Empirically, what we have is something nobody wants, that's slow and stalled out of the gate, which is part of a bigger system that is also dysfunctional; but which all the leadership in humpty-dumpty-ville cannot fix.
I think possibly that anarchy is the belief that we don't need leaders, we can lead ourselves.
What is likable about single-payer (all medicared?) is that one's healthcare is no longer coupled to one's employer. That, beyond all else, is its saving grace. Something even a (currently) healthy youngun can grep.
What we have now is a gig that can only be managed with cost-shifting.
More than once now you've tried to establish that physical trumps mental; that being beaten up is more serious than mental anquish.
You also seem to think that acceptable teasing, like that among friends, is the same as incessant harrassment coming from all sides at all times.
Problem with your position is that limbs heal, bruises go away, The mental trauma of harrassment-induced stress usuallly means saying good-bye to having a good night's rest even after escaping one's tormentors.
Stop trying to defend such a undefensible position; it just puts the tell on you.
"Those two girls are not responsible for that other girls death."
Flat Fact: If those 2 girls did not exist then the other girl would still be alive.
(told self i wouldn't go here:) Most kids are thoughtless, so are most adults.
Peer and social pressures notwithstanding, they act w/out thinking, w/out seeing consequences. They are lead by their impulses fears and avoidance ) and are most dangerous in groups.
It is this unconscious mode of existance that enables them to indulge in, and rationalize, those self-centered behaviors that society@large has to unfuck.
Maybe, but they would still become either an also-ran or a wannabe.
Watching M$ latest commercials, they seem to agree; the "look! we're 41MPixels!". Man, they have a great marketing group; pimping usage, like tooth-fairies comming to clean end-users' sour taste in mouth.
I love my N900, chuckle when i lately note CList phone ads selling "my N900", omitting the "lumia" from modelname. I'd cut an apendage for an N950! Not really; well maybe.
Becomming so much more about interfaces (h/w) to the OS/DE and plainly, M$ reliably sucks at making WM/DM (s/w).
As micro/nano moves sprouts from drones-n-goggles we'll prob all be using flesh2.0 and brainware to control our devices, making issue even more fragmented
But droid would be the monkey on the back of a really well engineered nokia device. QT/E17/meego would spank that monkey in a heartbeat. If it resembles anything like the existing maemo community then popular support alone could make it a best seller. Encryption (GPG,XMPP,KRB,eCryptFS...) would be a great place to start.
droid's fundamental basis as a pay2play cloud device for renting content runs counter to popular computing and FOSS. A play-store model so simple even a caveman can grok it; but I like repos and distros and suspect even joe6pk would grep if packaged correctly.
Sorry4ranting but freedom is the next best thing to privacy. gphone unmodded, winphone and iphone, all are compromised, h/w quality notwithstanding.
Maybe Nokia's demise will liberate a crop of talent who can milk profit out of openness and a good (p2p) support model. I know just as current spying is driving a shift to linux, so to will a 'linphone' eventually gain mindshare. 10 years is my guesstimate. We here all knew how FOSS was better, even Open h/w, now the public is becomming more receptive to understanding why.
Combined w/GrandCentral, if G had chosen that path i would kneel at their feet. But disruptive tech is a bottom up kind of thing and, though not sure where tizen/sailfish will fit into things, am confident that, while Nokia may have lost its way, its community of engineers and programmers will take their expertise elsewhere, hopefully court carriers, and foster the next evolution in communications
M$'s big hurdle is that people have invested in understanding another OS (i or d) and the Concepts behind it. RT, redmonds' approach to tiling... is facing an uphill battle and their OS is not remarkable enuf to hold/capture attention.
An E17 or buntu wrapped linphone, made by nokian labrats and designed by those wanting a better symbian (maemo), and supported by the free and open bazzar of ideas rooted in word-of-mouth. Secure, distributed, ones' own. Who could ask for more?
Obliquely alluding to the potential of this or any FOSS app to de-cathedralize a social media site by having p2p circles of association that is secure, private as one wants, self-maintained and owned and hopefully has a plug/module for dydns or like; only makes a wooshing sound below the din of/. aspies and critics. Tho the point on naming is wisely taken. Goblins, daemons, zombies.... oh my....
