take a look at the American Dream and start to do some work and earn some money so you can maybe, if you work hard enough, some day be able to afford some influence.
I've worked since 1968, including while in college. I've had my present job since 1987; I'm eligible to retire in three years. Guess what? Working doesn't grant the kind of cash that buys influence - luck does. The old army song is absolutely correct - you'll never get rich by digging a ditch. The only three ways of making large sums of money is being born into money, getting lucky and winning the lottery or meeting the right person/people, or stealing it.
Maybe once you do you might think a little differently about letting lazy, good for nothing poor people run the country
In the USA nobody gets away without working. They stopped welfare in 1996. These days the poor don't get jack shit from the government, the employer does while making it look like the underpaid serf he exploits is ripping off the system.
Food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit allow the employer to pay lower wages. The guy who cleans the toilet in your office for starvation wages isn't ripping off the taxpayer, your employer is.
Wake up and smell the bovine excrement your rich overlords spew.
...with all the religious fundamentalists in your country
Actually, those "religious fundamentalists" worship money, although they pretend to be Christians worshiping God. Their prayer:
Our money, who art in the bank, hallowed be thy name My kingdom come, my will be done on Earth and in outer space Give me this day my daily income, and forgive nobody Lead us not into temptation of charity, but deliver us from taxes For gold is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Let's eat.
At what point is enough heroin to satisfy a heroin junkie? At what point is enough crack to satisfy a crackhead? At what point is enough money to satisfy a billionaire?
There is no such thing as "enough" with any such addict.
Why is it that anytime a large organization abuses its power/influence and Slashdot calls them on it, there are always those like you who rush in to defend said organization?
Because he's vested in it, of course; why do you think he's defending them? He either works for them, or owns shares.
If its so shit, why do 99% of artists still sign to a record company?
They don't. The fact is, the A/C granparent is a bald faced liar. 99% of artists are playing in bars and clubs, not signed to a record contract.
Really what they are going to succeed in doing is continuing the decline of the United States as a global power relative to other countries
The sellout continues.
Well, except for the fact that the RIAA is controlled by four large multi-national firms. EMI is British, Universal is owned by Vivendi, a French company, the head of Warner music is Canadian and Sony BMG is about as multi-national as you'll find anywhere
Yet these foreigners have more access to "your" representatives than you do. WTF is the point of even going to the polls when our legislators are OWNED lock stock and barrel by foreigners?
No lobbyist from any corporation whose shares are available to ANY foreigner should have any access whatever to "my" representatives. "My" representative doesn't represent me, he represents foreign rich people.
And I'm supposed to respect the laws these bozos write? Sorry, bud, fuck your laws, I'll follow my conscience. The RIAA and its government stooges can go to hell. I'm no longer playing. Since I have no representataion, the only reason I see for respecting the law is their guns. The traitorous Democrats and Republicans have gotten the last vote they'll get from me until they swear off accepting contributions from my enemies. When we get respectable lawmakers writing respectable laws, I'll respect the law. Until then I shall not only ignore it, but I will encourage everyone else to as well.
We fought for independance from foreign overlords (ironically we celebrate it this Friday), only to let them sneak in and steal our country.
I saw that in TFA (eye muss bee knew hear) and looked "watt balance" up on wikipedia.
The watt balance is an experimental electromechanical apparatus that may one day provide a definition of the kilogram based on electronics.
The watt balance is a more accurate version of the ampere balance, in which the force between two current-carrying coils is measured and then used to calculate the magnitude of the current. The principle of the watt balance was proposed by B. P. Kibble of the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in 1975.
The main weakness of the ampere balance method is that the result depends on the accuracy with which the dimensions of the coils are measured. The watt balance method has an extra calibration step in which the effect of the geometry of the coils is eliminated, removing the main source of uncertainty. This extra step involves moving the force coil through a known magnetic flux at a known speed.
The present accuracy record is held by NIST, the standards agency of the USA, with an error of 5.2 × 10-8, and experiments are continuing towards a goal of 1 × 10-8. The long-term goal of these experiments is to produce a new definition of the kilogram based on fundamental SI units, to replace the present definition based on the International Prototype Kilogram, a cylinder of platinum/iridium owned by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
Unfortunately, the wikipedia article leaves me as ignorant as before. So I clicked through to Ampere balance
The ampere balance (also current balance or Kelvin balance) is an electromechanical apparatus used for the precise measurement of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere. It was invented by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin.
