snark -
Now I can drive around all day and continue raping the planet and dumping all kinds of toxic crap in the atmosphere and not worry about that global warming nonsense any more. Now about the corn failure in the USA? No biggie. And the melting glaciers? Whatevs. And the drowning polar bears? Who cares. Fuckin' dirty old bears. All I want is to watch TV and drink myself into a stupour every night and cruise three blocks down to the 7/11 in my Humvee to get another six of beer and a pack of smokes./snark
snark-
Now I can continue raping the planet and dumping all kinds of crap into the atmosphere and not worry about that global warming nonsense. And the corn failure in the USA - no biggie. And the retreating glaciers? whatevs./snark
I suggest you start handing out "Fuck You"s to Richard Nixon
(his abuse of the law is the reason our first Emergencies Act was passed)
and then work you way up through Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, and Bush Jr.
"Stop-and-go ACC keeps pace with the car ahead, using a look-ahead radar and mirror-mounted camera. "
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Or. perhaps your stuck in traffic because Mr Kettle in his 1997 Ford LTD insists on sitting in the left passing lane driving 5mph UNDER the limit. Fat lot of good your smart car is going to do to help that. We don't need smart cars. We need cars equipped with RPGs.
To sniff accurately, they have to fly low. Perhaps a simple anti-aircraft gun will do.
Of course, the USA could just DO THE RIGHT THING and legalise drugs and remove the profit from the drug cartel system, but then a bunch of congressmen won't get campaign funds to keep it all illegal.
If you drink and drive, what happens? You go speeding around like a lunatic asshole and kill people.
If you smoke out and drive, what happens? You go 10mph under the speed limit and still miss your exit. Then you spend 15 minutes lost in a cloverleaf trying to turn around. Then you drive at 10mph under the limit and you STILL miss your exit, so you end up at a 7-11 getting some Soda pop and a sack of chips and chocolate bars but it's too hard to figure out the change, so you let the guy behind the counter do it, and then you pig out enough that your head clears long enough that you DON'T miss your exit and you end up watching Tim and Eric's Awesome Show Good Job! or Wonder Showzen reruns until you fall asleep in the barcalounger.
There's a difference between a customer and a consumer, and I think that is what the article is dancing around. There is a political corrolary to this, the difference between a citizen and a tax payer. We can see how this devolution from citizen/customer to consumer/taxpayer has taken place. A customer has a relationship with the provider and has some agency with the provider. A consumer is more infantilised, more of a "feeder", and has less agency. This also feeds the monopolisation trend he discusses - customers are empowered to go elsewhere, consumers, less so. Consumers are happy with whatever gizmos the monopolists provide them, and have a dramatically different set of expectations than a customer does. Citizens are empowered and informed. They may not be correct (in my vision of the world, but, it takes all kinds...) but they are actively involved with their neighbourhoods, communities, localities and nation-states. Taxpayers are not. Taxpayers are consumers of government services and see themselves as alienated from the systems of service provision. And as consumers, they want what all infantilised consumers want:
Something for nothing.
Napster simply provided exactly what the consumer had been demanding all along and what was native to the enframing of digital technology itself: copies of data, for free (or nearly free). Something for nothing. A customer would have been much more wary of such a proposition, but consumers are like honey badgers, they don't give a shit.
So, as interesting a lament as the article is, in fact, it points at large issues it cannot address (customer v. consumer) and also the disappearance of HP and its way of doing business. My wife worked at HP for 25 years, so I have some insight on this as well. The HP way started to collapse in the 1990s and took a BIG hit in 2001 with Carli Fiorina's incompetent reign at HP 1999 - 2006. She and her cohorts dismantled HP and the HP Way part by part, and basically gutted the company. Now it is basically a subsidiary of Compaq, even though it's called HP, most of the important decisions are coming out of Texas, not Palo Alto. I remember hearing back in 2000 how the HP way was under attack and people lamenting the "good old days" at HP. I think the article has a lot of that nostalgia clouding its view.
