A good old guy going to business with another good old guy he is confident of.
First off, that's not crony capitalism, that's capitalism. Crony Capitalism is where businesses depend on the government, rather than competing in the free market. There is plenty of this in the US right now.
So when the OP said:
VC money is better spent on patent trolls and companies they can sell for a quick profit.
Patent trolls are indeed a function of crony capitalism.
As if there were any other.
While you can perhaps argue that there has never been a pure capitalist state, you can eliminate things like the bailouts and the possibility for patent trolls, to go a long ways towards that pure capitalism.
It's kind of like owning a gun. Anyone who wants to own a gun is the last person who should have one. Anyone who wants political power is the last person who should have it.
horrible analogy. Most people who want to buy a gun, buy one for control over their own lives (self defense). Most people who want political power, want it for control over others.
What we need is campaign finance reform. Strict and absolute limits not only on how much money can be donated to a campaign, but how much money can be SPENT on a campaign. It seems like the best way to keep the people who want political power from getting it, and giving us the best chance of being represented by people we can trust.
how many times has this been said and tried throughout history? No clue, but I'll be willing to be no matter what laws would get passed there will be plenty of loopholes.
Yeah that's right. Tell me, what has had value for thousands of years. I guess that preferring a metal that has had value for thousands of years and will have value as far as we can tell for thousands more, over a piece of paper that politicians can print pretty much at will, makes hima loon.
nativism and xenophobia
TY, I learned a new word. He thinks that we have laws for immigration that should be followed and that the current immigration process should be streamlined. I guess that's xenophobia? lol
extreme isolationism
So you walk around neighbourhood with a fully loaded M16, and occasionally march into random people's houses and order them around with a gun to their faces? No? well then you must be an extreme isolationist!
cult-of-personality
Anyone who says that ron paul has a cult of personality is just beyond eliousonal about him. He is uncharismatic, he runs on sentences, he jumps around in his statements. If there's a ron paul cult, it's because he's spent 30 years or so in public office, standing by his principles while everyone mocks him.
2 years ago, i had my account hacked. I think there was/is some sort of hack that apparently was pretty easy to pull off.
My story is that 2.5 years ago some guy i don't even know wanted some plugin to a CS server that I own, and that plugin is private. basically he compromised my hotmail account, and because i stupidely listed my recovery email address on my gmail account, as my hotmail account, he was able to compromise that. And then did password recovery or whatever on the login info for my server provider and changed the rcon (admin) password and downloaded the plugin. Figured out who it was and shit but wtf could i do? anyways, i changed everything, reformatted and only logged into msn and hotmail with a new password. a few days later, he tried to access the cs server rcon and couldn't. so he again compromised my hotmail account. this time since i changed my backup email for gmail to be my work account, he wasn't able to compromise my gmail account. But since i changed my password to something rather obscure and only accessed it from a patched/clean box, i really think there was something else he was doing that didn't involve compromising anythign on my end.
As a socialist, I want state authority to be a direct expression of popular will. A state authority that is not an expression of popular will is not a state authority I want to "do more".
Which is the same as mob rule. which is exactly the opposite of the ideals that the US was founded upon, that we are all free.
while java is far from issue free, you picked a pretty poor point. In fact, your point is one of the good things about java. that is, when you use an operator you know exactly what it's doing. It's not ambiguous.
You know why computers are useful? cus they do shit for us.
how about developers get their heads out of their butts and learn how to be programmers, instead of whining that real languages don't do everything for them?
Is such a stupid statement. To err is human. You give people the opportunity to make mistakes and they will. Doesn't matter how 'good' they are.
Slashdot Mirror
Reddit is that way -->
Wrong. This is slashdot, A car analogy is required.
I'm certainly all for the right to keep and bear arms, but the US is by far the most armed country in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country
It does not follow that if you are speaking honestly, that makes your community look good.
Example: If Linus feels that all women should be raped, that would not make anybody look good.
All that said. I personally don't give a fuck.
i'm not so sure. I remember a case of a woman outright grabbing a male co-worker's genitals and the case got thrown out.
funny how many people decry bigotry, then turn around and spout off crap like the OP.
I wonder how many presidents qualify as worst president in history? I've heard it mentioned about every president in my lifetime, multiple times.
A good old guy going to business with another good old guy he is confident of.
First off, that's not crony capitalism, that's capitalism. Crony Capitalism is where businesses depend on the government, rather than competing in the free market. There is plenty of this in the US right now.