The current to be measured is passed in series through two coils, and the magnetic force between the two coils is measured. This is used to calculate the magnitude of the current.
Which unfortunately says practically nothing.
Can anyone please explain this better to me? And if so, update the clear-as-mud wikipedia article? I might as well have looked it up on Uncyclopedia, which has no entries on watt balance or ampere balance at all.
Unless....he is going to fuck America over too. Quite possible,
He's from my state, Illinois, home of the world's sleaziest politicians, where we're so patriotic even being dead doesn't keep us from voting. I wonder how my other Senator (Durbin) will vote on telcom immunity and net neutrality?
If Obama's elected his stance on these issues won't matter - all the President can do when it comes to making laws is jawbone and either sign or veto. The legislative branch, which he is now part of, legislates. If he's elected President his job will be to enforce whatever laws the corporations have purchaced from the legislature.
The legislative branch writes laws, the executive brance enforces them, and the judicial branch judges them.
I'm voting for Bob Barr, depending on whether or not the Greens are on the ballot in enough states to have a mathematical chance of winning. I wonder why slashdot doesn't talk of the other political parties?
Besides who else was better schooled in the power of music to bring about change.
Woody Guthrie, whose guitar had the inscription "This machine kills fascists".
In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple; By the relief office, I'd seen my people. As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking, Is this land made for you and me? As I went walking, I saw a sign there, And on the sign there, It said "Private Property" But on the other side, it didn't say nothing! That side was made for you and me.
Yes, true, but most peoples' names aren't like that. Any idea how many Johnsons are in the Chcago phone book? The movie Die Hard made a joke of it, with the black FBI agent and the white FBI agent both named Johnson. "No relation" one says of the other.
They think you're stoned, of course. The cops think anybody with long hair is a druggie. If they shine the light in my left eye, they're going to be sure I'm stoned, as the iris isn't working properly after my vitrectomy in April. Actually I'm not sure if it's the surgery or the drops to dialate it.
It's not a question of intelligence, it's a question of honesty. He's a Chicago politician; there are no honest Chicago politicians. Here in Illinois the last Democrat governor we had that was defeated by a Republican went to prison, and the last Republican governor we had that was defeated by a Democrat went to prison. The Resko scandal looks like Governor BlaBlaBitch will likely be George Ryan's cellmate.
Obama (as well as a lot of Republicans) has ties to Resko.
How about the mythical beast with an elephant's head on one end and the head of an ass on the other? Because since the corporations own both the Democrats and Republicans, we now have a one party system with two wings, the Democrat wing and the Republican wing, both of which are beholden to the multinational (foreign) corporations and neither of which is beholden to "we, the people".
When someone who can't vote has more influence over a representative than a voter he is supposed to represent, you no longer have a representative democracy. When money counts for more than votes you have a plutocracy.
So, in the immortal words of Walt Kelly, you can vote for Tweddle Dumb or Tweedle Dumber. No matter who wins, you lose. Or, you can "waste" your vote on a loser, as I plan on doing. You vote doesn't matter anyway as the fix is in, you might as well make your displeasure knows in the only meaningful way possible - vote for "other".
Plutocracy is rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth. In a plutocracy, the degree of economic inequality is high while the level of social mobility is low. This can apply to a multitude of government systems, as the key elements of plutocracy transcend and often occur concurrently with the features of those systems. The word plutocracy (Modern Greek: - ploutokratia) is derived from the ancient Greek root ploutos, meaning wealth and kratein, meaning to rule or to govern.
Usage The term plutocracy is generally used to describe two distinct concepts: a historical term and a modern political term. The former indicates the political control of the state by an oligarchy of the wealthy. Examples of such plutocracies include some city-states in Ancient Greece, the Italian merchant republics of Venice and Florence, and Genoa.
Kevin Phillips, author and political strategist to U.S. President Richard Nixon, argues that the United States is a plutocracy in which there is a "fusion of money and government." [1].
Fittingly, the saying at the bottom of the page is "anything free is worth what you pay for it", which is part of the Gospel Of Mammon. Mammon is the US's national religion. Bow to the god of money or suffer.
