People aren't starving to death because of environmentalist grease cars:
http://www.greasecar.com/
They are starving to death because among other reason big corporations like Monsanto want to sell their product (GMOd corn) to big agribusiness so they can get subsidies from big government so asshats like yourself can drive big SUVs because your egos are too fragile to be seen in a Honda Civic or Prius. The problem here is biggism the very opposite of what environmentalists want which is a world where small is beautiful:
Because most people "tow" something gigantic every day, lamest excuse not to get an efficient car yet. Hint the only thing 99% of SUV drivers are "towing" is their wounded egos from their tiny penises and their stultifying cubicle job. Hint # 2 a real work truck doesn't have leather seats, wood trim, etc like a yuppie SUV does. Hint # 3 I do landscaping out of a Honda Civic hatchback, when I'm not at work it can hold 4 people, 99% of people who say they "need" an SUV for their family, or whatever are whiny cry babies, OK end of rant.
In an ideal world it would be private co-ops, community gardens, open source software etc, that would win the day show that a paradigm neith socialist nor capitalist is possible. Unfortunately in an age of globilization and disappearing unions I think some government regulations are necessary in the here and now to balance the power of corporations right now, in areas like health care, minimum wage, the environment, etc. Unlike Libertarians I don't live in a fantasy world where where devious spreadsheets with flawed equations show graphs going up, up, up, I live in the real world in the U.S. where working people at places like Wal-Mart live in their cars with no health care, and nothing of substance is being done about our ongoing energy crisis, the threat of global warming, etc. Under these conditions the heavily regulated European market with a generous safety net doesn't look too bad.
Curious how net.libertarians defend their faith EXACTLY like religious bigots do, you care to offer a substantive critique of my argument that people don't behave like they are modeled to behave in the Libertarain economic theory or will you just stay to the low road of the ad hominem fallacy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Keep preaching your faith like the worst sort of fundy, fewer people that pay attention to the emperical facts of the world are listening, they think ubiquitous high speed internet, health care for all and no homeless problem like in the Scandinavian countries sounds pretty good compared to the U.S. model. And yes U.S. citizen here, one deeply ashamed of his country, the Fox News far right media, and the duplicitous people who vote for Bushs and Hillaries against their own best interest.
Take note Libertarian fundamentalists, your flawed assumption is that companies will compete fairly leading to good outcomes for all. But that's not how it works in the real world where in fact companies are run by greedy people who will use any tactic fair or foul to win. Whether it's sleezy stock deals, lawsuits, or working to gain monopoly companies CANNOT be trusted to compete fairly in the so called "free market" which is full of foul collusion that screws the little guy and leads to bad outcomes for all. Like or not that is why we have regulation of markets above and beyond just making sure contracts are fair as Libertarians would like it.
Thus you FAITH in the free market is no more founded in empirical reality than the faith of creationists. Time to go back to the drawing board now that empirical reality shows you are living in a fantasy world with assumptions about human nature every bit as flawed as the communists were.
With UAC you don't have to supply a password though. IMO supplying a password makes a person think a little harder do I really want to do this? BTW I am not a Windows hater I am typing this from XP now, on a notebook that dual boots Ubuntu, and I also have an OS X box whatever works. The bottom line is always being careful not matter what OS you are on, it is however discouraging to me that Outlook for example will autoexecute attachments, etc.
UAC!=user level account. My understanding is in Vista you are still logged in as an admin it's just that Vista nags you every 30 seconds with a screen to approve or deny an action this is not the same thing as having to sudo into a root account in that your O.S. isn't protected from malware by default like a *nix OS.
Except that Windows has you run as administrator so malware can do damage to the O.S. where as Mac and Linux run as a user so malware can only damage the user account. Malware rates might be the same with a similar user base but the damage done would still be vastly different.
I picked up a couple of used dell D400s for 250 bucks at University of Michigan Property Disposition. One Pentium M 1.8 and one Pentium M 1.7, both with a gig of ram, 30 gig hard drive firewire, less than 4 lbs and I set them up to dual boot XP pro, and Ubuntu. Call me satisfied for 250 and 220 a pop.
