sure, you have politics in the military industrial complex that is the pentagon. its how the mess hall gets halliburton contractors and your usual patrols are augmented by blackwater; its not going anywhere. but the tits-up congress is actually a pretty recent concoction.
in the face of a progressive president who shows signs of championing some popular reforms like wealth equality, immigration and healthcare, i'd say turning congress into a total clusterfuck with the addition of some well funded tea-based fringe group was a very tactically minded decision on the part of americas plutocrats. If the bus is going in the wrong direction, slash the tires and damn the consequences i say.
we illegally funded drug cartels through two presidencies to back insurgencies in countless south american and central american countries which then proceeded to use terrorism to destroy hospitals, schools and police stations in an epidemic of violence designed to hijack the democratic process and install pro-america dictators.
these drug trades are directly empowered today by a failed american drug policy designed to incarcerate minorities for petty drug convictions and generate a permanent, unspoken underclass of ex convicts in america who promise private prisons guaranteed recidivism by systems in place designed to deny them government assistance, housing, voting rights and mandate they pay reparations for their imprisonment.
the headline should read "cartels use sophisticated mining and drilling equipment to create transnational underground pipeline" but thats not as funny as 'fire-truck sized' which serves to distract the audience from how the largely downplayed cartels in mexico managed to secure over a million dollars in heavy equipment and expertise to do this.
im pretty sure the death of the middle class was ushered in by a combination of wanton and reckless deregulation which encouraged predatory and fraudulent lending markets leading to a subprime lending crisis that precipitated massive foreclosures which in turn plunged major economic sectors into default requiring trillions of dollars of subsidies be paid to a concentrated minority of powerful multinational companies. historical analysis confirms this sharp decline was predicated by liberal trade deregulation and labor union suppression in the form of the north american free trade act and the reagan PATCO strikebusting event of 1981 as well as various lesser publicized pension reforms and right to work legislative endeavors which relegated blue collar jobs once responsible for middle class lifestyles to the working poor.
but yeah, i can see how billionaires could mistake that complex chain of events for the turbo button on their linksys
Earth periodically produces giant dust factories. Microsoft, Blackberry, and AT&T are all prime examples. Theres even a dust factory called John McCain, whos thought to have existed for millenia.
the realist in me cant wait for this ayn-rand-as-a-service model to fail quietly another testament to ATT's pissbucket service in general. when given the opportunity, people will find other means to consume their favourite-as-a-service product that dont require sponsorship from some obtuse telecommunications conglomerate. every device on the planet has the option to connect to a wireless network, and that network likely doesnt have the kind of caps we're talking about in 4G land. WiMAX and municipal projects, library wireless and other providers will just make the effort that much more futile.
but im an old man (whats berkley vs ATT?) and the last big innovation for me was adding another monitor. Every turtleneck wearing coffee guzzling poseur giving their IDevice shaken-baby-syndrome in cap-induced frustration is instantly drowned out in the roaring cacophany of my mighty model M. Every tween fruit slashing and bird launching their way to mediocrity, tramp stamps and low test scores, is rendered irrelevant by my Thinkpad TrackPoint, gingerly lubricated in years of fine oils from chester cheetah himself. And the road warrior adjacent my supple yet torturous airport lounge chair gazes upon me as some sort of mystic christgod. For from the aether my sorcery has conjured up hundreds of thousands of documents when his most fervent efforts could not. in bated breath he will ask me, "how?" as his battery fails and his wireless bars recede. "local, repository." will be the words I visit upon him and like a cry so maddening unto his ears he will be rendered forever enlightened.
now if you'll please get off my lawn, I need to go back inside. the wheel is on.
this if anything is 'embrace extend extinguish' on the part of private industry. According to policy, e-books get a 14 day maximum checkout and devices in the library have a 60 minute time limit. you can check out a maximum of 5 e-books, with 1 renewal only per item.
My library on the other hand permits me to check out 50 real books at a time, with a 31 day checkout time. I can renew my checkouts 3 times and if i accidentally lose or damage a book, the replacement cost is significantly less expensive than a new $200 e-reader. I also get to read a real book as long as I goddamn well want to in the library and unlike the e-reader once ive checked out a book, my library cant kick in my door and steal the book back if its determined im for some reason not permitted to read the book after the fact. The readers contents one presumes are just as dynamic as if id purchased one from amazon.
China's space program differs from those of other nations in part because of the nation's political structure: A single-party government with a bevy of strong state-owned enterprises can get a lot done.
if we're talking 'superpowers' then no its not. Russia, sent the first man into orbit and the first robot to the moon through state owned enterprise.
the United States operates in much the same way. lockheed martin and northrup grumman would cease to exist if not for US taxpayer subsidy in the pursuit of our space program. their product is defined largely by US policy, and their sales controlled by it as well. theyre 'free enterprise' only in so far as it privatizes its profits.
conspicuously absent from this report is any mention of what is driving the clear push for domestic drones in the first place. Is it "terror" this time? the "war on drugs" or our sterling history of handouts and taxpayer subsidy to the defense department regardless of domestic economic considerations.
dont be surprised if domestic drone sites, and sales, are being pushed by the same doublespeak politicians who for the entire first term of the democratic presidency have railed against entitlements, welfare programs, and labor.
