The fact that the OP you replied to was voted 'flamebait' together with your reply are really quite disturbing. The fact that the FBI has been using paid informants to create 'terrorists' out of people who otherwise would never have the means to commit terrorist acts is well documented and the fact that people such as yourself believe this to be only within the realm of 'conspiracy theory' shows me just how horrible the mainstream media really is at doing its' job properly.
I highly recommed you to get your information from higher quality news sources like Democracy Now:
That was the line I was sold too. The fact of the matter is that technology has done its' part: it increased productivity tremendously. However what the people who were trying to tell me about this magnificent future I should expect to find while i was growing up is that you can never underestimate the OTHER guys GREED!
So it goes like this: A new technological invention allows workers A & B to do the same amount of work in half the time. Fire worker B and worker A still works the same amount of time doing twice as much work.
Or this: a new technology enables a certain sector to do the same amount of work with only a 3 day work week. However GREED means that the OTHER guy will make its' workers work 5 days a week in order to outcompete you who thought it was all about 'free time'.
This is a double-edged sword. There are many situations where free speech is curtailed because some alpha-male baboon dominates the conversation and takes advantage of others' good manners in order to further its' own agenda. In cases like that this device would actually end up providing free speech for those who might otherwise not have it.
You know I just want to say that I'm really disappointed in just how close to their stars a lot of these exo-planets that have been found so far are. And it just seems to keep on getting worse. I mean - now they're boiling away for Pete's sake!! Isn't there something that astronomers can do to halt that kind of nonsense? I mean at this rate we'll never find another suitable planet to move to and then what happens to us?
Why is there an extradition request for someone for 'questioning', then? They don't have a case strong enough to place formal charges but they can extradite him? From what I've heard that's never been done before. And in my opinion it never should. The swedish legal process needs to put up (commit to laying some charges) or shut up (back off with extraditing a person to 'ask them questions' when they can just ask him those questions over the phone.
The only thing I don't like about IE is the lack of ad-block. IE can be as secure as all get out but when it comes to users inadvertently clicking on ads that take them off into malware land only firefox with ad-block seems to prevent the inevitability of it.
So then now it's spend extra time with ridiculous release cycles or re-imaging and reconfiguring boxes every once in a while. Not a happy choice to have to make I must say.
There is no single solution to the problem and what often gets left out of the discussion is curbing energy needs so that the false dichotomy of fossil fuels or nuclear appears to be the only choice. Just as no one is addressing the non-renewable aspects of fossil fuels in a serious way (I've only ever heard Buckminster Fuller address it in a realistic fashion) also no one seems to have a real answer in regard to storing the ridiculously long lasting radioactive by-products of energy produced by uranium fission reactors. Oh wait a minute - there was something about thorium reactors and how they are much safer but they don't produce nuclear weapons and I'm not sure what the storage situation is like with those but anyway they seemed to promise a more sane solution and were written off because they're not weaponize-able or something typical like that.
Also we could leave nuclear waste disposal up to the mafia. Last I heard the rumour was they dumped all kinds of italian-sourced toxic sludge off the coast of somalia.
The kids out there are already having a tough time understanding what is legal and truly free for the taking and what isn't. Just imagine if works that are relatively contemporary started going public domain. It would be a disaster with some folks confirming for the kids that indeed there are SOME popular works that aren't classical music that are available in the public domain while others aren't. The little puke-faces would surely appropriate the majority of the catalogue that didn't include who's hot just right now claiming "it's so hard to tell which ones are public domain and which ones aren't". In short? It's what every generation knows about the generation that comes right after it but still acts as if it's a big surprise somehow: the kids are NOT all right. That's just a song. And no - it is not a song you are allowed to freely copy and share around despite the fact.
So people who don't like corruption and injustice should move somewhere it's even worse or they should just stfu and love the garbage they're steeped in, right?
RE: "It'd be great if there was an alternative to all of these things, for those who would rather pay a few bucks than give up their "soul", so to speak. Unfortunately, the masses do not want to pay for anything, anywhere and catering to the niche who does is usually not so profitable, as a result."
How could you write that immediately after acknowledging that the masses are paying for the privilege of being sold as a product vise a vis your statement about paying for magazines?
