Millions of people regularly resorting to eating grass to ward off starvation is socialism at its finest?
==== You are wrong about socialism. What you were describing was dictatorship. Socialism works well in moderation and in conjunction with capitalism. That is why Canada, Australia, much of Europe, Norway, Finland, Japan and other countries are able to feed and take care of their citizens. There is nothing wrong with taking care of your sick, elderly, and poor. By the way, under socialism, there is global purchasing of medicines, so instead of seventy-five cents a pill, it is five cents. In a capitalist society that was well known for its wealth, the seventy-five cents rate is the norm.
When I was in the hospital for Creaping flesh eating disease (yes, we have medicare), the hospital rate was not $1000 per day, with another $1000 for doctors and tests, but $300 for the room, $70/visit, and in the weeks stay, $400 for anti-biotics, all covered at 100% by my medical assurance. I love socialism mixed with capitalism.
His first term he put $80 Billion towards this. You will remember great hits like Solendra, A123, and Fisker. The list of companies getting the money from that original program read like a whos-who of campaign donors. Many of the companies went bankrupt quickly after getting the federal money and none of them produced anything usable.
So, to anser your question "How is this not a good idea?" The track record is this will be a slush fund to reward his friends and accomplish nothing useful. Corrupt politics and corporate cronyism at its finest. Nothing to do with "socialism", just plain theft.
=== I have to ask one question. "What is the main business of the Oil and Gas Industry?" My answer would be Energy. And if it is energy, who better to tax and fund research as Oil and Gas energy that will become more and more expensive to extract, becoming unaffordable to the average consumer. It may be a slush fund for the Energy sector, but bottom line, is that purchases of foreign oil and gas will drop substantially, while it is replaced with clean energy. The beneficiaries will be the Energy companies, the American people as cash stays inside the country, and ultimately, the consumer.
I think his idea is a good one and should be implemented. Unfortunately it will be rejected by the Republicans because it is NIH, (not invented here) and the corporations who only look for short term gain and only do "today planning".
You may wish to contact some senior homes and explain your situation. You have working machines, circa 20xx and you would like to donate them for a cause. They have xxxx and the only requirement would be to provide an internet connection.
Some churches know of senior homes where these boxes could be welcome
Or, as one friend to another, I forgot my card, I spilled coffee on my keyboard, can I borrow your card? The way it would happen is "I forgot my card, I need to go out to smoke, Lend me your card, I will be back in 10!".
I must respectfully disagree with Schnier on this one.
A cyber Cold War doesn't come about without another Cold War having occurred first.
In this case, Cold War II is playing out between NATO, the Russians the Chinese.
Just like Cold War I, this one is rooted in a practical geopolitical concern: who will be the ruling superpower for the next century?
Expect a Cold War II, if you're lucky. If not, expect WWIII, which will probably be more limited than the last two but still devastating.
=== I have to disagree with you. A good defence is a good offence. What you do is prepare your offence, test that it works by real of dry runs, and prepare for the idea that a real cold war would not occur. That is why the USA has deployed their armed forces everywhere around the world. If one location is attacked, the other locations can be called upon to come to the rescue. The USA, is very concerned about a run on a bank, or a domino effect of a electric grid shutdown. If planes can't fly, because they cannot take off, and they cannot take off because of cyberfraud killing the operating systems, or providing false information, the USA will be a sitting duck. Not much you can do if your communication network (satellite, wire, ground, telephone, pigeon or other is destroyed)
So, by creating MIR Ubuntu contributed to Wayland by giving the Gnome devs a big kick in the butt?
Well played, Canonical, well played!:)
And for the record, as long as both MIR and Wayland are more or less interoperable I don't care what's behind the hood. Both are open source and will be solid by the time they come out, so may the best implementation win. A little competition every now and then is just healthy.
=== Prior to Ubuntu announcing MIR, Gnome appeared to be taking the country club approach to development. The view from outside was, "If not today, then tomorrow". KDE and Mir have a good chance of bankrupting Gnome. If Gnome does continue as it has, the money and support tap will stop flowing, and once gone, restarting it will be very very difficult.
Gnome, I've been with you for 7 years, but since January you lost me to Cinnamon and KDE. Will I come back? Only if you backport nautilus functions, and you continue with improved ergonomics, improved functionality, a smaller memory footprint and fewer CPU cycles than what the two I mentioned consume.
