"Easier said than done. If you do, people stop giving loans,..."
Sorry, dood (jfengel), but your response is nonsensical. The banksters received the bailouts, and instead of allowing credit to small biz they have used tax payer funds for further bonuses, hired lobbyists to halt necessary financial re-regulation, used those funds for oil/energy/commodities' speculation and stock market arbitrage, and the consumer (formerly known as "citizen") is far too strapped to spend what little money they still possess.
The problem has always been the same, what we Hackers realized long ago with regard to knowledge, that there should be no existing monopoly by the Corporation and the State on land and capital. PERIOD!
Only a true end to the Corporate Fascist State and the Totalitarian State will ever begin to give way to Economic Democracy!
For instance, a co-worker mentioned he was going to the Chinese Bodies Exhibition (the one with disrepectfully skinned dead bodies laid about to earn capitalistic pig lucre) and I immediately explained its connection to Nordstrom (the department store chain): the Chinese government official who put together the original exhibition used unclaimed bodies (i.e., the terminated bodies of "dissidents" as well as the bodies of murdered, underage female factory workers -- when injured on the job, the factory manager would bury them alive as opposed to sending for medical aid and being fined for employing an underage worker) and some of those had worked at the factory Nordstrom is a big customer of....
Have you read Adam Fawer's Improbable yet? Great read.
Geez, so was it that God character responsible for those holes in my rubbers?
Just asking.....or maybe it was that Grodd character? I keep getting them mixed up..
But on a more serious note, what Mr. Lenski did, while highly admirable contribution to science, was almost predictable, as is the case with anyone - biologically speaking - who has immersed themselves in a subject, then realizes after a few years of immersion how many more knowledge connections they now realize on said subject.
Also, as with any aerobic activity, a cluster of blood vessels opens up at one time well along the conditioning period.
"..but how can you expect to win the Internet war if you have no idea how it works and all the security and protocols are outsourced."
Sadly, you have asked a serious-sounding question so I shall respond in kind. This may be difficult for you - and I'm not criticizing your intelligence level here - but the question indicates you are still residing in the matrix, which in America, one would place you as paying serious attention to either Fox, NPR or the like, all Bernays-engineered engines of propaganda.
It has never been about winning the Internet war, that is all the usual smokescreen to keep various types, outfits and organizations occupied with the nebulous. It is about control of the Internet, which has been subtly taking place over the past few years. Whether it is the privatization of all those telecoms (just check into the private equity firms which own ALL of those privatized telecoms, i.e., Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, KKR, Citadel, etc., etc.) as well as the slowing down of certain types of traffic lately, and the implementation of those Narus boxes, which has happened throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East, etc.
Politically, they are reframing and confusing this situation they way they handle all others, such as pitting people in the Anti-abortion against those in the Pro-choice, while always keeping it a constant battle (hence all those single-issue types); and keeping Gays and Lesbians occupied by always promising the granting of normal citizen's rights (marriage, military service to support the American Empire, etc.).
How the hell can you trust a corporation to handle the military security? No really, who the fuck had this brilliant idea?
Seriously, dood, you are aware that the majority of intelligence operations have been outsourced to corporations, right? (SAIC, Mantech International, L3, Raytheon, etc.)
Thank you, Lord Greywolf. McSoftware doesn't do networks, never have, never could.....anyone who has ever worked tech support for them knows that......(I will never admit to such a thing, nor will I ever admit to begging for "it" --- except for that one time with Kimberley)
Hmmmm...Lockheed Martin.....hmmmm...aren't they the guys that did that Raptor jet, the multi-billion model that shuts down everytime they try to fly past the International Dateline?
Hmmm.....Lockheed Martin....hmmmm....aren't they the guys responsible for those incredible automated stamp vending machines that used to be in the Post Offices, but had to be replaced with another type as they were always breaking down?
Hmmm...Lockheed Martin...hmmmm...don't they own Pacific Architects and Engineers; that private military company responsible for so much havoc in Africa??
Thanks, Shakrai, for pointing out what should be obvious to that poster.
No doubt there was spontaneous jubilation, dancing and celebration in the streets of Honduras (latest coup supported by the Obama Administration, business as usual), Afghanistan and Iraq. (Nope, just kidding.)
They probably are equally unaware that President Obama has appointed the most anti-worker, anti-union people possible: Diana Farrell, Laura Tyson, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, Robert Hormats, Richard Holbrooke, Gary Gensler, Herbert Allison, Peter Orszag, Stephen Friedman, Gary Locke, Henry Kissinger, etc., etc., etc.
Obama, like Clinton, Carter and all those neocons before him, is in the pockets of the banksters. And would all those Americans who work to remain as ignorant as possible please realize they, too, are completely responsible for his perfidy.
1. Alan Greenspan appointed to chair the Federal Reserve
2. Ben Bernanke reappointed to chair the Federal Reserve
3. Sarah Palin paid a handsome fee to lecture group of Chinese on macroeconomics
4. President Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize with resultant spontaneous dancing and celebration in the streets of Honduras, Afghanistan and Iraq.
