WWI my ass, the Middle East has been a cluster-f since forever. Read ancient history sometime, 6000 years ago the same groups that are pissing on each other back then are doing the same thing now. Any modern political theories are lost on the Mid-East, they have a tribal mindset that has resisted change for 6000 years. As long as they believe political power stems from gods, magic, whatever, they will never advance and be relegated to a backwater of human civilization, gnawing at each other and nursing centuries old slights.
Any group gaining power in the Middle East peacefully will not satisfy its adherents. In order to feel in control, the group must vanquish an enemy, any old strawman will do, just as long as they can claim a blood-soaked revenge. Erdogan is no different. He's a whore who will prostitute any and all civil liberties for his own ego...sort of a Turkish Trump.
Maybe, but I saw a TV science program on the big collider at CERN with many (most that I could tell) of the geeky scientists toting Mac lappies around. Errr....just from their appearance, they weren't into "hipster status symbol". I'm not sure they'd even know what the term meant or give a flying rat's ass what anyone else was using, only what they were doing.
Wow...you...errr....aren't related to Trump, are you? I'd watch that free association of ideas if I were you, your brain might explode. Try the little yellow ones next time.
I am not sure the concept of "emerging market" has much relevance any longer...mainly due to "time". Manufacturing has gotten so fast and mimicry so entrenched as a business plan that anything emerging this year won't be emerging next year. It will either be fully emerged or, worse, stale. Companies look at what Apple did to some markets and are now determined not get Appled by Apple or anyone else. There is an article on NYT about how companies are evading anti-trust laws by buying any startup that looks like it might become a competitor.
Every smart phone looks like an iPhone to me, there's no differentiation that regular customers could care about. Self-driving cars seems like a hot new area. Except no car company of any reasonable size is not working on them. There will be no emerging market for these, it will be created fully merged. Robotic assembly lines make it relatively easy and quick to switch on production of just about anything requiring mass quantities. Scaling up is easier with robotics.
Because it is better for company morale to at least offer re-training to those interested? Companies scream to the press about how their people are sooooo valuable, yet they do stupid things like not having a game plan for the future. If CISCO had such a game plan, they should have been re-training starting a few years ago. If they had one and didn't offer retraining, I think that says just about everything an employee there needs to know about how management feels about them. If they didn't have such a gameplan, the management should get the axe.
"Good on them I say, pushing the limits further, real science..
Compare that with the reaction of the DNC to their hacked emails, by creating a board of lawyers and politicos to fix their security problems."
Apples and oranges. One is a political-technical set of problems, the other is a purely technical problem. Although your level of thinking might be one reason why the Chinese would supplant the Americans.
China is anything but a Renaissance state. When they return Tibet to the Tibetans, when they stop their ridiculous claims to the S. China Sea, when they institute actual rule of law instead of rule by the Politburo, when they reform their system to a democracy or republic instead of a kleptocracy, when they respect copyrights,, etc., then we might consider them a candidate for being a Renaissance state.
"Sad really, but inevitable with a western population that has become too focused on maximising their own personal comfort, and running in fear at anything that is unfamiliar or uncomfortable - basically ceding total control to a state that is more than happy to grab it and run. Those in power will be laughing all the way to the collapse, with little thought to what happens after."
Why, thank you for recognizing the Chinese state as it actually exists rather than the one you allege further up.
"Migration, disease and war are already occurring. " The Mid-East and Africa (and India, I believe) are experiencing a very large heat wave that is forcing people to move as their subsistence farming can no longer keep up. Ask the Europeans how that's working out for them. Bangladesh is slowing sinking under the waves due to rising sea level due to global warming. Fresh water is becoming scare due to global warming drying up lakes and rivers and changing rainfall patterns.
Now, what was that you were saying about temperature being the least of our worries? I grant you Bam-Bam Trump is not the result of a temperature rise, yet he's spouting the same ridiculous nonsense as you....errr....you aren't one of his sprogs are you?
