Licensing is a form of government oppression, there is nothing to boast about when talking about your government oppressing you. I rebuilt 3 houses, I submitted the architectural drawings that I made myself, did all of the work with my father and brother, including electrical (complete replacement), plumbing (complete replacement), all other wiring, heating, air conditioning, raising the foundation, exending the buildings, new balconies (where there were no balconies before). I learned to do carpentry and handmade kitchen cabinets, staircases. Had to pass the inspections though, so still government oppression...
It is my position that not Apple nor anybody else, company or individual should pay any form of income or wealth taxes. Income and wealth taxes are immoral collectivist imposed slavery. I think with this type of extortion it is cheaper to hire an army to fight a war against the politicians and States than to pay because the 14Billion is just a start. This is Danegeld and it needs to be answered to by force.
So you think that to reduce co2 or whatever emissions everybody's standard of living needs to be reduced? Well, maybe you are right but maybe not. A multibillionaire's house can be as efficient as a peasant's place, why not? The only thing missing is enough nuclear power, afaic we all need our own private nuclear reactors. I want a nuclear powered car, a nuclear powered house and a nuclear powered airplane.
You make it sound as if it is obvious, however there is a huge crowd right here, on/. that does not agree with that sentiment. There were a number of threads where I had to explain that production comes before consumption, that consumption is a trivial consequence of production, that building a business or a product requires risk and sacrifice on the part of the producer and that at the end it may or may not result in profits. You would think this is obvious and common sense idea.... Very large crowd here disagrees and believes that demand drives the economy, that consumption is the reason and production is the consequence, etc. No, in our collectivist time none of this is obvious to a huge crowd.
There is no paradox though, the ship is the same with or without a bunch of boards, as long as it keeps its name, everything is in nomenclature. I wouldn't even argue that it is about the shape of the object, overtime objects can be modified and change their shapes. I wouldn't argue it is about what the object is carrying (ship carries cargo, people, furniture, etc.) Those objects can be unloaded, the ship can have all parts replaced one part at a time and still be the same ship. Of-course each new part that replaces the old part carries the same 'information' as the old part, because it occupies the same space as the old part and has the same purpose, same maintains the information level as the old part, but the new part will last longer. If all parts of a ship are replaced with new parts, the ship will last longer, will last more time.
A computer is what it does, that's its purpose, so that's the name of that computer. A file server or an app server or a database server, etc., everything is in its purpose but of-course the software that it runs can be replaced, upgraded, the data will be changed over time, the parts may be changed as well. The purpose (name) of that machine is what carries the information that 'it' is 'it'.
Change the purpose (and the name is the purpose), so change the name and then it becomes a different entity built with the same parts though.
The goal is consumption. Energy is part of the production cycle, it is also used at the consumer level. Profits are only meaningful if they can be used to consume (eventually). Profits in the free market are the most moral way to pay for consumption. A productive person gets profits from selling to other productive people, the reason for the sale is exchange of goods and services with these other people.
The system has been using violent collectivist means to justify its ends for such a long time ( think everything from the Sherman Act, SS, Medicare and all of the related taxes, payroll, income and wealth taxes, public work projects, money printing, wars, all forms of welfare, all forms of redistribution, business laws, regulations) that at this point a guy who is on some war path against at least some of those ends using other unfortunate means, like lying, seems inevitable and probably necessary. The mob that provides the collectivist government the violent power to steal needs to be controlled somehow, seems that lying is an efficient and effective way to do that.
If they're willing to let people work full time then they should be willing to pay full time wages
- what the hell is a 'full time wage'? I can come up with jobs all the time. As Louis Black said: I could hire a twenty year old model looking woman to wash my balls for me all the time. I am walking and she is scrubbing, nothing sexual (supposedly). It could be a 16 hour a day job for her, why not? However I am not able to hire anybody for that job at the price that I am willing to pay for it (let's say I would pay 1 dollar an hour for that service). No 20 y.o. model looking woman would take the job and that's how the market works: both sides need to agree, it takes 2 to tango (and 2 to wash balls, one with balls and one with hands).
