the fact that the manufacturing process has involved two plant explosions that have crippled or killed at least a dozen people. the past suicides and slave labor practices have also prevented me from buying apple products in general.
no user servicable battery, but thats a non-issue for most mac fans so ill leave it be. its also a first-world problem unrelated to my original assertion
Fruit ninja for the first world comes at the expense of grinding poverty and human misery. Its not part of the economic model generally.
to see some room-temperature semiconductors in the future. keeping the quantum computer in the living room has been a tough job lately. Ive found that while the couch and the area rug dont mind hovering below absolute-zero, the cats certainly dont appreciate it very much.
on the firewall of china, then the closure of a controversial forced organ donation program. hm....
the optomistic me says china has finally decided to become a socialist democracy like switzerland. full healthcare for the masses, equal job for equal pay, clean air and fresh water and heck even a pound of tea and a stockpot of porkbelly for everyone. who needs the american trade model, lets cash in and build a better tomorrow for us all!
but seriously this is probably a controlled set of government reform actions designed to bolster trust and confidence in the chinese people. The party is largely viewed as a corrupt capitalist dictatorship, and has been the target of an escalating number of street protests recently.
if the application suberts or negatively impacts the model of facebook, which is data mining for the purposes of targeted advertisement, it will be banned.
i predict the addition of a enemy feature will work to incense negative emotional responses to facebook that so far have been confined to things that can be relatively mitigated, for example its policies and terms of service. an "enemy" on your facebook will make you less likely to check facebook, or its related applications. users who previously had ignored intentionally obfuscated security settings may begin to pay more attention to them, thereby costing you advertising data. you may switch social networks for one without any enemies or abandon social networking alltogether for a more controlled and privatized relationship with your friends. the implications of "enemy" are pretty big.
thirty years pushing manufacturing and technology jobs overseas to china under the guise of economic sense and prosperity for america, you dont get to turn around and cry foul when you get exactly what you asked for. namely, cheap foreign slave labor subsidized by a dictatorial ruling class operating under the guise of a communism it hasnt practiced in almost 40 years.
tarrifs are okay. you use them to incense corporations to reconsider employing local labour, but they wont work in americas revolving door government where capitalism and legislation are essentially the same. and while the economic cost of producing solar technology in china may be cheaper, the environmental and social costs are never worth it in my opinion.
as you choose to grace us with your presence, to look down from on high to the serfs and peons below and inquire, "tell us of your follies at the hand of our laws," we are humbled to oblige you with hillarious tales of our misery, suffering and strife. as minstrels to your beckon call we perform, knowing full well you shant ever lift a finger to improve our jolly hardships at the hands of the TSA.
it should be legislated that at any time someone declares social media to be the wave of the future, a round of eye rolling and fart-noise making should commence immediately.
this is a company that spies on you for the US government, sells your data to anyone who wants it, and is totally content to insist it has full legal rights over all of your content, indefinitely, with or without your consent.
close your facebook account and consider checking out some meat-space human interaction tools like meetup.com. there arent any buttons to indicate the position of your thumbs, and when you like something you just tell someone "hi, i enjoy this." Best of all, no asshole corporation pretending theyre doing you a favour by scouring your personal life for hints of product placement opportunities or subversive anti-government opinions. As a bonus, your employer will have the freeedom to hire you based on their objective opinion of your job skills and critical thinking ability, not your farmville or mafiawars score and picture of that drunken bender at grizzlebees where you wore the fried onion like a head-crab from Half-Life.
on why nigerian fraud exists, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud
turns out once the free market is finished sucking a country dry, they really dont care much about the local economy. watching AT&T charge americans for fraud perpetrated as a result of another multinational corporations negligence is like watching Alaska charge rape victims for their kits, or prisoners for their incarceration.
the united states government is pursuing terrorists so voraciously, it is not because they have your safety as a primary concern. Natural disasters are easily shrugged off, for example little effort was put into katrina and many lives lost due to government neglegence but no real repercussions arose from the incident, just a smooth shuffling of deck chairs so to speak.
the occupy protests, while they included violent police crackdowns on citizens and journalists alike, also received no real repercussions that couldnt be easily dismissed by the government as the rantings of kids and slackers with "no clear message" and "subversive" tendencies.
