Welfare/Self-fare in summary... at the time of your death will you (MSN/MS/.../G. Pascal) feel you need to do much more for humanity, or will you (RHS/Linus/.../Nick, [WoeFolk Knights]) know that you made a difference for humanity.
Welfare as in food,water, shelter,... (all important and necessities) are parts of a stopgap till the next calamity. Mr. G. Pascal Zachary and other limited welfare approach did-gooders live to be called (and are) humanitarians (Knights of the WoeFolk Continent) maintain failing cultures and help solve the next human disaster.
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....
Both humanitarian approaches are gravely needed in less developed communities (even in the USA and EU). One to address emergency response (failed in NOLA USA) and the other to address self-sufficiency (failed in NOLA USA, Native People, Slums,...). As was proved in the USA (60s,70s...) welfare is much needed in many communities, but welfare must have a "Self-fare" 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".
I agree, only a known can be addressed/controlled/manipulated, and fear of the unknown can cause a potentially catastrophic unknown. I feel, that many Luddite and/or religious leaders create a far greater potential to cause the extinction of the human species, then anything theoretical/applied mathematicians, scientist, engineers... may do accidentally and/or in an uncontrolled environment.
IOW, curiosity killed the cat, while a lack or repression of human curiosity will destroy everything that humans are and will be.
OhGuckingWell... bullet today, bug tomorrow, all for the best with less collateral death and destruction. Atleast it is economically practical for US, EU... whoever. Iran maybe will give up the nuke option for safer technology, think of everyone technology will be saving and many stories will not even reach the evening news for US, EU... many.
A natural looking death by accident or illness is really best for everyone.
Most politicians (secular and religious) globally are worthy of the citizens/public disgust. It was not the news media, movies, or a friend that provoked cynicism in government, politics, and/or religion. Skepticism comes very naturally to any observant human wanting to be objective about what they are monitoring in their day too day life and having confirmed by additional reliable sources on the Internet.
Mr. Taylor and all other politicians should take note that politicians are not aristocrats and they do not have any god-given birthrights to any position in any government.
As I have said for years now give me a Clinton having a BJNDO over a flaming-Bush NDO anytime.
I remember the 1950s, sounds like the atomic bomb again, radiation poising, evil mad science, nature-gone-wild... sounds like more B-grade scifi movies are on their way, or the new-conservative plutocrats are justified in keep everyone from behaving responsibly by not having a gun, stem-cell, nuke.... NanNO Borg the monster was a human infected by terrorist spread necrotic-nano-bots from Mars.
If we are going to destroy our species, I wish would just get it done. Anything is better than accepting domination by fear-mongering idiots in charge (Neo-Nazi, Neoconservative, Neo/Pseudo-Christian/Moslem/Jew...) who are continually gucken up the world for humanity.
Give me liberty, or give me death, from the all KnowWhatsBestForYou powerful of this world.
I was overly optimistic (Gucken Wrong!) about GatesBallmer's intentions. I was never surprised about BushRumsfeld intentions even prior to 911. I guess; I expected a little more intelligence and reason from GatesBallmer and Microsoft.They are all incompetent at asymmetric-conflict due to a headuptheass disease mutation.
The headuptheass disease which frequently afflicts politicians, but has been infecting far more wealthy people with a severely diminished mental and emotional capacity to cope with reality. In the business and economic world the debilitating illness is called CorporatistCommunism, but it is frequently misdiagnosed as DemocraticCapitalism by practicing political/economic quacks.
GatesBallmer like BushRumsfeld cannot recognize, or believe, that innovative competition is possible from any adversary... until it is too late to do anything intelligent. So first they claim (with their third person delusional aristocratic persona Microsoft/US) greatness and that success is a fact (MS-Halloween Letters and WMD (WhiteManDisease) and fear plague, SCO and Iraq...). Then when reality shits all over them... they persist with more of the same re-spun marketer planing that sounds as good to them as the last FUBAR situation. The megalomania of their afflicted personalities causes them to only consider "Stay the Course" as a "real" viable option for humanity.
I suspect that whatever (MAD, total destruction) happens between MS and OSS, will involve the metaphorical crashing to earth in flames. MS will rise FIRST from the ashes as a rotting corps zombie, then OSS+OIPR (Open IPR) will rise from the ashes of a pyre as a reborn magical Phoenix. Change is fact of true rebirth for governments and economies.
So, IOW, don't worry, be happy, and don't forget to gucken donate to FSF-GPL, EFF, and other foundations that will lead this great crusade against Microsoft and the CorporatistCommunism [AKA: MonopolySpin Economics] devils.
May the force and good spirits of this earth and humanity keep US safe, in these times of tribulations, from all their demonic hate and MS+RIAA+USA+EU+... concentration camps.
This is just more proof that the Thai, US, EU, and most others globally have identical political/government socioeconomic problems that oppress the best and screw-up the rest! USA politicians definitely prove the point with their corporatist fixation.
A Thai and other nations' POLITICIANS have a human right to speak and slam OSS. A Thai and other nations' POLITICIANS have a human right to be right or wrong on anything (mostly everything).
Globally most (66%+, at least) gucken politicians are highly certified (degrees in law, medicine, religion, engineering, science, acting...), and totally unqualified and inexperienced at everything they do in political office, and they get good pay and benefits for incompetence, corruption, and failure. For everything they earn, including citizens animosity, they just cannot be certified losers, unless they can create a winning terrorist paramilitary.
