I'd mod you up if I had points and the post wouldn't be already at 5. Just a little remark though:
..., but it was the 9/11 dead, and only those 3000-ish, that motivated the US to war.
Used as a pretext for war, yes, but motivated? I doubt it, because the plans were already laid out before. There is some nice commented
link collection.
Employing PatentSim, a multi-user interactive simulation of patent and non-
patent (commons and open source) systems, this study compares rates of innovation,
productivity, and societal utility. PatentSim uses an abstracted and cumulative model of
the invention process, a database of potential innovations, an interactive interface that
allows users to invent, patent, or open source these innovations, and a network over
which users may interact with one another to license, assign, buy, infringe, and enforce
patents.
Data generated thus far using PatentSim suggest that a system combining patent
and open source protection for inventions (that is, similar to modern patent systems)
generates significantly lower rates of innovation (p<0.05), productivity (p<0.001), and
societal utility (p<0.002) than does a commons system. These results are inconsistent
with the orthodox justification for patent systems. However, they do accord well with
evidence from the increasingly important field of user and open innovation.
but how the fuck "anarcho-communism" has anything to do with freedom is completely beyond my comprehension. oh, i have no doubt you can explain it to me.
Depends on how you define as "freedom". Besides I'd rather like to hear your argument why "anarcho-communism" has nothing to do with freedom
before I'd consider explaining something. Especially, I'd like to know what you don't like about the notion No society is free so long as the individual is not so!
there's proponents for all sorts of half-baked ideas in this world
I never claimed that "anarcho-communism" is the ultimate answer to the problems we face with society, I only claimed that is proves that a communism without despotism is possible.
I've seen what the "real existing socialism" was all about since I was born in East Germany (no, it wasn't communist) and I now can experience capitalism. What I learnt from this is that both ways are not the answer. Finding a new model for society requires to look at half-backed ideas because the models that were thoroughly tried so far always resulted in societies were people are suffering.
an idea a philosophy major with no real world experience with human nature dreams up is not a valid basis for society
You might want to read up on the 2nd Spanish Republic. Yes they failed because they had to defend themselves against Francos Fascists and the Stalinists/Marxists. Spartacus also failed, but this doesn't mean his struggle for freedom was wrong.
it's impossible to make communism work without despotism. the state dictates the entire economy
Then what is Anarcho-Communism supposed to be? Anarchist are certainly not the kind of people who would install a government, let alone a despotic one.
To quote Peter Kropotkin:
"Anarchist Communism maintains that most valuable of all conquests -- individual liberty -- and moreover extends it and gives it a solid basis -- economic liberty -- without which political liberty is delusive; it does not ask the individual who has rejected god, the universal tyrant, god the king, and god the parliament, to give unto himself a god more terrible than any of the proceeding -- god the Community, or to abdicate upon its altar his [or her] independence, his [or her] will, his [or her] tastes, and to renew the vow of asceticism which he formally made before the crucified god. It says to him, on the contrary, 'No society is free so long as the individual is not so! . ..'"
You might also want to consider this thread on the linux kernel mailing list. It is about adding a module to the kernel that has only one use: to talk to proprietary user space code. The module got rejected from mainline for this reason. By using CUDA and the proprietary user space portions from NVIDIA, you module will also never make it into mainline (unless hell freezes over and NVIDIA opens up their drivers).
They should go with OpenCL, then there would be a chance that at one point one can use it with free drivers (and other hardware), but I guess that's the prise you pay for a graduate fellowship from NVIDIA.
If they ever show the body, I certainly want to see the effects of more than a decade of diabetes.
Well...
Another U.S. official told CNN that bin Laden has already been buried at sea. The official said his body was handled in the Islamic tradition, but did not elaborate.
In 2008 an unauthorized version of Graffiti was introduced for iOS (iPhone and iPad) devices. An Android version was released in 2010 by ACCESS CO., LTD. of Japan, which acquired the rights to Graffiti when it acquired PalmSource, Inc. in 2005.
Democracy in Iraq was surely a big part of the motivation for the several countries with ongoing fights for democracy right now. 'n hoping for the best inEgypt and Libya - may they get a real democracy, not a theocracy with 1 election - but for god or ill Iraq played a part in this.
Iraq? C'mon... If anything they looked to western Europe, but I'd rather say in Tunis they just couldn't take it any-more and Egypt followed suite.
In a perfect capitalist system, power is completely independent of wealth. In an imperfect system, such as exists in all nations today, government power is used to increase the wealth of those who have the political influence.
I'd suggest you read this to get an understanding of the role of the state, and then you might want to skip to this section to get a better understanding of what capitalism is not.
Rather than base itself on a study of reality and the generalization of theory based on the data gathered, economics has almost always been based on generating theories rooted on whatever assumptions were required to make the theory work. Empirical confirmation, if it happens at all, is usually done decades later and if the facts contradict the economics, so much the worse for the facts.
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..., but it was the 9/11 dead, and only those 3000-ish, that motivated the US to war.
Used as a pretext for war, yes, but motivated? I doubt it, because the plans were already laid out before. There is some nice commented link collection.
Windows was the only game in town on PCs (aside of DOS,)
Well, there was GEM first shown in 1983.
... - but I certainly saw Windows far before that, since I was setting up Windows for Workgroups in 198*.
Interesting, since Windows for Workgroups was released in 1992.
Plastic requires petroleum to make,
Actually, plastic can also be made from hemp. Just saying.
