Autism is about someone hyper-focusing on some subset of the world "out of proportion to its value". Notice the sly difference between employable expert and that! If you hyper-focus on tax depreciation theory, you are Employable. If you hyper-focus on the Misfits of Science show and know which actors sadly passed early afterward, you are labeled Autistic.
Wikipedia might just be the single greatest Anti-Autism device, because it tends to "go up levels" as well as answer the questions. So 2 hours on IMDB will answer questions that could become a months-long obsession before, so "once that curiosity itch is scratched", the person can get back to the "bigger picture" that led them there.
Actually, my last big theory is that we have exactly one shot at a grand slam Dark Horse candidate, totally out of nowhere, to pummel Washington into smithereens. But only once. Then the outcasts will be livid and we'll see the final sweep into oppression.
But the last tool the Big Two use is they're all in 1 town, and they play the entire country on a Prisoner's Dilemma. And it worked for 50-100 years. But with the advent of the newest social media, if the entire country suddenly decides it has had enough, one last vote could sweep out absolutely everybody leaving the entire Washington machine speechless.
We'd need both the Pres and a Filibuster-Proof Congress. Then we'd have to work FAST. We'd only get a year (you better bet the Justice Dept would cheat and not let us have all four years!), but maybe we can fix 30 years of abuse.
Fix copyrights. Fix patents. Fix net neutrality Fix police arrogance Your choice of 20 more things.
Let there be loopholes!
Being funny for a moment, let's apply our Rapid Software Development to Law! Heh wanna get the Geek's revenge for all the version explaining we have to do?
Corp: "Haha we found a loophole so we're going to do This Evil Thing." Fast Track Administration: "Oh. Nice 0day. Okay. Tomorrow is Patch Tuesday. It's 3PM. Better hope your execs are around to get it done because it won't be there tomorrow at 9am. K. Thx. Bye."
Use the "put the testing on the people" mentality we wail about into lawmaking. Think about it, an Administration that moves with blinding speed, getting more done in a year than the last century.
"Hi. We're Comcast. We're going to throttle torrents." "Internet Law 2.01. Sudo No you're not. Go away. Next!" "Hi. We're MPAA. We're going to throw those pirates in jail for copyright theft." "Copyright Extension Act is repealed. Oh look, how many works are now in public domain! Disney, yes we know about the Mouse, here's a coupon."
Someone yelled at me for "being deluded that picking a party matters" but remember the other option in 2008 was a 75 year old man and Sarah Palin. So I decided to do what little I could.
After 7-10 years, the single greatest waste of time is First Post.
Let a legit First Post gain Double-Mod and Metamod Points, and then the next 20 comments won't suk.
Enough of this "old meme throwaway post shit. Oh. Look. I lost a point. Sorry. I did a mini study, Quality First Posts are worth between 17 and 30 real points.
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I'm not being clueless, I'm doing the best with my limited options.
I'd bet a fair day's pay that Al Gore wouldn't have made QUITE this mess out of the Terrorist meme. He didn't have Daddy's history of Iraq, and I think he'd have gotten the right *country* sooner than a *decade*. (Pakistan ??!!!) (Notice all it all hushed up pretty good since then?)
I'll admit I didn't expect Obama to be this fast on the RIAA scene, but did we really want Sarah Palin anywhere near the White House? It was a total flashback to the Quayle jokes, and McCain is no spring chicken.
So it's not great but there is a choice between Utter Disaster and Oh Dear Gawd.
Being facetious, pay a kid for every A and B he gets in class (and make it go to the kid, like lunch money, not the parents!).
Sure then the jocks will be envious, but... oh wait, I'm sorry, what was that?
I know, we'll raise a bunch of little tyrants, but wasn't the question on how to make our country really value education?
The other half is we need some kind of Angel Investor to slow down the corruption circle at the top levels. One of the mega billionaires who is fed up with it all, and just buys entire industries and voting blocs. Like the RIAA.
Just imagine - 1,000 top properties get an exemption, so Disney gets to keep their Mouse, the Beatles maybe, etc. But then that thundering second pantheon gets released as Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike. ("Just don't claim it is yours").
