The simple fact that you're mentioning a class war makes me think you have little useful to say. What's going on right now has nothing to do with class warfare, and all to do with people being sick of bailing out private institutions when their bets failed.
They finally made it to San Francisco. But they either moved away from their initial location on Market Street, or were completely forced out of the city. What little I saw of them made me think that * the local homeless and drifters finally found something to do with their free time * they have no chance in hell of accomplishing anything
Specifically, they won't accomplish anything beyond getting attention. They have hundreds of different, sometimes opposing goals. They're all upset with the status quo, but have no workable solutions. They're largely made up of young, idealistic people with little corporate or political experience. They cannot tap into any networks that carry any weight. They're doomed to be nothing but friendly protesters who will at some point run out of steam.
To some extent, I can understand them. The system we're in is set up to benefit a very small minority (0.5%, from what I've seen actually). There's less and less economic mobility. Profits are privatized, losses are socialized. But they're not the equivalent of the Arab Spring, because they have no solution. Worse, they're pointing at the wrong people when they're asked to point at the culprits of the current situation.
Winter is coming. It's going to be cold. Tthe tent cities will disappear. And with them, the movement. Maybe it will be reborn into something different, something with more teeth, simpler goals, and a better understanding of politics and economics behind it. That is their only real hope. I wish them well.
Ah - that would actually make sense. A family trip to the Theater could quickly run $100, once you add in concession food. For me, the theater is still only $20, and less if we have coupons.
Of course. Why do you think that the new GOP mantra is "States' Rights!" anytime an unsavory proposition is made that isn't explicitly disallowed by the Constitution?
I can see myself voting for Huntsman. He actually seems sensible, but only because he figured out that being sensible and middle of the road would actually make him stand out. He still has no chance in hell of winning the nomination. Then there's Romney, who at least figured out that winning the nomination isn't everything. You can't go full retard if you want to have a chance at winning the real election.And then..... there is Cain, who doesn't trust Muslims. Gingrich, who loves the Defense of Marriage act (even though he can't stay married himself). Paul, who doesn't give a whit about religion, but is a freak in everything else. And then come the rest of the total loonies.
Yeah, I don't like everything Obama is doing, and there are some real stomach churners in his recent decisions. But the GOP is trying really, really hard to make sure that I will never, ever even remotely consider voting for a Republican. Their entire idea of a GOP purity test, the no-tax pledges.... good god, I feel like I'm in grade school again.
I guess I use Netflix in a different fashion then. For me, Netflix replaces the TV. I turn to Netflix if I want some entertainment. And shows and movies are good regardless of when they were created. On the other hand, Redbox seems to be great for people who want to be part of the current pop-culture trends. Although if it's so important to watch the latest releases, why not just watch them at the movies?
Maybe I just don't understand Redbox, but I don't see what it offers me when I already have movie theaters and Netflix .
Redbox might be a better business model, but their worse from an end-user perspective. Their selection, as of now, sucks. No classics, barely any foreign movies, and I actually have to truck out to a store to get and return movies. My mailbox is much closer, and a dropbox is closer than a store.
The DVD portion of the business model is going to carry Netflix for quite a while. They'll need the income that it provides if they wan to survive the streaming wars. It's a lot easier to build a scaling streaming cluster than it is to create a nationwide physical distribution system.
The biggest problems with spills is seepage into the groundwater. Not to mention that a million gallon leak is going to cover a whole lot of area. Furthermore, ice roads only work in the winter, and you can't do everything over ice roads, as that requires... water.
So those wildly optimistic projections about the environmental impact of drilling in ANWR are exactly that - wildly optimistic projections. The problems I put up are well known, and happen in EVERY building project. Drilling proponents are putting up pure pipe dreams when they talk about the environmental impact of drilling in ANWR.
You misunderstand how much more portable a tablet is compared to any traditional laptop, regardless of the format. The iPad goes from off to on in a few seconds. You can run presentations off of it for hours without a power source. For pure consumption of media or as a fancy drive that plugs into the projector, nothing beats the iPad. Nothing. And that's why businesses are adopting the iPad far faster than any iPhone.
