Correction: it's supposed to happen in a competitive capitalist economy. Eventually a perfectly competitive capitalist economy would benefit the consumer,as any learned economist would say.
The same serious economist would also say that, unfortunately, perfect competition works on paper and even second best optimums are currently a consumer wet dream because..guess what, it is not true that companies don't give a damn about consumer.
They care a lot, so much that they want to rip them off of any surplus and possibily have them live at survival wage so that they employee-consumer is constantly in dire need of doing what the master said.
Yeah rather then "bothering" I'd say it is troubling, very much so.
1. Tsunami are not a new scientific discovery 2. Tsunami happen rather frequently 3. Tsunami can be pretty fucking devastating , killing thousands and destroying billions of goddamned property 4. Seismic networks aren't science fiction or experimental genetics, but a _reality_
So I think, what the fuck is needed to make some world seismic network with early warning ? We can make ONU, but we can't make one fucking seismic early warning network which, in layman terms, is a bunch of computers with telephone or satellite lines and a couple thousand people for maintenance ?
I guess that the next days we'll hear that
a. given that the quake was a rare event ( my ass is more rare there have been 5 of that in the last 100 years)
b. that the countries involved are piss poor with poor communication infrastructure ( RADIO goddamit Marconi invented it more then a 100 ago it still works ! Even U.S. NOAA still uses radio ! )
c. that there was some bureocratic problem (there are always buro problems, no matter if republicans/dems/martians are in charge)
d. that there was some economic efficiency problem (there are always economic problems unless you're the one paying for everything, but hey we have skyscrapers full of people counting money...cute)
Therefore thousand died..and we dare call ourselves civilized and advanced, we're bloody apes.
if artists/workers both creative and executive (most of them get dimes out of the deal) complain about their conditions and form an union that's considereded by some to be communist, evil, anti market or somehow despicable (some would like to criminalize strikes and unions)
if companies make a union-like association (RIAA,MPAA) and attempt to defend their profit by striking "pirate" free redistributors (who seem not to make million dollars out of it, otherwise why should they expose themselves, they could be living off interests) then they're only doing good, protecting somebody else interest and they're not diverting taxpayer money in private interest police raids. Aren't these communist, evil, anti market associations under a capitalist dress as well?
I for one don't want my taxpayer money to finance RIAA raids, as music industry didn't ever give me a dime.
Which makes total sense, in a sense : consider the people who bought into their business model before 9-11..it only makes sense that the same people would buy the retreat from the model they accepted, otherwise that would show them how incompetent and delusional they were. Nobody, not even critics like discovering they were foolish.
And for hour daily spot the troll contest, here's the solution to yesterday contest.
considering that wikipedia's content is distorted
Have you spotted the troll ? No ? It is THAT easy, look at the statement "wiki content is distorted"...it obiouviously imply all the content, otherwise the writer would have written "some or a specific content". The writer will go grammar police on your ass by telling YOU implied that, while he only wrote "wiki content is distorted" and not "all of wiki content" in an attempt to further confuse you.
This end today spot the troll contest. Please don't litter the world by feeding the trolls.
Well I'd pay attention to the fact "/. crowd" is a wide generalization, bound to contain error as any other generalization. There will be/.ers fitting your description and/.ers not fitting it at all.
As for your analogy on bootlegging, I'd like to differ as bootlegging is also known, in the amateur music circles, as the amateur practice of recording live concerts of some artist. That practice is, usually, exercised in precarious conditions , often leading to poor quality recordings, no matter how sophisticated the audio recording equipement is.
Said amateurs don't necessarily sell the recording for money and usually do the recording because there isn't always a commercial recording of the concert avaiable on the market.
Those people you are referring to are better described by analogy with piracy, as pirates usually stole the ships' cargo for the purpose of selling it. It's maybe better described as "non violent piracy" as pirates were also known to be a rather murderous lot.
They buy products, apply for rebates, return the purchases, then buy them back at returned-merchandise discounts.
