Airplane speakers are not as good as your Bose sound system, they're much closer to speakers of the sixties. Because they work, and anything new would have to be certified.
I don't know what regulatory agency you fly under, but the FAA doesn't require headsets to be certified for anything. A lot of pilots I know use noise-cancelling headsets. Also also, "speakers of the sixties" and speakers of today are pretty much exactly the same. There have been no major steps in cone speaker technology since their invention.
(Also, any speakers are as good as a Bose sound system.)
For fuck's sake, all I said was that particular phrase you said sounded like something out of an Orwell novel. Here, take a puff of this, it'll help you calm down.
It seems to me that you are simply so used to screaming "Orwellian" at any concept that somehow does not fit your One And Only True World-view that you did not even bother trying to understand what Orwell stood for.
It seems to me that you are simply so engrossed in your One And Only True World-view that you cannot find time to learn what the term "Orwellian" means. Allow me to quote the evil-and-totally-invalid-source-for-everything that goes by the name Wikipedia:
"Orwellian" describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free society. It connotes an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past, including the "unperson" — a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory, practiced by modern repressive governments. Often, this includes the circumstances depicted in his novels, particularly Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The term "Orwellian" does not refer to Orwell's beliefs and philosophies, it refers to what he wrote about, which is the exact opposite of his beliefs and philosophies. The More You Know.
This is why things like rar'd video files, as commonly found on torrent sites are so ridiculous, the video is already compressed so running it through rar just wastes cpu cycles and disk space all round.
The RARed torrents come from whatever scenegroup originally created a given release. The scenegroups don't make their shit for the torrent downloaders... many of them hate the torrent downloaders, actually. Releases are split into RARs for ease of distribution across high-speed FTP networks. If you have an error transmitting a 700MB file, then you have to restart the entire transfer. If you have it split into RARs of 15MB each, then you only need to re-transfer the particular file that failed. And it's good for torrent uploaders to retain the original release as the group intended because then, again, if there's a fuckup in the copy you have you can download an unfuckedup file from another source knowing that it's from the same exact release.
Their Communism probably stopped before most of the people reading this were born. Ask any older Chinese immigrant what they were doing twenty years ago and most will tell you they were running a small business in X or working for a small business doing X.
The ideology of the rulers of China is instead best summed up as "might makes right".
Exactly. And that's what Communism always turns into. Always. There has not been a single Communist nation in the history of the world that has not turned into an authoritarian regime hell-bent on taking over the world.
Most sensible people will be buying iPhones until Google stop demanding an Internet connection to use their search engine instead of installing to local SD card.
... are you telling me that you've invented an SD card capable of storing several petabytes of data?!
That is patently not true. While there are many nations, most subscribe to a very limited set of recipes for their organization.
Then go start your own. Your amazing political philosophies will draw thousands of immigrants.
Worse, powerful nations, with US in the forefront, attempt to remodel the weak nations for the benefit of the powerful ones and to make them fit the world-view held dear by the dominant forces in these powerful nations and so the number of choices is actually shrinking.
The only "remodeling" I see is the overthrowing of dictatorships run by shady radical religious groups that kill their women for committing the crime of being raped and peacekeeping operations in war-torn nations that kill their people for getting in the way of killing other people. I guess giving people the ability to lead stable lives without fear of being murdered is a bad thing in your idea of the perfect society.
Your assumptions are telling - I never even mentioned the US - as well as your arrogant, pig-headed belief that anyone opposing your beloved pet idea must be "insane" for only "insane" people would not recognize your self-assessed, infinite genius so vast and brilliant that it makes whole galaxies seem puny and dim and so naturally any choices other than the one you officially and personally anointed with your Divine Insight must be completely deranged...
You're the one that's proposing the impossible. It doesn't matter if you mentioned the US, SOMEBODY is going to have to move out of the way in order to implement your "obvious and universal solution" that's so perfect and Utopian.
Also, an idea of offering many, many choices and "Orwellian" do not really mix, unless you've been reading books by some completely different George Orwell then the rest of us.
I said your words sound Orwellian, not your ideas. The phrase "obvious and universal solution" and the general way you go about proposing such perfect and amazing ideas is exactly the way I imagine an Orwellian society would come to fruition masquerading as.
I think we should switch to Communism, where everything is controlled by the government
How 'bout instead we switch to whatever it is they've got in Germany, Denmark, Sweden? Why is it that you are only able to see our system vs soviet-style communism?
