>>>Please point me to something that shows his opponent romney has any real world knowledge of anything.
He doesn't. Romney's just as big a douchelicker as Obama & just as clueless. You see: You made the mistake of thinking just because I dislike Obama, therefore I must like Romney. Stop with the either-or thinking.
>>>"See, it was never the government who created the Internet. The Free Market (peace be upon it) did it all by its lonesome!"
Nice false quote there, but here's the article's actual thesis, summed up by Blogger Brian Carnell in 1999: "The Internet reaffirms the basic free market critique of large government. Here for 30 years the government had an immensely useful protocol for transferring information, TCP/IP, but it languished. . . . . In less than a decade, private concerns have taken that protocol and created one of the most important technological revolutions of the millennia."
>>>a self-centers brat like you think he has any form of world knowledge
I've visited every state and province in North America except Nunavut. I've lived in Europe and visited Japan. I have had all kinds of job from butchering cows to working in retail (from stock all the way up to supervisor) to designing military equipment & performing government audits. I've been poor (no income) and upper middle class). I've run my own business, run a club as president, helped people in need on the street...... to sit there and say I have "zero world knowledge" is fucking ridiculous. You look like an idiot with that remark.
People must be F'in cheap if they aren't willing to spend 99 cents. If I see a Kindle book for 99 cents I just grab it; I'm not wasting time trying to find a free pirate version. (shrug). So much for the "We would buy your product if it were cheap enough" excuse. It's been officially debunked.
Might want to update your belief system: Androids sold - ~900 million iOS gadgets sold - ~100 million
Basically Android controls the phone/tablet world almost as dominantly as Windows dominates the laptop/desktop world. And Apple only gets about 15% of the share.
Obama is the typical college professor who knows a lot of facts and information and theory, but very little real world knowledge. President Woodrow Wilson had the same flaw. (And also lied that he would not take us to war.)
>>>Who caused the decline and fall of the roman empire?
George Bush! Oooops sorry that was automatic. Um. Julius Caesar's son Octavian when he killed-off democracy by subsuming all power to himself and leaving the People and the Senate powerless. (It then took ~300 years for bad emperors to squander the accumulated wealth & turn a once-vibrant free market state into a feudal state.)
Nice falsehood there, but here's the articles actual thesis, summed up by Blogger Brian Carnell in 1999: "The Internet reaffirms the basic free market critique of large government. Here for 30 years the government had an immensely useful protocol for transferring information, TCP/IP, but it languished. . . . . In less than a decade, private concerns have taken that protocol and created one of the most important technological revolutions of the millennia."
Pretty good summation. Look at Amtrak versus the airlines. Amtrak has basically sat in a state of non-innovation since 1980 with ticket prices remaining high (~$1000 for a cross country journey), while the airlines have developed planes that practically fly & land themselves (via GPS) and at a cost of just $200-300 cross country..... much much less than what the same flight cost in 1980. "Government..... languished." Private concerns innovated in the face of competition (or else die out).
>>>i have a problem with the assholes who think they have a right to choose not to get any insurance, then, when they break their arm, avoid the bill or declare bankruptcy. Freeloaders
They can do no such thing. The hospital will sue them, the judge will extract the money from their savings accounts or paychecks, and they will be forced to pay back the cost of their ~$10,000 broken arm repair (plus court and lawyer costs).
And if they are too poor to payback the bill, well then they should have been getting free care anyway from the government or hospital corporation..... just as they get free food and other free services for the poor.
>>>While I get your point, I'm still gonna call bullshit on the 1988 date.
Next I suppose you'll say something stupid like, "The internet didn't exist in 1988." LOL. The messages are archived on googlenews.com. I would post a direct link to them but that would reveal my real name, so I will abstain. If you don't believe me, just look at googlenews sometime. They have messages archived back to 1985... possibly older.
False. If they refuse to restore your content after you respond, "No this doesn't infringe," then they are committing a federal criminal act under the DMCA. You have the right to open a lawsuit against them. ISPs are well aware of this, which is why they never leave content permanently removed.
I noticed when I switched to the latest versions of Opera and non-google Chromium, they use http://www.duckduckgo.com/ so that's what I use now. No more google except youtube (since I like to watch).
Would be more effective to get rid of the windows entirely (or shrink them to tiny size), since there is more energy LOSS through the window than any other part of the house. Thousands of kilowatt-hours of heat (or cool) leak through glass via conduction. Meanwhile the embedded-solar would only generate a few hundred. Overall a huge net loss.
>>>Which of these reasons (or any other for that matter) for remaining anonymous are not fundamentally driven by concern regarding repercussions?
There's repercussions, and then there's misinterpretations. I've had people unfriend me simply because I said I was libertarian. More scary: A government might choose to put me on a Do-Not-Travel list, because I said on a youtube post (of a girl with her jaw blown-off) that it should not be bombing Libya. With anonymity I am free to post; with realname I have to be afraid.
