I see, so you don't believe in the National Transportation and Safety Board...them are the guys that keep airline, train, bus, and auto companies from cutting corners to keep your ass safe. Now, about the Social Security Administration, let's get rid of them because Grandma can come and live with you, right? You have no need for safe workplace, there goes OSHA. And your air and water have no business being clean, let's get rid of the EPA. The list is very long....
Your problem is that you have no sense of perspective.
Ah, the hive mentality, you must be from Agile Programming. Pick a major problem, get all the scientists on Earth to work on it. Bingo, problem solved. Hey, you should tell the scientists they are doing it all wrong, I'm sure they'd listen to you.
Taxpayer funded elections will do nothing to end campaign corruption. The pols will simply accept your money and go on spending private money. Disallow them accepting private money? They'll just start pacs that will be tax exempt and spend the money on "issues" which naturally align with the pol's predilections. And there is no way to stop pacs given the Constitution.
"Foreign aide could to a lot to reduce our need to reduce rights". Well, foreign aid (and aide is a person) might do something, but reduce rights? How would it do that? You can try spending the world into prosperity, but even the U.S. isn't rich enough for that. And the institutions in whatever country you spend the money on will vilify the U.S. for doing it, especially if it actually starts solving problems the host country couldn't solve on its own. Case in point, Pakistan. There's nothing you could do for that country they wouldn't see as a threat to their "sovereignty".
"We are fine on church and state separation" No we aren't, there's a segment of the pop. that thinks a theocracy would be perfectly potty. Mind you, they'd object if it were a Buddhist theocracy.
Total defense budget is about $600 Billion...not even close to one trillion all spent on blowing shit up. At its height, the U.S. spent about 100 Billion a year in Iraq. Now costs for Afghanistan are much lower and Iraqis are back to doing what they do best, killing each other.
Where did you ever get the idea that Mubarak was a Ba'athist? There were two arms of the Ba'athist party, one for Iraq and one for Syria. They were both modeled on Nazi Germany. The closest Egypt ever came to Ba'athist principles was Abdel Nasser, and he was more a pan-arabist. Admittedly, Sadat worked for the Nazis during WWII, but he also signed a peace deal with Israel, something Ba'athists would rather gnaw off their ankles than do.
And Egypt's military isn't Ba'athist either, or there'd be no difference between the military and the state. They certainly wouldn't have done what they just did and encourage a representative government.
More to the point, it wasn't Islamic Law, Sharia. He would be perfectly fine with Sharia law where Allah gets to make the rules and the rulers get to interpret what they mean. Hence there is no notion of individual rights, such as freedom of religion, freedom from religion, freedom to say that the current ruler is pig-dog who frolicks in pig dung on his days off because while the two former could weaseled around, the last would be an affront to Allah's representative on this planet.
King Abdullah of Jordan had Morsi's number, Morsi has no depth.
Bullshit, one doesn't push out millions of machines unless one is damn sure they won't have a glitch in the middle. The damn sure part is the hard part, it takes time and money to make that sure damn sure.
It isn't the fab, it is the freedom Apple gets to put on their ARM SoC the stuff they want. There's no pushing Intel around. And, Intel would demand a nice profit. So, what's in it for Apple...having to dick around with Chipzilla and paying out the wazzoo for the privilege and not have the freedom to do the SoC the way they see fit. Intel is fine for straight ahead boxes that do nothing but run a traditional OS, for anything else they are misery to work with.
Yah, it is odd that Jesus cares so much about Florida. Hey, maybe He's saving it for the Rapture. I know a few people I'd like to send off the planet first. You can book ahead, you know. And I'm fairly certain you can book people other than yourself for the trip.
Worse is the suits picking up your Pooperpoint, changing it, and selling something which bears almost no resemblance to your original project and should be DOA but now you become the lead for this new and improved version.
"In 2005, the business magazine Fast Company included Dunlap in the article 'Is Your Boss a Psychopath', noting he "might score impressively on the Corporate Psychopathy checklist." [13] The magazine's editor. John A. Byrne, noted: "In all my years of reporting, I had never come across an executive as manipulative, ruthless, and destructive as Al Dunlap. Until the Securities and Exchange Commission barred him from ever serving as an officer of a public corporation, Dunlap sucked the very life and soul out of companies and people. He stole dignity, purpose, and sense out of organizations and replaced those ideals with fear and intimidation." "
Like the desktop market shrinking drastically. Being the King of the Mountain doesn't mean much if the mountain is a molehill. I'm sure MS will continue to suck the blood out of corporate infrastructure though just because of their server/cloud thing and MBAs being completely lost without PP slides to tell them what they think.