=== When you take actions to keep the rich corporations that way, ever rich, then the poor get poorer. And poor people, at some point, can't buy the goods and services to sustain the wealthy. As proof, look at Walmart. They grew to 34000+ stores by purchasing foreign goods, and killing local jobs. They killed small businesses and created new jobs at minimum wage, which means that these Walmart employees are not able to take that vacation, to easily buy the new 55 inch TV, and most of all, took away from their communities, all discretionary income. Now these communities suffer from not being able to raise taxes to cover infrastructure repairs due to the populations inability to pay, and the people, mostly baby boomers are entering retirement, are needing what I get in Canada. Canada is a very democratic capitalistic country, with a social safety net to ensure that I will be able to live out my life without fear of starvation, without having to choose between medication or food, and with very affordable access to medicare. I worked for 50 years in Canada, as did most of the Americans that did the same for their richest country in the world, and I am better off.
Canada is not communist, Canada respects and cares for its citizens. The Republicans, according to their latest proposals, want to kill all social safety nets, want to wash their hands of responsibility to look after grandparents, or parents, and just keep the status quo. The Republicans last pronouncement was to kill social safety nets, but not one word about closing tax loopholes. I feel sorry for the American seniors who slaved all their lives, have no discretionary income, and yet cant live without fear from unexpected medical bills or high inflation. Your comments make me sad.
I don't know what sort of Communist society you live in, but in America people create jobs for people because they profit from it, not for charity. Jobs will be created when there is demand for those jobs (or the products that those jobs create). If there is no demand (for example, if there is no middle class to buy the products) then the rich people will not the create jobs. And they shouldn't. But, if all the rich people decide to stop creating jobs ("going Galt"), then there will still be demand and middle class or poor people will create the jobs themselves (because there is potential to make money - this is how small businesses are created).
It boggles my mind that all these Republicans think they have to worship rich people as gods or they will take all the jobs away. I don't thank my boss for giving me a job. My boss thanks me for being hardworking and productive by giving me bonuses and raises. My boss (who is a conservative) made a joke right after the election that he is going to have to fire people because his taxes were going to go up. I told him (lightheartedly of course) that if I did not already make him more money than I cost, then he should go ahead and fire me because I don't work for charity. Guess what? I am still working (he did not fire me).
=== When you take actions to keep the rich corporations that way, ever rich, then the poor get poorer. And poor people, at some point, can't buy the goods and services to sustain the wealthy. As proof, look at Walmart. They grew to 34000+ stores by purchasing foreign goods, and killing local jobs. They killed small businesses and created new jobs at minimum wage, which means that these Walmart employees are not able to take that vacation, to easily buy the new 55 inch TV, and most of all, took away from their communities, all discretionary income. Now these communities suffer from not being able to raise taxes to cover infrastructure repairs due to the populations inability to pay, and the people, mostly baby boomers are entering retirement, are needing what I get in Canada. Canada is a very democratic capitalistic country, with a social safety net to ensure that I will be able to live out my life without fear of starvation, without having to choose between medication or food, and with very affordable access to medicare. I worked for 50 years in Canada, as did most of the Americans that did the same for their richest country in the world, and I am better off.
Canada is not communist, Canada respects and cares for its citizens. The Republicans, according to their latest proposals, want to kill all social safety nets, want to wash their hands of responsibility to look after grandparents, or parents, and just keep the status quo. The Republicans last pronouncement was to kill social safety nets, but not one word about closing tax loopholes. I feel sorry for the American seniors who slaved all their lives, have no discretionary income, and yet cant live without fear from unexpected medical billhttp://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/12/137239/what-if-manning-had-leaked-to-the-new-york-times#s or high inflation. Your comments make me sad.
We just think it's funny that you keep calling Obama a socialist. All it shows is that you have no clue what the word means. Obama is not a socialist. The American Socialist Party doesn't even think he's a socialist.
I don't like or support Obama, but not because of his economic stance. The fact is that he'd be able to get a lot more done to help the country on the economic front if the Republicans weren't bound and determined to block everything he attempts to do.
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I guess you are saying that the expression "Bite your nose to spite your face" applies to the Republicans. They are truly not in the majority, if you count the election day popular vote, but are there because of gerrymandering. The USA has millions of baby boomers, and some are in retirement, others are just entering. These BBs were in the war, protecting the nation, and now the republicans are saying "Its their tough luck that they were drafted into fighting to save our nation. We owe them nothing!"
At some time, you have to look after your citizens, young and old. If it means you don't upgrade your car every three years, or buy that 55 inch 3D TV, or the new toy, so be it. Take care of your retired seniors that cannot pay and have to choose between medicine or food.
Obama reaches out to people with understanding. Not everything is corporate profits.
