Not the worst advice, the collective wisdom of/. is both enlightening and sad... depending on who you're listening to at the moment.
My advice...
1) Teach her that nothing of great value is easy. If it is easy people don't value it. Don't take the easy path, just because it is easy. Don't avoid the hard path, simply because an easy path is available. You'll miss out on what everyone else is missing, and will not be better off because of it.
Things that are hard to acquire are the things people tend to value more.
2) Learn all you can about everything that interests you. Once you learn something, there is nobody that can take it from you.
3) Make things. Build something, anything. Make something that is hard (see #1), take the time to do it right. You'll learn something (#2) and you'll have something of value in the end. And when you're done, do it again.
4) Value people over things. Don't get attached to things, get attached to quality people. Things can always be taken away, but nobody can take away a friend. Not time, not distance, not anything.
In the end, there is nothing from this world we can take into the next. The only thing we leave is a bit of ourselves behind, in the lives we have impacted, and the things we have built.
You're close. This is nothing more than the camel's nose. Government now has a "right" to do whatever it wants/needs to the internet, and we won't have a say in it.
Political Speech is already on the chopping block, but since it is the "evil Republicans", and not the "sweet innocent Democrats" that are pushing it, left wingers are completely silent.
Change "guns" to flowers and Customer type from "gun loving" to Gay and see if you have a change it attitude.
FedEx refused to ship flowers to a gay man
You see, there is NOTHING "immoral" or "illegal" about either flowers, gunsmithing equipment, being a gun lover or lover of men. In fact, there is nothing different here except POPULAR OPINION.
I live in a city, and can go from full bars to no coverage in about 1/2 mile. (1KM). There are notorious dead zones in the middle of the city, because the city regulates cell towers, making cell service unusable in large swaths of town.
Hell, certain "High Speed Internet" providers aren't even willing to apply a 10GB Fiber from one rack, to another, to help their users get content faster.
I remember seeing an interview with someone at Netflix, which basically said "Comcast has the bandwidth to carry all Netflix traffic, without issue. Netflix has the bandwidth to carry all the traffic requested by Comcast customers to Comcast, without issue. We have the capacity, they have the capacity, and if they need networking equipment so we can add a 10GB connection from our rack to their rack (at the COLO) we're willing to buy everything needed. They just won't do it"
How about "to hell" with using government money for self enrichment. IF you take a grant or whatever funding to get you MRI, your discovery belongs to the people of the USA, and no yourself. That way, anyone can use the technology that everyone paid for, without having to worry about royalties to people who used public funds to enrich themselves.
"Subsidized" doesn't mean "Pay less". It does mean "given money to, by the government".
And I love how keeping money you earn is considered "subsidy" by the left, as if government has the right to all of your money, but allows you to keep some of it. Good job guys.
Yes, those things are MENTIONED, but science and technology were never a function OF government, at least directly.
And as a libertarian, I would be HAPPY to support government grants via taxes on patents discovered / created / inventions that were the result of (directly or indirectly) of those government grants. The problem is, government gives a grant to University to do _________, which leads to discovery ______, which is used in patent _________ which is used to generate all sorts of revenue, none of which ever makes it back to the government program that created the grant used in step 1.
I simply oppose using government largess to enrich private parties at the expense of tax payers, regardless of the benefit to those tax payers. It is simply unfair that the tax payers continue to get screwed by government / corporate complex.
some of its citizens who could easily afford to contribute more aren't willing to do so and the public is unwilling to force them.
This assumes that Taxes are a right of government, and not the consent of the governed.
Considering that we (the USA) were formed on the basis of a tax revolution (at least in part), because we weren't being represented by those in government (a lot like now), this (protesting, avoiding taxes) is our national heritage.
If Europeans want to continue paying their masters, that is fine. I don't want to be a serf to those in government.
Actually, Saddam was a CIA appointed dictator that left the reservation.
And like all the other petty dictators that we stopped supporting (Shah of Iran, Qaddafi, Mubarak... ) it was replaced by something much much worse.
