Ok, I thought it was best when I put in "crack dealers in phoenix" and it returned a map with a bunch of red arrows on it. I almost fell out of my chair. Then I realized that it was almost relevent as it seems to show links to a lot of places that either sell crack pipes at head shops or have high rates of drug dealing crimes.
They are making a deadly mistake. They are trying to regulate a market where there is already a healthy cheap and easily accessable black market. The only thing they can do is find the incientives for the black market and elimnate them. With their current actions they are only exaserbating the black market almost to a ligitimization point.
And here we see a buzz word being born. See how cute and harmless it is. makes you feel all tingly inside. Then it is going to be rammed into your head over and over and over again until you use parallel logistical flexibility to create optimize cross-platform content over a unique democratizing medium.
"Linux without GNU is like a fish without a bicycle."
Not a very good analogy. A fish would never need nor be able to use a bicycle. I'd say more like a dog without a fire hydrant. The dog is still going to pee it just may not be in it's favorite place.
Yea, it's like Grandma. Everyone knows she died 10 years ago, but Grandpa still uses here for whatever reason. Except that the people still useing BSD is just sick and wrong.
I think you could leave out "these days" and "anymore" from your last sentance. Not saying he hasn't done great things and he did pioneer the OSS movement, but noone ever took him serious, and he has always been a zealot.
Unfortaintly there is no right way to Implement a true communist system. Trying to get everyone to think they are all equal and be happy with that just plain doesn't work in any situation. Some people will just naturally try to better them selvs but far to many want to better themselves over someone else. Without changing human nature you will not be able to move to a truly communist sociaty.
Now to at least get to a communist style economic system if somewhere around 2-5% of the population can feed 100% of the populations wants (note: not just food) then a communist economy will work. This has been shown in the development of the OpenSource community. Just like OpenSource still has a ways to go to hit the 100% mark. The rest of sociaty has a really long ways to go. But just as ESRs report on fetchmail showed that eventually the want for more features died down and fetchmail eventually became maintance only with an occasional addaption to a new technology. It eventually forfilled everyones' wants.
Slavery has always been the driving force of major advancement in the past. For other than slaves of course. Capitalism is a legitimate form of slavery in that people are given some form of choice as to who their owners are and weather or not they work. Technology will be the slave of the future. As robots replace factory workers. As we get automated vacuum cleaners. How long before we have a robot maid to keep the house clean? Robot street cleaners? Robot taxi drivers? Or more importantly, robot mining equipment? robot raw material refiners? or Robot building robots?
I think there would be a horrid dark time when this first starts up because of the millions of people that would be laid off and replaced with robots. It would start driving prices down, first on neccessities like food and shelter to the point of being nearly if not completely free. Then the basic nice to haves. Furnature, TVs, DVD players, Computers. would all drop to free. At some point the only required jobs would be robot overseer and planner and new technology designer.
The Arts will take off because there would soon after be nothing else to do. You'd either be a techno geek who thinks up new robots, or an artist who produces new works. or you would be the mundane people of today except with an extra 8-10 hours a day to drink party and what ever.
Yea they are called fiction writers. Anyone can do it. Write it all down and send it to a publisher. You just may get paid for it. Make is sound somewhat plauseable and you to just may be labed a "Futurist."
Debian trully is amazing. A complete lack of focus yet dedication to perfection in everything. The really amazing part of it is that they achive a staggeringly close afliction to it. Supporting 11 architectures and 3 Kernels, Debian GNU/Linux GNU/kFreeBSD GNU/Hurd. There is even a port to the GNU environment on Windows, and working on one to OSX.
Yea FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/DebianGNUFreeBSD isn't as fragmented as Linux. I say I run Redhat and by that I qualify my package management, my system boot scripts, where my conf files are, and how the system works. BSD on the other had can mean a bunch of things.
or
Yea Windows 3.x/95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server/Workstation /Professinal/Personal ins't as fragmented as the Unixes...
I would fault sysadmins or hardware choice long before Linux or Windows. Here we run an enterprise data center with about 1500 windows servers and about 200 linux servers. We have a little less than 10 times the windows servers than linux but we have more than 20 times the windows support staff of 30 people. While I support all 200 Linux servers.
Well, about a year ago my house was broken into and a large ammount of medium valueble things were stolen (about $5,000 worth) and although the police did come out, they did little more than file the report for me and leave.
Now I have to deal with higher home owners insurance rates and a loss of quite a few of my tools.
I'm not sure how this would be unworkable or practical.
Basics, define a line as being x characters long say 120 to be generous.
then on each line of the ballot have the three catigories
___Required ___accepted ___rejected
where Required means this line has to be in here or I vote down this entire bill, accepted means I aggree with/accept the line but the bill will be fine with out it, and rejected means we cannot have this line in this bill.
This will give Congress the requirement to have balls and answer directly for what they vote for.
Allow it but make congress vote on each line of a bill as required, accepted or rejected. This would be simliar to line item veto except it wouldn't give the power to the president it would distribute it through congress.
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Ok, I thought it was best when I put in "crack dealers in phoenix" and it returned a map with a bunch of red arrows on it. I almost fell out of my chair. Then I realized that it was almost relevent as it seems to show links to a lot of places that either sell crack pipes at head shops or have high rates of drug dealing crimes.
Wow I didn't realize that Microsoft was in the red now. Are they going to declare bankruptsy?