If nobody takes that job that's the solution that you are looking for:
If someone's working 40 hours per week then they shouldn't be sleeping in their car out of exhaustion because they're struggling to pay their bills. Nobody who works full time should live in poverty.
- you are saying nobody should be..... OK, that's what you say. However if somebody wants to do the job of washing my balls and they know that the job pays $1 an hour, you would say: it should be illegal for me to offer the job but more importantly for the other person to take the job.
So I can live without that constant ball washing, however for somebody that could be just what they need for X number of reasons, you are not making my life that much worse, you are standing in the way of the people who are interested/willing/need that job from getting it.
Government laws cause the drugs to be that expensive in the first place. There shouldn't be such a thing as government ran FDA. A rating agency can exist without a government involvement. But of course I am 100% on board that there shouldn't be any copyright or patent laws in the first place. Let the authors protect their own rights without any artificial government created and protected monopoly.
I say drug companies need to rely on trade secrets if they want that monopoly, not on any dorm of government intervention. As to prices being 'unfair', that is a load of crock in the free market. Unfortunately we don't have a free market especially where it comes to the drugs, we gave government oppression instead.
If I invent a cure for cancer or HIV or anything serious, I would only sell it as a treatment in a protected facility, so that the information in it would stay private for as long as I can keep it. The price would be whatever I say and if a government comes for it I would much rather see it destroyed, wiped out rather than sine collectivist government violate my private property rights.
I expect to there be less government under Trump, I may be wrong though. I expect reduction in government interference to the individuals (and when I say individuals I do mean people who are mostly abused by the power, those who have something to take away from, thus businesses and yes businesses are people.) That's the only thing that matters, one thing, the only thing, the singularity of things: less government interference.
I am quite certain that 6502 was not an Intelligent design at all. It was mostly a random collection of metal oxide semiconductors thrown into a bin and then shaken, not stirred...
Fabric is "a modular mobile platform" designed to help app developers improve the "stability, distribution, revenue and identity"
- what would Twitter know about improving revenue exactly? If they do know something about it how come they didn't do that for themselves?
the ability to natively embed tweets in other apps to signing in with your Twitter credentials were made possible by Fabric.
- I guess that's their definition of 'everything'.
You can sign in and you can tweet. The 2 things that Tweeter does.
"We quickly realized that our missions are the same -- helping mobile teams build better apps, understand their users, and grow their businesses," the Fabric team wrote in its announcement.
- right, the actual mission being tracking everything anybody does on their phone and using the phone platform to push advertising to users.
"Fabric and Firebase operate mobile platforms with unique strengths in the market today."
- the F U squared.
And if you're an existing Fabric customer, don't worry, the platform will continue to function.
- ooookaaaay, I guess if you are known for randomly shutting down projects you have to put out statements like that...
You'll just need to agree to the new terms of service, which will be available once the deal is completed.
- right, so if you are a developer who uses that stuff make sure to grow an extra kidney, because they are coming for yours.
If i see somebody who looks like a female to me and I don't know anything else about that pwrson I will refer to that person as a she. If I see somebody who looks like a male and I don't know anything else about that person, that to me is a he.
A biological famous male I will refer to as a he regardless of what he wants or believes to be, that is just a fact. I an not forcing him to talk to me, I am not interested in talking to him, this is my right to thinkbas I do and I am not hurting anybody by it. Manning is a he to me regardless if anything else.
Trade deficits are only 'not necessarily a bad thing' for those cases where trade deficits really mean *borrowing to invest*.
USA *borrows to consume*, thus in case of USA trade deficits are deadly, both figuratively *and* literally deadly. Figuratively because an economy dying is not really the same thing as a human dying, it's more like an inanimate process that is stopping. Literally because a dying economy leads to actual human poverty, suffering and death for a large number of reasons.
