The real factor that underlies global competitiveness is the rate of advance of knowledge and technology. When biz is in hoard mode (as it is now, sitting on trillions in cash), govt can and should create debt-free money to fund the innovation that will continue to keep the US at the forefront of developing technology and scientific knowledge. Japan has a 180% debt-to-gdp ratio, China's state-owned banks have a 23% default rate, and yet Japan's currency is strong and China's economy is booming because they innovate and produce things others want. Precisely in a recession is when govt should spend. Then when biz crawls out of the rock it's currently in licking its wounds from its latest screw-up we can balance the budget and VC will fund innovation again like during the 90s.
just change your viewing threshhold...the great thing about technology is that it can let each of us see reality through the filter of our choosing without affecting anyone else's freedom. Unless just the very fact that someone is free to post something you don't like, even if you can tweak settings to ignore it, bothers you, and you want to CONTROL them?
yeah this is my idea too - or write a bot that can read diaries and blogs and then interact with a user. Sort of like megahal but with more awareness of grammar and logic. I'm working on one to encode the best parts of myself:)
Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation devised, in addition to some marvelous software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for short). Or the CopyLeft it is sometimes called.
It is quite a revolutionary document, using the "copyright" tool to to protect your right to use free software.
Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot like using a Jackal to guard the hens.
In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted in modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public License) and more recently the NPL (Netscape Public License)
I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will occur when the Jackal's, (sorry, I mean lawyers), actually get to test the GPL in court for the first time.
Thus enter my version.
Its very simple.
Entirely consistent.
Completely unrestrictive.
Easy to apply.
The "No problem Bugroff" license is as follows...
The answer to any and every question relating to the copyright, patents, legal issues of Bugroff licensed software is....
Sure, No problem. Don't worry, be happy. Now bugger off.
All portions of this license are important..
"Sure, no problem." Gives you complete freedom. I mean it. Utterly complete. A bit of a joke really. You have complete freedom anyway. "Don't worry, be happy." Apart from being good advice and a good song, it also says:- No matter what anyone else says or does, you still have complete freedom. Now bugger off. The only way to get rid of pushy Jackals is to ignore them and not feed them. The GPL is just begging somebody to take it to court. Can't you just see it. Exactly the same thing that happened when some twit (not Linus) registered Linux as his own personal trademark. People got upset, started a fund, and hired, off all ruddy things, a Jackal to try and defend the chicken! Who really benefits from this trademark / patent / copyright thing anyway? The lawyers. Who made it up in the first place? The lawyers. OK so the last part of the license sounds a bit harsh, but seriously folks, if you are a:-
Lawyer asking these legalese questions... You should go off and learn an honest trade that will actually contribute to life instead of draining it. Programmer asking these legalese questions... You have amazingly powerful tools in your hands and mind, use them to ask and answer the worthwhile questions of life, the universe and everything. Stop mucking about with such legal nonsense and get back to programming. User/reader asking these question... Don't worry. Go off and be happy. Have fun. Enjoy what has been created for you.
The point of civilization is knowledge. Knowledge allows us to predict and adapt to sudden catastrophic environmental change, hence it improves our survival fitness. Economics is just a way to increase knowledge.
If economics is a science, how well does the current model predict economic downturns, or Japan's having a 200% debt-to-gdp ratio but no inflation, low unemployment, and a strong currency?
The current model of economics appears to include an axiom: the creation of money should be in private hands. Can we challenge this axiom, given examples such as Japan, or our own history (Lincoln printing greenbacks, govt making up over 40% of GDP during WWII, inflation not much of a concern during Reagan's run-up of the debt, etc.)? Is it not suspicious that the main proponents of the current economics are the beneficiaries of a system where banks have a monopoly on money creation? Why can't the people's elected representatives create money too?
and yet the idea of celibate monks has reproduced itself for as long as we have recorded history, so evolution isn't simply about the physical act of making babies...
Words are just words, arbitrary symbols. The connections to emotions are in the mind of the reader. By banning certain words, ops are saying: I feel X when I see Y, and everyone else has to too. But freedom means that each is free to interpret the symbols in any way they want. Swear words can often loosen people up, make you laugh, release tension. But ops want to impose their private world on the rest of the users, and because they can't persuade ppl with words, they kick and ban.
Better for the individuals themselves to realize who is being unreasonable. Cox could have replied to Linus's questions with his reasons, he could have verbalized his emotions. The advantage of verbalizing one's emotions is that the explicit words can be analyzed for logical flaws.
For example another post breaks down Linus's comments, highlighting the words with high emotional content that seem to be intended to provoke. Cox could make use of that poster's work to craft a reasonable, rational response to Linus.
But it's best if Cox realizes that himself, not by having it imposed on him. Freedom is essential!
(Posted as code because I couldn't get line breaks between paragraphs any other way!)
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The real factor that underlies global competitiveness is the rate of advance of knowledge and technology. When biz is in hoard mode (as it is now, sitting on trillions in cash), govt can and should create debt-free money to fund the innovation that will continue to keep the US at the forefront of developing technology and scientific knowledge. Japan has a 180% debt-to-gdp ratio, China's state-owned banks have a 23% default rate, and yet Japan's currency is strong and China's economy is booming because they innovate and produce things others want. Precisely in a recession is when govt should spend. Then when biz crawls out of the rock it's currently in licking its wounds from its latest screw-up we can balance the budget and VC will fund innovation again like during the 90s.
