Sure you can call that consentual sex, but, pretty much the real deal is that you have a bunch of low self esteem women with no job skills doing anything they can to get their next drug fix, or avoid getting the shit beat out of them by their boyfriend.
The sex industry degrades women. Sure you can think you are a hip guy new age liberal guy by being pro-sex, but if you are so into it, what's so hard about getting a date rather than getting an escort or even watching some coke whore suck some dick on the web for your credit card number so she can make her master rich and get her next fix.
We're not arguing against the free market. In fact, we're arguing in favor of more of it. We want the market to determine the real costs of various things without the government creating artificial monopolies by legislative fiat such as DMCA or even various copyright extensions through the years.
Copyrights and their abuse by the media industry are no different than any of the traditional right wing darlings. We can deregulate railroads, trucking, airlines, natural gas and even electrical companies for the benefit of the economy, and we can certainly deregulate intellectual property as well.
So long as your argument is that "It's the law", or, "government regulation is needed", then, you are not being free market. Think about copyrights and intellectual property in that sense, rather than instinctively siding with the businesses and you'll see that in many ways the Linux crowd is far more in favor of free markets than any media company or Microsoft will ever be.
Linux is not asking for government protection, Microsoft is, Sony is, the recording industry is, and that's all you really need to know about whose a socialist and whose not.
What this is really all about, and the way we need to communicate this, is that entertainment companies are trying sue their way into having hardware and software manufacturers pay them a tax for the mere pleasure of their existence. Everything else is a red herring. It's just Sony's and other companys see that big Microsoft stash, and Apple stash, and they want a piece of it, and, if they starve out or kill the right to independently create content, they don't care.
That's pretty cut and dry. They won't give me a product that I want, I will not buy it. It's not as if music and movies are the only form of entertainment out there. I can live without them, but they can't live without me, and if they all starve, I don't care and I don't have to care. Sorry music industry.
If anyone is screwing themselves up, its Microsoft. They are trying to make their earnings targets by raising prices and cutting services. MSDN used to be excellent, but now, how often do you just get a book about the topic instead and use Google to look for answers to Windows issues. The search in MSDN is useless and getting worse.
Programs -don't- write themselves, and that is the ultimate point.
Right now, the entry level system for Windows, Visual Studio Express, is completely crippled, for $50. Even the $500 offering lacks source control. The only suite that really wins is Team System, and that's $2500, a year. That's almost enough to make a car payment with. I've been working with Beta 2 and for C++ its actually worse than KDevelop and for the rest, well, I don't see the justification of a $2500 premium.
If you are a small indy developer, the economics of writing for Windows is almost absurd. On the other hand, you can do a lot with Linux for the money. I have to believe that this trend will fuel the wider spread of adoption of Linux. That's not to say that it will be easy, but, the more developers switch, the more MS has to raise prices in its tools division to show growth, causing more developers to switch. Microsoft is in a feedback loop and even now licensing costs are starting to get even large IT concerns to take notice.
It used to be that Linux advocates were a minority, and they still are, but now they are less of a minority than before.
All in all, Google should be cheering at the organizational hell that a merger between MSN and AOL would be bring, because, at the end of the day, the result will be a total disaster for Microsoft.
All those Yahoo advertisers depend on Google searches and site ranking to find them. If MS goes and tries to shuffle them to MSN, they'll just balk and advertise through Google instead. The end result would be that MS would be holding two proprietary internet services that don't interoperate instead of one, with no advertising base. And, if it got really nasty, Google could just drop MSN sites slightly lower in its search result, and it could also lower queries about Microsoft APIs and developmental web sites and steer developers towards Linux solutions instead.
If Microsoft goes and makes a browser that breaks Google, Google users will switch even more to Firefox. If Microsoft goes and makes an operating system that breaks Google, end users will not upgrade. Google really does have Microsoft over a barrel.
Google books is a great deal. Now all we budding authors have to do is invent a few pet raises and google bomb ourselves up to be NYT best sellers. If anything wouldn't get rid of overused cliches in literature, this would.
Just do a search for "It was the best of times", from Dickens tale of two cities, and you will be shocked at how many bad books are returned!