Znork replied: "Somehow I suspect the problem at Microsoft is the board" Its natural for people to think in terms of pointing fingers and placing blame. But only the whales know what the motives and true intentions are in any play of this size. Besides, who cares, in the end, if Microsoft bleeds out. M$ dying puts it in the ranks of other greats in past decades. Corps come and, actually, do go. Sadly the people running them refuse to fade away gracefully and take their capitalistic talents elsewhere.
But that's the plan afterall. Elop follows orders that are, ultimately, only about accruing share value and private fortunes. While M$ is being buried, another venture capital firm will be waiting in the wings; run by the same cast of characters (wasps/elites) to the same ultimate end: seizeing what they can and separating investors from their money.
Paying a livable wage, like the $15/hr WA folk are pushing for (raising a burger's cost by.30) would reflect the acceptance that Gross National Happiness makes more sense than Gross National Product.
My own experience related to how being poor is stressful translates to not just being able to cut a check whenever the stuff I depend on breaks down. It means having to learn how to fix things AOT having somebody else do it.
It also means getting seriously side-tracked from clearing my 2do list; often down worm-holes that take me way off-task while the list continues to grow.
This is the stress that having disposable income mitigates. The ability to pay someone else affords one the luxury of not getting bogged down and overwhelmed with the events of day to day living.
The stress of not having the means generally leads to increased self-denial and growing numbness to the eventual crash and burn. It follows that resignation and surrender to poverty re-diverts spending on self-indulgences because that little bit won't make a dent in climbing out of the hole to see the light of self-sufficiency. Health suffers as quality of life spirals down.
We have become such a voyeuristic people. The NSA has been caught upskirting america looking for bombs everywhere. The risk is real, the probability low, impact high, outcome uncertain. We are strictly heirarchial, bureaucratic and clinging to law and order to CYA. It does not fit well with the new now. I'm engrained as a BSCS student that our industrialization was evolving into a 'knowledge-based' society that information is knowledge; more is better, faster is best. That we were meant to be mobile, portable. That our rising tide would trickle down and grow 3rd world economies; create shareholders of us each and all! Same bullshit on a different day; during 5 decades of a 'get off my lawn' ruling generation raised on Status quo and certainty, bankers hours and bakers dozens accustomed to getting their own way.
For them, Internetworking opened a pandora's box of surprises; an eternal September. What started out as high hopes for outsourceing and automation to improve market share and drive a the investor classes only to ignomiously crawl back under rocks with their 2% of our IRAs and socialized bailouts.. It should have come as no surprise at all when forced to wrap their collective heads around quants warning on risky asymetric outcomes, convex combinations, false-certainty and determimnistic chaos... that its path of least resistance was in one ear and out the other.
Pursuit of scientism and teathered to its tech has left us victims to incomplete information, self-confirmation bias and latent mind blindness. Our 'leaders' are intoxicated and behind the wheels of what the DARPA cocoon was always envisioned to become - a skynet, for lack of better words..
Since Our guns don't seem to be effective (recursive COIN/CI failures) data mining and espionage and bots appears to be our (U.S. gov - any State, generally) only and best defense for long-term survival in a global economy where the indigenous we've suppressed for so long are now free to want more. Facing foreign competition lined up to satisfy those needs; the lo-tech and underdogs that seem to always prevail.
Its not about America, its about (mostly) WASPS who, respectfully, believe that family and legacy come first. That parent has responsibility to provide more for their spawn, generational improvement. Even at the cost of compromises. That the powerful can cause so much damage when unrestrained and indifferent to the suffering of others is proof that when all is said and done the American Dream is just that and reality is gated and very private.
