But when I spend 10 months full-time, writing a 500-page book that developers are going to use to learn or improve skills that will help them make more money, I see absolutely nothing wrong with me getting a share.
I don't either. What I'm saying is that Linux itself is a thing of value too. How much work do people put into Apache?
If posting someone's home address does not endanger your life, can we post yours. For that matter, how come you are using an alias instead of your real name?
If you are going to have a right to privacy, it has to apply to everyone.
Yes -- I am so enamored with living as a citizen of the entire world, rather than just a tiny little piece of it -- that it's worth the very remote risk of terrorism.
But you are not a citizen of the world. You are a citizen of your country. Legally, there is absolutely no such thing as a citizen of the world.
Perhaps you can inform the DEA and all the other drug warriors of your fantastic method of stopping smugglers. Even if the US really did get serious about stopping smugglers there's no way it could
Most drug warriors that I have talked to have said that they could curtail the drugs much more effectively if we placed our assets in a more of a defensive cordon. Instead everything is forwardly deployed and its more about power projection in the carribean than it is any real effort to end the imports of drugs.
Then do it. Cut off all the imports. Come now, are you so enamored of your Japanese cars that you wish to expose your own cities to nuclear attack? Keep it simple, just cut off the ships.
They've made better products at lower prices than we are able to do ourselves. The Japanese can make a car, put it on a boat, pay for the boat, pay US import duties, and STILL sell a better product at a lower price than Ford. (Same with the South Koreans, I think.) Japanese and (especially) German scientists contribute to our wellbeing by the advancement of knowledge.
They do this because they hoard our currency to prop up its value, rather than spend it and release it back into the marketplace. Then they exclude imports themselves, adopt an essentially racist culture than refused to accept anything foreign... its like, you want to trade with these people? That's just stupid.
The Germans did us an even bigger favor.
That's just a rationalization. Everyone talks about how Reagan stood in front of the Berlin wall and said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,", but what no one remembers is all the German greens fear mongering. I don't blame the Germans avoiding any sort of an idea of war at any price, no matter what. Nearly every German that there is has a relative that was killed either in allied bombings or on the Russian front. If we had lost 10% of our population and had our entire country destroyed and then occupied for 50 year, we'd probably be the same way.
All I'm saying is, since Germany and France is so myopically anti-war, there's absolutely no point to defending them via NATO, and there's certainly no point in involving the USA in the middle east. It's just stupid to be in a military alliance with a people that won't fight.
The USA is not in the middle east to get oil - its so Europe can get oil. The USA could get more efficient, jack up CAFE, and rely on its own domestic production.
They can't stop drug and firearm smugglers, they wouldn't be able to stop smugglers with a suitcase bomb either.
Small nuclear munitions would not really be all that powerful. Wikipedia gives the yield of a small nuke at Heck, the Mexican narco-terriorists have bazookas, grenades, and rocket launchers.
And when is the last time you have seen someone in the USA killed by a bazooka?
Meanwhile, we spend vast sums on this technology when we really ought to be looking to get outside of Earth orbit
The better we get with lasers, the better we can do fusion, and a laser make a holram fuse is definitely something we would want for propulsion, rather than chemical rocket crap. Why spend all this money on chemical rockets, when if we get really good at lasers, and then fusion, we can be on our way to Mars with container ship sized payloads, rather than a boy scout tent?
won't missile designers just make the missile housing out of the same reflective material?
Free electron lasers, I think, can actually have their frequency tuned. It's like Star Trek. The Borg put up a shield, the Enterprise changes its phaser frequency.... blammo.
and the biggest strength the U.S. has at its disposal is the good will we manage to generate by helping others and spreading wealth and peace in the world.
The USA has a trillion dollar trade deficit. Every year the USA buys more junk than it can possibly afford, made all over the world. Look at what the good will this has gotten us. Nothing. Germany and Japan and South Korea and China dump all their junk on the USA, and take our market for granted, but what have they done for us lately?
Conversely, the British are in worse shape than we are, but, when push comes to shove, if the USA needs an ally, the British come through.
