One person said they were "gettin their taxes back" as they ran off with a flat screen TV. The reporter asked what does that even mean? They had no response. Let's not forget these lovelies http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424
Firstly the taxpayer is me, I am the taxpayer. It is the governments responsibility to make and enforce the laws that is why we agree to pay taxes. That is why we all agree to have a Government it is a fundamental cornerstone of civilized society. If the government chooses willfully or through incompetences not to enfore their own laws then they are no Government at all. They Govern nothing. At that point it is anarchy and survival of the fittest.
Young people have a part to play they are choosing not to play it and be productive memebers of society therefore they deserve our scorn and to be locked up. We all have a part to play in society, simply many people these days are only in it for themselves and chose to do as they please and not agree to societal norms, which is fine, yet they should pay the agreed upon proce for their behaviour. Plenty of people are not happy that's no excuse for lawlesness, looting and stealing rather it is an excuse and a poor one at that. These people are feckless criminals nothing more.
It's people with your attitude that will be the end of civilized society. You simply can't have a civilized society without laws and law enforcement willing to enforce those laws that is the very definition of anarchy.
As long as the youths want to spend time in jail then they are free to act like asses. That's why we have laws and law enforcement.
These dissafeccted youths are spoiled rotten little shits that from a global prespctive are very wealthy. Ask the Somalis that are currently starving what they think of these little self absorbed pricks.
They should be arrested by the cops so they get it through there dense little prick skulls that the world does not revolve around them and there are consequences to being a little prick that thinks he's owed something by society.
Wow never have I seen such a sense of entitlement in all my life. Society does not owe you a sense of love and belonging that would be your families job. Ultimately you are responisible for yourself, your happiness and your behavior. The world owes you nothing and if you start relying on society to take care of your every whim then you will also have to give up your freedom. Because if other people are responsible for you then much like your family they get to say how you will live what you will and won't do. Grown ups that are even semi responsible people don't want a nanny state.
Any climate prediction 100 years in to the future based solely on computer models and does not take sociological factors in to account is politics and has little to do with science. In time it will be as discredited as the heliocentric model.
When will scientists grow a pair do some real critical thinking and point out the painfully obvious? The emperor has no clothes.
As soon as they want to be excoriated that's when.
You would put the Iranians above the Israelis? The Iranians are self declared anti semites who recently brutally repressed the self expression of their own people and have declared the US and Israel their enemy. The same people that round up jews and shoot them with firing squads? While Israel has been one of the few steadfast and erstwhile US allies in the middle east. Must be nice to be so poorly informed about reality. Here is the reality Israel is surrounded by anti semites that beat and repress their own people and specifically beat, repress, and generally mistreat women and execute gays. They share no common values with you lefty they would just as soon see you dead as to let a jew live. There is no difference between Iranians and pre WW2 european anti semites only difference is this modern group of anti semites is about to have the bomb. But no reason to worry about that I am sure.
Actually I am really liking Gwizard Gcode calculator and Gcode editor which is air also the ebay desktop app is air and National Geographic Complete is also air. Adobe flex is a good dev tool and air is one of the better VMs out there for desktop GUI apps better than Java in my opinion. Silverlight might give it a run for it's money on Windows but air is truly cross platform for example I can use all of those air apps on Linux, Windows, or Mac. That's pretty cool. In fact I do use those apps on Linux. Also I like actionscript 3 it's a pleasure to write code in much better than actionscript 2 IMO
I know plenty about 6061 T6 aluminum.T6 is what many people use for shorthand for 6061-T6 so don't be a fucking pedantic know it all ASSHOLE. I use it everyday in my machine shop. I use metallurgy knowledge every day as a machinist so I know more about the metals their properties and cost than most. And 6061 is not cheap 3x3x12 aluminum bar is $55.64 at enco right now (not saying that's the cheapest). I have no idea what scrap aluminum engine blocks go for but I am pretty sure they are not free. And I was talking about CNC not forging.
The point is you still need a job to buy all this stuff it's still rare enough that is still costs money. if you think you can make accurate parts essentially for free you are delusional. Especially since your time also has value as it is a finite resource. We are in a transition where it's not truly a post scarcity economy. In a post scarcity economy materials, tools, and resources are for all intents and purposes not scarce and thus free or cheap. But we may well be heading in to a jobs scarcity phase of transition where people aren't needed for work as much. And so there will be a new permanent larger underclass which could represent near term political instability.
What you just described is a fairly straight forward perl script. And I might add the perl script would up-sell more consistently. Think in terms of humanoid robot instead of vending machine and you might start to realize how easy that job is to automate. We aren't really there yet but we are heading there at a rapid clip.
