Given how it's more and more apparent that the cross between geopolitics and global economics are mostly producing a lot of procrastination in facing the pollution music, it's likely we'll at one point have an "carbon-caused temperature emergency", and all carbon-producing things will have be turned off, by law, or some other no-foresight way of trying to deal with the problem at the last minute, whether or not it works.
Suddenly bicycles, solar and wind power would be very popular, perhaps?
am mpaariaa.vb mp3 and p2p distribution worm is coming.
that'll make everyone automatically "guilty". and automatically innocent, as it got there by no action of their own.
besides helping the mpaariaa efforts *really* backfire of course
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I have yet to see anyone of authority seriously denounce the use of automobiles as the main form of transportation, as it's highly profitable to the steel, manufacturing and oil industries. It makes money, a lot money, and makes you and me work a lot extra for THEM - just to be able to get around.
The fact that it's also by FAR the leading cause of death among young people worldwide, of depleting cities of sidewalks full of people and converting them to endless asphalt-covered semi-arid cultural deserts, making the air equivalent to smoking a couple cigarrettes, etc, seems to be no problem.
So when's a president going to declare "war on the auto industry killers"? Oh yeah, every presidents just represent THEM, too, never US.
Welcome to govcorp. You're free and happy. Go to read your officially sancioned multiple brand confunews and back to work to prop our paper monopoly. Be sure to talk of everything that makes no difference to everyone, and feel anger, and seek solutions with anger, death and weapons. Our weapons, pointed at you.
The philosophy of the net started out mostly anarchist or humanist - later, the capitalist or libertarian took control.
At the UN, it seems the same.
What I and my friends do is meet and form more Humanist associations and groups - on all continents. For the past year, I've been at it in South America.
I'm sure many/.'ers are looking for something similar - so
google Humanist-Movement (in proper language) + country / large-city-name
Our expensive computerized cars can only go some 20mph. Quite a few of us would have expected at least 60-150mph in the city to be possible by 2004.
Try calculating the average speed of your car travel. Go to some web mapping engine, put in home address and another, get miles and driving time, calculate miles/hr.
I see cars becoming semi-accursed, slow, expensive, wasteful, polluting, dangerous, and useless money black holes.
Perhaps becoming increasingly smaller - while we figure out some way to replace it.
We're becoming quite semi-intelligent, for not coming up with a less pathetic way to get around - MUCH quicker.
Eveyone driving a one-ton $10,000 90sqft unreliable obsolete closed-source no-protocol non-networked vehicle ain't never gonna do it.
"structured" is over-rated. Most places that appear to have an organized structure actually are chaos once you look beyond the surface. Look at most law offices, courts, or police more deeply, and you'll find all kinds on "non-structured" things that everyone wishes weren't there.
Is the law "structured"? No, it's a forced, false structure. The real structure is quite different, and involves the gangs, mob, corruption, lies, politics, diplomacy, education, economy, etc.
Code checking doesn't have to be "structured". This idea is that it's checked "throughly" by "professionals". Cost effectively, of course, meaning checked once, or less to reduce costs.
Open source is checked "reduntantly" by "non-professionals" - hackers, hobbyists, and professionals, too - on their own time, they aren't looking to impress the boss now.
I've worked in a "structured" QA lab environment.
Split out all the sections of the program among various people, everyone pounds at it, and says "it's good".
So some QA labs are better and also have multiple coders comb through the code. Not likely, not many.
"Unstructured" means it's not "organized" in that way. It's checked too many times quite often.
Go ask how many programmers write in a "structured" way. A lot of them don't. Their programs can be quite good all the same.
2071 - Bored Martian teens reproduce widly and give birth to mutated children. Lack of protein in Mars diet and modified gravity are blamed for newborn's long teeth and odd digestive systems. Martian mothers go into hiding in Mars desert.
2073 - Eighteen-year-old Martian teenagers on Mars.
2073 - Millions of Martian teenagers, now at Legal Space Travel driving age, desperately drive babies to with long fangs and Meat-starved constitution to Earth.
Dunno.
My Glofish might like it.
I only got females. And that's like that dinosaur island movie.
These females must be mighty desperate and find these cells in my game pad to be male-looking.
Don't want to start them mutating or something.
current "governments", "states", "regulators" etc haven't really built an even slightly more advanced society anywhere as far as I've seen. simple mechanisms to justify, legalize, formalize or otherwise protect the monopolies that their members profit from themselves.
i can't recall many monopolies, big business or financial interests being broken down by new efforts the public organizes, in spite of technologies galore.
It appears Microsoft might be the first one. We've seen how they keep trying to protect their interests, and it's far from over yet.
The auto and oil industry, however, isn't going anywhere soon it seems, in spite of better altrenatives being around forever.
All of these monopolies are going to put up real resistance when they see people organize and build their own alternative economies, as they largely did in Argentina, install their own communications infratructures, build their own vehicles and transportation systems, generate their own power, build their own electronics, plant and grow their own food, etc.