Except that's not the way actual human beings use language in the reality based community. Language is not used as an absolutely logically consistent self contained system but rather a way to map empirical reality outside our minds. The proof of this is that you would have to explain what you mean to the 99.9999999% of people who haven't had a symbolic logic course. Where as the way I use language is transparently obvious to any even semi fluent speaker of a language. In other words better luck next time and get some air the ivory tower can get awfully stuffy sometimes.
I wasn't saying that I think introvert is a negative word but rather that's the way it's perceived in our shallow society. We can beat our heads against society or we can do an Akido move and use a different word for the same concept, your choice.
I agree 100% with the article and what you are saying. I think a more positive word than introvert though would be reflective or thinker. I'd far rather read the 1500 page Rise and Fall of the Third Reich or finish a web site I am working on than hear about what you had for lunch or your latest interpersonal drama. To me that shows I am reflective and a thinker which is a good thing. After all it's is thinkers who have given humanity it's greatest insights and tools, right? Or less pretentiously at least thinkers can focus and get their work done on time.
If you referring to his support for a Palestinian state, news flash that is the viewpoint of EVERY country in the world other than Israel, the U.S. and one of those dinky island countries Muetra or some such.
Interesting how the ultra capitalism of "intellectual property" converges on the same result as the ultra communism of Cuba and the ex- Soviet Union, namely censorship and restriction of the free flow of information. Any time a small group tries to impose it's ideology by force whether it's owners or the "inner party" the society as a whole is in trouble.
And no don't try to tell me intellectual property isn't Libertarian, the whole premise of the Libertarian philosophy is that freedom is predicated on property ownership. Libertarians may be really good about resisting civil liberties violations, and the expansion of empire but their idea of extending propertytarian ideas into all aspects of life is terrible.
I am glad to see this was the first response, that was my first thought as well. Next time someone tells you RMS is a dirty hippy point them to read this article and tell them to think before they open their pie hole.
Yes American here however I'll take issue a bit and say that religion and the "right" has been noted by politcal researchers using sound emperical methods, see for example:
"In 1939, Leonard W. Ferguson carried out an analysis of political values using ten scales measuring attitudes toward:
* War
* Reality of God
* Patriotism
* Treatment of criminals
* Capital punishment
* Censorship
* Evolution
* Birth control
* Law, and
* Communism
Submitting the results to factor analysis, he was able to identify three factors, which he named Religionism, Humanitarianism, and Nationalism. Ferguson's Religionism was defined by belief in God and negative attitudes toward evolution and birth control; Humanitarianism was related to attitudes opposing the harsh treatment of criminals, capital punishment, and war; and Nationalism described variation in opinions on censorship, law, patriotism, and communism. Note that this system was derived through purely empirical methods; rather than devising a political model on purely theoretical grounds and testing it, Ferguson's research was purely exploratory. Although replication of the Nationalism factor was spotty, the finding of Religionism and Humanitarianism had a number of replications by Ferguson and others.[1][2]"
As I said I think the definitions of left and right are pretty muddied these days but I do think there are worthwhile differences to note between secular humanistic thinkers who we may label "left" for lack of better terms and those with a more tough minded religous thought who we may label right wing.
I'll bite... The way I work is I right click on a link while reading an article and it loads in the background while I continue to read, then I tab over to the next loaded article. It's fast and i can compare and contrast numerous articles, what's not to like? BTW I have at least 20 tabs open now, no problem on a 4 year old dual G5 tower or a 4 year old p.c. notebook. just make sure you have at least a gig of ram...
Yep Dreamweaver. Yes I know that doesn't make me a hard core coder, I am a visual person, you know the sort of art nerd that hangs out at http://colorblender.com/
And yes we do have a purpose and that is making readable easy to navigate web sites something hard core coding skills does not guarantee.
I had the opposite experience my Dell D400 with crappy intel graphics will drive a 20 inch widescreen LCD under Ubuntu and not under XP. Too bad I can't run my crucial Adobe apps under Linux. And no Wine isn't the answer it really slows down productivity for me for example to not have a save dialog with clean access to the whole file system, not to mention instability of Adobe apps under wine. I know it's not the fault of Linux developers that Adobe hasn't ported it's apps and that Microsoft has a closed API, but it still hurts and makes Ubuntu pretty much crippled for real work doing web design. As a web browsing and development OS it's excellent.
