That's not what Marx says. Marx has no problem with private property, Marx has a problem with "means of production". And he does not want you to own those, companies, workshops and manufactures, that is.
Well, that idea is flawed too, but you can't cram every other crap communist idea onto Marx too.;)
Of course. Anti-terror provisions ALWAYS benefit normal crime in the first place. More search and seizure means more theft, more databases with personal information means more fraud, and so on.
Oh hell, I wanted to "mail" but the application is named "outlook"? I wanted to "edit", but the application is called "notepad", I wanted to use a spreadsheet, but the application is called "excel". And best of all, I wanted to "write", but the application is now called "wordpad";)
We've changed all Workstations to Ubuntu, with a very full set of applications. Thus everyone finds his favourite instant-messaging tool oder mailclient, without needing to install anything.
Call me some kind of freak or something, but why the fuck would you want to own a gun?
In my case, because I do historical reenactment/living history. All of them are muzzle-loaders, tough (those which went out of fashion in the 1850ies and haven't been used for violent crimes for 50 years), except for the big ones, they are breech-loaders: http://seegras.discordia.ch/About/Pixels/Gunner.jpg
In principle you're right. What you describe is how the concept behind patents is supposed to work.
In reality, there's only pharmaceutics where the patent system works for the patent-owners remotely like your description. Everywhere else, patents have become a tool for mercantile suppression and corporate warfare; from which the economy as whole only suffers (with the exception of lawyers).
You're a Jerk. Yes, a gun has not been found, neither powder, but the reason why is that he was DISARMED under control of the UN. And you can't assume that he MUST have another secret gun which just "hasn't been found yet", after turning over the whole country. This is just stupid, Bush.
I've been chief security officer of an ISP, and now I am "only" system administrator at another ISP -- for good reason.
If you do your job right, you're constantly harrassing your co-workers and customers, and with no apparent benefit. Or alternatively it looks like you're not doing anything at all.
If you don't do it right, you get broken into, so everyone notices, and you've obviously failed.
I had one break-in in several years (on a test-machine with too much software running), and guess what, I didn't get commended by the management for having no security problems in years, I got commended for the incident-response.
Nah, I really can't recommend it. Playing cassandra, get no thanks and all the blame.
Thankfully, here in Switzerland most movies are shown with subtitles in the evening, and dubbed in the afternoon (for the kids). This means I could effectively watch Monsters Inc. in english in a cinema in Zürich.
Now it wouldn't exactly be a problem to only release a subtitled version at the same date as in the USA. Some people would complain, some would want to wait for a dubbed version, but most would go watch the subtitled one.
And of course, Zürich being a city where "one does go to the cinema", it wouldn't even matter much if the DVD was sold the same day as the premiere in the cinema (Well, I'd probably give the cinemas a headstart of two weeks, but not more).
I also work for a large Hosting-Provider. There's nothing "private" on our SHARED servers we would not take a look at. Especially if you need support, we will take a look at everything that could be related. However, if your account does not stick out with producing huge load or sending spam or you don't call tech support, chances are very big we never will. It's just too many accounts, and theres no reason to just "snoop around" for nothing. We're not the police, we're not the MAFIAA, we're an ISP, and if we take a look at something we do it to solve a problem. Either ours (your bloody php-app uses 90% CPU) or yours (something does not work, you've been hacked, somebody sends out spam trough your "Matts FormMail" from 1994...).
Privacy means that we do not tell anyone what we saw, as long as we are not forced by the law to do so. And yes, we may not be bound to a special vow of silence like an attorney, but we're still bound by extensive privacy protection acts (european, you know), and furthermore, disclosing private details of our customers data would hurt our reputation very much, apart from the legal consequences.
- Kernel. Might be quite good, but it has one big deficiency: It's not Unix. I doubt they will or can change that.
- Filesystem: Case-insensitive but case-preserving is an utter fuckup and a security-nightmare too.
- Charset: Get rid of that fucking cp125x-charsets. Now! Everywhere! Make it impossible to choose it anywhere. And bid those "smart-quotes" and other non-standard crap goodbye.
- CR/LF. Do that CR away, this is not a typewriter anymore, I hope..
- Shell: Backslashes and Drive-Letters are a bloody nuisance to every (C-)programmer. Who in his right might would choose the escape-character as a directory delimiter?
- Terminal: No, a Terminal should not be limited to 25x80. You need to be able to change the resolution, and you also need to be able to switch the charset.
- Mouse-handling: I personally can't stand click-to focus. Not only I use sloppy-focuse, but I also want autoraise. Windows can't do that, and it even collides with its dozens of modal dialogs.
- Registry. Please explain the benefit of this monster over config-files with a clearly specified structure.
- Incoherent separation of user-config and system-config (resulting from the registry). I should be able to take my personal config from one account to the other by action of simple copying.
