First, aside, VT happens to be one of the biggest 'bike' states in the US; so riding must be comfortable for most. But like any ruality, cars are an absolute necessity. Telework is really the only option unless its just a home base for a traveller.
Odd that i hear the fact bandied about that 75% of us live in cities. They must be including the burbs; or places like the bourroughs completely skew the mean.
Strange thing is, though like you i loathe the burbs, most ppl i know prefer it exactly because it's (kinda) midway between where they work and where they recreate. This is what make the burbs a bedroom community for those who can afford it. They rarely see the sprawl or they perceive it as "Oh, lets go to starbucks!, Home-Depot,.... They really never spend anytime anywhere. Commute straight to the office and back, weekends away and M-F in their modest backyards.
The reason I left THE city was that it was no longer affordable; the arts etc... and everyone i knew just hung out. The reason I can't go back (for more than a visit) is seeing how detatched city folk are from nature, green, food sources, starlight, etc... That and becoming adicted to the sounds of silence:)
More simply put, according to Meyers-Briggs
(visit similarminds.com) , I's get their stimulation internally and E's externally.
Like you, I'm an I, was a died-in-the-wool city-rat who drove gypsies and EMT, who now lives in the greate rural beyond. Most I's I know, as well as aspies, love watching and being in the middle of things; they are just a bit disconnected from it at the same time. Sort of akin to voyeurism. It maybe just a coping mechanism, because I-vs-E is as much about thinking (ideas) versus doing (actualities).
I's, unlike E's, don't seem to always have to be out socializing and doing "stuff".
I managed a zimbra system some time back and it was OK, support was pretty good. But it was all for the outlook plugins. Too much overhead otherwise (imo). Citadel is another good product.
Still, when all is said and done, count me in as a fanboy of sendmail on a xenU; despite my peers always singing the praises of postfix.
My only xen beef is my stupidly creating a xenU on an LVM volume that's too small w/too little storage. This resulted in having to NFS-mount (or DRBD) a yum-cache as well as a clam download dir.
I hear you on that! But I don't think that it would be too difficult for the OS dist to include some scripts that could check for it if they were inclined.
My only point is that it could be done; a client-server dist that, combined with the telco's opening up home serving in exchange for their idea of 'net-neutrality', could change the way we communicate. From cathedrals (centralized) to bazzars (de-centralized).
Sir, as always, you are a font of information! What I'd like to know is for all the posting you do here, where on earth do you find the time to get any work done?
I just activated my old motorola phone cuz i'm ditching my home landline. I've got an N900 that give me all the outgoing I need, but with the verizon paygo phone, i don't want to have to pay for or listen to incomming crap calls from "Hi, I'm Rachel at carld-holders express" and the like. So i plan to setup the razor call-forwarding to my Gvoice number and then have it sms those calls back to the razor as 1st option. Costs next to nothing and works as a great filter. I hope
not an empire colapsing as much as transforming itself to preserve the 'empire builders'.
What people posting here no/. and elsewhere may be relevant and on-topic to the story-du-jour, what few are talking about is what is common knowledge to all but the 'throng'.
One person here posted, paraphrasing, "there is but one party but it goes by two names." Others have noted the dissolution of "Left-v-Right, D-v-R,.... as much as Up-v-Down, Haves-v-NoHaves....
This is closer to the truth in America, the utter incompetance, corruption, greed of 'generalship' in trying to adjust to global competition and ease out of commitments made that can no longer be kept.
America is not 1 nation or 1 people or 1 anything anymore. It is 300+ million souls fending for themselves; business as usual.
Our country is transforming itself into investor-class vs. a rabble whose labors are no longer needed or appreciated or valued; who are considered a burden by those who are self-deluded into believing they are entitled to what they have.
All this spying, this heavy-handed rethoric (sic), the grandstanding of institutionalists and sock-puppets and pundits is in fear of retribution of the dis-enfranchised masses waking up to this privatized scalping by big.gov and.biz
It's about getting a seat on the lifeboats before the ship of State goes down.
but it becomes problematic when these agencies trade info like baseball cards. The NSA trading info on UK citizens w/MI6 (5?) who then return the favor w/info data on US citizens; both of whom are firmly in bed w/the likes of say, Kroll Assoc. (and kin) who provide global corporate espionage data. Before we knew it, all citizens among western allies got pwned.