You are actually half way correct that so far trade deficits worked well for the USA because the foreigners did all that work that subsidised the USA consumer, who did not have to work to pay for all that consumption. This is possible (or was possible) because so far US dollar is still a so called 'reserve currency', though it is not backed by anything other than 'faith' and probably some military presence.
People expect things to continue the same way as what they have been accustomed to and they do not expect any serious changes to their lives over their life spans. However people are very often wrong about that, big changes happen, they happen often, they happen suddenly (especially for the uninitiated into the reality of what is happening around them).
What you call a 'sound economic policy' I call 'suicidal economic policy'. I know from your words here that you actually think that government intervention is 'sound economic policy', however it was government intervention that created the situation that required more government intervention. More government intervention further leads to a situation that requires even more government intervention.
If you paid attention to what history shows you would know that government intervention has an accumulative effect and it is self destructing. Pumping fake liquidity into an economy that needs to restructure the debts is the wrong thing, not the right thing. What happened 8 years ago did not prevent a depression, it assured it. 1929 recession was created by government policy, specifically by money printing by the Fed and by buying bad UK debt from France. It was a gigantic bailout that inflated the stock market bubble that eventually burst. Hoover and FDR turned a normal process of deleveraging and debt restructuring into a depression by pumping more liquidity into the system.
They even bought good farming products and ploughed the products into the ground to avoid prices from falling, that's government in action: the market restructures bad ideas and debts but also brings prices down, making it easier to survive the restructuring by the most vulnerable in the system. Government steps in and says: you cannot have that benefit, the prices will stay up and the bad decisions will not be allowed to clear, instead they will be kept around and made bigger by more inflation (money printing) and actual welfare redistribution to those business that failed.
This does not guarantee good outcomes, this ensures accumulating and multiplying of bad outcomes. This is the same thing that happened a number of times in the last (and this) century and it is coming to the point where the impact of the next crisis will no longer be manageable by these usual tools that the government has (and it's always just one tool, often disguised under different names), it is theft, it is money printing and theft of existing purchasing and saving power of those, who have savings.
If you understood any of this, you wouldn't have written the statements that you did. Not understanding all of this so far very likely means further misunderstanding on your part and this also may mean that the coming crisis will hit you in a way that you cannot comprehend.
Lily drone guys had 34,000,009 in their pocket and they couldn't build a fucking flying camera... These guys will go for the moon at less than 2/3 of that price?
What products? Sure, USA still makes *some* products but it also runs 500 Billion USD / year trade deficit and has been running that for over 20 years now. So what products exactly will the foreigners miss that USA provides that cannot be bought anywhere else?
That's nothing. Just you wait until they try to build the Hyperloop and that thing has a structural problem....... BOOM, all the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars and everybody inside it and the company that built it - gone.
Not because of the amount, no, but as a general principle of the matter I think Bezos will pay attention and do something useful with that money. I know I would not hesitate to spend a few billion bucks in his place to destroy the current Canadian government and would ensure that my selection of people get elected. The problem with the governments is that they exist but since they do they need to be used for good, not for evil. Companies need to ensure that individual freedoms are upheld by the governments and this to me means that the governments (the collective) must not be able with the private property rights and this 1000000 dollar theft is just that.
There was a story on/. not too far back about Linux on desktop and before that there was this story - an MS exec urging developers who use Linux to switch to Windows 10 and the idea was that supposedly Windows 10 provides a shell now that is as good as bash (supposedly).
I said it then and will say it again: bash is not the only thing that Linux provides me with. I've been exclusively on Linux for about 15 years now and bash is only a small part of it, and part of it is that the OS is not trying to spy on me like this.
