Dont forget those wily Peruvians. They dress funny. They dont wear any deodorant. And they only have ONE! McDonalds!!!, even that is only there for the US Military base.... lets not forget about them... next thing you know they will be Godless Commies(TM)
Not true - they dont 'hate' us. I know plenty of Quebecois and none have said "I hate you because you speak English". There is not racist crap like that going on.
There are people in Quebec who feel that Quebec would be better off independant. That may or may not be true. But Canada is a tolerant culture that values real democracy - it is our duty to listen and discuss the concerns of the Quebecois, this 'English Backlash' you display is childish and ignorant. Would you prefer we start an armed conflict and have people start riots in the streets?
Quebec Nationalism, in some strange ways, is a testement to the strenght of Canada. Where else do you see people discussing real political ideals in a respectfull and mature manner? Where else do you see people using the strenghts of democracy to make political change?
In the end, Quebec will not seperate - and it will be a great stunning victory for all Canadians. Maybe the rest of Canada should listen to the Quebecois to understand what they desire instead of acting gruff and cynical.
If the USA is to have a hope, it , like the stag, must cultivate a spirit of self sacrifice among its civil service and citizens.
It is the only way that America will get the resolve to win. The USA has done it before - lets see if it can do it again
No, my dick is bigger than yours. Yeah yeah America! Yeah Yeah America! Whoo-Whoo-were #1-Were #1.
Lets instead hope America dosnt go rushing off to display its supremecy and start a war with China. Lets instead hope America learns some self control and pulls back the reigns of Imperialism that the rest of the world has been trying to throw off for the last 50 years. Lets instead hope for a peacefull, sound, prosperous, healthy, vibrant, happy future - not to 'Start then Win' some fucking big-dick contest... do you think people in China dont care about the same things you do? The world is not about Nationality but about class. American Business & thier Mouthpieces spend alot of time pumping Yankees full of nationalistic propaganda so they never realize they are in the same boat as every other proletariat on the planet - 'the problems' relate to economic class, not birthplace.
You do know that when Cuba 'nationalized' all industry ONLY American refused to accept the 'repayments' made by the Cuban Government to the foreign interests... America has had it 'in' for Cuba since...
Now that Napster actually has a business model I think it's about time that they replaced Shawn Fanning's amateur project with a professional quality application.
How long until after Napster begins this service with all the big labels will it be before they begin the OpenNap Witch Hunt? How long will it be before they claim 'the Napster protocol is proprietary IP and OpenNap is an unlicensed implementation of our IP"???
That subject is proof positive that the advertisers have accomplished exactly what they were trying to do
Not exactly - being aware of mass market consumer-pods like Budweiser and Pepsi ARE NOT going to make me (and maybe the poster) buy these things... in fact I will never buy these things because I believe in economically sound industry that dosnt rely on brainwashing the unwashed masses in order to survive. I actually like to know something about the item i intend to buy - and seeing 30 seconds of dancing frogs on Television is only going to make me assume that their product is actually the commercial (the marketing 'come-on') and NOT lager or cola.
And therefore will suck shit because it is made to appeal to ~200Million mindless yankees who actually watch the superbowl to get their jollies from 30 second adverts...
Let me make it clear to you, there will be no 'air' about it: *I* am too good for the Superbowl
The 'super bowl' is a rital of group hysteria, with no value and base exicution. It is 'MentalMcNuggets for the Masses'(TM) at its worst. The only thing worse than the football is professional wrestling, and from what Ive read the WWF will be a football league next year...
No-mind announcers, glitzy commercialism and the rest makes me laugh at 150 Million Americans every year.
If someone needs more expensive treatment, a hostpital isn't obligated, nor should it be, to pay to save someone's life
That statment makes me sick. Fucking selfish, myopic prick - what would you like me to do if someday YOU were in a position where you were unable to pay? If I was given the 'ability' to define the how/what/where a person recieves medial help - would you like for me to say " Pay or die"?
You have been so blinded by capatalist indoctrination that you've lost touch with any real priorities - did you forget you live amoungst people? in a community?????
Free market is a great thing- it's the best system around for getting jsut about any efficient standard of living for everybody (though not at equal rates)
That fucking bullshit! Did you read the part of the article that says "2/3rd of revenue goes to marketing and admin"? In a Planned Economy where the workers are autonomous to run their Enterprise to become successful (like the feeling of knowing you contribute to the _best_ XYZ facility in the world... etc) helps to provide the SAME level of efficiencies with none of the Capatalist overhead crap (ala lawyers, IP, Marketing, Advertising etc etc). 63% of the American Economy does not contribute to the production of anything (as this article shows). These people are self-justifiying (sp?) cogs in a inefficient capatalist economy.