Side Rant: all last week long its been MLK this and MLK that and civility being a natural right. Well, even as a dip-shit HS'er with 1 black student in the body I knew the right thing and coerced self to D.C. OK, it was big. But I also did the VN protests on D.C streets and witnessed up close the SNIC/SDS/Panther front-lines of activism. The makings of an worrysome insurgency. I believe rights got civil just about the time people (starting w/blacks) came back in pieces and with guns and the will to use them to defend their rights. Sad (CCA/DEA) story continues to this day, but some mention of MalcomX,hell, the poor schmucks that are still incarcerated,... would have been worth a mention. If MLK represented the wave, X was a surfer who crested the top. If we (american society) are going to survive we need leaders that surf and can rise to the top of 40' waves.
"Any government that does not plan for the dirty laundry to come out is short sighted or incompetent."
I would have thought so as well, until I realized that "higher" doesn't run on logic, trusting P.R. meisters and lawyers to provide opportunity in the face of any and all positive or negative outcomes.
The network of insiders w/in insiders w/in the privilidged w/in elites. They're a steamroller and they only need press on, lying and cheating whenever called for. An auto analogy would be a too big, too powerful, forward only (RWD) gas-guzzler with lousy brake system. The American SUV, a GMAC love story. It's a 'hummer' and the only line is the red one.
I suspect it's a 1st-hand look at an AS living in an NT world. Successfully, I might add; because the value of his labors and perserverance have attracted a following willing to overlook his short-commings (his 'condition'). A thing he is probably incapable of changing; more than trying to conscious of or attentive to.
Often insufferable to be around, better w/relationships at a distance, too candid by half, and having the focus and obsession to create some amazing things that NT's cannot.
Being direct and up-front, (often brutally) honest, and incapable of empathizing with the emotions that are otherwise alien to a more objective mindset are the driving characteristics of this type.
I met him briefly in 1992 at UNH and immediately saw a kindred, albiet more-talented, spirit.
or being a really, really good bull-shitter. These days, it's a lot of 'all hat - no cattle" At least in programming the proof is in the coding and there's little room for CYA; too bad same can't be said for CIO,CTO, and those damn sysadmins!
What I find interesting in this conversation between you and Rakishi is that your company, from his POV, represents more the exception than the rule. I can totally get where he is comming from when taking current corporate behaviors as what drives his attitude.
From shifting retirement burdens onto the employee via IRA's to outsourcing, to overworking and under-paying, to focusing on temp-working. The actions of much of corporate america (fortune 1000 at least) speaks volumes to the attitudes of those new in the workforce (10yrs) and saddled with debt.
Your responses reflect more what should be than what is, in this new world order. Sad but true. Your insights remind me of what I've heard spoken by Ray Anderson, a name I suspect you are familiar with.
I'm a bit envious of your working environment and admiring of the prevaling attitudes you've expressed. So many corporate entities today seem managed by the "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" mentality of short-term ambition/goals that result in HR inadvertently undermining its own interests and long-term viability to stand on its own merits AOT being swallowd whole by some conglomerate, failing massively and being parted out wholesale.
I've been around long enough to see score of people like Rakishi, in IT, in finance etc.., who while young think they are masters of their universe; only to find out later in life how self-deluded they were in believing they had a handle on anything.
Watching them float from company to company, rising into management as tools of exec's whose only interest is in looting as much of the wealth as they can before moving on themselves (IBG-YBG), is insanely sad on so many levels and has become a trend thats impossible to buck.
Lead by example should not teach jumping ship at every bigger, better deal.
you know, it's not unions, per se. Its things like pensions, health care, having a job you can actually put 20 into and retire.
That's what got too costly for the auto manufacturers. Now, they're more a bank (GMAC...financing...) than a producer of cars.
I'm not saying that unions got too corrupt and full of themselves, but if you keep supporting the corporate mantra then all labor will just become a race to the bottom.
"Republicans spend on defense policing the world while Democrats spend domestically on stupid-ass projects and programs that don't do anything constructive or cohesive for our own national self-interests..."
Republicans spend on defense in support of corporate, conglomerate, dominion; the same.com's that are reducing the value of our labors to 0 (if possible) Democrats, don't get me started.
But you're such a tool reading your spew makes me want to puke.
check out the book "Detroit" by Charlie LeDuff for an up-front and personal look at the deterioration of that City. Corruption and incompetenence knows no limit.
