybe the tactic of logical progression could be considered as extreme.) Gore puts the years for those end results further out than most climate scientists I followed. This was just modern political marketing at work; people wouldn't pay attention unless it impacted them and something extreme was the result down the road. It sounds totally different to claim weather will get worse in your life time than to say sea level rise will flood the coasts of your grandchildren. Both can be totally proven but which one do you think will motivate the public? The "alarmist" types who are like "Dr. Doom" have been saying all the same horrible things (plus more) but with a much shorter timelines and that we will be locked in unable to fix it really soon, likely before enough political will exists to counter the corporate dominance. The social pressure is great on these people, like Dr. Doom on the economic collapse-- they belittled him with that name they gave him and his peers did it as well-- and who was spot on in the end? He was. Yet the ones who were totally wrong still get on TV as experts and he's not lost the nickname.
If you didn't hear about it, some polls showed higher approval of communism than this Congress which is so low that it is approaching being within the margin of error of 0% approval! (I was surprised Castro was the only one lower.)
Today's Republicans are not the same as the ones from the past, they can't compromise anymore than the Taliban can. The misinformed public is unable to see the difference or have a historical perspective so to them it seems like both sides are just acting normal. This is not the case at all. They are boxed in by the over effectiveness of their propaganda; they even have suckers getting elected who believe the hype! (that was never the intent)
Personally, I am GLAD they failed and wanted them to do so; the democrats have conveniently wimped out so much that too many people are realizing they are just the good cops in the good/bad cop scam that has been going on far too long. We need more people involved not more disillusioned non-voters! The stupid people are not smart enough to become disillusioned, they continue to vote and fall prey to the marketing tactics.
Do you think such a HUGE cut to military spending is even possible today? This failure to STEAL money from the public trusts (they are not entitlements!) at the expense of the military is a good sign that there is some limit to how far they'll go. If this is how we cut military spending then its all we can get at this point and I'd take it.
Consequences for failures? Yes they do! The modern Republicans run against government then screw it up themselves resulting in benefits for their party (and their corporate masters who are not deterred) even if they lose a little in the short term. Meanwhile, the pro-government Democrats are harmed when government doesn't function properly. The message wars are so unbalanced that the Dems stepped back from government and the word Liberal has become a dirty word. What is odd about all this is how Democracy itself has become meaningless on multiple levels; the word has died as well. (Leave it to lawyers and PR people and they'll kill the effectiveness of the common language...)
Democratic government is run by the people; therefore, if the government sucks so does the democracy and it reflects poorly on its populace. This is all OUR fault. Take some responsibility for a change, Americans.
It has nothing to do with "save the princess." Its about game play.
Table Tennis has NO plot at all and is just a ball bouncing a short distance! Yet somehow it is in the Olympics?
Golf involves different hills of the same grass that you play fetch with yourself in...
Football involves the same thing over and over...
Checkers has almost no purpose. yet people still play it.
Pinball has only 2 buttons and you just watch a rolling ball the whole time!
Video games are not a "sport" (neither is golf) but that does not mean they can't involve developing skills and have enough depth to entertain somebody who has developed the skills.
New movies largely suck; video game movies largely suck even when some of them now out perform Hollywood. Many people do not want an interactive movie that is drawn out for 10x the length of time; I know I do not.
Zelda is as far as I'm willing to stretch it; the puzzles are fun and the premises are simple. Batman is a good game but its a slow motion ok movie I just am not willing to put my time into finish. If I want to fight against depressing situations I'll break out a mindless shooter. Better yet, do something in the real world rather than appease your humanity by proxy... your subconscious does not know the difference which is why escapes work so well as a substitute.
I'll stop Zelda when they think we are too stupid to read, like most games.
So... when involving lawyers to find edge cases and holes in the agreement, how does it save you money if most contracts have minor or major issues resulting in costly legal disputes? Unless you have a perfect iron-clad legal agreement some lawyer properly motivated ($$$) will find a way to cost you money disputing it. If you are small, a mega corp could likely tie you up in court until you are broke even if you have the perfect contract agreement and would win in the end.
Not to mention it could help provide legitimate funding to universities to counter all this corporate and patent corruption that has been reaching into them.
