All civilizations go from Aristocracy to a series of bad governments, including military rule, oligarchy, and democracy, which finally leads to tyranny.
Point out to them that they can't trust governments.
Then point out how much of their data is out there, and who knows who controls it.
Playing video games a lot is like having autism or being addicted to television. It makes you less socially capable, more solitary, and less likely to invest in activities that make your life better. Is it any different from being addicted to drugs?
Video games are not destined for any ghetto, but video game players are already seen as the losers destined to always be underpaid and overtaxed because they're like children, oblivious to the actual workings of the world.
First, go to them with a list of all the positive things releasing the code under a GPL would do:
1. Others will help you. 2. Good publicity. 3. Ability to sell consulting services.
Then, find yourself a standard contract and mod it with the help of a lawyer friend. If you ask here, there ARE lawyers on Slashdot and they'll probably help.
You see a lot of this stuff coming out of the Middle East: Jews did 911, Jews own the USA, Jews will make your penis shrink, etc etc
We need to fight back!
"The Jewish people have never had a friend in both fair and foul weather. Our allies have betrayed us, deserted us in our hour of need, and killed us in unprecedented numbers using crematoria and poison gas. To be Jewish is to know that wherever you go, you'll always have to watch your back.
Even in Israel we are persecuted by another ethnic group, the Arabs, who will not be happy until the last Jew is dead. In Europe, Nationalism is rising in Germany, Russia, France and the Netherlands. Soon there will be no tolerance left for Jews, and we will be exterminated.
Whatever sells newspapers is good. Bad news sells, and investing time into real research is too difficult. So accept the industry shills, because even if they lied, You Sold Newspapers.
The RIAA is like a labor union or other political lobby. They play the game. They win when people take them seriously. That's why it's awesome people are hacking their lamer websites.
I think people need to have abilities first. You can't teach everyone to be a computer programmer. They have to have certain intelligence abilities first!
You can apologize later for your unwillingness to discuss real science. (The above focuses too much on race for my taste, and I would again like to mention Eastern Europe as a white third world series of nations, lest this turn into African-bashing.)
And we all know that these characteristics are absolute, because everybody in these places is dishonest, disorganized, and foolish, and they're all there because they chose to be there.
You don't understand the causal chain.
They're there because they're what's left when everything else is gone. Fallen empires produce third world nations, or they arise from what never could form an empire. The raw material wasn't there. The people there lack the traits to rise above it, except in a few rare cases (like, 5) every generation who promptly get called witch doctors and publically stoned.
What are the great innovations of the third world? How many people, despite 100 years of aid, have risen out of these situations to do anything but fulfil jobs that don't require much intelligence at all?
This topic seems to have really upset some people. Good. You're pretenders who like to think human definitions, and social status, compensate for what nature did not give. You say this because you are afraid of your own weakness.
Look at the average IQ of a nation and you can tell how impoverished it will be. Northern Asia and Japan are high-IQ; Viet Nam is low IQ. Russia is low IQ, Mexico is low IQ, and Africa is low IQ. Even in the US states we can see that states with a lower balance of smart people are more impoverished.
That's science. If you can't face it, mod down -1 and claim I'm a "Troll" to formalize your impotence.
While your statement is closer to reality, ask yourself this:
If all they need is the means of production, why didn't they develop it?
Your average third world country is a former empire of greatness that has completed failed. Its people have IQs in the 80s and 90s on average. This is ten to fifteen points behind the industrialized world. Coincidence?
What afflicts the third world seems to be disorganization, corruption, dishonesty, and low intelligence. That's why they're in the fix they're in, just like some communities in the USA (trailer parks, urban ghettoes, "artist communes") are third world status because they're filled with dishonest, disorganized, foolish people.
I mean, this is basic reality 101... but you can't say it in public. Why is that?;)
The OLPC was a marketing ploy and nothing else. You fall for it every time. Altruism doesn't exist, because people use altruism to promote themselves as better than the rest of us.
The Third World doesn't need laptops. It needs rice and medicine. Or ideally, it needs none of these things, since the reason it's having problems is that it's disorganized and cannot support its own population. Let them die out and the third world stabilizes itself.
Western aid to the third world has done nothing but breed more people who cannot take care of themselves, the same way our welfare programs breed useless idiots.
You complain about our elections going to the wrong guys, and that people always buy the wrong technology. Why, then, would you ever support any initiative to make more idiots?
The OLPC is an initiative to make more idiots, most notably by convincing all of you it's altruistic, and then every person involved using it as a profit center. But you fell for it again, because you, humanity, are suckers for nice-sounding things that have no reality in them.
They want to check email, websurf, play vids and mp3s, and run a few business apps (Quicken, Excel, Word). They want it to turn on, start working, offer few complexities, and keep doing so for the next five years.