It's inevitable - a society that's set up to give the highest value to money, laws that exist on paper only, no principles other than concentration and accumulation of objects...
Confrontation between those with the capital - and weapons/controlling positions they acquired it with - and the rest of the population is only going to increase. A lot.
We shouldn't be surprised at all to see violence grow in both the US and Europe, which was convenienty exported to the rest of the world. It can't be "managed" forever.
I chose to align and work more with the people in the humanist movement - but everyone should fight somewhere.
Depending more on the chip fab giants is going to start getting us nowhere.
If some guys didn't start making computers in their garages, but rather they were made in corporate labs first, they wouldn't have come with cases that open and expansion slots, most likely.
http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/lun_ekranopla n.pl Ekranoplans could easily revolutionize air transportation. And bullet trains. Can't be used as missiles or easily held hostage.
PRT's could easily revolutionize urban transport. http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itr ans/PRT/
Instead, we pay for missiles, and things that go 35mph average every day, and planes we can't pilots ourselves.
Where's all the technology for alternative transportation? Where's the US bullet train? A desert-crossing ekranoplan? Private Rapid Transport (PRT)? Smothered somewhere, surely.
Where's the "free market" and "free enterprise" that was so touted before, so someone could build these? Smothered.
We all increasingly live under the iron rule of GM, Boeing, and Exxon, and we don't dare even truly question their empire for fear - of losing a paycheck.
Technology seems more over-rated to me every day. Public mass organizing is where the trouble, and action is.
All we get to do is work pounding code for these corporations that screw us.
Slashdot Mirror
corporate legal threats
copyrights
drm
government filters censors
etc
Given how it's more and more apparent that the cross between geopolitics and global economics are mostly producing a lot of procrastination in facing the pollution music, it's likely we'll at one point have an "carbon-caused temperature emergency", and all carbon-producing things will have be turned off, by law, or some other no-foresight way of trying to deal with the problem at the last minute, whether or not it works.
Suddenly bicycles, solar and wind power would be very popular, perhaps?
google build electric bicycle
am mpaariaa.vb mp3 and p2p distribution worm is coming.
that'll make everyone automatically "guilty". and automatically innocent, as it got there by no action of their own.
besides helping the mpaariaa efforts *really* backfire of course
I have yet to see anyone of authority seriously denounce the use of automobiles as the main form of transportation, as it's highly profitable to the steel, manufacturing and oil industries. It makes money, a lot money, and makes you and me work a lot extra for THEM - just to be able to get around.
The fact that it's also by FAR the leading cause of death among young people worldwide, of depleting cities of sidewalks full of people and converting them to endless asphalt-covered semi-arid cultural deserts, making the air equivalent to smoking a couple cigarrettes, etc, seems to be no problem.
So when's a president going to declare "war on the auto industry killers"? Oh yeah, every presidents just represent THEM, too, never US.
Welcome to govcorp. You're free and happy. Go to read your officially sancioned multiple brand confunews and back to work to prop our paper monopoly. Be sure to talk of everything that makes no difference to everyone, and feel anger, and seek solutions with anger, death and weapons. Our weapons, pointed at you.
Confused? Angry? Good.
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The philosophy of the net started out mostly anarchist or humanist - later, the capitalist or libertarian took control.
/.'ers are looking for something similar - so
At the UN, it seems the same.
What I and my friends do is meet and form more Humanist associations and groups - on all continents. For the past year, I've been at it in South America.
I'm sure many
google Humanist-Movement (in proper language) + country / large-city-name
humanist-movement bombay
movimento-humanista +sao-paulo
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it's inevitable that govcorp would like to start meddling in VoIP, 802.11, and so on.
p2p telecom anyone?
Our expensive computerized cars can only go some 20mph. Quite a few of us would have expected at least 60-150mph in the city to be possible by 2004.
Try calculating the average speed of your car travel. Go to some web mapping engine, put in home address and another, get miles and driving time, calculate miles/hr.
I see cars becoming semi-accursed, slow, expensive, wasteful, polluting, dangerous, and useless money black holes.
Perhaps becoming increasingly smaller - while we figure out some way to replace it.
We're becoming quite semi-intelligent, for not coming up with a less pathetic way to get around - MUCH quicker.
Eveyone driving a one-ton $10,000 90sqft unreliable obsolete closed-source no-protocol non-networked vehicle ain't never gonna do it.
Perhaps PRT, or pneumatic tubes , or electric bicycles.
Whatever, there's dozens of better options.
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it's an awesome monitor. some people will buy it.
having moved to brazil, the perspective for everything changed.
i see from here a vast need for lower costing, not higher featured, everything.
YMMV, my 2 cents, etc
Why did they release the XP "corporate" verstion which allows installation of XP without teh required online registration?
It's apparently worked quite well to protect Citrix and MS Terminal Server from being used.
I believe MS likes having everyone use Windows, whether it's paid for or not.
What are people going to do, if they can't get Windows pirated? Buy it? Nope.