Stuff goes obsolete. As soon as you figure out how to effectively use a tool, you realize ways that piece could be automated, which is what the next version does. Why be stuck doing the same thing over and over again. Don't you get bored?
Not to burst your bubble, but how does, in the case of software, capitalism actually hinder development? It's pretty straightfoward, if you think you can go and make a better development suite than Visual Studio, go right ahead.
The argument that software you write on your own belongs to your employer is simply not true. So, right off, the guy is starting with a fairly big lie.
BeOS was ahead of its time because it was built on the premise that the future computers would be massively parallel. Then, Intel and AMD got into the megahertz race and it seemed like BeOS guessed wrong.
Now of course everything is going towards multiple cores and multiple processors, but BeOS is dead for the most part. Had BeOS come out later, or had multicore chips come out earlier, who knows what might have been.
I've not bought a song or a CD in a year. I almost caved on a Bob Dylan live track CD, but I held fast. The recording industry is not getting a dime from me. Practitioners of such heavy handed legal thuggery deserve death far more than they deserve respect.
1) There is about a TRILLION DOLLARS of oil sitting in Alaska in ANWR at today's prices. Ergo, all we have to do is drill that out, and we have enough money to pay for Iraq, Katrina, and put a whole fricking Noah's ark on Mars.
2) There is easily 10 times that amount in natural gas off of the Carolina Coast.
3) There is easily 100 times that, according to a previous Slashdot post, sitting in Colorado oil reserves.
So we have money for the taking, but will the Dems let us get it? No.
3) George Bush does not buy products from China. You do. If you won't want Chinese imports, do not buy their products. Look for Made in America labels. I'm sure there are plenty of websites listing made in America items and brands and yes you can even find some at Walmart.
4) The economic theory that condemns US free trade with China is arguably not valid. Sure the US is a much smaller fish than China, but the UK is much smaller than the USA and trade with the UK did not wreck it.
Hey a bunch of developers on every platform known to humanity, what is the "ultimate" way to develop.
Here's a script:
CPPFanBoyMFC "I think Visual C++ is the best. I love MFC with a mighty passion!"
CPPFanBoySDK "No way dude, I use Visual C++ with the straight up SDK and roll my own classes as needed."
CPPKDEFanBoy "Visual Studio blows compared to KDevelop."
CPPMakeFanBoy "When I was a kid, I used to write make files and use Emacs and gdb from the console, and I liked it, so I still do."
CPPViFanBoy "Yeah, but, vi is better than emacs, everyone knows that"
AssemblyFanBoy "90% of you C/C++ guys talking about getting close probably don't even know the calling convention of your functions. Hop along IDE cripples."
VB6FanBoy "Assembly? I can do in two minutes that which takes you two weeks to write. VB 6.0 is the bomb, but MS ruined it with VB.NET"
WinFanBoyD "C# makes the rest of you obsolete..."
SunFanBoy "Too bad you stole it from Java."
PythonFanBoy "Java, Blah! Your weak languages do not enforce indenting..."
DelphiFanBoy "All your strongly typing innovations are belong to us."
Perl "While you guys were arguing, I just finished it all in one line of code... oh wait... where does that greedy matching operator go. I'll see you tomorrow."
With Bush set to drop $200 billion on Katrina, finding money for going to the moon is going to be difficult. However, with the Chinese headed into space again, maybe they can argue it for national security.
That is only your opinion. I live under a socialist system and yeah, our politicians can...
Well, structurally, it is. You are basically saying that someone feels good about a particular idea, so, they get the government to do it because they can't do it themselves. It's a selfish end for those that power it, but, the merits of it justify the end. But it is to say that there's no moral difference between the head of the "revolution" and a CEO - they are all just in it for themselves. You can't get power without being selfish.
Lower middle class I was poor. My solution was to go and get a better job and to keep doing so. There are a lot of stupid reasons why health insurance isn't affordable for people. There should only be one national risk pool, for one. So different insurance companies can go beat up doctors for pricing, but, everyone plays by the same risk cards.
Also, every state has its own regulations about insurance and some of them drive up rates so high in their states that no one can afford it - like New Jersey for example. Putting elective or procedures into insurance is something that should be banned.
The money I would save from "socialized medicine" I would wind up paying to the gov't in the form of a higher tax.
