Well, guess what. Where I work, a large IT services company, management decided that everyone would get the same laptop. Same model, same spec. I am a client facing developer. And my company's business is IT and I get a machine that is the same as the machine for the accountant. FFS, the management is just a bunch of MBA idiots! There are some good people, but those are far apart.
There is one interesting management philosophy: You control people's actions within a company by numbers, that that are calculated using some objective metric.
Problem is, that if the person that is creating the metric has no idea what is objective in the context, you get stupid metrics. There are idiots that out of fear for their job safety will ban anything and try make sure if something fails, they don't get blamed - that is called office or corporate politics.(Since politicians often do it)
Problem is, that a lot of companies have lost the idea of this management technique, coming from the military, called "command intent". Some adopt it, some don't.
Well that have a very serious facts to back up their claims that everyone should be illiterate. Literacy is a tool to pirate their goods and human memory is just another medium for copyright infringement.
How did you get from lack of privacy to tyranny, I have NO idea!
Usually privacy goes after tyranny has established itself(reference to all authoritarian and totalitarian states starting from 20th century), not the other way around. And even then, privacy tends to skyrocket when tyranny establishes itself(again ref to totalitarian states in the 20th century).
Lack of privacy is created by "trust" and tyranny destroys all trust and spreads fear.
Something tells me that neither you nor your parents lived in a totalitarian state.
That is actually true about anything in Real Life(TM). You can have a friend, that is a friend of your mother/potential employer/anyone, that has told about something embarrassing, and there goes all of your privacy.
The only privacy you can get, is in your grave. If you want to operate in a world that is social in essence, you have to accept the consequences. If you want to get a job, by reference of your friend, be ready to be struck down by another "friend" that knows something bad about you.
The only "privacy" you can hold out for, is the one that protects your property rights.
Anyway, the basic thing is: If you want all of the upsides, be ready for the downsides.*
* - this transcends computer aided social networks, because, if you have friends, family, colleagues or interactions with people, you are in a social network already.
Suppose you believe that slavery is morally wrong, for example. You would need to demonstrate the validity of this assertion by reference to something physical.
Would you be ok with "I don't want to anyone else to suffer, what I am not willing to suffer." Or " I do not want to inflict misery on others, because I don't want anyone to inflict misery onto myself". I believe that is somewhere in the bible? And that certainly does not reference anything supernatural.
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Modern factories require more IT specialists than actual factory workers to operate them :-D
Well, guess what. Where I work, a large IT services company, management decided that everyone would get the same laptop. Same model, same spec. I am a client facing developer. And my company's business is IT and I get a machine that is the same as the machine for the accountant. FFS, the management is just a bunch of MBA idiots! There are some good people, but those are far apart.
So say it straight: I don't like sausages!
There is one interesting management philosophy: You control people's actions within a company by numbers, that that are calculated using some objective metric.
Problem is, that if the person that is creating the metric has no idea what is objective in the context, you get stupid metrics. There are idiots that out of fear for their job safety will ban anything and try make sure if something fails, they don't get blamed - that is called office or corporate politics.(Since politicians often do it)
Problem is, that a lot of companies have lost the idea of this management technique, coming from the military, called "command intent". Some adopt it, some don't.
Well that have a very serious facts to back up their claims that everyone should be illiterate. Literacy is a tool to pirate their goods and human memory is just another medium for copyright infringement.
Ahhhh.... But this one will order pizza when just before you get hungry! Super cable, indeed....
That is why it is an utopia.
As opposed to having DCs on top of San Andreas fault?
Actually, code that was perfectly fine 12 years ago is much better today, than fresh code. You know, software also matures.
Well, duh!!!!! Opera Mini is basically on all new Nokia phones starting with price above 50Eur.
In short: Free market is as much a utopia, as much as communism is a utopia.
That genius should have used AWS CDN
That's in Soviet Poland....
That crap does not help in breaking out of a mega corp :-(
Wa, wa... wait! Doesn't Stephen Hawking "speak" using eye gestures? Or something similar....
How did you get from lack of privacy to tyranny, I have NO idea!
Usually privacy goes after tyranny has established itself(reference to all authoritarian and totalitarian states starting from 20th century), not the other way around. And even then, privacy tends to skyrocket when tyranny establishes itself(again ref to totalitarian states in the 20th century).
Lack of privacy is created by "trust" and tyranny destroys all trust and spreads fear.
Something tells me that neither you nor your parents lived in a totalitarian state.
That is actually true about anything in Real Life(TM). You can have a friend, that is a friend of your mother/potential employer/anyone, that has told about something embarrassing, and there goes all of your privacy.
The only privacy you can get, is in your grave. If you want to operate in a world that is social in essence, you have to accept the consequences. If you want to get a job, by reference of your friend, be ready to be struck down by another "friend" that knows something bad about you.
The only "privacy" you can hold out for, is the one that protects your property rights.
Anyway, the basic thing is: If you want all of the upsides, be ready for the downsides.*
* - this transcends computer aided social networks, because, if you have friends, family, colleagues or interactions with people, you are in a social network already.
I always do backups of my 'magrathea' server :-D But I don't think it would help....
There goes the "only" reason for building LHC. Oh, well, time to think of the next thing to wipe them off the face of this planet.
I am in the middle of doing that right now. So you should be getting a subpoena from my solicitor after the DNA tests are done.
Remember that: trademark != copyright
What regulation? I thought there was no regulation, that's why we're in this shit right now.
Would you be ok with "I don't want to anyone else to suffer, what I am not willing to suffer." Or " I do not want to inflict misery on others, because I don't want anyone to inflict misery onto myself". I believe that is somewhere in the bible? And that certainly does not reference anything supernatural.
There are numerous religions, that have the same. So technically: