Okay, 750 Grand would be more then enough to keep me more then happy for life. But in Aerospace Industrial terms, that is about the equivalent of me throwing away a box of Lil' Debbies that still had a bar in it.
This could be just about anything...plumbing fixture, space shuttle pain, gallons of tang. Who knows?
Games are good and fun and newer toys are always fun (but try to take me away from playing Zelda on my NES emulator!), and obviously this is the kind of news that Slashdot should be reporting. But Newsweak made this their cover story! Just proves (if anyone needs any proof) that they are the most insubstantial fluff heads of all if they are going to make the cover of their magazine an advertisement for the consumer electronics industry.
While the rights of consumers not to be solicited for buying Elvis memorial plates is not the most important application of privacy rights. Privacy rights are extremly fundemental, not only in a political sense, but at a more basic level. Without the ability to be a private person with an internal world, humans would be reduced to being cockroaches, totally oriented to an external world of pleasure\pain.
Prison, after all, is used to strip people of their privacy and turn them into a base level of human thought where they are only responding to emotions of fear and greed. And most people who are in prison got there because of their private, not public behavior, ie drugs, usually fairly harmless drugs.
The internet should be taxed like everything else...why should it be exempt? Of course, here in Oregon, there is no Sales Taxes, so I suppose all those e-Businesses could just relocate their registered offices here.
Anyway, I don't like all those damn commercials sites taking over the net anyway. If people want to be little consumerist cockroaches, they should at least get a chance to go to the mall and see other people in a small artificial way.
The other day, while drifting off to sleep, I suddenly realized in a flash: a market economy can't be a capitalistic economy. So the Stock Market is anti-market (funny, huh?) but not anti-Capitalistic.
The reason for this is, is that in a full market economy, the competing firms aren't considered to have any control over supply or price, so that if they either cut production or drive up price they will be undersold by their competitos. This leads to businesses making profits only equal to regional elasticisity, technology growth or other small factors. And with no profit, no capital is generated.
The ideal economy varies a little from market in that the competing firms can control price enough to make a little capital to embark on new projects, and therefore make better products. When they can control the price enough to make huge profits heedless of consumer choice, everyone suffers, especially when those profits turn into capital to finance products that are totally irrational...such as the Great Wall of China or Windows NT as a real network server. Micro$oft may be the first monopoly in the history of capitalism to embark on econonmy damaging irrational egotistic ventures that used to be the province of insane despots.
The upshot of this is that I agree with you mostly...the stock market is currently throwing their money around without regard to what will really help the economy. But it can still be used as it should be, to help finance new projects. And the guys at Caldera, being good Mormoms with good values, probably won't be getting corrupted, I hope.
I have actually thought of that before. Haven't made the perfect joke on it quite yet though. I didn't think of it while writing this post though. And I think that Torvalds and Pauling would have gotten along quite fine.
They were both alike in being geniuses both in science\technology and in politics. Although Dr. Paulings politics and science were more grounbreaking\revoloutionary then Torvalds', although they wern't as closely linked.
Well, I don't know about all the possible Illuminati overlords that could be controlling the ACS, but on any level of rational thinking, they are not some shawdow industry puppet. The ACS is not a chemists organization, they are the chemists organization. They have been around for a hundred years now, I would think. Also, they are generally pretty liberal...read their book "The chemistry of mind altering substances".
Linus Pauling was a president of them for a while...I am not sure about that, although they could have swerved to the right in the forty years since his heydey. BTW, you all know who Linus Pauling is, don't you?
since the offender's primary residence (Montana) and place of employment (none) couldn't have been pinpointed even with the help of advanced computer tracking software
I, for one live in Montana and have no job, yet I think that I must be able to be tracked down by sophisticated computer methods, since I am always getting offers for pre-approved credit cards and offers of pr0n.