Something that is socialized is not run for the "collective good". A socialized system is a system run for the entertainment of the person that runs it, sort of a massive toy for a few funded by a general public.
That's the ideology anyway. In practice there could be a good government agency and a corrupt corporation - just over the long haul corrupt corporations do either get rid of corrupt ceos or go bankrupt or both.
Blue Cross has delivered to me a better standard of medical care than most European governments would deliver to their citizens and certainly exceeds what Canada does for its. I get to see any doctor I want to for my wife and myself and my kid, whenever I want to see that doctor, When my wife was pregnant I got ultrasounds out the wazoo and soon as her blood pressure went up a bit they induced her and gave her a c-section. When I want to talk to a doctor, I have one on call 24/7. In terms of health care, I really do have it all.
Everything is paid for except a small ($10) copay, and I don't have to do a thing. Blue Cross is the best of American health care, if not the world, but it is expensive. I pay probably more for that level of service than Europeans pay in taxes. And every year it costs me 10% more, and I can't eat that indefinitely. Either that, or I have to go get more money.
Well, there are a billion Chinese, and only 300 million of us, so maybe they are onto something!
Our insurance system, from the consumer perspective, is effectively socialism. The only benefit our "free enterprise" gives us in the case of health insurance is the choice of which insurance company will rip us off and which doctor will see us for 30 seconds and then leaving the rest of the care to a nurse.
All my trolling aside, doctors do not make out well on this either. But I think the best thing would be that if doctors offered their prices online, and, with respect to various insurers, so that, you could shop for doctors and insurers at the same time.
I also think they should not have NDAs or Gag orders of any kind in the health field, if in any field at all.
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surely a car load of C4 would have a special scent to it.
Sure you can call that consentual sex, but, pretty much the real deal is that you have a bunch of low self esteem women with no job skills doing anything they can to get their next drug fix, or avoid getting the shit beat out of them by their boyfriend.
The sex industry degrades women. Sure you can think you are a hip guy new age liberal guy by being pro-sex, but if you are so into it, what's so hard about getting a date rather than getting an escort or even watching some coke whore suck some dick on the web for your credit card number so she can make her master rich and get her next fix.
We're not arguing against the free market. In fact, we're arguing in favor of more of it. We want the market to determine the real costs of various things without the government creating artificial monopolies by legislative fiat such as DMCA or even various copyright extensions through the years.
Copyrights and their abuse by the media industry are no different than any of the traditional right wing darlings. We can deregulate railroads, trucking, airlines, natural gas and even electrical companies for the benefit of the economy, and we can certainly deregulate intellectual property as well.
So long as your argument is that "It's the law", or, "government regulation is needed", then, you are not being free market. Think about copyrights and intellectual property in that sense, rather than instinctively siding with the businesses and you'll see that in many ways the Linux crowd is far more in favor of free markets than any media company or Microsoft will ever be.
Linux is not asking for government protection, Microsoft is, Sony is, the recording industry is, and that's all you really need to know about whose a socialist and whose not.
Bill Gates is a socialist, not Linus Torvalds.
It's actually a bad definition.
What this is really all about, and the way we need to communicate this, is that entertainment companies are trying sue their way into having hardware and software manufacturers pay them a tax for the mere pleasure of their existence. Everything else is a red herring. It's just Sony's and other companys see that big Microsoft stash, and Apple stash, and they want a piece of it, and, if they starve out or kill the right to independently create content, they don't care.
That's pretty cut and dry. They won't give me a product that I want, I will not buy it. It's not as if music and movies are the only form of entertainment out there. I can live without them, but they can't live without me, and if they all starve, I don't care and I don't have to care. Sorry music industry.
If anyone is screwing themselves up, its Microsoft. They are trying to make their earnings targets by raising prices and cutting services. MSDN used to be excellent, but now, how often do you just get a book about the topic instead and use Google to look for answers to Windows issues. The search in MSDN is useless and getting worse.
Programs -don't- write themselves, and that is the ultimate point.
Right now, the entry level system for Windows, Visual Studio Express, is completely crippled, for $50. Even the $500 offering lacks source control. The only suite that really wins is Team System, and that's $2500, a year. That's almost enough to make a car payment with. I've been working with Beta 2 and for C++ its actually worse than KDevelop and for the rest, well, I don't see the justification of a $2500 premium.