This is what happens when someone promises intangible things and bases their entire campaign upon promising 'change' and 'hope,'
John Lennon nailed it:
Im sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth Ive had enough of reading things By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky Gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of hope Money for dope Money for rope
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap Money for dope Money for rope
Im sick to death of seeing things From tight-lipped, condescending, mamas little chauvinists All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth now
Ive had enough of watching scenes Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas All I want is the truth now Just gimme some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap Its money for dope Money for rope
Ah, Im sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites All I want is the truth now Just gimme some truth now
Ive had enough of reading things By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians All I want is the truth now Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth now Just gimme some truth now All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth
There's nothing wrong with using a cloudlike thing to represent a network. What's stupid is taking that abstraction and treating it as if it were a concrete representation instead of an abstraction. Why would you say "cloud computing" when "network computing" is accurate? Why say "the cloud" when you mean "the network?" The only two reasons would be ignorance, and obfuscation for the ignorants.
It's like "thinking outside the box", which originally meant thinking about how a customer used a product instead of thinking about the product itself. It was corrupted by ignorants to mean "unconventional thinking".
I agree. I have had black friends who could laugh at themselves, but not many. There's actually a joke about that, itself:
Q: How many feminists does it take to chenge a lightbulb?
A: THAT'S NOT FUNNY, ASSHOLE!!!
Otoh many other, less sensitive groups have no problem with jokes about themselves. My old friend (he's damned old, fought in WWII) Ralph Wiebe, whose parents emigrated from Germany in the 19th century, has a sticker on his 'fridge that says "you can tell a German - but you can't tell him much".
I'm of Irish decent. How many Irish does it take to change a lighbulb? Three, one to hold the bulb and two to drink until the room spins.
Your programmer joke is an inside joke. Only a programmer would get the joke (nobody else understands endless loops).
But my point was, if a mod thinks a joke isn't funny, how is he supposed to moderate the comment? And face it, this is a tough room.
Yes, I'm familiar with the diagram you reference. It doesn't make it any more valid, but instead backs up my point. PHBs (people who knew little or nothing about the subject) took it literally and ran with it.
HA HA HA! You put a lot of stock into these IQ tests, don't you?
I put next to no stock in them. IQ tests mostly test the ability to take an IQ test. But they're the only thing we've got. Come up with something better and those who take stock in such things will use it.
Just because the chemical mentioned restored intelligence in mice whose brains had been damaged in one particular manner does not mean that it wouldn't help repair damage from other sources
It specifically stated that it was only good for this one rare genetic disease.
Sending crazy bright light directly into a person's eye will obviously damage it if it's done enough times.
Dr. Odin* dialates my pupil and then shines a crazy bright light into it in order to see if the surgery was successful. I had this done numerous times last year after a torn retina, and twice so far this year after my vitrectomy for the detached retina.
That eye's vision is back to better than 20/20. His "crazy bright light" hasn't seemd to have harmed it a bit, and without the "crazy bright light" before surgery that eye would be completely blind.
This isn't going to result in a police state. Whats going on in Zimbabwe leads to a police state, not what we have here.
What will lead to a police state? The US IS a police state. If you have secret police you have a police state, and it doesn't matter if you call them "secret police" or politically correct euphemisms like "plainclothesmen" or "undercover agents".
Get rid of victimless "crimes" and you have no rational need for secret police.
If this move would damn us, we've already been damned for some time
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take a look at the American Dream and start to do some work and earn some money so you can maybe, if you work hard enough, some day be able to afford some influence.
I've worked since 1968, including while in college. I've had my present job since 1987; I'm eligible to retire in three years. Guess what? Working doesn't grant the kind of cash that buys influence - luck does. The old army song is absolutely correct - you'll never get rich by digging a ditch. The only three ways of making large sums of money is being born into money, getting lucky and winning the lottery or meeting the right person/people, or stealing it.
Maybe once you do you might think a little differently about letting lazy, good for nothing poor people run the country
In the USA nobody gets away without working. They stopped welfare in 1996. These days the poor don't get jack shit from the government, the employer does while making it look like the underpaid serf he exploits is ripping off the system.
Food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit allow the employer to pay lower wages. The guy who cleans the toilet in your office for starvation wages isn't ripping off the taxpayer, your employer is.
Wake up and smell the bovine excrement your rich overlords spew.