Sometimes in life we have to chuckle a little or remember to teach our children that we should not follow that author who wrote "Madame Malaprop" (translation "Mrs. WrongWord")
Madame Malaprop is a literary figure, whose claim to fame is her uncanny habit of using the wrong word in a manner that makes sense under absurd circumstances.
Consider "The Hypocrisy In Silicon Valley's Big Talk On Innovation".
When I grew up, we sat on a chair, got off the seat, walked on the floor, turned on the light, were on topic or off topic, but we always were talking or writing about.
Should todays headline read "The Hypocrisy In Silicon Valley's Big Talk about Innovation"? The existing headline did not turn me on.
What could possibly be in my medical records that they don't want me to know about?
Suppose the doctor was concerned about how the patient would interpret a diagnosis. People tend to be pessimistic about a doctor's report. The doctor is forced by US propensity to sue, to put much more into a report than what is necessary, and of course, to schedule several dozen extra tests that are irrelevant. My brother-in-law went to a clinique to have a splinter in his hand removed. He could not do it himself. The surgery took 10 minutes, some antiseptic and a bandaid. But they used this to take a blood test, a urine test to ensure there was no infection, an antibiotic prescription in case the area became infected. This extraction lifted $989 out of his wallet for a splinter in his right hand. (He is a rightie--right handed and he did not have the dexterity to do the extraction himself with his left hand)
On a more serious opinion, I believe very much that Quebec/NY State, and that longitudinal slice from the western boundary, should remain on savings time all year round.
These are my observations. In Montreal, on Dec 21st, daylight arrives around 7:20am. Sundown is at 4:10pm. Morning drivers are driving about 5 mph (5-7km/(hr) slower and the after work return home shows the reverse. When you are hungry, and need to be home for supper, or your blood sugar is low, drivers are with less patience. Darkness does not help.
In the morning, kids on their way to school do so in daylight. Instead of black skies at 4:00pm, they would have darkness at 5pm. They would have one extra hour of daylight to play.
Re energy differences, I believe that the consumption would be marginally lower with the permanent shift. Morning would be with some lighting being used, but there would be one hour less lighting used in the evening. As well, with using programmable thermostats, there will be another small savings in heating. There would be no difference in summer.
Time zones are arbitrary. The continent could live with a permenant one hour shift. Perhaps in the mid'-west they would choose to remain on standard time year round.
Why can;t someone come up with a disk controller, along the lines of what we had in the mainframe days. The controler could be a card with a cache, communicating via dma or direct copy, and attached to the controler would be the sata drives. Do an fsync, and the controler would do the write to disk from the cache, until there was free space to allow more mainsystem I/O to occur. Our old AIX controller had lead-acid backup batteries. Every few years IBM came along and replace the battery pack. With 50 users, we never appeared to wait, even when a user would issue a flush command.
I have not analyzed this interface model, but somehow, my gut feeling is that I/O speed would be disk access speed at first, until frequently used data was cached, and then perhaps a millisecond or two for an average access delay. You hardware guys, do any popular disks have RPS (Rotational Positional Sensing)?
With RPS, the disk controler knew where in the rotation each disk was positioned.
I started with Core (Fedora) seven years ago. I stayed with Fedora for every upgrade. Along the way, I started developing software for ubuntu, fedora, debian and mint, both 32 bit and 64bit. Everything just worked.
Prior to Fedora 18, I used to download the DVD, backup/home and do a clean installation. I did that to not remain with some software that I evaluated, but was not worth keeping, and where removal would remove too many dependencies.
With Fedora 18, I found a Russian Spin. This English Spin included every code, Chrome, and developer stuff and upon its installation, it just worked. All of it.
I read somewhere, but decided to not verify that Russia does not support software patents. That is perhaps why their spin is complete and ready to use for music, videos, and software development.
I have been using this Russian spin since January 15th, the day Fedora was officially released. I have both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions installed and very stable. Gnome is definitely not my GUI interface. .
Now he's going to try to clone all of Microsoft's clones of other people's technology for the Mac.
Lets see how far that gets him.
=== I have this problem with Miguels conjecture, that it is a Linux problem,I see it as nothing but a Gnome project problem. I believe that the Gnome project was without a true project manager, a project manager who would sit down with the shopping list, review what was the priority, and do what a project manager should do. That includes getting funding and developers a timetable and testing plan and tackling what is priority number one to end-users and distribution developers. After that Gnome project would tackle priority two. Instead the project tried to tackle too many features without a good developers road map.
Why is it that there is no fragmentation with KDE, or cinnamon? Both just work and both are have their same functionality, irrespective of platform.