If you are a small indy developer, the economics of writing for Windows is almost absurd. On the other hand, you can do a lot with Linux for the money. I have to believe that this trend will fuel the wider spread of adoption of Linux. That's not to say that it will be easy, but, the more developers switch, the more MS has to raise prices in its tools division to show growth, causing more developers to switch. Microsoft is in a feedback loop and even now licensing costs are starting to get even large IT concerns to take notice.
It used to be that Linux advocates were a minority, and they still are, but now they are less of a minority than before.
All in all, Google should be cheering at the organizational hell that a merger between MSN and AOL would be bring, because, at the end of the day, the result will be a total disaster for Microsoft.
All those Yahoo advertisers depend on Google searches and site ranking to find them. If MS goes and tries to shuffle them to MSN, they'll just balk and advertise through Google instead. The end result would be that MS would be holding two proprietary internet services that don't interoperate instead of one, with no advertising base. And, if it got really nasty, Google could just drop MSN sites slightly lower in its search result, and it could also lower queries about Microsoft APIs and developmental web sites and steer developers towards Linux solutions instead.
If Microsoft goes and makes a browser that breaks Google, Google users will switch even more to Firefox. If Microsoft goes and makes an operating system that breaks Google, end users will not upgrade. Google really does have Microsoft over a barrel.
I'm seeing a web site that basically looks the same. Why change?
Google books is a great deal. Now all we budding authors have to do is invent a few pet raises and google bomb ourselves up to be NYT best sellers. If anything wouldn't get rid of overused cliches in literature, this would.
Just do a search for "It was the best of times", from Dickens tale of two cities, and you will be shocked at how many bad books are returned!
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man.html
b s/351387a0.html;jsessionid=47E7825B96884284A97B6E5 C50343A70
Kilauea kicks out only 8,000 tons a day.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v351/n6325/a
Etna kicks out 13+-3Tg/yr, or roughly 1,171,000 US tons of CO2 per year...
Seems like a lot, but, US CO2 production is something a billion tons of CO2 per year. So, the volcanos give out 1/1000 of CO2 as the USA does.
Rock on!
Wasn't the issue with the SSC that the magnets needed to make it happen weren't going to work?
Stuff goes obsolete. As soon as you figure out how to effectively use a tool, you realize ways that piece could be automated, which is what the next version does. Why be stuck doing the same thing over and over again. Don't you get bored?
And how many ideas of its have we stolen or do you steal?
Consider: Will OpenOffice 2 change its menus to match the new "menuless" version of Office?
Not to burst your bubble, but how does, in the case of software, capitalism actually hinder development? It's pretty straightfoward, if you think you can go and make a better development suite than Visual Studio, go right ahead.
The argument that software you write on your own belongs to your employer is simply not true. So, right off, the guy is starting with a fairly big lie.
BeOS was ahead of its time because it was built on the premise that the future computers would be massively parallel. Then, Intel and AMD got into the megahertz race and it seemed like BeOS guessed wrong.
Now of course everything is going towards multiple cores and multiple processors, but BeOS is dead for the most part. Had BeOS come out later, or had multicore chips come out earlier, who knows what might have been.
I've not bought a song or a CD in a year. I almost caved on a Bob Dylan live track CD, but I held fast. The recording industry is not getting a dime from me. Practitioners of such heavy handed legal thuggery deserve death far more than they deserve respect.
1) There is about a TRILLION DOLLARS of oil sitting in Alaska in ANWR at today's prices. Ergo, all we have to do is drill that out, and we have enough money to pay for Iraq, Katrina, and put a whole fricking Noah's ark on Mars.
2) There is easily 10 times that amount in natural gas off of the Carolina Coast.
3) There is easily 100 times that, according to a previous Slashdot post, sitting in Colorado oil reserves.
So we have money for the taking, but will the Dems let us get it? No.
3) George Bush does not buy products from China. You do. If you won't want Chinese imports, do not buy their products. Look for Made in America labels. I'm sure there are plenty of websites listing made in America items and brands and yes you can even find some at Walmart.