How dare they ! Listen up you evil terrorist hoarders, you shouldn't take advantage of our offers ! You should just say "no thanks, I'd rather pay full price for the good you just offered at half price ! If you really want I'll pay double for half more" and feel good and proud cause you don't know, but you just helped the national economy by being a massive loser.
They load up on "loss leaders," severely discounted merchandise designed to boost store traffic, then flip the goods at a profit on eBay.
How DARE you make a profit ? These products are supposed to show that we can afford to lose some money and help you, that's how compassionate we are with scum like you ! Ohhh, but noooo you don't want to return us the favor by paying more for paper and ink cartridge of that $30 printer you just bought ! How dare you make a connection between printer ink and paper prices, that's how selfish and untrustfull you really are !
They slap down rock-bottom price quotes from Web sites and demand that Best Buy make good on its lowest-price pledge.
That's only because we're soooo deeply compassionate we just can't say NO to you;( and turn your demands down ! You always resemble our son of a beach to us(TM) !
"They can wreak enormous economic havoc," says Mr. Anderson.
And spread diseases, cholera, terrorism and all other 69 unspeakable sins ! Told you the evils and the porno are on the internets !
I mean THE Steve Ballmer of Monkey Developers fame ?(video).
Next we'll be said that it is the price of the bottle that makes the price of wine high, but whatever Ballmer drank before that show I highly recommend: it's a TRRRIPPP out of reality !
Anyway I guess that what Ballmer wanted to say it's the following: if the demaned quantity was bigger, Microsoft could still be abominably rich because instead of selling 1000 pieces at $100 (nominal revenue, $100K) we could sell 100000 pieces at $10 (nominal revenue, $100K) and Microsoft would get the same $$ cut while people would get the OS.
Problem is M$ wouldn't go as low as $10 because the market demand isn't COSTANT, but it can fluctutate (damn the people that doesn't want to upgrade with slower software or useless not demanded applications, we need more ingnorance and naivety to make profits !). Also, nobody could force M$ (not even M$) to put price at $10 if the people is happy to pay $20 (one more reason to breed ignorance and naivety)
In practice, Ballmer would like the PC to become cheaper because it would create more demand (good for M$) effectively shifting cost-of-making-new-customer to hardware makers, who obviously don't agree with his project of getting their own profits.
Problem is the demand for PC doesn't rise quick enough for a number of reason: one could be that a lot of people is overworked AND use to see PC as a work instrument and the last thing they want to do when finally at home is again more PC time : one gotta give users a TANGIBLE BENEFIT if they want them to naturally demand a good.
Somebody pretty friggin please explain at least one thing:
Just tell me how did somebody manage to have millions people believe they can't make a friggin cross with a permanent marker on a piece of paper, yet they surely are able enough to own and hold a gun, drive a car and use a TV remote.
It is so staggering it's not even funny...it is not like somebody convinced a bunch of simpletons to join into the next pyramidal scheme fraud, it's convincing millions of people with at least a k12 education that NO NO NO you know how to read you know how to write but, NOOO you don't know how to make a cross and recognize a name or symbol!
Not only that, but the same people were told that it's important ooohh so important to have a computer count votes , that it is safer and better and faster..yet the same people know they have problems operating a VCR properly but think it is safe to have their whole friggin democracy at mercy of machines they have 0.0000001 clue about.
That makes tinfoil hat people look sane in comparison.
Excuse my candor, but isn't this a link to a press release ? Personally I've got nothing against press releases as useful tools to let customers know a new product exists, but in what does this particular press release "matter" more or less then another thousand necessarily different press releases ?
Other then literal/graphic differences, press releases are no different as they serve the same purpose. Why is this one particularly significant ?
Which means "Associates" are probably paid per hour as Janitors otherwise it wouldn't be economical, because (for instance) "Associates" could reload the shelves/do something else in the time they need to collect and bring garbage away.
