AMEN BROTHER. Give me a decent WiFi connection (so i havnt left the planet) and a cabin in the woods -- HEAVEN! All i need is a still/brewery and a Garden.
eh, hehm, it was "It is workers who create the wealth".
Those who earn less-than 30K are doing 'the work.' Those earning more are lucky enough to have screwed and scraped they're way to the top of the pile at sometime to get a fistfull of dollars they, themselves did not labour to create...
See this company: http://www.spheralsolar.com/ their technology makes very cheap, very efficient, very flexible solar-cells... they are building a massive manufacturing facitliy as-we-type, they do small(er) runs currently in their original test/research facility.
we need common, reusable containers for all these things -- like Ontario's Beer Bottle program. Pay the deposit on a glass bottle (or plastic refillable bottle)... and return it for a full unit.
this should be the case for butter, pop, chips, cream-corn, etc.
stuff that doesnt need packaging shouldnt have it... bread for instance.
Higher Quality of Life (less garbage/pollution) != Higher GDP (gdp growth related to disposal industry).
The fact is, sometimes, we (as a community) might have to CHANGE the rules to Capitalism so that Capitalists cannot externalize costs (negative effects of pollution) in order to maximize profit..
Progressives have been talking about Full Cost Accounting for years, this is but one element. Why are we aiding consumption by paying for disposal via taxes? Consumption of resources is not a good thing in-and-of-itself... the consumer needs to pay the whole cost, from pollution associated with transport (roads/health/traffic control) to disposal, to sprawl caused by mega-malls... your consumption of $something does not grant you license to destroy the commons.
I think the median income is somewhere around 30K. I for one don't think that anybody below the median should be taxed at all Because, after all, its those workers (those who make
should not discriminate against or in favor of free software-is entirely reasonable.
of course they should. because Freedom Software is the right thing to do for a community. All the RMS rants about it are not just empty rhetoric, you know, you should actually LISTEN to why people advocate public use of GPL sw.
A community, who has access to the source-code on which it bases its technology actually has an advantage over those who do not. The GPL users have the abiltiy to determine what happens with their software, NON-GPL users do not... that is VERY important for any group which does not want to be dominated. And the best candidate for remaining Free should be governments...
My Government BETTER discriminate against non-GPL software, its my future their selling-out.
listen buddy, the CAGW is a Pro-Capitalist right wing front group. Its the "whatever is good for GM (MS in this case) is good for America(TM)" party line, these jokers are as transparent as they come. They are not interested in saving taxpayer's money, they are interested in seeing rich-people pay less taxes by turning rank-and-file Americans AGAINST the very concept... "Look Marge, the CAGW says their a-wastin' our taxes, all the gummint does is tax and waste.. hiccup".
Give me a break, in this day and age, are Americans still blinded by calls of "communist"? I realize that your Civics class cum indoctrination sessions made Communism != Democracy, Freedom and Puppies(tm), but really, havent at least SOME of you picked up a PoliSci text?
Please, next time -- EVEN If you are NOT a Communist -- next time someone misuses the idea, or does a knee-jerk 'communist/socialist' drop, PLEASE correct them.
CAGW is a Right-Wing partisan GOP mouthpiece. Screaming about Communists is right up their alley. Why is/. parroting the BS propaganda of professional spinsters?
Oh dont be a twit. NASA is a small line item in the USA's budget, it slips in with the 2% spent on research, NSA, and others... far and away the LARGEST item is Military Spending (warmongering) and financing the debt of PREVIOUS years of warmongering.
While I may not agree or disagree that NASA is a worthwhile effort, it is absolutely insignificant if you are concerned about gov spending.
Actually, in Italy, some tourists nare NOT wanted. Italy has a problem with ignorant, littering, loud, obnoxious tourists. The kind who sit on church steps in shorts and tshirts dropping mcdonalds litter beside them.