...with all the religious fundamentalists in your country
Actually, those "religious fundamentalists" worship money, although they pretend to be Christians worshiping God. Their prayer:
Our money, who art in the bank, hallowed be thy name
My kingdom come, my will be done on Earth and in outer space
Give me this day my daily income, and forgive nobody
Lead us not into temptation of charity, but deliver us from taxes
For gold is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Let's eat.
At what point is enough heroin to satisfy a heroin junkie? At what point is enough crack to satisfy a crackhead? At what point is enough money to satisfy a billionaire?
There is no such thing as "enough" with any such addict.
Why is it that anytime a large organization abuses its power/influence and Slashdot calls them on it, there are always those like you who rush in to defend said organization?
Because he's vested in it, of course; why do you think he's defending them? He either works for them, or owns shares.
If its so shit, why do 99% of artists still sign to a record company?
They don't. The fact is, the A/C granparent is a bald faced liar. 99% of artists are playing in bars and clubs, not signed to a record contract.
Really what they are going to succeed in doing is continuing the decline of the United States as a global power relative to other countries
The sellout continues.
Well, except for the fact that the RIAA is controlled by four large multi-national firms. EMI is British, Universal is owned by Vivendi, a French company, the head of Warner music is Canadian and Sony BMG is about as multi-national as you'll find anywhere
Yet these foreigners have more access to "your" representatives than you do. WTF is the point of even going to the polls when our legislators are OWNED lock stock and barrel by foreigners?
No lobbyist from any corporation whose shares are available to ANY foreigner should have any access whatever to "my" representatives. "My" representative doesn't represent me, he represents foreign rich people.
And I'm supposed to respect the laws these bozos write? Sorry, bud, fuck your laws, I'll follow my conscience. The RIAA and its government stooges can go to hell. I'm no longer playing. Since I have no representataion, the only reason I see for respecting the law is their guns. The traitorous Democrats and Republicans have gotten the last vote they'll get from me until they swear off accepting contributions from my enemies. When we get respectable lawmakers writing respectable laws, I'll respect the law. Until then I shall not only ignore it, but I will encourage everyone else to as well.
We fought for independance from foreign overlords (ironically we celebrate it this Friday), only to let them sneak in and steal our country.
It's a sad day for America.
I saw that in TFA (eye muss bee knew hear) and looked "watt balance" up on wikipedia.
Unfortunately, the wikipedia article leaves me as ignorant as before. So I clicked through to Ampere balance
Which unfortunately says practically nothing.
Can anyone please explain this better to me? And if so, update the clear-as-mud wikipedia article? I might as well have looked it up on Uncyclopedia, which has no entries on watt balance or ampere balance at all.
Unless....he is going to fuck America over too. Quite possible,
He's from my state, Illinois, home of the world's sleaziest politicians, where we're so patriotic even being dead doesn't keep us from voting. I wonder how my other Senator (Durbin) will vote on telcom immunity and net neutrality?
If Obama's elected his stance on these issues won't matter - all the President can do when it comes to making laws is jawbone and either sign or veto. The legislative branch, which he is now part of, legislates. If he's elected President his job will be to enforce whatever laws the corporations have purchaced from the legislature.
The legislative branch writes laws, the executive brance enforces them, and the judicial branch judges them.
I'm voting for Bob Barr, depending on whether or not the Greens are on the ballot in enough states to have a mathematical chance of winning. I wonder why slashdot doesn't talk of the other political parties?
Besides who else was better schooled in the power of music to bring about change.
Woody Guthrie, whose guitar had the inscription "This machine kills fascists".
Yes, true, but most peoples' names aren't like that. Any idea how many Johnsons are in the Chcago phone book? The movie Die Hard made a joke of it, with the black FBI agent and the white FBI agent both named Johnson. "No relation" one says of the other.
They think you're stoned, of course. The cops think anybody with long hair is a druggie. If they shine the light in my left eye, they're going to be sure I'm stoned, as the iris isn't working properly after my vitrectomy in April. Actually I'm not sure if it's the surgery or the drops to dialate it.
Sad, I thought that he was brighter than that.
It's not a question of intelligence, it's a question of honesty. He's a Chicago politician; there are no honest Chicago politicians. Here in Illinois the last Democrat governor we had that was defeated by a Republican went to prison, and the last Republican governor we had that was defeated by a Democrat went to prison. The Resko scandal looks like Governor BlaBlaBitch will likely be George Ryan's cellmate.
