Whoops. A period should exist after the word 'eugenics'. Why, oh why, can't Slashdot allow us to edit our own posts like every other online forum has allowed for years?
Many Trekkies also forget that this utopia arose from the ashes of nuclear holocaust, genocide, and compulsory eugenics I doubt many of us would want to withstand those things to get to a supposed paradise on the other side. Then again, all of these wacky End Times fundamentalists just might.
The Democratic Party stopped giving the working class more than token attention long before 2016. Think 1968 and the McGovern Commission, which removed organised labour from its prominent place within the Democratic Party. That pivotal year was when the Dems started explicitly allying themselves with the Military-Industrial Complex and Wall Street. It was also, probably not coincidentally, when the huge productivity gains made after WWII started waning, setting the stage for 1970's Stagflation.
Apple has slowly been throwing content creators and other professionals under the bus for years. They're after the content consumption audience. To wit: * Ditching Xserve * Not updating the Mac Mini since 2012 * Killing the Mac Pro * Being hostile to developers by requiring that iOS/macOS apps be compiled on expensive and uncompetitive Apple hardware The writing is on the wall.
In retrospect, I think BeOS was more architecturally innovative than NeXTStep. I wonder what macOS would be like now if it were built upon the former. Be's only real deficit is that it wasn't multi-user (although it had most of the necessary bits, they weren't wired together).
promising the coal miners that the 19th century will come back
If North Korea or some other nuclear-armed adversary decides to zap CONUS with an EMP, we very well might be thrown back to a 19th-century level of technological development.
Auto insurance is $300/mo in CA? In Virginia, I'm paying $50/mo with State Farm. Of course I'm 43, so I'm well above the 'risky, young-dumb-and-full-of-cum' age where you get clobbered paying sky-high premiums.
Pai was no mere 'manager' at Verizon—he was Associate General Counsel. Before that, he was at the DoJ. So he has a history of switching back-and-forth between lucrative private-sector positions and federal government appointments. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This is exactly what Paul Hawken advocates in his book, The Ecology of Commerce . The EU has been busy establishing a framework for manufacturer responsibility for the life-cycle of products. The company Interface Carpet has gone from selling carpet to selling a carpeting service. What they realised is that most people (aside from collectors and aesthetes) don't care about the product itself, but the services it renders.
All of this would be prevented by offering user-replaceable batteries. But gracious, no, we can't have that! We must keep customers on a hedonic hamster-wheel of annual upgrades! And wouldn't it be blasphemous if the phone had to be a whole millimetre thicker to support such replacement!
Fascinating post. I wasn't a bit surprised to learn that the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which repealed PUHCA, was introduced by Joe Barton, a.k.a King Coal. Thank $DEITY he's resigning from Congress after sending several women pictures of his schlong, while still married.
...the future looks like siloed streaming services. Channel-surfing looks a lot better when the alternative is 15-20 streaming services (offering exclusive content that the producer refuses to offer elsewhere), each costing $10-20/month.
Preservatives, endocrine disruptors, HFCS...yes. But also a drastic reduction in physical activity over the last fifty years. Hell, over the last twenty years.
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...and not smartphones.
Chen wrote that back in 2005. VM technology is drastically better than it was more than 12 years ago.
Whoops. A period should exist after the word 'eugenics'. Why, oh why, can't Slashdot allow us to edit our own posts like every other online forum has allowed for years?
Many Trekkies also forget that this utopia arose from the ashes of nuclear holocaust, genocide, and compulsory eugenics I doubt many of us would want to withstand those things to get to a supposed paradise on the other side. Then again, all of these wacky End Times fundamentalists just might.
The Democratic Party stopped giving the working class more than token attention long before 2016. Think 1968 and the McGovern Commission, which removed organised labour from its prominent place within the Democratic Party. That pivotal year was when the Dems started explicitly allying themselves with the Military-Industrial Complex and Wall Street. It was also, probably not coincidentally, when the huge productivity gains made after WWII started waning, setting the stage for 1970's Stagflation.
Apple has slowly been throwing content creators and other professionals under the bus for years. They're after the content consumption audience. To wit:
* Ditching Xserve
* Not updating the Mac Mini since 2012
* Killing the Mac Pro
* Being hostile to developers by requiring that iOS/macOS apps be compiled on expensive and uncompetitive Apple hardware
The writing is on the wall.
...ultrasonically vibrating enemas...
I see a company like Lovense exploiting this.
Microsoft really didn't catch up until NT 4.0 (and its VMS-inspired core) was released.
Dave Cutler joined Microsoft in 1988. NT was 'VMS-inspired' almost from the beginning, and certainly by the time NT 3.1 was released in July of 1993.
Well, without the OS X innovation
In retrospect, I think BeOS was more architecturally innovative than NeXTStep. I wonder what macOS would be like now if it were built upon the former. Be's only real deficit is that it wasn't multi-user (although it had most of the necessary bits, they weren't wired together).
promising the coal miners that the 19th century will come back
If North Korea or some other nuclear-armed adversary decides to zap CONUS with an EMP, we very well might be thrown back to a 19th-century level of technological development.
I hope he gets good practice stretching his anal sphincters...
'Surprise, surprise, surprise!'
Auto insurance is $300/mo in CA? In Virginia, I'm paying $50/mo with State Farm. Of course I'm 43, so I'm well above the 'risky, young-dumb-and-full-of-cum' age where you get clobbered paying sky-high premiums.
being a former manager at Verizon
Pai was no mere 'manager' at Verizon—he was Associate General Counsel. Before that, he was at the DoJ. So he has a history of switching back-and-forth between lucrative private-sector positions and federal government appointments. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Yep. Roughly two-thirds of the waste in landfills is packaging, not primary-use objects.
This is exactly what Paul Hawken advocates in his book, The Ecology of Commerce . The EU has been busy establishing a framework for manufacturer responsibility for the life-cycle of products. The company Interface Carpet has gone from selling carpet to selling a carpeting service. What they realised is that most people (aside from collectors and aesthetes) don't care about the product itself, but the services it renders.
Like this?
All of this would be prevented by offering user-replaceable batteries. But gracious, no, we can't have that! We must keep customers on a hedonic hamster-wheel of annual upgrades! And wouldn't it be blasphemous if the phone had to be a whole millimetre thicker to support such replacement!
Just think what would happen if MacOS won the 1980s OS wars instead of Windows?
I always wondered what might've happened if Taligent had seen the light of day.
...work for the one paying the most money. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Silly Job Interview
Hopefully people aren't landfilling their electronics, but rather dropping them off at places like Best Buy, which recycle them for free.
Fascinating post. I wasn't a bit surprised to learn that the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which repealed PUHCA, was introduced by Joe Barton, a.k.a King Coal. Thank $DEITY he's resigning from Congress after sending several women pictures of his schlong, while still married.
...the future looks like siloed streaming services. Channel-surfing looks a lot better when the alternative is 15-20 streaming services (offering exclusive content that the producer refuses to offer elsewhere), each costing $10-20/month.
What has happened / changed in that half century?
Preservatives, endocrine disruptors, HFCS...yes. But also a drastic reduction in physical activity over the last fifty years. Hell, over the last twenty years.