No one who stays informed is hardly surprised, everybody who chooses to remain blissfully ignorant hardly cares.
The reveal is not so much.gov spying as much as on who's behalf it's being done. And the picture has been out there for the snapping; just a matter of focusing the dots.
Evidence US.gov spying on behalf of corporate interests will probably be the next big shoe to drop. Specially considering how many private contractors our.gov is enlisting.
Corporate espionage has been around for a long time, and, it most likely has all along been entangled with government. Just not to the incredible degree it is today. Knowledge has become a growth industry and D.C. is in the thick of it, but for a historical record it would be worth looking at our old friend AIG:
Corporate espionage probably has it's roots around the time AIG (OSS via Vander Starr then Greenberg ), now AIU, purchased the "private spy agency" Kroll Associates; which began operations in 1972, 3 years after Mo Greenberg took the helm of AIG. Maurice was an omnipotent, a Fed Chair, CFR chair, Kissinger became his lap dog in China.
In 1993, AIG became Kroll Associates largest investor. Kroll was notorious during the 1980s as the "CIA of Wall Street" due to the prevalence of former CIA, FBI, Scotland Yard, British secret service and British Special Air Service men Kroll employed for corporate espionage in takeover bids, as well as for destabilization of foreign nations.
In December 1997, Kroll merged with armored car manufacturer O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt to form The Kroll-O'Gara Company. www.krollworldwide.com It's said that O'Gara had been responsible for the security of all US-Presidents since 1945. Worth noting: from 1993 to 2001 Kroll Associates were responsible for World Trade Center Security. That includes Building#7, C-n-C for bio-warfare. In August 2001, Kroll Associates was renamed to Kroll Inc.
May 2004, Marsh sent a 100 million dollar offer to Julius Kroll, looking to buy into a multi-billiion dollar industry filled with former military types, CIA, FBI, DEA operatives and any number of lettered agencies charged with the security of our nation. Kroll was and remains the grandcentral of information. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroll_Inc)
In October 2004, Eliot Spitzer filed suit against Marsh, citing them for steering clients to preferred insurers with whom the company maintained lucrative payoff agreements, and for soliciting rigged bids for insurance contracts from the insurers; He accused the company of having colluded, for years, to "cheat customers in an elaborate charade of price fixing and bid rigging" , including insider-trading by Marsh in betting against American Airlines.
The three insurers he named were the AIG, Zurich America Insurance Company and Ace Ltd. AIG was run by Maurice Greenberg, his son Jeffrey ran Marsh & McLennan and his son, Evan, was boss of Ace.
Kroll CEO, Michael Cherkasky became Marsh CEO in response to Spitzer's investigation. In January 2006, Cherkasky persuaded Spitzer to drop the civil charges against Marsh in exchange for $US850 million to clients that Marsh & McLennan had defrauded. On February 9, 2006, AIG settled in court for 1.6B,
In 1990 AIG purchased control of International Lease Finance Corp (ILFC), ILFC leases the full line of both Airbus & Boeing aircraft and made AIG fully responsible for the planes it leases.
So much for preamble. Last December, AIG announced it would sell 90% of ILFC to private interests in China. That hasn't turned out to well and since then AIG's taking major hits on ILFC.
But IFLC did serve them well for a time. As noted by others: "As a order maker to the manufacturers, it allows for a virtual takeover of the manufacturing lines by claiming such a large inventory. This allows leverage against the manufacturing companies as a group. So, who ever controls AIG wags the tail of huge de
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A DDOS implies that the system (home) was not breached, but that egress was denied.
Isn't this more like a protest group in front of some brick-n-mortar establishment preventing customers from entering/leaving?
Isn't this case more akin to chasing down and prosecuting protesters for disrupting business as usual? For being outside the 'free-speech zone'?
Are we "anonymous cowards" or just using modpoints wisely?
You failed to mention what the anarchists want.
Empirically, what we have is something nobody wants, that's slow and stalled out of the gate, which is part of a bigger system that is also dysfunctional; but which all the leadership in humpty-dumpty-ville cannot fix.