How we get out of the infinite regress of infantile consumerism remains to be seen. I am thinking that when oil production goes into a permanent decline after 2017, that's going to evacuate a lot of wealth that was being pissed away on meaningless junk, and people will have to snap to attention and get on the stick or experience enormous suffering. At that point, the ICT industry will evolve customers and relationships. How that will evolve out of the massive monopolisation process from above seems unlikely, so I would think it will have to come from below as consumers empower themselves back into being customers working with companies to get (work/play/etc.) done, and then become citizens who are compassionate and contributing active members of a society instead of taxpayers griping about "the gubmint".
I completely agree. I have a monitor hooked up to HDMI/laptop and a DVD player. I only watch what I want to watch, when I want and without commercials. TV (as in the standard broadcast model of transmission of so-called "entertainment") sucks alpaca balls. It is a cancer and it is bad for you.
2. IF you must, find stuff online. The important point is to not watch commercials. TV shows are not "shows" in and of themselves. They are simply vehicles to keep your attention between commercials. The ones that do that well they keep, the ones that don't, get cancelled. If you watch stuff without sitting through the commercials, then you are gutting the industry, which deserves to die for being such a craptastic devastation of the modern mind. Jerry Mander" nailed it hard decades ago.
3. Make your own. It's a lot of fun and requires very little money.
Given the need for many acres of land for food production, the practically non-existent atmosphere, the intense amounts of radiation that fall on the surface of Mars, the bleak landscape that makes Antarctica look vibrant, the perchlorate ridden soils, the incredible deep cold Every Night, the diurnal mismatch between human body clock and the rotation of Mars, the lack of fossil fuel or nuclear fuel or readily available oxygen, and then with the lack of food, the certainty of televised cannibalism, and the stupendously tacky addition of a reality TV structure I would like to ask you what made you think that that was even a remotely vaguely good idea, but a more accurate question would be, why are you such a third rate publicity whore?
"that medical evidence suggested Turing died from inhaling cyanide rather than drinking or ingesting it."
And we all know that inhaling cyanide (as opposed to eating or drinking it) actually has therapeutic effects for depressed men who have been arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime of loving someone of their own gender and then subjected to chemical castration. It couldn't have been suicide.
"patents do not stifle progress when they occur at early phases of research,"
especially when they are derived from materials discovered by aboriginals in their own land thousands of years prior to the invention of the notion of intellectual property, and can then be "propertised" through the application of the rapacious maw of industrialism. "Progress" continues while profits are made, wealth is extracted, and the biosphere erased. Yes, progress. It smells like victory.
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ignore this one - I don't know how this got posted - it's the longer version I edited down and then posted, but somehow this got posted? Later? Weird.
snark - /snark
Now I can drive around all day and continue raping the planet and dumping all kinds of toxic crap in the atmosphere and not worry about that global warming nonsense any more. Now about the corn failure in the USA? No biggie. And the melting glaciers? Whatevs. And the drowning polar bears? Who cares. Fuckin' dirty old bears. All I want is to watch TV and drink myself into a stupour every night and cruise three blocks down to the 7/11 in my Humvee to get another six of beer and a pack of smokes.
snark- Now I can continue raping the planet and dumping all kinds of crap into the atmosphere and not worry about that global warming nonsense. And the corn failure in the USA - no biggie. And the retreating glaciers? whatevs. /snark
(his abuse of the law is the reason our first Emergencies Act was passed)
and then work you way up through Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, and Bush Jr.
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Fuck them too.
Fuck You.
But I thought Carbon was 12. So, if it's a hexagon, wouldn't it be C72?
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Or. perhaps your stuck in traffic because Mr Kettle in his 1997 Ford LTD insists on sitting in the left passing lane driving 5mph UNDER the limit. Fat lot of good your smart car is going to do to help that. We don't need smart cars. We need cars equipped with RPGs.
is a DISLIKE button.
organic unprocessed whole FOOD.
This would put banks in control of ALL money. That's a Very Bad Idea. If you can't "hide it under your mattress", you essentially have ZERO privacy.
Of course, the USA could just DO THE RIGHT THING and legalise drugs and remove the profit from the drug cartel system, but then a bunch of congressmen won't get campaign funds to keep it all illegal.
offtopic? Must have been some sober "in recovery" person with no sense of humor. Jeeezus...
thank you! Appreciated!
thanks!