And I know that the Left loves to blame the USA for "meddling" into the affairs of radical Islamists, but I would like to point out that when the USA was a new country, having its merchant ships being attacked by the Pirates of Tripoli, it responded and thus formed the Marine Corps. In other words, if you're going to start issuing ridiculous "we started it" logic, go back to the beginning, and realize that it was Radical Islam that forced us into a permanent military class;)
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Microsoft's influence over anything is slipping away. I'm finding less need for anything Microsoft in my IT world these days. The behemoth of each APP is crushing the life out of the lungs.
The problem you have, is that OFFICE is such a behemoth that it is almost unusable, but everyone requires people to use Apps like Word, when all they need is WordPad.
So you're suggesting using heavily subsidized airlines instead of rail?
Source? I would be interested if you're talking about actual subsidies (government giving money to airlines) (and apart from EAS) rather than tax breaks and such. What is the cost per passenger?
As a libertarian, I'm generally opposed to REAL subsidies for just about everything, simply because of all the unintended consequences.
And they (whoever "they" are) are forgetting Government Subsidies for those rail systems, which everyone pays via higher taxes.
IF government was OPEN and HONEST about how much things actually cost and compared with the benefits, many programs and subsidies would cease. But questioning effectiveness of government is tantamount to being "evil" these days.
I've seen government programs so expensive, that if we scrapped the program completely, and just paid the remaining people affected cash, it would be a fraction of the cost of maintaining the program.
I'll use the cost to build California's "High Speed Rail" system as an example. It would be cheaper, and more effective, to offer every man woman and child in California, 20 free round trip tickets via Airlines, and that is before a single train is run. The estimated one way price (as of today) is approximately $20 more than the cheapest flights available (and doesn't include ongoing government subsidies)
The point being, there are groups of people who are "in love" with certain viewpoints, where their emotional attachment overrides any logical points being made. In this case, there is NO economical sense in building out a rail system, UNLESS you're emotionally compromised by the idea of "high speed rail".
. Something has been lost and I'm not sure if/how we get it back.
WE get it back by stopping being a "global" community, and start becoming "local" again. Support Local, wherever possible. You know, getting off the couch and stop watching TV and meeting your neighbors as you go outside for a walk.
There used to be a fiduciary responsibility to maintain the public trust. We didn't need laws to protect people, because there weren't unnamed unknown faceless corporations hiding nefarious activities.
This is why, I suggest that we start using the Corporation Death Penalty for gross violations of public trust. And use it in cases like this, where public trust is abused behind corporate greed.
THIS, backhanded, sleazy greed, this abuse of public trust, needs to be slapped down hard.
And a number of them were from children born outside of the country, but since it is politically incorrect to actually track that kind of statistic, lets blame ANTI VAXERS!!!!!
Flu Vax is almost ineffectual, but inject yourself with Unsafe levels of Mercury if you want. People with healthy immune systems don't die of flu.
Measles outbreak is almost entirely tied to either people who just got Vaccinated (read the literature on it, it causes Measles), and people coming in from out of the country (undocumented, illegally). BUT you're too fucking PC to actually acknowledge the problem.
And Autism is linked to Vaccinations (See Italy's court rulings), but you can't prove it in the US, because of Big Pharma protections. But go ahead and believe what Big Pharma is telling you. Remember, all the drugs that have been recalled by the FDA were once labeled "safe and effective" by the FDA.
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Not the worst advice, the collective wisdom of /. is both enlightening and sad ... depending on who you're listening to at the moment.
My advice ...
1) Teach her that nothing of great value is easy. If it is easy people don't value it. Don't take the easy path, just because it is easy. Don't avoid the hard path, simply because an easy path is available. You'll miss out on what everyone else is missing, and will not be better off because of it.
Things that are hard to acquire are the things people tend to value more.
2) Learn all you can about everything that interests you. Once you learn something, there is nobody that can take it from you.