Totally spot on. Why do people believe their government's assertions just because a few POLITICIANS on "opposing" sides repeat some of the same talking points?
How about we use some science to make policy for a change? What does Game Theory say about how we deal with Iran? http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bruce_bueno_de_mesquita_predicts_iran_s_future.html
Of course, the best answers are not important and neither is science because its lawyers thinking not scientists; the truth is not relevant. The whole mode of thought is to have a political policy (likely set by somebody else) and defend it like a guilty murderer. Win or lose you still profit. Later, you are payed privately to represent some corp (arguably they do that while in office already.)
Given massive deaths of honey bees in recent years, isn't it too soon to be having bees and bee suits in a Mario game?!
Mario trashes and breaks things all the time while squishing or killing many creatures - he even rips the shells of turtles and beats them to death with it! What about all those disposable stars and consumed fire flowers (or are fire flowers ok... E.L.F.?)
Remember the penguin suit a few years ago? How inhumane and politically incorrect! Penguins do not shoot ice balls at things! Racoons don't hit things with their tails or fly, what will kids grow up thinking?
anybody who trained in speed reading knows the goal is training your brain to recognize words, phrases and whole lines at an instant-- it is far more like recognizing an icon or doing huge numbers of complex flash cards --- more seeing the forest than it is bothering with the trees. (and misspellings may cause one to focus on a word because it stands out or it may go completely unnoticed because its close enough-- since image recognition of the brain is fuzzy and tolerant by nature.)
These games with text work best if you can maintain the visual recognition level and I suspect somebody somewhere is working on the aspects of this recognition process to decide what shapes are noticed how the brain spots such shapes despite differing fonts and sizes etc. Its not a literal photo matching process as the text games illustrate because the word can look visually quite different with the letters shifted slightly. More research will happen (if we fund it.)
The Japanese are already diluting contaminated food with good food! I read not long ago about them mixing in bad rice with good rice to dilute the radiation exposure; making more 'bad' food as a result. I realize this sort of thinking is just fine for all our food, like how rats and mice are in our grain products and are spread out or how much shit their is in McDonalds low grade meat (look it up, its all real.)
Eating a little shit is NOT the same as a little nuclear waste. I don't want some particle in me increasing my risk of cancer later on; or being stuck in me for some reason for a long period of time (which will give me cancer.) I would like to know how the body takes these things up actually-- where is the data on that? Mercury is highly toxic but what makes it especially bad is how it bio-accumulates, how long it sticks around and the nature of the damage.
With so much in the ocean and so little known; I won't be surprised if all the seafood from the pacific is impacted before too long. As these things go, we end up with unexplained difficult to prove increases in statistics which people barely ponder the possible causes for the increase. World cancer rates could jump approximately around the proper time to connect it to this disaster and it'll be so diluted that we won't be allowed to make a connection -- politicians know this. Dilution of blame is one of their tools.
Lots of money in cancer treatment...
I would love to setup an ISP; however, ignoring all the regulations I find that I still have a massive logistics problem and do not have sufficient funds to run the cables to the high paying customers.
I also am short of telephone poles, since no regulations are there to allow me to use the existing ones. I looked at wireless but tests indicate there is too much noise from competing services running into the bandwidth I wanted to use, along with the differing pockets of open bandwidth between locations there is also a risk that somebody will jam up my signals after I installed my network. At least I'm free to attempt anything I want, being that there are no more regulations... Maybe I'll just pull down power to run my computer to lower my power bill... I don't think my neighbors should watch TV anyhow...
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The EDF is a heavily government tied organization! They are an essential service and a monopoly power PLUS their hands in government gives them more influence than most elected individuals.
If EDF is functionally a form of government then it is nowhere near what is thought of as civil disobedience because its a gov backed corp.
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Civil disobedience is a subtle definition; its not literally breaking some laws:
That wasn't robbery, I was doing "civil disobedience" that wasn't trespassing it was "civil disobedience..." not murder, its only "civil disobedience!"
Civil disobedience pretty much is an OPEN PUBLIC ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE, it falls under the classification of protest. A secret protest is stupid if not impossible. This is why civil disobedience is done openly, with time/place/date and what is going to be done -- in advance, if not calling the press beforehand or during the act.
