And thus we see the fruits of the labors of Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs begin to ripen.
Once they complete their infiltration of the MS Board of Trustees, no one will be able to stop the BTC (Black Turtleneck Crew) from taking over all of Silicon Valley.
And verily, so spake the Lords (all praise to the Lords) that the treasures of Redmond be distributed among their conquerors thusly:
Server operating systems and tools to He of the Swift Vessel; Accessories and consumer devices to the Paragon of Tech Pop Culture; Gaming to They of Childish Toys in the Land of Sudoku; All that remains shall be consigned to eternal Blue Screen of Death in the ever-burning butane flames of Redmond.
Thus spake the true Lords of Technomancy. From bit to byte, zero to one, hallowed be the Lords.
Or something like that. I was just eavesdropping on the worshippers, I may be a little off in recollection.
When the copyright expires and the work falls into the public domain, you can use it as you see fit without being beholden to any license or terms from the copyright holder -- since there is no copyright. That is what public domain IS.
Not only are they trying to hit him with dition, but extra dition? That's overboard, man.
No, no -- he's not being charged with extra dition. You've got it all out of sorts.
He's being charged with not properly conforming to historical societal standards with respect to the termination of an intimate relation with a partner before initiating an intimate relation with a different partner.
I read that as "great hunting boat", and thought you were talking about Vikings. I was really lost there for a minute.If he was talking about Vikings, that would have been a "great pillaging boat".
A great hunting boat is more likely to be describing the maritime conveyances of Inuits.
I think there are gaps in management knowledge for most small companies, so they outsource it. Basic accounting is near universal, but tax, for example, is typically outsourced for small companies. Tax prep, however, is via an accredited institution most of the time.
So for IT, do we turn to accreditation of outside providers? Or do we wait a couple generations until basic knowledge of IT is assumed necessary for non-CIO CxOs?
No rancher is going down to Whole Foods to buy the cattle feed ingredients. There is a trade off between feed quality and the final price of the beef
(1) we're talking feedlots here, not ranchers. Most ranchers don't finish their own cattle anyway.
(2) That's what I'm talking about. You made a pretty blanket statement about the highest quality feedstock only for finishing beef... I was trying to point out that this is not universal.
Any argument about the taste of the meat has to take into account whether you are making it into chili, curry, or stew, or are going to grill a slab and eat it rare.
So you're saying that beef destined for Dinty Moore beef stew in a can is going to be finished differently, and cheaper, than beef destined for Ruth Chris'? No shit. But both are being finished on corn, DDG or other roughage, soybeans, and additives. While even grass-finished beef is also fed soybeans, etc, to supplement proteins and minerals, there *is* a taste difference. There's also a difference in the amount of antibiotics needed, etc.
The beef someone chooses to use for stew is generally of a lower grade than that they'd use for steaks. But I'd still prefer grass-finished select over feedlot-finished select on flavor alone. But I'm a bit of a gourmand, I'm not mass-producing industrial food.
If you don't trust your sysadmin, they shouldn't be your sysadmin.
Trust, but verify. I believe the submitter is asking how to provide for verification without breaking operations.
Just as I'd be an idiot for handing my checkbook over to the sole control of an employee based solely on trust, I'd be an idiot for handing over the keys to my IT systems.
Also, the post processing of insect meat to get it in a form fit to sell to a consumer is absolutely mind bogglingly energy intensive and absolutely a waste at every level.
Having eaten whole grasshoppers and crickets many, many times, I disagree. Post-processing involves no butchering, etc., which are costs that traditional protein sources have. Every other cost borne by insect protein post-processing is borne by other animal proteins.
Plus insects taste absolutely terrible.
That's a matter of taste. Crickets and grasshoppers can be quite tasty, IMO. Maybe if you have preconceptions about what tastes "good", you will find them unsavory. But I believe that people are conditioned to what is "yummy", and aside from some things like bitterness, the subjective good|bad part of taste is learned.
The feed given to cattle which are being fattened for slaughter is carefully blended from the highest quality ingredients..
Define "highest quality".
