In the Army, this line of thought is called "back when it was hard". Essentially:
For any given task, the difficulty can be found by dividing by the years since 1942.
For example, going to Mars in 1942 would have a difficulty of 1, the hardest things can be. This task can only be accomplished by a member of "the greatest generation". Fighting Vietnam, by contrast has a difficulty rating of 1/20. Old guys have the right stuff for those ordeals as todays people do not.
Q: How many Rangers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One screws it in, the other one talks about how hard it used to be.
As a computer tech for a school district who also does this stuff on the side:
I've seen MANY macbooks that won't join a WPA network at all, and some ONLY if it's WPA1 TKIP PSK, and the PSK has to be exactly 5 digits.
Not all, not even most, but a lot. And Apple Corp (you know, the hippie, beanie wearing, grass-roots, "think different" corporation) refused for a long time to acknowledge there was a problem. Did they ever?
And since we're talking about "just working", how come my school district has several metric tons of eMac's with swelling video card transistors? A mac "logic board" is $400, those are pricey repairs. A generic PC motherboard would be much cheaper, and I don't have to be a fanboy and pay someone to install it.
All we need now are drill sergeants telling your grandma, "Assholes and elbows better be on this mufuckin bird in 5 seconds or we're having a scuff session".
Loading back to front and unloading front to back could probably save airlines millions and save us all time (the airlines will pocket the savings).
The problem is, consumers want transportation to be a luxury, not a utility.
"You've got 5 seconds to un-ass my bird!" or making people board with rigid rules will prolly not sell, and consumers will take their purchases to the friendlier and inefficient carriers
Taking a compiler, an OS, and a computer and making a program, and charging more than the compiler + os + computer + time + electricity cost...that's what I'm talking about.
Taking Adobe Flash and a computer and making web sites for people, charging them more than the cost of the inputs. I am talking about wealth creation...redistribution I never got into.
And who's arguing that FOSS software doesn't create wealth? I didn't. Shit, there's a guy selling OpenOffice on ebay!
I understand this line of thought is really about IP, not about tax and rights...but I would like to thank the author for perpetuating the idea that even if something is YOURS, you still have to pay the government for it.
If the government can deprive you of a basic right (property as a basic right in the state of nature, Voltaire, Hobbs, Locke, T. Jefferson) simply because you don't pay for the privilege of enjoying the right, then rights are privileges, not rights.
I guess war and welfare aren't going to pay for themselves...
I always wanted to say that. But you are right. How many universities all over the world have whole classes that are essentially Adobe product training....like:
"Creative Imaging, VT2500" (photoshop)
"Creative Illustration, VT2600" (illustrator)
"Interactive Multimedia, VT3100" (flash)
and I could go on and on. Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, the list is long...These companies have made products that WE ALL have used to our benefit and have generated wealth for WAY more people than just the producers.
So SCO, now these guys? Another couple years of "A Utah [something's] legal crusade..." in the news.
When these guys are done, I got dibs on suing the Jehovah's Witnesses over "methods for recruiting members by sending missionaries in ties door-to-door".
Except that you are well within your rights to drink flat coke. It might not be as good, but if you want to rip to a lossy format 9 times, that's your right.
I would like public schools to teach that gravity is "only a theory". And equal time should be given to "people-stick-to-the-ground-cause-God-said-so".
The highest honor SCIENCE can bestow any idea is that of the "Theory". Science cannot claim anything to be a fact because in science, nothing is beyond disproval.
If science starts stating things are fact, and beyond disproval then the idea in question becomes dogma. Dogma is the realm of religion. Science may be your religion, but you do science a great disservice by making it so, at the expense of the scientific schema and method.
I know that the creationist/ID crowd LOVES to rub it in that evolution "is only a theory", but you've got to resist the temptation of fighting back by out-dogma-ing the dogmatists.
Evolution IS only a theory, it's among the most widely studied and tested theories of science. It's the single unifying theory of biology. Everyone say it with me: Evolution IS just a theory. The 800lb Gorrilla, bad-mother-fucker, stomp your colon theory. The king of theories.
In science, that's as good as it gets. And as science-minded people, we should know that.
er wait, sorry. well some companies REALLY do rely on copyright for security. An example is the ASSA key and lock company. They make some really nice keys, but what makes them hard to copy? Copyrights on the "code" represented by the teeth on the keys.
