If not for slashdot, I wouldn't have known about the forced upgrade. I don't use IE except when forced by microsoft- which is about once every 18 months to download the new directx.
No really... "getting bad here" is nothing like "getting better" there. I completely agree it is getting worse here. Vote out the republicans- vote for 3rd party where it will make a difference. Republicans have somehow wed religion to oppression and corporatism using abortion and gay rights to allow torture (of foreign nationals) and a gross expansion of government power.
The government's all-out war on Falun Gong, a spiritual sect dedicated to meditation and breathing exercises, has been well publicized. But rarely mentioned is the fact that Beijing's security services have routinely tortured and murdered Falun Gong adherents. The Chinese authorities reportedly have locked hundreds of Falun Gong supporters in psychiatric hospitals and force-fed them drugs; imprisoned thousands more in the world's largest system of labor camps; and quietly executed several Falun Gong practitioners./// Details of Chinese executions are shocking: According to Wang Guoqi, a pathologist who formerly worked for a Chinese army hospital, doctors frequently harvest the organs of executed prisoners, none of whom consented to organ donation. He tells of a doctor removing a kidney from a still-breathing prisoner who had survived the initial gunshots. After the organ was removed, the condemned man was left to die./// "There are hundreds of little brush fires burning," warns David Zweig, an expert on rural China at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "Will they become a blaze?"
Hey those guys outnumber me 3 to 1, so I may as well join them in robbing and beating up that guy since it won't benefit him or ME for me to resist. At least if I join them, I benefit.
Because the TS was not a screwup. After the first army refused to kill them, the government specifically called in an army willing to kill them and then specifically ordered them to do so. Afterwards, they were basically satisfied with the results and supressed knowledge and discussion of the event.
Kent State was a tragedy but accidental. The troops were not ordered to kill the students by anyone. As soon as it happened, everyone felt horrible about it.
My ironic original point was that in america, they don't have to censor/supress it and it still gets mostly forgotten.
And the basic culture was such that his death made a difference. Only in a culture that pictures itself to be honest, just, moral, fair to all would that be the case. Even tho we do not reach the dream- we still have it- and hold it.
In addition he was, as far as we know, killed by some kook- not as an official act of the government.
The chinese on the mainland would mostly think we were just being stupid. It wouldn't even process- King would be killed or imprisoned out of hand and that would be that.
And assume NONE of those lego sets would have sold on sale, and all of them would have sold at full price, they can probably argue that they lost a billion dollars in sales.
Or perhaps the 137 million already reflects Riaa math and they would have actually lost 33 million.
they are comparable. there is a big difference of scale (4 vs 3000).
you are probably right that if kent state hadn't happened, then a "kent state" would still have happened.
A key difference is that kent state (and the 2 or 3 civil rights workers who got lynched) (and the pictures of a few dogs attacking blacks) made a difference in the US.
Ghandi would do okay here... in China, he'd be dead by now.
We need to keep that in mind when dealing with China. They do not have remotely the same set of moral axioms that the west does at this point.
In America, Kent State is probably equally unknown to huge amounts of 18 year olds with absolutely no effort to suppress it (some of them probably even sing the song without thinking about what it means - I know I did.)
Of course, Kent State was smaller and more of an accident than the intentional slaughter of a bunch of kids by an army called up from a remote province so it would be able to do just that. But it was still a betrayal by government of the youngest and most idealistic.
You know.. I made it to adulthood. But I totally sympathise with these shooters every time.
You have some 185 pound "jock" picking on someone and ruining their life for months. The school does *nothing* about it. In some cases other jock's join in.
I saw it. I lived it a bit, but even tho I wasn't aggressive- I was 6'5" and when I snapped (as I did 6 times from kindergarten bullying to 10th grade bullying in high school) I kicked the crap out of them so badly (choking one unconcious basically-- I was never much for "punching" as much as "killing") that I didn't get picked on again.
For all the 5' kids picked on by jocks, they have no hope of winning and are going to have years of their life ruined by these sub-neanderthals. I *completely* understand why they shoot their tormenters. The gun is the only way they have to equalize the odds against someone twice their size (and who *still* often has 2 to 3 other thugs to help because the bullies are fundamentally cowards).
It's sick to go kill a bunch of helpless kids. It's not even all that irrational to go kill people that have been torturing you for months and nothing is or can be done to stop them.
As others have pointed out- we don't control the internet. We control *one* set of DNS servers. There are many DNS servers out there (some of which have networks of sites that don't list themselves on the "real" dns servers).
While the US is sliding spookily towards fascism, it isn't killing of large blocks of it's own citizens that disagree with it. While it doesn't put people into prison for saying the wrong things, it does have lots of laws and enforces them selectively against people who say the wrong thing.
