The first thing our new Prez changed was the party. Not the Dem party, the inaugural party.
While GW spent $40M on his, OHB is spending $170M on his inauguration. He could have so easily claimed the country was in economic trouble and scaled back, but no, he quadrupled the spending for himself.
And you thought change was going to benefit you? Ha!
Because i know I want to PAY 170 million to be put on the spot in front of hundreds of thousands of people and live up to expectations approaching idolatry built up over the previous campaign.
This is not some over-glorified dorm-room blow-out, it's an expected public duty.
wow, I think that speech from ID4 was less hammy. lets see him stir up enough people in places like nebraska to quash republican filibusters of things like universal healthcare measures.
just about all the things you absolutely have to do to keep your nation viable won't be accomplished by markets alone, the sunk costs are too high and the payback period too long.
This and there is no incentive what soever to serve the entire citizenry.
...not going to happen, under this or any administration I fear.
Thank god for that as well.
We need more government regulation, not less, or have you not been reading your financials the past year.
not to mention the government needs to step in and reform healthcare in SOME way. I'm not necessarily pointing to government run medicine, but health insurers should not be allowed to drop anyone who gets sick, deny the same, impose 12 month "waiting periods" to prevent competition, etc etc.
i'm not out to flame you here, I really am interested in what text/video/otherwise could convince a member of the stalwart and cynical slashdot crowd to behave in this way.
I'm very interested in where you picked up this operating piece of philosophy.
Of course there is no way to determine any truth to your assertions over the internet, but i'm curious as to what exactly would cause any member of the slashdot community to write posts as if they were under the influence of Gandhi
My less mundane answer to you has to do with realizing that there is no such thing as chance, coincident, or accident and that you have problems because you need the things you gain by solving them.
Ah, so the imposition of reaganomics, deregulation, and FTAs which led to this meltdown are my problems and i need to solve them eh? where's my time machine and my gun.. oh wait.
It is not needless suffering and the Universe is not a sadistic place
you're absolutely right, the universe is not a sadistic place, the world however is ruled by the most corrupt people imaginable, and they are sadistic.
The rest is a question of philosophy, but if you are willing to let people believe the ideas spread by those who are corrupt are right then be prepared to be crushed by the laws (or lack thereof) which result. Prime examples of the product of this are: -the credit crunch -healthcare crisis -lawsuits against 80 year olds, dead people, college kids, and single moms -hens placed under full regulatory control of foxes (tech + dmca + MAFIAA) -"competition in the labor market" (otherwise known as firing people and moving their jobs where pesky labor standards and human rights wont get in the way)
What you mean is you don't understand SAMBA enough to configure it..
No, what i mean is samba did not respond properly to the config.
When it didn't, I posted the config to the forums and got help, the feedback was "this config file is working as you intended on my system".
Samba was nuking my config on launch for some reason, which means whatever new version I had did not conform with the established config semantics or had a major bug that went to a public apt-get repository.
Either way an app bundled with samba which will act as a full featured graphical config would eliminate nasty problems like this.
My concern is what if something bad were to happen during the inauguration, and suddenly a million people whip out their cellphones all start calling 911, their family, news organizations, and generally broadcast an emergency to the world all at the same time.
Anyone want to watch one of those expensive cell-towers on a truck burst into flames?
Given their decision to go with silverlight for the event, I suspect the trucks would BSOD long before that happens.
This coronation-like ceremony is getting out of hand. A quiet ceremony in the Capitol, broadcast on TV, would be sufficient. That's what was done during WWII, when there were concerns about an attack on FDR.
This is the first time an inauguration has shut down Washington, DC for two days. All the Potomac River bridges out to the Beltway are closed Monday and Tuesday. That's well beyond the impact of previous inaugurations.
He was talking about change we can believe in, and by god he meant it!
If you don't believe in this change, you can try to cross the bridges and see for yourself!
Prepare for one thing and they'll use another, and never, ever underestimate the effectiveness of someone willing to trade their own life for the life of the target.
I'm not saying this to brew fear, i'm saying this to point out there is a reasonable point at which marginal returns to extra security diminish, and a point at which flexibility (hence my example) is more important than durability.
let me know when joy and fulfillment pay for food, shelter, water, and medical care.
The idea that someone in the second camp won't suffer because of this behavior is beyond naive in the context of a world in which money is required to live.
I got this insight from my female roommate. Men would complain about how they are nice guys but girls always go for assholes. But these nice guys either never asked girls out, or even worse, wanted to be bad guys but just did not have the guts to do it.
