(if you haven't read the article, this won't make much sense or be too funny. If you have read the article it will make more sense, but still won't be that funny.)
Our mornings will still begin with waking up. But instead of the old-fashioned alarm clock buzzer it starts with the electrowhips of the alien overseers.
Today, your coffee can be brewed while you sleep; in 2014 coffee will only be a distant memory, as you quickly down some brackish water with your daily gruel allotment. No newspaper, but you can learn the latest gossip, such as who didn't survive the night, in hushed tones with your barrackmates.
Of course, you aren't the only one who has to get up. Your spouse and kids will have to labor in the mines as well.
So it's a one hour forced march to the work camps, where you're given your pick and sent underground. No need to quiz your children on facts as you march along; education is pointless when your day revolves around brutal forced labor, interrupted in the end only by a merciful death.
Throughout the day, your wristband--a combination manacle, stungun, and one-way communications device--will be your lifeline to your alien overlords, who will periodically issue orders through it and shock you when you don't obey fast enough.
The time spent learning to code to an adequate level to fix the problems with gimp might well considerably more than the cost of paying for Photoshop. So though to those people it would be nice to have a free alternative, it's not so important to them that it's worth costing them more to achieve that goal.
Alright, that's just insane. It takes, for the average person, months if not years learning how to code to contribute meaningfully to a large project like that. Unless they raised the price of photoshop to $250,000 when I wasn't looking, there is no way on earth it's more cost-effective to become a programmer rather than buy photoshop.
If these are myths... Then why do these form the backbone of the philosophy of nearly all FOSS hippy I have met ?
Uh...what? That doesn't make sense. You actually think someone can't use myth as the backbone of their philosophy? Some people base their whole existence around myths. Take a look at world history.
I think 200 years isn't long enough. They just don't make software like they used to. For example, last time I visited Atlantis, and used the Amulet of Chr'Thalis to activate the ancient computers laying dormant beneath the Temple of the Dawn, they just started working perfectly. True, they only speak Ancient Atlantean, but the software's just fine. And we're talking about systems that haven't been maintained since the Temple Wardens vanished sometime during the Fourth Age; that's several hundred years at least since their last debugging. Of course, some of the hardware's a bit run-down (in the case of some the Temple traps that's a good thing), and the Orb of Kings is still inactive, but the Temple software works perfectly.
I used to live in the East River (well, on an island in the East River, not, like, in the river itself), and it's not an especially life-friendly place. A lot of the blame goes to Connecticut; their rivers drain out into the Sound. The Hudson's pretty bad where it runs past Manhattan, too, which is kind of sad, since upstream the Hudson's gotten so clean you can fish and swim in it (oh my god, environmental regulations worked, quick, libertarians, figure out a way to somehow shift the credit to the free market!)
It's not "law-makers", it's Orrin Hatch. This is one of the problems, everyone sort of just waves their hands and complains about politicians in general, rather than holding specific people responsible.
Ahh, that reminds me of my youth spent reading New York City textbooks, where the Korean War just ended, a young singer named Elvis was just hitting the airwaves, and you could still take the 9 o'clock gyrocopter to Siam...
Agreed. First thing he should learn is a little humility. Plenty of people have sabotaged their entire lives by having overinflated notions of their own intelligence early on.
Some do well. Many, especially in the public sector, make very little.
hardly work at all
That is quite possibly the most incorrect statement I've ever seen on slashdot. In law 80 hour work weeks are common. 90 hour work weeks aren't unheard of.
and all it takes is a willingness to be totally evil.
Speaking from personal experience? Of course not. Just the fashionable thing to say.
During the dot-com craze in the US a lot of regions tried making themselves silicon somethings. Silicon City, Silicon Desert, Silicon Mountain, Silicon Beach, etc. It was profoundly silly and transparent. I worked in Silicon Alley during the boom. Personally I thought "New York City" had enough cachet, but I was in the minority.
Rather than make a few tens of dollars selling an old drive, take it apart, and burn the platters until they're nothing more than dust. Problem solved. ...then mix the dust with concrete and water, let it harden into several small chunks, charter a ship around the world, and drop each chunk in a different spot in the ocean.
What are you talking about, "efficient"? And how the hell will a compelling use trump a noncompelling one? It always come down to whoever has the most powerful transmitter.
Rand was a fruitcake, the best thing to do is automatically assume anything she suggests is wrong, until it's been rigorously proved otherwise.
Come on, if we follow your crazy ideas we'll end up like the Europeans. Universal healthcare, free higher education, low violent crime rates--if it were up to you all we'd do all day is hang out at cafes and have sex! Is that what you want? HUH? IS IT?!
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When I want to hurt someone emotionally I just write a slanderous mambo about them.
Or maybe they are too busy since they just sued a bunch more customers
Doesn't "customer" imply a purchase of some sort? I mean, maybe I'm just splitting hairs here, but if you steal something you're not really buying it.
(if you haven't read the article, this won't make much sense or be too funny. If you have read the article it will make more sense, but still won't be that funny.)
Our mornings will still begin with waking up. But instead of the old-fashioned alarm clock buzzer it starts with the electrowhips of the alien overseers.
Today, your coffee can be brewed while you sleep; in 2014 coffee will only be a distant memory, as you quickly down some brackish water with your daily gruel allotment. No newspaper, but you can learn the latest gossip, such as who didn't survive the night, in hushed tones with your barrackmates.
