And what else has gotten out of control these days is basic cost of living expenses disproportionately distorted in unnatural ways. Who remembers this good old prayer, when people's, like most other lifeforms' daily preoccupation was food?
"Our Father
The prayer which Jesus Christ taught to His disciples. Traditional version:
Our Father, Who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name;
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Newer version:
Our Father, Who is in heaven,
Holy is Your Name;
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sin against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
The Our Father is based on these passages from the Bible: Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4."
I think that is an incorrect revision, when it should not be the linguistics that needs revised, but the content. It should really read something like this:
Our Father, Who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name;
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this month our mortgage and insurance payments,
and forgive us our late payments,
as we forgive those who pay late to us;
and lead us not into more debt,
but deliver us from bankruptcy. Amen.
That south facing roof might be able to get the cold water warmer if it has a vacuum insulating solar heater, but it's not gonna give hot water in the wintertime, in face water coming from below the frost line might be warmer than the one in the roof panels, which infrared-thermal exchange heat with the environment. You can also get photovoltaic panels, and these don't do much on a cloudy winter day, and even on very sunny winter days they only have so many hours of daylight savings time, and only so many of vertically hitting solar rays, as opposed to low angle east or west rising or setting sun. You could probably power a 200W home on such solar panels, meaning a low power laptop computer, a superhigh efficiency refrigerator, and one 23 W fluorescent or 10x 1W LED lightbulbs. For the fridge, which kicks in intermittently, you'd have to have a battery bank with decent capacity, to collect the excess power during when it does not work. Forget hair dryers, or electric heating or cooking appliances, and get a propane camping stove and barbecue camping cylinders for cooking, or you can do it on your billow drum stove. But having electricity enough to run computers, lights and the fridge independent of utility companies might be worth the roof photovoltaic solar, which, by the way are abnormally expensive, like you can get some for $40 directly from China for which you have to pay $300 in the USA, the difference of course being mostly profit margin of the dealers, because of very high demand of everyone being on the bandwagon, and this Slashdot post does not help drop those prices either, but might be done actually by the dealers who don't have enough customers.
By the way if you're doing heating of any kind in the winter, it's worth to also do water distillation at the same time, for which you get the fuel for free, and you can eliminate the toxins, drugs and diseases Da Man intentionally puts into your water supply to make you addicted to and dependent on bottled water, which is a necessity for life, so in the future very severe price abuses are possible, and even these days it's an extremely extremely profitable business, when pop with sugar and energy in it sells about the same price and plain clean cheap water. Da Man does not want you to know about this, which is why distilled water is by far the cheapest in stores of all bottled water, not because it's cheap to make, but if that's what you want to drink, they don't want you to DIY. Also, good distillation pots sized for the heating needs of a home - a simple metal pot with a tight light and a very long heat exchanger copper tubing, air cooled for good house heating purposes - bought online cost like $500-$10000, insane, when they should cost $20-100. Like this one http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AR... that would need a very long copper coil extension to it, with possibly a fan blowing across it, to adequatly hand over the heat and heat the house, while also doing distillation with that heat, at least in the wintertime, summertime cloth dryer heat may be more difficult to harvest through a distillation step first. They can also be used to distill alcohol, which may be illegal, or may be illegal to do it if you sell it to others, but may be possible for your own consumption, it's very complicated, including even having an Amendment of the US Constitution banning alcohol near 1920, then another Amendment put it just to repeal that ban, to set up a precedent, where we can start meddling with the holy and sacred of all Amendments, the Bill of Rights, represented by the first 10, such as the 2nd amendment Da Man in charge really likes to poke at, the right to self defense and the right to overthrow a corrupt government, because he's in charge, he knows he's corrupt, and he constantly worries about being overthrown, so he wants to take the tools away from the population, but it's a very difficult topic. But there you go,
Yeah I had to say that where I live the government openly attacks its citizens private properties by demolishing their houses, sending them a bill over it, or threatening them with a foreclosure and messed up credit, then when that's paid, they come out and cut the grass one day after you cut it, and send you a bill over it, again, threatening with heavy penalty fees and foreclosure if you don't pay it. Fuck the government. It's like I rape your preteen daughter, then I murder her before your eyes, then I send you a bill for the effort I exerted doing it when you could have done it yourself, and if you don't pay, I'll put a foreclosure on your credit. It's like the floodgates are totally open on how the government attacks you. Including faked driving records. How the fuck are you supposed to make ends meet? And where are your reserves for when you get sick and need to recuperate at home? Let alone go to a hospital, where the doctors sometimes have no clue, and instead of disinfectants, antibiotics and chemo and x-ray and gamma ray they should be doing the opposite, letting you be with healthy bacteria, spread by healthy bugs livig on healthy weed wild flowers. So going to the hospital has been the instant ticket to bankruptcy for most citizens, and now with that excuse we get Obamacare raping the government funds over mandatory overpriced insurance policies, that don't directly pay hospital stays, but instead they pay huge profits into insurance company pockets, above and beyond skyscraper building expenses and IT infrastructure to keep trak of all the useless fine print policy mess, of, we're sorry, but you should have read the fine print, we gave you the illusion that we're covering that medical expense, but in our interpretation, we really don't, we just like to make money, we just like to take your money, and not pay for the medical expenses. How are you supposed to keep it together economically when the government intentionally drives you into the dirt? I know, you're supposed to be a bitch to the man and allowing him to utilize your talents more fully and still be stuck like slave in a tiny ass rental place where everybody comes and goes for bullshit "inspections" without warrants. It's like back in the day landlords, the nobility, took 10% of what you had, in exchange for providing military defense, and military research, and people called that 10% unfair, rebelled against it, especially, when, in times of war, the nobility ran away and it was left to them to do the defense of the homeland too with their own pitchforks, scythes, picks and axes. But how does the 10% tax rate compare to today's tax rates? The sales tax alone is almost 10%, on top of which come income tax, property tax, mortgage interest, mortgage insurance, car insurance, now they are trying to mandate health insurance purchase, by at first the government paying it in your name, all you have to pay is 10%, but when the national debt is so high the government can no longer pay, and the status quo has been established that everyone must buy or be jailed, you'll have to pay the whole $900/mo per family of four etc, out of which 500 goes to the sky scrapers, pretty cunt employees in those sky scrapers, computer professionals, and plain business profit, and only 400 to actual hospitals or healthcare expenses. When back then you had an almost straightforward 10% sales tax, and the nobility fed off of that, and people thought it was unfair because they did not do anything for that money. It's like today you're an even bigger de facto serf or de facto slave even if not officially carrying such a title. It's like renting is mandatory, and if you focus on avoiding it at all cost, including sleeping in a fucking tent in the middle of the woods, they attack you any fucking way they got, including suspending your license over some bullshit child support payments missed? Me? Child support payments? It's like they are trying to jinx me, because I've been very careful about perfect credit, and they can't fucking hang the hottest chicks on me or children (and I c
I wanna see you do solar water as the backbone of all energy supply needs in a multistory apartment high rise, where everyone owns a tiny area of the roof. It just ain't gonna happen buddy. Solar does not have the energy density required to even heat your home on it from a tiny area. As a reference, to put things into perspective, during the Irish Potato Blight Famine in the 1840's, that drove massive amounts of Catholic Christian English speaking immigrants into the dominantly Protestant Christian United States, (together with lots of Catholic Italians), so that famine might have had some sabotage or intentional aspects to it by the powers that be, but it pretty much went down on a family of 5 people owning an average of 7 acres of land, which was enough for 1 team of oxen to plow each season, but the only crop possible to grow on it was the potato, because it was the most efficient and energy dense in that climate, and growing anything else would have meant starvation. So when it comes to food supplies, you're dealing roughly with 7 acres being at the edge of starvation for 1840's organic, oxen power based agriculture. You're not gonna get 7 acres of rooftop per family in an apartment complex, to sustain themselves independently. Only yeoman farmers have a chance of independent existence, city dwellers are pretty much dependent on external resources for all their food and energy supplies, which they are supposed to earn through creativity, through creating science, arts, machinery, things that farmers or miners are willing to pay for and give them food and energy for it. For instance farmers are happy to buy a cheap tractor and diesel oil for it if it's more efficient and less costly in doing the work than a team of oxen is. That is pretty much your only way to energy independence, or a sustainable local independence of other countries, it comes through your farmers and miners, and in concentrated city places you're pretty much stuck competing with other countries like China or Mexico or Bangladesh in making such things as chips, music, clothes, kitchen utensils and tools, and even cars and tractors eventually. Good luck with that. For anything you can do there is a teenage prodigy in China's 1,300 million person population vs.8.7 million of say, Austria, who can do it at least as well as you can but also 10x cheaper. You cannot put your hope in a city economy under such intense global competition and the only answer is self sufficiency, yeoman farmer style.
In the meantime, for winter heat, I suggest getting an old oil burning stove, and saving your plastic jugs you buy your water and drinks and food supplies in, crush them down into a stack, like a firewood stack, and every time you get no natural gas or oil, start up your stove, with a vent through your window, and light some candles, and enjoy some food like rice or grain that keeps without a fridge, in absence of electricity. It's not that complicated. Those plastic containers are the most chemically energy dense materials humans have ever come across, slightly better than diesel and gasoline, but in the same ballpark, and Sweden and similar countries are addicted to it, and cannot import fast enough the waste and trash to satisfy their addiction. A wood burning stove is not quite gonna do it, because it would drip the molten plastic through the ash grate, nor an oil burning stove that has conduits and valves and special burners, I'm talking of an oil burning stove that looks like a metal barrel, a billow drum you toss trash into, cap it with the exhaust so that the smoke goes out the window, and lead the exhaust long way roundabout the room so you don't sent the hot air outside, but it gets a chance to heat transfer into the room air through a highly extended exhaust surface area. That's a common issue with a whole lot of stoves and heating devices that exhaust smoke to the outside, they barely present any surface area for heat exchange. That includes my own furnace in my apartment, which, according to the lease, the landlord forbids me to modify. And it
Then humans become hackable objects just like other computer systems, and instead of internet denial of service attacks, all of a sudden you have a rebellion and mass shootings everywhere, from hacked humans containing a virus that activates on some zero day, and overthrows a government. Then "all your bases are belong to us" including your human security guards, that unbeknownst to you have also been hacked long time ago. And then imagine artificial intelligence doing all this. Who can you trust? The only VHS movies I have for now, that I watched, are Screamers (1996, the best AI movie ever), Collateral Damage, and The Last Mohican. All have themes on the who can you really trust topic, though the last one very little of it, and it's mostly a taste of the world of nobility vs. hillbillies, and, btw, it messes up bigtime by not showing hillbillies with crappy weapons and indians with bows and arrows, and the nobility with high tech guns, so it was obviously created by someone partial to native americans, but it's still very educational. I'm on the hunt for more VHS stuff as long as it's not braided recent Disney crap (oldschool Disney like Tom and Jerry, Donald Duck, and the like, is awesome, compared to the new stuff and Disney knows that too, which is why we keep getting copyright extensions perpetually.) For instance one item on my huntlist is Jeremiah Johnson, with Robert Redford. I would also not mind some Gregory Peck, Perry Mason and Matlock (from a time when legal profession and common sense justice was taken with some kind of seriousness, at least the illusion of it provided in movies), and even All in the Family episodes. I'm not really into Rambo or Total Recall type movies though, but I like westerns with gunfights, I find the macho posing right before pulling the gun and shooting fast very funny. Similarly are funny the asian martial arts movies where some girl tries to avenge her father's murder, and she fights off thousands of soldiers sent against her, one at a time, or a couple at a time, like one against 10,000, and she keeps winning, and she's really hot as she bites her braided hair between her teeth while doing karate. Very funny stuff.
I loooove working 3rd shift repetitive minimum wage jobs. It's all very tranquil, peaceful, with the managers and bosses not around, not very crowded, compared to even 2nd or especially 1st shift, and the people you work with are usually not cocky, aggressive or arrogant, they are just there like you to earn a living, not seeking too much excitement or novelty in the process, and they are often very helpful towards you so that the whole place can just get yet another day smoothly over with. I love working mostly alone, highly repetitive jobs, with the machines humming in the background, which, once you got the motions and timings of the motions figured out, and try to follow them like a dance, to where it's obvious something is out of sequence, out of step, so once you got it figured out into a dance with proper timings, you can set your mind absolutely free flying high over the emerald greens, and you can be thousands of miles away mentally from your present physical location, while still doing an accurate job. It's like the people who go dumb doing such work don't know how to properly daydream, how to keep their mind sharp even amidst tranquility. On prime example would be, I believe it was Andre Ampere, who used to derive formulas in his mind while walking, then when they got complicated, he'd write them in chalk on the back of a taxi-horsecart back in those days, and even follow the horse cart as it moved, and sometimes he'd run after it, to much amusement of the parisiennes. He kept his mind sharp daydreaming.
