Yes. I didn't read your full comment. We are in agreement. I too would like "libre" books and not just free-of-charge textbooks, though I also think they are a great start!
I disagree though that disallowing commercial use is what makes them bad. I'm good with a license that allows academic use and even research use, however, it would seem somewhat unfair for some publisher to take a "libre" book, rewrite it a bit throw it in a printing press , mark it up %500 and give nothing back. There could be licensing terms for publishers to have to give back changes, updates, etc and kick back a portion of their proceeds. Something like what lulu.com does.
Hmm. So you don't believe 99.99% of the bible. Ok, we agree. I'll let all the personal insults slide by, they were unnecessary and you were very excited. I'm feeling extra cool today so I'm letting it slide. I'm sure that's what Jesus would want me to do.
C
Jesus supported Mosaic law. He believed it should be followed. Therefore he advocated all of those things and the murderers in your bible are just that. Your god is pretty much a dick as well: Turns a woman to salt for caring about her neighbors. Kills everyone on the planet because they made choices he didn't like. Destroys two cities because they wanted to freely express their sexuality. Thinks he has a great servant who offers up his daughters to a bunch of men so they won't bother some "angels".
And those are the good parts.
Here's a great one: Everyone goes to hell for ever and ever and ever who doesn't do the magic prayer for whatever reason.
Have a great day! I imagine it's a bit difficult though while maintaining such a high level of cognitive dissonance.
I did, and he could. It wouldn't take much. Take the farm subsidies, move them over to education. Cut the military budget by 25% and move it to education. Remove the loan programs and just pay colleges a flat fee per student. It's not that difficult, many other countries have free college for their students, some even pay a stipend so the student can eat and have a place to live. Of course, those are first world countries so maybe the comparison isn't fair.;-)
OTOH, NY just made college free so what do you make of that?
I guess I'd enjoy tRumpf squirm too if he had the brainpower to realize how much of a dumb fat-fuck he is. I do wish he'd be competent enough to get rid of free-trade and implement border/VAT taxes but he'll go with the flow in order to make money for him and his shitty kids and businesses. He is literally the ultimate sell-out.
The farm subsidies are completely absurd, more pathetic is the fact that most of the money goes to tractor manufacturers and fertilizer, feed, and pesticide manufacturers like Mon$anto. Those really need to end, in fact, I don't know why we aren't punished more on the world market for pushing out government subsidize agricultural products.
I'm very sad that government subsidizes corporate sports, but I guess they have to keep us in bread (via farm subsidies) and circuses (professional sports), seems like previous empires invented that misdirection approach well before this one did. We've definitely jumped the shark.
Yeah, the government should totally create its own software for use and/or demand way better licensing prices. The threat of using/creating open source software should be enough to drive those negotiations in our favor. Lets see if the large oompa-loompa can do something meaningful there since he fancies himself a top negotiator (despite all evidence to the contrary).
and another thing. I would pay $20 to watch a self-righteous fuck such as yourself get fired from his job and experience poverty for the next 10 years. But not to have other people suffer. You are one vindictive asshole.
Thanks for trying. It was not a satirical comment. My thoughts encompass more than just the immediate topic of discussion. One has to look at the argument framed in the context of advancing technology (automation, AI, AI with automation, etc), quickly one realizes that there is no need for a lot of people to work. If we start by letting the welfare recipients just have a cool, happy life with no concern about working, pretty soon it will trickle up to more of us. We are on a crash course with a jobless future and Universal Basic Income (UBI) will have to happen to prevent major violent overthrow of the current system of serfdom. Starting with the least productive members of society (welfare recipients) seems like a good way to ease into it. Society loses nothing, and a good bunch of people get to stay home and raise their kids well rather than being punished for the efficiencies created by technology. It is cheaper and better for society to keep them and their kids at home than to pay to incarcerate them.
mysidia, you know me so well, Maybe you should start a career as a fortune teller, truly you are gifted.
I only have a master's in mechanical engineering from UCLA and work as a software developer, and R&D mechanical engineer. I make close to 140 K per year. So, yeah, you got pretty close there. You dumbfuck. How much education should I have to get a real job mysidia?
You have a very narrow definition of slavery. In some sense we are all slaves to the grind, even someone as brilliant (in their own mind) as yourself.
If the current protections are against for-profit companies, I'd hate to see what the world looks like in which they have free reign. Would you like to live in a world like that? I'm guessing since you have time to dick around on/. you are a drone like the rest of us and would not do well in a world where a corporation is legally allowed to own a human being, kind of like it was some 150 years ago. I guess you really do want to bring back slavery. It is really hard to express how idiotic your ideas are, you should rent yourself out for parties.