As far as chinese inflation goes- skilled labor is up 100% in the last 3 years. Unskilled labor is up 50% in the same period. That puts skilled labor at 12,000 a year now. Unskilled labor is at roughly 2,400 a year. Projecting this out... 2009=24,000. 2012=48,000. 2015=96,000. Those rates are clearly not sustainable for even another 9 years. Their wages are *rapidly* coming to par with ours.
Not long ago- indian programmers were costed at $10 per hour- now they are $35 per hour (americans are $100 with benefits). Skilled Indians are experiencing 20% to 40% wage inflation currently. This is *really* cool since they are going to become super expensive right at the exact time that skilled americans start retiring in droves. If we can just make it to 2012 (6 years), those of us who have spent our lives being dumped on by corps may finally get a decent shot at the brass ring.
However, we still may be competing against children for unskilled jobs so not much relief there.
Against the EU and some other countries- we face a competative disadvantage because they cover basic health care so companies don't have to include that in the cost of hiring poeple directly. It's an illusion and funny numbers game because it comes out in the federal taxes but it still affects our ability to compete. We *should* have basic health care free here (say the first $5,000 a year for anyone.) The problem is- after a decade that would be the first $1 million a year and then it would collapse.
We can't *control* how other countries treat their people. We can't *control* how other people treat their environment.
So why exactly should they be able to *control* how we run *OUR* DNS servers?
Some other posters are right- it's a *political* issue- not a technical one.
I'd bet dollars to donuts that you would prefer it too when you are on the butt end of someone else being unpleasant. But who knows, maybe your some kind of masochist too.
Actually during magic the gatherings hey day, Mox's passed hands this way at least once at one of the big con's. Pretty girl earned her card the "old fashioned" way.
Then there was the guy who took a handful of rares and tossed it off the balcony into the crowd and berated them as they crawled around on the ground trying to get the cards.
The internet was young-- a guy in italy sent me a check directly for my arabians, legends, and something else (antiquities?) for 3 grand. Today, you'd ebay or something.
Legends paid my college debts. $75 a box at the start- they peaked over $750 a box and were easy to sell.
I finally dropped out of the entire thing after a couple years- there was some red set that they grossly overprinted, it was becoming easy to counterfeit cards, and money made too much of a difference in who won and who lost- but it was a fun ride.
as a testicular cancer survivor, I ran on one engine for about 15 years but dropped subnormal last year.
drive dropped to nothing, performance dropped enormously, thinking got very muddy, started having night sweats, reaction speed was low.
Hormone replacement therapy has fixed me-- in fact rolled back the clock to perhaps my 30's. doing well in sports- no night sweats- drive up- thinking clear- wit fast again- performance good- and lust back.
You need to do prostate health stuff tho (saw palmetto, zinc, etc). HRT + prostate cancer currently is bad.
Well, We are dealing with people known for the last 50 years to be without honor so it kinda wears you down over time. We are dealing with people who have bought laws that made formerly *legal* songs now illegal again to copy. But mostly - yea, everyone all around lacks honor these days and are very pragmatic. They can be very honorable to people they think are worthy of honor while completely lacking honor with people they feel don't merit such treatment.
And for the record- I think paying a buck a song is the height of stupidity. I'll encode a free, legal, and moral copy off my FM card or cable music station before I ever pay a buck a song.
There is no justifiable reason musicians or any creator of art or athelete should be making more than a few hundred grand per year. It reflects something is broken currently in our society.
He doesn't want or believe that the shiite can protect him from the sunis. He only believes that the americans can protect him from the sunis. He wants the americans to stay to protect him from the sunis. He wants the americans to be killed by the shiites.
He is incapable of seeing any conflict in these mutually exclusive states and apparently so are you.
The slower these are adopted, the longer product comes out on DVD and is super cheap.
I've no interest in rebuying my 400 dvd's in hd-dvd or blue ray.
PLUS hd-dvd and blu-ray have so much capacity that they should really be including a lot *more* content. I mean- you could probably put every mainstring song every recorded on a blu-ray disk at 192 bitrate.
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I agree.
So we better be aware enough to avoid being in masses of people when they push it too far.
If not for slashdot, I wouldn't have known about the forced upgrade.
I don't use IE except when forced by microsoft- which is about once every 18 months to download the new directx.
No really... "getting bad here" is nothing like "getting better" there.
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I completely agree it is getting worse here. Vote out the republicans- vote for 3rd party where it will make a difference.
