Right. It really is interesting to see what the US has devolved into.
What we are seeing is the US and China becoming more like each other:
China turning into a consumerist, polluting, financial behemoth, while the CCP keeps control
The US turning into a self-censoring, pseudo-police state.
Your post sounds like some trite consumerist mantra.
The only real way to do business, is when people are free, and can spend their money on stuff they want. That's us winning.
What utter rubbish.
So you're equating freedom with consumerism?
I would recommend you wake the f#$k up and see what a consumerist "growth for growths sake" worldview is doing to the ecosystem of the planet we live on, but nah, I'll let you stew in your own FauxNews juices, while Hannity has you on a slow boil.
So they're Druids? Actually, if we could confine Schmidt to Scimitars and Wooden shields that might be a good thing. But, they also get some nasty spells that I'm sure would work wonders on K Street...
Twenty years from now, they'll probably be "Lawful Neutral", with increasingly-frequent side trips into "Lawful Evil" territory
Over the years I've had four registered domains. My current one live on one of the big corporate hosters, and it runs on WordPress, which is actually quite fun to manage. I put new content about once a month, sometimes more. It really is a lot of fun and I have complete control. That is one of the things about FB that I could never accept, combined with the fact that FB is 99% fluff/krap, and, the interface is absolutely abhorrent. At least Google+ has a half decent ui.
But yes, things like FB make it easy for most people to do what we who run our own sites do, without the cost and management.
"Cayenne8, prepare yourself for transfer to re-education camp ZuckerPage-9 by creating your required Facebook and Google+ accounts. Failure to do so will result in your being relocated to a trailer down by the river."
The real point his comment makes is about the backsliding of American infrastructure, and to that you can't argue against.
Sure, if your standard is to compare the roads. bridges and broadband of the US against, oh say, Bolivia, then sure, we are in a much better place. But to compare the US against other "First World" countries it is a much different story.
Also, your comment about the economic output makes no difference to the average American whose wages and benefits have been stagnant or backsliding since the 1980's. For someone who lives off of capital gains in the stock market or other investments, sure, things like economic output have some meaning. Yes, the "US economy" is very strong, and the capital it generates is incredible.
How much of the benefits of that economy are actually being "trickled down" onto the American middle class?
I find it interesting that your comment is being modded down, though I'm not surprised.
You are correct in your condemnation of the US regarding infrastructure, and yes, that is what the whole broadband issue is. We have let ourselves(via greedy politicians, lobbyists and corporate managers) become the slaves of a no competition broadband scenario, where we have two choices, the phone company or the cable company for broadband.
It's not just in house VB jockeys doing this. All sorts of "enterprise" grade software will only run as admin.
If you can find the registry keys to tweak and files and folders to manually change perms on than sometimes that problem can be mitigated.
Really, the problem is that software development gives little priority to security.
for example if you begin watching a show on Netflix on your laptop, then switch to a Roku set-top box to finish it
I don't get this.
When I'm watching something I enjoy, either via OTA HD or Netflix, the last thing I'm going to do is "quick! switch to another device!"
Watching a film, documentary or "episode" is much more enjoyable watched in one sitting. If I have to switch to another device I will watch at a later time when my attention isn't split.
I suspect that income and education level could be relevant here as a proxy for other dietary trends. People with higher incomes tend to eat better quality food overall than poor people. People with higher education levels also tend to make different dietary choices (and are probably more likely to seek out more "natural" foods or whatever the current research is pointing toward).
You can always tell a dingbat by how much Mountain Dew they drink.
I've been telling my friends that drink it(in large quantities) that they are better off drinking coffee for their stim fix(caffeine) than that disgustingly over-sugared green goo. It's common knowledge that sugar in large quantities(and sugar is pretty much every processed food in the US) is really the reason for most First World health problems.
Sugar, in all it's forms(HFCS. et al) is the post Tobacco Tobacco...
The real question is whether the health community will be able to unseat Big Sugar from it's control over the American Diet.
However, the authors you refer to (Niven, Asimov, Bradbury) appeal mainly to a crowd of Poindexters. It's no surprise that people on a News for Nerds site would clamor for film adaptations, but please try to remember that everything isn't you, and this kind of literature scares a lot of your fellow Americans away, both because of its obtuse themes and because of the Aspie readership is associated with.
I think you're on the wrong website... How did you end up here?
I never read comics when I was a kid.(well, thats not true, I read Heavy Metal)
I read sci-fi(Niven, Asimov, Bradbury, etc) and fantasy(Tolkien, Lovecraft, Howard, etc).
I don't get this thing with comics. Most of the comic book based films are ok at best...
Are they really going to make that many comic book based films?
That is just sad.
There are so many good sci-fi and fantasy books/stories out there.
It would be nice if something not ending in "man" was made into a film.
Slashdot Mirror
Right, and their weapons are 12-guage shotguns(handheld) and flamethrowers(wing mounted)
Right. It really is interesting to see what the US has devolved into.
What we are seeing is the US and China becoming more like each other:
China turning into a consumerist, polluting, financial behemoth, while the CCP keeps control
The US turning into a self-censoring, pseudo-police state.
Are you now or have you ever been completely ill informed and ignorant of history?
Put down the glass pipe.
So long as the Americans treat Lincoln as a hero, instead of a mass killer in the company of Stalin and Mao, we know the indoctrination is strong.
I've seen some ridiculous comments on /. before, but this really takes the cake. Congratulations!
