Actually, those words were written by Goering's US Army "handler" who wrote them from memory in record what Goering said. They were not said at Nuremburg.
Picky pedantry while people rot in prison without trial or access to lawyers in the Land of the Free.
No, not Disney. There's not much of an issue there, as was pointed out - it's anonymous.
No, I'm worried about an elected Government that installs an apparatus for tyranny. Step by step. It's what happened in Nazi Germany. A Government elected on a minority vote that promised to keep people safe. From communists, the "Asiatic Hordes", Jews, whatever.
Step by step. If you stand by and watch people held without trial or charge, denied access to lawyers, on the say so of the Government then where do you think you're going?
No state has the the resources to do it efficiently. But plenty of states have enough resources to make life miserable for a whole bunch of people who irritate the authorities in one way or another. Or haven't you heard about material witness arrests?
You should go read your history of (for example) East Germany. The Stasi there had a pretty good system for keeping tabs on people. You had to watch your mouth pretty closely from 1933 to 1989. Or maybe you don't care what's happening in America, and are happy that a bunch of "stinkingliberalcommiefagatheists" get locked up at random.
One day the Replicans won't be in power. Do you think the Democrats are going to dismantle all those nice mechanisms for suppressing dissent? You think they won't be using material witness arrests when coming after anti-abortionists? When the boot is on the other foot it's still going to be people with unorthodox opinions that get a kicking. The orthodoxy will change, but the kicking will continue.
How many people preferred to do nothing and stick with DVD when they were told they'd have to upgrade to Longhorn and/or buy a new TV with DRM shit in order to watch it?
Sorry. WHAT "Premium Content"? That just pure marketing bullshit. I don't care about Premium Content. In my last house I had a data projector making my TV on the wall 8 feet wide. I watched regular DVDs with a great picture quality. If I can't watch HDTV quality then boo hoo hoo, my life is ruined*.
Apathy cuts lots of ways. I've just bought a Mac because I'm sick of screwing around with Windows dialog boxes, setup screens, popups from the system tray, inexplicable delays, hourglasses spinning, etc. etc. I love the Mac. Never had one before. So what do you think I'm going to do when Longhorn comes out? ONE BIG YAWN.
Corporate Average Fuel Economy. It's the average fuel economy of the sales as a whole. The manufacturers get around it by making millions of shit boxes like the Ford Taurus, selling them as cheap as they can (at a loss often) to rental companies and people who want "value autos". These efficient vehicles then offset the inefficiencies in the high-margin SUVs.
The concept of "marking" in soccer wasn't invented/discovered until the 1960s. What would happen if I invented/discovered a new tactic in a highly popular game and patented that? I could legally prevent (for example) the opposing team marking mine in a game of soccer and then my team would always win.
I reckon that's a good way to bring in the stupidities of the patent system to the attention of the wider public. Watch their team crash and burn and all down to the USPTO.
The Romans knew about this bogus argument. Just because he has motives for what he says doesn't mean that what he says is false. Better to address what he says than what he is.
In my previous company I tried to communicate with engineers. I was an engineer, but it's still damned hard. Programmers just don't "get it" without hard work. In the end, this kind of smack-in-the-face-by-the-real-world approach is what is needed.
I reckon it's because so many programmers have at least a touch of Asperger's. The number of times I'd try to explain that customers behave like monkeys, focusing on the wrong things, buying products for the wrong reasons. But these reasons aren't "wrong" if it means the difference between selling a product and not selling a product. That yes, it's "wrong" to buy a product because we've used Times Roman screenfonts but the competitor used Tahoma, but just change the goddamn font, OK?
Reminds me of the story about 1-Click from Amazon. After patiently explaining what he wanted, the developers all nodded and said, yes, they can do 1-click. A few weeks later the prototype is ready and Bezos tries it out. He clicks on a book. And up pops a dialog box that says "Are you sure?"..
Read about this in Cooper's book "The Inmates Are Running The Asylum."
What is needed is a modern VAT system: input VAT is reclaimable by companies, so they don't pay tax except on the "value added."
Like in the EU, each state charges its own rate of VAT. If a company sells out-of-state to a registered business it sells ex-VAT. If it sells to an individual, it sells inc-VAT.
This would also have the advantage of interlocking nicely with Canada's GST making cross-border trade easier. Right now, Canadian shoppers get hammered with Sales Tax and then GST on the whole thing (nice that: GST on Sales Tax). With a proper VAT system, Canadians would import without further GST since VAT has been paid already.
Best of all, each State is under pressure to lower VAT (or face loss of sales). It brings in a bit of competition to tax rates. What's good for commerce should be good for Government, right?
I'm leaving too: for Canada (yes, I know they have their own issues too). But I found that trying to explain why I don't want to be in the UK any more gets odd looks from people in the UK.
I say "it's the pervasive atmosphere of oppression: not being allowed to wear hooded clothes, the dark looks you get if you smile back at a child who smiles at you, the banning of penknives, deploying armed police for kids playing with cap guns, issuing an ASBO banning being sarcastic".
