A while back we migrated from a Juniper to a Sonicwall NSA(Network Security Appliance).
I can just imagine the laughter generated at Sonicwall and at the NSA when this product line was announced...
You're right about the merch part. Since Disney took over, I can't throw a rock without it hitting an image of either Yoda or Darth Vader. It is reprehensible, but not surprising. This is Disney were talking about...
What is amazing is compared to the merch from the original three films, Disney has taken it up more than one notch.
With all that being said, with all the hype, the money, blah diddy blah, blah blah, should we hate the films?
If you don't like them fine, but a lot of people, myself included are HUGE Star Wars fans, and love to watch them, and can't wait to see the next one.
Just because something is popular and makes money doesn't necessarily mean it is devoid of entertainment value, or any other reasons that people love a certain film, book or piece of music.
Like skin tight jeans, beards and huge cover-half-your-face glasses, the iPads dominance in tablets will pass.
With it's atrocious interface and sky high price, the iPad is akin to the early days of paying for a bottle of water...
Let the real tablets take their place at the table: Google, Samsung and Microsoft
The media is being used to scare the public, and encourage even more erosion of privacy because, you know, the bad guys will get us...
"Security Aware" is being treated in the media as something bad, something people shouldn't aspire to.
This concerted effort after the Paris attacks isn't someone filling column inches, it is yet another example of those with the editorial influence to pressure the First World to completely give up any shred of privacy or freedom.
NPR interviewed some numbskull NY police person yesterday who used the Paris attacks as an attack vector against encryption.
How many times can someone say "Going Dark"?
Eventually an automated Solar-Thermal energy system(and PV) system will be implemented.
Perhaps there will be a small bump in the initial build up of this infrastructure, but eventually, like everything else, the system to upgrade, monitor and maintain it(which will replace coal fired power plants) will all be automated.
Automated as in a lessening of the number of new jobs as the technology gets more advanced.
As much as I like the idea of a basic income, you're analysis is spot on.
With the caustic political situation in the US especially, it will never happen, unless something(as you point out) catastrophic happens to the financial system.
Even then though I still doubt it.
I really think where we are going as a civilization is a sort of "culling the herd" as it were. Those that control the vast majority of wealth see the writing on the wall regarding human population, the environment, climate change and technology.
This combination of factors is a Perfect Storm. And one that will be taken advantage of thoroughly by those that control the wealth.
If 80 million US jobs are destroyed by automation then they will all starve
Now you're catching on.
There is an advantage in how this will play out towards the 1%. This erosion of employment and the gradual thinning of the middle class is really to their benefit. If it happened all at once then there would be more of an outcry.
As long as there are even a few crumbs falling off the table, the millions will fight over them while those sitting at the table get fatter by the day.
When this happens, and it will, the number one social concern will be to figure out how hard work can still be incented. Without hard work, humans become listless and unhappy.
I think they've figured out quite well how to keep people occupied.
What is it that lots of people, and a lot of younger people especially like to do a lot, and for long periods of time, and if they could, they would be doing it all the time?
Video Games.
Just wait until truly immersive VR gaming takes off.
Jobs? Career? Family? Life Goals?
Who needs any of those when there are no jobs, people "live" on a small stipend, and rarely leave their video game pod.
That is the future.
Excellent points.
I hadn't heard about Amazon Air, but yea, when things can be delivered that fast and cheap, it will put even more local businesses out of business.
Its interesting to note that an oft quoted statistic from politicians is that small businesses are the real employers and drivers of local economies.
Imagine a "local economy" when there are only huge megacorporations to work for, and you are lucky to work at all...
No, I didn't infer that. What I'm getting at is their infrastructure, and others, such as Facebook, can easily deflect and withstand attacks like these.
Smaller webmail providers can't.
Will this push the privacy oriented webmail providers further to the margins and create a landscape where only the big players such as Google and Microsoft can survive?
Right... Soros. Easy scapegoat. You know I'm surprised you would use a phrase like "Replublicrat" and then try to pawn it off on a left leaning billionaire.
Where do the Koch brothers fall in your worldview?