If you think public schools that regularly chage parents for textbooks and band equipment are an untapped market for e and i devices, you're sorely mistaken.
some schools, namely those in private and affluent neighborhoods, can afford this kind of technology but they leverage far more heavily a well paid staff with ample resources and a constructive environment to teach students. the devices make no sense as the target audience has parents that have already purchased the newest tablet or e-reader for them. the readers may be purchased by the school and thats ok, so long as we recognize it for what it truly is: squandered potential.
urban and underfunded schools, the majority of educational facilities for america, will not be investing in this technology anytime soon. Vending machines, advertisements, channel 1 news, and ASVAB military testing provide urgently needed revenue for arts programs and science equipment in a learning environment that hasnt seen so much as a new coat of paint since the carter administration. e-readers and tablets are neat but they dont contribute to the emergency fund to repair the boiler in the winter, or repair 30 year old desks.
In order to maintain its power structure amid historic levels of unemployment and wealth inequality, the United States will certainly increase its domestic surveillance capabilities. in the past the media was complicit in ensuring economic and social policies of the united states were well supported by ignoring subversive or argumentative positions against them. safety nets were redacted in pursuit of the welfare queens cadillac, unions dismantled as they hindered economic growth (Reagans epic levels of spending for example were never challenged as a cause of economic stagnation.) the Savings and Loan scandals melted away amongst media platitudes and political talking points.
with the advent of "netizens" and the internet, power systems are being directly challenged. If for example the general public had access to unfettered knowledge of the Iran Contra scandal as it has knowledge of the foreign surveillance practices currently in place, the outcome for Reagan may not have been so clear. The internet makes it impossible to ignore the demands of the public through talking point, as the counterintuitive opinions and critical examination of government policy is now freely availably for anyone to review. People can collude, talk amongst eachother, and god forbid form the elusive third party much more readily if we dont keep close watch on them.
many would argue the surveillance net crafted by the state works so closely in conjunction with the capitalist class that popular uprising is still impossible, but Occupy has proven that despite their machinations the population can still adopt nasty campaigns to raise awareness of wealth inequality and poverty.
as the concerns of subversive groups like occupy are easily researched and understood by Americans. the problem is exacerbated and the natural solution is to increase surveillance. arresting dissonants prevents street protests, but identifying them and their followers ensures the much more coveted chilling effect can be used to crush opposition. The courts of course will look the other way as the fourth amendment falls to the wayside just as the 14th amendment did in the purusit of mass incarceration.
not this one. most 'work trucks' are fleet vehicles and as a fleet vehicle the 650 and proloader see far more use as ambulances and bucket trucks than the 150. due to previously commented fatigue issues in aluminumized substrates and the body designs untested history in a fleet role, you'd hate to have one of these because its wreaks havock on your bare-chassis configuration (the majority of new-fleet sales.)
ford used jaguar and land rover as a testing ground
if your intended to analyze theoretical optimizations to the speed at which one could pedal a formerly successful brand into the ground. ford jerry rigged parts from the taurus and crown victoria into their jaguar market to stave off cost overruns and paid dearly by trying to enhance markup in ways customers wouldnt notice. what they learned from the land rover was that rich people were only slightly more forgiving of shit-tier gas mileage than poor people in the pursuit of their rugged outdoorsman lifestyle image. the 2003 land rover discovery got 13 combined MPG. the 2011? just 14. and thats with all their aluminum advantage.
no. i predict this new f150 is quite unline the dreamliner in that its vaporware. the future truck is designed to gin up the first quarter of 2014 and get target audiences motivated by crossover mileage and SUV manliness to start thinking about a truck that was championed not for its innovation, but its resale ability to independent conractors hauling sheet rock in the back, a cell phone in one hand and a coffee in the other across town trying to track down raul so they can get the other tub of PVC cement for tomorrows plumbing work.
in a world that doles four billion to pinterest and snapchat, laughter at the death of an obscure genius seems like something of an expectation.
oh wait. no it doesnt.
christ god forbid you so much as crack a grin at the euology of Steve Fucking Jobs. unless you're joking about the presenters elocution during the pronunciation of aluminum.
so we have the relevant paragraph extracted from the PDF
Harvard University was able to determine
that, in the several
hours leading up to the
receipt of the e-mail messages described
above, ELDO KIM accessed TOR using Harvard's
wireless network.
which means one of a few things.
1. begin the witch hunt. anything that coincidentally happened to access TOR be it a botnet infected laptop or a freshman at a bus stop is now suspect for everything from the bombing of the USS cole to the assassination of president Lincoln. The government gets its boogeyman and Harvard gets its scapegoat for an occurance that happens across countless colleges every year, but means something only because its inconvenienced the children of the cloistered elite.
2. Harvards wireless is more than it seems. Terms and conditions, network traffic, as well as any requisite clients or software installed should be subject to analysis and investigation by students and staff. greyhat and blackhat alike should find this system of access points intriguing if only for the aformentioned quote.
in my opinion its probably the latter. students and faculty should cast serious suspicion on the part of Harvards network. an independent investigation into the nature of its operation needs to be conducted and any nefarious evesdroppers exposed. If nothing is found then its a clear case of parents with more brass than sense out for blood.
Amazon fulfillment centers in america routinely make workers stand in unpaid lines for security checks as they exit. Wages in the states would never appropach our own livable $15 thanks to a patchwork system of labor laws and tax incentives pushed through by gerrymandered republican political districts under the guise of job creation.
if you mandate health insurance for full time employees, all the employees will be made part time.
if you mandate OSHA regulations and safe work environments, employers will just pay their political lackey to chisel the agency down to nothing at the state level.
if you complain about the workplace, the squeekiest wheel will be terminated without cause.
if you finally get tired of your employers jackboot, they'll complain about how rudely you brought their insolence to the public limelight, instead of burying your remorse and misery in their complaint department rubbish bin.
state-by-state corporate legislation works about as well as state-by-state marriage legislation.
arguably not even stuff that matters. Most major banks fought repaying debts to the government under TARP, but lost. There is no reason to think GM would be so bold as to think they could get away with it. The real story, if any to be attributed, is that GM thinks raising a stink about this isnt likely to affect their public image or piss off the cloistered elite.
