They've had mixed results on the state level. The major problem is that the majority has little use, apparently, for constitutional protections. I'm afraid we'll just see more-of-the same on a National level.
This is such a lie. These people don't care about that. If we reigned in corporate spending and implemented all kinds of new regulations on banks, it wouldn't help them.
They are pissed because they got a $100k college degree in Women's Studies or Art History and now have $100k in student loans and they didn't get the instant $90k a year job and BMW they thought they were "owed".
I say we call their bluff. Reimpose Glass–Steagall, raise dividends tax by 5%, get rid of tax loopholes, etc... Let's do it. The problem is those lazy fucks will _still_ not have their BMWs and will still be pissed off that someone else does.
They are protesting freedom. It's as simple as that. Capitalism is the economic equivalent of freedom and they don't like the fact that people are free to buy and sell products and labor as they see fit.
You are ready to impose your own definition... in your own terms... on people you don't know and clearly don't understand. I'm guessing that if someone asked your wife what childbirth was like you'd interrupt her response to give your own version.
This is the first thing we need to fix. We have to stop treating Corporations as individuals with the same "rights" as real people. Only when we've done this can we undo the mess caused by Corporate greed and collusion with politicians. Then we can start treating the people who steer their corporations into criminal acts like the criminals they are.
What's really amazing is that no one at Creech AFB bothered to tell their cybersecurity guys for two weeks even after they knew they had it. Imagine that! For two weeks!!! So, since no one outside Creech knew of the exploit it makes me wonder who broke the store that finally informed the security folks. Obvsiously someone at Creech who knew about the virus and was somewhat upset that no one was reporting it.
The USAF has more problems than just security. It has some serious disciplinary issues.
I can't wait for this to take hold in the USA... stores, businesses, theme parks... they could all just write up a policy and the police could enforce it for them.
What irony... police officers enforcing a "no cameras" policy in a public place in the UK.
I think many of us realize something is wrong... that whatever is supposed to be working is no longer working. Bankers seem to have undermined some basic things in our culture but haven't had to answer for it. Politicians and corporations think they own votes and manipulate both the media and political boundaries to keep it that way.
Maybe it's all coming to a climax of some sort. Corruption on the massive scale that we've had for the past two decades may have reached the breaking point. At some point politicians can no longer do favors for every competing special interest and ignore popular opinion.
Have we reached that point. Are we at an "American Spring"?
This story appeared yesterday on Linux Today. And it's not even close to the first time this has happened. If we can read about this first on Linux Today then what's the point of coming to Slashdot? Especially 24 hours late.
Some science fiction writer 10 or 20 years ago foresaw where computers and calculators were going and devised a story in which a university professor discovered how to do long division by hand. Many of his contemporaries were derisive, thinking that it was not much better than a parlor trick. Why would you want to, anyway. It's so much easier just to use your calculator.
I have a antique Chinese chest about 10 feet away from me that has photographs in albums of my mother and her family when she was a child in the 1920s.... and before! They are in black and white but in perfect condition.
Our family spent 5 years cruising on a sailboat in the 1980s and we used cheap cameras to take photos. They were in color and they're still just fine in a couple of photo albums in the room we call the "library" here.
Photographs taken in 1860 still survive.
Take digital pics... save them, post them, do whatever you like... but take regular photos too. And save them in albums. They're a lot easier to mount in the hallway as the kids grow up.:)
That reminds me of my son who was in high school when I demonstrated how to use a slide rule and explained how engineers all had them. He asked me why they didn't just use a calculator. LOL
It isn't so much whether the plants themselves can be designed to be safe, sited in safe areas, built safely or operated safely; it's whether we can trust the people who are involved not to take kickbacks or falsify records because they're too lazy to x-ray all the pipe welds or be bullied by politicians or miss what turn out to be obvious problems. And the it's not so much the body count after an accident as the resultant loss in credibility of the systems themselves. Not many of us want to live next to a nuclar plant for very good reasons: the consequences of a problem are devastating and the people running them keep lying to us.
Other power generation facilities lie about things too but they don't require that everyone living within 40 miles of them abandon everything and run... and not come back for a century or two.
Maybe we should encourage the use of Seppuku for CEOs who fail to do what they were hired to do and, instead, do seriously stupid things. That would probably save California from at least one politician, too.
Isn't it interesting that the very people who were spending money like drunken sailors are suddenly in favor of "smaller government" and financial conservatism? And yet almost no one is calling them on it. An entire political party apparently had an epiphany and started claiming that Obama was outspending every President in history (while Bush Jr. - all by himself - increased the national debt by over $5 trillion according to the NY Times).
I keep wondering how firing a million government employees is going to help create jobs.
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They've had mixed results on the state level. The major problem is that the majority has little use, apparently, for constitutional protections. I'm afraid we'll just see more-of-the same on a National level.
This is such a lie. These people don't care about that. If we reigned in corporate spending and implemented all kinds of new regulations on banks, it wouldn't help them.
