decent internet access from many people because it is unprofitable for them to deliver, while still holding on to their granted monopolies in those areas. and then they even go to the extent of saying that they want to cut the landline cords. this basically means a lot of people will not only be without decent internet access, but also decent phone communication. unbelievable bastardiness.
yet, if, any government agency would, god forbid, to step in to eliminate this blatant slighting of citizens, those bastards all start up yelling 'competition' , 'hands off business', 'no government intervention', 'socialism'.
maybe socialism is indeed what is needed. for, apparently, what we have on our hands became an outright feudalism.
yea. and the data will get modified in someone's own pc and sent back isnt it. a pc that is probably running a media player, at least one instant messenger, various browser windows and god knows what other software at that moment. its not even a client to send modification request to the database - it will be the place where data is modified and then sent back.
yea. or they should just close the company due to incompetency, for, if they are still processing bulk data that is saved in plain text databases through microsoft software and macros, they are incompetent. woe to the partners and clients and customers who have their data in those files. their data's integrity depends on one single person using some macro on a microsoft software on a single desktop/laptop running it. glory to the digital age...
if, a company uses some macro on some humongous office document continuously, they should have bought/gotten done a software to do that on a real database already. if they havent, well .
based on the observations of religious and/or extremist groups in turkey, i can assure you the most fertile places they prefer are wherever there are few women. for whatever reason, women quite dampen extremism wherever they are. even in religious schools that allow females and males to study together, you cant find that many extremists. but, in schools or departments which have a very low percentage of females, i have came upon more extremists during my education life. actually, some of my family acquaintances also fell into such brainwashing, even though they were from thoroughly secular and modernist families.
as a result, religious and extremist circles try to separate females and males as much as possible, wherever they can pass their will.
or rather, do we really need to perform complex operations on text based documents containing thousands of lines (or cells) of data ?
we are living in the tech era, we have databases on intranet and online, we have software which is able to manage them. yet, there are still 'power users' who are managing data through csvs by running 'complex macros' on them ?
well excuse me, but this sounds a very shitty way of dealing with big data. especially if the data is sensitive, i wouldnt want my sensitive data to be handled by someone's own work pc running some office program with some 'complex' macros. if they manage sensitive, or huge data, they should create a proper database/client setup and run it. not text based files saved on someone's pc.
capitalism is the recipe of it. back then land was the economic base, and land was being tied to people, creating feudal lords. now, cash is the basis of economy and its fluid. and the stronger ones establish themselves as lords, because there isnt anyone to stand up to them or limit their power. thats why they are always asking for less regulations, less intervention. so that they may live as feudal as they please.
study some history. 'free market' zealotry and belief in greenspan church is precisely why we are in this deep shit currently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market [wikipedia.org] "Free market economics is closely associated with laissez-faire economic philosophy, which advocates approximating this condition in the real world by mostly confining government intervention in economic matters to regulating against force and fraud among market participants."
The USA tried something close to a laissez faire marketplace and it failed miserably. Starting in 1898, there was an explosion of regulation and the breaking up of monopolies. Free markets did not self-regulate. They polluted, colluded, abused the workforce, sold unhealthy foods, caused stock/bank crashes and a 101 other things. The EPA, SEC, FTC, FDA, OSHA, etc are all the direct result of that failed philosophy.
your american ignorance about anything outside your country is not rational either.
1 - no speech gets repressed in 'socialist' countries. social democrat countries, instead of which you use the term 'socialist' in america, are the most free places on the face of this planet. which means half of europe. to the extent that, whereas you americans get jailed for years for even possessing marijuana, marijuana is sold legally in the streets of netherlands. its to that extent. 'free speech' is a GIVEN in those countries.
2 - us still has an unregulated capitalist system. the current level of regulations are nowhere near for a pluralistic society to exist. you are practically run by corporations which buy laws through lobby corporations. ALL the laws and regulations are bought thus. you dont have any regulations FOR the benefit of the people.
you are a moron for not knowing enough about what you speak, to the extent that you confuse 'socialist' word with lack of freedom, which is precisely the brainwashing right wing conservatives in your country is trying to do. you are a far bigger moron in believing them and toeing their line.
you probably have enough iq since you are reading slashdot. you should learn about countries other than your own.
first learn the terms. what you describe is communism. NOT socialism. what you fools in america are being worked up against is socialism, which is termed as 'social democracy' in europe.