If Miguel was or is such a hotshot architect, developer, why is Gnome so fragmented? It is Gnome, not Mate, Cinnamon, or KDE or Enlighten.
Why did Canonical go their own way with Unity? Some questions that have been asked need to be answered.
Whatever the situation is, it sure seems like a huge moral hazard for local school administrators. They have an ethical obligation to protect children's data, but they have a self-interest in successful careers, which can be judged by how much money they bring into the district.
My guess is that money and status trumps a child's privacy, even among the people you'd presume "think of the children."
Does not a child that is registered in that database own his own public and confidential data? If corps want to make use of the data, they better get permission from each of the record owners they want to read.
It's kinda the whole problem with Linux is that any "standard" is just defacto and ever shifting. Yeah for sure, it is something that holds Linux back compared to the stability of proprietary platforms. But also, it is the thing that allows it to move forward. Canonical will give this a shot, and if its great, perhaps it will be the new standard. If its rubbish, it won't be. Let's just see what they come up with. If Wayland were perfect, I'm sure Canonical would not want to throw money at a problem that is already solved.
=== As the little boy said, "Everyone is out of step but me". Canonical is moving to closed source. Canonical tried to make money with the desktop, and has failed thus far. It is only with their server and the Ubuntu store that they will see revenue for the Desktop. In comes the tablet, and it's time to break free of GNU licensing. If you roll your own, you own what you roll. And you do not need to share it. One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four, to go!!
My experience (my daughter has ADD) has convinced me that ADD is not a lack of ability to focus, but rather a lack of ability to focus on things you're not interested in or see no point to. My daughter can focus for hours on something she wants to do, like sewing, playing video games, or making videos. The problem is our educational system regards the ability to read and comprehend hundreds of pages of material you could care less about as the highest virtue. Unless you later become a game show contestant, most of the stuff you're required to memorize in school is just useless trivia.
=== Guns don't kill people, Lack of Anger management and being a tantrum thrower does. And it helps to do some killing by drinking 3 expressos coffees just before you relaxingly start an argument.
Now there's two iPad sizes. And lots of sizes for Android tablets. A fair amount of choice for Win 8 too. Everyone's happy!
=== If it fits in my shirt pocket, it is the right size. Any small amount larger, and I have to accidently sit on it and break the glass is not a viable size. And I do want long battery life but also low weight.
Sigh, I have broken two small tablets by accidently sitting on each getting into the car. And my shirt pocket started to separate from the shirt after about two uses after drycleanings.
Divide your rent or mortgage by the square footage of your house+garage+basement. Calculate the number of square feet this stuff will occupy to find out how much your "free" stuff costs per month. In much of the US it has been upwards of $1 per square foot per month. So each 19" CRT or "pizza box" Sun or SGI is probably costing a couple of bucks a month depending on how high you can stack them. Is it worth that to you? For most stuff and most people, the answer is sadly no and the value half-life of technology is decreasing every year as manufacturers lock consumers into their planned-obsolescence trap. If you'll get enough enjoyment out of it, by all means collect it. I hope slashdotters haven't lost their nerdy mojo and are just trying to hoard the good stuff for themselves. But in case people here really lack imagination, here are a few items that might be worth keeping:
All modern hard drives contain strong rare-earth magnets.
At the current price of copper, a CRT yoke magnets and flyback transformer might bring in a few bucks. But first figure out what you're going to do with the rest of it.
Tantalum "Super capacitors" might be of value just for the rare-earth content. But you'd need a lot of them. Better to donate to an electronics recycling charity.
Laser disk players also have Helium neon lasers, beam splitters, high quality servos and optical components.
Early projection TVs and video projectors and studio cameras and projectors might have a cold mirror (interference infrared filter) as well as an interference filter/mirror optical device for splitting white light into red, green and blue channels.
VCRs, Printers have strong motors, gears, solonoids and other electromechanical parts.
Ocilloscopes often contain unusual high-persistance phosphors. Build yourself a scintillation radiation detector or see what happens if you shine a UV LED onto it.
Whatever you do, don't throw it in your ordinary trash. The only thing worse than paying $1000/month rent for a house full of junk is ruining our environment with something that does have value. Check your local area, electronics recycling is a value proposition for some metals (e.g. gold) but also for the rare earth elements in capacitors and hard drive magnets.
My approach would be to find a small business with an electric furnace. Melt down all the crap, separate out the gold and other precious metals, and then sell the scrap metal b y the pound. Metals are worth money. You could probably extract more tnan a few troy ounces of gold.
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Go, NK. Stand up to those capitalist lackeys.
