squirejons

deserving of the guillotine

you gonna pass that thing around, or are you gonna bogart it all night?

The coder opened his IDE. The IDE was on the screen of his monitor. The IDE was colorful in the dimly lit room. The coder opened his can of Red Bull. He drank once from it and put it down. Then he placed his fingers on the keyboard and began coding. It was PHP code, and it was good. He typed into the night and early morning. He got up and went to bed. He felt good. He did not think about the woman that night because he was tired. That was good, too.

I agree--expose The Narrative via grassroots exposition on the web, and sooner or later the truth will spread. Slowly, but it will spread. Many europeans already know this.

the USA is a livestock operation, and we are the livestock. Growth Uber Alles! is the underlying theme. Mass immigration is the primary tool of growth, that and using american military to open up new markets for exploitation, oops, I mean spread democracy.

well, this strategy was all laid out by the designer of the american constitution over 200 years ago in the federalist papers (the ones written by madison) and his notes on the constitutional convention. Madison wrote that the primary purpose of the structure of the american govt under his constitution was to preserve wealth inequality. Madison wrote that the way to do this was to prevent the majority from uniting and discovering their common interest. The way he proposed to keep the majority from uniting was to create factions in voting districts by creating enlarged voting district (federal districts). Thus enlarged, the districts would have more factions and that would "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority" (to quote madison).

Also useful in preventing the majority from using the government against the minority of the opulent was the pseudo-democratic structure of the federal govt (strong checks and balances and separation of powers). This would hinder the ability of the majority to control the government. That would keep the wealth of madsison, jefferson, washington, morris et al., safe from that dirty, brutish mob (i.e., you and me).

The benefit to the elite of factions created by nation enlargement? The elite get to keep more of their wealth.

As the USA grows larger and more heterogeneous with mass immigration, we are less and less in control of our own govt.

Our cultural cousins in the rest of the western nations (canada, australia, UK, scandanavia, france, austria, germany etc) are all smaller and more homogeneous, and so the majority there therefore have more control of their own nations. However, as they elite cram more immigrants into those nations, factions grow and there is less majority control. And of course the elite created the EU along the lines of the USA so as to remove as much power as possible from the majority in those member nations.

The collapse of large nations is a Good Thing for the working class majority: the elite always want large nations, especially large nations with lots of racial, cultural and language divisions. That makes it easier for the elite to control the nation. It's called the 'divide et impera' strategy. That was the founding principle of the USA (see the letter from madison from jefferson wherein madison writes that the divide et impera (divide and rule) tactic is the way to rule america (madison was worth 100 mill in today's dollars when he got his inheritance; jefferson, almost the same)).

When the elite can no longer hold large, divided nations together via violence and or propaganda, the working class majority form smaller, more homogeneous, less divided nations, nations that can be more easily controlled by the workers, and less easily controlled by the elite.

Factions are the friend of the rich and the enemy of the masses.

How do the elite create factions so they can rule? Enlarge the nation; import foreigners, especially those of another race and culture; create propaganda that focuses on identity politics; etc etc.

Of course the centrally controlled dogma of the american edu-propaganda system has programmed us to feel bad about collapse of nations. Oh, it's so sad that such and such nation is breaking up.

But that is an elite-centric propaganda meme. It is always a good thing when nations collapse and fall apart--a good thing from the perspective of the working class majority. Of course the more "educated" you are, the more you take the perspective of the elite--in general.

I think I will stick with cryonics. Thanks, anyway...

since the media is now exposing this secret there must have already been a decline in CT scans, otherwise the media would never say a word about it. The media never exposes a mainstream money making scam until the money has gone out of it.

the biggest logical fallacy is not realizing that homo sapiens is evolved to NOT use logic in certain areas: tribal allegiances, bonding and politics. You can see this play out in the GOP/conservative vs Dem/liberal farces in various forums and on TV every day. Same thing goes for what passes for the term 'political correctness.'

Also, religion--logic does not come into play there.