And what about the cable & satellite television industries? The 'masses' fork over $40-$50 per month per household for the privilege of having their eyeballs sold off to advertisers? I find your statement, in the face of these examples and countless others (paying obnoxious prices for the privilege of wearing clothing with brand names splashed all over them, for example) to be patently absurd.
The fact of the matter is that the 'masses' are actually constantly paying for the privilege of giving up their soul so I'm not exactly sure where you get off with such a statement.
I've aced tests where I have no idea what I'm doing I just regurgitated memorized junk on cue and I've done poorly on tests where I thought I had a really good grip on the subject material.
Who tests the testers and the tests they make up to test with, anyway?
And testing creates anxiety and paranoia in many personality types which goes toward skewed results.
I could go on and on but suffice it to say laptops in the classroom - even playing tetris all day - are miles better than the junky retarded testing systems I've been exposed to anyway. More laptops and banish testing. Oh and you might as well just fire to teachers too - do them a favor so they can try to get a job that pays a decent wage.
The best schedule I ever had was working a 4x10 shift wherein I would work Mon-Tue, have Wednesday off, then work Thur-Fri, and have sat-sun off.
So then I saved travel time to and from the work for a day, was able to get household chores done on a weekday when everything's open and everyone else was at work. NEVER got burnt out because I was either a) just coming back from a day off or b) had the next day off, and then, to top it all off, had a REAL weekend on Sat & Sun because the personal errandswe normally do on weekends were already done on Wednesday.
I have never been as stress-free, peaceful, and happy as when I had that schedule. While I have a 'better' job now I cannot have that schedule so I traded one for the other and I'm nowhere near as mentally healthy as I was then.
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Wow - and I thought *I* had anger issues.... sheesh
The fact that the OP you replied to was voted 'flamebait' together with your reply are really quite disturbing. The fact that the FBI has been using paid informants to create 'terrorists' out of people who otherwise would never have the means to commit terrorist acts is well documented and the fact that people such as yourself believe this to be only within the realm of 'conspiracy theory' shows me just how horrible the mainstream media really is at doing its' job properly.
I highly recommed you to get your information from higher quality news sources like Democracy Now:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/25/terrorists_for_the_fbi_how_the
That was the line I was sold too. The fact of the matter is that technology has done its' part: it increased productivity tremendously. However what the people who were trying to tell me about this magnificent future I should expect to find while i was growing up is that you can never underestimate the OTHER guys GREED!
So it goes like this: A new technological invention allows workers A & B to do the same amount of work in half the time. Fire worker B and worker A still works the same amount of time doing twice as much work.
Or this: a new technology enables a certain sector to do the same amount of work with only a 3 day work week. However GREED means that the OTHER guy will make its' workers work 5 days a week in order to outcompete you who thought it was all about 'free time'.
Really though, it's about GREED.
"But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows "
If you can't be above the law then why be a cop?
This is a double-edged sword. There are many situations where free speech is curtailed because some alpha-male baboon dominates the conversation and takes advantage of others' good manners in order to further its' own agenda. In cases like that this device would actually end up providing free speech for those who might otherwise not have it.
Those poor buggers obviously need the money or they wouldn't be involved in artificially jacking up the prices for their own benefit.
Yeah good thing the police are always right there preventing those murders that don't happen every single day.
You know I just want to say that I'm really disappointed in just how close to their stars a lot of these exo-planets that have been found so far are. And it just seems to keep on getting worse. I mean - now they're boiling away for Pete's sake!! Isn't there something that astronomers can do to halt that kind of nonsense? I mean at this rate we'll never find another suitable planet to move to and then what happens to us?
Difference here being the Linux contributors aren't making you pay for their software, right?
So it's not really a fair comparison IMO
Why is there an extradition request for someone for 'questioning', then? They don't have a case strong enough to place formal charges but they can extradite him? From what I've heard that's never been done before. And in my opinion it never should. The swedish legal process needs to put up (commit to laying some charges) or shut up (back off with extraditing a person to 'ask them questions' when they can just ask him those questions over the phone.
Why do I NEVER have mod points?
How can that outfit even still exist?
Sounds like a lotta fear-based drivel to me. The needs of the many far outweigh the needs of the few, son.
