corporations most certainly hire violent goons to coerce people
Then those corporations are are governmental organizations; that is, you're saying that at worst, you end up with government.
Somalia is the result of a government going away and being replaced by... the kind of people making Somalia into a hellhole
Actually, in areas of civilization where governmental organizations (including warlords) have not been terribly imposing, Somalia has shown massive improvement even compared to the surrounding countries that have relatively stable governments; the collapse of an unworkable, savage organization like the "government" of Somalia was probably the best thing ever to happen to Somalians despite the statist culture that has persisted through the calamity.
I do want to look after my fellow people; however, I don't necessarily agree that your ideas for doing so are the best ideas, let alone good ideas at all. Why should I be forced to pay for your ideas? I'm not your slave.
Somalia is the result of a failed state, what was formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, which was governed under a single-party, Socialist rule. The resulting mayhem has nothing to do with libertarian or anarchist principles, particularly the Non-Aggresion Principle.
In any case, what actually gives you a functional civilization is a large number of individuals trading voluntarily amongst themselves to better their own situations; profit is not merely the transfer of wealth, but rather the creation of wealth.
How much is "my share", anway? Only the price mechanism of a free market can figure that out consistently, adapting to the reality at hand rather than the fantasies of a "noble" bureaucrat.
So, what is "Government", anyway? Any organization—any organization at all—that confiscates resources by threat of strike-first violence is a "governmental" organization. When one such organization becomes a monopoly, we call that organization "Government".
Government is simply a bad company that doesn't go out of business because it is able to confiscate your resources by threat of violence; it doesn't give you the goods and services for which you personally think you are paying, but you have to pay them anyway—it's totally absurd and unconscionable.
It is not a modern value to coerce resources from people by threat of violence. So, in fact, governments are actually the last barbaric vestige of a pre-modern civilization.
I see no evidence that it's best to develop, say, profitable satellite technology (GPS, communications, etc.) via the gimmicky aspiration to stick an American flag on the moon; rather, it seems that it would be far superior to aspire to such gimmicks via first developing such profitable technology.
* "It's like your WiFi signal" does not mean "It takes the place of your WiFi signal". It's called an analogy.
* That question is asked and answered in (at least) the video: The final receiver will be tracked continuously in the final product; the current behavior is mainly for demonstration purposes only.
* Next time, do a little a research and thinking before spouting off from the unproductive comfort of your armchair.
Is it possible that controlled sleep deprivation could result in the culling of strictly unnecessary brain cells, so that the overall result is a more power-efficient brain? The first time I pulled an all-nighter to work on mentally taxing problems, I had to sleep 19 hours to recover. After doing that kind of work regularly, only a few hours or recovery became necessary.
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." - Otto von Bismarck
Look, life is disgusting. There's a reason why "How the sausage is made" refers to anything that should be hidden away.
The only reason people eat sausage and beef and pork and poultry and sushi and other animal innards, etc., is because some trained sociopath has already taken on the burden of turning something repulsive into something delicious.
Package those insects up as cheap, tasty patties for the summer BBQ, ramp up the marketing campaign about gettin' to enjoy a Burger while also savin' the planet AND your money at the same time, and get Burger King to sell the [grass]Hopper in place of the Whopper.
Then, in 50 years, we'll be eatin' insects as though we've always been eatin' insects.
Internet access provides enough data (e.g., social interaction) to keep a sizeable proportion of human brains content; in fact, it's a lot easier to gather this data by interfacing with the Internet than by interfacing with the "real" world.
Then, as usual, people just perpetuate the conditions that make them content.
"Their" country, "their" rules... for various values of "their".
I guess a Bureaucrat has got to extort money somehow! They used to just walk around and say: "Nice place ya got here; I'd sure hate for something bad to happen to it..."
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corporations most certainly hire violent goons to coerce people
Then those corporations are are governmental organizations; that is, you're saying that at worst , you end up with government.
Somalia is the result of a government going away and being replaced by... the kind of people making Somalia into a hellhole
Actually, in areas of civilization where governmental organizations (including warlords) have not been terribly imposing, Somalia has shown massive improvement even compared to the surrounding countries that have relatively stable governments; the collapse of an unworkable, savage organization like the "government" of Somalia was probably the best thing ever to happen to Somalians despite the statist culture that has persisted through the calamity.
Why are you putting words in my mouth?
