You ever tried to be on welfare? An able bodied man? It ain't gonna happen, son.
And if you ever did go on welfare, it is not, not not going to pay your mortgage payment, nor would even begin to touch your rent, if you live anywhere halfway decent.
It's a few hundred dollars a month.
Your taxes wouldn't quintuple, BTW. Welfare doesn't even begin to nick the federal budget. For instance, Aid for Families with Dependent Children, even at its spending height, didn't exceed one percent (1.0%) of the national budget. People seem to think half their taxes are paid out to welfare receipients.
Now, if you want to talk the BIGGEST welfare scam of all time, think of this: 17% percent of your taxes, that is to say 17 times what we spend on little kids in poverty, is spent paying the interest on the national debt. That's the INTEREST. So when you hear them increasing the debt limit once more (it's 6.5 trillion now), you can listen to 17/100 of every one of your tax dollars pouring into wealthy holders of that debt paper. And it's been pouring into their pockets for over twenty years.
Let's see, let's just posit we take in 2 trill a year. 340 billion goes towards the bondholders who hold that paper. Hoody hoo!!!! multiply that by 20 years, assuming inflation makes all things equal, and we get:
6,800 billion dollars.
I somehow doubt we have paid poor people in the U.S. 6,800 billion dollars since 1980. On the other hand, we have paid individuals, funds, and business 6.8 trillion dollars of free money. And we haven't even touched the principal.
That teeny-tiny piece caled human services is what covers welfare. The big cancer is the debt, the service on the debt, and defense spending.
I *wish* we had a safety net in this country, but we don't. Welfare won't pay for anything. You have to have *no* income, sell your belongings, your home, kill your assets. I have bad memories of a brush with welfare when I was a kid. Believe me, you wait months to see any cash. And the money you get doesn't cover anything real. Better to beg in the streets. You might make more.
I am sadly following all of this, and I have to make one assertion:
Companies do not have rights. Only individals do.
This may seem a niggling point, but I think it is the critical one, unnoticed by almost everyone.
What we have is a fictional individual trying to steal everything not nailed down, including thoughts. This fictional individual has no rights, by Jeffersonian standards, and damned be the 19th century Supreme Court justices that granted corporations the status of individuals.
Fighting non-existent corporate individuals is intentionally impossible.
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By "pay", I don't mean only money. He is under no obligation to pay return postage, or to spend *time* on them.
I would call Omnicare, tho, and ask for a $50 fee to send it back. Hell, I'd send them a letter, with a shrinkwrapped license stating that, by opening the letter, they agreed to pay me Fifty(50) dollars U.S. to send their book back, otherwise I would assume all copyrights.
Let them play "Duelling Licenses". Cue the Deliverence theme.
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In Illinois, the law is simple: if you are sent an unsolicited piece of merchandise, you are under NO obligation to pay the sender anything. That book is no longer Omnicare's, it is the doctor's. He can tell them to go blow.
As for the license, I'd wad it up and use it for wiping up cat barf, or something similarly useful.
who is she getting married for anyway, her friends?
Sadly, yes, more often then not. I don't know how many times I've watched The Council of Girlfriends and Guyfriends produce committee reports to dump a boyfriend. Even more sad is how many times those vetoes are heeded.
Hardly left wing. They are libertarian elitists, which is about as far-right as you can get without bumping into Birchers.
Believing yourself to be indispensible is neither left- nor right- anyway. It's the attitude of someone who has never seen a down market for his skills. Never been slapped with the rotting dead Carp of Reality. The attitude of spoiled kids.
Businesses since the '90's have been telling us we are as useful as the current project. We can have health bennies killed, salaries slashed, workload increased. The law of the jungle for everyone, except of course, it is not applied to the greedy men at the controls, who get cushy jobs through connections, enormous hidden stock options, ever-growing salaries, and never have to worry about food or housing for themselves.
There is no "oversupply" of talent. There is an oversupply of jackals who ran their companies into the ground and took off to Bermuda.
I'd rather have a reactor go down than a flying oil tanker. At least the reactor won't spray napalm over my neighborhood when it hits -- there will be instead be a slightly "hot" crater. The nuclear fuel will hit the ground like armored lead, and stay where it lands. No impressive and deadly fire/explosion to kill dozens or hundreds (even thousands) as it careens at 400+ mph through my residential streets.