However, we forgive them, because they know not what they do, and in a year (more or less) we typically forget what they have done. God must love all politicians more than idiots or poor folks, because there are so gucken many likeable, forgivable, well-paid, educated, incompetent and healthy politicians. God does bless POLITICIANS, one and all: for wars and citizens' semi-literacy, suffering, and faith-filled hopeless donations and prayers... we must be thankful for god's will or human failings.
We must embrace our fait and faith, because only god (or the delusion of one) can make a POLITICIAN that can send saints and sinners to hell in our Faustian (Spengler/Berman) comedy of life.
OK, I was wrong, last time I was replying to the "BigBuckHunter the Telecom/Cable lobbyist" and not "Salvance the Pharmaceuticals lobbyist", but I think they are both BigBiz industry lobbyist. Most lobbyist are bigots... in or out of their sheets. However I cannot be sure of "BigBuckHunter the Telecom/Cable lobbyist" and not "Salvance the Pharmaceuticals lobbyist" or their intention may be best.
The road to hell is paved with the best of intentions, and the inactions of bigots, dogmatist, and cowards.
A jack of many skills is always less exact then the master of one skill or a few.
Do we want programmers that can do complex/theoretical math, or a theoretical scientist/mathematician programming? I think NFWay to both possibilities.
Do we want programmers that can draw complex/abstract artistic representations of dimensional unknowns derived from vector interactions of a multi-dimensional place, or artistic clutter programming by a very creative artist.
Never stretch a master out of their field, but teach/mentor all Masters/Ph.Ds how to collaborate/communicate as a community of very high performance professionals (with respect for sometimes significant personality differences).
Being slightly paranoid/eccentric and asking for help (collaboration) are two true signs of genius. However, collaboration is far more productive, and mentally and emotionally healthy for everyone.
THANKS MUCH to all the students, doctors, researchers, administrators... involved. You are indeed "Knights of the WoeFolk Continents!"
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines is fantastic and provides a real path to a better future for humanity.
The Philadelphia Consensus Statement helps the public/citizens reclaim ownership for tax-dollar labs, facilities, payroll... at Universities and Hospitals. This gives humanity a ROI for US. This is very good, and an ethics/morals lesson for all modern politicians, corporatist, and televangelists.
Last time I replied (to one of your comments) I misunderstood the intentions of your comments about the OLPC project. I said; "Sometimes, some folks on/. are as clueless as a Washington DC politician." Now I suspect you are just a greedy low-life, mud-sucking, scumbag lobbyist. If you are a lobbyist, you are good and should ask for a raise, but televangelists are still better at their sales-pitch (few will question their lies in public).
I guess the K-Street slime marketers/spinners have taken to the Internet like political campaigns attempting credibility for their marketing lies, fraud, and illogical irrational claptrap just like any other pickpocket televangelist (all dogma bullshit no reality).
Again; I say, "RealityCheck (RC): Do it they will Benefit, only the afraid bray like jackasses with nay!" Also, Greed is indicative of mentally and emotionally crippled bigots. IOW: What color is better or worse than skin-color? If you reply green, gold, or silver, then you are a real modern bigot. If you picked a symbolic skin-color (white, black, brown,...), then you are a poor semiliterate bigot that listens to too damn much dogma from political faux-patriots and religious fake-prophets.
Sometimes, some folks on/. are as clueless as a Washington DC politician. Well UFI "Do they really think" that you should not feed 1,000 hungry people because someone will steal the food, or there is not enough to feed the 10,000 hungry in need, or... more (politician type) excesses for not doing what should and needs to be done AFAP (As Fast As Possible). "RC:" Do it they will Benefit, only the afraid bray like jackasses with nay!
Something great is being done by damn good [AKA: Right Stuff... Best of Best] people in humanity. The US, EU, UN and most other governments have had their heads up their ass with special interest (plutocrats, dictators, corporatist, religious...) politics. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Berkley, CalTech, Georgia Tech... and many EU universities are not failures, but they appear to be disgracefully lacking in... "What have y'all done for humanity today" policy/agenda.
I do not know what MIT feeds professors and students up in Massachusetts USA, but I wish all our politicians were raised on bellyfuls of that MIT stuff. Rick Stallman, Nick Negroponte, Phill Zimmerman... and many others are doing wonderful things for humanity and US with little recognition and no significant support from any of the US, EU, UN... Butt-Head leaders.
Efforts like the ones (FSF/GPL, OLPC, PGP/PKI... OKI/OCW...) from MIT are supported more by philanthropy and individual donations then corporations and governments. Well again the people of the world are proving themselves far superior to the white-color-trash dejure/fiat leaders of today. USA democrats and republican politicians are still unaware that it ain't all about the gucken war, USA Citizens (except the mostly illiterate) are not that superficial.
I did not use Linus Torvalds and Linux above, because I was using MIT for my rant. NOTE Though: Linus Torvalds, Linux, and the whole global OSS community including money/property donors/contributors is proof that MIT does not stand alone is providing to humanity many things that are greatly needed in all parts of our global community.
The USA & International organizations and leaders (Nobel Prizes, Papal Blessings, Presidential Medals...) should annually award significant recognition to many folks and organizations that truly serve the public good. Governments should fund (not control) Open Projects at all levels (OSS, GPL, Open Content, Open Standards+Research+Development+IPR+Government+.... We need to financially support all these things for long-term survival, development, and for human ideals, honor, and ethics.