Also, death and the afterlife--logic is precluded there as well.

Homo sapiens is evolved to use logic in certain limited areas only.

Indeed--in fact the word 'yankee' as applied to americans long ago, referred to the american ripping off of intellectual property: yankee meant IP pirate. No joke!

Wow! As a patent agent, those patents are pure MONEY patents, incredibly broad, especially to have been published in 2001 (but with a priority date of 1996) Here is the money claim:

A search engine system comprising: a first system for receiving informons from a network on a continuing search basis, for filtering such informons for relevancy to a query from an individual user, and for storing a ranked list of relevant informons as a wire; a second system for receiving informons from a network on a current demand search basis and for filtering such informons for relevancy to the query from the individual user; and a third system for selecting at least one of the first and second systems to make a search for the query and to return the wire or demand search results to the individual user. ==========

here is the money claim for the other patent:

. A search system comprising: a scanning system for searching for information relevant to a query associated with a first user in a plurality of users; a feedback system for receiving information found to be relevant to the query by other users; and a content-based filter system for combining the information from the feedback system with the information from the scanning system and for filtering the combined information for relevance to at least one of the query and the first user.

man, that second one is a pretty broad patent.

and i went right into yours, sweetie!

you had better believe that this 'grass roots' protest is funded by people with fat fat wallets. They are making tech workers into the New Jew using propaganda. Propaganda is the hidden force behind all of modern politics.

If you go back and look at the rise of hitler and the nazis, it becomes clear that the upper class needed a scapegoat to preserve their wealth from the inevitable oncoming swell of populist-leftist politics coming up from the working class. The upper class knew what was coming, so they found a scapegoat and subverted the working class populist sentiment, diverting working class anger onto the scapegoat, the jews. If you want references for this idea, see the article "I was Hitler's Boss" by Karl Mayr and also the new book _Hitler's_ _First_ _War_.

Anyway, the same thing is happening now--the elite are pushing the idea that tech workers are to blame for rising prices.

They are demonizing tech workers so that populist anger is directed away from themselves. It is also possible that this anger in SF against tech workers is actually in fact anger against cheap import H1b labor scabs from overseas, but the media is altering and changing the actual tenor and content of the protest to make it looks as if it is a protest against tech workers in general.

Also, as a side effect of demonizing tech workers, they can get more cheap labor H1Bs into america because the tech worker will then be an unsympathetic figure.

Homo sapiens is evolved to ingest, internalize and re-propagate ideas. That was our survival advantage on the savannah hundreds of thousands of years ago; that was how we out-competed other species using our big brains to carry out complex, improvised plans.

But that evolved trait now can be seen in how we conform to the ideologies and groupthinks of political tribes and groups. Homo sapiens seeks out tribes and discerns their ideologies and internalizes them and then re-propagates.

We are a species of ant-like primates, and instead of spraying chemicals or from musk scent glands, we spray ideology, the ideology of our adopted tribes.

The elite use this evolved trait of propaganda-ingesting in order to manipulate us.

Anti-php is one of the central tenets of HN ideology. To be a full member of the tribe you must internalize and re-propagate this ideology.

in this thread, a lot of rationalizing going on, trying to avoid the basic truth that IT/programming is for the most part well-paid wage slavery, and working at a desk/cubicle 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, year after year, decade after decade is an unnatural condition, akin to a form of torture.

the article is correct. 'do what you love' is of course neoliberal propaganda created and propagated by capital as part of its war against labor.

but we must go further and realize that capital is our enemy.

europeans are more homogeneous and more united, with a solid culture to back them up, which gives them some leverage against the corporations. The corps thus know it is harder to exploit them. Also, because western europe is more united against Capital, western europe does not allow as much cheap 3rd world labor into their nations. Thus, capital prefers to exploit american workers via mass immigration and H1Bs etc

youth thinks they are invulnerable.

As you grow older, you realize what the world really is and how vulnerable we really are.