I also looove repetitive, boring and uneventful shift work, because of the peace of mind it affords in another sense, in the intellectual property sense. Freedom of mind is very important to me, above almost anything else. Almost any job these days comes with a default intellectual property agreement concocted up by the legal cocksuckers, and I no longer sign intellectual property agreements with my employers unless they are meaningless, and if I was forced to sign one, I will actively seek not to create anything relating to the topic at hand in an intellectual property sense. How can you say you "own" my thoughts and I'm no longer free to think them, or discuss them with anyone? That goes directly against the very first amendment of the Constitution, the right to freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech and freedom of expression. I don't believe people should be able to claim property rights over thoughts, over things of intellectual nature. There was no such contraption over 200 some years before the present, and it was concocted, created out of nothing as a means to reward the creators of things of intellectual nature, but the whole shit got so out of hand in the present era, that the abuse part seems to way outdo the benefits part. Just like nobility and monarchism was invented to allow for a stable government with a good leadership, who, by a country and the people living in it being private property, or "loyal subjects" to them, would hopefully take care of the country and their subjects, seeking their best interest. However this turned out not to be the case, and the benefits of good leadership from the country being property, vs. the disadvantages brought on by abuse of such property rights, made the founding fathers of this country proclaim that we no longer believe in birthrights and privileges by birth, and we believe all men are created equal in their rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, as opposed to nobles possessing special privileges in this rights, from birth, and others being slave-like subjects to them. Similarly we can cite the abuses of allowing and granting property rights in things of intellectual nature. Especially when the creators are not properly rewarded, instead there is this whole parasitic layer of society created engaging in exploiting both the creators without proper rewards, and the public with outrageous prices, all the while becoming the richest people that have ever walked on the surface of the planet. And they don't stop there,
Not anymore. They routinely don't do it anymore, since the breakup of the Soviet Union, and some simmering time in the 90's, antitrust regulations are out the door, companies like AT&T that were told to break up into Baby Bells to compete with each other in the interests of the general public, are back with a vengeance, and, for a while they were puzzled that their landlines are no longer as valuable as in the 70's, they are after the other communication networks, such as physically owning all cell towers anywhere possible, and also having a single dominant position in fiber to the home against coax to the home cable companies, of which there are at least 2 or 3 left, to kind of compete, but not within each other's territories, as each is a natural monopoly in their domain, and AT&T would be crazy to become a coax pimping cable company and viewed as such, compared to what they have now, unfettered access into each cable company's territory with their U-verse fiber lines, in effect, setting up for the time when data speeds required collapse the coax companies, as everyone moves unto the broadband broadband of fiber optics, as opposed to the broadband of copper coax cable or copper dsl, just like people moved from dialup to broadband, leaving AOL with dialup only subscriptions to rot in the dirt. Then AT&T is gonna be the one and only controlling all information into your home, through owning the fiberoptic leading into your home and all internet, tv, landline phone through it, and also owning all the cellular towers near you. In effect they will completely control your life, your online banking, online bill pay, etc, when walk to the bank and walk into a building ways of paying will no longer be available because of cost, just like everywhere I go I can no longer find pay phones on the streets, like I was able to make calls from, even in 2007. They are gone, and so may be gone things like walk in bank branches, when AT&T controls all your ways of paying things online.
Similar gripes go against other natural monopoly behaviors like gas utility companies charging you outrageous minimum monthly fees to have service available at all, let loose around the turn of the century, near when 9/11 and the oppression of the population it created was orchestrated, with after shots like the Boston Marathon bombing, to keep justifying the oppression, the warrantless searches, all citizen's rights flying out the window in the name of national security.
So, if the US and the rest of the world no longer controls and regulates their monopolies like they are supposed to, and let them run rampant on price abuse and citizen's rights abuse, why should China behave, when it's in its national interest too not to do so? Why should they not "bring home the money" if the US does not regulate monopolies like Microsoft, in fact encourage them too to increase prices and bring home the money from China and the EU, the EU still making naive efforts to regulate Microsoft from a distance, and you end up with some Windows Start Menu options of choose your browser, which, when you tried them, years ago, they'd still keep reverting back to the Microsoft shit regardless. So there is this international we don't give a fuck about what's right in some theoretical, abstract justice way, all we care about is what brings home the money, and fills our pockets the fastest. So China says, OK, tit for tat. If you do that too, then I do it too.
There is no international agreement of any sort in place regulating any kind of global monopolies, as far as I know, ratified by major global industrial nations. Even the Kyoto protocol was signed by a whole lot of countries, the USA being a major exception, never agreeing to the Kyoto protocol, so even if there were such a global, monopoly regulating international agreement, the US, or China, could opt not to sign it. Like India was recently a major player not signing some international farming regulation agreements.
The EFF has become a free advertising grounds for Da Man now. Just like union bosses were actually relatives of Da Man, they sneak up and wriggle their ways up in these organizations pretending to defend the interest of unions or the public against the interests of Da Man, and once in key leadership positions, they can levarage and moderate the living life out of unions til they are all dead or lobotomized carcasses that still kick around and collect union dues without actually providing high paying jobs or any tangible benefit in return, all the while fucking up the whole country, shortsightedly laying waste the whole economy, just so that Da Man, one person, or a few people, a minor percentage of the population, can make more money, temporarily. Fuck the corrupt EFF pretending to protect the interests of the public. Fuck Adobe DRM. Fuck any DRM for that matter. Fuck the DMCA. To this day I refuse to watch a single DVD movie because it contains DRM. And I have the right to boycott DRM in my life like that, and I will try to live out the rest of my life without ever watching a single region coded and similar DRM carrying DVD. An exception of course would be a data disk containing nonDRM videos, without regions codes and the like.
What's really needed is some people in the government with some spines, who can nationalize these abusive private companies like Adobe, Microsoft, in fact all utility companies or monopolies, USRA style, and divide them up and re privatize them to other people who are not as unscrupulously conspiring like these fuckers, and who would actually compete against each other, know how to exercise self restraint when it goes against the interests of the public, and actually create useful stuff instead of concocting ways of how to put the rest of the population into even more restrictive bondage, and how to tap the creative energy, and channel the rewards from that into their own pocket, like the richest guys on the planet, a prime example being Bill Gates, a college dropout, who never created anything other than schemes of sucking out more money from creative people, and in return, from the rest of the population. What did Bill Gates create? GW BASIC? That's another run of the mill BASIC, which was originally created by Janos Kemeny and Tom Kurtz. The real creators of the early computing systems were Gary Kildall, with a PHD in computer science, who created the BIOS and DOS, the employees at Xerox who created Windows/GUI systems, with phd's, and the guys at DEC, with phd's, working on VMS who created the NT preemptive multitasking kernel that finally avoids constant blue-screening so common back in the 90's with windows. All the while making the choice to stay away from the overly complex and resource abusing C++, and stick with the simple and robust C for the windows API, but these days we have unimaginable bloat of java and dotnet, way beyond C++, and all the code made since about 2002 is pure raw shit and garbage, and they still want to shove it down your throat and extort billions for it. No thank you, take your fucking recently created software and shit code eat it yourself. All the while loading it up with more and more gargantuan control schemes like DRM, activation, etc. And they are looking for creative employees to exploit as coding slaves, not stopping themselves from intentionally infecting people with life threatening diseases, or making them wheelchair bound handicaps, by forcing them into intentional accidents, like a remote control car with a smooth power steering, so smooth that sometimes, on the highway, it steers opposite of the steering wheel, just to land you in a crash and make you wheelchair bound. Just so they have no other means of making a living then coding for them. These guys won't stop at anything. If anything these owners at Microsoft and Adobe need to be infected and forced to be wheelchair bound and handicapped, to get a little taste of their own medicine. And now their are trying to fix up their public image and goodwill by "philantropy", donating half a bill
These short average stature Asians built the Great Wall and the deadly and treacherous Rocky Mountain portion of the US Transcontinental Railroad, while the taller Europeans only built the flat prairie piece of cake parts. The Chinese can be obsessed workaholics. Maybe they can pull off building a centrifugal artificial gravity rotating cylinder floored self sustaining/farming Great Space Station which can accommodate free roaming kangaroos hopping around and giraffes eating from tall trees in their zoo / sky city jungle parks, beside much of the rest of the Noah's Ark animals. They want to call is Sky City, but I think a city is not big enough to accommodate all of Noah's creatures to where they feel free roaming around freely. Such as aquariums for whales, sharks, killer whales, corals, etc. It's got to be huuuuge. But if successful, I expect the Moon to be gone within about 500 years, so take a good look at it, maybe some pictures to leave for future generations. Then the Muslims will have to find something else to put on their flags, else their kids will keep asking them what that symbol is on the flag. I just hope if the Chinese pull it off they don't make other people learn Chinese, because their alphabet is really difficult compared to the 26 alphabet English. I much prefer English, maybe a future modernized version of it that spells more phonetically. Like what's the point of spelling accommodate with so many computer memor, printer ink and time wasting letters? Speling it as acomodate wud b fin. Texters are evolving the language in that direction, shorthand becoming more and more mainstream than b4.
Yes, they did worry about that. They worried about urbanization, where everyone is slave to an employer, who controls their vote, and instead they wanted to create a Jeffersonian democracy of yeoman farmers. Even Washington, when he could have crowned himself Emperor of the United States Colonies, like Napoleon did in France, instead he returned his mandate of general of the military, and said he was going back to his farm. That was totally unexpected, and even King George of England said that Washington was the greatest man alive that he did that. They recalled him to be the first president, but after 4 years he saw where that was going, and started the custom of 4 year terms only for top leaders of this country, which of course has its pluses and minuses, one of the minuses being, that being in charge temporarily, they don't care for long term consequences of what happens to the country, instead they seek near term gains for themselves and their buddies who helped them get elected.
"It's those that demand change that need to justify themselves." This is basic common sense, and tradition. Maybe those who pimp systemd so aggressively, and assault the conservatives over their reluctance to change, need to read the Declaration of Independence. To help them out, here is a full text of it.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing
Which is why an oldschool fanless 486DX 33 with thick tracks in the silicon and relatively low heat generation or internal erosion, or even a fanned DX2-66 running Win95 with Acrobat 3 may outlast many of these modern fast cpus. It's all about feature size and electromigration and diffusion of silicon, and the more fanless the design, the less the heat generation, and better the longevity. Even if the 486 is far slower that my tastes require, and I've mostly become a collector of fan needing x86 CPU-based laptops and computers made between 1998 and 2005, which still run Win2K decently, the last version of Windows that works without activation, with video cards my tastes fall short of most people's requirements. My favorite video cards to this day are the nVidia Geforce 2 MX400, wiith 32 or 64MB memory, as they are fast enough even for DirectX 6 games, but they don't need fans. Before then, for Win95 was the Tseng Labs ET6000 2D-only cards, all Made in USA, but they have limited memory and limited screen resolutions from that. I also heard good things about Matrox 2D quality, Made in Canada. Back in the day you used to have a 3dfx standalone card for 3d, and if you were not playing around with 3d, you could always pull it from the motherboard. At least they could just unpower the 3d part of a video card for most usual 2D tasks such as reading a PDF, or typing on Slashdot should not require fancy 3d video instructions, in an ideal world, unfortunately these days even Slashdot is loaded with Flash ads that make the computer quiver and collapse on its knees from the overload of instructions it has to process, simply to usher everyone to upgrade, upgrade, throw your old computer away and spend some computing money into our pockets, says the computing people, and fuck with your old stuff on purpose. Back in the day there was a respect for the market and the customer, including making color TV backward compatible with black and white TV, to protect the accumulated wealth and investment of the customer, and only as many color TVs were manufactures and the customer requested or had funds available for, not by forced killing of old stuff, like it's so customary these days. Microsoft or Apple or any of the top computing companies these days would no longer make a decision to stay backward compatible with black and white television if that decision were left up to them. Their argument is that we have these hundreds of thousands of programmers working for us that we have to feed. What if the color TV standard designers back in the day used that argument, we have hundreds of thousands of people working in our TV factories and they'll go hungry if we don't purposely make black and white TV's obsolete and fucked with our new standard? Yes you have a right to exist, but you should cut back and adjust yourself to true customer needs while protecting the customers investments, as opposed to arrogantly attacking his investments just so you can make more money. Adam Smith's self interest as the ultimate best collective benefit guiding principle is fucking great. Even in XP you had an effort for backward compatibility all the way back to the earliest MS DOS things, and if those did not work, because direct hardware access was forbidden, and booting to DOS was no longer possible after Win98, the customers bitched. One of the values of Windows is being a standard of DOS in the 80's and Windows in the 90's, and the billions or trillions of investment into custom software that went into that, and once Microsoft is actively pulling the rug from these investments by pimping non backward compatible new shit, they are also actively pulling the rug from under themselves, because if the software has to be rewritten, it's no longer a top choice to write it for the abusive, lessons learned Windows platform, if you can help it. There is an active drive even from Microsoft to completely abandon the x86 platform which has trillions invested into it, and ditch Intel and AMD over low power Arm, where, the low power and long battery life and low electric bi
The real issue is getting customers used to abandoning their offline storage devices and keeping all their data on the cloud. The first step is of course just using the cloud as a remote backup against a fire or accidents that wipe out all your local storage, and that's a big step for Da Man who can thus inspect all the data you own, and adjust his strategies against you based on what kind of counter ammo you possess against him if dragged in court. In court one of the issues is not going off your memory, but records, and those records are fluent in the hands of Da Man, he can modify them at please. Only what you remember, however vague and fallible your memory is, is what you can truly rely on, not records on a forgeable piece of paper or records inside chips or magnetic stores. Once you get used to keeping a backup copy of all your data on the Cloud, then the assault of constantly failing portable off line storage devices begins, and eventually you just give up trying to keep your data in your hand, because the devices break the bank on expense, and constantly fail on you anyway. Especially when they all become non-magnetic, non optical, but chip based. Eventually computers and smart phones will refuse to connect to portable storage devices, because those won't know the rolling, daily rotating schedule cloud password, which may be impossible to crack in the chip. But to make all this transition to total world domination by Da Man happen, Microsoft should actually bribe and pay like $10,000/year/seat to all their new customers, and people should resist accepting that cloud storage deal anyway, because that's how much liberty they are sacrificing by it, but you can bet your ass people would sign up just to get the money, and pretend they are using it when they are really not, and slowly, little by little, they'd become dependent on it. Then the blackmailing of cloud addicts begins to get ransom for their data held hostage. This kind of free promotional period is also standard business practice by drug dealers. Near schools, or near lots of unaddicted but potentially lucrative customers, during the promotional period the drugs, crack, pot, heroin, are all free, the first time. Then the blackmailing begins later, to recoup the initial investment and generate a business profit.
