I know Anonymous Reader writes more bullshit, and realitymaster agrees with more bullshit. Nothing new for dimwitted clueless fools. I suspect, they are politicians in training filled with dogmatist (political, religious, corporatist...) spinning truths [AKA: Creative Lies].
Never forget, "Reality is self-induced hallucination." (%~o) for all dogma-fools.
Welfare/Self-fare in summary... at the time of your death will you feel you need to do much more for humanity, or will you know that you made a difference for humanity.
Whether the cost is $100 or $900 or $901... or one in two OLPC products are lost/destroyed, the fact remains, it is far better to do something good for humanity, than stay the obtuse course accepting failures/defeats as successes. Bush-schism and/or corporatism socio-economics is supported by the same legacy species of humans that have ruled the world for over 2K years with lies, terror, and religion. We can advance as a human community with or without them, but we remain in grave peril as long as we follow them. We need a leash-law for these megalomaniacs to keep them all out of politics.
The OLPC folks/foundation are humanitarians looking to provide part of a longterm solution to poverty... terms that should be used for the OLPC project are Education, Learning, Communicating, Participation, Sharing, Collaborating, Developing, Community.... Humanitarians (Knights of the WoeFolk Continent) maintain failing cultures and help solve the next human disaster. OLPC is a "Self-fare" not welfare plan for self-sufficiency with agriculture, education, economic development... many options/things.
This first OLPC project like any other humanitarian (Habitat for Humanity...) effort may have implementation problems, and possibly even some questionable benefits for humanity. However, I do know that the OLPC foundation needs to be looking at and planning for the next OLPC-II project for a self-sufficient humanity.
IOW, I say to all the simple-minded, parochial, and dogmatic nay-sayers... PLEASE, quite being such pontificating jackasses, because good for humanity is good (not money or glory).
Again, I say THANKS to all the folks at the OLPC foundation and admire them as "Knights of the WoeFolk Continent".
Reactionary politicians are vain, always trying for news headlines and personal power, never solutions to problems or citizen welfare.
I wish USA politicians and the public would learn that war is never the right thing to do, but it may be necessary, and then should be ended as quickly and definitively as possible by attacking the politicians (dogmatist, religious, corporatist,...) first, then cleaning up the devastating mess they made. IOW: Finish them and Finish it, because politicians can always be replaced, but family, friends, and good citizens are lost forever to US.
Well, I was moderated off topic on this one,... someone misunderstood, wasted a moderator point, or is politically motivate as much as myself.
Anyway the NewYorkCountryLawyer said, "To those who might think that I might be exaggerating when I describe the RIAA's litigation campaign as a 'reign of terror'." To any normal human a "reign of terror" is a war on defenseless and/or innocent people; Therefor, my comments were not off topic in any way... if the person can stretch their mind around the reality that the RIAA and other such governing corporate bodies in the US, EU... are corporatists' waging a war of oppression on US citizens. This is perhaps why the person did not understand history and my other comments and/or associations with today's dark-comedy of errors.
I guess the moderator is a corporate-terrorist sympathizer and a cock-sucking Bush lover [AKA: Bush Jock Supporter].
What's the difference between corporatists' war on citizens, politicians' war on the middle class, the religious wars against science and good government, the unwinnable American Drug Wars, the unwinnable Vietnam war, the unwinnable Iraq war...?
USA Citizens' FREEDOM, Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness are totally opposed by politicians, corporatists, and televangelists. Does it all remind you culturally of Germany circa 1930s?
Last time the USA was this socio-economically fucked, in the last two hundred years, was slavery and civil war. I guess that is why politicians, corporatists, and televangelists try to divide US with subtle evil hateful lies of spin-truth.
gODD save the Nation, because it appears the politicians, corporatists, and televangelists want to destroy US.
Stupid Question: "Is it even possible that science can remain apolitical?"
FACT: It is Science (matter). It is politics (Antimatter). They are mutually exclusive where one exist the other cannot possibly coexist.
FACT: It is Science (matter). It is religion (Antimatter). They are mutually exclusive where one exist the other cannot possibly coexist.
FACT: It is politics (antimatter). It is religion (Antimatter). They are symbiotic-parasitic cist-cyst entombing the immortal soul of humanity. When one is inflicting exploitive harm on humanity, the other is oppressively infecting truth and values with Myth, Lies, Allegory (at best)....
NOTE: Corporatist can be political and/or religious, profits dependent; However, none of these UnterMenschen (corporatist, televangelist, politicians) are Scientist.
FACT: Many Business managers/leaders, local/community religious leaders, Leaders in Public Service are not UnterMenschen, but far too many are globally UnterMenschen scumbags.
Be reasonable what did any US citizen expect from Industry Corporatist and Politicians working together.
When you first met BigBubba in jail, thought BigBubba was a nice helpful/protective guy, and knew BigBubba would never fuckya... then just wait till the first romantic evening..., because the squealing you here won't be a happy pig.
REMEMBER: We could do much better, but we should reasonably expect that when we are not in jail... BigBubba is stalking, lurking, and enjoying US citizens' gotya-fuckya squealing. Just always vote incumbent (cum is in that word for a valid reason [boys,girls,men,women,goat/sheep,Rosie Palm...]) politicians out of government permanently (don't let them sneak back in a later election).
When corporatist, politicians, and televangelist fuckya... they FUCK US!
Thailand, US, EU, China..., personally I am glad to see we are not alone in producing an exploitable semiliterate unquestioning workforce that when youthful, idealistic, and patriotic can be utilized for global/local dogmatic adventures of people-popping and village-pillage. I can better understand how things are being adjusted to work in Darfur, and were working so well in Afghanistan, before the US Soldiers kicked the BinLie-Taliban out, but what happened in Iraq {%~]?
NOTE: Warriors have a code, (1) Do your duty honorably, (2) Death before cowardice, (3) We are the FAMILY - ALWAYS FAITHFUL, never do we abandoned family, give up hope, or die alone. (4) Warriors are responsible for individual personal actions. (5) Politicians, and Generals are in command and responsible for the war and failures.
I will alway support our Warriors, fuck the damn politics!
MS started in an Industrial-age Economy of take take no prisoners and pillage the village battles. MS won by adapting to oppositions' positions, supporting oppositions' file formats and application requirements in DOS/Win*. MS appears to have observed that economics and business models are rapidly changing. Maybe they are trying to avoid the (Ford, GM, Lockheed, IBM... many others business) whoops-IFUAgain by refusing to change and meet customer needs/wants.
Perhaps MS is hedging their business bets, because few are sure which direction business-models, IPR Laws, competitors like OSS companies... will go. MS the OEM of entertainment/game hardware/software, and/or MS the Virtual-TeleBell, a/o MS the media and broadcast giant a/o.... MS may believe that they can go head2head with OSS products, Open-business models..., if they have more than just software revenue on which to rely. MS will probably never "OpenSource" software product code, if they can sustain a battle with "Open*" until all L/FOSS opposition is terminated. Other sources of revenue would sustain MS in such a war, but L/FOSS may win by the forever maturing GPL*, and eventually MS moving into a more profitable hardware/services market sector.