Millions of people regularly resorting to eating grass to ward off starvation is socialism at its finest?
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You are wrong about socialism. What you were describing was dictatorship. Socialism works well in moderation and in conjunction with capitalism. That is why Canada, Australia, much of Europe, Norway, Finland, Japan and other countries are able to feed and take care of their citizens. There is nothing wrong with taking care of your sick, elderly, and poor. By the way, under socialism, there is global purchasing of medicines, so instead of seventy-five cents a pill, it is five cents. In a capitalist society that was well known for its wealth, the seventy-five cents rate is the norm.
When I was in the hospital for Creaping flesh eating disease (yes, we have medicare), the hospital rate was not $1000 per day, with another $1000 for doctors and tests, but $300 for the room, $70/visit, and in the weeks stay, $400 for anti-biotics, all covered at 100% by my medical assurance. I love socialism mixed with capitalism.
His first term he put $80 Billion towards this. You will remember great hits like Solendra, A123, and Fisker. The list of companies getting the money from that original program read like a whos-who of campaign donors. Many of the companies went bankrupt quickly after getting the federal money and none of them produced anything usable.
So, to anser your question "How is this not a good idea?" The track record is this will be a slush fund to reward his friends and accomplish nothing useful. Corrupt politics and corporate cronyism at its finest. Nothing to do with "socialism", just plain theft.
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I have to ask one question. "What is the main business of the Oil and Gas Industry?" My answer would be Energy. And if it is energy, who better to tax and fund research as Oil and Gas energy that will become more and more expensive to extract, becoming unaffordable to the average consumer. It may be a slush fund for the Energy sector, but bottom line, is that purchases of foreign oil and gas will drop substantially, while it is replaced with clean energy. The beneficiaries will be the Energy companies, the American people as cash stays inside the country, and ultimately, the consumer.
I think his idea is a good one and should be implemented. Unfortunately it will be rejected by the Republicans because it is NIH, (not invented here) and the corporations who only look for short term gain and only do "today planning".
You may wish to contact some senior homes and explain your situation. You have working machines, circa 20xx and you would like to donate them for a cause. They have xxxx and the only requirement would be to provide an internet connection.
Some churches know of senior homes where these boxes could be welcome
Or, as one friend to another, I forgot my card, I spilled coffee on my keyboard, can I borrow your card?
The way it would happen is "I forgot my card, I need to go out to smoke, Lend me your card, I will be back in 10!".
Love technology or abuse it.
I must respectfully disagree with Schnier on this one.
A cyber Cold War doesn't come about without another Cold War having occurred first.
In this case, Cold War II is playing out between NATO, the Russians the Chinese.
Just like Cold War I, this one is rooted in a practical geopolitical concern: who will be the ruling superpower for the next century?
Expect a Cold War II, if you're lucky. If not, expect WWIII, which will probably be more limited than the last two but still devastating.
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I have to disagree with you. A good defence is a good offence. What you do is prepare your offence, test that it works by real of dry runs, and prepare for the idea that a real cold war would not occur. That is why the USA has deployed their armed forces everywhere around the world. If one location is attacked, the other locations can be called upon to come to the rescue.
The USA, is very concerned about a run on a bank, or a domino effect of a electric grid shutdown. If planes can't fly, because they cannot take off, and they cannot take off because of cyberfraud killing the operating systems, or providing false information, the USA will be a sitting duck. Not much you can do if your communication network (satellite, wire, ground, telephone, pigeon or other is destroyed)
So, by creating MIR Ubuntu contributed to Wayland by giving the Gnome devs a big kick in the butt?
Well played, Canonical, well played! :)
And for the record, as long as both MIR and Wayland are more or less interoperable I don't care what's behind the hood. Both are open source and will be solid by the time they come out, so may the best implementation win. A little competition every now and then is just healthy.
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Prior to Ubuntu announcing MIR, Gnome appeared to be taking the country club approach to development. The view from outside was, "If not today, then tomorrow".
KDE and Mir have a good chance of bankrupting Gnome. If Gnome does continue as it has, the money and support tap will stop flowing, and once gone, restarting it will be very very difficult.
Gnome, I've been with you for 7 years, but since January you lost me to Cinnamon and KDE. Will I come back? Only if you backport nautilus functions, and you continue with improved ergonomics, improved functionality, a smaller memory footprint and fewer CPU cycles than what the two I mentioned consume.
