You obviously don't understand the very conservative (not the B$ pretend conservative but actually ruthless exploiters) basis for effective social welfare nets.
First up they help to stabilise the economy ie downturns reduce demand, producing more unemployment further reducing demand, social welfare puts a direct brake on this cycle.
Next social welfare substantially reduces crime, don't accept this easy just look at the crime rate difference between countries with effective social welfare nets and those without, in fact look no further than North America ie. Canada, US, Mexico.
Of course an effective social welfare net also has a direct outcome on health, basically because it reduces stresses within that society, fears about being able to pay for health care, fears about unemployment, fears for the future of the next generation.
As for requiring a licence to be a parent, sounds like a fine idea and in fact should be part of the compact for a more complete social welfare net. You could even go the harsh route, chemically neuter everyone at birth and then make them earn their fertility.
It's the old percentages game people. When GPL came out there was bugger all open source software and as GPL become more popular closed source proprietary software companies started launching various kinds of open source public relations licences.
Low and behold there are now a whole bunch of other types of open source licences and with proprietary closed source software companies companies playing silly buggers with public relations, breaking down programmes into modules and open sourcing the modules to ramp up the numbers, just so they can crap on about how good they are at sharing.
You seem to forget, the missing billions in Iraq, for profit intelligence contractors, political appointees and of course the whole lobbyist political corruption scam.
The higher up you get, the potential to earn millions becomes more readily accessible. Data access questioned at lower levels is routinely accepted at higher levels. The worst combination imaginable of, politicians, political appointees and lobbyists, all in it for the money, all striving to purposely produce a GIGO garbage in garbage out intelligence structure designed to leak hundreds of millions of dollars.
Somehow it all occurs completely legally? as it is never investigated or prosecuted. Sure they catch low level amateurs but high level blatant corruption just gets ignored.
Of course the only thing they really try to keep secret is not what they are doing in their own country but what they are doing in other countries and from that comes their true professional paranoia, they imagine that all the nasty stuff they are doing in other countries, other countries are trying to do to them. Which is why they want to monitor everyone all of the time, a practice which in turn makes them exceptionally vulnerable to misinformation.
Apparently in the technological computer and internet age, this is no longer true. It has become apparent, who has the most hacking and cracking power wins.
The frustration of the corrupt have the most money and who has the most money wins, when you are trying to work together to achieve a fairer system, points to using methods to achieve change that are outside that system.
The occupy wall street movement is now shifting from being a protest to a rebellion against corruption and a demand for justice. A demand that corporate and political criminals be investigated and prosecuted. With Unions joining in with OWS and other protest vehicles like "Anonymous" adding to the effort, perhaps it can spread to more generally conservative nerds and geeks.
Can nerds and geeks in the digital age, become leaders and enablers in the rebellion against the corruption of the 1%. The reality is, nerds and geeks combined pretty much have access to every secret that's out there, have their fingers upon every keyboard that can make or break the machine. How powerful can the online protest become, in highly technology bound societies can it become far more powerful than the street protest.
End of the last ice age is of course not a singular event but an event that occurs over an extended period of time, in this case resulting in a rise of sea level of around 150 metres.
Now image melting glaciers kilometres thick, resulting in sea levels rising. Basically massive flooding year in and year out that is only experienced every twenty odd thousand years. Assuming you have seen the impact of flooding and surging sea levels, you should be able to understand how the end of a major ice age accelerates as more and more methane is produced as a result of flood damage disruption to the environment, basically tons upon tons of plant matter rotting in the rising seas.
A more interesting question would be how much of that discovered methane was produced and buried under the sea by the last ice age.
Yes, those disgusting employees who risk nothing, hmm. Now I just don't get that, surely they risk their income, they ancillary benefits. I know many small business people and am often disturbed by their desire to consider their employees as the enemy. Those small business persons are offended by their employees desire for more wages, always screaming "I Took The Risk", all the money should be mine, totally ignoring that it's the workers who earn the money and the manager who simply takes a percentage of the income for themselves.
It's funny how saying the works "profit sharing" will get many small business owners to have a hissy fit, how dare workers get a share of the profits. Trying to explain the principles of self management and greater employee responsibility for economic outcomes, just never gets past a toddlers tantrum of "it's mine all mine". Guilt causes many people to act very strangely, perhaps it's from stealing the rewards of other peoples efforts or being less than honest with customers, they become oblivious to the risk employees take and only see the risk? they took years and years ago when they started the business.