I think possibly that anarchy is the belief that we don't need leaders, we can lead ourselves.
What is likable about single-payer (all medicared?) is that one's healthcare is no longer coupled to one's employer. That, beyond all else, is its saving grace. Something even a (currently) healthy youngun can grep.
What we have now is a gig that can only be managed with cost-shifting.
Odd, but i just realized that you could probably steal my shadow.
But keep your hands off my limelight
More than once now you've tried to establish that physical trumps mental; that being beaten up is more serious than mental anquish.
You also seem to think that acceptable teasing, like that among friends, is the same as incessant harrassment coming from all sides at all times.
Problem with your position is that limbs heal, bruises go away, The mental trauma of harrassment-induced stress usuallly means saying good-bye to having a good night's rest even after escaping one's tormentors.
Stop trying to defend such a undefensible position; it just puts the tell on you.
"Those two girls are not responsible for that other girls death."
Flat Fact:
If those 2 girls did not exist then the other girl would still be alive.
(told self i wouldn't go here:)
Most kids are thoughtless, so are most adults.
Peer and social pressures notwithstanding,
they act w/out thinking, w/out seeing consequences. They are lead by their impulses fears and avoidance ) and are most dangerous in groups.
It is this unconscious mode of existance that enables them to indulge in, and rationalize, those self-centered behaviors that society@large has to unfuck.
Strength has never been about the beating you can dish out as much as the beating you can take.
When you can take whatever gets dished out the bully gets tired and goes away, giving you time to plot your revenge:)
Wow, Moby Grape; they played at my H.S. prom!
Thanks for jogging my memory
Maybe, but they would still become either an also-ran or a wannabe.
Watching M$ latest commercials, they seem to agree; the "look! we're 41MPixels!". Man, they have a great marketing group; pimping usage, like tooth-fairies comming to clean end-users' sour taste in mouth.
I love my N900, chuckle when i lately note CList phone ads selling "my N900", omitting the "lumia" from modelname. I'd cut an apendage for an N950! Not really; well maybe.
Becomming so much more about interfaces (h/w) to the OS/DE and plainly, M$ reliably sucks at making WM/DM (s/w).
As micro/nano moves sprouts from drones-n-goggles we'll prob all be using flesh2.0 and brainware to control our devices, making issue even more fragmented
But droid would be the monkey on the back of a really well engineered nokia device. QT/E17/meego would spank that monkey in a heartbeat. If it resembles anything like the existing maemo community then popular support alone could make it a best seller.
Encryption (GPG,XMPP,KRB,eCryptFS...) would be a great place to start.
droid's fundamental basis as a pay2play cloud device for renting content runs counter to popular computing and FOSS. A play-store model so simple even a caveman can grok it; but I like repos and distros and suspect even joe6pk would grep if packaged correctly.
Sorry4ranting but freedom is the next best thing to privacy. gphone unmodded, winphone and iphone, all are compromised, h/w quality notwithstanding.
Maybe Nokia's demise will liberate a crop of talent who can milk profit out of openness and a good (p2p) support model. I know just as current spying is driving a shift to linux, so to will a 'linphone' eventually gain mindshare. 10 years is my guesstimate. We here all knew how FOSS was better, even Open h/w, now the public is becomming more receptive to understanding why.
Combined w/GrandCentral, if G had chosen that path i would kneel at their feet. But disruptive tech is a bottom up kind of thing and, though not sure where tizen/sailfish will fit into things, am confident that, while Nokia may have lost its way, its community of engineers and programmers will take their expertise elsewhere, hopefully court carriers, and foster the next evolution in communications
M$'s big hurdle is that people have invested in understanding another OS (i or d) and the Concepts behind it. RT, redmonds' approach to tiling...
is facing an uphill battle and their OS is not remarkable enuf to hold/capture attention.
An E17 or buntu wrapped linphone, made by nokian labrats and designed by those wanting a better symbian (maemo), and supported by the free and open bazzar of ideas rooted in word-of-mouth. Secure, distributed, ones' own. Who could ask for more?
