Toys are protected by the "Pursuit of happiness". The constitution is just a piece of paper declaring guidelines on how to run and limit the government. We still have the right to do as we damn well please.
That something could be programs that get more well defended, empowered, employed (at a reasonable working wage and hours, not this bullshit bank inflationary lotto ticket job economy), happy. Healthy people. People not being victimized by their elected officials. People not afraid to protect themselves and govern themselves. People with energy and liberty. Science, space programs, spiritual development. Education. Citizens participating with police in progressive non-violent ways to stop these problems before they arise through... more education...
I mean, that politician could be voted for. I would vote for them. I don't see why banning things and creating new laws is the only option.
This is something, after all, and therefore it must be done. Is a very flawed, sick, illogical, and insane argument.
This is a line of bullshit it has nothing to do with consumer protection. It has everything to do with protecting Apples style and image from becoming used by others. This shouldn't be a right or a law. Apple does not deserve the right to oppress us or use our legal system to litigate or enforce this through any legal form of government.
Let them provide their own certification and proof they are not cheep Chinese knockoffs the tech exists and they can create their own symbols that can be checked for legitimacy. Society does not need to bear the responsibility of a maintaining corporations good name.
If they want to stop counterfeiting its the only way. Its the same standard they use in antique shows and in historical art exhibits. Simple signatures and production processes are all verifiable without any legal system to punish people who disagree.
I think American culture is warped to really disrespect the simple way of life now. I don't know how old you are, but did you get payed cash to wash cars or was it for an employer. Did you buy your own supplies or did someone else buy them and employ you?
I know I would not mind washing cars if I was payed enough cash to sleep in a warm place, eat nutritious (not fast food), and was not forced to commute, own insured property, and have a bank account. I would even settle for being sprayed down at the car wash instead of having my own personal shower.
Its also possible to learn how to operate an arch welder in a few hours. Really talented people could probably learn in a day to make decent welds. The same most talented ones could become experts in under a week. Less talented people might require a years worth of practice and apprenticeship under the guidance of someone who really knew what they were doing.
I have had a few, but the work was never steady. Piece work. But I rather enjoyed repeating the same task several hundred times. It gave me time to think, daydream, or just shut my mind down and focus on the kinesthetics of being efficient. However it was a bit more complicated then placing stickers. Like soldering small adapters, or assembling PC's.
I would say picking a grove is not tedious, I do that for extra cheep food and its never been painful even though I was paying the farmer to do it, rather then the other way around.
Or that can be rephrased like this. Is physically demanding work less valuable. In todays economy I would say yes. Especially now that machines can do most of the physically demanding work.
Your controllers don't need to be an actual computer terminal to be given bad chips that were bad from manufacture to installation and operation. We, have blown up stuff indirectly like this before by paying off the manufacturers of said products.
The end result is were you going to buy your micro-controllers? I don't see nuke plants spending money for their own in house ones. They probably use stuff off the market.
Oh what else happens when someone drops some in a bin who appears to have legit clearance and they get installed. Its the almost untraceable sabotage. It doesn't have to happen over the inter tubes to be hacking. Allot of the best hacks require good phishing and physical access.
I will quickly counter my own argument by saying maybe this contributed to the downfall of that communist regime and had a net benefit. But thats one of those simulation things, we just don't know for sure (TM) if we had to do this.
People in Siberia without expected power... yes deaths. One of the biggest explosions recorded by seismographs of the century, Damaged property, costing money in a communist regime, yep people did not get their bread.
Part of a solution to this would be to add as much randomness to the selection system as possible. This would ensure that some random politicians with good intentions did get mixed into the system. It would generally decrease the overall bad politician count (though they would always still get through).
I mean if we accept that most people are sane random selection will net you enough sane people that checks and balances will work. Then we could set a meritocratic bar to be randomly selected for to increase sanity. Then the other part of the solution is to stop already selected politicians from being corruptible.
It also justifies Iran's leaders action so they can have even more control and make it harder for upstanding Iranians to reform from within. As I understand it Iran's president is in a rock and a hard place and must toe the party line or loose his power, this doesn't help make him think about other things like womans rights. Right now he could care less probably because he's got to deal with the evil west in the conservatives eyes.
You make a good point. I figured we could just let Iran do whatever the fuck it wants and have a justified gentleman's war later. Rather then one about who gets to control power and territory half way around the globe from us.
I don't advocate pissing of already angry and oppressed people with further offensive action. I see the news articles like this as propaganda because its justification for our leaders actions without the clear consent of the majority of people. It is also an excuse to get that clear majority of consent when things do escalate because we (see Government) wants control over foreign lands.