Yes. Yes it was. How did you know?
The only thing I don't like about IE is the lack of ad-block. IE can be as secure as all get out but when it comes to users inadvertently clicking on ads that take them off into malware land only firefox with ad-block seems to prevent the inevitability of it.
So then now it's spend extra time with ridiculous release cycles or re-imaging and reconfiguring boxes every once in a while. Not a happy choice to have to make I must say.
There is no single solution to the problem and what often gets left out of the discussion is curbing energy needs so that the false dichotomy of fossil fuels or nuclear appears to be the only choice. Just as no one is addressing the non-renewable aspects of fossil fuels in a serious way (I've only ever heard Buckminster Fuller address it in a realistic fashion) also no one seems to have a real answer in regard to storing the ridiculously long lasting radioactive by-products of energy produced by uranium fission reactors. Oh wait a minute - there was something about thorium reactors and how they are much safer but they don't produce nuclear weapons and I'm not sure what the storage situation is like with those but anyway they seemed to promise a more sane solution and were written off because they're not weaponize-able or something typical like that.
Also we could leave nuclear waste disposal up to the mafia. Last I heard the rumour was they dumped all kinds of italian-sourced toxic sludge off the coast of somalia.
I never had to split up the team or sacrifice any team members.
I think you were playing the game wrong, man.
The kids out there are already having a tough time understanding what is legal and truly free for the taking and what isn't. Just imagine if works that are relatively contemporary started going public domain. It would be a disaster with some folks confirming for the kids that indeed there are SOME popular works that aren't classical music that are available in the public domain while others aren't. The little puke-faces would surely appropriate the majority of the catalogue that didn't include who's hot just right now claiming "it's so hard to tell which ones are public domain and which ones aren't". In short? It's what every generation knows about the generation that comes right after it but still acts as if it's a big surprise somehow: the kids are NOT all right. That's just a song. And no - it is not a song you are allowed to freely copy and share around despite the fact.
So people who don't like corruption and injustice should move somewhere it's even worse or they should just stfu and love the garbage they're steeped in, right?
Lovely.
RE: "It'd be great if there was an alternative to all of these things, for those who would rather pay a few bucks than give up their "soul", so to speak. Unfortunately, the masses do not want to pay for anything, anywhere and catering to the niche who does is usually not so profitable, as a result."
How could you write that immediately after acknowledging that the masses are paying for the privilege of being sold as a product vise a vis your statement about paying for magazines?
And what about the cable & satellite television industries? The 'masses' fork over $40-$50 per month per household for the privilege of having their eyeballs sold off to advertisers? I find your statement, in the face of these examples and countless others (paying obnoxious prices for the privilege of wearing clothing with brand names splashed all over them, for example) to be patently absurd.
The fact of the matter is that the 'masses' are actually constantly paying for the privilege of giving up their soul so I'm not exactly sure where you get off with such a statement.
I've aced tests where I have no idea what I'm doing I just regurgitated memorized junk on cue and I've done poorly on tests where I thought I had a really good grip on the subject material.
Who tests the testers and the tests they make up to test with, anyway?
And testing creates anxiety and paranoia in many personality types which goes toward skewed results.
I could go on and on but suffice it to say laptops in the classroom - even playing tetris all day - are miles better than the junky retarded testing systems I've been exposed to anyway. More laptops and banish testing. Oh and you might as well just fire to teachers too - do them a favor so they can try to get a job that pays a decent wage.
No it's spelled right - the tricorder app is known for only being able to perform subtraction operations. :)
I hear that in the military you can be shot for less.
The best schedule I ever had was working a 4x10 shift wherein I would work Mon-Tue, have Wednesday off, then work Thur-Fri, and have sat-sun off.
So then I saved travel time to and from the work for a day, was able to get household chores done on a weekday when everything's open and everyone else was at work. NEVER got burnt out because I was either a) just coming back from a day off or b) had the next day off, and then, to top it all off, had a REAL weekend on Sat & Sun because the personal errandswe normally do on weekends were already done on Wednesday.
I have never been as stress-free, peaceful, and happy as when I had that schedule. While I have a 'better' job now I cannot have that schedule so I traded one for the other and I'm nowhere near as mentally healthy as I was then.