If there's something I've learned during these intese days of political "debate" in U.S. is that each side has its pundits, some more some less, some times more successfull at persuading the voter sometime not so much.
I guess it could be applied by analogy to the Windows vs Rest of the OSes and their respective pundits, Gartner being one currently more noticed then others.
I'm not really worried about which side has the better pundits, as on the long term there will be people using Windows and using Linux or whatnot as pundits don't have any significant influence on pratical decision : some will find Win to be better for them, some will find Linux to be better and to the hell with the hot air generators.
What worries me is the attitude of those who, more or less secretely, would like to reduce user alternatives ; for instance by forbidding them to tinker with the software or with the hardware and make themselves the solution they really like or need. For Microsoft that's a paradox, ex-garage innovators trying to kill garage innovators..as they probably know (as IBM learned well) garage innovators are potentially very very dangerous to well established market dominators who (by design of capitalistic markets) have little interest in innovation, unless it's under their very strict control.
Consider that without IBM-AT compatible clone makers and (what seems to be a paradox) without Microsoft we probably would still be under strict IBM control ; arguably, both exploited technologies not really developed by them to expand or create new markets (for instance Personal Computer)..but damn according to at least one of them, nobody else should be bright enough to follow on their footsteps.
The problem with other people is that they listen to the big names doing "predictions" just to discover, as you said, that another component of the same big name made exactly the opposite prediction.
It's hard to be wrong when you predict something and the exact contrary, isn't it ?
Beautiful house, very much approaching an engineer mentality...but hey no matter what I couldn't find a cost extimate or a decent cost analysis.
Point being...my dear Scott, Dilberts out there probably will never be able to afford that house considering the rabbit exponential breeding rate of pointy haired bosses.
The fact that there's Gartner written on it doesn't mean it is a realiable statement or word from a Holy Book of Markets.
Indeed, let's look back in 1999 when (according to this CNN article) some among the "prestigeous" Garnter analysis predicted:
The Gartner Group finding is that Linux will fade from the scene following the release of the first service pack for Windows 2000.
Service Pack 2 was really so terrific ?! Man, if Service Pack 2 can do that imagine what could an hotfix do..maybe cure plague ? Guess Nostradamus is spinning in his grave as he finally found some serious competition.
1. Scare the majority by using a zealot minority 2. Put some tax or increase deficit spending 3. Claim the revenue/allocation will defend people from intolerable evil 4. Accuse the zealot minority of being terrorists, kick them out of the scheme 5. Rename the tax 6. ??? 7. Profit ! 8. Visit local brothel
Quite simply it's a bi-polar political party system in which the two parties are against each other in the race to control two fundamental processes ; allocation of government resources and formation and implementation of federal and/or state laws.
Obviously, the presence of such rich prizes is a very strong motivator to win for any party. Nobody (disillusioned enough) is going to believe the fight between the two will be an amicable exchange of punches above the waist line, simply because what is at stake is worth any trick ; the absence of an impartial judge is an even stronger motivator.
The presence of external observators like OCSE and others is a serious problem to those that think that a third party is not going to be merely an annoyance ; it may be a problem for X party that would like to buy observator favor somehow..same applies to Y party. It may be a problem to both X and Y if they both think the observator will really be impartial AND show the deficencies of the whole voting system (not only the electronic vs paper ballot).
I think that during the last presidential elections Americans received a strong wake up call : the political oligarchy which really runs the country (too often in bed with too few strong concentrations of private power) is trying to take away the last bastion of a democratic system, by taking away our right to kick away or severely reduce the power of some party we no longer want. We already are subject to the tirannny of the majority system in which the winner too often forgets he/she is representing ALL the population, not only the supporting party.
The issues of corruption of representatives, gullibility level of the average voter and partisan infiltrations in the legislative system are likely to become totally insignificant if the voter will no longer be able to have a say on what's going on...why care about voters interest if their vote isn't worth poop anyway ?
So far so good, but I sense some salesman pitch. Soooo let'see...