Wait... you've never been outside the US, have you? Geez, man, I'm sorry. I shouldn't pick on you since you just don't know any better.
Never mind.
The United States is massive compared to those tiny countries. We would completely collapse under their pseudo-socialist forms of government and economy. And don't act like they don't have problems of their own resulting from such things.
You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector.
Citation needed.
Find the nearest object to your person. Locate "Made in China" imprint.
Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money.
The wealthy businessmen in the private sector aren't broke, you're right. The teenagers working for technology manufacturing aren't broke, you're right. Everybody else is broke, though. There is a major income inequality between the rich and the poor in China, and you thought it was bad in the US.
It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).
They have been deregulating a lot of that in that past few years. No, their government doesn't control everything, their economy has money.
Deregulating a lot of what? What are you talking about? Are you trying to say that the Chinese government is voluntarily dropping their stranglehold on the Chinese economy and selling the huge numbers of shares they have in nearly every powerful Chinese corporation? Are you simple?
without us it would return to its sorry state, because they don't know how to survive without us.
I do submit that at this point, yes, China could survive on their own without us. They couldn't have ten years ago, and the only reason they can now is because we keep pumping more and more of our GDP into China's economy.
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The obvious and universal solution is to create multiple societies so that people can choose one that fits them best and then work on making those people and their society mesh to maximum of their potential, rather then trying to force your one-size-fits-all, simplistic pet solution down everyone else's throat.
Y'know, there ARE multiple societies on this planet. If you don't like the way ours works, go choose one that fits you best.
If you think that America should make room for whatever new political philosophy rears its ugly head and allow them to live in total separation from all the other political philosophies for the sake of carrying out the "obvious and universal solution" (that combination of words sounds so Orwellian that I can actually hear Wallace Breen saying it right now) and not forcing our "one-size-fits-all, simplistic pet solution down everyone else's throat" then you are completely delusional and need psychiatric attention.
You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector. Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money. It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).
Their economy was completely stagnant before we started producing fucking everything in China 30 years ago, and without us it would return to its sorry state, because they don't know how to survive without us. They don't have any innovation of their own. They only know how to control their people and use the money that they get from us.
Communism is working great for China. They are becoming a major world power and if I remember right, they have great internet service (might be censored, but still a good speed at a decent for them price).
Their Communism is working great because our Capitalism is over there injecting billions of dollars into their dead economy. Would you like to live in China (as an average Joe Schmo citizen that's not in a position of particular wealth or power)? I sure as fuck wouldn't. And that there is proof enough that their system doesn't work.
I'm not the one that brought up the false dilemma. The argument has always been between Capitalism and Communism (and the in-between-but-more-leaning-towards-communism Socialist system).
But I'll entertain other ideas as well for the sake of not being accused of committing logical fallacy on an internet website.
I think we should switch to Anarchism, where the market is completely uncontrolled because there is no controlling entity so that there cannot possibly be any of that corruption that's so prevalent in government. Where nobody will ever be struck down by The Man and we can all live in huts and grow our own food without being bothered by anybody but the gangs of people out to steal all our shit.
I think we should switch to Feudalism, where those born into elite families get everything they could ever want while the 95% of the population that aren't so lucky get to grovel at their feet in hopes of getting some table scraps to feed our families.
I think we should switch to Mutualism, where only those who work the hardest will earn the most. We don't need such foolish things as innovation and enterprise, because busting your ass is the only thing that matters. There will also be no governing entities, but in order to maintain such a system, we will need a governing entity to manage the labor.
You can always switch to other providers. That's what Capitalism says. Corporations will never get large, agree together for certain things and therefore control the market directly.
No sir-ee.
I think we should switch to Communism, where everything is controlled by the government so that there cannot possibly be any of that corporate corruption that's so prevalent in Capitalism. Where nobody will ever find themselves without everything they need for life and entertainment, and no one person will ever benefit more than anybody else.
but I'm guessing they'd be less likely to hog those spots if they had to go out every hour to feed the meters, even if the rates per hour were the same.
Hell, make it every 20 minutes. If you need to park on the street, then you need to go to one store and then leave. If you're going "shopping" then you need to park further away.
The #2 cause of death in the United States is cancer by several hundred thousand deaths per year, and Lung Cancer is by far the leading cause of cancer-related deaths, and smoking is by far the leading cause of lung cancer cases. There are also lots of smokers in China. Damn near EVERYBODY in China smokes cigarettes... approximately 25% of their population if I remember correctly, while only somewhere around 8 or 9% of Americans smoke... but we have the same exact lung cancer problems. What's the difference?
