Dood, you just haven't been paying attention. You are in the FINAL PHASE - "our way of life" has long been over - you mentally-oblivious latecomers simply haven't been cognitively aware of it, is all.....
Trust me, dood, IT pros far more knowledgeable and talented than thee have been long affected by this.....
Sorry to be the realist here, but if you go back and examine the studies Gladwell cites in his book, you will find they have been mostly disproven and invalidated quite some time ago.
And while I personally have nothing against Sterling, he is the most unimaginative, super corporate author around - while he is espousing those most silly futurist predictions of his (he is both soooo glib and gullible) - reality is constantly passing him by. No critical thinker is he......
Much thanks, Good Citizen Evilest Doer for pointing out the obvious (anyone who hasn't figured it out by this time - who isn't under the age of 16 - is truly dense)!
There is no law in the US - one need only keep current on all the legislation which has passed over the preceding 7 years: if your company allows you to socialize with your co-workers on your off-time - they are being nice; if you are allowed your day in court - the government is being extra nice; etc., etc., etc. After they did away with habeas corpus, your rights became another moot point....
The French? Oh yeah...they're the ones who just built yet another super train (damn shame we can't build those in the ole US of A, huh?)...aren't they flying Tac support in Afghanistan for a goodly number of years now?? I guess it was because those USAF Air National Guard pilots kept bombing, and killing, friendlies (Must have trained with George Weasel Bush, no doubt). And didn't the French Intelligence people keep warning the USA's Feeb Bureau of Investigation about 9/11/01????
And wasn't it French investigative journalists who found out that Khalid bin Mahfouz's number one daughter is also Osama bin Laden's number one wife??? (Mahfouz was the one who bailed out Bush's Harken Energy - yet another failed Bush enterprise - lucky thing the Bush family is making so much money off those torture videos from the Bush Family Torture Chambers, huh?)
As a former client of Kaiser, this is the absolute worst, most incompetent outfit which has ever existed.
The patient owns their care.
Hell, the patient has not only do everything themselves, but to do the same thing over and over and over and over and over...starting to get the picture here? Because those clowns lose all medical records, all diagnostic data, all everything, over and over and over....well, I'm sure you're getting the picture by this time......
really about Diebold not knowing how to design a database application.
No, I would strenuously disagree - Diebold is fully aware of what they are doing and fully capable of doing otherwise - to continue to ascribe incompetence to specific, culpable behavior in 2007 - after all the forensic accounting has been done on the profits from the 9/11/01 attacks, the extraordinary and historic war profiteering going on under the present super-criminal administration in the Oval Office, no longer flies.....
Agreed! Two or more degrees of separation (your example establishes at best two degrees of separation - as did the some of the examples of Mary DeRosa) suggests absolutely nothing. Granted.
When one gets down to one degree of separation - the guilt becomes more transparent - although coincidence is still a strong possibility - where the obvious connection comes into play is when there exists a tremendous number of one degrees of separation - as with the 1,001 9/11/01 coincidences which occurred within that timeframe - in connection to the Bush administration (and the Blackstone Group and another corporate entity). When one researches into the backgrounds of the passengers aboard those four flights involved (not every passenger - but three very specific groups of pax), all those one degrees of separation are concretely solidified - and oh so obvious......
Our options are (a) leave, and watch the region descend into utter chaos and barbarism,
Citizen Grendel Drago, you state a preexisting situation as a future proposition - they have been reduced to utter chaos and barbarism thanks to the Busheviks' illegal invasion, occupation and the work of that civil insurgency specialist, John Negroponte, who was brought into the mix by the Busheviks.
With thousands of women and children being abducted every month for various types of slavery elsewhere in the Mideast and Asia, with all those killings and various forms of ethnic/religious cleansing taking place - and with the eradication of their Christian minority population by the Kurds, and Sunnis and Shi'a, it is inconceivable to believe it could possibly get much worse. I strongly urge anyone who doubts my description to start paying attention to the European and Asian media - the American media has long ago collapsed and serves utterly no purpose......
McCain is a complete and total whack job - having served less than a full day in combat he struts around as if he has experience in combat and war, while continuing to place America's soldiers in harm's way for his own expedient political ambitions. This is one Vietnam vet who is seriously sorry he ever returned from the POW camps.
The Republican side will probably be Guiliani - Mr. "family values" or is that Mr. "humiliating family values"??? A grandstanding clown who is completely unsure of where he stands on any position. The Pubes would be smart to go with that Mormon feller (Should be Com)mit(ted) Romney - who at least knows those secret Mormon handshakes to get into heaven - maybe he'll share that sacrosanct knowledge with the rest of us infidels......
No, Kucinich realizes the very dangerous situation this country is in and to entertain the notion of allowing these sociopathic crazoids to continue in power is to continuing playing with the devil - and the devil will probably win.
While there is only the briefest possibility the Senate would go 2/3's - it is still a possibility with the plummeting popularity polls of both Bushie and Dead-eye Dick Cheney. But it is wisest to take out Cheney by impeachment first, of course!