Your "female roommate" sounds to me to be so clueless as to not understand signals unless the words are literally painted to the front of a truck and rammed into her at 80 mph.
Either that, or she's just a misandric (explative deleted) since she can't decide whether men are worthless or evil, so assumes both.
With capitalism, the liar rises regardless of whether or not times are tough.
I would say the ruthless rather than the liar tends to rise in capitalism. Which doesn't mean that a decent, competent company can't do well, but they can be threatened by the ruthless company. Usually the demise of a good company at the hands of a ruthless company comes about through government collusion. For example, Ruthless Inc. spends the time and money to bribe other firms and standards bodies to require Ruthless Inc's software as the new standard for given widgets. Now DecentCorp's DiscoWidget app has no buyers unless DecentCorp licences from Ruthless In.. Ruthless Inc. buys the dregs of DecentCorp and sends the former employees to the salt mines.
Capitalism gets a bad rap, but sometimes that bad rap is more the direct result of centralized government's intervention rather than lack thereof.
Of course, government intervention is only incidental, and is not required for this sort of maneuvering at all. (thus some fixes I made to your original scenario)
For every government intervention which leads to problems like this, There are equal or greater evils to be had from lack of government intervention.
The science and physics of superman racing the flash.
"A scientist has tried to apply serious math and physics, including the Law of Cosines, to analyze who would win in a race between superman and the flash"
In other news, said scientists' funders have threatened to pull their grants citing too much idle time.
There is no need for massive centralized databases, you just send the encrypted information to the person that needs to see it in an "as needed basis", perhaps by swapping your card in terminals connected to a private network that allows the sharing of this data.
Develop a new network port completely different from cat5. (this network will be separate from the internet just like bank transactions are today)
Make regulations requiring any computer with this new network port not be allowed to carry cat5 or wireless, and that the computers be kept in a feraday caged room with no cat5 plugs or wireless.
Limit electronic storage of medical records to those computers, with transfer to paper required for every other use.
Then institute hefty criminal and civil penalties for anyone caught in possession or use of illegally obtained criminal records.
No need for orwellian systems, no need to burden individuals with hefty costs for new equipment, and minimized leakage.
Most importantly, all the problems envisaged by critics have already been anticipated, encountered and (largely) overcome in other countries. Take a look outside your borders and learn a few things. Find out what works and what doesn't, and use the mistakes of others to build a better system. Just don't start panicking over nothing.
the importance of doing things right the first time in the US is paramount.
Unlike other nations, special interests will quickly man the barricades and block any and all attempts to remove "beneficial" loopholes from laws.
See: Medical insurance rate hike work-around for policy cancelleation, DMCA section 1201, Internet neutrality, and much much more.
Astroturfing is rife, more common online auctions.
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Ebay used to be a decent place to get deals, then a few years ago the scammers found out they can fake feedback, and you ended up with 2000+ "transaction" power-sellers who will take your money and run faster than the nigerian prince.
Leave any negative feed back and it's "i've pleased all these guys, there's always one troll to screw it up"
If you browse around a while on sites like ebay and amazon you'll notice the patterns these people have, the same people giving feedback to each other, it's disgusting really, but any peer contributed system is subject to gaming via astroturfing.
I'll go the "Anonymous Coward" route... My fiance works for a music distributor. They make an everyday wage and they're about to layoff 400+ people from their offices. Oh yeah, my fiance also has Multiple Sclerosis. Her MASSIVE medical expenses are paid for through health insurance provided by her company, which she will lose if she gets laid off. So...THANK YOU for stealing music!!!
I'm sorry, but maybe you should be speaking to people and campaigning for healthcare reform and universal healthcare. (for my part, I graduated college into this recession, have no job, and am also uninsurable at any price. I'm quickly plummeting toward the precipice with 2k/mo in Rx. )
If it wasn't the downturn or the pirates it would be something else, but your husband would have eventually lost his job (thus his insurance), and from there it's a quick drop into disability.
The injustice here is not your husband's upper management making horrible decisions, then waging a war against an entire generation which is supposed to be their target audience.
The injustice here is that you both have been shackled to a job because of medical care.
As for my side.. Music was once my escape. I would plug in, put the phones on, and just relax at the end of a long and taxing day. It was the one thing I considered sacred in life. The lawsuits from your husband's company wiped all that away and made every melody into the horrific reminder of corporate greed and corruption. Now I can't listen to an english song anymore because I know it was the american music industry which strangled the entire tech sector.