" At some point computers / robotics will be able to do almost any job that humans can do." Plumber, electrician, mathematician, sociologist, interior designer, exterior designer, artist, policeman, fireman, physicist, chemist, biologist, bridge builder, ship builder, welder, house builder, farmer, politician, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, civil engineer, drilling rig worker, conservation officer, park ranger, house painter, auto mechanic (even electric vehicles need repairs), MBA (okay, we get the monkeys to do this), Ballmer (would a dancing Monkey-bot be nearly as entertaining even with the artificial sweat glands and synthesized voice), Autistic Gates in a courtroom, Larry Ellison (what bot could exhibit this sort of ego), doctor, nurse, window replacement contractor, tree removal guy, landscaper, supermarket manager, teacher, botanist, rock star, music composer, TV show director, movie director, priest, nun, monk, The Pope, Islamo-Facsist nutjob, Imam, Rabbi, Mullah, goat herder, fish farm operator, tuna boat captain, cat breeder, cat, Nicko McBrain, insulation installer, heavy appliance installer, logician, sports star, baseball manager, sex symbol, airheaded heiress, script writer, rocket scientist, weapons designer, FBI or CIA agent, cabinet secretary, coffee taster, wine taster, comedian, sewer worker, garbage man, carpet installer, philosopher, tax fraud investigator.
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I see, so you don't believe in the National Transportation and Safety Board...them are the guys that keep airline, train, bus, and auto companies from cutting corners to keep your ass safe. Now, about the Social Security Administration, let's get rid of them because Grandma can come and live with you, right? You have no need for safe workplace, there goes OSHA. And your air and water have no business being clean, let's get rid of the EPA. The list is very long....
Your problem is that you have no sense of perspective.
Jackie, you've come back from the dead!! How's Art doing?
Ah, the hive mentality, you must be from Agile Programming. Pick a major problem, get all the scientists on Earth to work on it. Bingo, problem solved. Hey, you should tell the scientists they are doing it all wrong, I'm sure they'd listen to you.
Oh yeah, explain Madonna then. Surely she is evidence of alien life.
Yeah, like ringing up the aliens for a little chat:
Alien 1: Hi there, I'm an alien, what are you.
(8 years later) EarthGuy 1: I'm an EarthGuy....errr....what do you watch on TV.
(8 years later) Alien 2: Umm...Alien 1 got bored and is out star-surfing, he says to take a message and he'll get back to you.
(8 years later) EarthGuy 2: Hey, how come Alien 1 never got back to EarthGuy 1 (where the hell did EarthGuy 1 get to)?
Taxpayer funded elections will do nothing to end campaign corruption. The pols will simply accept your money and go on spending private money. Disallow them accepting private money? They'll just start pacs that will be tax exempt and spend the money on "issues" which naturally align with the pol's predilections. And there is no way to stop pacs given the Constitution.
"Foreign aide could to a lot to reduce our need to reduce rights". Well, foreign aid (and aide is a person) might do something, but reduce rights? How would it do that? You can try spending the world into prosperity, but even the U.S. isn't rich enough for that. And the institutions in whatever country you spend the money on will vilify the U.S. for doing it, especially if it actually starts solving problems the host country couldn't solve on its own. Case in point, Pakistan. There's nothing you could do for that country they wouldn't see as a threat to their "sovereignty".
"We are fine on church and state separation" No we aren't, there's a segment of the pop. that thinks a theocracy would be perfectly potty. Mind you, they'd object if it were a Buddhist theocracy.
Well, if they understand English, they'll read your sentence and decide we have quite a ways to go yet.
That will last as long as it takes for some schmoe to blow his head off using one of those guns, then the company will get sued out of existence.
Total defense budget is about $600 Billion...not even close to one trillion all spent on blowing shit up. At its height, the U.S. spent about 100 Billion a year in Iraq. Now costs for Afghanistan are much lower and Iraqis are back to doing what they do best, killing each other.
Yes, but if you attempt to use it, she'll break your neck using only two fingers.
Where did you ever get the idea that Mubarak was a Ba'athist? There were two arms of the Ba'athist party, one for Iraq and one for Syria. They were both modeled on Nazi Germany. The closest Egypt ever came to Ba'athist principles was Abdel Nasser, and he was more a pan-arabist. Admittedly, Sadat worked for the Nazis during WWII, but he also signed a peace deal with Israel, something Ba'athists would rather gnaw off their ankles than do.
