Many adults in the hick area we lived in couldn't remember where she was from after repeatedly being told, they kept on confusing Pakistan and the Philipines and had no clear idea of the difference between the two countries.
With all the American vassal states, who can really say they're any different as far as the Imperial mind is concerned? In that view, the world can be divided into 3 types of states: states whose asses we can kick, states who have oil, and all the rest that just don't matter. States with "P" names probably fall into the 3rd category.
Membership in the "old boy network" (I hardly need a lecture on oligarchy from you) is never a consideration when you place an order for products or services using real money. You can always recapitalize to some level and then re-enter the entrepreneurial game. Oligarch-ically, you probably won't be able to get a share of the Texas Rangers team, but you will be able to start a thriving business.
Cash is still king. You don't need to be Neil Bush to start a computer business.
Not to defend Bush/Cheney {spit}, but we have to acknowledge that business failures in America don't carry the social stigma that is experienced in Europe. Someone with only a couple of Bush's failures under their belt would still be capable of going on to another opportunity (in hopes they don't screw that up also). I suppose, grudgingly, I have to give the system of American capitalism {shudder} credit where it's due: you can recover from failure.
I have a SanDisk 256MB, obtained locally (thanks to various pricewatch sites) for $45 after rebates (which actually were honored, wow). I chose 256MB and $40-50 according to my needs and budget. I rarely use the thing, but when I do, it is painless. The only thing I don't like is that my work XP is a flakey with it; nothing I couldn't handle, I just moved 1 net drive letter, and the software eject doesn't work so I have to shutdown/restart. Compared to diskettes, these problems are nothing; the thumbdrive is a marvel and is one of those rare instances when the manufacturers give us something very handy.
The 1GB thumbdrives are a bit pricey. You will also find thumbdrives a lot smaller in capacity than 2.5" drives offer, for a bit more non-portability. If I had to transport gigs of data, I would have chosen an Iomega (etc.) USB drive enclosure immediately. Since I'm cheap, and am up to my arse in 3.5" 3-6GB drives, the enclosure would have made sense, choosing capacity and price over portability.
Yes, I think you're right, and I was too succinct. I am from the Elbert Hubbard school of Capitalism, in which Capitalism is the natural consequence of people having homes and savings. By implied definition from that, everyone is in business (or should be).
As for your 2nd point, I stand by my statement. I come across enough voters, and I can clearly see that people still think there's a difference between the 2 major parties (insofar as it affects domestic economy and foreign relations).
Hell, to illustrate further misunderstanding, people still commonly levy the attack phrase "tax-and-spend Democrats" but still refuse to acknowledge the mainstream Republicans are "borrow-and-spend" types. Also, the common denominator is that both major classes of pols overspend constantly, but still that is ignored. Millions of people will cast their votes out of ignorance, much willful ignorance, and just plain ol' fear and loathing. Nothing good can come from that.
No, isolation like this is a method of cutting other people's throats. Often, literally. America is an Empire turning more and more to violence to meet goals; a mark of increasing power in a waning culture. The American government is gearing up a world-wide rapid-response military to serve the government's only constituents: business corporations. If I were you, I'd arm myself for the day when some American helicopter comes over your horizon. Yes, they may even be there for Microsoft's patents.
But regulation stands in the way of Hypercapitalism ("predatory" or "looting" capitalism). The British to me represent a lot of "old money"... they underwent their Hypercapitalistic phase in their Empire, looting other regions mercilessly, and now it's over. In America -- an Empire still -- a lot of wealth is up for grabs. Standing in the way of the grab is what Americans complain about.
Americans don't want regulation. They want looting. They want the positive virtues of a violent Empire: fraud, deceit and trickery. Your UK had enjoyed that for a long time. Now it's America's turn (before NYC is nuked, at least).
a quad quantum cyberdine systems X-9000 with gold plated tri-lithium cooled case and diamond studded cup holder
Hello, I am an average CIO, and this equipment excites me. Where can I get one? Boy, with one of those babies, I can really get one over on the guys at the country club. Besides, I broke the cup holder on our last server and the administrator kicked me out of my own datacenter for it! I fired him, of course. It was just a cup holder. But the diamonds... ohhh, yeah, that'll do the trick.