Employing PatentSim, a multi-user interactive simulation of patent and non- patent (commons and open source) systems, this study compares rates of innovation, productivity, and societal utility. PatentSim uses an abstracted and cumulative model of the invention process, a database of potential innovations, an interactive interface that allows users to invent, patent, or open source these innovations, and a network over which users may interact with one another to license, assign, buy, infringe, and enforce patents.
Data generated thus far using PatentSim suggest that a system combining patent and open source protection for inventions (that is, similar to modern patent systems) generates significantly lower rates of innovation (p<0.05), productivity (p<0.001), and societal utility (p<0.002) than does a commons system. These results are inconsistent with the orthodox justification for patent systems. However, they do accord well with evidence from the increasingly important field of user and open innovation.
What Manning did was illegal, ...
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? He is still only a suspect ...
<quote>It does some suspicious things too, like reading /etc/passwd. </quote>
I have a surprise for you:
strace ls -l 2>&1 | grep passwd
open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
but how the fuck "anarcho-communism" has anything to do with freedom is completely beyond my comprehension. oh, i have no doubt you can explain it to me.
Depends on how you define as "freedom". Besides I'd rather like to hear your argument why "anarcho-communism" has nothing to do with freedom before I'd consider explaining something. Especially, I'd like to know what you don't like about the notion No society is free so long as the individual is not so!
there's proponents for all sorts of half-baked ideas in this world
I never claimed that "anarcho-communism" is the ultimate answer to the problems we face with society, I only claimed that is proves that a communism without despotism is possible.
I've seen what the "real existing socialism" was all about since I was born in East Germany (no, it wasn't communist) and I now can experience capitalism. What I learnt from this is that both ways are not the answer. Finding a new model for society requires to look at half-backed ideas because the models that were thoroughly tried so far always resulted in societies were people are suffering.
an idea a philosophy major with no real world experience with human nature dreams up is not a valid basis for society
You might want to read up on the 2nd Spanish Republic. Yes they failed because they had to defend themselves against Francos Fascists and the Stalinists/Marxists. Spartacus also failed, but this doesn't mean his struggle for freedom was wrong.
A naive pipe dream.
Just like flying, or putting a man on the moon, right?
it's impossible to make communism work without despotism. the state dictates the entire economy
Then what is Anarcho-Communism supposed to be? Anarchist are certainly not the kind of people who would install a government, let alone a despotic one. To quote Peter Kropotkin:
"Anarchist Communism maintains that most valuable of all conquests -- individual liberty -- and moreover extends it and gives it a solid basis -- economic liberty -- without which political liberty is delusive; it does not ask the individual who has rejected god, the universal tyrant, god the king, and god the parliament, to give unto himself a god more terrible than any of the proceeding -- god the Community, or to abdicate upon its altar his [or her] independence, his [or her] will, his [or her] tastes, and to renew the vow of asceticism which he formally made before the crucified god. It says to him, on the contrary, 'No society is free so long as the individual is not so! . . .'"
Obviously you never had to deal with ITK where ThisClassNameIsSoLongThatYouReallyNeedAWideScreenDisplay::SeeWhatIMean?
Even chernobyl only killed around 50 people.
Some might disagree
Of course you know that the FSF has no problem with selling software - it is all about "free as in speech" and not about "free as in beer".
You might also want to consider this thread on the linux kernel mailing list. It is about adding a module to the kernel that has only one use: to talk to proprietary user space code. The module got rejected from mainline for this reason. By using CUDA and the proprietary user space portions from NVIDIA, you module will also never make it into mainline (unless hell freezes over and NVIDIA opens up their drivers).
They should go with OpenCL, then there would be a chance that at one point one can use it with free drivers (and other hardware), but I guess that's the prise you pay for a graduate fellowship from NVIDIA.
You might want to rethink your opinion on AMD, they are getting there: http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
If they ever show the body, I certainly want to see the effects of more than a decade of diabetes.
Well ...
Another U.S. official told CNN that bin Laden has already been buried at sea. The official said his body was handled in the Islamic tradition, but did not elaborate.
... but only after the xenophobic xenomorph ...
In 2008 an unauthorized version of Graffiti was introduced for iOS (iPhone and iPad) devices. An Android version was released in 2010 by ACCESS CO., LTD. of Japan, which acquired the rights to Graffiti when it acquired PalmSource, Inc. in 2005.
Source
Don't know about Apple, but Amazon deleted books at the kindle after people bought them, but at least they refunded the money and they also said they wouldn't do it any more.
Care to explain how patents make a "Free Market"? Oh you're an AC, nevermind ...
Democracy in Iraq was surely a big part of the motivation for the several countries with ongoing fights for democracy right now. 'n hoping for the best inEgypt and Libya - may they get a real democracy, not a theocracy with 1 election - but for god or ill Iraq played a part in this.
Iraq? C'mon ... If anything they looked to western Europe, but I'd rather say in Tunis they just couldn't take it any-more and Egypt followed suite.
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In a perfect capitalist system, power is completely independent of wealth. In an imperfect system, such as exists in all nations today, government power is used to increase the wealth of those who have the political influence.
I'd suggest you read this to get an understanding of the role of the state, and then you might want to skip to this section to get a better understanding of what capitalism is not.
Rather than base itself on a study of reality and the generalization of theory based on the data gathered, economics has almost always been based on generating theories rooted on whatever assumptions were required to make the theory work. Empirical confirmation, if it happens at all, is usually done decades later and if the facts contradict the economics, so much the worse for the facts.
And they prove it.
WP7 gives them a[n ...] OS that is already doing well in Europe.
Citation needed.