What was that risk, considering they pay themselves a salary out of the companies income, companies which when they go broke often leave a pile of debts and employees with lost benefits but owners with the benefits of inflated salaries (ready to kick off another business in another location). So tell me, oh great risk taker, did you risk as much as a policeman risks, did you risk as much as a soldier risk, did you risk as much as a fireman risks or did you risk just a percentage of what poor people don't even have to risk.
A quick easy guess here. The Chinese whilst developing a skill a cracking other countries networks are still largely ineffectual at securing their own.
US intelligence services making use of some very professional hackers at NSA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsa, were able to hack into China's security services networks and basically find and monitor China's computer network cracking efforts.
There have been so many backdoors hacked into China's intelligence network services that they are likely better scrapping the whole network and starting again. Problem of course is, whilst the government of China has found greed to be such a useful tool in gaining access to overseas networks is equally vulnerable to the same tactic.
It's so funny when the most secure and expensive, tens of millions of dollars worth, computer network can be cracked, often permanently (hardware, wiring) by nothing more than say a $10,000 bribe.
Best security when it comes to the internet, air gap, if it absolutely doesn't need to be connected to the internet than don't bloody connect it. Any network security person that saves pennies to spend pounds needs to be fired and where ever possible go with parallel networks and hardware, internal and external. Internal desktops, hard wired, all data imported or exported done at a secured station audited and verified. External, cheap smart books for email/internet et al, meh, who cares, wireless and rebuild as necessary.
Drones are really only useful for reconnaissance. Sure they can be extended into murdering a largely unarmed populace but it really doesn't take that much extra effort to stretching reconnaissance drones to the extra effort of murdering defenceless people.
So attack drones make no real sense other than of course as cruise missiles. Cruise missiles provide a major benefit, half or more realistically two thirds the fuel load, a one way trip with a more manoeuvrable far cheaper means of destroying the other sides military equipment.
This is of course is what makes large submarines so effective, the ability to launch cruise missiles. All they need now is an anti-aircraft/drone submarine launched cruise missile.
No amount of training makes up for a loss of attention due to an excess of complacency and familiarity. The problem lies with too many vehicles on the road and the risk to human life that they represent.
This requires a redesign of cities in order to reduce the relevance of motor vehicles by basically eliminating suburbs, especially beyond the beltway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway suburbs.
Better designed accommodations with retail at ground level, office accommodation above this and then residential. Strict regulations would need to be implemented to ensure quality accommodations, with regard to acceptable floor areas, ventilation and air-conditioning, noise transmission and fire safety.
I have been thinking that these structures need to be moved from beside roads and transport infrastructure to above roads, thus leavings those blocks where buildings would normally be built as parks and gardens and making better use of the wasted space above roads.
Well here's a prediction about future actions. The American people waking up to the fact, that the Israeli government via lobbyists, campaign contributions and out and out bribes, are manipulating the US government into doing their dirty work for them at the cost of the US public, finally protest enough to put a stop to this gross corruption.
Seemingly the only reason that this blatant and all to public corruption of the US government continues. Leaving it stumbling about the middle east like some mindless zombie under the control of the Israeli government is that it suits the need for greed of the US military industrial complex. If it wasn't for that the Israeli government would have been told to piss off and most mossad agents in the US would be in supermaxmax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermax federal detention facilities, along with a bunch of treasonous US politicians.
The Iran debacle is no different to the Iraq scam, if anything it is far more disingenuous and deceitful. This is all about Israel maintaining it's nuclear superiority in the region as a threat to all surrounding countries whilst it continues in a pattern of systematic land theft and population displacement, all to profit a handful of psychopathic individuals hiding behind religion.
The reason exposure of US intelligence efforts in the region like this are handled so childishly and pathetically is because US intelligence services, know full well how the US government is being manipulated by the Israeli government and the machinations of the US military industrial complex, leaving them acting in ways they know are against US interests.
Iran seems to be recognising this and rather than taking the bait as it has in the past, is taking the more logical step and publicly mocking the prostitution of US military and intelligence services to the Israeli government and simply setting up the US intelligence services for failure and public humiliation.
Lets be honest, a lot of small business people run their own firms because they don't play well with others. So rather than slacking try accepting the feelings of others, try being less judgemental and try caring and sharing.
If you want to reduce your work load, try being a little less greedy and get into profit sharing allowing for more self management within your staff as their efforts more directly tie to their income and there is an opportunity to increase their income above average.
I believe you have confused the number of people who claim adherence to the principles of the Jedi with the number of people who claim to be "Jedi Knights". As for being recognised as a religion, I always thought that was pretty much down to the adherents and not a spoof website.
I still fail to understand why so many people, like yourself are so threatened by the harmless beliefs of others or to give you the benefit of the doubt perhaps you just failed to pay attention, rather than narcissistic self promotion, the religion of yourself as God.
