I'd question your government sourced numbers given that they have the same bias to provide you with lower inflation in these data as in the original data in question.
Anytime you talk about inflation, you have to be cognoscente of the fact that every government on the planet lies about it.
Their deficit spending, fiat currency, crony capitalism for the elite depends on it.
I'd be willing to bet that if you price cable services in terms of real assets like oil, gold, silver, food, energy or even a subway ticket in NYC it would be a different picture, averaged out over the long term.
If you're taking the government's figures on inflation I've got prime ocean front real estate to sell you in beautiful New Mexico.
How do you tell if the government is lying?
Their lips are moving (or they've typed something out).
I've said it from the start and I'll repeat it now:
The FCC's interest in "net neutrality"(1) was never about what you wanted, it was *always* about gaining control of the internet. When you have the power of regulation over something, you have all the power in the world at the barrel of a gun.
By trying to support their efforts, every single one of you was dooming the internet.
The USG frequently tries to fear monger online, always accusing others of militarizing the internet, when in fact they are the ones doing it. They started monitoring your phone calls in the early nineties, but of course it must have been because of 911. Go back to sleep you retarded fucks.
It's my fucking tragedy to live on a planet, in this meat suit that is all about tribes and sharing experiences with other meat suits, with a bunch of asshole Elois like you all. Worst of it, probably if you are capable of comprehending what I've just said you are the best of the best here. I live in an impressionist's landscape utopia, surrounded and crowded by the people of walmart.
Maybe some day I'll live in a community where people care about Freedom, Liberty, truth and exploring the universe (with science). We could have been traveling the stars, meeting others and re-inventing ourselves by now. Instead we squander and hold ourselves back with our archaic infighting to protect the power and privileged few.
1. Net neutrality has never been a problem. The internet is about freedom, this includes the freedom to make contracts with other parties that benefits both sides and the freedom to not make contracts that don't benefit you. The only problem is that it's not easy to dump comcast when it's your only option in some shit town. Fix that instead. Get the USG out of the internet regulation business. You're all victims of problem, reaction, solution.
The USG needs to be cut to about 1/1000th of it's current size. I believe something happen soon because the monetary system is unsustainable.
There is no requirement for DRM on Steam. It's a distribution platform first and formaost, and there are DRM-free games on Steam. Steam also has DRM that publishers can use (and which really isn't that bad or intrusive). Steam also distributes games with all the worst DRM: horrible, horrible stuff.
Contrast this with Good Old Games, owned by the very same CD Projekt Red. There you get a promise of "no DRM of any kind ever". They distribute many games which originally had DRM in some cracked (but licensed) form, so stuff like "look up this word in the manual" is bypassed. They're just as good as Steam at patch management.
Steam is tolerable. It's good points outweigh its problems. But GOG is great. It's made of win and awesome. It's like the best pirate BBS from back in the day, where every game worked better thanks to the cracks, except it's all legal and licensed, and reasonably priced. Naturally, they're having a hard time attracting publishers, but the financial success of the Witcher titles might get some notice.
SO by your own logic: which answer is further from the truth?
That the sun revolves around the earth (ie. barycenter is near the earth) or that the earth revolves around the sun?
Except in the case of bitcoin, the intrinsic value is zero.
Nobody wants a bitcoin for it's own sake, everyone wants bitcoin because of what you can buy with it.
Real things have intrinsic values. Money has intrinsic value. Currencies don't. Bitcoin is a currency. Dollar is a currency. All paper moneys are currencies.
If what you say is true, the _real_ reason you can't do it is because the Dean has his eye on your software, and might want to sell it off to a commercial entity to make a few bucks. And if it's a GPL-derived work, that's much harder to do.
Stop having a tantrum because you don't agree with what license people pick for their software. Yes, it sucks for you that because these libraries are GPL you can actually see them, want to use them, but feel conflicted because you don't want to abide by their copyright.
Boo fucking hoo. Cry me a river.
If those APIs were proprietary and closed, you wouldn't even know about them. The saying ignorance is bliss was invented for people like you.