The problem is not with the actual drilling area. The problem is with all the support that is required to support the drilling, and with the impact of a spill. ANWR won't be ANWR for a very long time if anything more than dripping valve happens.
We might be all dead in the long run. But that doesn't mean we have to fuck everything for everyone who comes after us.
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YMMV, I guess. Personally, I think it's cool. You can watch live data from the LHC when events are actually occurring, you get little videos explaining how the LHC works, and you get to tag data by stating which event you think occurred. Of course, unless you are a particle physicist who can read LHC data like others can read raw http traffic, it's of little use. Granted, it's ugly as sin, but it's still pretty cool.
Does it even matter? It's LHC collisions on your Android. I don't even need to know whether it is just a rendering, not realtime, and whether no one will ever care that I found the Higgs boson on it. It's an immediate download. Full disclosure: this is from the guy who has the Tricorder app front and center on the Home screen.
Oh.... now I understand why you went and quoted me a sentence from a wikipedia entry during a discussion we had. It's because you don't have a thought, a rational argument, and you need to have somebody else tell you what things are.
Awww.... you remembered. I'm touched. I still have a few mod points left today... should I go through your comment history and randomly mod things down? I'm sure I would fuel your paranoia. But that would just be cruel.
You're arguing with what is probably the most ignorant and self-deluded Randian fanboy on Slashdot. Enjoy the train wreck, but don't expect insight or rational discussion.
The MO of the robber-barons is to overstate the role of entrepreneurship, whilst understating the role of labour and raw resources.
Absolutely. This is what drives me up the wall with all the current talk of job-creators and the Randian worship of entrepreneurs. For example, Jobs would have never been able to do what he did if there hadn't been a whole army of people cleaning the bathrooms, serving food in the cafeteria and providing his company with the cheap natural resources he needed to make an iPod for under $1000. Every entrepreneur is 100% reliant on people he hires to execute the vision he has, and to take over the work he can't do by himself. Furthermore, every entrepreneur is dependent on operating in a stable environment with a steady supply of labor, raw materials and independent judges. If he isn't - he'll have to work instead as a warlord and create a stable environment. And that's not exactly the work that people have in mind when they extoll the virtues of entrepreneurs.
Already commented, so I can't mod you up. But yes, the techno-nomad is a myth. There are a very select few people who can work 100% remotely. It's a combination of their personal work style, the job they're in and the work that people around them do. Sales can't be done remotely, for one. Support can be done remotely, but you won't be able to do a serious job of it if you're completely operating in your own bubble. I have the option of working from home 100% of the time, but I choose to come in about half the time (and braving a potentially hour long commute each way). Why? Because sometimes, I just need to grab someone by the collar to help me on an issue. Or I need to hang out with coworkers during lunch to find out what the latest company wide developments are. Or I can listen in on how they handle their customer calls, and learn something from it.
No one can run a full business out of a Starbucks. And interactions are still best face-to-face. Businesses that ignore this will fail.
So what you're saying is that we're heading back to a feudal society? Not that I fundamentally disagree, but that's a bit depressing. On multiple levels.
About Astrology software? I have no idea how this could work. Only thing I can find is http://www.alabe.com/, but I have no idea how that could be tied to the timezone database. Then again, filing a lawsuit requires absolutely nothing more than the desire to file a lawsuit.
You realize that in Paris, they rent rooms that are 10 square meters? I.e., about 100 square feet? Nobody has a house in Paris, unless they are part of the old aristocracy or managed to get filthy rich through legal or less legal means. Which means that discussions about how much space a DVD spindle takes up is quite real.
Since you are bringing up monkey research, there's quite a body of work in the area of studying chimps (yes, yes, great Apes vs monkeys) and how they will actually wage war against other troops. The fight there is not over mates, but over territory, which is heavily tied to food.
And if you'd be following the news, you'd know that a lot of people consider breastfeeding in public to be disgusting, and call cops/file lawsuits around it.
Interestingly enough, all of the points that you mention come from technologies that are not encumbered by patents, or that are impossible without using technology not encumbered by patents.
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The simple fact that you're mentioning a class war makes me think you have little useful to say. What's going on right now has nothing to do with class warfare, and all to do with people being sick of bailing out private institutions when their bets failed.