3) Make things. Build something, anything. Make something that is hard (see #1), take the time to do it right. You'll learn something (#2) and you'll have something of value in the end. And when you're done, do it again.
4) Value people over things. Don't get attached to things, get attached to quality people. Things can always be taken away, but nobody can take away a friend. Not time, not distance, not anything.
In the end, there is nothing from this world we can take into the next. The only thing we leave is a bit of ourselves behind, in the lives we have impacted, and the things we have built.
I said the same thing. Shortsightedness because it gains you temporarily what you want, never works in the long run.
You're close. This is nothing more than the camel's nose. Government now has a "right" to do whatever it wants/needs to the internet, and we won't have a say in it.
Political Speech is already on the chopping block, but since it is the "evil Republicans", and not the "sweet innocent Democrats" that are pushing it, left wingers are completely silent.
Short sightedness is liberal kryptonite.
Change "guns" to flowers and Customer type from "gun loving" to Gay and see if you have a change it attitude.
FedEx refused to ship flowers to a gay man
You see, there is NOTHING "immoral" or "illegal" about either flowers, gunsmithing equipment, being a gun lover or lover of men. In fact, there is nothing different here except POPULAR OPINION.
I live in a city, and can go from full bars to no coverage in about 1/2 mile. (1KM). There are notorious dead zones in the middle of the city, because the city regulates cell towers, making cell service unusable in large swaths of town.
Yeah, it is that bad.
Hell, certain "High Speed Internet" providers aren't even willing to apply a 10GB Fiber from one rack, to another, to help their users get content faster.
http://qz.com/256586/the-insid...
I remember seeing an interview with someone at Netflix, which basically said "Comcast has the bandwidth to carry all Netflix traffic, without issue. Netflix has the bandwidth to carry all the traffic requested by Comcast customers to Comcast, without issue. We have the capacity, they have the capacity, and if they need networking equipment so we can add a 10GB connection from our rack to their rack (at the COLO) we're willing to buy everything needed. They just won't do it"
No,
How about "to hell" with using government money for self enrichment. IF you take a grant or whatever funding to get you MRI, your discovery belongs to the people of the USA, and no yourself. That way, anyone can use the technology that everyone paid for, without having to worry about royalties to people who used public funds to enrich themselves.
"Subsidized" doesn't mean "Pay less". It does mean "given money to, by the government".
And I love how keeping money you earn is considered "subsidy" by the left, as if government has the right to all of your money, but allows you to keep some of it. Good job guys.
Yes, those things are MENTIONED, but science and technology were never a function OF government, at least directly.
And as a libertarian, I would be HAPPY to support government grants via taxes on patents discovered / created / inventions that were the result of (directly or indirectly) of those government grants. The problem is, government gives a grant to University to do _________, which leads to discovery ______, which is used in patent _________ which is used to generate all sorts of revenue, none of which ever makes it back to the government program that created the grant used in step 1.
I simply oppose using government largess to enrich private parties at the expense of tax payers, regardless of the benefit to those tax payers. It is simply unfair that the tax payers continue to get screwed by government / corporate complex.
some of its citizens who could easily afford to contribute more aren't willing to do so and the public is unwilling to force them.
This assumes that Taxes are a right of government, and not the consent of the governed.
Considering that we (the USA) were formed on the basis of a tax revolution (at least in part), because we weren't being represented by those in government (a lot like now), this (protesting, avoiding taxes) is our national heritage.
If Europeans want to continue paying their masters, that is fine. I don't want to be a serf to those in government.
Actually, Saddam was a CIA appointed dictator that left the reservation.
And like all the other petty dictators that we stopped supporting (Shah of Iran, Qaddafi, Mubarak ... ) it was replaced by something much much worse.
