Well, to be fair, for most of the last 65 years, we did think we were eventually going to have to go head to head with the Russians in Europe.
That was an extremely good contigency plan, prepare to fight where the last big fight took place... right up to the point where a bunch of missiles turned up in Cuba.
Why are all these Reps not screaming their bloody heads off about this like they do about EPA standards or Minimum Wage or any of the other things they rail against? It's completely retarded and ass-backwards; they want to make it easy for all the manufacturing to come home while at the same time forcing every web-based company overseas
Because unlike all the industries which the Rep's want to help, IT is a young industry.
I know everyone says that it's money from lobbying which buys influence and it's certainly is an issue, but I believe it's subtler than that. All those people in power now grew up with some link or other to the established industries.
Either they themselves directly employed in an industry, or maybe their parents or grand parents would have been involved in Heavy Industry, Argiculture, Media, Pharma, Energy etc. IT as a major industry in it's own right hasn't been around long enough for a significant number of people with a link to that industry to get into power.
As a result, some of the deepest networks of contacts come from those old industries. IT is always going to play second fiddle until the those in power have had direct experience of the IT industry which means we need at least a generation to be cycled through the halls of power.
You may have got extra attention because of the money you had access to. They may well be wondering why you want to get a mortgage when you don't need it.
That's what's so interesting about the recent wave of protests themselves, they're so leaderless - not only the protests, but the movements themselves.
I think it's a reaction to the normal police method to distrupt protests by going after the leaders.
If you have a single point of failure in the form of a small core group who are organising (not necessarily the leaders of an event) the police can come along and arrest that core, the entire event fails, even if there are still plenty of people who feel strongly enough about the issue and it takes too long to draw up more plans with any secondary group of leaders who might step up after the first set are removed from the group.
It also presents a much strong front against disruption in general by the police because there are no 'high value' arrest targets, the only way to stop it is mass arrest/evictions and that never looks good on the news report.
Occupying an area is about as much as you can do without more significant organisation and planning.
I think leaderless protest got it's roots in Critical Mass cycle events (at least that was the first time I saw leaderless protest in effective action here in the UK).
You're missing the point, this isn't about what you are doing with the tablet while a kid is in the room.
It displays a history of what you have been doing when you start it up as a carousel of images so that you can go back to the book you were reading or the website you were browsing quickly next time you pick it up
The problem is, if the tablet is used by more than one person, is it really approapriate that everyone sees what you've been reading/watching/browsing given everyone in the house has access to that tablet unless you are going to lock it away when ever you aren't using it.
But that is the whole point, Walled Gardens cater to the masses but make indie development much harder because the developer has to convince the gate keep of the garden he should be allowed in.
If walled gardens completely take over then all entertainment software / content will be developed by a small cliche of companies and you will have to accept what ever they decide to produce.
I'm arguing that the fact that the faulty data was published has to be recorded some how, if someone has come to some conclusion based on what material was available at the time, then when you come to review that conclusion you need to know the context that someone was working in.
I've not said that facts can't be updated, only that the change has to be recorded some how.
Current book/paper publishing already does this, by releasing with revision numbers or at the least a publishing date. As a result you can reference a quote from a specific version of a text. All I'm arguing for is a way to reference text as it was at the time you came to a conclusion.
It doesn't have to be expensive paper books, ebooks can work. The complaint is about the reference material changing, especially if that change doesn't come with a change log.
Think of it from a different point of view. You submit a dissertation in which you reference one of these new texts and supports your claim that the sky is blue. Between the time you submit the paper and the paper being reviewed the text you have referenced is changed to say the sky is actually slightly violet rather than blue.
The idea is good, but you have to still be able to reference a piece of text/chart/graph/video as it was at a particular point in time or the entire referencing system used globally breaks down.
The best analogy that I can think of for a corporate prison is placing the company under extremely tight restrictions on financial contracts
I.e. not allowed to make any new contracts or service existing contacts.
What is prison if not an artificial limit on the social interactions of the prisoner with the rest of society.
The trouble with that of course is that the actions of a few higher executive officers would most adversely affect the rank and file employee and would likely be a death sentence for any company recieving any such sentence (who'd do business with them afterward they fail to delivery any goods the company is contracted to supply but aren't allowed to).
The only reasonable sentence I can think of is prison sentences for the executive officers.
The real problem of course is that Corporations aren't really people, so they shouldn't have the same rights and responsibilities as a person, Corporations are after all effectively immortal.