Republicans have somehow wed religion to oppression and corporatism using abortion and gay rights to allow torture (of foreign nationals) and a gross expansion of government power.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Human_Rights/Sh
The government's all-out war on Falun Gong, a spiritual sect dedicated to meditation and breathing exercises, has been well publicized. But rarely mentioned is the fact that Beijing's security services have routinely tortured and murdered Falun Gong adherents. The Chinese authorities reportedly have locked hundreds of Falun Gong supporters in psychiatric hospitals and force-fed them drugs; imprisoned thousands more in the world's largest system of labor camps; and quietly executed several Falun Gong practitioners.
Details of Chinese executions are shocking: According to Wang Guoqi, a pathologist who formerly worked for a Chinese army hospital, doctors frequently harvest the organs of executed prisoners, none of whom consented to organ donation. He tells of a doctor removing a kidney from a still-breathing prisoner who had survived the initial gunshots. After the organ was removed, the condemned man was left to die.
"There are hundreds of little brush fires burning," warns David Zweig, an expert on rural China at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "Will they become a blaze?"
Hey those guys outnumber me 3 to 1, so I may as well join them in robbing and beating up that guy since it won't benefit him or ME for me to resist. At least if I join them, I benefit.
Now why on earth would the supreme ping bunny embed a virus in our genes?
Because the TS was not a screwup. After the first army refused to kill them, the government specifically called in an army willing to kill them and then specifically ordered them to do so. Afterwards, they were basically satisfied with the results and supressed knowledge and discussion of the event.
Kent State was a tragedy but accidental. The troops were not ordered to kill the students by anyone. As soon as it happened, everyone felt horrible about it.
My ironic original point was that in america, they don't have to censor/supress it and it still gets mostly forgotten.
And the basic culture was such that his death made a difference. Only in a culture that pictures itself to be honest, just, moral, fair to all would that be the case. Even tho we do not reach the dream- we still have it- and hold it.
In addition he was, as far as we know, killed by some kook- not as an official act of the government.
The chinese on the mainland would mostly think we were just being stupid. It wouldn't even process- King would be killed or imprisoned out of hand and that would be that.
And assume NONE of those lego sets would have sold on sale, and all of them would have sold at full price, they can probably argue that they lost a billion dollars in sales.
Or perhaps the 137 million already reflects Riaa math and they would have actually lost 33 million.
Hmm
Military shoots college students.
they are comparable. there is a big difference of scale (4 vs 3000).
you are probably right that if kent state hadn't happened, then a "kent state" would still have happened.
A key difference is that kent state (and the 2 or 3 civil rights workers who got lynched) (and the pictures of a few dogs attacking blacks) made a difference in the US.
Ghandi would do okay here... in China, he'd be dead by now.
We need to keep that in mind when dealing with China. They do not have remotely the same set of moral axioms that the west does at this point.
Funny thing is...
In America, Kent State is probably equally unknown to huge amounts of 18 year olds with absolutely no effort to suppress it (some of them probably even sing the song without thinking about what it means - I know I did.)
Of course, Kent State was smaller and more of an accident than the intentional slaughter of a bunch of kids by an army called up from a remote province so it would be able to do just that. But it was still a betrayal by government of the youngest and most idealistic.
You know.. I made it to adulthood. But I totally sympathise with these shooters every time.
You have some 185 pound "jock" picking on someone and ruining their life for months. The school does *nothing* about it. In some cases other jock's join in.
I saw it. I lived it a bit, but even tho I wasn't aggressive- I was 6'5" and when I snapped (as I did 6 times from kindergarten bullying to 10th grade bullying in high school) I kicked the crap out of them so badly (choking one unconcious basically-- I was never much for "punching" as much as "killing") that I didn't get picked on again.
For all the 5' kids picked on by jocks, they have no hope of winning and are going to have years of their life ruined by these sub-neanderthals. I *completely* understand why they shoot their tormenters. The gun is the only way they have to equalize the odds against someone twice their size (and who *still* often has 2 to 3 other thugs to help because the bullies are fundamentally cowards).
It's sick to go kill a bunch of helpless kids. It's not even all that irrational to go kill people that have been torturing you for months and nothing is or can be done to stop them.
As others have pointed out- we don't control the internet. We control *one* set of DNS servers.
... 2009=24,000. 2012=48,000. 2015=96,000. Those rates are clearly not sustainable for even another 9 years. Their wages are *rapidly* coming to par with ours.
There are many DNS servers out there (some of which have networks of sites that don't list themselves on the "real" dns servers).
While the US is sliding spookily towards fascism, it isn't killing of large blocks of it's own citizens that disagree with it. While it doesn't put people into prison for saying the wrong things, it does have lots of laws and enforces them selectively against people who say the wrong thing.
