Big whoop, I sit on my 30-foot sailboat in Barrington Harbor. I am no where near what one would call well off. Having a boat does not mean you are rich.
I didn't say anything about "rich". I just said that if you have a job that allows you to be on your own boat at 10am on a Wednesday morning, it's probably not a "shitty job".
Best economics group blog on the Internet. Led by Yves Smith, who's writing about the 2008 banking crisis was absolutely brilliant and spot-on. Also Philip Pilkington, who's blog "Fixing the Economists" is essential reading. Non-ideological (unless you disagree with them, in which case you will claim - falsely - that they're ideological). Their economics expertise is unquestioned.
I read their blog every day and every time I find myself disagreeing with something they've written, I learn that I was wrong.
In an obvious policy of sexism, female's browsers were less likely to be sent openings or training for plumbing
If you think plumbing is a shitty job, you should talk to my plumber, who is right now sitting on his 45-foot boat in Winthrop Harbor, almost certainly opening his first beer of the day.
Chinese themselves know better than to rely on domestic suppliers given their "supply" problems, i.e., delivering a good that isn't some cheap knockoff or laced with chemicals you'd rather not come in contact with.
Oh come on, the iPhone's not that bad. Yes, it's a cheap knockoff and yes it's laced with toxic chemicals, but it's still a pretty good value for the money.
I don't think people quite understand the issue. It's not sick time. I'm one of only 2-3 neurosurgeons in a the hospital at a given time and there is so much critical work that we're all needed there at once. To have someone cover me would be problematic since they are already working 80-100 hours per week already, so they would go over the policy limits for work hours, or at the very least be very very unhappy about it.
Fine. And, since chances are good that that surgeon will be the only one available in many parts of the world, you will die for lack of a life saving procedure.
This is from the article:
At the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Julia E. Szymczak and colleagues analyzed survey responses collected last year from 536 doctors and advanced practice clinicians at their institution.
See that? Philadelphia. I'm pretty sure there is more than one surgeon available in Philadelphia. This is not some field hospital in Kenya and I'm not getting this surgery for free.
Does my bill for the surgery get pro-rated downward if the surgeon is impaired due to being tired?
Calling in sick does nothing but make my life harder. I feel bad about it
There's your problem right there. If you're sick, you're sick. You already feel bad, so beating yourself up for staying home is just giving in to this ridiculous work ethic. And that work ethic? It's nothing but crude mind control. We're told that we're supposed to have a special "ethic" that means if you're not suffering, you're not earning your pay. And if your job requires you to get a doctor's excuse to take a day off work, you need to give notice tomorrow and find another job.
The corporatists have done a number on your head. Resist it.
That's just packaging the same old wine in a new bottle. Linux is still way behind in hardware support, has only the most limited VST support and the DAWs are still nowhere near ready for prime time professional production.
It's getting there, but there's still a ways to go.
Every year for the past 10 at least, I've made a run at professional audio production on Linux, and every year I'm disappointed. It's not like Linux is not useful in the studio and post-production. In fact, after Cockos Reaper came out with ReaMote, allowing for off-loading of samples and streams and effects, there has always been at least one Linux box in my production chain. But as main production machine, the applications just are not there yet. And as long as kxstudio relies on Jack, it won't be there.
Have you ever lived anywhere where there was a significant mob presence?
No, I live in Chicago.
Seriously though, growing up on Taylor Street in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood, we all knew who the mob guys were, and many of them were part of our extended families. I used to go fetch cigars for the old men who sat in front of the social club drinking espresso and they'd give me dollar bills and sage life advice. The barber and the tailor at Taylor and Loomis were both bookies.
Part of the mob's effectiveness is that it destroys trust in the normal functioning institutinos of society.
Actually, in the case of the Chicago mob, they didn't destroy trust in those institutions, they replaced trust in those institutions for people who were blocked from having access to them. Today, if you want to get a bet down, you just have to go online or buy a lottery scratch-off ticket. Back then, you had to go see the barber. If you needed a loan, you saw the loan shark (who actually charged less interest than today's payday loan joints). If you needed the pothole in your street fixed, you went to talk to the precinct captain (who could be found putting down a bet with the barber or drinking espresso at the social club).
