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Comment He's gonna have to get a .... (Score 2) 732

... a bigger hammer.

On the serious side, since all this technology is supposed to make our life experience more enjoyable, otherwise why are we doing this (greed of the few or competition mindset???) I want to know why our paid vacations are not getting longer.

Oh wait, there is a growing number of Americans on long vacations, sort of..... its called unemployment.

Maybe we really do need a bigger hammer.

Comment Re:We all know what this means..... (Score 2) 284

technically the election had the lowest percentage of qualified voters vote since before the 1948 election if not of all time (I only found information going back to the 1948 election and this last election 2012 was around 50% voted) and as it was something of a close race, it was the no vote that actually won. You don't even have to consider the manipulations of the electoral college, voting oddities, or the fact that Obama focused only on those states with key effect on the election count. The fact is, in no way, shape or form was Obama elected by the majority. He still would have the position if nobody voted, not even him, as it really was predetermined. And a lot of people do know this, or at least believed no one was qualified for the position to genuinely represent the people. Honestly, how is any politician able to know what the people want, well enough to represent the people, when they fail to provide the people with bottom line financial voice to say (re: the lack of tax return paperwork allowing tax payers voice as to where the taxes they each personally pay is to be used - where the people set the budget) .

But then this is all a digression from the topic of how well we all know from experience and research, the government is not very good at implementing their plans or if they can even form a workable plan (re: budget). add to this the common development delays with large software projects and involved companies that are aware of government budgeting fails to take advantage of........... I'm just waiting for the next statement of "two more weeks" to be Main Stream Media published.

Comment We all know what this means..... (Score 3, Insightful) 284

You can add another 9 months or more to allow whatever new contractor to take over the code base or start anew. And by the time, if ever, it is fully functional we can be sure the direction will have changed again.

What I'd like to know is which taxpayers agreed on spending their taxes on this? The only citizens I found supporting this are those who do not pay income taxes.

Comment The project will appear successful.... (Score 0, Troll) 182

.... but it will then fail at what marketing hype claims it to be in their effort to rent it. It will be the demise of IBM.
The web is not a good source of genuine core knowledge, but rather an example of the bottomless pit of abstract distortion of knowledge.

How to know this is to know core knowledge. Even the watson project cannot avoid making use of core knowledge, but hide it with the illusion that it can be greater than its creators who as are the rest of us, all contain and make use of core knowledge.

IBM is a patent whore, but software patents are invalid due to core knowledge. Their own product will create problems it cannot solve but instead to solve the problems it creates, what it attempts to hide, will be required to be exposed, so people will understand and know how to solve watson created problems. This will result in the fall of IBM.

Core knowledge, the tools of knowledge navigational mapping - http://abstractionphysics.net/pmwiki/index.php

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