I hear the voices of 400 lobbyists crying out in anguish!
He's right though, while being dryly funny, that yes, a humble envelope is a valid scientific tool because while brainstorming you aren't "producing" anything. You're staring out of focus wondering why your equation "just looks wrong" despite having checked it 7 times to confirm there was no simple blunder.
So the envelope might contain a key graph, an Unhappy Face, a couple swear words, a doodle of the waitress, and three half baked equations with a big mystery gap in them.
That's the funny part, they're not even delivering the bread and circuses anymore.
Hulu was a classic "Circus" but now it's purposely being degraded. You've seen the economy, there's the Bread half at work.
Now they're going straight out for the fastest track to Big Brother possible, with each new piece coming on the heels of the other, daring us to fight it. Yeah, we do, a little, so maybe we succeed in getting a particular clause removed *this year* but overall the corruption is accelerating.
Does anyone know what Al Gore is up to? Is this the REAL cost of that fateful 2000 election? Does anyone think we'd be here if he had been President?
"1. Accept our changes, continuing using Faceborg. 2. Reject our changes, terminate you, your friends, and family. Resistance is Futile. You will become one with the Faceborg."
I mean me as in the "universal me", the non-visible protester. I've done a modest pro-rights campaign here for years now, but I almost always keep the tone down. But medium-soon I'll step on the wrong toe and that's it. That's the threat. It take a Canary Server to help mitigate that.
"Today I was not carted off to a Gulag by the Government. Today I was not carted off to a Gulag by the Government. Today I was not carted off to a Gulag by the Government.... " ((Crickets))
Heh those aren't hired, those are "development accessories!"
And to an AC earlier, yes, I was sorta snide in my currency amount, it was a joke that everyone works cheap lately, so maybe that's cheap beer and cheap hookers.
The theme I am grasping at though is that "100 years is overkill soon". Even 50 is something fierce, like when these blog posts surface with stuff from 1962 we're like "oh cool" not "OMG our country is doomed!".
I know I know, since 1981 we're saying "It's a Fast Paced World" but it really wasn't, sorta. It's the fresh new Wikileaks-Anonymous effect, which is arising in response to authority abuses. It's like one of those xkcd's, paraphrased, "what use is it encrypting for 20 years when you can just have a hooker get the key?" Then twelve days later it's all over the net forever. Even in bad old security breaches that never happened.
(... for protesting, it's a lack of characters folks)
Though really you're on my list of guys to send a postcard to from State sayin' "Glad you're not here". The US pretends to tolerate a wee bit of grumbling, it's our national circus, but if someone really get rolling, they either need to make a couple friends in high places or a couple dollars in high places to avoid "4th hand retribution".
I'd bet my lunch you're wrong there. Your post assumes we have anything left of privacy. When someone invokes magic words about Security Threats all that goes away.
Without overly snarking, 20 years is too long a time frame to care.
When we get down to 3 years take a "miniscule amount" of $100,000 (in "then dollars") and hire 30 mathematicians/cryptos/NSA types + 1 Slashdot Geek/1 Local Prodigy/2 Hotshots of the month/1 Sales guy/1 admin/1 Hotel Lodging rep and tell them to get cracking for 3 months. Problem solved.
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I'll second this.
Autism is about someone hyper-focusing on some subset of the world "out of proportion to its value". Notice the sly difference between employable expert and that! If you hyper-focus on tax depreciation theory, you are Employable. If you hyper-focus on the Misfits of Science show and know which actors sadly passed early afterward, you are labeled Autistic.
Wikipedia might just be the single greatest Anti-Autism device, because it tends to "go up levels" as well as answer the questions. So 2 hours on IMDB will answer questions that could become a months-long obsession before, so "once that curiosity itch is scratched", the person can get back to the "bigger picture" that led them there.
Ooh I know this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K3E5tLoado
This is almost the same as the DOD $50,000 "challenge" to recover shredded docs remember?
So what did they do, spin it from the "Bad Dept of Defense" to "a college group"?
AC nailed it, tech that can do that is "worth" billions in lifetime revenue, so what's with this $50,000 a piece?
