The main reason why capitalism works infinitely better than socialism is that capitalism exploits the greed inherent in human beings whereas socialism forces people at penalty of hard labor, inprisonment, execution or all of the above to work for the "greater good" of society. Offering the chance of a life of luxury is a much better way to get something done than sticking an AK-47 to someone's head and telling them to build a car or house.
I'm stuck with Goodlatte. I tried talking to him after the "townhall" meeting he hosted in Harrisonburg, VA and he instantly said that anyone against it believes in copyright infringement (believe me, I'm not quoting him exactly... I'm putting a lot of sugar-coating on what he really said!). He claims to be one of the guys behind the DMCA. How's that for you? Your congressman is one of the guys who not only drafted it, but also is PROUD of it!!!!!!
Ranting and raving aside I would like to see more people come out against it and be called communists. I believe in quite little corporate regulation with the exception of four areas: minimum wage and associated legislation, environmental regulation, lemon laws and the like and of course no corporate/labor union contributions to politics, etc. Yet people like my congressman don't want to see that I am far more capitalist than they. In fact I think it scares them.
I think it all comes down to this simple concept: the majority strongly support copyright law, just not strong copyright law. People should get paid for their artistic works, but people... the notes from the founding fathers are in the public domain... they give us a clear and succint idea of what they intended copyright to be and what we have is almost 180 degrees away from what they intended!
''I'm an American, I believe in the American Way,'' he said. ''I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat.''
People like Allachin sicken me. I plan to serve in either the Army or the Navy after college and willing to die in defense of this country if need be. Yet I almost completely abhor Microsoft-the-institution, Microsoft-the-products and above all else, Microsoft-the-business-model. I believe that our country's IP laws are treasonous to the values of the American revolution and that anyone that supports the DMCA and the like is equally a traitor to the spirit of the revolution and the United States Constitution. These companies know that in a free market they can't make a honest buck. Allachin and his fellow big government stooges at Microsoft are just pissed off because within a year or so, RedHat will cut a profit and so will perhaps other open source companies. That is what they fear the most, the vindication of the open source ideal that freedom of speech/ownership of software and profit are NOT mutually exclusive.
So Allachin or however you spell it, I have one thing to say about your comments about the dangers of OSS... don't talk to me about patriotism. You don't know what real patriotism is. It isn't loyalty to a bloated corporate burearcracy, it is loyalty to an ideal that forms the basis of the best nation ever created by Homo Sapiens. The loyalty to the ideal that each man and woman is free to live a peaceful, productive life, without people like you micromanaging them. To me, OSS is the epitomy of that ideal and a government which doesn't at least start planning the implementation of OSS-based systems is not a government that has any claim to calling itself the government of a free people!!!
The Bill of Rights has been in many cases been applied to state governments through the 14th amendment. The local governments have NO (emphasis on NO!!) rights whatsoever in the United States Constitution. All local governments exist as corporations created by the state governments and thus they are totally under the jurisidiction of the state government. With that in mind you cannot be forced constitutionally into giving up your rights established by the Bill of Rights by any government agency unless in time of "rebellion or insurrection" (ie when martial law has to be declared). Even then it must be the federal government that does it of course. In other words the state and local schools of all levels that do this kind of stuff are doing it on very shaky constitutional grounds because in the case of k-12 schoolin it is compulsory unless your parents pull you out of the system (which isn't the easiest thing to do). At universities that require freshmen to live on campus in order to be students, the same principle essentially applies to a lesser degree because you don't have to go to college under state/local law. My solution is to talk to some local attorneys or civil rights groups and see if they would like to try a case like that if you get into trouble. IANAL, but I think your university is in some seriously dangerous legal waters if it acts too arbitrarily.
It is your computer, not theirs. Run whatever OS you want on it. If it can't connect and function on their network, it's your problem. However it can then it is your right to use it on the network. Linux/non-major corp OS users should not resort to begging for permission.
I don't know much about the differences between what the enterprise needs and what the low end needs, but wouldn't developing for more highend hardware help the low end? Eventually having dual processors will be the norm so wouldn't developing for multi-processor systems and the like actually help the future lowend market?
and I have a 4.2 GPA and play my DC a lot. I don't see how or why people want to lump all gamers into the same category. It's just the same attitude that made racism so prevalent in this country in the 60s and earlier
I'm in the process of starting a website devoted towards libertarianism, including things such as the near abolition of the patent system. Could you tell me what I'll need to do to keep them from indexing my site?
This just in: Unisys corp has just filed suit against Imagine Media for not paying the patent licensing fee for the usage of gifs to display the nintendo lawsuit documents.
