So close....and yet so far. The culture in Washington cannot be changed because the concentration of functions in a single physical location creates an environment of corrosive corruption. Washington cannot be a place where public servants serve the public because the public is not physically present in sufficient quantity to dilute the corruption.
Leading question: Why did Mr. Smith go to Washington? Because Washington could not go to Mr. Smith.
I propose all members of the House of Representatives would represent their constituency from an office located in the [approximate] geographic center of their district. {Let the circus for redrawing the districts begin!} Members of the House would be prohibited from physically meeting with any members of the house more than once a year -- at the annual House convention in some convention center. All House business would be conducted on the Internet.
Corporations influence would be diluted by distance and dispersion. The citizens could watch each and every person who conducts business with their Representative.
If you fired enough high energy photons from this gun at a mass of plutonium I think the ensuing explosion would make an image of you on the concrete wall! Is that fancy enough?
... cooking our food has not only changed our bodies over the years, giving us smaller mouths... it's given us an evolutionary advantage: bigger brains
Can we imply the inverse: people with big mouths have small brains and prefer sushi?
Current consumer cables can be kicked around the floor, dropped in water, and not have the terminating ends covered with protective caps when not in use....and still the connectors perform their intended function. Welcome to an all-new tech support hell calls on all the stupid^H^H^H^H^H^H inventive methods consumers find to destroy fiber connectors. The company which provides the cables for this venture should probably use a pricing model which includes a 50% failure rate in the first 6 months for all optic cables. Good luck.
I suggest you reread history. European settlers purposely gave blankets to natives which had previously been used by infected (recently deceased) people. This killed off the natives rather effectively. I would call this a biological weapon which was understood.
From a comment by "gohorns" on The Statesman comment section:
why do you immediately assume that the people who are posting as police officers AREN'T police officers? Think about it...Acevedo is saying how he is upset that people would get on and pretend to be officers so they can slam the police department. That implies he already KNOWS that they aren't officers. How does he know that? The story says that they would have to subpeona records to get the names. There's no way right now that anyone can know if they are officers or not. What if they ARE officers, and they're using the only way they can to let the public know the truth about Acevedo? No wonder he wants them shut down! He's got a leak he can't plug! It's driving him nuts!
Methinks the police chief may have internal strife and is incompetent at managing his people.
Now you did it. The car companies will now only license our cars to us; and force us to upgrade every 7 years whether we want to or not. Which side are you on?
I see you lack experience with a marginally competent workforce who has been handed a mandate. Civil servants attempt to transfer thru email 2GB spreadsheets, ppt presentations, or pdf files. Once the mandate for retention is implemented, these civil servants attempt to use their inbox as a CVS for these files. Administration won't provide budget for CVS training for these marginal bureaucrats; and the staff won't learn on their own initiative. And, rather than showing proper leadership, administration gets tired of listening to complaints about email box size constraints and other whining; then instructs IT to lift all constraints and back-up everything.
Everyone raise their equivalent electronic hands who thinks the City of Boston is going to increase manning for the IT staff to accommodate this increase in workload, scope, and new technology implementation?
No hands. Sucks to be an IT admin for the City of Boston about now.
Insurance is a monopoly with a thin veneer of differentiation. Insurance is a heavily regulated industry: regulation = laws. These laws are quite encompassing of almost all areas of insurance; the insurance companies are a virtual monopoly. Once one insurance company implements a new function, then lobbyists go to work to educate lawmakers how this should apply to all insurance companies.More regulation is passed; and the tentacles of the monopoly grip tighter.
...equally-brilliant technical writers to donate time to explain how the stuff works in the real world.
Whereas OSS can make functionality available to everyone, I see internal documentation from my tech writers as the key competitive element which sets my shop apart. This gives me an advantage -- my software licensing costs are lower but my operation runs better. Sure my developer submits his work back to the OSS community [and that gives him satisfaction and some credit]. But our internal written documentation is what makes OSS our strength....and that is not covered under the GPL.
All of these programs, and the accounting field in general, is having to evolve from a paper centric data architecture embedded in their mindset over the last few centuries. Most of the software works within the transferring operations and methods from paper to electronic mindspace. I have to have a beer or three available when the spouse talks about the sheer ignorance in major Fortune 500 company as accounting types fubar spreadsheets, Oracle, etc just to make the paper process more effective.
How does this apply to TFA? Any OSS which understands how personal finance is moving from paper based to EFT for all transactions and provides an application which really works in EFT space will succeed. The commercial accounting applications will stay stuck in the mode of supporting paper based accounting for at least another decade. The people and business education have to be upgraded -- and that will take a generation [25 years].
I think the mods are on crack again. This is a plausible scenario -- not thru malicious action on MS part but just the inevitable turpitude of a large uncaring monopoly.
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A single XKCD comic? Apply to all XKCD comics, then turn all the comics into a streaming video. See if you obtain a higher level of conciousness.
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Tom Cruise, is that you?
This is a technical discussion; find a non-technical support group therapy session to work thru your personal issues.
"Ok, ok. Please record the iso to a dvd."
"Record? I don't have any blank records. How would I hook up the record player to my computer!"
