Chinese might become the language of course... but I'm not sure the chinese government really wants a large successful hacker community.
The Indians have many languages, but share english.
The rest of the world is a mish-mash of languages.
I think having different languages promotes different ideas for solutions.
No idea what the hacker culture is like these days. My hacking/cracking days ended with "Pest Patrol" on the Apple IIe. To avoid looping to update a page of graphics, they had 184 repetitions of one line update code... in assembly. Was kinda cool.
Our first world salary has been going down for 20 years while the rich and executive classes salaries went up by 300x.
As for the "global" marketplace-- reread what I said.
Companies sell their products extremely inexpensively in poor countries, extremely expensively in rich companies, and have laws passed to prevent product flow from where they sell the same exact product for 1/10th of the price.
The way it used to work is that if you sold a TV for $50 in Cleveland, and $500 in California, a cross import business would start up very quickly. The way it is today, the government actively prevents reimportation of drugs, movies, cd's, clothing, etc. Our tax dollars at work preventing the prices from dropping. And these days, the profits are funneled to the executives (not even the shareholders any more- since shareholders voice was taken away by deleware incorporation laws).
It won't last. People went way into debt to try and make it last a few more years. Now the game is over. Easy credit is over.
The problem is that I pay $300 for Windows while Microsoft sells it in india for $35. I pay $5 for a pill and they pay $.10 to the same company for the same pill. ( And in many cases- the company is making a profit on that $.10 pill). I pay $19.99 for a movie, and they pay $2.49 for the same movie. I pay $1 for an mp3 and they pay $0.00 for the same song (legally!) I pay $70 for a pair of shoes that goes there for $5.
The corporations have laws passed that make it illegal to buy those pills for $.10 and import them to the US for $1.00 and undercut the company's local prices. Likewise for "region" encoded movies. And I.P. restricted web sites for songs. And "trademark protected" shoes.
So the companies get to hire $5 an hour labor to compete with me at $35 an hour. But I don't get to buy the cheaper products at the cheaper price.
It's bullshit. Our government has been bought and paid for by these companies and is completely corrupt.
They sell the dream that you can get rich-- brainwashing us from birth. But in reality your shot is about 1:1,000,000- as compared to 1:5,000,000 everywhere else.
Insurance is rigged- you are required to take it- but the amounts you pay are grossly over the losses. When the payout exceeds the amounts they owe you, they stiff you or go bankrupt. And "insurance" drives up the prices of every procedure just as "credit" drives up the prices of housing, cars, and everything else.
It will collapse soon. Probably within 12 years. We can't go into debt any more.
In china they were having severe problems when manufacturing wages doubled and approached $1 a day.
But it works, because if everyone makes $1 a day, then basic things like vegetables are cheaper (because you are only paying $1 a day to the person raising food for another 100 people).
We are paying multi-millions for support of thousands of PC's, printers, hundreds of mid frames and main frames.
So two weeks a year: the web server is broken and we get a hyper experienced web server guy who does nothing but web server support 9 hours a day. a mid-frame is broken and we get a hyper experienced web server guy who does nothing but mid frame support 9 hours a day. and so on.
Any staff we hired would not stay current with 2 weeks a year work. And the cost is a fraction of the cost of maintaining a full staff (who would be rapidly losing skill) skilled in 30 or 40 different disciplines. You just have to make sure the SLA's don't have loopholes.
A friend of mine had a million dollar printer fail. They service company had no service techs available ("it'll be about 5 days"). Friend was facing $100k fines per day for not printing. The service company paid him $10k per day for missing their SLA. Ouch.
I pay $5 for a pill, they pay the same company.10 for the same pill. I pay $15 for a CD (well actually not directly for 8 years), they pay nothing. I pay $50k for a college education, they come here to the same school and get massively subsidized.
It really seems like the world economy exists to pump the wealth out of my environment.
While I don't pay $15 for a CD, others pay that and so they have to charge prices for their products and labors that will cover that.