A degree is worth nothing ? Not so fast quickshots !
Some people with degree is worthless, as much as some people without degree is worthless. Also some degree like "15 days learn Word" or "30 days learn C++" are worthless scams, some college degrees in CS are worthless scams too.
Attitude, experience and fitness mean absolutely nothing:
1.attitude I've got a plenty, but that brings little value..I don't care if somebody is a maniac sucidial or a delusional optimist..as long as he gets the job done and doesn't land ME in legal troubles. Color me cynical, but that's the core of capitalism, leave all your humanity behind the door.
2.experience: even burger flippers have a lot experience at flipping burgers..yet they're literally paid a dime a dozen. Point being, all you experience is worthless unless somebody pays you for the time/resources you spent accumulating it. Be wise at evaluating if getting more experience is going to lead to more money or only more troubles.
3. fitness : gotta have good abs to do good job ? Unless one needs to be the poster boy of a company selling hot air, fitness means you have requested exactly how much the company wants to pay you. Tomorrow they may find you unfit for whatever reason, including your beer belly.
And again..usually those who don't have a degree are full of hate against those who have one, because sometimes they command higher wages. Then again, some people without a degree is totally right at being angry with people with degree in baloonery.
Point being: don't generalize too much, a degree can be a powerful weapon if it comes with actual knowledge and you didn't cheat at getting it.
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Correction: it's supposed to happen in a competitive capitalist economy. Eventually a perfectly competitive capitalist economy would benefit the consumer ,as any learned economist would say.
The same serious economist would also say that, unfortunately, perfect competition works on paper and even second best optimums are currently a consumer wet dream because..guess what, it is not true that companies don't give a damn about consumer.
They care a lot, so much that they want to rip them off of any surplus and possibily have them live at survival wage so that they employee-consumer is constantly in dire need of doing what the master said.
Yeah rather then "bothering" I'd say it is troubling, very much so.
1. Tsunami are not a new scientific discovery
2. Tsunami happen rather frequently
3. Tsunami can be pretty fucking devastating , killing thousands and destroying billions of goddamned property
4. Seismic networks aren't science fiction or experimental genetics, but a _reality_
So I think, what the fuck is needed to make some world seismic network with early warning ? We can make ONU, but we can't make one fucking seismic early warning network which, in layman terms, is a bunch of computers with telephone or satellite lines and a couple thousand people for maintenance ?
I guess that the next days we'll hear that
a. given that the quake was a rare event ( my ass is more rare there have been 5 of that in the last 100 years)
b. that the countries involved are piss poor with poor communication infrastructure ( RADIO goddamit Marconi invented it more then a 100 ago it still works ! Even U.S. NOAA still uses radio ! )
c. that there was some bureocratic problem (there are always buro problems, no matter if republicans/dems/martians are in charge)
d. that there was some economic efficiency problem (there are always economic problems unless you're the one paying for everything, but hey we have skyscrapers full of people counting money...cute)
Therefore thousand died..and we dare call ourselves civilized and advanced, we're bloody apes.
I applaud your poiting out well know facts. Now please explain how exactly do you know that
As mentioned elsewhere, the Finnish police acted independantly, with no input from any of those 'evil American copyright owners'
Please mention where is your elsewhere and how reliable the source is. Also, how can you prove this to be a fact ?
This highly selective fact finding is making you look stupid, stop it.
Isn't it very curious that
if artists/workers both creative and executive (most of them get dimes out of the deal) complain about their conditions and form an union that's considereded by some to be communist, evil, anti market or somehow despicable (some would like to criminalize strikes and unions)
if companies make a union-like association (RIAA,MPAA) and attempt to defend their profit by striking "pirate" free redistributors (who seem not to make million dollars out of it, otherwise why should they expose themselves, they could be living off interests) then they're only doing good, protecting somebody else interest and they're not diverting taxpayer money in private interest police raids. Aren't these communist, evil, anti market associations under a capitalist dress as well?
