the Democrats are, much like the Republicans... a vote for the status quo This is the sort of UTTER BULLSHIT that got GW Bush elected... Your rant is only somewhat correct. But the statement that the Democrat party is just as corrupt is also correct. The Republican and Democrat parties are corrupt and need to be reformed and voting for Democrats in 2000, 2004 or even 2008 HAS NOT AND WILL NOT IMPROVE ANYTHING or retard the downward slide of the US political system. Voting for the Republicans or Democrats will only accelerate the inevitably end that is coming for the current corrupted party system and the bloated and obscenely corrupted bureaucracy that is the local, state and federal governments of the US. If you think the Democrat party will save the US or retard the corruption, you're living in a fantasy world. Voting for a third party is a great idea; if it would work but, that would take a grass roots movement of epic proportion or violent revolution to ever occur. I doubt any of this will happen for a long time so just relax and enjoy the BS shell game as the powerful elite run laughing all the way to the bank no matter which party they claim to be in. Playing this idiotic crying game of party politics only allows them more control over you. Bend over and enjoy it or get with reality and accept the Democrat (LOL, progressives) are as same, yet slightly differing flavor, as the Republicans and help rebuild the government back to some semblance of sanity by throwing them both out along with a whole bunch of BS laws and regulations they've piled onto or government over the years. BTW: I don't like Bush but I like and fully support "some" of the things he's done you find repugnant for completely different reasons than the radical left progressives wrongly believe concerning Bush automatons. Some of us actually are glad the NEOCON's (say it like Darth Vader with the respirator sound. Oh it sounds so ominous and evil; LOL.) are causing a fuss. We feel the philosophy is sound, valid and useful for humanities future. I want the world apple cart tipped over. I want people pissed off. I want something to happen rather than the decades of stagnant suffering I've witnessed, some of it first hand, promoted by the corrupt "real politic" progressive liberal types that have been so entrenched and in charge since the early 70's. There has been too much hypocrisy and corruption brewing for generations and humanity needs to get pissed off to even think about fixing it so please continue ranting on the Internet and go join the Army to knock some heads in for humanity's future;-)
Make a new show using the same plots, similar characters, different names and new sets and call it something else. Hollywood recycles ideas every day, why can't you?
Rather than go off the deep end feeling surrounded by conspiracies, try to think like a bureaucrat or a lawyer for a second and then maybe you'll see the unmelodramatic reasoning behind things like Patriot Act, NSA wire taps and the invasion of Iraq. This kind of process has gone on during several past wars and has gone way after the wars ended. There is a war going on now and it will end eventually. The president took congressional permission to prosecute the war as permission to defend the country how he see's fit. That's what a republic does during a crisis; it gives one leader the focused ability to become a temporary tyrant then removes it once the threat has passed. This is a normal process. Yes the potential for abuse goes up but so does the ability to detect and eliminate elements within your society bent on killing you.
On another note, the NSA, CIA and the DOD are not some great evil, imperial, cult of death squad brown shirts bent on US and world domination, nor are they mindless automatons blind to individual or factional aspirations. They are normal people with a variety of traits, philosophies and opinions just like every other citizen; well maybe with a bit more integrity. There are politics inside but they drop them for the sake of mission and defense. If there was the slightest chance the President would attempt to use them in a way to break the law you would find a massive revolt occurring and some really nasty politics too. Could this be what happened concerning the leak? Stay tuned to find out and don't pitch fits being impatient and melodramatic.
By the way, some people on the inside have been alluding to Gilliam's movie since it came out as being frightfully prophetic too.
And I hope they do! The mainstream Hollywood pabulum oozes with PC apologist tripe so thick its going to eventually kill the industry or run it off to other countries. It's sick. I'm tired of it and ask for some quality entertainment suiting my philosophy for a change. Mr. Card's philosophy is pretty close and this film would suit me nicely.
Being overloaded with 93 users and 110 workstations tells me that you are most likely working under some really cheap owners. I'd come at them from a cost savings angle. If that doesn't work and you plan on staying then I suggest a solid medical plan with low co-pay's, no deductibles and good references to psycho therapists. Also, maintain a complete CYA file of everything that crosses you desk/PC and watch them like a hawk for the knife in the back when it comes so as to take as many down as you can to increase your severance package. Don't be afraid to hold there information hostage either, you know they would drink your mothers blood given the chance.
When my family first got cable TV in 76, there was no advertising and it wasn't a very expensive subscription either. We had HBO, a few local channels and some other stuff.
Within about two years advertising crept in and the price of subscription went up.
Yes, subscription without adverts will work but only if the marking shysters can be effectively blocked from approaching the cable management, staff or shareholders with whispers of huge profits in there ears.
