The question is how much potential is there for more trivial work? Look at the gold-farming/virtual work economy around MMOs, is there a potential for work more trivial than that?
Don't worry about sounding like a Luddite, their basic premise wasn't entirely wrong, they just got the cost/benefit wrong for their particular situation.
You can see this with the art shops run by bored rich house wives that are often little more then tax dodges or in some cases active money laundering operations or used for bribes. "No no, I won't slip you a brown envolope... say, that painting in your wives shop, what would you say that is worth *wink wink*".
OOOOOOOHHHH Now I see what those things are for. My brain is in orgasmic afterglow from the learning.
Fucking art house and juice bar by my office, damn thing had me puzzled every day. At least the empty restaurant further down the road was an honest money laundering front that didn't pretend to be anything else.
More on-topic, it's clear that capitalism requires too many compromises, harmful artificial controls like IP, and horrors such as war to balance various markets into the butterzone of supply and demand it requires that rarely arises naturally. Get away from capitalism and we don't have to pick from your four choices. Rather than observing how unworkable ST:TNG is in our current situation we should find ways to make it workable.
I just wanted to demonstrate the futility of any DRM-like protections on the VPN client application. Next they could try to detect when they're in a VM like some viruses do.
In fact it would be best to downplay the global warming aspect as much as possible, you'll still get environmentalist support but without the climate denialists' opposition.
We're also living in a veritable gilded age, inequality is worse than the first gilded age, possibly worse than ever before in history.
Many alternatives haven't been tried before, some aren't possible yet. Capitalism is the economic equivalent of savagery, it's just survival of the fittest. Advocate survival of the physically fittest and anyone will recognize it as savagery, advocate survival of the economically fittest and many see it as enlightened somehow. I think we can do better.
I thought about that, but it assumes that an increase in lifespan would lead to an increase in long-term thinking. Many people already think too short-term for their immediate situation, never mind a currently-possible human lifespan.
Can't you see the unholy hell that immortality would unleash on a civilization that is just starting to wake up to ideas of conservation and natural resource management? Or on a related note, how immortality would be handed out, managed and exploited under capitalism?
Ah I see...but I have a solution: SSH & VNC into another box controlling the computer connected to the VPN via USB keyboard, mouse & display emulation:D
In that case I'd use SSH and VNC on the "VPN terminal" computer for the connection to the Chinese guy. Any software he needs would have to be installed on it.
If I was doing this I would have used a home computer as a "VPN terminal," as in it connects to the work VPN, and then Chinese guy connects to that home PC through another VPN service and into the work VPN. If anybody asks about it, I leave my home PC connected to the VPN all day. If that doesn't cut it then I'd have to get creative with portable VPN software and steganographically hidden VPN connections on the work PC.
Funny that a lowly employee doing this isn't praised as a successful businessman...
The assault weapons ban is what they'll do if just a symbolic victory is good enough - they're practically banned already. The magazine limit thing? That will annoy gun owners but won't make much of a difference.
Now Swiss-style gun controls (even without the universal military training) would be an intelligent and effective response. Universal background checks, government gun registry, safe storage requirements. Let's see how much the NRA admires Switzerland then.
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I pronounce the first "a" like "ae" and the "i" like "ey."
He went on to explain why so it's not simply defeatism.
And I agree with him.
The question is how much potential is there for more trivial work? Look at the gold-farming/virtual work economy around MMOs, is there a potential for work more trivial than that?
Don't worry about sounding like a Luddite, their basic premise wasn't entirely wrong, they just got the cost/benefit wrong for their particular situation.
Do we really? The only natural limits are the size of the planet. With a controlled population level there could be enough room for everyone.
Ever read the short story Manna? It's relevant and outlines a "post-singularity communist" society where everyone is "close enough" to equal.
China is communist in name only. They're more of a fascist dictatorship.
You can see this with the art shops run by bored rich house wives that are often little more then tax dodges or in some cases active money laundering operations or used for bribes. "No no, I won't slip you a brown envolope... say, that painting in your wives shop, what would you say that is worth *wink wink*".
OOOOOOOHHHH Now I see what those things are for. My brain is in orgasmic afterglow from the learning.
Fucking art house and juice bar by my office, damn thing had me puzzled every day. At least the empty restaurant further down the road was an honest money laundering front that didn't pretend to be anything else.
More on-topic, it's clear that capitalism requires too many compromises, harmful artificial controls like IP, and horrors such as war to balance various markets into the butterzone of supply and demand it requires that rarely arises naturally. Get away from capitalism and we don't have to pick from your four choices. Rather than observing how unworkable ST:TNG is in our current situation we should find ways to make it workable.
I just wanted to demonstrate the futility of any DRM-like protections on the VPN client application. Next they could try to detect when they're in a VM like some viruses do.
In fact it would be best to downplay the global warming aspect as much as possible, you'll still get environmentalist support but without the climate denialists' opposition.
Put up massive prizes like the Grand Masters can get, and I'm in >:)
I think you may have made a good point against me. Geniuses are in short supply but murderous despots are post-scarcity.
Although we have plenty enough people who could substitute for Edison or Ford going around...
We're also living in a veritable gilded age, inequality is worse than the first gilded age, possibly worse than ever before in history.
Many alternatives haven't been tried before, some aren't possible yet. Capitalism is the economic equivalent of savagery, it's just survival of the fittest. Advocate survival of the physically fittest and anyone will recognize it as savagery, advocate survival of the economically fittest and many see it as enlightened somehow. I think we can do better.
I thought about that, but it assumes that an increase in lifespan would lead to an increase in long-term thinking. Many people already think too short-term for their immediate situation, never mind a currently-possible human lifespan.
Can't you see the unholy hell that immortality would unleash on a civilization that is just starting to wake up to ideas of conservation and natural resource management? Or on a related note, how immortality would be handed out, managed and exploited under capitalism?
Yeah we are nowhere near mature enough as a civilization for such a discovery. It would be like discovering nukes in the bronze age.
Heeeeeeey psych. class ladies!
I LOL'd pretty hard XD
This is your average idiot's opinion of scientists and understanding of science, and why we can't have nice things.
Theist persecution complex ENGAGE!
I'm sure the anthropologists would be first to reach for the button.
Ah I see...but I have a solution: SSH & VNC into another box controlling the computer connected to the VPN via USB keyboard, mouse & display emulation :D
In that case I'd use SSH and VNC on the "VPN terminal" computer for the connection to the Chinese guy. Any software he needs would have to be installed on it.
If I was doing this I would have used a home computer as a "VPN terminal," as in it connects to the work VPN, and then Chinese guy connects to that home PC through another VPN service and into the work VPN. If anybody asks about it, I leave my home PC connected to the VPN all day. If that doesn't cut it then I'd have to get creative with portable VPN software and steganographically hidden VPN connections on the work PC.
Funny that a lowly employee doing this isn't praised as a successful businessman...
The assault weapons ban is what they'll do if just a symbolic victory is good enough - they're practically banned already. The magazine limit thing? That will annoy gun owners but won't make much of a difference.
Now Swiss-style gun controls (even without the universal military training) would be an intelligent and effective response. Universal background checks, government gun registry, safe storage requirements. Let's see how much the NRA admires Switzerland then.
They *are* death panels. Just recognize that private insurance companies have them too, and they have shareholders to satisfy...
I've also seen a lot of homosexual necrophilia going on in FPSes, most notably the Halo series.