3) Greenpeace is a free speech organization which provides many people an organized voice of opposition to corporations/governments who have more resources than individuals. Like all advocacy organizations-- they are collectives of free speech. Greenpeace messing with EDL in ways that draw public attention is the job their donors want (since bribery doesn't seem to work for them like it does for corporations.)
EDL messing around with a free speech representative organization to undermine their ability to communicate is not "civil disobedience" anymore than me jumping you at a protest and duct taping your mouth shut and stealing your sign. It is a form of censorship - doesn't matter if you like it or not.
This is what democratic government is for; the majority forces everybody to contribute for the benefit of all. (note: I specified democratic; obviously, a broken one is no longer functioning as democracy and is so only a democracy in name...)
Yes. I am. It is called "externalized cost" and its part of every MBA's indoctrination these days. Its not a business cost so its not a problem. One can see how this warped thinking causes many problems in society. It is FREE ENERGY because its made and stored already; you just have to collect and refine it and that cost is non-obvious for some reason so it appears to be cheap (up until pesky science started pointing out inconvenient issues.) So to my pocketbook, I'm only paying the direct costs; as an American, I don't need to think beyond mammon (or at least I don't vote beyond it.)
Don't waste time citing things to me, I don't think somebody taking my position is going to care. I've argued with a few of them long enough (they are MBAs) that I think I understand their position and why you do not get much traction with them. I'm actually on your side of this; sorry to disappoint you, I almost posted something saying you made me see the error of my ways... but how constructive is that? Anyhow; That liberal google? paying for bias studies? How about a non liberal den of evil? Well, if you find one, they'll easily become labeled either liberal or crooks. Krugman? ha! easily taken out. Nobel prize is a joke they gave it to Gore and Obama. (actually I'm upset over Obama getting one; almost as bad as Kissinger's.) The Tea Party owners paying Berkley for a study that backs global warming--- that one is easy: it was a mistake to think they could make fanatic liberals honest by paying them... I'm not making this up, this is the kind of tripe I have to deal with.
You don't get it, they don't make their minds up with good sources and evidence based reasoning -- you may require it, especially when you are on the side of reality-- Its like arguing GOD, they do the same BS because its pure belief as well. In fact its PART OF THEIR IDENTITY which is the strategy that worked so well in the USA by hijacking the republican/conservative identity that they recreated the campaign in Australia and now they've had a huge decline in people believing in global warming despite their nation getting some of the worst of it to date. It has nothing to do with the issue itself, its about their sense of self; its psychological. The conservative mindset is a defensive position opposing change, by definition (for many reasons, sometimes valid reasons) so I think it is more susceptible to identity manipulation than a liberal mindset more willing to change/adapt aspects of their life-- possibly they are this way because they have fewer things that define them or different kinds of things that define their identities. When it is an issue that actually is part of their identity they may be no different. I'm undecided; however, I see a clear difference between liberal/conservative on their identities.
What you can and all of us reality based people NEED DESPERATELY is a way to get through to these alternate reality people and wake them up or change their self identity so they can retain their emotional needs but lose the BS sold to them.
Dead fuel is free energy; its that simple. Chemically stored energy from the past that you only have to extract and refine for a huge gain for the effort put into it. Naturally, this costs less, its power ratio is quite high and that goes a long way for making costly production cheaper.
On the other side you have new energy production that has to PRODUCE ALL the actual energy all by itself from nothing so to speak. This is a much lower power ratio; and to compete production cost has to be extremely low--- its not really about it costing a lot: its about costing so little that total production from a weak power source can compete against "free energy" harvesting!
Energy just is going to have to cost something; remember we subsidize many aspects of traditional fuel sources and by a far greater amount than the alternatives get (even today this continues.) Alternatives already compete and beat unsubsidized traditional power systems-- that time is already here and we don't see it because the system is skewed.
Say you do invent the replacement tomorrow; its true cost will be covered up by misinformation (from the competition) and remember the "to market in 5 years" statement that was said so much that it developed an additional sarcastic meaning?? Going to production with some new tech can take a long time. So in 5 years your invention is in the market (if lucky) but by that time, you may lose against new cheaper alternatives and then its too late to fix climate change.
