Good Bad Attitude

teidou writes "Paul Graham has posted a new essay titled 'Good Bad Attitude' talking about the hacker attitude toward rules and government regulation of Intellectual Property. Choice quote: "(Hackers) can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.""

Comments

Re:There is more on Earth than US

[Stridar]

>Really ?

Yes. I provided an example by showing that a disproportional number number of nobel prize winners reside in the US. As another example, take the listing of the top universities in the world . In the top 10, only Oxford exists outside of the US. In the top 25, only 6 are outside of the US. In top 100, the US holds over 50% of the slots. One of the main reasons for this is the ability for the US to draw in the best talent in science and engineering from around the world.

>You mean like stem cell research ?
>Ummm ....

Stem cell research is very active in the US. A simple google search would show you the research centers at NIH and University of Wisconsin-Madison . Even California is floating a $3billion dollar bond to support stem cell research. However, yes, the current ban on the harvesting of embroyonic stem cells is not doing much good to foster research in this area in the US.

>I've always thought it wise to actually do the thinking part *BEFORE* the speaking part.

You obviously think one way and act another.

Re:((((GROAN))))

[say]

>> look at what is happening in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, France, etc

> Stagnant economies with high unemployment? Thanks, I'll pass.

You are not very well informed. I'm from Norway, the country with the lowest unemployment rate in Europe, larger growth than the USA (last year or over the last 10 years) and (according to the UN (UNHDR 2004)) the highest standard of living in the world.

Sweden came second in UNHDI, Belgium sixth, US of A: eight.

The United States has the highest human poverty among the 17 high income OECD countries included in this year's human poverty index-2 (HPI). Source: HDR 2004.

I'd pick any of the countries instead of the US, thank you very much.

Oh, link to the facts? undp.org.