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Reminder to Dr D and Oro: Technology is forced upon us with little self-preference left to chose, if any.
Software main downside, in my view: an army of people who could not draw by hand are suddenly are “able to”. I can always tell when is one of them who did the CAD “drawing”.
Software upside: Ability for remote work.
For the sake of argument, what would have been an alternative (“plan B to break the proverbial monopoly”) to access and post on TAE?I swear you can do 9/10ths of these drawings on paper still and have no problems, more control, and less time since you fight with the software all the time.
Not necessarily true. You are cut off from the chain of professionals involved in the project. They all use Autodesk software and communication is via email and phone only. Nobody wants roll of freshly done “blueprints” of your hand drawings delivered to their door.
Also, once mastered one quickly picks on the new release of the software. Realizing of being enslaved with such Co. is the source of pain.
.tboc
Strange that you mentioned it. Just now, after the the few years break, I needed Autodesk “service” – $2,000 per year AutoCAD subscription. Ouch! Well, 1099 will shave of a third, thankfully.
What I want to point is that in mid 90’s when I took a class, the instructor would boldly tell us that we should check with “John” right after and purchase the program for $20. Probably with full nod and wink-wink by the Autodesk. That practice led to supreme dominance of the software in the tech/design industry since it seeped into every “pore” of those fields.
Once secured, internet connected subscription only commenced making all aforementioned professionals helpless and perpetually chained to newer ending stream of “new releases” which are nothing more than rearrangements of command buttons and screen set-ups.
According to Dr D and jay-bee that should not occur in the “real capitalism”. which, as a debate, is becoming tiresome.
Just for the gigs, Google for Autodesk phone number. There is none that can be located. An ultimate middle finger to beloved customers.
As for the SketchUp I was smitten as what the free 3D modeling program could do. Still have a cheep early purchased version on my old computer.Dr D
Your “victory dance” dance was nothing more than hanging dearly onto 1/64″ ledge with your nails.
I never claimed a preference to any system other than describing the vast difference between them.
Like most things in life it is “either” – “or”, but you can not have both, otherwise it becomes something else entirely.
My take (crude synopsis) from “two of you” argument is:
“Here I am driving my F-350 truck, wearing Levis 501 red tag*, heading to my 3000+ s.f. home – all earned in “covert communist/socialist system that, now, more openly communist/socialists want to take away from me! Bwhaaaa!!!
And that would never happen if we had a “real capitalism” or “parking lot”.Footnote: Levis 501 by itself, was worth a small fortune in the former Eastern Block.
Fair enough DBS. I am certain that we all are in the search of truth. My point is if someone view the world through tight wearing ideological glasses, of any kind, may have a problem for one. Lack of actual experience in something while arguing about it is borderline comical in my point of view.
Never think of Dutch person who never left Holland as an authority on Alps.DBS
My apology – I had a block-out in placing the correct English term “latter” instead of “former”. Happens to bi-lingual folks occasionally, especially after prolonged visit to native-language web sites, as in my case today.
Not that I am wrong, I think, in my assessment that you actually like to lecture, coming from most of your posts.DBS
I always had a sense but, to be sure that our discussion is on the same page, please and please confirm one more time: You LOVE to be a lecturer.Me
Sifting through all your posts I always had the sense that you like to be the former.”
You:
Indeed I do.
Me:
Dear Lord!DBS
Being lectured to is an excellent opportunity to learn all kinds of interesting useful things about both the topic and the lecturer….
Theme of my post was that people who, really, do not know the topic from all angles (red my last sentence one more time) should not discuss yet alone lecture.
Sifting through all your posts I always had the sense that you like to be the former.“NORMALIZE OF NOT HAVING AN OPINION ON THE THINGS THAT YOU AREN’T PROPERLY INFORMED ON”.
Critic of “knowing stuff” is based on wrong take that only formally educated in particular field can discuss issues of that field.
In my world, say, an Idaho farmer, who in off-season months takes time to learn just about anything about the clarinet and is himself an amateur player has “every right” (read: to be taken seriously) to discuss the instrument.
One does not wake up one morning just to find that everything about Picasso’s art falls into place or is smitten by the Shostakovitch’s or Mahler’s # ….
Visitors to the US and aside from the obvious, the next thing that they notice is that “one-particular-segment” population have an opinion on just about anything and passionately defends it. One explanation that I may have is that all comes from the “fake it until you make it” neurosis of highly competitive society.
Well, I am lectured by “the two”, who, I assume, never visited any soc/comm country lecturing me about the system.Picasso today vs Oro’s yesterday’s visual: “Art appreciation before and after the WWII”.
