Anyone care to even BEGIN to estimate how much of the electronics components used by the U.S. military are manufactured in China and other foreign countries? For that matter, is the U.S. even CAPABLE of manufacturing most electronics components anymore? I don't recall seeing a so much as a chip, much less larger component, made here since the 1980's.
A warning to all those considering nursing as a "rewarding profession" (from someone who knows):
Yes, you will have no trouble finding a job in nursing.
The reason for *that* is because no one in their right mind wants to do this job.
The reason for *that* is because very few sane people want to spend 4 years in university for the privilege of staying on your feet all day (or night) long, working odd hours (forget 9-to-5), wiping shit, cleaning wounds, and dealing with mean patients until you could pull your hair out.
But if decent money and a guaranteed job are *ALL* (and I mean *ALL*) you care about, then go for it!
That was the first thing that hit me. Those guys should win a lifetime achievement award or something. Maybe they sued and forced the EFF to take down their award.
This is hardly the first time they've been hit in France, either, and it never did any good. L. Ron Hubbard himself was convicted of fraud there in 1978 (along with the head of the French branch), and several Scientologist leaders were convicted of embezzlement in 2001. They'll just regroup, like they did then.
International distribution agreements for movies and other media are a goddamn mess--legal relics that still assume every movie will be on VHS/DVD and be sold in a brick-and-mortar shop somewhere. Even if Netflix does plow through this mess and establish some international service, odds are that they won't be able to offer the same selection they do in the U.S. (since an agreement from a media company for distribution rights for a particularly property in the U.S. probably won't apply to that same property in a different country).
Since when is an "exclusive" interview not followed up (usually within days, if not hours) by the interviewee being interviewed elsewhere as well? "Exclusive" just means "exclusive for a time." Netflix would be fools to sign up for a LIFETIME exclusive with a company whose console may or may not even be popular (or even around) in a few years. There is always a time limit on just about any "exclusive" involving a third party.
I would pay good money for a service that continued to email my friends/family/co-workers after I died (no doubt of auto-erotic asphyxiation, as a decent man *should* die). It would give me a chance to tell them what I really think of them (with no chance of retaliation, hah ha!)
Remember that mid-80's Tom Selleck movie "Runaway," where robots were taking care of the kids, doing our farm labor, etc. (pretty much doing every menial task)? Well, we AREN'T THERE YET!
They didn't add the WYSIWYG editor until later. Back in those early days is was html or plain text--no pretty editors (and also no annoying popups or banners). Keep in mind this was 1995, before there WERE even any WYSIWYG html editors.
Ha! Back in 1995, when I did my first Geocities page (which was also my first webpage, period), we WISHED for a Frontpage. On the upside, I would never have learned how to do html the old fashioned way if I had Frontpage to be all lazy with. Geocities WAY predated MS's heavy-handed takeover of the web, and all the evils that followed.
How about a WWII FPS that starts with you negotiating German reparations at Versailles, progresses through the effect of hyper-inflation on the German psyche, follows the competition between National Socialism and Marxism for populist support--all leading up the a brief period of warfare and an epilogue of mass rapes, economic devastation, and simmering hostility and distrust between the Soviets and the other former allied powers. Sounds like fun to me.
Seriously, if you're worried about some hacker assassin breaking into your house or office and installing a bootloader, you're either doing something REALLY secretive (in which case the computer probably shouldn't even be on a network to upload any data back in the first place) or you're the kind of person who thinks Obama has your name on an "important persons" list and is coming for your guns. If someone has physical access to your machine and has the skills to install a bootloader, you're pretty much boned anyway, encryption or not (encryption isn't going to stop a simple keylogger). That's nothing new. Fortunately, for the vast vast majority of us, there are very few hacker black operatives who are running around breaking into hotel rooms just so they can get a single Visa number from Bob the dipshit middle manager. Newsflash Bob, YOU'RE NOT THAT IMPORTANT!
Oh, and I love how the article calls the prospect of a ninja hacker hotel maid sneaking a bootloader onto your laptop and then sneaking back into your room later to retrieve the data a "likely scenario." What hotels is this guy staying at anyway?
Yeah Quicktime is so helpful, in fact, that it insists on running every time I start Windows, it buries itself so deep in the system that uninstalling it requires me to manually delete entries from the registry, it aggressively takes over every non-Apple media file type it can get its hand on, and has to be blocked by my firewall to keep it from constantly calling back home to "check for updates." Obviously, I am unworthy of such a helpful program, and so have decided to go with Quicktime Alternative instead.
