In a way, political and legal earthquakes and mob burnings of free information sites are serving to strengthen the integrity and resiliency of a fast evolving Library of Alexandria, even if it is not yet labeled as such. One day such a data repository may also very well fit onto a key chain sized flash drive.
The government can pass it's budget, and then divide that budget by the number of taxpayers so that everyone pays their equal share. If you can't afford your equal share of the costs of government, then you can prove that by hiring your own attorneys (or go pro se) and demonstrating that case to the appropriate authorities by violating your own privacy rights. We'll call it the Alternative Minimum Violation of Privacy Tax Act.
If the government has a right to exist by relying on compulsory taxation, then surely the government has a compulsory right to compel labor for slackers (how else could the government exist if everyone went on Strike at the same time!). The world needs ditch diggers and virus immunization (and biological warfare) test subjects too! Not to mention front line soldiers for various Wars (and the Soviet heroes of leftists swore by the value of live target practice).
Ahahah. I just love freaking out leftists by giving them mirrors as presents.
Oh, then upon what grounds is it an invasion of privacy to compel the reporting of every book you check out of a library? Upon what grounds is it an invasion of privacy to compel that every communication you make whatsoever be reported to the authorities for officially approved filtering of safe versus unsafe content?
Who's business is it if your neighbor pays you money to fix his roof?
Correct, the IRS is a leftist big government institution which violates privacy rights with impunity.
Conversation is a voluntary exchange of information for the purposes of increasing the economic benefit (knowledge and entertainment) of the participants. Perhaps you leftists would like the IRS to monitor these economic activities for the purposes of taxation?
But noticed how leftists cannot even admit the obvious truths of their tyrannical natures, and must LIE, just like any good Soviet Era Party Official, and declare "it's not an invasion of privacy to report your income". Talk about begging credulity!
See, it's ok for left wing socialists to violate your privacy by spying on you to record your income, but it's not ok for right wing fascists to violate your privacy by spying on your personal conversations. Taxation is fundamental to the operation of the State! But somehow suppressing dissent isn't? I think we need to take down another 100 Eliot Spitzers before the leftists learn the lesson. A census (leftists believe in the legitimacy of the census right?) of political opinions and body cavity searches to establish the gender of transgender freaks is authorized, and perhaps will be displayed for national amusement on a COPS type television show.
But in the mean time we can regard your false cries of wolves pretending to be sheep in favor of privacy as wholly disingenuous hypocrisy. And those truly in favor of a right to privacy, should abandon both these left wing Democrats and right wing Republicans, and vote Libertarian. A right to privacy in economic matter means abolishing the IRS, something at least even a few Republicans talked about in their primaries.
And then as somebody further up the thread so eloquently said, we can burn a telecommunications company or two to the ground. How does $150,000 per copyright violation sound for every bit of data those companies have caused to be unlawfully copyrighted infringed contributed to?
Screw encryption. Terrorists just need to sing and hum their plans as fictional (or else we might have to bring the ghost of McCarthy back to start arresting unpatriotic Hollywood people again) stories to be paid up to $30,000 to $150,000 per story violation. That's better than any "900" sexually explicit phone conversation. That's better than any telecom "slamming" of services.
That's pure poetic justice. Why should politicians be above the law, be the only ones jerking off behind closed doors to the sexually explicit conversations of minor teen children?
This is financing. Finance will do more to protect against such violations in the future than paper laws nobody in Power bothers paying attention to. Kill the Immunity. Profit by Lawsuit. Serve the Punishment of Bankruptcy. And then revoke the corporate charters for dessert. We won't need torches and pitchforks if we can sell their stock short all the way to making Bank.
Also note that Plutocracy would equally apply to Socialism and Communism. Wealth will be politically controlled, thus wealth will be controlling politics. This is why Libertarians want to Limit Government, not Limit Wealth nor Limit Freedom. Freedom is laughing at and giving some politician the middle finger who "votes" to tell you that you will spend your money on spam for food, rather than the particular kind of bread you would otherwise choose, by denying that politician the Power to make it such.
Unfortunately, those sentiments are completely voided when it comes to his "health care" plans. He will use government surveillance to collect information on every person's paycheck, forcibly take out taxes, forcibly restrict the freedom of choice for individuals' to spend their money how and when they want to, and then force the government to implement rationing in the health care system, as unlimited demand meets limited supply.
Since when is socialism and communism in the health care system "shifting to the middle"?
It's laughable, utterly completely fucking laughable, to listen to leftist "liberals" complaining about *privacy*. These are the people who mandate 24/7/365 registration and government surveillance of everybody's paychecks and commerce decisions. But they are to scared and full of shit to look into the mirror and see the ugly totalitarians they really are. So stop pretending you have a problem with anybody, government included, using electronic surveillance to monitor your life to whatever detail they feel like. You wholeheartedly support exactly such behavior when it comes to peoples' paychecks and commerce acts.