Does it mean feedstock of testable conformity to spec? What are those specs? %carbohydrates, %roughage, %protein? What are the base source materials? Soybeans, corn, dried distillers' grains? What are the allowed substitutions of source materials? What are the "extra" ingredients added to finishing diet? Elemental P? What else? The finishing diet is a well-monitored process, and the inputs are generally the cheapest allowed that meet spec. I've done some reading on the subject, and while I'm no expert, I think you might be surprised by the supposed "highest quality" allowed in industrial feedstock.
Feedlots are generally engineered to produce substantial weight gains and intramuscular fat in the short time before slaughter in the most economical fashion. The key there is most economical fashion. Grass-finished beef does taste different from generic corn-soy-and-DDG finished beef. Of course, it's far more expensive to finish cattle on grass. Even a lot of the so-called "grass-fed" beef are finished on corn, soy and DDG.
But there is an expiration date on the copyright that makes the use of the license compulsory.
Once the copyright expires, no license is required to use the code.
I mean, sure, you *could* opt to use the code under the GPL after the copyright has expired; but why would you when you can use the code completely unrestricted?
While I found most of your post interesting you make it sound like our borders are closed. You must not be familiar with how food is prepared or harvested in the states. If that were the case we wouldn't be granting amnesty to yet another wave of immigrants, or have several states interested in passing laws to address jus sanguinis.
Meh. Our current population is approximately 12.5% foreign-born (naturalized, permanent residents, legal temporary immigrants, and illegal immigrants). Yes, it's on an upward tick since the 70s. It's not yet back to the levels it was when US manufacturing went through it's biggest booms... post-Civil War and turn of the 20th century to 1920.
I think we need to grant limited amnesty and get us back up to 15% immigrant.
Also, if everyone is racing to the bottom who will buy these goods?
What? What do you mean, racing to the bottom? Why do you assume that increasing legal immigration is racing to the bottom?
College is not a requirement for manufacturing and jobs are needed by all.
As others have pointed out, it's entirely possible that the actual number of cases remains proportionately the same, it's just the rate of diagnosis that has increased...the same could be said of the explosion of ADHD in the 90's.
What are you talking about? Your statement is false.
Autism prevalence is increasing. Not just the absolute number of cases, but the rate among the general population. I've yet to see a single study that says otherwise... can you provide a cite for your oddball claim? The increase is definitely NOT proportional to our population growth.
But looking at your post...
proportionally risen to the acceleration of our population growth
Are you saying that rate of growth in autism is proportion to the acceleration of the rate of population growth? That the rate of autism growth is proportional to the first derivative of the rate of population growth?!
That would be an extremely interesting observation.
At some point- basically find a new packaged product (cost $100k + $500k user licensing & support + loss of ability to differentiate business) which provides 80% of functionality of the VB6 program and toss it. Can't be changed to match your business - you must change business to match it.
Larry Ellison? Is that you? That's been standard Oracle-speak for nearly a decade, now.
I think you may have meant it sarcastically... but I think it's a good idea.
How much benefit do you really derive from your unique business practices? Why not standardize? Besides the customization and integration savings, it's cheaper to train employees (since many applicants will have been using the same workflows at other employers).
Larry might have his flaws, but this is one thing that I agree with him 100% on.
No, no. It was reasonable to believe that in the 1950's, when Communists claimed capitalism was doomed by the "wasteful" duplication of efforts by competitors, and lack of centralized planning. What did history show? It didn't work; the USSR economy collapsed under its bureaucracy and centralized plans.
China's economic policy is not a pure command economy. Yet they still maintain a kind of centralized power that DOES allow them to force people to move in order to pave the way for large-scale public efforts.
Even under current conditions, German manufacturing has somehow stayed competitive and is booming, and workers in skilled trades are doing well there. I haven't quite figured that one out.
I'll give you list of what I think are major factors:
1. Strong worker protections. When companies can't easily lay off people, the company takes a short-term hit, but the employees are still spending in the general economy. This has a stabilizing effect on the economy, reducing the lows and the highs.
2. Socialized services. This reduces the direct burden on companies that want to hire.
3. Steady levels of government spending. Spending levels in Germany very closely mirror GDP -- I can't recall if this is law there, or if it's just a result of good fiscal policy. This again reduces volatility across their general economy
4. Strong international markets for their goods. Even the global downturn hasn't hit Germany as hard as other countries.
5. Small Gini coefficient -- workers (spenders of stimulatory cash) in Germany have a larger share of corporate income in Germany than in many countries faring worse.