I get these dead-eyed faces looking at me and there's an awkward silence.
I've given up saying "Britain is getting oppressive" and now just say "I want to go somewhere with lots of space and nicer weather" and people smile and say "yes, what a lovely idea."
Funny thing is, when I've had "the conversation" with Americans they all nod vigorously and know exactly what I'm talking about.
You can even put a cellphone in the loop which uses SMS to put on-time passwords in place. Of course, few banks are using this yet (and yet they say they are worried; pretending I reckon).
This actually helps the little guy. Little guy files in the UK, big buy comes along and says "we have lab notebooks that say we did this first". Who cares? Little guy filed first.
Right now, *anyone* can claim that they invented something and overturn a patent. Only in practice this means "big guy with legal department". So if you're a little guy you get your patent stolen from you.
Yeah, for sure, little guy can get beaten to the draw by big guy, but that doesn't often. Little guy being cheated happens all the time.
I had a chat with an old farmer in New Zealand a few weeks ago. He was moaning about the high cost of New Zealand goods when trading with China due to the artificially low value of the Renmibi.
Well, duh! You think that communists are going to play by free market rules? How stupid can you get. We let China do this because we want cheap goods. But one day when we don't have indigenous industries the currency will be re-valued and the goods will have to be bought at their true prices. Look out for inflation, rising interest rates, a collapsing bond market, stocks taking a dive.
It's the Chinese seeking to overthrow capitalism from within. So much more effective than using an expensive military solution. And this way, the US doesn't see itself as under attack.
I think he mentions the EU because it has the highest of standards of standards (EU countries don't go around torturing people in orange jump suits, for example).
Good luck getting the courts to agree that you can never visit a gym for the rest of your life. Try dead-reckoning someone on a treadmill who is in a building..
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Actually, those words were written by Goering's US Army "handler" who wrote them from memory in record what Goering said. They were not said at Nuremburg.
Picky pedantry while people rot in prison without trial or access to lawyers in the Land of the Free.
K.
Get in the people with blue hats and white Landcruisers. Quick, pass obscurely-worded resolutions. There's gonna be a war breaking out (again!).
Look buddy, if you're determined to troll for an Endian War, you're gonna get it on Slashdot. Best to let the veterans of that war be left sleeping.
K.
No, not Disney. There's not much of an issue there, as was pointed out - it's anonymous.
No, I'm worried about an elected Government that installs an apparatus for tyranny. Step by step. It's what happened in Nazi Germany. A Government elected on a minority vote that promised to keep people safe. From communists, the "Asiatic Hordes", Jews, whatever.
Step by step. If you stand by and watch people held without trial or charge, denied access to lawyers, on the say so of the Government then where do you think you're going?
I'm not a member of the ACLU, by the way.
K.
No state has the the resources to do it efficiently. But plenty of states have enough resources to make life miserable for a whole bunch of people who irritate the authorities in one way or another. Or haven't you heard about material witness arrests?
You should go read your history of (for example) East Germany. The Stasi there had a pretty good system for keeping tabs on people. You had to watch your mouth pretty closely from 1933 to 1989. Or maybe you don't care what's happening in America, and are happy that a bunch of "stinkingliberalcommiefagatheists" get locked up at random.
One day the Replicans won't be in power. Do you think the Democrats are going to dismantle all those nice mechanisms for suppressing dissent? You think they won't be using material witness arrests when coming after anti-abortionists? When the boot is on the other foot it's still going to be people with unorthodox opinions that get a kicking. The orthodoxy will change, but the kicking will continue.
K.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't watching you.
K.
How many people preferred to do nothing and stick with DVD when they were told they'd have to upgrade to Longhorn and/or buy a new TV with DRM shit in order to watch it?
Me mememememememeeeee! So that's at least 1.
K.
Sorry. WHAT "Premium Content"? That just pure marketing bullshit. I don't care about Premium Content. In my last house I had a data projector making my TV on the wall 8 feet wide. I watched regular DVDs with a great picture quality. If I can't watch HDTV quality then boo hoo hoo, my life is ruined*.
Apathy cuts lots of ways. I've just bought a Mac because I'm sick of screwing around with Windows dialog boxes, setup screens, popups from the system tray, inexplicable delays, hourglasses spinning, etc. etc. I love the Mac. Never had one before. So what do you think I'm going to do when Longhorn comes out? ONE BIG YAWN.
Apathy rules!
*Sarcasm.
Corporate Average Fuel Economy. It's the average fuel economy of the sales as a whole. The manufacturers get around it by making millions of shit boxes like the Ford Taurus, selling them as cheap as they can (at a loss often) to rental companies and people who want "value autos". These efficient vehicles then offset the inefficiencies in the high-margin SUVs.
K.
The concept of "marking" in soccer wasn't invented/discovered until the 1960s. What would happen if I invented/discovered a new tactic in a highly popular game and patented that? I could legally prevent (for example) the opposing team marking mine in a game of soccer and then my team would always win.