With what money will you buy all the machines? Where is your capital going to come from? And ABS and PLA are 10.00 a pound not mention the cost of T6 aluminum and such.
Between outsourcing to lower cost countries and automation there is going to be a permanent larger underclass in most countries. The rich are going to get richer and the income gap is going to absolutely explode. And vulnerable less skilled workers aren't going to have jobs anymore as there won't be a need for them. If that is not addressed how long do you think a democracy can survive with greater than 10% unemployment or even 20% because those are going to be the new norms.
It's not new, it's not THIS age. That has always been the joke on the fanboys and girls is they are schilling for mutli-m(b)illion dollar multi-nationals for free. When these companies in every case can quite easily afford their own PR firms, shill bloggers, and astroturfers.
Apple, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Google, etc... do not love you. They are amoral they exist to maximize shareholder value. Sometimes their interests will coincide with yours, this is a coincidence, and not much should be read in to that coincidence.
1. Internet goes down or is slow your productivity drops to nil or nearly so. Same problem as before with Mainframes and minis. That single point of failure existed because it was simply too expensive to give everyone there own system and even the minis where the size of a small refrigerator. Once micros came along and software was written for them to take on functions like word processing and spreadsheets we moved on and for good reason. I guess no one at Google is old enough to remember.
2. Security of data in the cloud ( see PSN breach for worst case example).
3. Google apps is different enough from Microsoft Office that it will require wholesale retraining of non technical staff. Microsoft has a better shot at doing something like this because they could pair it with their online Office offering which users would actually feel more comfortable with not to mention file compatibility.
4. Lack of flexibility of a multi purpose computer. For example many orgs have old FlexQL and Dbase type DOS stuff they still run. Crappy yes, but it works fine for them and they see no reason to upgrade. With a multipurpose computer you can run any software for your platform or even others with virtualization. With this if it is not available as a web app your done.
It's not just that there are problems the whole premise is wrong even managers don't wan't dumb terminals. I should know I tried to get Citrix implemented with Wyse win terminals at a company and the single biggest issue was political because not even management wanted dumb terminals (even if it was way cheaper).
For about the same money $468.00 get an Asus 1215n it's a better device in pretty much every way. It can do just about anything you might want and can even run some decent real games like Starcraft II, WOW, and portal.
Intel Dual Core Atom D525 (1.8GHz); Nvidia ION 2 graphics with 512mb dedicated video memory 12.1" WXGA (1366x768) LED screen; 2GB DDR3 RAM (2x1GB), 4GB Max 250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM); No Optical Drive Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System (32 Bit) HDMI out; Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n; 10/100 LAN; 0.3MP Webcam
I like Google quit a bit but this is the dumbest Idea I have ever seen them actually pursue. The only thing dumber I have seen recently was 8.5 billion for Skype. The network computer was a dumb idea and a complete and utter failure and it is still is a dumb idea and will again be a complete and utter failure. People don't want dumb terminals for personal computers we left them behind in the early 1980s.
This is demonstrably false. The only way you can meaningfully participate is if you have money. You can neither get elected or buy influence without enough money. The people who actually participate in the federal Government are all millionaires both the ones buying the influence and the ones accepting the bribes. The federal government is the top 1% talking to the top 1% about what the top 1% wants it has very little to do with what you or I might want. Our government is corrupt to the core and there is no saving it.
The corporations have always been corrupt so nothing new there.
A great example of why breaking your oath to protect the constitution and breaking your word to protect classified information is treason. Breeching national security is not a game to be played by basement dwellers with a chip on their shoulder and some naive belief that information in anthropomorphic and wants to be free.
Not to say I explicitly trust the U.S. Government, corporations or the media, I do not. However, when I did agree as a sailor to protect the constitution and not to reveal classified secrets I kept my word and did my duty anything less is dishonorable. Especially in the case of PFC Manning who simply spilled classified information for no real specific purpose other that he thought he was somehow special.
Sorry but he should rot in Leavenworth for the rest of his life. That's the price you pay for having no real honor and breaking your word simply to stroke your own ego.
Setup the cool open source Untangle firewall on commodity hardware with three network cards one internal one external and one DMZ. Put one wireless AP on the DMZ to share and use QOS to control the bandwidth allowed. Firewall off that DMZ from your internal network and put a second locked down wireless AP on the internal network just for your stuff. You could even use the captive portal feature to have them agree to terms and condition to indemnify you.
There's a victim here. It's all the moneyed powerful people that run brick and mortar casinos in the U.S.