Hell, leftist liberals should be mandated by law to wear GPS monitoring ankle bracelets to understand just exactly how foolish they are (or perhaps GPS dunce hats would be more fitting), and how they have paved the road for further incursions upon privacy, and how every act of socialism is an an incursion upon the private free choices of individuals.
In the meantime, grab the popcorn and keep filling out your bullshit bingo cards. Actually, can anyone suggest rules for a fascism bingo game? That would be fun. Papers please!
"Players become adventurers in an inner city setting, trying to gather up as much money and property as possible in the 30 to 60 minutes that it takes to play."
Change that to "power" and "information", and there you go.
Or you could just play the college ghetto version of fascist interrogation.
Player1: "What is you name?" Player2: "..." Player1: "LIAR!"
It's also the leftists who are most against privacy. It was their idea to give everyone a "Social Security" NUMBER. It was there idea to force disclosure of exactly how much money you make to the government so they can tax you and redistribute your wealth (after they take their government management plus pension guarantee benefit cut). It was their idea to force you to file paper work with every job you start. It was their idea to take money out of your paycheck before you ever even touch that money.
That's why they are Socialists. The NAZI Party was the National Socialist Workers Party.
The Nazi Party, officially: National Socialist German Workers' Party, (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (helpinfo), abbreviated NSDAP), was a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) before the name was changed in 1920.
If you want to see who are the ideological Nazis in America today, it's the leftists, the Democrats, the Socialists. They achieved their power by violating privacy. That's the first thing they do and did. It's laughable to hear a leftist talk about a "right to privacy". They are the antithesis of privacy, the antithesis of "live and let live", the antithesis of freedom.
Start calling every leftist liberal on their bullshit of pretending to believe in privacy. If they respected privacy, it would be nobody's business how much money you make, nobody's business what you spend your money on (health care insurance or whatever). Make no mistake, leftists are out to track your every action of commerce so that they can tax you.
Barbers and hairdressers are nonfungible jobs. Software development is entirely fungible. You're a fucking moron.
Like burying your head in the sand and pretending that nobody can see you does anything to remove the epistemological scientific DATA FACT that such a real world existing *Profession* as the Barber/Hairdresser does indeed exist, and may be appropriate as a career option of lifetime service for you.
Fungibility is the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are capable of mutual substitution.... A good is fungible if one unit of the good is substantially equivalent to another unit of the same good of the same quality at the same time and place.... Examples of highly fungible commodities are petroleum (gasoline), electricity, precious metals, and many currencies.
Which has nonetheless nothing do with any subjective valuation of anything.
The first marginal unit is not equally valued to the last marginal unit. But keep on pretending there is a global warming crisis that threatens the supply of the copy-ability of any software code. We might run out of ideas if too many people think the same thought at the same time! Moron.
No, it's just you, reduced to pure ad hominem insult without even the prettied up pretense of concurrently demonstrating anything otherwise of interest or merit, or even coherent bearing. Perhaps you should see a psychiatrist regarding these fetish visions of drooling trolls you talk to in public, schoolboy. Next time come prepared with pen, paper, and highlighter, so that you can take notes in your fish tank, you anthropomorphic fool. If you want to get paid for your insults, you're just going to have to try harder. But don't stop trying to promote whatever it is you're trying to promote, FOR FREE! Moron.
I got more satisfaction from M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", An Early Exploratory Foray Into the Evolution of 1337 Speak". You are an Insult to Carpenters with Tools everywhere! Drop the Hammer, Sir, before you Hurt yourself.
but if the developer can't drum up business, the developer's going to go under--and your system ensures that all but the big-name developers are going to tank. Bravo.
Except that new competitors can appear as quickly and as easily as I just quoted your post. And consumers can vote, can seek out, those who have done for them more lately with all the incentive ever needed. That wouldn't perhaps also be related to "advertising"?
We get it. You suk. So go out of business already. Retire. The world needs more ditch diggers to drill for new oil (and alternative energy) sources anyway. But who can afford to risk resources on such endeavors if they might not pay off in the end? Why would any Oil Exploration Company, or any business whatsoever, ever hire any Laborer on a mere Gamble? That's what We in the Union Industry call the "Long Pour". Sorry, it plainly looks like the observable DATA disagrees with you. Trust and Reputation exist in the free market, and have many various institutions devoted to the expression of their market value. Copyright already exists, and Still scarce resources are misappropriated directed to it's allegedly wasteful duplication purposes of lessening Ignorance of Unknown Unknowns. And nobody ever sat in on a movie they subjectively felt was "bad" and walked out early with no Refund. Caveat Emptor. To Whenever I go the Bat Cave to PWN silly intellectually small fools like you.