Obviously the aliens are afraid we'll discover the secret element that makes FTL travel possible. And that could lead us to realize that we've been sitting on a huge mine of it all along, right here on earth--hidden deep in the rectums of rednecks.
They handled unsterilized soil with their hands?!?!? They walked with their bare feet on the ground outside?!?!? They didn't have autosterile clothing?!?!? Savages!!
Not to mention that in the cities in 1918 (where the pandemic was the worst), sanitation was primitive compared to today. And people in 1918 were much more ignorant of disease and how it spreads. Basic things that we take for granted today (like clean public restrooms with hot water and a soap dispenser, people bathing every day, etc.) were very rare back then.
The problem is that government sponsored marriage has always been an uncomfortable and troubled fit. It essentially started as secular governments stepped in and usurped a power that had traditionally been controlled by the church (or, after the Reformation, churches). This sounded great to a lot of secular leaders (who had long resented having to concede any power to the church), but it also opened up a legal can of worms. Suddenly the state had to make laws around a traditionally religious institution; establish a whole legal system to deal with divorce, custody issues, etc.; and decide a lot of thorny issues where legality and morality collided (like this issue).
Personally, I think the government should get out of the "marriage" business altogether. If two of more parties want to sign some sort of cohabitation contract, they should be allowed to do so (and it should be treated like any other contract), but beyond that the government shouldn't be in a position of sanctioning something that should remain in the religious/moral domain. Custody hearings would still be necessary, and divorce hearings would too (but they would be treated merely as breach of contract cases). But it would remove the thorny issues of Uncle Sam having to decide moral questions like "What constitutes a marriage, anyway?" Leave those issues to religious institutions, where they belong.
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Anyone care to even BEGIN to estimate how much of the electronics components used by the U.S. military are manufactured in China and other foreign countries? For that matter, is the U.S. even CAPABLE of manufacturing most electronics components anymore? I don't recall seeing a so much as a chip, much less larger component, made here since the 1980's.
A warning to all those considering nursing as a "rewarding profession" (from someone who knows):
Yes, you will have no trouble finding a job in nursing.
The reason for *that* is because no one in their right mind wants to do this job.
The reason for *that* is because very few sane people want to spend 4 years in university for the privilege of staying on your feet all day (or night) long, working odd hours (forget 9-to-5), wiping shit, cleaning wounds, and dealing with mean patients until you could pull your hair out.
But if decent money and a guaranteed job are *ALL* (and I mean *ALL*) you care about, then go for it!
According to a recent Wired article, Netflix buys their discs retail just like everyone else.
That was the first thing that hit me. Those guys should win a lifetime achievement award or something. Maybe they sued and forced the EFF to take down their award.
Not fair. We shouldn't ALL be judged by the actions of John Mayer.
This is hardly the first time they've been hit in France, either, and it never did any good. L. Ron Hubbard himself was convicted of fraud there in 1978 (along with the head of the French branch), and several Scientologist leaders were convicted of embezzlement in 2001. They'll just regroup, like they did then.
Their attacks go much deeper than just lawsuits and internet attacks. They've engaged in espionage, destroyed people's lives, bankrupted critics, among a whole lot of other nastiness. They're of no benefit to human society, and a have shown themselves to be a consistent threat to our governments, laws, and citizens.
International distribution agreements for movies and other media are a goddamn mess--legal relics that still assume every movie will be on VHS/DVD and be sold in a brick-and-mortar shop somewhere. Even if Netflix does plow through this mess and establish some international service, odds are that they won't be able to offer the same selection they do in the U.S. (since an agreement from a media company for distribution rights for a particularly property in the U.S. probably won't apply to that same property in a different country).
Since when is an "exclusive" interview not followed up (usually within days, if not hours) by the interviewee being interviewed elsewhere as well? "Exclusive" just means "exclusive for a time." Netflix would be fools to sign up for a LIFETIME exclusive with a company whose console may or may not even be popular (or even around) in a few years. There is always a time limit on just about any "exclusive" involving a third party.
I would pay good money for a service that continued to email my friends/family/co-workers after I died (no doubt of auto-erotic asphyxiation, as a decent man *should* die). It would give me a chance to tell them what I really think of them (with no chance of retaliation, hah ha!)