While I appreciate your avoidance of "conspiracy theories" I would take issue with that objection and mention that the avoidance of factual history is becoming far too fashionable today, under that very guise you mention.
Unless Monoculture is the latest buzzword for monopoly, I think someone is woefully confused (i.e., the author, of course). Factual history would suggest monopoly, definitely not monoculture, unless we're talking the spread of bacteria here......
ArcherB,, your trivialization of life is too nonsensically ignorant to even begin to answer, so I'll pose just one question on the subject:
What branch of the US Armed Forces did you serve in???? Nope, didn't think so - and I'm pretty sure you fall into that age category which is still acceptable to military service - but no doubt you have some irrational excuse as to why you aren't over there fighting Bush's War on Terra.
Today the American soldier fights and dies for Halliburton, this time next year they'll be fighting and dying for Halliburton, a Dubai corporation.....
No Traitor bjcubsfan, but you implied it - and obviously your literacy rate is soooo impaired that such an implication is far beyond your comprehension. No, even implying two wrongs equal a right is the fundamental basis for a sociopath --- and such sociopathic behavior is the only thing which could explain anyone still supporting that sociopath in the Oval Office......
SirBruce, Several are now in jail for election fraud. As you've been obviously living under a rock, allow me to refresh your memory: Several months ago two people (with more on trial and do to be convicted) were sentenced to jail in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the county that swung the state election in Bush's favor in 2004. The entire Elections Board was fired with prejudice (meaning no references for that unethical bunch).
You ever read any news occurring in America...ever????
Good Citizen daeg, can you believe anyone could possibly believe we're kicking ass in Afghanistan???? That's hilarious - that clown has definitely never, ever served in the US military --- where do all these cowards come from anyway????
And the American media and that "left" agenda --- what a true farce. I applaud you, Good Citizen daeg, for answering such moronic swine, but seriously when the senior editor of the NY Times supports the overthrow of the popularly elected (and many times over by this point) and democratically elected, President Hugh Chavez of Venezuela, WTF are those clowns conceivably talking about?????? Holy Mother of God! Where do these cretins come by such completely idiotic meanderings???
Anyone still supporting Bush in 2007 is either mentally ill or a traitor - ain't no ifs, ands or buts about it.....
Just two items I would like to add to enhance your excellent post, Good Citizen ajs:
Further problems with the economy (although most resulted from the deficit spending for that tragic military-industrial-complex profit endeavor, the Vietnam War) resulted from the Arab Oil Boycott due to Nixon's aiding Israel in the Yom Kippur War, nothing Jimmy Carter ever did.
Also, it was Jimmy Carter who put in place those trade boycotts with the Soviet Union after they invaded Afghanistan - something which was bringing them to their knees, economically speaking, but the same trade boycotts that Ronald Reagan immediately ended by his 23rd day in the White House.
And as a sidebar, it bears mentioning that the horrible throwaway mission, Operation Eagle Claw (the abortive attempt to rescue the American hostages held in Iran - and it certainly appeared to be nothing more than a BS mission by many of us combat vets), was planned by no other than General Richard Secord, latter deeply involved in Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal and an individual with a very shady past....
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Trust me, dood, IT pros far more knowledgeable and talented than thee have been long affected by this.....
Cut it out, vought! Billy Gates keeps saying the USA doesn't have ENOUGH tech workers. Nobody at M$ lies, after all.......
Great way to frame somebody - be it for murder or crimes Against The State.
[The Carlyle Group - major RFID manufacturer and supplier]
[Tommy Thompson, Republican candidate for the US Presidency who says: "All Americans should be microchipped."]
And while I personally have nothing against Sterling, he is the most unimaginative, super corporate author around - while he is espousing those most silly futurist predictions of his (he is both soooo glib and gullible) - reality is constantly passing him by. No critical thinker is he......
Ted Bundy would have loved you.....
There is no law in the US - one need only keep current on all the legislation which has passed over the preceding 7 years: if your company allows you to socialize with your co-workers on your off-time - they are being nice; if you are allowed your day in court - the government is being extra nice; etc., etc., etc. After they did away with habeas corpus, your rights became another moot point....
Who reads that magazine?? Certainly no true geek - and certainly nobody with an IQ above a hamster.....
Figures it would be a Frenchman. Once again, the French are waaaaay ahead of the curve.....
Sgt. Doom, D.Sc., PhD, JD, OBE (may be fudging a little here.....)
And wasn't it French investigative journalists who found out that Khalid bin Mahfouz's number one daughter is also Osama bin Laden's number one wife??? (Mahfouz was the one who bailed out Bush's Harken Energy - yet another failed Bush enterprise - lucky thing the Bush family is making so much money off those torture videos from the Bush Family Torture Chambers, huh?)
Amen, brother! (Or sister!) Multiply your experience by 1,000 times worse - and you've just described my past experience with those clowns......
The patient owns their care.