Not really. It is politicos staffing their board with people that won't step on their crank like Trump. Every two-bit security expert will bring a load of stupid political sensitivities to a job like that. Rather, it makes more sense to hire people who know how politics works and then let them hire the security experts to fix what they see as broken. All the problems are not necessarily technical. This forum is a typical example of what leads to disasters, everyone fancies themselves as technoslaves and hence all the security problems must be technical.
Awww shit, there goes all the conspiracy theories I've been working on. Obama probably is an alien and not a Muslim, WTC was an outside job...by...by...the Saudi Royal Twats, Putin has a soul.
Well, it is the people, but it is also the problems themselves. Many problems are intricate, many-layered affairs. The best strategy for getting started is to stop with Agile madness and think hard about the problem itself. Talk it over with others, explore the facets, figure out where are the unknowns, etc. Business isn't in business to do these things...well, certainly not the ones run by the MBAs. No automated tooling will help with this.
A similar thing happens in research but from a slightly different perspective. Yes, it is all well and good to have private industry do research as Gingrich lately bloviated upon in the WSJ. However, business is interested in immediate returns, they aren't interested in basic science that will only yield real world uses far down the road and on roads not yet thought about. There is also a web of science, cherry picking the low hanging fruit doesn't answer what to do when it is all gone.
Both issues have another opposing force, millenials. They seems to have a "I want it now" mentality. The fixation on handheld gizmos only enforces their ADHD and leaves them with the attention span of gnat. Agile only feeds the disease as do these gadgets. The only cure I know is practice working on hard thought problems...doesn't particularly matter which area...philosophy, mathematics, physics, social issues, etc. None of the real problems in these areas can be automated away, and eschewing hard thought about them leaves one with the intellectual depth of a politician or an MBA.
The NYT, Washington Post, CNN, etc. regularly run stories fact checking speeches and other bloviatations from candidates. Hell, the WP even gives out Pinocchios from 1 to 3 (or is it 4?) for extremely bad lies and untruths.
That said, the Truth seems to have been demoted in the general electorate who seem to believe whatever they want can be their own private Truth because they refuse to believe, or do enough background reading to recognize, the Truth as not being anything but merely opposing belief.
It stems from a stupidity to which the American people have fallen prey. Ask anyone on the street anything that smacks of mathematics or science and a good number will proudly proclaim all that sophisticated stuff is too far above them. They usually do not go as far as saying they are too stupid to understand it all but that is precisely what they should say if they were not attempting to lie to themselves about their intellectual prowess. They know what they believe and be damned if they'll read a book or actually learn anything that might require mental concentration. They have the attention span of gnat and are proud of it.
The result is that people like Trump and Clinton get to be the choices for President. The Greens and the Libertarians orbit even farther out than Clinton and Trump. Hollywood has finally gotten what they have been pushing for a few generations, a public so stupid it cannot reason effectively.
I think the biggest problem for Britain in the future is keeping their seed corn at home, the youngins weren't happy about leaving the EU and will resent having their career paths yoked to Britain's economy. If that causes a brain drain, Britain is screwed.
BS: China was hegemony in S. E. Asia to tell others what to do. It wants Taiwan. It wants all of the S. China Sea. It wants the U.S. far, far away and unable to protect S. Korea and Japan from Chinese military adventures. If it needs to go to war to get that and its Communist oiks still running the show, then it will do that. There will be no public opinion to oppose it since public opinion is not allowed in their kingdom.
Want to see what their view of S. E. Asia is? Look at Tibet and what they did to its people.
And remove one of the major clubs MS uses to beat its users into migrating to their latest? They'd be cutting their own throats. Also, XP would then never die, it would get reborn as "MS without MS" and represent a fork of their alleged software that they do not control.
Errr....Tor was (and still is) supported by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory which, last we checked, was under the Office of Naval Research of the U.S. Navy. So Tor is being developed to work against which vested interest exactly? Maybe if you took a fixed point in the right space, you'd get the answer you want to believe, but I doubt it.
Personally, I think Snowden is safe until Vlad the Impaler decides he's no longer useful. He won't murdered but he will be exiled to an information vacuum.
Most government workers are conscientious about reporting to work and doing their job. And the ones facing the public have the worst jobs because the pubic, probably contrary to your beliefs, is crazy. Ever listen to CSPAN's call in show? The things members of the public believe are unbelievable, yet they persist.
