Neither the article's author, nor you, citizen d3ac0n, are evidently current on remote sensing technology (satellites). In fact, you are not even current with 1990 standards of remote sensing technology (satellites). Too bad.....
while the parents dance all the way to the bank at their childrens expense!! YEEEHAW!
Exactly so and well put! Geez Louise! Why don't they litigate against the telephone companies...after all, no doubt they conversed over their landlines or cells.....
Thanks for your valuable comments, Good Citizen jcr. John's a standup, decent guy with a first-class technoid mind (if you can get past that odor, of course). If you recall the film "Sneakers" - with Robert Redford - parts of it are very very loosely based on John's past, with a different outcome, of course.....
You make a most salient and sagacious point about the Nobel - it is often highly irrevelant in non-scientific fields (especially economics), and is sometimes questionable in scientific fields. After Milton Friedman was awarded a Nobel, I stopped paying attention to it pretty much as if they award them to loony tunes like that, they'll award them to anybody.....
As usual, Good Citizen Yagu's post is spot on! The more ignorant and incompetent the "IT professional," the more obnoxious and vulgar. While there may well be exceptions to the rule, I've yet to come across them.
It recalls to mind those no-brained yahoos back in the '80s, who unwittingly identified themselves when they proclaimed: "Humans cause errors, computers don't cause errors." When, as anyone technoid should know, 97% or greater of hardware problems generate software problems - rather self-evident. Although if one has the absolute best in power management today, that figure may be dropping slightly.....
Excellent point, as you say, everyone is simply a pod person or zombie. Why would any human possibly have or show intellectual initiative. And what society did you grow up in??? True, certain societies today (chief among them the USA) are becoming completely pod-like, but still.......
Ya know, Biden and Feinstein are those specific globalists who claim to be democrats whose only purpose is to do the corporate bidding of their masters (although I believe Feinstein is among the plutocrats as well).....The other two are just Bushtards.....
My condescension is reserved for individuals who are as exceedingly ignorant as yourself. All one need do (that is, anyone with functioning neurons) is to graph the global energy discoveries of oil and its subsequent growth with the population growth stats. A rather simple exercise. Try it sometime.....
And kindly please don't use that neocon talking point: "smarmy elitist twats" and the alienating of people. I'm in the group which fights the wars and does the chores in American society, something your Bush buddies should learn how to do, when they aren't practising mass murder....
Your meandering post sounds like that pre-canned drivel one is constantly hearing from phonies in the USA who claim to be politicians in the Democratic Party, when they are really nothing more than globalists of the most corrupt persuasion. "We must invest in education," they say, when they fully support the offshoring of all American jobs requiring said education. "We must look to China and India, and follow their example," they say, when those nations derive untold benefits from the offshoring of American (and Japanese, and European) jobs and technology to their respective countries.
The solution is the same one which has always historically occurred, when the wealth concentration reaches the point it has today in the USA, there comes a "Great Depression." It happened in the late 1920's, as it happened previously in the late 1800's, as it will probably happen very shortly. The pundits (i.e, ignorant and uneducated newsies posturing as clownish intellectuals [George Will, the professional draft-dodger, comes to mind]) will say China will continue to purchase American financial paper (the chief American industry today) - but the world's most precarious banking system resides in China - just what are they purchasing American financial paper with?????
To understand reality economics, look to the University of Maryland's economics and business departments - as they are that rare type actually performing real economic and biz research over the past 20 years. Also, go back and reread Jean-Baptiste Say, Ricardo, Henry George, etc., to get an idea of real economics......
First of all the planet can easily sustain a populous double our current size, if people would just use the grey matter known as our brains that we have been greatly blessed with. Huh???
Of course we can,.... Ditto???
Perhaps a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but you fellows could certainly use large quantities of it. Try reading a bit of history, including the history of technology. Population growth and sustainability is directly related and correlated to energy development and usage - under the present reality context, it is highly improbable that the present population can be even remotely sustainable given oil depletion and positing no "miracle" energy sources will soon be readily adopted (with the emphasis on adopted). Both posts are living in a libertarian's (or neocon's) fantasy world - this is why the present wacko, fascist American political administration (BushCo) is seeking to dominate the Persian Gulf. Catch a clue, chums..... ["Greatly blessed with.." In who's universe?? And I would have spelled it populace, being a native English speaker.]
Close, but no latte....they were the two FBI clowns who sat on all those hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of tipoffs and clues (reported in various news sources, and is a matter of legal record from the trial of that Moussaoui (sp. ?) character who was captured in Minnesota by actual intelligent FBI agents (far too few and in between). One FBI professional testified he passed on his warnings to those two clowns no less than 60 times.....
I, for one, completely trust our FBI, regardless of all those hundred and hundreds of successful legal cases brought against them for obstruction of justice and lawbreaking. Sure, they missed out or sat on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of tipoffs about the attacks on 9/11/01 (do the names Frasca and Maltbie sound familiar?) - many from foreign intelligence services (France, Germany, Italy, Philippines, etc., etc.) and, of course, there was that tipoff about the alleged anthrax assassin they ignored for eight months or so (do the names Frasca and Maltbie sound familiar?) - and their inability to figure out who actually "outed" the former active CIA agent, Ms. Plame (and that nuke investigative unit she headed), but what the heck.