So, Xbox, Zune, msnTV2... other MS-stuff may be MS in (just in case) transition or positioning to more seriously compete with L/FOSS products globally. So, watch out, I suspect, MS subversive (less overt insults) tactics will be more subtle and obscured... the old Greek bearing gifts of Trojan horses.
Read the paragraph starting with "An IPR system needs to reward performance and productivity."
The Deal: If there is no value in a useless or unused patent, copyright... IPR, then no reward/compensation. Private property cannot be taken by anyone to obtain/create private gain without the IPR owner being compensated; ALSO, Public property as in GPL, OpenContent/CreativeCommons... cannot be diluted by attachment to IPR private property, but when it is determined by court arbitration to be in the best interest of the general public the IPR private-property can be converted to GPL/Open-public property with a public payment compensation to the IPR owner as determined appropiet by an IPR court/judge and expert-panel/jury. Private/Public users of software, music, DVD...media/content cannot be resticted in their private personal/home use of the IPR item after paying the original product source a single licence fee for using the IPR property; Therefor, media and content copyright/IPR owners would retain their rights as long as that version (same song, actors, content/media) was purchased, but when the artist goes to another company the songs, poems... IPR content right remain with the writer, creator... not the performer or RIAA companies.
When an IPR property is used for any form of financial gain (money, trade, influence) then the owner must be compensated.
The IPR owner has no right to restrict or prevent the use of the IPR item by anyone anyplace.
If the IPR is never used or is used, but does not result in gain for anyone, then no one pays anything for the use of the IPR item for research, development, personal use, educational use....
Your Question: "Why would anyone spend the resources?" for the same reason as now to make money from thier efforts if the IPR proves to have any value in the marketplace, but not until value is proven by production contracts and/or court arbitration.
IOW: Performance, innovation, and productivity cannot be stopped or prevented and compensation will always depend on Performance, innovation, and productivity on a global/local scale.
Luddite legacy IPR good for some bad for US, because you cannot enforce the present IPR laws (due to technology always changes) globally or locally; Therefor, the Luddite legacy IPR laws are failures
Luddite legacy (industrial-age) IPR is a failure and exceptionally harmful to US, EU... and other well developed economies that blindly insist on continuing a failed IPR system, you change words and phrases, but maintain the anti-competitive structure of an International Luddite legacy IPR system. It is time for US and EU to lead the international community in moving towards a Global Open-competition economic architecture and quickly away from protectionist legacy economic models. A Global Open-competition economic architecture that rewards productive innovation and deters creative, developmental, research... sharing of information.
An IPR system needs to reward performance and productivity. (1) We must allow globally the free (non-monetary/financial) use and sharing of all information, copyrights, patents...; ALSO, we must reward all owners of information, copyrights, patents... production/services that has a marketable product financial value (including when it wins friends/influences people). (2) No IPR holder can prevent free (non-monetary/financial) use by any person, company... country for creativity, product development, scientific research... educational sharing (Binding court arbitration on the proportional sharing of performance profits). (3) All IPR falls in the public-domain, but all property falls in the (as determined by law and court) public or private. (4) Obvious/Public patents/IPR will be determined at the time of binding court arbitration (judge and independent empaneled topic experts) on the proportional sharing of performance profits, and any attempt by an arbitration participant to defraud the court or other participants will be considered criminal (big fine, 2-10 years in jail).
I think, EFF, ACLU, and the FSF-GPL folks could manage developing a damn good and functional International Open-IPR treaty, but the USA Congress, EU, and others are still beholding to the corporatist special-interest more than the Public's/Citizens' and/or National interest. IPRs should be productivity based control... not I filed it, I got it, you cannot have or use it (which is counter productive stupidity).
I find it extremely regrettable that the courts are defining ambiguous economic federal laws which the USA Congress has failed to write correctly over the past two (1986-2006) decades.
The impact has been that EU, Japan, and many other nations have been coerced and/or followed the USA down an economic dead-end road of corporatist Luddite-oppression (DRM, DMCA, software patents, stem-cell research, opt-out-privacy, vapor-process patents...) . I suspect, from the aggressive protectionist tactics used by corporatist, that part of the Global-GDP will be lost to corporatist-governments market-share protectionism opposing Open-Competition. Governments-for-hire presently have a strangle hold on the socio-economics of the public/citizens (Mockery-Democracy in the USA, EU... does look a great deal like Chinese Faux-Communism.
Governments that are not elected by the public, do not represent the citizens, and/or predicate value on religious/political dogma are fiat-plutocracies [AKA: Legitimate DeMockery].
Democracy will never fail humanity; However, historically citizens have failed democracy. Democracy Citizens' are always responsible for their own welfare, because democratically elected representatives may serve personal/self-interest, and should suffer sever repercussions (not death, just prison) for their evil actions, but if the PUBLIC-/-CITIZENS do not enforce their defense of democracy and freedom, then they devolve to a totalitarian "Legitimate DeMockery" nation. You can make a "Legitimate DeMockery" look good in books, news, TV, radio, media..., but the fact remains a Legitimate DeMockery nation of servile death-fearing fools. Death before dishonor is no longer as option, patriotic-death is now the road to redemption.
When politicians refuse to revolt (make real changes in government) and address the needs of citizens, then in the USA, EU, Japan, Australia, Israel... citizens still have the right and duty to vote all politicians out of office. There are no Politician psychological profile (sanity and mental aptitude) tests and/or careers (BA, MFS, or PhD). There are only Leaders (I wish, eight years max and only common-public retirement benefits) or varying presentable crooks in politics (Local, State, National) for a maybe didn't get caught career. Vote them out, Vote them out, Vote them all out forever and always. PLEASE, This is a peaceful civilized citizen revolution, why remain a fool for any politician, use the Internet for organizing peaceful protest until real change (Education, Health-care, Politics/religion/dogma...) happens!
Whoops, due to my AADD I am always getting side-tracked to slightly off-topic.
Referring back to the first line; to many politicians believe themselves experts in technology or believe corporatist are the experts for writing (special-interest) technology legislation for any USA Congress of the last 20 years; also, eduction, health-care, economics, telecommunication, IPR... over the last 40 years. This is why the USA continues to slip down all the international socio-economic list (Education, Telecommunications, Health-care, Representative and Responsible Government...). "We The People" are becoming the biggest loser culture/nation in history. From our Top-Global-Leadership position too international insignificance in less than 100 1945-2045) years, what a pitiful nation we are becoming. The "Rise and Fall of US, 1945-2045" history book is being authored by US Citizens believing and listening to political, corporatist, and religious dogma as truth today and doing nothing/wrong. We have only ourselves/politicians to blame for our failures in Vietnam, Iraq, Enron, S&L Debacle, 2000-2006 political scandals, Religious/political pedophiles and deceivers..., failing education, health-care..., dilapidated electrical, water... utilities, telecommunications, transport
Industrial-age IPRs are Draconian in the Open-Community of the 21st Century
Draconian laws are historically displaced by cultural/community enlightenment or revolution. Industrial-age IPR laws are anti-competitive, economically stagnating, totalitarian..., and must be replaced ASAP for peaceful and reasonable global development that will displace the present corporatist/religious/dogmatic Luddite IPR system. Today there are to many Luddite corporatist minions in world governments and the UN preventing economic development outside the legacy S&D (supply & demand) economic models. RealityCheck: "Change Happens or Shit Happens, then Change Happens AFW"; So, opposition to change by oppression (DRM, DMCA, software patents,...) is the shit, and none of US, EU, others want more of the same Draconian Luddite legacy oppression.