And Egypt's military isn't Ba'athist either, or there'd be no difference between the military and the state. They certainly wouldn't have done what they just did and encourage a representative government.
You mean for about .01% percent of the pop.
Aliens!!! I just knew they were behind this, controlling events. In your little screwed up world view, does common sense have a role?
More to the point, it wasn't Islamic Law, Sharia. He would be perfectly fine with Sharia law where Allah gets to make the rules and the rulers get to interpret what they mean. Hence there is no notion of individual rights, such as freedom of religion, freedom from religion, freedom to say that the current ruler is pig-dog who frolicks in pig dung on his days off because while the two former could weaseled around, the last would be an affront to Allah's representative on this planet.
King Abdullah of Jordan had Morsi's number, Morsi has no depth.
Bullshit, one doesn't push out millions of machines unless one is damn sure they won't have a glitch in the middle. The damn sure part is the hard part, it takes time and money to make that sure damn sure.
And yet, they still cannot build an SoC business that anyone wants to buy into. To get in bed with Intel is to feel like frog in a straitjacket.
It isn't the fab, it is the freedom Apple gets to put on their ARM SoC the stuff they want. There's no pushing Intel around. And, Intel would demand a nice profit. So, what's in it for Apple...having to dick around with Chipzilla and paying out the wazzoo for the privilege and not have the freedom to do the SoC the way they see fit. Intel is fine for straight ahead boxes that do nothing but run a traditional OS, for anything else they are misery to work with.
Yah, it is odd that Jesus cares so much about Florida. Hey, maybe He's saving it for the Rapture. I know a few people I'd like to send off the planet first. You can book ahead, you know. And I'm fairly certain you can book people other than yourself for the trip.
Worse is the suits picking up your Pooperpoint, changing it, and selling something which bears almost no resemblance to your original project and should be DOA but now you become the lead for this new and improved version.
I stopped having those suspicions when my monitor started oozing goo from the GP's post.
I doubt Ballmer is worse than was Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_J._Dunlap. He's the fellow that destroyed Sunbeam among others. From the wiki page:
"In 2005, the business magazine Fast Company included Dunlap in the article 'Is Your Boss a Psychopath', noting he "might score impressively on the Corporate Psychopathy checklist." [13] The magazine's editor. John A. Byrne, noted: "In all my years of reporting, I had never come across an executive as manipulative, ruthless, and destructive as Al Dunlap. Until the Securities and Exchange Commission barred him from ever serving as an officer of a public corporation, Dunlap sucked the very life and soul out of companies and people. He stole dignity, purpose, and sense out of organizations and replaced those ideals with fear and intimidation." "
Like the desktop market shrinking drastically. Being the King of the Mountain doesn't mean much if the mountain is a molehill. I'm sure MS will continue to suck the blood out of corporate infrastructure though just because of their server/cloud thing and MBAs being completely lost without PP slides to tell them what they think.
That's disgusting. It should be Texas.
" At some point computers / robotics will be able to do almost any job that humans can do." Plumber, electrician, mathematician, sociologist, interior designer, exterior designer, artist, policeman, fireman, physicist, chemist, biologist, bridge builder, ship builder, welder, house builder, farmer, politician, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, civil engineer, drilling rig worker, conservation officer, park ranger, house painter, auto mechanic (even electric vehicles need repairs), MBA (okay, we get the monkeys to do this), Ballmer (would a dancing Monkey-bot be nearly as entertaining even with the artificial sweat glands and synthesized voice), Autistic Gates in a courtroom, Larry Ellison (what bot could exhibit this sort of ego), doctor, nurse, window replacement contractor, tree removal guy, landscaper, supermarket manager, teacher, botanist, rock star, music composer, TV show director, movie director, priest, nun, monk, The Pope, Islamo-Facsist nutjob, Imam, Rabbi, Mullah, goat herder, fish farm operator, tuna boat captain, cat breeder, cat, Nicko McBrain, insulation installer, heavy appliance installer, logician, sports star, baseball manager, sex symbol, airheaded heiress, script writer, rocket scientist, weapons designer, FBI or CIA agent, cabinet secretary, coffee taster, wine taster, comedian, sewer worker, garbage man, carpet installer, philosopher, tax fraud investigator.
I'm sure I'm missing a few.
They yell Allah Ak-bar first?