Lemon socialism, the willful and intentional bailout of free market capitalist corporations at the expense of regular citizens, is something for which most americans have a seething distate but thats largely been ignored by the plutocracy. when it cant be shrouded from limelight, the rich funnel cash to the rich to convince the everyman that somehow poor people are a larger financial and social demon than the plethora of warbucks and moneysworths that strongarmed our leadership into writing off their willfull ignorance and criminal disregard for society outside their inculcated elite. GM does great disservice to this veil by hauling from the grave these hastily rested memories.
when GM dog-eared its pockets in front of congress they were so displaced from how americans lived it took them two tries to get their sad-face and beggary right. they frustratedly plodded off their leer-jets and said goodbye to their inflight perignon as americans collectively cried WTF. They foresook their ferarris and told the driver instead to pilot an american SUV to the whitehouse in lieu of the Rolls Ghost to which all were accustomed. this to them was the equivalent of donning a shoeshine boys flatcap for an afternoon as they arrived still clad in a regality most americans would struggle to even approach. 'pay up of they all starve' they said, and pay up the government did. Through TARP and cash for clunkers and rebates innumerable the united states automotive industry received the largest bailout in history and for its efforts was rewarded with another eight years to kick its heels onto its mahogany desk while real innovators like Tesla were demonized at their behest for loans they legitimately worked to earn. Outflanked by foreign competetors, again, GM brokered deals with Nissan and Toyota to secure token technologies that customers wanted like hybrid or all electric systems but were rebuffed by a market that largely found an affordable and reliable solution elsewhere. They secured a token few volt owners; the battery powered equivalent of a diesel train. They buried the Aspine hybrid, the very same vehicle which executives traveled to congress, and instead invested in platforms designed in europe and brazil for the small efficient reliable vehicles they were incapable of producing domestically.
so for GM to suggest they shouldnt pay back a part of a loan, while no different than any other industry, should be remembered as the day when the pot-bellied cousin of the elite dared to bring up its uncles marriage counseling.
rampant pension mismanagement in neoconservative louisiana proves the free market is the cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems if your jackboots march to the drum of Ayn Rand.
Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political, religious, or idealogical aims.
Forceful demand i suppose is as best i can codify the use of force or violence in the achievement of ones demands. I thnk you're assigning the cowardly and quite state sanctioned boilerplate of 9/11 to avoid unpopular criticism of a world power, which is also my point.. Patriotism is for the lonely.
political, religious, and ideological aims in many cases of terrorism were entirely reasonable (the founding of the united states was based on a religious demand), but ignored for so long as to incense their champions to determination without willful regard for loss. to back someone into a corner, to imbue them with 'nothing to lose' and the resolve to achieve is the point im making. that "terrorism" was their only recourse is to show how blind and purposelessly autocratic our government is.
No one is arguing with you that senseless violence and death is wrong, but to say that an exploited and marginalized caste of foreign nationals can be for their crimes met by a declaration of war, is as bombastic as insisting a kitchen roach infestation must be met by razing the house and salting the earth.
My point is that we meet this type of incursion with the maximum force because it undermines our plutocracy if we do not, and to approach an alternative foreign policy from a symbiotic perspective simply isnt a perogative of the ruling class at this time.
Dr. Random: well team, have we finished research on the perfluorotributylamine samples yet? gradstudent slave: yes and its a tremendously important chemical Dr. Random, have you read our summary? Dr. Random: yes...it says here this is an incredibly powerful greenhouse gas...oh dear lord.....this means.. gradstudent slave: we need to alert the world in a peer reviewed open access journal without a moment to lose?! Dr. Random: no...tell no one....this is the end of toques and tire chains as we know it!
1. giving a chimp personhood status would simply galvanize the deep south to further refute and disregard the theory of evolution. everything from parking meters to toilet seats at countless courthouses would be etched with the 10 commandments. obama earns another 40 cities he cant visit without staying in the car, and a grumbly subset of abortion doctors just put on another layer of body armor.
2. im sure more than one pet foods company and pharmaceutical conglomerate would be a bit furious at the prospect of having to pump more cash into IT to purchase machines to simulate their drug interactions and metabolic research, but IT would finally be able to afford that Killer Instinct arcade game on Ebay.
3. professor Random's intern would have to update her facebook status to 'removing 124 tubes from each monkey this weekend, FML'
4. courts would open a pandoras box of steaming culture war shit about personhood. everything from human emrbyos, zygotes, and electrons surrounding the lint clinging to the hair on a human testicle would be demanded status as a person. shaving a landing strip into my naughty bits turns into a 10 year prison sentence and every time my kid smacks her head on the playground i get to pick up trash on the highway.