That is not accurate. They called themselves teabaggers and they only stopped when it was pointed out to them other connotation of term, that they stopped.
Similarly the stole the term 'we shall not forget, we shall not forgive' from 'Anonymous'. They did this whilst claiming to be Christians up until it was pointed out how this coflicted with their 'Lord's prayer', "And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us", it would seem a lot of tea partiers are hell bound.
Considering what the story is about that is the problem, stealing of research data to make use of the latest Republican driven fuck up 'first to patent', which corrupt corporations thought would enable them to steal ideas from little people. In this case it is facilitating exactly what the morons were warned about, industrial espionage on a previously unheralded scale.
First to file $500 billion lost, now hows first to file working out for you, you greedy shit heads and your only just starting to taste the impact.
Now of course consider the wildly corrupt US financial sector and the criminal advantages of tying into their digital communications as the plot and conspire to create scams to steal billions of dollars, what percentage of that action can China pick up and of course what kind of indirect leverage can China gain to force changes in US law.
Consider the current damage being done to the US manufacturing sector and the dozy stance of the US congress, how out of control has lobbyist controlled congress become.
More likely to protect it from immediate attacks by product handling robot vehicles as used in many factories. Vehicles that move, wait, are loaded, unloaded, depending upon product to be loaded or unloaded and then move on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_guided_vehicle.
So google has been awarded a patent based upon substituting the word 'car' for vehicle and 'human' for product. Looks like the US should win the award for the most bullshit patents awarded.
So yeah it's already been done, all over the bloody place by whole lot's of companies. So did google actually invent anything new hardware or did they just use other people's hardware and tack on a bit of software, define a susbset of possible product to be moved and vehicle type to be used (talk about bloody obvious).
I see you fail to understand 'Anonymous'. There is no group, there are only individuals who choose to conduct a protest activity and donate the outcome of that activity to 'Anonymous' rather that taking individual or group credit for the activity.
So anyone at any time can conduct protest activity and proclaim that activity to be the work of 'Anonymous'. There is no group, no conspiracy, just individual choice to participate in protest activity. In the case of denial of service, nothing more than the temporary non-damaging disruption of a marketing channel and where more than one person participates, all that counts is the individual effort. So they must prove that the persons who was involved actually did disrupt, rather that the total efforts of many people ie you can not change one person with an outcome produce by many people, only their individual impact can be measured and whether that would have impacted the service.
They would have had more luck blaming it on aliens. It so laughable there only other choices were terrorists but that has been way over sold making near impossible to push anything more down that B$=PR channel, then you have rebels within Iran claiming they felt threatened by Iran using nuclear weapons upon it's own population bit of access access to windows source code and the illogic of the whole premise makes that fall apart. So they went for the golden oldie blame it on the Ruskies , thrown in some twists and swerves with organised crime and corruption.
Personally I think they would have been better off going with the alien, add in some religious overtones, make use of some of those end of world prophesies and at the very least they would have convinced the tea bagger crowd, you know, "you can fool some of the people all of the time".
Of course Face Book has nothing to do with the game of finance, the great IPO ponsi scheme. Who counts here is Goldman Sachs the company behind the IPO and the plots and schemes the can create to generate huge profits for the insiders whilst the rest get screwed.
First off, the great pension fund scams. Those executives in control of pension funds who buy stock and 'shh' who often receive off shore tax haven buyers commissions to buy large quantities of questionable stock and IPOs these of course help drive demand.
Then there is, it doesn't matter what it really is worth, can you sell it for more than you paid for it ie. can Goldman Sachs substantiate to insiders than they can win, get in and get out before the shit hits the fan.
Next up is off course using those shares as junk bonds, basically buying up other companies who have real revenues and a real future and padding out an empty teddy with some real content, then pretending management 'created' that extra revenue to keep the game going.
Then there is of course saturation mass media marketing of the shares to mug punters, generating those B$ stock recommendation via every for profit mass media channel, often paid for by discount IPO access which can then be dumped into the B$=PR channel.
So will Goldman Sachs with it bruised reputation know more known for fraud than anything else be able to run the scam and how long will they be able to run it for. Can the market adsorb it at all or is it just too tight. There are quite a few corporations with lots of money but scared investors are starting to demand dividends which they can shift into safer and more diversified portfolios. It really is possible to legally run the fiscal scam, whether or not it comes off, well, there are huge numbers of psychopath corporate executives who have no qualms of selling our their own companies as long as they can personally profit by it and Goldman Sachs knows most of them.