We "guys" don't have a government, hence no government agencies. The corporations do. It's a free market for the masses, but rock-solid socialism for medium to large American businesses. As one poster said, we guys have to rely on "caveat emptor".
About 100 million Americans will demonstrate their lack of understanding of this in November, and will either cast their votes for the pro-business and anti-labor Republican, or pro-business and anti-labor Democrat. {sigh}
The real reason you couldn't think up a joke for it, is that it's a parody of itself. A living joke, if you will.
The making of a joke usually involves taking something out of proportion. Some things can't be made further ridiculous (like, John Kerry running as a pro-labor Democrat).
Eventually people wised up and made OSes free. Now we need to do the same to all school texts. For things like math the stability of the topic makes it much easier to make a small set of basic texts. How has Algebra changed that one text can't be made from an open consortium of middle-school teachers in America? It's a revolution yet to happen.
It's not ludicrous, it's planned. You're not a student, you're a pipeline. You're just the pipe that carries money from a bank into a university.
Wise up. It's supply and demand... aaand Hypercapitalism's necessary additive: fraud. At the end of your BA you are just as unemployable as those with pure experience. You are being sold a bad product.
If you still want to play the degree lottery, then more luck to you, my friend.
Have you ever seen a UPS causea power problem? I have. Hence, adding a UPS to every machine is just asking for problems per se. The thing to do is figure out which machines actually need power protection, and then figure out how a building-based UPS fits into the equation.
Add to this the fact that power protection is often implemented in "surges" (i.e. tech fads, like how PDAs were implemented). After some years, nobody knows if the damned things are even working, and certainly no one knows how to get parts for them. "Where are the manuals?" and "What does that amber light mean?" are often-heard phrases in this era.
If you have a lot of small clients who have little interaction with their buildings, then yes, individual UPSes might be the best answer. But a surge protector and RAID on the server may be the best options, for price, applicability and maintainability.
No doubt that there's some of that going on. I also know that people get a wider age-groups picture as they age themselves. It would have helped if the older generation had bothered to pass along the reasons behind their social rulesets, instead of constantly trying to impose them by fiat. (Persuasion instead of force.)
One thing I find handy in my late 30s is that experience gives good answers most of the time, quickly. When I was younger, I was skeptical of things like wisdom, but now that I'm loading up with it, I find wisdom and experience to be absolutely wonderful things. Recalling my earlier skepticism, I do try to relate these things to others as far as I'm able.
Which all comes back to Conservatism. There are some great things inside that philosophy. It's just that these things can't effectively be passed on through force. The old have to convince the young -- that basis hasn't changed, but it seems seldom enacted.
Considering how often people move around in America, I'd not give your proposal serious consideration, even granted that you're joking. As an informal review, I've seen ruralists and urbanites swap environments as their moods and economic pursuits lead them.
Voting for a real Republican probably wouldn't be considered a mental illness. In contrast, the 100 million Bushkerry (or Kerrybush) votes show society's pervasive sickness. But if most people are mentally ill, is it really an illness?
Broadband is about twice as expensive as dialups. As long as that continues, the forces of individual economics will ensure dialups will exist. In fact, the prices of dialups will probably fall, with increasing availability of "obsolete equipment" (i.e. dialup equipment like modem banks, ditched by ISPs) that will be then snapped up by progressively smaller entrepreneurs. The market for low-priced stuff is vast.
Commenting in public is not an act of ignorance. It is a continual outreach of the learning mind. Thanks.
Your "slashdotters like to dismiss religon" comment is not in principle incorrect, yet it doesn't apply here as you think it does. I was just wondering aloud about the "orient"ation of a globe from the manufacturer's standpoint. Believe it or not, but buildings are still built as they have been for ages, with some concern for natural lighting. This was more true in the past, since natural light had to be strongly taken advantage of... but it's still true today. I freely speculated that perhaps globes were built to take advantage of the prevailing light forms of the time. Maybe it was light streaming in from a side window. Maybe it was candles.
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"Soundwidth." You're amazing, man. :^)
Many adults in the hick area we lived in couldn't remember where she was from after repeatedly being told, they kept on confusing Pakistan and the Philipines and had no clear idea of the difference between the two countries.