Actually, the whole remote access to your computer is not software or operating system specific. It happens in FreeDOS, Linux, Win2K, WinXP, etc, which makes you think it's actually the hardware itself doing it. All I know the Intel 440BX running Pentium 3's on a Gigabyte 6GA7+ feels rigged, in fact I remember really strange things on my Abit BH6 I bought online in 1998 acting really crazy on me in 2005 in ReactOS, Knoppix 3.6 linux 2.4 kernel, and Windows 2000, (thought it may have been later replaced with a rigged motherboard by people entering my home where I was renting.) So how far back do you need to go to get an unrigged, reliable hardware computer that has no remote access built in, and it's x86 instruction based? Perhaps a 486 DX2 66 might still be OK, but starting with Pentium 60, and with the start of name fighting that AMD and Cyrix and Winchip could no longer copy, perhaps other fighting began too, such as hardware remote access, at least through ethernet, because wireless networking was not available yet back then. These days the only secure way to use modern Intel, AMD, or even ARM based computers is to be completely off grid, off network, away from the Internet or any kind of cellular service or satellite signal, and lock yourself into a good Faraday cage, from which, even if data leaks out, no data can come in. Such as a deep underground cavern or cave or abandoned mine covered by dense, moist and heavy earth or rock above you. But on the internet, or in a densely populated city permeated by stray WIFI signals, you are hopeless, because Da Man is lurking inside your computer, sees everything you see, logs everything you do, and wants you to use encryption, so he can see what you do, what your passwords are, etc, and especially see what you would want to hide, in a sense, what you claim yourself guilty about. Then he has ammo in court against you, because you confessed up to him your dirty laundry. Best policy is not to use encryption - if you have private pictures, so what if someone else in the world sees them? Once I worked at a place that in the 40's used to be called US Rubber, and came across this box of black and white photos of people, banquets, festivals and dinners, and I did not have a feeling of violating someone's privacy or what not by looking at those pictures. If they were nude pictures of some female coworkers still alive, even working with me, that might have been a different story, but if they are dead people, or even nude pictures of women who are 80 today, but they looked really hot in the nude 60 years ago when they were 20, well, that's like a different story.
With the oldschool dumb RS232 port you did not need this messed up zoo of USB id's, which are pretty superfluous, just a communication protocol of baud, stop bits, parity, flow control/handshake. If you wanted to find out what device you were talking to, once you set the baud rate and such, you could find out by issuing special commands to it, such as the Hayes modem commands, and it could ID itself like that, but the port itself, or the computer, needed no drivers and keeping track of all this stupid USB id bullshit. If they made the USB port backward compatible with RS232, in a ground, rx, tx way of 3.5 mm RS232 adaptors (and in case a device needs hardware handshake instead of xon/xoff or no handshake, you can manually tie the 9 or 25 pin connector handshake lines together so it self handshakes, as some kind of workaround), we could all ignore this other USB bullshit, or even USB drivers at all that every operating system, or OS upgrade, needs a special version of, and instead everyone could be using the RS232 protocol built into the USB chip at 480,000,000 baud, or bps, talking to portable hard drives and what not with ease.
The caveat is of course artificial intelligence development, and physical real world access of such AI through computer ports from very high computing power cpu's, and also such things as easy automation around the world by idiots taking over the world, and this is how you fight back, they disrespect basic decencies of how we abuse the system in the way we breed out of control, or commit crimes to take over jobs, it's kind of a racial or tribal fight between different people, and this is how some people, who respect the system otherwise, fight back "unfairly" on the computing front, making it difficult or impossible to use or understand computers easily. I mean imagine the 3rd world taking away all jobs because they can find easy ways of automation, through super high speed RS232 protocol talking USB ports.
By the way, there is a caveat against absolute democracy, or total lack of nobility, so to speak. The nobility tends to be smart, and able to create lots of high tech wealth, such as computing, even if they are very inbred. In a yeoman farmer society one might be able to grow his own food, but may not have computers, stereo equipment, or cellphones at all, kinda like in the communist Soviet Union, you might be stuck in the past technologically, where people want to, but they can't, make stuff like computers, or electronics. In essence the wealth extracted "unfairly" from the rest of the population through abuses of power and property control is what makes it worth to those people doing it to keep providing high tech weapons for national defense, technology, electronics, etc. In fact I witnessed the closure of a union rubber plant in the US, relocating to Mexico, paying $5/day there instead of the $17.85/hr uniform across the board pay to every union worker here (I was getting a nonunion clerk's pay in the offices), regardless if they were the janitor or reactor operator or warehouse worker, and the whole thing really happened because the union people had their mindsets distorted, there was only 100 of them when there used to be 200, so they assumed the right to overtime was normal, and it ended up where often nothing was done during the 8 hrs of regular work, and any actual work was used as an excuse for overtime, in effect, the whole place was like a clubhouse you show up to chitchat about politics and what not, instead of a regular job. In essence you should work smart, not hard, and you can sit on your ass if you got it figured out - or work your butt off if you're an idiot, any job in the world is easy if you know what you're doing, but you can make it hard if you don't know what you're doing - but then the corporate bean counters constantly complain to cut cost, lay off people, so there was this eternal struggle of making your job easy and putting out the tons and tons of quality product each day without killing yourself with work, but also without getting laid off over mak
Yes. All you have to do is not agree to the terms of the agreement shown to you when you first turn on the computer. You purchased the computer in the store on a separate contract, where you were not presented with that same contract agreement terms attached to the software, before you paid for the hardware + software bundle. In absence of agreeing to the software terms, you have the right to keep the hardware part at least, if you so choose, and return the software part that comes with a separate contract. Then you can do whatever you want with the hardware, such as pull capacitors from the motherboard, melt down the motherboard for copper scrap values, drill holes into the motherboard, put weird tattoos and lights on it, hang it on your wall in a picture frame as a decoration - it's yours. No matter how badly the intellectual property pushers want to tell you that we sell you something, but you can't do what you want with it, can't smash an xbox with a hammer, you can't put a hole in it with a drill and what not. At least tradition goes that way when purchasing other items like cars, bicycles, stereo equipment, you have the right to shoot a potato gun at your old CRT tv and watch the screen get smashed. Or install other chips on the mainboard if you feel like it. It's yours, irregardless of what some stupid contract these intellectual property power mongers want to hang on it. There is a tradition of people considering it common sense to mod their cars any which way they see fit, and the manufacturer does not have the right to claim intellectual property violations on such mods. The person bought the object, he owns it, he can fuck with it all he wants. We sell it to you, it's yours, but we don't really sell it to you, we want to control what you're allowed to do with it, it's like we want it back intact when it comes back to our junkyards. What the fuck? Rent everything in the world, huh? No, you have the right to smash an old TV with a sledgehammer if that pleases you, you don't have to return it intact into the junkyards. Rent everything. It's like we sell you this underwear bikini, but we want it back, you can't touch it or modify it, because we retain ownership over it while you wear it, you're not allowed cut a hole in it and show your pussy on chaturbate.com wearing it, because we own the design pattern, the intellectual property conveyed by the bikini object, and you're violating our intellectual property conveyed by the design pattern when you cut a gaping hole in it. Fuck Da Man and his perverted ways of extending the limits of property cock blocks into every aspect of life, choking the fun out of everything like an octopus with its tentacles getting a stronger and stronger grip.
In fact one way to guarantee the stability of the dollar is by eliminating paper money, or chipped money and the like (where the chip can be rigged to fail at some catastrophic zero day and stop being accepted by vending machines and checkout lines), and back it with value in person, or in presence, as in making metal coin one dollars that carry within themselves intrinsic value in the metal itself. The 5c nickel and 1 cent copper plated zinc bulk are already at their limits or sometimes containing more intrinsic metal value than their face value. In essence, they should allow melting down of coinage by law, to recover the intrinsically carried value, and thus guaranteeing currency stability and lack of inflation. Even if you have paper money for $100 bills, the real backing of it would come from the ability to exchange it for coinage, for metal $1 coins, $5 coins, even $20 coins, which, of course carry at least say $15 of metal value with a $20 face value, so the melting down of it is not worth it, but the intrinsically carried metal value would guarantee that a $20 would never fall in absolute value under $15. In effect stopping inflation completely, or at least controlling the rate to something very slow over decades, as the mint issues new metal coins of lesser value (as they switched from all copper cents to zinc bulk/copper plate cents) and it flushes out slowly over a period of 20-50 years from the currency circulation. With such a thing people would be able to keep tangible wealth and value in their homes, or dug away in their back yards, instead of being vulnerable to Da Man pulling the rug out under them with a currency crash. Currency crashes were very common at the end of WWII, where a lot of currencies became worthless and were swept up on the streets, reaching denominations of 100 trillion within a matter of months, and even since then some countries, like Italy or Turkey, throughout the latter half of the 20th century had double digit yearly inflations, where you could not store wealth in money stuffed away in your pillows, and instead, in Turkey, there was a habit to get paid from your job, buy your groceries and present needs, then sink the leftover money into building a house, continuously little by little over a period of 20-30 years, just to preserve value, because if you kept it on your hands for months, it would drop to half its worth, as in you could buy half as much bread or eggs on it as you could a few months before then. Even these days, a recent major crash was the Z$, Zimbabwe dollar, where the monetary policy of the dictator was to not collect taxes, just keep printing paper money, and he had trouble getting ATM machines that would handle the 100 trillion Z$ denomination zeros and not crap out on him. A stable currency is essential to a decent life, but the dollar, with its gold backing removed, is very vulnerable to an intentional crash by those betting against it, taking up short positions in it, where they get it today, and will have to pay it back tomorrow when it's worth nothing. A metal backed currency, even if not gold, because there isn't enough gold around, but silver, platinum, even nickel(stainless steel), cobalt(batteries, cutting tools), samarium, gadolinium, neodynium (used in magnets and lasers), cerium (used in gas lighting mantles), indium(used in transparent conductive screens), tellurium (used in CdTe photocells or rewritable cds), or anything rare but of good technological value, could be used, and even issuing a $50 face value coin that has an intrinsic metal value of a combination silver, platinum, neodynium, indium mix of only $5, (clad in copper-nickel by plating them sintering/semimelting the surface, to protect from unknown health hazards of some rare earths or things like Niobium overexposure) would be a good idea, because it would guarantee some kind of protection against crashes of its value going to zero, like paper money swept up on the streets at the end of WWII, so even if you're left with $5 when you had 50 that's better than absolutely nothing.
Yeah well who wants to live in a metropolis like that.
