Government cannot provide you with anything because government has nothing. Printing fiat currency is not a virtue, it's a transgression that the people will pay for dearly with their entire economy collapsing around them.
You cannot live on printed money under the impression that somebody will provide you with the goods in exchange for that printed money. Sure, it seems like it has been working exactly that way from at least 1971, the moment when Nixon defaulted on the dollar and the inflation increased many fold, but that's what destroyed the productive economy, pushing production elsewhere and the foreigners are not obligated to keep giving you stuff they produce in exchange for your printed paper.
The foreigners are not obligated to give you stuff they produce in exchange for paper dollars.
Again, the foreigners are not obligated to give you stuff they product in exchange for paper dollars.
You think you can run the economy by printing money, not by creating money via actual productive output being generated by economic entities that are acting in their own best self interest being guided by the invisible hand of the market (the desires of the people that are willing to trade their productivity for yours). Too bad for you if you believe that.
As to the stock market, the inflation in the currency supply causes massive price hikes in various asset classes, the direction of these price hikes cannot be controlled by any entity, including the Fed. It was the stock market during Alan Greenspan's bubble, it was the housing market during Bernanke and it is the bond bubble with what the hell is her name... Janet Yellen.
These are not good for anybody except for speculators who pretend that price hikes are the economy, they are not, they hurt the economy more than they help, they push prices up rather than allowing them to come down because of the inflation (expansion of the money supply) is currently directed in that area. Well, the stock market may be high and the house prices may still be high, but your quality of life is not and as the money loses value and you find it more and more difficult to pay for your energy and food and shelter and medical costs, you will realise something: the high market prices are not actually helping you to offset your high cost of living and if you don't own any of the stocks that are rising, you are not even able to protect yourself against even the most basic level of inflation and most people don't own much of anything in this economy of socialism, collectivism and the ideas that you stand for.
The government already prints and borrows money to supply tens if not hundreds of millions of citizens with 'basic income', didn't you notice all the welfare checks, food stamps, house vouchers, low interest rates for nonsensical 'education' and housing and cars and other forms of debt?
wait, WHAT? A group of people releases some code without asking for any money and then if people start using the code then they will come for money later? I am with the OpenBSD team on this, not with you! What you are suggesting is actually immoral and probably cannot be legally enforced. Once you release your code under a license that allows people to use it (at least that version of it, which you released), you can't now come after those people's money!
You know you don't have to develop anything at all, you don't have to develop anything for free and you don't have to develop anything and then give it away, but if you do, don't cry if people start using it!
Now, I already mentioned that in free software community code became money long time ago, that's the point I am trying to make - code is money and we exchange it for free seemingly, but actually we are making a payment with our code to other people who also create code that we can use.
Code is money and the labour that is used to create this wealth is not taxed or regulated by government, we do it on our own around all government regulations and around taxes and that is what built a vibrant economy, which the guy in TFA doesn't understand.
In this case the loss leader may just be a payment on other projects.
When Elon Musk develops his Tesla thing that I do not own, does this change things for me, does it make me poorer or wealthier? Well, it's making the economy more productive, it's making the overall economy wealthier because of this new product that people want and a generally wealthier economy allows people to pursue their hobbies and in the case of free software developers the hobbies are developing free software (excuse me for that), so when I say a "loss leader", maybe another way to put it is a payment.
In the software world code because currency itself. Code is something tangible, code has intrinsic value to people who want to use that code for something, so code is actually money. We exchange code, we exchange money, we make payments to each other this way.
In fact us not charging for our code in some fiat government currency but instead just using each other's code, we are going around the government taxation and various business regulations.
For all the talk about so many programmers being 'socialists', we are actually doing everything we can to avoid paying taxes, if the politicians only understood what kind of an economy is running right under their noses in this so called "free" software community, they'd be screaming murder! There would be Obama on the stage, talking about "paying fair share" and throwing "you didn't build that" slogans, while pointing fingers at a community that exchanges what basically amounts to labour without allowing government to skim off the top.
Well, he is wrong, but your feeling about the economy do not matter one way or another, it operates outside of your sentiment, a failing economy would not allow you to be a developer.