Cooking has its pro's and cons. In canning is on the decline in the U.S. though and the preservation and canning of foods I think contributed more then cooking generally. Think, salting your pork, beef jerky, canned fruits like strawberries. Canned potatoes. We might have not even been able to wage world wars without copious amounts of preserved food rations for the supply chain.
Companies that sell in supermarkets have progressed to some rather distasteful preservation and filler methods. We use traditional canning methods for our excess food, like tomatoes and it works great so it does not go to waste. That doesn't mean we only eat jarred tomatoes. When we pick them we eat plenty fresh ones as much as we can.
One plus of supermarkets is fresh produce year around because they ship products around. So you do not have to wait for oranges to be in season in Florida for example.
Your right I'm going to stop using Inuit (eskimo's) as an argument. I suppose they are referred to allot for less then scientific reasons. So I can respect why you disagree there. I am also not sure the eskimos referred to are specifically the Inuit from Greenland. And I have no idea what changes are going on that might cause that study to have results disagreeing with what people are commonly stating. Life expectancy by itself is obviously a poor metric for overall health I think then.
I threw that in their for funsies, there are other cuisines that make a better example of raw foods;p but I aint going to look them up for the internets. As I have no need to actually win this argument.
And this is the deep root of why people turn to greed and have conflict. Because we have not figured out how to do this cultural change and tradition thing without eliminating our opposition brutally.
Thats ok though, one day the Neanderthals will get a second chance, it might be somewhere else in another part of the galaxy but who knows, they might in the long run be much stronger then ipadicus politicus.
Here were I live you can go to farms that after they harvest and sell to the local market, you can go pick for free. Sometimes the pickings are slim, but if your not picky you can get some good stuff, like cactus, which is perfectly fine if you know how to prepare it right.
Unfortunately this business model is a super minority because it does not net you cocaine, a Ferrari, and a plethora of hot skanky babes.
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Toys are protected by the "Pursuit of happiness". The constitution is just a piece of paper declaring guidelines on how to run and limit the government. We still have the right to do as we damn well please.
That something could be programs that get more well defended, empowered, employed (at a reasonable working wage and hours, not this bullshit bank inflationary lotto ticket job economy), happy. Healthy people. People not being victimized by their elected officials. People not afraid to protect themselves and govern themselves. People with energy and liberty. Science, space programs, spiritual development. Education. Citizens participating with police in progressive non-violent ways to stop these problems before they arise through... more education...
I mean, that politician could be voted for. I would vote for them. I don't see why banning things and creating new laws is the only option.
This is something, after all, and therefore it must be done. Is a very flawed, sick, illogical, and insane argument.
See authentic 13th century vases. When it matters there does not need to be the IP police to prove their authentic.
This is a line of bullshit it has nothing to do with consumer protection. It has everything to do with protecting Apples style and image from becoming used by others. This shouldn't be a right or a law. Apple does not deserve the right to oppress us or use our legal system to litigate or enforce this through any legal form of government.
Let them provide their own certification and proof they are not cheep Chinese knockoffs the tech exists and they can create their own symbols that can be checked for legitimacy. Society does not need to bear the responsibility of a maintaining corporations good name.
If they want to stop counterfeiting its the only way. Its the same standard they use in antique shows and in historical art exhibits. Simple signatures and production processes are all verifiable without any legal system to punish people who disagree.
Steve was a shrewd business man, a smart man, a genius, a visionary he was not. He was just able to play the heartless CEO game with the best.
I think American culture is warped to really disrespect the simple way of life now. I don't know how old you are, but did you get payed cash to wash cars or was it for an employer. Did you buy your own supplies or did someone else buy them and employ you?
I know I would not mind washing cars if I was payed enough cash to sleep in a warm place, eat nutritious (not fast food), and was not forced to commute, own insured property, and have a bank account. I would even settle for being sprayed down at the car wash instead of having my own personal shower.
Its also possible to learn how to operate an arch welder in a few hours. Really talented people could probably learn in a day to make decent welds. The same most talented ones could become experts in under a week. Less talented people might require a years worth of practice and apprenticeship under the guidance of someone who really knew what they were doing.
Their college grads, not hippies. They went to school to get a leg up, not a free ticket to GNU software development.
I have had a few, but the work was never steady. Piece work. But I rather enjoyed repeating the same task several hundred times. It gave me time to think, daydream, or just shut my mind down and focus on the kinesthetics of being efficient. However it was a bit more complicated then placing stickers. Like soldering small adapters, or assembling PC's.
I would say picking a grove is not tedious, I do that for extra cheep food and its never been painful even though I was paying the farmer to do it, rather then the other way around.