In related news the wankers, we mean workers, at ZiffDavis have heaved a sigh of relief now that their only real competition is being sued and their mediocre products such as PC World might actually sell if Imagine Media's magazines including MaximumPC are taken off the shelf.
"Like MP3, mp3PRO will be open and available for licensing."
seems to me like the media whores didn't read what they were about to publish.How can something be open on one hand and require licensing on the other?!
The RIAA/MPAA would be hard pressed to argue that an entire operating system is a circumvention device. That would be political suicide for them because they would lose any popular support they have.
The real solution is just to ban copy protection schemes. You don't need them to "protect" copyrighted materials, that's why we have copyright laws!!!
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Well if white racism is so bad (yes I know you're playing devil's advocate) then why don't minorities take the moral high ground and be quite the opposite? The truest white racism is the attitude coming from the liberal establishment that says that minorities shouldn't have to meet the same strict requirements that whites do for things like school and employment. Frankly I must say the modern liberal establishment reeks of the old white man's burden rhetoric.
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It is a sad state of affairs when "nazi" music is attacked but racist music, much of which is gangsta rap isn't. We are sending a bad message to people that could end up being racists: if you're white it is evil, if you're non-white it is just racial pride. But as was pointed out, banning makes it taboo and humans LOVE taboos. All of this makes as much sense as sticking a light outside in an attempt to drive insects away.
but wasn't John Carmack's main beef with Linux (other than horrendous sales) that he and his crew had to constantly test with each kernel revision? If that is true then wouldn't the same caveat apply to the Amiga platform? Just a thought.
Most of the telecos are moving to being the all-in-one-ISP-bandwidth/services-provider. Pretty soon I think it'll just be a given that VoIP is just another ISP (as in Earthlink, MindSpring, AOL, your local ISP, etc) service and you might only see a slight fee hike to cover the additional bandwidth. The telecos will realize that the real money will be in being the guys that wire the net together, not in the individual, smaller services like VoIP, email, web access, etc.
"In the UK income Tax is only ~22%-34%, low compared to the US's 45%)."
As a part time job to get some extra spending money, my mom used to do taxes and she says that if you do your taxes right, in the US you can easily get your federal income tax down to 15%. I want to know where you got those #'s from...
"The Next Big Thing isn't biotech. Or nanotech. It's robotech"
WOAH!!! You mean soon I'll be able to fight Zentradi and Invid goons in my very own Veritech fighter?!
between being business friendly and having corporate America pull out of Europe in disgust over obnoxious bullshit like this. Harry Browne was correct when he said that the software industry has done a fine job at creating its own protection schemes, so let's now force the music/movie industries to do the same (ie no major government help in protecting content).
It is obvious that without copyright laws we'd be screwed, even free software depends on copyright afterall, do we want Microsoft claiming credit for Linux (which they could legally do without copyright laws)? I just think that the music industry would be better off if it stopped this idiocy. Seemingly magnanimous acts like helping get better sound technologies availible for free (as in speech) and being very liberal about cd duplication would jack up the respectability of the music industry. In the end I do believe it would make people feel a bit guilty for not buying the real McCoy's.
Why should an international organization like the WHO which is not beholden to the people of the world be allowed to regulate? I say let each country decide how it will or will not regulate. The UN (the WHO is a UN agency) smacks of elitism more than anything else. They don't trust the popularly elected democratic governments in the west to run their countries and internet access.
"It's a much bigger market than those who have a proprietary piece of hardware."
WRONG! The PSX alone has sold around 80,000,000 units. Then we look at the N64 which has probably sold close to that many as well. Even if there are 500-600,000,000 PC users worldwide I would be very surprised if gamers accounted for more than at best 2-3% of the PC userbase.
Don't lump all christians into the fundamentalist, fire-and-brimstone category. There are those christians such as myself that take a mystical approach to christianity which places emphasis on God-as-a-friend and not on God-as-a-master. Also don't kid yourself into thinking that most will find spirituality in the net. I for one find it ludicrous that many people will find anything spritual about it because it is just a large network. People deep down inside need a higher power of some kind, some need a fire-and-brimstone god, some need a loving and friendly god that doesn't judge, some need many gods.
Does anyone think in 200 years time we will still be living in a capitalist society (serious question)"
Does anyone think that at the rate that you socialists keep regulating the people of this world that anything other than a total collapse or world war 3 will happen in the next 200 years? (serious question)
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The main reason why capitalism works infinitely better than socialism is that capitalism exploits the greed inherent in human beings whereas socialism forces people at penalty of hard labor, inprisonment, execution or all of the above to work for the "greater good" of society. Offering the chance of a life of luxury is a much better way to get something done than sticking an AK-47 to someone's head and telling them to build a car or house.