(^ I wrote that before clicking on your link, and then I read that they DO attribute China's alarming cancer rate to smoking and vehicular pollution. Not poor working conditions and abusive corporate practices. So why even bring it up?)
And I only bring up Foxconn because that's what's been in the news lately as the posterchild for China's "poor working conditions", even though working there is way better than most peoples' alternative: breaking their backs on the family farm for almost nothing.
A trade embargo with China is not a thought to be taken lightly.
Slavery is not to be taken lightly.
That right there invalidates all your arguments, because that says you've been absorbing all the stupid propaganda and sensationalism about Chinese working conditions. Just because they don't make $50k a year doesn't mean they are slaves. Most of them are quite happy with their jobs.
Yeah, 14 Foxconn employees committed suicide in 2010. That's out of 920,000 employees total. So that's about 1.5 suicides out of every 100,000 employees. Wanna guess what the suicide rate in the United States was in 2007? 11.5 out of 100,000. That's EIGHT TIMES the suicide rate at Foxconn. And the suicide rate in all of China was 6.6 in 2008. One could argue that Foxconn, in fact, IMPROVES workers lives. Of course that's not necessarily true, because correlation does not imply causation, but that data is enough to make a big huge news story worthy of being approved by Slashdot's elite editorial team with which to draw a bunch of sheep to hark the benefits of working for Chinese electronics manufacturers.
Do some of your own research before believing the bullshit and comparing Chinese laborers to slaves.
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Thanks, Apple! I love being told I'm a fucking idiot and shouldn't be allowed to open my PURCHASED device, should I choose to do so.
It's not about the fact that you're an idiot, it's about the fact that Apple likes money and wants to force you to let them fix your device for you.
Airplane speakers are not as good as your Bose sound system, they're much closer to speakers of the sixties. Because they work, and anything new would have to be certified.
I don't know what regulatory agency you fly under, but the FAA doesn't require headsets to be certified for anything. A lot of pilots I know use noise-cancelling headsets. Also also, "speakers of the sixties" and speakers of today are pretty much exactly the same. There have been no major steps in cone speaker technology since their invention.
(Also, any speakers are as good as a Bose sound system.)
Amen, Brother. Fuck you mods that obviously didn't even read the post and just thought "oh no anti-open source comment MOD DOWN IMMEDIATELY".
For fuck's sake, all I said was that particular phrase you said sounded like something out of an Orwell novel. Here, take a puff of this, it'll help you calm down.
It seems to me that you are simply so used to screaming "Orwellian" at any concept that somehow does not fit your One And Only True World-view that you did not even bother trying to understand what Orwell stood for.
It seems to me that you are simply so engrossed in your One And Only True World-view that you cannot find time to learn what the term "Orwellian" means. Allow me to quote the evil-and-totally-invalid-source-for-everything that goes by the name Wikipedia:
"Orwellian" describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free society. It connotes an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past, including the "unperson" — a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory, practiced by modern repressive governments. Often, this includes the circumstances depicted in his novels, particularly Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The term "Orwellian" does not refer to Orwell's beliefs and philosophies, it refers to what he wrote about, which is the exact opposite of his beliefs and philosophies. The More You Know.
This is why things like rar'd video files, as commonly found on torrent sites are so ridiculous, the video is already compressed so running it through rar just wastes cpu cycles and disk space all round.
The RARed torrents come from whatever scenegroup originally created a given release. The scenegroups don't make their shit for the torrent downloaders... many of them hate the torrent downloaders, actually. Releases are split into RARs for ease of distribution across high-speed FTP networks. If you have an error transmitting a 700MB file, then you have to restart the entire transfer. If you have it split into RARs of 15MB each, then you only need to re-transfer the particular file that failed. And it's good for torrent uploaders to retain the original release as the group intended because then, again, if there's a fuckup in the copy you have you can download an unfuckedup file from another source knowing that it's from the same exact release.
Their Communism probably stopped before most of the people reading this were born. Ask any older Chinese immigrant what they were doing twenty years ago and most will tell you they were running a small business in X or working for a small business doing X. The ideology of the rulers of China is instead best summed up as "might makes right".
Exactly. And that's what Communism always turns into. Always. There has not been a single Communist nation in the history of the world that has not turned into an authoritarian regime hell-bent on taking over the world.
Most sensible people will be buying iPhones until Google stop demanding an Internet connection to use their search engine instead of installing to local SD card.