terrorism on the other hand brings results. it undermines a government in ways that are unchallengeable as it is an amorphous concept. theres no real enemy, despite how badly america wanted it to be osama, or sadam, or al-awlaki. Terrorism is an ideology, and every troop from the legions of rome to the english military officer who stood guard against the irish menace during the troubles understands that no weapon will ever purge it from the earth. terrorism is determination with absolutely nothing to lose; the last resort of a broken people.
you dont disarm terrorists by spying on everyone, because anyone can be a terrorist at any time it simply is not efficient. the only way to stop terrorism is to recognize the demands of the terrorist and try to understand what it is thats driven them to it. so long as we continue to fight, we will meet the immovable object to our unstoppable force each time with no ground gained or lost on either side.
americans horrified to also find that a majority of the oil they consume has nothing to do with the middle east, iran, or barack hussein obama. "i just cant resist stomping this skinny black pedal every time i see a green light!!!" proclaims citizen.
that netflix-streaming laptop has a camera and mic too. throw in a coupon, offer a free "app" or "show" or something to get their attention. if all else fails just do it anyway. we all know the repercussions for a major multinational conglomerate violating your personal privacy basically amount to a dog and pony show anyhow.
"international sanctions against Iran due to its program to develop nuclear weapons."
always remember: the united states, nor the UN, nor the IAEA have any proof at all that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. its subtle changes in the wording that will inevitably lead us all to conclude this is the case however.
ravi is an asshole, but this doesnt address the issue. religious fundamentalists, most of whom are bigoted assholes, have succeeded in garnering a platform in america which is large enough to instil a persistent culture of fear, remorse and shame in a sizeable minority of the populus. Ravi pulled the pin on a grenade thats sat on the shelf for a very long time, and been caretaken by the likes of fallwell, haggard, limbaugh, hannity, and others to ensure it remained actively capable of self destruction at a moments notice.
the solution as a society is to throw the culture behind ravis actions over the GW bridge.
endless education debt, dead end careers, layoffs, outsourcing, and employers with unatainable qualifications that rarely hire qualified expensive american employees couldnt possibly be the problem
"Dears served several years in prison for his role in founding a gang in California called PhD, and upon his release he realized his felony conviction prevented him from everything from gainful employment to food stamps and voting. Upon applying to several minimum wage jobs only to be turned down, he also realized that credit and felony checks performed by apartments and landlords would also preclude him from securing affordable housing without a large security deposit.
defeated, frustrated, and with little prospect of ever reintegrating into society, he went back to his activities with the gang. perhaps he learned the value of human life in jail, perhaps a newfound respect for his fellow human, but he would never know life outside of the only institution to provide for him, the gang.
this country has been on the americas shit list for well over 2 decades with nothing to show. Theyre a party member to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, but were found in violation of that treaty for enriching uranium for peaceful purposes. the NPT allows this, but the US slapped it with non-compliance anyway.
israel by comparisson has never signed the treaty, operate their own squad of international assassins that have in the past used western passports to perpetrate murder. they regularly bomb surrounding nations. they are never criticized by the US for this.
iran has the largest minority of jews in the middle east.
iran has a population larger than england
sure, theyre leaders are inflammatory and bigoted but so long as we're willing to put up with assholes like rush limbaugh we dont have much of an argument.
similar to the one mentioned, namely the project to dissuade humans from the taste of meat.
My team works in shifts to identify common foods and cravings people may have. we have assembled around 30 meals we've identified as generally enjoyed
in the US, and after nearly a decade of extensive testing and development im proud to say we've made significant progress. Of the commonly consumed edibles we've engineered, many test subjects eat only some of the food. often times they refuse to eat certain items entirely. By changing the color and texture of the food we've ensured that even the most visibly palletable foodstuffs remain of limited interest to numerous test groups.
the project ive overseen has the potential for proven commercial success. should any reader need more information on patent licensing, design or independent consulting/partnering please feel free to contact me.
regards,
Mike Archer, President
AppleBees Restaraunts.
the American Beverage Association is a trade organization that represents the beverage industry in the United States. Its members include producers and bottlers of soft drinks, bottled water, and other non-alcoholic beverages.
the American Beverage Association frankly has no idea at all if this chemical is hazardous, at what levels and under what conditions. they have published no known study. they have 25 lobbyists across seven firms and their purpose is to limit warning labels on their products regardless of the actual science.
to clarify, The Center For Science in the Public Interest (we like them. theyre good guys) concluded 4-methylimidazole is added as a caramel coloring in some dark beers and soy sauces. its bad.
to further cut past the knee jerk spinjob article from OP, heres the release from CSPI: http://www.cspinet.org/new/201102161.html
and a quote out of the article as to what precisely theyre targeting...