- Missing desktop-features: multiple desktops of course.
- Look and Feel: Where is the problem of letting the user specify how his widgets should look? Esepcially if I don't like this Fisher-Price-look. As far as I can tell, these are easy customisable. And yes, ALL of them should change their look simultaneously.
- Localization. This is very bad. I should be able to change the language of the GUI on a click. But at least per user. And I should not have to download a different version of some patch or some service pack depending on the language I'm using.
- Decent Editor. Per default. One where you can choose that the input uses CR, CR/LF or LF and saves only with LF. One where you can select a charset for input (and save as utf8 only), one which can open files up to at least 2GB.
- Directory-Structure. Only a fucking idiot would name the programs-folder "Program Files" -- with a space in it, and what's more, different in every language! Why not just "programs"? And more: Why is there such a mess in the windows-folder? and the windows/system folder? And why are users preferences and files there too??
- ACLs. An actually nice feature of windows -- if the default ACLs weren't so braindead. Who got the idea that users need to have write access to the root or the windows-directory??
- DRM. Either this goes out of Windows, or Windows goes out of the window.
- Standards: They exist for you to use them, not to invent stupid competing formats. Away with that WMA, WMV, DOC, XLS-trash. You can still support them, but store your information in open and standardized formats in the first place, like mpeg, mp3, ODF. I want to hear "You might loose some information if you store this Open Document Text in Microsoft.DOC-Format. Do you really want to do this?"
- Autostart: Ditch it. Not necessary just to save one click. Yes, you can turn it off, but actually it should be impossible to turn it on at all.
- Internet Explorer. Either you do it right (XHTML, CSS, DOM, EcmaScript), or throw that garbage out of the system.
- Outlook. Either you do it right (raw-text, charsets, quoting, pop3-handling), or throw that garbage out of the system.
- Active-X. Throw away without replacement.
- 32bits. Yes, it's about time for the next version only to offer a 64bit-version. Plus, if done right, this will force the morons at Adobe to finally port flash to 64bit.
Not really a replacement for the english-speaking world. But in german, "schwarzkopieren" means "copying something without being authorized to do so", thus somebody who does that is a "Schwarzkopierer".
This is analogous to "schwarzfahren", which means using some public-transport vehicle without paying the fare.
Some languages are spoken by a lot of people, but the importance of those countries is not very high. So I'd recommend the following (since you already speak english, which would be on top of the list):
* Spanish. This is the language spoken by most of southern america, plus Spain, and you'll get a grasp of italian and portuguese with it as well. * French. Spoken in France, the carribeans and loads of countries in Africa.
After you've mastered those, in that order, there are several choices which are interesting and of certain importance. In no particular order: * German * Japanese * Russian * Arabic * Portuguese
There are several european languages which are not interesting unless the folks in the neighbouring country happen to speak it: Dutch, italian, czech, polish, greek and so on..
No you're bloody not. This title belongs or more correctly belonged to some european countries like Switzerland, the Netherlands or Finland.
Right now, you're viewed as the hallmark of the rise of the next generation of fascist states. (with european countries catching up, however). - Spying upon your own people - Taking fingerprints from travelers - Detaining people without cause and without access to a lawyer - Fraudulent elections via voting-machines and so on.
Unless you repell just about every law Bush junior ever signed (and several laws his so-called "republican" and "democrat" predecessors signed, down to William McKinley) you're not going to be the hallmark of Democracy again (again? Yes, again, because you've BEEN the hallmark of Democracy -- in the 18th and early 19th century).
You'd better tagged it "fuckjudgelouislstanton". Because that bloody asshole violates every viewers privacy worldwide. Of course viacom wants this data, companies are not "nice", and if they think they can get away with it, they will do it. But this judge is a fucking catastrophe for allowing them to rape the viewers privacy.
And of course, it's entirely illegal to demand google to turn over the records of non-US viewers to viacom, due to much harder privacy-laws everywhere else.
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Childrens book from 1975?
"Tarzan of the Apes" actually was first published 1912. There's no way there can be a copyright on that.
Definitly the coolest doomsday-machine is a time-stopping device. There is no way to make time running again.
We used a handy remote with a big red button marked "stop time" as a plot-device in a LARP; and of course someone pushed it...
And as for the whole application of force thing, anarchy will be government by force.
This is an oxymoron. Anarchy explicitly rules out any "gouvernment" at all. It about the same as "democracy will be government without people".
You're probably meant to refer to "Anomie".
That's not what Marx says. Marx has no problem with private property, Marx has a problem with "means of production". And he does not want you to own those, companies, workshops and manufactures, that is.
Well, that idea is flawed too, but you can't cram every other crap communist idea onto Marx too. ;)
airport security is riddled with thieves
Of course. Anti-terror provisions ALWAYS benefit normal crime in the first place. More search and seizure means more theft, more databases with personal information means more fraud, and so on.