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When you take actions to keep the rich corporations that way, ever rich, then the poor get poorer. And poor people, at some point, can't buy the goods and services to sustain the wealthy. As proof, look at Walmart. They grew to 34000+ stores by purchasing foreign goods, and killing local jobs. They killed small businesses and created new jobs at minimum wage, which means that these Walmart employees are not able to take that vacation, to easily buy the new 55 inch TV, and most of all, took away from their communities, all discretionary income. Now these communities suffer from not being able to raise taxes to cover infrastructure repairs due to the populations inability to pay, and the people, mostly baby boomers are entering retirement, are needing what I get in Canada. Canada is a very democratic capitalistic country, with a social safety net to ensure that I will be able to live out my life without fear of starvation, without having to choose between medication or food, and with very affordable access to medicare. I worked for 50 years in Canada, as did most of the Americans that did the same for their richest country in the world, and I am better off.
Canada is not communist, Canada respects and cares for its citizens. The Republicans, according to their latest proposals, want to kill all social safety nets, want to wash their hands of responsibility to look after grandparents, or parents, and just keep the status quo. The Republicans last pronouncement was to kill social safety nets, but not one word about closing tax loopholes.
I feel sorry for the American seniors who slaved all their lives, have no discretionary income, and yet cant live without fear from unexpected medical bills or high inflation. Your comments make me sad.
I don't know what sort of Communist society you live in, but in America people create jobs for people because they profit from it, not for charity. Jobs will be created when there is demand for those jobs (or the products that those jobs create). If there is no demand (for example, if there is no middle class to buy the products) then the rich people will not the create jobs. And they shouldn't. But, if all the rich people decide to stop creating jobs ("going Galt"), then there will still be demand and middle class or poor people will create the jobs themselves (because there is potential to make money - this is how small businesses are created).
It boggles my mind that all these Republicans think they have to worship rich people as gods or they will take all the jobs away. I don't thank my boss for giving me a job. My boss thanks me for being hardworking and productive by giving me bonuses and raises. My boss (who is a conservative) made a joke right after the election that he is going to have to fire people because his taxes were going to go up. I told him (lightheartedly of course) that if I did not already make him more money than I cost, then he should go ahead and fire me because I don't work for charity. Guess what? I am still working (he did not fire me).
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When you take actions to keep the rich corporations that way, ever rich, then the poor get poorer. And poor people, at some point, can't buy the goods and services to sustain the wealthy. As proof, look at Walmart. They grew to 34000+ stores by purchasing foreign goods, and killing local jobs. They killed small businesses and created new jobs at minimum wage, which means that these Walmart employees are not able to take that vacation, to easily buy the new 55 inch TV, and most of all, took away from their communities, all discretionary income. Now these communities suffer from not being able to raise taxes to cover infrastructure repairs due to the populations inability to pay, and the people, mostly baby boomers are entering retirement, are needing what I get in Canada. Canada is a very democratic capitalistic country, with a social safety net to ensure that I will be able to live out my life without fear of starvation, without having to choose between medication or food, and with very affordable access to medicare. I worked for 50 years in Canada, as did most of the Americans that did the same for their richest country in the world, and I am better off.
Canada is not communist, Canada respects and cares for its citizens. The Republicans, according to their latest proposals, want to kill all social safety nets, want to wash their hands of responsibility to look after grandparents, or parents, and just keep the status quo. The Republicans last pronouncement was to kill social safety nets, but not one word about closing tax loopholes.
I feel sorry for the American seniors who slaved all their lives, have no discretionary income, and yet cant live without fear from unexpected medical billhttp://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/12/137239/what-if-manning-had-leaked-to-the-new-york-times#s or high inflation. Your comments make me sad.
We just think it's funny that you keep calling Obama a socialist. All it shows is that you have no clue what the word means. Obama is not a socialist. The American Socialist Party doesn't even think he's a socialist.
I don't like or support Obama, but not because of his economic stance. The fact is that he'd be able to get a lot more done to help the country on the economic front if the Republicans weren't bound and determined to block everything he attempts to do.
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I guess you are saying that the expression "Bite your nose to spite your face" applies to the Republicans. They are truly not in the majority, if you count the election day popular vote, but are there because of gerrymandering. The USA has millions of baby boomers, and some are in retirement, others are just entering. These BBs were in the war, protecting the nation, and now the republicans are saying "Its their tough luck that they were drafted into fighting to save our nation. We owe them nothing!"
At some time, you have to look after your citizens, young and old. If it means you don't upgrade your car every three years, or buy that 55 inch 3D TV, or the new toy, so be it. Take care of your retired seniors that cannot pay and have to choose between medicine or food.
Obama reaches out to people with understanding. Not everything is corporate profits.
