I am the only person who thinks our current social problems are a result of our dehumanising society?
the trend now is for everything be automated with no human intervention or interaction, and we are seeing more and more cases of people not treating each other with respect or valuing life, and i think it's because we lack that social contact in most of our dealings.
"And the odds of the terms "Global Warming" or "Climate Change" NEVER being used in connection with any of this data will be about the same as the odds of me getting into a three-way with Jessica Alba and Angelina Jolie."
all studies and figures point to a slowing population growth and a population that levels out at 20 billion, which is certainly not an unsustainable level.
The reason being that as the population grows, it grows in wealth and education which results in less of the world being poor and NEEDING 10 kids to look after them in their old age.
20 billion is definately not too many for the planet either. if you look at how increasingly better the people of the world's lifestyles are becoming, it's obvious that we have enough resources to sustain us.
I suspect it's to do with the poor living conditions of the people and their close proximity to wild animals.
remmeber asia is also a vector for deseases crossing the species barrier due to the fact humans there live in crowded homes with their livestock. eg. SARS which came from chickens.
when a virus crosses a species barrier it's suddenly found a new host without defenses and who isn't adapted to it, so it spreads like wild fire and kills quickly.
911 made everyone crazy, because for all the wars america has been in in recent history, none of them has impacted home. I think that's part of the reason american's are so gunho about going to war, because it's not THEIR homes that get bombed.
with 911 there came the sudden realisation that the USA was a target, and that you could no longer sit from afar and push the button and make the bombs rain.
actually it's a very valid point that israel is a very aggresive country, has very extreme religous views and is also the only ones with nukes. They are a prime candidate for kicking off a nuclear war.
Oh so your in favour of pulling out of iraq and leaving millions of innocent people to be murdered and tourtured by insurgents, simply because they might have done business with the americans? because that's exactly will happen if we followed your dumbass cut and run attitude.
you can't do business in a country on the scale yahoo does, and not have a local presence. not to mention they probably need to locate servers there to keep data costs down.
Thats the kind of nonsense anti globalisation freaks spout all the time, and it's just not true.
if big business is so terrible, then why are we more prosperous then ever before? people have more money and are better off then they have ever been. just look at the rise of china and india as an example.
for all the fear mongering going on, if your honest with yourself you'll admit life is pretty good for most people, and getting better for the ones who aren't as well off (unless you some kind of self inflicting moron that is)
it's true that companys want to make money, but that's about all you got right. companies are run by people, and in this day and age for these heads of companys who make millions money isn't a big deal to them. whats more important is reputation. just look at how much bill gates is spending to build a reputation as a humanitarian, at the end of the day once you get past the billions of dollars he is just a normal person who wants other people to like him and remmeber him for his good work.
big business brings everyone up with them and it can only be a good thing.
SO me a post where anyone has said anything GOOD about the chinese government?
yahoo might be dicks for handing over that information, but it's not like they had a lot of options. I'm not familar with yahoo's operations but i'm guessing the data was housed in chinese territory, so the government would have just taken it by force if they refused.
and it sounds like this lantos guy needed calling out to begin with.
i'm pretty sure if a civilization has reached a greater level of technology then us they wouldn't be hostile.
at worst they may look down on us like we look down on cats or dogs, but they wouldn't need to go to war with us. earth doesn't have any resources that make it unquie in the universe besides it's living conditions, and i'm sure if they have solved space travel artifical conditions are no problem for them.
pfft please. the more data you buy the cheaper it gets. if i can score 100gig on a 10meg pipe for $69/mo with hardware rental i'm sure someone with 10's of thousands to spend can do a lot better.
contry to what teleco's would have you believe in consumer land, there is no shortage of bandwidth.
assuming your estimate of 1tb in the first few days is correct, they only need 12 or so decent servers on 100mbit pipes, which is not hard to find at all. they probably paid through the nose for their billing service, but so what - it would have been pocket change compared to the millions they made.
bandwidth costs fuck all. seriously i can rent a server with 100gig/mo limit for $69/mo including the hardware.... so i'm guessing bandwidth and hardware costs were just a side note, lets be generous and say $10,000.
in addition to that they probably had to fork over that much again to someone to manage the site and it's cc gateway etc etc. then i'm sure there would have been many misc costs i don't know about, but it'd be a pretty good guess to say it cost them $100,000USD.
2 things about that. firstly they made a hell of a profit, secondly they made a hell of a profit.
sure it's because their a well known band, but the internet is a cheap way for new bands to break in.
"instead hiring and training those who will tow the party line"
What a load of spin.
and your trying to tag google as irresponsible because people might catch trojans? welcome to the fucking world. nothing on earth is going to prevent people willingly running annakornakova.jpg.exe.
to suggest google is somehow negligent in this area is too retarded for words.
it's just a platform, google has some serious hardware backers though. from googles point of view it's a great move, all they have to produce is software which they are really good at, and someone else takes the risk of producing the actual phones. It would also open up more places for them to shove adsense, which is their cash maker.
consumers will be the winners because it's a serious competitor to at&t and their outrageous charges, it opens up the possiblity of an adsense supported phone, and because google is doing it microsoft will do it giving us even more competition.