I have Fairpoint as my provider and pay 49.99 per month for 15Mb pipe (less a discount for annual commit). I spoke w/them yesterday inquiring about getting a biz account; thinking i might save myself the $60/mo i pay to my colo for server hosting.
They informed me that at biz account at same speed would cost me $109/mo plus monthly charges for any extra IP addresses ($24 for 6). What explains the difference in cost? A fixed IP address. That's it. WTF?
unless we get rid of the electoral college voting does not really matter. The people have no say in who governs nationally. congresscritters have to be millionaires, and they still spend over 1/2 their time whoring for dollars. The supremes are appointed.
No wonder all three branches of.gov are at their lowest popularity in US history. They are only accountable to special interests
along the same lines, I'm curious why no pundits have brought up DPI. Considering that it's a.biz analog to what.gov is doing and not one seems to be complaing loudly.
"The decisions can be cited, but they are often classified, so you would need a security clearance and a need to know to see them."
If they cannot be reviewed and cited by the public (those w/out clearance) then they (the decisions) (should) have no standing under the strict definition of a 'court'.
Similarly, how, for instance, can a 'detainee' prepare a proper defense when the evidence against them is classified? FISA is not a court nor a tribunal. It is a Spanish Inquisition. The fact that it is all dressed up with the trappings of legality notwithstanding.
CF, you are a major apologist for the State, as evidenced by your continual postings here and across every thread that calls into question the authority of said State and your tireless efforts to justify it.
I don't know if you are just playing devil's advocate or seriously believe what you say, but your self-proclaimed Institutionalism clearly makes you more part of the problem than the solution.
FISA is a 'secret' court, but there is no such thing as 'court' by definition means that it's decisions are publically accessible and the means of its decisions can be cited and referenced.
This makes FISA more like a tribunal, certainly not a court in any true sense.
It's not a tautology, as there are other means, though less effective, of dealing with force and intimidation. But you are correct regarding the form laws take and who they serve.
The degree of regulation aside, there has been no significant regulatory enforcement of existing laws, watered down as they have become since Regan.
The money and power of special interests have eroded the checks and balances society needs to survive.
So if you advocate accountability, do you support Dodd-Frank?, a Consumer Protection Agency?, the EPA/FDA?
Not particularly as they are now, with the foxes in charge of the henhouse(s), but as they were designed to be; holding that which is private accountable to the public.
If you proscribe less regulation, then at least make it enforceable. Awarding exemptions and succumbing to 'rent-seeking' are not the product of over-regulation, but the power of influence and money over lawmakers. Society does not exempt corporation, the elites in government do; there is a difference.
Also, "... people like you whine and complain..."
I don't believe that I'm whining about anything, just offering an opinion, which is that the interest of corporations is not the same as that of society writ large and that the unbridled power of conglomerates can only be kept in check by the citizenry and the gov they (hopefully) control.
Does anything I am saying make me sound to you as a liberal? Or that I'm advocating more laws or more regulations? There is nothing in my earlier comment to suggest that. Maybe your internal bias is showing because my orientation happens to bethat of a dyed-in-wool emma-goldman, gene-sharp, anarchist; insurrectionist AOT institutionalist, skeptic and questioner of Authority. And frankly, at this point in the clusterfuck, I just don't give a shit how it all shakes out.
I am neither 'right' nor 'left' because the real issues hinge between 'top' and 'bottom' (or up and down). This is the world both OWS and TP live, the shared common denominator of failed institutions and broken systems.
The fact happens to be that those at the top have gamed the system and left it for broke.
And I happen to completely agree with 1-3 of your last paragraph because it speaks to the exemptions (and entitlements) that our current elites enjoy.
But make no mistake, even in a society that eschews leaders and the distance it creates from its constituency,, there needs to be protection from corporations no different than from the Mafia .
the only thing standing between you and the forceful intent of a corporation is society and its governence (.gov) Also note the origins of the word 'company' lies rooted in unpaid soldiers turned mercenary. And remember that the black-clad, armed and badge-less forces in NOLA could at any time come to a street corner near you in a most unaccountable fashion. I suppose to you they would be offering 'safety' but I don't believe its one you can refuse.
