I've noticed a significant increase in spam on my system, about 4 times as much as i had before November,and most of them seem to be scams regarding employment offers
Got an example of one? Most are pretty subtle, like the brand of a car, a watch, a computer, i can't recall any obtrusive ones, but then again i don't consume that much movies & serials
Life is much better without ads, i stopped watching broadcast TV because of the ads, and i no longer listen to broadcast radio, all the media (with the exception of the Internet) i consume is ad free, the only thing i still see are product placements in movies and serials, but those at least aren't as obtrusive as those ad breaks every 5 seconds.
Well it's obvious why, isn't it? Would you be able to sit through all those ads if the people in them were hit repeatedly and brutally with the ugly stick?
Attractive people catch the attention of the public long enough to be able to inflict you with the ads, but the ads don't require the attractive people in themselves to work, that's why they keep hitting you with the same ads over & over & over again, tell someone often enough that he needs that product and he'll buy it.
There are copy-taxes on copiers and printers and scanners in Belgium, so yes, you pay for those as well, so far having vocal cords and the ability to write aren't being taxed, but I'm sure it's a matter of time
You think you got it bad? In Belgium you even pay those bastards when you buy an SD card for your camera, or an external hard drive, or just about anything that can hold ones and zeros....
- oh, I see. So because you have no interest in whatever, it means nobody should be able to get it because it goes against your principles.
No, i do hope our society evolves in that direction, but i would not impose my principles on you or anyone else.
Isn't that what 'communism' and other various such ideas start with: you should do what is good not for you but for everybody. Doesn't it always degenerate into a society of those on top and on the bottom with basically nobody in the middle, and you are talking about GOOD?
Sofar every society has fallen, it's not because ours is still standing that it'll stay standing, as a slashdot reader you should be more then aware of the tendencies of governments towards police states, the eroding of our civil rights is fully underway, i doubt this is directly related to 'communism' itself, besides, as i said, i hope we as a species evolve in such a way that we would no longer feel the need to squish others.
- no, I don't. If they are smarter, then they should do something and change those conditions. I bet many do and I bet that what many of them do you wouldn't approve of either.
They might be smarter, but if you are born in a society that lacks schooling it doesn't matter if you have a natural gift with math, and if your parents lack means you might starve before you are even one year old. What makes this even worse is the fact that we actually have the means to prevent it, we already have overproduction of food, but we chose not to use it.
As for your other point, why would i have issue with that?
- yes. Or they can do what I did and immigrate (and I moved many times, I moved from country to country more often than most end up moving from city to city.)
What would have happened to you if you were born into a family that could not afford to school you? Or feed you for that matter?
- only the ability to do something with those skills to get better life for yourself.
You want to 'change the world' on the back of various people, who in your mind should do what you think is best, that's is bad in my world, that's dictatorship.
I prefer free market of ideas, where people do what they can based on their abilities, based on what the market is willing to bear, based on choices, not based on ideology, that ended up on multiple occasions, and will end up again and again, costing millions of people's lives, millions of people's freedoms and retardation of progress.
You see, that's what happens when someone's particular idea of something good and moral is allowed to be trampling all over other people's choices.
This idea of yours is the one that is repulsive to me, and again, that's good, that's diversity.
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PS. the ideas you hold look to me to be academic, I on the other hand have first and second hand experience with them, my relatives have gone through the genocide of Ukrainians in the thirties by the communist leaders, I was born in the USSR and lived there enough time as well, so to me this is very much practical, I am not only unwilling to subscribe to such ideas, I would really be standing on the way and would be violently preventing any such thing from happening to me again... so as I said, diversity is good.
Cheers.
You might not expect it, but i agree with you that nobody should impose their morals on another, i disagree with your statement that it was communism itself that was at the core of the problems with those countries, in my opinion our species is just not ready yet to live in peace.
- that makes no sense. Who is supposed to freely supply everybody with all these free items you want? You want somebody to supply everybody with everything, I don't understand what the upside for the supplier is if there is no profit motive. Explain.