OK, this seems a good place to drop this story, Its been told to me by a friend who owns a small clone shop.
some years ago, he gets a call. The person has a very thick accent and says "I need dose for my neck". My friend, puzzled asks him to repeat. "I need dose for my neck" comes again. Now, not understanding what the person is saying, he passes the phone off to one of his employees, "I need dose for my neck". Unable to discern what our mystery caller was saying, they ask "come to us at 123123 somestreet".
About 30 minutes later, a person arrives, drops a computer on the counter "I need dose for my neck" he says.
My friend hooks up the NEC computer and up pops "please insert DOS diskette" (or some such)... see he needed "DOS for his NEC."
Maybe not funny here on/., but I tell you -- it sure is funny everytime a luser hangs up and someone in this shop says "oh, he needed DOSE for his NECK" -- funny as heck.
How is it that in America, the land of Democracy(TM) people can be excluded from voting? If Im a convicted felon, and i do my time (or not for that matter), why is it "ok" to not let me vote?
Bullshit, politics is not JUST about how to spend tax dollars. That is cynical "i dont like to pay my taxes because i dont like the way its spent" argument... totally worthless. Government does MUCH more than simply build programs with tax dollars. Ever hear of Justice? Human Rights?
if that is what you think of your government America, heaven help you.
No, global warming is simply something that happens... The earth gets warmer for a few millenia, then it gets colder for a few millenia.
Well, yes and no... what you describe, the natural cycle of the planet, warming and cooling, does happen.
But, what is ALSO happening, is that humans are creating the Green House Effect. This is due to our releases of gases into the atmosphere.
just because what you describe is true, does NOT mean that the Green House Effect, caused by humans is untrue.
Even though this article says that one of the researches isnt comfortable IMMEDIATELY pointing the finger @ the Green House Effect (GHE) doesnt mean that the GHE hasnt been contributing to warming in Northern Canada.
in short, the GHE *is* warming the planet, AND the Planet's climate cycles.
What you are describing is "embodied" or "latent" energy.
The manufacture of an object requires electricity. An object that *manufactures* electricity itself must overcome its own embodied energy in order to be sensible.
Wind power technology long ago passed this threshold. Current accessible solar technologies barely exceed these thresholds. The bottom line is this: Buy Wind power when you can, otherwise, buy solar -- solar is just there on small scale, but getting better..
RMS is always clear, coherent and on-message. Someone should nominate him for office somewhere.
RMS: A non-free program is a predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division, and uses the spoils to dominate more. It may seem like a profitable option to become one of the emperor's lieutenants, but ultimately the ethical thing to do is to resist the system and put an end to it.
Could a more principled, and matter-of-fact statement be made? I love this guy.
Huh? What are you smoking? They are very VERY low maintenance and incredibly reliable (low maint because of few problems).
where nuclear, gas and coal, because of their risks (explosion/meltdown) require MUCH maintenance. Also, this maintenance requires that they be shutdown, monitored and generally have $ dumped on them to keep them from going BOOM!
Coal/Gas and Nuclear are *not* cheaper either, this 'avert explosions' maintenance and built-in-capital-investment make it expensive. Its only the direct subsidy of the EXISTING NON-RENEWABLE industry that makes it price competitive at all.
If North American Governments werent such plutocratic pigs, we could have a responsible re-investment into RENEWABLE energy, but oil/gas/nuclear lobbies have far deeper pockets that people who want LESS INDUSTRY in their lives.
One solution is to have distributed, smaller, RENEWABLE sources of energy generation. Windmills and Solar installations go along way to making a neighbourhood, or small city 'black-out proof'; further, it provides an opportunity for community self-sufficiency and de-centralized administration of a communities' infrastructure.
instead of building 10 new natural gas power stations, we should build 1000 new small wind installations, distribute them around liberally to off-set the heavy reliance on out-of-reach massively-capital intensive projects.
The good would also be that this would cause NO POLLUTION.