(O.K., just kidding about that spontaneous dancing and celebration thing!)
FUTURE PREDICTIONS
1. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee renames award to "Not George Bush Prize"
2. Sarah Palin is awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics.
3. Timothy Geithner comes down with severe depression after attending his monthly meeting with Kissinger and Obama and realizing he is only non-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize. Geithner devotes remainder of life to overturning Medicare Section D so that he can afford his massive doses of anti-depressant meds.
4. The Moon retaliates against the Earth by sending a rocket to crash into the Earth to determine whether there is sentient life - or water - there.
5. S&P, Fitch and Moody's create a new bond rating: Senior-tranche AAA Mega-Junk.
6. The Onion News Network Global Conspiracy is exposed: they admit to being the only news distribution network on the planet -- and all the other networks are just fronting for them.
No, because there are actually some subjects studied in school (math, computer science, history, sciences, etc.) which inspire enthusiasm and excitement.....
Fantastic thought pattern. Why, if we just force kids to study PORN in schools that should put an end to that once and forever. Now why didn't I think of that?????
For female authors, go for the classic Joanna Russ and today's M.M. Buckner (Watermind).
But you've got to keep them interested, so go with Banks' The Player of Games (cannot recommend this book too much, it is simply the BEST example of future fiction around) along with Stirling's Drakon, again, a real action yarn and classic SF opera.
I agree that 1984 is a MUST READ, but not in the category of future fiction, as 1984 is something we are now living. As most can readily see, the USA, UK, China, Pakistan and Mexico are quickly converging to the same form of fascist-type oligarchy (or corporate fascist state/police state). The differences, to anyone who has been paying attention, are simply too obvious and startling!
Re-read 1984, and try to differentiate that from today?
Poul Anderson wrote great SF, but frequently some of his fiction were era-based (as in the constant Cold War struggle extrapolated to the far future) while only a limited amount of his fiction would stand the test of future reading (such as Operation Chaos, or the short story preceding that, Operation Changeling). Admas' work was very futuristic, and covered a variety of scientific topics, making it qualify both as SF and comedy. The other works are applicable to today, while so much of what is considered "classic" SF is rather outdated, to say the least. And nothing, absolutely nothing, compares to the future fiction as exemplified by Iain Banks' The Player of Games --- he hit every target in that novel.
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"Easier said than done. If you do, people stop giving loans,..."
Sorry, dood (jfengel), but your response is nonsensical. The banksters received the bailouts, and instead of allowing credit to small biz they have used tax payer funds for further bonuses, hired lobbyists to halt necessary financial re-regulation, used those funds for oil/energy/commodities' speculation and stock market arbitrage, and the consumer (formerly known as "citizen") is far too strapped to spend what little money they still possess.
The problem has always been the same, what we Hackers realized long ago with regard to knowledge, that there should be no existing monopoly by the Corporation and the State on land and capital. PERIOD!
Only a true end to the Corporate Fascist State and the Totalitarian State will ever begin to give way to Economic Democracy!
Now this site is truly weird....and wonderful....can never get enough of this song....and Zombie movies....
BY DESIGN
Preferably, still in the woman, and the woman along with them.
Oh, you mean "edible" eggs........the kind one might ingest with breakfast?
For instance, a co-worker mentioned he was going to the Chinese Bodies Exhibition (the one with disrepectfully skinned dead bodies laid about to earn capitalistic pig lucre) and I immediately explained its connection to Nordstrom (the department store chain): the Chinese government official who put together the original exhibition used unclaimed bodies (i.e., the terminated bodies of "dissidents" as well as the bodies of murdered, underage female factory workers -- when injured on the job, the factory manager would bury them alive as opposed to sending for medical aid and being fined for employing an underage worker) and some of those had worked at the factory Nordstrom is a big customer of....
Have you read Adam Fawer's Improbable yet? Great read.
Geez, so was it that God character responsible for those holes in my rubbers?
Just asking.....or maybe it was that Grodd character? I keep getting them mixed up..
But on a more serious note, what Mr. Lenski did, while highly admirable contribution to science, was almost predictable, as is the case with anyone - biologically speaking - who has immersed themselves in a subject, then realizes after a few years of immersion how many more knowledge connections they now realize on said subject.
Also, as with any aerobic activity, a cluster of blood vessels opens up at one time well along the conditioning period.
"..but how can you expect to win the Internet war if you have no idea how it works and all the security and protocols are outsourced."
Sadly, you have asked a serious-sounding question so I shall respond in kind. This may be difficult for you - and I'm not criticizing your intelligence level here - but the question indicates you are still residing in the matrix, which in America, one would place you as paying serious attention to either Fox, NPR or the like, all Bernays-engineered engines of propaganda.
It has never been about winning the Internet war, that is all the usual smokescreen to keep various types, outfits and organizations occupied with the nebulous. It is about control of the Internet, which has been subtly taking place over the past few years. Whether it is the privatization of all those telecoms (just check into the private equity firms which own ALL of those privatized telecoms, i.e., Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, KKR, Citadel, etc., etc.) as well as the slowing down of certain types of traffic lately, and the implementation of those Narus boxes, which has happened throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East, etc.