Obliquely alluding to the potential of this or any FOSS app to de-cathedralize a social media site by having p2p circles of association that is secure, private as one wants, self-maintained and owned and hopefully has a plug/module for dydns or like; only makes a wooshing sound below the din of /. aspies and critics.
Tho the point on naming is wisely taken. Goblins, daemons, zombies.... oh my....
Aside: You can have my N900 when you can pry....
Znork replied:
"Somehow I suspect the problem at Microsoft is the board"
Its natural for people to think in terms of pointing fingers and placing blame. But only the whales know what the motives and true intentions are in any play of this size.
Besides, who cares, in the end, if Microsoft bleeds out. M$ dying puts it in the ranks of other greats in past decades. Corps come and, actually, do go. Sadly the people running them refuse to fade away gracefully and take their capitalistic talents elsewhere.
But that's the plan afterall. Elop follows orders that are, ultimately, only about accruing share value and private fortunes. While M$ is being buried, another venture capital firm will be waiting in the wings; run by the same cast of characters (wasps/elites) to the same ultimate end: seizeing what they can and separating investors from their money.
Paying a livable wage, like the $15/hr WA folk are pushing for (raising a burger's cost by .30) would reflect the acceptance that Gross National Happiness makes more sense than Gross National Product.
My own experience related to how being poor is stressful translates to not just being able to cut a check whenever the stuff I depend on breaks down. It means having to learn how to fix things AOT having somebody else do it.
It also means getting seriously side-tracked from clearing my 2do list; often down worm-holes that take me way off-task while the list continues to grow.
This is the stress that having disposable income mitigates. The ability to pay someone else affords one the luxury of not getting bogged down and overwhelmed with the events of day to day living.
The stress of not having the means generally leads to increased self-denial and growing numbness to the eventual crash and burn.
It follows that resignation and surrender to poverty re-diverts spending on self-indulgences because that little bit won't make a dent in climbing out of the hole to see the light of self-sufficiency. Health suffers as quality of life spirals down.
We have become such a voyeuristic people. The NSA has been caught upskirting america
looking for bombs everywhere. The risk is real, the probability low, impact high, outcome uncertain.
We are strictly heirarchial, bureaucratic and clinging to law and order to CYA. It does not fit well with
the new now.
I'm engrained as a BSCS student that our industrialization was evolving into a 'knowledge-based' society
that information is knowledge; more is better, faster is best. That we were meant to be mobile, portable.
That our rising tide would trickle down and grow 3rd world economies; create shareholders of us each and all!
Same bullshit on a different day; during 5 decades of a 'get off my lawn' ruling generation raised on
Status quo and certainty, bankers hours and bakers dozens accustomed to getting their own way.
For them, Internetworking opened a pandora's box of surprises; an eternal September. ...
What started out as high hopes for outsourceing and automation to improve market share and drive a the investor classes
only to ignomiously crawl back under rocks with their 2% of our IRAs and socialized bailouts..
It should have come as no surprise at all when forced to wrap their collective heads around quants warning on risky
asymetric outcomes, convex combinations, false-certainty and determimnistic chaos
that its path of least resistance was in one ear and out the other.
Pursuit of scientism and teathered to its tech has left us victims to incomplete information, self-confirmation
bias and latent mind blindness. Our 'leaders' are intoxicated and behind the wheels of what
the DARPA cocoon was always envisioned to become - a skynet, for lack of better words..
Since Our guns don't seem to be effective (recursive COIN/CI failures) data mining and espionage and bots
appears to be our (U.S. gov - any State, generally) only and best defense for long-term survival in a global
economy where the indigenous we've suppressed for so long are now free to want more. Facing foreign competition
lined up to satisfy those needs; the lo-tech and underdogs that seem to always prevail.
Its not about America, its about (mostly) WASPS who, respectfully, believe that family and legacy come first.
That parent has responsibility to provide more for their spawn, generational improvement. Even at the cost of compromises.
That the powerful can cause so much damage when unrestrained and indifferent to the suffering of others is proof
that when all is said and done the American Dream is just that and reality is gated and very private.
Side Rant: all last week long its been MLK this and MLK that and civility being a natural right. Well, even as a dip-shit ,hell, the poor schmucks that ,... would have been worth a mention.