The kicker is that the 'government' and the 'corporations' are the same people, of the same class. When it comes down to it they are acting in both capacitites in their own best interest.
two-thirds of the drug companies costs are in marketing and administration
Another reason extreme uncontrolled capatalism is actually very wastefull. Do we really need palm pushers and paid liars? What value are they really adding to society?
That item was added to the EQ EULA after the launch. I used to play EQ (major time suck I dont have time for right now) and when I moved from being a BetaTester to a full account the topic had NEVER been discussed. Now, they have changed the EULA - after i have invested time and money in the game - consider that I may have intended to sell my items/characters after having read my EULA... now Sony decides to alter their EULA. Suppose that I DONT want to agree to these new terms - it dosnt really leave me much choice does it? I have already bought the device under a FORMER EULA.
As an example: I sell a you a computer, for $X dollars, with an EULA that states "You may not use this computer to kill people. Terms subject to change." You consider this reasonable. You and 123,123,123 other people find this a reasonable restriction and lay down your $X. NOW I decide to change the EULA to state: " yOu may not use this to play games, connect to a network, run Linux, calculate Pi or watch simpsons AVIs. Terms subject to change".
Not very reasonable - can I get my money back now that I find the EULA to restrictive? Will Sony rebate my $60 for the EQ box???? Would those 123,123,123 people be allowed to return their computers?
Im not a Linus Worshipper, and this comment is not in _his_ defense.
What the fuck do we give a shit if "$2 billion industry looking to exploit Linux for fun and profit" Fuck dollars - fuck industry!!!!! Why should Linus be accused of leading Linux poorly? Because he is not some TransNational Board of Directors looking to homoginize something for the mass market? It makes me sick to think that people are so caught up in 'market economics' and the like that they DO NOT EXIST OUTSIDE OF THEIR MARKET FUNCTIONS! People everywhere adopting the word 'Consumer' in place of 'Citizen' or 'Person' is a telling example of the transformation of everything we do to being a 'Business Function'.
I dont give a damn what 'industry' thinks of GNU/Linux - they can goto fucking hell. Im interested in Linux because of the possibility that it will change people and society by freeing them from a future of proprietary IP controlled by those who would seek to exploit them... if 'industry' thinks that the success of Linux should be 'co-opted' for their ends, and not for this liberation of users I say 'Fuck them'.
This makes me absolutely irate - when did "Person" and "Society" get replaced with "Consumer" and "Market"?!?! And when did it become necessary to measure everything by a 'dollar yardstick'?!?
. Or have we already become that extreme of a disposible society that we can throw away an entire planet
That is a very telling and terrible prospect - I had visions of humanity evolving into a 'culture of aliens who move from planet to planet sucking up its life and leaving it for dead' that we've all read in various stories... ouch what a terrible thought.
The submittor also expressed some concerns about how humans handling of the Earth - and whether we'll repeat the same problems on other planets
Not a chance. Unless our society grows up, accepts responsibility for its actions and sets our priorities straight there is little chance we'll 'do this to Mars.'
Our present culture is very capable of making the trip to Mars - but we dont care enough to do it. By the same token, we will never make the attempt to TerraForm Mars unless we've wisened up about the way we treat Terra. One (our growth) will come before any attempt to TerraForm Mars.
Evry industry is nearing a effective monopoly or oligopoly - they collude and 'palm push' at the top, setting agendas for everyone.
Havnt we all heard of the WTO? of the WIPO? FTAA? etc etc? What is happening is the Capatalist System is hitting a peak. It takes money to make money, and TransNationals are realizing it is easier to share in profit than really compete. Have a look at the auto-industry.. seen any real innovation, anything 'market shattering' there in the last 30 years? No.
The barrier to entry for a worker is at the bottom - and their is no effective difference (in inherent rights or ablity) between one person and the next (outside skills which im sure we could argue werent that varying). Where as _any_ business is being 'sown' up these days - the barrier to entry is skyrocketing in almost every sector. What this leaves us is with one group that can set demands very effectively to the other (Business to Person).
