At all levels, China's GDP continues to grow while western nations stagnate or creep forward. China is developing while the west has already developed it products and service offerings. Eventually, they will reach a saturation point like the west and slow down. But get ready to accept them as the 1# economic super power when that happens. Simply put, they have far more human resources to tap into. The only thing holding them back right now is local politics.
In the US, blue-collar work is hard to find unless you speak Spanish (espanol) well. You can thank the state and federal governments for not enforcing our southern border for the past 50+ years. Basic to moderate white collar jobs are being shipped overseas. That leaves complex white collar jobs left. Not many people are qualified for those, and that's why we continue to have an influx of H-1B applicants to fill in the void.
Basically, your average 3rd generation (and older) naturalized US citizen is getting snuffed out of the work force. Having the rug pulled out from underneath you is no fun.
It's one thing to try and promote efficiency in the labor market (short term). It's quite another to have your potential customers spend less because they're out of work (long term).
With HDD, the industry has generally accepted (and relied on) their MTBF rate. With SSDs, it's all theory. It's just too new of technology to say for sure. Under heavy load, will they fail in 3 months, 6? How about 1 year? May we be so lucky as to have them last 10+ years? There isn't enough "real world" data to say for sure. Until there is, SSDs will be limited to laptop/desktop usage and maybe a few high-risk servers that could use bleeding edge I/O.
No way in hell would anyone risk putting them in a single Windows SBS server. At least, not for awhile.
Not pr0n, but to better micro-manage society. An increase in storage capacity means greater resolution of collected data. As such, it will be put under more scrutiny.
At the personal level, you think Facebook, MySpace, and Youtube are bad now? Wait until people wear bluetooth headsets with built in video capture. Soon, they will have enough on-board storage capacity to record 24-7. It will be the ultimate in Vlogging. Yes, we live in a society full of narcissistic fucks.
Or perhaps we should just accept our limitations as a human race. We started out as hunter-gatherers and quickly learned that by working together, we as a whole can accomplish far more than the sum of its people. Unfortunately, there are limitations as to how well social interaction scales. Eventually, we start to segment each other into groups. It's not because we actively seek it, but because it's a path of least resistance when running up against this social barrier of expandability. Take for example the following path as to how we organize. Individual --> Family --> Neighborhoods --> Towns --> Cities --> Counties --> States --> Nations --> Earth.
This partitioning spans all levels of human through in multiple social dimensions. I'm not sure you can force change to prevent unrest. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen.
There is a difference between being effective and brutal. Our modern day weapons are exceedingly effective and often painless. Shots from a missile, mini-gun, 50cal, and grenade often means a quick and painless death. So quick, that your brain matter will scatter before there's even a chance to consciously process would-be pain.
Spears, daggers, swords, arrows, and hammers OTOH leave nothing but excruciating pain and agony in their wake. If you didn't die from bleeding, most certainly you died of a painful infection to the gut. At which point, you wished you had a loaded gun with one round...for yourself to end the misery.
You must be referring to Okinawa and Peleliu. I'm actually in the process of reading With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge.
From Wiki.
In contrast to the European theater, Sledge's memoir gives a perspective on the Pacific campaign. His memoir is a front-line account of infantry combat in the Pacific War. It brings the reader into the island hopping, the jungle heat and rain, the "banzai attack" or full frontal assault used by his enemies. Sledge wrote starkly of the brutality displayed by American and Japanese soldiers during the battles, and of the hatred that both sides harbored for each other. In Sledge's words, "this was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands."
Sledge describes one instance in which he and a comrade came across the mutilated bodies of three Marines, including one Marine whose genitals had been cut off and stuffed into the corpse's mouth. He also describes the behavior of some Marines towards dead Japanese, including the removal of gold teeth from Japanese corpses (and, in one case, a severely wounded but still living Japanese soldier), as well as other disturbing trophy-taking.
Most likely, life started in/around hydrothermal vents via a process known as chemosynthesis. Life in the universe might not be so uncommon so long as you have liquid water, geothermal energy, and necessary elements.