No one but the most blighted morons believed him. Only reason to vote for him was the same reason people voted for Shilary, they were not each other.
I'm a Bernie supporter, I believe in the fundamental decency of people. Except for Shilary, tRumpf, and most politicians they are fundamentally evil and/or corrupt.
Defense spending is spending of tax dollars both current and future. It is the very definition of a jobs program when it goes beyond basic needs. We abandoned basic defense needs very long ago and are far far into neo-con fantasy territory.
I work at a large company, and trust me, we don't track staplers, or pencils, or pens even! We used to track monitors but they weren't worth tracking so we stopped. I'm an engineer so I don't know the details of why the decision was made, just that it was. We don't track staplers, just that our administrative assistants have a list of companies they can buy staplers from, generally their nephew's company is not going to be on that supplier list. Problem solved with none of your bullshit fantasy big data ideas.
Hey! Maybe you could have IPv6 addresses for every staple and track those cradle-to-grave, bet you'd get a lot of data you could use! Maybe you could also track openings and closings of the bathroom doors, then you can predict hinge failures! Or, you could put your two brain cells together and see if you can think of non-absurd ideas to implement instead of fucking tracking staplers! You dumbass!
The US doesn't have wealth, we do have lots of debt though. Exerting military dominance buys us a seat at the table and has so far worked to intimidate other countries into continuing to use our worthless pieces of paper as the world's reserve currency. Once that facade is dropped, we'll default and either throw down or sell off Texas to pay off some debts.
Wow, you're brilliant! What you're suggesting is not far from the prison labor industry. How long till some enterprising inhuman figures out how to exploit all this free labor? I'd guess that before the ink is dry on these brilliant laws of your, there'd be tons of new organizations created for the purpose of giving these desperate people someplace to "volunteer".
If you want to bring back slavery, at least have the balls to put on your hood and carry your lynching rope with you. You fucking shithead.
Yeah, stupid right-wing, puritanical agendas which wish to punish the poor for being poor/black/brown/unfortunate. Of course, now there is the benefit that by making more minorities end up in jail, the prison-industrial complex wins, they donate money to repugs and the poor white get shitty jobs at those for-profit poorly staffed prisons. We're #1! 'Murica!
stupid is as stupid does. This is what liquid_schwartz does, get up to see how much stupid he can do on any given day. His life sucks so everyone's life should also suck.
Why not let the unemployed stay home and just enjoy life? Why should everyone suffer just cause some of us donkeys have to work to keep the wealthy in ever larger yachts and estates? If they've exhausted local work options after a couple of weeks, what is the point of making them beat a dead horse? Would you have them commute ridiculous distances/times for menial/low-paying work? Where is the benefit to the human race there? Presumably there'd be local people who would want those jobs who wouldn't have to travel to work at them thus now there is a larger carbon footprint than justifiable for a no-good, shit job which pays less than unemployment when all is said-and-done.
You mean like the "Mother of All Bombs"? True cost = ? Estimated cost 227,000 to 16,000,000 each. Total program cost = ? Estimated/guessed program cost = 314,000,000.
A lot of development is done under black budgets which most in congress don't even have access to. If data starts to be gathered, they'll probably classify more of it as "National Security" secrets. So, good luck pulling out meaningful information.
Or maybe Ballmer already knows this and really wants to go after social welfare programs as those are easy to attack given the reprehensible social stances that tRumpf and his administration are fomenting. He'll leave the military alone because there's nothing xistians love more than killing infidels: Onward Xristian Soldiers..."
Ultimately, does it really matter? Nancy-the-cryptkeeper Reagan's "Say No! to Drugs" program achieved somewhere between nil and negative results, and yet here we are some 35 years later still following it. Numbers and effectiveness don't matter for shit when we're all chasing squirrels like "American Idol".
Except that tRumpf's main advisor is a Jew, so your theory doesn't have much backing. Or did you just want to post a link to *bing!* to increase its userbase by 100% for the day?
Liberal organizations are generally working for the common good. Conservatives are generally working for destruction of the commons (water, air, environment) to the benefit of the very elite very few.
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Fix the obscene amount of gasoline, here's some motivation for you in comic form:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/t...
Yes. I didn't read your full comment. We are in agreement.
I too would like "libre" books and not just free-of-charge textbooks, though I also think they are a great start!