it is a system in which no corporation can trump the individual, noone can go buy laws that easily, and the rich are treated as mere citizens.
and, contrary to what you fools in america brainwashed to believe, it not only works, but it works great. where most of your population has been struggling in shit, scandinavian countries, which have been employing social democracy for the last 30 years have been living in a totally out-of-the-world standard of living and culture. its not surprising that you may not know shit about those countries, since most of you americans appear to have been brainwashed to believe 'america is the place to be', and do not even wonder about whats going on out of your borders. serves you right though.
you are not free. you are a mere serf. the rich can buy laws AND justice in your country, and practically rule you behind closed high hill mansions through 'lobbying'. on the other hand of the spectrum, the 'slaves' of the socialist scandinavian countries have been enjoying freedoms and equality up to the point of being able to wait in the assembly stairs for their prime minister and talk with them about their issues, as a SINGLE, ORDINARY CITIZEN, in extreme examples. and one of the biggest social issues in sweden recently have been whether women should be able to go to beaches topless, in which constitutional court decided that women couldnt be forced to wear tops in beaches and pools. not immigrants. not homeless. not any corporation sucking anyone's blood. no war. no drug smuggling. nothing else, but, the issue of women wearing or not wearing tops has made the constitutional court.
all in the meantime you 'free' people in america have been gutting each other in deep shit, whereas 15% of your population owned 80% of the income and wealth, and the rest 85% of your people only were left with 20% of total wealth.
excuse me, but fuck that freedom. if my 'success' is going to happen at the cost of 85% of population living in shitty conditions, fuck that success.
The "Gilded Age" featured heavy government subsidies for railroads and the opening up of formerly Indian lands on the cheap. This distortion allowed corporations to grow more than they would have in an actual free market. As far as those problems you've mentioned, some have gotten worse, some have improved, and some haven't changed at all due to the new regulations that have been introduced. The choice is one between corporate corruption and government corruption, and I'm not sure government corruption is any safer, considering the government can legally hold a gun to your head.
quit being obsessed with 'government subsidies'. it doesnt matter if the monopoly started with govt subsidy or not. if it wasnt with govt subsidy, it would take longer to establish a monopoly. because govt subsidy was given, it has been faster to achieve monopoly. what matters is, the monopoly state.
it is utter naivete, in fact, plain stupidity to believe that corporations do not grow humongous in free markets.
a 'free market' per se, is just another social interaction type inside the society. and just like any other social interaction which involves multiple people, some group of people band together and become more powerful, bending others to their will. ie, social dynamics do not like chaos, and it creates a hierarchy this way or other out of the unregulated, unruled chaos that is present there.
in an unregulated 'free market', the bigger capital would eventually gulp or destroy smaller ones, or bend them to its will in cartels or price schemes or partnerships, eventually creating a hierarchy.
price of freedom is eternal vigilance. you cant have any freedom in an environment in which equality and freedom is enforced by laws.
I guess I just don't see why you need more regulation to prevent corporations from killing people, when killing is already illegal.
yes killing is illegal. FOR YOU. if a corporation kills 100 people with a product, all that will happen will be an out of court settlement in which each person's life will be given some $1-2 million value and done with. if, YOU mistakenly kill someone, you will end up in jail.
i think now you can see why more regulations are needed.
with all the advantages and disadvantages. people will see you like a wizard and respect you for that, but they will also think you are from some secluded, hard to understand, even sometimes scary group of people.
the overblown unrealism really gets tiring after a period of time. the 'heal' thing especially, in all kinds of games. they dont even replace it with fatigue or something. its 'healing'. your 'health points' go down, you die. then you magically restore it, somehow. takes away the realism. at least make it fatigue or something, something we can accept.
technology used in the movie != the theme or message of the movie.
2 are irrelevant. the technology is used to create a 'dream' in the movie, which conveys a story and message to you. had this movie been real, and you were in that alternate reality, you would have no problems conciling the message with your reality. you wouldnt stop and think about the mechanics of optics and colors while having your butt kicked. there is no rule that says a movie which utilizes high technology has to give a certain message in regard to technology.
its like dreams. in a dream, you just see something, feel something, or get a message. the environment, looks, visuals, sounds and feelings of each and every dream is different.
the question posed in the summary is beyond stupid. im getting the feeling that the posting was done for slashvertisement.
whereas the initial part of your approach is fresh and another way too look at the problem, the latter part is rather naive.