Energy demands will drive prices up and demands are crazy high as the population gets crazy high there are limits which we can easily hit starting in a few hundred years. Stop having kids; being so selfish.
The best and brightest are in the financial industry gambling away your pension plans (on purpose.) The almost 2 million green jobs we should have by the end of this year should out weigh the only 80,000 coal workers... but coal workers are somehow better than green jobs...
WTF are we wasting our money to prop of the military industrial complex if they are going to start outsourcing all those jobs?? The rich owner in each district bribing officials? Is that going to be enough to keep us from finally exercising reason on our foolish military budget? Perhaps there is a good side to this?
The US government, as should most governments, need to require any work they contract out to be LOCAL so at least they creating a closed loop of job creation. At least then the military is less of a burden... For the majority of this nation we didn't include military as employed because they are not a net positive for the economy but this is just making it so much worse.
What little guy? us little people have so little in the game that it can't hurt us that much.
Meanwhile the USA economy is largely money games while the real economy falls apart; the REAL economy pays transaction taxes already and did back when it was booming. Now the real economy is in bad shape and as the main source of government revenue is significantly down but it was going down for decades as the financial industry took a bigger share of the economy and didn't pay taxes.
Just to make it more clear, lets pretend that people can just shift to financial jobs from the real economy and everything is equal and the economy is doing great. As you shift the GDP from REAL goods which are taxed to virtual goods which are not taxed you'll see a decrease in government revenue. This is just part of the problem today.
As far as the rampant gambling which harm the real economy and caused todays mess, that could be curbed by transaction taxing; especially if you put a time limit hook on the taxes to encourage long term planning vs short term gains (and computer games where trading happens too fast for a human to handle... making things into a contest between big chess playing computers which is NOT the purpose for the capital markets. plus it robs us of brainpower that could be doing more constructive things than working on video games.)
The problem with all of this is that once you let something bad happen it becomes hugely disruptive to fix it and they know it going in-- so all the big banks get entrenched heavily. This is one reason why nobody seriously tried to put the 1999 regulations back to prevent another banking mess; in less than 10 years they made it improbable to go back without a depression and I bet many bankers would be perfectly happy to vindictively cause one if you pull the plug on them. This is why such levels of corruption of systems can't be fixed without a painful shutdown and reinstall... but nobody has the stomach for it, including the public. So we stall and give up our earned benefits to the robber barons waiting for the big crash to come; at which point we try to reinstall a new clean system (naturally, the wrong people will be trying to infect it during that whole process.) History repeats.
Class warfare is as old as human civilization and will never end. To think it hasn't been going on is to be so naive and clueless constructive conversation is improbable. The war has been 1 sided for decades and the system immediately gets the stupid drones to shout them down... ironically, calling the messengers the class warriors simply by them pointing out the truth. Its like calling Paul Revere a Red Coat and dismissing him as he rides bye saying, "The Red Coats are coming!"
If you want to prohibit concentration of power to protect liberty (a necessity to keep liberty) you must limit all places where too much power can be concentrated which includes outside the government (democratic or otherwise) and one way we have is the "free press" 4th branch of government which for its own protection is separated. Another way to do that is to limit the concentration of MONEY. The inheritance/estate taxes are old and were created to prevent a wealthy class who can corrupt and rule; but it only was for individuals.... corporations are now the dominant institutions (and they are not democratic.)
As far as taxing transactions, if you tax the REAL ECONOMY transactions then I fail to see why the casino economy should be except from taxation, especially when they are not providing industry capital as they were intended but instead they work for the game itself and gamble like an addict while bribing and blackmailing to pay for their habit.
Bill Gates can say anything he wants but until he LOBBIES it will not matter; 1 party may suck up and worship their rich masters but when one of them goes all "socialist" they won't pay attention unless somebody pays them. The other party just says 1 thing and bows to big money. Excluding of course the "true believer" suckers who were never intended to get into office (Mrs Bachmann) and the couple honest ones.
