Did you know that they used to pull the nails out of old homes before they tore them down? True stuff. Nails were expensive. They pulled them, straightened them, and used them again. Then they started making them cheaply in bulk and it wasn't worth the time to go through a place and pull out old nails. Well, the old guard didn't think too highly of this change and for a little while in some places there were laws on the books stating that you HAD to go pull out the nails from a building.
Did you also know that there generals that didn't think much of the repeating rifle? They argued that if soldiers could fire quickly, they'd devote less time to aiming. Big waste of ammo, you know.
Progress, it's a good thing. Also, you know how you can make your own X for a lot cheaper then if you buy it from a company that would be liable for it? Yeah, there's a reason for that.
I still don't get this mentality. Progress is progress. If we have free limitless energy/food/clothing/trinkets/communications/rougelikes/manufacturing tomorrow, then the world is a better place. Where it took X resource to do something, now it takes x/100, and nearly anyone can do it. That's fantastic. Yeah, a portion of the populous that used to make their living hand-delivering mail by buggy, or carving gears out of wood, or whatever is going to be out of work. (Although, many jobs are just shifted to servicing the tools). But so what? We don't need them anymore. You don't need to break windows, just to employ people to fix them.
That is, common workers get laid off. Yeah, it sucks to be an uneducated manual laborer. Duh. Retrain, learn something new, be awesome. And this is why I'm ok with social welfare and taxing the rich. Because it's simply an unfair system, it's hard to change like that, and some people just can't. But progress is progress, and it's good.
You honestly tell me if you had a billion dollars how eager you would be to help the masses vs feathering your own nest.
Quite eager. I'm arguably close to that point anyway. Not a billion, but to a point where I have enough money to live comfortably. Where more money really won't make a difference. It's nice. I have to keep working, of course. But with my skillset, career, and savings, I'm pretty much set. I donate to webcomics, the EFF, hacker spaces, and various people I think make the world an awesome place. There is another point where you can stop working and live off of interest and investments. Perpetual money. But I'd never stop working, I'd just work for myself on what I want.
Can you see any way for the common man to make out in such a world?
Get an education, be less common, and make yourself valuable. Be awesome. And if that's simply not in the cards, well lean on me my brother, I'll bear your weight. At least enough to keep you from starving out in the street and murdering me for a sandwich.
Until the masses hold wisdom more highly than gratification...
Oh. Well, you see you're just getting old and cynical. People are still more or less good when you average everything out. Relax dude. Go be awesome.
What indicators are you looking at?
Human nature. Scientific advancement. My neighbors. The Internet. Times are good.
I really wouldn't be surprised. In fact, I expect that the gambling industry cackles to their cold black heart's delight when these sort of stories get spread around. "You can make money by gambling" has to be one hell of an advertisement for them. Not that I'm accusing you of astroturfing. The gambling industry has long realized that they can affect the through the market.
Ok, this argument fails hard. Lemme explain why:
1) An employee at Microsoft wouldn't have created the entire windows source code by himself, uncompensated. That's foolish and isn't like the given example at all. What were you thinking?
2) If you, being the owner of the property, publish something under the GPL, you could only "re license" it so far as you still adhere to the GPL, which mean they could not strip off the GPL, and stop giving credit to the authors. You could add additional licencing, I guess, like you need to twiddle your fingers when you download it. If it's GPL code, the companies actions are in clear violation.
But that's only if the code was GPL'd by it's owner. If he didn't keep his project strictly separate from his company, unfortunately it means the company has a claim to it. It's supposed to keep employees from running off with the things they're working on and forming their own company, but I kinda think it's over the top. It comes down to if he got his employer to write down in some retrievable document that they agreed to GPL the code. Like an e-mail.
Damn. Shouldn't have used cheap Chinese knockoffs.
Oh shit! They make our parts too!
Seriously though, things like this need redundancy, error reporting, heartbeat checkups, and automated validation every time it boots up. It's engineering, there is no excuse.
Well, to an extent, Google is supposed to be the good company that still has a soul. We all know Microsoft is the evil empire that would do this sort of thing.