"Federal regulations distinguish among four types of caramel coloring, two of which are produced with ammonia and two without it. CSPI wants the Food and Drug Administration to prohibit the two made with ammonia. The type used in colas and other dark soft drinks is known as Caramel IV, or ammonia sulfite process caramel. Caramel III, which is produced with ammonia but not sulfites, is sometimes used in beer, soy sauce, and other foods. "
as to what policy think tanks or security professionals actually endorse the same concept that nearly murdered everyone on the planet throughout the cold war. and frankly, i dont blame them. MAD is a no-win outcome every time. if you dont believe me, pick a short wave radio and listen to the stations that still broadcast on russias "dead-hand" system.
for those of us who insist turning the power off is good enough, and we're seriously considering MAD here, you can expect the cyber war drummed up by the war hawks to include everything from the toaster in the breakroom not working to nuclear meltdown. most hospitals SCADA bridges and traffic control devices as well as financial institutions will also be in various states of complete and total uselessness. expect oil tankers to drift aimlessly in the pacific and everything from verizon to iridium to enjoy a feet-on-desk hiatus.
to the lowest common denominator. an active directory would be nice, but if you have control over the network then you essentially are 'the internet.'
id consider repurposing the older hardware for something thats still useful (flagrant *nix plug, sorry) to students and teachers as a general access desktop that gets its configuration once a day or once a week and can still be used for teaching programming or proctoring an online exam. more advanced systems can be granted access to the sensitive side of the infrastructure like AD shares and "the network" as windows knows it.
as for people bypassing the helpdesk, locking down network ports and wireless AP's is a good way to get to know these guys. make sure you approach them with a smile and a bit of sympathy as theyre likely only being clandestine because theyve been abused in the past. consider having a power-users group of faculty or maybe students too that can help eachother if you're overloaded, and always accept their feedback (even if it isnt really that great.)
if we wanted inhalable instantaneous stimulants, cocaine has been around a long time. but if we legalized cocaine that might allow for new markets and businesses to operate where historically monopolies have presided unchallenged.
but if we want inhalable caffeine, thats okay, because the monopoly powers in place have developed tested and stand poised to maket the product accordingly.
and if you dont believe me, check out the wiki article on Stevia, because this is exactly how this works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia
first there was sugar, then came aspartame as an alternative, then stevia manufacturers wanted a piece of the market, afterwards the FDA was basically handed an anonymous document from major industry members that implied stevia was a horrorshow poison, which in turn killed off market competition from stevia producers by effectively making the US the only country to outlaw stevia as a food additive. 25 years later both coca cola and pepsi offer versions of their product sweetened with stevia (cokes product is called rebiana.)
me personally? ill keep my cup of coffee black, fresh ground, free trade, organic and locally owned.
about a year ago when i closed my google account(s). same with facebook, although if their shadow-profiling is any indication of 'how its done' then you can expect google to start silently tracking the same inferential data about you as a person instead..
either may have started as amicable services, but both have rapidly evolved into a flagrant, unapologetic breeches of privacy.
that enjoys shitting in the face of science and progress under the pretext of that etherial "hand of the market." other notable endeavors theyre renound for include:
creating controversy and doubt over the fact that smoking causes health problems
drafting policies targeted at reducing the services provided by the federal government to nothing more than a "competitive marketplace"
instituting "market reform" into the education system and championing charter schools (here in los angeles, charter schools show up in the news once a week for some major breech of trust, child abuse or embezzlement scandal)
the same reaganite health care privatization and deinstitutionalization mentality that landed an entire generation of schitzophrenics and invalids on the streets of skid row.