Politically, they are reframing and confusing this situation they way they handle all others, such as pitting people in the Anti-abortion against those in the Pro-choice, while always keeping it a constant battle (hence all those single-issue types); and keeping Gays and Lesbians occupied by always promising the granting of normal citizen's rights (marriage, military service to support the American Empire, etc.).
Seriously, dood, you are aware that the majority of intelligence operations have been outsourced to corporations, right? (SAIC, Mantech International, L3, Raytheon, etc.)
Because when they begin charging $2,000 per replacement wrench, it's going to appear might fishy.......
Thank you, Lord Greywolf. McSoftware doesn't do networks, never have, never could.....anyone who has ever worked tech support for them knows that......(I will never admit to such a thing, nor will I ever admit to begging for "it" --- except for that one time with Kimberley)
Hmmmm...Lockheed Martin.....hmmmm...aren't they the guys that did that Raptor jet, the multi-billion model that shuts down everytime they try to fly past the International Dateline?
Hmmm.....Lockheed Martin....hmmmm....aren't they the guys responsible for those incredible automated stamp vending machines that used to be in the Post Offices, but had to be replaced with another type as they were always breaking down?
Hmmm...Lockheed Martin...hmmmm...don't they own Pacific Architects and Engineers; that private military company responsible for so much havoc in Africa??
Squeeked one Mice professor, "This humans have seem pretty drecky thoughts tumbling around in their little minds."
Secret Plan for 2012: elect Bobby Jindal (gov, Louisiana) as president, then offshore that job to India.
Thanks, Shakrai, for pointing out what should be obvious to that poster.
No doubt there was spontaneous jubilation, dancing and celebration in the streets of Honduras (latest coup supported by the Obama Administration, business as usual), Afghanistan and Iraq. (Nope, just kidding.)
They probably are equally unaware that President Obama has appointed the most anti-worker, anti-union people possible: Diana Farrell, Laura Tyson, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, Robert Hormats, Richard Holbrooke, Gary Gensler, Herbert Allison, Peter Orszag, Stephen Friedman, Gary Locke, Henry Kissinger, etc., etc., etc.
Obama, like Clinton, Carter and all those neocons before him, is in the pockets of the banksters. And would all those Americans who work to remain as ignorant as possible please realize they, too, are completely responsible for his perfidy.
1. Alan Greenspan appointed to chair the Federal Reserve
2. Ben Bernanke reappointed to chair the Federal Reserve
3. Sarah Palin paid a handsome fee to lecture group of Chinese on macroeconomics
4. President Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize with resultant spontaneous dancing and celebration in the streets of Honduras, Afghanistan and Iraq.
(O.K., just kidding about that spontaneous dancing and celebration thing!)
FUTURE PREDICTIONS
1. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee renames award to "Not George Bush Prize"
2. Sarah Palin is awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics.
3. Timothy Geithner comes down with severe depression after attending his monthly meeting with Kissinger and Obama and realizing he is only non-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize. Geithner devotes remainder of life to overturning Medicare Section D so that he can afford his massive doses of anti-depressant meds.
4. The Moon retaliates against the Earth by sending a rocket to crash into the Earth to determine whether there is sentient life - or water - there.
5. S&P, Fitch and Moody's create a new bond rating: Senior-tranche AAA Mega-Junk.
6. The Onion News Network Global Conspiracy is exposed: they admit to being the only news distribution network on the planet -- and all the other networks are just fronting for them.
I'm sure "not being able to tell" is the norm for someone like yourself.
No, because there are actually some subjects studied in school (math, computer science, history, sciences, etc.) which inspire enthusiasm and excitement.....
Fantastic thought pattern. Why, if we just force kids to study PORN in schools that should put an end to that once and forever. Now why didn't I think of that?????
But you've got to keep them interested, so go with Banks' The Player of Games (cannot recommend this book too much, it is simply the BEST example of future fiction around) along with Stirling's Drakon, again, a real action yarn and classic SF opera.
Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky and his short story, All You Zombies.. are truly the classics of all time.
The rest really don't stand the test of time, although Tolkein's always great for his phrasing.
You get rated today's 10 points! Lottery, anyone?
Good point! I recall escaping the boredom of school by reading all of Heinlein's novels....
Re-read 1984, and try to differentiate that from today?
Poul Anderson wrote great SF, but frequently some of his fiction were era-based (as in the constant Cold War struggle extrapolated to the far future) while only a limited amount of his fiction would stand the test of future reading (such as Operation Chaos, or the short story preceding that, Operation Changeling). Admas' work was very futuristic, and covered a variety of scientific topics, making it qualify both as SF and comedy. The other works are applicable to today, while so much of what is considered "classic" SF is rather outdated, to say the least. And nothing, absolutely nothing, compares to the future fiction as exemplified by Iain Banks' The Player of Games --- he hit every target in that novel.