Oh hell, I wanted to "mail" but the application is named "outlook"? I wanted to "edit", but the application is called "notepad", I wanted to use a spreadsheet, but the application is called "excel". And best of all, I wanted to "write", but the application is now called "wordpad" ;)
We're not in the old times where your 64MB Ram just weren't enough.
You don't need Swap. Really NOT.
You might want to have some, in that case a tad more than your RAM, if you want to do suspend-to-disk. But otherwise, Swap is just a waste of space.
We've changed all Workstations to Ubuntu, with a very full set of applications. Thus everyone finds his favourite instant-messaging tool oder mailclient, without needing to install anything.
And it's not "piracy" either. Piracy is defined as the act of robbery on the high seas with the threat of violence. It's "copyright violation".
Call me some kind of freak or something, but why the fuck would you want to own a gun?
In my case, because I do historical reenactment/living history. All of them are muzzle-loaders, tough (those which went out of fashion in the 1850ies and haven't been used for violent crimes for 50 years), except for the big ones, they are breech-loaders: http://seegras.discordia.ch/About/Pixels/Gunner.jpg
In principle you're right. What you describe is how the concept behind patents is supposed to work.
In reality, there's only pharmaceutics where the patent system works for the patent-owners remotely like your description. Everywhere else, patents have become a tool for mercantile suppression and corporate warfare; from which the economy as whole only suffers (with the exception of lawyers).
Read http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/ and http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm on how the patent system really works (as opposed to theory).
You're a Jerk. Yes, a gun has not been found, neither powder, but the reason why is that he was DISARMED under control of the UN. And you can't assume that he MUST have another secret gun which just "hasn't been found yet", after turning over the whole country. This is just stupid, Bush.
I've been chief security officer of an ISP, and now I am "only" system administrator at another ISP -- for good reason.
If you do your job right, you're constantly harrassing your co-workers and customers, and with no apparent benefit. Or alternatively it looks like you're not doing anything at all.
If you don't do it right, you get broken into, so everyone notices, and you've obviously failed.
I had one break-in in several years (on a test-machine with too much software running), and guess what, I didn't get commended by the management for having no security problems in years, I got commended for the incident-response.
Nah, I really can't recommend it. Playing cassandra, get no thanks and all the blame.
Thankfully, here in Switzerland most movies are shown with subtitles in the evening, and dubbed in the afternoon (for the kids). This means I could effectively watch Monsters Inc. in english in a cinema in Zürich.
Now it wouldn't exactly be a problem to only release a subtitled version at the same date as in the USA. Some people would complain, some would want to wait for a dubbed version, but most would go watch the subtitled one.
And of course, Zürich being a city where "one does go to the cinema", it wouldn't even matter much if the DVD was sold the same day as the premiere in the cinema (Well, I'd probably give the cinemas a headstart of two weeks, but not more).
I concur with that.
I also work for a large Hosting-Provider. There's nothing "private" on our SHARED servers we would not take a look at. Especially if you need support, we will take a look at everything that could be related. However, if your account does not stick out with producing huge load or sending spam or you don't call tech support, chances are very big we never will. It's just too many accounts, and theres no reason to just "snoop around" for nothing. We're not the police, we're not the MAFIAA, we're an ISP, and if we take a look at something we do it to solve a problem. Either ours (your bloody php-app uses 90% CPU) or yours (something does not work, you've been hacked, somebody sends out spam trough your "Matts FormMail" from 1994 ...).
Privacy means that we do not tell anyone what we saw, as long as we are not forced by the law to do so. And yes, we may not be bound to a special vow of silence like an attorney, but we're still bound by extensive privacy protection acts (european, you know), and furthermore, disclosing private details of our customers data would hurt our reputation very much, apart from the legal consequences.
You're absolutely right. But this already has been done.
http://www.researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/
- Kernel. Might be quite good, but it has one big deficiency: It's not Unix. I doubt they will or can change that.
- Filesystem: Case-insensitive but case-preserving is an utter fuckup and a security-nightmare too.
- Charset: Get rid of that fucking cp125x-charsets. Now! Everywhere! Make it impossible to choose it anywhere. And bid those "smart-quotes" and other non-standard crap goodbye.
- CR/LF. Do that CR away, this is not a typewriter anymore, I hope..
- Shell: Backslashes and Drive-Letters are a bloody nuisance to every (C-)programmer. Who in his right might would choose the escape-character as a directory delimiter?
- Terminal: No, a Terminal should not be limited to 25x80. You need to be able to change the resolution, and you also need to be able to switch the charset.
- Mouse-handling: I personally can't stand click-to focus. Not only I use sloppy-focuse, but I also want autoraise. Windows can't do that, and it even collides with its dozens of modal dialogs.
