Nothing stops me from gathering with like minded people.
While I agree with some of what you said I wouldn't call the people going to a library a singular but rather diverse groups and individuals seeking the same things, knowledge,, entertainment or a gardening club (yes libraries do that) the nice thing about a library is ANYONE can go in, even the homeless. With a church you see the same thing, a group that only goes on Sunday, a group that meets for prayer 3 times a week, a children's bible study group, etc.
We aren't really coming under the same specific group as you were stating, but rather a grouping of smaller more diverse groups, even at the same church.
They are in my area, large areas full of children being read stories, group meeting spaces, other large open areas where people interact but quietly. True community centers.
A church has all of the above as well, just directed at religion foremost.
It's sad you don't have that, or maybe just can't see it.
I'm not religious at all, I don't buy into it, however the positive side of religion is as a community center, a gathering places for people to come together and in that sense I support the idea. However I have often thought that libraries could be (and are) the same thing on a higher level, a community center laced with science, knowledge and education, (and fiction too) access for all and a saner, kinder place to gather. A church of the geek/nerd as it were. I have many fond memories of my local library, and anything that keeps them around is welcome, there should always be some place for us "non-believers" to gather.
Why such systems are online and accessible via the Internet? Is this a cost cutting measure? Why aren't critical passwords changed every week? Why isn't database information stored in encrypted containers or hard drives? Why does this happen again and again and again?
Several stories online of laptops containing massive DB's get stolen, in fact a previous employed of mine (major chip manufacture) got one of their HR laptops stolen out of a car at Starbucks, I was sent a letter by said company giving the excuse "The laptop hard drive could did not support full drive encryption" which is complete bullshit, full drive encryption has been around for a long time, as have encrypted containers.
Why was that DB allowed on a laptop? Why was it left in the car, but the best question is why wasn't the entire drive encrypted, or at the very least the DB put into an encrypted container?
They fear outside influence on their populace, but the truth is China will eat its self politically from the inside out, you can not give your population a "taste" of capitalism and expect to maintain the same level of political control, it doesn't work. So rather than outside influences driving the change it will be the inside influences that do this, they went from “Practice Marxism and not Revisionism” to “Praise profit. Praise profit. Praise profit. Praise profit. Praise profit.”
This is fascinating, a team potentially responsible for an military attack on Iran is now in business for themselves? This and the alleged HBgary root kit make it seem as though "The Powers That Be" are taking the low road on the Internet.
As jaded as I am I guess there was still something in me left to turn cynical rather than hopeful.
You feel belittled yet you started the thread with this: "And he could have walked on water too! Seriously associating yourself with the myth and cult of Steve Jobs is doing nothing but making you look naive!"
You see I think Steve Jobs is the single factor responsible for Apples enormous success, prior to his arrival they were sailing towards bankruptcy, Steve Jobs also drove the smart phone market to a point that the phone was actually usable, had style, and you WANTED to use it, then others tried to follow. He was an amazing man, he had an eye for design, he knew the hard stuff too, he did co-design one of the first PC's to hit the consumer market with any success, he was a visionary. No one does anything in this World alone, there were plenty of people helping, but Jobs was the hub of it all, he drove it to the success we see today and your pathetic attempts at smearing me as naive and Jobs name by referring to him as a "myth" tells everyone reading this what you are. A troll.
Post again and I will continue to pluck the wings off your fly like mentality.
"The market value of the company's shares has mushroomed from about $5 billion at the end of 2000 to $351 billion now -- making Apple the second-most-valuable publicly traded U.S. business, after Exxon Mobil Corp. For a time last summer Apple had surpassed Exxon for the crown."
I have a lot of respect for the man, and I think he could have done exactly that, take on the telcos.
I've found when I take that attitude it leads to in-action on my part, then eventually I get whittled down to caring for nothing. It's a frustrating when the people making the rules either know nothing about the Internet (most judges) or that they are motivated by little more than greed RIAA, MPAA, could it really hurt to voice approval of sensible behavior?
I know it hurts our position to give up by assuming we are done for.
Steve Jobs is one of the few people that could have pulled it off, I think this would have provided actually competition to occur and upset the current price fixing going on.
