It amazes me that the liberal CBS news media fail for the scam.

Falsified documents have enough truth, to make'em believable, but who will ever believe falsified documents. The plutocrat offensive to discredit all opposition, obviously false/biased Hollywood media/news does beg for moral support from patriotic Americans, distract voters from the important national issues, and if all else fails cry wolf and stir-up xenophobic fear.

Damn CBS and Dan were dumb-dumb-dangdamndumb ..., you just gotta laugh the special-interest directors have almost taken American politics to the level of slap-stick humor. I am beginning to look forward to the 2008 sequel. American satire at its best with great-convoluted lies and stories for every one of US fools on earth.

We may as well laugh until "World-War-III" becomes better defined as a global tragedy and possibly the end of our folly-filed foolish species. The man with his finger on the button is who (in Korea, China, Iran, USA...)?

Many of us should proceed to kiss our ass good-bye. Iraq and Vietnam are not the same, except that politicians are running the war when Generals are photo-op jokes on the frontline-sideline.

Follow the money ...!

Should we redefine treason and war-profiteering for politicians and CEOs?

As a side thought: Should "War Profiteering" be redefined for today's economy and government. I see President Junior Bush's uncle, brother of Senior George, is a director for a mutual fund (Lord Abbett) that controls around 8 to 12 million shares of Halliburton. No competition War contracts, Bush, Cheney, and Halliburton all closely associated, and US Citizen Soldiers on battlefields around the world, and .... It just seems like (to me) a new version of USA Defense Industry "War Profiteers". Could this all be true ... real ...
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=William_H.T._Bush
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Engineered_Support_Systems

High-tech Job Market Has Lost 400,000 Jobs, September 14, 2004,
By ALLISON LINN, AP Business Writer SEATTLE (AP) -- The U.S. information tech sector lost 403,300 jobs between March 2001 over half of those jobs -- 206,300 -- were lost after experts declared the recession over in November 2001, University of Illinois-Chicago Researchers.
Source URL=http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/ap_091404.asp?p=1
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The Globalization of Software Development and its Impact on Business and Education - Heartland Software Process Improvement Network, September 3, 2003, Galen B. Crow, Associate Professor, School of Information Technology, Executive Director, Extended University, Illinois State University
Source URL=http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/spin/presentations/HSPNGSD.ppt

US INS raises H-1B visas to 195,000 per year from 2000-2004
542,000 H-1B visas in US by 2000;
930,000 projected (H-1B visas) in US by 2004
50% of H-1B visa holders are IT workers
50% of new H-1B IT applicants are in software development
Potentially 250,000 H-1B visas for software engineers by 2004

Regardless of future of IT domestic employment, IT and software development have become "global" - Software engineering is becoming an "imported" commodity - IT employment still a good career bet but must adjust to evolving skill set and expectations - IT/Software workers need to be able to operate in a multi-cultural, global environment and have a quality emphasis
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Technology is amazing there is a close match in numbers between the two sources. Providing proof that exceptional good prior planning by businesses and politicians are possible when it is in their self/special-interest (market failures are just economic anomalies). IT is in the interest of "Big Business" to control cost and thereby increase profit. IT is in the interest of "Corporate Welfare" and "Political Sponsors" to protect elections and careers that provide for the plutocratic elite [AKA: White Collar Trash] management successes. This is the only way (for some) to keep the world moving towards a better place with more folks working around the world in many Fritz Metropolises.

Humanity is a renewable replaceable reusable and unending resource for production. Like oil and water there are always ways to correctly control cost and availability for profit. US Citizen technology workers cost too much (it is a global economy), export or import workers at a lower cost. It is all just good-old supply and demand. When US worker-units are to expensive, then find a worker-unit that cost less. It is just business and government working together to create a better Metropolitans' world community. It ain't capitalism or democracy, because like communism those old philosophies are failures. Good business processes provides order for a stable society, and are better at governing people and realities ... supplyNdemand, voodooeconomics, trickledowntickle, ....