5. we cant have another reboot of planet of the apes, because now its just a documenary about some bigoted astronaut with a superiority compelex and anger management issues.
governments in general dont need to care about what particular policy or procedure to which one may object or find questionable. random crackdowns like this one on dissent are designed to impart a chilling effect that would discourage any challenge to a plutocratic united states governing policy. The take-home lesson of this hardship the government wishes you to embrace is that questioning the war on terror, its means or its methods, is absolutely forbidden.
but why? in america heart disease, obesity, cancer, and car accidents kill more people by the day than terrorism has ever aspired to. but these afformentioned blights on american society can be explained away by freedom to consume, the capitalist healthcare and societal model, and the idea of personal responsibility; none of which pose a threat to the government. Terrorism is the forceful demand of very reasonable requests that have been iterated thousands of times over the past fifty years to a deaf audience of american plutocrats. people forget that Osama Bin Laden had rather reasonable requests of our foreign policy that were familiar, even embraced by a number of americans seeking to reduce foreign spending, but entirely ignored by our empire: Namely to leave Saudi Arabia, withdraw from Iraq, and withdraw support from Israel.
The occupy protests are another fine example. it would have cost nothing to begin engaging protestors in constructive dialog and working to mitigate their grievances. We could have helped ensure the disenfranchised among them had a voice in the decision making process of their elected government and emerged championing the american way. Instead they were systematically targeted and demonized by media, their message marginalized and obfuscated. the protestors were arrested, beaten and some killed. free speech areas were closed and voraceously defended from protestors. A new I-Phone came out and as intended, america changed the channel.
many will see that in america, "protests arent allowed to go on forever" and this is true for a number of reasons. grass is trampled, sidewalks are congested and eventually the government grows tired. but like every government we demonize around the world, our leaders laud the idea that protests are not allowed to go on forever. That if they can control the media outcome of the event, they stymy the calcification of resolve and interest in the protest and never have to do anything more than continue with business as usual. Protests in america are as genuine and lawful as protests in china in many respects, because instead of addressing fundamental failures of north american capitalism ad foreign policy we patch over the cracks with arrest warrants and detention camps. Its the reason protests at presidential inaugurations do not take place anywhere near the inauguration, and why Occupy new york does so nowhere near Wall Street.
My personal opinion is that gaming can in fact be a sport, Much as foreign chess players can secure this type of visa when playing in america, im sure pundits will laud this as a spurious visa ($criticism=Obama->new($issue)). Yet taking a moment to play Starcraft II on its normal setting one arrives at a determined sense of exactly how challenging this game can be. A real opponent competing in a tournament can, and does, easily outmatch the AI for the game even on its most brutal setting. Anything more than normal is enough to send the commenter to therapy.
Being an american though, I cant help but draw a contrast between the E3 visa and profesisonal sports visas in the context of traditionalist argument. the E3 applies to skilled labour, yet if you were to give one to a roofing contractor who spends 12 hours a day shingling a home or 9 hours fitting pipe in a rural texas ranch home it would draw the same criticism. is for this type of criticism the e3 prohibits "seasonal" labour like homebuilding. Although the class 3 visa is extended to foreign profesisonals it in no way reflects the tenacity and challenge faced by labour in a decidedly lower social and capital class. it also neglects to inform the reader that most 'seasonal' labor is in fact performed in regions with no discernable season such as new mexico, texas, or arizona. Much like the Starcraft gamer has his sports caste, so does the immigrant laborer have his employment caste.
the coolant glitch is a result of a failed experiment in one of the science modules. If anyone watched NASA TV you could clearly hear the conversation up to the event. an astronaut can distinctly be overheard saying, "see, i told you it wont run Crysis"
Dangerous:Violent:: "your son violently thrust production executives and C-levels into a state of abject povery by freely distributing material from poor artists who hadnt the chance to sign up with a label. As a result these suffering destitute former billionaires are reduced to driving a mercedes and eating domestic caviar."
Aggressive: "Your son aggressively refused to roll over and die when we attacked and litigated his userbase, his family, his friends and his civil rights. He was incomprehensively aggressive in opposing our bribery and extortion of his regional and local government officials in our pursuit of the definition of truth and justice"
so you see ma'am, hes clearly a threat
--MPAA
"what he said but hes also a terrorist and he killed two cats that were about to make the kids laugh out loud."
--RIAA
sit down kids, the old mans about to tell a story.
Doom, the game, meant so much more than any bejewel clicking farmville grinding facebook gaming ass-scratching fruit-ninja with a bird in a slingshot can ever hope to understand; but you can learn to.
it was 20 years ago that I sat in a dark bedroom beset with mountain dew and doritos, the boomy din of Nine Inch Nails churning away as I poured through the WAD file editor on a sunny saturday afternoon and a smirk on my face knowing the level I uploaded to the BBS that evening would be a work of art. It was designs for floors and trap doors and creative new weapons that filled my 3 ring binder during gym class and on the bus ride home I'd power through 30 minutes of the most unforgiving motion sickness in the tri-county area thinking about new places to stick a cacodaemon or a pain elemental. Doom was my respite, but it was also my temple. the days torment and teasing in school meant nothing once i heard the first few notes of the devils tri-tone main-screen theme and laid eyes on 'doom guy.' Network modem multiplayer and the joy of a friends new map, or the hillarity of a deathmatch laiden with machine gun rocket launchers of our own devise were the the epitomy of my childhood. Dooms wad editing frenzy pushed me into computer programming despite all odds. Six years later the mere act of playing doom was enough to send parents scrambling for body armor and in my case, suspended me for a week thanks to my inability to stop talking about Doom 2's shotguns and their modifications in school after the Columbine Massacre revealed its duo played the dreaded game.
Doom was analogous to who i was as a child. one lone guy trying to get past an ocean of seemingly endless torment and assault if only to make it to the next level where despite the horror of it all I still tried as best i could to beat the records and discover everything i could.
now go. buy a copy of doom and start knee deep in the dead as so many of us have, and *sniff*.....get off my lawn.