4) The economic theory that condemns US free trade with China is arguably not valid. Sure the US is a much smaller fish than China, but the UK is much smaller than the USA and trade with the UK did not wreck it.
Hey a bunch of developers on every platform known to humanity, what is the "ultimate" way to develop.
Here's a script:
CPPFanBoyMFC "I think Visual C++ is the best. I love MFC with a mighty passion!"
CPPFanBoySDK "No way dude, I use Visual C++ with the straight up SDK and roll my own classes as needed."
CPPKDEFanBoy "Visual Studio blows compared to KDevelop."
CPPMakeFanBoy "When I was a kid, I used to write make files and use Emacs and gdb from the console, and I liked it, so I still do."
CPPViFanBoy "Yeah, but, vi is better than emacs, everyone knows that"
AssemblyFanBoy "90% of you C/C++ guys talking about getting close probably don't even know the calling convention of your functions. Hop along IDE cripples."
VB6FanBoy "Assembly? I can do in two minutes that which takes you two weeks to write. VB 6.0 is the bomb, but MS ruined it with VB.NET"
WinFanBoyD "C# makes the rest of you obsolete..."
SunFanBoy "Too bad you stole it from Java."
PythonFanBoy "Java, Blah! Your weak languages do not enforce indenting..."
DelphiFanBoy "All your strongly typing innovations are belong to us."
Perl "While you guys were arguing, I just finished it all in one line of code... oh wait... where does that greedy matching operator go. I'll see you tomorrow."
Any more?
With Bush set to drop $200 billion on Katrina, finding money for going to the moon is going to be difficult. However, with the Chinese headed into space again, maybe they can argue it for national security.
That is only your opinion. I live under a socialist system and yeah, our politicians can...
Well, structurally, it is. You are basically saying that someone feels good about a particular idea, so, they get the government to do it because they can't do it themselves. It's a selfish end for those that power it, but, the merits of it justify the end. But it is to say that there's no moral difference between the head of the "revolution" and a CEO - they are all just in it for themselves. You can't get power without being selfish.
Lower middle class
I was poor. My solution was to go and get a better job and to keep doing so. There are a lot of stupid reasons why health insurance isn't affordable for people. There should only be one national risk pool, for one. So different insurance companies can go beat up doctors for pricing, but, everyone plays by the same risk cards.
Also, every state has its own regulations about insurance and some of them drive up rates so high in their states that no one can afford it - like New Jersey for example. Putting elective or procedures into insurance is something that should be banned.
The money I would save from "socialized medicine" I would wind up paying to the gov't in the form of a higher tax.
Something that is socialized is not run for the "collective good". A socialized system is a system run for the entertainment of the person that runs it, sort of a massive toy for a few funded by a general public.
That's the ideology anyway. In practice there could be a good government agency and a corrupt corporation - just over the long haul corrupt corporations do either get rid of corrupt ceos or go bankrupt or both.
Blue Cross has delivered to me a better standard of medical care than most European governments would deliver to their citizens and certainly exceeds what Canada does for its. I get to see any doctor I want to for my wife and myself and my kid, whenever I want to see that doctor, When my wife was pregnant I got ultrasounds out the wazoo and soon as her blood pressure went up a bit they induced her and gave her a c-section. When I want to talk to a doctor, I have one on call 24/7. In terms of health care, I really do have it all.
Everything is paid for except a small ($10) copay, and I don't have to do a thing. Blue Cross is the best of American health care, if not the world, but it is expensive. I pay probably more for that level of service than Europeans pay in taxes. And every year it costs me 10% more, and I can't eat that indefinitely. Either that, or I have to go get more money.
Well, there are a billion Chinese, and only 300 million of us, so maybe they are onto something!
Our insurance system, from the consumer perspective, is effectively socialism. The only benefit our "free enterprise" gives us in the case of health insurance is the choice of which insurance company will rip us off and which doctor will see us for 30 seconds and then leaving the rest of the care to a nurse.
All my trolling aside, doctors do not make out well on this either. But I think the best thing would be that if doctors offered their prices online, and, with respect to various insurers, so that, you could shop for doctors and insurers at the same time.
I also think they should not have NDAs or Gag orders of any kind in the health field, if in any field at all.
Why don't you ask your Dad to publish his prices online?