If you smoke out and drive, what happens? You go 10mph under the speed limit and still miss your exit. Then you spend 15 minutes lost in a cloverleaf trying to turn around. Then you drive at 10mph under the limit and you STILL miss your exit, so you end up at a 7-11 getting some Soda pop and a sack of chips and chocolate bars but it's too hard to figure out the change, so you let the guy behind the counter do it, and then you pig out enough that your head clears long enough that you DON'T miss your exit and you end up watching Tim and Eric's Awesome Show Good Job! or Wonder Showzen reruns until you fall asleep in the barcalounger.
True story.
Something for nothing.
Napster simply provided exactly what the consumer had been demanding all along and what was native to the enframing of digital technology itself: copies of data, for free (or nearly free). Something for nothing. A customer would have been much more wary of such a proposition, but consumers are like honey badgers, they don't give a shit.
So, as interesting a lament as the article is, in fact, it points at large issues it cannot address (customer v. consumer) and also the disappearance of HP and its way of doing business. My wife worked at HP for 25 years, so I have some insight on this as well. The HP way started to collapse in the 1990s and took a BIG hit in 2001 with Carli Fiorina's incompetent reign at HP 1999 - 2006. She and her cohorts dismantled HP and the HP Way part by part, and basically gutted the company. Now it is basically a subsidiary of Compaq, even though it's called HP, most of the important decisions are coming out of Texas, not Palo Alto. I remember hearing back in 2000 how the HP way was under attack and people lamenting the "good old days" at HP. I think the article has a lot of that nostalgia clouding its view.
How we get out of the infinite regress of infantile consumerism remains to be seen. I am thinking that when oil production goes into a permanent decline after 2017, that's going to evacuate a lot of wealth that was being pissed away on meaningless junk, and people will have to snap to attention and get on the stick or experience enormous suffering. At that point, the ICT industry will evolve customers and relationships. How that will evolve out of the massive monopolisation process from above seems unlikely, so I would think it will have to come from below as consumers empower themselves back into being customers working with companies to get (work/play/etc.) done, and then become citizens who are compassionate and contributing active members of a society instead of taxpayers griping about "the gubmint".
No, it sucks. In fact, it's evil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3NBEurnIqY
I completely agree. I have a monitor hooked up to HDMI/laptop and a DVD player. I only watch what I want to watch, when I want and without commercials. TV (as in the standard broadcast model of transmission of so-called "entertainment") sucks alpaca balls. It is a cancer and it is bad for you.
thank you friend.
Fuck You, Asshole.
Seriously. Fuck TV. It's a wasteland.
2. IF you must, find stuff online. The important point is to not watch commercials. TV shows are not "shows" in and of themselves. They are simply vehicles to keep your attention between commercials. The ones that do that well they keep, the ones that don't, get cancelled. If you watch stuff without sitting through the commercials, then you are gutting the industry, which deserves to die for being such a craptastic devastation of the modern mind. Jerry Mander" nailed it hard decades ago.
3. Make your own. It's a lot of fun and requires very little money.
Given the need for many acres of land for food production, the practically non-existent atmosphere, the intense amounts of radiation that fall on the surface of Mars, the bleak landscape that makes Antarctica look vibrant, the perchlorate ridden soils, the incredible deep cold Every Night, the diurnal mismatch between human body clock and the rotation of Mars, the lack of fossil fuel or nuclear fuel or readily available oxygen, and then with the lack of food, the certainty of televised cannibalism, and the stupendously tacky addition of a reality TV structure I would like to ask you what made you think that that was even a remotely vaguely good idea, but a more accurate question would be, why are you such a third rate publicity whore?
that if the Iranians get their hands on an iPad, it's curtains for Western Civilisation.
And we all know that inhaling cyanide (as opposed to eating or drinking it) actually has therapeutic effects for depressed men who have been arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime of loving someone of their own gender and then subjected to chemical castration. It couldn't have been suicide.
especially when they are derived from materials discovered by aboriginals in their own land thousands of years prior to the invention of the notion of intellectual property, and can then be "propertised" through the application of the rapacious maw of industrialism. "Progress" continues while profits are made, wealth is extracted, and the biosphere erased. Yes, progress. It smells like victory.