You can't hold an organization responsible for everything - or in the case of the feebs (FBI), anything [end of sarcasm].....
One cannot easily agree nor disagree with you as today there exists simply too much conflicting information out there. Certainly Dirac was one of the most brilliant physicists who ever lived, but to determine which was more brilliant or contributed more to their field ignores the context of their times.
A case in point: Da Vinci. Only at this time do we fully appreciate his codices - I recall one time viewing his Madrid Codice where the art historian had annotated he had no idea what some particular machines were for ---- sure looked like Nautilus exercise machines to me......(also, didn't Einstein contribute to modern day refrigeration???
They are just like the MacArthur Foundation, established by that insurance fraud and super crook, MacArthur, cousin to General Douglas MacArthur (whom I was also not a fan of), who defrauded extreme numbers of lower-income and poor people during the times of, and near, the Great Depression (USA). This is how he accumulated his fortune. Samo...samo....
I would suspect that NAFTA has something to do with it, along with the fact that corporations don't have to pay any transportation fees for that particular subset of illegals. With NAFTA the illegal immigration from Mexico exploded - thus proving wrong (as usual) Al "Mr. NAFTA" Gore along with all his corporate cronies (who, amazingly, dried up once he announced he was against the Iraqi War - but that took him by surprise, huh?). NAFTA privatized (or more accurately, "piratized" the individual farms throughout Mexico, leaving many no option but to keep moving north for work. Again, that cheap labor thing has moved on to China, and most importantly with the "privatization" of the Mexican banking system along with a host of other industries (sound familiar?), the money laundering business could be brought back to the USA (buy privatizing said Mexican banks) after that $10,000-bank reporting law was passed in the US. (Ain't our Congress and pols an honest bunch???)
No, it actually makes our food and housing industries possible.
You are soooooo right and that statement is suuuuuuuch pure bullshit --- you mean we didn't have any housing or food industry prior to the explosion of illegal immigration after Reagan legislated in amnesty back in the '80s????
I think we actually did have such industries -- what a totally moronic statement - far beyond amoral (although it is correct of you to point that out) but simply completely nonsensical - why is it those neocons love the slave labor......
And that dude from Intel (now retired, who shared the IC patent with Kilby (?) from TI), and Ponaponumura (DNA synthesis in artificial environment at JPL), Wang (you know, Wang Computers), Geez, if only I had a month to list everyone.....
Hold it now....you stating that we aren't in dire need of highschool dropouts (equivalently educationally speaking, of course)???? This goes against Corporate America's mantra....
Good Citizen PeolesDru, your most excellent post cannot be improved upon so I won't bother answering that dufus clown, except to mention I believe that was the same lowbrow who attempted to sell me those Enron Weather Futures that he wasn't capable of explaining to me - or anyone else, for that matter. The rich rabble are restless....
I concur, Mr. Staal, you most definitely do understand and know whereof you speak (and you make what should be an obvious point to one and all at this site).
This was evident from the introduction of the first DOS for PCs and it continues to be ever more so....
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Neither the article's author, nor you, citizen d3ac0n, are evidently current on remote sensing technology (satellites). In fact, you are not even current with 1990 standards of remote sensing technology (satellites). Too bad.....
Exactly so and well put! Geez Louise! Why don't they litigate against the telephone companies...after all, no doubt they conversed over their landlines or cells.....
Being born in Switzerland????
Thanks for your valuable comments, Good Citizen jcr. John's a standup, decent guy with a first-class technoid mind (if you can get past that odor, of course). If you recall the film "Sneakers" - with Robert Redford - parts of it are very very loosely based on John's past, with a different outcome, of course.....
You make a most salient and sagacious point about the Nobel - it is often highly irrevelant in non-scientific fields (especially economics), and is sometimes questionable in scientific fields. After Milton Friedman was awarded a Nobel, I stopped paying attention to it pretty much as if they award them to loony tunes like that, they'll award them to anybody.....
It recalls to mind those no-brained yahoos back in the '80s, who unwittingly identified themselves when they proclaimed: "Humans cause errors, computers don't cause errors." When, as anyone technoid should know, 97% or greater of hardware problems generate software problems - rather self-evident. Although if one has the absolute best in power management today, that figure may be dropping slightly.....
And on a more serious note, Citizen robably, and to add to your excellent comment, how do we ascertain the truthfulness of what IS posted???
Although not on /.'s front page, that mad dog Bush Administration's scheduled attack on Iran (March or early April) should be considered as well.....
Excellent point, as you say, everyone is simply a pod person or zombie. Why would any human possibly have or show intellectual initiative. And what society did you grow up in??? True, certain societies today (chief among them the USA) are becoming completely pod-like, but still.......
Ya know, Biden and Feinstein are those specific globalists who claim to be democrats whose only purpose is to do the corporate bidding of their masters (although I believe Feinstein is among the plutocrats as well).....The other two are just Bushtards.....