Seeing how reliant we are on electricity in the West a couple things come to mind: A) Conservation, as always, is being overlooked by the pro-consume propaganda of western consumer-culture advocates. and B) The Re-regulation of the NorthAmerican Hydro infrastructure will only lead to a culture of capitalist finger-pointing, profiteering and irresponsibility. If the Hydro system is COMPLETELY privatized, who would get power first after a blackout? Residents who need it to live or Industrial/Commercial Interests who will write contracts to assure their production?
R: I'll pay you $6 D: I'll pay you $10, but I need $5 of that in taxes Who helps the poor?-- CodeGod@fark
Have a look at the Clinton years vs. Shrub years. The economy. The job-rate.... and the DEFECIT.
Pal, Bush is doing what every Liberal has known for years, that the Republicans are really Plutocrats -- they'll sell the future to make their golf-buddies rich. Trickle down economics wont work (tax cuts for rich == reganomics at its worst), and Shrub is a cluless, thiest, ignorant, bumbling warmonger -- AND REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP (rich CEOs) LOVE IT THAT WAY! What better way to railroad the future into cheap labour, massive debt and never ending war and the propaganda to support it???? A CLUELESS, INEFFECTUAL, MYOPIC puppet as president.
looks good on you yankees to be such a laughing stock.
Slashdot Mirror
GREAT!
Have a look at windsorgreens.ca
AMEN BROTHER. Give me a decent WiFi connection (so i havnt left the planet) and a cabin in the woods -- HEAVEN! All i need is a still/brewery and a Garden.
eh, hehm, it was "It is workers who create the wealth".
Those who earn less-than 30K are doing 'the work.' Those earning more are lucky enough to have screwed and scraped they're way to the top of the pile at sometime to get a fistfull of dollars they, themselves did not labour to create...
See this company: http://www.spheralsolar.com/ their technology makes very cheap, very efficient, very flexible solar-cells... they are building a massive manufacturing facitliy as-we-type, they do small(er) runs currently in their original test/research facility.
this is one to watch.
we need common, reusable containers for all these things -- like Ontario's Beer Bottle program. Pay the deposit on a glass bottle (or plastic refillable bottle)... and return it for a full unit.
this should be the case for butter, pop, chips, cream-corn, etc.
stuff that doesnt need packaging shouldnt have it... bread for instance.
Higher Quality of Life (less garbage/pollution) != Higher GDP (gdp growth related to disposal industry).
.
The fact is, sometimes, we (as a community) might have to CHANGE the rules to Capitalism so that Capitalists cannot externalize costs (negative effects of pollution) in order to maximize profit.
Progressives have been talking about Full Cost Accounting for years, this is but one element. Why are we aiding consumption by paying for disposal via taxes? Consumption of resources is not a good thing in-and-of-itself... the consumer needs to pay the whole cost, from pollution associated with transport (roads/health/traffic control) to disposal, to sprawl caused by mega-malls... your consumption of $something does not grant you license to destroy the commons.
I think the median income is somewhere around 30K. I for one don't think that anybody below the median should be taxed at all
Because, after all, its those workers (those who make
should not discriminate against or in favor of free software-is entirely reasonable.
of course they should. because Freedom Software is the right thing to do for a community. All the RMS rants about it are not just empty rhetoric, you know, you should actually LISTEN to why people advocate public use of GPL sw.
A community, who has access to the source-code on which it bases its technology actually has an advantage over those who do not. The GPL users have the abiltiy to determine what happens with their software, NON-GPL users do not... that is VERY important for any group which does not want to be dominated. And the best candidate for remaining Free should be governments...
My Government BETTER discriminate against non-GPL software, its my future their selling-out.
listen buddy, the CAGW is a Pro-Capitalist right wing front group. Its the "whatever is good for GM (MS in this case) is good for America(TM)" party line, these jokers are as transparent as they come. They are not interested in saving taxpayer's money, they are interested in seeing rich-people pay less taxes by turning rank-and-file Americans AGAINST the very concept... "Look Marge, the CAGW says their a-wastin' our taxes, all the gummint does is tax and waste.. hiccup".
