Good thing they aren't queers, having it off with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry. Or aging pre-Raphaelite art critics, with a morbid phobia of female genitalia.
There is a Santayana quote that is lurking just below the surface of my consciousness...
Ahhh. The slings and arrows suffered by persons of insurmountable genius.
Riiight. "The Government is bad and needs to be contained to manageable constraints - except for the 78% which constitutes Military spending and endeavour. Oh, and privacy! Small government objectives cannot be reconciled with the need to police American bedrooms. And a smaller government mustn't interfere with the greatest government intrusion into private communications in history. And small government sounds nice, but MUST be balanced with the imperative for the greatest usurpation of individual guarantees to liberty through government discretionary privilege, since the founding of the republic."
The Dems? It's like Brutus and the conspirators on the Ides of March. Let 'em have executive power for a term - put their hands on the handle of the knife, too.
Were you typing all of that on one line, to get it done before your boss came back in the room?:-)
One argument per paragraph please.
It makes it easier to see the transparency and subjective nature of your assertions.
A minor quibble. Back to the ridiculous gaming topic - I have had next to no luck in getting the various incarnations of Spore to run on my Jaunty Jackalope. I understand a good deal more about compatibility than you ever will, it appears.
You paint me as a "MS Windows Fanatic" which is farcical. I ran FWTK on SLS Linux, back when it appears you were watching Thomas the Tank Engine. As the 2.1 series kernels were emerging, I built my own on a near daily basis. My principal computers are Ubuntu boxen, with perimetre and net handling duties capably managed by OpenBSD on Soekris boards. But these are details. You and your poet friend are arguing about Snap-on-Tools versus Home Depot house brands. Ultimately, I am concerned with carpentry and house building. You want to show off your tool.
I ride the big fish - so I come into accounts with Microsoft and Sun, among others. My independence is credibility for the vendor and assurance for the customer.
I see the MS people up-close, plying their solutions sales tradecraft.
They are selling to the wrong people, in general. IT is full of knob-turners, who wouldn't understand a business problem, proper requirement or risk-management strategy if it were beaten over their head. These were how MS built its first business, but will kill them against the Oracles of the world, as they try and grow their next.
Go for the CFO. He's the one who whistles, and the CIO comes running.
I am in partner meetings 3-4 times a week with MS Architects and Tech Sales Engineers on customer sales calls, at multiple fortune 500's.
Win 7 is heavily promoted, and actively sought - unlike Vista, which was averred.
"It's very shortsighted to use windows"
Versus what? MacOS? Ubuntu? Both of these present more of the critical difficulties and compatibility issues that you blow like chaff, in place of an actual, substantiated position.
Get on thing straight: I don't like Windows. So, outside of my professional work as a security consultant to large enterprises, I do not chose to use it.
But Microsoft is in the business of selling a car-fleet, so-to-speak. They make a decent "Crown Victoria" and "Geo Metro", appropriate to these ends. Blustering about the poor "car choice" this represents, simply shows you to be a gearhead - i.e. someone who is in possession of only a limited mastery of the various arguments and considerations involved in corporate fleet acquisition and maintenance.
Next time, don't mix arguments against corporate adoption with compatibility for games. It hurts the general impression of credibility you probably want to make. Especially when a right-click will prove you simply wrong.
How does this rate insightful, when the fellow knows nothing about his topic?
Weird assertion: "Sales of Win7 are down so low MS isn't even promoting it in most places"
Newsflash: There is no retail release of Win7 yet.
Good point? "underpromise and overdeliver. They have been doing the opposite and wonder why people hate them.
Excellent diagnosis. MS should also learn how to sell to the business, preferably the CFO - not keep hyping 'features' to IT - often the most dysfunctional outfit in any org.
Wild claim: "There are lots of groundbreaking problems that people will not touch with a 20 foot pole"
C'mon! Cite a bloody reference, or just yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre!