Imagine if the economy was such that for you to be able to do all the 'geeky' stuff you do, you'd literally have to starve yourself to death and/or use up 99% of your normal sleeping time. I mean if you had no choice but to gather/hunt for food the entire day or otherwise you wouldn't survive, that would be the economy dictating to you that you cannot really do much of anything beyond just surviving.
The economy as is allows people to spend their time however they feel like, some forego entertainment and leisure to work on their favourite pet projects. It's like telling a stamp collector that his hobby is a failed idea economically... he'd just laugh at the guy.
You do what you have to do to survive in the economy, so you do care, you are just not necessarily aware of it, but everything you do in life is based on the health / state of the economy.
Companies are legally liable if they hire an ex con and he is involved in anything at all while in his official capacity or even outside of it. AFAIC the lawsuits fuelled by government laws make it impossible for companies to hire ex cons.
Another misconception, you are looking at the effect of a higher productivity - fewer work hours and then you decide that it is the cause of it.
I live in Germany on and off for half a decade now, so I can tell you this: it is the capital savings and investments that make Germans so productive, they have the savings that allow them to acquire/build the tools and train management and afford investments into technology that make their workers more productive and the more productive workers can work fewer hours. Unproductive workers can work a thousand hours and not be as productive as productive workers at a tenth of that time due to the difference in capital savings and investments.
what 'math' questions make into any IQ tests? Actually I think IQ tests are subjective rather than objective on the more complex questions specifically because they are not math but in many casee intuition on complex pattern matching.
The inability to do well on those is more interesting, more indicative of lower intelligence than specialized knowledge.
There is nothing more noble that creating opportunities for work for people who cannot create them for themselves. That's literally allowing people to survive on this planet where they couldn't figure out how to survive on their own without the employer.
The only people who should be careful are socialists/fascists and all types of dictatorial assholes, once they destroy the private sector there will be no jobs and then you'll know what it's like to live without anybody creating any opportunities for you not to be a subsistence hunger/gatherer and people with mental issues will not be doing that well under those circumstances compared to the others at all.
Wrong, a wealthy society is wealthy despite the government it has taking advantage of the wealth generated by the private sector.
Governments do not generate any wealth and there is nowhere to extract the wealth for a government of a society that has no wealth in the private sector. Wealth societies precisely appear as anarchies, USA was as close to an anarchy as it gets during the 19th century industrial revolution simply by the virtue of the tiniest of governments in the world up until that time.
Exploiting people? As in creating possibilities for people to work, to become useful in a society and to give meaning to many where they had little before, to make them feel useful and appreciated, to give them a way to earn a living while at it...
so 'exploitative', do you wish nobody ever created any businesses and offered jobs in them to others?
Wrong completely, but understandably. You look at the effect and believe it ti be the cause. A wealthy society grows cancer that is government, which steals the wealth, calls it 'taxes', creates a number of monopolies that are government propped and protected, which makes it look like infrastructure only can happen because of taxes.
The reality is that it was the wealthy economy that built the infrastructure, except the government destroyed competition and private initiative, making the infrastructure inefficient.
Poor economies cannot afford as much wasteful building as wealthy economies build due to theft called 'taxes'.
The result is that you are looking at inefficient glitter of a wealthy economy, that is overburdened with theft that is taxes and think that the economy is wealthy from the theft that is taxes. The reality is the opposite from what you believe.
Well, graphene seems to possess all of the properties of a silver bullet, it can filter water, store energy, cure cancer, establish world peace, so I would say a bullet and bulletproof vest out of this stuff will have to both, kill and save from being killed, generating enough uncertainty field, which would cause a temporal rip in the non graphene fabric of the Universe and taking the world back in time before the experiment takes place. Actually we are already in the 26th iteration of this loop. The interesting thing is that if you wrap yourself in a graphene sheet, you will stay anr not move back in time with everybody else, but the probabilistic shift of the Universe can cause you to jump into different parts of space without any speed limits, since I have a graphene sheet, I have already travelled to 15 differrent galaxies this way (the other times I was simply moved from the computer to the couch, to kitchen and to a girl's shower room, I am recording these important observations on my graphene based videocamera.