Give me a break, in this day and age, are Americans still blinded by calls of "communist"? I realize that your Civics class cum indoctrination sessions made Communism != Democracy, Freedom and Puppies(tm), but really, havent at least SOME of you picked up a PoliSci text?
Please, next time -- EVEN If you are NOT a Communist -- next time someone misuses the idea, or does a knee-jerk 'communist/socialist' drop, PLEASE correct them.
CAGW is a Right-Wing partisan GOP mouthpiece. Screaming about Communists is right up their alley. Why is /. parroting the BS propaganda of professional spinsters?
Oh dont be a twit. NASA is a small line item in the USA's budget, it slips in with the 2% spent on research, NSA, and others... far and away the LARGEST item is Military Spending (warmongering) and financing the debt of PREVIOUS years of warmongering.
While I may not agree or disagree that NASA is a worthwhile effort, it is absolutely insignificant if you are concerned about gov spending.
Hm, sounds dubious. Id say with a PC powersupply of modern vintage, they provide fairly clean, steady voltages/currents..
do you have any data/articles/etc to substantiate your claim?
No, the embodied energy of "a hydrogen-fuel-cell in every home" is far too much.
What is needed is regional/neighbourhood co-ops and distributed non-profit "ZERO" pollution generation facilites.
a 2MW wind turbine, scattered in the center of every new subdivision (with a greenspace beneath it) goes along way towards a sensible future.
Actually, in Italy, some tourists nare NOT wanted. Italy has a problem with ignorant, littering, loud, obnoxious tourists. The kind who sit on church steps in shorts and tshirts dropping mcdonalds litter beside them.
there is much press on the matter.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/955768/posts
http://www.american.edu/TED/VENICE.HTM
OK, this seems a good place to drop this story, Its been told to me by a friend who owns a small clone shop.
/., but I tell you -- it sure is funny everytime a luser hangs up and someone in this shop says "oh, he needed DOSE for his NECK" -- funny as heck.
some years ago, he gets a call. The person has a very thick accent and says "I need dose for my neck". My friend, puzzled asks him to repeat. "I need dose for my neck" comes again. Now, not understanding what the person is saying, he passes the phone off to one of his employees, "I need dose for my neck". Unable to discern what our mystery caller was saying, they ask "come to us at 123123 somestreet".
About 30 minutes later, a person arrives, drops a computer on the counter "I need dose for my neck" he says.
My friend hooks up the NEC computer and up pops "please insert DOS diskette" (or some such)... see he needed "DOS for his NEC."
Maybe not funny here on
How is it that in America, the land of Democracy(TM) people can be excluded from voting? If Im a convicted felon, and i do my time (or not for that matter), why is it "ok" to not let me vote?
What happened to universal suffrage?
Bullshit, politics is not JUST about how to spend tax dollars. That is cynical "i dont like to pay my taxes because i dont like the way its spent" argument... totally worthless. Government does MUCH more than simply build programs with tax dollars. Ever hear of Justice? Human Rights?
if that is what you think of your government America, heaven help you.
No, global warming is simply something that happens... The earth gets warmer for a few millenia, then it gets colder for a few millenia.
Well, yes and no... what you describe, the natural cycle of the planet, warming and cooling, does happen.
But, what is ALSO happening, is that humans are creating the Green House Effect. This is due to our releases of gases into the atmosphere.
just because what you describe is true, does NOT mean that the Green House Effect, caused by humans is untrue.
Even though this article says that one of the researches isnt comfortable IMMEDIATELY pointing the finger @ the Green House Effect (GHE) doesnt mean that the GHE hasnt been contributing to warming in Northern Canada.
in short, the GHE *is* warming the planet, AND the Planet's climate cycles.
Do not do this work, refuse it. By the sounds of it, you are an employee of a for-profit entity.
Are they paying you enough for your wife to be a widow and children to be reared by a single-parent?