In reality you make claims about Windows 7 sales that cannot be backed up - and use unspecific criticism to support the claim, without evidence. Allow me to explain some basics.
The bulk of Corporation and Government purchases? They already owned Windows 7, before it was released, through the Software Assurance benefit in their contract through their reseller. Microsoft measures "deployment", not "sales" with these folks... You know Home Depot, Wal*Mart, Hewlett Packard, General Motors, even Google.
Despite not even being offered as a public, retail item, Windows 7 will do very well on the day it goes to market. Retail sales are a tricky number. Most are through OEM installation on new computers - not shiny disc SKUs. So, for 2 months, these have been ramped through the manufacturing channels.
Let's talk in February - when the after-Christmas inventory purge is complete. Then we can compare notes.
It is not a willful, powerful dedicated Calvinist Theocracy that holds power - but it is this cultural and historic tendency in American society that is being used to lead them, cynically to their own self-annihilation.
The bankers belong to a different tribe, than those ejected first by England, then by the Netherlands.
If there is money in war, money in construction, money in rail, money in oil - then it is financed money. Who does the financing? Hint: it is never a state actor! When the state appears to be the instrument of finance, it always extends a fiat currency - which is itself drawn from private central, reserve system banks. There is interest owed thereby, and that is funneled from the productive economy as income and value-add taxes - paid back to privately-owned banks.
Before 1911, the USA had no privately held central banking authority that controlled it's economy. Consequently, no need for income taxes.
When Ezra Pound began to write about this, he went from the most celebrated man of English letters in the 20th century - to being smeared as a fascist, and declared mentally ill. He was locked in a prison for the years of his seniority.
Now, the banking super-rich - with no national origin or allegience of any kind - have moved power through their surrogate personhood of the corporation, away from America. Operating there was necessary for a period of time, but the once enabling middle-class, became burdensome and unpredictably capable of independent action. The future is elsewhere. America can be abandoned to it's.5% super rich, and the rest to squabble for scraps.
That's why the political and social "culture wars" and rabid, frothing castigation of shadow-play "left vs. right" politics. The game keeps the rabble distracted. They think they are facing their enemy in each other... Moms in Dallas fear their "earnings" will go to unfairly teach "lazy meskins" to read, and take the jobs they don't want, anyway. All the while, the real earnings of the next 3 generations are safely entered in the ledgers, pre-ordained in confiscation through tax and duties: paid to the secret names of bankers, who are "The Fed".
Like I say. These guys are not theocratic Methodists. They will use that as the means of oppression, because it works fine, in this location. But theirs is a different tribe.
More than 310 Iraqi scientists are thought to have perished at the hands of Israeli secret agents in Iraq since fall of Baghdad to US troops in April 2003, a seminar has found.
The Iraqi ambassador in Cairo, Ahmad al-Iraqi, accused Israel of sending to Iraq immediately after the US invasion a commando unit charged with the killing of Iraqi scientists.
Israel has played a prominent role in liquidating Iraqi scientists. The campaign is part of a Zionist plan to kill Arab and Muslim scientists working in applied research which Israel sees as threatening its interests, al-Iraqi said.
100 DEAD SCIENTISTS AND MICROBIOLOGISTS - The Master List
B16098 / Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:09:18 / Miscellaneous
While some of these deaths may be purely coincidental and seem to pose no connection, many of these deaths are highly suspicious and appear not to be random acts of violence. Many are just plain murders.
If you see any incorrect dates or errors, please provide me with accurate information, Thank you!
Peace, Mark
In the 1980's over two dozen science graduates and experts working for Marconi or Plessey Defence Systems died in mysterious circumstances, most appearing to be 'suicides.' The MOD denied these scientists had been involved in classified Star Wars Projects and that the deaths were in any way connected.
Judge for yourself
March 1982: Professor Keith Bowden, 46
Expertise: Computer programmer and scientist at Essex University engaged in work for Marconi, who was hailed as an expert on super computers and computer-controlled aircraft.
Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when his vehicle went out of control across a dual carriageway and plunged onto a disused railway line. Police maintained he had been drinking but family and friends all denied the allegation.
Coroner's verdict: Accident.
April 1983: Lt-Colonel Anthony Godley, 49
Expertise: Head of the Work Study Unit at the Royal College of Military Science.
Circumstance of Death: Disappeared mysteriously in April 1983 without explanation. Presumed dead.
March 1985: Roger Hill, 49
Expertise: Radar designer and draughtsman with Marconi.
Circumstance of Death: Died by a shotgun blast at home.
Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
November 19, 1985: Jonathan Wash, 29
Expertise: Digital communications expert who had worked at GEC and at British Telecom's secret research centre at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk.
Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of falling from a hotel room in Abidjan, West Africa, while working for British Telecom. He had expressed fears that his life was in danger.
Coroner's verdict: Open.
August 4, 1986: Vimal Dajibhai, 24
NOTE: My records show this date to be Oct. 1986
Expertise: Computer software engineer with Marconi, responsible for testing computer control systems of Tigerfish and Stingray torpedoes at Marconi Underwater Systems at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire.
Circumstance of Death: Death by 74m (240ft.) fall from Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol. Police report on the body mentioned a needle-sized puncture wound on the left buttock, but this was later dismissed as being a result of the fall. Dajibhai had been looking forward to starting a new job in the City of London and friends had confirmed that there was no reason for him to commit suicide. At the time of his death he was in the last week of his work with Marconi.
Coroner's verdict: Open.
October 1986: Arshad Sharif, 26
Expertise: Reported to have been working on systems for the detection of submarines by satellite.
Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of placing a ligature around his neck, tying the other end to a tree and then driving off in his car with the accelerator pedal jammed down. His unusual death was complicated by several issues: Sharif lived near Vimal Dajibhai in Stanmore, Middlesex, he committed suicide in Bristol and, inexplicably, had spent the last night of his life in a rooming house. He had paid for his accommodation in cash and was seen to have a bundle of high-denomination banknotes in his possession. While the police were told of the banknotes, no mention was made of them at the inquest and they were never found. In addition, most of the other guests at the rooming house worked at British Aerospace prior to work
Saw SW (no suffix) in '77. The "Lip-gloss Leia" in a slinky gown and raygun? That was a mild grabber, for the close of the Disco years. I thought: "She's not so ugly, for a white girl".
By the time a third picture showed up? I already imagined I was Paul Weller or Ray Davies reborn. Hell, Weller was still charting!
Not very likely to get my knicks tightened-in-front by some JAP in a gold-bikini. I was looking for the next P.P. Arnold, and making time with asian birds.
Slashdot Mirror
Certain kinds of intelligence. Certainly.
The intelligent who are yet incurious are little more than a human abacus or thesaurus.
Yeah. They got a quasi-race war in the press, to distract the base from stuff like this:
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/09/hbc-90005704
and this:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/15/bagram/index.html
Hey! Stay classy America! Your Edward R. Murrow is a comedian for chris'sake!
http://crooksandliars.com/dday/colbert-goes-there-only-media-figure-america
Meanwhile - back in the states:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8133
http://www.examiner.com/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m9d11-San-Diego-Sheriff-deployed-military-crowd-control-device-at-Congressional-town-halls
Gosh. Glenn Beck didn't FREAK OUT about that, did he?
Heh. "Slings and Arrows!" indeed...
Nice advertisement, Slashdot!
Too bad, you weren't paid. :-(
Good thing they aren't queers, having it off with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry. Or aging pre-Raphaelite art critics, with a morbid phobia of female genitalia.
There is a Santayana quote that is lurking just below the surface of my consciousness...
Ahhh. The slings and arrows suffered by persons of insurmountable genius.
"The meek may inherit the earth, but the strong shall take the stars."
Where ya' takin' 'em? Your mama know about that? Ya' gonna' put 'em back where ya' got 'em from, when your done with 'em?
Heh.
I like it when they reboot a screen on Virgin Atlantic. :-)
Three seconds of Tux, smiling at you. That's a compile-time option. Someone really wants to advertise.
Hey! Think of it now... THOSE are "smudge" interfaces!
I bet he isn't using "touch" interfaces with these, tho'.
Or, as I like to call them, "Smudge" interfaces.
Favor smaller Government? Republicans?
Riiight. "The Government is bad and needs to be contained to manageable constraints - except for the 78% which constitutes Military spending and endeavour. Oh, and privacy! Small government objectives cannot be reconciled with the need to police American bedrooms. And a smaller government mustn't interfere with the greatest government intrusion into private communications in history. And small government sounds nice, but MUST be balanced with the imperative for the greatest usurpation of individual guarantees to liberty through government discretionary privilege, since the founding of the republic."
The Dems? It's like Brutus and the conspirators on the Ides of March. Let 'em have executive power for a term - put their hands on the handle of the knife, too.
Were you typing all of that on one line, to get it done before your boss came back in the room? :-)
One argument per paragraph please.
It makes it easier to see the transparency and subjective nature of your assertions.
A minor quibble. Back to the ridiculous gaming topic - I have had next to no luck in getting the various incarnations of Spore to run on my Jaunty Jackalope. I understand a good deal more about compatibility than you ever will, it appears.
You paint me as a "MS Windows Fanatic" which is farcical. I ran FWTK on SLS Linux, back when it appears you were watching Thomas the Tank Engine. As the 2.1 series kernels were emerging, I built my own on a near daily basis. My principal computers are Ubuntu boxen, with perimetre and net handling duties capably managed by OpenBSD on Soekris boards. But these are details. You and your poet friend are arguing about Snap-on-Tools versus Home Depot house brands. Ultimately, I am concerned with carpentry and house building. You want to show off your tool.
Whatever you say, mate.
Give a big "Hi" to the FFIEC auditors for me.
I am an Information Security Architect.
I ride the big fish - so I come into accounts with Microsoft and Sun, among others. My independence is credibility for the vendor and assurance for the customer.
I see the MS people up-close, plying their solutions sales tradecraft.
They are selling to the wrong people, in general. IT is full of knob-turners, who wouldn't understand a business problem, proper requirement or risk-management strategy if it were beaten over their head. These were how MS built its first business, but will kill them against the Oracles of the world, as they try and grow their next.
Go for the CFO. He's the one who whistles, and the CIO comes running.
Heh! I was trying to describe the Clarkson MO...
Well.
I am in partner meetings 3-4 times a week with MS Architects and Tech Sales Engineers on customer sales calls, at multiple fortune 500's.
Win 7 is heavily promoted, and actively sought - unlike Vista, which was averred.
"It's very shortsighted to use windows"
Versus what? MacOS? Ubuntu? Both of these present more of the critical difficulties and compatibility issues that you blow like chaff, in place of an actual, substantiated position.
Get on thing straight: I don't like Windows. So, outside of my professional work as a security consultant to large enterprises, I do not chose to use it.
But Microsoft is in the business of selling a car-fleet, so-to-speak. They make a decent "Crown Victoria" and "Geo Metro", appropriate to these ends. Blustering about the poor "car choice" this represents, simply shows you to be a gearhead - i.e. someone who is in possession of only a limited mastery of the various arguments and considerations involved in corporate fleet acquisition and maintenance.
Next time, don't mix arguments against corporate adoption with compatibility for games. It hurts the general impression of credibility you probably want to make. Especially when a right-click will prove you simply wrong.
"considered harmful" What!? Like goto?
If I add the keyword backfrom, does it make things better?
How does this rate insightful, when the fellow knows nothing about his topic?
Weird assertion: "Sales of Win7 are down so low MS isn't even promoting it in most places"
Newsflash: There is no retail release of Win7 yet.