This is exactly the problem with the GPL. Its advocates want everything to be free, and are giddy about the possibility of bringing suit against people who so much as linked to a GPL'd library and forcing their work to be GPL.
I bet you there aren't many GPL suits. Nobody wants to force someone's work to be GPL, how often has this even happened? They just want you to stop violating their copyright. Can you do that?
It's viral, and not in a good way.
Hah, did microsoft pay you to write this?
I'm not about to defend the practices of certain large corporations. But in education and medicine, institutional rules over IP forbid many people I know of from even linking to a GPL'd library. For us, if it's GPL'd then it is off limits.
That's because the institutions know their intentions don't fit with abiding by the GPL. Maybe it's their intentions that are the problem, and not somebody else who spends their time writing cool GPL software.
Also, having a friendly non-adversarial relationship with industry is useful and will result in much broader use of your software.
So? is that your goal? A lot of people could give a flying fuck about what you consider 'industry' or broad use. They like their software like their women, quality over quantity and STDs.
For most FOSS projects
Stop right there. There is no such thing as Free Open Source. These are mutually exclusive terms.
, exposure and reaching a critical mass of contributors is crucial. The BSD is inherently helpful in this case. The GPL just scares people off, because it asserts control over code you haven't even written just because you decided to use something that happened to have a GPL license.
Mate, you spew nonsense faster than a cow farts. If I write a piece of GPL code, in no way does it "assert control over code I haven't written." You're on the wrong side of the bullshit line and we're going to have to stuff some hot grits down your panties.
So, no, Stallman, I disagree and furthermore I condemn your argument as unproductive, wrong, and unhelpful. You might have ground to stand on if LLVM were closed source but it's open - in fact, it's under a more permissive license than the GPL.
Finally! Yes the BSD license is more permissive. You managed to make a sentence without fraud, fabrication or lies. I'm proud of you.
Some developers like the whole BSD thing, which gives more freedom to the person who uses and implements the software, rather than the original developer.
Actually, with the GPL as the software user, you are free to do anything you like with it. As long as you distribute the source when required. Implying the software user is restricted is dishonest.
What on earth is wrong with you people. You're usually so rational.
You all complain that some places don't have choice of ISPs because of government granted monopolies
You refuse to look at the solution to the root cause, that is to get rid of government power to grant monopolies
You want instead, for the fucking people who bring you the NSA, fiat dollar, deficit spending, income tax and crimes against humanity to have more power over the internet?
Where has this problem even manifested? ISPs aren't stupid, usually when they block or slow traffic it's a calculated decision to please MORE customers or at the request of the government.
Don't you realize that the only power the government has is force? Don't you realize that everytime you grant them power they sell it to the highest bidder and fuck you with it? You are the 'target' and 'adversary'. YOU.
Don't you realize that there is no such thing as a 'government'? It's an abstract, fictional entity that masks the foul psychopaths that rule over you.
You know what? you have made such an ignorant statement I'm no longer able to use any of my 15 mod points on this discussion.
NSA is now deeply integrated with federal law enforcement per 9/11 "reforms" that all but created an integrated security state.
If you had bothered to watch the video you would have noticed that the leaked documents put much of this NSA activity starting 15 YEARS ago. That's 1998. They were already collecting all your email, internet and phone data AND STORING IT years before 9/11.
Yes that means that those things you weren't proud you did in your distant past can be used against you forever.
Lusitania
Mossadegh
Gulf of Tonkin
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
USS Liberty
9/11
Anthrax attacks
Wake up Neo, you've always been a slave. Worldwide spying, exploitation, propaganda AND financial manipulation. It's been done for hundreds of years according to the capability of the time. Everything you think you know is a lie.
What we're reaching is the end game. When the rulers of this planet can finally bind everyone in such strong chains from birth that even the pretense of freedom can be dropped.
Fortunately, the empire and the dollar are walking debt infested corpses and their plans will come crashing down before they reach endgame.
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And that's being generous as hell, because I remember a 1995 big mac and it puts today's cheap piece of crap to shame.
Also don't forget to look at the monetary base: http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/04.11/images/stl-monetary-base.jpg
Ok you don't like gold, let's try something simlar to your items.