"The way I've always seen it is once you start calling people names or nitpicking spelling and grammar you've already lost your argument."
Funny, when the Government starts calling you a Terrorist Threat to Children and Copyrights they win the argument.
Actually, my last big theory is that we have exactly one shot at a grand slam Dark Horse candidate, totally out of nowhere, to pummel Washington into smithereens. But only once. Then the outcasts will be livid and we'll see the final sweep into oppression.
But the last tool the Big Two use is they're all in 1 town, and they play the entire country on a Prisoner's Dilemma. And it worked for 50-100 years. But with the advent of the newest social media, if the entire country suddenly decides it has had enough, one last vote could sweep out absolutely everybody leaving the entire Washington machine speechless.
We'd need both the Pres and a Filibuster-Proof Congress. Then we'd have to work FAST. We'd only get a year (you better bet the Justice Dept would cheat and not let us have all four years!), but maybe we can fix 30 years of abuse.
Fix copyrights.
Fix patents.
Fix net neutrality
Fix police arrogance
Your choice of 20 more things.
Let there be loopholes!
Being funny for a moment, let's apply our Rapid Software Development to Law! Heh wanna get the Geek's revenge for all the version explaining we have to do?
Corp: "Haha we found a loophole so we're going to do This Evil Thing."
Fast Track Administration: "Oh. Nice 0day. Okay. Tomorrow is Patch Tuesday. It's 3PM. Better hope your execs are around to get it done because it won't be there tomorrow at 9am. K. Thx. Bye."
Use the "put the testing on the people" mentality we wail about into lawmaking. Think about it, an Administration that moves with blinding speed, getting more done in a year than the last century.
"Hi. We're Comcast. We're going to throttle torrents."
"Internet Law 2.01. Sudo No you're not. Go away. Next!"
"Hi. We're MPAA. We're going to throw those pirates in jail for copyright theft."
"Copyright Extension Act is repealed. Oh look, how many works are now in public domain! Disney, yes we know about the Mouse, here's a coupon."
But it only works ONCE.
Yep.
Someone yelled at me for "being deluded that picking a party matters" but remember the other option in 2008 was a 75 year old man and Sarah Palin. So I decided to do what little I could.
Cut this $hit out.
After 7-10 years, the single greatest waste of time is First Post.
Let a legit First Post gain Double-Mod and Metamod Points, and then the next 20 comments won't suk.
Enough of this "old meme throwaway post shit.
Oh. Look. I lost a point. Sorry. I did a mini study, Quality First Posts are worth between 17 and 30 real points.
You win one Schrodinger's Cat. Maybe.
I'm not being clueless, I'm doing the best with my limited options.
I'd bet a fair day's pay that Al Gore wouldn't have made QUITE this mess out of the Terrorist meme. He didn't have Daddy's history of Iraq, and I think he'd have gotten the right *country* sooner than a *decade*. (Pakistan ??!!!) (Notice all it all hushed up pretty good since then?)
I'll admit I didn't expect Obama to be this fast on the RIAA scene, but did we really want Sarah Palin anywhere near the White House? It was a total flashback to the Quayle jokes, and McCain is no spring chicken.
So it's not great but there is a choice between Utter Disaster and Oh Dear Gawd.
Aren't the citizens getting fined more than Corps?
So "Industrial Espionage" is only worth a penalty of a million or two but Anonymous hackers are Terrorists for Life?
Remember that Corporations are People? How did Corps manage to NOT get on the Terrorist Lists?!
How do we rate your Geek IQ if you didn't find the Print Page?
http://www.infoworld.com/print/178807
1 Page and not an ad in sight!
Print pages are a beautiful thing.
Find a way to make Nerds/Geeks Cool.
Being facetious, pay a kid for every A and B he gets in class (and make it go to the kid, like lunch money, not the parents!).
Sure then the jocks will be envious, but ... oh wait, I'm sorry, what was that?
I know, we'll raise a bunch of little tyrants, but wasn't the question on how to make our country really value education?
The other half is we need some kind of Angel Investor to slow down the corruption circle at the top levels. One of the mega billionaires who is fed up with it all, and just buys entire industries and voting blocs. Like the RIAA.