I reckon that's a good way to bring in the stupidities of the patent system to the attention of the wider public. Watch their team crash and burn and all down to the USPTO.
K.
Forget hackers, suicide bombers do more damage. They should face the death penalty. That'll deter them.
K.
Go never made a profit. They spent hundreds of millions of VC money and then sank (thanks to being torpedoed by Microsoft).
K.
Come on, sending in the commandos would be an illegal invasion of a sovereign nation. Would the UK seriously contemplate such action?
Err..
K.
The Romans knew about this bogus argument. Just because he has motives for what he says doesn't mean that what he says is false. Better to address what he says than what he is.
K.
Stop arguing about clinical definitions and just change the goddamn font.
K.
Don't get me started about Ad Hominem. He was the worst. Always with the system modal dialog boxes.
K.
In my previous company I tried to communicate with engineers. I was an engineer, but it's still damned hard. Programmers just don't "get it" without hard work. In the end, this kind of smack-in-the-face-by-the-real-world approach is what is needed.
I reckon it's because so many programmers have at least a touch of Asperger's. The number of times I'd try to explain that customers behave like monkeys, focusing on the wrong things, buying products for the wrong reasons. But these reasons aren't "wrong" if it means the difference between selling a product and not selling a product. That yes, it's "wrong" to buy a product because we've used Times Roman screenfonts but the competitor used Tahoma, but just change the goddamn font, OK?
Reminds me of the story about 1-Click from Amazon. After patiently explaining what he wanted, the developers all nodded and said, yes, they can do 1-click. A few weeks later the prototype is ready and Bezos tries it out. He clicks on a book. And up pops a dialog box that says "Are you sure?"..
Read about this in Cooper's book "The Inmates Are Running The Asylum."
K.
What is needed is a modern VAT system: input VAT is reclaimable by companies, so they don't pay tax except on the "value added."
Like in the EU, each state charges its own rate of VAT. If a company sells out-of-state to a registered business it sells ex-VAT. If it sells to an individual, it sells inc-VAT.
This would also have the advantage of interlocking nicely with Canada's GST making cross-border trade easier. Right now, Canadian shoppers get hammered with Sales Tax and then GST on the whole thing (nice that: GST on Sales Tax). With a proper VAT system, Canadians would import without further GST since VAT has been paid already.
Best of all, each State is under pressure to lower VAT (or face loss of sales). It brings in a bit of competition to tax rates. What's good for commerce should be good for Government, right?
K.
I'm leaving too: for Canada (yes, I know they have their own issues too). But I found that trying to explain why I don't want to be in the UK any more gets odd looks from people in the UK.
I say "it's the pervasive atmosphere of oppression: not being allowed to wear hooded clothes, the dark looks you get if you smile back at a child who smiles at you, the banning of penknives, deploying armed police for kids playing with cap guns, issuing an ASBO banning being sarcastic".
I get these dead-eyed faces looking at me and there's an awkward silence.
I've given up saying "Britain is getting oppressive" and now just say "I want to go somewhere with lots of space and nicer weather" and people smile and say "yes, what a lovely idea."
Funny thing is, when I've had "the conversation" with Americans they all nod vigorously and know exactly what I'm talking about.
K.
www.swivelsecure.com
You can even put a cellphone in the loop which uses SMS to put on-time passwords in place. Of course, few banks are using this yet (and yet they say they are worried; pretending I reckon).
K.
This actually helps the little guy. Little guy files in the UK, big buy comes along and says "we have lab notebooks that say we did this first". Who cares? Little guy filed first.
Right now, *anyone* can claim that they invented something and overturn a patent. Only in practice this means "big guy with legal department". So if you're a little guy you get your patent stolen from you.
Yeah, for sure, little guy can get beaten to the draw by big guy, but that doesn't often. Little guy being cheated happens all the time.
K.
We'll need something to fix the Gulf Stream when it shuts down from lowered salinity due to the melting ice caps.
I realize you septic tanks don't use texting, let alone the dizzy heights of T9, but let me just say.
T9!
Duh.
K.
I had a chat with an old farmer in New Zealand a few weeks ago. He was moaning about the high cost of New Zealand goods when trading with China due to the artificially low value of the Renmibi.
Well, duh! You think that communists are going to play by free market rules? How stupid can you get. We let China do this because we want cheap goods. But one day when we don't have indigenous industries the currency will be re-valued and the goods will have to be bought at their true prices. Look out for inflation, rising interest rates, a collapsing bond market, stocks taking a dive.
It's the Chinese seeking to overthrow capitalism from within. So much more effective than using an expensive military solution. And this way, the US doesn't see itself as under attack.
You've got to admire the plan, you really do.
I think he mentions the EU because it has the highest of standards of standards (EU countries don't go around torturing people in orange jump suits, for example).
Good luck getting the courts to agree that you can never visit a gym for the rest of your life. Try dead-reckoning someone on a treadmill who is in a building..