My opinion, marketing always seeps through, feeding greed, corrupting a good thing. Give it up, advertising is only going to get more obnoxious.
From many of my IT experiences, 20 years worth, I've found a worsening trend over the past 9 years in all facets of IT becoming under funded, understaffed and underrepresented in smaller corporations and business. I attribute this pretty much to greed, business ignorance concerning IT and the glut of IT personnel in the job market.
Something I've seen a lot of in the past few years with smaller corporations has been the continued placement of IT under a CFO. I have always found this practice to be a formula for disaster. It still confounds me when I see a corporation intrusting its technology assets to an MBA and not a qualified Technology expert. Yes, I know it's breaking years of tradition but it needs to happen in even smaller businesses.
In the past five corporations I've worked with I've witnessed the exact same process in which the CFO becomes threatened by the IT management and staff. What happens is that they constantly offer the company ideas and projects that the CFO finds too expensive. He in turn forces through cheaper alternatives that the board jumps on despite impassioned emails from the IT staff claiming disaster will occur. Eventually these failures of technology mount up with the CFO blame shifting and the IT staff expending CYA files. A stand off occurs, everyone loses trust then lies, back stabbing, staff shortages, budget sabotage, etc... occur. Eventually either the CFO goes or the IT staff but seeing most CFO's I've known have been playing the corporate political game far longer, manage to win out through tactics designed to strain the IT staff to the breaking point. I've had several CFO's tell me that it's easier for them to hire one of the thousands of over certified, underpaid and inexperienced IT types, coerce and leverage the hell out of them for every hour and penny expecting an 18 month half life from the employee. The employee then either wises up and quits or screws up enough to get fired. The CFO then simply repeats the process. One said he preferred the H1B's because they have an approximate 24 month half life using this philosophy.
I say smaller corporations need to break with tradition, bight the salary bullet and create a CIO position independent from the CFO! Either do that or don't have an IT staff at all and contract out everything. If this doesn't happen they can expect eventual major IT unions to rise up soon.
I'd accept.0c / min / DL of advertising heavy, DRM filled, recordable once and scheduled by me on demand data, with a subscription service of say around $5 / month.
On the other hand, I would accept a DL purchasable system that can have DRM, would be advertising free and allow me to copy, own and schedule for myself on demand to be used in any device I want for the following at no subscription.
Book: Approximately.1c per 10 pages.
Music: About.5c / min
Video: About.25c / 2 hours
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the Democrats are, much like the Republicans ... a vote for the status quo ... ;-)
This is the sort of UTTER BULLSHIT that got GW Bush elected
Your rant is only somewhat correct. But the statement that the Democrat party is just as corrupt is also correct. The Republican and Democrat parties are corrupt and need to be reformed and voting for Democrats in 2000, 2004 or even 2008 HAS NOT AND WILL NOT IMPROVE ANYTHING or retard the downward slide of the US political system. Voting for the Republicans or Democrats will only accelerate the inevitably end that is coming for the current corrupted party system and the bloated and obscenely corrupted bureaucracy that is the local, state and federal governments of the US. If you think the Democrat party will save the US or retard the corruption, you're living in a fantasy world.
Voting for a third party is a great idea; if it would work but, that would take a grass roots movement of epic proportion or violent revolution to ever occur. I doubt any of this will happen for a long time so just relax and enjoy the BS shell game as the powerful elite run laughing all the way to the bank no matter which party they claim to be in.
Playing this idiotic crying game of party politics only allows them more control over you. Bend over and enjoy it or get with reality and accept the Democrat (LOL, progressives) are as same, yet slightly differing flavor, as the Republicans and help rebuild the government back to some semblance of sanity by throwing them both out along with a whole bunch of BS laws and regulations they've piled onto or government over the years.
BTW: I don't like Bush but I like and fully support "some" of the things he's done you find repugnant for completely different reasons than the radical left progressives wrongly believe concerning Bush automatons. Some of us actually are glad the NEOCON's (say it like Darth Vader with the respirator sound. Oh it sounds so ominous and evil; LOL.) are causing a fuss. We feel the philosophy is sound, valid and useful for humanities future. I want the world apple cart tipped over. I want people pissed off. I want something to happen rather than the decades of stagnant suffering I've witnessed, some of it first hand, promoted by the corrupt "real politic" progressive liberal types that have been so entrenched and in charge since the early 70's. There has been too much hypocrisy and corruption brewing for generations and humanity needs to get pissed off to even think about fixing it so please continue ranting on the Internet and go join the Army to knock some heads in for humanity's future
LOL
Make a new show using the same plots, similar characters, different names and new sets and call it something else. Hollywood recycles ideas every day, why can't you?
Rather than go off the deep end feeling surrounded by conspiracies, try to think like a bureaucrat or a lawyer for a second and then maybe you'll see the unmelodramatic reasoning behind things like Patriot Act, NSA wire taps and the invasion of Iraq.