... are you telling me that you've invented an SD card capable of storing several petabytes of data?!
That is patently not true. While there are many nations, most subscribe to a very limited set of recipes for their organization.
Then go start your own. Your amazing political philosophies will draw thousands of immigrants.
Worse, powerful nations, with US in the forefront, attempt to remodel the weak nations for the benefit of the powerful ones and to make them fit the world-view held dear by the dominant forces in these powerful nations and so the number of choices is actually shrinking.
The only "remodeling" I see is the overthrowing of dictatorships run by shady radical religious groups that kill their women for committing the crime of being raped and peacekeeping operations in war-torn nations that kill their people for getting in the way of killing other people. I guess giving people the ability to lead stable lives without fear of being murdered is a bad thing in your idea of the perfect society.
Your assumptions are telling - I never even mentioned the US - as well as your arrogant, pig-headed belief that anyone opposing your beloved pet idea must be "insane" for only "insane" people would not recognize your self-assessed, infinite genius so vast and brilliant that it makes whole galaxies seem puny and dim and so naturally any choices other than the one you officially and personally anointed with your Divine Insight must be completely deranged ...
You're the one that's proposing the impossible. It doesn't matter if you mentioned the US, SOMEBODY is going to have to move out of the way in order to implement your "obvious and universal solution" that's so perfect and Utopian.
Also, an idea of offering many, many choices and "Orwellian" do not really mix, unless you've been reading books by some completely different George Orwell then the rest of us.
I said your words sound Orwellian, not your ideas. The phrase "obvious and universal solution" and the general way you go about proposing such perfect and amazing ideas is exactly the way I imagine an Orwellian society would come to fruition masquerading as.
Derr, ifn ya don't like America, den use can GET OUT!
That's not what I meant. I was simply turning his own logic against his own argument.
How 'bout instead we switch to whatever it is they've got in Germany, Denmark, Sweden? Why is it that you are only able to see our system vs soviet-style communism?
Wait... you've never been outside the US, have you? Geez, man, I'm sorry. I shouldn't pick on you since you just don't know any better.
Never mind.
The United States is massive compared to those tiny countries. We would completely collapse under their pseudo-socialist forms of government and economy. And don't act like they don't have problems of their own resulting from such things.
You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector.
Citation needed.
Find the nearest object to your person. Locate "Made in China" imprint.
Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money.
Thats why the next investment wave from China is coming from it's private sector. Because they are broke...
The wealthy businessmen in the private sector aren't broke, you're right. The teenagers working for technology manufacturing aren't broke, you're right. Everybody else is broke, though. There is a major income inequality between the rich and the poor in China, and you thought it was bad in the US.
It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).
They have been deregulating a lot of that in that past few years. No, their government doesn't control everything, their economy has money.
Deregulating a lot of what? What are you talking about? Are you trying to say that the Chinese government is voluntarily dropping their stranglehold on the Chinese economy and selling the huge numbers of shares they have in nearly every powerful Chinese corporation? Are you simple?
without us it would return to its sorry state, because they don't know how to survive without us.
Considering their global investments, I doubt it.
I do submit that at this point, yes, China could survive on their own without us. They couldn't have ten years ago, and the only reason they can now is because we keep pumping more and more of our GDP into China's economy.
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The obvious and universal solution is to create multiple societies so that people can choose one that fits them best and then work on making those people and their society mesh to maximum of their potential, rather then trying to force your one-size-fits-all, simplistic pet solution down everyone else's throat.
Y'know, there ARE multiple societies on this planet. If you don't like the way ours works, go choose one that fits you best.
If you think that America should make room for whatever new political philosophy rears its ugly head and allow them to live in total separation from all the other political philosophies for the sake of carrying out the "obvious and universal solution" (that combination of words sounds so Orwellian that I can actually hear Wallace Breen saying it right now) and not forcing our "one-size-fits-all, simplistic pet solution down everyone else's throat" then you are completely delusional and need psychiatric attention.
Actually it's China that has injected billions of dollars into the US. There Communism is what has been keeping the US's Capitalism alive. China is also a very fast growing economy, not a 'dead economy'.
You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector. Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money. It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).
Their economy was completely stagnant before we started producing fucking everything in China 30 years ago, and without us it would return to its sorry state, because they don't know how to survive without us. They don't have any innovation of their own. They only know how to control their people and use the money that they get from us.
Yay Communism!
Communism is working great for China. They are becoming a major world power and if I remember right, they have great internet service (might be censored, but still a good speed at a decent for them price).