With all the American vassal states, who can really say they're any different as far as the Imperial mind is concerned? In that view, the world can be divided into 3 types of states: states whose asses we can kick, states who have oil, and all the rest that just don't matter. States with "P" names probably fall into the 3rd category.
The government is employed by the corporations.
I think you meant wielded, like a sword is.
That's OK ... it'll be just another patch. The customers are the real software testers of Microsoft, so this is business as usual.
Membership in the "old boy network" (I hardly need a lecture on oligarchy from you) is never a consideration when you place an order for products or services using real money. You can always recapitalize to some level and then re-enter the entrepreneurial game. Oligarch-ically, you probably won't be able to get a share of the Texas Rangers team, but you will be able to start a thriving business.
Cash is still king. You don't need to be Neil Bush to start a computer business.
Not to defend Bush/Cheney {spit}, but we have to acknowledge that business failures in America don't carry the social stigma that is experienced in Europe. Someone with only a couple of Bush's failures under their belt would still be capable of going on to another opportunity (in hopes they don't screw that up also). I suppose, grudgingly, I have to give the system of American capitalism {shudder} credit where it's due: you can recover from failure.
I have a SanDisk 256MB, obtained locally (thanks to various pricewatch sites) for $45 after rebates (which actually were honored, wow). I chose 256MB and $40-50 according to my needs and budget. I rarely use the thing, but when I do, it is painless. The only thing I don't like is that my work XP is a flakey with it; nothing I couldn't handle, I just moved 1 net drive letter, and the software eject doesn't work so I have to shutdown/restart. Compared to diskettes, these problems are nothing; the thumbdrive is a marvel and is one of those rare instances when the manufacturers give us something very handy.
The 1GB thumbdrives are a bit pricey. You will also find thumbdrives a lot smaller in capacity than 2.5" drives offer, for a bit more non-portability. If I had to transport gigs of data, I would have chosen an Iomega (etc.) USB drive enclosure immediately. Since I'm cheap, and am up to my arse in 3.5" 3-6GB drives, the enclosure would have made sense, choosing capacity and price over portability.
EVERYONE is involved in business.
Yes, I think you're right, and I was too succinct. I am from the Elbert Hubbard school of Capitalism, in which Capitalism is the natural consequence of people having homes and savings. By implied definition from that, everyone is in business (or should be).
As for your 2nd point, I stand by my statement. I come across enough voters, and I can clearly see that people still think there's a difference between the 2 major parties (insofar as it affects domestic economy and foreign relations).
Hell, to illustrate further misunderstanding, people still commonly levy the attack phrase "tax-and-spend Democrats" but still refuse to acknowledge the mainstream Republicans are "borrow-and-spend" types. Also, the common denominator is that both major classes of pols overspend constantly, but still that is ignored. Millions of people will cast their votes out of ignorance, much willful ignorance, and just plain ol' fear and loathing. Nothing good can come from that.
No, isolation like this is a method of cutting other people's throats. Often, literally. America is an Empire turning more and more to violence to meet goals; a mark of increasing power in a waning culture. The American government is gearing up a world-wide rapid-response military to serve the government's only constituents: business corporations. If I were you, I'd arm myself for the day when some American helicopter comes over your horizon. Yes, they may even be there for Microsoft's patents.
But regulation stands in the way of Hypercapitalism ("predatory" or "looting" capitalism). The British to me represent a lot of "old money" ... they underwent their Hypercapitalistic phase in their Empire, looting other regions mercilessly, and now it's over. In America -- an Empire still -- a lot of wealth is up for grabs. Standing in the way of the grab is what Americans complain about.
Americans don't want regulation. They want looting. They want the positive virtues of a violent Empire: fraud, deceit and trickery. Your UK had enjoyed that for a long time. Now it's America's turn (before NYC is nuked, at least).
a quad quantum cyberdine systems X-9000 with gold plated tri-lithium cooled case and diamond studded cup holder
... ohhh, yeah, that'll do the trick.