Eight Workers' Payments to Corporate Welfare America -------------- Each Week
______________Units _____Units___ Units_____Octet__ Corporate____Units
__Type of _____Hours_%%__OT___ Theft of___ Profit___ $15/Unit__One Worker
Compensation __Value_____Loss___Property___Units____ Profit_____Value
___WorkTime___40___53___00______05_______40______$0.00______40
____Overtime___15___20___05______00_______00____$600.00______00
_____Benefits___10___13___00______00_______00______$0.00______10
____Liabilities___10___13___00______00_______00______$0.00______10

____ This logic implies that for Every Eight Employees (EEE) that work 55Hrs/Week with no OverTime (OT) compensation from the Corporation will result in a total payment by US of $15/Hour, $600/Week, about 31K/Yr. The pay for an additional employee (about $31K) is now “Corporate Welfare” reward. However, $31K/Yr is not all the winnings received in “Corporate Welfare” from US for eight (Octet-Profit) employees . Additionally the welfare payments include a “Bonus Prize”, of additional employee cost avoidance would include additional proportional payments of about $15K a year health care insurance, worker's compensation insurance, Social Security Match, ....
____ The logic is based on the workers getting at-least base-pay ($15) for each hour, over 40Hrs/Week, worked (So, the OT 15 “Hours Value” is just an “OT Loss” of 5 wage units). This is seldom reality, many salaried corporate employees in the USA (like US Government GS-10 and above workers) get a base-pay cut or no compensation when working overtime. This is what I call congressionally sanctioned perfectly legal theft of property. Being conservative in my WAG, for 6M Citizens providing, this “Corporate Welfare” payment, 6M/8*(31K+15K)=$34,500,000,000.00=[750K jobs converted to “Corporate Welfare”. This is not congressional fuzzy-math, it is GDMFY-math and another humiliating tax on the USA middle-class disguised by comical-economics good-business lingo-spin. PATRIOTS beware of politicians barring lingo-spin gifts, because payment will be in our bread/blood reality.
THIS MAY NOT BE A TAX CUT, but the US Citizen-worker/Middle-class is overtaxed and abused.
____ “Corporate Welfare” is “Corporate Communism/Socialism”, it is not capitalism. “Corporate Welfare” creates laws that reward multi-millions criminals with, maybe, one or two years in jail, and then a very comfortable retirement (if they want to retire) to their palatial estate, yacht and captain, limousine and chauffeur, jet-plane and pilot, ....
____ The CEOs, managers, auditors, ... reached the top of the “Corporate Welfare Pyramid” scheme, apparently legally, recognized by the law of the land as a Successful Great American [AKA, by US Citizens as White Collar Trash (WCT)].
____ How many “Corporate Welfare Pyramid” crooks have gone to prison between 2000 and 2004 ... “Global Crossing, Enron, ...” (Older banking, savings & Loans, GM, IBM, ...) (older still Teapot-Dome, Red-Herring, War-Profiteering [From 1776 to Iraq] ...)? If your WAG equals my own (for this decade) well about a few, maybe 10, out of hundreds, (in prison) for between one and two years.
____ This is becoming a prime example of “YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!” in the USA ... did you buy, votes don't count, enough politicians (some are good folks, most are WCT). Rob a bank and you get five years or more; I guess, because you did not financially destroy thousands of retirements, mortgages, families, college funds, jobs, people, ... and get the tax-payers US to pay for damages. If you make it to the top of WCT America you can keep your house, car, college funds, stocks & bonds, family jewelery and art, ... you paid America's politicians for everything.
____ Some may say OT for workers, as an issue, has nothing to do with corruption in business, religion, and government in our USA, but the fact is WCT of America is always paying for what is best (for them), because they can, and WCT crime/corruption repercussions are a MFGD pitiful joke.
____ We need to start (when criminal activity is Prove in court) taking everything from the USA WCT criminals, leave their family and children in the poor house, and put them in jail for twenty (or more) years. When the WCT are proven to be incompetent paid professionals, then they and the persons involved in covering up their criminal negligence causing financial disaster for US Citizens should go to jail for five to ten years, and be held corporately and personally liable for financial damages to US Citizens. All these criminals should be going to jail and (including their wives and children) to the same poor-house in which they put USA Citizens with their WCT crimes.