Machismo has nothing to do with it, a person has the right to protect himself with deadly force when attacked and should not hesitate once it's a full frontal attack, do not leave the attacker capable of returning, coming from behind, coming after you later, take care of it once and for all right there and then and be done with it. Yes, taking another man's life is better than losing your own.
OMG, you fucking moron, learn something, read a book, go read some jokes, humour obviously is not your strong suit, but maybe you can learn to pretend you understand it, moron.
Funny you should talk about facts. Where do you get yours, Al Sharpton? You should stop for a moment and ask yourself a question: what am I doing with my life, moving through it in this much ignorance? Then you should engage your brain and do something useful, like read a book.
Quite the opposite, the evidence is overwhelming that the cop acted correctly and shot Brown in self defence as Brown charged at him and wouldn't be stopped by the first few rounds shot at his torso, which hit his hands first as he was running to the cop. The cop was attacked, beaten, Brown tried taking his weapon away from the cop and then the cop came after Brown. Brown turned around and charged at the cop. Multiple witnesses who were scared to come forward due to overwhelming pressure by the black leadership, Obama himself no less was on TV about this (and today as well), and everybody was ready to rip the cop apart. The 7 black witnesses who actually confirmed what the cop was saying saw Brown charging at the cop, he didn't have his hands up, he didn't yell 'don't shoot', all of this 'evidence' came out of the Brown's accomplice, who was with Brown in the store they robbed together just before this incident. In fact this cop was on the way to the store to respond to the emergency call and stopped Brown correctly. He was then attacked, beaten, weapon was almost taken away from him and then he was charged at.
That is what the jury in this case saw and that is why the cop will not go to trial, since there is no reason for it, it's a self defence case like many others that are obvious and there is nothing to charge the guy with.
7 witnesses (black) collaborated cop's story. Brown was running at the cop, after beating him and pulling his gun, which then went off in the car. The cop did the correct thing by trying to stop the offender and as the offender charged at him, the cop fired multiple rounds, hitting Brown in the hands and torso, which didn't stop the charge and so the cop finished off the offender by firing into his head. If somebody attacked me (and I am not a cop and never will be) and tried taking my gun away and tried beating me and then charged at me from a distance, I would have shot him as well, would have emptied the entire clip and the colour is absolutely irrelevant.
In this case Brown was shot by the cop for attacking the cop, beating the cop, pulling on his gun, which went off in the car, running away, being called to stop and then turning around and charging at the cop with the intent to kill him.
Any normal person would have shot Brown was he black or white or beige.
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."
I started this way as well, here is an advice: have strict standards and do not let anybody violate them. You will have plenty of work to do, do not make mistakes of allowing standards to slip from the start.
Get fresh out of school people, maybe even people without full degree, pay as little as possible, you have no money to throw around, but make sure there is always coffee and food in the house, besg way to keep morale up is to have people who are not feeling hungry.
Get cheap or free stuff from craigs list, you will need computers, monitors, switches, cables, test servers, desks, chairs, some plates, forks, spoons, cups, a microwave, a kettle, a coffee maker, fridge, paper towels, bathroom tissue, buy in bulk from costco.
You need to be proficient enough to write/read code, who else is going to do it at first if not you? You do need standards, would be nice to pick a technology and stick to it, so make your picks. Some code generators would be nice too.
Prepare some document templates for proposals, design docs, business docs, release docs. It is very useful to have an accountant that knows you and can deal with the payroll,source deductions, etc.
Find clients outside of your country, but if you are an American you will have tough time opening an offshore bank account, which you need...
Good luck, you will need plenty.
PS. May want to consider a couch in the office. PPS. May want to consider renting a house instead of an office, you can live there and have enough space for work.
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Government cannot provide you with anything because government has nothing. Printing fiat currency is not a virtue, it's a transgression that the people will pay for dearly with their entire economy collapsing around them.