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sure, you have politics in the military industrial complex that is the pentagon. its how the mess hall gets halliburton contractors and your usual patrols are augmented by blackwater; its not going anywhere. but the tits-up congress is actually a pretty recent concoction.
in the face of a progressive president who shows signs of championing some popular reforms like wealth equality, immigration and healthcare, i'd say turning congress into a total clusterfuck with the addition of some well funded tea-based fringe group was a very tactically minded decision on the part of americas plutocrats. If the bus is going in the wrong direction, slash the tires and damn the consequences i say.
we illegally funded drug cartels through two presidencies to back insurgencies in countless south american and central american countries which then proceeded to use terrorism to destroy hospitals, schools and police stations in an epidemic of violence designed to hijack the democratic process and install pro-america dictators.
these drug trades are directly empowered today by a failed american drug policy designed to incarcerate minorities for petty drug convictions and generate a permanent, unspoken underclass of ex convicts in america who promise private prisons guaranteed recidivism by systems in place designed to deny them government assistance, housing, voting rights and mandate they pay reparations for their imprisonment.
the headline should read "cartels use sophisticated mining and drilling equipment to create transnational underground pipeline" but thats not as funny as 'fire-truck sized' which serves to distract the audience from how the largely downplayed cartels in mexico managed to secure over a million dollars in heavy equipment and expertise to do this.
im pretty sure the death of the middle class was ushered in by a combination of wanton and reckless deregulation which encouraged predatory and fraudulent lending markets leading to a subprime lending crisis that precipitated massive foreclosures which in turn plunged major economic sectors into default requiring trillions of dollars of subsidies be paid to a concentrated minority of powerful multinational companies. historical analysis confirms this sharp decline was predicated by liberal trade deregulation and labor union suppression in the form of the north american free trade act and the reagan PATCO strikebusting event of 1981 as well as various lesser publicized pension reforms and right to work legislative endeavors which relegated blue collar jobs once responsible for middle class lifestyles to the working poor.
but yeah, i can see how billionaires could mistake that complex chain of events for the turbo button on their linksys
Earth periodically produces giant dust factories. Microsoft, Blackberry, and AT&T are all prime examples. Theres even a dust factory called John McCain, whos thought to have existed for millenia.
the realist in me cant wait for this ayn-rand-as-a-service model to fail quietly another testament to ATT's pissbucket service in general. when given the opportunity, people will find other means to consume their favourite-as-a-service product that dont require sponsorship from some obtuse telecommunications conglomerate. every device on the planet has the option to connect to a wireless network, and that network likely doesnt have the kind of caps we're talking about in 4G land. WiMAX and municipal projects, library wireless and other providers will just make the effort that much more futile.
but im an old man (whats berkley vs ATT?) and the last big innovation for me was adding another monitor. Every turtleneck wearing coffee guzzling poseur giving their IDevice shaken-baby-syndrome in cap-induced frustration is instantly drowned out in the roaring cacophany of my mighty model M. Every tween fruit slashing and bird launching their way to mediocrity, tramp stamps and low test scores, is rendered irrelevant by my Thinkpad TrackPoint, gingerly lubricated in years of fine oils from chester cheetah himself. And the road warrior adjacent my supple yet torturous airport lounge chair gazes upon me as some sort of mystic christgod. For from the aether my sorcery has conjured up hundreds of thousands of documents when his most fervent efforts could not. in bated breath he will ask me, "how?" as his battery fails and his wireless bars recede. "local, repository." will be the words I visit upon him and like a cry so maddening unto his ears he will be rendered forever enlightened.
now if you'll please get off my lawn, I need to go back inside. the wheel is on.
this if anything is 'embrace extend extinguish' on the part of private industry. According to policy, e-books get a 14 day maximum checkout and devices in the library have a 60 minute time limit. you can check out a maximum of 5 e-books, with 1 renewal only per item.
My library on the other hand permits me to check out 50 real books at a time, with a 31 day checkout time. I can renew my checkouts 3 times and if i accidentally lose or damage a book, the replacement cost is significantly less expensive than a new $200 e-reader. I also get to read a real book as long as I goddamn well want to in the library and unlike the e-reader once ive checked out a book, my library cant kick in my door and steal the book back if its determined im for some reason not permitted to read the book after the fact. The readers contents one presumes are just as dynamic as if id purchased one from amazon.
I dont need to charge my library books either..
China's space program differs from those of other nations in part because of the nation's political structure: A single-party government with a bevy of strong state-owned enterprises can get a lot done.
if we're talking 'superpowers' then no its not. Russia, sent the first man into orbit and the first robot to the moon through state owned enterprise.
the United States operates in much the same way. lockheed martin and northrup grumman would cease to exist if not for US taxpayer subsidy in the pursuit of our space program. their product is defined largely by US policy, and their sales controlled by it as well. theyre 'free enterprise' only in so far as it privatizes its profits.
2014: year of the hunch
or 2014: year of the massive street protests
conspicuously absent from this report is any mention of what is driving the clear push for domestic drones in the first place. Is it "terror" this time? the "war on drugs" or our sterling history of handouts and taxpayer subsidy to the defense department regardless of domestic economic considerations.
dont be surprised if domestic drone sites, and sales, are being pushed by the same doublespeak politicians who for the entire first term of the democratic presidency have railed against entitlements, welfare programs, and labor.