It is all about MAD, mutually assured destruction, in this case mutually assurec patent destruction. Apple executives new they could not when but they were desperate for the short term advantage, they knew they were the iHula hoop of the tech world, the iYoyo of phones, a passing fad. They wanted to extend the fad for as long as possible regards of the consequences.
Hence they went for first strike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_strike in the hopes of a limited initial advantage and then stretching out that legal advantage by playing every legal shit head manoeuvre possible to stretch it out for as long as possible.
Apple once given market lead, proved to be a bunch of disgusting, disingenuous, asshats driven by nothing but greed and bullshit who resorted to the worst examples of patent twisting exploitation and legal manipulations, it all comes off as psychopath inc prior to the second strike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_strike.
The real question here is whether your secret sauce is actually secret or whether anyone is who is interested and capable can reproduce your secret sauce.
So keeping it secret unless you can patent the product provides you nothing except an minor possible effort gain upon your competitors. Competitors who only need to expend the effort to match the outcome.
Technically what you can do is not open source the code but publish it under copyright and achieve copyright protection on that code. Of course every other closed source company can simply cheat and steal that code keeping their code secret, which the already of course do with open source code.
Reality, don't count your chickens before they hatch, you product might have a better algorithm but lack in every other area, marketing, production, distribution, price competitiveness and lose. So you might consider what works out best for the people involved, would open sourced code work out as a good fall back for employment, market the people not the company.
I have got to think denial in this situation looks extremely childish. That this is a major fuck up is pretty obvious. You can bet this particular piece of kit after doing the publicity rounds, will end up being closely investigated by Russian and Chinese technology experts to gain brownie points for Iran.
The really stupid thing of course would be if any actual sensitive technology was incorporated in what should only ever be an off the commercial shelf disposable product. Now that would be a real sign of let's inflate the price and demonstrate gross US military incompetence.
In this case denial by any US military would only be to protect itself from the ass kicking it rightfully deserves.
Of course it does and quite obviously the majority of the Republicans are not conservatives but lying exploiters pretending to be religious conservatives. The reality is obvious, the Republican Primaries have been more corrupted by corporate influence then the Democrat primaries. There are of course a minority of Republican representatives who are in fact conservative and do attempt to represent their electorate but they are a minority.
Propaganda has no place on slashdot but this whole story is about propaganda. A foreign embassy or diplomatic mission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy is about maintaining relations between governments and providing resources for legally visiting citizens.
The virtual embassy is a total failure in that it is nothing more that marketing, public relations and propaganda tool of the US Government.
It would not be accepted for real foreign embassies to produce anti-government marketing campaigns in the country they are being hosted by, so why would it be accepted by virtual ones and really who would be arrogant and stupid enough to do it in that manner, gees Hillary go play with some cigars instead and stop embarrassing your country ie take out anything that would not appear in a normal embassy web site.
"Blue Dog" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition. Reality is in US politics you should ignore the political party, which is just a marketing and public relations creation and focus on the individuals involved. The US elections are won or lost to corporate puppets in the primaries, once the primaries are over, so in reality the US elections are over and you either have representatives of the people or corporate stooges. As for the US President, when it comes to laws, try to understand the difference between the executive and the legislative. What better laws then start paying attention during the primaries.
Competition is the killer of ebooks. Not only do you end up with all available content, you can also add all out of copyright content to that list. Now that you have paid for an expensive eReader there is also all that other content available, like video content and of course interactive content.
They are setting electronic publishing cartel because that is the only way that they can survive, well, survive for as long as possible whilst the corporate executives suck as much money as possible out of foolhardy investors and less than honest pension funds.
The likely reality is universities will simply end up sponsoring book production, whether it be fiction or non-fiction (years down the track) and then take in donations and use volunteers for proof reading, editing and critiquing work. Many universities will share this effort by forming associations for the various scholastic styles involved.
The publisher was a middle man that assisted in providing the needed skills to link between, the author, the printer, the distributor, the retailer and the reader. When the need for a printer and rubber and bitumen distributor ended, so did the need for a publisher. The only need left is for funding, the 'one of' payment to authors to produce the work.
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You obviously don't understand the very conservative (not the B$ pretend conservative but actually ruthless exploiters) basis for effective social welfare nets.
First up they help to stabilise the economy ie downturns reduce demand, producing more unemployment further reducing demand, social welfare puts a direct brake on this cycle.
Next social welfare substantially reduces crime, don't accept this easy just look at the crime rate difference between countries with effective social welfare nets and those without, in fact look no further than North America ie. Canada, US, Mexico.
Of course an effective social welfare net also has a direct outcome on health, basically because it reduces stresses within that society, fears about being able to pay for health care, fears about unemployment, fears for the future of the next generation.