And I know that the Left loves to blame the USA for "meddling" into the affairs of radical Islamists, but I would like to point out that when the USA was a new country, having its merchant ships being attacked by the Pirates of Tripoli, it responded and thus formed the Marine Corps. In other words, if you're going to start issuing ridiculous "we started it" logic, go back to the beginning, and realize that it was Radical Islam that forced us into a permanent military class ;)
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Microsoft's influence over anything is slipping away. I'm finding less need for anything Microsoft in my IT world these days. The behemoth of each APP is crushing the life out of the lungs.
The problem you have, is that OFFICE is such a behemoth that it is almost unusable, but everyone requires people to use Apps like Word, when all they need is WordPad.
Google seems to get it just about right. The only complaint I have with Google is that they will whore out just about any AD, regardless of utility.
Do a search for MalwareBytes and take a look at the the ADs. Useful?
So says the AC chickenshit unwilling to taint their precious profile with garbage posts. Worse than a troll IMHO
So you're suggesting using heavily subsidized airlines instead of rail?
Source? I would be interested if you're talking about actual subsidies (government giving money to airlines) (and apart from EAS) rather than tax breaks and such. What is the cost per passenger?
As a libertarian, I'm generally opposed to REAL subsidies for just about everything, simply because of all the unintended consequences.
And they (whoever "they" are) are forgetting Government Subsidies for those rail systems, which everyone pays via higher taxes.
IF government was OPEN and HONEST about how much things actually cost and compared with the benefits, many programs and subsidies would cease. But questioning effectiveness of government is tantamount to being "evil" these days.
I've seen government programs so expensive, that if we scrapped the program completely, and just paid the remaining people affected cash, it would be a fraction of the cost of maintaining the program.
I'll use the cost to build California's "High Speed Rail" system as an example. It would be cheaper, and more effective, to offer every man woman and child in California, 20 free round trip tickets via Airlines, and that is before a single train is run. The estimated one way price (as of today) is approximately $20 more than the cheapest flights available (and doesn't include ongoing government subsidies)
The point being, there are groups of people who are "in love" with certain viewpoints, where their emotional attachment overrides any logical points being made. In this case, there is NO economical sense in building out a rail system, UNLESS you're emotionally compromised by the idea of "high speed rail".
True. But Adobe already creates exploits for all the other OSes in the world, so they don't need to actually create an unsecured OS.
Problem is, I'm never likely to be elected to any office, including dog catcher.
I don't have the "pleasant" personality of a typical baby kisser. That, and I am a "radical" libertarian, which most people are afraid of.
I've come to the conclusion that most people like being sheep, as it is security for them. The problem as I see it, the sheepdog is actually a wolf.
Any sufficient level of incompetence is indistinguishable from malfeasance.
. Something has been lost and I'm not sure if/how we get it back.
WE get it back by stopping being a "global" community, and start becoming "local" again. Support Local, wherever possible. You know, getting off the couch and stop watching TV and meeting your neighbors as you go outside for a walk.
There used to be a fiduciary responsibility to maintain the public trust. We didn't need laws to protect people, because there weren't unnamed unknown faceless corporations hiding nefarious activities.
This is why, I suggest that we start using the Corporation Death Penalty for gross violations of public trust. And use it in cases like this, where public trust is abused behind corporate greed.
THIS, backhanded, sleazy greed, this abuse of public trust, needs to be slapped down hard.
Security is not freedom.
And a number of them were from children born outside of the country, but since it is politically incorrect to actually track that kind of statistic, lets blame ANTI VAXERS!!!!!
Flu Vax is almost ineffectual, but inject yourself with Unsafe levels of Mercury if you want. People with healthy immune systems don't die of flu.
Measles outbreak is almost entirely tied to either people who just got Vaccinated (read the literature on it, it causes Measles), and people coming in from out of the country (undocumented, illegally). BUT you're too fucking PC to actually acknowledge the problem.
And Autism is linked to Vaccinations (See Italy's court rulings), but you can't prove it in the US, because of Big Pharma protections. But go ahead and believe what Big Pharma is telling you. Remember, all the drugs that have been recalled by the FDA were once labeled "safe and effective" by the FDA.