What do Ballmer, Gates, Bush, Hitler, Pope... many leaders have in common?
Ballmer, Gates, Bush, Hitler, Pope/Mulah... many (whoever) leaders may be completely mentally and emotionally healthy or believe totally they are healthy (it is their reality of right/wrong). It is not like we would ever require them to be tested for mental illnesses and presently power, justice, and mental health are defined by wealth and/or fear (as is right/wrong). Pity those who cannot feel, hear, and see the endless suffering of humanity. MS can/will go the way of Ford, GM, Novell, IBM, AT&T, Lucent... or open-up... same goes for US, EU, others. I can see a gradual decline of US & EU domination & participation in global economics and relationships (by the end of this century)... just as past empires of China, Egypt, Assyrian, Greece, Rome... are past history interesting but not presently consequential. It all depends on our continued fixation on Industrial-age economics and our mythological faith in deities and their fraud-prophets. [Yep, if you don't understand... this is off-topic...; So,... you got points maybe?]
Well, in authoritarian (non-capitalist and non-democratic) business, religion, and government, the leaders are typically gucken-nuts [AKA: megalomaniacs] in a persistent state of paranoid denial of reality. "Reality is self-induced hallucination." for these narrow and delusional minded guckers. Their amoral responsibility, repercussions, and guilt are based on pride-image... what is right (in their reality) is what they do, what is good (in their reality) is good for all humanity. This is what can drag humanity to self-made extinction wars. Aristocracy ruled EU, China... for thousands of years and failed for obvious inbreed/corrupt reasons. It is time for the end of inbreed/corrupt religious and secular dictators, plutocracies, oligarchies, and the anachronistic governing aristocracies before humanity is self-made extinct.
In my reality (my hallucination), reality is changing. We are moving away from HomoSapienSapien (HSS) plutocratic Industrial-age economics too HomoSapienPrescient (HSP) Open-age global economics that promotes international human/public [AKA: citizen] education, health, and welfare for everyone. This does not mean everyone will be a millionaire in the future, but it does mean an end to famine, hunger, homelessness, illiteracy, genocide, plagues, wars and threats of war. IOW, in such a world where we by law raised all children like our own, and gave each child a minimum level of shelter, health care, education.., then let a true legally protected democratic and capitalist meritocracy for all grow.
SUMMARY: Humanity as one family has a simple logic of why should anyone go to the grave controlling more resources then they or their immediate (spouse, siblings, children and grandchildren) family require for very comfortably living out their lives and improving their family living standards by their own efforts while alive. We need real Democracy and Capitalism.
I agree, I am not overly worried about Novell Suse and MS destroying OSS, GPL, FSF, GNU, Linux,....
There was a GPL, a GPL-2, soon the GPL-3 will spread to cover OSS. Novel Suse wants more market share from RedHat and others, MS is trying to survive and may become a late-future OSS OSD. MS is evil, but maybe will repent their sins in the far-fetched future or fail/lose market share like IBM, GM, Novell,.... It is do or die time for many software companies including... will they have something to offer in the future that customers want.
Eventually, 3 to 10 years, the international community, US, and UN will demand reasonable IPR laws that protect innovation, private R&D and personal use, commerce, and ownership. Today's IPR are just industrial-age theft of property, exploitation, extortion... fraud which is protected by legacy Luddite governments (US, EU, UN... them) controlled by the special interest plutocrats.
Long-winded but accurate objective perspective of US and politics today.
Most not all are scams. CarShopper, TimeShare... other service offers to help sell property (Car, House...).
You pay for the service, lose your money, get ducked..., but get only vapor-services. Thirty years ago it was all fraud, but now it is just SOS business for US.
When you think and/or feel WTF (What...), then it is WTFU (Want To Fuck U), but you already know this....
USA politics, religion, business... too many are now legally schooled in fraud, scams and crimes. It must be legal now, look at the diet-ade pill adds on TV 24/7 for all US as just one example. Show a tit, say fuck on TV it is a crime and fine, but scams are now perfectly legal the USA.
We created the global televangelist who are just televised pick-pocket-preachers of the old folks, illiterate people, and simple minded fools and our government approves the thefts by televangelist as freedom of religion BS.
This sounds like the typical Democrat and/or Republican spin/BS. I know some times there are MS hired-guns on/..
Are you a USA Telco/Cable wideband service hired-gun that tells US citizens the wideband is broadband?
The US telecommunication infrastructure is very ducked up just as the ITU and other reports have been stating for the past decade.
Telcos software/service patch/package and area-code/subscriber databases upgrades are as directed more than as needed. So, even wire-call miss-routing, phantom-rings, disconnects... have been on the increase for the past decade.
Also, the telco and cable companies working with congress have delayed or prevented new technologies from entering the USA market, and holding customers hostage to one provider at obscene prices. Neither democracy or capitalism functions in the USA... it is all about SFI (Special Ducking Interest) and the citizens [AKA: public] are feed spin&BS as the cause for fraud and treason.
What happened to Wireless local loop, 802.16 WiMax,...?
Why have USA Cities/communities trying to provide all their citizens with Internet access (including the poor) via WiFi (802.11*) been taken to court by the telco and cable companies to prevent any improvements for public citizens' Internet access?
Why can I get COMCAST but not DirectTV service...?
