And - as much as I loved George Carlin - it was also real bullshit. George would have been the first to admit that he was just a comedian and didn't really lift a finger to try to effect real change - it wasn't his expertise or his interest. It's much easier to make fun of the world's absurdities than it is to actually wrangle them into real-world change.

If you never vote for anyone, then you can just complain about everyone forever. That's a chickenshit stance. If you want a real moral high ground to fight from, start with the person(s) you actually did something to get elected, and complain about the delta from there.

Discussing the requests openly, either within or beyond the walls of an involved company, can violate federal law

Any act of congress that purports to deny our freedom of speech is not a law at all, but a usurpation. Congress has no power to trump the constitution.

-jcr

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You don't get out much do you?

Lets see, heres the things that use thin clients that pop into my head:

DVM, Airport agents, high-end POS systems, Insurance agents.

Oh, and just to be pedantic, your web browser is exactly that.

No you haven't. Or at least, we have different definitions of 'good experiences'. The RaspPi without the new accelerated Wayland is unbearable with local connections, let alone remote.

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You don't get it do you?

'System Administrator' is now roughly equivalent to 'Sanitation Engineer'. It was only a matter of time before this happened. This person is no different than any of the other people that take care of the building. Buildings don't just sit there, even without thin client setups. You have electricians, HVAC, plumbing, all sorts of other maintenance issues to deal with, and this really isn't anything different.

You have have to come to grips with the fact that being a system administrator is not impressive anymore. Computers have this neat way of allowing a few really intelligent people to make programs that allow fresh from the kiln bricks to do amazing things.

The problem is that you're using the wrong thin client technology.

The thin client shouldn't give a damn what you do to generate the desktop, just its just a physical interface to a virtual world. There is absolutely no reason this can not be standardized.

Thin Keyboards should be using Thin USB, and Thin pointing devices using Thin PointDevice connections. ThinHDMI ...

Stop buying 'solutions' from vendors and by actual solutions better known as standards.

Would you buy a PC that required a specialized video cable and monitor, keyboards with their own unique plugs that only fit into that one specific model? Would you accept it if it required you to buy a special OEM adapter to plug in your speakers?

You aren't looking at the right problem. You're still buying proprietary systems which are DESIGNED TO LOCK YOU IN TO THEIR PROFIT CENTER and then expecting it to work as if its some sort of standard.

The technology is there, but vendors don't want anything to do with it as that turns the whole thing into a race to the bottom, and kills profit margins overnight.

Someone is going to have to create a OSS (not copyleft, something everyone can use) reference implementation of the system for everyone to copy. We need another BSD sockets library kind of solution. It doesn't matter who makes proprietary crap extensions 20 years down the road once the basics are covered WELL, and that everyone does them WELL because thats the minimum expectation.

The Periodic Table isn't a model, or at least not a functional model. It's a chart - a way to represent data. Arguably, a chart is a model of sorts but considering your comment concerning "new evidence," you certainly seem to be implying that it's a model of how things function and this new proposal provides an alternate functional model, which isn't the case. The proposed alternative isn't a new theory of elements. It doesn't change our idea of how things works. It simply presents the same information and understanding in a different way. If the new table doesn't provide any new predictive ability at all but it does, say, present the information in a way that's easier to grasp or makes relationships clearer, then it's worth considering and possibly worth adapting.

I guess it would be boring if you were terrible at fishing and never had success.

I understand why people need to cheat and have all these machines to make it easier. It indeed would be boring to be a bad angler and unable to land fish.

Also not entirely true. Traditionally, an asset is kept on the books at what it cost to acquire it. If you bought it, that will of course be the price you paid. If you created it, or acquired it through other means, such as mining Bitcoins, the book value will the cost in labor and capital it took, and your profit (or capital gain--or loss if the price doesn't cover your costs) on sale wiill be the sale price minus that book value.

Eve's corporation tax isn't the tax the star system charges the corp, it's the tax the corp charges its members.

IANAA (I am not an accountant), but capital gains are only when you buy something and then sell it at a higher price.

It's a little bit more involved than that. This is only a capital gain when you actually intend to hold and/or use the assets rather than turning around and immediately selling them again. When a grocery store buys items wholesale and then sells them to its retail customers, that's not a "capital gain", it's just a retail profit. US tax code requires you to hold an asset for at least a year before selling it in order to claim the capital gains tax rate.

What's a 'barron'?

It appears to be a business magazine. Not sure what it has to do with the taxation of virtual profit...

How does the performance measure up to GPUs for TFLOPS/$$$?

"Don't talk to police" applies more than ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I guess if the police puts you in a situation where you are "free to leave at any time", you should leave immediately.

Also, how exactly would you not incriminate yourself (atleast in the eyes of the police) if you have to explicitely state you want to use the right not to incriminate yourself? It's a catch 22 situation.

Children should be brought up having studied the Constitution and bill of rights and fully understand what it says

That's not going to happen as long as we put up with government schools.

-jcr