. . . Why does it have to be transparent? I mean, I get the durable part. And I guess if it was perfectly transparent, you could put the battery in front of the screen. But why? But look at any device around you. Think about where the battery is. Now it's transparent.... so what?
Think about laptops and phones. You don't want the battery bulging out. You want it recessed, fitting nicely into the device.
Do they have transparent copper wires and circuit boards now as well? Because without them, I'm really not seeing the point of having a transparent battery.
Whatever MBA that wrote the phrase "The youtube of..." or "is like YouTube for..." needs to be tarred and feathered.
User-content
Web2.0
Online Sharing
Whatever floats your boat. But if you have to explain this site to people by using the phrase "it's like YouTube", then your audience 1) doesn't really understand the Internet, and 2) is way WAY too mentally handicapped to use schematics of any kind.
Symantec and the AV industry is actually fueled by fear. Every real threat costs them money. Those are jobs that need actual work to overcome. Or at least enough to placate their customers. False threats, scaremongering, and the general fear of malware is what makes money in the AV industry.
Maybe you're just being pessimistic or cynical. I mean, you think most people are short-sighted... except the long-sighted ones.
Society isn't crumbling. Or, if it is, at least it's building itself up faster then it's crumbling. Things change, but hopefully they change for the better.
Stop being such a downer. The world is a wonderful place. No go have some cake and do something awesome.
As for "personal gain", realize that everything can be tied back to it. Ok, lemme dip into philosophy for a bit. I want humanity to work towards interplanetary colinazation. There's no money in it. I won't benefit in the least. I'm obviously not young enough to go out there. The tax dollars and grants and donations that people working on this consume comes out of my wallet. Most people would call this altruistic behaviour. But at the end of the day I can say I helped colonize space.
And that's just it. Every altruistic action can be egotistical if you think you're a better person for doing it.
Of course, this is a sort of philosophical perspective thing, so take it with fist-sized grain of salt.
As an atheist who has been indoctrinated with a set of morals by my loving parents and society at large, fuck you.
God hates fags, beating women, abstaining from pork/shellfish, witch hunts, and arranged marriages as "good/acceptable things" are outdated morals. Some more then others. Don't want to eat pork? Fine by me. Firebomb a clinic in the name of god? We're going to have to have some words.
Theft, Murder, and laziness are still bad things.
But if you're a smart young person looking for a career, if the industry pays well, you'll go into it. Well, more so then if everyone knows that industry is a dead-end shit-job. Which is just a different side of the free market.
Oh, for sure, government and business work hand-in-hand quite often. And if I apply roman_mir logic, all the government's faults are really the fault of business influence. But if we can't trust government or business... then who does that leave?
But case in point, I think that we as a society can afford to teach everyone how to read, write, and add two numbers together. And if not everyone, let's shoot for 99.999%. And I think we need to give everyone the chance to learn as much as they can. Education is THE long term solution for damn near every problem we face.
How do teachers get paid a decent wage without a union? Run a school as a business, and they'll hire the cheapest person they can legally place in front of kids.
I get the idea of a free market, and it really is the best solution. But that's not what you're arguing here. You want higher wages. That's what unions do.
Is Murdoch an 'average businessman'? No, he is part of government system. An 'average' businessman is not part of the government system.
Anything and everything that is wrong with the world is the governments fault. If a business fails, it's the governments intervention. If a businessman does something illegal, it's the government's regulation that made him do it. Rober baron? Obviously he's secretly part of the "government system". If a volcano explodes, he'd probably blame the government for not allowing the free market to appeal to pseduo-volconologist fear-mongers that would have warned us about this.
a new goal is to leverage private money in a way that redirects how public education dollars are spent
It's good that they're being honest and upfront about trying subvert our education system with lobbyist money, but it's kinda shocking they're so blatant about it.
At least he isn't pushing for a voucher system and killing off public schools.