By that definition the Green party is a right wing party and Bush as a state centralist with a massive military buildup and homeland security is a left winger, I don't think so. My off the cuff definition would be the left equals humanistic, secular, and environmentally concerned, and the right equals pro religious and pro economic growth at all costs. Left wingers get a more humane sustainable society and right wingers get better toys, and cars, for the chosen few, and less STDs and drug addiction and bad trendy music. Both have their pluses and minuses and both come in state centralist and decentralist varieties. Really in the 21st century left and right are pretty outdated and I think the only thing that will save the U.S. is real dialog between "Green" lefties and honorable decentralist Ron Paul/Libertarian/paleo-con conservatives.
Real people are more than two dimensional paper cutouts, for example although I consider myself a "Green" "left" activist I am also anti gun control and pro citizen militia, pro small business.
I bought a 4 year old Dell D 400 notebook last year for 220 dollars. It has a Pentium M 1.7 ghz, a gig of ram and 40 gigs of HD, it does everything I need to do on the road including web development, photoshop, etc. At home I have a 4 year old mac dual G5 which is fine even for intensive work like editing video using Final Cut pro, and creating animation using After Effects CS3. If the average consumer figures out that 4 year old computers will do 99.99% of what people need to do at home the computer industry is in real trouble.*
*Professional media people and hard core developers may need more powerful computers but that's not what I am talking about here.
But above and beyond that society keeps people from doing stupid things all the time for example meat inspections so we don't buy tainted meat. Do you want to go back to the days of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle?" I think not...
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People aren't starving to death because of environmentalist grease cars:
http://www.greasecar.com/
They are starving to death because among other reason big corporations like Monsanto want to sell their product (GMOd corn) to big agribusiness so they can get subsidies from big government so asshats like yourself can drive big SUVs because your egos are too fragile to be seen in a Honda Civic or Prius. The problem here is biggism the very opposite of what environmentalists want which is a world where small is beautiful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful
Because most people "tow" something gigantic every day, lamest excuse not to get an efficient car yet. Hint the only thing 99% of SUV drivers are "towing" is their wounded egos from their tiny penises and their stultifying cubicle job. Hint # 2 a real work truck doesn't have leather seats, wood trim, etc like a yuppie SUV does. Hint # 3 I do landscaping out of a Honda Civic hatchback, when I'm not at work it can hold 4 people, 99% of people who say they "need" an SUV for their family, or whatever are whiny cry babies, OK end of rant.
I plan on still using my Core2duo notebook running XP in 5 years. I hope Wine will allow me to run my Adobe CS3 apps smoothly by then.
In an ideal world it would be private co-ops, community gardens, open source software etc, that would win the day show that a paradigm neith socialist nor capitalist is possible. Unfortunately in an age of globilization and disappearing unions I think some government regulations are necessary in the here and now to balance the power of corporations right now, in areas like health care, minimum wage, the environment, etc. Unlike Libertarians I don't live in a fantasy world where where devious spreadsheets with flawed equations show graphs going up, up, up, I live in the real world in the U.S. where working people at places like Wal-Mart live in their cars with no health care, and nothing of substance is being done about our ongoing energy crisis, the threat of global warming, etc. Under these conditions the heavily regulated European market with a generous safety net doesn't look too bad.
Curious how net.libertarians defend their faith EXACTLY like religious bigots do, you care to offer a substantive critique of my argument that people don't behave like they are modeled to behave in the Libertarain economic theory or will you just stay to the low road of the ad hominem fallacy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Keep preaching your faith like the worst sort of fundy, fewer people that pay attention to the emperical facts of the world are listening, they think ubiquitous high speed internet, health care for all and no homeless problem like in the Scandinavian countries sounds pretty good compared to the U.S. model. And yes U.S. citizen here, one deeply ashamed of his country, the Fox News far right media, and the duplicitous people who vote for Bushs and Hillaries against their own best interest.