They don't need your dual core. They don't need your MBA. They don't want your $2500 price tag. They want the laptop as a portable media appliance.
The Eee delivers this and no one else does. Expect it to be popular among consumers, and enigma among geeks, for some time.
Really cheap parts means near-disposable. This means motherboards with compatibility issues and lockups, hard drives that melt, CD drives that periodically get confused between reboots. It means a bad computing experience, and whatever operating system is running on that machine will get blamed for it.
It seems to me that giving poor people cheap junky computers will result in more landfill, more tech support calls, and more angry nothingtalk about how technology sux.
Hitler was racist, Saddam Hussein was racist, the Viet Cong were racist and now, China is racist.
Let's go get China.
At least this is something liberals and conservatives can agree on: we need to make war against those who do not share our democratic values, because they will never do anything but hate our freedom.
The music they're downloading? It's crap for easily-fascinated imbeciles. Pop, hip-hop? Give me a break. Anyone with six months of musical training will tell you there's no brain growth in this garbage.
The books they're downloading? Pulp pumped out by underpaid writers on trendy topics as quickly as they can.
The software they're copying? When the manufacturer wants $400 for a simple application, who can afford it, especially if it barely works sometimes. It's a sad state of humanity that if aliens did attack, all of our software crashing at once in a panic would doom us faster than their death-rays.
So yeah, no one believes in IP, and they won't until (for the 2% who do) they end up needing it for income. Google AdSense works for now, but might not in the future, and so IP might be something they want. But for now, they've never seen anything so good it should be paid for you.
The only reason they're not making money is that they have never found an audience. The truly clueless consumer does not buy parts, and it's hard to compete with Best Buy for that, so they need to sell to the slightly more advanced technophile, but those don't buy there because their parts are over-packaged and under-abundant. We need more options for raw parts and fewer options for glossy boxes. Oh, and better hours. But surely their MBAs already knew that.
How do we secure them from our insane elected "leaders"? If George W decides that Iran really is the antichrist, he may send in some warheads to make them glow like Vegas. Vladimir Putin is currently putting Russia on nuclear alert because George W wants to built an anti-missile shield around Russia. We might as well let the things be secured by bicycle key at this rate!
They're about to become corporate serfs. Give them a four year break from corporate dominance, so they have that much more psychological trauma when they exit school, which will make them the perfect mentally broken spiritual voids who need to buy our products.
"We require these fingerprints for your health insurance," he said. "But of course, since our atmospheric pollutants have raised the cancer rate to 50%, you'll probably want that cancer insurance, unless you want to go bankrupt as you die of voracious tumors which suspiciously resemble health care executives." His smile flashed the wisdom of Satan and the plaintive honesty of Jesus Christ, and I could not resist.
So now they're helping Google. Has anyone else figured out that "business trends" are almost always death for the environment, the few smart humans left and anything else that requires more than a 2.5sec attention span to appreciate?
1. The tropics breed more diseases that survive. The colder climates eliminate more of them.
2. People screwing monkeys. About half of the tub of lard, useless clock puncher, TV addicted morons now would screw a monkey if they could.
3. Much unexplored forest. Evil shit lurks deep in the jungle, biologically. Less so in the more human-traversed, colder climate forests of Europe and USA.
Anyone talking about Nazism should read what it was actually about:
The Programme of the German Workers' Party is designed to be of limited duration. The leaders have no intention, once the aims announced in it have been achieved, of establishing fresh ones, merely in order to increase, artificially, the discontent of the masses and so ensure the continued existence of the Party.
1. We demand the union of all Germany in a Greater Germany on the basis of the right of national self-determination.
2. We demand equality of rights for the German people in its dealings with other nations, and the revocation of the peace treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain.
3. We demand land and territory (colonies) to feed our people and to settle our surplus population.
4. Only members of the nation may be citizens of the State. Only those of German blood, whatever be their creed, may be members of the nation. Accordingly, no Jew may be a member of the nation.
5. Non-citizens may live in Germany only as guests and must be subject to laws for aliens.
6. The right to vote on the State's government and legislation shall be enjoyed by the citizens of the State alone. We demand therefore that all official appointments, of whatever kind, whether in the Reich, in the states or in the smaller localities, shall be held by none but citizens.
We oppose the corrupting parliamentary custom of filling posts merely in accordance with party considerations, and without reference to character or abilities.
7. We demand that the State shall make it its primary duty to provide a livelihood for its citizens. If it should prove impossible to feed the entire population, foreign nationals (non-citizens) must be deported from the Reich.
8. All non-German immigration must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who entered Germany after 2 August 1914 shall be required to leave the Reich forthwith.
9. All citizens shall have equal rights and duties.
10. It must be the first duty of every citizen to perform physical or mental work. The activities of the individual must not clash with the general interest, but must proceed within the framework of the community and be for the general good.