I looked at the photos, including the 1/500th Indian border map (not 1/20th) all are perfectly clear to me, the large blue facility is a mining operation, channels run to the mountains where the mining occurs, 2 of the sites are weapons testing sites (you can see the blast craters) the USA has the same stuff in the desert, the scaled down Indian border map is a for military planning purposes, an Indian newspaper contacted the Chinese and they told them what it is. The patterned white lines aren't metal IMO *maybe* mylar or they appear to be moved earth or a chalk like substance and these photos are the only ones without a clear explanation, although if I had to guess I would say it's a test area for reflective temperature reduction as China has severe desertification issues, for a real world example Google "9/11 no fly temperature increase". Keep in mind China knows we can see these things and they aren't hiding it from us, only from their own people if even that.
I'm sure this information has been posted ad naseum, it just cracks me up the assclowns at jizmodo make it into some X-files episode.
"“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.”" -Henry David Thoreau
I wonder if the rise is autism is strictly a diagnoses thing, or environmental thing, or perhaps due to 3 or 4 generations exposed to the flashing lights of television and computers. Since autistic children have a massive increase in brain cells in the frontal cortex, and in some case "mild autism or high functioning" appears to be perfectly suited to intense concentration and skills sets beneficial to programming, engineering, etc, and programmers/engineers that marry and have children have a higher incidence of this.
I would qualify that by saying I don't believe every single Chinese person is an enemy of the US, but the government for sure, several factions within China for sure, and of course business wise they are our enemy.
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Never, humanity's default state is ignorance, the insightful thinkers are far and few between.
To be fair, all of us live the "allegory of the cave" in one way or another.
Nothing stops me from gathering with like minded people.
While I agree with some of what you said I wouldn't call the people going to a library a singular but rather diverse groups and individuals seeking the same things, knowledge,, entertainment or a gardening club (yes libraries do that) the nice thing about a library is ANYONE can go in, even the homeless.
With a church you see the same thing, a group that only goes on Sunday, a group that meets for prayer 3 times a week, a children's bible study group, etc.
We aren't really coming under the same specific group as you were stating, but rather a grouping of smaller more diverse groups, even at the same church.
They are in my area, large areas full of children being read stories, group meeting spaces, other large open areas where people interact but quietly.
True community centers.
A church has all of the above as well, just directed at religion foremost.
It's sad you don't have that, or maybe just can't see it.
I'm not religious at all, I don't buy into it, however the positive side of religion is as a community center, a gathering places for people to come together and in that sense I support the idea.
However I have often thought that libraries could be (and are) the same thing on a higher level, a community center laced with science, knowledge and education, (and fiction too) access for all and a saner, kinder place to gather.
A church of the geek/nerd as it were.
I have many fond memories of my local library, and anything that keeps them around is welcome, there should always be some place for us "non-believers" to gather.
Why such systems are online and accessible via the Internet? Is this a cost cutting measure? Why aren't critical passwords changed every week? Why isn't database information stored in encrypted containers or hard drives? Why does this happen again and again and again?
Several stories online of laptops containing massive DB's get stolen, in fact a previous employed of mine (major chip manufacture) got one of their HR laptops stolen out of a car at Starbucks, I was sent a letter by said company giving the excuse "The laptop hard drive could did not support full drive encryption" which is complete bullshit, full drive encryption has been around for a long time, as have encrypted containers.
Why was that DB allowed on a laptop? Why was it left in the car, but the best question is why wasn't the entire drive encrypted, or at the very least the DB put into an encrypted container?
That excess of males concerns me, if you think about it an excess of sexually frustrated males makes for a great army, and the military is something China is growing as fast as their economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China
They fear outside influence on their populace, but the truth is China will eat its self politically from the inside out, you can not give your population a "taste" of capitalism and expect to maintain the same level of political control, it doesn't work.
So rather than outside influences driving the change it will be the inside influences that do this, they went from “Practice Marxism and not Revisionism” to “Praise profit. Praise profit. Praise profit. Praise profit. Praise profit.”
We live in interesting times.
If that goes into effect Steve Ballmer is gone gone gone, I know, it's probably been said a dozen times in the previous 34 post =)
This should be interesting/amusing =)
This is fascinating, a team potentially responsible for an military attack on Iran is now in business for themselves? This and the alleged HBgary root kit make it seem as though "The Powers That Be" are taking the low road on the Internet.