LEGO is all about the idea of the user building stuff from basic components. How can that concept not have been incorporated into a generic LEGO MMO (as opposed to LEGO Star Wars etc)
It's like having a Meccano MMO but only being able to allowed to see and chat to other users in a Meccano styled environment and not being allowed to build your own bridge just to see if it stays up.
I keep getting emails from EVE saying my characters are still waiting to be revived, except that it's not such as big an incentive as CCP think because those characters were training for stealth bombers which have since had their mechanics changed and to get back into a ship with them would require extensive retraining.
I'm not sure why Netflix management couldn't understand that the signing of major studio deals for streaming woud be a pre-requisite before implementing this strategy.
I wonder if by showing they had less possible subscribers to the streaming service, they could push for lower licensing costs in upcoming negotiations?
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Actually it gives your a Gnome3 session which has been tweaked to look like Gnome2
Just the fact that the banks have lobbied for that rule should set alarm bells ringing for everyone, the banks have looked at the system and they see where it's heading.
Gold's percieved value comes from it's past use as a metal used for coins and jewellery. It was used because it doesn't react strongly in air, was found in small quantities, was soft enough to mint easily and importantly, was almost worthless for any other use.
i.e. gold's value is based on exact the same basis as paper money, it's worth something because everyone thinks it's worth something.
If you doubled the amount of gold sitting in the global economic system, it's value per unit would half, in exactly the same way paper money would. Thats because the value of both is as a currency not as a material.
I agree with the GP, whether you like it or not, upwards mobility is only possible for the vast majority as positions above them become vacant.
If those above you stop retiring or dying and thus freeing up positions, thats the end of the upward mobility for most (not that there really is much upward mobility at the moment).
Thats what 'paying your dues' is really all about, accquiring skills while waiting for a position.
But you could put the eggs on ice when the women is young, and then transplant them back to her womb (assuming the womb can be kept going as she ages) when she wants kids.
Having said that, I agree with the person above, that road leads to even worse over-population.
I could only imagine that if such treatment became widespread, there would be a requirement for population controls (maybe you can only get the drug if you've had at most 1 child etc)
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Surely that would be considered a war crime.
That was an extremely good contigency plan, prepare to fight where the last big fight took place... right up to the point where a bunch of missiles turned up in Cuba.
Because unlike all the industries which the Rep's want to help, IT is a young industry.
I know everyone says that it's money from lobbying which buys influence and it's certainly is an issue, but I believe it's subtler than that. All those people in power now grew up with some link or other to the established industries.
Either they themselves directly employed in an industry, or maybe their parents or grand parents would have been involved in Heavy Industry, Argiculture, Media, Pharma, Energy etc. IT as a major industry in it's own right hasn't been around long enough for a significant number of people with a link to that industry to get into power.
As a result, some of the deepest networks of contacts come from those old industries. IT is always going to play second fiddle until the those in power have had direct experience of the IT industry which means we need at least a generation to be cycled through the halls of power.
You have a car moving through a changing magnetic field with a huge loop of wire designed specifically to interact with that magnetic field.
You've just added a huge source of drag to the car. All you've done is made the charging less efficent and made the movement of the car less efficent.
But that loss is already factored into the price per litre that you are paying.
No one mounts laser on sharks heads, they are on the protected species list.
Umm, no, he hasn't just blamed manufacturing plant floods on wall street. Where did you even get that from?
He's saying the drive to maintain/increase short term profitability is to blame.
That would have happened with or without floods.
You may have got extra attention because of the money you had access to. They may well be wondering why you want to get a mortgage when you don't need it.
Maybe not, but they could offer incentives like a lower rate if you provide a good social profile.
I think it's a reaction to the normal police method to distrupt protests by going after the leaders.
If you have a single point of failure in the form of a small core group who are organising (not necessarily the leaders of an event) the police can come along and arrest that core, the entire event fails, even if there are still plenty of people who feel strongly enough about the issue and it takes too long to draw up more plans with any secondary group of leaders who might step up after the first set are removed from the group.
It also presents a much strong front against disruption in general by the police because there are no 'high value' arrest targets, the only way to stop it is mass arrest/evictions and that never looks good on the news report.
Occupying an area is about as much as you can do without more significant organisation and planning.
I think leaderless protest got it's roots in Critical Mass cycle events (at least that was the first time I saw leaderless protest in effective action here in the UK).