Good point? "underpromise and overdeliver. They have been doing the opposite and wonder why people hate them.
Excellent diagnosis. MS should also learn how to sell to the business, preferably the CFO - not keep hyping 'features' to IT - often the most dysfunctional outfit in any org.
Wild claim: "There are lots of groundbreaking problems that people will not touch with a 20 foot pole"
C'mon! Cite a bloody reference, or just yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre!
In reality you make claims about Windows 7 sales that cannot be backed up - and use unspecific criticism to support the claim, without evidence. Allow me to explain some basics.
The bulk of Corporation and Government purchases? They already owned Windows 7, before it was released, through the Software Assurance benefit in their contract through their reseller. Microsoft measures "deployment", not "sales" with these folks... You know Home Depot, Wal*Mart, Hewlett Packard, General Motors, even Google.
Despite not even being offered as a public, retail item, Windows 7 will do very well on the day it goes to market. Retail sales are a tricky number. Most are through OEM installation on new computers - not shiny disc SKUs. So, for 2 months, these have been ramped through the manufacturing channels.
Let's talk in February - when the after-Christmas inventory purge is complete. Then we can compare notes.
F*ck 'em.
Defense in depth. :-)
I bet the cars in the motorpool are rotated to newer models more often than the OSes.
I'm still hot for Serena, tho'.
If you can do this while acting like a supercilious upper-form schoolboy, and still say things that make one laugh the soup through your nose?
You probably have a career!
And HG Wells was a eugenicist Fabian. He was projecting his fears of class-struggle into a genetic extrapolation to the future.
Did you really think American Idol operated like Pokemon? :-)
It is not a willful, powerful dedicated Calvinist Theocracy that holds power - but it is this cultural and historic tendency in American society that is being used to lead them, cynically to their own self-annihilation.
The bankers belong to a different tribe, than those ejected first by England, then by the Netherlands.
If there is money in war, money in construction, money in rail, money in oil - then it is financed money. Who does the financing? Hint: it is never a state actor! When the state appears to be the instrument of finance, it always extends a fiat currency - which is itself drawn from private central, reserve system banks. There is interest owed thereby, and that is funneled from the productive economy as income and value-add taxes - paid back to privately-owned banks.
Before 1911, the USA had no privately held central banking authority that controlled it's economy. Consequently, no need for income taxes.
When Ezra Pound began to write about this, he went from the most celebrated man of English letters in the 20th century - to being smeared as a fascist, and declared mentally ill. He was locked in a prison for the years of his seniority.
Now, the banking super-rich - with no national origin or allegience of any kind - have moved power through their surrogate personhood of the corporation, away from America. Operating there was necessary for a period of time, but the once enabling middle-class, became burdensome and unpredictably capable of independent action. The future is elsewhere. America can be abandoned to it's .5% super rich, and the rest to squabble for scraps.
That's why the political and social "culture wars" and rabid, frothing castigation of shadow-play "left vs. right" politics. The game keeps the rabble distracted. They think they are facing their enemy in each other... Moms in Dallas fear their "earnings" will go to unfairly teach "lazy meskins" to read, and take the jobs they don't want, anyway. All the while, the real earnings of the next 3 generations are safely entered in the ledgers, pre-ordained in confiscation through tax and duties: paid to the secret names of bankers, who are "The Fed".
Like I say. These guys are not theocratic Methodists. They will use that as the means of oppression, because it works fine, in this location. But theirs is a different tribe.
MOSSAD (Israels Secret Service) Liquidates 310 Iraqi Scientists
Mathaba.net
10-31-4
More than 310 Iraqi scientists are thought to have perished at the hands of Israeli secret agents in Iraq since fall of Baghdad to US troops in April 2003, a seminar has found.
The Iraqi ambassador in Cairo, Ahmad al-Iraqi, accused Israel of sending to Iraq immediately after the US invasion a commando unit charged with the killing of Iraqi scientists.