Dr. D: “Hmmmm….I wonder……Ooooooops!”
when I was the only one here for months slowly dragging the dial on it.”
Yeah, happens when you skip other posts. Self-inflated sense of oneself.
At least he did not include: Aaaah….Whuuuuut!….Aaaaand…..and such – for that high school cafeteria “zaz”.Quite a few of comments on this site are done by folks who enjoy “the sound of their writing”.
For those interested a brief synopsis of the video:
1. Noam explains how the “socialism” in Latin Am is made “non-functioning” by the massive imposed sanctions on the targeted country. Mere desire to have key natural resources benefiting the population of that country is labeled as ugly Soviet-style socialism all packaged in familiar wrapping paper featuring Stalin and Co. Propaganda that had a willing recipients among the 300+ mill “Duh’s”. Also. per my observation, every effort is made to portray people like the host as some kind of anomaly or “ingrown toe nail” of the Left, who covertly promote “ideas that will take (steal) your wealth” – so stay away from them. Again, works like charm in the US.
2. To my utter surprise, he gave a correct assessment of Israel, current conflict and in general.
3. As for the inequality in the USA, he did not disappoint – ideological blindness, polar opposite to some “TAE capitalists-on-duty” made him “see” all that economy improvements under the Biden-Harris admin that may be ruined by the election of Trump. However he was right on how the corporate oligarchy made sure to deny access to that “magic parking lot where working stiffs can exchange money for the speakers”.
Bujrum or bon-apetit!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRLLRzmbk6gIn the news:
Over a million doses of polio vaccine have been shipped to Israel in preparation for a mass vaccination campaign in Gaza. The vaccines are an emergency response to the first confirmed case of polio reported in Gaza last month.Going after the food industry will be uphill battle since JFK-j will be against all employed and their “paying jobs” in it. Poisons, which are mostly preservatives that extend “product’s” shelf life into infinity keeps the Co’s production and distribution costs down and “food” prices cheap that people “love and want”. Not once I watched in amazement at the supermarket or, even worse, gas station check-out what people buy to sustain them as a living organism. On the other hand, medical field has no objection to it, thus ensuring mutual co-existence.
Similar to MIC. “Bring the troops home” means destruction of “good paying jobs at home”, and in both cases means deep cut and disruption of ingrained practice and what we may call an “economy” in general.
The other one: “DRILL_BABY_DRILL….” Yeah, where at (Venezuela?) and for how long?As for the DNC.
While working on some model, I was listening to Nick Fueente’s channel where he turned the “event” into cacophony of overlapping speeches and music with very little commenting – presentation was self explanatory.Take #2 on “Americans want to move to Russia”:
Until recently you trashed “everything Slavic”, didn’t you?
Akin to washed up high school hunk whose football career went nowhere and who is stuck with equally washed up cheerleader, meeting one day an “ugly duckling” classmate whom he ignored. Not only that now she has a successful career but turned out to be strikingly beautiful woman…He’s trying to court her using cheap moves, the only one that he knows and that always worked like charm on usual suspects.@Arnold
IME, most Usians are afraid to leave the U.S. for opportunities in other countries…go figure…
Even the “thoughtful” can not accept the fact that countries and the systems that people live in are different and futile to compare – aka my elephant trunk is better than your giraffe neck.
At any foreign airport’s check-in line or gate waiting area one can hear Americans talking how “their (insert) is not like our (insert). Rarely that one can heart hem talking appreciative about the country just visited. That by itself is not not a problem and why bother with ignoramus if it does’t bear the stealth seed of population’s acceptance of “bringing democracy to those countries”.Martenson label Kamala La-la and the Wizard of Walz as outright Marxists and Communist
Imagine likes of Kamala contributing, in any even the minuscule way, in defending the gates of Leningrad or Stalingrad – which, mostly, comm/marxists did. Modern Russia is not ashamed of that glorious past, quite the contrary.
Imagine Kamala-like enduring the most brutal torture by the Nazis, being caught as a commie/partisan on the battlefields of Europe.
“That part of liberation narrative” is muted and “ignored” by the West in some weird pretend game.
All kinds of “isms” marching on on this planet – the only constant.The election is not going to be stolen, it has been bought just like monitors in a parking lot.
Few hundred $ exchange (if that) is the proof that “capitalism works”, by TAE resident “capitalist” (with no pot to piss in).
In ancient times, under the different poli/eco systems, people did exchange goods for the money but did not call is a capitalism. Many times that exchange was, often, under the “duress”, if you know what I mean.
