Let me see if I understand this correctly. You think that feudalism, a system where the land is wholly owned by a king and merely "held" by others like nobles or knights, is an example of a totally free economy?
Tell me something, if everyone was so free, what reason was there for restraining the king's power through the Charter of Liberties or the Magna Carta? And have you never heard of the Guild System?
You are talking about a time where people weren't free to work/own the land as they chose or even decide their own occupation.
Are you seriously comparing Google to a Monarchy? The only way that comparison could have any validity would be if they legislated for a competitive advantage, but so far their services just seem to be more popular by virtue of being more useful to people.
When you talk about 'network effects' entrenching Google's position over a competitor such as Bing, are you referring to first mover advantage? If not would you care to elaborate? As it stands now your post amounts to an aspersion with no supporting evidence.
1. to cause to enter drop by drop (ex. instill medication into the infected eye)
2. to impart gradually (ex. instilling a love of learning in children)
You install Unity Tweak Tool (unity-tweak-tool is the package name) and go to the 'scrolling' section to make your changes. I get that it's not obvious but I wouldn't call it hard to enable legacy scrollbars.
That's not a fair example, considering that Texas Instruments abandoned the marketplace. My Nexus 4 came out in 2012 and would be affected by this too, except it's been updated to the latest software available.
Regulations are exactly what is used to prevent competition. Local governments create monopolies through what are called franchise agreements. Unfortunately most people get confused about that and blame unregulated markets. (others don't even know what a free market is!)
You think those XP users know that Linux exists? Most people don't even know what a browser is, and you think they are competent enough to seek out and install an operating system? Until you see preinstalled Linux boxes advertised heavily, mainstream adoption isn't going to happen.
I just found Wuala as an alternative. I'm not sure what kind of integration you are looking for but the interface is quite nice. They have packages for Ubuntu among other distributions, as well as an Android client. You get 5G of free storage and my favorite part is that they do client-side encryption unlike most cloud providers.
“The Ebury backdoor deployed by the Windigo cybercrime operation does not exploit a vulnerability in Linux or OpenSSH,” continued Léveillé. “Instead it is manually installed by a malicious attacker. The fact that they have managed to do this on tens of thousands of different servers is chilling. While anti-virus and two factor authentication is common on the desktop, it is rarely used to protect servers, making them vulnerable to credential stealing and easy malware deployment.”
That's absurd. I haven't killed anyone, nor have I voted to have anyone killed. In fact, I try to participate in the political process as little as possible. You might feel an urge to say that I'm "a part of the problem", but do try and remember that the vote of citizens in the US isn't generally how things are decided here.
(how did we get into Iraq in the first place? Afghanistan? The only vote I remember is the one that allowed George W. Bush the power to do anything he wanted to kill all dem terrerists using whatever means necessary, and I wasn't asked for my opinion on that one)
I'm a long time Gnome (and Ubuntu) user myself but with the Gnome3/Unity changes I've had the urge to look on the other side of the fence and see how KDE4 has been shaping up. I've always considered KDE apps like Clementine, K3b, Konqeuror, and Kopete to be high quality, but the environment itself never pleased me. After spending some time configuring the system it is now my favorite UI by far and I'm happy to say I will stick with it for some time to come. Here is a screenshot of my current desktop to give you an idea of the possibilities.
If you can't measure it, it isn't proven but that doesn't mean it isn't true. Radiation for example didn't suddenly blink into existence the first time it was measured.
The difference is that no one claimed radiation or x-rays existed until evidence of them was discovered.
Is it not natural for someone seeking the truth behind everything to seek out religion for areas where there will always be gaps?
No it is not. If you are looking for the truth it doesn't make sense to turn to superstition for it.
I'm not seeing how term limits stop corruption. Sure you won't have one corrupt person in power for long, but if you're just replacing them every few years, have you really changed anything?
There is no free market in the US. There are lots of regulations and government intervention here, they just happen to be on behalf of corporations rather than individual citizens. One of the reasons you can choose multiple ISP's and we cannot is due to monopoly agreements granted to ISP's in the US.
You have more favorable regulation in the EU to be sure, but don't pretend the problems in the US have anything to do with a lack of government involvement...
You are trying to suggest that the force of the government is necessary for freedom, a concept that takes quite a bit of logical wrangling to come up with. Freedom is about voluntary participation, which is the antithesis of government. The reason you are using quotes around free market is precisely because you are trying to describe something as free while saying it requires control, which doesn't make much sense at all.
"Free" is more complex, more subtle, more difficult to achieve, and -- on the upside -- vastly more beneficial to long-term GDP growth.
In theory, however in reality you can see what government intervention in economics achieves simply by looking at the problems in the US economy right now.
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I also dislike random placement of windows. Here are some tweaks you may find useful.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You think that feudalism, a system where the land is wholly owned by a king and merely "held" by others like nobles or knights, is an example of a totally free economy?
