those of us living in the UK should instead be complaining about how our government at every turn tries to prevent from being bound to give it's citizens any form of protection against it's government.
I don't think it's quite paranoia, more of a problem of dividing evryone into "goodguys" and "badguys". Once you start treating the very citizen you are suppoed to protect like "badguys" you stop trusting anyone.
."What we need is fundamental change in the way we manage NSA and what we expect of management and ourselves," concluded the study, which was led by George "Dennis" Bartko, the NSA's deputy chief of cryptanalysis.
Yeah we need a serious change, like admitting that all this cloak and dagger, sorry that is classified, need to know, bullshit is the cause of most of the terrorist problems we have today. Drop the secrecy, and disassemble these above-the-law organizations. Dealing with policy in the open is the only way to keep it honest. When the government is dishonest with the nation about policy you do not have democracy, you have "democracy theater"
It's great that SuSe is able to fill the corporate desktop niche, but I'd still prefer to use Sabayon for gaming, Puppy on my pen drive, SME on a small server, Debian on a big one, Ophcrack for rescuing Windows users who've forgotten passwords, etc, etc, etc.
That's exactly my point right there. Sure IT guys might think that your list was a great sign of how well versed you are, but to the people who run companies that aren't IT guys you look like a disorganized gear head. I'm not saying that the advantages you listed aren't real, but don't think that a problem that "gets trotted out every discussion of Linux" isn't real, just because you say it's dumb. It shows up every time for a reason.
I'd reckon they'd be better off not working a menial job that contributes nothing to themselves or society in general except to perpetuate a system of victimization.
You just described 50% of the buearcracy in the world. So are you ready to get rid of (at least)10% of middle class jobs in the industrialized world?
I think it's telling that he was originally gunshy about Linux because of his previous exerience with Fedora and Red Hat. The constant problem (as far as mass adoption goes) with Linux is that there are too many versions running around. It's time to thin the herd.
Rather than writing you representive, in this case it might be better to write your favorite band. Tell them which albums you have and the concerts you went to, and then tell them you can't buy any more of their CDs because their music is covered by SoundExchange. Ask when they will release an album under creative commons.
So when I sign up for a game I will have to play on a pre-taxed server, where everone's gold intake is lowered by 25% and the difference is deposited into a IRS avatar account. The in-game economy will be effected 0% and Uncle Sam will lose money paying someone to spam the trade channels with "BUY 5mil CREDITS ONLY $24 @ IRS.gov/mmorpg"
Things like "purposely crash(es) Firefox" would be the least of your worries. Try working for a company that will have your family killed if you protest your low wages or try to go work for the competition. That's the kind of things we would face with MegaCorps and no government whatsoever.
So first you say Government can't create wealth, but then you turn around and say "The people of Mexico have been historically generally impoverished precisely because of either the brutal excesses and mismanagement by their domestic government" So which is gonna be? Good governments provide and protect an environment where the people of that nation can prosper. Part of that providing and protecting is establishing rules, one of which here in this still prosperous country is a rule (law) about who you can and can't hire.
Ask yourself why the US has so many high paying jobs compared to Mexico. It is maybe because over many years the actions of the government and the various freedoms protected by the government have made the US more powerful and wealthier than Mexico? No maybe you don't agree with the way the US got it's wealth and power but don't be so deliberately ignorant to deny that the wealth and power is here by design. That design is created and implimented by the US government.
easy. After you vote and get your printout and verify that you vote was properly counted you must put you printout into a second ballot box that goes to a UN Elections Oversight committee.
accuracy (not to mention time) for e voting is a huge win. Chad is merely the most famous example, but any paper system is fundamentally inaccurate above a certain size election. Sometimes people forget this, but Florida was an excellent example that, with paper, there is really no meaningful way to define the "true" result.
Wait a second. They can't even get a machine to punch a clear hole in a piece of paper and you want them to impliment a more complex system? Hanging chads aren't "stupid voters" they are faulty machines. A paper system is highly accurate way to arrive at a true result. You count them all. sure it might take a while, but it will take less than the four years it takes to wait for your next chance to get it right. The Florida election was an excellent example that there are alot of people will to "misplace" votes and that will only be easier when there is no physical human-eye-readable trail.
with the liability of any illegal materail being placed upon the owner.