My point? Well, when we realize that the 'free market' for employment is really not 'free' at all - that we are all forced to operate in a climate where their will always be someone willing to do your job (just as well) for just a little less (or another interview-ee willling to accept a little less) labour will realize its only opportunity is to try and work together. TransNationals are certainly doing it - people have nearly zero bargaining power in the employee marketplace.
Some people are going to pipe up saying "I make $120K a year - and could walk away into another $150K job in a week": I say good, but right now times are good for everyone, dont kid yourself - when 'times get bad' you'll wish you had any job at all. The TransNationals make money even when the economy is crap, and be certain: The transition to 'outsourcing' and 'contract employees' and its ilk will assure that when times appear they might get bad, all the really ruthless TransNationals will start chopping people left and right... it has to do with being nimble and having a more disposable workforce.
IP to keep from putting all my employees on the street
What you really mean is "to provide some value to shareholders and venture capatalists as the company's prospects explode these leeches (shareholders & VCs) demand that they do anything to get them their money!"
Ill bet they dont give a damn about their employees.
why shouldn't we be allowed to receive and decrypt them?
I dont think that is the problem, people are 'okay' with what GM did bc the pirates are using DirectTV equipment to do their work. If people had complete home-brew rigs and were recieving the signals in a more 'indepentant' way they would be getting more support here if GM had started buying laws (ala DMCA/RIAA/MPAA) etc.
No one will say that Hughes isnt 'allowed' to alter their own system to make it more difficult to hack, you can recieve the signals, but Hughes isnt going to do their best to make it easy for them.
Kudos on a great hack to DTV and Best of Luck to the Pirates!
seems to be kind of neurotic about their status as an international industrial power.
Completely unlike USofAmerica's obsessive neurosis with convincing themselves they are the most mighty, free and wealthy nation... of which only one is debatably true: mighty*. 'Freedom' in America is a popular myth and we all know that Canada has the highest standard of living in the world - I think the USofA falls about 5th (maybe 3 or 4th..). *There would probably be other 'mighty' nations if they spent the kind of money that your Industrial Military industry demands, and if they had the kind of Imperialist goals of the USofA.
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almost certainly China or Russia
Dont forget those wily Peruvians. They dress funny. They dont wear any deodorant. And they only have ONE! McDonalds!!!, even that is only there for the US Military base.... lets not forget about them... next thing you know they will be Godless Commies(TM)
hate all us "Anglo
Not true - they dont 'hate' us. I know plenty of Quebecois and none have said "I hate you because you speak English". There is not racist crap like that going on.
There are people in Quebec who feel that Quebec would be better off independant. That may or may not be true. But Canada is a tolerant culture that values real democracy - it is our duty to listen and discuss the concerns of the Quebecois, this 'English Backlash' you display is childish and ignorant. Would you prefer we start an armed conflict and have people start riots in the streets?
Quebec Nationalism, in some strange ways, is a testement to the strenght of Canada. Where else do you see people discussing real political ideals in a respectfull and mature manner? Where else do you see people using the strenghts of democracy to make political change?
In the end, Quebec will not seperate - and it will be a great stunning victory for all Canadians. Maybe the rest of Canada should listen to the Quebecois to understand what they desire instead of acting gruff and cynical.
If the USA is to have a hope, it , like the stag, must cultivate a spirit of self sacrifice among its civil service and citizens. It is the only way that America will get the resolve to win. The USA has done it before - lets see if it can do it again
No, my dick is bigger than yours. Yeah yeah America! Yeah Yeah America! Whoo-Whoo-were #1-Were #1.
Lets instead hope America dosnt go rushing off to display its supremecy and start a war with China. Lets instead hope America learns some self control and pulls back the reigns of Imperialism that the rest of the world has been trying to throw off for the last 50 years. Lets instead hope for a peacefull, sound, prosperous, healthy, vibrant, happy future - not to 'Start then Win' some fucking big-dick contest... do you think people in China dont care about the same things you do? The world is not about Nationality but about class. American Business & thier Mouthpieces spend alot of time pumping Yankees full of nationalistic propaganda so they never realize they are in the same boat as every other proletariat on the planet - 'the problems' relate to economic class, not birthplace.
Or American...
You do know that when Cuba 'nationalized' all industry ONLY American refused to accept the 'repayments' made by the Cuban Government to the foreign interests... America has had it 'in' for Cuba since...
Now that Napster actually has a business model I think it's about time that they replaced Shawn Fanning's amateur project with a professional quality application.
Nice Flamebait el Trollio.