Remember that mid-80's Tom Selleck movie "Runaway," where robots were taking care of the kids, doing our farm labor, etc. (pretty much doing every menial task)? Well, we AREN'T THERE YET!
They didn't add the WYSIWYG editor until later. Back in those early days is was html or plain text--no pretty editors (and also no annoying popups or banners). Keep in mind this was 1995, before there WERE even any WYSIWYG html editors.
Ha! Back in 1995, when I did my first Geocities page (which was also my first webpage, period), we WISHED for a Frontpage. On the upside, I would never have learned how to do html the old fashioned way if I had Frontpage to be all lazy with. Geocities WAY predated MS's heavy-handed takeover of the web, and all the evils that followed.
How about a WWII FPS that starts with you negotiating German reparations at Versailles, progresses through the effect of hyper-inflation on the German psyche, follows the competition between National Socialism and Marxism for populist support--all leading up the a brief period of warfare and an epilogue of mass rapes, economic devastation, and simmering hostility and distrust between the Soviets and the other former allied powers. Sounds like fun to me.
Seriously, if you're worried about some hacker assassin breaking into your house or office and installing a bootloader, you're either doing something REALLY secretive (in which case the computer probably shouldn't even be on a network to upload any data back in the first place) or you're the kind of person who thinks Obama has your name on an "important persons" list and is coming for your guns. If someone has physical access to your machine and has the skills to install a bootloader, you're pretty much boned anyway, encryption or not (encryption isn't going to stop a simple keylogger). That's nothing new. Fortunately, for the vast vast majority of us, there are very few hacker black operatives who are running around breaking into hotel rooms just so they can get a single Visa number from Bob the dipshit middle manager. Newsflash Bob, YOU'RE NOT THAT IMPORTANT!
Oh, and I love how the article calls the prospect of a ninja hacker hotel maid sneaking a bootloader onto your laptop and then sneaking back into your room later to retrieve the data a "likely scenario." What hotels is this guy staying at anyway?
Yeah Quicktime is so helpful, in fact, that it insists on running every time I start Windows, it buries itself so deep in the system that uninstalling it requires me to manually delete entries from the registry, it aggressively takes over every non-Apple media file type it can get its hand on, and has to be blocked by my firewall to keep it from constantly calling back home to "check for updates." Obviously, I am unworthy of such a helpful program, and so have decided to go with Quicktime Alternative instead.
The mouse will live forever. Evil never dies.
Nonsense! Just look what a roaring success Circuit City had with this "They don't really want to own it" model.
Obviously the aliens are afraid we'll discover the secret element that makes FTL travel possible. And that could lead us to realize that we've been sitting on a huge mine of it all along, right here on earth--hidden deep in the rectums of rednecks.
They handled unsterilized soil with their hands?!?!? They walked with their bare feet on the ground outside?!?!? They didn't have autosterile clothing?!?!? Savages!!
Not to mention that in the cities in 1918 (where the pandemic was the worst), sanitation was primitive compared to today. And people in 1918 were much more ignorant of disease and how it spreads. Basic things that we take for granted today (like clean public restrooms with hot water and a soap dispenser, people bathing every day, etc.) were very rare back then.
Lol, I didn't say it would actually WORK.
The problem is that government sponsored marriage has always been an uncomfortable and troubled fit. It essentially started as secular governments stepped in and usurped a power that had traditionally been controlled by the church (or, after the Reformation, churches). This sounded great to a lot of secular leaders (who had long resented having to concede any power to the church), but it also opened up a legal can of worms. Suddenly the state had to make laws around a traditionally religious institution; establish a whole legal system to deal with divorce, custody issues, etc.; and decide a lot of thorny issues where legality and morality collided (like this issue).
Personally, I think the government should get out of the "marriage" business altogether. If two of more parties want to sign some sort of cohabitation contract, they should be allowed to do so (and it should be treated like any other contract), but beyond that the government shouldn't be in a position of sanctioning something that should remain in the religious/moral domain. Custody hearings would still be necessary, and divorce hearings would too (but they would be treated merely as breach of contract cases). But it would remove the thorny issues of Uncle Sam having to decide moral questions like "What constitutes a marriage, anyway?" Leave those issues to religious institutions, where they belong.
It's in the cosmos, isn't it?
Dude, seriously, you need a vacation away from games for a while.