Y'all see, there is a damned good chance that such corn will contaminate the other crops, and then Monsanto or whomever will own their souls. Or GNP, whatever works.
I'm surprised that the Canadian case isn't common knowledge. Then again, it wasn't exactly Evening News material for the U.S. No network news department head wants to seem "liberal" nowadays, which translates to "damned few stories critical of corporations" (balance), which of course is not connected to trying to please conservative corporate owners who have become quite.... proactive in their news departments of late.
The submitter of the item is correct in identifying IP lawsuit threats as an important datum in the decision to decline the food, even if the article cited doesn't make a point of it. An informed person would already know about the enormous lawsuit potential, and add that to the stack.
Did corporations even exist at the time the First Amendment was written?
Nope.
That's why corporations are not listed. I think that if Jefferson and the rest could see what new class of "citizen" has been created, they'd fire the first musket shot.
Corporations are not governments -- but they have more power and it seems, no responsibilities save those they voluntarily assume. Hell, they don't even feel responsible to the shareholders anymore.
Power without responsibilty == tyranny, however you slice it.
Well, ICANN will win regardless, if you shift views of what they were trying to accomplish. They were running down the clock, and they've accomplished this. Soon the gadfly will be gone.
Interesting. Even though the judge seems sympathetic, there is really no law to punish corporations who misbehave. WHO gets punished? So classic. No one really does. It's a win-win for them. And the very wealthy movers behind ICANN will still make their millions, or is it billions, in the years to come.
That wasn't a coincidence. Speilberg had a large number of people interested in future technological developments come up with rational extropolations of current research. The MIT project, for instance, to produce just this effect. So, just about everything you saw in Minority Report, tech-wise, is under consideration somewhere.
I, however, am sadly certain that this will be used as a weapon. Blow a person's eardrums out with that thing, or even worse. How much sonic energy does it take to make your head blow up like an overheated pumpkin?
Is there a defence that can be devised? 180-out-of-phase speakers? What?
Are you aware that the Ukraine was put under embargo by the U.S. this year (or late last) for a time? It was lifted when they complied with U.S. demands to make their copyright laws equivalent to ours.
Not very funny. If Malaysia acts up and tries to be an independent nation, Bush et Congress will courteously perform corporate bidding and punish Malaysia until it grovels.
It sort of reminds me of a case a few years ago when the U.S. actually pressured... Sweden was it?... to change its constitution in order to seal public records that contained the holy writings of L. Ron Hubbard. Seems their constitution required court records (and evidence) to be publicly available, and the Xenu story was introduced as evidence. The Boys From Hubbard took shifts keeping the material checked out at the library until the U.S. Guvmint pressured a constitutional change... for copyright or trade secret exemptions to the law, I think.
The U.S. has no compunctions about meddling with the world's laws if we don't like them. It's cool to be the New Evil Empire. All Hail!
"Stealing = misusing something that is legally someone else's "
No...
Stealing = taking away something that is legally someone elses, DEPRIVING THAT PERSON OF THE USE OF THEIR PROPRTY.
You can't steal an idea, or steal fire, or steal a song. You can use it, extend it, or sing it.
But you've deprived no one of property. It wasn't stolen. You are using a loaded word to semantically equate a non-harmful act with a harmful one -- a rhetorical game that works in America, sadly, since we use logic, but not reason.
No, Apple and their evil patents didn't sink Firewire. They let the license go for a dollar a box, then soon waived the fee altogether.
INTEL HAS THE PATENTS ON USB, and they ain't shy about making money on it. And forcing Firewire OUT, and forcing their inferior product IN.
As for complexity, that would not be expensive if the technology could get better economies of scale.
But since Wintel does not want Apple to prosper, and also since Intel was mightily miffed about little Apple taking it's USB thunder away when Firewire came out, they have FUDDed, lied, blocked, inhibited, you name it, any attempt at getting Firewire into the mainstream.
Firewire is an amazing success story -- Overachiever actually makes big despite determined opposition to Voldemor it in the crib.