Current (/.) Prediction 2004/08/27 R-Convention NYC
____ Gay relation-ship supporter and embarrassing "Vice" President Dick (Haliburton) Chaney will not be selected to run, due to R-platform differences (coincidently recently restated again, for US UN EU, in the setup news story/conference).
____ Okay, I was wrong, but I still expect a faked heart attack, Wild Dick Chaney wants to help George get John McCain on the 2004 Republican ticket in time to make a difference, in the outcome of the election.
____ Recently PR-Bush (USANG Draft Dodger George) asked Senator John McCain to get to the bottom of the 527-campaign ads and sue for liable if possible (NOT!).
____ Gosh; John McCain, would make a real good VP candidate for the R-party, and cure a few election potential problems, because we all know "John McCain" is more electable then either DemRep President options.

To dang bad we can't bet on USA President stuff, maybe VP stuff is okay what's the legal (I wonder)?

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Prior (/.) Prediction 2003/07/19 on Social Security
____ US Citizens will pay in the future (our children, grandchildren, ...), financial responsibility is a thing of the past, and social security is always secure, because the government can maintain benefits for the wealthy today, and increase the social security retirement age until the right number of US Citizens die and never collect any benefits (old folks don't have many dependents). US, EU, and UN Citizens are becoming the whores of the wealthy fucked now, beaten later, and screwed to death.
Now 2004/08/27, looks like FRC Greenspan agrees, just in time for the R-Convention.

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Another 2004/08/27 Futures WAG
____ Social Security and Medicare will be maintained for many additional (10-20) years, by a large influx of low-wage illegal aliens and immigrants currently being promised employment and retirement benefits. At retirement US politicians' skulduggery will reasonably reject all OCONUS (outside US) or illegal aliens claims for benefits.
____ It will keep the US born sheep placidly grazing, least ways untill US Boomers are dead and gone. Then George Bush IV will be elected the Christian Potentate for life to save US.

OldHawk777

Did anyone in the US Government 'INTEL' community Civilian/Military have email/message traffic alerts, in advance, about the last upgrade of the terrorists threat alert? I ask not; did they see the traffic that was used to justify/compile/analyze the need for a higher aleart level.

I ask, Did they (Intel-folks) know (see traffic) a day/hour/... before the Congress, Senate, or the rest of US that the threat level was to be elevated soon?

Depending; the question, 'Was the alert politically motivated?' ... is answered, if .news/someone can dug-up the true answer.

Either the answer is YES there were Intel community alert messages, or maybe the executive branch is not communicating well with all civilian/military Intel-agencies. Maybe those that were surprised, like many, are not (in the center of activity, analysis, response, ...) needed for the war on terrorism. This could be one of those 911-Commission glitches in the Intel community. If ... then should we put all the eggs in the White-Basket, the House-Basket, or maybe a special CoOp-Basket.

OldHawk777

http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=100

____ Many politicians have been debating Science, History, and Culture on political merit (how does it benefit reelection, dogma, control, and special interest) for purposes of passing laws. In other words, screw the people and posterity, because they provide no immediate ROI and no one is a psychic ... let the Christian god decide our future (sounds like anti-Christ to me).

____ There are two reasons for Darwinian/Nietzschean political action or inaction in the EU, US, others: (1) Profit for special interest [AKA: plutocrats], (2) supercilious (Super-Silly-US) power over others.

____ Gone are the days of Goethe's beliefs with Faustian repercussions. We participate in the times of the existential Nietzschean narcissistic-self rebirth and the decline of existential altruist seeking self-truth and justice for all. Plutocrats are interested in authoritarian exploitation of human resources. Plutocrats are politicians/entrepreneurs of dubious "self-awareness" with a mythic "will to power".

____ These Nietzschean (human) superduds provoke a period of "paralysis by analysis", "point the finger", "smear the blame" "plausible deniability", "false accusations" "adoration charade" "veneer honor" "protracted capriciousness" "economic/cultural instability" ... supported by national leaders of special interest, then another war period usually evolves from this time.

____ A period of Orwellian 1984 dystopian culture/society where a "big brother" [AKA: The White Collar Trash (WCT) Megalomaniac]" with "thought-crime" accusers and prosecutors manage by murder and control through fear.