The draconian feudal aristocracy was replaced in EU as a form of economics, culture, government.... Some of these were replaced somewhat peacefully (Britain, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland...). Regretfully some were replaced with extreme violence (France, Russia,...). Many reasonably converted from the legacy Luddite feudal system to the new industrial age. The industrial age governments and economies were sometimes ideal based in democracy and meritocracy, but due to weak human character the ideal frequently devolved into plutocratic corporatism/communism [AKA: Modern Feudalism]. The real lesson learned from the extermination of the French and Russian aristocracy by the merchant class of the time was keeping a balance between hope (our children's life will be better than ours') and cruelty (a lottery path to plutocratic riches/power) could assure a peaceful usable inhibited productive public.
Well... anyway... today in the USA, EU, Japan, Israel, Australia, New Zealand... we have the duty (if not the right) to commit peaceful civil-disobedience in the interest of our family, friends, citizens, nation, culture, humanity... without any fear of death or life imprisonment. I will use OSS, OpenContent... until I die. IOW: FUCK THE DRACONIAN LAWS!FTDL! peacefully and teach others to do their duty for our future).
I have not as of today broken any laws. I make small donations to GNU/FSF, Firefox, EFF, PBS..., and I even buy music, DVDs, and legal MS products (for my wife...), but if US, EU... continue down this path of economic, culture, and public oppression, I am sure eventually, I will have and use illegal products or make an illegal copy of a song for personal use..
DAMNED IF YOU DO... DAMNED IF YOU DON'T... Fuck'em all for their fear-mongering evil.
I love catch-22 conditions/situations... it makes it a lot easier to pick the fun hedonist path to death. Also, all our friends and family will be there waiting for US or get there in time for more fun.
I am greatly comforted by these thoughts on humanity's religious reality, gOD bless US on and all.
I strongly agree with you on this with one additional point.
When you do edit something to personal preferences in applications (email, wp,...), the next update/version/patch frequently clobbers the personal preference setting/templates.... Folks have many different ways of doing things, but many vendors... want you to do things their default way... which works well for regressive testing.
NOTICE: You can have "Free Pluralist Republic Net-Neutrality" or you can have "Plutocratic Corporate Communism Net-Nepotism", but under no circumstances will you have both!
THEREFOR: Government based on special interest politics, economics, and religion, then spiced with xenophobia of other dogmatic devils [AKA: HUMANS] has determined that a semiliterate elitist culture is better served by Net-Nepotism.
ALSO: Any opposition/objection by the many to the few Fiat-Rulers will be severely punished with "NO INTERNET ACCESS", and the number of years will be determined by severity of pluralist threat to the righteously privileged leaders. I think the DMCA and recent IPR patents/rulings/laws prove some of what the almighty (politicaians, corporatist, televangelist,...) will do to screw all of you and US.
I was born in 1950, grew up in an orphanage, dropped out of high school at 16yo, went in to the USMC at 17yo [Honorable Discharge], current gross annual income $100K+.
I have a street-degree on America's Educational and Economic systems failures. Location, location... Money, money, money... Expectations, Expectations, Expectations... and a duo-class culture ruled by too many stupid fools, and exploiting many semiliterate citizens, with dejure-plutocracy, corporatist-communism, and religious-televangelism.
What makes some expensive private high schools work extremely well? What makes many public high schools fail? Discover recurring performance and success high schools then mirror the process in public high schools. Currently we have Green-Pelsey/Crow separate and unequal school systems based on socio-economics... no better than existed prior to the 1970s.
Is part of the problem that administrative+overhead for public schools is used to identify the cost-per-child education? I think that is unfair and a fraudulent lie to the USA public. Remove the administrative+overhead from the equations for both public and private schools, and determine how many dollars get to the children's education in the school building+classrooms (Principle, teachers, cafeteria, learning+teaching materials (not school boards, building projects, furniture, utilities, roofing...)...).
I now have over 162 Semester hours (humanities, mathematics, electronics...) and no college degree. I am reasonably well read, and I have been known (in meeting) to correct scientist and engineers in applied technology when they stretch (beyond their schooling/experience) into my areas of curiosity and interest. However, I am still shown little respect by many in management when they discover they have a degree, but I don't... some after trying to get me fired have even retired sooner than planned [I am good and hard working].
Education never fits me... learning fits me as I need... whatever I need. I wish that the technology available today was available when I was in grammar and high school. I could have learned to cope with my learning disabilities much sooner, I was never told I had learning disabilities until I got tested by a college entrance counselor in 1974.
THE USA Educational system is broke, because limp-dick politicians and special interest like Education in the USA just the way it is for producing an exploitable dogmatic (refuge of semiliteate) patriotic (good, but sad) workforce. We are not giving kids or their parents much to look forward too as a future that values Learning or many other things available only to the wealthy. We need to give all our children (citizens) in the USA a high quality education through high school [performance dependent] to college BS and MA paid in full.
Oh Hell, Just Guck US All ... maybe next time ....
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I ain't got no kids, I won't have no grandkids, and very few will have great-grandkids...; So, tough-gucking-shit we're near to self-created species extinction.
Well okay maybe there is a small chance to save humanity, but it works like this... those that have keep, those nots that have not will not thrive and maybe die.
Today we live... eat drink and be happy for tomorrow someone else dies..., and I know it won't be my great-grandkids; So again, I say tough-gucking-shit we can do nukes, viruses, and/or chems today or to make a better world for the few tomorrow... just let our decedents thirst and starve to a terrible tortured death.
Politicians, corporatists, and televangelists would persuasively say; to all US, god would want it this way and it is your patriotic duty to die for US.
China, Persian, and Arab nations need more security through obscurity to prevent kiddy-script cracking with Latin/Russian/English fonts and control the internet in their sovereign totalitarian nations for god and corruption to freely grow in their two-cast corporatist-communist (haves and nots, just like the US and EU) cultures.
Remember: An exploitable-labor force is never a slave-labor force, I mean like, for real, exploitable and slave are two totally different words... they aren't even spelled the same.
This should help China, Persian, Arab nations and Yahoo, Google, Microsoft... to provide better tools for building "The Great Digital Divide Wall" for themselves, the Terrorist Defense Network (TDN), and other two-cast totalitarian corporatist-communism nations. God bless US one and all!
Also, the collapse of the internet will be useful to developing the "New World Order" that everyone in charge really wants.
"And remember: nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft."
And remember: nobody ever got fired for blaming Microsoft.