They are making a deadly mistake. They are trying to regulate a market where there is already a healthy cheap and easily accessable black market. The only thing they can do is find the incientives for the black market and elimnate them. With their current actions they are only exaserbating the black market almost to a ligitimization point.
All well and good unless you're a Jew in Nazi Germany. The ability to speak anonymously can be usefull.
And here we see a buzz word being born. See how cute and harmless it is. makes you feel all tingly inside. Then it is going to be rammed into your head over and over and over again until you use parallel logistical flexibility to create optimize cross-platform content over a unique democratizing medium.
And again Microsoft is going to find a way to fall flat on it's face and land in a pile of money.
I actually had a chance to hang out with him for a while. "dirty hippie" comes to mind, and I don't even mind dirty hippies.
one: "Flock you!!"
two: "No, Flock you.com"
"Linux without GNU is like a fish without a bicycle."
Not a very good analogy. A fish would never need nor be able to use a bicycle. I'd say more like a dog without a fire hydrant. The dog is still going to pee it just may not be in it's favorite place.
Yea, it's like Grandma. Everyone knows she died 10 years ago, but Grandpa still uses here for whatever reason. Except that the people still useing BSD is just sick and wrong.
I think you could leave out "these days" and "anymore" from your last sentance. Not saying he hasn't done great things and he did pioneer the OSS movement, but noone ever took him serious, and he has always been a zealot.
Pretty much everything you said was predicted. Grow the numbers again and in 15 years they'll probably still be true.
Yea, and a flying Van.
Unfortaintly there is no right way to Implement a true communist system. Trying to get everyone to think they are all equal and be happy with that just plain doesn't work in any situation. Some people will just naturally try to better them selvs but far to many want to better themselves over someone else. Without changing human nature you will not be able to move to a truly communist sociaty.
Now to at least get to a communist style economic system if somewhere around 2-5% of the population can feed 100% of the populations wants (note: not just food) then a communist economy will work. This has been shown in the development of the OpenSource community. Just like OpenSource still has a ways to go to hit the 100% mark. The rest of sociaty has a really long ways to go. But just as ESRs report on fetchmail showed that eventually the want for more features died down and fetchmail eventually became maintance only with an occasional addaption to a new technology. It eventually forfilled everyones' wants.
Slavery has always been the driving force of major advancement in the past. For other than slaves of course. Capitalism is a legitimate form of slavery in that people are given some form of choice as to who their owners are and weather or not they work. Technology will be the slave of the future. As robots replace factory workers. As we get automated vacuum cleaners. How long before we have a robot maid to keep the house clean? Robot street cleaners? Robot taxi drivers? Or more importantly, robot mining equipment? robot raw material refiners? or Robot building robots?
I think there would be a horrid dark time when this first starts up because of the millions of people that would be laid off and replaced with robots. It would start driving prices down, first on neccessities like food and shelter to the point of being nearly if not completely free. Then the basic nice to haves. Furnature, TVs, DVD players, Computers. would all drop to free. At some point the only required jobs would be robot overseer and planner and new technology designer.
The Arts will take off because there would soon after be nothing else to do. You'd either be a techno geek who thinks up new robots, or an artist who produces new works. or you would be the mundane people of today except with an extra 8-10 hours a day to drink party and what ever.
Yea they are called fiction writers. Anyone can do it. Write it all down and send it to a publisher. You just may get paid for it. Make is sound somewhat plauseable and you to just may be labed a "Futurist."
I don't know perhaps they could plop these missing scenes into The Notebook or something similar and make it a good movie.
On second thought you're probably right.
I doubt i have any GNU software on my FreeBSD 5.4-P6 boxen.
Try
cc --version
Guess you haven't heard of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD?
http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/
Debian trully is amazing. A complete lack of focus yet dedication to perfection in everything. The really amazing part of it is that they achive a staggeringly close afliction to it. Supporting 11 architectures and 3 Kernels, Debian GNU/Linux GNU/kFreeBSD GNU/Hurd. There is even a port to the GNU environment on Windows, and working on one to OSX.
Yea FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/DebianGNUFreeBSD isn't as fragmented as Linux. I say I run Redhat and by that I qualify my package management, my system boot scripts, where my conf files are, and how the system works. BSD on the other had can mean a bunch of things.
n /Professinal/Personal ins't as fragmented as the Unixes...
or
Yea Windows 3.x/95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server/Workstatio
I would fault sysadmins or hardware choice long before Linux or Windows. Here we run an enterprise data center with about 1500 windows servers and about 200 linux servers. We have a little less than 10 times the windows servers than linux but we have more than 20 times the windows support staff of 30 people. While I support all 200 Linux servers.
try and figure out that TCO diffrence.
Well, about a year ago my house was broken into and a large ammount of medium valueble things were stolen (about $5,000 worth) and although the police did come out, they did little more than file the report for me and leave.
Now I have to deal with higher home owners insurance rates and a loss of quite a few of my tools.
Did you miss the 1/3 of a BILLION dollars part!?!
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I'm not sure how this would be unworkable or practical.
Basics, define a line as being x characters long say 120 to be generous.
then on each line of the ballot have the three catigories
___Required ___accepted ___rejected
where Required means this line has to be in here or I vote down this entire bill, accepted means I aggree with/accept the line but the bill will be fine with out it, and rejected means we cannot have this line in this bill.
This will give Congress the requirement to have balls and answer directly for what they vote for.
Allow it but make congress vote on each line of a bill as required, accepted or rejected. This would be simliar to line item veto except it wouldn't give the power to the president it would distribute it through congress.