In other words the dollar has lost 50% of it's purchasing power.
Are your numbers in percentages, or are they in ratios if starting price vs ending price?
Really?
I find it hard to believe considering oil and precious metals have risen so much:
Gold for example has moved from $400/oz in 2004 to $1300/oz in 2014
I'd question your government sourced numbers given that they have the same bias to provide you with lower inflation in these data as in the original data in question.
Anytime you talk about inflation, you have to be cognoscente of the fact that every government on the planet lies about it.
Their deficit spending, fiat currency, crony capitalism for the elite depends on it.
Look at Venezuela for example
Or the US of A.
I'd be willing to bet that if you price cable services in terms of real assets like oil, gold, silver, food, energy or even a subway ticket in NYC it would be a different picture, averaged out over the long term.
If you're taking the government's figures on inflation I've got prime ocean front real estate to sell you in beautiful New Mexico.
How do you tell if the government is lying?
Their lips are moving (or they've typed something out).
Anything that goes in or around your dick is not something you want to cheap out on.
I've said it from the start and I'll repeat it now:
The FCC's interest in "net neutrality"(1) was never about what you wanted, it was *always* about gaining control of the internet. When you have the power of regulation over something, you have all the power in the world at the barrel of a gun.
By trying to support their efforts, every single one of you was dooming the internet.
The USG frequently tries to fear monger online, always accusing others of militarizing the internet, when in fact they are the ones doing it. They started monitoring your phone calls in the early nineties, but of course it must have been because of 911. Go back to sleep you retarded fucks.
It's my fucking tragedy to live on a planet, in this meat suit that is all about tribes and sharing experiences with other meat suits, with a bunch of asshole Elois like you all. Worst of it, probably if you are capable of comprehending what I've just said you are the best of the best here. I live in an impressionist's landscape utopia, surrounded and crowded by the people of walmart.
Maybe some day I'll live in a community where people care about Freedom, Liberty, truth and exploring the universe (with science). We could have been traveling the stars, meeting others and re-inventing ourselves by now. Instead we squander and hold ourselves back with our archaic infighting to protect the power and privileged few.
1. Net neutrality has never been a problem. The internet is about freedom, this includes the freedom to make contracts with other parties that benefits both sides and the freedom to not make contracts that don't benefit you. The only problem is that it's not easy to dump comcast when it's your only option in some shit town. Fix that instead. Get the USG out of the internet regulation business. You're all victims of problem, reaction, solution.
The USG needs to be cut to about 1/1000th of it's current size. I believe something happen soon because the monetary system is unsustainable.
There is no requirement for DRM on Steam. It's a distribution platform first and formaost, and there are DRM-free games on Steam. Steam also has DRM that publishers can use (and which really isn't that bad or intrusive). Steam also distributes games with all the worst DRM: horrible, horrible stuff.
Contrast this with Good Old Games, owned by the very same CD Projekt Red. There you get a promise of "no DRM of any kind ever". They distribute many games which originally had DRM in some cracked (but licensed) form, so stuff like "look up this word in the manual" is bypassed. They're just as good as Steam at patch management.
Steam is tolerable. It's good points outweigh its problems. But GOG is great. It's made of win and awesome. It's like the best pirate BBS from back in the day, where every game worked better thanks to the cracks, except it's all legal and licensed, and reasonably priced. Naturally, they're having a hard time attracting publishers, but the financial success of the Witcher titles might get some notice.
GoG: No linux :(
SO by your own logic: which answer is further from the truth? That the sun revolves around the earth (ie. barycenter is near the earth) or that the earth revolves around the sun?
I see him saying this is not a bug and asking people to move the discussion elsewhere.
Then why do I feel like eating a bullet when I have to use their software?
They missed the Boston bombers because they are spying ON EVERYONE instead of focusing the spying, based on probable cause, on the correct folks.
Nobody wants a bitcoin for it's own sake, everyone wants bitcoin because of what you can buy with it.
Real things have intrinsic values. Money has intrinsic value. Currencies don't. Bitcoin is a currency. Dollar is a currency. All paper moneys are currencies.
http://www.unvanquished.net/ You can thank me later.