If you think public schools that regularly chage parents for textbooks and band equipment are an untapped market for e and i devices, you're sorely mistaken.
some schools, namely those in private and affluent neighborhoods, can afford this kind of technology but they leverage far more heavily a well paid staff with ample resources and a constructive environment to teach students. the devices make no sense as the target audience has parents that have already purchased the newest tablet or e-reader for them. the readers may be purchased by the school and thats ok, so long as we recognize it for what it truly is: squandered potential.
urban and underfunded schools, the majority of educational facilities for america, will not be investing in this technology anytime soon. Vending machines, advertisements, channel 1 news, and ASVAB military testing provide urgently needed revenue for arts programs and science equipment in a learning environment that hasnt seen so much as a new coat of paint since the carter administration. e-readers and tablets are neat but they dont contribute to the emergency fund to repair the boiler in the winter, or repair 30 year old desks.
In order to maintain its power structure amid historic levels of unemployment and wealth inequality, the United States will certainly increase its domestic surveillance capabilities. in the past the media was complicit in ensuring economic and social policies of the united states were well supported by ignoring subversive or argumentative positions against them. safety nets were redacted in pursuit of the welfare queens cadillac, unions dismantled as they hindered economic growth (Reagans epic levels of spending for example were never challenged as a cause of economic stagnation.) the Savings and Loan scandals melted away amongst media platitudes and political talking points.
with the advent of "netizens" and the internet, power systems are being directly challenged. If for example the general public had access to unfettered knowledge of the Iran Contra scandal as it has knowledge of the foreign surveillance practices currently in place, the outcome for Reagan may not have been so clear. The internet makes it impossible to ignore the demands of the public through talking point, as the counterintuitive opinions and critical examination of government policy is now freely availably for anyone to review. People can collude, talk amongst eachother, and god forbid form the elusive third party much more readily if we dont keep close watch on them.
many would argue the surveillance net crafted by the state works so closely in conjunction with the capitalist class that popular uprising is still impossible, but Occupy has proven that despite their machinations the population can still adopt nasty campaigns to raise awareness of wealth inequality and poverty.
as the concerns of subversive groups like occupy are easily researched and understood by Americans. the problem is exacerbated and the natural solution is to increase surveillance. arresting dissonants prevents street protests, but identifying them and their followers ensures the much more coveted chilling effect can be used to crush opposition. The courts of course will look the other way as the fourth amendment falls to the wayside just as the 14th amendment did in the purusit of mass incarceration.
Ford is a work truck
not this one. most 'work trucks' are fleet vehicles and as a fleet vehicle the 650 and proloader see far more use as ambulances and bucket trucks than the 150. due to previously commented fatigue issues in aluminumized substrates and the body designs untested history in a fleet role, you'd hate to have one of these because its wreaks havock on your bare-chassis configuration (the majority of new-fleet sales.)
ford used jaguar and land rover as a testing ground
if your intended to analyze theoretical optimizations to the speed at which one could pedal a formerly successful brand into the ground. ford jerry rigged parts from the taurus and crown victoria into their jaguar market to stave off cost overruns and paid dearly by trying to enhance markup in ways customers wouldnt notice. what they learned from the land rover was that rich people were only slightly more forgiving of shit-tier gas mileage than poor people in the pursuit of their rugged outdoorsman lifestyle image. the 2003 land rover discovery got 13 combined MPG. the 2011? just 14. and thats with all their aluminum advantage.
no. i predict this new f150 is quite unline the dreamliner in that its vaporware. the future truck is designed to gin up the first quarter of 2014 and get target audiences motivated by crossover mileage and SUV manliness to start thinking about a truck that was championed not for its innovation, but its resale ability to independent conractors hauling sheet rock in the back, a cell phone in one hand and a coffee in the other across town trying to track down raul so they can get the other tub of PVC cement for tomorrows plumbing work.
in a world that doles four billion to pinterest and snapchat, laughter at the death of an obscure genius seems like something of an expectation.
oh wait. no it doesnt.
christ god forbid you so much as crack a grin at the euology of Steve Fucking Jobs. unless you're joking about the presenters elocution during the pronunciation of aluminum.
Harvard University was able to determine that, in the several hours leading up to the receipt of the e-mail messages described above, ELDO KIM accessed TOR using Harvard's wireless network.
which means one of a few things.
1. begin the witch hunt. anything that coincidentally happened to access TOR be it a botnet infected laptop or a freshman at a bus stop is now suspect for everything from the bombing of the USS cole to the assassination of president Lincoln. The government gets its boogeyman and Harvard gets its scapegoat for an occurance that happens across countless colleges every year, but means something only because its inconvenienced the children of the cloistered elite.
2. Harvards wireless is more than it seems. Terms and conditions, network traffic, as well as any requisite clients or software installed should be subject to analysis and investigation by students and staff. greyhat and blackhat alike should find this system of access points intriguing if only for the aformentioned quote.
in my opinion its probably the latter. students and faculty should cast serious suspicion on the part of Harvards network. an independent investigation into the nature of its operation needs to be conducted and any nefarious evesdroppers exposed. If nothing is found then its a clear case of parents with more brass than sense out for blood.
Amazon fulfillment centers in america routinely make workers stand in unpaid lines for security checks as they exit. Wages in the states would never appropach our own livable $15 thanks to a patchwork system of labor laws and tax incentives pushed through by gerrymandered republican political districts under the guise of job creation.
if you mandate health insurance for full time employees, all the employees will be made part time.
if you mandate OSHA regulations and safe work environments, employers will just pay their political lackey to chisel the agency down to nothing at the state level.
if you complain about the workplace, the squeekiest wheel will be terminated without cause.
if you finally get tired of your employers jackboot, they'll complain about how rudely you brought their insolence to the public limelight, instead of burying your remorse and misery in their complaint department rubbish bin.
state-by-state corporate legislation works about as well as state-by-state marriage legislation.
arguably not even stuff that matters. Most major banks fought repaying debts to the government under TARP, but lost. There is no reason to think GM would be so bold as to think they could get away with it. The real story, if any to be attributed, is that GM thinks raising a stink about this isnt likely to affect their public image or piss off the cloistered elite.