Expensive complexity in chipsets is nonsense. Much more complex circuitry exists for a song -- how much is an LCD desktop screen? A video card? A CPU, jeez! A Duron 1.3 is going for $54! I picked up my Shuttle FV-24 barebone PC with Firewire on the motherboard for $190! There is no reason why Firewire is not on the mobo other than cutthroat "free" marketers making damn sure crud gets sold to nuke the hated compeitor.
I zipped through the Millenium Falcon pages, and was saddened to read that the property owner's neighbors were "pissed".
I always thought that if I left the city and found a nice piece of land somewhere, I could use it to do silly thing like build a starship in the corner of the yard, like the ones I used to design as a kid.
But it seems whereever you go, there are neighbors who deem your property under their control, and the laws back them up. Condos, too: had a deal once where I sold a place because the other owners decided they were "in fear" of some gamers I had over one night (ooo - they were NOT-WHITE - scary!) and made my life a hell 'til I left. The tiny-souled, vicious people are the ones who make their screaming heard.
Hey,/.ers -- is there anywhere in the U.S. where a man could be left the hell alone from the neighbors? I need options here.
As for the Mech, I love people who dream and do what other people don't! Make more 'mechs, build starships in your back yard. Live a little!
I don't understand how you interpreted my statement as anti-1394?
I have done my homework on Firewire, and am an active proponent. I am cranked, as my post indicated, that this company bows towards Intel and ignores 1394's superiority.
I shall continue opening mouth... when you open yours, keep an eye on where your foot is headed.
USB 2.0 will run at 480 Mbps in a best case scenario. Firewire will always run at 400. Why? Firewire is peer-to-peer, USB x.0 requires CPU intervention.
And comparing Firewire 1.0 to USB 2.0 is a tad unfair, because Firewire 2.0 (1394b), ramping up this year, will run at 800 Mbps.
Another fine myth: Apple charging freight for using 1393.
Nope. Years back, the fee was $1.00. Now, I think it's nothing.
How much does Intel charge for USB? And why are they influencing the market by retarding adoption? Firewire is superior to USB 1&2 in every way, and Firewire 2 will be insane.
FW is expensive because Intel wants it that way. They don't want Apple to succeed, and they've too much investment in USB teh to let it go.
quote: In the 1950s, Greenspan, who had been steeped in the free-market skepticism of John Maynard Keynes along with most economists of his generation, became an acolyte of Ayn Rand. Rand's philosophy of what she termed "enlightened selfishness" bears considerable similarity to today's libertarianism. Greenspan met Rand through his first wife, painter Joan Mitchell. Although Greenspan's friends and colleagues suggest that his relationship with Rand's Objectivism was more of a flirtation than a real commitment, Greenspan remained part of the philosopher's circle until at least the late 1960s. In addition to writing for The Objectivist, a rather surprising essay he wrote in defense of the gold standard -- surprising in light of his later work, that is -- appeared in the Rand-edited 1967 collection of essays Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Still, something about Greenspan's obvious pragmatism and political instincts fits poorly with the uncompromising sense of purity that characterizes Rand's heroes. If Greenspan ever was an Objectivist, his years in Washington have probably made him reconsider.
quote: RAND FAN. By his mid-20s, Greenspan turned from music to economics--and the virulently antigovernment views of philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand. Greenspan became a regular in her salon in the 1950s and remained in touch until her death in 1982.
Randies may think of Greenspan as an apostate today, but the Chairman still thinks of himself as a Randite, if his reading preferences are any indication. And it's not hard to get become an apostate of Objectivism -- dissent ain't tolerated much in that salon.
Mayhap Greenspan deviated from Rand because he's actually working in the real world.
The Fed may be anti-democratic in nature, but thank god for that, or we would have collapsed into something resembling the Weimar Republic in the 80's.
Man, has someone ever indoctrinated you. A little too much time spent in college perhaps?
Why is Worldcom in this mess? Because they have been encouraged to please their shareholders at the cost of their core business vision.
Who's watch did this happen under? Can you say "Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago"?
It happened under Bush. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush. And before that, it happened under Reagan and Bush's daddy. And during Clinton, it happened under the Contract on America lead by the sex-crazed Gingrich and all the other far-right warriors, as Clinton fought them every inch of the way. He did it so well they had to try a putsch to get rid of him. They failed.