Just imagine - 1,000 top properties get an exemption, so Disney gets to keep their Mouse, the Beatles maybe, etc. But then that thundering second pantheon gets released as Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike. ("Just don't claim it is yours").
I hear the voices of 400 lobbyists crying out in anguish!
That's great!
I'm only responding to the overpowering size and placement, and maybe lack of a toggle option.
He's right though, while being dryly funny, that yes, a humble envelope is a valid scientific tool because while brainstorming you aren't "producing" anything. You're staring out of focus wondering why your equation "just looks wrong" despite having checked it 7 times to confirm there was no simple blunder.
So the envelope might contain a key graph, an Unhappy Face, a couple swear words, a doodle of the waitress, and three half baked equations with a big mystery gap in them.
That's the funny part, they're not even delivering the bread and circuses anymore.
Hulu was a classic "Circus" but now it's purposely being degraded. You've seen the economy, there's the Bread half at work.
Now they're going straight out for the fastest track to Big Brother possible, with each new piece coming on the heels of the other, daring us to fight it. Yeah, we do, a little, so maybe we succeed in getting a particular clause removed *this year* but overall the corruption is accelerating.
Does anyone know what Al Gore is up to? Is this the REAL cost of that fateful 2000 election? Does anyone think we'd be here if he had been President?
Offtopic I know,
but are we stuck with that big square box now?
That's what I'll reply to.
It's not about the 4 megs, it's about the 99c/costs to produce the song, which presumably had at least $5,000 of studio overhead per album.
"Do you mean "buy the whole music industry"?"
Yes.
That would pulverize the current attack dogs when all those lobbyists are owned by the (relatively benign) Google.
Just suppose? Google gives out free songs. In return for its other deals.
Then the Smarms on Washington would be crushed.
"1. Accept our changes, continuing using Faceborg. 2. Reject our changes, terminate you, your friends, and family. Resistance is Futile. You will become one with the Faceborg."
Hiya Sir Limecat!
I mean me as in the "universal me", the non-visible protester. I've done a modest pro-rights campaign here for years now, but I almost always keep the tone down. But medium-soon I'll step on the wrong toe and that's it. That's the threat. It take a Canary Server to help mitigate that.
"Today I was not carted off to a Gulag by the Government. Today I was not carted off to a Gulag by the Government. Today I was not carted off to a Gulag by the Government. ... " ((Crickets))
Heh those aren't hired, those are "development accessories!"
And to an AC earlier, yes, I was sorta snide in my currency amount, it was a joke that everyone works cheap lately, so maybe that's cheap beer and cheap hookers.
Nice reply.
The theme I am grasping at though is that "100 years is overkill soon". Even 50 is something fierce, like when these blog posts surface with stuff from 1962 we're like "oh cool" not "OMG our country is doomed!".
I know I know, since 1981 we're saying "It's a Fast Paced World" but it really wasn't, sorta. It's the fresh new Wikileaks-Anonymous effect, which is arising in response to authority abuses. It's like one of those xkcd's, paraphrased, "what use is it encrypting for 20 years when you can just have a hooker get the key?" Then twelve days later it's all over the net forever. Even in bad old security breaches that never happened.
(... for protesting, it's a lack of characters folks)
Though really you're on my list of guys to send a postcard to from State sayin' "Glad you're not here". The US pretends to tolerate a wee bit of grumbling, it's our national circus, but if someone really get rolling, they either need to make a couple friends in high places or a couple dollars in high places to avoid "4th hand retribution".
I'd bet my lunch you're wrong there. Your post assumes we have anything left of privacy. When someone invokes magic words about Security Threats all that goes away.
Without overly snarking, 20 years is too long a time frame to care.
When we get down to 3 years take a "miniscule amount" of $100,000 (in "then dollars") and hire 30 mathematicians/cryptos/NSA types + 1 Slashdot Geek/1 Local Prodigy/2 Hotshots of the month/1 Sales guy/1 admin/1 Hotel Lodging rep and tell them to get cracking for 3 months. Problem solved.