This kind of process has gone on during several past wars and has gone way after the wars ended. There is a war going on now and it will end eventually. The president took congressional permission to prosecute the war as permission to defend the country how he see's fit. That's what a republic does during a crisis; it gives one leader the focused ability to become a temporary tyrant then removes it once the threat has passed. This is a normal process. Yes the potential for abuse goes up but so does the ability to detect and eliminate elements within your society bent on killing you.
On another note, the NSA, CIA and the DOD are not some great evil, imperial, cult of death squad brown shirts bent on US and world domination, nor are they mindless automatons blind to individual or factional aspirations. They are normal people with a variety of traits, philosophies and opinions just like every other citizen; well maybe with a bit more integrity.
There are politics inside but they drop them for the sake of mission and defense. If there was the slightest chance the President would attempt to use them in a way to break the law you would find a massive revolt occurring and some really nasty politics too.
Could this be what happened concerning the leak? Stay tuned to find out and don't pitch fits being impatient and melodramatic.
By the way, some people on the inside have been alluding to Gilliam's movie since it came out as being frightfully prophetic too.
And I hope they do!
The mainstream Hollywood pabulum oozes with PC apologist tripe so thick its going to eventually kill the industry or run it off to other countries. It's sick.
I'm tired of it and ask for some quality entertainment suiting my philosophy for a change. Mr. Card's philosophy is pretty close and this film would suit me nicely.
Being overloaded with 93 users and 110 workstations tells me that you are most likely working under some really cheap owners.
I'd come at them from a cost savings angle. If that doesn't work and you plan on staying then I suggest a solid medical plan with low co-pay's, no deductibles and good references to psycho therapists. Also, maintain a complete CYA file of everything that crosses you desk/PC and watch them like a hawk for the knife in the back when it comes so as to take as many down as you can to increase your severance package. Don't be afraid to hold there information hostage either, you know they would drink your mothers blood given the chance.
When my family first got cable TV in 76, there was no advertising and it wasn't a very expensive subscription either. We had HBO, a few local channels and some other stuff. Within about two years advertising crept in and the price of subscription went up. Yes, subscription without adverts will work but only if the marking shysters can be effectively blocked from approaching the cable management, staff or shareholders with whispers of huge profits in there ears. My opinion, marketing always seeps through, feeding greed, corrupting a good thing. Give it up, advertising is only going to get more obnoxious.
From many of my IT experiences, 20 years worth, I've found a worsening trend over the past 9 years in all facets of IT becoming under funded, understaffed and underrepresented in smaller corporations and business. I attribute this pretty much to greed, business ignorance concerning IT and the glut of IT personnel in the job market.
Something I've seen a lot of in the past few years with smaller corporations has been the continued placement of IT under a CFO. I have always found this practice to be a formula for disaster. It still confounds me when I see a corporation intrusting its technology assets to an MBA and not a qualified Technology expert. Yes, I know it's breaking years of tradition but it needs to happen in even smaller businesses.
In the past five corporations I've worked with I've witnessed the exact same process in which the CFO becomes threatened by the IT management and staff. What happens is that they constantly offer the company ideas and projects that the CFO finds too expensive. He in turn forces through cheaper alternatives that the board jumps on despite impassioned emails from the IT staff claiming disaster will occur.
Eventually these failures of technology mount up with the CFO blame shifting and the IT staff expending CYA files. A stand off occurs, everyone loses trust then lies, back stabbing, staff shortages, budget sabotage, etc... occur.
Eventually either the CFO goes or the IT staff but seeing most CFO's I've known have been playing the corporate political game far longer, manage to win out through tactics designed to strain the IT staff to the breaking point.
I've had several CFO's tell me that it's easier for them to hire one of the thousands of over certified, underpaid and inexperienced IT types, coerce and leverage the hell out of them for every hour and penny expecting an 18 month half life from the employee. The employee then either wises up and quits or screws up enough to get fired. The CFO then simply repeats the process. One said he preferred the H1B's because they have an approximate 24 month half life using this philosophy.
I say smaller corporations need to break with tradition, bight the salary bullet and create a CIO position independent from the CFO! Either do that or don't have an IT staff at all and contract out everything. If this doesn't happen they can expect eventual major IT unions to rise up soon.
I'd accept .0c / min / DL of advertising heavy, DRM filled, recordable once and scheduled by me on demand data, with a subscription service of say around $5 / month.
On the other hand, I would accept a DL purchasable system that can have DRM, would be advertising free and allow me to copy, own and schedule for myself on demand to be used in any device I want for the following at no subscription.
Book: Approximately .1c per 10 pages.
Music: About .5c / min
Video: About .25c / 2 hours