Create laws so that the citizens are the owners, and that our time is valuable. Pay a basic minimum income to all citizens. Slow down immigration. Offer tax-funded national healtcare. Build public subsidized housing. And make all these govt programs transparent and effective. Government is just a machines. Machines can be improved.
You can have most of that already, just move to France. And then join the crowd complaining about tax rates, public services unreliability and inefficiency, and bureaucratic clutter.
That's entirely true, the best deal would be choosing the better quality/cost ratio, unfortunately assessing the quality of a nurse's work might prove a little difficult (and seeing how many slashdotters crying "this is enslavement!", I can't even start to imagine what they'd say about that).
In fact, in all areas in life, you usually get what you pay for.
I generally tend to view this more as "you'll always find someone willing to take your money". Sure, a lower pay will usually bring a lower quality, but the opposite is not always true.
I'll be the dissenting voice, if you allow me to do so.
Tough luck ! The current standard of living in the US relative to most of the World's is the very first disparity that globalisation is bound to bridge. And that means you're getting downsized. But don't worry, it'll catch even the higher-ups, sooner or later. In the meantime, yes, your job is in India or China, feeding an indian or chinese instead of paying your son's college.
That's the beautiful side of it: everything's getting cheaper, your work included. And you can't do a single thing about it.
Of course there are cheaters who only get the benefits of this mess. There always are, and always will unfortunately. They're the real gifted ones, and the World's theirs because of this. This Universe does not reward based on merit, and Karma's a bedtime story to reassure the kids.
You may be outsourced today, but when MegaCorp of China forces your former employer into bankruptcy, enjoy the show.
Until that day, well, it seems you have plenty of time to learn Chinese or one of the many Indian dialects;) I hear they have great food there.
You view this as enslavement only because you can't think outside of the system, I guess. This guy, on the other hand, knows how to use some resources available out of the system. I agree that this standard of living might be inferior to the one you enjoy slaving away in a regular job, but only you can draw the line between what you absolutely need and what is purely comfort. It all depends on how much you value your freedom.
But then, we're both posting comments on the Internet, shows where our priorities really are;)
You can use your PBook's video output and plug it to a wireless TV repeater like this one. Plug the audio to your PBook's headset output (and lower the volume), and you get both video and audio sent to your TV set.
Yes, technically, the screen goes in sleep mode instead of shutting down. It consumes a LOT less energy this way (somewhere along 1 W I'm told). That's why this setting is under the Energy Savings preferences;)
The major sources of heat in my iMac DV are the hard drive, the processor and the power supply (these last two having passive heat radiators), I don't really know about the monitor tube running hot or not.
Seriously. An old iMac of the DV series is perfect for this, except maybe for the footprint, it's bigger than a mini-ITX BSD box. Fanless so it's very silent, low power requirement, runs MacOS X or Linux or BSD. Just set it to disable the screen after one minute of inactivity for even lower power needs.
Plus it doubles as an MP3 jukebox (the Harman Kardon speakers are better than their looks would lead one to think), and with a eyeTV plugged on the FireWire, it can also replace a Tivo. You can get one cheap on Ebay or through LowEndMac.
However biased (I mean this is the statistical sense) the poll results are, whatever real votes will be cast, you know deep in your heart that Cheney will reappoint himself ruler of the USA.
He is the real President, he was the one taking the decisions in that breefing room in the morning of the 9th of September 2001. Decisions like keeping Bush away from Wahsington that day.
He certainly won't let democracy get in the way. Yes that's just my opinion, but when you wake up early on the 5th of November with anguish churning in your stomach, remember that I Told You So(TM);)
green pizza, you want the eyeTV 200. Contains a tuner, a hardware MPEG2 decoder (that can go up to 1920xsomething at 25 fps and will be able to do MPEG4 in future releases), S-Video and RCA inputs for analog video acquisition, and uses FireWire to stream mpeg2 to the Mac.
Works on old G3-based Macs even, comes with built-in edition capabilities and can export in any format you want.
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...or, the 64 persons who voted as Irakis are american soldiers stationed there.
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I think it's a simple variation of the gravitational pull of the Sun due to there being more quantum fluctuations of the polarizable vacuum in the void between interplanetary systems. In more classical models you could think of it as either a gravitational ripple, or a sort of leakage of inertia.
I predict the following: - this variation will grow with distance to the Sun - light speed gets a tiny bit slower in this area - this effect should be even more noticeable in the void between galaxies
It's no surprise Bernard Haisch jumped on this. It could help him push his theory forward.