____ Hitler was not the first and last WCT. Saddam, Amin, Pinochet, Stalin, Milosevic, PolPot, Khomeini, TseTung ... these are just some of the folks in the news during my lifetime. It always amazes me how in the USA there appears to be no consideration of USA politicians/generals being smalltime past, present or major future genocide criminals. Always, I have observed that folks, with too much faith, will be severely disappointed by themselves, others, and/or God. If it is a petty-personal "failure of faith" then no problem, if it is someone's life or death then it is horrible. However, when it is all our family and friends that die, ... it is pure-evil.

____ We are all individually and collectively responsible for making sure pure-evil is not one of US, EU, others. A poor old southern woman (Ida) one time told me, "If you look beyond your nose for some one to blame, then I hope you are holding a mirror." It was her way of saying, "look at yourself first."

"Reality is a self induced hallucination."

One System Fits All
New standards will make sharing online education software easy and inexpensive.
By Sally Atwood, December 2003/January 2004, http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/atwood1203.asp

'At traditional universities such as MIT, more and more educators and administrators are using the term/phrase (Online Education) to describe something more comprehensive: the advent of Web-based learning-management systems. These software-based systems, also known as course management or virtual-learning systems, debuted about five years ago and are designed to leverage the Internet to reinforce what happens in brick-and-mortar classrooms.'

/. Questions: Is the web becoming an 'Open (Global/Virtual) Operating System'? Will/Does it provide U2U, B2B, C2C, E2E, ... features and applications at an Internet level similar to what an OS does on a computer? How do you define an OS ... by what it does or what it is? I expect the Kernel will remain at the computer level, but MS calls their GUI windows an OS ... ponder, ponder, ponder, confusion.

Open Knowledge Initiative [OKI] Collaborators
____ C1ambridge University
____ Dartmouth College
____ Indiana University
____ North Carolina State University
____ Stanford University
____ University of Michigan
____ University of Pennsylvania
____ University of Wisconsin-Madison

'Open-Source-Interface Definitions' you need to check the article on MIT's Technology Review

By virtue of birth we acquire human rights and respect, with education we acquire equality and stature in a community, and with the OKI possibly a future of Docui Universitas Humanus Prosapia.

OldHawk777

Reality is a self-induced hallucination (Do I at times/often forget to turn on comments? Is it Freudian? Am I subconsciously overly sensitive? I am overly analytical at times or lost in a fog without chance of focusing ... I think, maybe, ....).

Definition:

Open Learning Enterprise System (OLES):

. A Learning Environment technology that is focused on providing learning participants an interactive enriched malleable resource for learning. A Learning Environment that can be adapted to physical and learning strengths and weaknesses for the individuals (Students and Teachers).. The environment where teacher pedagogies, student heuristics, and/or community collaborative synergy can be negotiated and/or leveraged to create a more comprehensive and efficacious learning experience. OLES software provides for all participants a familiar conformable Learning Environment technology for the transient/conditional requirements of audience, content, activity, and situation. OLES software is "a WWWeb/Internet Application" built exclusively on "Open Standards" and "Open-Source" GPL code, with 100% WWWeb [AKA: Internet] technology compliance. The "Open" WWWeb/Internet OLES software application concept will deliver a LEIA virtual-OS (vOS) supporting multi-vendor cross-platform, network, and OLES software compatibility.

The Open Source Learning Management System (OS-LMS) is

a possible appropriate OS project to include in OLES.

. OpenLMS is a Learning Management System (LMS)

. http://openlms.sourceforge.net/

. http://software.freshmeat.net/projects/openlms/?topic_id=251%2C71%2C72%2C1015%2C92

. http://www2.svt.ntnu.no/geo/undervisning/openlms_demo/code/security_login.asp

. Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS)

. http://sourceforge.net/projects/atutor/

Definition:
      Learning Environment Independent Architecture (LEIA):

LEIA focused on Evolvable Systems with Planned Architecture.