By the way private property is essential to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but in a yeoman farmer, small property owner way, where everyone owns the home they live in, can sustain themselves and survive in absence of an economy or jobs on the food they grow (meaning property taxes are low), and that would be proper balance, between total communism where you cannot own anything, and absolute monarchy or despotism where the top dog, one guy, or a few nobles, own everything and the common bulk of the population is forbidden from owning private property, instead they are slaves or serfs or whatever you want to call them, they themselves are private property of either the communist state, or the absolute monarch and his nobles. In an ideal world everyone would own their home and a small patch of land enough to sustain himself with self grown food, housing prices would be low, and life would be relatively stress free without mandatory bills, like sewer bills, or Obamacare-like mandatory health insurance purchases irregardless of the price charged, irregardless of the insurance companies right to go bankrupt and out of business after you paid them all those premiums for years. And the government pays into these private motherfuckers pockets from the tax treasury that's already beyond empty in your name and will blame you for the internal economic collapse of the country. Fuck Obamacare. Fuck the centralized private property ownership of all housing by mega-banks, which then rape everyone in the ass with interest, which you can corruptly deduct from your taxes, and keep you in a perpetual refinance situation, because, if you want to pay your mortgage, you need a job, if you want a job, you need a car, and good luck finding a car without remote controlled chips in them that die on command, so you keep refinancing your home trying to get new cars. Or just keep refinancing it to pay off the credit cards you used to feed yourself when Da Man laid you off and kept you there, just long enough to wind the mortgage clock back to zero, and make you start over, after 20 years of paying mortgage, back to zero, at age 50, and you only have to pay another 30-40 years, if you live that long. What the fuck is with these insane housing costs? How did everyone lose touch with reality? The greater fool theory. It does not matter if I pay 200 million dollars for this stupid 2 bedroom hole in the wall shack about to collapse, because I can resell it for 210 million dollars to the next guy. Everybody is insane. Everybody is guilty of driving up housing cost, starting with the scumbag real estate agents who don't really do any work, or contribute to society to justify some of the 6 figure incomes they make. To live well, everyone needs a lowered cost of living. And some sort of right to grow their own food and not be dependent on grocery stores, or government welfare aid, in absence of a job. The top concern or daily cost of a person should be putting the food on the table, the daily bread, every day, 2nd transportation to acquire that food, 3rd clothing once every 10 years or so, and 4th housing, once in a lifetime. The top cost in housing should be the land value, not the house erected on it, because of the value it represents in ability to grow your own food on it. But the corrupt contractor - local govt building permit system, that makes a killing on houses made of cardboard, or wood, made to topple in less than a lifetime, yet charge 400,000 for such a house on top of the land value, which is close to the total earnings in a lifetime to some people, and on top of that comes food, transport, everything else, is also bullshit. It's all in the name of your safety, the building code inspector comes out to inspect your homes and issues penalties, tickets to you, to protect you from yourself. Fuck the building code enforcement agencies. Fuck the sewer systems that won't let you have an outhouse and recycle your own shit as fertilizer to your own garden, keeping your diseases
No kidding. There is a phrase: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Regular stamps can be a standard among different people, can be transferred and resold, and maintain anonymity in a sense (as it is possible to send letters from fake addresses, if you really have to, if you worry that Da Man is tracking your mail and won't deliver anything from you, you can always use a pseudonym or a fake from mailing address, and the post office job is to deliver it to the destination address, and as long as there is such a thing as undeliverable mail, or destination address not found, or the addressee no longer lives there, etc, and the mail having to be returned to the originator (which, btw, at my present address the post office refuses to do to all my downstairs neighbors that moved out, while at my previous address they were kind and accepted a return mail my neighbor marked up as I no longer lived there, and found me, and delivered it to my new address.) So the issue of undeliverable mail to the originator, or a fake originator address, should only arise if the mail has to be returned. But at least some degree of anonymity lets you send your rent to your landlord on time if that's what he specifies in the contract, that it be mailed. Imagine where the man, with unique stamps on every envelope, can selectively block people and fuck with them financially, such as not delivering their rent, and getting them evicted from their homes. Yes, there is a balance between the power of Da Man in charge controlling individuals, and the power of individuals, or liberties, anonymities, privacies of such individuals against Da Man in charge (such as in the old days they used to have to issue warrants to live up to the 4th amendment, these days that's no longer in vogue, as long as we can get some kind of witch hunt or terrorist hunt or whatever the latest scare, Ebola hunt justification for it). In everything in life, balance is the key, and extremes are not preferred. Digital, high tech, individually indentifiable stamps just give even more power into the hands of Da Man, who already has too much of it anyway, with simple things like cell phone tracking. Did you know you have to pull the battery from your cellphone if you don't wanna be tracked, or leave it on at home and go without it - there have been days like 4 years ago when I showed up at work having forgot my cellphone home, and everyone was scared, or acting weird, and they sent me home that day. I simply forgot, but it shows just how much people are assumed to have cell phones, and be trackable. Even without a cellphone each car with chips in it - meaning fuel injected, noncarburetted - is also trackable, but still, I somewhat respect one of my aunts who's high tech in other ways, but refuses to have a cellphone, instead all she has is a home phone, and in that, a cable modem land line, not the AT&T is back with a vengeance monopoly landline. "We The People" told AT&T back in the 70's to split up and compete against itself in the form of Baby Bells, and stop being an abusive monopoly of We The People, but AT&T is back, saying we piss on you, "We The People." And if things went right back in 1999, Microsoft would have ended up as a bunch of Baby Softs, and we'd have a better chance at a decent and nonabusive computing environment, but of course, with the fall of the Soviet Union, "We The People" and our "New World Order" you can read about on the dollar bill from 1800, or even today, on the opposite side of George Washington,we no longer stand a chance against the "Old World Order" of "We the King of England" and his nobility, that we fought so dearly against starting in 1776, then in 1812. They too, are soon back. With a vengeance. I mean they been around all the while, but not so obvious about their ways. And it's gonna be especially difficult to put up a fight if Obama kills the 2nd amendment, or even the 1st amendment. Btw, every time I enter a building which says on the door no firearms or weapons permitted on these premises, I feel like I'm entering the Old World Order domain, where only the privileged have the right to self defense, and carry weapons, such as cops, security guards, you know, the agents of Da Man.
The whole problem started with the design of USB, universal serial bus. They fucked up by not properly considering hardware/bios based backward compatibility with the previous technology, called the serial port, RS232C. As most USB 2 ports could go in slow USB 1.1 OHCI/UCHI(depending on manufacturer) and EHCI 2.0, (+ USB 3 now), all you needed was adding yet another way of using them, namely dumb RS232 protocol, where you can set the baud, parity, stop bits, etc, and use it similarly to a 3.5 mm to 9 pin adapter, having ground, rx, and tx. In fact you could have had a usb to 3.5 mm audio conector adapter running in RS232 mode. If that were properly provided in hardware by the chip itself, you wouldn't have such an issue over trying to get proper timing done under a capricious OS like modern non-realtime windows versions, inside a driver that deals with 20 ms lags when, if implemented in hardware, timing accuracies of 1 us would be piece of cake, accurate timing software that FTDI seems to excel in their chips and drivers, while others are still playing catchup. The USB stack is so complicated, that FTDI must have figured out a trick, or have some undocumented info, and the rest of the world still can't properly implement a USB to RS232 converter, even with billions invested. What a fuckup the USB design was.
Back in the days of good engineering, they pulled off color television backward compatibility with black and wide television. That was quite an engineering feat, but it respected the customer's invested wealth. Even in MS DOS and Win9x, even WinXP, you had respect for backward compatibility.
These days the vogue is intentionally created non-backward compatibility, and violating standards, so the company can screw the customers as much as possible, and achieve greater profit that way. You can see it in all the nonstandard ways DELL and HP and the like make their computer cases and motherboards, that cannot accept standard cases or standard motherboards, only custom ones from the same manufacturer, same with the various cell phone chargers and adapters, similarly some Radio shack custom batteries, let alone all other electronic device batteries, companies purposely want to fuck the customer over, or more like the powers that be that make these economic decisions purposely want to waste people's money with nonstandard designs in order to keep them poor, and down, and easier to control. Let alone intentional kill switch designs, like, did you know, that back in the 90's COM Activex objects all had a kill switch designed into them, by Microsoft, called the Phoenix bit, cuz they knew one day they had to kill the good stuff they sold you, remotely, just so it stops working and you're forced to go out and buy their latest garbage, with the latest remote kill switches, and these kill switches help them improve their profitability. When they pulled the Phoenix bit on me, that's when I stopped keeping step with computing technology, and went out of business as a programmer.
Fuck da Man and his bullshit ways of making money. Too bad when Bill Clinton went after Microsoft to reign in their abusive behavior as a monopoly, and declared them guilty, the Da Man on Wall Street dropped the stock market the biggest up to that point in history, as punishment for Bill Clinton for fucking with Da Man's ways of making money. Da Man's got everyone by the ballz, and he's fucking everyone over with no shame, in fact he is bored and wants to rebellious bitching, just so he can pinpoint where the hotspots are, who are threats to his total world domination plans. Such as extending the reaches of property to extents never seen before, such as perpetual copyright terms, on basic science facts, banning nondigital analog devices, or even books, to control all knowledge and keep everyone dumb, or blackmail everyone over it. People cannot live without property, but the reaches of intellectual property are very extreme, and going even more that way. Such as intellectually owning all foods produced in the world, through genetically m
Just watch Edit Bunker and Archie Bunker go grocery shopping, when Archie loses his union job. You can tell Archie has not been shopping for years, which means he brought home the money, and it was all up to the female to budget and manage how to spend it, how to stay within the means for the couple.
Ever watch Hannibal Lecter eat brain, or even in Collateral Damage a guy getting fed a deadly snake? Now you're guilty of watching imaginary things as if you did them yourself. Pretty much all Hollywood would have to go to jail, for a whole lot of movies have sex and violence and blasts in them, I know, they are supposed to be things of the imagination, just like Manga cartoons. Why is it OK to watch a person getting gutted violently, but a post puberty sexually reproductive female (most manga girls have huge tits meaning they hit puberty and are sexually reproductive age) naked not? If anything they need to lock up all the biotech researchers that torture mice and frogs and rats and monkeys in labs, and set all the child porn addicts free, as long as they don't have a history of actually committing a sexual act with a child. A lot of them are probably recluses, and what do they do? Look at a manga cartoon image? Gimme a break.
It's not the CEO. If anything women are very materialistic, and the men bring back to the cave the wealth, and the women manage it and make life and death decisions over it, unless it's an easy life with overabundance, and then they go shopping to make themselves feel prettier, because they never ever feel pretty and attractive enough, even the hottest females on the planet, but when things are tight and resources very scarce, and there are hungry kids to feed, there is nothing better to let the women manage the finances, and the men concentrate on gathering it and military defense from others wanting to take it. But ultimately, even in a paternalistic society, behind every great man there is a woman pushing his buttons.
The real issue these days is that chips are just that friggin expensive to make, at the nanometer feature sizes, with UV laser etching, and dust free environments having to be maintained. That's what's dragging IBM profits down, the expense of making a top of the line chip these days. And you could get a lot of value out of those chips, or sell 10x smaller ones for half the cost, but the real fault in all this profit issue comes down the lazy software developers. Why do you need a multicore CPU with 4GB of RAM to come to read text on Slashdot without your browser quivering and collapsing to its knees under the flash and javascript instruction load? Remember Windows 95 software running circles around anything Slashdot-like running today in 4 GB of RAM with a 2GHz quad core CPU, and doing it in a mere 0.032 GB RAM 200 MHz single core CPU? It's all lazy software developers, or more like they are not lazy, but they like to create complicated things where they can hide perverted shit, the code is not transparent, or simple, so you can have these wars of deceit inside it, hacking and defending, fighting in a way, they enjoy a good boxing match which is not possible on simple, crystal clear code where it is impossible to hide shit or deceive. It's like they enjoy a good shitslinging party, and they assume 4GB or RAM available on a modern computer, simply to read basic text spruced up with ads and various javascript menu features, and companies like IBM pay for all this shitslinging entertainment when they can't keep their cost together and collapse as a company. IBM is one of the few computing companies left that are fully vertically integrated, meaning they can give you hardware and software both, so they can't point the finger and pass the blame on someone else, and they are US based and can bring home the manufacturing in a ware situation, and when they go out of business all the modern chip foundries will be in East Asia. Then what's stopping another Pearl Harbor when the Greater East Asian co-prosperity sphere got you by the balls, cuz all you can make in the US is a stupid Microchip, that won't run a military logistics inventory database server.