By owner would you mean Wikipedia, or the owner of the computer? I would much rather have the big rich overseas corporation bear the brunt of the responsibilty for some illegal web site. What exacty do think would happen to an individual?
hint:
Last week a Hong Kong-based human rights group reported that three Falun Gong practitioners had died in recent months after suffering mistreatment while in detention. The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said Liu Yufeng, 64, of eastern Shandong province, died July 23 of multiple injuries, four days after he was detained while participating in a mass Falun Gong exercise. Li Faming, 52, of northwestern Gansu province, died August 10 after a fall from a window in his apartment where police were conducting a search for Falun Gong leaflets. In northeastern Heilongjiang province, 29-year-old Zhang Tieyan died August 11 after fainting in a hot, poorly ventilated detention center. She had fainted before many times, the rights group said.
According to the Hong Kong monitor, at least 30 Falun Gong followers have died of mistreatment while in custody since July 1999, when the movement was banned. Authorities have detained at least 35,000 practitioners, and 5,000 have been sent to labor camps without trial.http://www.religioustolerance.org/rt_china.h tm
Use the same strategy with business contacts. Just small links that aren't so necessary to what you need done, but will cause the corporations in the PRC to be just as annoyed with the firewall as the citizens. Megacorps there have more direct access to the Government than the citizens.
The process of black hole formation is generally discussed from the viewpoint of an infalling observer. However, in all physical settings it is the viewpoint of the asymptotic observer that is relevant. More concretely, if a black hole is formed in the Large Hadron Collider, it has to be observed by physicists sitting on the CERN campus.
If they do make a black hole in the Large Hadron Collider, what makes them think that the CERN campus won't fall in?
It might not be quite the thing for places with super high land value like NYC or Tokyo, but if it could be used wide spread in places like Brazil (where the deforestation is about getting more arable land) it could be a huge boon. Leave the rainforests alone and feed the growing population. It could well be worth the extra initial effort of construction and tweaking out the in building ecosystem.
While the X-Prize made for alot of publicity and one clear winner, which continues to progress forward, it might not be suited to Googles goal. They seem to be aiming for lots of smaller ideas covering the whole of the multifaceted problem of plugging in cars. It not a singlar brilliant feat they are after, but a nationwide cultural shift.
Very cool about the algae, I how there is more mainsteam talk about that route in the future. But there is one advantage to the land based biofuels. The extra biomass than goes unused. What is biomass except water and carbon? Isn't that what is supposed going to bring us to global catastophe, too much of water in the sea and CO2 in the sky? Why don't we put this extra biomass back in the ground, where we have been pulling it from? Fill in whole strip mines with corn husks and bury it to slow down or prevent rotting which would of course release those gases again.
From what I understand, the by-product from corn turned into biofuel is useable to feed livestock as well, but only in limited amounts. It would make sense that the same is true for soybeans. Whatever the process details are, the stored energy in the plant matter is the fuel. If the sotred energy goes to fuel your car , it can't be fueling you or a cow when eating the stuff. It might make for a good source of fiber, but it wouldn't be a good staple food.
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those of us living in the UK should instead be complaining about how our government at every turn tries to prevent from being bound to give it's citizens any form of protection against it's government.
How did you get them to sign the Magna Carta?
Yeah we need a serious change, like admitting that all this cloak and dagger, sorry that is classified, need to know, bullshit is the cause of most of the terrorist problems we have today. Drop the secrecy, and disassemble these above-the-law organizations. Dealing with policy in the open is the only way to keep it honest. When the government is dishonest with the nation about policy you do not have democracy, you have "democracy theater"
It's great that SuSe is able to fill the corporate desktop niche, but I'd still prefer to use Sabayon for gaming, Puppy on my pen drive, SME on a small server, Debian on a big one, Ophcrack for rescuing Windows users who've forgotten passwords, etc, etc, etc.
That's exactly my point right there. Sure IT guys might think that your list was a great sign of how well versed you are, but to the people who run companies that aren't IT guys you look like a disorganized gear head. I'm not saying that the advantages you listed aren't real, but don't think that a problem that "gets trotted out every discussion of Linux" isn't real, just because you say it's dumb. It shows up every time for a reason.
I'd reckon they'd be better off not working a menial job that contributes nothing to themselves or society in general except to perpetuate a system of victimization.
You just described 50% of the buearcracy in the world. So are you ready to get rid of (at least)10% of middle class jobs in the industrialized world?
I think it's telling that he was originally gunshy about Linux because of his previous exerience with Fedora and Red Hat. The constant problem (as far as mass adoption goes) with Linux is that there are too many versions running around. It's time to thin the herd.
Rather than writing you representive, in this case it might be better to write your favorite band. Tell them which albums you have and the concerts you went to, and then tell them you can't buy any more of their CDs because their music is covered by SoundExchange. Ask when they will release an album under creative commons.