Slashdot Mirror
i give you, ZDnet 2.0.
the fact that the manufacturing process has involved two plant explosions that have crippled or killed at least a dozen people. the past suicides and slave labor practices have also prevented me from buying apple products in general.
no user servicable battery, but thats a non-issue for most mac fans so ill leave it be. its also a first-world problem unrelated to my original assertion
Fruit ninja for the first world comes at the expense of grinding poverty and human misery. Its not part of the economic model generally.
to see some room-temperature semiconductors in the future. keeping the quantum computer in the living room has been a tough job lately. Ive found that while the couch and the area rug dont mind hovering below absolute-zero, the cats certainly dont appreciate it very much.
on the firewall of china, then the closure of a controversial forced organ donation program. hm....
the optomistic me says china has finally decided to become a socialist democracy like switzerland. full healthcare for the masses, equal job for equal pay, clean air and fresh water and heck even a pound of tea and a stockpot of porkbelly for everyone. who needs the american trade model, lets cash in and build a better tomorrow for us all!
but seriously this is probably a controlled set of government reform actions designed to bolster trust and confidence in the chinese people. The party is largely viewed as a corrupt capitalist dictatorship, and has been the target of an escalating number of street protests recently.
if the application suberts or negatively impacts the model of facebook, which is data mining for the purposes of targeted advertisement, it will be banned.
i predict the addition of a enemy feature will work to incense negative emotional responses to facebook that so far have been confined to things that can be relatively mitigated, for example its policies and terms of service. an "enemy" on your facebook will make you less likely to check facebook, or its related applications. users who previously had ignored intentionally obfuscated security settings may begin to pay more attention to them, thereby costing you advertising data. you may switch social networks for one without any enemies or abandon social networking alltogether for a more controlled and privatized relationship with your friends. the implications of "enemy" are pretty big.
thirty years pushing manufacturing and technology jobs overseas to china under the guise of economic sense and prosperity for america, you dont get to turn around and cry foul when you get exactly what you asked for. namely, cheap foreign slave labor subsidized by a dictatorial ruling class operating under the guise of a communism it hasnt practiced in almost 40 years.
tarrifs are okay. you use them to incense corporations to reconsider employing local labour, but they wont work in americas revolving door government where capitalism and legislation are essentially the same. and while the economic cost of producing solar technology in china may be cheaper, the environmental and social costs are never worth it in my opinion.
as you choose to grace us with your presence, to look down from on high to the serfs and peons below and inquire, "tell us of your follies at the hand of our laws," we are humbled to oblige you with hillarious tales of our misery, suffering and strife. as minstrels to your beckon call we perform, knowing full well you shant ever lift a finger to improve our jolly hardships at the hands of the TSA.
it should be legislated that at any time someone declares social media to be the wave of the future, a round of eye rolling and fart-noise making should commence immediately.
this is a company that spies on you for the US government, sells your data to anyone who wants it, and is totally content to insist it has full legal rights over all of your content, indefinitely, with or without your consent.
close your facebook account and consider checking out some meat-space human interaction tools like meetup.com. there arent any buttons to indicate the position of your thumbs, and when you like something you just tell someone "hi, i enjoy this." Best of all, no asshole corporation pretending theyre doing you a favour by scouring your personal life for hints of product placement opportunities or subversive anti-government opinions. As a bonus, your employer will have the freeedom to hire you based on their objective opinion of your job skills and critical thinking ability, not your farmville or mafiawars score and picture of that drunken bender at grizzlebees where you wore the fried onion like a head-crab from Half-Life.
on why nigerian fraud exists,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud
turns out once the free market is finished sucking a country dry, they really dont care much about the local economy. watching AT&T charge americans for fraud perpetrated as a result of another multinational corporations negligence is like watching Alaska charge rape victims for their kits, or prisoners for their incarceration.
the united states government is pursuing terrorists so voraciously, it is not because they have your safety as a primary concern. Natural disasters are easily shrugged off, for example little effort was put into katrina and many lives lost due to government neglegence but no real repercussions arose from the incident, just a smooth shuffling of deck chairs so to speak.
the occupy protests, while they included violent police crackdowns on citizens and journalists alike, also received no real repercussions that couldnt be easily dismissed by the government as the rantings of kids and slackers with "no clear message" and "subversive" tendencies.