>>>Any way you look at it, the only reason to wish to post anonymously is to avoid some form of repercussion (whether identity theft, stalking/harassment, or simply being outed as a douchetard.)
No. Shit. Sherlock. Your comment shows you don't think long term, or wide. I want to avoid the repercussion of employers, governments, et cetera using my comments from 10, 20, 30 years ago against me. (Example: Finding a reason not to hire me. Or finding a reason to put me on a Do Not Travel list.)
The part the summary left out: If you refuse to use your real name, then you can no longer reply to youtube comments. The option is disabled. AND the reason I don't want my realname is because I know how google & the internet operates. I can still find posts under my real name from 1988! The last thing I want is my youtube comments hanging around for 60 years for anybody (especially a future employer) to find and develop a profile about me. Or dig-up potentially embarrassing comments that I later regret saying (when I'm older/wiser).
I haven't used my realname online since 2002, because I don't want to have an online history that employers, governments, et cetera can use to develop a personality profile.
>>>The problem with the DMCA is that, in every case where I have seen it used, ones content is blocked on the internet after lawyer are involved.
Completely and totally WRONG. - You upload some video or audio or text to youtube or your ISP's hosting website. - A corporation or author sends a notice that it infringes their copyright. - You reply with "no it doesn't" and your uploaded content is restored. - The end
This is a MUCH better process than what existed pre-DMCA when your video, audio, or text was removed, and there was No Way to have it restored. Now the DMCA provides a way to get it restored within mere days, and at no cost to you (except time).
Some of ye make a bigger deal of the DMCA then it really is. Here is how the process works:
- You upload some video or audio or text to a website. - Some corporation or author sends a notice that it infringes their copyright. - You reply with "no it doesn't" and your uploaded content is restored. - The end
It's a painless process that doesn't cost you anything, except maybe a few minutes responding to the DMCA notice. The alternative pre-DMCA was to have your video, audio, or text removed and No Way to have it restored.
Notice he said "SKUs". The SKU number is always added to computers a few months before the actual item arrives at the store, so they have time to (1) set a price and (2) order it for their inventory.
Just to pick a random example: My store used to start ordering summer bikinis in October/November, and they arrived in December. Which is why there's always a post-christmas clearance; to make room in the stockroom for all these bikinis and other summer goods.
>>>what's the term for this insane level of assimilation between [Japanese] political, corporate, and aristocratic power?
I believe it's called fascism. Mussolini however argued the better term is "corporatism" because it involves corporations and government working together like best buds. The government does not own the corporation, but it can order them what to do ("work double shifts and make more bombs"). Vice-versa the corporations expect special favors in return, like protective laws from new upstart competition.
>>>A) Protect its citizens from force (foreign attack, murder, theft, etc.) >>> B) Protect its citizens from fraud (misrepresentation, civil court system, etc.)
If A and B is all the government does, then that means no more corporations in the USA, since the government would not be issuing incorporation licenses. That sounds like a good plan to me.
>>>it's ok to think the government would do a poor job at providing for our health >>>but it's insane to think corporations would do a better job >>>therefore, you choose government
That presumes there's only two choices. The benefit of a free market is that there are literally thousands of insurance corporations to choose from. And hundreds of thousands of hospitals. And millions of doctors. Sure some might suck, so you just avoid them.
The alternative you propose, government, is a monopoly..... it takes away freedom of choice. It is no better than if Microsoft held a monopoly over desktops & phones, or if Comcast held a monopoly over internet access, or if GM made all the world's cars. Just because you remove the label "Microsoft" or "Comcast" or "GM" and replace it with "Congress" does not automatically make the monopoly preferable.
I want a pro-choice solution where *I* decide which insurance I want to buy, which hospital to visit, which doctor to trust. I want the power in *my* hands, not to have the power taken away.
>>>Economics is all opinions and "schools of thought" with no predictive power.
The Austrian school predicted the dot-com bubble would crash, which is did during Clinton's final year. Then they predicted another bubble based on housing before it happened, and while it was going-on they predicted it would burst and crash the economy. They got all three things right.
They also predicted the TARP bailouts and stimulus and QE1 would create another bubble, which did indeed happen (the derivatives are leveraged at a higher rate in 2012 than they were in 2007), and now they are saying that bubble will burst too.
Just think of oil and coal as solar power...... after all that's where all the stored energy originated.
BTW what are YOU doing to reduce oil usage? - got a 70mpg car like I've got? (granted the 3-cylinder insight was discontinued but you could have bought one while it was on sale) - got a PassivHaus that requires no heating, thus saving thousands of kilowatt-hours each year?
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>>>Please point me to something that shows his opponent romney has any real world knowledge of anything.