And kindly please don't use that neocon talking point: "smarmy elitist twats" and the alienating of people. I'm in the group which fights the wars and does the chores in American society, something your Bush buddies should learn how to do, when they aren't practising mass murder....
Your meandering post sounds like that pre-canned drivel one is constantly hearing from phonies in the USA who claim to be politicians in the Democratic Party, when they are really nothing more than globalists of the most corrupt persuasion. "We must invest in education," they say, when they fully support the offshoring of all American jobs requiring said education. "We must look to China and India, and follow their example," they say, when those nations derive untold benefits from the offshoring of American (and Japanese, and European) jobs and technology to their respective countries.
The solution is the same one which has always historically occurred, when the wealth concentration reaches the point it has today in the USA, there comes a "Great Depression." It happened in the late 1920's, as it happened previously in the late 1800's, as it will probably happen very shortly. The pundits (i.e, ignorant and uneducated newsies posturing as clownish intellectuals [George Will, the professional draft-dodger, comes to mind]) will say China will continue to purchase American financial paper (the chief American industry today) - but the world's most precarious banking system resides in China - just what are they purchasing American financial paper with?????
To understand reality economics, look to the University of Maryland's economics and business departments - as they are that rare type actually performing real economic and biz research over the past 20 years. Also, go back and reread Jean-Baptiste Say, Ricardo, Henry George, etc., to get an idea of real economics......
Of course we can,.... Ditto???
Perhaps a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but you fellows could certainly use large quantities of it. Try reading a bit of history, including the history of technology. Population growth and sustainability is directly related and correlated to energy development and usage - under the present reality context, it is highly improbable that the present population can be even remotely sustainable given oil depletion and positing no "miracle" energy sources will soon be readily adopted (with the emphasis on adopted). Both posts are living in a libertarian's (or neocon's) fantasy world - this is why the present wacko, fascist American political administration (BushCo) is seeking to dominate the Persian Gulf. Catch a clue, chums..... ["Greatly blessed with.." In who's universe?? And I would have spelled it populace, being a native English speaker.]
Close, but no latte....they were the two FBI clowns who sat on all those hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of tipoffs and clues (reported in various news sources, and is a matter of legal record from the trial of that Moussaoui (sp. ?) character who was captured in Minnesota by actual intelligent FBI agents (far too few and in between). One FBI professional testified he passed on his warnings to those two clowns no less than 60 times.....
This is news??? This is pretty old stuff and anyone who isn't aware of this "news" needs some massive catching up to do....
You can't hold an organization responsible for everything - or in the case of the feebs (FBI), anything [end of sarcasm].....
A case in point: Da Vinci. Only at this time do we fully appreciate his codices - I recall one time viewing his Madrid Codice where the art historian had annotated he had no idea what some particular machines were for ---- sure looked like Nautilus exercise machines to me......(also, didn't Einstein contribute to modern day refrigeration???
Of course, if you re-read my post again you will see I was both agreeing with and complementing your post.....
They are just like the MacArthur Foundation, established by that insurance fraud and super crook, MacArthur, cousin to General Douglas MacArthur (whom I was also not a fan of), who defrauded extreme numbers of lower-income and poor people during the times of, and near, the Great Depression (USA). This is how he accumulated his fortune. Samo...samo....
I would suspect that NAFTA has something to do with it, along with the fact that corporations don't have to pay any transportation fees for that particular subset of illegals. With NAFTA the illegal immigration from Mexico exploded - thus proving wrong (as usual) Al "Mr. NAFTA" Gore along with all his corporate cronies (who, amazingly, dried up once he announced he was against the Iraqi War - but that took him by surprise, huh?). NAFTA privatized (or more accurately, "piratized" the individual farms throughout Mexico, leaving many no option but to keep moving north for work. Again, that cheap labor thing has moved on to China, and most importantly with the "privatization" of the Mexican banking system along with a host of other industries (sound familiar?), the money laundering business could be brought back to the USA (buy privatizing said Mexican banks) after that $10,000-bank reporting law was passed in the US. (Ain't our Congress and pols an honest bunch???)
You are soooooo right and that statement is suuuuuuuch pure bullshit --- you mean we didn't have any housing or food industry prior to the explosion of illegal immigration after Reagan legislated in amnesty back in the '80s????
I think we actually did have such industries -- what a totally moronic statement - far beyond amoral (although it is correct of you to point that out) but simply completely nonsensical - why is it those neocons love the slave labor......
And that dude from Intel (now retired, who shared the IC patent with Kilby (?) from TI), and Ponaponumura (DNA synthesis in artificial environment at JPL), Wang (you know, Wang Computers), Geez, if only I had a month to list everyone.....
Hold it now....you stating that we aren't in dire need of highschool dropouts (equivalently educationally speaking, of course)???? This goes against Corporate America's mantra....
Good Citizen PeolesDru, your most excellent post cannot be improved upon so I won't bother answering that dufus clown, except to mention I believe that was the same lowbrow who attempted to sell me those Enron Weather Futures that he wasn't capable of explaining to me - or anyone else, for that matter. The rich rabble are restless....
This was evident from the introduction of the first DOS for PCs and it continues to be ever more so....