They finally made it to San Francisco. But they either moved away from their initial location on Market Street, or were completely forced out of the city. What little I saw of them made me think that
* the local homeless and drifters finally found something to do with their free time
* they have no chance in hell of accomplishing anything
Specifically, they won't accomplish anything beyond getting attention. They have hundreds of different, sometimes opposing goals. They're all upset with the status quo, but have no workable solutions. They're largely made up of young, idealistic people with little corporate or political experience. They cannot tap into any networks that carry any weight. They're doomed to be nothing but friendly protesters who will at some point run out of steam.
To some extent, I can understand them. The system we're in is set up to benefit a very small minority (0.5%, from what I've seen actually). There's less and less economic mobility. Profits are privatized, losses are socialized. But they're not the equivalent of the Arab Spring, because they have no solution. Worse, they're pointing at the wrong people when they're asked to point at the culprits of the current situation.
Winter is coming. It's going to be cold. Tthe tent cities will disappear. And with them, the movement. Maybe it will be reborn into something different, something with more teeth, simpler goals, and a better understanding of politics and economics behind it. That is their only real hope. I wish them well.
Ah - that would actually make sense. A family trip to the Theater could quickly run $100, once you add in concession food. For me, the theater is still only $20, and less if we have coupons.
I have. Mostly though, it's right-wing blogs saying that the mainstream media are saying that he is a race traitor.
Of course. Why do you think that the new GOP mantra is "States' Rights!" anytime an unsavory proposition is made that isn't explicitly disallowed by the Constitution?
I can see myself voting for Huntsman. He actually seems sensible, but only because he figured out that being sensible and middle of the road would actually make him stand out. He still has no chance in hell of winning the nomination. Then there's Romney, who at least figured out that winning the nomination isn't everything. You can't go full retard if you want to have a chance at winning the real election.And then..... there is Cain, who doesn't trust Muslims. Gingrich, who loves the Defense of Marriage act (even though he can't stay married himself). Paul, who doesn't give a whit about religion, but is a freak in everything else. And then come the rest of the total loonies.
Yeah, I don't like everything Obama is doing, and there are some real stomach churners in his recent decisions. But the GOP is trying really, really hard to make sure that I will never, ever even remotely consider voting for a Republican. Their entire idea of a GOP purity test, the no-tax pledges.... good god, I feel like I'm in grade school again.
I guess I use Netflix in a different fashion then. For me, Netflix replaces the TV. I turn to Netflix if I want some entertainment. And shows and movies are good regardless of when they were created. On the other hand, Redbox seems to be great for people who want to be part of the current pop-culture trends. Although if it's so important to watch the latest releases, why not just watch them at the movies?
Maybe I just don't understand Redbox, but I don't see what it offers me when I already have movie theaters and Netflix .
Redbox might be a better business model, but their worse from an end-user perspective. Their selection, as of now, sucks. No classics, barely any foreign movies, and I actually have to truck out to a store to get and return movies. My mailbox is much closer, and a dropbox is closer than a store.
The DVD portion of the business model is going to carry Netflix for quite a while. They'll need the income that it provides if they wan to survive the streaming wars. It's a lot easier to build a scaling streaming cluster than it is to create a nationwide physical distribution system.
The biggest problems with spills is seepage into the groundwater. Not to mention that a million gallon leak is going to cover a whole lot of area. Furthermore, ice roads only work in the winter, and you can't do everything over ice roads, as that requires... water.
So those wildly optimistic projections about the environmental impact of drilling in ANWR are exactly that - wildly optimistic projections. The problems I put up are well known, and happen in EVERY building project. Drilling proponents are putting up pure pipe dreams when they talk about the environmental impact of drilling in ANWR.
You misunderstand how much more portable a tablet is compared to any traditional laptop, regardless of the format. The iPad goes from off to on in a few seconds. You can run presentations off of it for hours without a power source. For pure consumption of media or as a fancy drive that plugs into the projector, nothing beats the iPad. Nothing. And that's why businesses are adopting the iPad far faster than any iPhone.