This new scheme will fail in market. There's no real incentive to use it for the end customers, and manufacturers of player devices will see it as an additional cost with no real advantage to counter-balance it.
That's a lot like the NRA's argument in favor of having all civilians armed. If every country has nukes, noone will dare invade.
But a question remains: is the MAD principle enough to keep the situation from exploding ? It would take a rather extremely foolish leader to launch an attack against an enemy that can devastate your cities. Current geopolitics show that there ARE such extremists eager to do it, fortunately they don't have nukes for the moment.
Somehow I don't think a Cold War with a lot more than two blocks is a good idea... It was only a miracle the USSR and USA did not end up laying the smack on each others' civil populations.
Aording to the article, the launch occured 7 seconds before schedule because of a smashed electrical wire that disconnected the engine's electro-valve. Beause it's using a mono-propellant with a catalyser (I believe it's hydrogen peroxyde), the engine auto-ignited and the rocket launched.
I mistakenly read this news' title as "Extra Solar panel damaged" and thought "Damn, that ISS is falling apart fast those days!". No, I had no coffee yet.
The public libraries are public domain repositories ? So I can go and grab a copy of any book or CD there, and use that in commercial or free projects destined to be publicised ?
The company that manufactured them has gone out of business, and the engineer who almost single-handedly made the final adjustments of flight units died several years ago. Reportedly he retained some 'trade secret' about the final adjustments of the devices -- and it died with him.
And THIS is why there should be public domain repositories actively developped by governments, possibly along with mandatory escrow clauses for failed companies' IP. They would collect and index works that fall in the public domain ("This land is your land" anyone ?) as soon as possible, and maybe even buy exclusive rights of dying proprietary technology to make them open standards forever. I'm pretty sure this sort of service could even be profitable.
Private companies develop their own pool of patents and trademarks, why not the general public, too ?
Thanks for the mirror but... that was unnecessary, due to the brand new macbidouille server (MBServ4) and the fat 100 mbps link, there was no slashdotting felt this time.
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Create laws so that the citizens are the owners, and that our time is valuable. Pay a basic minimum income to all citizens. Slow down immigration. Offer tax-funded national healtcare. Build public subsidized housing. And make all these govt programs transparent and effective. Government is just a machines. Machines can be improved.
You can have most of that already, just move to France. And then join the crowd complaining about tax rates, public services unreliability and inefficiency, and bureaucratic clutter.
That's entirely true, the best deal would be choosing the better quality/cost ratio, unfortunately assessing the quality of a nurse's work might prove a little difficult (and seeing how many slashdotters crying "this is enslavement!", I can't even start to imagine what they'd say about that).
In fact, in all areas in life, you usually get what you pay for.
I generally tend to view this more as "you'll always find someone willing to take your money". Sure, a lower pay will usually bring a lower quality, but the opposite is not always true.
I'll be the dissenting voice, if you allow me to do so.
;) I hear they have great food there.
Tough luck ! The current standard of living in the US relative to most of the World's is the very first disparity that globalisation is bound to bridge. And that means you're getting downsized. But don't worry, it'll catch even the higher-ups, sooner or later. In the meantime, yes, your job is in India or China, feeding an indian or chinese instead of paying your son's college.
That's the beautiful side of it: everything's getting cheaper, your work included. And you can't do a single thing about it.
Of course there are cheaters who only get the benefits of this mess. There always are, and always will unfortunately. They're the real gifted ones, and the World's theirs because of this. This Universe does not reward based on merit, and Karma's a bedtime story to reassure the kids.
You may be outsourced today, but when MegaCorp of China forces your former employer into bankruptcy, enjoy the show.
Until that day, well, it seems you have plenty of time to learn Chinese or one of the many Indian dialects
You view this as enslavement only because you can't think outside of the system, I guess. This guy, on the other hand, knows how to use some resources available out of the system. I agree that this standard of living might be inferior to the one you enjoy slaving away in a regular job, but only you can draw the line between what you absolutely need and what is purely comfort. It all depends on how much you value your freedom.
;)
But then, we're both posting comments on the Internet, shows where our priorities really are
You can use your PBook's video output and plug it to a wireless TV repeater like this one. Plug the audio to your PBook's headset output (and lower the volume), and you get both video and audio sent to your TV set.