Example. Take Joe Blow, an indie games developer. Just a one-man developer. Who the hell is going to come to him and pay him to make a computer game for them? What standing does he have? The answer is "absolutely nothing." So in your dream world, he can't get a handhold to move up. There's no effective way for him to do so. Sure, he could release a bunch of games for free, but the whole "needing to eat" thing breaks that down.
Such is also the Case for any Barber or Hair Dresser one happens upon to Visit for the First Time, a *Profession* (epistemologically refuting your "model") perhaps for which your intellectual capabilities may be better suited, BITCH!. ^_^
But then again perhaps my quoted "picture" of your so called logical reasoning indeed stole a portion of your balding Biblical Samsonite shaving of the locks of your Soul. Get back to us, after you graduate from Barber College.
it's sometimes beneficial to not ask for the money before you start "working".
Fixed. That's certainly the P2P International Brothers and Sisters United Union Pledge, you dumbfuck discredited Marxist Labor Theory of (Intrinsic Objective) Value, dumbass believer. Q.E.D./Reported to the Prime Director for Faulty Reasoning, punishable by up to and including death of your false and misleading intellectual creations, up to and including any posts which may appear on public message board sites, such as for instance "Slashdot", which may be represented on unauthorized duplicated physical tangible matter. Because "We're the Government, and Mindless Destruction is Our Middle Ages Name!" Those "bad" cds must be burned and shredded as the witch impostors they are!
How can the "seller" even theoretically afford to produce before being paid? Obviously if he does, copyright has done exactly zip zero stingy with deniro contributory effect to the creation of that art. Copyright is completely useless. If, on the other hand, such artists were to be paid in advance, to remove reason for holding their customers hostage, to the tantalizing details intentionally leaked to drum up "demand", then copyright is completely unnecessary to wholly satisfactory free market trade of services rendered.
So "useless", or "unnecessary", copyright is an anachronism in the modern 21st century era. But nevertheless true that (sometimes represented as "tru dat") if I start knocking down walls in my neighbor's house without advance permission to improve the spacial dimensions of His Majesty's Manor, I undertake merely a sledge hammer experimental demonstration of unsolicited charity pleading for payment in spite of any contrary wishes of the owners of potentially exchangeable real property. Keep the change, bitch. ^_^
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I give you Operation Project Spoofenberg. Parody absolutely everything, and in a lot of cases the results can be even better than the originals. And then somebody at some point plays those parodies in a Court of Law as an exhibition of evidence to achieve ever lasting fame. It will be exactly as if you have walked into Court wearing a Chewbacca costume!
Han Solo: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. Voice: What happened? Han Solo: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight wardrobe, er computer malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you? Voice: We're sending a MPAA squad up. Han Solo: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a viral information leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock the internet down. Large leak, very dangerous. Voice: Who is this? What's your operating number? Han Solo: Uh... [Han shoots the intercom] Han Solo: [muttering] Boring conversation, anyway.
I hearby dedicate this next song to the concept of poetic justice. And humbly submit that the RIAA MPAA et al be charged with various conspiracies to promote moral bankruptcy, glorification of pirates, and whatever the fuck else I feel like making up with copyrighted imaginary laws. You wouldn't morally corrupt a child, across state lines, now would you?
"Been Caught Downloading"
I've been caught downloading; once when I was 5... I enjoy downloading. It's just as simple as that. Well, it's just a simple fact. When I want something, I don't want to pay for it.
I copy the bits right through the inter tubes. Copy right through the inter tubes. Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine. Mine all mine!
My girl, she's one too. She'll go and get her a song. Dance to it in her thong. She grabbed a movie for me. And she did it just like that. When she wants something, She don't want to pay for it.
She copy the bits right through the inter tubes. Copy right through the inter tubes. Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine. Mine all mine!
We sat around the computer. We sat and laughed. We sat and laughed and Maxed our taunting skill into the air! And we did it just like that. When we want something, We don't want to pay for it.
We copy the bits right through the inter tubes. Copy right through the inter tubes. Hey, all right! If I get by, it's mine, Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine...
You wake up late for Court man you don't wanna go You ask the Judge, "Please?" but she still says, "No!" You missed two summary judgments and no jury instructions But the MAFIAA lawyers preaches to the Court like you're some kind of jerk
You gotta fight for your right to COPY!
The government caught you downloading and they said, "No way!" Damn hypocrites download and analyze ten terabytes a day Man, dealing with copyright law is such a drag Now your MAFIAA shut down your best tracker sites (Busted!)
You gotta fight for your right to COPY!
Don't surf the internet if that's the information you're gonna share I'll kick you out of my swarm if you don't cut that leaching Your government busted in and said, "What's that noise?" Aw, government you're just jealous it's the P2P Boys!
You gotta fight for your right to COPY! You gotta fight for your right to COPY! COPY! COPY!