Additionally, we put too much power in the hands of the federal government what should be at the state and private level.
if government doesnt have enough power, who is going to enforce the responsibilities of both humans and corporations. regardless of whether you gave corporations also the responsibilities and treatment of humans or not, you need a strong all encompassing entity to force the responsibilities. if not, groups of people (or corporations thereof) will band together and create local power centers and defy responsibility and enforcement.
I activated my Saturday Night Fever Ray Device i hid near pluton. Puny earthlings. Expect more of this to come - i will turn all of you to freaks like below :
"hands off busines" crap is costing you people time and money. because there are not enough tough regulations, corporations often can get away with scamming customers. to the extent that they dare put 'you cant sue us' clauses in contracts.
that "hands off business" thing really has to end. scamming, screwing people is not business, anyone using that excuse to defend such actions is a bastard.
there's something like that. corporate culture is created by the initial visionholders of a company. then, this affects their hirings. in the end entire corporation becomes something shaped with the vision, and continues to operate as such. there are numerous corporations which are maintaining a definitive culture over 100 years in europe. there are corporations which had their corporate culture shaped in front of our eyes, like microsoft. corporate culture makes or breaks corporations.
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is also never a good idea. one of which, you just made.
google being the spearhead of the push, or being accepted as one of our side does not mean that we are only relying on google. this was your half assed conclusion.
When i have a task. i find myself 'procastrinating' for days on end, unable to commit myself directly to writing the code. during the period, the task regularly comes to my mind in sudden, odd places, doing odd things, like in wc taking a dump, trying to go to sleep, going to the grocer's and so on. then, after a few days, i suddenly sit down and swiftly complete the task. it seems like im hatching things, dealing with the thing in subconscious before doing it.
the good side, it works. and good. the bad side, i feel like im procastrinating and being irresponsible during the hatching period and its annoying.
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decent internet access from many people because it is unprofitable for them to deliver, while still holding on to their granted monopolies in those areas. and then they even go to the extent of saying that they want to cut the landline cords. this basically means a lot of people will not only be without decent internet access, but also decent phone communication. unbelievable bastardiness.
yet, if, any government agency would, god forbid, to step in to eliminate this blatant slighting of citizens, those bastards all start up yelling 'competition' , 'hands off business', 'no government intervention', 'socialism'.
maybe socialism is indeed what is needed. for, apparently, what we have on our hands became an outright feudalism.
yea. and the data will get modified in someone's own pc and sent back isnt it. a pc that is probably running a media player, at least one instant messenger, various browser windows and god knows what other software at that moment. its not even a client to send modification request to the database - it will be the place where data is modified and then sent back.
yea. or they should just close the company due to incompetency, for, if they are still processing bulk data that is saved in plain text databases through microsoft software and macros, they are incompetent. woe to the partners and clients and customers who have their data in those files. their data's integrity depends on one single person using some macro on a microsoft software on a single desktop/laptop running it. glory to the digital age ...
if, a company uses some macro on some humongous office document continuously, they should have bought/gotten done a software to do that on a real database already. if they havent, well .
based on the observations of religious and/or extremist groups in turkey, i can assure you the most fertile places they prefer are wherever there are few women. for whatever reason, women quite dampen extremism wherever they are. even in religious schools that allow females and males to study together, you cant find that many extremists. but, in schools or departments which have a very low percentage of females, i have came upon more extremists during my education life. actually, some of my family acquaintances also fell into such brainwashing, even though they were from thoroughly secular and modernist families.
as a result, religious and extremist circles try to separate females and males as much as possible, wherever they can pass their will.
or rather, do we really need to perform complex operations on text based documents containing thousands of lines (or cells) of data ?
we are living in the tech era, we have databases on intranet and online, we have software which is able to manage them. yet, there are still 'power users' who are managing data through csvs by running 'complex macros' on them ?
well excuse me, but this sounds a very shitty way of dealing with big data. especially if the data is sensitive, i wouldnt want my sensitive data to be handled by someone's own work pc running some office program with some 'complex' macros. if they manage sensitive, or huge data, they should create a proper database/client setup and run it. not text based files saved on someone's pc.
if i was 'engaged' at any point by steve ballmer, i would run for it. the guy scares the living daylights out of me.
capitalism is the recipe of it. back then land was the economic base, and land was being tied to people, creating feudal lords. now, cash is the basis of economy and its fluid. and the stronger ones establish themselves as lords, because there isnt anyone to stand up to them or limit their power. thats why they are always asking for less regulations, less intervention. so that they may live as feudal as they please.
study some history. 'free market' zealotry and belief in greenspan church is precisely why we are in this deep shit currently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market [wikipedia.org]
"Free market economics is closely associated with laissez-faire economic philosophy, which advocates approximating this condition in the real world by mostly confining government intervention in economic matters to regulating against force and fraud among market participants."