This mess has been in evolution since the late seventies, and kicked into high gear in the early ninties. Demos certainly are hardly distinguiushable in their support for big business. To survive in the right-wing era, they have forgone their classic pro-little guy stance in order to obtain financing, otherwise we really would be in a one-party system. They would have been removed from office one-by-one by infinite money.
But to compare Clinton to Reagan/Bush/Bush is silly to anyone who actually reads. Clinton could be regarded as the best Republican president since Lincoln; he balanced. The RBB axis does not balance, does not even pretend to balance. They wanted the neocon agenda, which meant removing regs on relationships between auditors and the audited, removing the rights of stockholders to sue larcenous directors (rein in those evil lawyers!), removing ownership restrictions of mass media, annihilation by underfunding of environment oversight, and worst of all, installing the foxes to guard the henhouses. The nitwit in charge of the SEC, Pitt, was the chief lobbist for the accounting industry! He actually wrote a paper instructing businesses to destroy documents on a regular basis to hamper investigations! Powell of the FCC is simply going limp. The EPA is dead.
Clinton balanced the budget by making hard choices. We now have the same liars we had in the '80's in charge again, and we have been robbed us of trillions, TRILLIONS.
I don't hear the Bush asking for Social Security to be privatized again. Can you imagine the trillions that would have been funneled off into the financial sector??
Who's going to clean it up? Probably not anyone in power right now. The Democrats are too busy looking for campaign mud to sling to actually do their job. The Republicans are too busy fending off the Democrats, attempting to fight a war, and watching out for their business buddies to do anything about it.
We are not at war. We are blowing up rocks to make ourselves feel better, and not incidentally to get a pipeline across Afghanistan.
Only Congress can declare war.
If we wanted war against the countries that spawned Bin Laden, we would be bombing Saudi Arabia right now. The terrorists were from there. But for some reason, we're blowing up another country that had nothing to do with 9/11.
War my tired fingers. This is an Orwellian power grab. We are at war, don't question anything, we're too busy... while somehow finding time to drape naughty statues, investigate whorehouses in New Orleans, fly around the country raising a billion dollar campaign fund...
Ain't gonna get better soon....if Shakespeare had been born later he might have said "First thing we do, let's kill all the politicians".
Politics is nothing but the process by which three or more people resolve their differences without killing each other. If you kill all the politicians, somehow, you mean you kill everyone with the human intelligence to iron out a working government. What do you propose, one man one rule? We nearly have that now. It's always very popular.
Did you ever think that the creation of anti-"political" sentiment is a political tactic of high sophistication? That you are being duped yourself by adopting nihilism? Not that it isn't the most popular U.S. position -- the citizens of the U.S. have always hated their own representatives. Which explains a lot of our history, including how the unelected Boy King was given his throne without outrage from the governed.
By adopting a hatred of politics, you have have been removed from the board, and those who encourage such nihilism gleefully continue playing.
You are using the word "faith" with entirely different meanings.
Your children exist: faith in them is appropriate. They also need your faith, or you would spend your life making them miserable with your monitoring.
Your faith in their existence is caused by requests for money, medical bills, and the fact you had them in your house. Your faith in their existence is based on observation, cross-checked with the observations of others hat, yes, they went to school, were seen frequently, exist.
Faith in theological terms means that you believe, without possiblity of denial given whatever argument, that whatever your parents told you is true.
The fact that "faith" around the world means that God/Jesus exists, Mohammed went to heaven with the face of a woman, Xenu the galactic overlord really did send billions of drugged bodies to Earth to convert them to thetans, spirits really do exist in animals and trees, crystals create quantum doorways into mystical dimensions, tax cuts really do reduce our debt load, Emperor Hirohito really is descended from the gods of Japan, Joe Smith really did talk to an angel and created Utah, Atlantis existed, sacrificing virgins and wearing their skins really do keep the drought away, witches should be killed, gays should be killed, calico cats really are Satan's minions...
Faith, o mighty faith.
The difference is between faith in a person, meaning trust and understanding, and in other cases, believe without observation or reason, merely because someone told you so, usually when you were three feet tall. And said lesson applied with a stick or a hand if you were a smart ass.
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You ever tried to be on welfare? An able bodied man? It ain't gonna happen, son.
And if you ever did go on welfare, it is not, not not going to pay your mortgage payment, nor would even begin to touch your rent, if you live anywhere halfway decent.
