Historically speaking people who have nothing to loose are much easier to motivate to fight. I do not believe it is a coincidence that Afghanistan is the 4th poorest nation in the world. I agree leaders (wealthy or otherwise) can easily unite hungry people behind things like ideology, but it is very difficult to get those with food in their stomachs to risk their lives for a cause. When have two well fed populations fought each other?
Terrorism is fed by ideology, not poverty,
I would say, 'Terrorism is fed by poverty and focused by ideology.'
Wait, wait. What you're saying is that simply because Google has not released a Chrome for Linux, you wouldn't recommend it? Isn't that both blatantly incompetent?
Perhaps if recommending software were my job, but it's not.
The software should be judged based on its own merits, not whether it runs on whatever choice of system you personally operate on
And how would I judge it's merits if it doesn't run on the operating system that I personally operate on. It's not bias, if it doesn't run on what I use how would I use it. You're acting like I have a responsibility to buy Windows. I do not. I'm not forcing anyone I know to listen to me. They just happen to listen to me because when they have an issue, I'm always capable of fixing it for them. They listen to me because they get more out of there computers now. I have no obligation to test software.
Because it is the source of unrest in this world. It breeds terrorism. Poor people fight more than rich people. Because they can incubate disease that can spread.
There are number of reason to not let fellow humans suffer, but the best reasons are selfish.
I assume most on this website are like me. I have a circle of friends/family that look to me for all of their computer needs. They use Firefox because I showed it to them. I run Linux. By not making a Linux version they are not just shutting out 1% of the market, they are shutting out all of those Windows users that surround me. I don't suggest Chrome because I don't even have the opportunity to use it at home. If I am the 1 in a hundred that use Linux you can add 20 to 30 to me when it comes to what software gets a thumbs up, a thumbs down and an unknown. So really they are leaving out 20 to 30% of the market by not making a Linux version.
Anyone remember icravetv.com back in the 90s. They were in Canada and used to stream ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and a few others. At the time under Canadian law it was legal for companies to redistribute content as long as they didn't alter it. The law was intended to help rural areas. The idea was that as long as you weren't altering the content, the content creators benefited because they could reach more viewers and thus charge more for commercials. As much as I hate TWC why should they pay Viacom anything for increasing the viewer base.
TWC should only have to charge people for the pipe not the content. We watch commercials to pay for the content. I understand paying for premium channels but paying for ad-laden channels that fill most of cable is ridiculous.
BTW I seem to remember that one of the networks had icravetv.com shutdown prior to the super bowl because it would diminish the value of the event. I don't know how letting everyone who wants to watch commercials hurts you but then again that's my whole point.
I will never understand why companies will spend so much time, money, rewriting code, testing, and training to migrate from one version of MS software to another and then use the excuse that they can't switch to Open Source because of the cost of migrating.
Your right education is not mentioned in the Constitution (I wonder why I thought that). I appreciate your educating me though, I am grateful there are people who can argue and be intelligent at the same time.
Since you are obviously well read in this area I would like to know more of your thoughts (if you don't mind):
What do you think of his idea that there should be no government just a democracy of people?
Is such a thing even feasible under any philosophical doctrine?
Do you think any his points were valid? If so, could they be incorporated into Western philosophy?
Could you store the energy by splitting water and storing the Hydrogen? When you burn it back you'd also have some pretty clean water. I don't know what expense is involved large scale, but it could also serve as a step to the oft talked about Hydrogen economy.
I'm really not trying to be a smart ass but is there an example of something meeting those requirements in the last decade? Something not anecdotal but a real bug that has occurred that caused hardware to brick? Should the word brick ever be used anymore or should the word be modified to mean something more modern, like PITA for average user to fix?
Whether you agree or disagree with this business model how could anyone in their right mind argue that this is something that can be patented?
It's time the patent office charge for wasting their time, especially since it's obvious there is too much crap flung at them. Maybe a contempt of patent office fine. Perhaps, it should only apply to companies that file for patents more than x number of times a year.
Yeah...it seems when they sent their people out to check every purchased machine to make sure the user had updated their firmware they missed a few addresses. I bet those people didn't register their hardware or something...
Seems to me the OS update could just check to see if the latest firmware was installed. That or they could have tested it on the older firmware.
Also...Linux FAILS on TONS of hardware, Windows FAILS on TONS of hardware.
Windows and Linux fail on more machines than Apple even supports. The number of hardware configurations that Apple supports compared to Windows or Linux is tiny.
Sorry but if you're skipping a firmware update, and running a major OS update on old firmware, you deserve a headache.
I didn't think mac users needed to know anything about that stuff. Why would the newest update not include or look for the older update to already be installed. It seems reasonable to me that many users would just choose the newest update without thinking they had to do all prior ones.
Exactly, I thought the whole point of Apple tightly controlling all the hardware was so this wouldn't happen. In agreeing with you I would add that Windows and Linux have nothing to very little to do with the hardware side of things.
Since I read it, I must point out your arguments are very much taken out of context. You quoted this
"There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience."