Diseases (presently known) become trivialities once you have harnessed the power of genetic regeneration. Every cell can be fully regenerated as healthy cells. Wiping out cancer becomes like replacing a rusty muffler on a car.
We already have the technology. We just don't know how to manipulate it. See one egg and one sperm forming a baby human being nine months later. Speed that process up to minutes, and you are done.
This does, however, open up biological virus warfare, just as you see on the internet. So another key development will need to be backing up the mind, memories, on external physical storage devices. That's a lot harder than controlling and manipulating the aging process. But that's the real step toward real mind immortality and not just relative body immortality. It's a lot easier to grow a new suit then it is to duplicate mind cache code from scratch.
Though essentially human generations aren't all that different than computer upgrade generations. Software is transferred through education. Hardware is replaced through sex. But all the short term cache memory of individuals is lost upon death. So until (encrypted -- otherwise there then potentially becomes more than one "you") mind memory storage evolves, single persons might at different episodes becomes their own offspring, with distinct memory lifetimes in the same body suit.
P.S. The field will likely be called Biological Programming.
The whole idea of capitalism would have to end... it's a broken paradygm that wouldn't survive the transition to full life extension. Can you imagine the disaster of a world where a millionth of one percent of the population controling the entire world's wealth???
Then why is it as capitalism has grown no single richest individual can even afford as small a piece of land as Manhattan anymore? Feudalism, socialism, allows kings and tyrants to control vast feudal estates. Free market trade does the opposite.
So clearly something completely new would have to rise up from the shattered pieces of the world we know today. A world fairer to all people, a world more just, more equal, a world demanding individual merit, but honoring the possibility of being human. A world that honored diversity, and demands dignity from people. Any other scenario ends badly.
It's the so-called "Diamond Age" where intellectual property government free market interference is eliminated, and nano technology builds matter copying machines. In such a world everyone can copy whatever they want whenever they want. Poverty is thus eliminated. Inequality is thus eliminated. The currency is fame and admiration. If you need some art, copy your neighbor's song. If you need some food, copy your neighbor's loaf of bread. If you need some shelter, copy your neighbor's house. There would be no point in fighting over non scarce resources.
And imaginary property protectionism is the biggest factor hindering technological advancement toward a state of relative immortality, for the exact same reasons the medieval guild system was bad for advancing technology. But it is ironically hilarious that the biggest IP proponents are literally killing their longevity with their ignorance. Touting IP today is like touting cigarettes as cures for "tired blood" in the 1950s.
You're right, the birth rate would have to match the death rate, which becomes the rate of demise by misadventure, except possibly for those odd souls who choose to explore the universe, or possible move themselves to a different substrate (energy based beings would need a lot less resource to thrive.) But waiting to 200 hundred to have children would be perfectly reasonable.
Wrong. Crowding would signal the market price to begin space colonization. Just like the poor are more likely to serve in the military, just like the poor Europeans were more likely to immigrate to America, so too would the poor be more likely to be paid by space colonization corporations. Regardless, there would be a marginal spillover to colonizing other worlds, escaping oppressive authority, and looking for new adventures.
Who cares. Let it fail, and let the politicians voting for it take the political hit to their reputations. It's not going to stand up in the courts anyway. And the Telecom companies can spend extra tens of millions in legal fees defending the law (or let the subpar public defender presidential administration attorneys lose even bigger for them), before it's overturn and thrown away, and they have to defend against civil damages suits later (and perhaps criminal violations).
I foresee Telecom executives being paraded in handcuffs just like we saw mortgage brokerage employees being paraded in handcuffs last week. This is the process by which big city and State Attorney generals get their names in the paper to run for the next terms of governor.
Congress would have been better off passing a legal defense fund act for Telecom companies and executives. So think of this law as more of a corporate welfare subsidy to the legal profession. Just look at the non-stop lawsuits against municipal employees. It wouldn't surprise me if massive corruption kick backs were involved in setting up such law suits to bilk taxpayers money toward law firms.
Pick up one of those legal books over there. In a few minutes, the criminal will come peering into your window. The minute his head is in view, HIT IT WITH THE LAW BOOK!
From a high price of $16 a share in January 2002 to closing at $1.12 today, a loss of 93%! Not too far away from being just another Worldcom or Enron. Clearly this is a company that knows what it's doing, and means business!
Slashdot Mirror
In a way, political and legal earthquakes and mob burnings of free information sites are serving to strengthen the integrity and resiliency of a fast evolving Library of Alexandria, even if it is not yet labeled as such. One day such a data repository may also very well fit onto a key chain sized flash drive.
The government can pass it's budget, and then divide that budget by the number of taxpayers so that everyone pays their equal share. If you can't afford your equal share of the costs of government, then you can prove that by hiring your own attorneys (or go pro se) and demonstrating that case to the appropriate authorities by violating your own privacy rights. We'll call it the Alternative Minimum Violation of Privacy Tax Act.
