Absolutely I agree 100% except you have left out the fact that some of us can do things like 12-step or Delancey Street and completely recover. Some of us even then go on to discover that something like undiagnosed sleep apnea played a huge role in our "addictions."
One thing that never stopped any "addict" was a law that forbid us from doing what we wanted to our own bodies. Such laws are tantamount to an assertion of slavery. Only your "master" has the right to tell you what you may consume. Are we slaves or free men?
The defeatist comments that justify the indescribability of the economy, or perhaps better, the “un-modelability” of it are simply that: apologists for defeat. Just because we have so far failed to model our existing economy does not mean that the activity is useless.
Perhaps the more important task is to attempt to model an ideal economy. I submit the ideal economy would maximize rewards for production of material innovation and minimize rewards for gaming the market. In addition, an ideal economy would provide everyone with a minimum income no matter their ability or opportunity to work. Finally, an ideal economy would discourage the accumulation of vast amount of capital. Find a model that functions as I have described, then implement it in reality.
"But then humans, understanding the model, will game it to sate their greed." Not the model I have described. The only way to game it is to set out to supply society with material innovation. Do that successfully, and no one begrudges the rewards thus earned.
The work C. H. Douglas did creating Social Credit is likely a good place to start.
If only Microsoft had an army of Russovitches. We could stop worrying about what OS to use and get on with our lives, because Windows would be god.
However, apparently they don't. Very apparently, as it is no surprise that once anyone with smarts and sense like Russovitch looks into something, it turns out, (I bet again and again), that many things about the functioning of Windows that their army of engineers assumed, and never questioned, are hogwash.
Install XP SP2. Done. Oh, there is one patch worth the trouble: the daylight savings time correction. That's it. Funny thing about all those comparisons between XP and 7. They all use XP SP3. Not a good comparison at all, as, as far as I can tell, SP3 was mainly released to slow XP down so Vista wouldn't look so bad.
No one is allowed to read this or copy it. No one at all ever. Not here. Not there. Not in the car. Not under the bar. No human being. No alien life form. No non-human earthly lifeform at all, especially including cats. Turn off the computer. Pick up the gun. Blow your fucking brains out.
XP's SP3 is nothing but a deliberate gum up by M$ to make Vista not seem so bad. Compare 32 bit Vista to 32 bit XP SP2 and the results would be a whole lot different.
Compare XP64 to Vista 64 and the same results will emerge. There is no such thing as free cruft!!
Ex-fucking-zactly! My friends, it is all very well to speak of those things that government does well, however, clearly the time has come to pull the plug. If it is not of the people, by the people, and for the people, it is a tyrant!! Any more questions?
One thing no one seems to make a decent replacement for: Exchange/Outlook.
What's so fucking tough? I don't know, but none of the so-called replacements don't suck even worse than Microsoft.
Yeah, it's pretty fucking pitiful. BTW please read my sig. for some great info on how fucking great it could be instead. What a contrast.
Still, I knew my grandfather, and he would have just looked at you and said, what are you crying about? Why aren't you outside building a house or trenching a sewer line.
No, you activate telomerase and it does what it is designed to do - it repairs the telomeres by adding additional repeats. Your cells are no longer entering senescence, and are therefor much healthier - much more resistant to cancer and a host of other diseases.
Of course the trick is how do you activate telomerase? We're working on that!
The mass-produced laptops are all crap. Fujitsu and Lenovo were the two exceptions, but they have both fallen by the wayside. Just like I won't buy a desktop, I build one from carefully selected parts; by the same token I won't buy a mass-produced laptop. ChemBook in Fremont, CA makes excellent name-brand component laptops. They don't sell directly any more, but if you contact them, they will tell you where to buy one of their machines in your area.
No, fool. The connections would all be portals into the same bus. In other words, you would replace all those ideosyncratic connections with a bank of identical ones, all capable of handling the same throughput. The connections and cable for those would still be different. But everything else would just plug into a bank of identical connectors on the front and back of the box, and remotely with hubs.
Obviously the one exception would have to be the connection between the video card and the monitor.
Hells, yes!! Who on the board here works for Intel??? Can you please kick this one upstairs!?!?
My request, in addition to the above, is to make the female side of the connection with just a bit of a funnel effect. That way the "target" is bigger than the "bullet" so you have an astronimically higher chance of sucessfully achieving "entry".
Way back in the day I worked at a bank on their IBM mainframe. "Security" was so stupidly lax that I was getting ready to make a "small" "deposit" into the wrong account. Fortunately I decided against it and got another job. Still, it would have been ridiculously easy and untraceable. What bumbling fuckheads.
Jeez, all this because it only took Microsoft 7 or 8 years to admit that Autoplay was a security flaw? Seriously, just turn off autoplay, and use a decent anti-virus. Problem solved.
C. H. Douglas proposed this, plus a thorough analysis of modern economies and monetary systems way back in 1924. We, (those of us who believe that a better world is possible), all need to study Douglas.
The bottom line is that none of this shit matters. Humanity has so much abundance now that despite the rampant corruption, we are in no danger of going anywhere.
However, life could be a lot more pleasant. Please read my sig.
So, having exposed some flaws in Libertarian thinking, (and there are many others!), what's the answer? What kind of government would be better?
Please read my sig.
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Absolutely I agree 100% except you have left out the fact that some of us can do things like 12-step or Delancey Street and completely recover. Some of us even then go on to discover that something like undiagnosed sleep apnea played a huge role in our "addictions."
One thing that never stopped any "addict" was a law that forbid us from doing what we wanted to our own bodies. Such laws are tantamount to an assertion of slavery. Only your "master" has the right to tell you what you may consume. Are we slaves or free men?
that Germany would like people to forget about? What about the Nazis? Don't they have a right to have their mis-deeds expunged from history as well?