I have noticed for years now that buying and blaming Microsoft products can be a career saver for TEK incompetence. Microsoft is always a good tech/admin-excuse to management in a non-technology company.
"When Thibodeau told the head of a government research lab about his mission, the man replied, 'Your problem is so big, it's probably stupid to try and solve it.'"
The above quote, perfectly expressed the epitome of USA Leadership for the past 30 years in business, religion, and government. You already know the rest of the story "Stupid is as Stupid does (Vietnam, Iraq, IPR, DMCA, TIA, broken-education, healthcare nightmare, Enron, Global Crossings, E-voting Diebold, Opt-Out Privacy, Security_by_Obscurity... far too many more)!"
No problem (except stupidity and death) is too big to fix. It is multi-degreed, highly certified, and probably stupid Big-Chicken (White_Collar_Trash) people that can't try and won't solve problems. Government research labs (many government offices, businesses, religions) need leadership not a "PhDoctorate of Career Management" in do nothing wrong or right.
Politicians, Corporatist, Televangelists... are "White_Collar_Trash (WCT) Career Management" specialist bent on destroying the USA as a Great Nation, Culture, and People. WCT Career Management specialist will always be able to convince the semiliterate public "probable stupidity is smart" (also it is lethal, but why tell the pitiful semiliterate public).
Birmingham, Alabama or Birmingham, England what's the difference they can compare fruit and vegetables as equals, and use numbers equally well. I mean, y'all ain't got no cents, if'n ya don't know Equal is as Equal does.
The lesser of two evils is also a fact... one bugged dead or more bombed dead... a few bugged dead or far to many nuke/virus/chem dead.
It may be our only way to keep murders to an unreasonable minimum for humanity, because I know god-fearing war mongers are always willing to murder others until their (personal, fascist, religious...) righteousness is proven (as vetted by human history).
We can all worry less or worry more... our choice should always be to preserve life when possible; So, good bugs for humanity are addressing a failure in gross species morality. As politics and totalitarianism prove what the public/citizen does not know, control, or easily justify/forget cannot hurt our ruling class.
Finally our ruling-class corporatist, politicians, televangelist... could use bugs to control world population by regional/area bio-sterilization for their privileged self-interest in sub-humanity. Well you know, bio-sterilizing small packs of people is far more merciful, safe, and controllable then starvation and plague. It helps maintain population levels in some species already.
God obviously blesses the greedy and self-interested of humanity for divine holy miraculous purposes. PRAZE THE LORD GODS for they know not what they do and should not be blamed for a little whoops.
I've never meet a politician that could... >_ write a line of code. >_ fix a desktop computer. >_ configure a monitor correctly. >_ figure out an email problem. >_ understand that 15=21=25=10101 >_....
I've never meet a politician that ain't... >_ a technophobic idiot zealot >_ a righteous Luddite disciple >_ a delusional scientist of BS >_ a dogmatist for corporatist/greed >_ capable of self-interest decisions >_ going to waste taxes gucking citizens >_ willing to sacrifice our children in wars >_....
There may be a few good politicians/appointees in government, but there is so gucking few, I expect I will never meet one in my lifetime.
Robert C. Cresanti is obviously just another highly degreed, certified, and totally unqualified Bush appointee. Presidents and members of Congress do it to US after every election. I wish they could always appoint competent people to serve the USA public, but how could they help their self-interested privileged constituents feel important and smart. Forgive them, most only know how to guck you, me, US, our Warriors, and the future for our children.
If you trust or respect any politician to do patriotic, ethical, and honorable deeds (in these days and times) you're a fool and/or dogmatist.
IOW, politicians/appointees (and career-manager federal employees) will never do hard working USA Citizens any god-dang favors or what's not right for themselves. If a politician/appointee or career-manager goes to prison, we can only hope their cell-mate is named "Broomstick Bubba or Butch."
Guck'em all, and always vote'em out, for a Free, Beautiful, and Better USA.
I thought peer to peer (P2P, point to point, person to person,...) computer communications was around before VTC. Also, I thought VTC was around a few years prior to VoIP.
Well IPR laws work well for controlling market share and holding customer hostages by first claim of a technology/science/engineering term an/or phrase. More USA dejure CorporatistCommunism mislabeled as legal competitive capitalism.... It has all become very pitifully funny that marketer-spin, IPR awarded by phrase, obvious no IPR prior art... then ConArtIt as creative. I wish we had at least one Albert Einstein (in charge) in the USA IPR offices that could stop the paper pushers and signature automaton processes.
=== I know we have a few new politicians in the Congress, but they will just screw it up IPR laws more.
I mean look at the last 30 to 40 years; every time the politicians say they are going to fix a problem (Education, Health, Banking, Science, Military, Civil Service, Economy...) they run to the selfish-interest for advice on how to make the problem a more profitable, dysfunctional, and expensive FUBAR with getting rich pork for which civil service is blamed for failures, and public teachers, doctors, workers receive to much pay and benefits in the view of politicians, HMOs, CEOs, CFOs, politicians, televangelist... pay, benefits, and options rewards increase as the selfish-interest decision makers whine-piss-moan about taxes, their rights/property, and their sex lives being unfair/troubling.
USA Selfish-interest decision makers (Corporatist-communist/politicians) had the bright idea that HMOs (and other BS) would fix the (1960-present) problem of rising medical cost. They said that school vouchers would fix the public education (1970-present) problems in the USA, now poor public education is considered a National Disaster threatening our National Security. They said Welfare handouts would raise poor folks out of poverty, welfare cost a lot, did little, and still is considered an expensive mess... the poor should not be blamed or penalized for the failure by decision makers to lead and make sound and reasonable decisions. Welfare [some say] was designed to keep the illiterate exploitable poor on isolated urban reservations as a cheap labor pool. Social Security is another hood-wink for US... eliminate a real-debt by shifting blame onto the expensive do-nothing unhealthy elderly, take all their property and money before they can leave it to their children, but end the inheritance tax on the obscenely selfish-interest wealthy. Selfish-interest/politicians hawk-spin a conflict as a war to justify spending more tax dolors to benefit corporatist and wealthy contributors then destroy young American lives, no need for drafts, or rationing (just spend, spend, spend...) just some poor warm honorable patriotic bodies for a less than holy (more evil) cause.
Oh hell, we're fucked by selfish-interest rapist and apparently we will not notice our fall any quicker than the Romans.
I will always hope the USA can (for two thousand years or more) be a beacon to humanity for democracy, freedom, capitalism, charity, education, science, philosophy, art..., but selfish-interest greed of corporatist, politicians, televangelist... appears to be ending our USA destiny even before we grow out of spoiled idealistic childhood. What will be will be WWIII for our babies.
Yes, I know I like eventually drifting off-topic....
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I know Anonymous Reader writes more bullshit, and realitymaster agrees with more bullshit. Nothing new for dimwitted clueless fools. I suspect, they are politicians in training filled with dogmatist (political, religious, corporatist ...) spinning truths [AKA: Creative Lies].
... at the time of your death will you feel you need to do much more for humanity, or will you know that you made a difference for humanity.