It's a few hundred dollars a month.
Your taxes wouldn't quintuple, BTW. Welfare doesn't even begin to nick the federal budget. For instance, Aid for Families with Dependent Children, even at its spending height, didn't exceed one percent (1.0%) of the national budget. People seem to think half their taxes are paid out to welfare receipients.
Now, if you want to talk the BIGGEST welfare scam of all time, think of this: 17% percent of your taxes, that is to say 17 times what we spend on little kids in poverty, is spent paying the interest on the national debt. That's the INTEREST. So when you hear them increasing the debt limit once more (it's 6.5 trillion now), you can listen to 17/100 of every one of your tax dollars pouring into wealthy holders of that debt paper. And it's been pouring into their pockets for over twenty years.
Let's see, let's just posit we take in 2 trill a year. 340 billion goes towards the bondholders who hold that paper. Hoody hoo!!!! multiply that by 20 years, assuming inflation makes all things equal, and we get:
6,800 billion dollars.
I somehow doubt we have paid poor people in the U.S. 6,800 billion dollars since 1980. On the other hand, we have paid individuals, funds, and business 6.8 trillion dollars of free money. And we haven't even touched the principal.
Take a look at the Federal Budget, or more tellingly, a graph of what we spend taxes on.
That teeny-tiny piece caled human services is what covers welfare. The big cancer is the debt, the service on the debt, and defense spending.
I *wish* we had a safety net in this country, but we don't. Welfare won't pay for anything. You have to have *no* income, sell your belongings, your home, kill your assets. I have bad memories of a brush with welfare when I was a kid. Believe me, you wait months to see any cash. And the money you get doesn't cover anything real. Better to beg in the streets. You might make more.
I am sadly following all of this, and I have to make one assertion:
Companies do not have rights. Only individals do.
This may seem a niggling point, but I think it is the critical one, unnoticed by almost everyone.
What we have is a fictional individual trying to steal everything not nailed down, including thoughts. This fictional individual has no rights, by Jeffersonian standards, and damned be the 19th century Supreme Court justices that granted corporations the status of individuals.
Fighting non-existent corporate individuals is intentionally impossible.
By "pay", I don't mean only money. He is under no obligation to pay return postage, or to spend *time* on them.
I would call Omnicare, tho, and ask for a $50 fee to send it back. Hell, I'd send them a letter, with a shrinkwrapped license stating that, by opening the letter, they agreed to pay me Fifty(50) dollars U.S. to send their book back, otherwise I would assume all copyrights.
Let them play "Duelling Licenses". Cue the Deliverence theme.
In Illinois, the law is simple: if you are sent an unsolicited piece of merchandise, you are under NO obligation to pay the sender anything. That book is no longer Omnicare's, it is the doctor's. He can tell them to go blow.
As for the license, I'd wad it up and use it for wiping up cat barf, or something similarly useful.
who is she getting married for anyway, her friends?
Sadly, yes, more often then not. I don't know how many times I've watched The Council of Girlfriends and Guyfriends produce committee reports to dump a boyfriend. Even more sad is how many times those vetoes are heeded.
And yes, I've seen it work in reverse as well.
Hardly left wing. They are libertarian elitists, which is about as far-right as you can get without bumping into Birchers.
Believing yourself to be indispensible is neither left- nor right- anyway. It's the attitude of someone who has never seen a down market for his skills. Never been slapped with the rotting dead Carp of Reality. The attitude of spoiled kids.
Businesses since the '90's have been telling us we are as useful as the current project. We can have health bennies killed, salaries slashed, workload increased. The law of the jungle for everyone, except of course, it is not applied to the greedy men at the controls, who get cushy jobs through connections, enormous hidden stock options, ever-growing salaries, and never have to worry about food or housing for themselves.
There is no "oversupply" of talent. There is an oversupply of jackals who ran their companies into the ground and took off to Bermuda.
I'd rather have a reactor go down than a flying oil tanker. At least the reactor won't spray napalm over my neighborhood when it hits -- there will be instead be a slightly "hot" crater. The nuclear fuel will hit the ground like armored lead, and stay where it lands. No impressive and deadly fire/explosion to kill dozens or hundreds (even thousands) as it careens at 400+ mph through my residential streets.