As for requiring a licence to be a parent, sounds like a fine idea and in fact should be part of the compact for a more complete social welfare net. You could even go the harsh route, chemically neuter everyone at birth and then make them earn their fertility.
It's more like a total crock of shit.
It's the old percentages game people. When GPL came out there was bugger all open source software and as GPL become more popular closed source proprietary software companies started launching various kinds of open source public relations licences.
Low and behold there are now a whole bunch of other types of open source licences and with proprietary closed source software companies companies playing silly buggers with public relations, breaking down programmes into modules and open sourcing the modules to ramp up the numbers, just so they can crap on about how good they are at sharing.
Just another lame arsed pathetic attack piece. Of course when you want to charge thousands of dollars for a report https://store.the451group.com/index.php?cPath=3&osCsid=gttqeg90f1go39789fobdf4nf2, you have to be pretty inflammatory to pull the mugs in.
You seem to forget, the missing billions in Iraq, for profit intelligence contractors, political appointees and of course the whole lobbyist political corruption scam.
The higher up you get, the potential to earn millions becomes more readily accessible. Data access questioned at lower levels is routinely accepted at higher levels. The worst combination imaginable of, politicians, political appointees and lobbyists, all in it for the money, all striving to purposely produce a GIGO garbage in garbage out intelligence structure designed to leak hundreds of millions of dollars.
Somehow it all occurs completely legally? as it is never investigated or prosecuted. Sure they catch low level amateurs but high level blatant corruption just gets ignored.
Of course the only thing they really try to keep secret is not what they are doing in their own country but what they are doing in other countries and from that comes their true professional paranoia, they imagine that all the nasty stuff they are doing in other countries, other countries are trying to do to them. Which is why they want to monitor everyone all of the time, a practice which in turn makes them exceptionally vulnerable to misinformation.
Apparently in the technological computer and internet age, this is no longer true. It has become apparent, who has the most hacking and cracking power wins.
The frustration of the corrupt have the most money and who has the most money wins, when you are trying to work together to achieve a fairer system, points to using methods to achieve change that are outside that system.
The occupy wall street movement is now shifting from being a protest to a rebellion against corruption and a demand for justice. A demand that corporate and political criminals be investigated and prosecuted. With Unions joining in with OWS and other protest vehicles like "Anonymous" adding to the effort, perhaps it can spread to more generally conservative nerds and geeks.
In the digital age, digital protests can be truly powerful and very effective. How effective can something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/murdoch-block/?src=api when spread far enough. How much change can be achieved by outing http://www.occupythegame.com/lieutenant_john_pike/ the thugs of corruption. Can sites that release those dirty dark secrets like http://wikileaks.org/ really bust the system wide open.
Can nerds and geeks in the digital age, become leaders and enablers in the rebellion against the corruption of the 1%. The reality is, nerds and geeks combined pretty much have access to every secret that's out there, have their fingers upon every keyboard that can make or break the machine. How powerful can the online protest become, in highly technology bound societies can it become far more powerful than the street protest.
Can MIPS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_instructions_per_second kick monies arse?
End of the last ice age is of course not a singular event but an event that occurs over an extended period of time, in this case resulting in a rise of sea level of around 150 metres.
Now image melting glaciers kilometres thick, resulting in sea levels rising. Basically massive flooding year in and year out that is only experienced every twenty odd thousand years. Assuming you have seen the impact of flooding and surging sea levels, you should be able to understand how the end of a major ice age accelerates as more and more methane is produced as a result of flood damage disruption to the environment, basically tons upon tons of plant matter rotting in the rising seas.
A more interesting question would be how much of that discovered methane was produced and buried under the sea by the last ice age.
Yes, those disgusting employees who risk nothing, hmm. Now I just don't get that, surely they risk their income, they ancillary benefits. I know many small business people and am often disturbed by their desire to consider their employees as the enemy. Those small business persons are offended by their employees desire for more wages, always screaming "I Took The Risk", all the money should be mine, totally ignoring that it's the workers who earn the money and the manager who simply takes a percentage of the income for themselves.
It's funny how saying the works "profit sharing" will get many small business owners to have a hissy fit, how dare workers get a share of the profits. Trying to explain the principles of self management and greater employee responsibility for economic outcomes, just never gets past a toddlers tantrum of "it's mine all mine". Guilt causes many people to act very strangely, perhaps it's from stealing the rewards of other peoples efforts or being less than honest with customers, they become oblivious to the risk employees take and only see the risk? they took years and years ago when they started the business.