As far as chinese inflation goes- skilled labor is up 100% in the last 3 years. Unskilled labor is up 50% in the same period. That puts skilled labor at 12,000 a year now. Unskilled labor is at roughly 2,400 a year. Projecting this out
Not long ago- indian programmers were costed at $10 per hour- now they are $35 per hour (americans are $100 with benefits). Skilled Indians are experiencing 20% to 40% wage inflation currently. This is *really* cool since they are going to become super expensive right at the exact time that skilled americans start retiring in droves. If we can just make it to 2012 (6 years), those of us who have spent our lives being dumped on by corps may finally get a decent shot at the brass ring.
However, we still may be competing against children for unskilled jobs so not much relief there.
Against the EU and some other countries- we face a competative disadvantage because they cover basic health care so companies don't have to include that in the cost of hiring poeple directly. It's an illusion and funny numbers game because it comes out in the federal taxes but it still affects our ability to compete. We *should* have basic health care free here (say the first $5,000 a year for anyone.) The problem is- after a decade that would be the first $1 million a year and then it would collapse.
We can't *control* how other countries treat their people. We can't *control* how other people treat their environment.
So why exactly should they be able to *control* how we run *OUR* DNS servers?
Some other posters are right- it's a *political* issue- not a technical one.
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I prefer a well-informed person who is polite.
I'd bet dollars to donuts that you would prefer it too when you are on the butt end of someone else being unpleasant. But who knows, maybe your some kind of masochist too.
You really are being an ass about this.
I agree with his point- you can politely correct him and improve the world or you can be unpleasant.
I guess you are enjoying being unpleasant.
Your right I guess.
Actually during magic the gatherings hey day, Mox's passed hands this way at least once at one of the big con's. Pretty girl earned her card the "old fashioned" way.
Then there was the guy who took a handful of rares and tossed it off the balcony into the crowd and berated them as they crawled around on the ground trying to get the cards.
The internet was young-- a guy in italy sent me a check directly for my arabians, legends, and something else (antiquities?) for 3 grand. Today, you'd ebay or something.
Legends paid my college debts. $75 a box at the start- they peaked over $750 a box and were easy to sell.
I finally dropped out of the entire thing after a couple years- there was some red set that they grossly overprinted, it was becoming easy to counterfeit cards, and money made too much of a difference in who won and who lost- but it was a fun ride.
as a testicular cancer survivor, I ran on one engine for about 15 years but dropped subnormal last year.
drive dropped to nothing, performance dropped enormously, thinking got very muddy, started having night sweats, reaction speed was low.
Hormone replacement therapy has fixed me-- in fact rolled back the clock to perhaps my 30's. doing well in sports- no night sweats- drive up- thinking clear- wit fast again- performance good- and lust back.
You need to do prostate health stuff tho (saw palmetto, zinc, etc). HRT + prostate cancer currently is bad.
Well,
We are dealing with people known for the last 50 years to be without honor so it kinda wears you down over time.
We are dealing with people who have bought laws that made formerly *legal* songs now illegal again to copy.
But mostly - yea, everyone all around lacks honor these days and are very pragmatic.
They can be very honorable to people they think are worthy of honor while completely lacking honor with people they feel don't merit such treatment.
And for the record- I think paying a buck a song is the height of stupidity. I'll encode a free, legal, and moral copy off my FM card or cable music station before I ever pay a buck a song.
There is no justifiable reason musicians or any creator of art or athelete should be making more than a few hundred grand per year. It reflects something is broken currently in our society.
Just don't get your formatting associated with the wrong section break or try to work with master documents.
And will someone tell people to stop using tabs to format documents!
They would not have reduced our productivity by 2/3 because a bunch of executives looted enron.
Not one IT person has been indicted but many IT persons in america in a publicly held is drowning in new paperwork for even the most trivial changes.
He doesn't want or believe that the shiite can protect him from the sunis.
He only believes that the americans can protect him from the sunis.
He wants the americans to stay to protect him from the sunis.
He wants the americans to be killed by the shiites.
He is incapable of seeing any conflict in these mutually exclusive states and apparently so are you.
Dvd is fine.
The slower these are adopted, the longer product comes out on DVD and is super cheap.
I've no interest in rebuying my 400 dvd's in hd-dvd or blue ray.
PLUS hd-dvd and blu-ray have so much capacity that they should really be including a lot *more* content. I mean- you could probably put every mainstring song every recorded on a blu-ray disk at 192 bitrate.
Well if Mikya did do that, then simple reasoning would show us Mikya is an idiot.
You should be +5 insightful.
A lot of slashdotters who would argue both those ways without seeing a conflict.
It's like the iraqi they had on NPR last night.
A) He wants americans killed and he wants the shiite militia to do it.
B) He wants the americans to stay and protect him from the suni's.
he sees *NO* conflict in these two positions.
It's very comforting to be other people's property some times.