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And what else has gotten out of control these days is basic cost of living expenses disproportionately distorted in unnatural ways. Who remembers this good old prayer, when people's, like most other lifeforms' daily preoccupation was food?
From http://www.catholicplanet.com/...:
"Our Father
The prayer which Jesus Christ taught to His disciples.
Traditional version:
Our Father, Who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name;
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Newer version:
Our Father, Who is in heaven,
Holy is Your Name;
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sin against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
The Our Father is based on these passages from the Bible:
Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4."
I think that is an incorrect revision, when it should not be the linguistics that needs revised, but the content. It should really read something like this:
Our Father, Who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name;
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this month our mortgage and insurance payments,
and forgive us our late payments,
as we forgive those who pay late to us;
and lead us not into more debt,
but deliver us from bankruptcy. Amen.
O'er the land of the insurance salesmen and patent lawyers these days.
Fuck everything.
That south facing roof might be able to get the cold water warmer if it has a vacuum insulating solar heater, but it's not gonna give hot water in the wintertime, in face water coming from below the frost line might be warmer than the one in the roof panels, which infrared-thermal exchange heat with the environment. You can also get photovoltaic panels, and these don't do much on a cloudy winter day, and even on very sunny winter days they only have so many hours of daylight savings time, and only so many of vertically hitting solar rays, as opposed to low angle east or west rising or setting sun. You could probably power a 200W home on such solar panels, meaning a low power laptop computer, a superhigh efficiency refrigerator, and one 23 W fluorescent or 10x 1W LED lightbulbs. For the fridge, which kicks in intermittently, you'd have to have a battery bank with decent capacity, to collect the excess power during when it does not work. Forget hair dryers, or electric heating or cooking appliances, and get a propane camping stove and barbecue camping cylinders for cooking, or you can do it on your billow drum stove. But having electricity enough to run computers, lights and the fridge independent of utility companies might be worth the roof photovoltaic solar, which, by the way are abnormally expensive, like you can get some for $40 directly from China for which you have to pay $300 in the USA, the difference of course being mostly profit margin of the dealers, because of very high demand of everyone being on the bandwagon, and this Slashdot post does not help drop those prices either, but might be done actually by the dealers who don't have enough customers.
By the way if you're doing heating of any kind in the winter, it's worth to also do water distillation at the same time, for which you get the fuel for free, and you can eliminate the toxins, drugs and diseases Da Man intentionally puts into your water supply to make you addicted to and dependent on bottled water, which is a necessity for life, so in the future very severe price abuses are possible, and even these days it's an extremely extremely profitable business, when pop with sugar and energy in it sells about the same price and plain clean cheap water. Da Man does not want you to know about this, which is why distilled water is by far the cheapest in stores of all bottled water, not because it's cheap to make, but if that's what you want to drink, they don't want you to DIY. Also, good distillation pots sized for the heating needs of a home - a simple metal pot with a tight light and a very long heat exchanger copper tubing, air cooled for good house heating purposes - bought online cost like $500-$10000, insane, when they should cost $20-100. Like this one http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AR... that would need a very long copper coil extension to it, with possibly a fan blowing across it, to adequatly hand over the heat and heat the house, while also doing distillation with that heat, at least in the wintertime, summertime cloth dryer heat may be more difficult to harvest through a distillation step first.
They can also be used to distill alcohol, which may be illegal, or may be illegal to do it if you sell it to others, but may be possible for your own consumption, it's very complicated, including even having an Amendment of the US Constitution banning alcohol near 1920, then another Amendment put it just to repeal that ban, to set up a precedent, where we can start meddling with the holy and sacred of all Amendments, the Bill of Rights, represented by the first 10, such as the 2nd amendment Da Man in charge really likes to poke at, the right to self defense and the right to overthrow a corrupt government, because he's in charge, he knows he's corrupt, and he constantly worries about being overthrown, so he wants to take the tools away from the population, but it's a very difficult topic. But there you go,
Yeah I had to say that where I live the government openly attacks its citizens private properties by demolishing their houses, sending them a bill over it, or threatening them with a foreclosure and messed up credit, then when that's paid, they come out and cut the grass one day after you cut it, and send you a bill over it, again, threatening with heavy penalty fees and foreclosure if you don't pay it. Fuck the government. It's like I rape your preteen daughter, then I murder her before your eyes, then I send you a bill for the effort I exerted doing it when you could have done it yourself, and if you don't pay, I'll put a foreclosure on your credit. It's like the floodgates are totally open on how the government attacks you. Including faked driving records. How the fuck are you supposed to make ends meet? And where are your reserves for when you get sick and need to recuperate at home? Let alone go to a hospital, where the doctors sometimes have no clue, and instead of disinfectants, antibiotics and chemo and x-ray and gamma ray they should be doing the opposite, letting you be with healthy bacteria, spread by healthy bugs livig on healthy weed wild flowers. So going to the hospital has been the instant ticket to bankruptcy for most citizens, and now with that excuse we get Obamacare raping the government funds over mandatory overpriced insurance policies, that don't directly pay hospital stays, but instead they pay huge profits into insurance company pockets, above and beyond skyscraper building expenses and IT infrastructure to keep trak of all the useless fine print policy mess, of, we're sorry, but you should have read the fine print, we gave you the illusion that we're covering that medical expense, but in our interpretation, we really don't, we just like to make money, we just like to take your money, and not pay for the medical expenses. How are you supposed to keep it together economically when the government intentionally drives you into the dirt? I know, you're supposed to be a bitch to the man and allowing him to utilize your talents more fully and still be stuck like slave in a tiny ass rental place where everybody comes and goes for bullshit "inspections" without warrants. It's like back in the day landlords, the nobility, took 10% of what you had, in exchange for providing military defense, and military research, and people called that 10% unfair, rebelled against it, especially, when, in times of war, the nobility ran away and it was left to them to do the defense of the homeland too with their own pitchforks, scythes, picks and axes. But how does the 10% tax rate compare to today's tax rates? The sales tax alone is almost 10%, on top of which come income tax, property tax, mortgage interest, mortgage insurance, car insurance, now they are trying to mandate health insurance purchase, by at first the government paying it in your name, all you have to pay is 10%, but when the national debt is so high the government can no longer pay, and the status quo has been established that everyone must buy or be jailed, you'll have to pay the whole $900/mo per family of four etc, out of which 500 goes to the sky scrapers, pretty cunt employees in those sky scrapers, computer professionals, and plain business profit, and only 400 to actual hospitals or healthcare expenses. When back then you had an almost straightforward 10% sales tax, and the nobility fed off of that, and people thought it was unfair because they did not do anything for that money. It's like today you're an even bigger de facto serf or de facto slave even if not officially carrying such a title. It's like renting is mandatory, and if you focus on avoiding it at all cost, including sleeping in a fucking tent in the middle of the woods, they attack you any fucking way they got, including suspending your license over some bullshit child support payments missed? Me? Child support payments? It's like they are trying to jinx me, because I've been very careful about perfect credit, and they can't fucking hang the hottest chicks on me or children (and I c
I wanna see you do solar water as the backbone of all energy supply needs in a multistory apartment high rise, where everyone owns a tiny area of the roof. It just ain't gonna happen buddy. Solar does not have the energy density required to even heat your home on it from a tiny area. As a reference, to put things into perspective, during the Irish Potato Blight Famine in the 1840's, that drove massive amounts of Catholic Christian English speaking immigrants into the dominantly Protestant Christian United States, (together with lots of Catholic Italians), so that famine might have had some sabotage or intentional aspects to it by the powers that be, but it pretty much went down on a family of 5 people owning an average of 7 acres of land, which was enough for 1 team of oxen to plow each season, but the only crop possible to grow on it was the potato, because it was the most efficient and energy dense in that climate, and growing anything else would have meant starvation. So when it comes to food supplies, you're dealing roughly with 7 acres being at the edge of starvation for 1840's organic, oxen power based agriculture. You're not gonna get 7 acres of rooftop per family in an apartment complex, to sustain themselves independently. Only yeoman farmers have a chance of independent existence, city dwellers are pretty much dependent on external resources for all their food and energy supplies, which they are supposed to earn through creativity, through creating science, arts, machinery, things that farmers or miners are willing to pay for and give them food and energy for it. For instance farmers are happy to buy a cheap tractor and diesel oil for it if it's more efficient and less costly in doing the work than a team of oxen is. That is pretty much your only way to energy independence, or a sustainable local independence of other countries, it comes through your farmers and miners, and in concentrated city places you're pretty much stuck competing with other countries like China or Mexico or Bangladesh in making such things as chips, music, clothes, kitchen utensils and tools, and even cars and tractors eventually. Good luck with that. For anything you can do there is a teenage prodigy in China's 1,300 million person population vs.8.7 million of say, Austria, who can do it at least as well as you can but also 10x cheaper. You cannot put your hope in a city economy under such intense global competition and the only answer is self sufficiency, yeoman farmer style.
In the meantime, for winter heat, I suggest getting an old oil burning stove, and saving your plastic jugs you buy your water and drinks and food supplies in, crush them down into a stack, like a firewood stack, and every time you get no natural gas or oil, start up your stove, with a vent through your window, and light some candles, and enjoy some food like rice or grain that keeps without a fridge, in absence of electricity. It's not that complicated. Those plastic containers are the most chemically energy dense materials humans have ever come across, slightly better than diesel and gasoline, but in the same ballpark, and Sweden and similar countries are addicted to it, and cannot import fast enough the waste and trash to satisfy their addiction. A wood burning stove is not quite gonna do it, because it would drip the molten plastic through the ash grate, nor an oil burning stove that has conduits and valves and special burners, I'm talking of an oil burning stove that looks like a metal barrel, a billow drum you toss trash into, cap it with the exhaust so that the smoke goes out the window, and lead the exhaust long way roundabout the room so you don't sent the hot air outside, but it gets a chance to heat transfer into the room air through a highly extended exhaust surface area. That's a common issue with a whole lot of stoves and heating devices that exhaust smoke to the outside, they barely present any surface area for heat exchange. That includes my own furnace in my apartment, which, according to the lease, the landlord forbids me to modify. And it
Then humans become hackable objects just like other computer systems, and instead of internet denial of service attacks, all of a sudden you have a rebellion and mass shootings everywhere, from hacked humans containing a virus that activates on some zero day, and overthrows a government. Then "all your bases are belong to us" including your human security guards, that unbeknownst to you have also been hacked long time ago. And then imagine artificial intelligence doing all this. Who can you trust? The only VHS movies I have for now, that I watched, are Screamers (1996, the best AI movie ever), Collateral Damage, and The Last Mohican. All have themes on the who can you really trust topic, though the last one very little of it, and it's mostly a taste of the world of nobility vs. hillbillies, and, btw, it messes up bigtime by not showing hillbillies with crappy weapons and indians with bows and arrows, and the nobility with high tech guns, so it was obviously created by someone partial to native americans, but it's still very educational. I'm on the hunt for more VHS stuff as long as it's not braided recent Disney crap (oldschool Disney like Tom and Jerry, Donald Duck, and the like, is awesome, compared to the new stuff and Disney knows that too, which is why we keep getting copyright extensions perpetually.) For instance one item on my huntlist is Jeremiah Johnson, with Robert Redford. I would also not mind some Gregory Peck, Perry Mason and Matlock (from a time when legal profession and common sense justice was taken with some kind of seriousness, at least the illusion of it provided in movies), and even All in the Family episodes. I'm not really into Rambo or Total Recall type movies though, but I like westerns with gunfights, I find the macho posing right before pulling the gun and shooting fast very funny. Similarly are funny the asian martial arts movies where some girl tries to avenge her father's murder, and she fights off thousands of soldiers sent against her, one at a time, or a couple at a time, like one against 10,000, and she keeps winning, and she's really hot as she bites her braided hair between her teeth while doing karate. Very funny stuff.
I loooove working 3rd shift repetitive minimum wage jobs. It's all very tranquil, peaceful, with the managers and bosses not around, not very crowded, compared to even 2nd or especially 1st shift, and the people you work with are usually not cocky, aggressive or arrogant, they are just there like you to earn a living, not seeking too much excitement or novelty in the process, and they are often very helpful towards you so that the whole place can just get yet another day smoothly over with. I love working mostly alone, highly repetitive jobs, with the machines humming in the background, which, once you got the motions and timings of the motions figured out, and try to follow them like a dance, to where it's obvious something is out of sequence, out of step, so once you got it figured out into a dance with proper timings, you can set your mind absolutely free flying high over the emerald greens, and you can be thousands of miles away mentally from your present physical location, while still doing an accurate job. It's like the people who go dumb doing such work don't know how to properly daydream, how to keep their mind sharp even amidst tranquility. On prime example would be, I believe it was Andre Ampere, who used to derive formulas in his mind while walking, then when they got complicated, he'd write them in chalk on the back of a taxi-horsecart back in those days, and even follow the horse cart as it moved, and sometimes he'd run after it, to much amusement of the parisiennes. He kept his mind sharp daydreaming.