6. Tighter regulation of rent-seeking behavior. Rent-seekers extract wealth without contributing commensurate value. Germany has far more oversight of potential monopolies, etc, than many of the worse-faring countries.
7. And my number 1 reason... lots of cheap immigrant labor. Cheap immigrant labor is the fuel of most booming manufacturing economies. Workers from Turkey, Eastern Europe, etc allow German factories to operate profitably while still having access to the well-educated workforce they need among the traditional German population. Of course, this leads to some social unrest... but that's not what we were tlaking about:)
You want the US manufacturing industry to rebound? Open the floodgates of immigration. Immigrants seeking opportunity will not look down on taking factory labor, and will be willing to do it cheaper than all the college-educated Americans who have no place to find employment and would not stoop to taking a factory job at low wages.
Meh. India is the ones who should be worried. When China gets more control of all those headwaters in the Himalayas, it's gonna get *real* ugly for India.
Diversion of the Brahmaputra... the Ganges... etc.
Such weapons systems would significantly enhance China's ability to hinder U.S. intervention in a conflict over Taiwan, and challenge U.S. naval supremacy in the Asia-Pacific region.
WHAAAT? I thought US learnt something over the years... silly me.
Of course we learnt something over the years... we learned never to fall for one of the classic blunders, which is getting involved in a land war in Asia. Obviously that applies only to mainland Asaia. No one ever said anything about getting involved in a coastal island war in Asia. Nor did they say anything about a naval war.
Mostly, though, we learned never to get involved with a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Fishing licenses have always struck me as silly, at least for non-commercial fishermen using poles instead of nets. But when it comes to hunting and felling trees, if everyone was allowed unlimited access, we'd run out of trees and deer pretty damn quick, just like we did with the buffalo.
Fishing is just as bad as hunting and logging in terms of preservation the the resource. I've seen numerous streams, ponds, and lakes fished out completely, to the point where restocking and strict no-fishing rules were required to replenish the stocks. If it weren't for stocking, we wouldn't have ANY trout left in my state.
In my state, fishing license revenue is used to fund fish game & wildlife enforcement. Additionally, if you want to fish for trout, you pay extra to fund the breeding and stocking programs.
Somehow you have to bulk buy non-tiered access on some major trunks - what they are isn't that important.
And how are you going to prevent the trunk providers from doing what they want? Effectively you'd be on the same internet we're on now, just with a different ISP.
Let it go, man. You're not going to get a forked internet, completely independent of the current internet, if you rely on parts of the current internet.
OK, so I disagree with the premise of the article. I believe public wire to be the best solution.
Lawmakers and lobbyists are going to control it no matter what we do.
So we set up a forked internet. The amount of potential money to be made is going to cause a commercial takeover, just as now. And then government will step in to regulate the commercial behavior, just as now. Money ALWAYS finds a way.
I think any effort spent on forking the internet is better spent on ensuring we have the regulation *we* want.
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And thus we see the fruits of the labors of Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs begin to ripen.
Once they complete their infiltration of the MS Board of Trustees, no one will be able to stop the BTC (Black Turtleneck Crew) from taking over all of Silicon Valley.
And verily, so spake the Lords (all praise to the Lords) that the treasures of Redmond be distributed among their conquerors thusly:
Server operating systems and tools to He of the Swift Vessel;
Accessories and consumer devices to the Paragon of Tech Pop Culture;
Gaming to They of Childish Toys in the Land of Sudoku;
All that remains shall be consigned to eternal Blue Screen of Death in the ever-burning butane flames of Redmond.
Thus spake the true Lords of Technomancy. From bit to byte, zero to one, hallowed be the Lords.
Or something like that. I was just eavesdropping on the worshippers, I may be a little off in recollection.
No, you DON'T.
When the copyright expires and the work falls into the public domain, you can use it as you see fit without being beholden to any license or terms from the copyright holder -- since there is no copyright. That is what public domain IS.
No, no -- he's not being charged with extra dition. You've got it all out of sorts.
He's being charged with not properly conforming to historical societal standards with respect to the termination of an intimate relation with a partner before initiating an intimate relation with a different partner.
To sum up, he broke the ex-tradition.