terrorism on the other hand brings results. it undermines a government in ways that are unchallengeable as it is an amorphous concept. theres no real enemy, despite how badly america wanted it to be osama, or sadam, or al-awlaki. Terrorism is an ideology, and every troop from the legions of rome to the english military officer who stood guard against the irish menace during the troubles understands that no weapon will ever purge it from the earth. terrorism is determination with absolutely nothing to lose; the last resort of a broken people.
you dont disarm terrorists by spying on everyone, because anyone can be a terrorist at any time it simply is not efficient. the only way to stop terrorism is to recognize the demands of the terrorist and try to understand what it is thats driven them to it. so long as we continue to fight, we will meet the immovable object to our unstoppable force each time with no ground gained or lost on either side.
americans horrified to also find that a majority of the oil they consume has nothing to do with the middle east, iran, or barack hussein obama.
"i just cant resist stomping this skinny black pedal every time i see a green light!!!" proclaims citizen.
that netflix-streaming laptop has a camera and mic too. throw in a coupon, offer a free "app" or "show" or something to get their attention. if all else fails just do it anyway. we all know the repercussions for a major multinational conglomerate violating your personal privacy basically amount to a dog and pony show anyhow.
"international sanctions against Iran due to its program to develop nuclear weapons."
always remember: the united states, nor the UN, nor the IAEA have any proof at all that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. its subtle changes in the wording that will inevitably lead us all to conclude this is the case however.
ravi is an asshole, but this doesnt address the issue. religious fundamentalists, most of whom are bigoted assholes, have succeeded in garnering a platform in america which is large enough to instil a persistent culture of fear, remorse and shame in a sizeable minority of the populus. Ravi pulled the pin on a grenade thats sat on the shelf for a very long time, and been caretaken by the likes of fallwell, haggard, limbaugh, hannity, and others to ensure it remained actively capable of self destruction at a moments notice.
the solution as a society is to throw the culture behind ravis actions over the GW bridge.
endless education debt, dead end careers, layoffs, outsourcing, and employers with unatainable qualifications that rarely hire qualified expensive american employees couldnt possibly be the problem
"Dears served several years in prison for his role in founding a gang in California called PhD, and upon his release he realized his felony conviction prevented him from everything from gainful employment to food stamps and voting.
Upon applying to several minimum wage jobs only to be turned down, he also realized that credit and felony checks performed by apartments and landlords would also preclude him from securing affordable housing without a large security deposit.
defeated, frustrated, and with little prospect of ever reintegrating into society, he went back to his activities with the gang.
perhaps he learned the value of human life in jail, perhaps a newfound respect for his fellow human,
but he would never know life outside of the only institution to provide for him, the gang.
this country has been on the americas shit list for well over 2 decades with nothing to show. Theyre a party member to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, but were found in violation of that treaty for enriching uranium for peaceful purposes. the NPT allows this, but the US slapped it with non-compliance anyway.
israel by comparisson has never signed the treaty, operate their own squad of international assassins that have in the past used western passports to perpetrate murder. they regularly bomb surrounding nations. they are never criticized by the US for this.
iran has the largest minority of jews in the middle east.
iran has a population larger than england
sure, theyre leaders are inflammatory and bigoted but so long as we're willing to put up with assholes like rush limbaugh we dont have much of an argument.
similar to the one mentioned, namely the project to dissuade humans from the taste of meat. My team works in shifts to identify common foods and cravings people may have. we have assembled around 30 meals we've identified as generally enjoyed
in the US, and after nearly a decade of extensive testing and development im proud to say we've made significant progress. Of the commonly consumed edibles we've engineered, many test subjects eat only some of the food. often times they refuse to eat certain items entirely. By changing the color and texture of the food we've ensured that even the most visibly palletable foodstuffs remain of limited interest to numerous test groups.
the project ive overseen has the potential for proven commercial success. should any reader need more information on patent licensing, design or independent consulting/partnering please feel free to contact me.
regards,
Mike Archer, President
AppleBees Restaraunts.
the American Beverage Association is a trade organization that represents the beverage industry in the United States. Its members include producers and bottlers of soft drinks, bottled water, and other non-alcoholic beverages.
the American Beverage Association frankly has no idea at all if this chemical is hazardous, at what levels and under what conditions. they have published no known study. they have 25 lobbyists across seven firms and their purpose is to limit warning labels on their products regardless of the actual science.
to clarify, The Center For Science in the Public Interest (we like them. theyre good guys) concluded 4-methylimidazole is added as a caramel coloring in some dark beers and soy sauces. its bad. to further cut past the knee jerk spinjob article from OP, heres the release from CSPI:
http://www.cspinet.org/new/201102161.html
and a quote out of the article as to what precisely theyre targeting...