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Apple and Sun are a very small % of the computer using population, and not a good dataset do they make.
the main advantage is freeing our hands. if we walked on our hands we would never had used tools.
the trend now is for everything be automated with no human intervention or interaction, and we are seeing more and more cases of people not treating each other with respect or valuing life, and i think it's because we lack that social contact in most of our dealings.
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all studies and figures point to a slowing population growth and a population that levels out at 20 billion, which is certainly not an unsustainable level.
The reason being that as the population grows, it grows in wealth and education which results in less of the world being poor and NEEDING 10 kids to look after them in their old age.
20 billion is definately not too many for the planet either. if you look at how increasingly better the people of the world's lifestyles are becoming, it's obvious that we have enough resources to sustain us.
I suspect it's to do with the poor living conditions of the people and their close proximity to wild animals.
remmeber asia is also a vector for deseases crossing the species barrier due to the fact humans there live in crowded homes with their livestock. eg. SARS which came from chickens.
when a virus crosses a species barrier it's suddenly found a new host without defenses and who isn't adapted to it, so it spreads like wild fire and kills quickly.
sounds like a decent use for the technology. most of these outbreaks occur as a result of some environmental change
with 911 there came the sudden realisation that the USA was a target, and that you could no longer sit from afar and push the button and make the bombs rain.
actually it's a very valid point that israel is a very aggresive country, has very extreme religous views and is also the only ones with nukes. They are a prime candidate for kicking off a nuclear war.
Nixon was a monster, he deserves a tarring and feathering all of his own.
Oh so your in favour of pulling out of iraq and leaving millions of innocent people to be murdered and tourtured by insurgents, simply because they might have done business with the americans? because that's exactly will happen if we followed your dumbass cut and run attitude.
you can't do business in a country on the scale yahoo does, and not have a local presence. not to mention they probably need to locate servers there to keep data costs down.
if big business is so terrible, then why are we more prosperous then ever before? people have more money and are better off then they have ever been. just look at the rise of china and india as an example.
for all the fear mongering going on, if your honest with yourself you'll admit life is pretty good for most people, and getting better for the ones who aren't as well off (unless you some kind of self inflicting moron that is)
it's true that companys want to make money, but that's about all you got right. companies are run by people, and in this day and age for these heads of companys who make millions money isn't a big deal to them. whats more important is reputation. just look at how much bill gates is spending to build a reputation as a humanitarian, at the end of the day once you get past the billions of dollars he is just a normal person who wants other people to like him and remmeber him for his good work.
big business brings everyone up with them and it can only be a good thing.
yahoo might be dicks for handing over that information, but it's not like they had a lot of options. I'm not familar with yahoo's operations but i'm guessing the data was housed in chinese territory, so the government would have just taken it by force if they refused.
and it sounds like this lantos guy needed calling out to begin with.
besides, it's not yahoo's place to bring freedom to the people, and it's stupid to suggest that should be their purpose.
at worst they may look down on us like we look down on cats or dogs, but they wouldn't need to go to war with us. earth doesn't have any resources that make it unquie in the universe besides it's living conditions, and i'm sure if they have solved space travel artifical conditions are no problem for them.
contry to what teleco's would have you believe in consumer land, there is no shortage of bandwidth.
assuming your estimate of 1tb in the first few days is correct, they only need 12 or so decent servers on 100mbit pipes, which is not hard to find at all. they probably paid through the nose for their billing service, but so what - it would have been pocket change compared to the millions they made.
in addition to that they probably had to fork over that much again to someone to manage the site and it's cc gateway etc etc. then i'm sure there would have been many misc costs i don't know about, but it'd be a pretty good guess to say it cost them $100,000USD.
2 things about that. firstly they made a hell of a profit, secondly they made a hell of a profit.
sure it's because their a well known band, but the internet is a cheap way for new bands to break in.
yeah right qmail is so secure, because it's so horrible to use and so under featured it's not even a target.
What a load of spin.
and your trying to tag google as irresponsible because people might catch trojans? welcome to the fucking world. nothing on earth is going to prevent people willingly running annakornakova.jpg.exe.
to suggest google is somehow negligent in this area is too retarded for words.
i'd strongly advise you don't throw that stone in anyones direction least it fly back and hit you in the head.
consumers will be the winners because it's a serious competitor to at&t and their outrageous charges, it opens up the possiblity of an adsense supported phone, and because google is doing it microsoft will do it giving us even more competition.
verizon and at&t don't want to partener with them! what a shock.....
I don't know about you, but i've never had a condom fall off, maybe you have micro penis?