Sure, mod up the moron who doesn't know the difference between Free Software and open source.
Because he's seen enough embrace and extend?
If what you say is true, the _real_ reason you can't do it is because the Dean has his eye on your software, and might want to sell it off to a commercial entity to make a few bucks. And if it's a GPL-derived work, that's much harder to do.
Stop having a tantrum because you don't agree with what license people pick for their software. Yes, it sucks for you that because these libraries are GPL you can actually see them, want to use them, but feel conflicted because you don't want to abide by their copyright.
Boo fucking hoo. Cry me a river.
If those APIs were proprietary and closed, you wouldn't even know about them. The saying ignorance is bliss was invented for people like you.
This is exactly the problem with the GPL. Its advocates want everything to be free, and are giddy about the possibility of bringing suit against people who so much as linked to a GPL'd library and forcing their work to be GPL.
I bet you there aren't many GPL suits. Nobody wants to force someone's work to be GPL, how often has this even happened? They just want you to stop violating their copyright. Can you do that?
It's viral, and not in a good way.
Hah, did microsoft pay you to write this?
I'm not about to defend the practices of certain large corporations. But in education and medicine, institutional rules over IP forbid many people I know of from even linking to a GPL'd library. For us, if it's GPL'd then it is off limits.
That's because the institutions know their intentions don't fit with abiding by the GPL. Maybe it's their intentions that are the problem, and not somebody else who spends their time writing cool GPL software.
Also, having a friendly non-adversarial relationship with industry is useful and will result in much broader use of your software.
So? is that your goal? A lot of people could give a flying fuck about what you consider 'industry' or broad use. They like their software like their women, quality over quantity and STDs.
For most FOSS projects
Stop right there. There is no such thing as Free Open Source. These are mutually exclusive terms.
, exposure and reaching a critical mass of contributors is crucial. The BSD is inherently helpful in this case. The GPL just scares people off, because it asserts control over code you haven't even written just because you decided to use something that happened to have a GPL license.
Mate, you spew nonsense faster than a cow farts. If I write a piece of GPL code, in no way does it "assert control over code I haven't written." You're on the wrong side of the bullshit line and we're going to have to stuff some hot grits down your panties.
So, no, Stallman, I disagree and furthermore I condemn your argument as unproductive, wrong, and unhelpful. You might have ground to stand on if LLVM were closed source but it's open - in fact, it's under a more permissive license than the GPL.
Finally! Yes the BSD license is more permissive. You managed to make a sentence without fraud, fabrication or lies. I'm proud of you.
Some developers like the whole BSD thing, which gives more freedom to the person who uses and implements the software, rather than the original developer.
Actually, with the GPL as the software user, you are free to do anything you like with it. As long as you distribute the source when required. Implying the software user is restricted is dishonest.
What on earth is wrong with you people. You're usually so rational.
Don't you realize that the only power the government has is force? Don't you realize that everytime you grant them power they sell it to the highest bidder and fuck you with it? You are the 'target' and 'adversary'. YOU.
Don't you realize that there is no such thing as a 'government'? It's an abstract, fictional entity that masks the foul psychopaths that rule over you.
You got me. I'm traveling forward in time right now.
But you can't stop me.
NSA is now deeply integrated with federal law enforcement per 9/11 "reforms" that all but created an integrated security state.
If you had bothered to watch the video you would have noticed that the leaked documents put much of this NSA activity starting 15 YEARS ago. That's 1998. They were already collecting all your email, internet and phone data AND STORING IT years before 9/11.
Yes that means that those things you weren't proud you did in your distant past can be used against you forever.
Wake up Neo, you've always been a slave. Worldwide spying, exploitation, propaganda AND financial manipulation. It's been done for hundreds of years according to the capability of the time. Everything you think you know is a lie.
What we're reaching is the end game. When the rulers of this planet can finally bind everyone in such strong chains from birth that even the pretense of freedom can be dropped.
Fortunately, the empire and the dollar are walking debt infested corpses and their plans will come crashing down before they reach endgame.
What good is encryption if your contacts don't use it?