Why? Because the market, and every free market, is built on the central tenant that when in comes to production, there is and always will be a surplus. A surplus, and the effective sale of that surplus, is sin qua non to any market.
To ask it to "correct" itself would be akin to asking a hemophiliac if he could spare a few quarts of blood.
Adults are typically hard to sell to. Children on the other hand typically make easy marks. So how do you make sure that your target market remains in a blissful pre-lapsarian haze in the face of age and oncoming responsibility?
You produce them as such.
Thomas Doherty once quipped that "movies reflect teenage, not mass - and definitely not adult - tastes". Hollywood, The TV industry, glossy magazines, etc, are all interested in doing one thing: producing you as an unquestioning consumer whose core concerns are childlike.
Take for example these new Nike Ronaldino ads whose catchphrase is "never grow up". I don't want to go all Barthes here but these ads are so shameless in their meaning production that you wonder how any adult with an IQ over 80 could fall for their message. It's pitiful really.
"It does appear there may be some good movies this fall ("History of Violence" is high on my list), I'm guessing we'll see more of the same crap. I don't know how many times they can go to the well with their overproduced special effects stories with no plot or believable ideas and keep the public coming back"
You have an issue with a lack of believable idea's, sparse plots, and special effects laden pictures yet you're itching to see a Cronenberg film. Something just doesn't add up here,
I once saw The Wrath of Kahn dubbed in Pakistani. The "KAAHHHHHHHNNNNN" line was mysteriously removed and replaced with a "nothing to see hear" placard.
GPGMail 1.1 no longer tiger compatible
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Mac OS X 10.4.1 Is Out
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· Score: 2, Informative
The gpgmail 1.1 bundle seems to have broken under 10.4.1. It was working nicely under 10.4.
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
seems to have been renamed to:
~/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled)/
A warning dialog box is displayed notifying you that the bundle is no longer supported the first time you start up Mail under 10.4.1
until you try to fly. Then the "watchers" have every right to take your gear away and make you submit to a cavity search.
If Mann wishes to reverse the panopticon, he might do himself a service and reread some foucault. It might then become painfully clear that no-matter how small his gear becomes, no-matter how inconspicuous his reversal is, the power to search his asshole ultimately lies with those who primarily held the ultimate surveillance card.
Here's the problem with that assumption. The IT training industry isn't based in reputable universities, its based in flimflam diploma factories and accreditation outfits.
These 'institutions' have basically been responsible for the retraining of a large portion of the population with the underlying assumption that a small and and generally specialized set of skills (PHP monkey, VB programmer) will land you a modicum of financial stability. What they have in fact done is recast the IT professional as a new class in our society, one which, for all intents and purposes, replaces the dwindling blue-collar worker. The IT training industry guarantees a disposable, cheap, and never-ending source of labour for information companies.
With this in mind it's little wonder that outfits which depend on such labour would seek to double their training pool?
/* * This file can be used to apply a style to all web pages you view * Rules without !important are overruled by author rules if the * author sets any. Rules with !important overrule author rules. */
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/* * hides many ads by preventing display of images that are inside * links when the link HREF contans certain substrings. */
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xIMG[usemap] { display: none ! important }
/* turning some false positives back off */
A:link[HREF*="download."] IMG { display: inline ! important } A:link[HREF*="click.mp3"] IMG { display: inline ! important }
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Three words (two of which are possibly spelt wrong): Sveinbjorn Thordarson's Platypus.
Wrap a sh script that starts OpenOffice in an.app wrapper and then treat it like you would any other.app, problem solved.
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Can the market correct this?
Uhmm no.
Why? Because the market, and every free market, is built on the central tenant that when in comes to production, there is and always will be a surplus. A surplus, and the effective sale of that surplus, is sin qua non to any market.
To ask it to "correct" itself would be akin to asking a hemophiliac if he could spare a few quarts of blood.
Adults are typically hard to sell to. Children on the other hand typically make easy marks. So how do you make sure that your target market remains in a blissful pre-lapsarian haze in the face of age and oncoming responsibility?
You produce them as such.
Thomas Doherty once quipped that "movies reflect teenage, not mass - and definitely not adult - tastes". Hollywood, The TV industry, glossy magazines, etc, are all interested in doing one thing: producing you as an unquestioning consumer whose core concerns are childlike.
Take for example these new Nike Ronaldino ads whose catchphrase is "never grow up". I don't want to go all Barthes here but these ads are so shameless in their meaning production that you wonder how any adult with an IQ over 80 could fall for their message. It's pitiful really.
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Now the Infosphere will open it's protective crust so as to scan itself, completing it's 300 year task.
But did anyone notice an increase in teh snappy?
"It does appear there may be some good movies this fall ("History of Violence" is high on my list), I'm guessing we'll see more of the same crap. I don't know how many times they can go to the well with their overproduced special effects stories with no plot or believable ideas and keep the public coming back"
You have an issue with a lack of believable idea's, sparse plots, and special effects laden pictures yet you're itching to see a Cronenberg film. Something just doesn't add up here,
what can i say ... the translation was terrible too.
I once saw The Wrath of Kahn dubbed in Pakistani. The "KAAHHHHHHHNNNNN" line was mysteriously removed and replaced with a "nothing to see hear" placard.
The gpgmail 1.1 bundle seems to have broken under 10.4.1. It was working nicely under 10.4.
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
seems to have been renamed to:
~/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled)/
A warning dialog box is displayed notifying you that the bundle is no longer supported the first time you start up Mail under 10.4.1
who needs root when you have admins with sudo privs.....
.bashrc
:sh
[paul@g5] Thu May 05 08:00:34P
~/ sudo vi
Password:
once in vi, need a root shell?
this will drop you into this a root shell regardless of whether or not the root user is enabled
[root@g5] Thu May 05 11:39:53P
~/
Is it just me or does it seem as if this is gonna give the dutch citizens the feeling that they're entitled to pirate music.
as of right now the biggest groups on usenet on the biggest servers are:
1. ab.nl 16 Million articles
2. ab.boneless 12 Million articles
3. ab.x 8.9 Million articles
4. ab.ftn 7.8 Million articles
all are predominately dutch dump groups. The dutch have this piracy thing pretty much figured out from where i stand.
until you try to fly. Then the "watchers" have every right to take your gear away and make you submit to a cavity search. If Mann wishes to reverse the panopticon, he might do himself a service and reread some foucault. It might then become painfully clear that no-matter how small his gear becomes, no-matter how inconspicuous his reversal is, the power to search his asshole ultimately lies with those who primarily held the ultimate surveillance card.
Fuck you! Fuck You! Fuck You! ...
You Cool! ...
Fuck You! Peace I'm out!
Where the internet is offensive to polygamists.
Here's the problem with that assumption. The IT training industry isn't based in reputable universities, its based in flimflam diploma factories and accreditation outfits. These 'institutions' have basically been responsible for the retraining of a large portion of the population with the underlying assumption that a small and and generally specialized set of skills (PHP monkey, VB programmer) will land you a modicum of financial stability. What they have in fact done is recast the IT professional as a new class in our society, one which, for all intents and purposes, replaces the dwindling blue-collar worker. The IT training industry guarantees a disposable, cheap, and never-ending source of labour for information companies. With this in mind it's little wonder that outfits which depend on such labour would seek to double their training pool?
Henry Kissinger called, he means to divest you of your "access to information == access to knowledge" argument with a thorough carpet bombing.
Three words (two of which are possibly spelt wrong): Sveinbjorn Thordarson's Platypus. Wrap a sh script that starts OpenOffice in an .app wrapper and then treat it like you would any other .app, problem solved.