I'm stuck with Goodlatte. I tried talking to him after the "townhall" meeting he hosted in Harrisonburg, VA and he instantly said that anyone against it believes in copyright infringement (believe me, I'm not quoting him exactly... I'm putting a lot of sugar-coating on what he really said!). He claims to be one of the guys behind the DMCA. How's that for you? Your congressman is one of the guys who not only drafted it, but also is PROUD of it!!!!!! Ranting and raving aside I would like to see more people come out against it and be called communists. I believe in quite little corporate regulation with the exception of four areas: minimum wage and associated legislation, environmental regulation, lemon laws and the like and of course no corporate/labor union contributions to politics, etc. Yet people like my congressman don't want to see that I am far more capitalist than they. In fact I think it scares them. I think it all comes down to this simple concept: the majority strongly support copyright law, just not strong copyright law. People should get paid for their artistic works, but people... the notes from the founding fathers are in the public domain... they give us a clear and succint idea of what they intended copyright to be and what we have is almost 180 degrees away from what they intended!
No kidding but if you don't have ideals then what kind of government will you have?
''I'm an American, I believe in the American Way,'' he said. ''I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat.'' People like Allachin sicken me. I plan to serve in either the Army or the Navy after college and willing to die in defense of this country if need be. Yet I almost completely abhor Microsoft-the-institution, Microsoft-the-products and above all else, Microsoft-the-business-model. I believe that our country's IP laws are treasonous to the values of the American revolution and that anyone that supports the DMCA and the like is equally a traitor to the spirit of the revolution and the United States Constitution. These companies know that in a free market they can't make a honest buck. Allachin and his fellow big government stooges at Microsoft are just pissed off because within a year or so, RedHat will cut a profit and so will perhaps other open source companies. That is what they fear the most, the vindication of the open source ideal that freedom of speech/ownership of software and profit are NOT mutually exclusive. So Allachin or however you spell it, I have one thing to say about your comments about the dangers of OSS... don't talk to me about patriotism. You don't know what real patriotism is. It isn't loyalty to a bloated corporate burearcracy, it is loyalty to an ideal that forms the basis of the best nation ever created by Homo Sapiens. The loyalty to the ideal that each man and woman is free to live a peaceful, productive life, without people like you micromanaging them. To me, OSS is the epitomy of that ideal and a government which doesn't at least start planning the implementation of OSS-based systems is not a government that has any claim to calling itself the government of a free people!!!
The Bill of Rights has been in many cases been applied to state governments through the 14th amendment. The local governments have NO (emphasis on NO!!) rights whatsoever in the United States Constitution. All local governments exist as corporations created by the state governments and thus they are totally under the jurisidiction of the state government. With that in mind you cannot be forced constitutionally into giving up your rights established by the Bill of Rights by any government agency unless in time of "rebellion or insurrection" (ie when martial law has to be declared). Even then it must be the federal government that does it of course. In other words the state and local schools of all levels that do this kind of stuff are doing it on very shaky constitutional grounds because in the case of k-12 schoolin it is compulsory unless your parents pull you out of the system (which isn't the easiest thing to do). At universities that require freshmen to live on campus in order to be students, the same principle essentially applies to a lesser degree because you don't have to go to college under state/local law. My solution is to talk to some local attorneys or civil rights groups and see if they would like to try a case like that if you get into trouble. IANAL, but I think your university is in some seriously dangerous legal waters if it acts too arbitrarily.
It is your computer, not theirs. Run whatever OS you want on it. If it can't connect and function on their network, it's your problem. However it can then it is your right to use it on the network. Linux/non-major corp OS users should not resort to begging for permission.
I don't know much about the differences between what the enterprise needs and what the low end needs, but wouldn't developing for more highend hardware help the low end? Eventually having dual processors will be the norm so wouldn't developing for multi-processor systems and the like actually help the future lowend market?
and I have a 4.2 GPA and play my DC a lot. I don't see how or why people want to lump all gamers into the same category. It's just the same attitude that made racism so prevalent in this country in the 60s and earlier
I'm in the process of starting a website devoted towards libertarianism, including things such as the near abolition of the patent system. Could you tell me what I'll need to do to keep them from indexing my site?
