i agree. society would be much better if we simply settled our disagreements like they did before lawyers - by having one baronial lord force a group of peasants, under penalty of death, to attack another, in a never ending cycle of pointless, ego driven violence and bloodshed, resulting in the cultural stagnation of entire continents for centuries at a time.
it seems to me that dumping thousands of nanobots across the planet would be easier than relying on one big lander to safely and smoothly land on an unseen location.
i guess the problem is you cant pack nice instruments into a nanobot. or... can you?
so if we annihilate ourselves in nuclear holocaust
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"In the air, there is no way for Oxygen to enter our gills. Therefore, water is extraordinary!"
damage you did to another persons property. that is the height of arrogance.
if someone had killed your kid or knocked a hole in your leg while producing a TV show, you'd damn sure want the lawyers involved.
this is the kind of stuff that caused the Twilight Zone movie deaths, some sanctimonious, self righteous asshole who thinks they are god's gift to the world, and hates "lawyers". lawyers are the only reason we dont shoot each other with ak-47s and devolve into sectarian warfare.
lets face facts. they only outsourced for two main reasons.
number 1, to avoid the EPA
number 2, to avoid labor unions
all of that 'classic american technology' was built with union hands and by people paying union dues. they went on something called a 'strike' once in a while, too. fascinating concept - you stop working in order to improve conditions and pressure employers.
there were elections there, maybe, but the Sturmabteilung and other organs of the Nazi party used violence and intimidation to corrupt the voting process.
it doesn't mean they were democratic elections.
the first things that the Nazis did when they took power in 1933 were to abolish all democratic institutions, i.e. they didn't have any more elections, the parliament didn't debate issues, there was no more independent judicial system, free speech was destroyed, the free press was abolished, and every institution of society was subordinated under Hitler and the Nazi hierarchy.
why? because he would have been voted back out of office. that is the strength of democracy... which balances its weakness.
What we have to admit here is that Google is a massively wealthy company, and that authors are, in general, poor as shit.
How anyone can call this 'fair' is bizarre. Authors own their property, just like you own your toothbrush or your socks. Google comes in and makes money off of this property, without asking, in violation of the rule of law and the custom of law.
If it were Fair, google and all its highly payed, perks-out-the-ass employees would be giving a little sumpin sumpin to the Philip K Dicks of the world, and the obscure research book writers who have found their employment in journalism to have been so destroyed as of recent years by consolidation, and the internet.
There are countless scandals and corruption episodes going on right now that we will never know about because there are no journalists being payed to report on them. That is not magic, that is the fault of the internet. Google has decided that it doesnt care, and it is not picking up the slack by giving some tiny sliver of its vast billions away to people who actually create content. Instead, it hires masseuses and black-belt baristas to staff its incredibly opulent cube farms.
The publishers are often horrible, but Google is just another publisher - the funny thing is that it doesnt really pay anyone to write anything, and there is only one of it (i.e. its a monopoly).
something tells me that either we have no idea what 'capitalism' is, or it is a term that has no actual meaning, and we should probably just stop using it, like the way people in the 16th century should have stopped using the term 'black bile'.
back in the 1890s, the guy who would later start this little company called IBM got the Czar to use his calculating machines to record their census.
later in the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviet Union was one of IBM's biggest customers. it's hard to have a centrally planned economy for 100 million people without an awful lot of math and tabulation. this story has been basically, untold in history. wait 5 years, im writing a book on it.
it's like saying IT can do heart surgery or IT can provide pscyhological counseling to a trauma survivor. IT is IT, it is not management and it is not leadership. IT is IT.
of course, shit rolls downhill, and leaders nowdays are incompetent buffoons who gain their positions largely through bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and other 'features' endemic to societies where the rule-of-law breaks down thanks to a greedy, corrupt elite.
man, please do some homework. you do not 'own' any commercial software you use, you are granted a 'use license' for a period of time subject to certain terms and conditions which go on for dozens of pages.
you do not 'own' the copyright to free software either, why should you? are you some kinda communist who doesnt believe in private property and copyright law?
however, if you WRITE free software, then you bloody well do own the copyright to it (despite the efforts of MS, Apple, etc, who think they own what is actually other people's property)
and if i write free software, i give you the license to it, to modify it, redistribute it, copy it, etc. as long as you obey the terms of the license.
if i write public domain software, i guess thats 'free', but why would i do that? so some megacorp can come take my public domain software, and then claim they made it? no thanks.