I believe people should work for society, not for personal gain, i have no interest in owning a Mercedes Benz or BMW, nor do i need a bigger house then my neighbor, and i'd be more then happy to contribute to a society that actually takes care of all it's citizens, i don't really know how to express it properly in English, but seeing this is a geek nest, think Star Trek TNG.
- but that's good thing, at least SOMETHING for us to use for the next evolution step.
I don't believe in equality at all, not for a second. There is no equality, there should be no equality, there will never be equality. That's because some are always more capable than others in some sense of the word, whatever it is - physically, mentally, imaginatively, productively, whatever. There is no equality because the real world doesn't make carbon copies of people, do you understand? There are no clones, we are all different with different abilities and THAT is good, because it means that we have diversity.
Diversity is better than equality any day of the week, because when some shit hits some proverbial fan, many will die but some will survive. And it's a good thing that NOT everybody will get the 'immortality treatment', because you never know which traits of the genome will come in handy at what point in time.
No no no, I don't want equality, I want exceptional inequality displayed in all different ways, I want people to struggle and to fight to survive, not to live on a cloud and then not to see the proverbial train heading for them.
So i take it you have no problem with people starving in Ethiopia even though they might potentially be smarter then yo? But just because they were born in the wrong part of the world they can go rot? Sorry, but i find such a view repulsive. Society needs people with different skill sets, but what makes your skill better or worse then the others?
Slashdot Mirror
Put the pc in the living room, you don't need to sit next to them & read every link they click to know what they're doing.
What's a nine year old doing online alone?
Don't take this the wrong way, but most of us in Europe think the US is comparable to Camelot, it's a silly place.
In a lot of ways you guys are the exact opposite of us.
I've noticed a significant increase in spam on my system, about 4 times as much as i had before November,and most of them seem to be scams regarding employment offers
Which one is for the BD decoding?
At the risk of getting bitten by /. , their camera's and camcorders are decent to excellent, but those are the only bits coming from them i still touch
Haven't watched those indeed :)
Got an example of one? Most are pretty subtle, like the brand of a car, a watch, a computer, i can't recall any obtrusive ones, but then again i don't consume that much movies & serials
Life is much better without ads, i stopped watching broadcast TV because of the ads, and i no longer listen to broadcast radio, all the media (with the exception of the Internet) i consume is ad free, the only thing i still see are product placements in movies and serials, but those at least aren't as obtrusive as those ad breaks every 5 seconds.
Well it's obvious why, isn't it? Would you be able to sit through all those ads if the people in them were hit repeatedly and brutally with the ugly stick?
Attractive people catch the attention of the public long enough to be able to inflict you with the ads, but the ads don't require the attractive people in themselves to work, that's why they keep hitting you with the same ads over & over & over again, tell someone often enough that he needs that product and he'll buy it.
Future? This happens a lot, it's like they want us to pirate stuff.
"This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
Got a torrent?
The fact that the people aren't rioting (or even aware of) over these taxes seem to suggest that they're not going away
There are copy-taxes on copiers and printers and scanners in Belgium, so yes, you pay for those as well, so far having vocal cords and the ability to write aren't being taxed, but I'm sure it's a matter of time
You think you got it bad? In Belgium you even pay those bastards when you buy an SD card for your camera, or an external hard drive, or just about anything that can hold ones and zeros....
Money rules this world...
...that a closed garden sucks. Release the hounds of hell!
I just use google to find where the content is, instead of visiting every torrent site until i find it....
Electronic Arts is still alive & kicking?
Charlie Sheen, is that you?
Unless it's a meteor, that might be Earth-shattering....
The benefit of self assembly is that you get exactly what you want.
Everyone wants to stay at 1, the question isn't about wanting something, the question is, should we do it.
- oh, I see. So because you have no interest in whatever, it means nobody should be able to get it because it goes against your principles.
No, i do hope our society evolves in that direction, but i would not impose my principles on you or anyone else.