You cannot live on printed money under the impression that somebody will provide you with the goods in exchange for that printed money. Sure, it seems like it has been working exactly that way from at least 1971, the moment when Nixon defaulted on the dollar and the inflation increased many fold, but that's what destroyed the productive economy, pushing production elsewhere and the foreigners are not obligated to keep giving you stuff they produce in exchange for your printed paper.
The foreigners are not obligated to give you stuff they produce in exchange for paper dollars.
Again, the foreigners are not obligated to give you stuff they product in exchange for paper dollars.
You think you can run the economy by printing money, not by creating money via actual productive output being generated by economic entities that are acting in their own best self interest being guided by the invisible hand of the market (the desires of the people that are willing to trade their productivity for yours). Too bad for you if you believe that.
As to the stock market, the inflation in the currency supply causes massive price hikes in various asset classes, the direction of these price hikes cannot be controlled by any entity, including the Fed. It was the stock market during Alan Greenspan's bubble, it was the housing market during Bernanke and it is the bond bubble with what the hell is her name... Janet Yellen.
These are not good for anybody except for speculators who pretend that price hikes are the economy, they are not, they hurt the economy more than they help, they push prices up rather than allowing them to come down because of the inflation (expansion of the money supply) is currently directed in that area. Well, the stock market may be high and the house prices may still be high, but your quality of life is not and as the money loses value and you find it more and more difficult to pay for your energy and food and shelter and medical costs, you will realise something: the high market prices are not actually helping you to offset your high cost of living and if you don't own any of the stocks that are rising, you are not even able to protect yourself against even the most basic level of inflation and most people don't own much of anything in this economy of socialism, collectivism and the ideas that you stand for.
The government already prints and borrows money to supply tens if not hundreds of millions of citizens with 'basic income', didn't you notice all the welfare checks, food stamps, house vouchers, low interest rates for nonsensical 'education' and housing and cars and other forms of debt?
Maybe you should look around.
wait, WHAT? A group of people releases some code without asking for any money and then if people start using the code then they will come for money later? I am with the OpenBSD team on this, not with you! What you are suggesting is actually immoral and probably cannot be legally enforced. Once you release your code under a license that allows people to use it (at least that version of it, which you released), you can't now come after those people's money!
You know you don't have to develop anything at all, you don't have to develop anything for free and you don't have to develop anything and then give it away, but if you do, don't cry if people start using it!
Now, I already mentioned that in free software community code became money long time ago, that's the point I am trying to make - code is money and we exchange it for free seemingly, but actually we are making a payment with our code to other people who also create code that we can use.
Code is money and the labour that is used to create this wealth is not taxed or regulated by government, we do it on our own around all government regulations and around taxes and that is what built a vibrant economy, which the guy in TFA doesn't understand.
In this case the loss leader may just be a payment on other projects.
When Elon Musk develops his Tesla thing that I do not own, does this change things for me, does it make me poorer or wealthier? Well, it's making the economy more productive, it's making the overall economy wealthier because of this new product that people want and a generally wealthier economy allows people to pursue their hobbies and in the case of free software developers the hobbies are developing free software (excuse me for that), so when I say a "loss leader", maybe another way to put it is a payment.
In the software world code because currency itself. Code is something tangible, code has intrinsic value to people who want to use that code for something, so code is actually money. We exchange code, we exchange money, we make payments to each other this way.
In fact us not charging for our code in some fiat government currency but instead just using each other's code, we are going around the government taxation and various business regulations.
For all the talk about so many programmers being 'socialists', we are actually doing everything we can to avoid paying taxes, if the politicians only understood what kind of an economy is running right under their noses in this so called "free" software community, they'd be screaming murder! There would be Obama on the stage, talking about "paying fair share" and throwing "you didn't build that" slogans, while pointing fingers at a community that exchanges what basically amounts to labour without allowing government to skim off the top.
Well, he is wrong, but your feeling about the economy do not matter one way or another, it operates outside of your sentiment, a failing economy would not allow you to be a developer.
Imagine if the economy was such that for you to be able to do all the 'geeky' stuff you do, you'd literally have to starve yourself to death and/or use up 99% of your normal sleeping time. I mean if you had no choice but to gather/hunt for food the entire day or otherwise you wouldn't survive, that would be the economy dictating to you that you cannot really do much of anything beyond just surviving.