If the government has a right to exist by relying on compulsory taxation, then surely the government has a compulsory right to compel labor for slackers (how else could the government exist if everyone went on Strike at the same time!). The world needs ditch diggers and virus immunization (and biological warfare) test subjects too! Not to mention front line soldiers for various Wars (and the Soviet heroes of leftists swore by the value of live target practice).
Ahahah. I just love freaking out leftists by giving them mirrors as presents.
Not that my comment was aimed at you personally, but just a reflection of in the general sense, but
Also the government collects information on everyone's paycheck now, that's how income tax is figured.
So you are then in favor of the government collects information on everyone by your own words, are you not?
Only anarchists and terrorists have anything to fear, right? Right?
Oh, then upon what grounds is it an invasion of privacy to compel the reporting of every book you check out of a library? Upon what grounds is it an invasion of privacy to compel that every communication you make whatsoever be reported to the authorities for officially approved filtering of safe versus unsafe content?
Who's business is it if your neighbor pays you money to fix his roof?
Correct, the IRS is a leftist big government institution which violates privacy rights with impunity.
Conversation is a voluntary exchange of information for the purposes of increasing the economic benefit (knowledge and entertainment) of the participants. Perhaps you leftists would like the IRS to monitor these economic activities for the purposes of taxation?
But noticed how leftists cannot even admit the obvious truths of their tyrannical natures, and must LIE, just like any good Soviet Era Party Official, and declare "it's not an invasion of privacy to report your income". Talk about begging credulity!
See, it's ok for left wing socialists to violate your privacy by spying on you to record your income, but it's not ok for right wing fascists to violate your privacy by spying on your personal conversations. Taxation is fundamental to the operation of the State! But somehow suppressing dissent isn't? I think we need to take down another 100 Eliot Spitzers before the leftists learn the lesson. A census (leftists believe in the legitimacy of the census right?) of political opinions and body cavity searches to establish the gender of transgender freaks is authorized, and perhaps will be displayed for national amusement on a COPS type television show.
But in the mean time we can regard your false cries of wolves pretending to be sheep in favor of privacy as wholly disingenuous hypocrisy. And those truly in favor of a right to privacy, should abandon both these left wing Democrats and right wing Republicans, and vote Libertarian. A right to privacy in economic matter means abolishing the IRS, something at least even a few Republicans talked about in their primaries.
And then as somebody further up the thread so eloquently said, we can burn a telecommunications company or two to the ground. How does $150,000 per copyright violation sound for every bit of data those companies have caused to be unlawfully copyrighted infringed contributed to?
Screw encryption. Terrorists just need to sing and hum their plans as fictional (or else we might have to bring the ghost of McCarthy back to start arresting unpatriotic Hollywood people again) stories to be paid up to $30,000 to $150,000 per story violation. That's better than any "900" sexually explicit phone conversation. That's better than any telecom "slamming" of services.
That's pure poetic justice. Why should politicians be above the law, be the only ones jerking off behind closed doors to the sexually explicit conversations of minor teen children?
This is financing. Finance will do more to protect against such violations in the future than paper laws nobody in Power bothers paying attention to. Kill the Immunity. Profit by Lawsuit. Serve the Punishment of Bankruptcy. And then revoke the corporate charters for dessert. We won't need torches and pitchforks if we can sell their stock short all the way to making Bank.
Also note that Plutocracy would equally apply to Socialism and Communism. Wealth will be politically controlled, thus wealth will be controlling politics. This is why Libertarians want to Limit Government, not Limit Wealth nor Limit Freedom. Freedom is laughing at and giving some politician the middle finger who "votes" to tell you that you will spend your money on spam for food, rather than the particular kind of bread you would otherwise choose, by denying that politician the Power to make it such.
Unfortunately, those sentiments are completely voided when it comes to his "health care" plans. He will use government surveillance to collect information on every person's paycheck, forcibly take out taxes, forcibly restrict the freedom of choice for individuals' to spend their money how and when they want to, and then force the government to implement rationing in the health care system, as unlimited demand meets limited supply.
Since when is socialism and communism in the health care system "shifting to the middle"?
It's laughable, utterly completely fucking laughable, to listen to leftist "liberals" complaining about *privacy*. These are the people who mandate 24/7/365 registration and government surveillance of everybody's paychecks and commerce decisions. But they are to scared and full of shit to look into the mirror and see the ugly totalitarians they really are. So stop pretending you have a problem with anybody, government included, using electronic surveillance to monitor your life to whatever detail they feel like. You wholeheartedly support exactly such behavior when it comes to peoples' paychecks and commerce acts.