I for one don't want my taxpayer money to finance RIAA raids, as music industry didn't ever give me a dime.
Feh, it doesn't say for who !
Which makes total sense, in a sense : consider the people who bought into their business model before 9-11..it only makes sense that the same people would buy the retreat from the model they accepted, otherwise that would show them how incompetent and delusional they were. Nobody, not even critics like discovering they were foolish.
And what are you doing on /. exactly ? Get back to work before I figure out what you're not doing, but are supposed to do.
Oh wait, you're a paperweight ? Sorry
**Spot the Troll Gingle**
And for hour daily spot the troll contest, here's the solution to yesterday contest.
considering that wikipedia's content is distorted
Have you spotted the troll ? No ? It is THAT easy, look at the statement "wiki content is distorted"...it obiouviously imply all the content, otherwise the writer would have written "some or a specific content". The writer will go grammar police on your ass by telling YOU implied that, while he only wrote "wiki content is distorted" and not "all of wiki content" in an attempt to further confuse you.
This end today spot the troll contest. Please don't litter the world by feeding the trolls.
Also, if you ever see a M.E. kneeling over my corpse
Oh come on don't be so harsh with yourself ! There's surely room for improvement...
>> Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
;-)
> Ever been to Rome?
Yeah sure, dude you're talking about Naples. Italians being colourful people, they like to have decorative lights in Rome.
Well I'd pay attention to the fact "/. crowd" is a wide generalization, bound to contain error as any other generalization. There will be /.ers fitting your description and /.ers not fitting it at all.
As for your analogy on bootlegging, I'd like to differ as bootlegging is also known, in the amateur music circles, as the amateur practice of recording live concerts of some artist.
That practice is, usually, exercised in precarious conditions , often leading to poor quality recordings, no matter how sophisticated the audio recording equipement is.
Said amateurs don't necessarily sell the recording for money and usually do the recording because there isn't always a commercial recording of the concert avaiable on the market.
Those people you are referring to are better described by analogy with piracy, as pirates usually stole the ships' cargo for the purpose of selling it. It's maybe better described as "non violent piracy" as pirates were also known to be a rather murderous lot.
They buy products, apply for rebates, return the purchases, then buy them back at returned-merchandise discounts.
;( and turn your demands down ! You always resemble our son of a beach to us(TM) !
How dare they ! Listen up you evil terrorist hoarders, you shouldn't take advantage of our offers ! You should just say "no thanks, I'd rather pay full price for the good you just offered at half price ! If you really want I'll pay double for half more" and feel good and proud cause you don't know, but you just helped the national economy by being a massive loser.
They load up on "loss leaders," severely discounted merchandise designed to boost store traffic, then flip the goods at a profit on eBay.
How DARE you make a profit ? These products are supposed to show that we can afford to lose some money and help you, that's how compassionate we are with scum like you ! Ohhh, but noooo you don't want to return us the favor by paying more for paper and ink cartridge of that $30 printer you just bought ! How dare you make a connection between printer ink and paper prices, that's how selfish and untrustfull you really are !
They slap down rock-bottom price quotes from Web sites and demand that Best Buy make good on its lowest-price pledge.
That's only because we're soooo deeply compassionate we just can't say NO to you
"They can wreak enormous economic havoc," says Mr. Anderson.
And spread diseases, cholera, terrorism and all other 69 unspeakable sins ! Told you the evils and the porno are on the internets !
I mean THE Steve Ballmer of Monkey Developers fame ?(video).
Next we'll be said that it is the price of the bottle that makes the price of wine high, but whatever Ballmer drank before that show I highly recommend: it's a TRRRIPPP out of reality !
Anyway I guess that what Ballmer wanted to say it's the following: if the demaned quantity was bigger, Microsoft could still be abominably rich because instead of selling 1000 pieces at $100 (nominal revenue, $100K) we could sell 100000 pieces at $10 (nominal revenue, $100K) and Microsoft would get the same $$ cut while people would get the OS.