Yes, because it's idiotic to do anything that doesn't pay off in the short term. I think I know where the US' problem is...
The problem is not with the actual drilling area. The problem is with all the support that is required to support the drilling, and with the impact of a spill. ANWR won't be ANWR for a very long time if anything more than dripping valve happens.
We might be all dead in the long run. But that doesn't mean we have to fuck everything for everyone who comes after us.
YMMV, I guess. Personally, I think it's cool. You can watch live data from the LHC when events are actually occurring, you get little videos explaining how the LHC works, and you get to tag data by stating which event you think occurred. Of course, unless you are a particle physicist who can read LHC data like others can read raw http traffic, it's of little use. Granted, it's ugly as sin, but it's still pretty cool.
Does it even matter? It's LHC collisions on your Android. I don't even need to know whether it is just a rendering, not realtime, and whether no one will ever care that I found the Higgs boson on it. It's an immediate download. Full disclosure: this is from the guy who has the Tricorder app front and center on the Home screen.
Oh.... now I understand why you went and quoted me a sentence from a wikipedia entry during a discussion we had. It's because you don't have a thought, a rational argument, and you need to have somebody else tell you what things are.
Awww.... you remembered. I'm touched. I still have a few mod points left today... should I go through your comment history and randomly mod things down? I'm sure I would fuel your paranoia. But that would just be cruel.
You're arguing with what is probably the most ignorant and self-deluded Randian fanboy on Slashdot. Enjoy the train wreck, but don't expect insight or rational discussion.
The MO of the robber-barons is to overstate the role of entrepreneurship, whilst understating the role of labour and raw resources.
Absolutely. This is what drives me up the wall with all the current talk of job-creators and the Randian worship of entrepreneurs. For example, Jobs would have never been able to do what he did if there hadn't been a whole army of people cleaning the bathrooms, serving food in the cafeteria and providing his company with the cheap natural resources he needed to make an iPod for under $1000. Every entrepreneur is 100% reliant on people he hires to execute the vision he has, and to take over the work he can't do by himself. Furthermore, every entrepreneur is dependent on operating in a stable environment with a steady supply of labor, raw materials and independent judges. If he isn't - he'll have to work instead as a warlord and create a stable environment. And that's not exactly the work that people have in mind when they extoll the virtues of entrepreneurs.
Already commented, so I can't mod you up. But yes, the techno-nomad is a myth. There are a very select few people who can work 100% remotely. It's a combination of their personal work style, the job they're in and the work that people around them do. Sales can't be done remotely, for one. Support can be done remotely, but you won't be able to do a serious job of it if you're completely operating in your own bubble. I have the option of working from home 100% of the time, but I choose to come in about half the time (and braving a potentially hour long commute each way). Why? Because sometimes, I just need to grab someone by the collar to help me on an issue. Or I need to hang out with coworkers during lunch to find out what the latest company wide developments are. Or I can listen in on how they handle their customer calls, and learn something from it.
No one can run a full business out of a Starbucks. And interactions are still best face-to-face. Businesses that ignore this will fail.
So what you're saying is that we're heading back to a feudal society? Not that I fundamentally disagree, but that's a bit depressing. On multiple levels.
About Astrology software? I have no idea how this could work. Only thing I can find is http://www.alabe.com/, but I have no idea how that could be tied to the timezone database. Then again, filing a lawsuit requires absolutely nothing more than the desire to file a lawsuit.
You realize that in Paris, they rent rooms that are 10 square meters? I.e., about 100 square feet? Nobody has a house in Paris, unless they are part of the old aristocracy or managed to get filthy rich through legal or less legal means. Which means that discussions about how much space a DVD spindle takes up is quite real.
Since you are bringing up monkey research, there's quite a body of work in the area of studying chimps (yes, yes, great Apes vs monkeys) and how they will actually wage war against other troops. The fight there is not over mates, but over territory, which is heavily tied to food.
And if you'd be following the news, you'd know that a lot of people consider breastfeeding in public to be disgusting, and call cops/file lawsuits around it.
Interestingly enough, all of the points that you mention come from technologies that are not encumbered by patents, or that are impossible without using technology not encumbered by patents.