... terms that should be used for the OLPC project are Education, Learning, Communicating, Participation, Sharing, Collaborating, Developing, Community .... Humanitarians (Knights of the WoeFolk Continent) maintain failing cultures and help solve the next human disaster. OLPC is a "Self-fare" not welfare plan for self-sufficiency with agriculture, education, economic development ... many options/things.
...) effort may have implementation problems, and possibly even some questionable benefits for humanity. However, I do know that the OLPC foundation needs to be looking at and planning for the next OLPC-II project for a self-sufficient humanity.
... PLEASE, quite being such pontificating jackasses, because good for humanity is good (not money or glory).
Never forget, "Reality is self-induced hallucination." (%~o) for all dogma-fools.
Welfare/Self-fare in summary
Whether the cost is $100 or $900 or $901... or one in two OLPC products are lost/destroyed, the fact remains, it is far better to do something good for humanity, than stay the obtuse course accepting failures/defeats as successes. Bush-schism and/or corporatism socio-economics is supported by the same legacy species of humans that have ruled the world for over 2K years with lies, terror, and religion. We can advance as a human community with or without them, but we remain in grave peril as long as we follow them. We need a leash-law for these megalomaniacs to keep them all out of politics.
The OLPC folks/foundation are humanitarians looking to provide part of a longterm solution to poverty
This first OLPC project like any other humanitarian (Habitat for Humanity
IOW, I say to all the simple-minded, parochial, and dogmatic nay-sayers
Again, I say THANKS to all the folks at the OLPC foundation and admire them as "Knights of the WoeFolk Continent".
Reactionary politicians are vain, always trying for news headlines and personal power, never solutions to problems or citizen welfare.
...) first, then cleaning up the devastating mess they made. IOW: Finish them and Finish it, because politicians can always be replaced, but family, friends, and good citizens are lost forever to US.
I wish USA politicians and the public would learn that war is never the right thing to do, but it may be necessary, and then should be ended as quickly and definitively as possible by attacking the politicians (dogmatist, religious, corporatist,
Well, I was moderated off topic on this one, ... someone misunderstood, wasted a moderator point, or is politically motivate as much as myself.
... if the person can stretch their mind around the reality that the RIAA and other such governing corporate bodies in the US, EU ... are corporatists' waging a war of oppression on US citizens. This is perhaps why the person did not understand history and my other comments and/or associations with today's dark-comedy of errors.
Anyway the NewYorkCountryLawyer said, "To those who might think that I might be exaggerating when I describe the RIAA's litigation campaign as a 'reign of terror'." To any normal human a "reign of terror" is a war on defenseless and/or innocent people; Therefor, my comments were not off topic in any way
I guess the moderator is a corporate-terrorist sympathizer and a cock-sucking Bush lover [AKA: Bush Jock Supporter].
Oh well, I just have a hard time being witty?
What's the difference between corporatists' war on citizens, politicians' war on the middle class, the religious wars against science and good government, the unwinnable American Drug Wars, the unwinnable Vietnam war, the unwinnable Iraq war ...?
USA Citizens' FREEDOM, Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness are totally opposed by politicians, corporatists, and televangelists. Does it all remind you culturally of Germany circa 1930s?
Last time the USA was this socio-economically fucked, in the last two hundred years, was slavery and civil war. I guess that is why politicians, corporatists, and televangelists try to divide US with subtle evil hateful lies of spin-truth.
gODD save the Nation, because it appears the politicians, corporatists, and televangelists want to destroy US.
Stupid Question: "Is it even possible that science can remain apolitical?"
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FACT: It is Science (matter). It is politics (Antimatter). They are mutually exclusive where one exist the other cannot possibly coexist.
FACT: It is Science (matter). It is religion (Antimatter). They are mutually exclusive where one exist the other cannot possibly coexist.
FACT: It is politics (antimatter). It is religion (Antimatter). They are symbiotic-parasitic cist-cyst entombing the immortal soul of humanity. When one is inflicting exploitive harm on humanity, the other is oppressively infecting truth and values with Myth, Lies, Allegory (at best)
NOTE: Corporatist can be political and/or religious, profits dependent; However, none of these UnterMenschen (corporatist, televangelist, politicians) are Scientist.
FACT: Many Business managers/leaders, local/community religious leaders, Leaders in Public Service are not UnterMenschen, but far too many are globally UnterMenschen scumbags.
Be reasonable what did any US citizen expect from Industry Corporatist and Politicians working together.
... then just wait till the first romantic evening ..., because the squealing you here won't be a happy pig.
... BigBubba is stalking, lurking, and enjoying US citizens' gotya-fuckya squealing. Just always vote incumbent (cum is in that word for a valid reason [boys,girls,men,women,goat/sheep,Rosie Palm ...]) politicians out of government permanently (don't let them sneak back in a later election).
... they FUCK US!
When you first met BigBubba in jail, thought BigBubba was a nice helpful/protective guy, and knew BigBubba would never fuckya
REMEMBER: We could do much better, but we should reasonably expect that when we are not in jail
When corporatist, politicians, and televangelist fuckya
Thailand, US, EU, China ..., personally I am glad to see we are not alone in producing an exploitable semiliterate unquestioning workforce that when youthful, idealistic, and patriotic can be utilized for global/local dogmatic adventures of people-popping and village-pillage. I can better understand how things are being adjusted to work in Darfur, and were working so well in Afghanistan, before the US Soldiers kicked the BinLie-Taliban out, but what happened in Iraq {%~]?
NOTE: Warriors have a code, (1) Do your duty honorably, (2) Death before cowardice, (3) We are the FAMILY - ALWAYS FAITHFUL, never do we abandoned family, give up hope, or die alone. (4) Warriors are responsible for individual personal actions. (5) Politicians, and Generals are in command and responsible for the war and failures.
I will alway support our Warriors, fuck the damn politics!
MS started in an Industrial-age Economy of take take no prisoners and pillage the village battles. MS won by adapting to oppositions' positions, supporting oppositions' file formats and application requirements in DOS/Win*. MS appears to have observed that economics and business models are rapidly changing. Maybe they are trying to avoid the (Ford, GM, Lockheed, IBM ... many others business) whoops-IFUAgain by refusing to change and meet customer needs/wants.
... will go. MS the OEM of entertainment/game hardware/software, and/or MS the Virtual-TeleBell, a/o MS the media and broadcast giant a/o .... MS may believe that they can go head2head with OSS products, Open-business models ..., if they have more than just software revenue on which to rely. MS will probably never "OpenSource" software product code, if they can sustain a battle with "Open*" until all L/FOSS opposition is terminated. Other sources of revenue would sustain MS in such a war, but L/FOSS may win by the forever maturing GPL*, and eventually MS moving into a more profitable hardware/services market sector.
... other MS-stuff may be MS in (just in case) transition or positioning to more seriously compete with L/FOSS products globally. So, watch out, I suspect, MS subversive (less overt insults) tactics will be more subtle and obscured ... the old Greek bearing gifts of Trojan horses.