So see, the mob didn't destroy trust in normal functioning institutions of society, it created trust in people where the institutions of society didn't function properly.
Today, those old mob guys are almost all dead, and their kids went to med school or law school and are living out in the suburbs or on the North Side. All the mob's wealth has been laundered through the "normal functioning institutions of society" and their kids and grandkids are paragons of those functioning institutions. The mob here has always been the way immigrant populations assimilate. Do you think the fortunes of any of the great families in the US were built very differently? From Rockefeller to Kennedy to Romney, the fortunes are always built on something a little sleazy.
This all may be different where you are. This story happens to be about "the mob" in Belgium, which I can't even imagine. Maybe they control the black market waffles or something.
The government has failed to restrict guns, that doesn't mean they don't want to, it just means that the 2nd Amendment is too clear to be overturned as easily as they would like.
The second amendment is so clear that until the 1980s it didn't cover individual ownership of guns?
The government wants to keep easily made guns out of our hands because they want to know who ha the guns.
So they just need to know who has the 3D printers.
Constitutional Amendments - those guys with wooden teeth and slaves set up a pretty nifty system if you follow it.
If we followed the "pretty nifty system" the guys with the wooden teeth set up, we'd still have slaves and half the population would be forbidden from voting because they don't have penises.
Fuck your Founding Fathers. They were a bunch of wine snobs who didn't want to have to pay taxes. All the flowery rhetoric was so much bullshit.
Why do you lie on the internet when anyone can make five keystrokes and find out how full of shit you are? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Look at the date on your citation. It's 2007.
which is why Obama's administration has been doing the best they can to make firearms and ammunition as difficult to acquire as possible.
No, they talk about making firearms and ammunition as difficult to acquire as possible. They haven't done one thing in eight years to actually make it so. In your mind, is the same guy who's so diabolical and tyrannical as to force gay marriage and health care down your throat really that impotent when it comes to guns? He can wave his arms and change the Constitution and "fundamentally transform America", but he can't tighten one single gun law?
The entire gun "debate" is a sideshow to keep the yokels busy. They really think they're arming against the government.
I'm not someone you would normally think would be a big fan of this music, but a few years ago, I was looking for some music to play in the background when I was playing open world racing video games, like NFS: Most Wanted, etc. One of my students game me a CD/mp3 mix with a bunch of Muse, My Chemical Romance, Meshuggah, some Finnish Dark Metal bands, and some other groups. This led me to make a 2000-song racing playlist on Spotify that I still play in the background to this day when I play The Crew. I've added in some early Stooges, Ramones, GenX, etc, as well as a smattering of rockabilly, Wu Tang and punjabi rap. There's nothing like being in the last lap of a race and having "Survival" playing in the background. It's like some cross between Queen's "We Are the Champions" and Leni Riefenstahl.
And how are you going to be sure they died of a heart attack due to fright and now due to an diet of excessive pizza, chips, and Redbull?
That's my point. Any FUD you hear about the "dangers of VR" is nothing but marketing to the gamers, who as a whole, are not a particularly bright bunch.
the goal is to prevent US citizens from 3d printing guns,
Are you so silly that you think the US government has an interest in keeping guns out of the hands of US citizens?
The US has the highest per capita gun ownership in the world. Back in 2013, there was a gun for every man, woman and child in the US, and now certainly even more than that. The US government doesn't care about your guns. In fact, they know you are statistically more likely to kill yourself with that gun than you are someone else.
Do you see Second Amendment activists using guns against the government anywhere in the US? Do you think you're little gun worries the US government in any way, shape or form?
You dumb sonofabitch, your guns are just another way the government controls you. It's population control by another name and the argument is between you and "them libruls", not between you and the government, and the government knows this. As long as you're busy marching around open-carrying and fighting with liberals over gun control, you're not aware of just how controlled you are. As long as the "Second Amendment" is a big issue in elections, they know you're taking your eye off of what's really going on. You think you're a big winner when you march down to the local gun shop and spend your disability money on guns, and the government is laughing at you.
No. The gay marriage last week. I'm sure that's exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
Who gives a good god damn what the Founding Fathers had in mind? I'm serious. These were guys with wooden teeth who owned slaves. The streets were filled with horse shit. Is that your idea of a good time?