More like: the effect of a less-than-one-percent increase in taxes to a state's revenues...
just change your viewing threshhold...the great thing about technology is that it can let each of us see reality through the filter of our choosing without affecting anyone else's freedom. Unless just the very fact that someone is free to post something you don't like, even if you can tweak settings to ignore it, bothers you, and you want to CONTROL them?
yeah this is my idea too - or write a bot that can read diaries and blogs and then interact with a user. Sort of like megahal but with more awareness of grammar and logic. I'm working on one to encode the best parts of myself :)
I want to reinvent it!
http://tunes.org/legalese/bugroff.html [tunes.org]
Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation devised, in addition to some marvelous software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for short). Or the CopyLeft it is sometimes called.
It is quite a revolutionary document, using the "copyright" tool to to protect your right to use free software.
Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot like using a Jackal to guard the hens.
In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted in modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public License) and more recently the NPL (Netscape Public License)
I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will occur when the Jackal's, (sorry, I mean lawyers), actually get to test the GPL in court for the first time.
Thus enter my version.
Its very simple.
Entirely consistent.
Completely unrestrictive.
Easy to apply.
The "No problem Bugroff" license is as follows...
The answer to any and every question relating to the copyright, patents, legal issues of Bugroff licensed software is....
Sure, No problem. Don't worry, be happy. Now bugger off.
All portions of this license are important..
"Sure, no problem." Gives you complete freedom. I mean it. Utterly complete. A bit of a joke really. You have complete freedom anyway. :- No matter what anyone else says or does, you still have complete freedom. :-
"Don't worry, be happy." Apart from being good advice and a good song, it also says
Now bugger off. The only way to get rid of pushy Jackals is to ignore them and not feed them. The GPL is just begging somebody to take it to court. Can't you just see it. Exactly the same thing that happened when some twit (not Linus) registered Linux as his own personal trademark. People got upset, started a fund, and hired, off all ruddy things, a Jackal to try and defend the chicken! Who really benefits from this trademark / patent / copyright thing anyway? The lawyers. Who made it up in the first place? The lawyers.
OK so the last part of the license sounds a bit harsh, but seriously folks, if you are a
Lawyer asking these legalese questions... You should go off and learn an honest trade that will actually contribute to life instead of draining it.
Programmer asking these legalese questions... You have amazingly powerful tools in your hands and mind, use them to ask and answer the worthwhile questions of life, the universe and everything. Stop mucking about with such legal nonsense and get back to programming.
User/reader asking these question... Don't worry. Go off and be happy. Have fun. Enjoy what has been created for you.
those who questioned bush were "against us" after 911. What's good for the goose...
"How to wreck a nice beach" http://www.stopsmilingbooks.com/how-to-wreck-a-nice-beach.php
America has plenty of gold thanks to mudrock mines in Nevada.
The only thing less predictive than climate change models are economists' models.
He gets the #1 high score.
The point of civilization is knowledge. Knowledge allows us to predict and adapt to sudden catastrophic environmental change, hence it improves our survival fitness. Economics is just a way to increase knowledge.
If economics is a science, how well does the current model predict economic downturns, or Japan's having a 200% debt-to-gdp ratio but no inflation, low unemployment, and a strong currency?
The current model of economics appears to include an axiom: the creation of money should be in private hands. Can we challenge this axiom, given examples such as Japan, or our own history (Lincoln printing greenbacks, govt making up over 40% of GDP during WWII, inflation not much of a concern during Reagan's run-up of the debt, etc.)? Is it not suspicious that the main proponents of the current economics are the beneficiaries of a system where banks have a monopoly on money creation? Why can't the people's elected representatives create money too?
and yet the idea of celibate monks has reproduced itself for as long as we have recorded history, so evolution isn't simply about the physical act of making babies...
better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order!
Make it use renewable energy that is not scarce. These experiments say more about us than they do about the possibilities of robotics.
Socrates was the first or among the first to place a strong emphasis on definitions, which laid the foundations for formal languages.
Words are just words, arbitrary symbols. The connections to emotions are in the mind of the reader. By banning certain words, ops are saying: I feel X when I see Y, and everyone else has to too. But freedom means that each is free to interpret the symbols in any way they want. Swear words can often loosen people up, make you laugh, release tension. But ops want to impose their private world on the rest of the users, and because they can't persuade ppl with words, they kick and ban.
Better for the individuals themselves to realize who is being unreasonable. Cox could have replied to Linus's questions with his reasons, he could have verbalized his emotions. The advantage of verbalizing one's emotions is that the explicit words can be analyzed for logical flaws.
For example another post breaks down Linus's comments, highlighting the words with high emotional content that seem to be intended to provoke. Cox could make use of that poster's work to craft a reasonable, rational response to Linus.
But it's best if Cox realizes that himself, not by having it imposed on him. Freedom is essential!
(Posted as code because I couldn't get line breaks between paragraphs any other way!)
Bosses are often wrong though. Maybe this is the right thing. Graphs > hierarchies.
ad hominem
what part of 'unalienable rights' don't you understand?
we are the government. vote!
banks create money all the time. They created a lot of virtual money in the most recent bubble. Now the government backs it with printed greenbacks...
Nah, you don't speak for me.
OK!!! Wait...how are you going to enforce the compact? Honesty? MUAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA
In Soviet Russia, memes run YOU into the ground!