And you can thank the McCain–Feingold Act for this. If those bastards didn't abridge freedom of speech in the first place, then perhaps taking a stand on the concept of corporate personhood status need not have been required.
In short, we gained our freedom back (which shouldn't have been lost in the first place) while corporations are now legally shielded behind personhood status for good. Always a "catch".
Always class warfare with you, right? But because you brought it up, I have a question for you.
Why is it that politicians (especially those in DC) are rich? I mean, it's one thing to be a US citizen, but it's another class entirely to be a US politician.
Now, do you really still stand behind that notion of yours that the government protects the weak? I would say the opposite. They create programs and institutions to keep the poor , well, poor. It gives them more power to keep the poor in submission. And don't give me that Democrat this, and Republican that. They're all fucking guilty of it!
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.'
Could you site one or more of those studies please? With unemployment and our national debt as high as it is, I have a real hard time believing that taxes needed to go up of all things right now. Then again, the only thing growing a breakneck speeds is the growth of the government. And it always grows, but never shrinks... I find that frightening!
You don't actually drink that stuff straight do you? It's practically tasteless 95% pure ethanol. The only time I've used it was to make mixed drinks. YMMV
Both California and the Federal Gov are hurting for a source or revenue. Taxation will only get so far based on the Laffer curve. I honestly think we are at the cusp of legalizing pot across the board, only be taxed heavily in the process. Which of course is why they would do it in the first place.
But doesn't the lens (or whatever protects the end of the barrel) also have to be free of residue? What would happen if salty mist from the sea dries up on the surface? I would imagine after the first shot the lens needing to be replaced or resurfaced at best.
Sticking your head in the sand isn't good advice either. At the very least, be ever vigilant of your surroundings. My advice is simply that, advice. But please don't call those that take it paranoid and fearful. It's simply being prepared. Especially true if you live in a bad part of town for whatever reasons.
If you live near the Gulf coast, would you not prepare for hurricane seasons. In California, earthquakes, Up north, blizzards, and midwest, tornadoes? Same thing here.
But I do agree, it's all about the risk assessment. But it doesn't hurt to error on the side of caution either.
For my desktop, I prefer glossy. It provides a more dynamic contrast ratio and makes the colors "pop" with vibrance. Looking at a matte screen reminds me of looking through wax paper in comparison
Only downside to glossy is that you don't want bright light reflecting off of it. So if you have windows in your home/office, you might prefer matte instead.
So you want your underground Moon colony, but having a hard time getting funding for the project? No problem. Just spin to them as an ultra secure penal facility.
The politicians can now say the public is safe because the prisoners have no way of getting back home. The prison industry will love it. All that extra cash flow and stuff. The scientific community at large will now have a reason to turn a blind eye. And if they die in the vacuum of space, no one will care.
When you send mankind into space, expect all of it's demons that make up Humanity to follow right behind.
Listen, there's some serious EVIL out there. My advice? Purchase a gun and take safety/proficiency lessons. You have a right to protect your wife, children, and you self.
After seeing just *one* of these images, you will want your wife to pack some heat too as an extra precaution.
Have you ever seen a video of a puppy getting tortured and killed slowly, for instance?
Ya, actually I have. A long time ago (before year 2000), someone sent me a link to such a video. It was a Korean video where they stuck a knife into a puppy. Not sure why or what it was all about, other than it was to prepare the meat for cooking. I've also seen other furry wooded animals skinned alive by Chinese game trappers. I think that was the worse. They guys would stand there shirtless and in frustration as they wobble about in pain tied up to a rope up-side down.
So ya, there's some serious fucked up shit out there. Never in my life did I look so hard for some Care Bear, Rainbow Bright, and My Little Pony videos to counter the effect!
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At all levels, China's GDP continues to grow while western nations stagnate or creep forward. China is developing while the west has already developed it products and service offerings. Eventually, they will reach a saturation point like the west and slow down. But get ready to accept them as the 1# economic super power when that happens. Simply put, they have far more human resources to tap into. The only thing holding them back right now is local politics.