Sony tried to put him in prison over the Ps3 hack. they also tried to declare that the little short sequence of numbers he posted on his blog was a trade secret.
did i mention that one of the laws against him, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, was recently 'modified' by the Patriot Act so that those who violate it are put in the same category as terrorists and mafia?
im guessing your friends are not the occupy wall street crowd... and they are the real future, just as the Indymedia people were the future back during the WTO protests.
he doesn't know anyone in iran, he doesn't know any iranians, he just spent the weekend playing 'call of duty' and masturbating, but goddamnit, he knows foreign policy. and the number one thing we need to do is to violate the laws of war (which he calls 'faggot laws') and put weapons of mass destruction into a country without any formal declaration of war, congressional debate, etc.
because, after all, they shot down one of our robots.
WindBourne can be found during days at his job as a Wal Mart security guard, where he protects us from terrorists by body slamming grandfathers face-first into the concrete floor because they "resist arrest".
the brave men and women in uniform, sitting in an air conditioned trailer with a snack machine down the hall, sitting at some computer yanking on a joystick. wow. must take huge, huge balls to do that.
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is a-OK! because, after all, we are the 'dont be evil people'. therefore, conflict-of-interest doesn't apply to us
which is essentially the 'special earth' argument.
i agree. society would be much better if we simply settled our disagreements like they did before lawyers - by having one baronial lord force a group of peasants, under penalty of death, to attack another, in a never ending cycle of pointless, ego driven violence and bloodshed, resulting in the cultural stagnation of entire continents for centuries at a time.
it seems to me that dumping thousands of nanobots across the planet would be easier than relying on one big lander to safely and smoothly land on an unseen location.
i guess the problem is you cant pack nice instruments into a nanobot. or... can you?
will someone have 'designed that' too?
"In the air, there is no way for Oxygen to enter our gills. Therefore, water is extraordinary!"
damage you did to another persons property. that is the height of arrogance.
if someone had killed your kid or knocked a hole in your leg while producing a TV show, you'd damn sure want the lawyers involved.
this is the kind of stuff that caused the Twilight Zone movie deaths, some sanctimonious, self righteous asshole who thinks they are god's gift to the world, and hates "lawyers". lawyers are the only reason we dont shoot each other with ak-47s and devolve into sectarian warfare.
otherwise, the only thing we would ever spend money on is bailing out big corporations and bombing people.
lets face facts. they only outsourced for two main reasons.
number 1, to avoid the EPA
number 2, to avoid labor unions
all of that 'classic american technology' was built with union hands and by people paying union dues. they went on something called a 'strike' once in a while, too. fascinating concept - you stop working in order to improve conditions and pressure employers.
there were elections there, maybe, but the Sturmabteilung and other organs of the Nazi party used violence and intimidation to corrupt the voting process.
it doesn't mean they were democratic elections.
the first things that the Nazis did when they took power in 1933 were to abolish all democratic institutions, i.e. they didn't have any more elections, the parliament didn't debate issues, there was no more independent judicial system, free speech was destroyed, the free press was abolished, and every institution of society was subordinated under Hitler and the Nazi hierarchy.
why? because he would have been voted back out of office. that is the strength of democracy... which balances its weakness.
unfortunately, big companies do not have any managers saying "i just want our customers to fucking click on a link, and give more money to labor"
What we have to admit here is that Google is a massively wealthy company, and that authors are, in general, poor as shit.
How anyone can call this 'fair' is bizarre. Authors own their property, just like you own your toothbrush or your socks. Google comes in and makes money off of this property, without asking, in violation of the rule of law and the custom of law.
