It was your sacred and precious government that first mandated monopolies for cable, phone, water, gas, etc. Don't blame the market that you don't have a choice of cable companies, blame your neighbors for creating the monopoly.
The concept of the university has been around since the middle ages, and until the late nineteenth century, were wholly private enterprises. Their purpose was to sell education to students. In the first universities you paid the professors directly, and for as long as you liked. Until the 1960s, the only responsibility a university had was to make sure the students got their money's worth (ei. a good education).
The central concept of the university hasn't changed all that much. They are STILL commercial enterprises that sell education. It doesn't matter if the student pays his own tuition or the government pays it for him. In the end, the core of your education comes down to an economic relationship between the university and the student. Damage that relationship and you'll find yourself invited to take your studies elsewhere.
Whack! If all you ever sell is one box of soap, then of course you'll never make any money! It doesn't matter if you're in MLM, or are the owner of a Soap-Is-Us franchise in the megamall. If you think you only have to make one sale per lifetime to reach Easy Street, you're stupider than you look. <cluestick>Whack!</cluestick>
And that's an excuse to retain the massive disincentives agaisnt antibiotic research?
Senator Cornpone: "We must keep the FDA at a high level of regulation, bureaucracy and inefficiency, because otherwise there would be insufficient incentive to develop new antibiotics..."
Farting is not illegal, but if you do it at my dinner table, you're out of here! The university gets to make the rules about the university, including who gets to be a student. It doesn't matter how legal scanning a server is, you don't get to do it to their server AND be a student.
The world is not a one way street and you are not its traffic light. If you cannot get along with institutions, then do not be surprised when institutions do not get along with you.
How the hell did you live before there were cell phones? When I grew up auditoriums had one telephone, and it was a pay phone out in the lobby. Granted, I'm still quite young, and emergency workers (IT pukes are *not* emergency workers) had pagers. But It doesn't take too many brain cells to imagine a not-too-distant time when you were completely incommunicado if you were watching a movie in a theater. Oh the horror!
and describing it in terms of "software that has been infected by an open source license", as though the software was just minding its own business when a nasty license crept up and attacked it
Yeah, sort of like some REAL viruses are? "Yes Doctor, there I was minding more own business, when this nasty HIV virus crept up and attacked me! I wasn't doing anything!"
I agree. The encouragement of obsolescence needs to stop. I've got a Toshiba 75Mhz Pentium laptop that still works. The battery had lost all memory, but other than that everything still works like it did in 1996. I've replaced the Windows 95 with Slackware 9, and it still sees productive use in our embedded software lab. My mom uses an 667Mhz PII with Win98. It's more than adequate for her email/web needs.
There's nothing wrong with old computers, other than being an insult to the aesthetics of a few introverted nerds.
or engineering seniors trying to do CAD with a 4 year old integrated graphics card
It could be worse. It could be four years ago with a then state of the art integrated graphics card. We all know that CAD was a useless endeavor until NVidia graced us with last week's SuperGPU9000+. I would hate to think how barbaric engineering was back in the ancient days of the 3dfx.
Nonsense. If you sell a $15 dollar box of soap at a 20% margin, you have just make $3 for yourself. This is a mathematical certainty. It doesn't matter whether you are in an MLM or not, because it is an actual bona fide sale.
Sigh. The concept of MLM is not unethical. That some specific MLMs may be in practice is beside the point. I'm sure that there are some unethical bakeries out there as well, but that does not make the concept of "bakery" unethical.
Then they turn around ask the "interviewee" for money in order to pay for "training".
Actually, that part is illegal. You're not talking about any of the legal MLMs out there (Avon, Fuller Brush, etc.).
But it is NOT absolute fact! Look up the word "fact". Fact is data and evidence, not the theories to explain the data and evidence. Evolution is still a theory, and is thus an explanation and model. It is no more factual than Newton's Theory of Gravity.
I'm not solely blaming the federal government (such as the "No Student Left Behind"), but rather the federal AND state governments. Personally I'm not too thrilled with the local county and city government control over education either, but am willing to concede it on pragmatic grounds.
Regardless of what comes after the ellipses, it is the statement above which is the core of my contention. The state should NOT be forcing your children to do anything. I realize that this is a difficult concept for soem of you, but the state has no right to you children (or you for that matter).
You should STILL have to zip it up afterwards. Otherwise when someone clicks on the link the PDF gets displayed in the browser instead of downloaded. While we all know how to use a right click to download, it does prevent hordes of Windows and Mac users (and even a few KDE and GNOME users) from tearing you a new asshole for your rudeness. Trust me, I know from experience.
Because this particular license is about as 'Free' as a download of Internet Explorer. This isn't software, it's a book. While technical in nature, it is still someone's personal expression. Once you modify it, it's not longer personal.
Yet they still pay for the state schools through taxation. It would be a much smaller problem if there were educational tax credits (a much different thing than vouchers), so that people don't have to pay taxes to state schools when they send their children to private schools.
but evolution is absolute scientific fact.
That itself is a statement of faith. The original theory by Darwin has itself been replaced by more modern versions. What gives you faith that the theory is now inerrant? What makes you think it might not be further altered and modified based on future discoveries?
That some process we would call "evolution" accounts for the diversity of species is highly probable, it is stupidly dogmatic to consider the current theories of evolution being taught in schools to be "absolute scientific fact".
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It was your sacred and precious government that first mandated monopolies for cable, phone, water, gas, etc. Don't blame the market that you don't have a choice of cable companies, blame your neighbors for creating the monopoly.
I am humbled by the majesty of your argument.
Wow! What university brainwashed you?