I also looove repetitive, boring and uneventful shift work, because of the peace of mind it affords in another sense, in the intellectual property sense. Freedom of mind is very important to me, above almost anything else. Almost any job these days comes with a default intellectual property agreement concocted up by the legal cocksuckers, and I no longer sign intellectual property agreements with my employers unless they are meaningless, and if I was forced to sign one, I will actively seek not to create anything relating to the topic at hand in an intellectual property sense. How can you say you "own" my thoughts and I'm no longer free to think them, or discuss them with anyone? That goes directly against the very first amendment of the Constitution, the right to freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech and freedom of expression. I don't believe people should be able to claim property rights over thoughts, over things of intellectual nature. There was no such contraption over 200 some years before the present, and it was concocted, created out of nothing as a means to reward the creators of things of intellectual nature, but the whole shit got so out of hand in the present era, that the abuse part seems to way outdo the benefits part. Just like nobility and monarchism was invented to allow for a stable government with a good leadership, who, by a country and the people living in it being private property, or "loyal subjects" to them, would hopefully take care of the country and their subjects, seeking their best interest. However this turned out not to be the case, and the benefits of good leadership from the country being property, vs. the disadvantages brought on by abuse of such property rights, made the founding fathers of this country proclaim that we no longer believe in birthrights and privileges by birth, and we believe all men are created equal in their rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, as opposed to nobles possessing special privileges in this rights, from birth, and others being slave-like subjects to them. Similarly we can cite the abuses of allowing and granting property rights in things of intellectual nature. Especially when the creators are not properly rewarded, instead there is this whole parasitic layer of society created engaging in exploiting both the creators without proper rewards, and the public with outrageous prices, all the while becoming the richest people that have ever walked on the surface of the planet. And they don't stop there,
Not anymore. They routinely don't do it anymore, since the breakup of the Soviet Union, and some simmering time in the 90's, antitrust regulations are out the door, companies like AT&T that were told to break up into Baby Bells to compete with each other in the interests of the general public, are back with a vengeance, and, for a while they were puzzled that their landlines are no longer as valuable as in the 70's, they are after the other communication networks, such as physically owning all cell towers anywhere possible, and also having a single dominant position in fiber to the home against coax to the home cable companies, of which there are at least 2 or 3 left, to kind of compete, but not within each other's territories, as each is a natural monopoly in their domain, and AT&T would be crazy to become a coax pimping cable company and viewed as such, compared to what they have now, unfettered access into each cable company's territory with their U-verse fiber lines, in effect, setting up for the time when data speeds required collapse the coax companies, as everyone moves unto the broadband broadband of fiber optics, as opposed to the broadband of copper coax cable or copper dsl, just like people moved from dialup to broadband, leaving AOL with dialup only subscriptions to rot in the dirt. Then AT&T is gonna be the one and only controlling all information into your home, through owning the fiberoptic leading into your home and all internet, tv, landline phone through it, and also owning all the cellular towers near you. In effect they will completely control your life, your online banking, online bill pay, etc, when walk to the bank and walk into a building ways of paying will no longer be available because of cost, just like everywhere I go I can no longer find pay phones on the streets, like I was able to make calls from, even in 2007. They are gone, and so may be gone things like walk in bank branches, when AT&T controls all your ways of paying things online.
Similar gripes go against other natural monopoly behaviors like gas utility companies charging you outrageous minimum monthly fees to have service available at all, let loose around the turn of the century, near when 9/11 and the oppression of the population it created was orchestrated, with after shots like the Boston Marathon bombing, to keep justifying the oppression, the warrantless searches, all citizen's rights flying out the window in the name of national security.
So, if the US and the rest of the world no longer controls and regulates their monopolies like they are supposed to, and let them run rampant on price abuse and citizen's rights abuse, why should China behave, when it's in its national interest too not to do so? Why should they not "bring home the money" if the US does not regulate monopolies like Microsoft, in fact encourage them too to increase prices and bring home the money from China and the EU, the EU still making naive efforts to regulate Microsoft from a distance, and you end up with some Windows Start Menu options of choose your browser, which, when you tried them, years ago, they'd still keep reverting back to the Microsoft shit regardless. So there is this international we don't give a fuck about what's right in some theoretical, abstract justice way, all we care about is what brings home the money, and fills our pockets the fastest. So China says, OK, tit for tat. If you do that too, then I do it too.
There is no international agreement of any sort in place regulating any kind of global monopolies, as far as I know, ratified by major global industrial nations. Even the Kyoto protocol was signed by a whole lot of countries, the USA being a major exception, never agreeing to the Kyoto protocol, so even if there were such a global, monopoly regulating international agreement, the US, or China, could opt not to sign it. Like India was recently a major player not signing some international farming regulation agreements.
The EFF has become a free advertising grounds for Da Man now. Just like union bosses were actually relatives of Da Man, they sneak up and wriggle their ways up in these organizations pretending to defend the interest of unions or the public against the interests of Da Man, and once in key leadership positions, they can levarage and moderate the living life out of unions til they are all dead or lobotomized carcasses that still kick around and collect union dues without actually providing high paying jobs or any tangible benefit in return, all the while fucking up the whole country, shortsightedly laying waste the whole economy, just so that Da Man, one person, or a few people, a minor percentage of the population, can make more money, temporarily. Fuck the corrupt EFF pretending to protect the interests of the public. Fuck Adobe DRM. Fuck any DRM for that matter. Fuck the DMCA. To this day I refuse to watch a single DVD movie because it contains DRM. And I have the right to boycott DRM in my life like that, and I will try to live out the rest of my life without ever watching a single region coded and similar DRM carrying DVD. An exception of course would be a data disk containing nonDRM videos, without regions codes and the like.
What's really needed is some people in the government with some spines, who can nationalize these abusive private companies like Adobe, Microsoft, in fact all utility companies or monopolies, USRA style, and divide them up and re privatize them to other people who are not as unscrupulously conspiring like these fuckers, and who would actually compete against each other, know how to exercise self restraint when it goes against the interests of the public, and actually create useful stuff instead of concocting ways of how to put the rest of the population into even more restrictive bondage, and how to tap the creative energy, and channel the rewards from that into their own pocket, like the richest guys on the planet, a prime example being Bill Gates, a college dropout, who never created anything other than schemes of sucking out more money from creative people, and in return, from the rest of the population. What did Bill Gates create? GW BASIC? That's another run of the mill BASIC, which was originally created by Janos Kemeny and Tom Kurtz. The real creators of the early computing systems were Gary Kildall, with a PHD in computer science, who created the BIOS and DOS, the employees at Xerox who created Windows/GUI systems, with phd's, and the guys at DEC, with phd's, working on VMS who created the NT preemptive multitasking kernel that finally avoids constant blue-screening so common back in the 90's with windows. All the while making the choice to stay away from the overly complex and resource abusing C++, and stick with the simple and robust C for the windows API, but these days we have unimaginable bloat of java and dotnet, way beyond C++, and all the code made since about 2002 is pure raw shit and garbage, and they still want to shove it down your throat and extort billions for it. No thank you, take your fucking recently created software and shit code eat it yourself. All the while loading it up with more and more gargantuan control schemes like DRM, activation, etc. And they are looking for creative employees to exploit as coding slaves, not stopping themselves from intentionally infecting people with life threatening diseases, or making them wheelchair bound handicaps, by forcing them into intentional accidents, like a remote control car with a smooth power steering, so smooth that sometimes, on the highway, it steers opposite of the steering wheel, just to land you in a crash and make you wheelchair bound. Just so they have no other means of making a living then coding for them. These guys won't stop at anything. If anything these owners at Microsoft and Adobe need to be infected and forced to be wheelchair bound and handicapped, to get a little taste of their own medicine. And now their are trying to fix up their public image and goodwill by "philantropy", donating half a bill
These short average stature Asians built the Great Wall and the deadly and treacherous Rocky Mountain portion of the US Transcontinental Railroad, while the taller Europeans only built the flat prairie piece of cake parts. The Chinese can be obsessed workaholics. Maybe they can pull off building a centrifugal artificial gravity rotating cylinder floored self sustaining/farming Great Space Station which can accommodate free roaming kangaroos hopping around and giraffes eating from tall trees in their zoo / sky city jungle parks, beside much of the rest of the Noah's Ark animals. They want to call is Sky City, but I think a city is not big enough to accommodate all of Noah's creatures to where they feel free roaming around freely. Such as aquariums for whales, sharks, killer whales, corals, etc. It's got to be huuuuge. But if successful, I expect the Moon to be gone within about 500 years, so take a good look at it, maybe some pictures to leave for future generations. Then the Muslims will have to find something else to put on their flags, else their kids will keep asking them what that symbol is on the flag. I just hope if the Chinese pull it off they don't make other people learn Chinese, because their alphabet is really difficult compared to the 26 alphabet English. I much prefer English, maybe a future modernized version of it that spells more phonetically. Like what's the point of spelling accommodate with so many computer memor, printer ink and time wasting letters? Speling it as acomodate wud b fin. Texters are evolving the language in that direction, shorthand becoming more and more mainstream than b4.
Yes, they did worry about that. They worried about urbanization, where everyone is slave to an employer, who controls their vote, and instead they wanted to create a Jeffersonian democracy of yeoman farmers. Even Washington, when he could have crowned himself Emperor of the United States Colonies, like Napoleon did in France, instead he returned his mandate of general of the military, and said he was going back to his farm. That was totally unexpected, and even King George of England said that Washington was the greatest man alive that he did that. They recalled him to be the first president, but after 4 years he saw where that was going, and started the custom of 4 year terms only for top leaders of this country, which of course has its pluses and minuses, one of the minuses being, that being in charge temporarily, they don't care for long term consequences of what happens to the country, instead they seek near term gains for themselves and their buddies who helped them get elected.
"It's those that demand change that need to justify themselves."
This is basic common sense, and tradition. Maybe those who pimp systemd so aggressively, and assault the conservatives over their reluctance to change, need to read the Declaration of Independence. To help them out, here is a full text of it.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing
Which is why an oldschool fanless 486DX 33 with thick tracks in the silicon and relatively low heat generation or internal erosion, or even a fanned DX2-66 running Win95 with Acrobat 3 may outlast many of these modern fast cpus. It's all about feature size and electromigration and diffusion of silicon, and the more fanless the design, the less the heat generation, and better the longevity. Even if the 486 is far slower that my tastes require, and I've mostly become a collector of fan needing x86 CPU-based laptops and computers made between 1998 and 2005, which still run Win2K decently, the last version of Windows that works without activation, with video cards my tastes fall short of most people's requirements. My favorite video cards to this day are the nVidia Geforce 2 MX400, wiith 32 or 64MB memory, as they are fast enough even for DirectX 6 games, but they don't need fans. Before then, for Win95 was the Tseng Labs ET6000 2D-only cards, all Made in USA, but they have limited memory and limited screen resolutions from that. I also heard good things about Matrox 2D quality, Made in Canada. Back in the day you used to have a 3dfx standalone card for 3d, and if you were not playing around with 3d, you could always pull it from the motherboard. At least they could just unpower the 3d part of a video card for most usual 2D tasks such as reading a PDF, or typing on Slashdot should not require fancy 3d video instructions, in an ideal world, unfortunately these days even Slashdot is loaded with Flash ads that make the computer quiver and collapse on its knees from the overload of instructions it has to process, simply to usher everyone to upgrade, upgrade, throw your old computer away and spend some computing money into our pockets, says the computing people, and fuck with your old stuff on purpose. Back in the day there was a respect for the market and the customer, including making color TV backward compatible with black and white TV, to protect the accumulated wealth and investment of the customer, and only as many color TVs were manufactures and the customer requested or had funds available for, not by forced killing of old stuff, like it's so customary these days. Microsoft or Apple or any of the top computing companies these days would no longer make a decision to stay backward compatible with black and white television if that decision were left up to them. Their argument is that we have these hundreds of thousands of programmers working for us that we have to feed. What if the color TV standard designers back in the day used that argument, we have hundreds of thousands of people working in our TV factories and they'll go hungry if we don't purposely make black and white TV's obsolete and fucked with our new standard? Yes you have a right to exist, but you should cut back and adjust yourself to true customer needs while protecting the customers investments, as opposed to arrogantly attacking his investments just so you can make more money. Adam Smith's self interest as the ultimate best collective benefit guiding principle is fucking great. Even in XP you had an effort for backward compatibility all the way back to the earliest MS DOS things, and if those did not work, because direct hardware access was forbidden, and booting to DOS was no longer possible after Win98, the customers bitched. One of the values of Windows is being a standard of DOS in the 80's and Windows in the 90's, and the billions or trillions of investment into custom software that went into that, and once Microsoft is actively pulling the rug from these investments by pimping non backward compatible new shit, they are also actively pulling the rug from under themselves, because if the software has to be rewritten, it's no longer a top choice to write it for the abusive, lessons learned Windows platform, if you can help it. There is an active drive even from Microsoft to completely abandon the x86 platform which has trillions invested into it, and ditch Intel and AMD over low power Arm, where, the low power and long battery life and low electric bi
The real issue is getting customers used to abandoning their offline storage devices and keeping all their data on the cloud. The first step is of course just using the cloud as a remote backup against a fire or accidents that wipe out all your local storage, and that's a big step for Da Man who can thus inspect all the data you own, and adjust his strategies against you based on what kind of counter ammo you possess against him if dragged in court. In court one of the issues is not going off your memory, but records, and those records are fluent in the hands of Da Man, he can modify them at please. Only what you remember, however vague and fallible your memory is, is what you can truly rely on, not records on a forgeable piece of paper or records inside chips or magnetic stores. Once you get used to keeping a backup copy of all your data on the Cloud, then the assault of constantly failing portable off line storage devices begins, and eventually you just give up trying to keep your data in your hand, because the devices break the bank on expense, and constantly fail on you anyway. Especially when they all become non-magnetic, non optical, but chip based. Eventually computers and smart phones will refuse to connect to portable storage devices, because those won't know the rolling, daily rotating schedule cloud password, which may be impossible to crack in the chip. But to make all this transition to total world domination by Da Man happen, Microsoft should actually bribe and pay like $10,000/year/seat to all their new customers, and people should resist accepting that cloud storage deal anyway, because that's how much liberty they are sacrificing by it, but you can bet your ass people would sign up just to get the money, and pretend they are using it when they are really not, and slowly, little by little, they'd become dependent on it. Then the blackmailing of cloud addicts begins to get ransom for their data held hostage. This kind of free promotional period is also standard business practice by drug dealers. Near schools, or near lots of unaddicted but potentially lucrative customers, during the promotional period the drugs, crack, pot, heroin, are all free, the first time. Then the blackmailing begins later, to recoup the initial investment and generate a business profit.