You know what I think? I think the USA needs to recognize that it has some friends and others are not so much friends, no matter how much money you put on the table, and reprioritize its trade based on that. Don't you think its kinda B.S. that a British or Canadian soldier that actually fights alongside the USA in Iraq or Afghanistan, deserves in peacetime more of a job working for some company that exports to the USA than, say, a South Korean or a German? Certainly the British and the Canadians are no lovers of war but they stood with us and actually have made some real contributions in money and in blood.
If we were really going to do the right thing, we would be importing cars from Britain, not Korea.
When the terrorists blow up Los Angeles, they aren't going to be using an ICBM. They're going to be floating a bomb into the harbor on a container ship. Your fancy airborn lasers will be useless.
Will they?
I mean, everyone seems to think that loading a ship full of explosives is some unstoppable defense, yet, we certainly have the means to board, inspect, and if necessary, sink pretty much any ship.
They can just park a ship off a Manhattan and light one off if they wanted to.
Ships move at 20-30mph. Ballistic missiles move at 15,000mph +. If we make it so that our enemies have to get a ship into one our harbors, it becomes a much simpler problem. We would need to have more Coast Guard people to basically board every ship, with neutron detectors, but, its something we can do. We can track ships as they are approaching the USA, track them as they leave ports, follow them, and pretty much monitor every boat on the ocean.
ABL is certainly a cool concept but the problem is they are working on the wrong kind of laser. Since the ABL project has started, free electron lasers have made way more progress than the chemical laser used in the ABL. With a free electron laser, you don't have to haul around all the nasty chemicals, can have more shots, more power for the beam and even offers the hope of adjusting the beam frequency. I'm not one to really want to kill a defense project, but, if I were in charge, I would junk the chemical laser part of the program, and go straight to free electron.
I think Raytheon just got a contract for a 100kw FEL, from the Navy. Perhaps the AF won't ever really succeed with the chemical ABL, but, if the Navy comes through with a free electron laser mounted on ships or even carrier borne aircraft, the capability of the ABL is something that we can get much more quickly.
This isn't really new, per se, but it is a reassertion of one of the best values of American soldiery - the guy on the ground should have some room to make some decisions for himself or herself. Good commanders have always encouraged their subordinates to lead, and given them tools to do so. Bad commanders don't.
Ok. Let me first apologize if you are not a "God" type. I'm a right wing "God" guy and that's how I frame my universe. In doing so I say that however you frame your universe is your own damn business. I only give the warning because the framing that I communicate is useful to where I am coming from.
I do not see racism as some sort of a thing that a government program can cure or a generation or two from now will outgrow. The way I say things, racism is another tool of the evil to inspire the hearts of men to do terrible things and so I think that racism is a sort of temptation that that everyone has, or is. Humans have been racist since the beginning of time, and they always will be. Racism is simply a part of the human condition, like lust, or greed. It's not going to go away and the only socially realistic way to deal with it is not to approach it as something to be solved, like providing water to a village, but by giving people tools to deal with it when it occurs. It's almost like you have to say to yourself, every time, that you are not going to condemn or judge an entire people because of the actions of one man, generalize some because the actions of a few, and so on. You have to take each and every person for what they are, and actively hope that they can contribute, and furthermore, there is a certain amount of social spoils that must take place along racial lines, simply to check yourself. I've worked with plenty of liberal firms, that say they are not racist, but never employ a black guy, because, there is no one of skill to fit the bill, but then can turn around and send those jobs overseas.
Sure, white people were bad to blacks. But blacks were bad to blacks, and now are sometimes bad to whites. You could go in endless circles pointing fingers and generalities and the only thing that can really work, at least from my own dumb white christian perspective, is to take a deep breath, have some patience, and check your own hate, and probably should listen to local sports radio.
There's just way too much hate out there, and being angry because you are white and pissed off, or black and pissed off, that's not God talking, that's the Devil talking.
It may not be the Flying Spaghetti Monsters, or some sort of new age thing or some other thing like that, but that vision works for me. If something else works for you, that's cool too, but regardless of deity, you are going to have the impulse, emotionally, to hate and categorize based on race and if you don't admit that you have that capacity, you are doomed to do it.
Combating racism is not a government program or a capitalist product, but a personal discipline.
ecause everyone knows that evil is a disenfranchised Latino with a sawed off shotgun? Blacks are ok, now that we have one as president.