This is totally different than a patent on a real cool key, it's a copyright on the "data" that essentially is the serial number for sales account, dealer, region, and country.
Their whole selling point is that no one can copy a key if it's copyrighted. I mean, shit...it worked for other industries... (:
Yes. Unless this cloth produces less sound or heat than normal cloth when moved, you are technically right. If it produces the same sound and heat, the energy MUST come from somewhere.
Just like when a mechanic, soldier, or DBA dies. Are we supposed to be MORE concerned about artists children? (Perl hackers don't die, they physically obfuscate.)
Oh, and a million dollars invested into a safe, low yield 5% fund will get that wife and children $50,000 a year. That's more than most mechanics, soldiers, and some DBA's make. The survivors can live happily on that when the artist dies freebasing coke in an airplane.
Since the Chinese have proven they can do this, it's reasonable to assume they can do it cheaper. Maybe they pentagon could outsource this satellite shoot-down.
You know, if the pentagon REALLY wanted to come across as bad ass, they wouldn't have told anyone it was a bad satellite. Then we could show the world we'll shoot down our own satellites just cause we can. Like a diplomatic "Don't you know i'm locco, esse?"
The democrat party is coming! They will reduce government, enforce free speech, and protect your rights!
That is unless you count the entitlements to pay off their traditional base, government nanny-state censorship a`la Tipper and Hillary, or consider constitutional gun ownership to be a right.
Oh, and if you are about to remind me that the US Supreme Court ruled that gun ownership isn't a constitutional right: they also ruled that black people were property.
Please don't try to paint the liberal agenda as the land of happy lollipop streets and cheese. They are just "energizing" their "base" by promising to hook them up at others expense. You know, like Hugo Chavez.
I don't disagree that they are full of shit. The point is: either we are a society where "it's all good" (religious pref, sex pref, pet ownership, skateboarding, whatever), or we aren't.
People decry the "religious right" pushing their Christian Values on others. Why does "anonymous" feel so inclined to attack this particular bullshit religion? Er..sorry...belief system?
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For any given task, the difficulty can be found by dividing by the years since 1942.
For example, going to Mars in 1942 would have a difficulty of 1, the hardest things can be. This task can only be accomplished by a member of "the greatest generation". Fighting Vietnam, by contrast has a difficulty rating of 1/20. Old guys have the right stuff for those ordeals as todays people do not.
Q: How many Rangers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Two. One screws it in, the other one talks about how hard it used to be.
FSF-style logical argument with a 4chan punchline!
You win many internets.
I've seen MANY macbooks that won't join a WPA network at all, and some ONLY if it's WPA1 TKIP PSK, and the PSK has to be exactly 5 digits.
Not all, not even most, but a lot. And Apple Corp (you know, the hippie, beanie wearing, grass-roots, "think different" corporation) refused for a long time to acknowledge there was a problem. Did they ever?
And since we're talking about "just working", how come my school district has several metric tons of eMac's with swelling video card transistors? A mac "logic board" is $400, those are pricey repairs. A generic PC motherboard would be much cheaper, and I don't have to be a fanboy and pay someone to install it.
All we need now are drill sergeants telling your grandma, "Assholes and elbows better be on this mufuckin bird in 5 seconds or we're having a scuff session".
Loading back to front and unloading front to back could probably save airlines millions and save us all time (the airlines will pocket the savings).
The problem is, consumers want transportation to be a luxury, not a utility.
"You've got 5 seconds to un-ass my bird!" or making people board with rigid rules will prolly not sell, and consumers will take their purchases to the friendlier and inefficient carriers
I'm just often surprised that people so willingly perpetuate things just to forward their own agenda.
Have an IP axe to grind? Tie it to taxes.
Don't like porn? Get some legislation.
Taking a compiler, an OS, and a computer and making a program, and charging more than the compiler + os + computer + time + electricity cost...that's what I'm talking about.
Taking Adobe Flash and a computer and making web sites for people, charging them more than the cost of the inputs. I am talking about wealth creation...redistribution I never got into.
And who's arguing that FOSS software doesn't create wealth? I didn't. Shit, there's a guy selling OpenOffice on ebay!
I understand this line of thought is really about IP, not about tax and rights...but I would like to thank the author for perpetuating the idea that even if something is YOURS, you still have to pay the government for it.