I though it was just those "other people" at first. Then I found out my sister wrote a letter to President Obama claiming she didn't receive her fair share when Ma died and the estate was settled through probate figuring he'd fix her problem. She also wrote to the SEC. I thought the return letter from the SEC was very polite and considerate saying they didn't have that kind of jurisdiction and she would be better served using a private law firm. Some poor soul at the SEC was tasked with writing that letter.
There is also the usual abuse suffered by government workers dealing with the public over some perceived misjustice. But the public is an equal opportunity abuser. Once a gas company relocated some gas lines for landlady and myself. She felt this was against G-d, and called them up to explain to them in certain detail how they were all going to hell if they didn't come out and put that gas line back to where it was. They decided cowardice was the better part of valor (to reuse a Douglas Adams' phrase) and it was easier putting the gas line back rather than subjecting the company to her for the next 10 years...she wasn't going to stop.
Or the Millenials just aren't picking up their end of the economy like the Boomers did before them. In some sense, it might not be the Millenials' fault. They were raised in an economy that produced without their contribution. They simply never learned how to build enterprises.
I do think they also got somewhat behind the 8-ball on school costs. The Boomers thought education was great, let's spend more money on it. Unis promptly stood up to the task of spending that extra money and inflated their costs. The Boomer economy also screwed the unis by siphoning off the most economically viable with high salaries.
The sainted American people got into the act during the aughts by buying extra houses, flipping houses, getting second mortgages, etc. When the music stopped, the economy had been distorted to such an extent that it was difficult for new businesses to start.
Old established businesses learned the best way to compete was to buy up nascent competitors before they became a threat thereby whacking any future employment gain from those nascent businesses.
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WWI my ass, the Middle East has been a cluster-f since forever. Read ancient history sometime, 6000 years ago the same groups that are pissing on each other back then are doing the same thing now. Any modern political theories are lost on the Mid-East, they have a tribal mindset that has resisted change for 6000 years. As long as they believe political power stems from gods, magic, whatever, they will never advance and be relegated to a backwater of human civilization, gnawing at each other and nursing centuries old slights.
Any group gaining power in the Middle East peacefully will not satisfy its adherents. In order to feel in control, the group must vanquish an enemy, any old strawman will do, just as long as they can claim a blood-soaked revenge. Erdogan is no different. He's a whore who will prostitute any and all civil liberties for his own ego...sort of a Turkish Trump.
Maybe, but I saw a TV science program on the big collider at CERN with many (most that I could tell) of the geeky scientists toting Mac lappies around. Errr....just from their appearance, they weren't into "hipster status symbol". I'm not sure they'd even know what the term meant or give a flying rat's ass what anyone else was using, only what they were doing.
Wow...you...errr....aren't related to Trump, are you? I'd watch that free association of ideas if I were you, your brain might explode. Try the little yellow ones next time.
I am not sure the concept of "emerging market" has much relevance any longer...mainly due to "time". Manufacturing has gotten so fast and mimicry so entrenched as a business plan that anything emerging this year won't be emerging next year. It will either be fully emerged or, worse, stale. Companies look at what Apple did to some markets and are now determined not get Appled by Apple or anyone else. There is an article on NYT about how companies are evading anti-trust laws by buying any startup that looks like it might become a competitor.
Every smart phone looks like an iPhone to me, there's no differentiation that regular customers could care about. Self-driving cars seems like a hot new area. Except no car company of any reasonable size is not working on them. There will be no emerging market for these, it will be created fully merged. Robotic assembly lines make it relatively easy and quick to switch on production of just about anything requiring mass quantities. Scaling up is easier with robotics.
Because it is better for company morale to at least offer re-training to those interested? Companies scream to the press about how their people are sooooo valuable, yet they do stupid things like not having a game plan for the future. If CISCO had such a game plan, they should have been re-training starting a few years ago. If they had one and didn't offer retraining, I think that says just about everything an employee there needs to know about how management feels about them. If they didn't have such a gameplan, the management should get the axe.