Actually, the whole remote access to your computer is not software or operating system specific. It happens in FreeDOS, Linux, Win2K, WinXP, etc, which makes you think it's actually the hardware itself doing it. All I know the Intel 440BX running Pentium 3's on a Gigabyte 6GA7+ feels rigged, in fact I remember really strange things on my Abit BH6 I bought online in 1998 acting really crazy on me in 2005 in ReactOS, Knoppix 3.6 linux 2.4 kernel, and Windows 2000, (thought it may have been later replaced with a rigged motherboard by people entering my home where I was renting.) So how far back do you need to go to get an unrigged, reliable hardware computer that has no remote access built in, and it's x86 instruction based? Perhaps a 486 DX2 66 might still be OK, but starting with Pentium 60, and with the start of name fighting that AMD and Cyrix and Winchip could no longer copy, perhaps other fighting began too, such as hardware remote access, at least through ethernet, because wireless networking was not available yet back then. These days the only secure way to use modern Intel, AMD, or even ARM based computers is to be completely off grid, off network, away from the Internet or any kind of cellular service or satellite signal, and lock yourself into a good Faraday cage, from which, even if data leaks out, no data can come in. Such as a deep underground cavern or cave or abandoned mine covered by dense, moist and heavy earth or rock above you. But on the internet, or in a densely populated city permeated by stray WIFI signals, you are hopeless, because Da Man is lurking inside your computer, sees everything you see, logs everything you do, and wants you to use encryption, so he can see what you do, what your passwords are, etc, and especially see what you would want to hide, in a sense, what you claim yourself guilty about. Then he has ammo in court against you, because you confessed up to him your dirty laundry. Best policy is not to use encryption - if you have private pictures, so what if someone else in the world sees them? Once I worked at a place that in the 40's used to be called US Rubber, and came across this box of black and white photos of people, banquets, festivals and dinners, and I did not have a feeling of violating someone's privacy or what not by looking at those pictures. If they were nude pictures of some female coworkers still alive, even working with me, that might have been a different story, but if they are dead people, or even nude pictures of women who are 80 today, but they looked really hot in the nude 60 years ago when they were 20, well, that's like a different story.
With the oldschool dumb RS232 port you did not need this messed up zoo of USB id's, which are pretty superfluous, just a communication protocol of baud, stop bits, parity, flow control/handshake. If you wanted to find out what device you were talking to, once you set the baud rate and such, you could find out by issuing special commands to it, such as the Hayes modem commands, and it could ID itself like that, but the port itself, or the computer, needed no drivers and keeping track of all this stupid USB id bullshit. If they made the USB port backward compatible with RS232, in a ground, rx, tx way of 3.5 mm RS232 adaptors (and in case a device needs hardware handshake instead of xon/xoff or no handshake, you can manually tie the 9 or 25 pin connector handshake lines together so it self handshakes, as some kind of workaround), we could all ignore this other USB bullshit, or even USB drivers at all that every operating system, or OS upgrade, needs a special version of, and instead everyone could be using the RS232 protocol built into the USB chip at 480,000,000 baud, or bps, talking to portable hard drives and what not with ease.
The caveat is of course artificial intelligence development, and physical real world access of such AI through computer ports from very high computing power cpu's, and also such things as easy automation around the world by idiots taking over the world, and this is how you fight back, they disrespect basic decencies of how we abuse the system in the way we breed out of control, or commit crimes to take over jobs, it's kind of a racial or tribal fight between different people, and this is how some people, who respect the system otherwise, fight back "unfairly" on the computing front, making it difficult or impossible to use or understand computers easily. I mean imagine the 3rd world taking away all jobs because they can find easy ways of automation, through super high speed RS232 protocol talking USB ports.
By the way, there is a caveat against absolute democracy, or total lack of nobility, so to speak. The nobility tends to be smart, and able to create lots of high tech wealth, such as computing, even if they are very inbred. In a yeoman farmer society one might be able to grow his own food, but may not have computers, stereo equipment, or cellphones at all, kinda like in the communist Soviet Union, you might be stuck in the past technologically, where people want to, but they can't, make stuff like computers, or electronics. In essence the wealth extracted "unfairly" from the rest of the population through abuses of power and property control is what makes it worth to those people doing it to keep providing high tech weapons for national defense, technology, electronics, etc. In fact I witnessed the closure of a union rubber plant in the US, relocating to Mexico, paying $5/day there instead of the $17.85/hr uniform across the board pay to every union worker here (I was getting a nonunion clerk's pay in the offices), regardless if they were the janitor or reactor operator or warehouse worker, and the whole thing really happened because the union people had their mindsets distorted, there was only 100 of them when there used to be 200, so they assumed the right to overtime was normal, and it ended up where often nothing was done during the 8 hrs of regular work, and any actual work was used as an excuse for overtime, in effect, the whole place was like a clubhouse you show up to chitchat about politics and what not, instead of a regular job. In essence you should work smart, not hard, and you can sit on your ass if you got it figured out - or work your butt off if you're an idiot, any job in the world is easy if you know what you're doing, but you can make it hard if you don't know what you're doing - but then the corporate bean counters constantly complain to cut cost, lay off people, so there was this eternal struggle of making your job easy and putting out the tons and tons of quality product each day without killing yourself with work, but also without getting laid off over mak
Yes. All you have to do is not agree to the terms of the agreement shown to you when you first turn on the computer. You purchased the computer in the store on a separate contract, where you were not presented with that same contract agreement terms attached to the software, before you paid for the hardware + software bundle. In absence of agreeing to the software terms, you have the right to keep the hardware part at least, if you so choose, and return the software part that comes with a separate contract. Then you can do whatever you want with the hardware, such as pull capacitors from the motherboard, melt down the motherboard for copper scrap values, drill holes into the motherboard, put weird tattoos and lights on it, hang it on your wall in a picture frame as a decoration - it's yours. No matter how badly the intellectual property pushers want to tell you that we sell you something, but you can't do what you want with it, can't smash an xbox with a hammer, you can't put a hole in it with a drill and what not. At least tradition goes that way when purchasing other items like cars, bicycles, stereo equipment, you have the right to shoot a potato gun at your old CRT tv and watch the screen get smashed. Or install other chips on the mainboard if you feel like it. It's yours, irregardless of what some stupid contract these intellectual property power mongers want to hang on it. There is a tradition of people considering it common sense to mod their cars any which way they see fit, and the manufacturer does not have the right to claim intellectual property violations on such mods. The person bought the object, he owns it, he can fuck with it all he wants. We sell it to you, it's yours, but we don't really sell it to you, we want to control what you're allowed to do with it, it's like we want it back intact when it comes back to our junkyards. What the fuck? Rent everything in the world, huh? No, you have the right to smash an old TV with a sledgehammer if that pleases you, you don't have to return it intact into the junkyards. Rent everything. It's like we sell you this underwear bikini, but we want it back, you can't touch it or modify it, because we retain ownership over it while you wear it, you're not allowed cut a hole in it and show your pussy on chaturbate.com wearing it, because we own the design pattern, the intellectual property conveyed by the bikini object, and you're violating our intellectual property conveyed by the design pattern when you cut a gaping hole in it. Fuck Da Man and his perverted ways of extending the limits of property cock blocks into every aspect of life, choking the fun out of everything like an octopus with its tentacles getting a stronger and stronger grip.
In fact one way to guarantee the stability of the dollar is by eliminating paper money, or chipped money and the like (where the chip can be rigged to fail at some catastrophic zero day and stop being accepted by vending machines and checkout lines), and back it with value in person, or in presence, as in making metal coin one dollars that carry within themselves intrinsic value in the metal itself. The 5c nickel and 1 cent copper plated zinc bulk are already at their limits or sometimes containing more intrinsic metal value than their face value. In essence, they should allow melting down of coinage by law, to recover the intrinsically carried value, and thus guaranteeing currency stability and lack of inflation. Even if you have paper money for $100 bills, the real backing of it would come from the ability to exchange it for coinage, for metal $1 coins, $5 coins, even $20 coins, which, of course carry at least say $15 of metal value with a $20 face value, so the melting down of it is not worth it, but the intrinsically carried metal value would guarantee that a $20 would never fall in absolute value under $15. In effect stopping inflation completely, or at least controlling the rate to something very slow over decades, as the mint issues new metal coins of lesser value (as they switched from all copper cents to zinc bulk/copper plate cents) and it flushes out slowly over a period of 20-50 years from the currency circulation. With such a thing people would be able to keep tangible wealth and value in their homes, or dug away in their back yards, instead of being vulnerable to Da Man pulling the rug out under them with a currency crash. Currency crashes were very common at the end of WWII, where a lot of currencies became worthless and were swept up on the streets, reaching denominations of 100 trillion within a matter of months, and even since then some countries, like Italy or Turkey, throughout the latter half of the 20th century had double digit yearly inflations, where you could not store wealth in money stuffed away in your pillows, and instead, in Turkey, there was a habit to get paid from your job, buy your groceries and present needs, then sink the leftover money into building a house, continuously little by little over a period of 20-30 years, just to preserve value, because if you kept it on your hands for months, it would drop to half its worth, as in you could buy half as much bread or eggs on it as you could a few months before then. Even these days, a recent major crash was the Z$, Zimbabwe dollar, where the monetary policy of the dictator was to not collect taxes, just keep printing paper money, and he had trouble getting ATM machines that would handle the 100 trillion Z$ denomination zeros and not crap out on him. A stable currency is essential to a decent life, but the dollar, with its gold backing removed, is very vulnerable to an intentional crash by those betting against it, taking up short positions in it, where they get it today, and will have to pay it back tomorrow when it's worth nothing. A metal backed currency, even if not gold, because there isn't enough gold around, but silver, platinum, even nickel(stainless steel), cobalt(batteries, cutting tools), samarium, gadolinium, neodynium (used in magnets and lasers), cerium (used in gas lighting mantles), indium(used in transparent conductive screens), tellurium (used in CdTe photocells or rewritable cds), or anything rare but of good technological value, could be used, and even issuing a $50 face value coin that has an intrinsic metal value of a combination silver, platinum, neodynium, indium mix of only $5, (clad in copper-nickel by plating them sintering/semimelting the surface, to protect from unknown health hazards of some rare earths or things like Niobium overexposure) would be a good idea, because it would guarantee some kind of protection against crashes of its value going to zero, like paper money swept up on the streets at the end of WWII, so even if you're left with $5 when you had 50 that's better than absolutely nothing.