Little factoid: DMCA was passed in '98, but not scheduled to take effect for two years. What happened two years later? What sector is now reduced to doing nothing but hollywood's bidding. Why is steve jobs dragging his feet with blu-ray again?
I'm sorry but there's only one thing which takes my mind off the chronic pain i experience right now, and that's the fact that your pet industry put me there by killing off every tech business model which their luddite staff didn't agree with.
Had these same people had their way back at the turn of the twentieth century your husband wouldn't have been working there anyway. They don't appreciate the repeated lessons of history, however, and killed off my jobs before they were born.
I obviously can't say what he'll do once in office but his team has pretty much been called...
I know what he'll do.
he'll get right into that office near the boiler and grumble about his stapler.
Seriously, the guy is at the third tier!
My mother is a claims adjuster for a subsection of healthcare coverage, maybe I should burst into her room and start kicking her all over the place because no insurance company will cover my chronic condition?
One could argue that the RIAA is a lot worse than the Communists were. Consider the Soviet Union: The Communists were voted out of power despite all the vote rigging that the party in power always does everywhere, and they accepted the vote. This wasn't a fluke; it has happened in most of the countries that had Communist governments. The RIAA and MPAA were never elected to their positions, and we can't vote them out. They'll be around longer than any Communist government, and there's not a whole lot we can do about it. They are private corporations created by other private corporations to "coordinate" their business so that no real market could develop. Judicious bribery, uh, I mean campaign contributions, led to the draconian copyright laws that helped prevent a market in music or movies.
Maybe the move to the Internet will end this whole centrally-controlled system. Or maybe they'll find a way to bring it under control. Stay tuned...
Don't forget, through the DMCA the "central authority" at the RIAA issues forth the command "thou shalt build X device X way, or not at all".
A command economy under the command of one corporation is no different then a command economy under the control of an authoritarian government.
Oh wait, it's worse, because, in this case, they own the media, and we're still "free" because we elect people who will loyally stand by proclaiming every day activities "theft"
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cut them some slack, if their own shampoo containers weren't so small they wouldn't be so obsessed with how much bigger ours are!
The first thing our new Prez changed was the party. Not the Dem party, the inaugural party.
While GW spent $40M on his, OHB is spending $170M on his inauguration. He could have so easily claimed the country was in economic trouble and scaled back, but no, he quadrupled the spending for himself.
And you thought change was going to benefit you? Ha!
Because i know I want to PAY 170 million to be put on the spot in front of hundreds of thousands of people and live up to expectations approaching idolatry built up over the previous campaign.
This is not some over-glorified dorm-room blow-out, it's an expected public duty.
wow, I think that speech from ID4 was less hammy. lets see him stir up enough people in places like nebraska to quash republican filibusters of things like universal healthcare measures.
just about all the things you absolutely have to do to keep your nation viable won't be accomplished by markets alone, the sunk costs are too high and the payback period too long.
This and there is no incentive what soever to serve the entire citizenry.
...not going to happen, under this or any administration I fear.
Thank god for that as well.
We need more government regulation, not less, or have you not been reading your financials the past year.
not to mention the government needs to step in and reform healthcare in SOME way. I'm not necessarily pointing to government run medicine, but health insurers should not be allowed to drop anyone who gets sick, deny the same, impose 12 month "waiting periods" to prevent competition, etc etc.
i'm not out to flame you here, I really am interested in what text/video/otherwise could convince a member of the stalwart and cynical slashdot crowd to behave in this way.
http://visualcomplexity.com
Have fun!
Seems to be excellent inspiration on visualizing data..
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it apparently advocates the RIAA approach.. pretend its not there at all.
I'm very interested in where you picked up this operating piece of philosophy.
Of course there is no way to determine any truth to your assertions over the internet, but i'm curious as to what exactly would cause any member of the slashdot community to write posts as if they were under the influence of Gandhi
My less mundane answer to you has to do with realizing that there is no such thing as chance, coincident, or accident and that you have problems because you need the things you gain by solving them.
Ah, so the imposition of reaganomics, deregulation, and FTAs which led to this meltdown are my problems and i need to solve them eh? where's my time machine and my gun.. oh wait.
It is not needless suffering and the Universe is not a sadistic place
you're absolutely right, the universe is not a sadistic place, the world however is ruled by the most corrupt people imaginable, and they are sadistic.
