Sure if I wanted to sleep 10 to a room and have a physically injurious work life balance, I can eventually eek out a small chance at a marginally profitable business. All the while large portions of my money are given away to other private businesses like banks and the Fed that will use it to pay lobbyists to work against me with what I earned. It's only called the American Dream because you'd have to be asleep to believe it. -Carlin

Where are the 20 stories of people who lost their homes and families going bankrupt because of the same bankers they are working to make rich?

  Some of these immigrants come from abject poverty and practical slavery. It's no small wonder that they flourish under a merely oppressive regime. It does not mean that it should be idealized into a model of how we should be living our lives. You get one life, if it's spent in misery then you wasted it.

We have a completely technically inept (as in can't work his own computer) CIO.
It's like having your plumber doing brain surgery.

If the government was doing its job they'd be fined hard enough to hurt the bottom line for the shareholders. They wouldn't put up with that crap for long.

What ever happened to not being evil?

http://rtpscrolls.blogspot.com/2006/11/angry-monkeys-and-cargo-cults.html

I don't have time to read my own damn e-mail let alone yours.

It's working for Apple

It's just the end of the age of physical presence.
When you factor in the instant communication available with teleconferencing, Skype, texting and e-mail a plane no matter how fast is just slowing you down.

People used to holler that TV was making the kids stupid and there was a new study every week “proving” it.
The people doing these studies simply have no understanding of media science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media:_The_Extensions_of_Man is a good beginning.

It's the shift from the industrial age to the electronic age people.

Pretty soon these kids with no "real world" skills will be pitying you like you pity the old people who can barely browse a web page and get confused by e-mail. Just like them you will be untrainable in the new media space.

These phones are a prosthetic for the nervous system. They extend it as all electronic media does.
The reason the kids seem like they’re not even in the room is because they aren’t. They’re hanging out with their friends. You’re old and being around you harshes their buzz.

The kids’ sensory balance adjusts to this environment numbing certain faculties while sensitizing others that are numbed in you. The reason they have withdrawal symptoms is because you are chopping off a piece of their sensory apparatus. If I jam a pencil in your ear before having a conversation with you I guarantee it won’t be a pleasant conversation and you won’t exactly shine.

These phones will disappear soon. There will be no faces buried in screens just visual overlays. There will be no typing just thinking. These kids’ thoughts will take place across the planet and their minds will be linked intimately with their friends in ways you will never experience.
Your tiny little minds will still be trapped inside the prison of your head.

Your sense of superiority over these kids is rooted firmly in your obsolescence.

One day soon you will have to ask a question of one of these kids to figure out what the hell is going on and they will roll their eyes, sigh deeply and talk down to you like a granny they are helping to cross the street.

I invent things that could be used to cause harm. Sharing this technology with a murderous criminal organization like the US government would be immoral. Should I have no right to my own work?
The people who invent things should be rewarded, right now it is corporate parasites that get rewarded all too often and all too much.
I also don't feel like paying war criminals for the rights to my own work.
Forcing people to pay to not be ripped off is a protection racket and should be considered a crime like any other kind of theft.

Why do you think we have so much fantasy media where the rogue cop is the good guy.
It's all propaganda.

In other news:

What the car industry is doing to the horse and buggy makers is horrible.

What? That ship has already sailed and there is nothing anyone can or should do about it?

I hope they're not in the same class! Ghandi had his country break up and on both sides are now corrupt and autocratic. MLK got shot.

Let's let the assholes suffer the consequences instead of being stupid enough to fall on our swords in a vain attempt to elicit a pity party.

In Sweden I understand he would face a panel of people at least half selected by the government and not a jury.

This is why the way computer programs are created must under go a major shift. Writing programs like we do today is a painful labourious process few people can do well. This is a fundamental weakness in the approach and tool set. Most programmers believe the problem is the vast majority of humanity and not with shitty tools. I'd rather see designs come from creative people and code generation be more automated and less mechanized. They shouldn't generally need programmers for most tasks. Much like how no one really does a lot of actual css/html these days the people who build programs will soon not even really be "coders".