IOWs Don't drucken lie to US like the politicians. US ain't idiots or your cockless bitches, and mamma can kick-ass too on....
USA telecommunications being an international joke and rip-off is very old pre-2000 news.
USA Broadband as defined (marketing spin) by most USA providers ain't in fact Broadband, it is wideband or less. USA proportionally has far less citizen/public broadband access to the Internet than most other developed nations' citizens.
Our government provides Billions of tax dolors annually to foreign countries with much better telecommunications infrastructure than currently exist in the USA, while politicians also make sure by legislation that telcos and cable companies have a protected hostage customer base with no need to compete [AKA: Corporatist communism].
Don't even get me started on banking and loans, because the tip of the home and small business foreclosure ice-berg is almost visible on the horizon after six years of serious economic stupidity.
Globally US is in the dog-house and most US politicians just don't give a damn about US all.
NOW FOR AN OFF-TOPIC PART: We are quickly becoming the PaperEagle of the global community, because most politicians have their head up their ass thinking the USA is a global player by WWII dejure/fiat. Politician have provided us more-than two costly military venture losses.
War was not mucking declared on Vietnam or Iraq. Vietnam and Iraq are political conflicts not war/attacks on enemies that ever threatened US. I believe in kill your enemies if they will not unconditionally surrender, but Bin Laden and many terrorist are alive, leading, and training others to kill US.
I feel (in Iraq) we are like the cartoon elephant going mucking nuts, because (we think) there is a mouse in the house. We could just step on it and move on, but we don't we do the panic-dance and look pitifully big, sad, ugly, and crazy.
Democrats win by political default. Republicans lose by delusional obscenity. Neither political party appears to comprehend the reality that in a two legged race one leg always crosses the finish line first and neither lose the race.
Democrats and Republicans won in 2006 because there is never a viable third option for US. So, I still strongly fear for our National Security, The USA Public Welfare, and world peace.
Also, the dogmatic/religious followers of Democrats, Republicans, Televangelist/NeuFaschist... others appear to be unaware of what is Democracy and that the only true business of any government is the welfare of the citizens/public.
Governments are critically flawed and treasonous when attempting to enslave or exploit citizens for private interest, power, war, commerce, religion..., and/or legislating non-injurious sex or personal activity........., prevention of science/medicine and technology research and development........., anti-competitive control of commerce and economy..........
I think Dvorak is right and that MS has for years now tried to stop/cope with OSS GPL-GNU-Linux.
MS wants to have products for the future home, office, and Internet. MS makes products for Apple/Mac. So, whats the problem [NONE]?
I will continue to use OSS, because OSS GPL products are as good/acceptable as MS products and far better for global development and always more compliant the international/open standards that must be supported for a real global community and economy to succeed.
MS wants to compete globally, then MS must get on board with the rest of humanity. MS can keep code proprietary, but it will be a loser not a leader in technology and society and lose market share.
In the USA this a NewChristianConservative [AKA: Bushit Perverts] Government recruiting plan for their superior HomoSapientSapient (HSS) race/breed that will retake (with the force of god) this holy country from those damn peace-loving godless big-brained Neanderthals of the world.
Oh, there are many HomoSapientPrescient (HSP) impure offspring of HomoSapientSapients and Neanderthals fornication that will be the first sent to the camps for exploitable labor and purification for the forthcoming NewChristianConservative WorldOrder.
God bless america and lets all wave a flag with a christian cross of doom and damnation.
I am sure the EU will recognise the more robust economic model "Open" provides to the world economies with which we all compete for market share.
The USA Congress and GWBush may not understand "Open" economics and basic S&T+R&D to future market products; So, the rest of the world will bury the USA economy in about 10 or 20 years. Who gives a shit (not polticians, televangelist, fools...), I have no kids, and I'll be dead of old age in another 20 years; So, I no longer give a shit how US citizens vote... It is all a big fucking joke on US).
Democracy and Capitalism in the USA died an unheralded and unceremonious death over 30 years ago. LongLiveTheRulling3|337&FUDH!
Corporatism is economic communism ruled by the global plutocracy community. Politicians are either part of the ruling plutocracy community or their indentured servants. Cheap labor or economic slavery for everyone wanting to survive day to day as a citizen.
The corporatist/plutocrats can always convince and/or pay for half the slave laborers to kill the other half in times of troubles/upheavals.
Politicians and corporatist have always been scam-artist, faux-patriots, fake-prophets, vapor-heroes, pseudo-leaders, virtual-gods,... sociopathic-personalities... thank goodness they ain't kings and queens. However, a spin by any other name is still the SOS... the President of North Korea/USA, Draft dodging by proxy and/or serving honorable while avoiding the Vietnam conflict. Purple-Heart Hero or chicken-heart hero is all marketed with the same spin.
BS is BS and what the hell did anyone expect to happen after the last 30 years of political and religious lies to US.You may as well accept that you are a ruled people with approved and controlled freedoms.
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Welfare/Self-fare in summary ... at the time of your death will you (MSN/MS/.../G. Pascal) feel you need to do much more for humanity, or will you (RHS/Linus/.../Nick, [WoeFolk Knights]) know that you made a difference for humanity.
... (all important and necessities) are parts of a stopgap till the next calamity. Mr. G. Pascal Zachary and other limited welfare approach did-gooders live to be called (and are) humanitarians (Knights of the WoeFolk Continent) maintain failing cultures and help solve the next human disaster.