--If you are not of the computer literate and want to upgrade to Windows 7, the $17 shiny thing seems like a bargain.
--If you are of the computer literate and don't know a method for downloading the Windows 7 iso, turn in your Slashdot ID; you are banished.
If that 486 is still running, it is not possible for you to have cold hands.
So close....and yet so far.
The culture in Washington cannot be changed because the concentration of functions in a single physical location creates an environment of corrosive corruption. Washington cannot be a place where public servants serve the public because the public is not physically present in sufficient quantity to dilute the corruption.
Leading question: Why did Mr. Smith go to Washington? Because Washington could not go to Mr. Smith.
I propose all members of the House of Representatives would represent their constituency from an office located in the [approximate] geographic center of their district. {Let the circus for redrawing the districts begin!} Members of the House would be prohibited from physically meeting with any members of the house more than once a year -- at the annual House convention in some convention center. All House business would be conducted on the Internet.
Corporations influence would be diluted by distance and dispersion. The citizens could watch each and every person who conducts business with their Representative.
Not a perfect solution; but a start.
If you fired enough high energy photons from this gun at a mass of plutonium I think the ensuing explosion would make an image of you on the concrete wall! Is that fancy enough?
-- your descendants smaller brain sizes guarantee lives as grocery cart attendants, or
-- your descendants brains processing will become more efficient as their brain size shrinks in order to maintain parity with the other humans.
Either way they will be freaks.
... cooking our food has not only changed our bodies over the years, giving us smaller mouths ... it's given us an evolutionary advantage: bigger brains
Can we imply the inverse: people with big mouths have small brains and prefer sushi?
this has absolutely nothing to do with the discussion. Moderation needs an Undo
At those prices FireWire over fibre is not what I would call a consumer level device.
I think many of us at some time would rather connect a specific device in the dark; especially if the other device lacks a certain aesthetic appeal.
Current consumer cables can be kicked around the floor, dropped in water, and not have the terminating ends covered with protective caps when not in use ....and still the connectors perform their intended function. Welcome to an all-new tech support hell calls on all the stupid^H^H^H^H^H^H inventive methods consumers find to destroy fiber connectors. The company which provides the cables for this venture should probably use a pricing model which includes a 50% failure rate in the first 6 months for all optic cables. Good luck.
I suggest you reread history. European settlers purposely gave blankets to natives which had previously been used by infected (recently deceased) people. This killed off the natives rather effectively. I would call this a biological weapon which was understood.
Methinks the police chief may have internal strife and is incompetent at managing his people.
Did anyone else see the enlarge photo tag under Avecedo's picture and think "Ewwwww!"?
Now you did it. The car companies will now only license our cars to us; and force us to upgrade every 7 years whether we want to or not. Which side are you on?
I see you lack experience with a marginally competent workforce who has been handed a mandate. Civil servants attempt to transfer thru email 2GB spreadsheets, ppt presentations, or pdf files. Once the mandate for retention is implemented, these civil servants attempt to use their inbox as a CVS for these files. Administration won't provide budget for CVS training for these marginal bureaucrats; and the staff won't learn on their own initiative. And, rather than showing proper leadership, administration gets tired of listening to complaints about email box size constraints and other whining; then instructs IT to lift all constraints and back-up everything.
Your naivete and inexperience is amusing.
My apologies -- insurance cartel.
Everyone raise their equivalent electronic hands who thinks the City of Boston is going to increase manning for the IT staff to accommodate this increase in workload, scope, and new technology implementation?
No hands. Sucks to be an IT admin for the City of Boston about now.
Insurance is a monopoly with a thin veneer of differentiation. Insurance is a heavily regulated industry: regulation = laws. These laws are quite encompassing of almost all areas of insurance; the insurance companies are a virtual monopoly. Once one insurance company implements a new function, then lobbyists go to work to educate lawmakers how this should apply to all insurance companies.More regulation is passed; and the tentacles of the monopoly grip tighter.
...equally-brilliant technical writers to donate time to explain how the stuff works in the real world.
Whereas OSS can make functionality available to everyone, I see internal documentation from my tech writers as the key competitive element which sets my shop apart. This gives me an advantage -- my software licensing costs are lower but my operation runs better. Sure my developer submits his work back to the OSS community [and that gives him satisfaction and some credit]. But our internal written documentation is what makes OSS our strength....and that is not covered under the GPL.
All of these programs, and the accounting field in general, is having to evolve from a paper centric data architecture embedded in their mindset over the last few centuries. Most of the software works within the transferring operations and methods from paper to electronic mindspace. I have to have a beer or three available when the spouse talks about the sheer ignorance in major Fortune 500 company as accounting types fubar spreadsheets, Oracle, etc just to make the paper process more effective.
How does this apply to TFA? Any OSS which understands how personal finance is moving from paper based to EFT for all transactions and provides an application which really works in EFT space will succeed. The commercial accounting applications will stay stuck in the mode of supporting paper based accounting for at least another decade. The people and business education have to be upgraded -- and that will take a generation [25 years].
I think the mods are on crack again. This is a plausible scenario -- not thru malicious action on MS part but just the inevitable turpitude of a large uncaring monopoly.