The USA tried something close to a laissez faire marketplace and it failed miserably.
Starting in 1898, there was an explosion of regulation and the breaking up of monopolies.
Free markets did not self-regulate. They polluted, colluded, abused the workforce,
sold unhealthy foods, caused stock/bank crashes and a 101 other things.
The EPA, SEC, FTC, FDA, OSHA, etc are all the direct result of that failed philosophy.
your american ignorance about anything outside your country is not rational either.
1 - no speech gets repressed in 'socialist' countries. social democrat countries, instead of which you use the term 'socialist' in america, are the most free places on the face of this planet. which means half of europe. to the extent that, whereas you americans get jailed for years for even possessing marijuana, marijuana is sold legally in the streets of netherlands. its to that extent. 'free speech' is a GIVEN in those countries.
2 - us still has an unregulated capitalist system. the current level of regulations are nowhere near for a pluralistic society to exist. you are practically run by corporations which buy laws through lobby corporations. ALL the laws and regulations are bought thus. you dont have any regulations FOR the benefit of the people.
you are a moron for not knowing enough about what you speak, to the extent that you confuse 'socialist' word with lack of freedom, which is precisely the brainwashing right wing conservatives in your country is trying to do. you are a far bigger moron in believing them and toeing their line.
you probably have enough iq since you are reading slashdot. you should learn about countries other than your own.
first learn the terms. what you describe is communism. NOT socialism. what you fools in america are being worked up against is socialism, which is termed as 'social democracy' in europe.
it is a system in which no corporation can trump the individual, noone can go buy laws that easily, and the rich are treated as mere citizens.
and, contrary to what you fools in america brainwashed to believe, it not only works, but it works great. where most of your population has been struggling in shit, scandinavian countries, which have been employing social democracy for the last 30 years have been living in a totally out-of-the-world standard of living and culture. its not surprising that you may not know shit about those countries, since most of you americans appear to have been brainwashed to believe 'america is the place to be', and do not even wonder about whats going on out of your borders. serves you right though.
you are not free. you are a mere serf. the rich can buy laws AND justice in your country, and practically rule you behind closed high hill mansions through 'lobbying'. on the other hand of the spectrum, the 'slaves' of the socialist scandinavian countries have been enjoying freedoms and equality up to the point of being able to wait in the assembly stairs for their prime minister and talk with them about their issues, as a SINGLE, ORDINARY CITIZEN, in extreme examples. and one of the biggest social issues in sweden recently have been whether women should be able to go to beaches topless, in which constitutional court decided that women couldnt be forced to wear tops in beaches and pools. not immigrants. not homeless. not any corporation sucking anyone's blood. no war. no drug smuggling. nothing else, but, the issue of women wearing or not wearing tops has made the constitutional court.
all in the meantime you 'free' people in america have been gutting each other in deep shit, whereas 15% of your population owned 80% of the income and wealth, and the rest 85% of your people only were left with 20% of total wealth.
excuse me, but fuck that freedom. if my 'success' is going to happen at the cost of 85% of population living in shitty conditions, fuck that success.
The "Gilded Age" featured heavy government subsidies for railroads and the opening up of formerly Indian lands on the cheap. This distortion allowed corporations to grow more than they would have in an actual free market. As far as those problems you've mentioned, some have gotten worse, some have improved, and some haven't changed at all due to the new regulations that have been introduced. The choice is one between corporate corruption and government corruption, and I'm not sure government corruption is any safer, considering the government can legally hold a gun to your head.
quit being obsessed with 'government subsidies'. it doesnt matter if the monopoly started with govt subsidy or not. if it wasnt with govt subsidy, it would take longer to establish a monopoly. because govt subsidy was given, it has been faster to achieve monopoly. what matters is, the monopoly state.
it is utter naivete, in fact, plain stupidity to believe that corporations do not grow humongous in free markets.
a 'free market' per se, is just another social interaction type inside the society. and just like any other social interaction which involves multiple people, some group of people band together and become more powerful, bending others to their will. ie, social dynamics do not like chaos, and it creates a hierarchy this way or other out of the unregulated, unruled chaos that is present there.
in an unregulated 'free market', the bigger capital would eventually gulp or destroy smaller ones, or bend them to its will in cartels or price schemes or partnerships, eventually creating a hierarchy.
price of freedom is eternal vigilance. you cant have any freedom in an environment in which equality and freedom is enforced by laws.