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Licensing is a form of government oppression, there is nothing to boast about when talking about your government oppressing you. I rebuilt 3 houses, I submitted the architectural drawings that I made myself, did all of the work with my father and brother, including electrical (complete replacement), plumbing (complete replacement), all other wiring, heating, air conditioning, raising the foundation, exending the buildings, new balconies (where there were no balconies before). I learned to do carpentry and handmade kitchen cabinets, staircases. Had to pass the inspections though, so still government oppression...
It is my position that not Apple nor anybody else, company or individual should pay any form of income or wealth taxes. Income and wealth taxes are immoral collectivist imposed slavery. I think with this type of extortion it is cheaper to hire an army to fight a war against the politicians and States than to pay because the 14Billion is just a start. This is Danegeld and it needs to be answered to by force.
So you think that to reduce co2 or whatever emissions everybody's standard of living needs to be reduced? Well, maybe you are right but maybe not. A multibillionaire's house can be as efficient as a peasant's place, why not? The only thing missing is enough nuclear power, afaic we all need our own private nuclear reactors. I want a nuclear powered car, a nuclear powered house and a nuclear powered airplane.
You make it sound as if it is obvious, however there is a huge crowd right here, on /. that does not agree with that sentiment. There were a number of threads where I had to explain that production comes before consumption, that consumption is a trivial consequence of production, that building a business or a product requires risk and sacrifice on the part of the producer and that at the end it may or may not result in profits. You would think this is obvious and common sense idea.... Very large crowd here disagrees and believes that demand drives the economy, that consumption is the reason and production is the consequence, etc. No, in our collectivist time none of this is obvious to a huge crowd.
There is no paradox though, the ship is the same with or without a bunch of boards, as long as it keeps its name, everything is in nomenclature. I wouldn't even argue that it is about the shape of the object, overtime objects can be modified and change their shapes. I wouldn't argue it is about what the object is carrying (ship carries cargo, people, furniture, etc.) Those objects can be unloaded, the ship can have all parts replaced one part at a time and still be the same ship. Of-course each new part that replaces the old part carries the same 'information' as the old part, because it occupies the same space as the old part and has the same purpose, same maintains the information level as the old part, but the new part will last longer. If all parts of a ship are replaced with new parts, the ship will last longer, will last more time.
A computer is what it does, that's its purpose, so that's the name of that computer. A file server or an app server or a database server, etc., everything is in its purpose but of-course the software that it runs can be replaced, upgraded, the data will be changed over time, the parts may be changed as well. The purpose (name) of that machine is what carries the information that 'it' is 'it'.
Change the purpose (and the name is the purpose), so change the name and then it becomes a different entity built with the same parts though.
The goal is consumption. Energy is part of the production cycle, it is also used at the consumer level. Profits are only meaningful if they can be used to consume (eventually). Profits in the free market are the most moral way to pay for consumption. A productive person gets profits from selling to other productive people, the reason for the sale is exchange of goods and services with these other people.
The system has been using violent collectivist means to justify its ends for such a long time ( think everything from the Sherman Act, SS, Medicare and all of the related taxes, payroll, income and wealth taxes, public work projects, money printing, wars, all forms of welfare, all forms of redistribution, business laws, regulations) that at this point a guy who is on some war path against at least some of those ends using other unfortunate means, like lying, seems inevitable and probably necessary. The mob that provides the collectivist government the violent power to steal needs to be controlled somehow, seems that lying is an efficient and effective way to do that.
If they're willing to let people work full time then they should be willing to pay full time wages
- what the hell is a 'full time wage'? I can come up with jobs all the time. As Louis Black said: I could hire a twenty year old model looking woman to wash my balls for me all the time. I am walking and she is scrubbing, nothing sexual (supposedly). It could be a 16 hour a day job for her, why not? However I am not able to hire anybody for that job at the price that I am willing to pay for it (let's say I would pay 1 dollar an hour for that service). No 20 y.o. model looking woman would take the job and that's how the market works: both sides need to agree, it takes 2 to tango (and 2 to wash balls, one with balls and one with hands).