I keep telling myself it will even out at some point- but then they get laws passed that say they can sell a product in another country for $1 and it is illegal to import/resale that product in my country for $1.10 instead of the $15 I pay.
It is anti-capitalist. I could handle my wages going down 10% a year if the prices I pay for goods were going down at the same rate.
There are things which considered obscene recently (illegal within the last 30 years) which I probably would have never considered doing if I had never heard of them.
OTH, there are other things that are legal (and lots of web sites for) that I didn't find out about until I was nearly 50 that I didn't have an interest in doing (and found distressing/repulsive).
So, for at least one person (me)
a) Some things I've done I would have never done unless I learned about them but I enjoy them. b) Some things I would never have thought of/done and now would never even tho I learned about them.
I use all of those products except Scribus at home. Some of them at work.
Businesses like money, then they like things to work. FOSS being cheaper will be attractive in these hard times. But you still need your 30 million record files processed reliably without needing a large expensive support staff. Tho if it were *ME*, I'd have a large support staff and clip a million bucks off the CEO's salary.
Multi-million annual dollar contracts for products and services with both companies.
No- we can't retain staff with the necessary technical skill to deal with problems when something mysteriously doesn't work.
The red hat idea is decent if it were treated the same as IBM / Microsoft. You pay them a lot of money for products and then require that they support you for that business to continue.
But a wimpy support contract doesn't generate that kind of support.
But the fact remains, when the software doesn't work- we can *make* IBM or Microsoft spend thousands of dollars analyzing and FIXING the problem (even if it requires a software patch). We can't *make* a group of random people do that.
I am totally pro FOSS in my personal life. But when my job depends on it, I'd use Microsoft/IBM/etc. on the back end unless the FOSS solutions were absolutely rock solid. My company is so huge that both Microsoft and IBM have had to rewrite portions of their O/S and packages for us.
Except for the fact that the speeds are SET at 30 because they knew everyone would drive 35 so they wanted to avoid people driving 40. Then they put a robot in charge of enforcing the rules.
For christ's sake. the god damned police are driving 38 without lights on in the middle of traffic and not pulling anyone over.
one of the earliest slashdot articles I recall on this subject was about how policemen in england were trying to avoid being ticketed for driving just a little over the speed limit and/or running red lights when they were not going to a call with sirens on.
The speed limits are GOOFY low based on OLD rules of behavior.
Likewise, ANY time (yea I know, who cares about CAPS), but ANY time the government has a financial incentive they abuse it. The only way we could stop all the speed traps in texas was to pass a law requiring all the tiny towns to send all the ticket income over a very low amount to the capital. Some of the speed traps were world famous (ala the chicken ranch sheriff).
You can't let governments get in the business of making money off of finding us to be criminals. They will change the rules so that people can't avoid being criminals.
Just so you know... Prescription strength ibuprofen is 800mg of ibuprofen in one pill.
As opposed to OTC ibuprofen which is 200mg of ibuprofen in one pill.
i.e., if you have 4 advil, you have the equivalent of one prescription strength ibuprofen.
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In ANY case, school administrators should not (and probably DO not) have the legal authority be able to strip search a minor. That's a police matter. And even then, I think the parents should be present.
That's the classic speed trap man. A change in the speed limit in a location where you realistically have no chance of seeing it in time. You have to be going the new speed when you pass the sign.
I agree that when the signs are correctly placed, you should obey them.
Oh and i did think of the other example...
It's 4am in the morning. There is no one in sight. Seriously for a mile in either direction. You've been sitting there forever- Is something wrong with the light? Finally, you run it carefully. Yes, it's breaking the law-- but previously it wouldn't have mattered and now it is enforced and is just a little bit more oppressive. Myself- I route around it and take two right turns on red. Not sure what I'd do if right on red wasn't allowed in the intersection.
I believe in my area, they actually have like a little 30 second video. It's pretty hard to argue against.