Are they Republicrats, or are they the ones with "backbone" you're waiting for to come and save us?
Backbone has nothing to do with it.
This is all about money. Plain and simple.
You seem to think our elected representatives actually care for the interests of those who voted for them.
They care about those who fund their campaigns.
Right, I've noticed that over the last ten years or so, as the pace of technological change increases, people end up watching even more cat videos. We are caught up in a maelstrom of change, and yes, it is intimidating. Whereas in the past, change came about more slowly and people had time to adapt, now things are changing much faster.
But what is the end game?
If we are on the vertical climb of a hockey stick graph of change, both climate wise and technologically, where is the peak? Can this rate of change continue or will a threshold(The Singularity as some believe) be reached, at which point Humanity as we know it will not continue in its present form.
Just taking away privacy from everyone is the road to fascism. That's the road we're on now unfortunately. What we need are civil institutions, laws and a jsuticce system that actually ARE fair, just and honest. We don't have that now. Our systems of government are corrupt, our justice system system is corrupt, our economy and businesses are corrupt.
We can make them not corrupt with enough transparency, but how do you balance that with security, boradly defined to include both personal and national security? It's not a simple problem.
The really fascinating thing here is that we started down the road to fascism decades ago, driven by policy first, and then the technology caught up with the policy. I can imagine the jean creaming that has been going on in the last 10-15 years as policy makers and those in the intelligence community, etc realized what a boon has been dropped on their doorstep with the ability to monitor communications, location, etc, etc;
Just wait until the IoT breaks wide open, drones, etc;...
Slashdot Mirror
Better then LA pre_crime where then get you for per Prostitution just for driving down a road.
What?
A while back we migrated from a Juniper to a Sonicwall NSA(Network Security Appliance).
I can just imagine the laughter generated at Sonicwall and at the NSA when this product line was announced...
You're right about the merch part. Since Disney took over, I can't throw a rock without it hitting an image of either Yoda or Darth Vader. It is reprehensible, but not surprising. This is Disney were talking about...
What is amazing is compared to the merch from the original three films, Disney has taken it up more than one notch.
But were talking about a guy who made an incredibly insightful deal regarding merchandising(Billions of $$$ in TOYS!!!) with the studio to finance the first film, and then used the winnings from that first film to finance the rest himself, in effect becoming an independent film maker.
With all that being said, with all the hype, the money, blah diddy blah, blah blah, should we hate the films?
If you don't like them fine, but a lot of people, myself included are HUGE Star Wars fans, and love to watch them, and can't wait to see the next one.
Just because something is popular and makes money doesn't necessarily mean it is devoid of entertainment value, or any other reasons that people love a certain film, book or piece of music.
Like skin tight jeans, beards and huge cover-half-your-face glasses, the iPads dominance in tablets will pass.
With it's atrocious interface and sky high price, the iPad is akin to the early days of paying for a bottle of water...
Let the real tablets take their place at the table: Google, Samsung and Microsoft
Wow. If you think people in NYC, LA or Chicago don't "pack nothing smaller than 0.40", then I've got a bridge to sell you.
The media is being used to scare the public, and encourage even more erosion of privacy because, you know, the bad guys will get us...
"Security Aware" is being treated in the media as something bad, something people shouldn't aspire to.
This concerted effort after the Paris attacks isn't someone filling column inches, it is yet another example of those with the editorial influence to pressure the First World to completely give up any shred of privacy or freedom.
NPR interviewed some numbskull NY police person yesterday who used the Paris attacks as an attack vector against encryption.
How many times can someone say "Going Dark"?
Eventually an automated Solar-Thermal energy system(and PV) system will be implemented.
Perhaps there will be a small bump in the initial build up of this infrastructure, but eventually, like everything else, the system to upgrade, monitor and maintain it(which will replace coal fired power plants) will all be automated.
Automated as in a lessening of the number of new jobs as the technology gets more advanced.
As much as I like the idea of a basic income, you're analysis is spot on.
With the caustic political situation in the US especially, it will never happen, unless something(as you point out) catastrophic happens to the financial system.