Sure, if you want to split hairs. I don't trust anyone 100%, not even my wife. Shit happens.
Why would you trust anyone 100% with something critical to you?
He hid, by turning himself in to Scotland Yard?
Oh, he fought extradition. As was his right. Not the same as hiding, not at all.
Good point you make there.
I think there are gaps in management knowledge for most small companies, so they outsource it. Basic accounting is near universal, but tax, for example, is typically outsourced for small companies. Tax prep, however, is via an accredited institution most of the time.
So for IT, do we turn to accreditation of outside providers? Or do we wait a couple generations until basic knowledge of IT is assumed necessary for non-CIO CxOs?
You're missing the point.
Yes, you have to assign trust in order to function. But you also need to verify that your trust is merited, and continues to be merited.
(1) we're talking feedlots here, not ranchers. Most ranchers don't finish their own cattle anyway.
(2) That's what I'm talking about. You made a pretty blanket statement about the highest quality feedstock only for finishing beef... I was trying to point out that this is not universal.
So you're saying that beef destined for Dinty Moore beef stew in a can is going to be finished differently, and cheaper, than beef destined for Ruth Chris'? No shit. But both are being finished on corn, DDG or other roughage, soybeans, and additives. While even grass-finished beef is also fed soybeans, etc, to supplement proteins and minerals, there *is* a taste difference. There's also a difference in the amount of antibiotics needed, etc.
The beef someone chooses to use for stew is generally of a lower grade than that they'd use for steaks. But I'd still prefer grass-finished select over feedlot-finished select on flavor alone. But I'm a bit of a gourmand, I'm not mass-producing industrial food.
Trust, but verify. I believe the submitter is asking how to provide for verification without breaking operations.
Just as I'd be an idiot for handing my checkbook over to the sole control of an employee based solely on trust, I'd be an idiot for handing over the keys to my IT systems.
Having eaten whole grasshoppers and crickets many, many times, I disagree. Post-processing involves no butchering, etc., which are costs that traditional protein sources have. Every other cost borne by insect protein post-processing is borne by other animal proteins.
That's a matter of taste. Crickets and grasshoppers can be quite tasty, IMO. Maybe if you have preconceptions about what tastes "good", you will find them unsavory. But I believe that people are conditioned to what is "yummy", and aside from some things like bitterness, the subjective good|bad part of taste is learned.
Define "highest quality".
Does it mean feedstock of testable conformity to spec? What are those specs? %carbohydrates, %roughage, %protein? What are the base source materials? Soybeans, corn, dried distillers' grains? What are the allowed substitutions of source materials? What are the "extra" ingredients added to finishing diet? Elemental P? What else? The finishing diet is a well-monitored process, and the inputs are generally the cheapest allowed that meet spec. I've done some reading on the subject, and while I'm no expert, I think you might be surprised by the supposed "highest quality" allowed in industrial feedstock.
Feedlots are generally engineered to produce substantial weight gains and intramuscular fat in the short time before slaughter in the most economical fashion. The key there is most economical fashion. Grass-finished beef does taste different from generic corn-soy-and-DDG finished beef. Of course, it's far more expensive to finish cattle on grass. Even a lot of the so-called "grass-fed" beef are finished on corn, soy and DDG.
Sorry to be such a noob, but I did man up, and the man pages for that command are completely useless in the context of this discussion.
I'm running Debian lenny if that helps.
But there is an expiration date on the copyright that makes the use of the license compulsory.
Once the copyright expires, no license is required to use the code.
I mean, sure, you *could* opt to use the code under the GPL after the copyright has expired; but why would you when you can use the code completely unrestricted?
Yo dawg, I herd u liek imprisoning criminals, so I put a prison in your prison so you can incarcerate while you imprisonate.
Or something like that.
Meh. Our current population is approximately 12.5% foreign-born (naturalized, permanent residents, legal temporary immigrants, and illegal immigrants). Yes, it's on an upward tick since the 70s. It's not yet back to the levels it was when US manufacturing went through it's biggest booms... post-Civil War and turn of the 20th century to 1920.
I think we need to grant limited amnesty and get us back up to 15% immigrant.
What? What do you mean, racing to the bottom? Why do you assume that increasing legal immigration is racing to the bottom?
That was one of my points. How did you miss it?