He doesn't. Romney's just as big a douchelicker as Obama & just as clueless. You see: You made the mistake of thinking just because I dislike Obama, therefore I must like Romney. Stop with the either-or thinking.
>>>"See, it was never the government who created the Internet. The Free Market (peace be upon it) did it all by its lonesome!"
Nice false quote there, but here's the article's actual thesis, summed up by Blogger Brian Carnell in 1999: "The Internet reaffirms the basic free market critique of large government. Here for 30 years the government had an immensely useful protocol for transferring information, TCP/IP, but it languished. . . . . In less than a decade, private concerns have taken that protocol and created one of the most important technological revolutions of the millennia."
>>>a self-centers brat like you think he has any form of world knowledge
I've visited every state and province in North America except Nunavut. I've lived in Europe and visited Japan. I have had all kinds of job from butchering cows to working in retail (from stock all the way up to supervisor) to designing military equipment & performing government audits. I've been poor (no income) and upper middle class). I've run my own business, run a club as president, helped people in need on the street...... to sit there and say I have "zero world knowledge" is fucking ridiculous. You look like an idiot with that remark.
People must be F'in cheap if they aren't willing to spend 99 cents. If I see a Kindle book for 99 cents I just grab it; I'm not wasting time trying to find a free pirate version. (shrug). So much for the "We would buy your product if it were cheap enough" excuse. It's been officially debunked.
>>>And they wonder why iOS stays on top.
Might want to update your belief system:
Androids sold - ~900 million
iOS gadgets sold - ~100 million
Basically Android controls the phone/tablet world almost as dominantly as Windows dominates the laptop/desktop world. And Apple only gets about 15% of the share.
Will we still be able to get it, or should we buy our copies now?
Obama is the typical college professor who knows a lot of facts and information and theory, but very little real world knowledge. President Woodrow Wilson had the same flaw. (And also lied that he would not take us to war.)
>>>Who caused the decline and fall of the roman empire?
George Bush!
Oooops sorry that was automatic. Um. Julius Caesar's son Octavian when he killed-off democracy by subsuming all power to himself and leaving the People and the Senate powerless. (It then took ~300 years for bad emperors to squander the accumulated wealth & turn a once-vibrant free market state into a feudal state.)
Nice falsehood there, but here's the articles actual thesis, summed up by Blogger Brian Carnell in 1999: "The Internet reaffirms the basic free market critique of large government. Here for 30 years the government had an immensely useful protocol for transferring information, TCP/IP, but it languished. . . . . In less than a decade, private concerns have taken that protocol and created one of the most important technological revolutions of the millennia."
Pretty good summation. Look at Amtrak versus the airlines. Amtrak has basically sat in a state of non-innovation since 1980 with ticket prices remaining high (~$1000 for a cross country journey), while the airlines have developed planes that practically fly & land themselves (via GPS) and at a cost of just $200-300 cross country..... much much less than what the same flight cost in 1980. "Government..... languished." Private concerns innovated in the face of competition (or else die out).
>>>i have a problem with the assholes who think they have a right to choose not to get any insurance, then, when they break their arm, avoid the bill or declare bankruptcy. Freeloaders
They can do no such thing.
The hospital will sue them, the judge will extract the money from their savings accounts or paychecks, and they will be forced to pay back the cost of their ~$10,000 broken arm repair (plus court and lawyer costs).
And if they are too poor to payback the bill, well then they should have been getting free care anyway from the government or hospital corporation..... just as they get free food and other free services for the poor.
>>>While I get your point, I'm still gonna call bullshit on the 1988 date.
Next I suppose you'll say something stupid like, "The internet didn't exist in 1988." LOL. The messages are archived on googlenews.com. I would post a direct link to them but that would reveal my real name, so I will abstain. If you don't believe me, just look at googlenews sometime. They have messages archived back to 1985... possibly older.
"only if the service provider feels like it".
False. If they refuse to restore your content after you respond, "No this doesn't infringe," then they are committing a federal criminal act under the DMCA. You have the right to open a lawsuit against them. ISPs are well aware of this, which is why they never leave content permanently removed.
>>>The solution is, don't use Google products.
I noticed when I switched to the latest versions of Opera and non-google Chromium, they use http://www.duckduckgo.com/ so that's what I use now. No more google except youtube (since I like to watch).
Would be more effective to get rid of the windows entirely (or shrink them to tiny size), since there is more energy LOSS through the window than any other part of the house. Thousands of kilowatt-hours of heat (or cool) leak through glass via conduction. Meanwhile the embedded-solar would only generate a few hundred. Overall a huge net loss.
>>>Which of these reasons (or any other for that matter) for remaining anonymous are not fundamentally driven by concern regarding repercussions?