Do not fall into the popular myth that all opinions (or skepticism) are equal. All opinions are not equal (nor are they facts as more American college students seem to think...)
Real scientists have work to do and don't need to be wasting our time with every asshat armchair skeptic who believes whatever propaganda and conspiracy theory they happen to be listening (passively) to.
Belief that the world's experts in a particular field of study; a "science" if you will, is not the same as believing in God or a Spaghetti Monster.
Because we elect new figureheads who appoint new staffers largely picked from within or by corporations (lobbyists,) duh!
Naturally the temp guys who get in are going to be given access to everything and the civil servants will cooperate 110%.... except for that 1 time when the head of the CIA said there was a "need to know" or something of that sort to a President's information request; resulting in him being fired (along with an army worth of CIA agents) and then appointed somebody out of the loop... about 40 years ago.
FYI, Clinton declassified the JFK stuff which "didn't exist" showing there was no magic bullet; and plenty of proof of a coverup. So it DOES sometimes work; when the documents are held to be released in 60 years you can get your elected executive to let them out early. I leave it to the reader to find the medical reports and other evidence which directly contradicted official report and that is why they were classified.
http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/
A credit union is not a bank it is member owned and democratically run; there are no customers or consumers; no authoritarian model with a dictator at the top. It is no more socialist or communist than democracy itself.
People who preach democracy and profess democracy need to begin to practice it and support it.
http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/
I made a sandbox for firefox because mozilla won't put in the effort; like MOST developers. It is powerful and rather nice, see examples at /usr/share/sandbox/
#!/bin/sh /usr/bin/sandbox-exec -f firefox-sandbox.sb /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin &>/dev/null &
I bet Apple has a standard sandbox file for use on default apps; developers needing more either submit details which generate a sandbox file or provide a sandbox file which then can be included with the app and perhaps verified so they are not merely allowing everything which would be the natural response to requiring a sandbox file.
I see it as a permissions system for programs that is LONG LONG OVERDO and still don't understand how unix people were happy with the chroot jail hack (or why windows was happy to give apps root access) for such a long time.
Sandbox files are LISP like structures like this:
(allow file-write* file-read-data file-read-metadata file-read-xattr
(regex "^/Users/[^/]+/Desktop"))
(allow file-ioctl
(literal "/dev/urandom"))
(allow process-fork)
(allow job-creation)
(allow network*)
(allow process-exec
(literal "/usr/sbin/netstat"))
Abstraction. Since the desktop user doesn't care, then why mess it up for the rest who do care?? The simple users don't care if you have some convoluted process behind the scenes because even the simple stuff is convoluted to them.
Leave unix alone! if a desktop user can't handle it then they should stick to the GUI.
Proxies... hmm... make a more clear directory like; /binaries and /library and fill it with symlinks to help those people... GUI tools can run a script which auto populates those... or you could mount a virtual FS to handle those (like /proc or /dev)
Then you keep things proper and the losers can go the easy route... software however can continue to properly function the same way (because those people should be able to grasp the concepts.)
Actually, I think the package systems could use a bunch of wrapper features-- a package file handles install, removal and most importantly acts as a proxy for the App-- so you can run, drag and drop, install and delete with the package/receipt file. Then it seems easy and simple like Apple does but is more flexible. A package manager is a special directory where you search for packages and drag/drop to install stuff; the "copy" process is actually download and installation. The user can THINK their app is located in their home directory but its really just a proxy for a standard install. In fact you could even allow them to "run" the app directly from the package system directory; where it downloads and installs then execs and from that point it execs instantly from that location (but can be copied to other locations and run.) This would be the most desktop user friendly. Permissions could be handled in various ways... for example, if you can access the proxy, then you are allowed to run it. For GUI apps this would be a fine system...
Its sending a message to future agitators that the law means nothing; they will ruin you in the long run. Cut your money etc. All without ANY legal process.
Its not even rape but everybody reports it as rape charges. He wasn't even CHARGED with anything it was just about questioning!!! They dropped the matter before a crook politician took over and handed their legal system to the bidding of the US State Dept. The questioning premise is pure BS because it was initially to find out if he had any STDs and by now their free healthcare system has been able to determine if the two women caught any STDs.