This just in: Unisys corp has just filed suit against Imagine Media for not paying the patent licensing fee for the usage of gifs to display the nintendo lawsuit documents. In related news the wankers, we mean workers, at ZiffDavis have heaved a sigh of relief now that their only real competition is being sued and their mediocre products such as PC World might actually sell if Imagine Media's magazines including MaximumPC are taken off the shelf.
"Like MP3, mp3PRO will be open and available for licensing." seems to me like the media whores didn't read what they were about to publish.How can something be open on one hand and require licensing on the other?!
"It can make for rather interesting political issues" The balkans of North America.... nuff said....
The RIAA/MPAA would be hard pressed to argue that an entire operating system is a circumvention device. That would be political suicide for them because they would lose any popular support they have. The real solution is just to ban copy protection schemes. You don't need them to "protect" copyrighted materials, that's why we have copyright laws!!!
Well if white racism is so bad (yes I know you're playing devil's advocate) then why don't minorities take the moral high ground and be quite the opposite? The truest white racism is the attitude coming from the liberal establishment that says that minorities shouldn't have to meet the same strict requirements that whites do for things like school and employment. Frankly I must say the modern liberal establishment reeks of the old white man's burden rhetoric.
It is a sad state of affairs when "nazi" music is attacked but racist music, much of which is gangsta rap isn't. We are sending a bad message to people that could end up being racists: if you're white it is evil, if you're non-white it is just racial pride. But as was pointed out, banning makes it taboo and humans LOVE taboos. All of this makes as much sense as sticking a light outside in an attempt to drive insects away.
but wasn't John Carmack's main beef with Linux (other than horrendous sales) that he and his crew had to constantly test with each kernel revision? If that is true then wouldn't the same caveat apply to the Amiga platform? Just a thought.
Most of the telecos are moving to being the all-in-one-ISP-bandwidth/services-provider. Pretty soon I think it'll just be a given that VoIP is just another ISP (as in Earthlink, MindSpring, AOL, your local ISP, etc) service and you might only see a slight fee hike to cover the additional bandwidth. The telecos will realize that the real money will be in being the guys that wire the net together, not in the individual, smaller services like VoIP, email, web access, etc.
"In the UK income Tax is only ~22%-34%, low compared to the US's 45%)." As a part time job to get some extra spending money, my mom used to do taxes and she says that if you do your taxes right, in the US you can easily get your federal income tax down to 15%. I want to know where you got those #'s from...
"The Next Big Thing isn't biotech. Or nanotech. It's robotech" WOAH!!! You mean soon I'll be able to fight Zentradi and Invid goons in my very own Veritech fighter?!
between being business friendly and having corporate America pull out of Europe in disgust over obnoxious bullshit like this. Harry Browne was correct when he said that the software industry has done a fine job at creating its own protection schemes, so let's now force the music/movie industries to do the same (ie no major government help in protecting content). It is obvious that without copyright laws we'd be screwed, even free software depends on copyright afterall, do we want Microsoft claiming credit for Linux (which they could legally do without copyright laws)? I just think that the music industry would be better off if it stopped this idiocy. Seemingly magnanimous acts like helping get better sound technologies availible for free (as in speech) and being very liberal about cd duplication would jack up the respectability of the music industry. In the end I do believe it would make people feel a bit guilty for not buying the real McCoy's.
Why should an international organization like the WHO which is not beholden to the people of the world be allowed to regulate? I say let each country decide how it will or will not regulate. The UN (the WHO is a UN agency) smacks of elitism more than anything else. They don't trust the popularly elected democratic governments in the west to run their countries and internet access.
....it will delay access to fiber optics networks until they are wiretappable and it will make them have to provide wiretaps for the police.
"It's a much bigger market than those who have a proprietary piece of hardware." WRONG! The PSX alone has sold around 80,000,000 units. Then we look at the N64 which has probably sold close to that many as well. Even if there are 500-600,000,000 PC users worldwide I would be very surprised if gamers accounted for more than at best 2-3% of the PC userbase.
Don't lump all christians into the fundamentalist, fire-and-brimstone category. There are those christians such as myself that take a mystical approach to christianity which places emphasis on God-as-a-friend and not on God-as-a-master. Also don't kid yourself into thinking that most will find spirituality in the net. I for one find it ludicrous that many people will find anything spritual about it because it is just a large network. People deep down inside need a higher power of some kind, some need a fire-and-brimstone god, some need a loving and friendly god that doesn't judge, some need many gods.
Does anyone think in 200 years time we will still be living in a capitalist society (serious question)" Does anyone think that at the rate that you socialists keep regulating the people of this world that anything other than a total collapse or world war 3 will happen in the next 200 years? (serious question)