Their Communism is working great because our Capitalism is over there injecting billions of dollars into their dead economy. Would you like to live in China (as an average Joe Schmo citizen that's not in a position of particular wealth or power)? I sure as fuck wouldn't. And that there is proof enough that their system doesn't work.
I'm not the one that brought up the false dilemma. The argument has always been between Capitalism and Communism (and the in-between-but-more-leaning-towards-communism Socialist system).
But I'll entertain other ideas as well for the sake of not being accused of committing logical fallacy on an internet website.
I think we should switch to Anarchism, where the market is completely uncontrolled because there is no controlling entity so that there cannot possibly be any of that corruption that's so prevalent in government. Where nobody will ever be struck down by The Man and we can all live in huts and grow our own food without being bothered by anybody but the gangs of people out to steal all our shit.
I think we should switch to Feudalism, where those born into elite families get everything they could ever want while the 95% of the population that aren't so lucky get to grovel at their feet in hopes of getting some table scraps to feed our families.
I think we should switch to Mutualism, where only those who work the hardest will earn the most. We don't need such foolish things as innovation and enterprise, because busting your ass is the only thing that matters. There will also be no governing entities, but in order to maintain such a system, we will need a governing entity to manage the labor.
Anything else you'd like to add, Mr. Ignoramus?
You can always switch to other providers. That's what Capitalism says. Corporations will never get large, agree together for certain things and therefore control the market directly.
No sir-ee.
I think we should switch to Communism, where everything is controlled by the government so that there cannot possibly be any of that corporate corruption that's so prevalent in Capitalism. Where nobody will ever find themselves without everything they need for life and entertainment, and no one person will ever benefit more than anybody else.
No sir-ee.
You are comparing suicide rates of ONE company with that of an entire nation.
I also compared the suicide rates of that entire nation with this entire nation. Read sometime.
What the fucking hell are you smoking? Care to cite any of these outrageous claims that I've never heard anything about before?
Yeah, I've never heard of a car that can drive on a ball of gas.
but I'm guessing they'd be less likely to hog those spots if they had to go out every hour to feed the meters, even if the rates per hour were the same.
Hell, make it every 20 minutes. If you need to park on the street, then you need to go to one store and then leave. If you're going "shopping" then you need to park further away.
If he wanted credit, he'd post with his username and call Americans fat and stupid. Modded +5 in no time.
I may be fat and stupid, but you
When the #1 cause of death in your major cities is lung cancer (and the #2 cause of death nationwide), you have a very real problem.
FASTSTATS - Leading Causes of Death
The #2 cause of death in the United States is cancer by several hundred thousand deaths per year, and Lung Cancer is by far the leading cause of cancer-related deaths, and smoking is by far the leading cause of lung cancer cases. There are also lots of smokers in China. Damn near EVERYBODY in China smokes cigarettes... approximately 25% of their population if I remember correctly, while only somewhere around 8 or 9% of Americans smoke... but we have the same exact lung cancer problems. What's the difference?
(^ I wrote that before clicking on your link, and then I read that they DO attribute China's alarming cancer rate to smoking and vehicular pollution. Not poor working conditions and abusive corporate practices. So why even bring it up?)
And I only bring up Foxconn because that's what's been in the news lately as the posterchild for China's "poor working conditions", even though working there is way better than most peoples' alternative: breaking their backs on the family farm for almost nothing.
A trade embargo with China is not a thought to be taken lightly.
Slavery is not to be taken lightly.
That right there invalidates all your arguments, because that says you've been absorbing all the stupid propaganda and sensationalism about Chinese working conditions. Just because they don't make $50k a year doesn't mean they are slaves. Most of them are quite happy with their jobs.
Yeah, 14 Foxconn employees committed suicide in 2010. That's out of 920,000 employees total. So that's about 1.5 suicides out of every 100,000 employees. Wanna guess what the suicide rate in the United States was in 2007? 11.5 out of 100,000. That's EIGHT TIMES the suicide rate at Foxconn. And the suicide rate in all of China was 6.6 in 2008. One could argue that Foxconn, in fact, IMPROVES workers lives. Of course that's not necessarily true, because correlation does not imply causation, but that data is enough to make a big huge news story worthy of being approved by Slashdot's elite editorial team with which to draw a bunch of sheep to hark the benefits of working for Chinese electronics manufacturers.
Do some of your own research before believing the bullshit and comparing Chinese laborers to slaves.