I know this will get lost in the already 3 pages long of submissions, but I would like to ask this anyway.
I have been thinking that I would like to run for some type of political office someday, but my question is basically, what political office out there will pay me the same as I am getting paid now? Without taking bribes mind you.
I think this is a pertinent reason why many techies dont try to run at all. It costs money just to run, then you dont get paid jack. I bet a lot of the professionals here get paid as much if not more than the president, and thier job is much easier than that role. I know I for one wouldn't be able to keep a straight face during those mideast peace talks, I think its all a joke.
If anybody has any insight on useful offices to run for that either pay a decent amount or let me keep my current job, then please inform me.
Today God the almighty sued many genetic scientists under the DMCA for "stealing" or reverse-engineering his trade secret, also known as DNA to us mortals. In a news conference, God stated "I obfuscated my code as much as I could and these thieves came along and stole the patterns".
A court date has not been set in fear of God's reaction if it is determined that the DMCA is in fact unconstitutional and the scientists are cleared. However, if the DMCA is upheld, noone really wants to witness the wrath of God the almighty on these poor thieves, err scientists.
When i was in college, almost all of our books had some kind of CD in them with examples. And every one of them had some disclaimer saying that we couldn't return them if we actually opened the CD holder.
So we simply followed the laws of glue physics and heated the edges and pried the plastic off the back cover of the book with a pocketknife and slipped the CD out. Then when we returned it, we would slip the CD back in , put a little clear glue along the edges of the plastic and there you have it, an unremoved CD.
Now with the shrinkwrap issue, you have alightly more problems. if you carefully cut the wrap along the lining, you can theoritcally put it back together by heating it up again. Or else there is the option of being friends with a store clerk that has access to a shrinkwrapper and have the shrink wrap it up for you again.
okie, so lets just take an inventory about what corporations track now and poeple accept as normal:
- grocery store buying habits(shopper cards)
- web page demographics
- TV viewing habits(for ratings)
- email being scanned by the company you work for
- Web pages filtered at work and soon to come, libraries
so this is all considered normal and okay by most poeple. CueCat and things like it are just the next step. Poeple in general like being counted, if you give them a good reason to use it, they don't care what ramifications there are. I still use a shoppers card because it supposedly saves me money, I let web sites save cookies on my computer because I like reading the info on the site.
So if you give poeple a reason to use the CueCat(for example we will only show you comercials and news stories based on what you are interested in) then they wont care how much info they take from them.
We are fighting a losing battle here. Yes DC approached it stupidly, but this will happen sooner than later because the mass public doesn't care.
I am just wondering where the heck John Galt is to invite me to his little valley where all the other geeks are hiding out until the government ruins the world and everybody wants us back.
Did anyone notice how Intel was going to sell the higher performance computers with rambus?
Why stick junk RAM with high end products? Seems like a marketing scam to make the uneducated computer shoppers pay for Intel's initial mistake of pushing RDRAM.
I think we have all missed out on something very important here. Curing every disease, allowing poeple to live longer, making poeple smarter. There is one thing in common with those things: Overpopulation. We have over 8 billion poeple on the planet that can only hold a few billion more. all we need now is to make everybody live longer and cure diseases, yah, that will fix everything up.
I to hate seeing poeple die of needless causes such as disease and old age. It horrible, disgusting to watch even. But think of the ramifications of curing those diseases and curing old age and stupidity. If everyone is smart, who is going to do the dirty work? we will have to create a certain number of humans of want to pick up trash.
Over population is a problem, we all know it, by the time we breed enough smart poeple to think of ways to live in space, the earth will be depleted of all its resources.
It just a thought, I don;t really subscribe to it myself, I prefer to think that humanity will realize this soon enough and we will solve all our overpopulation problems by living on the moon or mars before we have any serious problems.
I can just imagine the FDA if any of these magical genetic disease cures start coming out. They will be quite busy, and streesed out from having to determine whether the cure for cancer will be the cure for cancer while being able to prove there are no side effects, all the while having to deal with the entire human population virtually forcing them to let it through.
Also, how are these guys going to prove any of these cures without human subjects. Its all well and good cure a tiny piece of cancer-ridden tissue, but to determine whether or not a human is healed, you have to find a human subject. Oh well, I guess poeple with diseases have tryed enough experimental things that it is almost part of the disease.
If only the creators had seen "The Abyss", then they too would realize how to make this movie. "The Abyss" had the danger, the problems to solve, the untested solutions to the problems, AND it even had character development!!
See? you can have it all. Beyond all the reality issues, there was one more significant problem that nobody has really included, and that is the pace of the film.
-- Beginning takes about 20 or so minutes -- First journey's failure: about 20 more minutes -- Sedond journey's failure: about 40 minutes -- Solving the problem: about 25 minutes -- Entire end of movie: 15 minutes
and here I always thought that the most important aspect of a film should take at least as long as any one of the unimportant parts.
I had a lady behind me saying "I Loved that movie, I am going to buy it most definitely" over and over again, so I guess somebody out there liked it for some reason thats beyond me.
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I know this will get lost in the already 3 pages long of submissions, but I would like to ask this anyway.