... terms that should be used for the OLPC project are Education, Learning, Communicating, Participation, Sharing, Collaborating, Developing, Community ....
...). As was proved in the USA (60s,70s ...) welfare is much needed in many communities, but welfare must have a "Self-fare" 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).
Welfare as in food,water, shelter,
The OLPC folks/foundation are humanitarians looking to provide part of a longterm solution to poverty
Both humanitarian approaches are gravely needed in less developed communities (even in the USA and EU). One to address emergency response (failed in NOLA USA) and the other to address self-sufficiency (failed in NOLA USA, Native People, Slums,
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".
When they behave as one ... they are one ....
I agree, only a known can be addressed/controlled/manipulated, and fear of the unknown can cause a potentially catastrophic unknown. I feel, that many Luddite and/or religious leaders create a far greater potential to cause the extinction of the human species, then anything theoretical/applied mathematicians, scientist, engineers ... may do accidentally and/or in an uncontrolled environment.
IOW, curiosity killed the cat, while a lack or repression of human curiosity will destroy everything that humans are and will be.
OhGuckingWell ... bullet today, bug tomorrow, all for the best with less collateral death and destruction. Atleast it is economically practical for US, EU ... whoever. Iran maybe will give up the nuke option for safer technology, think of everyone technology will be saving and many stories will not even reach the evening news for US, EU ... many.
A natural looking death by accident or illness is really best for everyone.
Most politicians (secular and religious) globally are worthy of the citizens/public disgust. It was not the news media, movies, or a friend that provoked cynicism in government, politics, and/or religion. Skepticism comes very naturally to any observant human wanting to be objective about what they are monitoring in their day too day life and having confirmed by additional reliable sources on the Internet.
Mr. Taylor and all other politicians should take note that politicians are not aristocrats and they do not have any god-given birthrights to any position in any government.
As I have said for years now give me a Clinton having a BJNDO over a flaming-Bush NDO anytime.
I remember the 1950s, sounds like the atomic bomb again, radiation poising, evil mad science, nature-gone-wild ... sounds like more B-grade scifi movies are on their way, or the new-conservative plutocrats are justified in keep everyone from behaving responsibly by not having a gun, stem-cell, nuke .... NanNO Borg the monster was a human infected by terrorist spread necrotic-nano-bots from Mars.
...) who are continually gucken up the world for humanity.
If we are going to destroy our species, I wish would just get it done. Anything is better than accepting domination by fear-mongering idiots in charge (Neo-Nazi, Neoconservative, Neo/Pseudo-Christian/Moslem/Jew
Give me liberty, or give me death, from the all KnowWhatsBestForYou powerful of this world.
The "put up or shut up" legal tactic does work very well.
I would like to recommend a new USA-MS marketing slogan:
"Microsoft, for US, screws-up the best and messes up the rest."
---- A USA "Chamber of CorporatistCommunism League" Member ----
I was overly optimistic (Gucken Wrong!) about GatesBallmer's intentions. I was never surprised about BushRumsfeld intentions even prior to 911. I guess; I expected a little more intelligence and reason from GatesBallmer and Microsoft.They are all incompetent at asymmetric-conflict due to a headuptheass disease mutation.
... until it is too late to do anything intelligent. So first they claim (with their third person delusional aristocratic persona Microsoft/US) greatness and that success is a fact (MS-Halloween Letters and WMD (WhiteManDisease) and fear plague, SCO and Iraq ...). Then when reality shits all over them ... they persist with more of the same re-spun marketer planing that sounds as good to them as the last FUBAR situation. The megalomania of their afflicted personalities causes them to only consider "Stay the Course" as a "real" viable option for humanity.
The headuptheass disease which frequently afflicts politicians, but has been infecting far more wealthy people with a severely diminished mental and emotional capacity to cope with reality. In the business and economic world the debilitating illness is called CorporatistCommunism, but it is frequently misdiagnosed as DemocraticCapitalism by practicing political/economic quacks.
GatesBallmer like BushRumsfeld cannot recognize, or believe, that innovative competition is possible from any adversary
I suspect that whatever (MAD, total destruction) happens between MS and OSS, will involve the metaphorical crashing to earth in flames. MS will rise FIRST from the ashes as a rotting corps zombie, then OSS+OIPR (Open IPR) will rise from the ashes of a pyre as a reborn magical Phoenix. Change is fact of true rebirth for governments and economies.
So, IOW, don't worry, be happy, and don't forget to gucken donate to FSF-GPL, EFF, and other foundations that will lead this great crusade against Microsoft and the CorporatistCommunism [AKA: MonopolySpin Economics] devils.
May the force and good spirits of this earth and humanity keep US safe, in these times of tribulations, from all their demonic hate and MS+RIAA+USA+EU+... concentration camps.
This is just more proof that the Thai, US, EU, and most others globally have identical political/government socioeconomic problems that oppress the best and screw-up the rest! USA politicians definitely prove the point with their corporatist fixation.
...), and totally unqualified and inexperienced at everything they do in political office, and they get good pay and benefits for incompetence, corruption, and failure. For everything they earn, including citizens animosity, they just cannot be certified losers, unless they can create a winning terrorist paramilitary.
... we must be thankful for god's will or human failings.
A Thai and other nations' POLITICIANS have a human right to speak and slam OSS.
A Thai and other nations' POLITICIANS have a human right to be right or wrong on anything (mostly everything).