I do want to look after my fellow people; however, I don't necessarily agree that your ideas for doing so are the best ideas, let alone good ideas at all. Why should I be forced to pay for your ideas? I'm not your slave.
Somalia is the result of a failed state, what was formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, which was governed under a single-party, Socialist rule. The resulting mayhem has nothing to do with libertarian or anarchist principles, particularly the Non-Aggresion Principle.
In any case, what actually gives you a functional civilization is a large number of individuals trading voluntarily amongst themselves to better their own situations; profit is not merely the transfer of wealth, but rather the creation of wealth.
How much is "my share", anway? Only the price mechanism of a free market can figure that out consistently, adapting to the reality at hand rather than the fantasies of a "noble" bureaucrat.
So, what is "Government", anyway? Any organization—any organization at all—that confiscates resources by threat of strike-first violence is a "governmental" organization. When one such organization becomes a monopoly, we call that organization "Government".
Government is simply a bad company that doesn't go out of business because it is able to confiscate your resources by threat of violence; it doesn't give you the goods and services for which you personally think you are paying, but you have to pay them anyway—it's totally absurd and unconscionable.
It is not a modern value to coerce resources from people by threat of violence. So, in fact, governments are actually the last barbaric vestige of a pre-modern civilization.
I see no evidence that it's best to develop, say, profitable satellite technology (GPS, communications, etc.) via the gimmicky aspiration to stick an American flag on the moon; rather, it seems that it would be far superior to aspire to such gimmicks via first developing such profitable technology.
Because you can say that for every government thing, fire departments, police departments, military defense.
Maybe you ought to think about that.
I don't expect any real results from this study for many years, but I think it's a very important study to do.
Great. Then you pay for it. I don't share your enthusiasm, so why should I have to share your bill?
This just goes to show you that such organizations are actually governmental.
Maybe you should find some less fickle patrons.
Synaptic pruning
* "It's like your WiFi signal" does not mean "It takes the place of your WiFi signal". It's called an analogy.
* That question is asked and answered in (at least) the video: The final receiver will be tracked continuously in the final product; the current behavior is mainly for demonstration purposes only.
* Next time, do a little a research and thinking before spouting off from the unproductive comfort of your armchair.
Whether it's "damage" or "streamlining" is part of the question...
I've already made that observation. The question is: Why?
Is it possible that controlled sleep deprivation could result in the culling of strictly unnecessary brain cells, so that the overall result is a more power-efficient brain? The first time I pulled an all-nighter to work on mentally taxing problems, I had to sleep 19 hours to recover. After doing that kind of work regularly, only a few hours or recovery became necessary.
Over the years that I've used these systems, that hasn't been my experience. So, readers: YMMV.
In fact, mileage often depends on whose in the driver's seat.
Hasn't Arch Linux already solved this problem (for at least x86)?
Hasn't Gentoo already solved this problem for [almost] all architectures?
The problem is not greed. The problem is government dictating how people should run their lives.
It does NOT work.
Things are built well when people want them, let alone need them.
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." - Otto von Bismarck
Look, life is disgusting. There's a reason why "How the sausage is made" refers to anything that should be hidden away.
The only reason people eat sausage and beef and pork and poultry and sushi and other animal innards, etc., is because some trained sociopath has already taken on the burden of turning something repulsive into something delicious.
Package those insects up as cheap, tasty patties for the summer BBQ, ramp up the marketing campaign about gettin' to enjoy a Burger while also savin' the planet AND your money at the same time, and get Burger King to sell the [grass]Hopper in place of the Whopper.
Then, in 50 years, we'll be eatin' insects as though we've always been eatin' insects.
What an outrageous notion! The only qualification is that one is willing to trade for it; who are you to determine that for someone else?
Internet access provides enough data (e.g., social interaction) to keep a sizeable proportion of human brains content; in fact, it's a lot easier to gather this data by interfacing with the Internet than by interfacing with the "real" world.
Then, as usual, people just perpetuate the conditions that make them content.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
"I'm going to work for the IRS" said no competent, industrious individual. Ever.
The rules were established for various values of 'established'; I'm sure the climber would dispute that claim.
"Their" country, "their" rules... for various values of "their".
I guess a Bureaucrat has got to extort money somehow! They used to just walk around and say: "Nice place ya got here; I'd sure hate for something bad to happen to it..."
Figures in a ledger book are what protect people's lives.
You can't ignore reality—no matter how good your poetry sounds.