There's repercussions, and then there's misinterpretations. I've had people unfriend me simply because I said I was libertarian. More scary: A government might choose to put me on a Do-Not-Travel list, because I said on a youtube post (of a girl with her jaw blown-off) that it should not be bombing Libya. With anonymity I am free to post; with realname I have to be afraid.
>>>Any way you look at it, the only reason to wish to post anonymously is to avoid some form of repercussion (whether identity theft, stalking/harassment, or simply being outed as a douchetard.)
No. Shit. Sherlock.
Your comment shows you don't think long term, or wide. I want to avoid the repercussion of employers, governments, et cetera using my comments from 10, 20, 30 years ago against me. (Example: Finding a reason not to hire me. Or finding a reason to put me on a Do Not Travel list.)
The part the summary left out: If you refuse to use your real name, then you can no longer reply to youtube comments. The option is disabled. AND the reason I don't want my realname is because I know how google & the internet operates. I can still find posts under my real name from 1988! The last thing I want is my youtube comments hanging around for 60 years for anybody (especially a future employer) to find and develop a profile about me. Or dig-up potentially embarrassing comments that I later regret saying (when I'm older/wiser).
I haven't used my realname online since 2002, because I don't want to have an online history that employers, governments, et cetera can use to develop a personality profile.
>>>The problem with the DMCA is that, in every case where I have seen it used, ones content is blocked on the internet after lawyer are involved.
Completely and totally
WRONG.
- You upload some video or audio or text to youtube or your ISP's hosting website.
- A corporation or author sends a notice that it infringes their copyright.
- You reply with "no it doesn't" and your uploaded content is restored.
- The end
This is a MUCH better process than what existed pre-DMCA when your video, audio, or text was removed, and there was No Way to have it restored. Now the DMCA provides a way to get it restored within mere days, and at no cost to you (except time).
Some of ye make a bigger deal of the DMCA then it really is. Here is how the process works:
- You upload some video or audio or text to a website.
- Some corporation or author sends a notice that it infringes their copyright.
- You reply with "no it doesn't" and your uploaded content is restored.
- The end
It's a painless process that doesn't cost you anything, except maybe a few minutes responding to the DMCA notice. The alternative pre-DMCA was to have your video, audio, or text removed and No Way to have it restored.
Notice he said "SKUs". The SKU number is always added to computers a few months before the actual item arrives at the store, so they have time to (1) set a price and (2) order it for their inventory.
Just to pick a random example: My store used to start ordering summer bikinis in October/November, and they arrived in December. Which is why there's always a post-christmas clearance; to make room in the stockroom for all these bikinis and other summer goods.
>>>what's the term for this insane level of assimilation between [Japanese] political, corporate, and aristocratic power?
I believe it's called fascism. Mussolini however argued the better term is "corporatism" because it involves corporations and government working together like best buds. The government does not own the corporation, but it can order them what to do ("work double shifts and make more bombs"). Vice-versa the corporations expect special favors in return, like protective laws from new upstart competition.
>>>A) Protect its citizens from force (foreign attack, murder, theft, etc.)
>>> B) Protect its citizens from fraud (misrepresentation, civil court system, etc.)
If A and B is all the government does, then that means no more corporations in the USA, since the government would not be issuing incorporation licenses. That sounds like a good plan to me.
>>>it's ok to think the government would do a poor job at providing for our health
>>>but it's insane to think corporations would do a better job
>>>therefore, you choose government
That presumes there's only two choices. The benefit of a free market is that there are literally thousands of insurance corporations to choose from. And hundreds of thousands of hospitals. And millions of doctors. Sure some might suck, so you just avoid them.
The alternative you propose, government, is a monopoly..... it takes away freedom of choice. It is no better than if Microsoft held a monopoly over desktops & phones, or if Comcast held a monopoly over internet access, or if GM made all the world's cars. Just because you remove the label "Microsoft" or "Comcast" or "GM" and replace it with "Congress" does not automatically make the monopoly preferable.
I want a pro-choice solution where *I* decide which insurance I want to buy, which hospital to visit, which doctor to trust. I want the power in *my* hands, not to have the power taken away.
>>>Economics is all opinions and "schools of thought" with no predictive power.
The Austrian school predicted the dot-com bubble would crash, which is did during Clinton's final year. Then they predicted another bubble based on housing before it happened, and while it was going-on they predicted it would burst and crash the economy. They got all three things right.
They also predicted the TARP bailouts and stimulus and QE1 would create another bubble, which did indeed happen (the derivatives are leveraged at a higher rate in 2012 than they were in 2007), and now they are saying that bubble will burst too.
Just think of oil and coal as solar power...... after all that's where all the stored energy originated.
BTW what are YOU doing to reduce oil usage?
- got a 70mpg car like I've got? (granted the 3-cylinder insight was discontinued but you could have bought one while it was on sale)
- got a PassivHaus that requires no heating, thus saving thousands of kilowatt-hours each year?