Problem is M$ wouldn't go as low as $10 because the market demand isn't COSTANT, but it can fluctutate (damn the people that doesn't want to upgrade with slower software or useless not demanded applications, we need more ingnorance and naivety to make profits !). Also, nobody could force M$ (not even M$) to put price at $10 if the people is happy to pay $20 (one more reason to breed ignorance and naivety)
In practice, Ballmer would like the PC to become cheaper because it would create more demand (good for M$) effectively shifting cost-of-making-new-customer to hardware makers, who obviously don't agree with his project of getting their own profits.
Problem is the demand for PC doesn't rise quick enough for a number of reason: one could be that a lot of people is overworked AND use to see PC as a work instrument and the last thing they want to do when finally at home is again more PC time : one gotta give users a TANGIBLE BENEFIT if they want them to naturally demand a good.
Somebody pretty friggin please explain at least one thing:
...it is not like somebody convinced a bunch of simpletons to join into the next pyramidal scheme fraud, it's convincing millions of people with at least a k12 education that NO NO NO you know how to read you know how to write but, NOOO you don't know how to make a cross and recognize a name or symbol!
Just tell me how did somebody manage to have millions people believe they can't make a friggin cross with a permanent marker on a piece of paper, yet they surely are able enough to own and hold a gun, drive a car and use a TV remote.
It is so staggering it's not even funny
Not only that, but the same people were told that it's important ooohh so important to have a computer count votes , that it is safer and better and faster..yet the same people know they have problems operating a VCR properly but think it is safe to have their whole friggin democracy at mercy of machines they have 0.0000001 clue about.
That makes tinfoil hat people look sane in comparison.
Excuse my candor, but isn't this a link to a press release ? Personally I've got nothing against press releases as useful tools to let customers know a new product exists, but in what does this particular press release "matter" more or less then another thousand necessarily different press releases ?
Other then literal/graphic differences, press releases are no different as they serve the same purpose. Why is this one particularly significant ?
Curiously that's exactly what a Walmart spokeperson would have said, without offering half of a rationalization but tons of rethoric.
-1 : STUF-NOW detected
Seems Technical Frontpage Userpost (but is ) Noncomparative Obvious "Wow"vertisement
Which means "Associates" are probably paid per hour as Janitors otherwise it wouldn't be economical, because (for instance) "Associates" could reload the shelves/do something else in the time they need to collect and bring garbage away.
If there's something I've learned during these intese days of political "debate" in U.S. is that each side has its pundits, some more some less, some times more successfull at persuading the voter sometime not so much.
I guess it could be applied by analogy to the Windows vs Rest of the OSes and their respective pundits, Gartner being one currently more noticed then others.
I'm not really worried about which side has the better pundits, as on the long term there will be people using Windows and using Linux or whatnot as pundits don't have any significant influence on pratical decision : some will find Win to be better for them, some will find Linux to be better and to the hell with the hot air generators.
What worries me is the attitude of those who, more or less secretely, would like to reduce user alternatives ; for instance by forbidding them to tinker with the software or with the hardware and make themselves the solution they really like or need. For Microsoft that's a paradox, ex-garage innovators trying to kill garage innovators..as they probably know (as IBM learned well) garage innovators are potentially very very dangerous to well established market dominators who (by design of capitalistic markets) have little interest in innovation, unless it's under their very strict control.
Consider that without IBM-AT compatible clone makers and (what seems to be a paradox) without Microsoft we probably would still be under strict IBM control ; arguably, both exploited technologies not really developed by them to expand or create new markets (for instance Personal Computer)..but damn according to at least one of them, nobody else should be bright enough to follow on their footsteps.
The problem with other people is that they listen to the big names doing "predictions" just to discover, as you said, that another component of the same big name made exactly the opposite prediction.
It's hard to be wrong when you predict something and the exact contrary, isn't it ?