Globally most (66%+, at least) gucken politicians are highly certified (degrees in law, medicine, religion, engineering, science, acting
However, we forgive them, because they know not what they do, and in a year (more or less) we typically forget what they have done. God must love all politicians more than idiots or poor folks, because there are so gucken many likeable, forgivable, well-paid, educated, incompetent and healthy politicians. God does bless POLITICIANS, one and all: for wars and citizens' semi-literacy, suffering, and faith-filled hopeless donations and prayers
We must embrace our fait and faith, because only god (or the delusion of one) can make a POLITICIAN that can send saints and sinners to hell in our Faustian (Spengler/Berman) comedy of life.
OK, I was wrong, last time I was replying to the "BigBuckHunter the Telecom/Cable lobbyist" and not "Salvance the Pharmaceuticals lobbyist", but I think they are both BigBiz industry lobbyist. Most lobbyist are bigots ... in or out of their sheets. However I cannot be sure of "BigBuckHunter the Telecom/Cable lobbyist" and not "Salvance the Pharmaceuticals lobbyist" or their intention may be best.
The road to hell is paved with the best of intentions, and the inactions of bigots, dogmatist, and cowards.
A jack of many skills is always less exact then the master of one skill or a few.
Do we want programmers that can do complex/theoretical math, or a theoretical scientist/mathematician programming? I think NFWay to both possibilities.
Do we want programmers that can draw complex/abstract artistic representations of dimensional unknowns derived from vector interactions of a multi-dimensional place, or artistic clutter programming by a very creative artist.
Never stretch a master out of their field, but teach/mentor all Masters/Ph.Ds how to collaborate/communicate as a community of very high performance professionals (with respect for sometimes significant personality differences).
Being slightly paranoid/eccentric and asking for help (collaboration) are two true signs of genius. However, collaboration is far more productive, and mentally and emotionally healthy for everyone.
THANKS MUCH to all the students, doctors, researchers, administrators ... involved. You are indeed "Knights of the WoeFolk Continents!"
... at Universities and Hospitals. This gives humanity a ROI for US. This is very good, and an ethics/morals lesson for all modern politicians, corporatist, and televangelists.
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines is fantastic and provides a real path to a better future for humanity.
The Philadelphia Consensus Statement helps the public/citizens reclaim ownership for tax-dollar labs, facilities, payroll
Last time I replied (to one of your comments) I misunderstood the intentions of your comments about the OLPC project. I said; "Sometimes, some folks on /. are as clueless as a Washington DC politician." Now I suspect you are just a greedy low-life, mud-sucking, scumbag lobbyist. If you are a lobbyist, you are good and should ask for a raise, but televangelists are still better at their sales-pitch (few will question their lies in public).
...), then you are a poor semiliterate bigot that listens to too damn much dogma from political faux-patriots and religious fake-prophets.
I guess the K-Street slime marketers/spinners have taken to the Internet like political campaigns attempting credibility for their marketing lies, fraud, and illogical irrational claptrap just like any other pickpocket televangelist (all dogma bullshit no reality).
Again; I say, "RealityCheck (RC): Do it they will Benefit, only the afraid bray like jackasses with nay!" Also, Greed is indicative of mentally and emotionally crippled bigots. IOW: What color is better or worse than skin-color? If you reply green, gold, or silver, then you are a real modern bigot. If you picked a symbolic skin-color (white, black, brown,
Sometimes, some folks on /. are as clueless as a Washington DC politician. Well UFI "Do they really think" that you should not feed 1,000 hungry people because someone will steal the food, or there is not enough to feed the 10,000 hungry in need, or ... more (politician type) excesses for not doing what should and needs to be done AFAP (As Fast As Possible). "RC:" Do it they will Benefit, only the afraid bray like jackasses with nay!
... Best of Best] people in humanity. The US, EU, UN and most other governments have had their heads up their ass with special interest (plutocrats, dictators, corporatist, religious ...) politics. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Berkley, CalTech, Georgia Tech ... and many EU universities are not failures, but they appear to be disgracefully lacking in ... "What have y'all done for humanity today" policy/agenda.
... and many others are doing wonderful things for humanity and US with little recognition and no significant support from any of the US, EU, UN ... Butt-Head leaders.
... OKI/OCW ...) from MIT are supported more by philanthropy and individual donations then corporations and governments. Well again the people of the world are proving themselves far superior to the white-color-trash dejure/fiat leaders of today. USA democrats and republican politicians are still unaware that it ain't all about the gucken war, USA Citizens (except the mostly illiterate) are not that superficial.
...) should annually award significant recognition to many folks and organizations that truly serve the public good. Governments should fund (not control) Open Projects at all levels (OSS, GPL, Open Content, Open Standards+Research+Development+IPR+Government+.... We need to financially support all these things for long-term survival, development, and for human ideals, honor, and ethics.
Something great is being done by damn good [AKA: Right Stuff
I do not know what MIT feeds professors and students up in Massachusetts USA, but I wish all our politicians were raised on bellyfuls of that MIT stuff. Rick Stallman, Nick Negroponte, Phill Zimmerman
Efforts like the ones (FSF/GPL, OLPC, PGP/PKI
I did not use Linus Torvalds and Linux above, because I was using MIT for my rant. NOTE Though: Linus Torvalds, Linux, and the whole global OSS community including money/property donors/contributors is proof that MIT does not stand alone is providing to humanity many things that are greatly needed in all parts of our global community.