Since I remembered the lawsuit by Monsanto, I entered into Google:
farmer sued genetically corn patented
And these articles came forth:
The farmer's page
Article"
Another
Another
Tale of the Absurd
Monsano wins
Commentary
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Comment
Good ol' Mother Jones
Y'all see, there is a damned good chance that such corn will contaminate the other crops, and then Monsanto or whomever will own their souls. Or GNP, whatever works.
I'm surprised that the Canadian case isn't common knowledge. Then again, it wasn't exactly Evening News material for the U.S. No network news department head wants to seem "liberal" nowadays, which translates to "damned few stories critical of corporations" (balance), which of course is not connected to trying to please conservative corporate owners who have become quite.... proactive in their news departments of late.
The submitter of the item is correct in identifying IP lawsuit threats as an important datum in the decision to decline the food, even if the article cited doesn't make a point of it. An informed person would already know about the enormous lawsuit potential, and add that to the stack.
Did corporations even exist at the time the First Amendment was written?
Nope.
That's why corporations are not listed. I think that if Jefferson and the rest could see what new class of "citizen" has been created, they'd fire the first musket shot.
Corporations are not governments -- but they have more power and it seems, no responsibilities save those they voluntarily assume. Hell, they don't even feel responsible to the shareholders anymore.
Power without responsibilty == tyranny, however you slice it.
Well, ICANN will win regardless, if you shift views of what they were trying to accomplish. They were running down the clock, and they've accomplished this. Soon the gadfly will be gone.
Interesting. Even though the judge seems sympathetic, there is really no law to punish corporations who misbehave. WHO gets punished? So classic. No one really does. It's a win-win for them. And the very wealthy movers behind ICANN will still make their millions, or is it billions, in the years to come.
That wasn't a coincidence. Speilberg had a large number of people interested in future technological developments come up with rational extropolations of current research. The MIT project, for instance, to produce just this effect.
So, just about everything you saw in Minority Report, tech-wise, is under consideration somewhere.
I, however, am sadly certain that this will be used as a weapon. Blow a person's eardrums out with that thing, or even worse. How much sonic energy does it take to make your head blow up like an overheated pumpkin?
Is there a defence that can be devised? 180-out-of-phase speakers? What?
Physics majors, any answers?
That's the thrust of your argument? I was tryingto invent a verb.
As for the get a life BS, as we say in the chatting biz,
"If what I say indicates that I should get a life, what does that say about the imbecile who sits around reading what I said?"
F&#k off.
Are you aware that the Ukraine was put under embargo by the U.S. this year (or late last) for a time? It was lifted when they complied with U.S. demands to make their copyright laws equivalent to ours.
Not very funny. If Malaysia acts up and tries to be an independent nation, Bush et Congress will courteously perform corporate bidding and punish Malaysia until it grovels.
It sort of reminds me of a case a few years ago when the U.S. actually pressured... Sweden was it?... to change its constitution in order to seal public records that contained the holy writings of L. Ron Hubbard. Seems their constitution required court records (and evidence) to be publicly available, and the Xenu story was introduced as evidence. The Boys From Hubbard took shifts keeping the material checked out at the library until the U.S. Guvmint pressured a constitutional change... for copyright or trade secret exemptions to the law, I think.
The U.S. has no compunctions about meddling with the world's laws if we don't like them. It's cool to be the New Evil Empire. All Hail!
"Stealing = misusing something that is legally someone else's "
No...
Stealing = taking away something that is legally someone elses, DEPRIVING THAT PERSON OF THE USE OF THEIR PROPRTY.
You can't steal an idea, or steal fire, or steal a song. You can use it, extend it, or sing it.
But you've deprived no one of property. It wasn't stolen. You are using a loaded word to semantically equate a non-harmful act with a harmful one -- a rhetorical game that works in America, sadly, since we use logic, but not reason.
No, Apple and their evil patents didn't sink Firewire. They let the license go for a dollar a box, then soon waived the fee altogether.
INTEL HAS THE PATENTS ON USB, and they ain't shy about making money on it. And forcing Firewire OUT, and forcing their inferior product IN.
As for complexity, that would not be expensive if the technology could get better economies of scale.