I'm against red light running- people get killed and I've seen blatant dangerous light running. However, I am against the creepy creeping surveillance and robotic enforcement of our laws at levels of enforcement that were previously inapplicable. And those who give up liberty in the pursuit of safety deserve neither.
You are approaching an intersection with a green light. The light flickers yellow for a half second and turns red.
A half second is less than normal human reaction time.
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You are on a section of road going 40mph with a 40mph speed limit. As you round a bend, the speed limit drops to 30mph, you are ticketed.
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You are on a section of road with a 30mph speed limit. Like everyone else, you are driving 35mph. All of you are surveilled.
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As a lot of politicians, preachers, and others discovered, privacy is the grease that makes life works. It gives us room to hide our private foibles and live otherwise normal lives. No one can live up to the standards of society all the time but our punishments are based on the concept that unless you were ridiculous about them, you would rarely be caught. With cameras everywhere, the standards for being caught go way down while the punishments remain tuned to the old standards of being caught. Without any change in the law, society becomes more oppressive.
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The home inspectors in my city used to work about 6 hours a day and hang out about 2 hours a day, sometimes drop by home to do errands-- for decades. They made a certain salary for the job. They were expected to inspect a certain number of houses a week.
Then some nimrod put GPS sensors in their cars and started busting them for these behaviors and expecting 8 hours a day work without changing the salary. Effectively cutting the pay for the job by 25% to 33%. Very oppressive- and it will result over time in either higher turnover or higher salaries.
There is a difference between "s"tates and "S"tate.
states are part of a federation. Statism would be state's rights.
State is the national government. Statism would be facism/corporatism/ centralization of power to "the state" as opposed to "a state".
--- From etymology.com
Etymology of the English word statism the English word statism derived from the English word state derived from the Old French word estat derived from the Latin word status (appointed; position, situation, condition) derived from the Latin word stare (to stand; stand, stand still, stand firm) derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *st-
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The wiki says "belief in the importance of the power of the state over an individual" Not sure which wiki entry you are looking at.
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Looking under "statist", it looks like the negative meaning goes back to 1873.
How Gaius and 6 were 150,000 years in the future? It wasn't Gaius and 6. It was two immortal beings who used Gaius and 6's forms. The "real" 6 saw "Gaius" during the series and Gaius was always seeing "6". We assumed that they were hallucinations for a while but over time it became clear they were real but invisible to everyone except their chosen target. They could have appeared as large purple beings with tentacles in the last 5 minutes but as a convenience to the viewer, they were in the forms we had grown used to.
What is Kara? Probably a ghost or angel- or a person akin to Bruce Willis in the movie where he is a ghost but doesn't know it.
Why did they smash their fleet? They decided that having technology would doom them to very quickly rebuilding their population and technology and then having another war with cylons (or new cylons they would inevitably create). They felt that if they dropped having technology they might break the cycle of destruction.
Why didn't the cylon base get damage from galactica practically jumping partially from inside of it? Given the damage the raptor did jumping out next to Galactica, it is clear the special effects people just didn't get the memo. It should have done massive damage to that tiny part of the colony and it did *no damage at all*. It's basically a mistake on their part. That happens in TV shows which are never 100% consistent.
Slashdot Mirror
Lol.
I'd "whoosh" you... but I suspect someone would "whoosh" me then for some reason I don't get.
They should definitely have both first post and frist post achievements.
And one called Redundancy Lord (for 10+ redundant comments within a month)
If they released a book on how to master tail (heck, even find tail), it would change slashdot forever.
Probably based on a lifetime of experience with religious types.
I've found they try to impose their values and judge me for having sex with dead bodies... and their mom.
http://www.explosm.net/comics/891/
Chinese might become the language of course... but I'm not sure the chinese government really wants a large successful hacker community.
The Indians have many languages, but share english.
The rest of the world is a mish-mash of languages.
I think having different languages promotes different ideas for solutions.
No idea what the hacker culture is like these days. My hacking/cracking days ended with "Pest Patrol" on the Apple IIe. To avoid looping to update a page of graphics, they had 184 repetitions of one line update code... in assembly. Was kinda cool.