If you read the story, it's specifically about trying to stop the export of these blueprints, not keeping Americans from printing their own guns to carry when they go to Wal-Mart. It's not a 2nd Amendment issue.
On the other hand, given the number of guns the US exports every year, I don't understand the concern. Maybe they're just worried that 3D printed guns could cut into the profits of the big weapons manufacturers.
Violence is the United States' number one export. We do it better and bigger than anyone.
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I didn't say anything about "rich". I just said that if you have a job that allows you to be on your own boat at 10am on a Wednesday morning, it's probably not a "shitty job".
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com...
Best economics group blog on the Internet. Led by Yves Smith, who's writing about the 2008 banking crisis was absolutely brilliant and spot-on. Also Philip Pilkington, who's blog "Fixing the Economists" is essential reading. Non-ideological (unless you disagree with them, in which case you will claim - falsely - that they're ideological). Their economics expertise is unquestioned.
I read their blog every day and every time I find myself disagreeing with something they've written, I learn that I was wrong.
If you think plumbing is a shitty job, you should talk to my plumber, who is right now sitting on his 45-foot boat in Winthrop Harbor, almost certainly opening his first beer of the day.
Oh come on, the iPhone's not that bad. Yes, it's a cheap knockoff and yes it's laced with toxic chemicals, but it's still a pretty good value for the money.
This is why God invented labor unions, doctor.
This is from the article:
See that? Philadelphia. I'm pretty sure there is more than one surgeon available in Philadelphia. This is not some field hospital in Kenya and I'm not getting this surgery for free.
Does my bill for the surgery get pro-rated downward if the surgeon is impaired due to being tired?
I really don't want a surgeon who's been up for 29 hours doing any procedure on me.
There's your problem right there. If you're sick, you're sick. You already feel bad, so beating yourself up for staying home is just giving in to this ridiculous work ethic. And that work ethic? It's nothing but crude mind control. We're told that we're supposed to have a special "ethic" that means if you're not suffering, you're not earning your pay. And if your job requires you to get a doctor's excuse to take a day off work, you need to give notice tomorrow and find another job.
The corporatists have done a number on your head. Resist it.
Well, that's no fun. What possible use would I have for a non-threatening robot?
That's just packaging the same old wine in a new bottle. Linux is still way behind in hardware support, has only the most limited VST support and the DAWs are still nowhere near ready for prime time professional production.
It's getting there, but there's still a ways to go.
Every year for the past 10 at least, I've made a run at professional audio production on Linux, and every year I'm disappointed. It's not like Linux is not useful in the studio and post-production. In fact, after Cockos Reaper came out with ReaMote, allowing for off-loading of samples and streams and effects, there has always been at least one Linux box in my production chain. But as main production machine, the applications just are not there yet. And as long as kxstudio relies on Jack, it won't be there.
No, I live in Chicago.
Seriously though, growing up on Taylor Street in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood, we all knew who the mob guys were, and many of them were part of our extended families. I used to go fetch cigars for the old men who sat in front of the social club drinking espresso and they'd give me dollar bills and sage life advice. The barber and the tailor at Taylor and Loomis were both bookies.
Actually, in the case of the Chicago mob, they didn't destroy trust in those institutions, they replaced trust in those institutions for people who were blocked from having access to them. Today, if you want to get a bet down, you just have to go online or buy a lottery scratch-off ticket. Back then, you had to go see the barber. If you needed a loan, you saw the loan shark (who actually charged less interest than today's payday loan joints). If you needed the pothole in your street fixed, you went to talk to the precinct captain (who could be found putting down a bet with the barber or drinking espresso at the social club).
So see, the mob didn't destroy trust in normal functioning institutions of society, it created trust in people where the institutions of society didn't function properly.
Today, those old mob guys are almost all dead, and their kids went to med school or law school and are living out in the suburbs or on the North Side. All the mob's wealth has been laundered through the "normal functioning institutions of society" and their kids and grandkids are paragons of those functioning institutions. The mob here has always been the way immigrant populations assimilate. Do you think the fortunes of any of the great families in the US were built very differently? From Rockefeller to Kennedy to Romney, the fortunes are always built on something a little sleazy.