The economy as is allows people to spend their time however they feel like, some forego entertainment and leisure to work on their favourite pet projects. It's like telling a stamp collector that his hobby is a failed idea economically... he'd just laugh at the guy.
You do what you have to do to survive in the economy, so you do care, you are just not necessarily aware of it, but everything you do in life is based on the health / state of the economy.
Freeriders are giving you the marketshare. Having a loss leader is not an uncommon business practice, nor is it untenable.
That's .50 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.
You do realise why that is, right? Lawsuits.
Companies are legally liable if they hire an ex con and he is involved in anything at all while in his official capacity or even outside of it. AFAIC the lawsuits fuelled by government laws make it impossible for companies to hire ex cons.
Another misconception, you are looking at the effect of a higher productivity - fewer work hours and then you decide that it is the cause of it.
I live in Germany on and off for half a decade now, so I can tell you this: it is the capital savings and investments that make Germans so productive, they have the savings that allow them to acquire/build the tools and train management and afford investments into technology that make their workers more productive and the more productive workers can work fewer hours. Unproductive workers can work a thousand hours and not be as productive as productive workers at a tenth of that time due to the difference in capital savings and investments.
you know, love or something, it's the latest fad in the movies like Interstellar.
what 'math' questions make into any IQ tests? Actually I think IQ tests are subjective rather than objective on the more complex questions specifically because they are not math but in many casee intuition on complex pattern matching.
The inability to do well on those is more interesting, more indicative of lower intelligence than specialized knowledge.
There is nothing more noble that creating opportunities for work for people who cannot create them for themselves. That's literally allowing people to survive on this planet where they couldn't figure out how to survive on their own without the employer.
The only people who should be careful are socialists/fascists and all types of dictatorial assholes, once they destroy the private sector there will be no jobs and then you'll know what it's like to live without anybody creating any opportunities for you not to be a subsistence hunger/gatherer and people with mental issues will not be doing that well under those circumstances compared to the others at all.
Wrong, a wealthy society is wealthy despite the government it has taking advantage of the wealth generated by the private sector.
Governments do not generate any wealth and there is nowhere to extract the wealth for a government of a society that has no wealth in the private sector. Wealth societies precisely appear as anarchies, USA was as close to an anarchy as it gets during the 19th century industrial revolution simply by the virtue of the tiniest of governments in the world up until that time.
Exploiting people? As in creating possibilities for people to work, to become useful in a society and to give meaning to many where they had little before, to make them feel useful and appreciated, to give them a way to earn a living while at it...
so 'exploitative', do you wish nobody ever created any businesses and offered jobs in them to others?
Wrong completely, but understandably. You look at the effect and believe it ti be the cause. A wealthy society grows cancer that is government, which steals the wealth, calls it 'taxes', creates a number of monopolies that are government propped and protected, which makes it look like infrastructure only can happen because of taxes.
The reality is that it was the wealthy economy that built the infrastructure, except the government destroyed competition and private initiative, making the infrastructure inefficient.
Poor economies cannot afford as much wasteful building as wealthy economies build due to theft called 'taxes'.
The result is that you are looking at inefficient glitter of a wealthy economy, that is overburdened with theft that is taxes and think that the economy is wealthy from the theft that is taxes. The reality is the opposite from what you believe.
Well, graphene seems to possess all of the properties of a silver bullet, it can filter water, store energy, cure cancer, establish world peace, so I would say a bullet and bulletproof vest out of this stuff will have to both, kill and save from being killed, generating enough uncertainty field, which would cause a temporal rip in the non graphene fabric of the Universe and taking the world back in time before the experiment takes place. Actually we are already in the 26th iteration of this loop. The interesting thing is that if you wrap yourself in a graphene sheet, you will stay anr not move back in time with everybody else, but the probabilistic shift of the Universe can cause you to jump into different parts of space without any speed limits, since I have a graphene sheet, I have already travelled to 15 differrent galaxies this way (the other times I was simply moved from the computer to the couch, to kitchen and to a girl's shower room, I am recording these important observations on my graphene based videocamera.