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Yeah well who wants to live in a metropolis like that.
By the way private property is essential to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but in a yeoman farmer, small property owner way, where everyone owns the home they live in, can sustain themselves and survive in absence of an economy or jobs on the food they grow (meaning property taxes are low), and that would be proper balance, between total communism where you cannot own anything, and absolute monarchy or despotism where the top dog, one guy, or a few nobles, own everything and the common bulk of the population is forbidden from owning private property, instead they are slaves or serfs or whatever you want to call them, they themselves are private property of either the communist state, or the absolute monarch and his nobles. In an ideal world everyone would own their home and a small patch of land enough to sustain himself with self grown food, housing prices would be low, and life would be relatively stress free without mandatory bills, like sewer bills, or Obamacare-like mandatory health insurance purchases irregardless of the price charged, irregardless of the insurance companies right to go bankrupt and out of business after you paid them all those premiums for years. And the government pays into these private motherfuckers pockets from the tax treasury that's already beyond empty in your name and will blame you for the internal economic collapse of the country. Fuck Obamacare. Fuck the centralized private property ownership of all housing by mega-banks, which then rape everyone in the ass with interest, which you can corruptly deduct from your taxes, and keep you in a perpetual refinance situation, because, if you want to pay your mortgage, you need a job, if you want a job, you need a car, and good luck finding a car without remote controlled chips in them that die on command, so you keep refinancing your home trying to get new cars. Or just keep refinancing it to pay off the credit cards you used to feed yourself when Da Man laid you off and kept you there, just long enough to wind the mortgage clock back to zero, and make you start over, after 20 years of paying mortgage, back to zero, at age 50, and you only have to pay another 30-40 years, if you live that long. What the fuck is with these insane housing costs? How did everyone lose touch with reality? The greater fool theory. It does not matter if I pay 200 million dollars for this stupid 2 bedroom hole in the wall shack about to collapse, because I can resell it for 210 million dollars to the next guy. Everybody is insane. Everybody is guilty of driving up housing cost, starting with the scumbag real estate agents who don't really do any work, or contribute to society to justify some of the 6 figure incomes they make. To live well, everyone needs a lowered cost of living. And some sort of right to grow their own food and not be dependent on grocery stores, or government welfare aid, in absence of a job. The top concern or daily cost of a person should be putting the food on the table, the daily bread, every day, 2nd transportation to acquire that food, 3rd clothing once every 10 years or so, and 4th housing, once in a lifetime. The top cost in housing should be the land value, not the house erected on it, because of the value it represents in ability to grow your own food on it. But the corrupt contractor - local govt building permit system, that makes a killing on houses made of cardboard, or wood, made to topple in less than a lifetime, yet charge 400,000 for such a house on top of the land value, which is close to the total earnings in a lifetime to some people, and on top of that comes food, transport, everything else, is also bullshit. It's all in the name of your safety, the building code inspector comes out to inspect your homes and issues penalties, tickets to you, to protect you from yourself. Fuck the building code enforcement agencies. Fuck the sewer systems that won't let you have an outhouse and recycle your own shit as fertilizer to your own garden, keeping your diseases
No kidding. There is a phrase: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Regular stamps can be a standard among different people, can be transferred and resold, and maintain anonymity in a sense (as it is possible to send letters from fake addresses, if you really have to, if you worry that Da Man is tracking your mail and won't deliver anything from you, you can always use a pseudonym or a fake from mailing address, and the post office job is to deliver it to the destination address, and as long as there is such a thing as undeliverable mail, or destination address not found, or the addressee no longer lives there, etc, and the mail having to be returned to the originator (which, btw, at my present address the post office refuses to do to all my downstairs neighbors that moved out, while at my previous address they were kind and accepted a return mail my neighbor marked up as I no longer lived there, and found me, and delivered it to my new address.) So the issue of undeliverable mail to the originator, or a fake originator address, should only arise if the mail has to be returned. But at least some degree of anonymity lets you send your rent to your landlord on time if that's what he specifies in the contract, that it be mailed. Imagine where the man, with unique stamps on every envelope, can selectively block people and fuck with them financially, such as not delivering their rent, and getting them evicted from their homes. Yes, there is a balance between the power of Da Man in charge controlling individuals, and the power of individuals, or liberties, anonymities, privacies of such individuals against Da Man in charge (such as in the old days they used to have to issue warrants to live up to the 4th amendment, these days that's no longer in vogue, as long as we can get some kind of witch hunt or terrorist hunt or whatever the latest scare, Ebola hunt justification for it). In everything in life, balance is the key, and extremes are not preferred. Digital, high tech, individually indentifiable stamps just give even more power into the hands of Da Man, who already has too much of it anyway, with simple things like cell phone tracking. Did you know you have to pull the battery from your cellphone if you don't wanna be tracked, or leave it on at home and go without it - there have been days like 4 years ago when I showed up at work having forgot my cellphone home, and everyone was scared, or acting weird, and they sent me home that day. I simply forgot, but it shows just how much people are assumed to have cell phones, and be trackable. Even without a cellphone each car with chips in it - meaning fuel injected, noncarburetted - is also trackable, but still, I somewhat respect one of my aunts who's high tech in other ways, but refuses to have a cellphone, instead all she has is a home phone, and in that, a cable modem land line, not the AT&T is back with a vengeance monopoly landline. "We The People" told AT&T back in the 70's to split up and compete against itself in the form of Baby Bells, and stop being an abusive monopoly of We The People, but AT&T is back, saying we piss on you, "We The People." And if things went right back in 1999, Microsoft would have ended up as a bunch of Baby Softs, and we'd have a better chance at a decent and nonabusive computing environment, but of course, with the fall of the Soviet Union, "We The People" and our "New World Order" you can read about on the dollar bill from 1800, or even today, on the opposite side of George Washington,we no longer stand a chance against the "Old World Order" of "We the King of England" and his nobility, that we fought so dearly against starting in 1776, then in 1812. They too, are soon back. With a vengeance. I mean they been around all the while, but not so obvious about their ways. And it's gonna be especially difficult to put up a fight if Obama kills the 2nd amendment, or even the 1st amendment. Btw, every time I enter a building which says on the door no firearms or weapons permitted on these premises, I feel like I'm entering the Old World Order domain, where only the privileged have the right to self defense, and carry weapons, such as cops, security guards, you know, the agents of Da Man.
The whole problem started with the design of USB, universal serial bus. They fucked up by not properly considering hardware/bios based backward compatibility with the previous technology, called the serial port, RS232C. As most USB 2 ports could go in slow USB 1.1 OHCI/UCHI(depending on manufacturer) and EHCI 2.0, (+ USB 3 now), all you needed was adding yet another way of using them, namely dumb RS232 protocol, where you can set the baud, parity, stop bits, etc, and use it similarly to a 3.5 mm to 9 pin adapter, having ground, rx, and tx. In fact you could have had a usb to 3.5 mm audio conector adapter running in RS232 mode. If that were properly provided in hardware by the chip itself, you wouldn't have such an issue over trying to get proper timing done under a capricious OS like modern non-realtime windows versions, inside a driver that deals with 20 ms lags when, if implemented in hardware, timing accuracies of 1 us would be piece of cake, accurate timing software that FTDI seems to excel in their chips and drivers, while others are still playing catchup. The USB stack is so complicated, that FTDI must have figured out a trick, or have some undocumented info, and the rest of the world still can't properly implement a USB to RS232 converter, even with billions invested. What a fuckup the USB design was.
Back in the days of good engineering, they pulled off color television backward compatibility with black and wide television. That was quite an engineering feat, but it respected the customer's invested wealth. Even in MS DOS and Win9x, even WinXP, you had respect for backward compatibility.
These days the vogue is intentionally created non-backward compatibility, and violating standards, so the company can screw the customers as much as possible, and achieve greater profit that way. You can see it in all the nonstandard ways DELL and HP and the like make their computer cases and motherboards, that cannot accept standard cases or standard motherboards, only custom ones from the same manufacturer, same with the various cell phone chargers and adapters, similarly some Radio shack custom batteries, let alone all other electronic device batteries, companies purposely want to fuck the customer over, or more like the powers that be that make these economic decisions purposely want to waste people's money with nonstandard designs in order to keep them poor, and down, and easier to control. Let alone intentional kill switch designs, like, did you know, that back in the 90's COM Activex objects all had a kill switch designed into them, by Microsoft, called the Phoenix bit, cuz they knew one day they had to kill the good stuff they sold you, remotely, just so it stops working and you're forced to go out and buy their latest garbage, with the latest remote kill switches, and these kill switches help them improve their profitability. When they pulled the Phoenix bit on me, that's when I stopped keeping step with computing technology, and went out of business as a programmer.
Fuck da Man and his bullshit ways of making money. Too bad when Bill Clinton went after Microsoft to reign in their abusive behavior as a monopoly, and declared them guilty, the Da Man on Wall Street dropped the stock market the biggest up to that point in history, as punishment for Bill Clinton for fucking with Da Man's ways of making money. Da Man's got everyone by the ballz, and he's fucking everyone over with no shame, in fact he is bored and wants to rebellious bitching, just so he can pinpoint where the hotspots are, who are threats to his total world domination plans. Such as extending the reaches of property to extents never seen before, such as perpetual copyright terms, on basic science facts, banning nondigital analog devices, or even books, to control all knowledge and keep everyone dumb, or blackmail everyone over it. People cannot live without property, but the reaches of intellectual property are very extreme, and going even more that way. Such as intellectually owning all foods produced in the world, through genetically m
Just watch Edit Bunker and Archie Bunker go grocery shopping, when Archie loses his union job. You can tell Archie has not been shopping for years, which means he brought home the money, and it was all up to the female to budget and manage how to spend it, how to stay within the means for the couple.
Ever watch Hannibal Lecter eat brain, or even in Collateral Damage a guy getting fed a deadly snake? Now you're guilty of watching imaginary things as if you did them yourself. Pretty much all Hollywood would have to go to jail, for a whole lot of movies have sex and violence and blasts in them, I know, they are supposed to be things of the imagination, just like Manga cartoons. Why is it OK to watch a person getting gutted violently, but a post puberty sexually reproductive female (most manga girls have huge tits meaning they hit puberty and are sexually reproductive age) naked not? If anything they need to lock up all the biotech researchers that torture mice and frogs and rats and monkeys in labs, and set all the child porn addicts free, as long as they don't have a history of actually committing a sexual act with a child. A lot of them are probably recluses, and what do they do? Look at a manga cartoon image? Gimme a break.
It's not the CEO. If anything women are very materialistic, and the men bring back to the cave the wealth, and the women manage it and make life and death decisions over it, unless it's an easy life with overabundance, and then they go shopping to make themselves feel prettier, because they never ever feel pretty and attractive enough, even the hottest females on the planet, but when things are tight and resources very scarce, and there are hungry kids to feed, there is nothing better to let the women manage the finances, and the men concentrate on gathering it and military defense from others wanting to take it. But ultimately, even in a paternalistic society, behind every great man there is a woman pushing his buttons.
The real issue these days is that chips are just that friggin expensive to make, at the nanometer feature sizes, with UV laser etching, and dust free environments having to be maintained. That's what's dragging IBM profits down, the expense of making a top of the line chip these days. And you could get a lot of value out of those chips, or sell 10x smaller ones for half the cost, but the real fault in all this profit issue comes down the lazy software developers. Why do you need a multicore CPU with 4GB of RAM to come to read text on Slashdot without your browser quivering and collapsing to its knees under the flash and javascript instruction load? Remember Windows 95 software running circles around anything Slashdot-like running today in 4 GB of RAM with a 2GHz quad core CPU, and doing it in a mere 0.032 GB RAM 200 MHz single core CPU? It's all lazy software developers, or more like they are not lazy, but they like to create complicated things where they can hide perverted shit, the code is not transparent, or simple, so you can have these wars of deceit inside it, hacking and defending, fighting in a way, they enjoy a good boxing match which is not possible on simple, crystal clear code where it is impossible to hide shit or deceive. It's like they enjoy a good shitslinging party, and they assume 4GB or RAM available on a modern computer, simply to read basic text spruced up with ads and various javascript menu features, and companies like IBM pay for all this shitslinging entertainment when they can't keep their cost together and collapse as a company. IBM is one of the few computing companies left that are fully vertically integrated, meaning they can give you hardware and software both, so they can't point the finger and pass the blame on someone else, and they are US based and can bring home the manufacturing in a ware situation, and when they go out of business all the modern chip foundries will be in East Asia. Then what's stopping another Pearl Harbor when the Greater East Asian co-prosperity sphere got you by the balls, cuz all you can make in the US is a stupid Microchip, that won't run a military logistics inventory database server.