i'm not up on right wing american talk radio slang, so forgive me but, what is 'judical theft'? Does it mean that it is well reasoned and fair theft that is in the best interest of society?
The problem with owning a song or book is that it fails to recognize the fact that the artist did not create something ex nihilo. Each artist is bequethed a heritage of material and inspiration from those who have come before, kinda like scientists. They then make their contributions and it is passed onto the next generation. For example, Shakespeare took his story ideas from other authors and many subsequent authors have used him for source material.
IMo, you cant own information anymore then you can own your children. And trying to circumvent this self-evident truism only hinders growth, be it spiritual, economic, or scientific.
R & D sandboxing. The MS reasearch program is a business program, not an intellectual one. A truly innovate and unfettered research environment cannot co-exist with an established hegemony, because unfettered innovation causes destablization. Such internecine projects do not exist in modern global coporations.
The average know it all/. poster sees himself as possessing ultimate knowlege of what's in other minds and has a funhouse mirror view of the world. Thus everything government does is bad and everything business does is good.
Voip is NOT free...Lets not forget that to use VOIP you need access to a computer and a fast internet connection. This fits the profile of what percentage of Indians?
And, btw, legislators (senators/congresspeople/MP's/etc) that make laws. Bureaucrats are just government employees. And if your advocating killing duly elected representatives...well you just sound stupid. And I'm being charitable when I write that.
Great post, and the real reason behind the so called free-trade. I would also add, "lucky enough to live in a country that protects environmental conditions." has anyone been to the smelly sh1t hole that is China?
The point is, google has no power over me. Either as a user of their free services or a purchaser of their ads. That is not true about microsoft.
and its not about 'character'. All corporations are souless abstractions designed to produce profit. Its about whether a company's leadership have been proven to engage in illegal activities without remorse in order to make more money. If they have, they deserve a different category.
But if you want to use character analogies, then its like this: person A is a remorseless convicted criminal. person B has never had any trouble with the law. If I am looking at moral or ethical categories, chances are pretty good they will fall in different ones. I.e., they will be categorically different people.
I could advertise through different channels and reach the same eyeballs. I have $X ad dollars earmarked for the internet to spend to reach Demo Y. Do I have to give google my X to reach y? Of course not, so where is google's power over me? No power, no potential to abuse, no potential to abuse, then whatever monopoly they have is inconsequential to the health of our society.
That is NOT the case with microsoft.
I took the liberty of editing your last 2 sentance:
"If you have that much of the market captured, AND you leverage it to get placement for your OTHER services in order to MURDER your competion, ELIMINATE consumer choice, FORBID new market entries, STRANGULATE innovation, and drive prices up - you are manipulating a monopoly unfairly. Almost no one with any political power complained when MS was doing it with IE and Office, and now people are being duped into believing Goggle is doing it in order to make microsoft's ethos look less psychopathic and damaging to the human condition.
Its not that hard to customize your google experience. Proxomitron anyone? I haven't seen a google ad in my search results for years.
& a company that is a convicted prdatory monopolist is categorically different from a company that has a large market share and has NOT been convicted of anything.
Everyone you've talked to? And how many people is that? Yeah, here in canada FREE UNIVERSAL healthcare that is avaiable to anyone in need is something those damned socialists are forcing down our throats. Oh I yearn for the days when people wouldn't take their kids to the doctor/hospital because they didn't have insurance. Oh the good old days, when losing one's job also meant losing ones health.
why stop at medicine...Public shools are for the weak! Public Libraries make pussy out of our kids! Get rid of public health inspectors! And don't get me started on socialized police forces and armies! Those bastards are just sucking at the government's teat.
And fyi, socialized medicine is a benefit to the market economy. Just ask the authors of the GM study that recommended moving production OUT of the us and into canada because the cost of health care for current and retired us employees is too burdensome.
That's in part due to the massive overhead the private insurance system has to have. And the fact that a large percentage of health care generated income gets plowed into advertising and marketing. It's a wasteful system.
Go ask a journalist major on what they want to do with their carreer, they are more then likely tell you they want to bring social justice to the world. Which of course is not what a journalist should be doing.
Hey Kreskin, heres a thought, Maybe you don't know what goes on in other people's heads or what motivates them and if thats true, then making vast generalizations about a huge and diverse group of people is assinine.
As an alternative thesis: Go ask a journalist major on what they want to do with their carreer, they are more then likely to tell you "Make tons of cash and travel to cool places by Working at one of the three or four remaining corporate news outlets. I plan on writing piecies that won't alienate the consumer or the advertiser or the company that signes my checks."
