the logical fallacy committed here is to assign value to only "true equality"
while restricting the domains of change to the qualitative. that is, in the
comparative model you set up, there are not enough degrees of freedom to
arrive at a meaningful answer.
well, as someone who has talked to buddhist monks at some length,
i must point out that your suffering is that you have not yet developed
the compassion to understand the big picture, even as you grasp for the
image of understanding it. no worries, you'll get it at some point.
i'm sure high school cheerleaders (who apparently
work very hard
for the limited attention span budget of the high school
population) would understand economic arguments about how
"free" (no matter the sense) is a bitch to compete against.
who knows, maybe it is the experienced who choose to
deride usloth, in addition to the pom-pom wielders and gratuitous
spewers, whose pseudo-jaded facade is of course easy to spot.
atticus finch is a cussword in this day and age because, contrary to many of
his contemporaries, he was able not only to formulate a laudable personal
ethics (anyone w/ a "belief system" and sufficient self-discipline can do
that), but also to put it into practice through his (fortuituous) occupation.
these are qualities doubly reviled today because in fact, although most people
do have a belief system, they lack the self-discipline to enact it and the
reflective bent to improve it, and efforts by an individual to live the
examined life are like shining a spotlight on the mushroom field: it's not
good for the mushrooms.
the vines that creep to thus shadow the mushrooms provide the necessary
service, it's true, but like kudzu they have a tendency to overdo it,
requiring ever increasing trellis infusions and succor from the majestic
sequoias who have no need for such intermediaries, prefering instead to
thrive directly between the heavens and the earth, bringing soil and sunlight
together in million-leaved permuations of thousand-ringed wisdom. in this
way, the mushroom is also served, w/o need for the vines.
no, in the short run you can only counter terrorism by understanding what
actions you do can be considered terroristic by others. (this is called
reflection.) from these understandings you can modify your behavior and gain
further understanding of not only yourself, but others.
in the long run you can only counter terrorism by effectively countering it in
the short run, regularly.
the society that chooses to elevate thought to the level of ownership (and
thus crime) will grow afraid to think. the proper place for thought is not
collected in little jars, sedimented w/ the salt and mud of bygone praries now
wasting and dessicated; instead, it's best to let the thought flow, harvested
by a waterwheel or even a great dam, but in the end essentially unhindered, to
the sea, so that in time the rains may come again.
what to hold, what to let go,
what to kill, what to let grow?
and what, i ask, would thou say,
to the god 'ere festooned and bid to relay?
o wondrous deceit, o ravenous conceit,
how i can i tell the chaff from the wheat?
my sacrifice tins filled, with thoughts most applauded,
but yet the fields suffer the drought most defrauded.
now my kids starve, my sweat they cannot eat.
now their eyes close, my debt they cannot meet.
never to question Your kind benevolence,
sweet whispered assurance of continual innocence.
nonetheless, i beg you, please take me now.
i can bear no longer the fencing of "how".
is that really what you want to achieve?
a toiling towards abject misery without a reprieve?
carry on, then, carry on, and do your just part.
carry on, then, carry on, you've made a good start.
(this poem is hereby placed in the public domain by its Author.)
let's call these "patches" what they really are: risk injection.
the risk of you getting free of usloth is minimized and they
turn around and inject it into your systems. have a nice day!
of course, the way around this is to avoid proprietary mindset
(that shows up even in some free software projects, sadly).
basically, there are some natural Laws (like gravity) that one learns
to accept and handle very easily, else death follows pretty quick. then
there are conventions created by humans for the sake of trying to grow
"more human" in some way (often through the literally torturous route
of considering oneself to be "more human" by forming mental models where
other people are "less human"). these conventions are called Laws by
various groups of self-deluded people. sometimes there are people who
manage to understand their delusion and taint the happy ignorance by
aligning their personal conventions w/ the natural Laws (e.g., by
recognizing that All is Impermanent and doing their best to foster
some maximally varied richness according to some perceived universal
aesthetic). in making this choice they Leave their Family and the
inherent comforts of dancing the limited-scope dance. they move away
from overspecialization (the realm of insects and arachnids) and make
pilgramage towards the source of the Law. an icy mountain pass, a
rabbit spirit cultivated to demonic ambition, a river wider than than
all its would-be ferriers (now dead at the bottom), a misguided dragon
prince here and there. the pilgrims pass these and other obstacles
on their way.