"structured" is over-rated. Most places that appear to have an organized structure actually are chaos once you look beyond the surface. Look at most law offices, courts, or police more deeply, and you'll find all kinds on "non-structured" things that everyone wishes weren't there.
Is the law "structured"? No, it's a forced, false structure. The real structure is quite different, and involves the gangs, mob, corruption, lies, politics, diplomacy, education, economy, etc.
Code checking doesn't have to be "structured". This idea is that it's checked "throughly" by "professionals". Cost effectively, of course, meaning checked once, or less to reduce costs.
Open source is checked "reduntantly" by "non-professionals" - hackers, hobbyists, and professionals, too - on their own time, they aren't looking to impress the boss now.
I've worked in a "structured" QA lab environment.
Split out all the sections of the program among various people, everyone pounds at it, and says "it's good".
So some QA labs are better and also have multiple coders comb through the code. Not likely, not many.
"Unstructured" means it's not "organized" in that way. It's checked too many times quite often.
Go ask how many programmers write in a "structured" way. A lot of them don't. Their programs can be quite good all the same.
I don't see where that's a problem.
I believe that means searching for a third political party. The demoblicans have burned up their credibility on this and many fronts long ago.
Magic Lantern, carnivore, omnivore...
So how do you keep the feds from snooping you?
Copy protection would be the best gift MS could give to the open-source movement.
95% of all windows boxes must contain 100% pirated software.
The place must be full of dual head computers, dual processor computers, multiple core processors, and multiple personality math heads.
I can see someone starting to lose track of what is what where is what what is who and who is who.
Likely someone forget the medicine, that's all.
2034 - Man arrives on Mars
2054 - Woman arrives on Mars
2055 - Babies on Mars. Martians!
2070 - Martians teens are fifteen years old.
2071 - Bored Martian teens reproduce widly and give birth to mutated children. Lack of protein in Mars diet and modified gravity are blamed for newborn's long teeth and odd digestive systems. Martian mothers go into hiding in Mars desert.
2073 - Eighteen-year-old Martian teenagers on Mars.
2073 - Millions of Martian teenagers, now at Legal Space Travel driving age, desperately drive babies to with long fangs and Meat-starved constitution to Earth.
Dunno. My Glofish might like it. I only got females. And that's like that dinosaur island movie. These females must be mighty desperate and find these cells in my game pad to be male-looking. Don't want to start them mutating or something.
hope it works /me performs rain dance
current "governments", "states", "regulators" etc haven't really built an even slightly more advanced society anywhere as far as I've seen. simple mechanisms to justify, legalize, formalize or otherwise protect the monopolies that their members profit from themselves. i can't recall many monopolies, big business or financial interests being broken down by new efforts the public organizes, in spite of technologies galore. It appears Microsoft might be the first one. We've seen how they keep trying to protect their interests, and it's far from over yet. The auto and oil industry, however, isn't going anywhere soon it seems, in spite of better altrenatives being around forever. All of these monopolies are going to put up real resistance when they see people organize and build their own alternative economies, as they largely did in Argentina, install their own communications infratructures, build their own vehicles and transportation systems, generate their own power, build their own electronics, plant and grow their own food, etc.
It's inevitable - a society that's set up to give the highest value to money, laws that exist on paper only, no principles other than concentration and accumulation of objects...
Confrontation between those with the capital - and weapons/controlling positions they acquired it with - and the rest of the population is only going to increase. A lot.
We shouldn't be surprised at all to see violence grow in both the US and Europe, which was convenienty exported to the rest of the world. It can't be "managed" forever.
I chose to align and work more with the people in the humanist movement - but everyone should fight somewhere.
http://www.google.com/search?q=humanist+movement
Nuff said.
is that too much to ask?
etherboot over modem or ethernet would be ideal, too.
The other projects on the site to generate your own power are a bit more interesting...
Then it hasn't fixed THE bug.
We've got to work more on FPGA programming.
Depending more on the chip fab giants is going to start getting us nowhere.
If some guys didn't start making computers in their garages, but rather they were made in corporate labs first, they wouldn't have come with cases that open and expansion slots, most likely.
Now it's the chips that we have to make.
http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/lun_ekranopla n.pl
r ans/PRT/
Ekranoplans could easily revolutionize air transportation. And bullet trains. Can't be used as missiles or easily held hostage.
PRT's could easily revolutionize urban transport.
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/it
Instead, we pay for missiles, and things that go 35mph average every day, and planes we can't pilots ourselves.
Where's all the technology for alternative transportation? Where's the US bullet train? A desert-crossing ekranoplan? Private Rapid Transport (PRT)? Smothered somewhere, surely.
Where's the "free market" and "free enterprise" that was so touted before, so someone could build these? Smothered.
We all increasingly live under the iron rule of GM, Boeing, and Exxon, and we don't dare even truly question their empire for fear - of losing a paycheck.
Technology seems more over-rated to me every day. Public mass organizing is where the trouble, and action is.
All we get to do is work pounding code for these corporations that screw us.