I think we just need to go with, having horns. Every group has its, we're not evil advocacy groups, so, we just have to go with green people with horns.
Are you really so totally uninformed about the world outside your own country?
Why the heck should any American care about Europe? You seem to think that the world should be interested in Europe like it is self evident, and honestly I see no reason to care at all. The Japanese make better stuff than you, the Chinese are cheaper than you, Israelis and Indians are smarter and the Mexicans make better food.
There's just no point to the old continent these days.
I'd say we should withdraw from NATO.
PS. Europe has a punishment system too. It's your bad TV and lousy music.
1. My house is secured by deed, and is on file at the county records department.
But its still pretty easy to destroy. Its actually probably easier to burn down your house than it is to delete a newsgroup posting.
Flat out false. If I rent my house out and I am not there or furnishing it, the tenants don't get the insurance money, and they don't get to rebuild the house
If you rent out your house, good luck kicking your tenants out. Sure, eventually, you'll be able to call the police, but that's when your "property" has become an abstraction. We could just easily have police be callable when someone steals your IP.
It is a trivial amount of work. The idea is that you can add a million items to the game as easily as 1000. It only costs a few tenths of a second, making it effectively free.
You go ahead and write a million items then. Do the artwork for a million unique swords, and let me know when you are done.
See, they aren't like us, after all. Probably not even the same type of insect. We butterflies must not let the moths prevail. Ready the nuclear cannons, and prepare for the ultimate war!
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But when I spend 10 months full-time, writing a 500-page book that developers are going to use to learn or improve skills that will help them make more money, I see absolutely nothing wrong with me getting a share.
I don't either. What I'm saying is that Linux itself is a thing of value too. How much work do people put into Apache?
If posting someone's home address does not endanger your life, can we post yours. For that matter, how come you are using an alias instead of your real name?
If you are going to have a right to privacy, it has to apply to everyone.
Yes -- I am so enamored with living as a citizen of the entire world, rather than just a tiny little piece of it -- that it's worth the very remote risk of terrorism.
But you are not a citizen of the world. You are a citizen of your country. Legally, there is absolutely no such thing as a citizen of the world.
Jeez, don't you think it a little disingenuous to write a for profit book based upon the efforts of a bunch of programmers working for free?
Perhaps you can inform the DEA and all the other drug warriors of your fantastic method of stopping smugglers. Even if the US really did get serious about stopping smugglers there's no way it could
Most drug warriors that I have talked to have said that they could curtail the drugs much more effectively if we placed our assets in a more of a defensive cordon. Instead everything is forwardly deployed and its more about power projection in the carribean than it is any real effort to end the imports of drugs.
You don't have to board and inspect any ship.
You have to board and inspect *every* ship.
Then do it. Cut off all the imports. Come now, are you so enamored of your Japanese cars that you wish to expose your own cities to nuclear attack? Keep it simple, just cut off the ships.
You might try looking into the body count of Iraqi civilians. That and the little fact that we have now setup them up to have a fun civil war.
The Iraqis make their own choices. We have given them every opportunity to choose peace. If they don't choose it, that's not our fault, that's theirs.
They've made better products at lower prices than we are able to do ourselves. The Japanese can make a car, put it on a boat, pay for the boat, pay US import duties, and STILL sell a better product at a lower price than Ford. (Same with the South Koreans, I think.) Japanese and (especially) German scientists contribute to our wellbeing by the advancement of knowledge.
They do this because they hoard our currency to prop up its value, rather than spend it and release it back into the marketplace. Then they exclude imports themselves, adopt an essentially racist culture than refused to accept anything foreign... its like, you want to trade with these people? That's just stupid.
The Germans did us an even bigger favor.
That's just a rationalization. Everyone talks about how Reagan stood in front of the Berlin wall and said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,", but what no one remembers is all the German greens fear mongering. I don't blame the Germans avoiding any sort of an idea of war at any price, no matter what. Nearly every German that there is has a relative that was killed either in allied bombings or on the Russian front. If we had lost 10% of our population and had our entire country destroyed and then occupied for 50 year, we'd probably be the same way.