The USA & International organizations and leaders (Nobel Prizes, Papal Blessings, Presidential Medals
Shit happens, things ?*? change, ....
... should reduce my reality/hallucination.
Finally I am back on my meds
What do Ballmer, Gates, Bush, Hitler, Pope ... many leaders have in common?
... many (whoever) leaders may be completely mentally and emotionally healthy or believe totally they are healthy (it is their reality of right/wrong). It is not like we would ever require them to be tested for mental illnesses and presently power, justice, and mental health are defined by wealth and/or fear (as is right/wrong). Pity those who cannot feel, hear, and see the endless suffering of humanity. MS can/will go the way of Ford, GM, Novell, IBM, AT&T, Lucent ... or open-up ... same goes for US, EU, others. I can see a gradual decline of US & EU domination & participation in global economics and relationships (by the end of this century) ... just as past empires of China, Egypt, Assyrian, Greece, Rome ... are past history interesting but not presently consequential. It all depends on our continued fixation on Industrial-age economics and our mythological faith in deities and their fraud-prophets. [Yep, if you don't understand ... this is off-topic ...; So, ... you got points maybe?]
... what is right (in their reality) is what they do, what is good (in their reality) is good for all humanity. This is what can drag humanity to self-made extinction wars. Aristocracy ruled EU, China ... for thousands of years and failed for obvious inbreed/corrupt reasons. It is time for the end of inbreed/corrupt religious and secular dictators, plutocracies, oligarchies, and the anachronistic governing aristocracies before humanity is self-made extinct.
.., then let a true legally protected democratic and capitalist meritocracy for all grow.
Ballmer, Gates, Bush, Hitler, Pope/Mulah
Well, in authoritarian (non-capitalist and non-democratic) business, religion, and government, the leaders are typically gucken-nuts [AKA: megalomaniacs] in a persistent state of paranoid denial of reality. "Reality is self-induced hallucination." for these narrow and delusional minded guckers. Their amoral responsibility, repercussions, and guilt are based on pride-image
In my reality (my hallucination), reality is changing. We are moving away from HomoSapienSapien (HSS) plutocratic Industrial-age economics too HomoSapienPrescient (HSP) Open-age global economics that promotes international human/public [AKA: citizen] education, health, and welfare for everyone. This does not mean everyone will be a millionaire in the future, but it does mean an end to famine, hunger, homelessness, illiteracy, genocide, plagues, wars and threats of war. IOW, in such a world where we by law raised all children like our own, and gave each child a minimum level of shelter, health care, education
SUMMARY: Humanity as one family has a simple logic of why should anyone go to the grave controlling more resources then they or their immediate (spouse, siblings, children and grandchildren) family require for very comfortably living out their lives and improving their family living standards by their own efforts while alive. We need real Democracy and Capitalism.
I agree, I am not overly worried about Novell Suse and MS destroying OSS, GPL, FSF, GNU, Linux, ....
.... It is do or die time for many software companies including ... will they have something to offer in the future that customers want.
... fraud which is protected by legacy Luddite governments (US, EU, UN ... them) controlled by the special interest plutocrats.
There was a GPL, a GPL-2, soon the GPL-3 will spread to cover OSS. Novel Suse wants more market share from RedHat and others, MS is trying to survive and may become a late-future OSS OSD. MS is evil, but maybe will repent their sins in the far-fetched future or fail/lose market share like IBM, GM, Novell,
Eventually, 3 to 10 years, the international community, US, and UN will demand reasonable IPR laws that protect innovation, private R&D and personal use, commerce, and ownership. Today's IPR are just industrial-age theft of property, exploitation, extortion
Long-winded but accurate objective perspective of US and politics today.
Most not all are scams. CarShopper, TimeShare ... other service offers to help sell property (Car, House ...).
..., but get only vapor-services. Thirty years ago it was all fraud, but now it is just SOS business for US.
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... too many are now legally schooled in fraud, scams and crimes. It must be legal now, look at the diet-ade pill adds on TV 24/7 for all US as just one example. Show a tit, say fuck on TV it is a crime and fine, but scams are now perfectly legal the USA.
You pay for the service, lose your money, get ducked
When you think and/or feel WTF (What...), then it is WTFU (Want To Fuck U), but you already know this
USA politics, religion, business
We created the global televangelist who are just televised pick-pocket-preachers of the old folks, illiterate people, and simple minded fools and our government approves the thefts by televangelist as freedom of religion BS.
Salvance,
/..
... have been on the increase for the past decade.
... it is all about SFI (Special Ducking Interest) and the citizens [AKA: public] are feed spin&BS as the cause for fraud and treason.
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This sounds like the typical Democrat and/or Republican spin/BS.
I know some times there are MS hired-guns on
Are you a USA Telco/Cable wideband service hired-gun that tells US citizens the wideband is broadband?
The US telecommunication infrastructure is very ducked up just as the ITU and other reports have been stating for the past decade.
Telcos software/service patch/package and area-code/subscriber databases upgrades are as directed more than as needed. So, even wire-call miss-routing, phantom-rings, disconnects
Also, the telco and cable companies working with congress have delayed or prevented new technologies from entering the USA market, and holding customers hostage to one provider at obscene prices. Neither democracy or capitalism functions in the USA
What happened to Wireless local loop, 802.16 WiMax,
Why have USA Cities/communities trying to provide all their citizens with Internet access (including the poor) via WiFi (802.11*) been taken to court by the telco and cable companies to prevent any improvements for public citizens' Internet access?