"people who do mental work. Those people will be paid well"
just perhaps, possibly, automation will herald a time of ideas, most far from bright, but portending a way/means to become as much a maker as a consumer.
Automation also makes possible for every/any one to learn via being 'online' using MOOCs from anywhere in the world
It offers humans both relief from doing handwork and adding value to its craftwork.
The down-side of breaking out of industrialism's labor to investor economies and knowledge-based systems are the legacy industries lobbying to retain and protect intellectual prop, branding, copyright extension, hunkered in their patent-bunkers plotting for hegemony, and more trolls (cant take the troll out of control) i suspect, historically speaking, it won't bode well for the little guy, only more of less. who are convinced to think of it as a "peace-dividend".
Maybe part of the problem is that we didn't impeach Bush. And if we had, along with putting all those who lied us into war in the dock, then maybe, just maybe, we might seriously think about impeaching his successor
but exigent circumstances seems to be the master key that opens all doors.
Despite knowing that, in this case, it was entirely called for; I belive I can predict with certainty that, sooner or later, it will be used again. Perhaps in less fashionable neighborhoods, perhaps when all LEA are wearing cameras, perhaps when residents of said areas have more to hide than a grow room.
Enabled by tech, population control as public safety will most certainly make this outcome inevitable (IMO).
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First, aside, VT happens to be one of the biggest 'bike' states in the US; so riding must be comfortable for most. But like any ruality, cars are an absolute necessity. Telework is really the only option unless its just a home base for a traveller.
Odd that i hear the fact bandied about that 75% of us live in cities. They must be including the burbs; or places like the bourroughs completely skew the mean.
Strange thing is, though like you i loathe the burbs, most ppl i know prefer it exactly because it's (kinda) midway between where they work and where they recreate.
This is what make the burbs a bedroom community for those who can afford it. They rarely see the sprawl or they perceive it as "Oh, lets go to starbucks!, Home-Depot,....
They really never spend anytime anywhere. Commute straight to the office and back, weekends away and M-F in their modest backyards.
The reason I left THE city was that it was no longer affordable; the arts etc... and everyone i knew just hung out. The reason I can't go back (for more than a visit) is seeing how detatched city folk are from nature, green, food sources, starlight, etc...
That and becoming adicted to the sounds of silence:)
Hi:
More simply put, according to Meyers-Briggs
(visit similarminds.com) , I's get their stimulation internally and E's externally.
Like you, I'm an I, was a died-in-the-wool city-rat who drove gypsies and EMT, who now lives in the greate rural beyond.
Most I's I know, as well as aspies, love watching and being in the middle of things; they are just a bit disconnected from it at the same time. Sort of akin to voyeurism.
It maybe just a coping mechanism, because I-vs-E is as much about thinking (ideas) versus doing (actualities).
I's, unlike E's, don't seem to always have to be out socializing and doing "stuff".
I managed a zimbra system some time back and it was OK, support was pretty good. But it was all for the outlook plugins. Too much overhead otherwise (imo). Citadel is another good product.
Still, when all is said and done, count me in as a fanboy of sendmail on a xenU; despite my peers always singing the praises of postfix.
I use it with selinux, the milters, razor, pyzor, dcc, clam, combined with a virtusertable that routes non-existant users to the pit:
@some-domain.com error:nouser No such user here
and requiring reverse-dns for connecting hosts
(tip of hat to
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Messaging/sendmail-refuse-mail-with-no-reverse-lookup-PTR-record/td-p/3194706 )
I've had no issues and nearly no spam, in years of operation.
My only xen beef is my stupidly creating a xenU on an LVM volume that's too small w/too little storage. This resulted in having to NFS-mount (or DRBD) a yum-cache as well as a clam download dir.
Doesn't matter; nothing gets made here anymore anyhow.
We just repackage shit made someplace else.
For a decent read, check out "Detroit" by Charlie LeDuff
"May be made in the United States, China or Taiwan"
"... is his persistance..."
That's cuz he's probably an aspie:)
I hear you on that! But I don't think that it would be too difficult for the OS dist to include some scripts that could check for it if they were inclined.
My only point is that it could be done; a client-server dist that, combined with the telco's opening up home serving in exchange for their idea of 'net-neutrality', could change the way we communicate. From cathedrals (centralized) to bazzars (de-centralized).
In my dreams.