These filthy low down criminals are stealing food right from the silver spoons of the rich and powerful and that gets law enforcement attention real quick.
Yet another example of who runs this country and who is corrupt.
Steve Wynn and Donald Trump would like to extend there thanks to the Federal investigators and there leash holders in the form of a check if possible.
Where did I say I dislike Jobs? I am writing this from a 15" MacBook Pro of which I have two (one work and one personal) and an iPad2 shows what you know.
Did I say Flash sucked on my nexus one? No! (I wish my iPad2 had the option)
I said I liked Flash on my phone!
And as I pointed out does not matter to a person like you because no matter what anyone says you would not believe it because that would force to reevaluate your position which you have no interest in doing.
If you don't see that article as link bait then you are either really naive or being willfully ignorant so as to support your own opinion.
Wha't's the evidence some random link bait from infoworld? Seriously I guess a person like you would never believe it but I have the OPTION to load flash content on my Nexus one and it works just fine. I don't have to load the content I get the choice you don't if you use an iDevice and wether you want to admit the truth or not that sucks.
You completely misunderstand it's not that most geeks want nuclear power to be adopted we just want everyone to stop acting like a bunch if ignoramus chicken littles about it. I.E. stop running around in circles looking for iodine tablets in CA.
And it would be nice if the media used a little bit less sensationalism and took a more rational approach to the whole subject.
But we are all pretty well convinced neither will happen... Because people are people.
Hey asshats at the CBO instead of figuring out new ways to screw the working class at the behest of your corporate paymasters. How about you start with a plan to get multinationals that are currently GETTING MONEY BACK from the US government to actually pay any sort of share much less their actual fair share.
Now that I know GE the largest American corporation pays 0 in taxes anyone wanting to tax me more can fuck right off. You need to start where the real problems is I pay my fair share.
This is such bullshit when are people going to get upset enough about this sort of blatant corporate led American government corrupotion to actually do something about it. Don't say vote Democrat or Republican because we have had both and here we are.
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So we should be interested because two vapid girls got a job being professionally gossipy, snarky and vapid. How about no and shut up.
One person said they were "gettin their taxes back" as they ran off with a flat screen TV. The reporter asked what does that even mean? They had no response. Let's not forget these lovelies http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424
Puhlease, who are you trying to bullshit?
Firstly the taxpayer is me, I am the taxpayer. It is the governments responsibility to make and enforce the laws that is why we agree to pay taxes. That is why we all agree to have a Government it is a fundamental cornerstone of civilized society. If the government chooses willfully or through incompetences not to enfore their own laws then they are no Government at all. They Govern nothing. At that point it is anarchy and survival of the fittest.
Young people have a part to play they are choosing not to play it and be productive memebers of society therefore they deserve our scorn and to be locked up. We all have a part to play in society, simply many people these days are only in it for themselves and chose to do as they please and not agree to societal norms, which is fine, yet they should pay the agreed upon proce for their behaviour. Plenty of people are not happy that's no excuse for lawlesness, looting and stealing rather it is an excuse and a poor one at that. These people are feckless criminals nothing more.
It's people with your attitude that will be the end of civilized society. You simply can't have a civilized society without laws and law enforcement willing to enforce those laws that is the very definition of anarchy.
As long as the youths want to spend time in jail then they are free to act like asses. That's why we have laws and law enforcement.
These dissafeccted youths are spoiled rotten little shits that from a global prespctive are very wealthy. Ask the Somalis that are currently starving what they think of these little self absorbed pricks.
They should be arrested by the cops so they get it through there dense little prick skulls that the world does not revolve around them and there are consequences to being a little prick that thinks he's owed something by society.
Wow never have I seen such a sense of entitlement in all my life. Society does not owe you a sense of love and belonging that would be your families job. Ultimately you are responisible for yourself, your happiness and your behavior. The world owes you nothing and if you start relying on society to take care of your every whim then you will also have to give up your freedom. Because if other people are responsible for you then much like your family they get to say how you will live what you will and won't do. Grown ups that are even semi responsible people don't want a nanny state.
Any climate prediction 100 years in to the future based solely on computer models and does not take sociological factors in to account is politics and has little to do with science. In time it will be as discredited as the heliocentric model.
When will scientists grow a pair do some real critical thinking and point out the painfully obvious? The emperor has no clothes.
As soon as they want to be excoriated that's when.