So when the OP said:
VC money is better spent on patent trolls and companies they can sell for a quick profit.
Patent trolls are indeed a function of crony capitalism.
As if there were any other.
While you can perhaps argue that there has never been a pure capitalist state, you can eliminate things like the bailouts and the possibility for patent trolls, to go a long ways towards that pure capitalism.
first thing i saw when i got into phoenix.. 2 billboards for jail bonds.. really not the best way to start of a visit to a new place lol.
And as redmond's neighbor, I can tell you, redmond is quit quiet :)
(I'm joking, I have 3 linux comps).
LOL!!!
brilliant logic haha
It's kind of like owning a gun. Anyone who wants to own a gun is the last person who should have one. Anyone who wants political power is the last person who should have it.
horrible analogy. Most people who want to buy a gun, buy one for control over their own lives (self defense). Most people who want political power, want it for control over others.
What we need is campaign finance reform. Strict and absolute limits not only on how much money can be donated to a campaign, but how much money can be SPENT on a campaign. It seems like the best way to keep the people who want political power from getting it, and giving us the best chance of being represented by people we can trust.
how many times has this been said and tried throughout history? No clue, but I'll be willing to be no matter what laws would get passed there will be plenty of loopholes.
yeah, tell me how voting for the lesser of two evils thing has been working out?
goldbuggery
Yeah that's right. Tell me, what has had value for thousands of years. I guess that preferring a metal that has had value for thousands of years and will have value as far as we can tell for thousands more, over a piece of paper that politicians can print pretty much at will, makes hima loon.
nativism and xenophobia
TY, I learned a new word. He thinks that we have laws for immigration that should be followed and that the current immigration process should be streamlined. I guess that's xenophobia? lol
extreme isolationism
So you walk around neighbourhood with a fully loaded M16, and occasionally march into random people's houses and order them around with a gun to their faces? No? well then you must be an extreme isolationist!
cult-of-personality
Anyone who says that ron paul has a cult of personality is just beyond eliousonal about him. He is uncharismatic, he runs on sentences, he jumps around in his statements. If there's a ron paul cult, it's because he's spent 30 years or so in public office, standing by his principles while everyone mocks him.
I tried reading the GCC code a few years ago. It has to be the most painful code i've ever read. It was incredibly difficult to follow.
you mean the newsletters that weren't written by him, he's admitted as a mistake, and denounces?
yeah he's racist lol.
and what are his batshit-crazy-racist stuff?
or are you referring to newsletters that weren't written by him?
well i knew their steam id, and ip and that they lived in australia.
2 years ago, i had my account hacked. I think there was/is some sort of hack that apparently was pretty easy to pull off.
My story is that 2.5 years ago some guy i don't even know wanted some plugin to a CS server that I own, and that plugin is private. basically he compromised my hotmail account, and because i stupidely listed my recovery email address on my gmail account, as my hotmail account, he was able to compromise that. And then did password recovery or whatever on the login info for my server provider and changed the rcon (admin) password and downloaded the plugin. Figured out who it was and shit but wtf could i do? anyways, i changed everything, reformatted and only logged into msn and hotmail with a new password. a few days later, he tried to access the cs server rcon and couldn't. so he again compromised my hotmail account. this time since i changed my backup email for gmail to be my work account, he wasn't able to compromise my gmail account. But since i changed my password to something rather obscure and only accessed it from a patched/clean box, i really think there was something else he was doing that didn't involve compromising anythign on my end.
could be wrong, but i thought they only did that with your permission.
As a socialist, I want state authority to be a direct expression of popular will. A state authority that is not an expression of popular will is not a state authority I want to "do more".
Which is the same as mob rule. which is exactly the opposite of the ideals that the US was founded upon, that we are all free.
while java is far from issue free, you picked a pretty poor point. In fact, your point is one of the good things about java. that is, when you use an operator you know exactly what it's doing. It's not ambiguous.
lol.
You know why computers are useful? cus they do shit for us.
how about developers get their heads out of their butts and learn how to be programmers, instead of whining that real languages don't do everything for them?
Is such a stupid statement. To err is human. You give people the opportunity to make mistakes and they will. Doesn't matter how 'good' they are.
not sure if you're trying to correct him or provide a link, but it was released as Dragon Warrior in the US.
1. He was a java dev.
2. That doesn't change the question at all. It's the same damn thing.