"Federal regulations distinguish among four types of caramel coloring, two of which are produced with ammonia and two without it. CSPI wants the Food and Drug Administration to prohibit the two made with ammonia. The type used in colas and other dark soft drinks is known as Caramel IV, or ammonia sulfite process caramel. Caramel III, which is produced with ammonia but not sulfites, is sometimes used in beer, soy sauce, and other foods. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbK_dbsCu0
as to what policy think tanks or security professionals actually endorse the same concept that nearly murdered everyone on the planet throughout the cold war. and frankly, i dont blame them. MAD is a no-win outcome every time. if you dont believe me, pick a short wave radio and listen to the stations that still broadcast on russias "dead-hand" system.
for those of us who insist turning the power off is good enough, and we're seriously considering MAD here, you can expect the cyber war drummed up by the war hawks to include everything from the toaster in the breakroom not working to nuclear meltdown. most hospitals SCADA bridges and traffic control devices as well as financial institutions will also be in various states of complete and total uselessness. expect oil tankers to drift aimlessly in the pacific and everything from verizon to iridium to enjoy a feet-on-desk hiatus.
to the lowest common denominator. an active directory would be nice, but if you have control over the network then you essentially are 'the internet.'
id consider repurposing the older hardware for something thats still useful (flagrant *nix plug, sorry) to students and teachers as a general access desktop that gets its configuration once a day or once a week and can still be used for teaching programming or proctoring an online exam. more advanced systems can be granted access to the sensitive side of the infrastructure like AD shares and "the network" as windows knows it.
as for people bypassing the helpdesk, locking down network ports and wireless AP's is a good way to get to know these guys. make sure you approach them with a smile and a bit of sympathy as theyre likely only being clandestine because theyve been abused in the past. consider having a power-users group of faculty or maybe students too that can help eachother if you're overloaded, and always accept their feedback (even if it isnt really that great.)
if we wanted inhalable instantaneous stimulants, cocaine has been around a long time. but if we legalized cocaine that might allow for new markets and businesses to operate where historically monopolies have presided unchallenged.
but if we want inhalable caffeine, thats okay, because the monopoly powers in place have developed tested and stand poised to maket the product accordingly.
and if you dont believe me, check out the wiki article on Stevia, because this is exactly how this works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia
first there was sugar, then came aspartame as an alternative, then stevia manufacturers wanted a piece of the market, afterwards the FDA was basically handed an anonymous document from major industry members that implied stevia was a horrorshow poison, which in turn killed off market competition from stevia producers by effectively making the US the only country to outlaw stevia as a food additive. 25 years later both coca cola and pepsi offer versions of their product sweetened with stevia (cokes product is called rebiana.)
me personally? ill keep my cup of coffee black, fresh ground, free trade, organic and locally owned.
about a year ago when i closed my google account(s). same with facebook, although if their shadow-profiling is any indication of 'how its done' then you can expect google to start silently tracking the same inferential data about you as a person instead..
either may have started as amicable services, but both have rapidly evolved into a flagrant, unapologetic breeches of privacy.
that enjoys shitting in the face of science and progress under the pretext of that etherial "hand of the market." other notable endeavors theyre renound for include:
creating controversy and doubt over the fact that smoking causes health problems
drafting policies targeted at reducing the services provided by the federal government to nothing more than a "competitive marketplace"
instituting "market reform" into the education system and championing charter schools (here in los angeles, charter schools show up in the news once a week for some major breech of trust, child abuse or embezzlement scandal)
the same reaganite health care privatization and deinstitutionalization mentality that landed an entire generation of schitzophrenics and invalids on the streets of skid row.
check em out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heartland_Institute