HS'er with 1 black student in the body I knew the right thing and coerced self to D.C. OK, it was big. But
I also did the VN protests on D.C streets and witnessed up close the SNIC/SDS/Panther front-lines of activism.
The makings of an worrysome insurgency. I believe rights got civil just about the time people (starting w/blacks)
came back in pieces and with guns and the will to use them to defend their rights.
Sad (CCA/DEA) story continues to this day, but some mention of MalcomX
are still incarcerated
If MLK represented the wave, X was a surfer who crested the top.
If we (american society) are going to survive we need leaders that surf and can rise to the top of 40' waves.
Well said and concur; but:
"Any government that does not plan for the dirty laundry to come out is short sighted or incompetent."
I would have thought so as well, until I realized that "higher" doesn't run on logic, trusting P.R. meisters and lawyers to provide opportunity in the face of any and all positive or negative outcomes.
The network of insiders w/in insiders w/in the privilidged w/in elites.
They're a steamroller and they only need press on, lying and cheating whenever called for. An auto analogy would be a too big, too powerful, forward only (RWD) gas-guzzler with lousy brake system. The American SUV, a GMAC love story.
It's a 'hummer' and the only line is the red one.
pity the one ISP thats not a telco that has the power to open the internet to the 'bazzar' happens to be a cathedral.
I suspect it's a 1st-hand look at an AS living in an NT world. Successfully, I might add; because the value of his labors and perserverance have attracted a following willing to overlook his short-commings (his 'condition').
A thing he is probably incapable of changing; more than trying to conscious of or attentive to.
Often insufferable to be around, better w/relationships at a distance, too candid by half, and having the focus and obsession to create some amazing things that NT's cannot.
Being direct and up-front, (often brutally) honest, and incapable of empathizing with the emotions that are otherwise alien to a more objective mindset are the driving characteristics of this type.
I met him briefly in 1992 at UNH and immediately saw a kindred, albiet more-talented, spirit.
(AS->Asbergers;NT->Neuro-typicals)
or being a really, really good bull-shitter.
These days, it's a lot of 'all hat - no cattle"
At least in programming the proof is in the coding and there's little room for CYA; too bad same can't be said for CIO,CTO,
and those damn sysadmins!
What I find interesting in this conversation between you and Rakishi is that your company, from his POV, represents more the exception than the rule. I can totally get where he is comming from when taking current corporate behaviors as what drives his attitude.
From shifting retirement burdens onto the employee via IRA's to outsourcing, to overworking and under-paying, to focusing on temp-working. The actions of much of corporate america (fortune 1000 at least) speaks volumes to the attitudes of those new in the workforce (10yrs) and saddled with debt.
Your responses reflect more what should be than what is, in this new world order. Sad but true.
Your insights remind me of what I've heard spoken by
Ray Anderson, a name I suspect you are familiar with.
I'm a bit envious of your working environment and admiring of the prevaling attitudes you've expressed.
So many corporate entities today seem managed by the "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" mentality of short-term ambition/goals that
result in HR inadvertently undermining its own interests and long-term viability to stand on its own merits AOT being swallowd whole by some conglomerate, failing massively and being parted out wholesale.
I've been around long enough to see score of people like Rakishi, in IT, in finance etc.., who while young think they are masters of their universe; only to find out later in life how self-deluded they were in believing they had a handle on anything.
Watching them float from company to company, rising into management as tools of exec's whose only interest is in looting as much of the wealth as they can before moving on themselves (IBG-YBG), is insanely sad on so many levels and has become a trend thats impossible to buck.
Lead by example should not teach jumping ship at every bigger, better deal.
"Or my attitude of understanding how the economies of my own industry?"
This.Says.It.All
you know, it's not unions, per se. Its things like pensions, health care, having a job you can actually put 20 into and retire.
That's what got too costly for the auto manufacturers. Now, they're more a bank (GMAC...financing...) than a producer of cars.
I'm not saying that unions got too corrupt and full of themselves, but if you keep supporting the corporate mantra then all labor will just become a race to the bottom.