Hell, leftist liberals should be mandated by law to wear GPS monitoring ankle bracelets to understand just exactly how foolish they are (or perhaps GPS dunce hats would be more fitting), and how they have paved the road for further incursions upon privacy, and how every act of socialism is an an incursion upon the private free choices of individuals.
In the meantime, grab the popcorn and keep filling out your bullshit bingo cards. Actually, can anyone suggest rules for a fascism bingo game? That would be fun. Papers please!
It could be similar to "BLING BLING"
http://www.blacknews.com/pr/blingblinggame101.html
"Players become adventurers in an inner city setting, trying to gather up as much money and property as possible in the 30 to 60 minutes that it takes to play."
Change that to "power" and "information", and there you go.
Or you could just play the college ghetto version of fascist interrogation.
Player1: "What is you name?"
Player2: "..."
Player1: "LIAR!"
Player 1 thus wins a free /slap at Player2.
It's also the leftists who are most against privacy. It was their idea to give everyone a "Social Security" NUMBER. It was there idea to force disclosure of exactly how much money you make to the government so they can tax you and redistribute your wealth (after they take their government management plus pension guarantee benefit cut). It was their idea to force you to file paper work with every job you start. It was their idea to take money out of your paycheck before you ever even touch that money.
That's why they are Socialists. The NAZI Party was the National Socialist Workers Party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
The Nazi Party, officially: National Socialist German Workers' Party, (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (helpinfo), abbreviated NSDAP), was a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) before the name was changed in 1920.
If you want to see who are the ideological Nazis in America today, it's the leftists, the Democrats, the Socialists. They achieved their power by violating privacy. That's the first thing they do and did. It's laughable to hear a leftist talk about a "right to privacy". They are the antithesis of privacy, the antithesis of "live and let live", the antithesis of freedom.
Start calling every leftist liberal on their bullshit of pretending to believe in privacy. If they respected privacy, it would be nobody's business how much money you make, nobody's business what you spend your money on (health care insurance or whatever). Make no mistake, leftists are out to track your every action of commerce so that they can tax you.
Barbers and hairdressers are nonfungible jobs. Software development is entirely fungible. You're a fucking moron.
Like burying your head in the sand and pretending that nobody can see you does anything to remove the epistemological scientific DATA FACT that such a real world existing *Profession* as the Barber/Hairdresser does indeed exist, and may be appropriate as a career option of lifetime service for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility
Fungibility is the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are capable of mutual substitution. ... A good is fungible if one unit of the good is substantially equivalent to another unit of the same good of the same quality at the same time and place. ... Examples of highly fungible commodities are petroleum (gasoline), electricity, precious metals, and many currencies.
Which has nonetheless nothing do with any subjective valuation of anything.
Here Dumbfuck:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_value
The first marginal unit is not equally valued to the last marginal unit. But keep on pretending there is a global warming crisis that threatens the supply of the copy-ability of any software code. We might run out of ideas if too many people think the same thought at the same time! Moron.
No, it's just you, reduced to pure ad hominem insult without even the prettied up pretense of concurrently demonstrating anything otherwise of interest or merit, or even coherent bearing. Perhaps you should see a psychiatrist regarding these fetish visions of drooling trolls you talk to in public, schoolboy. Next time come prepared with pen, paper, and highlighter, so that you can take notes in your fish tank, you anthropomorphic fool. If you want to get paid for your insults, you're just going to have to try harder. But don't stop trying to promote whatever it is you're trying to promote, FOR FREE! Moron.
RACK IT! PWNED.
FishWithAHammer (957772)
I got more satisfaction from M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", An Early Exploratory Foray Into the Evolution of 1337 Speak". You are an Insult to Carpenters with Tools everywhere! Drop the Hammer, Sir, before you Hurt yourself.
but if the developer can't drum up business, the developer's going to go under--and your system ensures that all but the big-name developers are going to tank. Bravo.
Except that new competitors can appear as quickly and as easily as I just quoted your post. And consumers can vote, can seek out, those who have done for them more lately with all the incentive ever needed. That wouldn't perhaps also be related to "advertising"?
We get it. You suk. So go out of business already. Retire. The world needs more ditch diggers to drill for new oil (and alternative energy) sources anyway. But who can afford to risk resources on such endeavors if they might not pay off in the end? Why would any Oil Exploration Company, or any business whatsoever, ever hire any Laborer on a mere Gamble? That's what We in the Union Industry call the "Long Pour". Sorry, it plainly looks like the observable DATA disagrees with you. Trust and Reputation exist in the free market, and have many various institutions devoted to the expression of their market value. Copyright already exists, and Still scarce resources are misappropriated directed to it's allegedly wasteful duplication purposes of lessening Ignorance of Unknown Unknowns. And nobody ever sat in on a movie they subjectively felt was "bad" and walked out early with no Refund. Caveat Emptor. To Whenever I go the Bat Cave to PWN silly intellectually small fools like you.