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Did you know that they used to pull the nails out of old homes before they tore them down? True stuff. Nails were expensive. They pulled them, straightened them, and used them again. Then they started making them cheaply in bulk and it wasn't worth the time to go through a place and pull out old nails. Well, the old guard didn't think too highly of this change and for a little while in some places there were laws on the books stating that you HAD to go pull out the nails from a building.
Did you also know that there generals that didn't think much of the repeating rifle? They argued that if soldiers could fire quickly, they'd devote less time to aiming. Big waste of ammo, you know.
Progress, it's a good thing. Also, you know how you can make your own X for a lot cheaper then if you buy it from a company that would be liable for it? Yeah, there's a reason for that.
That is, common workers get laid off. Yeah, it sucks to be an uneducated manual laborer. Duh. Retrain, learn something new, be awesome. And this is why I'm ok with social welfare and taxing the rich. Because it's simply an unfair system, it's hard to change like that, and some people just can't. But progress is progress, and it's good.
You honestly tell me if you had a billion dollars how eager you would be to help the masses vs feathering your own nest.
Quite eager. I'm arguably close to that point anyway. Not a billion, but to a point where I have enough money to live comfortably. Where more money really won't make a difference. It's nice. I have to keep working, of course. But with my skillset, career, and savings, I'm pretty much set. I donate to webcomics, the EFF, hacker spaces, and various people I think make the world an awesome place. There is another point where you can stop working and live off of interest and investments. Perpetual money. But I'd never stop working, I'd just work for myself on what I want.
Can you see any way for the common man to make out in such a world?
Get an education, be less common, and make yourself valuable. Be awesome. And if that's simply not in the cards, well lean on me my brother, I'll bear your weight. At least enough to keep you from starving out in the street and murdering me for a sandwich.
Until the masses hold wisdom more highly than gratification...
Oh. Well, you see you're just getting old and cynical. People are still more or less good when you average everything out. Relax dude. Go be awesome.
What indicators are you looking at?
Human nature. Scientific advancement. My neighbors. The Internet. Times are good.
I really wouldn't be surprised. In fact, I expect that the gambling industry cackles to their cold black heart's delight when these sort of stories get spread around. "You can make money by gambling" has to be one hell of an advertisement for them. Not that I'm accusing you of astroturfing. The gambling industry has long realized that they can affect the through the market.
Why would you write this?
Who would upmod this?
Ok, this argument fails hard. Lemme explain why:
1) An employee at Microsoft wouldn't have created the entire windows source code by himself, uncompensated. That's foolish and isn't like the given example at all. What were you thinking?
2) If you, being the owner of the property, publish something under the GPL, you could only "re license" it so far as you still adhere to the GPL, which mean they could not strip off the GPL, and stop giving credit to the authors. You could add additional licencing, I guess, like you need to twiddle your fingers when you download it. If it's GPL code, the companies actions are in clear violation.
But that's only if the code was GPL'd by it's owner. If he didn't keep his project strictly separate from his company, unfortunately it means the company has a claim to it. It's supposed to keep employees from running off with the things they're working on and forming their own company, but I kinda think it's over the top. It comes down to if he got his employer to write down in some retrievable document that they agreed to GPL the code. Like an e-mail.
Or, you know, you could put the screen in front of that, and NOTHING CHANGES. Actually, since it's usually a touchscreen, you lose functionality.
Damn. Shouldn't have used cheap Chinese knockoffs.
Oh shit! They make our parts too!
Seriously though, things like this need redundancy, error reporting, heartbeat checkups, and automated validation every time it boots up. It's engineering, there is no excuse.
Please then, throw yourself at the ground.
And miss.
Well, to an extent, Google is supposed to be the good company that still has a soul. We all know Microsoft is the evil empire that would do this sort of thing.
No no, I couldn't possibly track and avoid another satellite, regardless of it's size.
Are you entitled to the money you've put in your bank account?
LEDs work quite well enough for those purposes. Better, probably.
. . . Why does it have to be transparent? I mean, I get the durable part. And I guess if it was perfectly transparent, you could put the battery in front of the screen. But why? But look at any device around you. Think about where the battery is. Now it's transparent.... so what?