I have been thinking that I would like to run for some type of political office someday, but my question is basically, what political office out there will pay me the same as I am getting paid now? Without taking bribes mind you.
I think this is a pertinent reason why many techies dont try to run at all. It costs money just to run, then you dont get paid jack. I bet a lot of the professionals here get paid as much if not more than the president, and thier job is much easier than that role. I know I for one wouldn't be able to keep a straight face during those mideast peace talks, I think its all a joke.
If anybody has any insight on useful offices to run for that either pay a decent amount or let me keep my current job, then please inform me.
God Sues Genetic Scientists
Today God the almighty sued many genetic scientists under the DMCA for "stealing" or reverse-engineering his trade secret, also known as DNA to us mortals. In a news conference, God stated "I obfuscated my code as much as I could and these thieves came along and stole the patterns".
A court date has not been set in fear of God's reaction if it is determined that the DMCA is in fact unconstitutional and the scientists are cleared. However, if the DMCA is upheld, noone really wants to witness the wrath of God the almighty on these poor thieves, err scientists.
When i was in college, almost all of our books had some kind of CD in them with examples. And every one of them had some disclaimer saying that we couldn't return them if we actually opened the CD holder.
So we simply followed the laws of glue physics and heated the edges and pried the plastic off the back cover of the book with a pocketknife and slipped the CD out. Then when we returned it, we would slip the CD back in , put a little clear glue along the edges of the plastic and there you have it, an unremoved CD.
Now with the shrinkwrap issue, you have alightly more problems. if you carefully cut the wrap along the lining, you can theoritcally put it back together by heating it up again. Or else there is the option of being friends with a store clerk that has access to a shrinkwrapper and have the shrink wrap it up for you again.
okie, so lets just take an inventory about what corporations track now and poeple accept as normal:
- grocery store buying habits(shopper cards)
- web page demographics
- TV viewing habits(for ratings)
- email being scanned by the company you work for
- Web pages filtered at work and soon to come, libraries
so this is all considered normal and okay by most poeple. CueCat and things like it are just the next step. Poeple in general like being counted, if you give them a good reason to use it, they don't care what ramifications there are. I still use a shoppers card because it supposedly saves me money, I let web sites save cookies on my computer because I like reading the info on the site.
So if you give poeple a reason to use the CueCat(for example we will only show you comercials and news stories based on what you are interested in) then they wont care how much info they take from them.
We are fighting a losing battle here. Yes DC approached it stupidly, but this will happen sooner than later because the mass public doesn't care.
Customization of the world = loss of privacy
I am just wondering where the heck John Galt is to invite me to his little valley where all the other geeks are hiding out until the government ruins the world and everybody wants us back.
This is just a huge effort by the Post Office Mafia to take over the world by making everybody stop using email and go back to snail mail.
The postmen of the world dropped all thier guns and realized that they could get a piece of what the MPAA, Rambus, and RIAA were all getting.
Did anyone notice how Intel was going to sell the higher performance computers with rambus?
Why stick junk RAM with high end products? Seems like a marketing scam to make the uneducated computer shoppers pay for Intel's initial mistake of pushing RDRAM.
I think we have all missed out on something very important here. Curing every disease, allowing poeple to live longer, making poeple smarter. There is one thing in common with those things: Overpopulation. We have over 8 billion poeple on the planet that can only hold a few billion more. all we need now is to make everybody live longer and cure diseases, yah, that will fix everything up.
I to hate seeing poeple die of needless causes such as disease and old age. It horrible, disgusting to watch even. But think of the ramifications of curing those diseases and curing old age and stupidity. If everyone is smart, who is going to do the dirty work? we will have to create a certain number of humans of want to pick up trash.
Over population is a problem, we all know it, by the time we breed enough smart poeple to think of ways to live in space, the earth will be depleted of all its resources.
It just a thought, I don;t really subscribe to it myself, I prefer to think that humanity will realize this soon enough and we will solve all our overpopulation problems by living on the moon or mars before we have any serious problems.
I can just imagine the FDA if any of these magical genetic disease cures start coming out. They will be quite busy, and streesed out from having to determine whether the cure for cancer will be the cure for cancer while being able to prove there are no side effects, all the while having to deal with the entire human population virtually forcing them to let it through.
Also, how are these guys going to prove any of these cures without human subjects. Its all well and good cure a tiny piece of cancer-ridden tissue, but to determine whether or not a human is healed, you have to find a human subject. Oh well, I guess poeple with diseases have tryed enough experimental things that it is almost part of the disease.
If only the creators had seen "The Abyss", then they too would realize how to make this movie. "The Abyss" had the danger, the problems to solve, the untested solutions to the problems, AND it even had character development!!
See? you can have it all. Beyond all the reality issues, there was one more significant problem that nobody has really included, and that is the pace of the film.
-- Beginning takes about 20 or so minutes
-- First journey's failure: about 20 more minutes
-- Sedond journey's failure: about 40 minutes
-- Solving the problem: about 25 minutes
-- Entire end of movie: 15 minutes
and here I always thought that the most important aspect of a film should take at least as long as any one of the unimportant parts.
I had a lady behind me saying "I Loved that movie, I am going to buy it most definitely" over and over again, so I guess somebody out there liked it for some reason thats beyond me.