Best Regards,
--monxrtr
Example. Take Joe Blow, an indie games developer. Just a one-man developer. Who the hell is going to come to him and pay him to make a computer game for them? What standing does he have? The answer is "absolutely nothing." So in your dream world, he can't get a handhold to move up. There's no effective way for him to do so. Sure, he could release a bunch of games for free, but the whole "needing to eat" thing breaks that down.
Such is also the Case for any Barber or Hair Dresser one happens upon to Visit for the First Time, a *Profession* (epistemologically refuting your "model") perhaps for which your intellectual capabilities may be better suited, BITCH!. ^_^
But then again perhaps my quoted "picture" of your so called logical reasoning indeed stole a portion of your balding Biblical Samsonite shaving of the locks of your Soul. Get back to us, after you graduate from Barber College.
Ooops, almost forgot.
it's sometimes beneficial to not ask for the money before you start "working".
Fixed. That's certainly the P2P International Brothers and Sisters United Union Pledge, you dumbfuck discredited Marxist Labor Theory of (Intrinsic Objective) Value, dumbass believer. Q.E.D. /Reported to the Prime Director for Faulty Reasoning, punishable by up to and including death of your false and misleading intellectual creations, up to and including any posts which may appear on public message board sites, such as for instance "Slashdot", which may be represented on unauthorized duplicated physical tangible matter. Because "We're the Government, and Mindless Destruction is Our Middle Ages Name!" Those "bad" cds must be burned and shredded as the witch impostors they are!
How can the "seller" even theoretically afford to produce before being paid? Obviously if he does, copyright has done exactly zip zero stingy with deniro contributory effect to the creation of that art. Copyright is completely useless. If, on the other hand, such artists were to be paid in advance, to remove reason for holding their customers hostage, to the tantalizing details intentionally leaked to drum up "demand", then copyright is completely unnecessary to wholly satisfactory free market trade of services rendered.
So "useless", or "unnecessary", copyright is an anachronism in the modern 21st century era. But nevertheless true that (sometimes represented as "tru dat") if I start knocking down walls in my neighbor's house without advance permission to improve the spacial dimensions of His Majesty's Manor, I undertake merely a sledge hammer experimental demonstration of unsolicited charity pleading for payment in spite of any contrary wishes of the owners of potentially exchangeable real property. Keep the change, bitch. ^_^
Maybe the IRS can audit the money trail.
The IRS responds with the Tax Snack Act(TSA).
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Ahh yes, I could go all night in this vain meme.
Auric Goldfinger: "Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor... except P2P Uploading!
I give you Operation Project Spoofenberg. Parody absolutely everything, and in a lot of cases the results can be even better than the originals. And then somebody at some point plays those parodies in a Court of Law as an exhibition of evidence to achieve ever lasting fame. It will be exactly as if you have walked into Court wearing a Chewbacca costume!
Han Solo: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
Voice: What happened?
Han Solo: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight wardrobe, er computer malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
Voice: We're sending a MPAA squad up.
Han Solo: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a viral information leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock the internet down. Large leak, very dangerous.
Voice: Who is this? What's your operating number?
Han Solo: Uh...
[Han shoots the intercom]
Han Solo: [muttering] Boring conversation, anyway.
I hearby dedicate this next song to the concept of poetic justice. And humbly submit that the RIAA MPAA et al be charged with various conspiracies to promote moral bankruptcy, glorification of pirates, and whatever the fuck else I feel like making up with copyrighted imaginary laws. You wouldn't morally corrupt a child, across state lines, now would you?
"Been Caught Downloading"
I've been caught downloading;
once when I was 5...
I enjoy downloading.
It's just as simple as that.
Well, it's just a simple fact.
When I want something,
I don't want to pay for it.
I copy the bits right through the inter tubes.
Copy right through the inter tubes.
Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine.
Mine all mine!
My girl, she's one too.
She'll go and get her a song.
Dance to it in her thong.
She grabbed a movie for me.
And she did it just like that.
When she wants something,
She don't want to pay for it.
She copy the bits right through the inter tubes.
Copy right through the inter tubes.
Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine.
Mine all mine!
We sat around the computer.
We sat and laughed.
We sat and laughed and
Maxed our taunting skill into the air!
And we did it just like that.
When we want something,
We don't want to pay for it.
We copy the bits right through the inter tubes.
Copy right through the inter tubes.
Hey, all right! If I get by, it's mine,
Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine...
Excellent. You deserve another P2P song for that.
"Fight For Your Right"
Copy it!
You wake up late for Court man you don't wanna go
You ask the Judge, "Please?" but she still says, "No!"
You missed two summary judgments and no jury instructions
But the MAFIAA lawyers preaches to the Court like you're some kind of jerk
You gotta fight for your right to COPY!
The government caught you downloading and they said, "No way!"