Sir, as always, you are a font of information! What I'd like to know is for all the posting you do here, where on earth do you find the time to get any work done?
Thanks again
As the 60minutes expose detailed: 401K's and money-market management is another scam to separate the little guy from their money.
(Comprehensive) Health insurance? that's a good one.
Only slightly worse than "Peace,Love,Linux"
I just activated my old motorola phone cuz i'm ditching my home landline. I've got an N900 that give me all the outgoing I need,
but with the verizon paygo phone, i don't want to have to pay for or listen to incomming crap calls from "Hi, I'm Rachel at carld-holders express" and the like. So i plan to setup the razor call-forwarding to my Gvoice number and then have it sms those calls back to the razor as 1st option.
Costs next to nothing and works as a great filter. I hope
not an empire colapsing as much as transforming itself to preserve the 'empire builders'.
What people posting here no /. and elsewhere may be relevant and on-topic to the story-du-jour, what few are talking about is what is common knowledge to all but the 'throng'.
One person here posted, paraphrasing, "there is but one party but it goes by two names." Others have noted the dissolution of "Left-v-Right, D-v-R, .... as much as Up-v-Down, Haves-v-NoHaves....
This is closer to the truth in America, the utter incompetance, corruption, greed of 'generalship' in trying to adjust to global competition and ease out of commitments made that can no longer be kept.
America is not 1 nation or 1 people or 1 anything anymore. It is 300+ million souls fending for themselves; business as usual.
Our country is transforming itself into investor-class vs. a rabble whose labors are no longer needed or appreciated or valued; who are considered a burden by those who are self-deluded into believing they are entitled to what they have.
All this spying, this heavy-handed rethoric (sic), the grandstanding of institutionalists and sock-puppets and pundits is in fear of retribution of the dis-enfranchised masses waking up to this privatized scalping by big .gov and .biz
It's about getting a seat on the lifeboats before the ship of State goes down.
but it becomes problematic when these agencies trade info like baseball cards. The NSA trading info on UK citizens w/MI6 (5?) who then return the favor w/info data on US citizens; both of whom are firmly in bed w/the likes of say, Kroll Assoc. (and kin) who provide global corporate espionage data. Before we knew it, all citizens among western allies got pwned.
"where my mom has to spin up her own Linux server..."
Wouldn't be so bad if a distro (say Ubuntu) created a "secure hosting" iso that merged the desktop and a web/mail server with easy2use admin apps.
The bigger problem would be to get ISPs to allow home-based hosting; which perhaps they would succumb to in trade for 'net-neutrality' perks.
This way the benefits of truely distributed communications/computing could be realized and the centralized cathedrals would be deprecated.
Your mom would/should only have to know a minimum number of things to get herself up and self-hosting.
I have Fairpoint as my provider and pay 49.99 per month for 15Mb pipe (less a discount for annual commit). I spoke w/them yesterday inquiring about getting a biz account; thinking i might save myself the $60/mo i pay to my colo for server hosting.
They informed me that at biz account at same speed would cost me $109/mo plus monthly charges for any extra IP addresses ($24 for 6).
What explains the difference in cost? A fixed IP address. That's it. WTF?
what i find surprising is that out of 4M ppl w/clearances, only 4-6 felt strongly enough to find the courage to speak up.
unless we get rid of the electoral college voting does not really matter. The people have no say in who governs nationally.
congresscritters have to be millionaires, and they still spend over 1/2 their time whoring for dollars. The supremes are appointed.
No wonder all three branches of .gov are at their lowest popularity in US history. They are only accountable to special interests
along the same lines, I'm curious why no pundits have brought up DPI. Considering that it's a .biz analog to what .gov is doing and not one seems to be complaing loudly.
"The decisions can be cited, but they are often classified, so you would need a security clearance and a need to know to see them."
If they cannot be reviewed and cited by the public (those w/out clearance) then they (the decisions) (should) have no standing under the strict definition of a 'court'.
Similarly, how, for instance, can a 'detainee' prepare a proper defense when the evidence against them is classified?
FISA is not a court nor a tribunal. It is a Spanish Inquisition.
The fact that it is all dressed up with the trappings of legality notwithstanding.
CF, you are a major apologist for the State, as evidenced by your continual postings here and across every thread that calls into question the authority of said State and your tireless efforts to justify it.