Tell me something, if everyone was so free, what reason was there for restraining the king's power through the Charter of Liberties or the Magna Carta? And have you never heard of the Guild System? You are talking about a time where people weren't free to work/own the land as they chose or even decide their own occupation.
How do people come up with this nonsense?
Are you seriously comparing Google to a Monarchy? The only way that comparison could have any validity would be if they legislated for a competitive advantage, but so far their services just seem to be more popular by virtue of being more useful to people. When you talk about 'network effects' entrenching Google's position over a competitor such as Bing, are you referring to first mover advantage? If not would you care to elaborate? As it stands now your post amounts to an aspersion with no supporting evidence.
Probably the second one of these
Instill
transitive verb
1. to cause to enter drop by drop (ex. instill medication into the infected eye)
2. to impart gradually (ex. instilling a love of learning in children)
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Which is redundant, since in the case of a business being "too big to fail", it's always the government who bails them out...
You install Unity Tweak Tool (unity-tweak-tool is the package name) and go to the 'scrolling' section to make your changes. I get that it's not obvious but I wouldn't call it hard to enable legacy scrollbars.
This sounds like the modern-day lobotomy. I wonder how it will be viewed a few decades from now.
What if I don't want a bag of onions?
It is coming to the Linux world, at least through Ubuntu. Check out this tech demo, it's exactly what you are describing.
More people would be using Bitcoin?
That's not a fair example, considering that Texas Instruments abandoned the marketplace. My Nexus 4 came out in 2012 and would be affected by this too, except it's been updated to the latest software available.
Are the comments in this thread surprising? Nope.
Regulations are exactly what is used to prevent competition. Local governments create monopolies through what are called franchise agreements. Unfortunately most people get confused about that and blame unregulated markets. (others don't even know what a free market is!)
You think those XP users know that Linux exists? Most people don't even know what a browser is, and you think they are competent enough to seek out and install an operating system? Until you see preinstalled Linux boxes advertised heavily, mainstream adoption isn't going to happen.
I just found Wuala as an alternative. I'm not sure what kind of integration you are looking for but the interface is quite nice. They have packages for Ubuntu among other distributions, as well as an Android client. You get 5G of free storage and my favorite part is that they do client-side encryption unlike most cloud providers.
“The Ebury backdoor deployed by the Windigo cybercrime operation does not exploit a vulnerability in Linux or OpenSSH,” continued Léveillé. “Instead it is manually installed by a malicious attacker. The fact that they have managed to do this on tens of thousands of different servers is chilling. While anti-virus and two factor authentication is common on the desktop, it is rarely used to protect servers, making them vulnerable to credential stealing and easy malware deployment.”
The bad part of that idea is forcing people to do it.
That's absurd. I haven't killed anyone, nor have I voted to have anyone killed. In fact, I try to participate in the political process as little as possible. You might feel an urge to say that I'm "a part of the problem", but do try and remember that the vote of citizens in the US isn't generally how things are decided here.
(how did we get into Iraq in the first place? Afghanistan? The only vote I remember is the one that allowed George W. Bush the power to do anything he wanted to kill all dem terrerists using whatever means necessary, and I wasn't asked for my opinion on that one)
I'm a long time Gnome (and Ubuntu) user myself but with the Gnome3/Unity changes I've had the urge to look on the other side of the fence and see how KDE4 has been shaping up. I've always considered KDE apps like Clementine, K3b, Konqeuror, and Kopete to be high quality, but the environment itself never pleased me. After spending some time configuring the system it is now my favorite UI by far and I'm happy to say I will stick with it for some time to come. Here is a screenshot of my current desktop to give you an idea of the possibilities.
http://k.min.us/ik5SCo.png
If you can't measure it, it isn't proven but that doesn't mean it isn't true. Radiation for example didn't suddenly blink into existence the first time it was measured.
The difference is that no one claimed radiation or x-rays existed until evidence of them was discovered.
Is it not natural for someone seeking the truth behind everything to seek out religion for areas where there will always be gaps?
No it is not. If you are looking for the truth it doesn't make sense to turn to superstition for it.
If corruption was a problem that could be solved by writing letters then it would not be a problem...
I'm not seeing how term limits stop corruption. Sure you won't have one corrupt person in power for long, but if you're just replacing them every few years, have you really changed anything?
Voting is our right and our duty therefore we must vote for someone
That's amusing
There is no free market in the US. There are lots of regulations and government intervention here, they just happen to be on behalf of corporations rather than individual citizens. One of the reasons you can choose multiple ISP's and we cannot is due to monopoly agreements granted to ISP's in the US. You have more favorable regulation in the EU to be sure, but don't pretend the problems in the US have anything to do with a lack of government involvement...
"Free" is more complex, more subtle, more difficult to achieve, and -- on the upside -- vastly more beneficial to long-term GDP growth.
In theory, however in reality you can see what government intervention in economics achieves simply by looking at the problems in the US economy right now.