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Although, personally I find Calgary 2 fuc|ing cold....I thought it was going to be about the new ms recruitment drive.
i'm not up on right wing american talk radio slang, so forgive me but, what is 'judical theft'? Does it mean that it is well reasoned and fair theft that is in the best interest of society?
The problem with owning a song or book is that it fails to recognize the fact that the artist did not create something ex nihilo. Each artist is bequethed a heritage of material and inspiration from those who have come before, kinda like scientists. They then make their contributions and it is passed onto the next generation. For example, Shakespeare took his story ideas from other authors and many subsequent authors have used him for source material.
IMo, you cant own information anymore then you can own your children. And trying to circumvent this self-evident truism only hinders growth, be it spiritual, economic, or scientific.
It depends what Mr. Satan wants in return...my children? my brain? make me work in a chinese walmart factory?
Seriously, your parents did a wonderful job.
R & D sandboxing. The MS reasearch program is a business program, not an intellectual one. A truly innovate and unfettered research environment cannot co-exist with an established hegemony, because unfettered innovation causes destablization. Such internecine projects do not exist in modern global coporations.
Yea, what they did to formula one...ack! BBC rox.
& why its the ultimate dream of so many to work for microsoft. no joke.
The average know it all /. poster sees himself as possessing ultimate knowlege of what's in other minds and has a funhouse mirror view of the world. Thus everything government does is bad and everything business does is good.
Voip is NOT free...Lets not forget that to use VOIP you need access to a computer and a fast internet connection. This fits the profile of what percentage of Indians?
And, btw, legislators (senators/congresspeople/MP's/etc) that make laws. Bureaucrats are just government employees. And if your advocating killing duly elected representatives...well you just sound stupid. And I'm being charitable when I write that.
Great post, and the real reason behind the so called free-trade. I would also add, "lucky enough to live in a country that protects environmental conditions." has anyone been to the smelly sh1t hole that is China?
Lonely, emotionally troubled males aged 16-45 [with way too much access to broadband porn] aren't exactly rare.
and its not about 'character'. All corporations are souless abstractions designed to produce profit. Its about whether a company's leadership have been proven to engage in illegal activities without remorse in order to make more money. If they have, they deserve a different category.
But if you want to use character analogies, then its like this: person A is a remorseless convicted criminal. person B has never had any trouble with the law. If I am looking at moral or ethical categories, chances are pretty good they will fall in different ones. I.e., they will be categorically different people.I could advertise through different channels and reach the same eyeballs. I have $X ad dollars earmarked for the internet to spend to reach Demo Y. Do I have to give google my X to reach y? Of course not, so where is google's power over me? No power, no potential to abuse, no potential to abuse, then whatever monopoly they have is inconsequential to the health of our society.
That is NOT the case with microsoft.
I took the liberty of editing your last 2 sentance:
Sound OK?& a company that is a convicted prdatory monopolist is categorically different from a company that has a large market share and has NOT been convicted of anything.
Everyone you've talked to? And how many people is that? Yeah, here in canada FREE UNIVERSAL healthcare that is avaiable to anyone in need is something those damned socialists are forcing down our throats. Oh I yearn for the days when people wouldn't take their kids to the doctor/hospital because they didn't have insurance. Oh the good old days, when losing one's job also meant losing ones health.
why stop at medicine...Public shools are for the weak! Public Libraries make pussy out of our kids! Get rid of public health inspectors! And don't get me started on socialized police forces and armies! Those bastards are just sucking at the government's teat.
And fyi, socialized medicine is a benefit to the market economy. Just ask the authors of the GM study that recommended moving production OUT of the us and into canada because the cost of health care for current and retired us employees is too burdensome.
That's in part due to the massive overhead the private insurance system has to have. And the fact that a large percentage of health care generated income gets plowed into advertising and marketing. It's a wasteful system.
Hey Kreskin, heres a thought, Maybe you don't know what goes on in other people's heads or what motivates them and if thats true, then making vast generalizations about a huge and diverse group of people is assinine.
As an alternative thesis: Go ask a journalist major on what they want to do with their carreer, they are more then likely to tell you "Make tons of cash and travel to cool places by Working at one of the three or four remaining corporate news outlets. I plan on writing piecies that won't alienate the consumer or the advertiser or the company that signes my checks."
You give these people too much credit.