This all may be different where you are. This story happens to be about "the mob" in Belgium, which I can't even imagine. Maybe they control the black market waffles or something.
Let me treat you to a few more of "jp_831"'s comments on Slashdot. He hasn't been around long so there weren't many to choose from:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
This is what 8chan has brought to Slashdot.
I think what this story is really about is drunk texting and emailing.
The second amendment is so clear that until the 1980s it didn't cover individual ownership of guns?
So they just need to know who has the 3D printers.
Come on. You're smarter than that.
You mean Ronald Reagan, I assume?
If we followed the "pretty nifty system" the guys with the wooden teeth set up, we'd still have slaves and half the population would be forbidden from voting because they don't have penises.
Fuck your Founding Fathers. They were a bunch of wine snobs who didn't want to have to pay taxes. All the flowery rhetoric was so much bullshit.
Someday, you'll have to explain what the "Founding Fathers" 240 years ago have to do with "liberty, justice...and freedom".
Freedom for whom?
Look at the date on your citation. It's 2007.
No, they talk about making firearms and ammunition as difficult to acquire as possible. They haven't done one thing in eight years to actually make it so. In your mind, is the same guy who's so diabolical and tyrannical as to force gay marriage and health care down your throat really that impotent when it comes to guns? He can wave his arms and change the Constitution and "fundamentally transform America", but he can't tighten one single gun law?
The entire gun "debate" is a sideshow to keep the yokels busy. They really think they're arming against the government.
I cannot let a story about supermassive black holes go by without posting this:
https://youtu.be/pta-gf6JaHQ
I'm not someone you would normally think would be a big fan of this music, but a few years ago, I was looking for some music to play in the background when I was playing open world racing video games, like NFS: Most Wanted, etc. One of my students game me a CD/mp3 mix with a bunch of Muse, My Chemical Romance, Meshuggah, some Finnish Dark Metal bands, and some other groups. This led me to make a 2000-song racing playlist on Spotify that I still play in the background to this day when I play The Crew. I've added in some early Stooges, Ramones, GenX, etc, as well as a smattering of rockabilly, Wu Tang and punjabi rap. There's nothing like being in the last lap of a race and having "Survival" playing in the background. It's like some cross between Queen's "We Are the Champions" and Leni Riefenstahl.
OK, carry on.
That's my point. Any FUD you hear about the "dangers of VR" is nothing but marketing to the gamers, who as a whole, are not a particularly bright bunch.
Are you so silly that you think the US government has an interest in keeping guns out of the hands of US citizens?
The US has the highest per capita gun ownership in the world. Back in 2013, there was a gun for every man, woman and child in the US, and now certainly even more than that. The US government doesn't care about your guns. In fact, they know you are statistically more likely to kill yourself with that gun than you are someone else.
Do you see Second Amendment activists using guns against the government anywhere in the US? Do you think you're little gun worries the US government in any way, shape or form?
You dumb sonofabitch, your guns are just another way the government controls you. It's population control by another name and the argument is between you and "them libruls", not between you and the government, and the government knows this. As long as you're busy marching around open-carrying and fighting with liberals over gun control, you're not aware of just how controlled you are. As long as the "Second Amendment" is a big issue in elections, they know you're taking your eye off of what's really going on. You think you're a big winner when you march down to the local gun shop and spend your disability money on guns, and the government is laughing at you.
And yet, I couldn't take my eyes off a single frame of that movie.
It wasn't the movie you or I wanted, but it was a marvel.
Who gives a good god damn what the Founding Fathers had in mind? I'm serious. These were guys with wooden teeth who owned slaves. The streets were filled with horse shit. Is that your idea of a good time?
If you read the story, it's specifically about trying to stop the export of these blueprints, not keeping Americans from printing their own guns to carry when they go to Wal-Mart. It's not a 2nd Amendment issue.
On the other hand, given the number of guns the US exports every year, I don't understand the concern. Maybe they're just worried that 3D printed guns could cut into the profits of the big weapons manufacturers.
Violence is the United States' number one export. We do it better and bigger than anyone.
Are you still mad about Bush v Gore and Citizens United?