If nobody takes that job that's the solution that you are looking for:
If someone's working 40 hours per week then they shouldn't be sleeping in their car out of exhaustion because they're struggling to pay their bills. Nobody who works full time should live in poverty.
- you are saying nobody should be..... OK, that's what you say. However if somebody wants to do the job of washing my balls and they know that the job pays $1 an hour, you would say: it should be illegal for me to offer the job but more importantly for the other person to take the job.
So I can live without that constant ball washing, however for somebody that could be just what they need for X number of reasons, you are not making my life that much worse, you are standing in the way of the people who are interested/willing/need that job from getting it.
Government laws cause the drugs to be that expensive in the first place. There shouldn't be such a thing as government ran FDA. A rating agency can exist without a government involvement. But of course I am 100% on board that there shouldn't be any copyright or patent laws in the first place. Let the authors protect their own rights without any artificial government created and protected monopoly.
I say drug companies need to rely on trade secrets if they want that monopoly, not on any dorm of government intervention. As to prices being 'unfair', that is a load of crock in the free market. Unfortunately we don't have a free market especially where it comes to the drugs, we gave government oppression instead.
If I invent a cure for cancer or HIV or anything serious, I would only sell it as a treatment in a protected facility, so that the information in it would stay private for as long as I can keep it. The price would be whatever I say and if a government comes for it I would much rather see it destroyed, wiped out rather than sine collectivist government violate my private property rights.
'Fucked off' Sir of sounds like they are getting stimulated all the way to culmination. Should they thank MS, Ovama or Trump for that grand finale?
I expect to there be less government under Trump, I may be wrong though. I expect reduction in government interference to the individuals (and when I say individuals I do mean people who are mostly abused by the power, those who have something to take away from, thus businesses and yes businesses are people.) That's the only thing that matters, one thing, the only thing, the singularity of things: less government interference.
I am quite certain that 6502 was not an Intelligent design at all. It was mostly a random collection of metal oxide semiconductors thrown into a bin and then shaken, not stirred...
That's none of the concern for the collectivists (socialists most often), the answer is always obvious: take more other people's money.
Fabric is "a modular mobile platform" designed to help app developers improve the "stability, distribution, revenue and identity"
- what would Twitter know about improving revenue exactly? If they do know something about it how come they didn't do that for themselves?
the ability to natively embed tweets in other apps to signing in with your Twitter credentials were made possible by Fabric.
- I guess that's their definition of 'everything'.
You can sign in and you can tweet. The 2 things that Tweeter does.
"We quickly realized that our missions are the same -- helping mobile teams build better apps, understand their users, and grow their businesses," the Fabric team wrote in its announcement.
- right, the actual mission being tracking everything anybody does on their phone and using the phone platform to push advertising to users.
"Fabric and Firebase operate mobile platforms with unique strengths in the market today."
- the F U squared.
And if you're an existing Fabric customer, don't worry, the platform will continue to function.
- ooookaaaay, I guess if you are known for randomly shutting down projects you have to put out statements like that...
You'll just need to agree to the new terms of service, which will be available once the deal is completed.
- right, so if you are a developer who uses that stuff make sure to grow an extra kidney, because they are coming for yours.
If i see somebody who looks like a female to me and I don't know anything else about that pwrson I will refer to that person as a she. If I see somebody who looks like a male and I don't know anything else about that person, that to me is a he.
A biological famous male I will refer to as a he regardless of what he wants or believes to be, that is just a fact. I an not forcing him to talk to me, I am not interested in talking to him, this is my right to thinkbas I do and I am not hurting anybody by it. Manning is a he to me regardless if anything else.
Oh benevolent great one, please bestow upon us lowly people a nugget of your wisdom.
- no problem, here it is: Shut up, stop talking.
Trade deficits are only 'not necessarily a bad thing' for those cases where trade deficits really mean *borrowing to invest*.