Perhaps MS is hedging their business bets, because few are sure which direction business-models, IPR Laws, competitors like OSS companies
So, Xbox, Zune, msnTV2
Read the paragraph starting with "An IPR system needs to reward performance and productivity."
... IPR, then no reward/compensation. Private property cannot be taken by anyone to obtain/create private gain without the IPR owner being compensated; ALSO, Public property as in GPL, OpenContent/CreativeCommons ... cannot be diluted by attachment to IPR private property, but when it is determined by court arbitration to be in the best interest of the general public the IPR private-property can be converted to GPL/Open-public property with a public payment compensation to the IPR owner as determined appropiet by an IPR court/judge and expert-panel/jury. Private/Public users of software, music, DVD ...media/content cannot be resticted in their private personal/home use of the IPR item after paying the original product source a single licence fee for using the IPR property; Therefor, media and content copyright/IPR owners would retain their rights as long as that version (same song, actors, content/media) was purchased, but when the artist goes to another company the songs, poems ... IPR content right remain with the writer, creator ... not the performer or RIAA companies.
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The Deal: If there is no value in a useless or unused patent, copyright
When an IPR property is used for any form of financial gain (money, trade, influence) then the owner must be compensated.
The IPR owner has no right to restrict or prevent the use of the IPR item by anyone anyplace.
If the IPR is never used or is used, but does not result in gain for anyone, then no one pays anything for the use of the IPR item for research, development, personal use, educational use
Your Question: "Why would anyone spend the resources?" for the same reason as now to make money from thier efforts if the IPR proves to have any value in the marketplace, but not until value is proven by production contracts and/or court arbitration.
IOW: Performance, innovation, and productivity cannot be stopped or prevented and compensation will always depend on Performance, innovation, and productivity on a global/local scale.
Dear Customers,
FUCK YOU,FUCK OFF, PAY-ME-NOW FOR WHATEVER YOU FUCKING GET!
You damn stupid dick-wad customers this is the USA where Big-Bussiness is KING!
RESPECTFULLY Signed By:
The Cable-Guy, Tele-dude, and Congress
Luddite legacy IPR good for some bad for US, because you cannot enforce the present IPR laws (due to technology always changes) globally or locally; Therefor, the Luddite legacy IPR laws are failures
... and other well developed economies that blindly insist on continuing a failed IPR system, you change words and phrases, but maintain the anti-competitive structure of an International Luddite legacy IPR system. It is time for US and EU to lead the international community in moving towards a Global Open-competition economic architecture and quickly away from protectionist legacy economic models. A Global Open-competition economic architecture that rewards productive innovation and deters creative, developmental, research ... sharing of information.
...; ALSO, we must reward all owners of information, copyrights, patents ... production/services that has a marketable product financial value (including when it wins friends/influences people). (2) No IPR holder can prevent free (non-monetary/financial) use by any person, company ... country for creativity, product development, scientific research ... educational sharing (Binding court arbitration on the proportional sharing of performance profits). (3) All IPR falls in the public-domain, but all property falls in the (as determined by law and court) public or private. (4) Obvious/Public patents/IPR will be determined at the time of binding court arbitration (judge and independent empaneled topic experts) on the proportional sharing of performance profits, and any attempt by an arbitration participant to defraud the court or other participants will be considered criminal (big fine, 2-10 years in jail).
... not I filed it, I got it, you cannot have or use it (which is counter productive stupidity).
Luddite legacy (industrial-age) IPR is a failure and exceptionally harmful to US, EU
An IPR system needs to reward performance and productivity. (1) We must allow globally the free (non-monetary/financial) use and sharing of all information, copyrights, patents
I think, EFF, ACLU, and the FSF-GPL folks could manage developing a damn good and functional International Open-IPR treaty, but the USA Congress, EU, and others are still beholding to the corporatist special-interest more than the Public's/Citizens' and/or National interest. IPRs should be productivity based control
I find it extremely regrettable that the courts are defining ambiguous economic federal laws which the USA Congress has failed to write correctly over the past two (1986-2006) decades.
...) . I suspect, from the aggressive protectionist tactics used by corporatist, that part of the Global-GDP will be lost to corporatist-governments market-share protectionism opposing Open-Competition. Governments-for-hire presently have a strangle hold on the socio-economics of the public/citizens (Mockery-Democracy in the USA, EU ... does look a great deal like Chinese Faux-Communism.
..., but the fact remains a Legitimate DeMockery nation of servile death-fearing fools. Death before dishonor is no longer as option, patriotic-death is now the road to redemption.
... citizens still have the right and duty to vote all politicians out of office. There are no Politician psychological profile (sanity and mental aptitude) tests and/or careers (BA, MFS, or PhD). There are only Leaders (I wish, eight years max and only common-public retirement benefits) or varying presentable crooks in politics (Local, State, National) for a maybe didn't get caught career. Vote them out, Vote them out, Vote them all out forever and always. PLEASE, This is a peaceful civilized citizen revolution, why remain a fool for any politician, use the Internet for organizing peaceful protest until real change (Education, Health-care, Politics/religion/dogma ...) happens!
... over the last 40 years. This is why the USA continues to slip down all the international socio-economic list (Education, Telecommunications, Health-care, Representative and Responsible Government ...). "We The People" are becoming the biggest loser culture/nation in history. From our Top-Global-Leadership position too international insignificance in less than 100 1945-2045) years, what a pitiful nation we are becoming. The "Rise and Fall of US, 1945-2045" history book is being authored by US Citizens believing and listening to political, corporatist, and religious dogma as truth today and doing nothing/wrong. We have only ourselves/politicians to blame for our failures in Vietnam, Iraq, Enron, S&L Debacle, 2000-2006 political scandals, Religious/political pedophiles and deceivers ..., failing education, health-care ..., dilapidated electrical, water ... utilities, telecommunications, transport
The impact has been that EU, Japan, and many other nations have been coerced and/or followed the USA down an economic dead-end road of corporatist Luddite-oppression (DRM, DMCA, software patents, stem-cell research, opt-out-privacy, vapor-process patents
Governments that are not elected by the public, do not represent the citizens, and/or predicate value on religious/political dogma are fiat-plutocracies [AKA: Legitimate DeMockery].
Democracy will never fail humanity; However, historically citizens have failed democracy. Democracy Citizens' are always responsible for their own welfare, because democratically elected representatives may serve personal/self-interest, and should suffer sever repercussions (not death, just prison) for their evil actions, but if the PUBLIC-/-CITIZENS do not enforce their defense of democracy and freedom, then they devolve to a totalitarian "Legitimate DeMockery" nation. You can make a "Legitimate DeMockery" look good in books, news, TV, radio, media
When politicians refuse to revolt (make real changes in government) and address the needs of citizens, then in the USA, EU, Japan, Australia, Israel
Whoops, due to my AADD I am always getting side-tracked to slightly off-topic.