That's been debated, sure.
And while it's quite possible a factor, refutations of the diagnostic substitution hypothesis make a lot of sense to me.
I was going to provide that link in my first response to you, since I knew your were going to bring up the subject.
Autism prevalence is increasing. Not just the absolute number of cases, but the rate among the general population. I've yet to see a single study that says otherwise... can you provide a cite for your oddball claim? The increase is definitely NOT proportional to our population growth.
But looking at your post...
Are you saying that rate of growth in autism is proportion to the acceleration of the rate of population growth? That the rate of autism growth is proportional to the first derivative of the rate of population growth?!
That would be an extremely interesting observation.
Larry Ellison? Is that you? That's been standard Oracle-speak for nearly a decade, now.
I think you may have meant it sarcastically... but I think it's a good idea.
How much benefit do you really derive from your unique business practices? Why not standardize? Besides the customization and integration savings, it's cheaper to train employees (since many applicants will have been using the same workflows at other employers).
Larry might have his flaws, but this is one thing that I agree with him 100% on.
China's economic policy is not a pure command economy. Yet they still maintain a kind of centralized power that DOES allow them to force people to move in order to pave the way for large-scale public efforts.
I'll give you list of what I think are major factors:
:)
1. Strong worker protections. When companies can't easily lay off people, the company takes a short-term hit, but the employees are still spending in the general economy. This has a stabilizing effect on the economy, reducing the lows and the highs.
2. Socialized services. This reduces the direct burden on companies that want to hire.
3. Steady levels of government spending. Spending levels in Germany very closely mirror GDP -- I can't recall if this is law there, or if it's just a result of good fiscal policy. This again reduces volatility across their general economy
4. Strong international markets for their goods. Even the global downturn hasn't hit Germany as hard as other countries.
5. Small Gini coefficient -- workers (spenders of stimulatory cash) in Germany have a larger share of corporate income in Germany than in many countries faring worse.
6. Tighter regulation of rent-seeking behavior. Rent-seekers extract wealth without contributing commensurate value. Germany has far more oversight of potential monopolies, etc, than many of the worse-faring countries.
7. And my number 1 reason... lots of cheap immigrant labor. Cheap immigrant labor is the fuel of most booming manufacturing economies. Workers from Turkey, Eastern Europe, etc allow German factories to operate profitably while still having access to the well-educated workforce they need among the traditional German population. Of course, this leads to some social unrest... but that's not what we were tlaking about
You want the US manufacturing industry to rebound? Open the floodgates of immigration. Immigrants seeking opportunity will not look down on taking factory labor, and will be willing to do it cheaper than all the college-educated Americans who have no place to find employment and would not stoop to taking a factory job at low wages.
Meh. India is the ones who should be worried. When China gets more control of all those headwaters in the Himalayas, it's gonna get *real* ugly for India.
Diversion of the Brahmaputra... the Ganges... etc.
Of course we learnt something over the years... we learned never to fall for one of the classic blunders, which is getting involved in a land war in Asia. Obviously that applies only to mainland Asaia. No one ever said anything about getting involved in a coastal island war in Asia. Nor did they say anything about a naval war.
Mostly, though, we learned never to get involved with a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Fishing is just as bad as hunting and logging in terms of preservation the the resource. I've seen numerous streams, ponds, and lakes fished out completely, to the point where restocking and strict no-fishing rules were required to replenish the stocks. If it weren't for stocking, we wouldn't have ANY trout left in my state.
In my state, fishing license revenue is used to fund fish game & wildlife enforcement. Additionally, if you want to fish for trout, you pay extra to fund the breeding and stocking programs.
And how are you going to prevent the trunk providers from doing what they want? Effectively you'd be on the same internet we're on now, just with a different ISP.
Let it go, man. You're not going to get a forked internet, completely independent of the current internet, if you rely on parts of the current internet.
OK, so I disagree with the premise of the article. I believe public wire to be the best solution.
Lawmakers and lobbyists are going to control it no matter what we do.
So we set up a forked internet. The amount of potential money to be made is going to cause a commercial takeover, just as now. And then government will step in to regulate the commercial behavior, just as now. Money ALWAYS finds a way.
I think any effort spent on forking the internet is better spent on ensuring we have the regulation *we* want.