This is very much like the Creationist argument that Darwin said the eye was too complex to have evolved. Marx isn't saying this, he's saying that his opponents(the rich) will accuse Communism of this. He's arguing that such thing should not be used by one class to suppress another.
The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention
To continues the quote "and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class. ", he is arguing that education is influenced by the ruling class and that education should be free and public for all. He is arguing that home schooling. should be replaced with equal public education for all. In this manner western education is very inline with the communist manifesto. One could make the argument that his form of public education is inline with that found in the U.S. constitution.
"Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists."
He's speaking more of inheritance and child slavery. He's not talking about abolishing the family but looking at children as something other than people who can make profit for you and carry on your wealth. Additionally he argues that capitalism has already destroyed the family for the poor, looking around at the U.S. it's hard to argue with him.
I don't necessarily agree with Communism, but it is certainly one of those things that is vastly skewed by it's opponents.
'In the schema of historical materialism, communism is the idea of a free society with no division or alienation, where mankind is free from oppression and scarcity. A communist society would have no governments, countries, or class divisions. In Marxist theory, socialism is the intermediate system between capitalism and communism, when the government is in the process of changing the means of ownership from privatism, to collective ownership.'wikipedia
I don't think it is unreasonable to use the Communist Manifesto to answer the question "What is communism?".
I don't think I've ever truly seen a communist state. For what it's worth I've never seen a true capitalist state either. Communism like capitalism is an economic model and it has nothing to do with freedom of speech, religion or human rights.
The closest thing perhaps to communism would be the isolated communities of indigenous peoples. While the closest thing to capitalism would be Hong Kong.
I think it was obvious to a lot of people. After all storing data on a computer is a pretty standard thought. I don't know why the fact that it's credit card information for a purchase is that novel.
In the real world, bars have done this for a long time. It's called a tab.
What about Mexico? Goods don't cross there? And terrorist would never enter through Canada right? I thought this was about security, why the huge loop hole (5,525 miles of it)?
Yes there is more trade with Canada, 49 billion dollars worth in Oct of 08, but there was 40 billion dollars worth with China and 34 billion with Mexico source, they don't get an exception.
Do you believe that if Mexico did more trade with us, that we would make an exception for them?
Whatever argument that is made for this project, the exception for Canadians smacks of racism or at least culturalism (is that a word?)
How come no one ever complains that Canadians take our high paying manufacturing jobs in the north. Is it because they're white?
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally against this and just want to point out that it has more to do with not trusting those that don't look and act like us than anything else eh.
It seems this is very similar to when the motor cortex is damaged and rehab trains another part of the brain to take over that function. Perhaps a similar rehab regiment for visual cortex damage could be thought up. Start simple, and grow from there. Maybe large basic shapes and colors and over time making them a little more complex.
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Terrorism is fed by ideology, not poverty,
I would say, 'Terrorism is fed by poverty and focused by ideology.'
Wait, wait. What you're saying is that simply because Google has not released a Chrome for Linux, you wouldn't recommend it? Isn't that both blatantly incompetent?
Perhaps if recommending software were my job, but it's not.
The software should be judged based on its own merits, not whether it runs on whatever choice of system you personally operate on
And how would I judge it's merits if it doesn't run on the operating system that I personally operate on. It's not bias, if it doesn't run on what I use how would I use it. You're acting like I have a responsibility to buy Windows. I do not. I'm not forcing anyone I know to listen to me. They just happen to listen to me because when they have an issue, I'm always capable of fixing it for them. They listen to me because they get more out of there computers now. I have no obligation to test software.
Because it is the source of unrest in this world. It breeds terrorism. Poor people fight more than rich people. Because they can incubate disease that can spread.
There are number of reason to not let fellow humans suffer, but the best reasons are selfish.
I assume most on this website are like me. I have a circle of friends/family that look to me for all of their computer needs. They use Firefox because I showed it to them. I run Linux. By not making a Linux version they are not just shutting out 1% of the market, they are shutting out all of those Windows users that surround me. I don't suggest Chrome because I don't even have the opportunity to use it at home. If I am the 1 in a hundred that use Linux you can add 20 to 30 to me when it comes to what software gets a thumbs up, a thumbs down and an unknown. So really they are leaving out 20 to 30% of the market by not making a Linux version.
I think there is a simple solution. If you don't have an organ donor card then you don't get any organs either if you need them.
What's the difference between this and swype?
Anyone remember icravetv.com back in the 90s. They were in Canada and used to stream ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and a few others. At the time under Canadian law it was legal for companies to redistribute content as long as they didn't alter it. The law was intended to help rural areas. The idea was that as long as you weren't altering the content, the content creators benefited because they could reach more viewers and thus charge more for commercials. As much as I hate TWC why should they pay Viacom anything for increasing the viewer base.
TWC should only have to charge people for the pipe not the content. We watch commercials to pay for the content. I understand paying for premium channels but paying for ad-laden channels that fill most of cable is ridiculous.
BTW I seem to remember that one of the networks had icravetv.com shutdown prior to the super bowl because it would diminish the value of the event. I don't know how letting everyone who wants to watch commercials hurts you but then again that's my whole point.