Damn hypocrites download and analyze ten terabytes a day
Man, dealing with copyright law is such a drag
Now your MAFIAA shut down your best tracker sites (Busted!)
You gotta fight for your right to COPY!
Don't surf the internet if that's the information you're gonna share
I'll kick you out of my swarm if you don't cut that leaching
Your government busted in and said, "What's that noise?"
Aw, government you're just jealous it's the P2P Boys!
You gotta fight for your right to COPY!
You gotta fight for your right to COPY!
COPY!
COPY!
Diseases (presently known) become trivialities once you have harnessed the power of genetic regeneration. Every cell can be fully regenerated as healthy cells. Wiping out cancer becomes like replacing a rusty muffler on a car.
We already have the technology. We just don't know how to manipulate it. See one egg and one sperm forming a baby human being nine months later. Speed that process up to minutes, and you are done.
This does, however, open up biological virus warfare, just as you see on the internet. So another key development will need to be backing up the mind, memories, on external physical storage devices. That's a lot harder than controlling and manipulating the aging process. But that's the real step toward real mind immortality and not just relative body immortality. It's a lot easier to grow a new suit then it is to duplicate mind cache code from scratch.
Though essentially human generations aren't all that different than computer upgrade generations. Software is transferred through education. Hardware is replaced through sex. But all the short term cache memory of individuals is lost upon death. So until (encrypted -- otherwise there then potentially becomes more than one "you") mind memory storage evolves, single persons might at different episodes becomes their own offspring, with distinct memory lifetimes in the same body suit.
P.S. The field will likely be called Biological Programming.
The whole idea of capitalism would have to end... it's a broken paradygm that wouldn't survive the transition to full life extension. Can you imagine the disaster of a world where a millionth of one percent of the population controling the entire world's wealth???
Then why is it as capitalism has grown no single richest individual can even afford as small a piece of land as Manhattan anymore? Feudalism, socialism, allows kings and tyrants to control vast feudal estates. Free market trade does the opposite.
So clearly something completely new would have to rise up from the shattered pieces of the world we know today. A world fairer to all people, a world more just, more equal, a world demanding individual merit, but honoring the possibility of being human. A world that honored diversity, and demands dignity from people. Any other scenario ends badly.
It's the so-called "Diamond Age" where intellectual property government free market interference is eliminated, and nano technology builds matter copying machines. In such a world everyone can copy whatever they want whenever they want. Poverty is thus eliminated. Inequality is thus eliminated. The currency is fame and admiration. If you need some art, copy your neighbor's song. If you need some food, copy your neighbor's loaf of bread. If you need some shelter, copy your neighbor's house. There would be no point in fighting over non scarce resources.
And imaginary property protectionism is the biggest factor hindering technological advancement toward a state of relative immortality, for the exact same reasons the medieval guild system was bad for advancing technology. But it is ironically hilarious that the biggest IP proponents are literally killing their longevity with their ignorance. Touting IP today is like touting cigarettes as cures for "tired blood" in the 1950s.
You're right, the birth rate would have to match the death rate, which becomes the rate of demise by misadventure, except possibly for those odd souls who choose to explore the universe, or possible move themselves to a different substrate (energy based beings would need a lot less resource to thrive.) But waiting to 200 hundred to have children would be perfectly reasonable.
Wrong. Crowding would signal the market price to begin space colonization. Just like the poor are more likely to serve in the military, just like the poor Europeans were more likely to immigrate to America, so too would the poor be more likely to be paid by space colonization corporations. Regardless, there would be a marginal spillover to colonizing other worlds, escaping oppressive authority, and looking for new adventures.
Who cares. Let it fail, and let the politicians voting for it take the political hit to their reputations. It's not going to stand up in the courts anyway. And the Telecom companies can spend extra tens of millions in legal fees defending the law (or let the subpar public defender presidential administration attorneys lose even bigger for them), before it's overturn and thrown away, and they have to defend against civil damages suits later (and perhaps criminal violations).
I foresee Telecom executives being paraded in handcuffs just like we saw mortgage brokerage employees being paraded in handcuffs last week. This is the process by which big city and State Attorney generals get their names in the paper to run for the next terms of governor.
Congress would have been better off passing a legal defense fund act for Telecom companies and executives. So think of this law as more of a corporate welfare subsidy to the legal profession. Just look at the non-stop lawsuits against municipal employees. It wouldn't surprise me if massive corruption kick backs were involved in setting up such law suits to bilk taxpayers money toward law firms.
Pick up one of those legal books over there. In a few minutes, the criminal will come peering into your window. The minute his head is in view, HIT IT WITH THE LAW BOOK!
From a high price of $16 a share in January 2002 to closing at $1.12 today, a loss of 93%! Not too far away from being just another Worldcom or Enron. Clearly this is a company that knows what it's doing, and means business!