In the US, blue-collar work is hard to find unless you speak Spanish (espanol) well. You can thank the state and federal governments for not enforcing our southern border for the past 50+ years. Basic to moderate white collar jobs are being shipped overseas. That leaves complex white collar jobs left. Not many people are qualified for those, and that's why we continue to have an influx of H-1B applicants to fill in the void.
Basically, your average 3rd generation (and older) naturalized US citizen is getting snuffed out of the work force. Having the rug pulled out from underneath you is no fun.
It's one thing to try and promote efficiency in the labor market (short term). It's quite another to have your potential customers spend less because they're out of work (long term).
Did you just pull a HeadOn advert?
With HDD, the industry has generally accepted (and relied on) their MTBF rate. With SSDs, it's all theory. It's just too new of technology to say for sure. Under heavy load, will they fail in 3 months, 6? How about 1 year? May we be so lucky as to have them last 10+ years? There isn't enough "real world" data to say for sure. Until there is, SSDs will be limited to laptop/desktop usage and maybe a few high-risk servers that could use bleeding edge I/O.
No way in hell would anyone risk putting them in a single Windows SBS server. At least, not for awhile.
Not pr0n, but to better micro-manage society. An increase in storage capacity means greater resolution of collected data. As such, it will be put under more scrutiny.
At the personal level, you think Facebook, MySpace, and Youtube are bad now? Wait until people wear bluetooth headsets with built in video capture. Soon, they will have enough on-board storage capacity to record 24-7. It will be the ultimate in Vlogging. Yes, we live in a society full of narcissistic fucks.
Or perhaps we should just accept our limitations as a human race. We started out as hunter-gatherers and quickly learned that by working together, we as a whole can accomplish far more than the sum of its people. Unfortunately, there are limitations as to how well social interaction scales. Eventually, we start to segment each other into groups. It's not because we actively seek it, but because it's a path of least resistance when running up against this social barrier of expandability. Take for example the following path as to how we organize. Individual --> Family --> Neighborhoods --> Towns --> Cities --> Counties --> States --> Nations --> Earth.
This partitioning spans all levels of human through in multiple social dimensions. I'm not sure you can force change to prevent unrest. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen.
There is a difference between being effective and brutal. Our modern day weapons are exceedingly effective and often painless. Shots from a missile, mini-gun, 50cal, and grenade often means a quick and painless death. So quick, that your brain matter will scatter before there's even a chance to consciously process would-be pain.
Spears, daggers, swords, arrows, and hammers OTOH leave nothing but excruciating pain and agony in their wake. If you didn't die from bleeding, most certainly you died of a painful infection to the gut. At which point, you wished you had a loaded gun with one round...for yourself to end the misery.
You must be referring to Okinawa and Peleliu. I'm actually in the process of reading With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge.
From Wiki.
In contrast to the European theater, Sledge's memoir gives a perspective on the Pacific campaign. His memoir is a front-line account of infantry combat in the Pacific War. It brings the reader into the island hopping, the jungle heat and rain, the "banzai attack" or full frontal assault used by his enemies. Sledge wrote starkly of the brutality displayed by American and Japanese soldiers during the battles, and of the hatred that both sides harbored for each other. In Sledge's words, "this was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands."
Sledge describes one instance in which he and a comrade came across the mutilated bodies of three Marines, including one Marine whose genitals had been cut off and stuffed into the corpse's mouth. He also describes the behavior of some Marines towards dead Japanese, including the removal of gold teeth from Japanese corpses (and, in one case, a severely wounded but still living Japanese soldier), as well as other disturbing trophy-taking.
Most likely, life started in/around hydrothermal vents via a process known as chemosynthesis. Life in the universe might not be so uncommon so long as you have liquid water, geothermal energy, and necessary elements.
Why have fish swim inside it when it's better to have fish swim around it instead.
And you can thank the McCain–Feingold Act for this. If those bastards didn't abridge freedom of speech in the first place, then perhaps taking a stand on the concept of corporate personhood status need not have been required.