We demand therefore:
11. The abolition of incomes unearned by work.
The breaking of the slavery of interest
12. In view of the enormous sacrifices of life and property demanded of a nation by any war, personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand therefore the ruthless confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
15. We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municiple orders.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation; the abolition of ground rent, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. *
18. We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race.
19. We demand that Roman Law, which serves a materialistic world order, be replaced by a German common law.
20. The State must consider a thorough reconstruction of our national system of education (with the aim of opening up to every able and hard-working German the possibility of higher education and of thus obtaining advancement). The curricula of all educational establishments must be brought into line with
Stop making smart children do dumb things because dumb children always do dumb things. Let nature sort it out. Yes, dumb children will die, but you don't want or need more dumb adults, do you?
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All civilizations go from Aristocracy to a series of bad governments, including military rule, oligarchy, and democracy, which finally leads to tyranny.
Point out to them that they can't trust governments.
Then point out how much of their data is out there, and who knows who controls it.
Spread fear and disbelief.
Post goatses to all their forums.
Playing video games a lot is like having autism or being addicted to television. It makes you less socially capable, more solitary, and less likely to invest in activities that make your life better. Is it any different from being addicted to drugs?
Video games are not destined for any ghetto, but video game players are already seen as the losers destined to always be underpaid and overtaxed because they're like children, oblivious to the actual workings of the world.
First, go to them with a list of all the positive things releasing the code under a GPL would do:
1. Others will help you.
2. Good publicity.
3. Ability to sell consulting services.
Then, find yourself a standard contract and mod it with the help of a lawyer friend. If you ask here, there ARE lawyers on Slashdot and they'll probably help.
You see a lot of this stuff coming out of the Middle East: Jews did 911, Jews own the USA, Jews will make your penis shrink, etc etc
We need to fight back!
"The Jewish people have never had a friend in both fair and foul weather. Our allies have betrayed us, deserted us in our hour of need, and killed us in unprecedented numbers using crematoria and poison gas. To be Jewish is to know that wherever you go, you'll always have to watch your back.
Even in Israel we are persecuted by another ethnic group, the Arabs, who will not be happy until the last Jew is dead. In Europe, Nationalism is rising in Germany, Russia, France and the Netherlands. Soon there will be no tolerance left for Jews, and we will be exterminated.
Unless we take a stand."
http://www.zionists.com/
Whatever sells newspapers is good. Bad news sells, and investing time into real research is too difficult. So accept the industry shills, because even if they lied, You Sold Newspapers.
The RIAA is like a labor union or other political lobby. They play the game. They win when people take them seriously. That's why it's awesome people are hacking their lamer websites.
I think people need to have abilities first. You can't teach everyone to be a computer programmer. They have to have certain intelligence abilities first!
Comprehensive review of IQ tests, intelligence, race, class/caste, income level, and so forth:
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php
You can apologize later for your unwillingness to discuss real science. (The above focuses too much on race for my taste, and I would again like to mention Eastern Europe as a white third world series of nations, lest this turn into African-bashing.)
You don't understand the causal chain.
They're there because they're what's left when everything else is gone. Fallen empires produce third world nations, or they arise from what never could form an empire. The raw material wasn't there. The people there lack the traits to rise above it, except in a few rare cases (like, 5) every generation who promptly get called witch doctors and publically stoned.
What are the great innovations of the third world? How many people, despite 100 years of aid, have risen out of these situations to do anything but fulfil jobs that don't require much intelligence at all?
This topic seems to have really upset some people. Good. You're pretenders who like to think human definitions, and social status, compensate for what nature did not give. You say this because you are afraid of your own weakness.
Look at the average IQ of a nation and you can tell how impoverished it will be. Northern Asia and Japan are high-IQ; Viet Nam is low IQ. Russia is low IQ, Mexico is low IQ, and Africa is low IQ. Even in the US states we can see that states with a lower balance of smart people are more impoverished.
That's science. If you can't face it, mod down -1 and claim I'm a "Troll" to formalize your impotence.
While your statement is closer to reality, ask yourself this:
;)
If all they need is the means of production, why didn't they develop it?
Your average third world country is a former empire of greatness that has completed failed. Its people have IQs in the 80s and 90s on average. This is ten to fifteen points behind the industrialized world. Coincidence?
What afflicts the third world seems to be disorganization, corruption, dishonesty, and low intelligence. That's why they're in the fix they're in, just like some communities in the USA (trailer parks, urban ghettoes, "artist communes") are third world status because they're filled with dishonest, disorganized, foolish people.
I mean, this is basic reality 101... but you can't say it in public. Why is that?
The OLPC was a marketing ploy and nothing else. You fall for it every time. Altruism doesn't exist, because people use altruism to promote themselves as better than the rest of us.