Beautiful house, very much approaching an engineer mentality...but hey no matter what I couldn't find a cost extimate or a decent cost analysis.
Point being...my dear Scott, Dilberts out there probably will never be able to afford that house considering the rabbit exponential breeding rate of pointy haired bosses.
The fact that there's Gartner written on it doesn't mean it is a realiable statement or word from a Holy Book of Markets.
:
Indeed, let's look back in 1999 when (according to this CNN article) some among the "prestigeous" Garnter analysis predicted
The Gartner Group finding is that Linux will fade from the scene following the release of the first service pack for Windows 2000.
Service Pack 2 was really so terrific ?! Man, if Service Pack 2 can do that imagine what could an hotfix do..maybe cure plague ? Guess Nostradamus is spinning in his grave as he finally found some serious competition.
1. Scare the majority by using a zealot minority
2. Put some tax or increase deficit spending
3. Claim the revenue/allocation will defend people from intolerable evil
4. Accuse the zealot minority of being terrorists, kick them out of the scheme
5. Rename the tax
6. ???
7. Profit !
8. Visit local brothel
Breakdown of votes from 1920 to 2002shows that the majority of Americans who voted either voted for Democrats or for Republicans.
Quite simply it's a bi-polar political party system in which the two parties are against each other in the race to control two fundamental processes ; allocation of government resources and formation and implementation of federal and/or state laws.
Obviously, the presence of such rich prizes is a very strong motivator to win for any party. Nobody (disillusioned enough) is going to believe the fight between the two will be an amicable exchange of punches above the waist line, simply because what is at stake is worth any trick ; the absence of an impartial judge is an even stronger motivator.
The presence of external observators like OCSE and others is a serious problem to those that think that a third party is not going to be merely an annoyance ; it may be a problem for X party that would like to buy observator favor somehow..same applies to Y party. It may be a problem to both X and Y if they both think the observator will really be impartial AND show the deficencies of the whole voting system (not only the electronic vs paper ballot).
I think that during the last presidential elections Americans received a strong wake up call : the political oligarchy which really runs the country (too often in bed with too few strong concentrations of private power) is trying to take away the last bastion of a democratic system, by taking away our right to kick away or severely reduce the power of some party we no longer want. We already are subject to the tirannny of the majority system in which the winner too often forgets he/she is representing ALL the population, not only the supporting party.
The issues of corruption of representatives, gullibility level of the average voter and partisan infiltrations in the legislative system are likely to become totally insignificant if the voter will no longer be able to have a say on what's going on...why care about voters interest if their vote isn't worth poop anyway ?
So far so good, but I sense some salesman pitch. Soooo let'see...
:
A degree is worth nothing ? Not so fast quickshots !
Some people with degree is worthless, as much as some people without degree is worthless. Also some degree like "15 days learn Word" or "30 days learn C++" are worthless scams, some college degrees in CS are worthless scams too.
Attitude, experience and fitness mean absolutely nothing
1.attitude I've got a plenty, but that brings little value..I don't care if somebody is a maniac sucidial or a delusional optimist..as long as he gets the job done and doesn't land ME in legal troubles. Color me cynical, but that's the core of capitalism, leave all your humanity behind the door.
2.experience: even burger flippers have a lot experience at flipping burgers..yet they're literally paid a dime a dozen. Point being, all you experience is worthless unless somebody pays you for the time/resources you spent accumulating it. Be wise at evaluating if getting more experience is going to lead to more money or only more troubles.
3. fitness : gotta have good abs to do good job ? Unless one needs to be the poster boy of a company selling hot air, fitness means you have requested exactly how much the company wants to pay you. Tomorrow they may find you unfit for whatever reason, including your beer belly.
And again..usually those who don't have a degree are full of hate against those who have one, because sometimes they command higher wages. Then again, some people without a degree is totally right at being angry with people with degree in baloonery.
Point being: don't generalize too much, a degree can be a powerful weapon if it comes with actual knowledge and you didn't cheat at getting it.