I disagree though that disallowing commercial use is what makes them bad. I'm good with a license that allows academic use and even research use, however, it would seem somewhat unfair for some publisher to take a "libre" book, rewrite it a bit throw it in a printing press , mark it up %500 and give nothing back. There could be licensing terms for publishers to have to give back changes, updates, etc and kick back a portion of their proceeds. Something like what lulu.com does.
Hmm. So you don't believe 99.99% of the bible. Ok, we agree.
I'll let all the personal insults slide by, they were unnecessary and you were very excited. I'm feeling extra cool today so I'm letting it slide. I'm sure that's what Jesus would want me to do.
C
Jesus supported Mosaic law. He believed it should be followed. Therefore he advocated all of those things and the murderers in your bible are just that. Your god is pretty much a dick as well:
Turns a woman to salt for caring about her neighbors.
Kills everyone on the planet because they made choices he didn't like.
Destroys two cities because they wanted to freely express their sexuality.
Thinks he has a great servant who offers up his daughters to a bunch of men so they won't bother some "angels".
And those are the good parts.
Here's a great one:
Everyone goes to hell for ever and ever and ever who doesn't do the magic prayer for whatever reason.
Have a great day! I imagine it's a bit difficult though while maintaining such a high level of cognitive dissonance.
Some people's religious beliefs include "I should kill anyone who disagrees with me." Some people act on their beliefs.
Yeah! Those fucking christians have always been a bloodthirsty bunch.
I did, and he could. It wouldn't take much. Take the farm subsidies, move them over to education. Cut the military budget by 25% and move it to education. Remove the loan programs and just pay colleges a flat fee per student. It's not that difficult, many other countries have free college for their students, some even pay a stipend so the student can eat and have a place to live. Of course, those are first world countries so maybe the comparison isn't fair. ;-)
OTOH, NY just made college free so what do you make of that?
I guess I'd enjoy tRumpf squirm too if he had the brainpower to realize how much of a dumb fat-fuck he is. I do wish he'd be competent enough to get rid of free-trade and implement border/VAT taxes but he'll go with the flow in order to make money for him and his shitty kids and businesses. He is literally the ultimate sell-out.
The farm subsidies are completely absurd, more pathetic is the fact that most of the money goes to tractor manufacturers and fertilizer, feed, and pesticide manufacturers like Mon$anto. Those really need to end, in fact, I don't know why we aren't punished more on the world market for pushing out government subsidize agricultural products.
I'm very sad that government subsidizes corporate sports, but I guess they have to keep us in bread (via farm subsidies) and circuses (professional sports), seems like previous empires invented that misdirection approach well before this one did. We've definitely jumped the shark.
Yeah, the government should totally create its own software for use and/or demand way better licensing prices. The threat of using/creating open source software should be enough to drive those negotiations in our favor. Lets see if the large oompa-loompa can do something meaningful there since he fancies himself a top negotiator (despite all evidence to the contrary).
and another thing. I would pay $20 to watch a self-righteous fuck such as yourself get fired from his job and experience poverty for the next 10 years. But not to have other people suffer. You are one vindictive asshole.
Thanks for trying. It was not a satirical comment.
My thoughts encompass more than just the immediate topic of discussion. One has to look at the argument framed in the context of advancing technology (automation, AI, AI with automation, etc), quickly one realizes that there is no need for a lot of people to work. If we start by letting the welfare recipients just have a cool, happy life with no concern about working, pretty soon it will trickle up to more of us. We are on a crash course with a jobless future and Universal Basic Income (UBI) will have to happen to prevent major violent overthrow of the current system of serfdom. Starting with the least productive members of society (welfare recipients) seems like a good way to ease into it. Society loses nothing, and a good bunch of people get to stay home and raise their kids well rather than being punished for the efficiencies created by technology. It is cheaper and better for society to keep them and their kids at home than to pay to incarcerate them.
So, yeah, dead serious.
mysidia, you know me so well, Maybe you should start a career as a fortune teller, truly you are gifted.
I only have a master's in mechanical engineering from UCLA and work as a software developer, and R&D mechanical engineer. I make close to 140 K per year. So, yeah, you got pretty close there. You dumbfuck.
How much education should I have to get a real job mysidia?
You have a very narrow definition of slavery. In some sense we are all slaves to the grind, even someone as brilliant (in their own mind) as yourself.