Even then though I still doubt it.
I really think where we are going as a civilization is a sort of "culling the herd" as it were. Those that control the vast majority of wealth see the writing on the wall regarding human population, the environment, climate change and technology.
This combination of factors is a Perfect Storm. And one that will be taken advantage of thoroughly by those that control the wealth.
If 80 million US jobs are destroyed by automation then they will all starve
Now you're catching on.
There is an advantage in how this will play out towards the 1%. This erosion of employment and the gradual thinning of the middle class is really to their benefit. If it happened all at once then there would be more of an outcry.
As long as there are even a few crumbs falling off the table, the millions will fight over them while those sitting at the table get fatter by the day.
Obviously guys like that enjoy and thrive in that situation and probably wouldn't trade it for anything.
When this happens, and it will, the number one social concern will be to figure out how hard work can still be incented. Without hard work, humans become listless and unhappy.
I think they've figured out quite well how to keep people occupied.
What is it that lots of people, and a lot of younger people especially like to do a lot, and for long periods of time, and if they could, they would be doing it all the time?
Video Games.
Just wait until truly immersive VR gaming takes off.
Jobs? Career? Family? Life Goals?
Who needs any of those when there are no jobs, people "live" on a small stipend, and rarely leave their video game pod.
That is the future.
Excellent points.
I hadn't heard about Amazon Air, but yea, when things can be delivered that fast and cheap, it will put even more local businesses out of business.
Its interesting to note that an oft quoted statistic from politicians is that small businesses are the real employers and drivers of local economies.
Imagine a "local economy" when there are only huge megacorporations to work for, and you are lucky to work at all...
No, I didn't infer that. What I'm getting at is their infrastructure, and others, such as Facebook, can easily deflect and withstand attacks like these.
Smaller webmail providers can't.
Will this push the privacy oriented webmail providers further to the margins and create a landscape where only the big players such as Google and Microsoft can survive?
Of course he knows its discredited.
When clowns like that post those FUD articles they know that your local libertarian will eat it up.
Today's fundamental problems are, remarkably, almost exactly the same as they have been for recorded history.
Wrong. Please try and keep up.
When was the last time you saw a Monarch butterfly?
Right... Soros. Easy scapegoat. You know I'm surprised you would use a phrase like "Replublicrat" and then try to pawn it off on a left leaning billionaire.
Where do the Koch brothers fall in your worldview?
Are they Republicrats, or are they the ones with "backbone" you're waiting for to come and save us?
Meesa think dis isn t da treaty yousa look for.
sed -i 's/Americans/Multi-National Corporations/g'
Backbone has nothing to do with it.
This is all about money. Plain and simple.
You seem to think our elected representatives actually care for the interests of those who voted for them.
They care about those who fund their campaigns.
He's dead Jim.
Right, I've noticed that over the last ten years or so, as the pace of technological change increases, people end up watching even more cat videos. We are caught up in a maelstrom of change, and yes, it is intimidating. Whereas in the past, change came about more slowly and people had time to adapt, now things are changing much faster.
But what is the end game?
If we are on the vertical climb of a hockey stick graph of change, both climate wise and technologically, where is the peak? Can this rate of change continue or will a threshold(The Singularity as some believe) be reached, at which point Humanity as we know it will not continue in its present form.
Just taking away privacy from everyone is the road to fascism. That's the road we're on now unfortunately. What we need are civil institutions, laws and a jsuticce system that actually ARE fair, just and honest. We don't have that now. Our systems of government are corrupt, our justice system system is corrupt, our economy and businesses are corrupt.
We can make them not corrupt with enough transparency, but how do you balance that with security, boradly defined to include both personal and national security? It's not a simple problem.
The really fascinating thing here is that we started down the road to fascism decades ago, driven by policy first, and then the technology caught up with the policy. I can imagine the jean creaming that has been going on in the last 10-15 years as policy makers and those in the intelligence community, etc realized what a boon has been dropped on their doorstep with the ability to monitor communications, location, etc, etc;
Just wait until the IoT breaks wide open, drones, etc;...