So when I sign up for a game I will have to play on a pre-taxed server, where everone's gold intake is lowered by 25% and the difference is deposited into a IRS avatar account. The in-game economy will be effected 0% and Uncle Sam will lose money paying someone to spam the trade channels with "BUY 5mil CREDITS ONLY $24 @ IRS.gov/mmorpg"
Things like "purposely crash(es) Firefox" would be the least of your worries. Try working for a company that will have your family killed if you protest your low wages or try to go work for the competition. That's the kind of things we would face with MegaCorps and no government whatsoever.
What about my donated services as a healer? I rez people who aren't in my team all the time. And what is a life worth?
So first you say Government can't create wealth, but then you turn around and say "The people of Mexico have been historically generally impoverished precisely because of either the brutal excesses and mismanagement by their domestic government" So which is gonna be? Good governments provide and protect an environment where the people of that nation can prosper. Part of that providing and protecting is establishing rules, one of which here in this still prosperous country is a rule (law) about who you can and can't hire.
Ask yourself why the US has so many high paying jobs compared to Mexico. It is maybe because over many years the actions of the government and the various freedoms protected by the government have made the US more powerful and wealthier than Mexico? No maybe you don't agree with the way the US got it's wealth and power but don't be so deliberately ignorant to deny that the wealth and power is here by design. That design is created and implimented by the US government.
.... for One Hundred Million Dollars!
easy. After you vote and get your printout and verify that you vote was properly counted you must put you printout into a second ballot box that goes to a UN Elections Oversight committee.
accuracy (not to mention time) for e voting is a huge win. Chad is merely the most famous example, but any paper system is fundamentally inaccurate above a certain size election. Sometimes people forget this, but Florida was an excellent example that, with paper, there is really no meaningful way to define the "true" result.
Wait a second. They can't even get a machine to punch a clear hole in a piece of paper and you want them to impliment a more complex system? Hanging chads aren't "stupid voters" they are faulty machines. A paper system is highly accurate way to arrive at a true result. You count them all. sure it might take a while, but it will take less than the four years it takes to wait for your next chance to get it right. The Florida election was an excellent example that there are alot of people will to "misplace" votes and that will only be easier when there is no physical human-eye-readable trail.
By owner would you mean Wikipedia, or the owner of the computer? I would much rather have the big rich overseas corporation bear the brunt of the responsibilty for some illegal web site. What exacty do think would happen to an individual?
hint:
Use the same strategy with business contacts. Just small links that aren't so necessary to what you need done, but will cause the corporations in the PRC to be just as annoyed with the firewall as the citizens. Megacorps there have more direct access to the Government than the citizens.
Why do you sound so suprised that you got fucked out of your tax dollars?
The dogs would be good against the early models , but the T-800 will slip right by.
Which I will not bother to buy either untill they are down on the $9.99 rack, I've waited this long, what's another six months?
If they do make a black hole in the Large Hadron Collider, what makes them think that the CERN campus won't fall in?
Add to that other bonuses of not having a human on board, like not worrying about g-forces and being able to self destruct if need be.
It might not be quite the thing for places with super high land value like NYC or Tokyo, but if it could be used wide spread in places like Brazil (where the deforestation is about getting more arable land) it could be a huge boon. Leave the rainforests alone and feed the growing population. It could well be worth the extra initial effort of construction and tweaking out the in building ecosystem.
While the X-Prize made for alot of publicity and one clear winner, which continues to progress forward, it might not be suited to Googles goal. They seem to be aiming for lots of smaller ideas covering the whole of the multifaceted problem of plugging in cars. It not a singlar brilliant feat they are after, but a nationwide cultural shift.
Very cool about the algae, I how there is more mainsteam talk about that route in the future. But there is one advantage to the land based biofuels. The extra biomass than goes unused. What is biomass except water and carbon? Isn't that what is supposed going to bring us to global catastophe, too much of water in the sea and CO2 in the sky? Why don't we put this extra biomass back in the ground, where we have been pulling it from? Fill in whole strip mines with corn husks and bury it to slow down or prevent rotting which would of course release those gases again.
From what I understand, the by-product from corn turned into biofuel is useable to feed livestock as well, but only in limited amounts. It would make sense that the same is true for soybeans. Whatever the process details are, the stored energy in the plant matter is the fuel. If the sotred energy goes to fuel your car , it can't be fueling you or a cow when eating the stuff. It might make for a good source of fiber, but it wouldn't be a good staple food.