- Registry. Please explain the benefit of this monster over config-files with a clearly specified structure.
- Incoherent separation of user-config and system-config (resulting from the registry). I should be able to take my personal config from one account to the other by action of simple copying.
- Missing desktop-features: multiple desktops of course.
- Look and Feel: Where is the problem of letting the user specify how his widgets should look? Esepcially if I don't like this Fisher-Price-look. As far as I can tell, these are easy customisable. And yes, ALL of them should change their look simultaneously.
- Localization. This is very bad. I should be able to change the language of the GUI on a click. But at least per user. And I should not have to download a different version of some patch or some service pack depending on the language I'm using.
- Decent Editor. Per default. One where you can choose that the input uses CR, CR/LF or LF and saves only with LF. One where you can select a charset for input (and save as utf8 only), one which can open files up to at least 2GB.
- Directory-Structure. Only a fucking idiot would name the programs-folder "Program Files" -- with a space in it, and what's more, different in every language! Why not just "programs"? And more: Why is there such a mess in the windows-folder? and the windows/system folder? And why are users preferences and files there too??
- ACLs. An actually nice feature of windows -- if the default ACLs weren't so braindead. Who got the idea that users need to have write access to the root or the windows-directory??
- DRM. Either this goes out of Windows, or Windows goes out of the window.
- Standards: They exist for you to use them, not to invent stupid competing formats. Away with that WMA, WMV, DOC, XLS-trash. You can still support them, but store your information in open and standardized formats in the first place, like mpeg, mp3, ODF. I want to hear "You might loose some information if you store this Open Document Text in Microsoft .DOC-Format. Do you really want to do this?"
- Autostart: Ditch it. Not necessary just to save one click. Yes, you can turn it off, but actually it should be impossible to turn it on at all.
- Internet Explorer. Either you do it right (XHTML, CSS, DOM, EcmaScript), or throw that garbage out of the system.
- Outlook. Either you do it right (raw-text, charsets, quoting, pop3-handling), or throw that garbage out of the system.
- Active-X. Throw away without replacement.
- 32bits. Yes, it's about time for the next version only to offer a 64bit-version. Plus, if done right, this will force the morons at Adobe to finally port flash to 64bit.
Not really a replacement for the english-speaking world. But in german, "schwarzkopieren" means "copying something without being authorized to do so", thus somebody who does that is a "Schwarzkopierer".
This is analogous to "schwarzfahren", which means using some public-transport vehicle without paying the fare.
Some languages are spoken by a lot of people, but the importance of those countries is not very high. So I'd recommend the following (since you already speak english, which would be on top of the list):
* Spanish. This is the language spoken by most of southern america, plus Spain, and you'll get a grasp of italian and portuguese with it as well.
* French. Spoken in France, the carribeans and loads of countries in Africa.
After you've mastered those, in that order, there are several choices which are interesting and of certain importance. In no particular order:
* German
* Japanese
* Russian
* Arabic
* Portuguese
There are several european languages which are not interesting unless the folks in the neighbouring country happen to speak it: Dutch, italian, czech, polish, greek and so on..
> We're viewed as the hallmark for Democracy
No you're bloody not. This title belongs or more correctly belonged to some european countries like Switzerland, the Netherlands or Finland.
Right now, you're viewed as the hallmark of the rise of the next generation of fascist states. (with european countries catching up, however).
- Spying upon your own people
- Taking fingerprints from travelers
- Detaining people without cause and without access to a lawyer
- Fraudulent elections via voting-machines
and so on.
Unless you repell just about every law Bush junior ever signed (and several laws his so-called "republican" and "democrat" predecessors signed, down to William McKinley) you're not going to be the hallmark of Democracy again (again? Yes, again, because you've BEEN the hallmark of Democracy -- in the 18th and early 19th century).
See http://www.icc-ccs.org/imb/overview.php for the statistics of real piracy.
To talk of "piracy" when you're really talking about copyright violation is pure propaganda and showing disrespect to the victims of piracy.
You'd better tagged it "fuckjudgelouislstanton". Because that bloody asshole violates every viewers privacy worldwide. Of course viacom wants this data, companies are not "nice", and if they think they can get away with it, they will do it. But this judge is a fucking catastrophe for allowing them to rape the viewers privacy.
And of course, it's entirely illegal to demand google to turn over the records of non-US viewers to viacom, due to much harder privacy-laws everywhere else.
I know, because I've got big balls, she's got big balls, and we've got the biggest balls of them all.
Ya know, balls, like "dancing events" or somesuch.
The ACLs are actually pretty cool.
But the default ACLs are incredibly crappy.
And every 3rd-Party expects those. You can't lock down the root-directory of \windows\system.
So, basically, those ACLs boil down to something right done very wrong. And impossible to fix.
This fits exactly with the polical currents nowadays.