The rest is a question of philosophy, but if you are willing to let people believe the ideas spread by those who are corrupt are right then be prepared to be crushed by the laws (or lack thereof) which result. Prime examples of the product of this are:
-the credit crunch
-healthcare crisis
-lawsuits against 80 year olds, dead people, college kids, and single moms
-hens placed under full regulatory control of foxes (tech + dmca + MAFIAA)
-"competition in the labor market" (otherwise known as firing people and moving their jobs where pesky labor standards and human rights wont get in the way)
and much, much more.
What you mean is you don't understand SAMBA enough to configure it ..
No, what i mean is samba did not respond properly to the config.
When it didn't, I posted the config to the forums and got help, the feedback was "this config file is working as you intended on my system".
Samba was nuking my config on launch for some reason, which means whatever new version I had did not conform with the established config semantics or had a major bug that went to a public apt-get repository.
Either way an app bundled with samba which will act as a full featured graphical config would eliminate nasty problems like this.
My concern is what if something bad were to happen during the inauguration, and suddenly a million people whip out their cellphones all start calling 911, their family, news organizations, and generally broadcast an emergency to the world all at the same time.
Anyone want to watch one of those expensive cell-towers on a truck burst into flames?
Given their decision to go with silverlight for the event, I suspect the trucks would BSOD long before that happens.
This coronation-like ceremony is getting out of hand. A quiet ceremony in the Capitol, broadcast on TV, would be sufficient. That's what was done during WWII, when there were concerns about
an attack on FDR.
This is the first time an inauguration has shut down Washington, DC for two days. All the Potomac River bridges out to the Beltway are closed Monday and Tuesday. That's well beyond the impact of previous inaugurations.
He was talking about change we can believe in, and by god he meant it!
If you don't believe in this change, you can try to cross the bridges and see for yourself!
You can't stop a determined assassin.
Prepare for one thing and they'll use another, and never, ever underestimate the effectiveness of someone willing to trade their own life for the life of the target.
I'm not saying this to brew fear, i'm saying this to point out there is a reasonable point at which marginal returns to extra security diminish, and a point at which flexibility (hence my example) is more important than durability.
let me know when joy and fulfillment pay for food, shelter, water, and medical care.
The idea that someone in the second camp won't suffer because of this behavior is beyond naive in the context of a world in which money is required to live.
I got this insight from my female roommate. Men would complain about how they are nice guys but girls always go for assholes. But these nice guys either never asked girls out, or even worse, wanted to be bad guys but just did not have the guts to do it.
Your "female roommate" sounds to me to be so clueless as to not understand signals unless the words are literally painted to the front of a truck and rammed into her at 80 mph.
Either that, or she's just a misandric (explative deleted) since she can't decide whether men are worthless or evil, so assumes both.
I would say the ruthless rather than the liar tends to rise in capitalism. Which doesn't mean that a decent, competent company can't do well, but they can be threatened by the ruthless company. Usually the demise of a good company at the hands of a ruthless company comes about through government collusion. For example, Ruthless Inc. spends the time and money to bribe other firms and standards bodies to require Ruthless Inc's software as the new standard for given widgets. Now DecentCorp's DiscoWidget app has no buyers unless DecentCorp licences from Ruthless In.. Ruthless Inc. buys the dregs of DecentCorp and sends the former employees to the salt mines.
Capitalism gets a bad rap, but sometimes that bad rap is more the direct result of centralized government's intervention rather than lack thereof.
Of course, government intervention is only incidental, and is not required for this sort of maneuvering at all. (thus some fixes I made to your original scenario)
For every government intervention which leads to problems like this, There are equal or greater evils to be had from lack of government intervention.
Smart regulation is the proper answer.
Are you sure those numbers are correct?
Generally when a company sees profits dip by 90% in a single quarter they shutter their doors.
I get the feeling they're conflating net with gross.
The science and physics of superman racing the flash.
"A scientist has tried to apply serious math and physics, including the Law of Cosines, to analyze who would win in a race between superman and the flash"
In other news, said scientists' funders have threatened to pull their grants citing too much idle time.
There is no need for massive centralized databases, you just send the encrypted information to the person that needs to see it in an "as needed basis", perhaps by swapping your card in terminals connected to a private network that allows the sharing of this data.
Wait what?
Develop a new network port completely different from cat5. (this network will be separate from the internet just like bank transactions are today)
Make regulations requiring any computer with this new network port not be allowed to carry cat5 or wireless, and that the computers be kept in a feraday caged room with no cat5 plugs or wireless.
Limit electronic storage of medical records to those computers, with transfer to paper required for every other use.