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Okay, 750 Grand would be more then enough to keep me more then happy for life. But in Aerospace Industrial terms, that is about the equivalent of me throwing away a box of Lil' Debbies that still had a bar in it.
This could be just about anything...plumbing fixture, space shuttle pain, gallons of tang. Who knows?
Games are good and fun and newer toys are always fun (but try to take me away from playing Zelda on my NES emulator!), and obviously this is the kind of news that Slashdot should be reporting. But Newsweak made this their cover story! Just proves (if anyone needs any proof) that they are the most insubstantial fluff heads of all if they are going to make the cover of their magazine an advertisement for the consumer electronics industry.
The French, eating Mac'n Cheese? Hell no, I think asparagus tips and snails are what they have in mind.
I agree, but...
While the rights of consumers not to be solicited for buying Elvis memorial plates is not the most important application of privacy rights. Privacy rights are extremly fundemental, not only in a political sense, but at a more basic level. Without the ability to be a private person with an internal world, humans would be reduced to being cockroaches, totally oriented to an external world of pleasure\pain.
Prison, after all, is used to strip people of their privacy and turn them into a base level of human thought where they are only responding to emotions of fear and greed. And most people who are in prison got there because of their private, not public behavior, ie drugs, usually fairly harmless drugs.
Go to http://www.nomoreprisons.org to learn more.
The internet should be taxed like everything else...why should it be exempt? Of course, here in Oregon, there is no Sales Taxes, so I suppose all those e-Businesses could just relocate their registered offices here.
Anyway, I don't like all those damn commercials sites taking over the net anyway. If people want to be little consumerist cockroaches, they should at least get a chance to go to the mall and see other people in a small artificial way.
The other day, while drifting off to sleep, I suddenly realized in a flash: a market economy can't be a capitalistic economy. So the Stock Market is anti-market (funny, huh?) but not anti-Capitalistic.
The reason for this is, is that in a full market economy, the competing firms aren't considered to have any control over supply or price, so that if they either cut production or drive up price they will be undersold by their competitos. This leads to businesses making profits only equal to regional elasticisity, technology growth or other small factors. And with no profit, no capital is generated.
The ideal economy varies a little from market in that the competing firms can control price enough to make a little capital to embark on new projects, and therefore make better products. When they can control the price enough to make huge profits heedless of consumer choice, everyone suffers, especially when those profits turn into capital to finance products that are totally irrational...such as the Great Wall of China or Windows NT as a real network server. Micro$oft may be the first monopoly in the history of capitalism to embark on econonmy damaging irrational egotistic ventures that used to be the province of insane despots.
The upshot of this is that I agree with you mostly...the stock market is currently throwing their money around without regard to what will really help the economy. But it can still be used as it should be, to help finance new projects. And the guys at Caldera, being good Mormoms with good values, probably won't be getting corrupted, I hope.
I have actually thought of that before. Haven't made the perfect joke on it quite yet though. I didn't think of it while writing this post though. And I think that Torvalds and Pauling would have gotten along quite fine.
They were both alike in being geniuses both in science\technology and in politics. Although Dr. Paulings politics and science were more grounbreaking\revoloutionary then Torvalds', although they wern't as closely linked.
Well, I don't know about all the possible Illuminati overlords that could be controlling the ACS, but on any level of rational thinking, they are not some shawdow industry puppet. The ACS is not a chemists organization, they are the chemists organization. They have been around for a hundred years now, I would think. Also, they are generally pretty liberal...read their book "The chemistry of mind altering substances".
Linus Pauling was a president of them for a while...I am not sure about that, although they could have swerved to the right in the forty years since his heydey. BTW, you all know who Linus Pauling is, don't you?
since the offender's primary residence (Montana) and place of employment (none) couldn't have been pinpointed even with the help of advanced computer tracking software
I, for one live in Montana and have no job, yet I think that I must be able to be tracked down by sophisticated computer methods, since I am always getting offers for pre-approved credit cards and offers of pr0n.