If it were Fair, google and all its highly payed, perks-out-the-ass employees would be giving a little sumpin sumpin to the Philip K Dicks of the world, and the obscure research book writers who have found their employment in journalism to have been so destroyed as of recent years by consolidation, and the internet.
There are countless scandals and corruption episodes going on right now that we will never know about because there are no journalists being payed to report on them. That is not magic, that is the fault of the internet. Google has decided that it doesnt care, and it is not picking up the slack by giving some tiny sliver of its vast billions away to people who actually create content. Instead, it hires masseuses and black-belt baristas to staff its incredibly opulent cube farms.
The publishers are often horrible, but Google is just another publisher - the funny thing is that it doesnt really pay anyone to write anything, and there is only one of it (i.e. its a monopoly).
'fair use' is using small bits. not dozens of pages.
anyone who doesn't match the 'code' will be ostracized.
if anyone is interested in helping edit the wikipedia article on this program, please come join me.
something tells me that either we have no idea what 'capitalism' is, or it is a term that has no actual meaning, and we should probably just stop using it, like the way people in the 16th century should have stopped using the term 'black bile'.
back in the 1890s, the guy who would later start this little company called IBM got the Czar to use his calculating machines to record their census.
later in the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviet Union was one of IBM's biggest customers. it's hard to have a centrally planned economy for 100 million people without an awful lot of math and tabulation. this story has been basically, untold in history. wait 5 years, im writing a book on it.
oh wait, she can't. because she works for RT.
yes all journalists have certain instructions from their corrupt bosses. It just hurts more when its A. M. who has to kowtow.
it's like saying IT can do heart surgery or IT can provide pscyhological counseling to a trauma survivor. IT is IT, it is not management and it is not leadership. IT is IT.
of course, shit rolls downhill, and leaders nowdays are incompetent buffoons who gain their positions largely through bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and other 'features' endemic to societies where the rule-of-law breaks down thanks to a greedy, corrupt elite.
again, IT cannot fix that.
man, please do some homework. you do not 'own' any commercial software you use, you are granted a 'use license' for a period of time subject to certain terms and conditions which go on for dozens of pages.
you do not 'own' the copyright to free software either, why should you? are you some kinda communist who doesnt believe in private property and copyright law?
however, if you WRITE free software, then you bloody well do own the copyright to it (despite the efforts of MS, Apple, etc, who think they own what is actually other people's property)
and if i write free software, i give you the license to it, to modify it, redistribute it, copy it, etc. as long as you obey the terms of the license.
if i write public domain software, i guess thats 'free', but why would i do that? so some megacorp can come take my public domain software, and then claim they made it? no thanks.
He jailbroke the IPhone and the Ps3.
Sony tried to put him in prison over the Ps3 hack. they also tried to declare that the little short sequence of numbers he posted on his blog was a trade secret.
did i mention that one of the laws against him, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, was recently 'modified' by the Patriot Act so that those who violate it are put in the same category as terrorists and mafia?
im guessing your friends are not the occupy wall street crowd... and they are the real future, just as the Indymedia people were the future back during the WTO protests.
oh, i understand, the 'faggot commies' in the Army didnt accept you, because you are too 'big boned'.
life is hard when you are surrounded by faggot commies.
the Ostplan never gets old does it!! lulz wut!
he doesn't know anyone in iran, he doesn't know any iranians, he just spent the weekend playing 'call of duty' and masturbating, but goddamnit, he knows foreign policy. and the number one thing we need to do is to violate the laws of war (which he calls 'faggot laws') and put weapons of mass destruction into a country without any formal declaration of war, congressional debate, etc.
because, after all, they shot down one of our robots.
WindBourne can be found during days at his job as a Wal Mart security guard, where he protects us from terrorists by body slamming grandfathers face-first into the concrete floor because they "resist arrest".
damn, it just doesnt have the same ring to it.
the brave men and women in uniform, sitting in an air conditioned trailer with a snack machine down the hall, sitting at some computer yanking on a joystick. wow. must take huge, huge balls to do that.