You would put the Iranians above the Israelis? The Iranians are self declared anti semites who recently brutally repressed the self expression of their own people and have declared the US and Israel their enemy. The same people that round up jews and shoot them with firing squads? While Israel has been one of the few steadfast and erstwhile US allies in the middle east. Must be nice to be so poorly informed about reality. Here is the reality Israel is surrounded by anti semites that beat and repress their own people and specifically beat, repress, and generally mistreat women and execute gays. They share no common values with you lefty they would just as soon see you dead as to let a jew live. There is no difference between Iranians and pre WW2 european anti semites only difference is this modern group of anti semites is about to have the bomb. But no reason to worry about that I am sure.
Actually I am really liking Gwizard Gcode calculator and Gcode editor which is air also the ebay desktop app is air and National Geographic Complete is also air. Adobe flex is a good dev tool and air is one of the better VMs out there for desktop GUI apps better than Java in my opinion. Silverlight might give it a run for it's money on Windows but air is truly cross platform for example I can use all of those air apps on Linux, Windows, or Mac. That's pretty cool. In fact I do use those apps on Linux. Also I like actionscript 3 it's a pleasure to write code in much better than actionscript 2 IMO
I know plenty about 6061 T6 aluminum.T6 is what many people use for shorthand for 6061-T6 so don't be a fucking pedantic know it all ASSHOLE. I use it everyday in my machine shop. I use metallurgy knowledge every day as a machinist so I know more about the metals their properties and cost than most. And 6061 is not cheap 3x3x12 aluminum bar is $55.64 at enco right now (not saying that's the cheapest). I have no idea what scrap aluminum engine blocks go for but I am pretty sure they are not free. And I was talking about CNC not forging.
The point is you still need a job to buy all this stuff it's still rare enough that is still costs money. if you think you can make accurate parts essentially for free you are delusional. Especially since your time also has value as it is a finite resource. We are in a transition where it's not truly a post scarcity economy. In a post scarcity economy materials, tools, and resources are for all intents and purposes not scarce and thus free or cheap. But we may well be heading in to a jobs scarcity phase of transition where people aren't needed for work as much. And so there will be a new permanent larger underclass which could represent near term political instability.
What you just described is a fairly straight forward perl script. And I might add the perl script would up-sell more consistently. Think in terms of humanoid robot instead of vending machine and you might start to realize how easy that job is to automate. We aren't really there yet but we are heading there at a rapid clip.
With what money will you buy all the machines? Where is your capital going to come from? And ABS and PLA are 10.00 a pound not mention the cost of T6 aluminum and such.
Between outsourcing to lower cost countries and automation there is going to be a permanent larger underclass in most countries. The rich are going to get richer and the income gap is going to absolutely explode. And vulnerable less skilled workers aren't going to have jobs anymore as there won't be a need for them. If that is not addressed how long do you think a democracy can survive with greater than 10% unemployment or even 20% because those are going to be the new norms.
It's not new, it's not THIS age. That has always been the joke on the fanboys and girls is they are schilling for mutli-m(b)illion dollar multi-nationals for free. When these companies in every case can quite easily afford their own PR firms, shill bloggers, and astroturfers.
Apple, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Google, etc... do not love you. They are amoral they exist to maximize shareholder value. Sometimes their interests will coincide with yours, this is a coincidence, and not much should be read in to that coincidence.
There are even a few problems with this model.
1. Internet goes down or is slow your productivity drops to nil or nearly so. Same problem as before with Mainframes and minis. That single point of failure existed because it was simply too expensive to give everyone there own system and even the minis where the size of a small refrigerator. Once micros came along and software was written for them to take on functions like word processing and spreadsheets we moved on and for good reason. I guess no one at Google is old enough to remember.
2. Security of data in the cloud ( see PSN breach for worst case example).
3. Google apps is different enough from Microsoft Office that it will require wholesale retraining of non technical staff. Microsoft has a better shot at doing something like this because they could pair it with their online Office offering which users would actually feel more comfortable with not to mention file compatibility.
4. Lack of flexibility of a multi purpose computer. For example many orgs have old FlexQL and Dbase type DOS stuff they still run. Crappy yes, but it works fine for them and they see no reason to upgrade. With a multipurpose computer you can run any software for your platform or even others with virtualization. With this if it is not available as a web app your done.
It's not just that there are problems the whole premise is wrong even managers don't wan't dumb terminals. I should know I tried to get Citrix implemented with Wyse win terminals at a company and the single biggest issue was political because not even management wanted dumb terminals (even if it was way cheaper).
For about the same money $468.00 get an Asus 1215n it's a better device in pretty much every way. It can do just about anything you might want and can even run some decent real games like Starcraft II, WOW, and portal.