As jaded as I am I guess there was still something in me left to turn cynical rather than hopeful.
You feel belittled yet you started the thread with this:
"And he could have walked on water too!
Seriously associating yourself with the myth and cult of Steve Jobs is doing nothing but making you look naive!"
You see I think Steve Jobs is the single factor responsible for Apples enormous success, prior to his arrival they were sailing towards bankruptcy, Steve Jobs also drove the smart phone market to a point that the phone was actually usable, had style, and you WANTED to use it, then others tried to follow.
He was an amazing man, he had an eye for design, he knew the hard stuff too, he did co-design one of the first PC's to hit the consumer market with any success, he was a visionary.
No one does anything in this World alone, there were plenty of people helping, but Jobs was the hub of it all, he drove it to the success we see today and your pathetic attempts at smearing me as naive and Jobs name by referring to him as a "myth" tells everyone reading this what you are.
A troll.
Post again and I will continue to pluck the wings off your fly like mentality.
"The market value of the company's shares has mushroomed from about $5 billion at the end of 2000 to $351 billion now -- making Apple the second-most-valuable publicly traded U.S. business, after Exxon Mobil Corp. For a time last summer Apple had surpassed Exxon for the crown."
I have a lot of respect for the man, and I think he could have done exactly that, take on the telcos.
What have you done lately syousef?
I've found when I take that attitude it leads to in-action on my part, then eventually I get whittled down to caring for nothing.
It's a frustrating when the people making the rules either know nothing about the Internet (most judges) or that they are motivated by little more than greed RIAA, MPAA, could it really hurt to voice approval of sensible behavior?
I know it hurts our position to give up by assuming we are done for.
Lets hope some of that sensibility flows down south.
Steve Jobs is one of the few people that could have pulled it off, I think this would have provided actually competition to occur and upset the current price fixing going on.
It still sounds like a better system than our current financial institutions.
I looked at the photos, including the 1/500th Indian border map (not 1/20th) all are perfectly clear to me, the large blue facility is a mining operation, channels run to the mountains where the mining occurs, 2 of the sites are weapons testing sites (you can see the blast craters) the USA has the same stuff in the desert, the scaled down Indian border map is a for military planning purposes, an Indian newspaper contacted the Chinese and they told them what it is.
The patterned white lines aren't metal IMO *maybe* mylar or they appear to be moved earth or a chalk like substance and these photos are the only ones without a clear explanation, although if I had to guess I would say it's a test area for reflective temperature reduction as China has severe desertification issues, for a real world example Google "9/11 no fly temperature increase".
Keep in mind China knows we can see these things and they aren't hiding it from us, only from their own people if even that.
I'm sure this information has been posted ad naseum, it just cracks me up the assclowns at jizmodo make it into some X-files episode.
"“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.”"
-Henry David Thoreau
All hail the new Pinto.
I wonder if the rise is autism is strictly a diagnoses thing, or environmental thing, or perhaps due to 3 or 4 generations exposed to the flashing lights of television and computers.
Since autistic children have a massive increase in brain cells in the frontal cortex, and in some case "mild autism or high functioning" appears to be perfectly suited to intense concentration and skills sets beneficial to programming, engineering, etc, and programmers/engineers that marry and have children have a higher incidence of this.
Just a thought, no evidence really.
Brains of People with Autism Focus More on Visual Skills
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2011/04/04/brains-of-people-with-autism-focus-more-on-visual-skills
Autism tied too many brain cells
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57321349-10391704/autism-tied-too-many-brain-cells-will-finding-bring-better-diagnosis/
Educating Students with Asperger's Syndrome,
or High Functioning Autism
http://www.autismtoday.com/articles/Genius_May_Be_Abnormality.htm
The list goes on and on and on...
Put your net up, that went right over your head.
"This is a move to gather intelligence."
In the consumer market? I don't think so.
There's a pill for that.
They are, it just isn't apparent to everyone yet.
I would qualify that by saying I don't believe every single Chinese person is an enemy of the US, but the government for sure, several factions within China for sure, and of course business wise they are our enemy.
*yawn*