Yes, technically, the screen goes in sleep mode instead of shutting down. It consumes a LOT less energy this way (somewhere along 1 W I'm told). That's why this setting is under the Energy Savings preferences ;)
The major sources of heat in my iMac DV are the hard drive, the processor and the power supply (these last two having passive heat radiators), I don't really know about the monitor tube running hot or not.
Seriously. An old iMac of the DV series is perfect for this, except maybe for the footprint, it's bigger than a mini-ITX BSD box. Fanless so it's very silent, low power requirement, runs MacOS X or Linux or BSD. Just set it to disable the screen after one minute of inactivity for even lower power needs.
Plus it doubles as an MP3 jukebox (the Harman Kardon speakers are better than their looks would lead one to think), and with a eyeTV plugged on the FireWire, it can also replace a Tivo. You can get one cheap on Ebay or through LowEndMac.
Thank you, and hail Eris.
Woops, I really meant the 11th of September 2001, not the 9th. And I did preview !
However biased (I mean this is the statistical sense) the poll results are, whatever real votes will be cast, you know deep in your heart that Cheney will reappoint himself ruler of the USA.
;)
He is the real President, he was the one taking the decisions in that breefing room in the morning of the 9th of September 2001. Decisions like keeping Bush away from Wahsington that day.
He certainly won't let democracy get in the way. Yes that's just my opinion, but when you wake up early on the 5th of November with anguish churning in your stomach, remember that I Told You So(TM)
green pizza, you want the eyeTV 200. Contains a tuner, a hardware MPEG2 decoder (that can go up to 1920xsomething at 25 fps and will be able to do MPEG4 in future releases), S-Video and RCA inputs for analog video acquisition, and uses FireWire to stream mpeg2 to the Mac.
Works on old G3-based Macs even, comes with built-in edition capabilities and can export in any format you want.
...or, the 64 persons who voted as Irakis are american soldiers stationed there.
Few countries have true free press ? You might want to revise your judgement a bit.
I think it's a simple variation of the gravitational pull of the Sun due to there being more quantum fluctuations of the polarizable vacuum in the void between interplanetary systems. In more classical models you could think of it as either a gravitational ripple, or a sort of leakage of inertia.
I predict the following:
- this variation will grow with distance to the Sun
- light speed gets a tiny bit slower in this area
- this effect should be even more noticeable in the void between galaxies
It's no surprise Bernard Haisch jumped on this. It could help him push his theory forward.
This new scheme will fail in market. There's no real incentive to use it for the end customers, and manufacturers of player devices will see it as an additional cost with no real advantage to counter-balance it.
That's a lot like the NRA's argument in favor of having all civilians armed. If every country has nukes, noone will dare invade.
But a question remains: is the MAD principle enough to keep the situation from exploding ? It would take a rather extremely foolish leader to launch an attack against an enemy that can devastate your cities. Current geopolitics show that there ARE such extremists eager to do it, fortunately they don't have nukes for the moment.
Somehow I don't think a Cold War with a lot more than two blocks is a good idea... It was only a miracle the USSR and USA did not end up laying the smack on each others' civil populations.
Aording to the article, the launch occured 7 seconds before schedule because of a smashed electrical wire that disconnected the engine's electro-valve. Beause it's using a mono-propellant with a catalyser (I believe it's hydrogen peroxyde), the engine auto-ignited and the rocket launched.
I mistakenly read this news' title as "Extra Solar panel damaged" and thought "Damn, that ISS is falling apart fast those days!". No, I had no coffee yet.
Damn right. And in the end WiFi will set us all free anyway !
The public libraries are public domain repositories ? So I can go and grab a copy of any book or CD there, and use that in commercial or free projects destined to be publicised ?
The company that manufactured them has gone out of business, and the engineer who almost single-handedly made the final adjustments of flight units died several years ago. Reportedly he retained some 'trade secret' about the final adjustments of the devices -- and it died with him.
And THIS is why there should be public domain repositories actively developped by governments, possibly along with mandatory escrow clauses for failed companies' IP. They would collect and index works that fall in the public domain ("This land is your land" anyone ?) as soon as possible, and maybe even buy exclusive rights of dying proprietary technology to make them open standards forever. I'm pretty sure this sort of service could even be profitable.
Private companies develop their own pool of patents and trademarks, why not the general public, too ?
Duuude ! You need to hone your mindfucking skills.
Drop all your spam filters at once if you seriously believe that.
Thanks for the mirror but... that was unnecessary, due to the brand new macbidouille server (MBServ4) and the fat 100 mbps link, there was no slashdotting felt this time.