Get CD's that are out of copyright from dead classical artists.
Or do you have a law that money still has to be paid for Mozart?
I assume the issue is replaying the performance of a recent opera which is still under copyright.
For that matter, use a creative commons or midi version of the music.
but yes it is insane.
Our first world salary has been going down for 20 years while the rich and executive classes salaries went up by 300x.
As for the "global" marketplace-- reread what I said.
Companies sell their products extremely inexpensively in poor countries, extremely expensively in rich companies, and have laws passed to prevent product flow from where they sell the same exact product for 1/10th of the price.
The way it used to work is that if you sold a TV for $50 in Cleveland, and $500 in California, a cross import business would start up very quickly. The way it is today, the government actively prevents reimportation of drugs, movies, cd's, clothing, etc. Our tax dollars at work preventing the prices from dropping. And these days, the profits are funneled to the executives (not even the shareholders any more- since shareholders voice was taken away by deleware incorporation laws).
It won't last. People went way into debt to try and make it last a few more years. Now the game is over. Easy credit is over.
The problem is that I pay $300 for Windows while Microsoft sells it in india for $35.
I pay $5 for a pill and they pay $.10 to the same company for the same pill. ( And in many cases- the company is making a profit on that $.10 pill).
I pay $19.99 for a movie, and they pay $2.49 for the same movie.
I pay $1 for an mp3 and they pay $0.00 for the same song (legally!)
I pay $70 for a pair of shoes that goes there for $5.
The corporations have laws passed that make it illegal to buy those pills for $.10 and import them to the US for $1.00 and undercut the company's local prices. Likewise for "region" encoded movies. And I.P. restricted web sites for songs. And "trademark protected" shoes.
So the companies get to hire $5 an hour labor to compete with me at $35 an hour. But I don't get to buy the cheaper products at the cheaper price.
It's bullshit. Our government has been bought and paid for by these companies and is completely corrupt.
They sell the dream that you can get rich-- brainwashing us from birth. But in reality your shot is about 1:1,000,000- as compared to 1:5,000,000 everywhere else.
Insurance is rigged- you are required to take it- but the amounts you pay are grossly over the losses. When the payout exceeds the amounts they owe you, they stiff you or go bankrupt. And "insurance" drives up the prices of every procedure just as "credit" drives up the prices of housing, cars, and everything else.
It will collapse soon. Probably within 12 years. We can't go into debt any more.
Dude...
The standard is more like $80 a month.
In china they were having severe problems when manufacturing wages doubled and approached $1 a day.
But it works, because if everyone makes $1 a day, then basic things like vegetables are cheaper (because you are only paying $1 a day to the person raising food for another 100 people).
We are paying multi-millions for support of thousands of PC's, printers, hundreds of mid frames and main frames.
So two weeks a year:
the web server is broken and we get a hyper experienced web server guy who does nothing but web server support 9 hours a day.
a mid-frame is broken and we get a hyper experienced web server guy who does nothing but mid frame support 9 hours a day.
and so on.
Any staff we hired would not stay current with 2 weeks a year work.
And the cost is a fraction of the cost of maintaining a full staff (who would be rapidly losing skill) skilled in 30 or 40 different disciplines.
You just have to make sure the SLA's don't have loopholes.
A friend of mine had a million dollar printer fail. They service company had no service techs available ("it'll be about 5 days").
Friend was facing $100k fines per day for not printing. The service company paid him $10k per day for missing their SLA. Ouch.
I pay $5 for a pill, they pay the same company .10 for the same pill.
I pay $15 for a CD (well actually not directly for 8 years), they pay nothing.
I pay $50k for a college education, they come here to the same school and get massively subsidized.
It really seems like the world economy exists to pump the wealth out of my environment.
While I don't pay $15 for a CD, others pay that and so they have to charge prices for their products and labors that will cover that.