Lock it out, its your right -- you cannot (at least in canada) be asked, by your employer to do somthing that is dangerous. DONT DO IT.
the only time that panel should be worked on is by an electrician who has disconnected the mains volatage.
Man, its just *not* worth the risk.
What you are describing is "embodied" or "latent" energy.
The manufacture of an object requires electricity. An object that *manufactures* electricity itself must overcome its own embodied energy in order to be sensible.
Wind power technology long ago passed this threshold. Current accessible solar technologies barely exceed these thresholds. The bottom line is this: Buy Wind power when you can, otherwise, buy solar -- solar is just there on small scale, but getting better..
RMS is always clear, coherent and on-message. Someone should nominate him for office somewhere.
RMS: A non-free program is a predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division, and uses the spoils to dominate more. It may seem like a profitable option to become one of the emperor's lieutenants, but ultimately the ethical thing to do is to resist the system and put an end to it.
Could a more principled, and matter-of-fact statement be made? I love this guy.
Solar and wind power are far less reliable
Huh? What are you smoking? They are very VERY low maintenance and incredibly reliable (low maint because of few problems).
where nuclear, gas and coal, because of their risks (explosion/meltdown) require MUCH maintenance. Also, this maintenance requires that they be shutdown, monitored and generally have $ dumped on them to keep them from going BOOM!
Coal/Gas and Nuclear are *not* cheaper either, this 'avert explosions' maintenance and built-in-capital-investment make it expensive. Its only the direct subsidy of the EXISTING NON-RENEWABLE industry that makes it price competitive at all.
If North American Governments werent such plutocratic pigs, we could have a responsible re-investment into RENEWABLE energy, but oil/gas/nuclear lobbies have far deeper pockets that people who want LESS INDUSTRY in their lives.
One solution is to have distributed, smaller, RENEWABLE sources of energy generation. Windmills and Solar installations go along way to making a neighbourhood, or small city 'black-out proof'; further, it provides an opportunity for community self-sufficiency and de-centralized administration of a communities' infrastructure.
instead of building 10 new natural gas power stations, we should build 1000 new small wind installations, distribute them around liberally to off-set the heavy reliance on out-of-reach massively-capital intensive projects.
The good would also be that this would cause NO POLLUTION.
Seeing how reliant we are on electricity in the West a couple things come to mind: A) Conservation, as always, is being overlooked by the pro-consume propaganda of western consumer-culture advocates. and B) The Re-regulation of the NorthAmerican Hydro infrastructure will only lead to a culture of capitalist finger-pointing, profiteering and irresponsibility. If the Hydro system is COMPLETELY privatized, who would get power first after a blackout? Residents who need it to live or Industrial/Commercial Interests who will write contracts to assure their production?
R: I'll pay you $6
D: I'll pay you $10, but I need $5 of that in taxes
Who helps the poor?-- CodeGod@fark
Have a look at the Clinton years vs. Shrub years. The economy. The job-rate.... and the DEFECIT.
Pal, Bush is doing what every Liberal has known for years, that the Republicans are really Plutocrats -- they'll sell the future to make their golf-buddies rich. Trickle down economics wont work (tax cuts for rich == reganomics at its worst), and Shrub is a cluless, thiest, ignorant, bumbling warmonger -- AND REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP (rich CEOs) LOVE IT THAT WAY! What better way to railroad the future into cheap labour, massive debt and never ending war and the propaganda to support it???? A CLUELESS, INEFFECTUAL, MYOPIC puppet as president.
looks good on you yankees to be such a laughing stock.
I know, trying to make a profit and put food on the table is bad.
Putting food on *YOUR* table, by committing a crime is not honourable nor acceptable.
Profit is also known as "overcharging" btw. Extorting the maximum profit, without any other concern *is* immoral.
You guys have to keep reminding me about the commie/socialist mantra here
Sure thing mccarthy, any barrier to selfishness, any HINT of care for others is Communism... I just keep forgetting.