I predict that the corporate media will run with this story and that as a consequence this source of medicine will soon disappear.

We cannot have the profits of our Most Holy Corporations drop. Cheap antibiotics will cause a drop in the Most Holy Profits of Our Sacred Corporations, and That Is Not Permissible.

why is the sky blue, Daddy?

ah, the neoliberal media once again glorifying their weapons of economic doom, the debt collectors. These demons should be demonized instead.

I think a lot of PhDs would jump at the chance for a non-academic job.

Call me cynical, but this article looks like more edu-propaganda from the higher education cartel. Why? It deliberately conflates technical and non-technical PhDs. Yes, there may well be a good many non-academic jobs for tech phds, although not as many as this article seems to airily assume.

As for any sort of job for non-tech phds, well, those are hard to come by....

This article makes unstated assumptions that all PhDs can just up and get a non-academic job, should that professorship job somehow not come through.

The higher education industry is evil and has deep, deep pockets. They buy media propaganda like you and I buy potato chips at the convenience store.

I wonder whether this article is bought and paid for propaganda.

maybe many here see the edu-scam for what it is

(got 3 degrees myself, including a doctoral level degree, but wish I had joined my father in the plumbers union)..

the interest rates are too low for the banks to loan much.

Once the rates rise, they will be handing out loans on the street corner.

Right now the banks are trying to drive up home values via restricting supply of new homes. Few loans == few new homes built.

Restrictions in supply == higher home prices.

The banks are colluding with the fed govt to drive up home values so that the mortgage derivatives the banks own will once again become worth something.

it is all about lowering rates and lending to corporations that will buy older homes and rent them out at extortionate rates, and then not lending to consumers so that the home builders cannot build much new supply.

The USA is and always has been run for the purposes of Capital.

an aging population means GDP will decline!

Ziss is unspeakable! Ziss is an unmitigated disaster for corporate profits!

GDP uber alles!

Ve must force japan to take in immigrants! For ze sake of corporate profits! GDP uber alles!

federalism, in reality, is really better exemplified by the unelected federal judges from ivy league law schools who decide the way we live our lives.

That is really what federalism is.

Democracy is what happens when the citizens of colorado and washington create their own laws to live by.

in this discussion in the media, out of all the millions of words that are going to be written about pot legalization in WA and CO over the next few weeks, how many words are going to be devoted to the fact that in the states of washington and colorado pot was legalized because the citizens of those states are able to create their own laws?

Very few words will be devoted to that aspect of it, and those corporate media articles that do discuss it will speak negatively of it.

And because the media will not bring it up much, neither will comments online do so.

Well, except for my comments.

CorpGovMedia hath given unto thee Laws to Live By. And so it is written that thou shalt not denigrate females, but that thou shalt elevate them above all others, for the females are The Most Sacred Consumer and Surplus Labor Supply, thus lowering wages and increasing The Most Sacred Corporate Profits.

And All Those Who Violate This Law Shall Be Marked "B" for Bigot. And Know Ye Well That Those Who Wear This Mark of B Shall Be Cast Out of Society and They Shall Be Demonized Forever....

Know Ye These Laws!

understand this--the fingerprint of every major environmental factor can be found in our physiology. Rainstorms are a major environmental factor, and they have been such forever, going back many tens of millions of years. What happens in a rainstorm? Animals hunker down. Why? It is safe to do so for prey animals, and it would be unproductive to do otherwise for predators.

That history is written in our physiology, just as every major environmental factor is written in our physiology.

When I pick up a bug or a leaf or a dog or...any organism, I can see traces of that natural history written onto shape and curve of that organism's body. The dog has sharp teeth, the better to bite its prey, my dear. The leaf has a green skin, the better to turn sunlight into energy, my dear.

Of course the rainstorm has left its mark on your physiology. How could it be otherwise.

And here is the real mindblower--homo sapiens and american society and all parts of it are also part of the natural world. Political talking points and memes are quasi-organic, and their shapes tell you things about their natural history, too. Mind blown?