If the current protections are against for-profit companies, I'd hate to see what the world looks like in which they have free reign. Would you like to live in a world like that? I'm guessing since you have time to dick around on /. you are a drone like the rest of us and would not do well in a world where a corporation is legally allowed to own a human being, kind of like it was some 150 years ago. I guess you really do want to bring back slavery. It is really hard to express how idiotic your ideas are, you should rent yourself out for parties.
exactly!
No one but the most blighted morons believed him. Only reason to vote for him was the same reason people voted for Shilary, they were not each other.
I'm a Bernie supporter, I believe in the fundamental decency of people. Except for Shilary, tRumpf, and most politicians they are fundamentally evil and/or corrupt.
Have you gotten laid yet?
We agree, they are working for the common good. Perhaps they don't achieve it but at least they have positive goals.
Defense spending is spending of tax dollars both current and future. It is the very definition of a jobs program when it goes beyond basic needs. We abandoned basic defense needs very long ago and are far far into neo-con fantasy territory.
I work at a large company, and trust me, we don't track staplers, or pencils, or pens even! We used to track monitors but they weren't worth tracking so we stopped. I'm an engineer so I don't know the details of why the decision was made, just that it was. We don't track staplers, just that our administrative assistants have a list of companies they can buy staplers from, generally their nephew's company is not going to be on that supplier list. Problem solved with none of your bullshit fantasy big data ideas.
Hey! Maybe you could have IPv6 addresses for every staple and track those cradle-to-grave, bet you'd get a lot of data you could use! Maybe you could also track openings and closings of the bathroom doors, then you can predict hinge failures! Or, you could put your two brain cells together and see if you can think of non-absurd ideas to implement instead of fucking tracking staplers! You dumbass!
The US doesn't have wealth, we do have lots of debt though. Exerting military dominance buys us a seat at the table and has so far worked to intimidate other countries into continuing to use our worthless pieces of paper as the world's reserve currency. Once that facade is dropped, we'll default and either throw down or sell off Texas to pay off some debts.
Wow, you're brilliant!
What you're suggesting is not far from the prison labor industry. How long till some enterprising inhuman figures out how to exploit all this free labor? I'd guess that before the ink is dry on these brilliant laws of your, there'd be tons of new organizations created for the purpose of giving these desperate people someplace to "volunteer".
If you want to bring back slavery, at least have the balls to put on your hood and carry your lynching rope with you. You fucking shithead.
Yeah, stupid right-wing, puritanical agendas which wish to punish the poor for being poor/black/brown/unfortunate. Of course, now there is the benefit that by making more minorities end up in jail, the prison-industrial complex wins, they donate money to repugs and the poor white get shitty jobs at those for-profit poorly staffed prisons. We're #1! 'Murica!
stupid is as stupid does. This is what liquid_schwartz does, get up to see how much stupid he can do on any given day. His life sucks so everyone's life should also suck.
Why not let the unemployed stay home and just enjoy life? Why should everyone suffer just cause some of us donkeys have to work to keep the wealthy in ever larger yachts and estates?
If they've exhausted local work options after a couple of weeks, what is the point of making them beat a dead horse? Would you have them commute ridiculous distances/times for menial/low-paying work? Where is the benefit to the human race there? Presumably there'd be local people who would want those jobs who wouldn't have to travel to work at them thus now there is a larger carbon footprint than justifiable for a no-good, shit job which pays less than unemployment when all is said-and-done.
You mean like the "Mother of All Bombs"? True cost = ?
Estimated cost 227,000 to 16,000,000 each.
Total program cost = ? Estimated/guessed program cost = 314,000,000.
A lot of development is done under black budgets which most in congress don't even have access to.
If data starts to be gathered, they'll probably classify more of it as "National Security" secrets.
So, good luck pulling out meaningful information.
Or maybe Ballmer already knows this and really wants to go after social welfare programs as those are easy to attack given the reprehensible social stances that tRumpf and his administration are fomenting. He'll leave the military alone because there's nothing xistians love more than killing infidels: Onward Xristian Soldiers..."
Ultimately, does it really matter?
Nancy-the-cryptkeeper Reagan's "Say No! to Drugs" program achieved somewhere between nil and negative results, and yet here we are some 35 years later still following it. Numbers and effectiveness don't matter for shit when we're all chasing squirrels like "American Idol".
Except that tRumpf's main advisor is a Jew, so your theory doesn't have much backing. Or did you just want to post a link to *bing!* to increase its userbase by 100% for the day?
H1-B's or normals?
Liberal organizations are generally working for the common good. Conservatives are generally working for destruction of the commons (water, air, environment) to the benefit of the very elite very few.