If the government can deprive you of a basic right (property as a basic right in the state of nature, Voltaire, Hobbs, Locke, T. Jefferson) simply because you don't pay for the privilege of enjoying the right, then rights are privileges, not rights.
I guess war and welfare aren't going to pay for themselves...
I always wanted to say that. But you are right. How many universities all over the world have whole classes that are essentially Adobe product training....like:
"Creative Imaging, VT2500" (photoshop)
"Creative Illustration, VT2600" (illustrator)
"Interactive Multimedia, VT3100" (flash)
and I could go on and on. Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, the list is long...These companies have made products that WE ALL have used to our benefit and have generated wealth for WAY more people than just the producers.
So SCO, now these guys? Another couple years of "A Utah [something's] legal crusade..." in the news.
When these guys are done, I got dibs on suing the Jehovah's Witnesses over "methods for recruiting members by sending missionaries in ties door-to-door".
I would like public schools to teach that gravity is "only a theory". And equal time should be given to "people-stick-to-the-ground-cause-God-said-so".
You know...gravity is ONLY a theory! (:
The highest honor SCIENCE can bestow any idea is that of the "Theory". Science cannot claim anything to be a fact because in science, nothing is beyond disproval.
If science starts stating things are fact, and beyond disproval then the idea in question becomes dogma. Dogma is the realm of religion. Science may be your religion, but you do science a great disservice by making it so, at the expense of the scientific schema and method.
I know that the creationist/ID crowd LOVES to rub it in that evolution "is only a theory", but you've got to resist the temptation of fighting back by out-dogma-ing the dogmatists.
Evolution IS only a theory, it's among the most widely studied and tested theories of science. It's the single unifying theory of biology. Everyone say it with me: Evolution IS just a theory. The 800lb Gorrilla, bad-mother-fucker, stomp your colon theory. The king of theories.
In science, that's as good as it gets. And as science-minded people, we should know that.
er wait, sorry. well some companies REALLY do rely on copyright for security. An example is the ASSA key and lock company. They make some really nice keys, but what makes them hard to copy? Copyrights on the "code" represented by the teeth on the keys.
This is totally different than a patent on a real cool key, it's a copyright on the "data" that essentially is the serial number for sales account, dealer, region, and country.
Their whole selling point is that no one can copy a key if it's copyrighted. I mean, shit...it worked for other industries... (:
Yes. Unless this cloth produces less sound or heat than normal cloth when moved, you are technically right. If it produces the same sound and heat, the energy MUST come from somewhere.
Just like when a mechanic, soldier, or DBA dies. Are we supposed to be MORE concerned about artists children? (Perl hackers don't die, they physically obfuscate.)
Oh, and a million dollars invested into a safe, low yield 5% fund will get that wife and children $50,000 a year. That's more than most mechanics, soldiers, and some DBA's make. The survivors can live happily on that when the artist dies freebasing coke in an airplane.
You know, if the pentagon REALLY wanted to come across as bad ass, they wouldn't have told anyone it was a bad satellite. Then we could show the world we'll shoot down our own satellites just cause we can. Like a diplomatic "Don't you know i'm locco, esse?"
Not Titan! We're peaceful, we have no weapons!
The democrat party is coming! They will reduce government, enforce free speech, and protect your rights!
That is unless you count the entitlements to pay off their traditional base, government nanny-state censorship a`la Tipper and Hillary, or consider constitutional gun ownership to be a right.
Oh, and if you are about to remind me that the US Supreme Court ruled that gun ownership isn't a constitutional right: they also ruled that black people were property.
Please don't try to paint the liberal agenda as the land of happy lollipop streets and cheese. They are just "energizing" their "base" by promising to hook them up at others expense. You know, like Hugo Chavez.
pfff. oh yeah. right. with some "magical hex editor" or something. keep dreaming.
Intel makes Apple CPU's now and as such they are beyond reproach!
And the Lord came ford and said, "You better recognize."
It's a funny sign of the times when you feel like a Patriotic American for buying "Made in Mexico".
Thank you. This was I was getting at. (:
People decry the "religious right" pushing their Christian Values on others. Why does "anonymous" feel so inclined to attack this particular bullshit religion? Er..sorry...belief system?
I don't know man. It sounds legit.