How long until after Napster begins this service with all the big labels will it be before they begin the OpenNap Witch Hunt? How long will it be before they claim 'the Napster protocol is proprietary IP and OpenNap is an unlicensed implementation of our IP"???
That subject is proof positive that the advertisers have accomplished exactly what they were trying to do
Not exactly - being aware of mass market consumer-pods like Budweiser and Pepsi ARE NOT going to make me (and maybe the poster) buy these things... in fact I will never buy these things because I believe in economically sound industry that dosnt rely on brainwashing the unwashed masses in order to survive. I actually like to know something about the item i intend to buy - and seeing 30 seconds of dancing frogs on Television is only going to make me assume that their product is actually the commercial (the marketing 'come-on') and NOT lager or cola.
And therefore will suck shit because it is made to appeal to ~200Million mindless yankees who actually watch the superbowl to get their jollies from 30 second adverts...
Exicution is execution - damn. Its hard to be pompous when you don't check your spelling.
Let me make it clear to you, there will be no 'air' about it: *I* am too good for the Superbowl
The 'super bowl' is a rital of group hysteria, with no value and base exicution. It is 'MentalMcNuggets for the Masses'(TM) at its worst. The only thing worse than the football is professional wrestling, and from what Ive read the WWF will be a football league next year...
No-mind announcers, glitzy commercialism and the rest makes me laugh at 150 Million Americans every year.
Gnu may be free, but it will cost you your free thought
What do you mean by that?
If someone needs more expensive treatment, a hostpital isn't obligated, nor should it be, to pay to save someone's life
That statment makes me sick. Fucking selfish, myopic prick - what would you like me to do if someday YOU were in a position where you were unable to pay? If I was given the 'ability' to define the how/what/where a person recieves medial help - would you like for me to say " Pay or die"?
You have been so blinded by capatalist indoctrination that you've lost touch with any real priorities - did you forget you live amoungst people? in a community?????
Free market is a great thing- it's the best system around for getting jsut about any efficient standard of living for everybody (though not at equal rates)
... etc) helps to provide the SAME level of efficiencies with none of the Capatalist overhead crap (ala lawyers, IP, Marketing, Advertising etc etc). 63% of the American Economy does not contribute to the production of anything (as this article shows). These people are self-justifiying (sp?) cogs in a inefficient capatalist economy.
That fucking bullshit! Did you read the part of the article that says "2/3rd of revenue goes to marketing and admin"? In a Planned Economy where the workers are autonomous to run their Enterprise to become successful (like the feeling of knowing you contribute to the _best_ XYZ facility in the world
The kicker is that the 'government' and the 'corporations' are the same people, of the same class. When it comes down to it they are acting in both capacitites in their own best interest.
two-thirds of the drug companies costs are in marketing and administration
Another reason extreme uncontrolled capatalism is actually very wastefull. Do we really need palm pushers and paid liars? What value are they really adding to society?
That item was added to the EQ EULA after the launch. I used to play EQ (major time suck I dont have time for right now) and when I moved from being a BetaTester to a full account the topic had NEVER been discussed. Now, they have changed the EULA - after i have invested time and money in the game - consider that I may have intended to sell my items/characters after having read my EULA... now Sony decides to alter their EULA. Suppose that I DONT want to agree to these new terms - it dosnt really leave me much choice does it? I have already bought the device under a FORMER EULA.
As an example: I sell a you a computer, for $X dollars, with an EULA that states "You may not use this computer to kill people. Terms subject to change." You consider this reasonable. You and 123,123,123 other people find this a reasonable restriction and lay down your $X. NOW I decide to change the EULA to state: " yOu may not use this to play games, connect to a network, run Linux, calculate Pi or watch simpsons AVIs. Terms subject to change".
Not very reasonable - can I get my money back now that I find the EULA to restrictive? Will Sony rebate my $60 for the EQ box???? Would those 123,123,123 people be allowed to return their computers?
you know - as I was writting that I thought about the same thing!
Im not a Linus Worshipper, and this comment is not in _his_ defense.
What the fuck do we give a shit if "$2 billion industry looking to exploit Linux for fun and profit" Fuck dollars - fuck industry!!!!! Why should Linus be accused of leading Linux poorly? Because he is not some TransNational Board of Directors looking to homoginize something for the mass market? It makes me sick to think that people are so caught up in 'market economics' and the like that they DO NOT EXIST OUTSIDE OF THEIR MARKET FUNCTIONS ! People everywhere adopting the word 'Consumer' in place of 'Citizen' or 'Person' is a telling example of the transformation of everything we do to being a 'Business Function'.