Hello, I am an average CIO, and this equipment excites me. Where can I get one? Boy, with one of those babies, I can really get one over on the guys at the country club. Besides, I broke the cup holder on our last server and the administrator kicked me out of my own datacenter for it! I fired him, of course. It was just a cup holder. But the diamonds
We "guys" don't have a government, hence no government agencies. The corporations do. It's a free market for the masses, but rock-solid socialism for medium to large American businesses. As one poster said, we guys have to rely on "caveat emptor".
About 100 million Americans will demonstrate their lack of understanding of this in November, and will either cast their votes for the pro-business and anti-labor Republican, or pro-business and anti-labor Democrat. {sigh}
Isn't "marketing" just a term for people who don't know, selling to other people who don't know?
Eventually people wised up and made OSes free. Now we need to do the same to all school texts. For things like math the stability of the topic makes it much easier to make a small set of basic texts. How has Algebra changed that one text can't be made from an open consortium of middle-school teachers in America? It's a revolution yet to happen.
It's not ludicrous, it's planned. You're not a student, you're a pipeline. You're just the pipe that carries money from a bank into a university.
... aaand Hypercapitalism's necessary additive: fraud. At the end of your BA you are just as unemployable as those with pure experience. You are being sold a bad product.
Wise up. It's supply and demand
If you still want to play the degree lottery, then more luck to you, my friend.
I was hoping they were going to move Cheney to long-term hardened storage, like they put Hoffa in, but no such luck yet.
Have you ever seen a UPS causea power problem? I have. Hence, adding a UPS to every machine is just asking for problems per se. The thing to do is figure out which machines actually need power protection, and then figure out how a building-based UPS fits into the equation.
Add to this the fact that power protection is often implemented in "surges" (i.e. tech fads, like how PDAs were implemented). After some years, nobody knows if the damned things are even working, and certainly no one knows how to get parts for them. "Where are the manuals?" and "What does that amber light mean?" are often-heard phrases in this era.
If you have a lot of small clients who have little interaction with their buildings, then yes, individual UPSes might be the best answer. But a surge protector and RAID on the server may be the best options, for price, applicability and maintainability.
No doubt that there's some of that going on. I also know that people get a wider age-groups picture as they age themselves. It would have helped if the older generation had bothered to pass along the reasons behind their social rulesets, instead of constantly trying to impose them by fiat. (Persuasion instead of force.)
One thing I find handy in my late 30s is that experience gives good answers most of the time, quickly. When I was younger, I was skeptical of things like wisdom, but now that I'm loading up with it, I find wisdom and experience to be absolutely wonderful things. Recalling my earlier skepticism, I do try to relate these things to others as far as I'm able.
Which all comes back to Conservatism. There are some great things inside that philosophy. It's just that these things can't effectively be passed on through force. The old have to convince the young -- that basis hasn't changed, but it seems seldom enacted.
Ok, I'm a registered independent voter [...] what color brain do I have?
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You've heard of the GREEN Party, so
Considering how often people move around in America, I'd not give your proposal serious consideration, even granted that you're joking. As an informal review, I've seen ruralists and urbanites swap environments as their moods and economic pursuits lead them.
Voting for a real Republican probably wouldn't be considered a mental illness. In contrast, the 100 million Bushkerry (or Kerrybush) votes show society's pervasive sickness. But if most people are mentally ill, is it really an illness?
You may have noted that people trend Liberal when young, and then trend Conservative as they age. The exceptions to these trends merely test them.
Broadband is about twice as expensive as dialups. As long as that continues, the forces of individual economics will ensure dialups will exist. In fact, the prices of dialups will probably fall, with increasing availability of "obsolete equipment" (i.e. dialup equipment like modem banks, ditched by ISPs) that will be then snapped up by progressively smaller entrepreneurs. The market for low-priced stuff is vast.
Commenting in public is not an act of ignorance. It is a continual outreach of the learning mind. Thanks.
... but it's still true today. I freely speculated that perhaps globes were built to take advantage of the prevailing light forms of the time. Maybe it was light streaming in from a side window. Maybe it was candles.
Your "slashdotters like to dismiss religon" comment is not in principle incorrect, yet it doesn't apply here as you think it does. I was just wondering aloud about the "orient"ation of a globe from the manufacturer's standpoint. Believe it or not, but buildings are still built as they have been for ages, with some concern for natural lighting. This was more true in the past, since natural light had to be strongly taken advantage of