Then institute hefty criminal and civil penalties for anyone caught in possession or use of illegally obtained criminal records.
No need for orwellian systems, no need to burden individuals with hefty costs for new equipment, and minimized leakage.
Most importantly, all the problems envisaged by critics have already been anticipated, encountered and (largely) overcome in other countries. Take a look outside your borders and learn a few things. Find out what works and what doesn't, and use the mistakes of others to build a better system. Just don't start panicking over nothing.
the importance of doing things right the first time in the US is paramount.
Unlike other nations, special interests will quickly man the barricades and block any and all attempts to remove "beneficial" loopholes from laws.
See: Medical insurance rate hike work-around for policy cancelleation, DMCA section 1201, Internet neutrality, and much much more.
Ebay used to be a decent place to get deals, then a few years ago the scammers found out they can fake feedback, and you ended up with 2000+ "transaction" power-sellers who will take your money and run faster than the nigerian prince.
Leave any negative feed back and it's "i've pleased all these guys, there's always one troll to screw it up"
If you browse around a while on sites like ebay and amazon you'll notice the patterns these people have, the same people giving feedback to each other, it's disgusting really, but any peer contributed system is subject to gaming via astroturfing.
Just see the net neutrality debate, or swiftboat.
I'll go the "Anonymous Coward" route...
My fiance works for a music distributor. They make an everyday wage and they're about to layoff 400+ people from their offices. Oh yeah, my fiance also has Multiple Sclerosis. Her MASSIVE medical expenses are paid for through health insurance provided by her company, which she will lose if she gets laid off.
So...THANK YOU for stealing music!!!
I'm sorry, but maybe you should be speaking to people and campaigning for healthcare reform and universal healthcare. (for my part, I graduated college into this recession, have no job, and am also uninsurable at any price. I'm quickly plummeting toward the precipice with 2k/mo in Rx. )
If it wasn't the downturn or the pirates it would be something else, but your husband would have eventually lost his job (thus his insurance), and from there it's a quick drop into disability.
The injustice here is not your husband's upper management making horrible decisions, then waging a war against an entire generation which is supposed to be their target audience.
The injustice here is that you both have been shackled to a job because of medical care.
As for my side.. Music was once my escape. I would plug in, put the phones on, and just relax at the end of a long and taxing day. It was the one thing I considered sacred in life. The lawsuits from your husband's company wiped all that away and made every melody into the horrific reminder of corporate greed and corruption. Now I can't listen to an english song anymore because I know it was the american music industry which strangled the entire tech sector.
Little factoid:
DMCA was passed in '98, but not scheduled to take effect for two years.
What happened two years later? What sector is now reduced to doing nothing but hollywood's bidding. Why is steve jobs dragging his feet with blu-ray again?
I'm sorry but there's only one thing which takes my mind off the chronic pain i experience right now, and that's the fact that your pet industry put me there by killing off every tech business model which their luddite staff didn't agree with.
Had these same people had their way back at the turn of the twentieth century your husband wouldn't have been working there anyway. They don't appreciate the repeated lessons of history, however, and killed off my jobs before they were born.
I obviously can't say what he'll do once in office but his team has pretty much been called...
I know what he'll do.
he'll get right into that office near the boiler and grumble about his stapler.
Seriously, the guy is at the third tier!
My mother is a claims adjuster for a subsection of healthcare coverage, maybe I should burst into her room and start kicking her all over the place because no insurance company will cover my chronic condition?
They are no better than communists.
One could argue that the RIAA is a lot worse than the Communists were. Consider the Soviet Union: The Communists were voted out of power despite all the vote rigging that the party in power always does everywhere, and they accepted the vote. This wasn't a fluke; it has happened in most of the countries that had Communist governments. The RIAA and MPAA were never elected to their positions, and we can't vote them out. They'll be around longer than any Communist government, and there's not a whole lot we can do about it. They are private corporations created by other private corporations to "coordinate" their business so that no real market could develop. Judicious bribery, uh, I mean campaign contributions, led to the draconian copyright laws that helped prevent a market in music or movies.
Maybe the move to the Internet will end this whole centrally-controlled system. Or maybe they'll find a way to bring it under control. Stay tuned ...
Don't forget, through the DMCA the "central authority" at the RIAA issues forth the command "thou shalt build X device X way, or not at all".
A command economy under the command of one corporation is no different then a command economy under the control of an authoritarian government.
Oh wait, it's worse, because, in this case, they own the media, and we're still "free" because we elect people who will loyally stand by proclaiming every day activities "theft"