Sometimes in life we have to chuckle a little or remember to teach our children that we should not follow that author who wrote "Madame Malaprop" (translation "Mrs. WrongWord")
Madame Malaprop is a literary figure, whose claim to fame is her uncanny habit of using the wrong word in a manner that makes sense under absurd circumstances.
Consider "The Hypocrisy In Silicon Valley's Big Talk On Innovation".
When I grew up, we sat on a chair, got off the seat, walked on the floor, turned on the light, were on topic or off topic, but we always were talking or writing about.
Should todays headline read "The Hypocrisy In Silicon Valley's Big Talk about Innovation"?
The existing headline did not turn me on.
What could possibly be in my medical records that they don't want me to know about?
Suppose the doctor was concerned about how the patient would interpret a diagnosis. People tend to be pessimistic about a doctor's report. The doctor is forced by US propensity to sue, to put much more into a report than what is necessary, and of course, to schedule several dozen extra tests that are irrelevant.
My brother-in-law went to a clinique to have a splinter in his hand removed. He could not do it himself. The surgery took 10 minutes, some antiseptic and a bandaid. But they used this to take a blood test, a urine test to ensure there was no infection, an antibiotic prescription in case the area became infected. This extraction lifted $989 out of his wallet for a splinter in his right hand. (He is a rightie--right handed and he did not have the dexterity to do the extraction himself with his left hand)
On a more serious opinion, I believe very much that Quebec/NY State, and that longitudinal slice from the western boundary, should remain on savings time all year round.
These are my observations.
In Montreal, on Dec 21st, daylight arrives around 7:20am. Sundown is at 4:10pm. Morning drivers are driving about 5 mph (5-7km/(hr) slower and the after work return home shows the reverse. When you are hungry, and need to be home for supper, or your blood sugar is low, drivers are with less patience. Darkness does not help.
In the morning, kids on their way to school do so in daylight. Instead of black skies at 4:00pm, they would have darkness at 5pm. They would have one extra hour of daylight to play.
Re energy differences, I believe that the consumption would be marginally lower with the permanent shift. Morning would be with some lighting being used, but there would be one hour less lighting used in the evening. As well, with using programmable thermostats, there will be another small savings in heating. There would be no difference in summer.
Time zones are arbitrary. The continent could live with a permenant one hour shift. Perhaps in the mid'-west they would choose to remain on standard time year round.
Just my thoughts
You are collect! Usually we write NFLD. And we complain about the newfie jokes.
Come live in NewFoundLand Canada, where the province (Island) decided to set the clock one half hour of standard time, and to leave it there.
So it's 9:pm in New York, but 8:30pm in NewFoundLand. Yes, its done right here in the northern hemisphere.
Does NFD have the right idea. Instead of an hour, should we just jump a half hour? The cows canhandle waiting one half hour more before being milked.
Why can;t someone come up with a disk controller, along the lines of what we had in the mainframe days. The controler could be a card with a cache, communicating via dma or direct copy, and attached to the controler would be the sata drives. Do an fsync, and the controler would do the write to disk from the cache, until there was free space to allow more mainsystem I/O to occur. Our old AIX controller had lead-acid backup batteries. Every few years IBM came along and replace the battery pack. With 50 users, we never appeared to wait, even when a user would issue a flush command.
I have not analyzed this interface model, but somehow, my gut feeling is that I/O speed would be disk access speed at first, until frequently used data was cached, and then perhaps a millisecond or two for an average access delay.
You hardware guys, do any popular disks have RPS (Rotational Positional Sensing)?
With RPS, the disk controler knew where in the rotation each disk was positioned.
I started with Core (Fedora) seven years ago. I stayed with Fedora for every upgrade. Along the way, I started developing software for ubuntu, fedora, debian and mint, both 32 bit and 64bit. Everything just worked.
Prior to Fedora 18, I used to download the DVD, backup /home and do a clean installation. I did that to not remain with some software that I evaluated, but was not worth keeping, and where removal would remove too many dependencies.
With Fedora 18, I found a Russian Spin. This English Spin included every code, Chrome, and developer stuff and upon its installation, it just worked. All of it.
I read somewhere, but decided to not verify that Russia does not support software patents. That is perhaps why their spin is complete and ready to use for music, videos, and software development.
I have been using this Russian spin since January 15th, the day Fedora was officially released. I have both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions installed and very stable. Gnome is definitely not my GUI interface. .
I am using Cinnamon with these two.
Now he's going to try to clone all of Microsoft's clones of other people's technology for the Mac.
Lets see how far that gets him.