But since Wintel does not want Apple to prosper, and also since Intel was mightily miffed about little Apple taking it's USB thunder away when Firewire came out, they have FUDDed, lied, blocked, inhibited, you name it, any attempt at getting Firewire into the mainstream.
Firewire is an amazing success story -- Overachiever actually makes big despite determined opposition to Voldemor it in the crib.
Expensive complexity in chipsets is nonsense. Much more complex circuitry exists for a song -- how much is an LCD desktop screen? A video card? A CPU, jeez! A Duron 1.3 is going for $54! I picked up my Shuttle FV-24 barebone PC with Firewire on the motherboard for $190! There is no reason why Firewire is not on the mobo other than cutthroat "free" marketers making damn sure crud gets sold to nuke the hated compeitor.
I zipped through the Millenium Falcon pages, and was saddened to read that the property owner's neighbors were "pissed".
/.ers -- is there anywhere in the U.S. where a man could be left the hell alone from the neighbors? I need options here.
I always thought that if I left the city and found a nice piece of land somewhere, I could use it to do silly thing like build a starship in the corner of the yard, like the ones I used to design as a kid.
But it seems whereever you go, there are neighbors who deem your property under their control, and the laws back them up. Condos, too: had a deal once where I sold a place because the other owners decided they were "in fear" of some gamers I had over one night (ooo - they were NOT-WHITE - scary!) and made my life a hell 'til I left. The tiny-souled, vicious people are the ones who make their screaming heard.
Hey,
As for the Mech, I love people who dream and do what other people don't! Make more 'mechs, build starships in your back yard. Live a little!
Um, okay, sorry 'bout dat.
I don't understand how you interpreted my statement as anti-1394?
I have done my homework on Firewire, and am an active proponent. I am cranked, as my post indicated, that this company bows towards Intel and ignores 1394's superiority.
I shall continue opening mouth... when you open yours, keep an eye on where your foot is headed.
USB 2.0 will run at 480 Mbps in a best case scenario. Firewire will always run at 400. Why? Firewire is peer-to-peer, USB x.0 requires CPU intervention.
And comparing Firewire 1.0 to USB 2.0 is a tad unfair, because Firewire 2.0 (1394b), ramping up this year, will run at 800 Mbps.
Man, how many ebooks could I load into that thing?
Bigger and better screen would be good. But it's almost there. Thousands and thousands of books... no more back strain when I move!
Another fine myth: Apple charging freight for using 1393.
Nope. Years back, the fee was $1.00. Now, I think it's nothing.
How much does Intel charge for USB? And why are they influencing the market by retarding adoption? Firewire is superior to USB 1&2 in every way, and Firewire 2 will be insane.
FW is expensive because Intel wants it that way. They don't want Apple to succeed, and they've too much investment in USB teh to let it go.
USB 2? Why?! I want Firewire! Is this too much to ask for?
Greenspan is not just an acolyte of Ayn Rand metaphorically, he actually hung out with her. It's not an accusation, it's the simple truth.
The Fed, Alan Greenspan, and Ayn Rand
Alan Greenspan, Cultist?
The Motley Fool: Who is Alan Greenspan?
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In the 1950s, Greenspan, who had been steeped in the free-market skepticism of John Maynard Keynes along with most economists of his generation, became an acolyte of Ayn Rand. Rand's philosophy of what she termed "enlightened selfishness" bears considerable similarity to today's libertarianism. Greenspan met Rand through his first wife, painter Joan Mitchell. Although Greenspan's friends and colleagues suggest that his relationship with Rand's Objectivism was more of a flirtation than a real commitment, Greenspan remained part of the philosopher's circle until at least the late 1960s. In addition to writing for The Objectivist, a rather surprising essay he wrote in defense of the gold standard -- surprising in light of his later work, that is -- appeared in the Rand-edited 1967 collection of essays Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Still, something about Greenspan's obvious pragmatism and political instincts fits poorly with the uncompromising sense of purity that characterizes Rand's heroes. If Greenspan ever was an Objectivist, his years in Washington have probably made him reconsider.
Businessweek: The Chairman as Political Animal
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RAND FAN. By his mid-20s, Greenspan turned from music to economics--and the virulently antigovernment views of philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand. Greenspan became a regular in her salon in the 1950s and remained in touch until her death in 1982.