Or that can be rephrased like this. Is physically demanding work less valuable. In todays economy I would say yes. Especially now that machines can do most of the physically demanding work.
Are people able to do physically demanding work less valuable then other kinds?
In other words, obfuscation is no more a skilled art then drawing porn.
Your controllers don't need to be an actual computer terminal to be given bad chips that were bad from manufacture to installation and operation. We, have blown up stuff indirectly like this before by paying off the manufacturers of said products.
The end result is were you going to buy your micro-controllers? I don't see nuke plants spending money for their own in house ones. They probably use stuff off the market.
Oh what else happens when someone drops some in a bin who appears to have legit clearance and they get installed. Its the almost untraceable sabotage. It doesn't have to happen over the inter tubes to be hacking. Allot of the best hacks require good phishing and physical access.
I will quickly counter my own argument by saying maybe this contributed to the downfall of that communist regime and had a net benefit. But thats one of those simulation things, we just don't know for sure (TM) if we had to do this.
People in Siberia without expected power... yes deaths. One of the biggest explosions recorded by seismographs of the century, Damaged property, costing money in a communist regime, yep people did not get their bread.
The CIA are assholes.
Part of a solution to this would be to add as much randomness to the selection system as possible. This would ensure that some random politicians with good intentions did get mixed into the system. It would generally decrease the overall bad politician count (though they would always still get through).
I mean if we accept that most people are sane random selection will net you enough sane people that checks and balances will work. Then we could set a meritocratic bar to be randomly selected for to increase sanity. Then the other part of the solution is to stop already selected politicians from being corruptible.
It also justifies Iran's leaders action so they can have even more control and make it harder for upstanding Iranians to reform from within. As I understand it Iran's president is in a rock and a hard place and must toe the party line or loose his power, this doesn't help make him think about other things like womans rights. Right now he could care less probably because he's got to deal with the evil west in the conservatives eyes.
You make a good point. I figured we could just let Iran do whatever the fuck it wants and have a justified gentleman's war later. Rather then one about who gets to control power and territory half way around the globe from us.
I don't advocate pissing of already angry and oppressed people with further offensive action. I see the news articles like this as propaganda because its justification for our leaders actions without the clear consent of the majority of people. It is also an excuse to get that clear majority of consent when things do escalate because we (see Government) wants control over foreign lands.
Cooking has its pro's and cons. In canning is on the decline in the U.S. though and the preservation and canning of foods I think contributed more then cooking generally. Think, salting your pork, beef jerky, canned fruits like strawberries. Canned potatoes. We might have not even been able to wage world wars without copious amounts of preserved food rations for the supply chain.
Companies that sell in supermarkets have progressed to some rather distasteful preservation and filler methods. We use traditional canning methods for our excess food, like tomatoes and it works great so it does not go to waste. That doesn't mean we only eat jarred tomatoes. When we pick them we eat plenty fresh ones as much as we can.
One plus of supermarkets is fresh produce year around because they ship products around. So you do not have to wait for oranges to be in season in Florida for example.
Your right I'm going to stop using Inuit (eskimo's) as an argument. I suppose they are referred to allot for less then scientific reasons. So I can respect why you disagree there. I am also not sure the eskimos referred to are specifically the Inuit from Greenland. And I have no idea what changes are going on that might cause that study to have results disagreeing with what people are commonly stating. Life expectancy by itself is obviously a poor metric for overall health I think then.
I threw that in their for funsies, there are other cuisines that make a better example of raw foods ;p but I aint going to look them up for the internets. As I have no need to actually win this argument.
And this is the deep root of why people turn to greed and have conflict. Because we have not figured out how to do this cultural change and tradition thing without eliminating our opposition brutally.
Thats ok though, one day the Neanderthals will get a second chance, it might be somewhere else in another part of the galaxy but who knows, they might in the long run be much stronger then ipadicus politicus.
Here were I live you can go to farms that after they harvest and sell to the local market, you can go pick for free. Sometimes the pickings are slim, but if your not picky you can get some good stuff, like cactus, which is perfectly fine if you know how to prepare it right.
Unfortunately this business model is a super minority because it does not net you cocaine, a Ferrari, and a plethora of hot skanky babes.
You have always been completely free to piss of the power elite and suffer the consequences.
This has been so since we started living in communities larger then small tribes were politics was anywhere longer then arms reach.
It comes with some benefits. But it does need to be checked on occasion with a good old house cleaning.
For the next god damn excuse to have a pointless war?
Don't get me wrong war is a great training ground for the stupid.
But we really don't want to escalate into total war with Iran over this bullshit. It'll be really bad for business.