The concept of the university has been around since the middle ages, and until the late nineteenth century, were wholly private enterprises. Their purpose was to sell education to students. In the first universities you paid the professors directly, and for as long as you liked. Until the 1960s, the only responsibility a university had was to make sure the students got their money's worth (ei. a good education).
The central concept of the university hasn't changed all that much. They are STILL commercial enterprises that sell education. It doesn't matter if the student pays his own tuition or the government pays it for him. In the end, the core of your education comes down to an economic relationship between the university and the student. Damage that relationship and you'll find yourself invited to take your studies elsewhere.
Whack!
If all you ever sell is one box of soap, then of course you'll never make any money! It doesn't matter if you're in MLM, or are the owner of a Soap-Is-Us franchise in the megamall. If you think you only have to make one sale per lifetime to reach Easy Street, you're stupider than you look.
<cluestick>Whack!</cluestick>
What a shame that people think oppressive government is the solution to greed and arrogance.
And that's an excuse to retain the massive disincentives agaisnt antibiotic research?
Senator Cornpone: "We must keep the FDA at a high level of regulation, bureaucracy and inefficiency, because otherwise there would be insufficient incentive to develop new antibiotics..."
Just think how horrible it was running IronCAD four years ago! Think of the children!
Sigh. You did it again. You used the phrase "absolute fact". Please get a dictionary.
Farting is not illegal, but if you do it at my dinner table, you're out of here! The university gets to make the rules about the university, including who gets to be a student. It doesn't matter how legal scanning a server is, you don't get to do it to their server AND be a student.
The world is not a one way street and you are not its traffic light. If you cannot get along with institutions, then do not be surprised when institutions do not get along with you.
Yet you used the word "absolute." Really you did. Honest. Go read your own post if you don't believe me.
This violates my sacred rights of privacy! Think of the children! Aaargh!
How the hell did you live before there were cell phones? When I grew up auditoriums had one telephone, and it was a pay phone out in the lobby. Granted, I'm still quite young, and emergency workers (IT pukes are *not* emergency workers) had pagers. But It doesn't take too many brain cells to imagine a not-too-distant time when you were completely incommunicado if you were watching a movie in a theater. Oh the horror!
When was the last time your painted a faraday cage in an auditorium?
and describing it in terms of "software that has been infected by an open source license", as though the software was just minding its own business when a nasty license crept up and attacked it
Yeah, sort of like some REAL viruses are? "Yes Doctor, there I was minding more own business, when this nasty HIV virus crept up and attacked me! I wasn't doing anything!"
I agree. The encouragement of obsolescence needs to stop. I've got a Toshiba 75Mhz Pentium laptop that still works. The battery had lost all memory, but other than that everything still works like it did in 1996. I've replaced the Windows 95 with Slackware 9, and it still sees productive use in our embedded software lab. My mom uses an 667Mhz PII with Win98. It's more than adequate for her email/web needs.
There's nothing wrong with old computers, other than being an insult to the aesthetics of a few introverted nerds.
or engineering seniors trying to do CAD with a 4 year old integrated graphics card
It could be worse. It could be four years ago with a then state of the art integrated graphics card. We all know that CAD was a useless endeavor until NVidia graced us with last week's SuperGPU9000+. I would hate to think how barbaric engineering was back in the ancient days of the 3dfx.
Nonsense. If you sell a $15 dollar box of soap at a 20% margin, you have just make $3 for yourself. This is a mathematical certainty. It doesn't matter whether you are in an MLM or not, because it is an actual bona fide sale.
Sigh. The concept of MLM is not unethical. That some specific MLMs may be in practice is beside the point. I'm sure that there are some unethical bakeries out there as well, but that does not make the concept of "bakery" unethical.
Then they turn around ask the "interviewee" for money in order to pay for "training".
Actually, that part is illegal. You're not talking about any of the legal MLMs out there (Avon, Fuller Brush, etc.).
I said evolution was absolute fact.
But it is NOT absolute fact! Look up the word "fact". Fact is data and evidence, not the theories to explain the data and evidence. Evolution is still a theory, and is thus an explanation and model. It is no more factual than Newton's Theory of Gravity.
I'm not solely blaming the federal government (such as the "No Student Left Behind"), but rather the federal AND state governments. Personally I'm not too thrilled with the local county and city government control over education either, but am willing to concede it on pragmatic grounds.
I think that the state SHOULD force children...
Regardless of what comes after the ellipses, it is the statement above which is the core of my contention. The state should NOT be forcing your children to do anything. I realize that this is a difficult concept for soem of you, but the state has no right to you children (or you for that matter).
- until the publishing world goes all electronic: more trees must die
In case you didn't know it, paper comes from trees raised on farms.
You should STILL have to zip it up afterwards. Otherwise when someone clicks on the link the PDF gets displayed in the browser instead of downloaded. While we all know how to use a right click to download, it does prevent hordes of Windows and Mac users (and even a few KDE and GNOME users) from tearing you a new asshole for your rudeness. Trust me, I know from experience.
Because this particular license is about as 'Free' as a download of Internet Explorer.
This isn't software, it's a book. While technical in nature, it is still someone's personal expression. Once you modify it, it's not longer personal.
That's what private religious schools are for.
Yet they still pay for the state schools through taxation. It would be a much smaller problem if there were educational tax credits (a much different thing than vouchers), so that people don't have to pay taxes to state schools when they send their children to private schools.
but evolution is absolute scientific fact.
That itself is a statement of faith. The original theory by Darwin has itself been replaced by more modern versions. What gives you faith that the theory is now inerrant? What makes you think it might not be further altered and modified based on future discoveries?
That some process we would call "evolution" accounts for the diversity of species is highly probable, it is stupidly dogmatic to consider the current theories of evolution being taught in schools to be "absolute scientific fact".