You're missing the point, this isn't about what you are doing with the tablet while a kid is in the room.
It displays a history of what you have been doing when you start it up as a carousel of images so that you can go back to the book you were reading or the website you were browsing quickly next time you pick it up
The problem is, if the tablet is used by more than one person, is it really approapriate that everyone sees what you've been reading/watching/browsing given everyone in the house has access to that tablet unless you are going to lock it away when ever you aren't using it.
But that is the whole point, Walled Gardens cater to the masses but make indie development much harder because the developer has to convince the gate keep of the garden he should be allowed in.
If walled gardens completely take over then all entertainment software / content will be developed by a small cliche of companies and you will have to accept what ever they decide to produce.
It's not volume which matters, it's surface area with the water table bearing rock which determins how much water is going to get in.
I'm arguing that the fact that the faulty data was published has to be recorded some how, if someone has come to some conclusion based on what material was available at the time, then when you come to review that conclusion you need to know the context that someone was working in.
I've not said that facts can't be updated, only that the change has to be recorded some how.
Current book/paper publishing already does this, by releasing with revision numbers or at the least a publishing date. As a result you can reference a quote from a specific version of a text. All I'm arguing for is a way to reference text as it was at the time you came to a conclusion.
It doesn't have to be expensive paper books, ebooks can work. The complaint is about the reference material changing, especially if that change doesn't come with a change log.
Think of it from a different point of view. You submit a dissertation in which you reference one of these new texts and supports your claim that the sky is blue. Between the time you submit the paper and the paper being reviewed the text you have referenced is changed to say the sky is actually slightly violet rather than blue.
The idea is good, but you have to still be able to reference a piece of text/chart/graph/video as it was at a particular point in time or the entire referencing system used globally breaks down.
The best analogy that I can think of for a corporate prison is placing the company under extremely tight restrictions on financial contracts
I.e. not allowed to make any new contracts or service existing contacts.
What is prison if not an artificial limit on the social interactions of the prisoner with the rest of society.
The trouble with that of course is that the actions of a few higher executive officers would most adversely affect the rank and file employee and would likely be a death sentence for any company recieving any such sentence (who'd do business with them afterward they fail to delivery any goods the company is contracted to supply but aren't allowed to).
The only reasonable sentence I can think of is prison sentences for the executive officers.
The real problem of course is that Corporations aren't really people, so they shouldn't have the same rights and responsibilities as a person, Corporations are after all effectively immortal.
LEGO is all about the idea of the user building stuff from basic components. How can that concept not have been incorporated into a generic LEGO MMO (as opposed to LEGO Star Wars etc)
It's like having a Meccano MMO but only being able to allowed to see and chat to other users in a Meccano styled environment and not being allowed to build your own bridge just to see if it stays up.
I keep getting emails from EVE saying my characters are still waiting to be revived, except that it's not such as big an incentive as CCP think because those characters were training for stealth bombers which have since had their mechanics changed and to get back into a ship with them would require extensive retraining.
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I wonder if by showing they had less possible subscribers to the streaming service, they could push for lower licensing costs in upcoming negotiations?
Actually it gives your a Gnome3 session which has been tweaked to look like Gnome2
Just the fact that the banks have lobbied for that rule should set alarm bells ringing for everyone, the banks have looked at the system and they see where it's heading.
So gold is immune to supply and demand?
Gold's percieved value comes from it's past use as a metal used for coins and jewellery. It was used because it doesn't react strongly in air, was found in small quantities, was soft enough to mint easily and importantly, was almost worthless for any other use.
i.e. gold's value is based on exact the same basis as paper money, it's worth something because everyone thinks it's worth something.
If you doubled the amount of gold sitting in the global economic system, it's value per unit would half, in exactly the same way paper money would. Thats because the value of both is as a currency not as a material.
I agree with the GP, whether you like it or not, upwards mobility is only possible for the vast majority as positions above them become vacant.
If those above you stop retiring or dying and thus freeing up positions, thats the end of the upward mobility for most (not that there really is much upward mobility at the moment).
Thats what 'paying your dues' is really all about, accquiring skills while waiting for a position.
But you could put the eggs on ice when the women is young, and then transplant them back to her womb (assuming the womb can be kept going as she ages) when she wants kids.
Having said that, I agree with the person above, that road leads to even worse over-population.
I could only imagine that if such treatment became widespread, there would be a requirement for population controls (maybe you can only get the drug if you've had at most 1 child etc)