All I'm saying is, since Germany and France is so myopically anti-war, there's absolutely no point to defending them via NATO, and there's certainly no point in involving the USA in the middle east. It's just stupid to be in a military alliance with a people that won't fight.
The USA is not in the middle east to get oil - its so Europe can get oil. The USA could get more efficient, jack up CAFE, and rely on its own domestic production.
The Germans have soldiers in in Afghanistan
By their own admission, German soldiers in AFghanistan aren't really doing much, the army is poorly disciplined, and really is just not cutting it.
This is called capitalism, you should check it out it is a great system.
All I have to say is, if you start waving the flag in my face while driving a Korean car, you can shove it up your rear.
I surely hope this is not the view center-right in this country.
It's exactly how Reagan won the rustbelt.
They can't stop drug and firearm smugglers, they wouldn't be able to stop smugglers with a suitcase bomb either.
Small nuclear munitions would not really be all that powerful. Wikipedia gives the yield of a small nuke at Heck, the Mexican narco-terriorists have bazookas, grenades, and rocket launchers.
And when is the last time you have seen someone in the USA killed by a bazooka?
Meanwhile, we spend vast sums on this technology when we really ought to be looking to get outside of Earth orbit
The better we get with lasers, the better we can do fusion, and a laser make a holram fuse is definitely something we would want for propulsion, rather than chemical rocket crap. Why spend all this money on chemical rockets, when if we get really good at lasers, and then fusion, we can be on our way to Mars with container ship sized payloads, rather than a boy scout tent?
won't missile designers just make the missile housing out of the same reflective material?
Free electron lasers, I think, can actually have their frequency tuned. It's like Star Trek. The Borg put up a shield, the Enterprise changes its phaser frequency.... blammo.
and the biggest strength the U.S. has at its disposal is the good will we manage to generate by helping others and spreading wealth and peace in the world.
The USA has a trillion dollar trade deficit. Every year the USA buys more junk than it can possibly afford, made all over the world. Look at what the good will this has gotten us. Nothing. Germany and Japan and South Korea and China dump all their junk on the USA, and take our market for granted, but what have they done for us lately?
Conversely, the British are in worse shape than we are, but, when push comes to shove, if the USA needs an ally, the British come through.
You know what I think? I think the USA needs to recognize that it has some friends and others are not so much friends, no matter how much money you put on the table, and reprioritize its trade based on that. Don't you think its kinda B.S. that a British or Canadian soldier that actually fights alongside the USA in Iraq or Afghanistan, deserves in peacetime more of a job working for some company that exports to the USA than, say, a South Korean or a German? Certainly the British and the Canadians are no lovers of war but they stood with us and actually have made some real contributions in money and in blood.
If we were really going to do the right thing, we would be importing cars from Britain, not Korea.
When the terrorists blow up Los Angeles, they aren't going to be using an ICBM. They're going to be floating a bomb into the harbor on a container ship. Your fancy airborn lasers will be useless.
Will they?
I mean, everyone seems to think that loading a ship full of explosives is some unstoppable defense, yet, we certainly have the means to board, inspect, and if necessary, sink pretty much any ship.
They can just park a ship off a Manhattan and light one off if they wanted to.
Ships move at 20-30mph. Ballistic missiles move at 15,000mph +. If we make it so that our enemies have to get a ship into one our harbors, it becomes a much simpler problem. We would need to have more Coast Guard people to basically board every ship, with neutron detectors, but, its something we can do. We can track ships as they are approaching the USA, track them as they leave ports, follow them, and pretty much monitor every boat on the ocean.
ABL is certainly a cool concept but the problem is they are working on the wrong kind of laser. Since the ABL project has started, free electron lasers have made way more progress than the chemical laser used in the ABL. With a free electron laser, you don't have to haul around all the nasty chemicals, can have more shots, more power for the beam and even offers the hope of adjusting the beam frequency. I'm not one to really want to kill a defense project, but, if I were in charge, I would junk the chemical laser part of the program, and go straight to free electron.
I think Raytheon just got a contract for a 100kw FEL, from the Navy. Perhaps the AF won't ever really succeed with the chemical ABL, but, if the Navy comes through with a free electron laser mounted on ships or even carrier borne aircraft, the capability of the ABL is something that we can get much more quickly.