Of course, you aren't the only one who has to get up. Your spouse and kids will have to labor in the mines as well.
So it's a one hour forced march to the work camps, where you're given your pick and sent underground. No need to quiz your children on facts as you march along; education is pointless when your day revolves around brutal forced labor, interrupted in the end only by a merciful death.
Throughout the day, your wristband--a combination manacle, stungun, and one-way communications device--will be your lifeline to your alien overlords, who will periodically issue orders through it and shock you when you don't obey fast enough.
1. The can spam law gave you and I (collectively the little people)
That's what the spammers are after; our pots of gold.
The legal system was designed to protect everyone from everyone else, rich or poor. Sometimes the weaker party is actually in the wrong.
Considering someone sold it for 12 billion, I can assure you that somewhere a very nice profit was made.
I would view them as a competitor, except that I think they will be crushed out of existence within 5 years.
Is this guy a betting man? Might be an easy way to make some cash (well, 5 years from now), if you could convince him to put money on it.
Patents on a news aggregation service? Google came really late to that game, if any patents exist google sure wouldn't have them.
Did Hemos accidentally post his drunken, 2-am emails on slashdot ?? br
Of course not! Nothing accidental about it...
The time spent learning to code to an adequate level to fix the problems with gimp might well considerably more than the cost of paying for Photoshop. So though to those people it would be nice to have a free alternative, it's not so important to them that it's worth costing them more to achieve that goal.
Alright, that's just insane. It takes, for the average person, months if not years learning how to code to contribute meaningfully to a large project like that. Unless they raised the price of photoshop to $250,000 when I wasn't looking, there is no way on earth it's more cost-effective to become a programmer rather than buy photoshop.
If these are myths... Then why do these form the backbone of the philosophy of nearly all FOSS hippy I have met ?
Uh...what? That doesn't make sense. You actually think someone can't use myth as the backbone of their philosophy? Some people base their whole existence around myths. Take a look at world history.
I think 200 years isn't long enough. They just don't make software like they used to. For example, last time I visited Atlantis, and used the Amulet of Chr'Thalis to activate the ancient computers laying dormant beneath the Temple of the Dawn, they just started working perfectly. True, they only speak Ancient Atlantean, but the software's just fine. And we're talking about systems that haven't been maintained since the Temple Wardens vanished sometime during the Fourth Age; that's several hundred years at least since their last debugging. Of course, some of the hardware's a bit run-down (in the case of some the Temple traps that's a good thing), and the Orb of Kings is still inactive, but the Temple software works perfectly.
I used to live in the East River (well, on an island in the East River, not, like, in the river itself), and it's not an especially life-friendly place. A lot of the blame goes to Connecticut; their rivers drain out into the Sound. The Hudson's pretty bad where it runs past Manhattan, too, which is kind of sad, since upstream the Hudson's gotten so clean you can fish and swim in it (oh my god, environmental regulations worked, quick, libertarians, figure out a way to somehow shift the credit to the free market!)
It's not "law-makers", it's Orrin Hatch. This is one of the problems, everyone sort of just waves their hands and complains about politicians in general, rather than holding specific people responsible.
Ahh, that reminds me of my youth spent reading New York City textbooks, where the Korean War just ended, a young singer named Elvis was just hitting the airwaves, and you could still take the 9 o'clock gyrocopter to Siam...
How does the meteorite coming through the roof of a suburban home add to its value?
Instant skylight.
Agreed. First thing he should learn is a little humility. Plenty of people have sabotaged their entire lives by having overinflated notions of their own intelligence early on.
make great money
Some do well. Many, especially in the public sector, make very little.
hardly work at all
That is quite possibly the most incorrect statement I've ever seen on slashdot. In law 80 hour work weeks are common. 90 hour work weeks aren't unheard of.
and all it takes is a willingness to be totally evil.
Speaking from personal experience? Of course not. Just the fashionable thing to say.
During the dot-com craze in the US a lot of regions tried making themselves silicon somethings. Silicon City, Silicon Desert, Silicon Mountain, Silicon Beach, etc. It was profoundly silly and transparent. I worked in Silicon Alley during the boom. Personally I thought "New York City" had enough cachet, but I was in the minority.
They're attracted to shapes too, which is why surfers get hit all the time. But you're right, the shark probably won't see the painted fish.
Rather than make a few tens of dollars selling an old drive, take it apart, and burn the platters until they're nothing more than dust. Problem solved.
...then mix the dust with concrete and water, let it harden into several small chunks, charter a ship around the world, and drop each chunk in a different spot in the ocean.
What are you talking about, "efficient"? And how the hell will a compelling use trump a noncompelling one? It always come down to whoever has the most powerful transmitter.
Rand was a fruitcake, the best thing to do is automatically assume anything she suggests is wrong, until it's been rigorously proved otherwise.
Come on, if we follow your crazy ideas we'll end up like the Europeans. Universal healthcare, free higher education, low violent crime rates--if it were up to you all we'd do all day is hang out at cafes and have sex! Is that what you want? HUH? IS IT?!
The sheer success of FDR's programs tends to throw libertarians into fits of impotent rage. That's why its fun to talk about.
I've noticed that new Mac smell is totally different from new PC smell. If I sniff close to the exhuast fan on my Powerbook I can still get a wiff.
Mmmm, blueberry.