I will never understand why companies will spend so much time, money, rewriting code, testing, and training to migrate from one version of MS software to another and then use the excuse that they can't switch to Open Source because of the cost of migrating.
Your right education is not mentioned in the Constitution (I wonder why I thought that). I appreciate your educating me though, I am grateful there are people who can argue and be intelligent at the same time.
Since you are obviously well read in this area I would like to know more of your thoughts (if you don't mind):
What do you think of his idea that there should be no government just a democracy of people?
Is such a thing even feasible under any philosophical doctrine?
Do you think any his points were valid? If so, could they be incorporated into Western philosophy?
Some sort of cylindrical container for holding liquids one intends to imbibe?
You'd better patent that before someone else does.
Could you store the energy by splitting water and storing the Hydrogen? When you burn it back you'd also have some pretty clean water. I don't know what expense is involved large scale, but it could also serve as a step to the oft talked about Hydrogen economy.
I'm really not trying to be a smart ass but is there an example of something meeting those requirements in the last decade? Something not anecdotal but a real bug that has occurred that caused hardware to brick? Should the word brick ever be used anymore or should the word be modified to mean something more modern, like PITA for average user to fix?
Whether you agree or disagree with this business model how could anyone in their right mind argue that this is something that can be patented?
It's time the patent office charge for wasting their time, especially since it's obvious there is too much crap flung at them. Maybe a contempt of patent office fine. Perhaps, it should only apply to companies that file for patents more than x number of times a year.
Yeah...it seems when they sent their people out to check every purchased machine to make sure the user had updated their firmware they missed a few addresses. I bet those people didn't register their hardware or something...
Seems to me the OS update could just check to see if the latest firmware was installed. That or they could have tested it on the older firmware.
Also...Linux FAILS on TONS of hardware, Windows FAILS on TONS of hardware.
Windows and Linux fail on more machines than Apple even supports. The number of hardware configurations that Apple supports compared to Windows or Linux is tiny.
Sorry but if you're skipping a firmware update, and running a major OS update on old firmware, you deserve a headache.
I didn't think mac users needed to know anything about that stuff. Why would the newest update not include or look for the older update to already be installed. It seems reasonable to me that many users would just choose the newest update without thinking they had to do all prior ones.
It is nice that this issue can be fixed by users themselves without having to send the computers for repair.
If they have additional hardware like an external keyboard, mouse and display. Otherwise, I assume they'll have to send/take it in.
What def would you use? Software almost never makes a piece of hardware completely unfixable. Honestly I'm curious because I don't know.
Exactly, I thought the whole point of Apple tightly controlling all the hardware was so this wouldn't happen. In agreeing with you I would add that Windows and Linux have nothing to very little to do with the hardware side of things.
"There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience."
This is very much like the Creationist argument that Darwin said the eye was too complex to have evolved. Marx isn't saying this, he's saying that his opponents(the rich) will accuse Communism of this. He's arguing that such thing should not be used by one class to suppress another.
The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention
To continues the quote "and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class. ", he is arguing that education is influenced by the ruling class and that education should be free and public for all. He is arguing that home schooling. should be replaced with equal public education for all. In this manner western education is very inline with the communist manifesto. One could make the argument that his form of public education is inline with that found in the U.S. constitution.
"Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists."
He's speaking more of inheritance and child slavery. He's not talking about abolishing the family but looking at children as something other than people who can make profit for you and carry on your wealth. Additionally he argues that capitalism has already destroyed the family for the poor, looking around at the U.S. it's hard to argue with him.
I don't necessarily agree with Communism, but it is certainly one of those things that is vastly skewed by it's opponents.
I don't think it is unreasonable to use the Communist Manifesto to answer the question "What is communism?".
I will concede that you have a point though.
I don't think I've ever truly seen a communist state. For what it's worth I've never seen a true capitalist state either. Communism like capitalism is an economic model and it has nothing to do with freedom of speech, religion or human rights.
The closest thing perhaps to communism would be the isolated communities of indigenous peoples. While the closest thing to capitalism would be Hong Kong.
I think it was obvious to a lot of people. After all storing data on a computer is a pretty standard thought. I don't know why the fact that it's credit card information for a purchase is that novel.
In the real world, bars have done this for a long time. It's called a tab.
What about Mexico? Goods don't cross there? And terrorist would never enter through Canada right? I thought this was about security, why the huge loop hole (5,525 miles of it)?
Yes there is more trade with Canada, 49 billion dollars worth in Oct of 08, but there was 40 billion dollars worth with China and 34 billion with Mexico source, they don't get an exception.
Do you believe that if Mexico did more trade with us, that we would make an exception for them?
Whatever argument that is made for this project, the exception for Canadians smacks of racism or at least culturalism (is that a word?)
How come no one ever complains that Canadians take our high paying manufacturing jobs in the north. Is it because they're white?
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally against this and just want to point out that it has more to do with not trusting those that don't look and act like us than anything else eh.
It seems this is very similar to when the motor cortex is damaged and rehab trains another part of the brain to take over that function. Perhaps a similar rehab regiment for visual cortex damage could be thought up. Start simple, and grow from there. Maybe large basic shapes and colors and over time making them a little more complex.