Randies may think of Greenspan as an apostate today, but the Chairman still thinks of himself as a Randite, if his reading preferences are any indication. And it's not hard to get become an apostate of Objectivism -- dissent ain't tolerated much in that salon.
Mayhap Greenspan deviated from Rand because he's actually working in the real world.
The Fed may be anti-democratic in nature, but thank god for that, or we would have collapsed into something resembling the Weimar Republic in the 80's.
This mess has been in evolution since the late seventies, and kicked into high gear in the early ninties. Demos certainly are hardly distinguiushable in their support for big business. To survive in the right-wing era, they have forgone their classic pro-little guy stance in order to obtain financing, otherwise we really would be in a one-party system. They would have been removed from office one-by-one by infinite money.
But to compare Clinton to Reagan/Bush/Bush is silly to anyone who actually reads. Clinton could be regarded as the best Republican president since Lincoln; he balanced. The RBB axis does not balance, does not even pretend to balance. They wanted the neocon agenda, which meant removing regs on relationships between auditors and the audited, removing the rights of stockholders to sue larcenous directors (rein in those evil lawyers!), removing ownership restrictions of mass media, annihilation by underfunding of environment oversight, and worst of all, installing the foxes to guard the henhouses. The nitwit in charge of the SEC, Pitt, was the chief lobbist for the accounting industry! He actually wrote a paper instructing businesses to destroy documents on a regular basis to hamper investigations! Powell of the FCC is simply going limp. The EPA is dead.
Clinton balanced the budget by making hard choices. We now have the same liars we had in the '80's in charge again, and we have been robbed us of trillions, TRILLIONS.
I don't hear the Bush asking for Social Security to be privatized again. Can you imagine the trillions that would have been funneled off into the financial sector?? We are not at war. We are blowing up rocks to make ourselves feel better, and not incidentally to get a pipeline across Afghanistan.
Only Congress can declare war.
If we wanted war against the countries that spawned Bin Laden, we would be bombing Saudi Arabia right now. The terrorists were from there. But for some reason, we're blowing up another country that had nothing to do with 9/11.
War my tired fingers. This is an Orwellian power grab. We are at war, don't question anything, we're too busy... while somehow finding time to drape naughty statues, investigate whorehouses in New Orleans, fly around the country raising a billion dollar campaign fund... Politics is nothing but the process by which three or more people resolve their differences without killing each other. If you kill all the politicians, somehow, you mean you kill everyone with the human intelligence to iron out a working government. What do you propose, one man one rule? We nearly have that now. It's always very popular.
Did you ever think that the creation of anti-"political" sentiment is a political tactic of high sophistication? That you are being duped yourself by adopting nihilism? Not that it isn't the most popular U.S. position -- the citizens of the U.S. have always hated their own representatives. Which explains a lot of our history, including how the unelected Boy King was given his throne without outrage from the governed.
By adopting a hatred of politics, you have have been removed from the board, and those who encourage such nihilism gleefully continue playing.
Don't hate them -- become them!
You are using the word "faith" with entirely different meanings.
Your children exist: faith in them is appropriate. They also need your faith, or you would spend your life making them miserable with your monitoring.
Your faith in their existence is caused by requests for money, medical bills, and the fact you had them in your house. Your faith in their existence is based on observation, cross-checked with the observations of others hat, yes, they went to school, were seen frequently, exist.
Faith in theological terms means that you believe, without possiblity of denial given whatever argument, that whatever your parents told you is true.
The fact that "faith" around the world means that God/Jesus exists, Mohammed went to heaven with the face of a woman, Xenu the galactic overlord really did send billions of drugged bodies to Earth to convert them to thetans, spirits really do exist in animals and trees, crystals create quantum doorways into mystical dimensions, tax cuts really do reduce our debt load, Emperor Hirohito really is descended from the gods of Japan, Joe Smith really did talk to an angel and created Utah, Atlantis existed, sacrificing virgins and wearing their skins really do keep the drought away, witches should be killed, gays should be killed, calico cats really are Satan's minions...
Faith, o mighty faith.
The difference is between faith in a person, meaning trust and understanding, and in other cases, believe without observation or reason, merely because someone told you so, usually when you were three feet tall. And said lesson applied with a stick or a hand if you were a smart ass.