some pilgrims have the monkey mind and some the pig snout. some are
of more earthly stock and do not have ability to call the wind or
tread the luminous cloud. but they travel together anyway, bound by
the Law they have yet to understand. peaceful provinces, well-regulated
and hospitible, are a night's work, two at the most; bellicose lands
full of foul hatred and easy deception, likewise --- to dally is to
fall behind. but what is it that they head towards? and why do they
laugh and not understand calls for a tax on codified thought?
except the x10 camera and 5msec of embedded uproc time during which your
likeness is captured and correlated.
c'mon, you were building up steam w/ the "not paranoid enough" -- why stop now?
paying cash does not result in the absense of the correlation, just another method
required to obtain it.
if you have to start somewhere, start w/ historical abuse of power, fit in the
current actions as patternistic of the road towards that abuse, and take action
to prevent the abuse. this is what you're saying, which is sound. however,
you attribute the abuse first-order-wise (to people who destroy other people
physically) only, and neglect to analyze the higher-order abuses (by people
who destroy other people -- and themselves -- indirectly, as a result of unwise
policies).
want to reject higher-order analysis in favor of keeping things simple?
then you are not doing a complete job.
the value of anything is how it is perceived. self-ignorance leads to fear, fear to hatred, and hatred to suffering. to break this is to understand the self-ignorance and understand its proper place in the big picture (that is, as a tool of abstraction and only if trust in the interface can be cemented).
and even cement cracks w/ the weight of other people's wisdom.
please. those people need not be more creative as more honest. let those
who do the work be creative (and learn from their mistakes). let the syntax
people keep a clean syntax! in this way, the customer is most satisfied.
oh i see, the customers are masochists and usloth is just the right thing for
that rainy afternoon away from the ethical life. a few years of foreplay and
now youse fucked. please pay on your way out *ding*.
why would i, who practice my poor craft w/ love, want to be like that?
my first bike was a Yamaha XS-400. kick-started that thing until blue before
realizing you have to put gas in it first! (what can i say, i was 19 at the time.)
kick-starters on bikes should be mandatory; zipping around on the CBR600F4 these
days is nice but thumbing the electric start is no substitute for the gutteral
sensations of a kick-starter. oh, the lost mystique...
the other Yamaha i had was a FG-something, a very nice thin-neck (folk) guitar.
those six steel strings cut into my fingers and gave me some soul.
(yeah "offtopic" but that means your scope is too narrow.;-)
probably better to say "being heard is a serendipity". privelege is similar
but differs in that it implies a closed system wherein the right / power /
resource is granted from a central authority. those not recognizing the the
right / power / resource would not call someone being heard a privelege, but
they cannot argue that someone being heard is not serendipitous.
i watched last night the tail-end of the ben franklin documentary on pbs.
now, there's a quotable genius worthy of emulation. power law tie in:
after his diplomatic finessing of the finance of the revolutionary war (by
france), the new united states government denied all his requests for
compensation for a job well-done. in his case, being heard was a no-op at
home regardless of his contributions on the world stage.
a two-pronged approach actually works well: case studies plus analysis of
systematic weaknesses (usloth blood-from-stone licensing and behavior). you
tell people "these people are happy w/o usloth" as well as "these people are
happy w/ usloth, but only because they don't know their precarious situation
very well". to be balanced, you describe what a migration to free software
entails (most likely non-trivial amounts of work/pain) also using both case
studies and analysis of systematic advantages.
then you point out that if people want to think short term, then that's fine,
but those who think long term will probably be their boss.
for any programming task, there's the fun algorithms and techniques to be
applied, and then there's the mamby-pamby wishy-washy user-level issues.
instead of taking these on (and doing a half-assed job), programmers should
invest effort into making sure their programs have some extensibility built in
so that users can wallow forward on their own. some of those users may turn
out to be better programmers in practice, and that's how you learn from them.
(insert opportunistic student mantra here.)
if the OP (a journalist) doesn't like M-x trl-begin-entry (source
here) maybe the OP can learn to instruct the machine more to his liking.