I keep telling myself it will even out at some point- but then they get laws passed that say they can sell a product in another country for $1 and it is illegal to import/resale that product in my country for $1.10 instead of the $15 I pay.
It is anti-capitalist. I could handle my wages going down 10% a year if the prices I pay for goods were going down at the same rate.
There are things which considered obscene recently (illegal within the last 30 years) which I probably would have never considered doing if I had never heard of them.
OTH, there are other things that are legal (and lots of web sites for) that I didn't find out about until I was nearly 50 that I didn't have an interest in doing (and found distressing/repulsive).
So, for at least one person (me)
a) Some things I've done I would have never done unless I learned about them but I enjoy them.
b) Some things I would never have thought of/done and now would never even tho I learned about them.
So, I guess your mileage may vary.
Besides, it failed because it had a bad score.
Star Wars had an awesome score and it made the movie.
Watchman had a mildly jarring sound track and a terrible score (almost no score at all).
My daughter said the sound track made her think things were about to happen and then nothing did.
The score it self, gave no hint as to how you should feel about what was on screen.
I liked the movie a lot- but I had read the comic first.
I was going to see it twice but my buds saw it earlier than planned.
I use all of those products except Scribus at home. Some of them at work.
Businesses like money, then they like things to work. FOSS being cheaper will be attractive in these hard times. But you still need your 30 million record files processed reliably without needing a large expensive support staff. Tho if it were *ME*, I'd have a large support staff and clip a million bucks off the CEO's salary.
Multi-million annual dollar contracts for products and services with both companies.
No- we can't retain staff with the necessary technical skill to deal with problems when something mysteriously doesn't work.
The red hat idea is decent if it were treated the same as IBM / Microsoft. You pay them a lot of money for products and then require that they support you for that business to continue.
But a wimpy support contract doesn't generate that kind of support.
The software is cheap.
But the fact remains, when the software doesn't work- we can *make* IBM or Microsoft spend thousands of dollars analyzing and FIXING the problem (even if it requires a software patch). We can't *make* a group of random people do that.
I am totally pro FOSS in my personal life. But when my job depends on it, I'd use Microsoft/IBM/etc. on the back end unless the FOSS solutions were absolutely rock solid. My company is so huge that both Microsoft and IBM have had to rewrite portions of their O/S and packages for us.
About 11 or 12 years ago, when my girlfriend got into a car wreck, her prescription ibuprofen was 800mg.
It has apparently changed since then.
Except for the fact that the speeds are SET at 30 because they knew everyone would drive 35 so they wanted to avoid people driving 40.
Then they put a robot in charge of enforcing the rules.
For christ's sake. the god damned police are driving 38 without lights on in the middle of traffic and not pulling anyone over.
one of the earliest slashdot articles I recall on this subject was about how policemen in england were trying to avoid being ticketed for driving just a little over the speed limit and/or running red lights when they were not going to a call with sirens on.
The speed limits are GOOFY low based on OLD rules of behavior.
Likewise, ANY time (yea I know, who cares about CAPS), but ANY time the government has a financial incentive they abuse it. The only way we could stop all the speed traps in texas was to pass a law requiring all the tiny towns to send all the ticket income over a very low amount to the capital. Some of the speed traps were world famous (ala the chicken ranch sheriff).
You can't let governments get in the business of making money off of finding us to be criminals. They will change the rules so that people can't avoid being criminals.
Wow! Christian Dieties!
Was there an frakking upgrade that I missed?
So I shouldn't even suggest a coffee cup or a church key then...
Just so you know...
Prescription strength ibuprofen is 800mg of ibuprofen in one pill.
As opposed to OTC ibuprofen which is 200mg of ibuprofen in one pill.
i.e., if you have 4 advil, you have the equivalent of one prescription strength ibuprofen.
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In ANY case, school administrators should not (and probably DO not) have the legal authority be able to strip search a minor.
That's a police matter. And even then, I think the parents should be present.