Fuck governments and Mega governments, I say break up all governments and do not touch private enterprises.
This is like a government coming out saying that a person should be dismembered or a family should be divorced because it's just 'too strong'.
Machismo has nothing to do with it, a person has the right to protect himself with deadly force when attacked and should not hesitate once it's a full frontal attack, do not leave the attacker capable of returning, coming from behind, coming after you later, take care of it once and for all right there and then and be done with it. Yes, taking another man's life is better than losing your own.
OMG, you fucking moron, learn something, read a book, go read some jokes, humour obviously is not your strong suit, but maybe you can learn to pretend you understand it, moron.
Funny you should talk about facts. Where do you get yours, Al Sharpton? You should stop for a moment and ask yourself a question: what am I doing with my life, moving through it in this much ignorance? Then you should engage your brain and do something useful, like read a book.
Quite the opposite, the evidence is overwhelming that the cop acted correctly and shot Brown in self defence as Brown charged at him and wouldn't be stopped by the first few rounds shot at his torso, which hit his hands first as he was running to the cop. The cop was attacked, beaten, Brown tried taking his weapon away from the cop and then the cop came after Brown. Brown turned around and charged at the cop. Multiple witnesses who were scared to come forward due to overwhelming pressure by the black leadership, Obama himself no less was on TV about this (and today as well), and everybody was ready to rip the cop apart. The 7 black witnesses who actually confirmed what the cop was saying saw Brown charging at the cop, he didn't have his hands up, he didn't yell 'don't shoot', all of this 'evidence' came out of the Brown's accomplice, who was with Brown in the store they robbed together just before this incident. In fact this cop was on the way to the store to respond to the emergency call and stopped Brown correctly. He was then attacked, beaten, weapon was almost taken away from him and then he was charged at.
That is what the jury in this case saw and that is why the cop will not go to trial, since there is no reason for it, it's a self defence case like many others that are obvious and there is nothing to charge the guy with.
7 witnesses (black) collaborated cop's story. Brown was running at the cop, after beating him and pulling his gun, which then went off in the car. The cop did the correct thing by trying to stop the offender and as the offender charged at him, the cop fired multiple rounds, hitting Brown in the hands and torso, which didn't stop the charge and so the cop finished off the offender by firing into his head. If somebody attacked me (and I am not a cop and never will be) and tried taking my gun away and tried beating me and then charged at me from a distance, I would have shot him as well, would have emptied the entire clip and the colour is absolutely irrelevant.
In this case Brown was shot by the cop for attacking the cop, beating the cop, pulling on his gun, which went off in the car, running away, being called to stop and then turning around and charging at the cop with the intent to kill him.
Any normal person would have shot Brown was he black or white or beige.
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."
I started this way as well, here is an advice: have strict standards and do not let anybody violate them. You will have plenty of work to do, do not make mistakes of allowing standards to slip from the start.
Get fresh out of school people, maybe even people without full degree, pay as little as possible, you have no money to throw around, but make sure there is always coffee and food in the house, besg way to keep morale up is to have people who are not feeling hungry.
Get cheap or free stuff from craigs list, you will need computers, monitors, switches, cables, test servers, desks, chairs, some plates, forks, spoons, cups, a microwave, a kettle, a coffee maker, fridge, paper towels, bathroom tissue, buy in bulk from costco.
You need to be proficient enough to write/read code, who else is going to do it at first if not you? You do need standards, would be nice to pick a technology and stick to it, so make your picks. Some code generators would be nice too.
Prepare some document templates for proposals, design docs, business docs, release docs. It is very useful to have an accountant that knows you and can deal with the payroll,source deductions, etc.
Find clients outside of your country, but if you are an American you will have tough time opening an offshore bank account, which you need...
Good luck, you will need plenty.
PS. May want to consider a couch in the office.
PPS. May want to consider renting a house instead of an office, you can live there and have enough space for work.
Thanks for crashing my web server! (Score:5, Informative)
- you are welcome, but you may want to reconsider running your web server on your vanilla 68 Katy, I suggest adding a turbo mode for that :)