Take note Libertarian fundamentalists, your flawed assumption is that companies will compete fairly leading to good outcomes for all. But that's not how it works in the real world where in fact companies are run by greedy people who will use any tactic fair or foul to win. Whether it's sleezy stock deals, lawsuits, or working to gain monopoly companies CANNOT be trusted to compete fairly in the so called "free market" which is full of foul collusion that screws the little guy and leads to bad outcomes for all. Like or not that is why we have regulation of markets above and beyond just making sure contracts are fair as Libertarians would like it.
Thus you FAITH in the free market is no more founded in empirical reality than the faith of creationists. Time to go back to the drawing board now that empirical reality shows you are living in a fantasy world with assumptions about human nature every bit as flawed as the communists were.
Keep using language a an academic toy I'll use it for it actually is a tool to communicate empirical reality between human beings, shrug.
With UAC you don't have to supply a password though. IMO supplying a password makes a person think a little harder do I really want to do this? BTW I am not a Windows hater I am typing this from XP now, on a notebook that dual boots Ubuntu, and I also have an OS X box whatever works. The bottom line is always being careful not matter what OS you are on, it is however discouraging to me that Outlook for example will autoexecute attachments, etc.
UAC!=user level account. My understanding is in Vista you are still logged in as an admin it's just that Vista nags you every 30 seconds with a screen to approve or deny an action this is not the same thing as having to sudo into a root account in that your O.S. isn't protected from malware by default like a *nix OS.
Except that Windows has you run as administrator so malware can do damage to the O.S. where as Mac and Linux run as a user so malware can only damage the user account. Malware rates might be the same with a similar user base but the damage done would still be vastly different.
I picked up a couple of used dell D400s for 250 bucks at University of Michigan Property Disposition. One Pentium M 1.8 and one Pentium M 1.7, both with a gig of ram, 30 gig hard drive firewire, less than 4 lbs and I set them up to dual boot XP pro, and Ubuntu. Call me satisfied for 250 and 220 a pop.
Except that's not the way actual human beings use language in the reality based community. Language is not used as an absolutely logically consistent self contained system but rather a way to map empirical reality outside our minds. The proof of this is that you would have to explain what you mean to the 99.9999999% of people who haven't had a symbolic logic course. Where as the way I use language is transparently obvious to any even semi fluent speaker of a language. In other words better luck next time and get some air the ivory tower can get awfully stuffy sometimes.
I wasn't saying that I think introvert is a negative word but rather that's the way it's perceived in our shallow society. We can beat our heads against society or we can do an Akido move and use a different word for the same concept, your choice.
I agree 100% with the article and what you are saying. I think a more positive word than introvert though would be reflective or thinker. I'd far rather read the 1500 page Rise and Fall of the Third Reich or finish a web site I am working on than hear about what you had for lunch or your latest interpersonal drama. To me that shows I am reflective and a thinker which is a good thing. After all it's is thinkers who have given humanity it's greatest insights and tools, right? Or less pretentiously at least thinkers can focus and get their work done on time.
If you referring to his support for a Palestinian state, news flash that is the viewpoint of EVERY country in the world other than Israel, the U.S. and one of those dinky island countries Muetra or some such.
Interesting how the ultra capitalism of "intellectual property" converges on the same result as the ultra communism of Cuba and the ex- Soviet Union, namely censorship and restriction of the free flow of information. Any time a small group tries to impose it's ideology by force whether it's owners or the "inner party" the society as a whole is in trouble.
And no don't try to tell me intellectual property isn't Libertarian, the whole premise of the Libertarian philosophy is that freedom is predicated on property ownership. Libertarians may be really good about resisting civil liberties violations, and the expansion of empire but their idea of extending propertytarian ideas into all aspects of life is terrible.
I am glad to see this was the first response, that was my first thought as well. Next time someone tells you RMS is a dirty hippy point them to read this article and tell them to think before they open their pie hole.