What was that risk, considering they pay themselves a salary out of the companies income, companies which when they go broke often leave a pile of debts and employees with lost benefits but owners with the benefits of inflated salaries (ready to kick off another business in another location). So tell me, oh great risk taker, did you risk as much as a policeman risks, did you risk as much as a soldier risk, did you risk as much as a fireman risks or did you risk just a percentage of what poor people don't even have to risk.
A quick easy guess here. The Chinese whilst developing a skill a cracking other countries networks are still largely ineffectual at securing their own.
US intelligence services making use of some very professional hackers at NSA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsa, were able to hack into China's security services networks and basically find and monitor China's computer network cracking efforts.
There have been so many backdoors hacked into China's intelligence network services that they are likely better scrapping the whole network and starting again. Problem of course is, whilst the government of China has found greed to be such a useful tool in gaining access to overseas networks is equally vulnerable to the same tactic.
It's so funny when the most secure and expensive, tens of millions of dollars worth, computer network can be cracked, often permanently (hardware, wiring) by nothing more than say a $10,000 bribe.
Best security when it comes to the internet, air gap, if it absolutely doesn't need to be connected to the internet than don't bloody connect it. Any network security person that saves pennies to spend pounds needs to be fired and where ever possible go with parallel networks and hardware, internal and external. Internal desktops, hard wired, all data imported or exported done at a secured station audited and verified. External, cheap smart books for email/internet et al, meh, who cares, wireless and rebuild as necessary.
Drones are really only useful for reconnaissance. Sure they can be extended into murdering a largely unarmed populace but it really doesn't take that much extra effort to stretching reconnaissance drones to the extra effort of murdering defenceless people.
So attack drones make no real sense other than of course as cruise missiles. Cruise missiles provide a major benefit, half or more realistically two thirds the fuel load, a one way trip with a more manoeuvrable far cheaper means of destroying the other sides military equipment.
This is of course is what makes large submarines so effective, the ability to launch cruise missiles. All they need now is an anti-aircraft/drone submarine launched cruise missile.
No amount of training makes up for a loss of attention due to an excess of complacency and familiarity. The problem lies with too many vehicles on the road and the risk to human life that they represent.
This requires a redesign of cities in order to reduce the relevance of motor vehicles by basically eliminating suburbs, especially beyond the beltway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway suburbs.
Better designed accommodations with retail at ground level, office accommodation above this and then residential. Strict regulations would need to be implemented to ensure quality accommodations, with regard to acceptable floor areas, ventilation and air-conditioning, noise transmission and fire safety.
I have been thinking that these structures need to be moved from beside roads and transport infrastructure to above roads, thus leavings those blocks where buildings would normally be built as parks and gardens and making better use of the wasted space above roads.
Well here's a prediction about future actions. The American people waking up to the fact, that the Israeli government via lobbyists, campaign contributions and out and out bribes, are manipulating the US government into doing their dirty work for them at the cost of the US public, finally protest enough to put a stop to this gross corruption.
Seemingly the only reason that this blatant and all to public corruption of the US government continues. Leaving it stumbling about the middle east like some mindless zombie under the control of the Israeli government is that it suits the need for greed of the US military industrial complex. If it wasn't for that the Israeli government would have been told to piss off and most mossad agents in the US would be in supermaxmax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermax federal detention facilities, along with a bunch of treasonous US politicians.
The Iran debacle is no different to the Iraq scam, if anything it is far more disingenuous and deceitful. This is all about Israel maintaining it's nuclear superiority in the region as a threat to all surrounding countries whilst it continues in a pattern of systematic land theft and population displacement, all to profit a handful of psychopathic individuals hiding behind religion.
The reason exposure of US intelligence efforts in the region like this are handled so childishly and pathetically is because US intelligence services, know full well how the US government is being manipulated by the Israeli government and the machinations of the US military industrial complex, leaving them acting in ways they know are against US interests.
Iran seems to be recognising this and rather than taking the bait as it has in the past, is taking the more logical step and publicly mocking the prostitution of US military and intelligence services to the Israeli government and simply setting up the US intelligence services for failure and public humiliation.
Lets be honest, a lot of small business people run their own firms because they don't play well with others. So rather than slacking try accepting the feelings of others, try being less judgemental and try caring and sharing.
If you want to reduce your work load, try being a little less greedy and get into profit sharing allowing for more self management within your staff as their efforts more directly tie to their income and there is an opportunity to increase their income above average.
Of course you can always quit and go the corporate route, which is what everyone is obviously pointing to. So if you acknowledge the reptile in yourself consider this move http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/13150054/ns/today-books/t/snakes-suits-unmasks-corporate-psychos/, if you don't then you have undoubtedly come across it in other business people, the liars, cheats and thieves.