Lemon socialism, the willful and intentional bailout of free market capitalist corporations at the expense of regular citizens, is something for which most americans have a seething distate but thats largely been ignored by the plutocracy. when it cant be shrouded from limelight, the rich funnel cash to the rich to convince the everyman that somehow poor people are a larger financial and social demon than the plethora of warbucks and moneysworths that strongarmed our leadership into writing off their willfull ignorance and criminal disregard for society outside their inculcated elite. GM does great disservice to this veil by hauling from the grave these hastily rested memories.
when GM dog-eared its pockets in front of congress they were so displaced from how americans lived it took them two tries to get their sad-face and beggary right. they frustratedly plodded off their leer-jets and said goodbye to their inflight perignon as americans collectively cried WTF. They foresook their ferarris and told the driver instead to pilot an american SUV to the whitehouse in lieu of the Rolls Ghost to which all were accustomed. this to them was the equivalent of donning a shoeshine boys flatcap for an afternoon as they arrived still clad in a regality most americans would struggle to even approach. 'pay up of they all starve' they said, and pay up the government did. Through TARP and cash for clunkers and rebates innumerable the united states automotive industry received the largest bailout in history and for its efforts was rewarded with another eight years to kick its heels onto its mahogany desk while real innovators like Tesla were demonized at their behest for loans they legitimately worked to earn. Outflanked by foreign competetors, again, GM brokered deals with Nissan and Toyota to secure token technologies that customers wanted like hybrid or all electric systems but were rebuffed by a market that largely found an affordable and reliable solution elsewhere. They secured a token few volt owners; the battery powered equivalent of a diesel train. They buried the Aspine hybrid, the very same vehicle which executives traveled to congress, and instead invested in platforms designed in europe and brazil for the small efficient reliable vehicles they were incapable of producing domestically.
so for GM to suggest they shouldnt pay back a part of a loan, while no different than any other industry, should be remembered as the day when the pot-bellied cousin of the elite dared to bring up its uncles marriage counseling.
rampant pension mismanagement in neoconservative louisiana proves the free market is the cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems if your jackboots march to the drum of Ayn Rand.
Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political, religious, or idealogical aims.
Forceful demand i suppose is as best i can codify the use of force or violence in the achievement of ones demands. I thnk you're assigning the cowardly and quite state sanctioned boilerplate of 9/11 to avoid unpopular criticism of a world power, which is also my point.. Patriotism is for the lonely.
political, religious, and ideological aims in many cases of terrorism were entirely reasonable (the founding of the united states was based on a religious demand), but ignored for so long as to incense their champions to determination without willful regard for loss. to back someone into a corner, to imbue them with 'nothing to lose' and the resolve to achieve is the point im making. that "terrorism" was their only recourse is to show how blind and purposelessly autocratic our government is.
No one is arguing with you that senseless violence and death is wrong, but to say that an exploited and marginalized caste of foreign nationals can be for their crimes met by a declaration of war, is as bombastic as insisting a kitchen roach infestation must be met by razing the house and salting the earth.
My point is that we meet this type of incursion with the maximum force because it undermines our plutocracy if we do not, and to approach an alternative foreign policy from a symbiotic perspective simply isnt a perogative of the ruling class at this time.
Dr. Random: well team, have we finished research on the perfluorotributylamine samples yet?
gradstudent slave: yes and its a tremendously important chemical Dr. Random, have you read our summary?
Dr. Random: yes...it says here this is an incredibly powerful greenhouse gas...oh dear lord.....this means..
gradstudent slave: we need to alert the world in a peer reviewed open access journal without a moment to lose?!
Dr. Random: no...tell no one....this is the end of toques and tire chains as we know it!
1. giving a chimp personhood status would simply galvanize the deep south to further refute and disregard the theory of evolution. everything from parking meters to toilet seats at countless courthouses would be etched with the 10 commandments. obama earns another 40 cities he cant visit without staying in the car, and a grumbly subset of abortion doctors just put on another layer of body armor.
2. im sure more than one pet foods company and pharmaceutical conglomerate would be a bit furious at the prospect of having to pump more cash into IT to purchase machines to simulate their drug interactions and metabolic research, but IT would finally be able to afford that Killer Instinct arcade game on Ebay.
3. professor Random's intern would have to update her facebook status to 'removing 124 tubes from each monkey this weekend, FML'
4. courts would open a pandoras box of steaming culture war shit about personhood. everything from human emrbyos, zygotes, and electrons surrounding the lint clinging to the hair on a human testicle would be demanded status as a person. shaving a landing strip into my naughty bits turns into a 10 year prison sentence and every time my kid smacks her head on the playground i get to pick up trash on the highway.