Intel Dual Core Atom D525 (1.8GHz); Nvidia ION 2 graphics with 512mb dedicated video memory
12.1" WXGA (1366x768) LED screen; 2GB DDR3 RAM (2x1GB), 4GB Max
250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM); No Optical Drive
Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System (32 Bit)
HDMI out; Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n; 10/100 LAN; 0.3MP Webcam
I like Google quit a bit but this is the dumbest Idea I have ever seen them actually pursue. The only thing dumber I have seen recently was 8.5 billion for Skype. The network computer was a dumb idea and a complete and utter failure and it is still is a dumb idea and will again be a complete and utter failure. People don't want dumb terminals for personal computers we left them behind in the early 1980s.
This is demonstrably false. The only way you can meaningfully participate is if you have money. You can neither get elected or buy influence without enough money. The people who actually participate in the federal Government are all millionaires both the ones buying the influence and the ones accepting the bribes. The federal government is the top 1% talking to the top 1% about what the top 1% wants it has very little to do with what you or I might want. Our government is corrupt to the core and there is no saving it.
The corporations have always been corrupt so nothing new there.
If this works out he should be knighted. Good job David!
A great example of why breaking your oath to protect the constitution and breaking your word to protect classified information is treason. Breeching national security is not a game to be played by basement dwellers with a chip on their shoulder and some naive belief that information in anthropomorphic and wants to be free.
Not to say I explicitly trust the U.S. Government, corporations or the media, I do not. However, when I did agree as a sailor to protect the constitution and not to reveal classified secrets I kept my word and did my duty anything less is dishonorable. Especially in the case of PFC Manning who simply spilled classified information for no real specific purpose other that he thought he was somehow special.
Sorry but he should rot in Leavenworth for the rest of his life. That's the price you pay for having no real honor and breaking your word simply to stroke your own ego.
Setup the cool open source Untangle firewall on commodity hardware with three network cards one internal one external and one DMZ. Put one wireless AP on the DMZ to share and use QOS to control the bandwidth allowed. Firewall off that DMZ from your internal network and put a second locked down wireless AP on the internal network just for your stuff. You could even use the captive portal feature to have them agree to terms and condition to indemnify you.
You mean the ones in Wynn's Casino or Trumps or just any of the casinos ?
There's a victim here. It's all the moneyed powerful people that run brick and mortar casinos in the U.S.
These filthy low down criminals are stealing food right from the silver spoons of the rich and powerful and that gets law enforcement attention real quick.
Yet another example of who runs this country and who is corrupt.
Steve Wynn and Donald Trump would like to extend there thanks to the Federal investigators and there leash holders in the form of a check if possible.
Wow LOL What?
Firstly reading comprehension fail.
Did I call you a Fanboy? No!
Where did I say I dislike Jobs? I am writing this from a 15" MacBook Pro of which I have two (one work and one personal) and an iPad2 shows what you know.
Did I say Flash sucked on my nexus one? No! (I wish my iPad2 had the option)
I said I liked Flash on my phone!
And as I pointed out does not matter to a person like you because no matter what anyone says you would not believe it because that would force to reevaluate your position which you have no interest in doing.
If you don't see that article as link bait then you are either really naive or being willfully ignorant so as to support your own opinion.
Wha't's the evidence some random link bait from infoworld? Seriously I guess a person like you would never believe it but I have the OPTION to load flash content on my Nexus one and it works just fine. I don't have to load the content I get the choice you don't if you use an iDevice and wether you want to admit the truth or not that sucks.
The next war, heck the current war is fought with drones. Those are under heavy development. Fighter planes with human pilots are last centuries tech.
You completely misunderstand it's not that most geeks want nuclear power to be adopted we just want everyone to stop acting like a bunch if ignoramus chicken littles about it. I.E. stop running around in circles looking for iodine tablets in CA.
And it would be nice if the media used a little bit less sensationalism and took a more rational approach to the whole subject.
But we are all pretty well convinced neither will happen... Because people are people.
Hey asshats at the CBO instead of figuring out new ways to screw the working class at the behest of your corporate paymasters. How about you start with a plan to get multinationals that are currently GETTING MONEY BACK from the US government to actually pay any sort of share much less their actual fair share.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?src=me&ref=general
Now that I know GE the largest American corporation pays 0 in taxes anyone wanting to tax me more can fuck right off. You need to start where the real problems is I pay my fair share.
This is such bullshit when are people going to get upset enough about this sort of blatant corporate led American government corrupotion to actually do something about it. Don't say vote Democrat or Republican because we have had both and here we are.