I believe you have confused the number of people who claim adherence to the principles of the Jedi with the number of people who claim to be "Jedi Knights". As for being recognised as a religion, I always thought that was pretty much down to the adherents and not a spoof website.
I still fail to understand why so many people, like yourself are so threatened by the harmless beliefs of others or to give you the benefit of the doubt perhaps you just failed to pay attention, rather than narcissistic self promotion, the religion of yourself as God.
That is not accurate. They called themselves teabaggers and they only stopped when it was pointed out to them other connotation of term, that they stopped.
Similarly the stole the term 'we shall not forget, we shall not forgive' from 'Anonymous'. They did this whilst claiming to be Christians up until it was pointed out how this coflicted with their 'Lord's prayer', "And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us", it would seem a lot of tea partiers are hell bound.
As for Time's choice of person of year, what a bunch of grovelers. No doubt down because of their previous choice http://theaddictiveblog.com/the-difference-between-julian-assange-and-mark-zuckerberg/ and everyone opinion of that choice and how it made Times choice of person of the year redundant.
Considering what the story is about that is the problem, stealing of research data to make use of the latest Republican driven fuck up 'first to patent', which corrupt corporations thought would enable them to steal ideas from little people. In this case it is facilitating exactly what the morons were warned about, industrial espionage on a previously unheralded scale.
First to file $500 billion lost, now hows first to file working out for you, you greedy shit heads and your only just starting to taste the impact.
Now of course consider the wildly corrupt US financial sector and the criminal advantages of tying into their digital communications as the plot and conspire to create scams to steal billions of dollars, what percentage of that action can China pick up and of course what kind of indirect leverage can China gain to force changes in US law.
Consider the current damage being done to the US manufacturing sector and the dozy stance of the US congress, how out of control has lobbyist controlled congress become.
More likely to protect it from immediate attacks by product handling robot vehicles as used in many factories. Vehicles that move, wait, are loaded, unloaded, depending upon product to be loaded or unloaded and then move on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_guided_vehicle.
So google has been awarded a patent based upon substituting the word 'car' for vehicle and 'human' for product. Looks like the US should win the award for the most bullshit patents awarded.
So yeah it's already been done, all over the bloody place by whole lot's of companies. So did google actually invent anything new hardware or did they just use other people's hardware and tack on a bit of software, define a susbset of possible product to be moved and vehicle type to be used (talk about bloody obvious).
I see you fail to understand 'Anonymous'. There is no group, there are only individuals who choose to conduct a protest activity and donate the outcome of that activity to 'Anonymous' rather that taking individual or group credit for the activity.
So anyone at any time can conduct protest activity and proclaim that activity to be the work of 'Anonymous'. There is no group, no conspiracy, just individual choice to participate in protest activity. In the case of denial of service, nothing more than the temporary non-damaging disruption of a marketing channel and where more than one person participates, all that counts is the individual effort. So they must prove that the persons who was involved actually did disrupt, rather that the total efforts of many people ie you can not change one person with an outcome produce by many people, only their individual impact can be measured and whether that would have impacted the service.
They would have had more luck blaming it on aliens. It so laughable there only other choices were terrorists but that has been way over sold making near impossible to push anything more down that B$=PR channel, then you have rebels within Iran claiming they felt threatened by Iran using nuclear weapons upon it's own population bit of access access to windows source code and the illogic of the whole premise makes that fall apart. So they went for the golden oldie blame it on the Ruskies , thrown in some twists and swerves with organised crime and corruption.
Personally I think they would have been better off going with the alien, add in some religious overtones, make use of some of those end of world prophesies and at the very least they would have convinced the tea bagger crowd, you know, "you can fool some of the people all of the time".
Of course Face Book has nothing to do with the game of finance, the great IPO ponsi scheme. Who counts here is Goldman Sachs the company behind the IPO and the plots and schemes the can create to generate huge profits for the insiders whilst the rest get screwed.
First off, the great pension fund scams. Those executives in control of pension funds who buy stock and 'shh' who often receive off shore tax haven buyers commissions to buy large quantities of questionable stock and IPOs these of course help drive demand.
Then there is, it doesn't matter what it really is worth, can you sell it for more than you paid for it ie. can Goldman Sachs substantiate to insiders than they can win, get in and get out before the shit hits the fan.
Next up is off course using those shares as junk bonds, basically buying up other companies who have real revenues and a real future and padding out an empty teddy with some real content, then pretending management 'created' that extra revenue to keep the game going.
Then there is of course saturation mass media marketing of the shares to mug punters, generating those B$ stock recommendation via every for profit mass media channel, often paid for by discount IPO access which can then be dumped into the B$=PR channel.