By his (and some others too) “philosophy” Russia should ave been non-existent today (aka nothing works in soc), and yet….Power that Russia has today is derived, in part, from the previous system that they lived under.From me, “the one uncapable of serious discussion”.
They want the lithium.
And current gov of Serbia gave it to them.
So, to clarify, rather the opposition to president Vucic are the ones who want to prevent Rio Tinto from “digging”.
Massive demonstration was held in Belgrade today, but not the type of what the article above may suggest.When I saw the pictures of the opening ceremony I didn’t think of the last supper, I thought of Bacchus
Surround in the opening ceremony does not match.
Dance like none is watching
Father of J. Fox’s character dancing by himself in the “Back to the future”
….there was that Nike video glorifying malignant narc-sociopath traits, and you brought in Ayn Rand.
I could not resist. Her writing about Rearden metal producer, Dagny and that Argentinian guy…all extremely wealthy and who are an epitome of self-centered narcissism, drawn together with the rest of humanity as just a grey background extras. OK, hard working engineer, Galt was promised, as memory suits me, a elevated position in their new enterprise.
Not sure what is “wrong” by drawing such parallel?I dislike Ayn Rand as much ….
That’s news to me!
As always, our “discussion” leads to nowhere. Two night trains passing by at opposite directions on some provincial station.
When you’re not projecting yourself onto Ayn Rand, you’re projecting your own idea of how things work.
Out of hundreds of clients in my career I had only one who, while making a coffee before the meeting, was asking me:
“What is the amount that I cam write on the check today?”.
All the others enjoyed the pause before me asking for the progress payment.
Without saying, the former was not the wealthiest.
We all have one life to live!…..by doing something or making something that others would WILLINGLY part with money in exchange for….
How is fair exchange for your service and whatever talent you have, going so far in your life?
Disruptive Commies stepped in recently or was it the case all along?Russians should make next gen of anti-ship missiles named after John McCain.
The entire city, Washington DC, capable of pretending that ‘everything is normal” and providing services for the mulling clowns that we think that represent us.
He’s expertly – actually expertly, which is so rare these days – saved thousands from deaths of despair, saved millions from lives of frustration and despair.
Thus my puzzlement. An intellectual, turned into clown. His “12 rules” should be the mandatory reading in the high school curriculum.
And yet, he can share the table full of food with the Bibi and that squealing prick Shapiro?
According to Nick Fuentes he and his “teammate” daughter are promoting an idea that all folks that comment on the internet must be registered with their true identity for everybody to see!?!?We may admit that Trump is kind of weird, but not in a way media wants to project on us.
Now, Jordan Peterson, an intellectual turned into real clown with that jacket that he’s wearing is a weirdo of first order.Sound of clomp, clomp, clomp…. along the linden tree lined alley of side-blinded horses pulling the ideological carriage.
Sometimes tiresome!Maduro Declared Venezuelan President For 3rd Term, But Opposition Claims Victory In ‘Stolen’ Election
Almost decade long, borderline sick “excitement” about other country’s internal affair? As if your job, mortgage, car payment or even life of your dear ones depends if Venezuela goes “one way or another” ideologically?
If you scroll down on the zerosum’s linked ZH text there is, well, post on “X” by Aaron Mate that gives different perspective on the country. Trump himself stated that US should cut the crap, move in and take the oil.
Should we not have economic sanctions on the country, include Cuba too, that we are ” now ideologically aligned” with? I guess I am late into the game of “current Marxism”.Real Socialism has never been tried
Most people in the former Eastern block admitted to themselves that it was a failed experiment long ago and moved on just have likes of Jay-bee and Dr D latch on it without letting go.
For the life of me trying to remember where in the world Marx had written that one nice day multinational corporations will relinquish their power, call themselves a “new communists” and have all that they worked so hard to acquire nationalized and their wealth distributed among unwashed masses as Oro so proudly posted above.
I see so many hard-ons just posting old communist slogans!
We live in the world of diminishing natural resources that moneyed power elite wants to keep for themselves. Controlled, ever smaller “distribution” is a result of thatt and not of “….according to their needs”, that make your dicks all alive since all your lives you’ve been told when things go bad – it must be a communism.we disagree that it is/isn’t happening OR that it is happening but isn’t what it seems?
Jay-bee
In art I “can tell” if the expressive splash or whoosh by the painter’s brush is “good-right” or “bad-wrong”, after the few minutes of observation.
As for the dally existence – I am sort of simpleton.
If it does not look, walk or quack like duck it ain’t duck. I know socialism.