They are pissed because they got a $100k college degree in Women's Studies or Art History and now have $100k in student loans and they didn't get the instant $90k a year job and BMW they thought they were "owed".
I say we call their bluff. Reimpose Glass–Steagall, raise dividends tax by 5%, get rid of tax loopholes, etc... Let's do it. The problem is those lazy fucks will _still_ not have their BMWs and will still be pissed off that someone else does.
They are protesting freedom. It's as simple as that. Capitalism is the economic equivalent of freedom and they don't like the fact that people are free to buy and sell products and labor as they see fit.
You are ready to impose your own definition... in your own terms... on people you don't know and clearly don't understand. I'm guessing that if someone asked your wife what childbirth was like you'd interrupt her response to give your own version.
Rig the computer remotely to blow the lithium battery up in the jerk's face!!!
This is the first thing we need to fix. We have to stop treating Corporations as individuals with the same "rights" as real people. Only when we've done this can we undo the mess caused by Corporate greed and collusion with politicians. Then we can start treating the people who steer their corporations into criminal acts like the criminals they are.
Something should be named after Dennis Ritchie.
maybe that's enough. RIP Dennis Ritchie. You did good!
So I purposely write posts knowing that they're doing it and designed to further any agenda *I* might have.
Occupy Wall Street everywhere in America!! :D
But you know it's not yours.
What's really amazing is that no one at Creech AFB bothered to tell their cybersecurity guys for two weeks even after they knew they had it. Imagine that! For two weeks!!! So, since no one outside Creech knew of the exploit it makes me wonder who broke the store that finally informed the security folks. Obvsiously someone at Creech who knew about the virus and was somewhat upset that no one was reporting it.
The USAF has more problems than just security. It has some serious disciplinary issues.
I thought everyone knew... AOL is the Internet.
I can't wait for this to take hold in the USA... stores, businesses, theme parks... they could all just write up a policy and the police could enforce it for them.
What irony... police officers enforcing a "no cameras" policy in a public place in the UK.
I think many of us realize something is wrong... that whatever is supposed to be working is no longer working. Bankers seem to have undermined some basic things in our culture but haven't had to answer for it. Politicians and corporations think they own votes and manipulate both the media and political boundaries to keep it that way.
Maybe it's all coming to a climax of some sort. Corruption on the massive scale that we've had for the past two decades may have reached the breaking point. At some point politicians can no longer do favors for every competing special interest and ignore popular opinion.
Have we reached that point. Are we at an "American Spring"?
This story appeared yesterday on Linux Today. And it's not even close to the first time this has happened. If we can read about this first on Linux Today then what's the point of coming to Slashdot? Especially 24 hours late.
Just what we need... an annoying technology that manufacturers can use to try to convince us to "upgrade" all of our laptops and monitors.
Some science fiction writer 10 or 20 years ago foresaw where computers and calculators were going and devised a story in which a university professor discovered how to do long division by hand. Many of his contemporaries were derisive, thinking that it was not much better than a parlor trick. Why would you want to, anyway. It's so much easier just to use your calculator.
I hope they have better luck with intelligent life than we've had.
I have a antique Chinese chest about 10 feet away from me that has photographs in albums of my mother and her family when she was a child in the 1920s.... and before! They are in black and white but in perfect condition.
Our family spent 5 years cruising on a sailboat in the 1980s and we used cheap cameras to take photos. They were in color and they're still just fine in a couple of photo albums in the room we call the "library" here.
Photographs taken in 1860 still survive.
Take digital pics... save them, post them, do whatever you like... but take regular photos too. And save them in albums. They're a lot easier to mount in the hallway as the kids grow up. :)
That reminds me of my son who was in high school when I demonstrated how to use a slide rule and explained how engineers all had them. He asked me why they didn't just use a calculator. LOL
And not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus.
It isn't so much whether the plants themselves can be designed to be safe, sited in safe areas, built safely or operated safely; it's whether we can trust the people who are involved not to take kickbacks or falsify records because they're too lazy to x-ray all the pipe welds or be bullied by politicians or miss what turn out to be obvious problems. And the it's not so much the body count after an accident as the resultant loss in credibility of the systems themselves. Not many of us want to live next to a nuclar plant for very good reasons: the consequences of a problem are devastating and the people running them keep lying to us.
Other power generation facilities lie about things too but they don't require that everyone living within 40 miles of them abandon everything and run... and not come back for a century or two.
Maybe we should encourage the use of Seppuku for CEOs who fail to do what they were hired to do and, instead, do seriously stupid things. That would probably save California from at least one politician, too.
Give it another ten years or so and the maps will probably be right on.
Isn't it interesting that the very people who were spending money like drunken sailors are suddenly in favor of "smaller government" and financial conservatism? And yet almost no one is calling them on it. An entire political party apparently had an epiphany and started claiming that Obama was outspending every President in history (while Bush Jr. - all by himself - increased the national debt by over $5 trillion according to the NY Times).
I keep wondering how firing a million government employees is going to help create jobs.
Yup... but mostly on the west coast for me. :)