"Hello, lucrative business! Why don't you crawl back to the ghetto we've designated?"
Trust me. The legislation that forces this move is not far behind - it will be modelled on the existing "asset-seizure" policies used to enforce "intellectual property" on the net.
It will also be used just as rationally, wisely and well.
The porn-tax registrars will get a windfall, backed by arbitrary prosecution and enforcement actions, with a presumption of violation.
He created a flawed mechanism for analysing history. Like the Flinstones, he comically projects an 18th/19th century social relationships, back to the dawn of civilisation.
I used to jest that the Marxist deconstruction of the Jurassic revealed that it was a class struggle between herbivorous dinosaurs and large meat-eaters.
Despite this near-sightedness, Marx was EXACTLY right in his diagnosis of the evils, ills and discontents of market capitalism.
And he was just as flawed, to an equal extent, in his prescription for those evils.
The truth is, those who exploited market capitalism for exclusivity of wealth, power and domination were just as empowered to do the same thing with the intellectual and social methods of Marx's "revolution".
And really. When it comes down to it, how is the organisation of the modern corporation, with it's CEO, directors, officers and hierarchy of management bearing Q10's and quarterly projections any different from the Supreme Soviet, commissars, apparatchiks and 5-year plans? Not at all.
You either see the FNORDs or you don't. He makes some argument that the qualitative lifestyle difference between the billionaire and the impoverished isn't that much - and uses it as an argument to discount money as a unit of value.
That is the position of a professional enabler.
Because those aren't status-tokens, when you can't eat.
Every motherfucker in a Hawker-Sidley executive jet destroys the ability of the planet to sustain thousands of people in comfortable existence, with their obscenity.
The world would be safer with another billion peasants, than another thousand like Kelley and Brand - and the masters, for whom they carry water.
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. The book examines how urbanization, nuclear power, genetic engineering, geoengineering, and wildlife restoration can be used as powerful tools in the humanity's ongoing fight against global warming. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Stewart_Brand
Yeah. Just another technophilic face on the eugenicist "New World Order" bullshit.
These "Long Now" creeps are the Nazi/Freemason/whatever of "The New Frontier".
"I'll note a few bullet points about this 10,000 year clock project that stood out for me. This is not an exhaustive list and I'm sure that people who know more about these topics will uncover other interesting features.
First, does anybody know about rituals that involve time and a participant wearing a blue hooded robe?"
"At Long Now Foundation we've always resisted the idea of turning the institution into a religion -- even though religions may have the best track record for long-term endurance. But the comparison to monks devoting their lives to maintain a remote and long-lived clock is hard to avoid, especially if you show up at a momentous clock event in a hooded robe."
Slashdot Mirror
"We circled back to reconnoitre the target zone, and confirmed that the objective had been wininated."
"My inbox has ben wininated with spam and bullshit marketing"
"Hey! My laptop turned into media center. I don't need to be wininated by th ef*cking date and weather."
WINNING!
I'll take endocrine disorders, Alex.
With Compaq SmartStart.
What a hell! Then, they required it for initial boot! And every other manufacturer saw this as worthy of emulation.
They were awfully captive to a Windows-oriented market, and driven by MS.
as the summary. Then?
What a disappointing thread of comments!
Just keep moving the goal posts.
The laws were never for your benefit, silly!
Zagat? But this tastes like anus!
No. He just plays mad on the 'Net.
1,2,3, BITCHFEST! :-)
Really, I have little place in this discussion. I don't even find games worth playing!
Then again, I was amused by "Defrag". Even though you only got 1 turn, it took a long time. Still I always ended with a score of "100%".
There is the seed of an esoteric, mystical truth in what you have posted.
Zagat,
Now on boycott list.
Yelp? Moved to my top, with Monocle.
"Hello, lucrative business! Why don't you crawl back to the ghetto we've designated?"
Trust me. The legislation that forces this move is not far behind - it will be modelled on the existing "asset-seizure" policies used to enforce "intellectual property" on the net.
It will also be used just as rationally, wisely and well.
The porn-tax registrars will get a windfall, backed by arbitrary prosecution and enforcement actions, with a presumption of violation.
TSAGROPER.XXX
Get it while it's hot!
I will digress from your vitriolic reaction, to pick up on a point in your observation:
"Stalin murdered nearly 40 million Soviet citizens"
Which means that, by your estimation, the Holocaust was comparatively, "small potatoes."
It won't import Word .doc or .docx, larger that 1MB in the source file.
How many .doc files do you have, greater than 1MB?
Google Office in the real world? Useless turd.
Get yourself over to zoho.com, and see how it SHOULD be done!
He created a flawed mechanism for analysing history. Like the Flinstones, he comically projects an 18th/19th century social relationships, back to the dawn of civilisation.
I used to jest that the Marxist deconstruction of the Jurassic revealed that it was a class struggle between herbivorous dinosaurs and large meat-eaters.
Despite this near-sightedness, Marx was EXACTLY right in his diagnosis of the evils, ills and discontents of market capitalism.
And he was just as flawed, to an equal extent, in his prescription for those evils.
The truth is, those who exploited market capitalism for exclusivity of wealth, power and domination were just as empowered to do the same thing with the intellectual and social methods of Marx's "revolution".
And really. When it comes down to it, how is the organisation of the modern corporation, with it's CEO, directors, officers and hierarchy of management bearing Q10's and quarterly projections any different from the Supreme Soviet, commissars, apparatchiks and 5-year plans? Not at all.
Tell it to Archie Bunker!
But I wonder if this Tim Morse character knows how to use a mop?
I am especially enthusiastic about the discipline imposed by my GoogleDocs size limit of 1 Mb.
So novel and revolutionary!
Yeah! Now they can prevent someone from crashing airliners into their datacenters! WIJNNING!@SONY!
Ah. Someone who remembers Zelazny. Do people still read him?
The problem is MORE in a world that has BILLIONAIRES, than in a world that has BILLIONS.
When your read the wistful apologies for the super-rich in bullshit, futurist/crypto-eugenics, trans-human nonsense like Kevin Kelly spouts in his first answer to this Slashdot piece?
http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/09/06/1458254/Kevin-Kelly-Answers-Your-Questions
You either see the FNORDs or you don't. He makes some argument that the qualitative lifestyle difference between the billionaire and the impoverished isn't that much - and uses it as an argument to discount money as a unit of value.
That is the position of a professional enabler.
Because those aren't status-tokens, when you can't eat.
Every motherfucker in a Hawker-Sidley executive jet destroys the ability of the planet to sustain thousands of people in comfortable existence, with their obscenity.
The world would be safer with another billion peasants, than another thousand like Kelley and Brand - and the masters, for whom they carry water.
"We ARE as Gods, and HAVE to get good at it."
-- Stuart Brand, 2009, "Whole Earth Discipline"
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. The book examines how urbanization, nuclear power, genetic engineering, geoengineering, and wildlife restoration can be used as powerful tools in the humanity's ongoing fight against global warming.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Stewart_Brand
Yeah. Just another technophilic face on the eugenicist "New World Order" bullshit.
These "Long Now" creeps are the Nazi/Freemason/whatever of "The New Frontier".
http://cryptogon.com/?p=24264
Just a hobby for billionaires? Somehow, I don't think so.
But then again, Hey! Stuart didn't bother changing out of a loincloth, after leaving Borneo, either...
Jumped the shark with lasers...
I'm always fuckin' cute, bitch.