"Republicans spend on defense policing the world while Democrats spend domestically on stupid-ass projects and programs that don't do anything constructive or cohesive for our own national self-interests..."
Republicans spend on defense in support of corporate, conglomerate, dominion; the same .com's that are reducing the value of our labors to 0 (if possible)
Democrats, don't get me started.
But you're such a tool reading your spew makes me want to puke.
check out the book "Detroit" by Charlie LeDuff for an up-front and personal look at the deterioration of that City. Corruption and incompetenence knows no limit.
No one who stays informed is hardly surprised, everybody who chooses to remain blissfully ignorant hardly cares.
The reveal is not so much .gov spying as much as on who's behalf it's being done. And the picture has been out there for the snapping; just a matter of focusing the dots.
Evidence US .gov spying on behalf of corporate interests will probably be the next big shoe to drop. Specially considering how many private contractors our .gov is enlisting.
Corporate espionage has been around for a long time, and, it most likely has all along been entangled with government. Just not to the incredible degree it is today. Knowledge has become a growth industry and D.C. is in the thick of it, but for a historical record it would be worth looking at our old friend AIG:
Corporate espionage probably has it's roots around the time AIG (OSS via Vander Starr then Greenberg ), now AIU, purchased the "private spy agency" Kroll Associates; which began operations in 1972, 3 years after Mo Greenberg took the helm of AIG. Maurice was an omnipotent, a Fed Chair, CFR chair, Kissinger became his lap dog in China.
In 1993, AIG became Kroll Associates largest investor. Kroll was notorious during the 1980s as the "CIA of Wall Street" due to the prevalence of former CIA, FBI, Scotland Yard, British secret service and British Special Air Service men Kroll employed for corporate espionage in takeover bids, as well as for destabilization of foreign nations.
In December 1997, Kroll merged with armored car manufacturer O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt to form The Kroll-O'Gara Company. www.krollworldwide.com It's said that O'Gara had been responsible for the security of all US-Presidents since 1945. Worth noting: from 1993 to 2001 Kroll Associates were responsible for World Trade Center Security. That includes Building#7, C-n-C for bio-warfare. In August 2001, Kroll Associates was renamed to Kroll Inc.
May 2004, Marsh sent a 100 million dollar offer to Julius Kroll, looking to buy into a multi-billiion dollar industry filled with former military types, CIA, FBI, DEA operatives and any number of lettered agencies charged with the security of our nation. Kroll was and remains the grandcentral of information.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroll_Inc)
In October 2004, Eliot Spitzer filed suit against Marsh, citing them for steering clients to preferred insurers with whom the company maintained lucrative payoff agreements, and for soliciting rigged bids for insurance contracts from the insurers;
He accused the company of having colluded, for years, to "cheat customers in an elaborate charade of price fixing and bid rigging" , including insider-trading by Marsh in betting against American Airlines.
The three insurers he named were the AIG, Zurich America Insurance Company and Ace Ltd. AIG was run by Maurice Greenberg, his son Jeffrey ran Marsh & McLennan and his son, Evan, was boss of Ace.
Kroll CEO, Michael Cherkasky became Marsh CEO in response to Spitzer's investigation. In January 2006, Cherkasky persuaded Spitzer to drop the civil charges against Marsh in exchange for $US850 million to clients that Marsh & McLennan had defrauded. On February 9, 2006, AIG settled in court for 1.6B,
In 1990 AIG purchased control of International Lease Finance Corp (ILFC), ILFC leases the full line of both Airbus & Boeing aircraft and made AIG fully responsible for the planes it leases.
So much for preamble. Last December, AIG announced it would sell 90% of ILFC to private interests in China. That hasn't turned out to well and since then AIG's taking major hits on ILFC.
But IFLC did serve them well for a time. As noted by others:
"As a order maker to the manufacturers, it allows for a virtual takeover of the manufacturing lines by claiming such a large inventory. This allows leverage against the manufacturing companies as a group. So, who ever controls AIG wags the tail of huge de
sounds like a good description of any working-class neighborhood in Greenwich, CT