Israel has played a prominent role in liquidating Iraqi scientists. The campaign is part of a Zionist plan to kill Arab and Muslim scientists working in applied research which Israel sees as threatening its interests, al-Iraqi said.
http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=80029
100 DEAD SCIENTISTS AND MICROBIOLOGISTS - The Master List
B16098 / Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:09:18 / Miscellaneous
While some of these deaths may be purely coincidental and seem to pose no connection, many of these deaths are highly suspicious and appear not to be random acts of violence. Many are just plain murders.
If you see any incorrect dates or errors, please provide me with accurate information, Thank you!
Peace, Mark
[ LINK ]
List mirrored below. Rest in peace.
Awoken Research Group
http://valis.cjb.cc/
In the 1980's over two dozen science graduates and experts working for Marconi or Plessey Defence Systems died in mysterious circumstances, most appearing to be 'suicides.' The MOD denied these scientists had been involved in classified Star Wars Projects and that the deaths were in any way connected.
Judge for yourself
March 1982: Professor Keith Bowden, 46
Expertise: Computer programmer and scientist at Essex University engaged in work for Marconi, who was hailed as an expert on super computers and computer-controlled aircraft.
Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when his vehicle went out of control across a dual carriageway and plunged onto a disused railway line. Police maintained he had been drinking but family and friends all denied the allegation.
Coroner's verdict: Accident.
April 1983: Lt-Colonel Anthony Godley, 49
Expertise: Head of the Work Study Unit at the Royal College of Military Science.
Circumstance of Death: Disappeared mysteriously in April 1983 without explanation. Presumed dead.
March 1985: Roger Hill, 49
Expertise: Radar designer and draughtsman with Marconi.
Circumstance of Death: Died by a shotgun blast at home.
Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
November 19, 1985: Jonathan Wash, 29
Expertise: Digital communications expert who had worked at GEC and at British Telecom's secret research centre at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk.
Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of falling from a hotel room in Abidjan, West Africa, while working for British Telecom. He had expressed fears that his life was in danger.
Coroner's verdict: Open.
August 4, 1986: Vimal Dajibhai, 24
NOTE: My records show this date to be Oct. 1986
Expertise: Computer software engineer with Marconi, responsible for testing computer control systems of Tigerfish and Stingray torpedoes at Marconi Underwater Systems at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire.
Circumstance of Death: Death by 74m (240ft.) fall from Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol. Police report on the body mentioned a needle-sized puncture wound on the left buttock, but this was later dismissed as being a result of the fall. Dajibhai had been looking forward to starting a new job in the City of London and friends had confirmed that there was no reason for him to commit suicide. At the time of his death he was in the last week of his work with Marconi.
Coroner's verdict: Open.
October 1986: Arshad Sharif, 26
Expertise: Reported to have been working on systems for the detection of submarines by satellite.
Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of placing a ligature around his neck, tying the other end to a tree and then driving off in his car with the accelerator pedal jammed down. His unusual death was complicated by several issues: Sharif lived near Vimal Dajibhai in Stanmore, Middlesex, he committed suicide in Bristol and, inexplicably, had spent the last night of his life in a rooming house. He had paid for his accommodation in cash and was seen to have a bundle of high-denomination banknotes in his possession. While the police were told of the banknotes, no mention was made of them at the inquest and they were never found. In addition, most of the other guests at the rooming house worked at British Aerospace prior to work
In my late 40's.
Saw SW (no suffix) in '77. The "Lip-gloss Leia" in a slinky gown and raygun? That was a mild grabber, for the close of the Disco years. I thought: "She's not so ugly, for a white girl".
By the time a third picture showed up? I already imagined I was Paul Weller or Ray Davies reborn. Hell, Weller was still charting!
Not very likely to get my knicks tightened-in-front by some JAP in a gold-bikini. I was looking for the next P.P. Arnold, and making time with asian birds.