Obama (as well as a lot of Republicans) has ties to Resko.
How about the mythical beast with an elephant's head on one end and the head of an ass on the other? Because since the corporations own both the Democrats and Republicans, we now have a one party system with two wings, the Democrat wing and the Republican wing, both of which are beholden to the multinational (foreign) corporations and neither of which is beholden to "we, the people".
When someone who can't vote has more influence over a representative than a voter he is supposed to represent, you no longer have a representative democracy. When money counts for more than votes you have a plutocracy.
So, in the immortal words of Walt Kelly, you can vote for Tweddle Dumb or Tweedle Dumber. No matter who wins, you lose. Or, you can "waste" your vote on a loser, as I plan on doing. You vote doesn't matter anyway as the fix is in, you might as well make your displeasure knows in the only meaningful way possible - vote for "other".
Fittingly, the saying at the bottom of the page is "anything free is worth what you pay for it", which is part of the Gospel Of Mammon. Mammon is the US's national religion. Bow to the god of money or suffer.
This is what happens when someone promises intangible things and bases their entire campaign upon promising 'change' and 'hope,'
John Lennon nailed it:
Interesting question, especially if they had a scan from before the tear/detachment in their database.
There's nothing wrong with using a cloudlike thing to represent a network. What's stupid is taking that abstraction and treating it as if it were a concrete representation instead of an abstraction. Why would you say "cloud computing" when "network computing" is accurate? Why say "the cloud" when you mean "the network?" The only two reasons would be ignorance, and obfuscation for the ignorants.
It's like "thinking outside the box", which originally meant thinking about how a customer used a product instead of thinking about the product itself. It was corrupted by ignorants to mean "unconventional thinking".
Too many people need to get over their big heads.
I agree. I have had black friends who could laugh at themselves, but not many. There's actually a joke about that, itself:
Q: How many feminists does it take to chenge a lightbulb?
A: THAT'S NOT FUNNY, ASSHOLE!!!
Otoh many other, less sensitive groups have no problem with jokes about themselves. My old friend (he's damned old, fought in WWII) Ralph Wiebe, whose parents emigrated from Germany in the 19th century, has a sticker on his 'fridge that says "you can tell a German - but you can't tell him much".
I'm of Irish decent. How many Irish does it take to change a lighbulb? Three, one to hold the bulb and two to drink until the room spins.
Your programmer joke is an inside joke. Only a programmer would get the joke (nobody else understands endless loops).
But my point was, if a mod thinks a joke isn't funny, how is he supposed to moderate the comment? And face it, this is a tough room.
Yes, I'm familiar with the diagram you reference. It doesn't make it any more valid, but instead backs up my point. PHBs (people who knew little or nothing about the subject) took it literally and ran with it.
Yuppie is the ACRONYM for young upwardly mobile, stretched to sound like "hippie".
HA HA HA! You put a lot of stock into these IQ tests, don't you?
I put next to no stock in them. IQ tests mostly test the ability to take an IQ test. But they're the only thing we've got. Come up with something better and those who take stock in such things will use it.
Just because the chemical mentioned restored intelligence in mice whose brains had been damaged in one particular manner does not mean that it wouldn't help repair damage from other sources
It specifically stated that it was only good for this one rare genetic disease.
Sending crazy bright light directly into a person's eye will obviously damage it if it's done enough times.
Dr. Odin* dialates my pupil and then shines a crazy bright light into it in order to see if the surgery was successful. I had this done numerous times last year after a torn retina, and twice so far this year after my vitrectomy for the detached retina.
That eye's vision is back to better than 20/20. His "crazy bright light" hasn't seemd to have harmed it a bit, and without the "crazy bright light" before surgery that eye would be completely blind.
-mcgrew
Your DMV photo actually looks like you??
This isn't going to result in a police state. Whats going on in Zimbabwe leads to a police state, not what we have here.
What will lead to a police state? The US IS a police state. If you have secret police you have a police state, and it doesn't matter if you call them "secret police" or politically correct euphemisms like "plainclothesmen" or "undercover agents".
Get rid of victimless "crimes" and you have no rational need for secret police.
If this move would damn us, we've already been damned for some time
You think so?
What about us "three-eyes"?
Like this?