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I have this problem with Miguels conjecture, that it is a Linux problem,I see it as nothing but a Gnome project problem. I believe that the Gnome project was without a true project manager, a project manager who would sit down with the shopping list, review what was the priority, and do what a project manager should do. That includes getting funding and developers a timetable and testing plan and tackling what is priority number one to end-users and distribution developers. After that Gnome project would tackle priority two. Instead the project tried to tackle too many features without a good developers road map.
Why is it that there is no fragmentation with KDE, or cinnamon? Both just work and both are have their same functionality, irrespective of platform.
If Miguel was or is such a hotshot architect, developer, why is Gnome so fragmented? It is Gnome, not Mate, Cinnamon, or KDE or Enlighten.
Why did Canonical go their own way with Unity? Some questions that have been asked need to be answered.
Whatever the situation is, it sure seems like a huge moral hazard for local school administrators. They have an ethical obligation to protect children's data, but they have a self-interest in successful careers, which can be judged by how much money they bring into the district.
My guess is that money and status trumps a child's privacy, even among the people you'd presume "think of the children."
Does not a child that is registered in that database own his own public and confidential data? If corps want to make use of the data, they better get permission from each of the record owners they want to read.
It's kinda the whole problem with Linux is that any "standard" is just defacto and ever shifting. Yeah for sure, it is something that holds Linux back compared to the stability of proprietary platforms. But also, it is the thing that allows it to move forward. Canonical will give this a shot, and if its great, perhaps it will be the new standard. If its rubbish, it won't be. Let's just see what they come up with. If Wayland were perfect, I'm sure Canonical would not want to throw money at a problem that is already solved.
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As the little boy said, "Everyone is out of step but me". Canonical is moving to closed source. Canonical tried to make money with the desktop, and has failed thus far. It is only with their server and the Ubuntu store that they will see revenue for the Desktop.
In comes the tablet, and it's time to break free of GNU licensing. If you roll your own, you own what you roll. And you do not need to share it. One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four, to go!!
Which produces more CO2? Is it bicycling or sex?
The next step is to tax sex. Don't worry, you get it back and have to enjoy the result until the teenage years, when enjoy turns to "what next".
My experience (my daughter has ADD) has convinced me that ADD is not a lack of ability to focus, but rather a lack of ability to focus on things you're not interested in or see no point to. My daughter can focus for hours on something she wants to do, like sewing, playing video games, or making videos. The problem is our educational system regards the ability to read and comprehend hundreds of pages of material you could care less about as the highest virtue. Unless you later become a game show contestant, most of the stuff you're required to memorize in school is just useless trivia.
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Guns don't kill people, Lack of Anger management and being a tantrum thrower does. And it helps to do some killing by drinking 3 expressos coffees just before you relaxingly start an argument.
Turn your wifi connection off. After the first few 404's you'll be surprised as how much work you'll get done.
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Obviously he worked for Yahoo
Now there's two iPad sizes. And lots of sizes for Android tablets. A fair amount of choice for Win 8 too. Everyone's happy!
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If it fits in my shirt pocket, it is the right size. Any small amount larger, and I have to accidently sit on it and break the glass is not a viable size.
And I do want long battery life but also low weight.
Sigh, I have broken two small tablets by accidently sitting on each getting into the car. And my shirt pocket started to separate from the shirt after about two uses after drycleanings.
Divide your rent or mortgage by the square footage of your house+garage+basement. Calculate the number of square feet this stuff will occupy to find out how much your "free" stuff costs per month. In much of the US it has been upwards of $1 per square foot per month. So each 19" CRT or "pizza box" Sun or SGI is probably costing a couple of bucks a month depending on how high you can stack them. Is it worth that to you? For most stuff and most people, the answer is sadly no and the value half-life of technology is decreasing every year as manufacturers lock consumers into their planned-obsolescence trap.
If you'll get enough enjoyment out of it, by all means collect it. I hope slashdotters haven't lost their nerdy mojo and are just trying to hoard the good stuff for themselves. But in case people here really lack imagination, here are a few items that might be worth keeping:
Whatever you do, don't throw it in your ordinary trash. The only thing worse than paying $1000/month rent for a house full of junk is ruining our environment with something that does have value. Check your local area, electronics recycling is a value proposition for some metals (e.g. gold) but also for the rare earth elements in capacitors and hard drive magnets.
My approach would be to find a small business with an electric furnace. Melt down all the crap, separate out the gold and other precious metals, and then sell the scrap metal b y the pound. Metals are worth money. You could probably extract more tnan a few troy ounces of gold.