The defeatist comments that justify the indescribability of the economy, or perhaps better, the “un-modelability” of it are simply that: apologists for defeat. Just because we have so far failed to model our existing economy does not mean that the activity is useless.
Perhaps the more important task is to attempt to model an ideal economy. I submit the ideal economy would maximize rewards for production of material innovation and minimize rewards for gaming the market. In addition, an ideal economy would provide everyone with a minimum income no matter their ability or opportunity to work. Finally, an ideal economy would discourage the accumulation of vast amount of capital. Find a model that functions as I have described, then implement it in reality.
"But then humans, understanding the model, will game it to sate their greed." Not the model I have described. The only way to game it is to set out to supply society with material innovation. Do that successfully, and no one begrudges the rewards thus earned.
The work C. H. Douglas did creating Social Credit is likely a good place to start.
If only Microsoft had an army of Russovitches. We could stop worrying about what OS to use and get on with our lives, because Windows would be god.
However, apparently they don't. Very apparently, as it is no surprise that once anyone with smarts and sense like Russovitch looks into something, it turns out, (I bet again and again), that many things about the functioning of Windows that their army of engineers assumed, and never questioned, are hogwash.
Oh well, back to Mom's basement.
Oh, Oh, the special "Comcast Router" Do I smell step 4 here???
Dang! I was beginning to feel like the kid in the story about the naked chump. Is everybody else on acid or what?
Anyway, thanks for the props. Who knows, someday I may actually get some *karma*!!
Install XP SP2. Done. Oh, there is one patch worth the trouble: the daylight savings time correction. That's it. Funny thing about all those comparisons between XP and 7. They all use XP SP3. Not a good comparison at all, as, as far as I can tell, SP3 was mainly released to slow XP down so Vista wouldn't look so bad.
Brother!!!
Please read my sig. Douglas was one of the greatest minds of the last 100 years. He created the framwork on which we could build a viable utopia.
Best regards,
Try it with a clean install of SP2. Use it for a bit. Then install SP3. The difference is night and day.
No one is allowed to read this or copy it. No one at all ever. Not here. Not there. Not in the car. Not under the bar. No human being. No alien life form. No non-human earthly lifeform at all, especially including cats. Turn off the computer. Pick up the gun. Blow your fucking brains out.
OK? Can I be extradited to the United States now?
XP's SP3 is nothing but a deliberate gum up by M$ to make Vista not seem so bad. Compare 32 bit Vista to 32 bit XP SP2 and the results would be a whole lot different.
Compare XP64 to Vista 64 and the same results will emerge. There is no such thing as free cruft!!
Ex-fucking-zactly! My friends, it is all very well to speak of those things that government does well, however, clearly the time has come to pull the plug. If it is not of the people, by the people, and for the people, it is a tyrant!! Any more questions?
All 50 states seceede! That is our only hope.
One thing no one seems to make a decent replacement for: Exchange/Outlook. What's so fucking tough? I don't know, but none of the so-called replacements don't suck even worse than Microsoft.
Yeah, it's pretty fucking pitiful. BTW please read my sig. for some great info on how fucking great it could be instead. What a contrast.
Still, I knew my grandfather, and he would have just looked at you and said, what are you crying about? Why aren't you outside building a house or trenching a sewer line.
No, you activate telomerase and it does what it is designed to do - it repairs the telomeres by adding additional repeats. Your cells are no longer entering senescence, and are therefor much healthier - much more resistant to cancer and a host of other diseases.
Of course the trick is how do you activate telomerase? We're working on that!
The mass-produced laptops are all crap. Fujitsu and Lenovo were the two exceptions, but they have both fallen by the wayside. Just like I won't buy a desktop, I build one from carefully selected parts; by the same token I won't buy a mass-produced laptop. ChemBook in Fremont, CA makes excellent name-brand component laptops. They don't sell directly any more, but if you contact them, they will tell you where to buy one of their machines in your area.
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No, fool. The connections would all be portals into the same bus. In other words, you would replace all those ideosyncratic connections with a bank of identical ones, all capable of handling the same throughput. The connections and cable for those would still be different. But everything else would just plug into a bank of identical connectors on the front and back of the box, and remotely with hubs.
Obviously the one exception would have to be the connection between the video card and the monitor.
Hells, yes!! Who on the board here works for Intel??? Can you please kick this one upstairs!?!?
My request, in addition to the above, is to make the female side of the connection with just a bit of a funnel effect. That way the "target" is bigger than the "bullet" so you have an astronimically higher chance of sucessfully achieving "entry".
Way back in the day I worked at a bank on their IBM mainframe. "Security" was so stupidly lax that I was getting ready to make a "small" "deposit" into the wrong account. Fortunately I decided against it and got another job. Still, it would have been ridiculously easy and untraceable. What bumbling fuckheads.
Jeez, all this because it only took Microsoft 7 or 8 years to admit that Autoplay was a security flaw? Seriously, just turn off autoplay, and use a decent anti-virus. Problem solved.
C. H. Douglas proposed this, plus a thorough analysis of modern economies and monetary systems way back in 1924. We, (those of us who believe that a better world is possible), all need to study Douglas.
Plus read your Heinlein: http://books.google.com/books?id=bG2GNAJWcCoC&dq=for+us+the+living&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=i6q3SrKTN4bQsQOa8LnQDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The bottom line is that none of this shit matters. Humanity has so much abundance now that despite the rampant corruption, we are in no danger of going anywhere.
However, life could be a lot more pleasant. Please read my sig.
>> (Disclaimer: I work for Oracle, but not in the ZFS group)
Fixed that for you...
So, having exposed some flaws in Libertarian thinking, (and there are many others!), what's the answer? What kind of government would be better? Please read my sig.