Why can I get COMCAST but not DirectTV service
IOWs Don't drucken lie to US like the politicians. US ain't idiots or your cockless bitches, and mamma can kick-ass too on
USA telecommunications being an international joke and rip-off is very old pre-2000 news.
USA Broadband as defined (marketing spin) by most USA providers ain't in fact Broadband, it is wideband or less.
USA proportionally has far less citizen/public broadband access to the Internet than most other developed nations' citizens.
Our government provides Billions of tax dolors annually to foreign countries with much better telecommunications
infrastructure than currently exist in the USA, while politicians also make sure by legislation that telcos and cable companies
have a protected hostage customer base with no need to compete [AKA: Corporatist communism].
Don't even get me started on banking and loans, because the tip of the home and small business foreclosure ice-berg is almost
visible on the horizon after six years of serious economic stupidity.
Globally US is in the dog-house and most US politicians just don't give a damn about US all.
NOW FOR AN OFF-TOPIC PART:
We are quickly becoming the PaperEagle of the global community, because most politicians have their head up their ass
thinking the USA is a global player by WWII dejure/fiat. Politician have provided us more-than two costly military venture
losses.
War was not mucking declared on Vietnam or Iraq. Vietnam and Iraq are political conflicts not war/attacks on enemies
that ever threatened US. I believe in kill your enemies if they will not unconditionally surrender, but Bin Laden and many
terrorist are alive, leading, and training others to kill US.
I feel (in Iraq) we are like the cartoon elephant going mucking nuts, because (we think) there is a mouse in the house.
We could just step on it and move on, but we don't we do the panic-dance and look pitifully big, sad, ugly, and crazy.
Democrats win by political default. Republicans lose by delusional obscenity.
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..., and/or legislating non-injurious sex or ... ... ..., prevention of science/medicine and technology research and ... ... ..., anti-competitive control of commerce and economy ... ... ....
Neither political party appears to comprehend the reality that in a two legged
race one leg always crosses the finish line first and neither lose the race.
Democrats and Republicans won in 2006 because there is never a viable third option for US.
So, I still strongly fear for our National Security, The USA Public Welfare, and world peace.
Also, the dogmatic/religious followers of Democrats, Republicans, Televangelist/NeuFaschist
others appear to be unaware of what is Democracy and that the only true business of any
government is the welfare of the citizens/public.
Governments are critically flawed and treasonous when attempting to enslave or exploit citizens
for private interest, power, war, commerce, religion
personal activity
development
I think Dvorak is right and that MS has for years now tried to stop/cope with OSS GPL-GNU-Linux.
MS wants to have products for the future home, office, and Internet. MS makes products for Apple/Mac.
So, whats the problem [NONE]?
I will continue to use OSS, because OSS GPL products are as good/acceptable as MS products and
far better for global development and always more compliant the international/open standards
that must be supported for a real global community and economy to succeed.
MS wants to compete globally, then MS must get on board with the rest of humanity. MS can keep code
proprietary, but it will be a loser not a leader in technology and society and lose market share.
No it is not a trap.
In the USA this a NewChristianConservative [AKA: Bushit Perverts] Government recruiting plan
for their superior HomoSapientSapient (HSS) race/breed that will retake (with the force of god) this holy
country from those damn peace-loving godless big-brained Neanderthals of the world.
Oh, there are many HomoSapientPrescient (HSP) impure offspring of HomoSapientSapients and Neanderthals
fornication that will be the first sent to the camps for exploitable labor and purification for the forthcoming
NewChristianConservative WorldOrder.
God bless america and lets all wave a flag with a christian cross of doom and damnation.
I am sure the EU will recognise the more robust economic model "Open" provides to the world economies with which we all compete for market share.
...), I have no kids, and I'll be dead of old age in another 20 years; So, I no longer give a shit how US citizens vote ... It is all a big fucking joke on US).
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The USA Congress and GWBush may not understand "Open" economics and basic S&T+R&D to future market products; So, the rest of the world will bury the USA economy in about 10 or 20 years.
Who gives a shit (not polticians, televangelist, fools
!HAVEFUN!
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2
OH21 - Reality is self-induced hallucination.
Democracy and Capitalism in the USA died an unheralded and unceremonious death over 30 years ago. LongLiveTheRulling3|337&FUDH!
... sociopathic-personalities ... thank goodness they ain't kings and queens. However, a spin by any other name is still the SOS ... the President of North Korea/USA, Draft dodging by proxy and/or serving honorable while avoiding the Vietnam conflict. Purple-Heart Hero or chicken-heart hero is all marketed with the same spin.
Corporatism is economic communism ruled by the global plutocracy community. Politicians are either part of the ruling plutocracy community or their indentured servants. Cheap labor or economic slavery for everyone wanting to survive day to day as a citizen.
The corporatist/plutocrats can always convince and/or pay for half the slave laborers to kill the other half in times of troubles/upheavals.
Politicians and corporatist have always been scam-artist, faux-patriots, fake-prophets, vapor-heroes, pseudo-leaders, virtual-gods,
BS is BS and what the hell did anyone expect to happen after the last 30 years of political and religious lies to US.You may as well accept that you are a ruled people with approved and controlled freedoms.