Referring back to the first line; to many politicians believe themselves experts in technology or believe corporatist are the experts for writing (special-interest) technology legislation for any USA Congress of the last 20 years; also, eduction, health-care, economics, telecommunication, IPR
Industrial-age IPRs are Draconian in the Open-Community of the 21st Century
..., and must be replaced ASAP for peaceful and reasonable global development that will displace the present corporatist/religious/dogmatic Luddite IPR system. Today there are to many Luddite corporatist minions in world governments and the UN preventing economic development outside the legacy S&D (supply & demand) economic models. RealityCheck: "Change Happens or Shit Happens, then Change Happens AFW"; So, opposition to change by oppression (DRM, DMCA, software patents, ...) is the shit, and none of US, EU, others want more of the same Draconian Luddite legacy oppression.
.... Some of these were replaced somewhat peacefully (Britain, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland ...). Regretfully some were replaced with extreme violence (France, Russia, ...). Many reasonably converted from the legacy Luddite feudal system to the new industrial age. The industrial age governments and economies were sometimes ideal based in democracy and meritocracy, but due to weak human character the ideal frequently devolved into plutocratic corporatism/communism [AKA: Modern Feudalism]. The real lesson learned from the extermination of the French and Russian aristocracy by the merchant class of the time was keeping a balance between hope (our children's life will be better than ours') and cruelty (a lottery path to plutocratic riches/power) could assure a peaceful usable inhibited productive public.
... anyway ... today in the USA, EU, Japan, Israel, Australia, New Zealand ... we have the duty (if not the right) to commit peaceful civil-disobedience in the interest of our family, friends, citizens, nation, culture, humanity ... without any fear of death or life imprisonment. I will use OSS, OpenContent ... until I die. IOW: FUCK THE DRACONIAN LAWS!FTDL! peacefully and teach others to do their duty for our future).
..., and I even buy music, DVDs, and legal MS products (for my wife ...), but if US, EU ... continue down this path of economic, culture, and public oppression, I am sure eventually, I will have and use illegal products or make an illegal copy of a song for personal use..
Draconian laws are historically displaced by cultural/community enlightenment or revolution. Industrial-age IPR laws are anti-competitive, economically stagnating, totalitarian
The draconian feudal aristocracy was replaced in EU as a form of economics, culture, government
Well
I have not as of today broken any laws. I make small donations to GNU/FSF, Firefox, EFF, PBS
DAMNED IF YOU DO ... DAMNED IF YOU DON'T ... Fuck'em all for their fear-mongering evil.
... it makes it a lot easier to pick the fun hedonist path to death.
I love catch-22 conditions/situations
Also, all our friends and family will be there waiting for US or get there in time for more fun.
I am greatly comforted by these thoughts on humanity's religious reality, gOD bless US on and all.
I strongly agree with you on this with one additional point.
...), the next update/version/patch frequently clobbers the personal preference setting/templates .... Folks have many different ways of doing things, but many vendors ... want you to do things their default way ... which works well for regressive testing.
When you do edit something to personal preferences in applications (email, wp,
NOTICE: You can have "Free Pluralist Republic Net-Neutrality" or you can have "Plutocratic Corporate Communism Net-Nepotism", but under no circumstances will you have both!
...) will do to screw all of you and US.
THEREFOR: Government based on special interest politics, economics, and religion, then spiced with xenophobia of other dogmatic devils [AKA: HUMANS] has determined that a semiliterate elitist culture is better served by Net-Nepotism.
ALSO: Any opposition/objection by the many to the few Fiat-Rulers will be severely punished with "NO INTERNET ACCESS", and the number of years will be determined by severity of pluralist threat to the righteously privileged leaders. I think the DMCA and recent IPR patents/rulings/laws prove some of what the almighty (politicaians, corporatist, televangelist,
FINALLY: gOD BLESS aMERICA?
I was born in 1950, grew up in an orphanage, dropped out of high school at 16yo, went in to the USMC at 17yo [Honorable Discharge], current gross annual income $100K+.
... Money, money, money ... Expectations, Expectations, Expectations ... and a duo-class culture ruled by too many stupid fools, and exploiting many semiliterate citizens, with dejure-plutocracy, corporatist-communism, and religious-televangelism.
... no better than existed prior to the 1970s.
...) ...).
...) and no college degree. I am reasonably well read, and I have been known (in meeting) to correct scientist and engineers in applied technology when they stretch (beyond their schooling/experience) into my areas of curiosity and interest. However, I am still shown little respect by many in management when they discover they have a degree, but I don't ... some after trying to get me fired have even retired sooner than planned [I am good and hard working].
... learning fits me as I need ... whatever I need. I wish that the technology available today was available when I was in grammar and high school. I could have learned to cope with my learning disabilities much sooner, I was never told I had learning disabilities until I got tested by a college entrance counselor in 1974.
I have a street-degree on America's Educational and Economic systems failures. Location, location
What makes some expensive private high schools work extremely well? What makes many public high schools fail? Discover recurring performance and success high schools then mirror the process in public high schools. Currently we have Green-Pelsey/Crow separate and unequal school systems based on socio-economics
Is part of the problem that administrative+overhead for public schools is used to identify the cost-per-child education? I think that is unfair and a fraudulent lie to the USA public. Remove the administrative+overhead from the equations for both public and private schools, and determine how many dollars get to the children's education in the school building+classrooms (Principle, teachers, cafeteria, learning+teaching materials (not school boards, building projects, furniture, utilities, roofing
I now have over 162 Semester hours (humanities, mathematics, electronics
Education never fits me
THE USA Educational system is broke, because limp-dick politicians and special interest like Education in the USA just the way it is for producing an exploitable dogmatic (refuge of semiliteate) patriotic (good, but sad) workforce. We are not giving kids or their parents much to look forward too as a future that values Learning or many other things available only to the wealthy. We need to give all our children (citizens) in the USA a high quality education through high school [performance dependent] to college BS and MA paid in full.
I ain't got no kids, I won't have no grandkids, and very few will have great-grandkids ...; So, tough-gucking-shit we're near to self-created species extinction.
... those that have keep, those nots that have not will not thrive and maybe die.
... eat drink and be happy for tomorrow someone else dies ..., and I know it won't be my great-grandkids; So again, I say tough-gucking-shit we can do nukes, viruses, and/or chems today or to make a better world for the few tomorrow ... just let our decedents thirst and starve to a terrible tortured death.
Well okay maybe there is a small chance to save humanity, but it works like this
Today we live
Politicians, corporatists, and televangelists would persuasively say; to all US, god would want it this way and it is your patriotic duty to die for US.
!HAVEFUN!
China, Persian, and Arab nations need more security through obscurity to prevent kiddy-script cracking with Latin/Russian/English fonts and control the internet in their sovereign totalitarian nations for god and corruption to freely grow in their two-cast corporatist-communist (haves and nots, just like the US and EU) cultures.
... they aren't even spelled the same.
... to provide better tools for building "The Great Digital Divide Wall" for themselves, the Terrorist Defense Network (TDN), and other two-cast totalitarian corporatist-communism nations. God bless US one and all!
Remember: An exploitable-labor force is never a slave-labor force, I mean like, for real, exploitable and slave are two totally different words
This should help China, Persian, Arab nations and Yahoo, Google, Microsoft
Also, the collapse of the internet will be useful to developing the "New World Order" that everyone in charge really wants.