Hell, the patient has not only do everything themselves, but to do the same thing over and over and over and over and over...starting to get the picture here? Because those clowns lose all medical records, all diagnostic data, all everything, over and over and over....well, I'm sure you're getting the picture by this time......
So, they're claiming that Nosema ceranae don't use cell phones????? Isn't that kind of ethnocentric thinking.....
No, I would strenuously disagree - Diebold is fully aware of what they are doing and fully capable of doing otherwise - to continue to ascribe incompetence to specific, culpable behavior in 2007 - after all the forensic accounting has been done on the profits from the 9/11/01 attacks, the extraordinary and historic war profiteering going on under the present super-criminal administration in the Oval Office, no longer flies.....
When one gets down to one degree of separation - the guilt becomes more transparent - although coincidence is still a strong possibility - where the obvious connection comes into play is when there exists a tremendous number of one degrees of separation - as with the 1,001 9/11/01 coincidences which occurred within that timeframe - in connection to the Bush administration (and the Blackstone Group and another corporate entity). When one researches into the backgrounds of the passengers aboard those four flights involved (not every passenger - but three very specific groups of pax), all those one degrees of separation are concretely solidified - and oh so obvious......
Citizen Grendel Drago, you state a preexisting situation as a future proposition - they have been reduced to utter chaos and barbarism thanks to the Busheviks' illegal invasion, occupation and the work of that civil insurgency specialist, John Negroponte, who was brought into the mix by the Busheviks.
With thousands of women and children being abducted every month for various types of slavery elsewhere in the Mideast and Asia, with all those killings and various forms of ethnic/religious cleansing taking place - and with the eradication of their Christian minority population by the Kurds, and Sunnis and Shi'a, it is inconceivable to believe it could possibly get much worse. I strongly urge anyone who doubts my description to start paying attention to the European and Asian media - the American media has long ago collapsed and serves utterly no purpose......
The Republican side will probably be Guiliani - Mr. "family values" or is that Mr. "humiliating family values"??? A grandstanding clown who is completely unsure of where he stands on any position. The Pubes would be smart to go with that Mormon feller (Should be Com)mit(ted) Romney - who at least knows those secret Mormon handshakes to get into heaven - maybe he'll share that sacrosanct knowledge with the rest of us infidels......
While there is only the briefest possibility the Senate would go 2/3's - it is still a possibility with the plummeting popularity polls of both Bushie and Dead-eye Dick Cheney. But it is wisest to take out Cheney by impeachment first, of course!
When one closely examines the connections between events and the people involved with them - utilizing link analysis (sixth paragraph down under 'Subtly Softer Trigger') or more rightfully known as Stanley Milgram's "degrees of separation," the "conspiracy theories" quickly materialize into hard and substantive fact.
Thank you for your reply, nonetheless.
Unless Monoculture is the latest buzzword for monopoly, I think someone is woefully confused (i.e., the author, of course). Factual history would suggest monopoly, definitely not monoculture, unless we're talking the spread of bacteria here......
What branch of the US Armed Forces did you serve in???? Nope, didn't think so - and I'm pretty sure you fall into that age category which is still acceptable to military service - but no doubt you have some irrational excuse as to why you aren't over there fighting Bush's War on Terra.
Today the American soldier fights and dies for Halliburton, this time next year they'll be fighting and dying for Halliburton, a Dubai corporation.....
No Traitor bjcubsfan, but you implied it - and obviously your literacy rate is soooo impaired that such an implication is far beyond your comprehension. No, even implying two wrongs equal a right is the fundamental basis for a sociopath --- and such sociopathic behavior is the only thing which could explain anyone still supporting that sociopath in the Oval Office......
You ever read any news occurring in America...ever????
And the American media and that "left" agenda --- what a true farce. I applaud you, Good Citizen daeg, for answering such moronic swine, but seriously when the senior editor of the NY Times supports the overthrow of the popularly elected (and many times over by this point) and democratically elected, President Hugh Chavez of Venezuela, WTF are those clowns conceivably talking about?????? Holy Mother of God! Where do these cretins come by such completely idiotic meanderings???
Anyone still supporting Bush in 2007 is either mentally ill or a traitor - ain't no ifs, ands or buts about it.....
Further problems with the economy (although most resulted from the deficit spending for that tragic military-industrial-complex profit endeavor, the Vietnam War) resulted from the Arab Oil Boycott due to Nixon's aiding Israel in the Yom Kippur War, nothing Jimmy Carter ever did.
Also, it was Jimmy Carter who put in place those trade boycotts with the Soviet Union after they invaded Afghanistan - something which was bringing them to their knees, economically speaking, but the same trade boycotts that Ronald Reagan immediately ended by his 23rd day in the White House.
And as a sidebar, it bears mentioning that the horrible throwaway mission, Operation Eagle Claw (the abortive attempt to rescue the American hostages held in Iran - and it certainly appeared to be nothing more than a BS mission by many of us combat vets), was planned by no other than General Richard Secord, latter deeply involved in Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal and an individual with a very shady past....