          Reason: International commitments and customer focus
      Benefits: Cost control and systems change management
Orientation: People in Amicable Technology Environments
    Standards: Item and Object Interoperability Compliance
        Deliver: Systems with feature rich optional configurations, incremental technology insertion of innovations, functional purpose solutions for requirements, object oriented building blocks of HW-&-SW, network web-based content and management, distributed collaborative community foundations, teleLearning, teleLinguistics , teleMedicine, ... simulations for training, ... content development, continuity, sharing, ...

LEIA - Three Independent Structures

Learning - (1) Environment [Classroom/Language Lab]
                  (2) Center [Schoolhouse/Campus]
                  (3) Community [Distributed Campuses]

NOTE: TCP/IP, all systems, computers, network servers
            and the devices will Auto-Discover & Configure.

1. "Learning Environment" Student & Teacher Environment
2. "Learning Center" Multiple Multipurpose Environments
3. "Learning Community" Using Learning Environment/Center building blocks

          Campus/Community Learning Centers will provide transient/permanent forward base buffering and storage (RAM, HDD/V-RAM), of frequent use and/or large content files, references, libraries, simulations, and Avatar Populated Experience Simulations (APES) content resources.
          Local, Regional, and/or National programs applying technology applications for "Distance Learning" including disparate collective assets, and requiring centralized systems and services management will allow student/teacher amicable use of telecommunications.
          Broadband routing/switching and broadcast RF/Cable resources that provide "Web-Based" appropriate Video Teleconferencing (VTC), simulcast, multicast, ... Simulations/APES for on-demand and scheduled collaboration.
          Simulations/APES sessions related to development, participation, and sharing of content, curriculum, products, ... will be available during learning experiences between students/teachers (for K-12,Trade,University).

Learning Environment [AKA: The Building Block]:
Teacher and Student Furniture: Desk, Chairs, Podiums, Chalk/Whiteboard,
                        Multi-system/region TV, VCR, Audio Cassette, ... Desktop,
                        Net-Printer, Monitor, Software, Headset ...

Teacher and Student Computers (Auto-Config and some redundancy)
Environment Local Area Network (TCP/IP with light-duty servers)
          Server-1 Library, all Media/Content files/data,
                            TV/CODEC, CD-RW, DVD, Server-3 Backups, ...
          Server-2 Registrar, Course/Student/Maintenance,
                            Schedules, Student/Audit Records,
                            Server-1 Backups, (Privacy Act Security)...
          Server-3 LAN (Admin), Broadcast, Conference,
                            Internet/Web-services, Server-2 Backups, ...
          Note: Test to confirm best Server Configuration Plan,
                      always provide Initial Install Setup CD-ROMs
                      always provide Rescue/Recovery Tools on CD-ROM
                      always provide Two(2) Copies of CD-ROMs

LAN, Internet/Intranet Access/Service Delivery
Switched Hubs (Ethernet), Switched WAN-Access Device
Network Firewall Device,[User Max=55 + Devices=25]...

Learning Environment:

Basic HTML Content/Course Development Tools
          User-Friendly application for Teacher and Students
          allowing WWWeb content and presentation development

Management, Diagnostic, and Maintenance Tools
          Student, assets, and network resources management
          Network and Computer troubleshooting applications
          Network and Computer install and repair tools

Optional Accessories: Additional Cost Items
          Multisystems/regions DVD, TV, VCR, CD, Read/Write...
          Digital Projectors, Elmo 3D Object Presenter, ...
          Digital Interactive Whiteboards, Sketch-Plotters, ...
          Multiple CD/DVD Read/Write Jukebox Server, Screen,...
          Specialty Media/Content Software for English Language Courses, US
          History/Culture, USA Music/Movie title, additional high-end software
          applications, ...
          Networked Printers, FAXes, Copiers, Scanners, ...
          Conference Video/Voice/Sound-Systems, ...

OldHawk777

Definition:
    Operating System (OS) (beyond the case):
    Open Standards (OS)
    Open Source (OS)

      8-0 The main control software for a computer and/or on a networked
                device, which schedules and responds to all tasks.
      8-1 Allocates and/or manages all resources (hardware,
                communications, Input/Output Devices, Ports/Sockets, ...)
                and/or virtual machines/environments.
      8-2 Acts as the core (kernel) interface for software development
                programmers, Networks and Systems Administration folks, and
                the occasional expert users.
      8-3 Allows the user population access to all tractable and
                amicable applications and services on the network.
      8-4 Provides all Intranet protocols and/or requirements for LAN
                connectivity (could be proprietary, but not required),
      8-5 Delivers compliance with required protocols and standards for
                Internet and/or WAN Connectivity for the users' community
                (should never be proprietary).