"And remember: nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft."
And remember: nobody ever got fired for blaming Microsoft.
I have noticed for years now that buying and blaming Microsoft products can be a career saver for TEK incompetence.
Microsoft is always a good tech/admin-excuse to management in a non-technology company.
"When Thibodeau told the head of a government research lab about his mission, the man replied, 'Your problem is so big, it's probably stupid to try and solve it.'"
... far too many more)!"
... are "White_Collar_Trash (WCT) Career Management" specialist bent on destroying the USA as a Great Nation, Culture, and People. WCT Career Management specialist will always be able to convince the semiliterate public "probable stupidity is smart" (also it is lethal, but why tell the pitiful semiliterate public).
The above quote, perfectly expressed the epitome of USA Leadership for the past 30 years in business, religion, and government. You already know the rest of the story "Stupid is as Stupid does (Vietnam, Iraq, IPR, DMCA, TIA, broken-education, healthcare nightmare, Enron, Global Crossings, E-voting Diebold, Opt-Out Privacy, Security_by_Obscurity
No problem (except stupidity and death) is too big to fix. It is multi-degreed, highly certified, and probably stupid Big-Chicken (White_Collar_Trash) people that can't try and won't solve problems. Government research labs (many government offices, businesses, religions) need leadership not a "PhDoctorate of Career Management" in do nothing wrong or right.
Politicians, Corporatist, Televangelists
Birmingham, Alabama or Birmingham, England what's the difference they can compare fruit and vegetables as equals, and use numbers equally well. I mean, y'all ain't got no cents, if'n ya don't know Equal is as Equal does.
Who the hell is Equal?
The lesser of two evils is also a fact ... one bugged dead or more bombed dead ... a few bugged dead or far to many nuke/virus/chem dead.
...) righteousness is proven (as vetted by human history).
... our choice should always be to preserve life when possible; So, good bugs for humanity are addressing a failure in gross species morality. As politics and totalitarianism prove what the public/citizen does not know, control, or easily justify/forget cannot hurt our ruling class.
... could use bugs to control world population by regional/area bio-sterilization for their privileged self-interest in sub-humanity. Well you know, bio-sterilizing small packs of people is far more merciful, safe, and controllable then starvation and plague. It helps maintain population levels in some species already.
It may be our only way to keep murders to an unreasonable minimum for humanity, because I know god-fearing war mongers are always willing to murder others until their (personal, fascist, religious
We can all worry less or worry more
Finally our ruling-class corporatist, politicians, televangelist
God obviously blesses the greedy and self-interested of humanity for divine holy miraculous purposes. PRAZE THE LORD GODS for they know not what they do and should not be blamed for a little whoops.
I've never meet a politician that could ... ....
... ....
>_ write a line of code.
>_ fix a desktop computer.
>_ configure a monitor correctly.
>_ figure out an email problem.
>_ understand that 15=21=25=10101
>_
I've never meet a politician that ain't
>_ a technophobic idiot zealot
>_ a righteous Luddite disciple
>_ a delusional scientist of BS
>_ a dogmatist for corporatist/greed
>_ capable of self-interest decisions
>_ going to waste taxes gucking citizens
>_ willing to sacrifice our children in wars
>_
There may be a few good politicians/appointees in government, but
there is so gucking few, I expect I will never meet one in my lifetime.
Robert C. Cresanti is obviously just another highly degreed, certified, and totally unqualified Bush appointee. Presidents and members of Congress do it to US after every election. I wish they could always appoint competent people to serve the USA public, but how could they help their self-interested privileged constituents feel important and smart. Forgive them, most only know how to guck you, me, US, our Warriors, and the future for our children.
If you trust or respect any politician to do patriotic, ethical, and honorable deeds (in these days and times) you're a fool and/or dogmatist.
IOW, politicians/appointees (and career-manager federal employees) will never do hard working USA Citizens any god-dang favors or what's not right for themselves. If a politician/appointee or career-manager goes to prison, we can only hope their cell-mate is named "Broomstick Bubba or Butch."
Guck'em all, and always vote'em out, for a Free, Beautiful, and Better USA.
I thought peer to peer (P2P, point to point, person to person, ...) computer communications was around before VTC. Also, I thought VTC was around a few years prior to VoIP.
.... It has all become very pitifully funny that marketer-spin, IPR awarded by phrase, obvious no IPR prior art ... then ConArtIt as creative. I wish we had at least one Albert Einstein (in charge) in the USA IPR offices that could stop the paper pushers and signature automaton processes.
...) they run to the selfish-interest for advice on how to make the problem a more profitable, dysfunctional, and expensive FUBAR with getting rich pork for which civil service is blamed for failures, and public teachers, doctors, workers receive to much pay and benefits in the view of politicians, HMOs, CEOs, CFOs, politicians, televangelist ... pay, benefits, and options rewards increase as the selfish-interest decision makers whine-piss-moan about taxes, their rights/property, and their sex lives being unfair/troubling.
... the poor should not be blamed or penalized for the failure by decision makers to lead and make sound and reasonable decisions. Welfare [some say] was designed to keep the illiterate exploitable poor on isolated urban reservations as a cheap labor pool. Social Security is another hood-wink for US ... eliminate a real-debt by shifting blame onto the expensive do-nothing unhealthy elderly, take all their property and money before they can leave it to their children, but end the inheritance tax on the obscenely selfish-interest wealthy. Selfish-interest/politicians hawk-spin a conflict as a war to justify spending more tax dolors to benefit corporatist and wealthy contributors then destroy young American lives, no need for drafts, or rationing (just spend, spend, spend ...) just some poor warm honorable patriotic bodies for a less than holy (more evil) cause.
..., but selfish-interest greed of corporatist, politicians, televangelist ... appears to be ending our USA destiny even before we grow out of spoiled idealistic childhood. What will be will be WWIII for our babies.
....
Well IPR laws work well for controlling market share and holding customer hostages by first claim of a technology/science/engineering term an/or phrase. More USA dejure CorporatistCommunism mislabeled as legal competitive capitalism
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I know we have a few new politicians in the Congress, but they will just screw it up IPR laws more.
I mean look at the last 30 to 40 years; every time the politicians say they are going to fix a problem (Education, Health, Banking, Science, Military, Civil Service, Economy
USA Selfish-interest decision makers (Corporatist-communist/politicians) had the bright idea that HMOs (and other BS) would fix the (1960-present) problem of rising medical cost. They said that school vouchers would fix the public education (1970-present) problems in the USA, now poor public education is considered a National Disaster threatening our National Security. They said Welfare handouts would raise poor folks out of poverty, welfare cost a lot, did little, and still is considered an expensive mess
Oh hell, we're fucked by selfish-interest rapist and apparently we will not notice our fall any quicker than the Romans.
I will always hope the USA can (for two thousand years or more) be a beacon to humanity for democracy, freedom, capitalism, charity, education, science, philosophy, art
Yes, I know I like eventually drifting off-topic