By ensuring that there won't be people in 10,000 years. Certainly there won't be a life-sustaining planet, thanks to the errors of the 20th and 21st centuries...
Thorazine is extremely destructive to the mind and body... Read Kate Millett's disturbing nightmare involving Thorazine when she was involuntarily committed - The Loony Bin Trip.
the Viet Nam War cost more far more: 9.4% of GDP vs. the Iraq War @ 1% of GDP.
Here I was thinking "that there's never a good time to start an unnecessary war of aggression on false premises costing $3-6 trillion..." How silly of me. Say, maybe the Vietnam war was bad for the US as well? Read Hersh's The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House sometime.
I hope everyone's looking forward to digital obsolescence as it really starts to bite. Let me guess at how much data is locked behind Microsoft or other proprietary formats at NASA... Mathematica, anyone?*
You think those "license servers" are going to stay up for the next 50 years? (Let alone the next 500.)
(*Yes I know the notebooks were traditionally text. But the calculations themselves are behind a proprietary gatekeeper.)
if over-applied stop a society making the changes it needs to in order to adapt and survive.
And American-style capitalism is not making those changes, and is failing exponentially. The mystery is why that's not obvious to everyone... And the tragedy is they've "exported" the model and the accompanying culture of dysfunction almost everywhere on the planet.
If we can put a man on the moon,... is moderate competence in what we do daily really too much to ask?
I'm not a fan of manned space flight, but I do find the achievements of Apollo inspiring, setting a tangible benchmark, and fair game for non sequitur generation:)
Might be VERRRY interesting. We already know about the widespread "write for us and we'll look after you" corruption of journalism (Enderle, etc), but what about the endemic bias towards MS in corporates in the face of so many better alternatives? Something smells very bad, why doesn't anyone think to look for a dead body in the dumpster??
I can't be the first person to wonder, especially in the wake of the OOXML/ISO corruption scandal. That did shine some light on cockroaches and MS "soft bribe" practices.
doesn't it seem a bit supremest to tell everyone else "Well we got ours, we aren't going to help you get yours,"? I mean you seem to be all down on the rich in the US hording wealth,
The weird thing is, the US doesn't have much of anything that matters anyway. It's the most dysfunctional culture I've seen anywhere, and a lot of it is due to distorted attitudes to wealth (worship, basically), an unmerited superiority complex reinforcing a disinterest in non-American cultures, internal failures to address social justice, systems corrupted by greed, unsustainable infrastructure and lifestyle... The more you look at it, you conclude it's whirling itself to self destruction.
WE lN THE ClVlLl5ED W0RLD D0 N0T NEED 5TARBUCK5 T0 SELL U5 C0FFEE 0R MCD0NALD'5 T0 5ELL U5 JUNK F00D. Our local product is just fine, thanks. That is all.
we can not sell there, unless there is company created there. That company must be 51% owned by Indian.
You say that like it's a BAD thing.
Without such rules, foreign ownership can be very destructive (I cannot think of any positive outcome of a firesale of cheap assets - whether real estate, business, infrastructure - from a poorer "underpriced" country to a richer country with multiples of spending power; yet it is happening everywhere that regulation is ineffective. Even Canada!) That said, limited level of foreign investment is salutary, I suppose.
...That the US only tolerates a playing field tilted in its favour. It's called "globalisation" and it means "we will buy your stuff cheap (or better yet we'll just co-opt it [NAFTA+]), you will spread our advertising and cultural poison throughout your film and TV networks without resistance, and your (relatively poor) population will helplessly buy our junk [Coca-Cola, Windows] like so many zombies. We'll pocket the margins to maintain our inflated, unsustainable, perverse 1st World lifestyles, and pay for the wars that this disparity inevitably causes."
If you make a big enough deal, a large, almost-untraceable lump sum can easily be thrown back to an executive pushing the deal... especially if they have bank accounts or relatives in the country where the outsourcing is being done.:)
This adds an incentive to inflate budgets, because the existence of such kickbacks means that anything you can get added to the budget can find its way to your back pocket.
Obviously for this to work you need a pretty intimate relationship to the outsourcing firm, but I'm sure this happens (I've had deep suspicions about certain situations).
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By ensuring that there won't be people in 10,000 years. Certainly there won't be a life-sustaining planet, thanks to the errors of the 20th and 21st centuries...
First Reality TV, now this? What a sad joke on the decline of American relevance.
Larry King stealing this guy's identity to buy ziploc bags and passing them on to the CIA to "microwave test" his DNA
Yep, that's in the ballpark of White House Press Secretary, alright.
Thorazine is extremely destructive to the mind and body... Read Kate Millett's disturbing nightmare involving Thorazine when she was involuntarily committed - The Loony Bin Trip.
the Viet Nam War cost more far more: 9.4% of GDP vs. the Iraq War @ 1% of GDP.