"Good on them I say, pushing the limits further, real science..
Compare that with the reaction of the DNC to their hacked emails, by creating a board of lawyers
and politicos to fix their security problems."
Apples and oranges. One is a political-technical set of problems, the other is a purely technical problem. Although your level of thinking might be one reason why the Chinese would supplant the Americans.
China is anything but a Renaissance state. When they return Tibet to the Tibetans, when they stop their ridiculous claims to the S. China Sea, when they institute actual rule of law instead of rule by the Politburo, when they reform their system to a democracy or republic instead of a kleptocracy, when they respect copyrights,, etc., then we might consider them a candidate for being a Renaissance state.
"Sad really, but inevitable with a western population that has become too focused on maximising their own
personal comfort, and running in fear at anything that is unfamiliar or uncomfortable - basically ceding total
control to a state that is more than happy to grab it and run. Those in power will be laughing all the way
to the collapse, with little thought to what happens after."
Why, thank you for recognizing the Chinese state as it actually exists rather than the one you allege further up.
Yeah, you are right, science doesn't exist.
Bullshit. The world did very well combating the ozone hole by agreeing to limit certain CFCs.
The only hope for this planet is for dystopian morons like you to do the honorable thing and leave the planet at your earliest convenience.
"Migration, disease and war are already occurring. " The Mid-East and Africa (and India, I believe) are experiencing a very large heat wave that is forcing people to move as their subsistence farming can no longer keep up. Ask the Europeans how that's working out for them. Bangladesh is slowing sinking under the waves due to rising sea level due to global warming. Fresh water is becoming scare due to global warming drying up lakes and rivers and changing rainfall patterns.
Now, what was that you were saying about temperature being the least of our worries? I grant you Bam-Bam Trump is not the result of a temperature rise, yet he's spouting the same ridiculous nonsense as you....errr....you aren't one of his sprogs are you?
Not really. It is politicos staffing their board with people that won't step on their crank like Trump. Every two-bit security expert will bring a load of stupid political sensitivities to a job like that. Rather, it makes more sense to hire people who know how politics works and then let them hire the security experts to fix what they see as broken. All the problems are not necessarily technical. This forum is a typical example of what leads to disasters, everyone fancies themselves as technoslaves and hence all the security problems must be technical.
Awww shit, there goes all the conspiracy theories I've been working on. Obama probably is an alien and not a Muslim, WTC was an outside job ...by...by...the Saudi Royal Twats, Putin has a soul.
Well, it is the people, but it is also the problems themselves. Many problems are intricate, many-layered affairs. The best strategy for getting started is to stop with Agile madness and think hard about the problem itself. Talk it over with others, explore the facets, figure out where are the unknowns, etc. Business isn't in business to do these things...well, certainly not the ones run by the MBAs. No automated tooling will help with this.
A similar thing happens in research but from a slightly different perspective. Yes, it is all well and good to have private industry do research as Gingrich lately bloviated upon in the WSJ. However, business is interested in immediate returns, they aren't interested in basic science that will only yield real world uses far down the road and on roads not yet thought about. There is also a web of science, cherry picking the low hanging fruit doesn't answer what to do when it is all gone.
Both issues have another opposing force, millenials. They seems to have a "I want it now" mentality. The fixation on handheld gizmos only enforces their ADHD and leaves them with the attention span of gnat. Agile only feeds the disease as do these gadgets. The only cure I know is practice working on hard thought problems...doesn't particularly matter which area...philosophy, mathematics, physics, social issues, etc. None of the real problems in these areas can be automated away, and eschewing hard thought about them leaves one with the intellectual depth of a politician or an MBA.
...for a Chinese knockoff worth about $.01.
The NYT, Washington Post, CNN, etc. regularly run stories fact checking speeches and other bloviatations from candidates. Hell, the WP even gives out Pinocchios from 1 to 3 (or is it 4?) for extremely bad lies and untruths.
That said, the Truth seems to have been demoted in the general electorate who seem to believe whatever they want can be their own private Truth because they refuse to believe, or do enough background reading to recognize, the Truth as not being anything but merely opposing belief.