This isn't really new, per se, but it is a reassertion of one of the best values of American soldiery - the guy on the ground should have some room to make some decisions for himself or herself. Good commanders have always encouraged their subordinates to lead, and given them tools to do so. Bad commanders don't.
He's not being racist,
Ok. Let me first apologize if you are not a "God" type. I'm a right wing "God" guy and that's how I frame my universe. In doing so I say that however you frame your universe is your own damn business. I only give the warning because the framing that I communicate is useful to where I am coming from.
I do not see racism as some sort of a thing that a government program can cure or a generation or two from now will outgrow. The way I say things, racism is another tool of the evil to inspire the hearts of men to do terrible things and so I think that racism is a sort of temptation that that everyone has, or is. Humans have been racist since the beginning of time, and they always will be. Racism is simply a part of the human condition, like lust, or greed. It's not going to go away and the only socially realistic way to deal with it is not to approach it as something to be solved, like providing water to a village, but by giving people tools to deal with it when it occurs. It's almost like you have to say to yourself, every time, that you are not going to condemn or judge an entire people because of the actions of one man, generalize some because the actions of a few, and so on. You have to take each and every person for what they are, and actively hope that they can contribute, and furthermore, there is a certain amount of social spoils that must take place along racial lines, simply to check yourself. I've worked with plenty of liberal firms, that say they are not racist, but never employ a black guy, because, there is no one of skill to fit the bill, but then can turn around and send those jobs overseas.
Sure, white people were bad to blacks. But blacks were bad to blacks, and now are sometimes bad to whites. You could go in endless circles pointing fingers and generalities and the only thing that can really work, at least from my own dumb white christian perspective, is to take a deep breath, have some patience, and check your own hate, and probably should listen to local sports radio.
There's just way too much hate out there, and being angry because you are white and pissed off, or black and pissed off, that's not God talking, that's the Devil talking.
It may not be the Flying Spaghetti Monsters, or some sort of new age thing or some other thing like that, but that vision works for me. If something else works for you, that's cool too, but regardless of deity, you are going to have the impulse, emotionally, to hate and categorize based on race and if you don't admit that you have that capacity, you are doomed to do it.
Combating racism is not a government program or a capitalist product, but a personal discipline.
ecause everyone knows that evil is a disenfranchised Latino with a sawed off shotgun? Blacks are ok, now that we have one as president.
I think we just need to go with, having horns. Every group has its, we're not evil advocacy groups, so, we just have to go with green people with horns.
I decry the terrible racism that suggests a white person might be evil. It's an outrage. And what is this stereotype about being shaved.
Tell the poor, black guy that gets convicted by an all white, middle-class jury when he was innocent, that he was convicted by his peers.
Do you realize how racist that is? So, does that mean that we should have juries by race then?
This statement alone should be marked +5 insightful (and that's coming from US citizen)
The United States is the only system that guarantees a trial by your peers, and has no double jeopardy.
Are you really so totally uninformed about the world outside your own country?
Why the heck should any American care about Europe? You seem to think that the world should be interested in Europe like it is self evident, and honestly I see no reason to care at all. The Japanese make better stuff than you, the Chinese are cheaper than you, Israelis and Indians are smarter and the Mexicans make better food.
There's just no point to the old continent these days.
I'd say we should withdraw from NATO.
PS. Europe has a punishment system too. It's your bad TV and lousy music.
1. My house is secured by deed, and is on file at the county records department.
But its still pretty easy to destroy. Its actually probably easier to burn down your house than it is to delete a newsgroup posting.
Flat out false. If I rent my house out and I am not there or furnishing it, the tenants don't get the insurance money, and they don't get to rebuild the house
If you rent out your house, good luck kicking your tenants out. Sure, eventually, you'll be able to call the police, but that's when your "property" has become an abstraction. We could just easily have police be callable when someone steals your IP.
It is a trivial amount of work. The idea is that you can add a million items to the game as easily as 1000. It only costs a few tenths of a second, making it effectively free.
You go ahead and write a million items then. Do the artwork for a million unique swords, and let me know when you are done.
See, they aren't like us, after all. Probably not even the same type of insect. We butterflies must not let the moths prevail. Ready the nuclear cannons, and prepare for the ultimate war!