I dont give a damn what 'industry' thinks of GNU/Linux - they can goto fucking hell. Im interested in Linux because of the possibility that it will change people and society by freeing them from a future of proprietary IP controlled by those who would seek to exploit them... if 'industry' thinks that the success of Linux should be 'co-opted' for their ends, and not for this liberation of users I say 'Fuck them'.
This makes me absolutely irate - when did "Person" and "Society" get replaced with "Consumer" and "Market"?!?! And when did it become necessary to measure everything by a 'dollar yardstick'?!?
Great! Just what we need: more displosable junk in the landfills... excellent!
. Or have we already become that extreme of a disposible society that we can throw away an entire planet
That is a very telling and terrible prospect - I had visions of humanity evolving into a 'culture of aliens who move from planet to planet sucking up its life and leaving it for dead' that we've all read in various stories... ouch what a terrible thought.
The submittor also expressed some concerns about how humans handling of the Earth - and whether we'll repeat the same problems on other planets
Not a chance. Unless our society grows up, accepts responsibility for its actions and sets our priorities straight there is little chance we'll 'do this to Mars.'
Our present culture is very capable of making the trip to Mars - but we dont care enough to do it. By the same token, we will never make the attempt to TerraForm Mars unless we've wisened up about the way we treat Terra. One (our growth) will come before any attempt to TerraForm Mars.
See here for a good presentation on the Itsy
Evry industry is nearing a effective monopoly or oligopoly - they collude and 'palm push' at the top, setting agendas for everyone.
Havnt we all heard of the WTO? of the WIPO? FTAA? etc etc? What is happening is the Capatalist System is hitting a peak. It takes money to make money, and TransNationals are realizing it is easier to share in profit than really compete. Have a look at the auto-industry.. seen any real innovation, anything 'market shattering' there in the last 30 years? No.
The barrier to entry for a worker is at the bottom - and their is no effective difference (in inherent rights or ablity) between one person and the next (outside skills which im sure we could argue werent that varying). Where as _any_ business is being 'sown' up these days - the barrier to entry is skyrocketing in almost every sector. What this leaves us is with one group that can set demands very effectively to the other (Business to Person).
My point? Well, when we realize that the 'free market' for employment is really not 'free' at all - that we are all forced to operate in a climate where their will always be someone willing to do your job (just as well) for just a little less (or another interview-ee willling to accept a little less) labour will realize its only opportunity is to try and work together. TransNationals are certainly doing it - people have nearly zero bargaining power in the employee marketplace.
Some people are going to pipe up saying "I make $120K a year - and could walk away into another $150K job in a week": I say good, but right now times are good for everyone, dont kid yourself - when 'times get bad' you'll wish you had any job at all. The TransNationals make money even when the economy is crap, and be certain: The transition to 'outsourcing' and 'contract employees' and its ilk will assure that when times appear they might get bad, all the really ruthless TransNationals will start chopping people left and right... it has to do with being nimble and having a more disposable workforce.
Workers of the World Unite!
IP to keep from putting all my employees on the street
What you really mean is "to provide some value to shareholders and venture capatalists as the company's prospects explode these leeches (shareholders & VCs) demand that they do anything to get them their money!"
Ill bet they dont give a damn about their employees.
why shouldn't we be allowed to receive and decrypt them?
I dont think that is the problem, people are 'okay' with what GM did bc the pirates are using DirectTV equipment to do their work. If people had complete home-brew rigs and were recieving the signals in a more 'indepentant' way they would be getting more support here if GM had started buying laws (ala DMCA/RIAA/MPAA) etc.
No one will say that Hughes isnt 'allowed' to alter their own system to make it more difficult to hack, you can recieve the signals, but Hughes isnt going to do their best to make it easy for them.
Kudos on a great hack to DTV and Best of Luck to the Pirates!
seems to be kind of neurotic about their status as an international industrial power.
Completely unlike USofAmerica's obsessive neurosis with convincing themselves they are the most mighty, free and wealthy nation... of which only one is debatably true: mighty*. 'Freedom' in America is a popular myth and we all know that Canada has the highest standard of living in the world - I think the USofA falls about 5th (maybe 3 or 4th..). *There would probably be other 'mighty' nations if they spent the kind of money that your Industrial Military industry demands, and if they had the kind of Imperialist goals of the USofA.