In short, we gained our freedom back (which shouldn't have been lost in the first place) while corporations are now legally shielded behind personhood status for good. Always a "catch".
Always class warfare with you, right? But because you brought it up, I have a question for you.
Why is it that politicians (especially those in DC) are rich? I mean, it's one thing to be a US citizen, but it's another class entirely to be a US politician.
Now, do you really still stand behind that notion of yours that the government protects the weak? I would say the opposite. They create programs and institutions to keep the poor , well, poor. It gives them more power to keep the poor in submission. And don't give me that Democrat this, and Republican that. They're all fucking guilty of it!
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.'
Eve Online has that covered, with an included market place too. You can even delegate hanger rights to members of your corporation.
Could you site one or more of those studies please? With unemployment and our national debt as high as it is, I have a real hard time believing that taxes needed to go up of all things right now. Then again, the only thing growing a breakneck speeds is the growth of the government. And it always grows, but never shrinks... I find that frightening!
You don't actually drink that stuff straight do you? It's practically tasteless 95% pure ethanol. The only time I've used it was to make mixed drinks. YMMV
Both California and the Federal Gov are hurting for a source or revenue. Taxation will only get so far based on the Laffer curve. I honestly think we are at the cusp of legalizing pot across the board, only be taxed heavily in the process. Which of course is why they would do it in the first place.
But doesn't the lens (or whatever protects the end of the barrel) also have to be free of residue? What would happen if salty mist from the sea dries up on the surface? I would imagine after the first shot the lens needing to be replaced or resurfaced at best.
With, or without capacitors in use?
Sticking your head in the sand isn't good advice either. At the very least, be ever vigilant of your surroundings. My advice is simply that, advice. But please don't call those that take it paranoid and fearful. It's simply being prepared. Especially true if you live in a bad part of town for whatever reasons.
If you live near the Gulf coast, would you not prepare for hurricane seasons. In California, earthquakes, Up north, blizzards, and midwest, tornadoes? Same thing here.
But I do agree, it's all about the risk assessment. But it doesn't hurt to error on the side of caution either.
For my desktop, I prefer glossy. It provides a more dynamic contrast ratio and makes the colors "pop" with vibrance. Looking at a matte screen reminds me of looking through wax paper in comparison
Only downside to glossy is that you don't want bright light reflecting off of it. So if you have windows in your home/office, you might prefer matte instead.
What? No Whetstone benchmarks?
So you want your underground Moon colony, but having a hard time getting funding for the project? No problem. Just spin to them as an ultra secure penal facility.
The politicians can now say the public is safe because the prisoners have no way of getting back home. The prison industry will love it. All that extra cash flow and stuff. The scientific community at large will now have a reason to turn a blind eye. And if they die in the vacuum of space, no one will care.
When you send mankind into space, expect all of it's demons that make up Humanity to follow right behind.
Listen, there's some serious EVIL out there. My advice? Purchase a gun and take safety/proficiency lessons. You have a right to protect your wife, children, and you self.
After seeing just *one* of these images, you will want your wife to pack some heat too as an extra precaution.
Have you ever seen a video of a puppy getting tortured and killed slowly, for instance?
Ya, actually I have. A long time ago (before year 2000), someone sent me a link to such a video. It was a Korean video where they stuck a knife into a puppy. Not sure why or what it was all about, other than it was to prepare the meat for cooking. I've also seen other furry wooded animals skinned alive by Chinese game trappers. I think that was the worse. They guys would stand there shirtless and in frustration as they wobble about in pain tied up to a rope up-side down.
So ya, there's some serious fucked up shit out there. Never in my life did I look so hard for some Care Bear, Rainbow Bright, and My Little Pony videos to counter the effect!
So why do it then? There are two possible scenarios.
1. Simply for the PR of "we're doing something for the environment"
2. To re-sell the captured oil to offset the cost of these machines. Maybe even profit from it.
You would have to capture a whole lot of oil to make #2 a viable reason, which leaves #1 the most likely.