This is just a hunch but if you are the kind to remotely administer your systems, you would also be the kind to want an open phone platform. I'm guessing openmoko is right up your alley.
Well, you and I can agree on a lot of things. I do agree with you on most points. I disagree with a blanket stance of no copyrights and patents. I do agree with the stance of no copyrights or patents for companies. Maybe some of my confusion resulted because I didn't make your link of Capitalism to the current US economic system which I consider a form of Soft Fascism. When your argument is phrase d as such, I see the merit in it.
But I just have one question. Free exchange of labor is one thing, but what kind of value do you place on the engineers and their work and ideas that makes the labor profitable? This is the main problem that I have with the current setup. It used to be that the smart people who actually came up with the ideas used to be the owners. Now the people who really do the hard thinking in a company no longer steer the companies direction. Instead you have people (the current minority of owners) who have little idea how to make their product top to bottom in charge of the company and making decisions for both the engineering and labor devisions of the company. That's the issue I have. Which I believe is not antithetical to your stance.
I see your point and agree.
But when you look at the principle of it all, I see protection of individual's inalienable rights and the restraint of government power as two sides of the same apple.
I'd say the government is the problem in your assessment then, wouldn't you? If there is no 'free' money then people have to work properly instead of gaming the system.
The reason that workers get skimmed is because they don't want think, they just want to be told what to do. If a person doesn't think for themselves, they are going to get skimmed because they aren't taking responsibility for them-self, and some one is bound to take advantage of that.
A couple of things.
1. The purpose of the constitution was to protect the rights of the individual from the tyranny of the majority.
2. Violating the constitution is against the law. There should be a trial. But if some legislators were to come and deprive me of any of my rights, you damn right there will be violence. The government depriving anything from me is tantamount to forcing me to choose between doing what is right and violence done against me by the state.
3. They started this, I wouldn't be pissed off if they had just left me alone to live freely. But they had to take the money that I work for, as if they owned 25% of my worth as a human being. Now they want to take my rights to do something about it.
That's not how wind power works out here in the mid-west. My friend looked into it (he has an old windmill on his property and thought he might as well replace it with something functional) and he said he would only get paid about 1/3 of the rate that we pay the energy company. <rant>Maybe NPR was taking an average of all states and since there are probably more blue states than there are red states, it would make sense. Although come to think of it the state I live in is a blue state at the moment... Oh well give it time, I love government mandates. </rant>
What a company seems like to shareholders and what those in the industry actually know about the company are generally different, other wise the shareholders would be in the industry making money instead of making bets on the stock market.
Don't forget that Apple is working so closely with Google these days, the two of them are creating a formidable presence in the mobile device world.
I don't know how you linked these together exactly. The first one may be true (I'm actually curious if you have a link) while the second one is very true with the iPhone and Android, but I see these as somewhat competing platforms. Although the iPhone is more of a luxury/status product and the Android platform is more of a commodity...
But why link those two statements together? Show us the dirt!
Regardless of its stage in development, if I were a paying $300 for an OS I would expect something as stable as Linux, not something as stable as Vista.
I run Debian testing on my laptop. It's been more stable than my friends Vista install and I update everyday.
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If it can run a desktop environment I'd say you can use it just fine
This is just a hunch but if you are the kind to remotely administer your systems, you would also be the kind to want an open phone platform. I'm guessing openmoko is right up your alley.
Well, you and I can agree on a lot of things. I do agree with you on most points. I disagree with a blanket stance of no copyrights and patents. I do agree with the stance of no copyrights or patents for companies. Maybe some of my confusion resulted because I didn't make your link of Capitalism to the current US economic system which I consider a form of Soft Fascism. When your argument is phrase d as such, I see the merit in it.
But I just have one question. Free exchange of labor is one thing, but what kind of value do you place on the engineers and their work and ideas that makes the labor profitable? This is the main problem that I have with the current setup. It used to be that the smart people who actually came up with the ideas used to be the owners. Now the people who really do the hard thinking in a company no longer steer the companies direction. Instead you have people (the current minority of owners) who have little idea how to make their product top to bottom in charge of the company and making decisions for both the engineering and labor devisions of the company. That's the issue I have. Which I believe is not antithetical to your stance.
My apologies for the non sequitur.
China called, They said that they want to make the world in to a utopia that looks like this
I see your point and agree.
But when you look at the principle of it all, I see protection of individual's inalienable rights and the restraint of government power as two sides of the same apple.
Don't forget cell phones.
I'd say the government is the problem in your assessment then, wouldn't you? If there is no 'free' money then people have to work properly instead of gaming the system.
The reason that workers get skimmed is because they don't want think, they just want to be told what to do. If a person doesn't think for themselves, they are going to get skimmed because they aren't taking responsibility for them-self, and some one is bound to take advantage of that.
A couple of things.
1. The purpose of the constitution was to protect the rights of the individual from the tyranny of the majority.
2. Violating the constitution is against the law. There should be a trial. But if some legislators were to come and deprive me of any of my rights, you damn right there will be violence. The government depriving anything from me is tantamount to forcing me to choose between doing what is right and violence done against me by the state.
3. They started this, I wouldn't be pissed off if they had just left me alone to live freely. But they had to take the money that I work for, as if they owned 25% of my worth as a human being. Now they want to take my rights to do something about it.
No. He is a moocher. The real Capitalist is the people at Yahoo because they know they can (and do) make a better products than Microsoft.
If I knew I made a better product that my competitor why the hell would I sell out to him?
True but you would still need to find the source or decompile it. I'm willing to bet DRM measures would shoot through the roof if copyright went away.
So Mr. AC are you going to follow me around on every post and try to troll using homophobic speech?
That's a pretty good description of what they are trying to do Citizen's Rights.
That's not how wind power works out here in the mid-west. My friend looked into it (he has an old windmill on his property and thought he might as well replace it with something functional) and he said he would only get paid about 1/3 of the rate that we pay the energy company.
<rant>Maybe NPR was taking an average of all states and since there are probably more blue states than there are red states, it would make sense. Although come to think of it the state I live in is a blue state at the moment... Oh well give it time, I love government mandates. </rant>
I think Hugh Jackman would be a better fit.
What a company seems like to shareholders and what those in the industry actually know about the company are generally different, other wise the shareholders would be in the industry making money instead of making bets on the stock market.
I don't know how you linked these together exactly. The first one may be true (I'm actually curious if you have a link) while the second one is very true with the iPhone and Android, but I see these as somewhat competing platforms. Although the iPhone is more of a luxury/status product and the Android platform is more of a commodity...
But why link those two statements together? Show us the dirt!
Very astute observation.
That's like a +1 Insightful, +1 Funny, +1 just plain sad because it's so damn true.
This is offtopic...
Massive game of old school table top BattleTech.
Or a Networked game of BattleTech
If every year is "the year of Linux on the desktop" I don't see how that's a bad thing...
Haven't you heard of the phrase "There is no sense in polishing a turd"
Regardless of its stage in development, if I were a paying $300 for an OS I would expect something as stable as Linux, not something as stable as Vista. I run Debian testing on my laptop. It's been more stable than my friends Vista install and I update everyday.