I don't know if you are just playing devil's advocate or seriously believe what you say, but your self-proclaimed Institutionalism clearly makes you more part of the problem than the solution.
Have a nice day
FISA is a 'secret' court, but there is no such thing as 'court' by definition means that it's decisions are publically accessible and the means of its decisions can be cited and referenced.
This makes FISA more like a tribunal, certainly not a court in any true sense.
It's not a tautology, as there are other means, though less effective, of dealing with force and intimidation. But you are correct regarding the form laws take and who they serve.
The degree of regulation aside, there has been no significant regulatory enforcement of existing laws, watered down as they have become since Regan.
The money and power of special interests have eroded the checks and balances society needs to survive.
So if you advocate accountability, do you support Dodd-Frank?, a Consumer Protection Agency?, the EPA/FDA?
Not particularly as they are now, with the foxes in charge of the henhouse(s), but as they were designed to be; holding that which is private accountable to the public.
If you proscribe less regulation, then at least make it enforceable. Awarding exemptions and succumbing to 'rent-seeking' are not the product of over-regulation, but the power of influence and money over lawmakers. Society does not exempt corporation, the elites in government do; there is a difference.
Also, "... people like you whine and complain..."
I don't believe that I'm whining about anything,
just offering an opinion, which is that the interest of corporations is not the same as that of society writ large and that the unbridled power of conglomerates can only be kept in check by the citizenry and the gov they (hopefully) control.
Does anything I am saying make me sound to you as a liberal? Or that I'm advocating more laws or more regulations? There is nothing in my earlier comment to suggest that. Maybe your internal bias is showing because my orientation happens to bethat of a dyed-in-wool emma-goldman, gene-sharp, anarchist; insurrectionist AOT institutionalist, skeptic and questioner of Authority.
And frankly, at this point in the clusterfuck, I just don't give a shit how it all shakes out.
I am neither 'right' nor 'left' because the real issues hinge between 'top' and 'bottom' (or up and down). This is the world both OWS and TP live, the shared common denominator of failed institutions and broken systems.
The fact happens to be that those at the top have gamed the system and left it for broke.
And I happen to completely agree with 1-3 of your last paragraph because it speaks to the exemptions (and entitlements) that our current elites enjoy.
But make no mistake, even in a society that eschews leaders and the distance it creates from its constituency,, there needs to be protection from corporations no different than from the Mafia .
the only thing standing between you and the forceful intent of a corporation is society and its governence (.gov)
Also note the origins of the word 'company' lies rooted in unpaid soldiers turned mercenary.
And remember that the black-clad, armed and badge-less forces in NOLA could at any time come to a street corner near you in a most unaccountable fashion. I suppose to you they would be offering 'safety' but I don't believe its one you can refuse.
"people who do mental work. Those people will be paid well"
just perhaps, possibly, automation will herald a time of ideas, most far from bright, but
portending a way/means to become as much a maker as a consumer.
Automation also makes possible for every/any one to learn via being 'online' using MOOCs from anywhere in the world
It offers humans both relief from doing handwork and adding value to its craftwork.
The down-side of breaking out of industrialism's labor to investor economies and knowledge-based systems
are the legacy industries lobbying to retain and protect intellectual prop, branding, copyright extension,
hunkered in their patent-bunkers plotting for hegemony,
and more trolls (cant take the troll out of control)
i suspect, historically speaking, it won't bode well for the little guy, only more of less.
who are convinced to think of it as a "peace-dividend".
Maybe part of the problem is that we didn't impeach Bush. And if we had, along with putting all those who lied us into war in the dock, then maybe, just maybe, we might seriously think about impeaching his successor
So, 400 years of Spanish Inquisition doesn't count then?
And you are saying that the Holy Roman Empire was religous in name only?
Cannot speak to the veracity of below link:
https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2013/04/boston_bomber_manhunt_is_the_watertown_door_to_door_search_by_police_for.html
but exigent circumstances seems to be the master key that opens all doors.
Despite knowing that, in this case, it was entirely called for; I belive I can predict with certainty that, sooner or later, it will be used again. Perhaps in less fashionable neighborhoods, perhaps when all LEA are wearing cameras, perhaps when residents of said areas have more to hide than a grow room.
Enabled by tech, population control as public safety will most certainly make this outcome inevitable (IMO).