5. we cant have another reboot of planet of the apes, because now its just a documenary about some bigoted astronaut with a superiority compelex and anger management issues.
governments in general dont need to care about what particular policy or procedure to which one may object or find questionable. random crackdowns like this one on dissent are designed to impart a chilling effect that would discourage any challenge to a plutocratic united states governing policy. The take-home lesson of this hardship the government wishes you to embrace is that questioning the war on terror, its means or its methods, is absolutely forbidden.
but why? in america heart disease, obesity, cancer, and car accidents kill more people by the day than terrorism has ever aspired to. but these afformentioned blights on american society can be explained away by freedom to consume, the capitalist healthcare and societal model, and the idea of personal responsibility; none of which pose a threat to the government. Terrorism is the forceful demand of very reasonable requests that have been iterated thousands of times over the past fifty years to a deaf audience of american plutocrats. people forget that Osama Bin Laden had rather reasonable requests of our foreign policy that were familiar, even embraced by a number of americans seeking to reduce foreign spending, but entirely ignored by our empire: Namely to leave Saudi Arabia, withdraw from Iraq, and withdraw support from Israel.
The occupy protests are another fine example. it would have cost nothing to begin engaging protestors in constructive dialog and working to mitigate their grievances. We could have helped ensure the disenfranchised among them had a voice in the decision making process of their elected government and emerged championing the american way. Instead they were systematically targeted and demonized by media, their message marginalized and obfuscated. the protestors were arrested, beaten and some killed. free speech areas were closed and voraceously defended from protestors. A new I-Phone came out and as intended, america changed the channel.
many will see that in america, "protests arent allowed to go on forever" and this is true for a number of reasons. grass is trampled, sidewalks are congested and eventually the government grows tired. but like every government we demonize around the world, our leaders laud the idea that protests are not allowed to go on forever. That if they can control the media outcome of the event, they stymy the calcification of resolve and interest in the protest and never have to do anything more than continue with business as usual. Protests in america are as genuine and lawful as protests in china in many respects, because instead of addressing fundamental failures of north american capitalism ad foreign policy we patch over the cracks with arrest warrants and detention camps. Its the reason protests at presidential inaugurations do not take place anywhere near the inauguration, and why Occupy new york does so nowhere near Wall Street.
My personal opinion is that gaming can in fact be a sport, Much as foreign chess players can secure this type of visa when playing in america, im sure pundits will laud this as a spurious visa ($criticism=Obama->new($issue)). Yet taking a moment to play Starcraft II on its normal setting one arrives at a determined sense of exactly how challenging this game can be. A real opponent competing in a tournament can, and does, easily outmatch the AI for the game even on its most brutal setting. Anything more than normal is enough to send the commenter to therapy.
Being an american though, I cant help but draw a contrast between the E3 visa and profesisonal sports visas in the context of traditionalist argument. the E3 applies to skilled labour, yet if you were to give one to a roofing contractor who spends 12 hours a day shingling a home or 9 hours fitting pipe in a rural texas ranch home it would draw the same criticism. is for this type of criticism the e3 prohibits "seasonal" labour like homebuilding. Although the class 3 visa is extended to foreign profesisonals it in no way reflects the tenacity and challenge faced by labour in a decidedly lower social and capital class. it also neglects to inform the reader that most 'seasonal' labor is in fact performed in regions with no discernable season such as new mexico, texas, or arizona. Much like the Starcraft gamer has his sports caste, so does the immigrant laborer have his employment caste.
the coolant glitch is a result of a failed experiment in one of the science modules. If anyone watched NASA TV you could clearly hear the conversation up to the event. an astronaut can distinctly be overheard saying, "see, i told you it wont run Crysis"
Dangerous: Violent:: "your son violently thrust production executives and C-levels into a state of abject povery by freely distributing material from poor artists who hadnt the chance to sign up with a label. As a result these suffering destitute former billionaires are reduced to driving a mercedes and eating domestic caviar."
Aggressive: "Your son aggressively refused to roll over and die when we attacked and litigated his userbase, his family, his friends and his civil rights. He was incomprehensively aggressive in opposing our bribery and extortion of his regional and local government officials in our pursuit of the definition of truth and justice"
so you see ma'am, hes clearly a threat
--MPAA
"what he said but hes also a terrorist and he killed two cats that were about to make the kids laugh out loud."
--RIAA
sit down kids, the old mans about to tell a story.
.....get off my lawn.
Doom, the game, meant so much more than any bejewel clicking farmville grinding facebook gaming ass-scratching fruit-ninja with a bird in a slingshot can ever hope to understand; but you can learn to.
it was 20 years ago that I sat in a dark bedroom beset with mountain dew and doritos, the boomy din of Nine Inch Nails churning away as I poured through the WAD file editor on a sunny saturday afternoon and a smirk on my face knowing the level I uploaded to the BBS that evening would be a work of art. It was designs for floors and trap doors and creative new weapons that filled my 3 ring binder during gym class and on the bus ride home I'd power through 30 minutes of the most unforgiving motion sickness in the tri-county area thinking about new places to stick a cacodaemon or a pain elemental. Doom was my respite, but it was also my temple. the days torment and teasing in school meant nothing once i heard the first few notes of the devils tri-tone main-screen theme and laid eyes on 'doom guy.' Network modem multiplayer and the joy of a friends new map, or the hillarity of a deathmatch laiden with machine gun rocket launchers of our own devise were the the epitomy of my childhood. Dooms wad editing frenzy pushed me into computer programming despite all odds. Six years later the mere act of playing doom was enough to send parents scrambling for body armor and in my case, suspended me for a week thanks to my inability to stop talking about Doom 2's shotguns and their modifications in school after the Columbine Massacre revealed its duo played the dreaded game.
Doom was analogous to who i was as a child. one lone guy trying to get past an ocean of seemingly endless torment and assault if only to make it to the next level where despite the horror of it all I still tried as best i could to beat the records and discover everything i could.
now go. buy a copy of doom and start knee deep in the dead as so many of us have, and *sniff*