USA *borrows to consume*, thus in case of USA trade deficits are deadly, both figuratively *and* literally deadly. Figuratively because an economy dying is not really the same thing as a human dying, it's more like an inanimate process that is stopping. Literally because a dying economy leads to actual human poverty, suffering and death for a large number of reasons.
You are actually half way correct that so far trade deficits worked well for the USA because the foreigners did all that work that subsidised the USA consumer, who did not have to work to pay for all that consumption. This is possible (or was possible) because so far US dollar is still a so called 'reserve currency', though it is not backed by anything other than 'faith' and probably some military presence.
People expect things to continue the same way as what they have been accustomed to and they do not expect any serious changes to their lives over their life spans. However people are very often wrong about that, big changes happen, they happen often, they happen suddenly (especially for the uninitiated into the reality of what is happening around them).
What you call a 'sound economic policy' I call 'suicidal economic policy'. I know from your words here that you actually think that government intervention is 'sound economic policy', however it was government intervention that created the situation that required more government intervention. More government intervention further leads to a situation that requires even more government intervention.
If you paid attention to what history shows you would know that government intervention has an accumulative effect and it is self destructing. Pumping fake liquidity into an economy that needs to restructure the debts is the wrong thing, not the right thing. What happened 8 years ago did not prevent a depression, it assured it. 1929 recession was created by government policy, specifically by money printing by the Fed and by buying bad UK debt from France. It was a gigantic bailout that inflated the stock market bubble that eventually burst. Hoover and FDR turned a normal process of deleveraging and debt restructuring into a depression by pumping more liquidity into the system.
They even bought good farming products and ploughed the products into the ground to avoid prices from falling, that's government in action: the market restructures bad ideas and debts but also brings prices down, making it easier to survive the restructuring by the most vulnerable in the system. Government steps in and says: you cannot have that benefit, the prices will stay up and the bad decisions will not be allowed to clear, instead they will be kept around and made bigger by more inflation (money printing) and actual welfare redistribution to those business that failed.
This does not guarantee good outcomes, this ensures accumulating and multiplying of bad outcomes. This is the same thing that happened a number of times in the last (and this) century and it is coming to the point where the impact of the next crisis will no longer be manageable by these usual tools that the government has (and it's always just one tool, often disguised under different names), it is theft, it is money printing and theft of existing purchasing and saving power of those, who have savings.
If you understood any of this, you wouldn't have written the statements that you did. Not understanding all of this so far very likely means further misunderstanding on your part and this also may mean that the coming crisis will hit you in a way that you cannot comprehend.
Lily drone guys had 34,000,009 in their pocket and they couldn't build a fucking flying camera... These guys will go for the moon at less than 2/3 of that price?
What products? Sure, USA still makes *some* products but it also runs 500 Billion USD / year trade deficit and has been running that for over 20 years now. So what products exactly will the foreigners miss that USA provides that cannot be bought anywhere else?
That's nothing. Just you wait until they try to build the Hyperloop and that thing has a structural problem....... BOOM, all the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars and everybody inside it and the company that built it - gone.
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Not because of the amount, no, but as a general principle of the matter I think Bezos will pay attention and do something useful with that money. I know I would not hesitate to spend a few billion bucks in his place to destroy the current Canadian government and would ensure that my selection of people get elected. The problem with the governments is that they exist but since they do they need to be used for good, not for evil. Companies need to ensure that individual freedoms are upheld by the governments and this to me means that the governments (the collective) must not be able with the private property rights and this 1000000 dollar theft is just that.
Seemed that way but Bezos just burned it right down to the ground by just giving it away...
There was a story on /. not too far back about Linux on desktop and before that there was this story - an MS exec urging developers who use Linux to switch to Windows 10 and the idea was that supposedly Windows 10 provides a shell now that is as good as bash (supposedly).
I said it then and will say it again: bash is not the only thing that Linux provides me with. I've been exclusively on Linux for about 15 years now and bash is only a small part of it, and part of it is that the OS is not trying to spy on me like this.
The you what,!