Isn't that what 'communism' and other various such ideas start with: you should do what is good not for you but for everybody. Doesn't it always degenerate into a society of those on top and on the bottom with basically nobody in the middle, and you are talking about GOOD?
Sofar every society has fallen, it's not because ours is still standing that it'll stay standing, as a slashdot reader you should be more then aware of the tendencies of governments towards police states, the eroding of our civil rights is fully underway, i doubt this is directly related to 'communism' itself, besides, as i said, i hope we as a species evolve in such a way that we would no longer feel the need to squish others.
- no, I don't. If they are smarter, then they should do something and change those conditions. I bet many do and I bet that what many of them do you wouldn't approve of either.
They might be smarter, but if you are born in a society that lacks schooling it doesn't matter if you have a natural gift with math, and if your parents lack means you might starve before you are even one year old. What makes this even worse is the fact that we actually have the means to prevent it, we already have overproduction of food, but we chose not to use it.
As for your other point, why would i have issue with that?
- yes. Or they can do what I did and immigrate (and I moved many times, I moved from country to country more often than most end up moving from city to city.)
What would have happened to you if you were born into a family that could not afford to school you? Or feed you for that matter?
- only the ability to do something with those skills to get better life for yourself.
You want to 'change the world' on the back of various people, who in your mind should do what you think is best, that's is bad in my world, that's dictatorship.
I prefer free market of ideas, where people do what they can based on their abilities, based on what the market is willing to bear, based on choices, not based on ideology, that ended up on multiple occasions, and will end up again and again, costing millions of people's lives, millions of people's freedoms and retardation of progress.
You see, that's what happens when someone's particular idea of something good and moral is allowed to be trampling all over other people's choices.
This idea of yours is the one that is repulsive to me, and again, that's good, that's diversity.
-- PS. the ideas you hold look to me to be academic, I on the other hand have first and second hand experience with them, my relatives have gone through the genocide of Ukrainians in the thirties by the communist leaders, I was born in the USSR and lived there enough time as well, so to me this is very much practical, I am not only unwilling to subscribe to such ideas, I would really be standing on the way and would be violently preventing any such thing from happening to me again... so as I said, diversity is good.
Cheers.
You might not expect it, but i agree with you that nobody should impose their morals on another, i disagree with your statement that it was communism itself that was at the core of the problems with those countries, in my opinion our species is just not ready yet to live in peace.
As for diversity, yes, that is good.
- that makes no sense. Who is supposed to freely supply everybody with all these free items you want? You want somebody to supply everybody with everything, I don't understand what the upside for the supplier is if there is no profit motive. Explain.
I believe people should work for society, not for personal gain, i have no interest in owning a Mercedes Benz or BMW, nor do i need a bigger house then my neighbor, and i'd be more then happy to contribute to a society that actually takes care of all it's citizens, i don't really know how to express it properly in English, but seeing this is a geek nest, think Star Trek TNG.
- but that's good thing, at least SOMETHING for us to use for the next evolution step.
I don't believe in equality at all, not for a second. There is no equality, there should be no equality, there will never be equality. That's because some are always more capable than others in some sense of the word, whatever it is - physically, mentally, imaginatively, productively, whatever. There is no equality because the real world doesn't make carbon copies of people, do you understand? There are no clones, we are all different with different abilities and THAT is good, because it means that we have diversity.
Diversity is better than equality any day of the week, because when some shit hits some proverbial fan, many will die but some will survive. And it's a good thing that NOT everybody will get the 'immortality treatment', because you never know which traits of the genome will come in handy at what point in time.
No no no, I don't want equality, I want exceptional inequality displayed in all different ways, I want people to struggle and to fight to survive, not to live on a cloud and then not to see the proverbial train heading for them.
So i take it you have no problem with people starving in Ethiopia even though they might potentially be smarter then yo? But just because they were born in the wrong part of the world they can go rot? Sorry, but i find such a view repulsive. Society needs people with different skill sets, but what makes your skill better or worse then the others?