It stems from a stupidity to which the American people have fallen prey. Ask anyone on the street anything that smacks of mathematics or science and a good number will proudly proclaim all that sophisticated stuff is too far above them. They usually do not go as far as saying they are too stupid to understand it all but that is precisely what they should say if they were not attempting to lie to themselves about their intellectual prowess. They know what they believe and be damned if they'll read a book or actually learn anything that might require mental concentration. They have the attention span of gnat and are proud of it.
The result is that people like Trump and Clinton get to be the choices for President. The Greens and the Libertarians orbit even farther out than Clinton and Trump. Hollywood has finally gotten what they have been pushing for a few generations, a public so stupid it cannot reason effectively.
I think the biggest problem for Britain in the future is keeping their seed corn at home, the youngins weren't happy about leaving the EU and will resent having their career paths yoked to Britain's economy. If that causes a brain drain, Britain is screwed.
BS: China was hegemony in S. E. Asia to tell others what to do. It wants Taiwan. It wants all of the S. China Sea. It wants the U.S. far, far away and unable to protect S. Korea and Japan from Chinese military adventures. If it needs to go to war to get that and its Communist oiks still running the show, then it will do that. There will be no public opinion to oppose it since public opinion is not allowed in their kingdom.
Want to see what their view of S. E. Asia is? Look at Tibet and what they did to its people.
And remove one of the major clubs MS uses to beat its users into migrating to their latest? They'd be cutting their own throats. Also, XP would then never die, it would get reborn as "MS without MS" and represent a fork of their alleged software that they do not control.
Scale is important, son. Now go back and figure out how much you'd like to raise your taxes to pay for such a scheme. Get back to us on that figure.
Errr....Tor was (and still is) supported by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory which, last we checked, was under the Office of Naval Research of the U.S. Navy. So Tor is being developed to work against which vested interest exactly? Maybe if you took a fixed point in the right space, you'd get the answer you want to believe, but I doubt it.
Personally, I think Snowden is safe until Vlad the Impaler decides he's no longer useful. He won't murdered but he will be exiled to an information vacuum.
Most government workers are conscientious about reporting to work and doing their job. And the ones facing the public have the worst jobs because the pubic, probably contrary to your beliefs, is crazy. Ever listen to CSPAN's call in show? The things members of the public believe are unbelievable, yet they persist.
I though it was just those "other people" at first. Then I found out my sister wrote a letter to President Obama claiming she didn't receive her fair share when Ma died and the estate was settled through probate figuring he'd fix her problem. She also wrote to the SEC. I thought the return letter from the SEC was very polite and considerate saying they didn't have that kind of jurisdiction and she would be better served using a private law firm. Some poor soul at the SEC was tasked with writing that letter.
There is also the usual abuse suffered by government workers dealing with the public over some perceived misjustice. But the public is an equal opportunity abuser. Once a gas company relocated some gas lines for landlady and myself. She felt this was against G-d, and called them up to explain to them in certain detail how they were all going to hell if they didn't come out and put that gas line back to where it was. They decided cowardice was the better part of valor (to reuse a Douglas Adams' phrase) and it was easier putting the gas line back rather than subjecting the company to her for the next 10 years...she wasn't going to stop.
More aptly, who wants to torture themselves just to get old.
Apples vs. Oranges. You had a point?
Size matters.
Or the Millenials just aren't picking up their end of the economy like the Boomers did before them. In some sense, it might not be the Millenials' fault. They were raised in an economy that produced without their contribution. They simply never learned how to build enterprises.
I do think they also got somewhat behind the 8-ball on school costs. The Boomers thought education was great, let's spend more money on it. Unis promptly stood up to the task of spending that extra money and inflated their costs. The Boomer economy also screwed the unis by siphoning off the most economically viable with high salaries.
The sainted American people got into the act during the aughts by buying extra houses, flipping houses, getting second mortgages, etc. When the music stopped, the economy had been distorted to such an extent that it was difficult for new businesses to start.
Old established businesses learned the best way to compete was to buy up nascent competitors before they became a threat thereby whacking any future employment gain from those nascent businesses.