Yes American here however I'll take issue a bit and say that religion and the "right" has been noted by politcal researchers using sound emperical methods, see for example:
.02
"In 1939, Leonard W. Ferguson carried out an analysis of political values using ten scales measuring attitudes toward:
* War
* Reality of God
* Patriotism
* Treatment of criminals
* Capital punishment
* Censorship
* Evolution
* Birth control
* Law, and
* Communism
Submitting the results to factor analysis, he was able to identify three factors, which he named Religionism, Humanitarianism, and Nationalism. Ferguson's Religionism was defined by belief in God and negative attitudes toward evolution and birth control; Humanitarianism was related to attitudes opposing the harsh treatment of criminals, capital punishment, and war; and Nationalism described variation in opinions on censorship, law, patriotism, and communism. Note that this system was derived through purely empirical methods; rather than devising a political model on purely theoretical grounds and testing it, Ferguson's research was purely exploratory. Although replication of the Nationalism factor was spotty, the finding of Religionism and Humanitarianism had a number of replications by Ferguson and others.[1][2]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum
As I said I think the definitions of left and right are pretty muddied these days but I do think there are worthwhile differences to note between secular humanistic thinkers who we may label "left" for lack of better terms and those with a more tough minded religous thought who we may label right wing.
Just my
I'll bite... The way I work is I right click on a link while reading an article and it loads in the background while I continue to read, then I tab over to the next loaded article. It's fast and i can compare and contrast numerous articles, what's not to like? BTW I have at least 20 tabs open now, no problem on a 4 year old dual G5 tower or a 4 year old p.c. notebook. just make sure you have at least a gig of ram...
Yep Dreamweaver. Yes I know that doesn't make me a hard core coder, I am a visual person, you know the sort of art nerd that hangs out at http://colorblender.com/
And yes we do have a purpose and that is making readable easy to navigate web sites something hard core coding skills does not guarantee.
I had the opposite experience my Dell D400 with crappy intel graphics will drive a 20 inch widescreen LCD under Ubuntu and not under XP. Too bad I can't run my crucial Adobe apps under Linux. And no Wine isn't the answer it really slows down productivity for me for example to not have a save dialog with clean access to the whole file system, not to mention instability of Adobe apps under wine.
I know it's not the fault of Linux developers that Adobe hasn't ported it's apps and that Microsoft has a closed API, but it still hurts and makes Ubuntu pretty much crippled for real work doing web design. As a web browsing and development OS it's excellent.
By that definition the Green party is a right wing party and Bush as a state centralist with a massive military buildup and homeland security is a left winger, I don't think so. My off the cuff definition would be the left equals humanistic, secular, and environmentally concerned, and the right equals pro religious and pro economic growth at all costs. Left wingers get a more humane sustainable society and right wingers get better toys, and cars, for the chosen few, and less STDs and drug addiction and bad trendy music. Both have their pluses and minuses and both come in state centralist and decentralist varieties. Really in the 21st century left and right are pretty outdated and I think the only thing that will save the U.S. is real dialog between "Green" lefties and honorable decentralist Ron Paul/Libertarian/paleo-con conservatives.
Real people are more than two dimensional paper cutouts, for example although I consider myself a "Green" "left" activist I am also anti gun control and pro citizen militia, pro small business.
The dell weighs less than 4 pounds and I assume would cream E PC when it comes to any media intensive apps.
I bought a 4 year old Dell D 400 notebook last year for 220 dollars. It has a Pentium M 1.7 ghz, a gig of ram and 40 gigs of HD, it does everything I need to do on the road including web development, photoshop, etc. At home I have a 4 year old mac dual G5 which is fine even for intensive work like editing video using Final Cut pro, and creating animation using After Effects CS3. If the average consumer figures out that 4 year old computers will do 99.99% of what people need to do at home the computer industry is in real trouble.*
*Professional media people and hard core developers may need more powerful computers but that's not what I am talking about here.
For starters there is contract law to keep people from signing stupid deals
http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-forms-contracts/business-forms-contracts-overview/
But above and beyond that society keeps people from doing stupid things all the time for example meat inspections so we don't buy tainted meat. Do you want to go back to the days of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle?" I think not...
http://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Uncensored-Original-Upton-Sinclair/dp/1884365302
Or how about the days of child labor of the 19th century?
http://www.amazon.com/Times-Bantam-Classics-Charles-Dickens/dp/0553210165
Unchecked Libertarian capitalism is fine in theory, not so nice in practice.