The only real way to do business, is when people are free, and can spend their money on stuff they want. That's us winning.
What utter rubbish.
So you're equating freedom with consumerism?
I would recommend you wake the f#$k up and see what a consumerist "growth for growths sake" worldview is doing to the ecosystem of the planet we live on, but nah, I'll let you stew in your own FauxNews juices, while Hannity has you on a slow boil.
Today, they're more "Neutral Neutral"
So they're Druids? Actually, if we could confine Schmidt to Scimitars and Wooden shields that might be a good thing. But, they also get some nasty spells that I'm sure would work wonders on K Street...
Twenty years from now, they'll probably be "Lawful Neutral", with increasingly-frequent side trips into "Lawful Evil" territory
Agreed, Google as The Scarlet Brotherhood.
Over the years I've had four registered domains. My current one live on one of the big corporate hosters, and it runs on WordPress, which is actually quite fun to manage. I put new content about once a month, sometimes more. It really is a lot of fun and I have complete control. That is one of the things about FB that I could never accept, combined with the fact that FB is 99% fluff/krap, and, the interface is absolutely abhorrent. At least Google+ has a half decent ui.
But yes, things like FB make it easy for most people to do what we who run our own sites do, without the cost and management.
"Cayenne8, prepare yourself for transfer to re-education camp ZuckerPage-9 by creating your required Facebook and Google+ accounts. Failure to do so will result in your being relocated to a trailer down by the river."
because the upper 10%, and mostly the upper .01% and above are doing really good
I hope you smile when you stare at the mirror that hard.
You are just a walking platitude, aren't you. Thanks for the laugh!
Yawn...
I'm sorry, did you say something?
The real point his comment makes is about the backsliding of American infrastructure , and to that you can't argue against.
Sure, if your standard is to compare the roads. bridges and broadband of the US against, oh say, Bolivia, then sure, we are in a much better place. But to compare the US against other "First World" countries it is a much different story.
Also, your comment about the economic output makes no difference to the average American whose wages and benefits have been stagnant or backsliding since the 1980's. For someone who lives off of capital gains in the stock market or other investments, sure, things like economic output have some meaning. Yes, the "US economy" is very strong, and the capital it generates is incredible.
How much of the benefits of that economy are actually being "trickled down" onto the American middle class?
I find it interesting that your comment is being modded down, though I'm not surprised.
You are correct in your condemnation of the US regarding infrastructure, and yes, that is what the whole broadband issue is. We have let ourselves(via greedy politicians, lobbyists and corporate managers) become the slaves of a no competition broadband scenario, where we have two choices, the phone company or the cable company for broadband.
causal or casual?
It's not just in house VB jockeys doing this. All sorts of "enterprise" grade software will only run as admin.
If you can find the registry keys to tweak and files and folders to manually change perms on than sometimes that problem can be mitigated.
Really, the problem is that software development gives little priority to security.
Actually, they should invade Iraq.
That will fix things!
It wasn't the pony they wanted...
for example if you begin watching a show on Netflix on your laptop, then switch to a Roku set-top box to finish it
I don't get this.
When I'm watching something I enjoy, either via OTA HD or Netflix, the last thing I'm going to do is "quick! switch to another device!"
Watching a film, documentary or "episode" is much more enjoyable watched in one sitting. If I have to switch to another device I will watch at a later time when my attention isn't split.
This splitting of attention ruins the experience.
Well, it isn't SC, It's SC County...
Have fun running fiber to someone in Bonny Doon, Corralitos or the Aptos hills.
I suspect that income and education level could be relevant here as a proxy for other dietary trends. People with higher incomes tend to eat better quality food overall than poor people. People with higher education levels also tend to make different dietary choices (and are probably more likely to seek out more "natural" foods or whatever the current research is pointing toward).
You can always tell a dingbat by how much Mountain Dew they drink.
I've been telling my friends that drink it(in large quantities) that they are better off drinking coffee for their stim fix(caffeine) than that disgustingly over-sugared green goo. It's common knowledge that sugar in large quantities(and sugar is pretty much every processed food in the US) is really the reason for most First World health problems.
Sugar, in all it's forms(HFCS. et al) is the post Tobacco Tobacco...
The real question is whether the health community will be able to unseat Big Sugar from it's control over the American Diet.
However, the authors you refer to (Niven, Asimov, Bradbury) appeal mainly to a crowd of Poindexters. It's no surprise that people on a News for Nerds site would clamor for film adaptations, but please try to remember that everything isn't you, and this kind of literature scares a lot of your fellow Americans away, both because of its obtuse themes and because of the Aspie readership is associated with.
I think you're on the wrong website... How did you end up here?
More like Grenier playing Vincent Chase playing Aquaman.
The people that go to them don't expect much and hence are rarely disappointed
That about sums it up!
I never read comics when I was a kid.(well, thats not true, I read Heavy Metal)
I read sci-fi(Niven, Asimov, Bradbury, etc) and fantasy(Tolkien, Lovecraft, Howard, etc).
I don't get this thing with comics. Most of the comic book based films are ok at best...
Are they really going to make that many comic book based films?
That is just sad.
There are so many good sci-fi and fantasy books/stories out there.
It would be nice if something not ending in "man" was made into a film.
beginning to suspect
Beginning?!?
Using a hot air balloon to lift men off the ground.
Sustained heavier than air human flight.
Putting Man on The Moon.