      Note: By this definition, the standards, protocols, and (at least) the communications applications used on the World Wide Web (WWW) [AKA: Internet], act as the Independent Architecture (for Users on a virtual interoperability network) operating system supporting online User, Institutional, Government, and Business enterprise applications, such as banking, shopping, VTC, VoIP, Distance Learning, LEIA, Distributed Processing, Cluster Processing, Telemedicine, Disaster Relief Operations, ...~8-0 Without industry/government saying, I think/perceive, the kernel side (anything on a LAN connected to the internet) uses TCP/IP to respond to all external task and most internal task. Major and minor computing systems in a LAN connected to the internet can remotely allocates and/or manages resources (as allowed by policy/process) anywhere in the world that are connected to the internet (using HTML, XML, TCP, IP, Java, .... Zero-Five it is real-time processing?

I appreciate all good comments.
Slam fun is OK with me %~o?

OldHawk777

Capitalist Republics'(AKA: Undemocratic Governments)

Seven Dejure Rules

Rulers' Cultural Rule: Feign concerns for all menials living and dead, praise the myths of the majority and leading cenobites, "act the part" of friend.

Rulers' Economic Rule: Plutocrat Socialism/Welfare will always provide adequately for the public's good (food, shelter, health, education, ...).

Rulers' Stability Rule: You can always pay half the menial public and cenobite amateurs to kill the other half, until stability is achieved .

Rulers' Veneration Rule: The menial public, cenobite armatures, and nihilist mobs will never write history books from their unmarked/unknown mass graves.

Rulers' Patriotic Rule: Gold invested in foreign banks will get you through patriotic times, but a royal estate never gets you beyond nihilist mobs. Maintain stability with an easy to pay recreant quisling military. A fatal mistake can be an honorable military. Telling the difference is easy have your troops commit fratricide on citizens who could be relatives and friends.

Rulers' Piety Rule: May God destroy enemies of the divine rights of the wealthy. May God Bless the Wealthy and their cenobite helpers. May God provide productive offspring for capital expansion, religious donations, .... May God curse and damn the worthless poor who have no purchasing power. GOD IS GREAT! GOD'S WILL! GOD BLESS only those of the sacred virtuous "White-collar Trash", all sanctified by God to rule people!

Rulers' Capitalist Rule: Rulers' always define the capital of their regime. The capital may be material (gold, diamonds, ...), monetary (foreign only), property (foreign/domestic), and/or human resources (colleagues, bureaucratic [like a commie/nazi] cenobites, mercenaries, servants, drug dealers, ...). Capitalist must obtain capital by any means available. Capitalist must be sure to maximize exportable capital for investment in global banks/markets that will provide for their secure future somewhere.

NOTE: "Capitalist Republic" members understands the "Big Picture" priorities of the world, accepts all rulers of people as equals, are allowed to be Christian/preacher, Moslem/mullah , Jewish/rabbi, Buddhist/monk, NWO (New World Order) American, Arabic, African, European, Persian, Asian, Indian, ..., and always cost effectively utilizes xenophobic propaganda tactics as state policy/diplomacy and stability weapons. Examples: (1) Arab terrorist extend the influence of the Arab state (both Saudi Arabia and Arab community), provides no benefits for Moslems and Islamic communities around the world, but provides xenophobic camouflage for Arab Moslems and Arab communities. (2) US and EU maintain corrupt dictators, totalitarian royal families, ... for decades in power to fight a profitable xenophobic proxy war of political dogma. (3) The French maintain a foreign legion to make sure French citizens are not hurt by stupid French xenophobic colonial and Indo-China control policy. (4) ....

I cannot deside if this should be in SciFi, Prescience, Fantacy, or ...

I felt an extreem need for putting something in my journal.

Reality is a self-induced hallucination.