The Third World doesn't need laptops. It needs rice and medicine. Or ideally, it needs none of these things, since the reason it's having problems is that it's disorganized and cannot support its own population. Let them die out and the third world stabilizes itself.
Western aid to the third world has done nothing but breed more people who cannot take care of themselves, the same way our welfare programs breed useless idiots.
You complain about our elections going to the wrong guys, and that people always buy the wrong technology. Why, then, would you ever support any initiative to make more idiots?
The OLPC is an initiative to make more idiots, most notably by convincing all of you it's altruistic, and then every person involved using it as a profit center. But you fell for it again, because you, humanity, are suckers for nice-sounding things that have no reality in them.
They want to check email, websurf, play vids and mp3s, and run a few business apps (Quicken, Excel, Word). They want it to turn on, start working, offer few complexities, and keep doing so for the next five years.
They don't need your dual core. They don't need your MBA. They don't want your $2500 price tag. They want the laptop as a portable media appliance.
The Eee delivers this and no one else does. Expect it to be popular among consumers, and enigma among geeks, for some time.
Really cheap parts means near-disposable. This means motherboards with compatibility issues and lockups, hard drives that melt, CD drives that periodically get confused between reboots. It means a bad computing experience, and whatever operating system is running on that machine will get blamed for it.
It seems to me that giving poor people cheap junky computers will result in more landfill, more tech support calls, and more angry nothingtalk about how technology sux.
Hitler was racist, Saddam Hussein was racist, the Viet Cong were racist and now, China is racist.
Let's go get China.
At least this is something liberals and conservatives can agree on: we need to make war against those who do not share our democratic values, because they will never do anything but hate our freedom.
Your society failed them first.
The music they're downloading? It's crap for easily-fascinated imbeciles. Pop, hip-hop? Give me a break. Anyone with six months of musical training will tell you there's no brain growth in this garbage.
The books they're downloading? Pulp pumped out by underpaid writers on trendy topics as quickly as they can.
The software they're copying? When the manufacturer wants $400 for a simple application, who can afford it, especially if it barely works sometimes. It's a sad state of humanity that if aliens did attack, all of our software crashing at once in a panic would doom us faster than their death-rays.
So yeah, no one believes in IP, and they won't until (for the 2% who do) they end up needing it for income. Google AdSense works for now, but might not in the future, and so IP might be something they want. But for now, they've never seen anything so good it should be paid for you.
The only reason they're not making money is that they have never found an audience. The truly clueless consumer does not buy parts, and it's hard to compete with Best Buy for that, so they need to sell to the slightly more advanced technophile, but those don't buy there because their parts are over-packaged and under-abundant. We need more options for raw parts and fewer options for glossy boxes. Oh, and better hours. But surely their MBAs already knew that.
Microsoft says FireFox has security holes: "OMG It's FUD!!!1!"
Someone fakes a Ron Paul spam: "It must be for real."
This must be how they get away with paying geeks less.
MBA: "So... your salary will be half what you expected. But you can use Linux!"
Geek: "I'll sign!!!1!"
How do we secure them from our insane elected "leaders"? If George W decides that Iran really is the antichrist, he may send in some warheads to make them glow like Vegas. Vladimir Putin is currently putting Russia on nuclear alert because George W wants to built an anti-missile shield around Russia. We might as well let the things be secured by bicycle key at this rate!
They're about to become corporate serfs. Give them a four year break from corporate dominance, so they have that much more psychological trauma when they exit school, which will make them the perfect mentally broken spiritual voids who need to buy our products.
Thanks,
The NWO
"We require these fingerprints for your health insurance," he said. "But of course, since our atmospheric pollutants have raised the cancer rate to 50%, you'll probably want that cancer insurance, unless you want to go bankrupt as you die of voracious tumors which suspiciously resemble health care executives." His smile flashed the wisdom of Satan and the plaintive honesty of Jesus Christ, and I could not resist.
So now they're helping Google. Has anyone else figured out that "business trends" are almost always death for the environment, the few smart humans left and anything else that requires more than a 2.5sec attention span to appreciate?
Enemies of democracy:
- Nazis/neo-Nazis/Nationalists
- Hackers
- Islamists
- Drug users
Who they're not looking for:
- Anti-racists
- Leftist activists
- Corrupt businessmen
- Multinational corporate whores
Interesting.
1. The tropics breed more diseases that survive. The colder climates eliminate more of them.
2. People screwing monkeys. About half of the tub of lard, useless clock puncher, TV addicted morons now would screw a monkey if they could.
3. Much unexplored forest. Evil shit lurks deep in the jungle, biologically. Less so in the more human-traversed, colder climate forests of Europe and USA.
4. Racism.
Stop making smart children do dumb things because dumb children always do dumb things. Let nature sort it out. Yes, dumb children will die, but you don't want or need more dumb adults, do you?
They don't realize that politician's promises aren't contracts, either. Enlightened fascism now!