(insert opportunistic teacher mantra here.)
... for advertizing, plain and simple. i'm glad i got rid of my cell
phone back when it was just analog and uncloying. why do i need to hear more
marketing doublespeak than presently readily available in the air (planes), on
the sidewalk, on the walls, in the idiot box, on people's clothes, and in the
ribbons in their hair? feh.
a struggle implies a conflict. there are other less dissipative reasons to
write and improve free software, that does not presume oppression (although
certainly oppression is easy to discern; i won't deny its prevalance).
Slashdot Mirror
(or so my little computer tells me ... ;-)
user: programmer in training
programmer: user w/ skillz and write privs
that's all there is to it, in the long run.
oop ack! a "perfect mirror" of an ugly thing means now you see two ugly
things!
the vines that creep to thus shadow the mushrooms provide the necessary service, it's true, but like kudzu they have a tendency to overdo it, requiring ever increasing trellis infusions and succor from the majestic sequoias who have no need for such intermediaries, prefering instead to thrive directly between the heavens and the earth, bringing soil and sunlight together in million-leaved permuations of thousand-ringed wisdom. in this way, the mushroom is also served, w/o need for the vines.
in the long run you can only counter terrorism by effectively countering it in the short run, regularly.
what to hold, what to let go,
is that really what you want to achieve?what to kill, what to let grow?
and what, i ask, would thou say,
to the god 'ere festooned and bid to relay?
a toiling towards abject misery without a reprieve?
carry on, then, carry on, and do your just part.
carry on, then, carry on, you've made a good start.
(this poem is hereby placed in the public domain by its Author.)
of course, the way around this is to avoid proprietary mindset (that shows up even in some free software projects, sadly).
some pilgrims have the monkey mind and some the pig snout. some are of more earthly stock and do not have ability to call the wind or tread the luminous cloud. but they travel together anyway, bound by the Law they have yet to understand. peaceful provinces, well-regulated and hospitible, are a night's work, two at the most; bellicose lands full of foul hatred and easy deception, likewise --- to dally is to fall behind. but what is it that they head towards? and why do they laugh and not understand calls for a tax on codified thought?
c'mon, you were building up steam w/ the "not paranoid enough" -- why stop now? paying cash does not result in the absense of the correlation, just another method required to obtain it.
want to reject higher-order analysis in favor of keeping things simple? then you are not doing a complete job.
to fear, fear to hatred, and hatred to suffering. to break this is
to understand the self-ignorance and understand its proper place in
the big picture (that is, as a tool of abstraction and only if trust
in the interface can be cemented).
and even cement cracks w/ the weight of other people's wisdom.
please. those people need not be more creative as more honest. let those who do the work be creative (and learn from their mistakes). let the syntax people keep a clean syntax! in this way, the customer is most satisfied.
oh i see, the customers are masochists and usloth is just the right thing for that rainy afternoon away from the ethical life. a few years of foreplay and now youse fucked. please pay on your way out *ding*.
why would i, who practice my poor craft w/ love, want to be like that?
the other Yamaha i had was a FG-something, a very nice thin-neck (folk) guitar. those six steel strings cut into my fingers and gave me some soul.
(yeah "offtopic" but that means your scope is too narrow. ;-)
quality and quantity are independent if you understand quality.
quality and quantity are dependent if you only understand quantity.
i watched last night the tail-end of the ben franklin documentary on pbs. now, there's a quotable genius worthy of emulation. power law tie in: after his diplomatic finessing of the finance of the revolutionary war (by france), the new united states government denied all his requests for compensation for a job well-done. in his case, being heard was a no-op at home regardless of his contributions on the world stage.
then you point out that if people want to think short term, then that's fine, but those who think long term will probably be their boss.
if the OP (a journalist) doesn't like M-x trl-begin-entry (source here) maybe the OP can learn to instruct the machine more to his liking. (insert opportunistic teacher mantra here.)
obviously, hold on to the root. next!
more like:
;; special slashdot method, fix later
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(* (personal-bias gist) (research gist))))
(define (personal-bias topic)
(or (experience-with topic)
(hear-say topic)))
(define (research topic)
(personal-bias topic))