Think about laptops and phones. You don't want the battery bulging out. You want it recessed, fitting nicely into the device.
Well ok, that's a feature. Are they infrared transparent? Cause I think that's something else.
Do they have transparent copper wires and circuit boards now as well? Because without them, I'm really not seeing the point of having a transparent battery.
Whatever MBA that wrote the phrase "The youtube of..." or "is like YouTube for..." needs to be tarred and feathered.
User-content
Web2.0
Online Sharing
Whatever floats your boat. But if you have to explain this site to people by using the phrase "it's like YouTube", then your audience 1) doesn't really understand the Internet, and 2) is way WAY too mentally handicapped to use schematics of any kind.
Symantec and the AV industry is actually fueled by fear. Every real threat costs them money. Those are jobs that need actual work to overcome. Or at least enough to placate their customers. False threats, scaremongering, and the general fear of malware is what makes money in the AV industry.
That's..... remarkably insightful. Too bad I'm out of mod points.
Maybe you're just being pessimistic or cynical. I mean, you think most people are short-sighted... except the long-sighted ones.
Society isn't crumbling. Or, if it is, at least it's building itself up faster then it's crumbling. Things change, but hopefully they change for the better.
Stop being such a downer. The world is a wonderful place. No go have some cake and do something awesome.
As for "personal gain", realize that everything can be tied back to it. Ok, lemme dip into philosophy for a bit. I want humanity to work towards interplanetary colinazation. There's no money in it. I won't benefit in the least. I'm obviously not young enough to go out there. The tax dollars and grants and donations that people working on this consume comes out of my wallet. Most people would call this altruistic behaviour. But at the end of the day I can say I helped colonize space.
And that's just it. Every altruistic action can be egotistical if you think you're a better person for doing it.
Of course, this is a sort of philosophical perspective thing, so take it with fist-sized grain of salt.
As an atheist who has been indoctrinated with a set of morals by my loving parents and society at large, fuck you.
God hates fags, beating women, abstaining from pork/shellfish, witch hunts, and arranged marriages as "good/acceptable things" are outdated morals. Some more then others. Don't want to eat pork? Fine by me. Firebomb a clinic in the name of god? We're going to have to have some words.
Theft, Murder, and laziness are still bad things.
Duh.
HA! That's half true.
But if you're a smart young person looking for a career, if the industry pays well, you'll go into it. Well, more so then if everyone knows that industry is a dead-end shit-job. Which is just a different side of the free market.
Oh, for sure, government and business work hand-in-hand quite often. And if I apply roman_mir logic, all the government's faults are really the fault of business influence. But if we can't trust government or business... then who does that leave?
But case in point, I think that we as a society can afford to teach everyone how to read, write, and add two numbers together. And if not everyone, let's shoot for 99.999%. And I think we need to give everyone the chance to learn as much as they can. Education is THE long term solution for damn near every problem we face.
Filling those positions with a measure of quality is kind of the issue. Paying teachers a decent wage really helps with that. Unions help raise wages.
Also, those are not involved parents, those are parents with excuses for their precious little snowflakes.
How do teachers get paid a decent wage without a union? Run a school as a business, and they'll hire the cheapest person they can legally place in front of kids.
I get the idea of a free market, and it really is the best solution. But that's not what you're arguing here. You want higher wages. That's what unions do.
His take on Rupurt Murdoch?
Is Murdoch an 'average businessman'? No, he is part of government system. An 'average' businessman is not part of the government system.
Anything and everything that is wrong with the world is the governments fault. If a business fails, it's the governments intervention. If a businessman does something illegal, it's the government's regulation that made him do it. Rober baron? Obviously he's secretly part of the "government system".
If a volcano explodes, he'd probably blame the government for not allowing the free market to appeal to pseduo-volconologist fear-mongers that would have warned us about this.
a new goal is to leverage private money in a way that redirects how public education dollars are spent
It's good that they're being honest and upfront about trying subvert our education system with lobbyist money, but it's kinda shocking they're so blatant about it.
At least he isn't pushing for a voucher system and killing off public schools.