I guess I just don't see why you need more regulation to prevent corporations from killing people, when killing is already illegal.
yes killing is illegal. FOR YOU. if a corporation kills 100 people with a product, all that will happen will be an out of court settlement in which each person's life will be given some $1-2 million value and done with. if, YOU mistakenly kill someone, you will end up in jail.
i think now you can see why more regulations are needed.
with all the advantages and disadvantages. people will see you like a wizard and respect you for that, but they will also think you are from some secluded, hard to understand, even sometimes scary group of people.
the overblown unrealism really gets tiring after a period of time. the 'heal' thing especially, in all kinds of games. they dont even replace it with fatigue or something. its 'healing'. your 'health points' go down, you die. then you magically restore it, somehow. takes away the realism. at least make it fatigue or something, something we can accept.
this is what happens in a cutthroat, unregulated capitalist system. rich can buy justice, whereas individuals can buy shit. enjoy.
technology used in the movie != the theme or message of the movie.
2 are irrelevant. the technology is used to create a 'dream' in the movie, which conveys a story and message to you. had this movie been real, and you were in that alternate reality, you would have no problems conciling the message with your reality. you wouldnt stop and think about the mechanics of optics and colors while having your butt kicked. there is no rule that says a movie which utilizes high technology has to give a certain message in regard to technology.
its like dreams. in a dream, you just see something, feel something, or get a message. the environment, looks, visuals, sounds and feelings of each and every dream is different.
the question posed in the summary is beyond stupid. im getting the feeling that the posting was done for slashvertisement.
cost to implement and track. they are accounting nightmares to keep up with.
whereas the initial part of your approach is fresh and another way too look at the problem, the latter part is rather naive.
Additionally, we put too much power in the hands of the federal government what should be at the state and private level.
if government doesnt have enough power, who is going to enforce the responsibilities of both humans and corporations. regardless of whether you gave corporations also the responsibilities and treatment of humans or not, you need a strong all encompassing entity to force the responsibilities. if not, groups of people (or corporations thereof) will band together and create local power centers and defy responsibility and enforcement.
just like what's happening now.
I activated my Saturday Night Fever Ray Device i hid near pluton. Puny earthlings. Expect more of this to come - i will turn all of you to freaks like below :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHWeuQyFouo#t=0m16s
"hands off busines" crap is costing you people time and money. because there are not enough tough regulations, corporations often can get away with scamming customers. to the extent that they dare put 'you cant sue us' clauses in contracts.
that "hands off business" thing really has to end. scamming, screwing people is not business, anyone using that excuse to defend such actions is a bastard.
we talked too much. enough has been said.
there's something like that. corporate culture is created by the initial visionholders of a company. then, this affects their hirings. in the end entire corporation becomes something shaped with the vision, and continues to operate as such. there are numerous corporations which are maintaining a definitive culture over 100 years in europe. there are corporations which had their corporate culture shaped in front of our eyes, like microsoft. corporate culture makes or breaks corporations.
is also never a good idea. one of which, you just made.
google being the spearhead of the push, or being accepted as one of our side does not mean that we are only relying on google. this was your half assed conclusion.
i was gonna reply to you seriously, then i saw your signature. i cant take it seriously afterwards. have a nice day.
When i have a task. i find myself 'procastrinating' for days on end, unable to commit myself directly to writing the code. during the period, the task regularly comes to my mind in sudden, odd places, doing odd things, like in wc taking a dump, trying to go to sleep, going to the grocer's and so on. then, after a few days, i suddenly sit down and swiftly complete the task. it seems like im hatching things, dealing with the thing in subconscious before doing it.
the good side, it works. and good. the bad side, i feel like im procastrinating and being irresponsible during the hatching period and its annoying.