I've give some thought to putting together an old fashioned BBS. Maybe some smarter than I folks could come up with some distributed system of little boxen for this. If "they" are going to fuck around with ye'ole internet, perhaps "we" should consider building another.
Now, that would serously depend on one's income, now wouldn't it? I know this can be a hard concept to wrap your mind around, but some people in the world, and the U.S., don't clear 15$ in a month. Besides, the production costs don't justify that price, that is what makes it "too much".
Why is the parent post at -1, Troll? Seems to be making a valid point to me. Is it the free use of the word "fuck"? Did someone moderate by agrement? This just doesn't fucking make any fucking sense.
Yeah, the boys in DC use that road funding trick to get the states to pass all sorts of laws about things they aren't permitted to make laws about. It has always struck me as being rather shady and certainly not in keeping with the spirit of what I take "can't pass laws about" to mean.
Consider a hypothetical where you and I agree that you can't go breaking my windows. You giving some other guy money to break them for you seems a bit, oh I don't know, like breaking the agreement to me. At the very least, it is certainly a cheap trick. Government by cheap tricks...:(
"Assuming there are no ledges and trucks is disingenuous."
And assuming that a helpful ledge will pop up just in the nick of time to save the asses of us primates from our own unwillingness to change is worse than disingenuous, it is reckless.
When you don't know the details of the system you are interacting with, do you press buttons madly hoping that any wrong done by one press will be luckily undone by another?
If you actually care about spelling, try opening another browser to www.allwords.com or www.m-w.com or any one of the multitude of other such resources. Or just us "(sp)" and forget it.
Yeah, and that, i.e. what people think, was exactly what Katz was talking about. What people think is what runs public policy. In the end, it doesn't matter for a politican trying to sweet talk the voters wheither global warming is real or not. It matters wheither they think it is.
The "capture an image of the hands" technology looks neat. But the actual design of the board is pretty gimpy; missing keys, moved keys, too little customizability, really big name font...
I look forward to better tries with the same tech.
"Gee, thanks for finding my $100 bills officer. I lost them on the way home from the ATM last night. What'dya mean I can't have them back? Drug dealer? Good gracious! I don't know anything about that! Can I get them back after the trial?"
There are a couple dozen little things that identify a dollar as such. If it obviously passes every other test while having a little hole where the chip should be, I'd imagine the case for getting a substitute, or being able to spend it, is pretty airtight.
You make well-founded points. I'm wondering if you see any options for realistically modifing some significant subset of the OSS movement's methods so that it displays more intelligent self-organizing behavior (from the bottom, up)?
In other words, I'm asking you to be optimistic and still realistic about how such optimisim could be realised (hope that makes some sense to you).
The problem with "evolving to forms best suited for 'the niches'" is that the best forms ARE NEVER ARRIVED AT. Look at all of the extinct species in the layers of rock. The genes survived for a while, and their desire to perfectly fill the niche dwindled, and now they are abandoned. This is why speices are doomed.
You should look at a couple of the how to's that Steve Mann has put together on how to modify wearables. He was able to give step by step instructions with first person pictures of what to solder where. Being able to trade skills like this with other people in the collective is a nice advantage of being a borg.
The darker aspects seem to come when one has no choice about the tasks that others get to add to your to-do list. Just retain veto power over your to-do list, I mean you do have a will of your own. As long as that is true, I would join. And will as soon as I can put together my wearable fund.
I've seen some how to's by Steve Mann that he made with his wearables. They have nice, clear, first person perspective pics of every step of the way. It really brought home the benifits of being a borg, able to trade skills with others.
If this kind of thing were available, then the need for people to put together custom boards would seem to be less of a hurdle.
I hate to nit pick though. You guys and gals are moving along quite nicely. My frustrations mostly stem from not having the money to throw at building something anytime soon. I hope the how to's are out by the time I can put together my wearable fund.
Of course, they perform several nice functions. Duh.
I thought the issue in question was wheither to take most of the icing (or just more, if you like) off of their cakes and convert that into as much food as possible for the masses.
What about us small companies? Are we all evil too? The 5 person Linux consulting shop, are they doing the devil's work?
On the scale of things that include either the corporations or multinations or darn near any large organization, if there isn't insane resolution, 5 person shops are more like a commune then a business. You're talking mom and pop.
No General Motors is not keeping poor Africans from having their lunch. However, to cultivate that whole social animal style of thought, several people have this, umm, sentiment, yeah that's the word, this sentiment that reenforces the behavior of sharing of resources.
Generally the flow of things go down the gradient. Corporations have more, hungary people have less, the reasoning should be apparent.
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Now, that would serously depend on one's income, now wouldn't it? I know this can be a hard concept to wrap your mind around, but some people in the world, and the U.S., don't clear 15$ in a month. Besides, the production costs don't justify that price, that is what makes it "too much".
That is a magnificent turn of phrase. You are praised.
Why is the parent post at -1, Troll? Seems to be making a valid point to me. Is it the free use of the word "fuck"? Did someone moderate by agrement? This just doesn't fucking make any fucking sense.
Consider a hypothetical where you and I agree that you can't go breaking my windows. You giving some other guy money to break them for you seems a bit, oh I don't know, like breaking the agreement to me. At the very least, it is certainly a cheap trick. Government by cheap tricks... :(
And assuming that a helpful ledge will pop up just in the nick of time to save the asses of us primates from our own unwillingness to change is worse than disingenuous, it is reckless.
When you don't know the details of the system you are interacting with, do you press buttons madly hoping that any wrong done by one press will be luckily undone by another?
I look forward to better tries with the same tech.
In other words, I'm asking you to be optimistic and still realistic about how such optimisim could be realised (hope that makes some sense to you).
The darker aspects seem to come when one has no choice about the tasks that others get to add to your to-do list. Just retain veto power over your to-do list, I mean you do have a will of your own. As long as that is true, I would join. And will as soon as I can put together my wearable fund.
If this kind of thing were available, then the need for people to put together custom boards would seem to be less of a hurdle.
I hate to nit pick though. You guys and gals are moving along quite nicely. My frustrations mostly stem from not having the money to throw at building something anytime soon. I hope the how to's are out by the time I can put together my wearable fund.
I thought the issue in question was wheither to take most of the icing (or just more, if you like) off of their cakes and convert that into as much food as possible for the masses.
On the scale of things that include either the corporations or multinations or darn near any large organization, if there isn't insane resolution, 5 person shops are more like a commune then a business. You're talking mom and pop.
Or I could be playing the social game with knowledge of how it scales.
Generally the flow of things go down the gradient. Corporations have more, hungary people have less, the reasoning should be apparent.