Here I was thinking "that there's never a good time to start an unnecessary war of aggression on false premises costing $3-6 trillion..." How silly of me. Say, maybe the Vietnam war was bad for the US as well? Read Hersh's The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House sometime.
I hope everyone's looking forward to digital obsolescence as it really starts to bite. Let me guess at how much data is locked behind Microsoft or other proprietary formats at NASA... Mathematica, anyone?*
You think those "license servers" are going to stay up for the next 50 years? (Let alone the next 500.)
(*Yes I know the notebooks were traditionally text. But the calculations themselves are behind a proprietary gatekeeper.)
-1, I'm Very Upset
Then I say, No Penalty!
You haven't upgraded to VISTA yet??
if over-applied stop a society making the changes it needs to in order to adapt and survive.
And American-style capitalism is not making those changes, and is failing exponentially. The mystery is why that's not obvious to everyone... And the tragedy is they've "exported" the model and the accompanying culture of dysfunction almost everywhere on the planet.
I appreciated your grandparent rant, thanks.
Broke somewhere after the first paragraph.
Maybe he was this guy.
With the apparent tone of an insider. Thats one heckuva' job Mikey.
It *never* comes from a corporate cog. Cog: Zune. Motivated genius: iPod.
Ask Jonathan Ives if he considers himself a 'corporate cog', or Richard Stallman, or... any of the garage dwelling innovators.
Skunkworks always were where it's at. :)
How something was designed is not as important as why it was designed that way.
You're one of those people who COMMENT THEIR CODE, aren't you! :-)
If we can put a man on the moon, ... is moderate competence in what we do daily really too much to ask?
I'm not a fan of manned space flight, but I do find the achievements of Apollo inspiring, setting a tangible benchmark, and fair game for non sequitur generation :)
Might be VERRRY interesting. We already know about the widespread "write for us and we'll look after you" corruption of journalism (Enderle, etc), but what about the endemic bias towards MS in corporates in the face of so many better alternatives? Something smells very bad, why doesn't anyone think to look for a dead body in the dumpster??
I can't be the first person to wonder, especially in the wake of the OOXML/ISO corruption scandal. That did shine some light on cockroaches and MS "soft bribe" practices.
doesn't it seem a bit supremest to tell everyone else "Well we got ours, we aren't going to help you get yours,"? I mean you seem to be all down on the rich in the US hording wealth,
The weird thing is, the US doesn't have much of anything that matters anyway. It's the most dysfunctional culture I've seen anywhere, and a lot of it is due to distorted attitudes to wealth (worship, basically), an unmerited superiority complex reinforcing a disinterest in non-American cultures, internal failures to address social justice, systems corrupted by greed, unsustainable infrastructure and lifestyle... The more you look at it, you conclude it's whirling itself to self destruction.
If that's "hoarding wealth" - keep it.
Let's make all foreign franchises illegal.
WE lN THE ClVlLl5ED W0RLD D0 N0T NEED 5TARBUCK5 T0 SELL U5 C0FFEE 0R MCD0NALD'5 T0 5ELL U5 JUNK F00D. Our local product is just fine, thanks. That is all.
Just let me throw this out there.
(2007 H1B filings)
we can not sell there, unless there is company created there. That company must be 51% owned by Indian.
You say that like it's a BAD thing.
Without such rules, foreign ownership can be very destructive (I cannot think of any positive outcome of a firesale of cheap assets - whether real estate, business, infrastructure - from a poorer "underpriced" country to a richer country with multiples of spending power; yet it is happening everywhere that regulation is ineffective. Even Canada!) That said, limited level of foreign investment is salutary, I suppose.
...That the US only tolerates a playing field tilted in its favour. It's called "globalisation" and it means "we will buy your stuff cheap (or better yet we'll just co-opt it [NAFTA+]), you will spread our advertising and cultural poison throughout your film and TV networks without resistance, and your (relatively poor) population will helplessly buy our junk [Coca-Cola, Windows] like so many zombies. We'll pocket the margins to maintain our inflated, unsustainable, perverse 1st World lifestyles, and pay for the wars that this disparity inevitably causes."
Then we all wake up. Right?
If you make a big enough deal, a large, almost-untraceable lump sum can easily be thrown back to an executive pushing the deal... especially if they have bank accounts or relatives in the country where the outsourcing is being done. :)
This adds an incentive to inflate budgets, because the existence of such kickbacks means that anything you can get added to the budget can find its way to your back pocket.
Obviously for this to work you need a pretty intimate relationship to the outsourcing firm, but I'm sure this happens (I've had deep suspicions about certain situations).
by the time I'm considering Vista it'll be lying in a shallow grave
Not too shallow, I hope - it already stinks.
Set a bone = what you do after somebody breaks one. I'm apprehensive there as I've neither broken nor set one, but I understand it's pretty painful.
But I've changed a few diapers. Not much to be afraid of.
Designing buildings: Well, looking around, it seems very easy to design a bad one (that covers 99% of them);
And there aren't many good reasons to invade, so we can pretty much put that one aside...