That's the classic speed trap man. A change in the speed limit in a location where you realistically have no chance of seeing it in time. You have to be going the new speed when you pass the sign.
I agree that when the signs are correctly placed, you should obey them.
Oh and i did think of the other example...
It's 4am in the morning. There is no one in sight. Seriously for a mile in either direction. You've been sitting there forever- Is something wrong with the light? Finally, you run it carefully. Yes, it's breaking the law-- but previously it wouldn't have mattered and now it is enforced and is just a little bit more oppressive. Myself- I route around it and take two right turns on red. Not sure what I'd do if right on red wasn't allowed in the intersection.
I believe in my area, they actually have like a little 30 second video. It's pretty hard to argue against.
I'm against red light running- people get killed and I've seen blatant dangerous light running.
However, I am against the creepy creeping surveillance and robotic enforcement of our laws at levels of enforcement that were previously inapplicable. And those who give up liberty in the pursuit of safety deserve neither.
So it's a hard call.
You are approaching an intersection with a green light.
The light flickers yellow for a half second and turns red.
A half second is less than normal human reaction time.
---
You are on a section of road going 40mph with a 40mph speed limit.
As you round a bend, the speed limit drops to 30mph, you are ticketed.
---
You are on a section of road with a 30mph speed limit. Like everyone else, you are driving 35mph. All of you are surveilled.
---
As a lot of politicians, preachers, and others discovered, privacy is the grease that makes life works. It gives us room to hide our private foibles and live otherwise normal lives. No one can live up to the standards of society all the time but our punishments are based on the concept that unless you were ridiculous about them, you would rarely be caught. With cameras everywhere, the standards for being caught go way down while the punishments remain tuned to the old standards of being caught. Without any change in the law, society becomes more oppressive.
---
The home inspectors in my city used to work about 6 hours a day and hang out about 2 hours a day, sometimes drop by home to do errands-- for decades. They made a certain salary for the job. They were expected to inspect a certain number of houses a week.
Then some nimrod put GPS sensors in their cars and started busting them for these behaviors and expecting 8 hours a day work without changing the salary. Effectively cutting the pay for the job by 25% to 33%. Very oppressive- and it will result over time in either higher turnover or higher salaries.
There is a difference between "s"tates and "S"tate.
states are part of a federation. Statism would be state's rights.
State is the national government. Statism would be facism/corporatism/ centralization of power to "the state" as opposed to "a state".
---
From etymology.com
Etymology of the English word statism
the English word statism
derived from the English word state
derived from the Old French word estat
derived from the Latin word status (appointed; position, situation, condition)
derived from the Latin word stare (to stand; stand, stand still, stand firm)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *st-
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The wiki says
"belief in the importance of the power of the state over an individual"
Not sure which wiki entry you are looking at.
---
Looking under "statist", it looks like the negative meaning goes back to 1873.
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A nice article here: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Statism
How Gaius and 6 were 150,000 years in the future?
It wasn't Gaius and 6. It was two immortal beings who used Gaius and 6's forms. The "real" 6 saw "Gaius" during the series and Gaius was always seeing "6". We assumed that they were hallucinations for a while but over time it became clear they were real but invisible to everyone except their chosen target. They could have appeared as large purple beings with tentacles in the last 5 minutes but as a convenience to the viewer, they were in the forms we had grown used to.
What is Kara?
Probably a ghost or angel- or a person akin to Bruce Willis in the movie where he is a ghost but doesn't know it.
Why did they smash their fleet?
They decided that having technology would doom them to very quickly rebuilding their population and technology and then having another war with cylons (or new cylons they would inevitably create). They felt that if they dropped having technology they might break the cycle of destruction.
Why didn't the cylon base get damage from galactica practically jumping partially from inside of it?
Given the damage the raptor did jumping out next to Galactica, it is clear the special effects people just didn't get the memo. It should have done massive damage to that tiny part of the colony and it did *no damage at all*. It's basically a mistake on their part. That happens in TV shows which are never 100% consistent.