So will Goldman Sachs with it bruised reputation know more known for fraud than anything else be able to run the scam and how long will they be able to run it for. Can the market adsorb it at all or is it just too tight. There are quite a few corporations with lots of money but scared investors are starting to demand dividends which they can shift into safer and more diversified portfolios. It really is possible to legally run the fiscal scam, whether or not it comes off, well, there are huge numbers of psychopath corporate executives who have no qualms of selling our their own companies as long as they can personally profit by it and Goldman Sachs knows most of them.
It is all about MAD, mutually assured destruction, in this case mutually assurec patent destruction. Apple executives new they could not when but they were desperate for the short term advantage, they knew they were the iHula hoop of the tech world, the iYoyo of phones, a passing fad. They wanted to extend the fad for as long as possible regards of the consequences.
Hence they went for first strike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_strike in the hopes of a limited initial advantage and then stretching out that legal advantage by playing every legal shit head manoeuvre possible to stretch it out for as long as possible.
Apple once given market lead, proved to be a bunch of disgusting, disingenuous, asshats driven by nothing but greed and bullshit who resorted to the worst examples of patent twisting exploitation and legal manipulations, it all comes off as psychopath inc prior to the second strike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_strike.
The real question here is whether your secret sauce is actually secret or whether anyone is who is interested and capable can reproduce your secret sauce.
So keeping it secret unless you can patent the product provides you nothing except an minor possible effort gain upon your competitors. Competitors who only need to expend the effort to match the outcome.
Technically what you can do is not open source the code but publish it under copyright and achieve copyright protection on that code. Of course every other closed source company can simply cheat and steal that code keeping their code secret, which the already of course do with open source code.
Reality, don't count your chickens before they hatch, you product might have a better algorithm but lack in every other area, marketing, production, distribution, price competitiveness and lose. So you might consider what works out best for the people involved, would open sourced code work out as a good fall back for employment, market the people not the company.
I have got to think denial in this situation looks extremely childish. That this is a major fuck up is pretty obvious. You can bet this particular piece of kit after doing the publicity rounds, will end up being closely investigated by Russian and Chinese technology experts to gain brownie points for Iran.
The really stupid thing of course would be if any actual sensitive technology was incorporated in what should only ever be an off the commercial shelf disposable product. Now that would be a real sign of let's inflate the price and demonstrate gross US military incompetence.
In this case denial by any US military would only be to protect itself from the ass kicking it rightfully deserves.
Of course it does and quite obviously the majority of the Republicans are not conservatives but lying exploiters pretending to be religious conservatives. The reality is obvious, the Republican Primaries have been more corrupted by corporate influence then the Democrat primaries. There are of course a minority of Republican representatives who are in fact conservative and do attempt to represent their electorate but they are a minority.
Propaganda has no place on slashdot but this whole story is about propaganda. A foreign embassy or diplomatic mission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy is about maintaining relations between governments and providing resources for legally visiting citizens.
The virtual embassy is a total failure in that it is nothing more that marketing, public relations and propaganda tool of the US Government.
It would not be accepted for real foreign embassies to produce anti-government marketing campaigns in the country they are being hosted by, so why would it be accepted by virtual ones and really who would be arrogant and stupid enough to do it in that manner, gees Hillary go play with some cigars instead and stop embarrassing your country ie take out anything that would not appear in a normal embassy web site.
"Blue Dog" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition. Reality is in US politics you should ignore the political party, which is just a marketing and public relations creation and focus on the individuals involved. The US elections are won or lost to corporate puppets in the primaries, once the primaries are over, so in reality the US elections are over and you either have representatives of the people or corporate stooges. As for the US President, when it comes to laws, try to understand the difference between the executive and the legislative. What better laws then start paying attention during the primaries.
Competition is the killer of ebooks. Not only do you end up with all available content, you can also add all out of copyright content to that list. Now that you have paid for an expensive eReader there is also all that other content available, like video content and of course interactive content.
They are setting electronic publishing cartel because that is the only way that they can survive, well, survive for as long as possible whilst the corporate executives suck as much money as possible out of foolhardy investors and less than honest pension funds.
The likely reality is universities will simply end up sponsoring book production, whether it be fiction or non-fiction (years down the track) and then take in donations and use volunteers for proof reading, editing and critiquing work. Many universities will share this effort by forming associations for the various scholastic styles involved.
The publisher was a middle man that assisted in providing the needed skills to link between, the author, the printer, the distributor, the retailer and the reader. When the need for a printer and rubber and bitumen distributor ended, so did the need for a publisher. The only need left is for funding, the 'one of' payment to authors to produce the work.