Why should the government restrict me from wandering the land as my ancestors did?
Because property rights mitigate the need for violence due to competition for resources. Are you suggesting violence is preferable to property rights?
Individual property rights are not the only way to mitigate the need for violence due to competition for resources. Indeed, should you wish to mitigate the need for violence due to competition for resources would it not be best to have a system whereby resources were shared as equally as possible?
You can live off the fat of the land? Really? There was me thinking the 'no trespassing' signs (backed by government force) meant that I couldn't.
You can't live off the fat of the land, because somebody owns the land. You can't work only for yourself, because somebody owns the things you need to work.
If we, as a society, choose to have and enforce this model of individual property ownership why not also choose to ensure a more even distribution of it?
I don't mind working for a living. I don't mind working for the common good. I do mind being forced to work for the good of another individual (the owner of the means of production) in order to survive.
Until the whole world is owned by a few and the rest of us are just slaves
How close to the whole world being owned by a few will it take till you wake up and smell the roses? The richest 1% having greater combined wealth than the poorest 95% obviously isn't enough (that's for the USA by the way, the gap is far larger globally). Does ownership of the means of production by the few not force people to work for the owners in order to eat?
The people who build the house get to survive, you don't get rich as a construction worker. Their boss gets a little richer by charging more than they pay for their workers' efforts (ie profit). The rich person typically gets even richer, because after spending the money they get to keep the added value the entire process has created - the house.
So, who's really making the money on building this house? The roofing contractor who got 6 months wages, or the person who got a $3m home built for $2.5m?
That's capitalism, what seperates us from the animals.
Capitalism, survival of the fittest, is the antithesis of what separates us from (most of) the other animals. Cooperation is what made us a sucessful species and sociopaths like you are what makes this a shitty society.
When the rich pay for things, who are they paying? The middle class. When they pay for things, who do they pay? The poor. So where does the money of the rich go? To the poor. Eventually.
Trickledown econonomics was discredited years ago. The money doesn't make it to the poor. Ever. It circulates among the middle and upper classes, driving up prices for the things they desire (property, say) and increasing the gap between rich and poor. Making the middle-class richer makes it harder for the poor to become middle-class; it makes it harder for them to move to a nice area, harder for them to get their kids into a good school, harder to get good health-care. Making the rich richer does not make the poor richer. Relativley, it makes them poorer. And they don't catch up.
If you can grok sendmail.cf then calculus is a walk in the park. Hell, if you can grok sendmail.cf you probably proved P!=NP in the shower this morning.
What do you mean you can't print them out? I just printed out a bit on lions from Wikibooks as a test. I pressed the "print" button in my browser and it came out of the printer.
The parent is right, there are other sources of noise in PCs beyond fans and drives. Transformers can make the most annoying buzzing sounds - not just the ones in your PC either. Silence your PC and you may well notice your monitor hums. Turn that off and you might find the wall wart for your speakers hums too.
Really, unless you're encoding/transcoding video, you don't need that much computing horsepower.
Unless you are compiling big stuff. Or playing games. Or editing digital photographs.
I practically never transcode video, but I am still looking at a dual Opteron box to speed my compiles and run simulations. OK, probably not what every user does, but lots of people do play games and edit digital photographs, both of which benefit from faster computers.
I'd be amused to see how Photoshop performs at developing a 1GB card full of Canon RAW files on your iMac DV. It's bad enough on my 1.25GHz iBook G4 with over a gig of RAM (though the HD is a factor). I would definately see a benefit if someone gave me a nice G5 tower (are you listening Steve?).
If extended warraties all cost $100 they would be better value, but most cost a lot more than that. Where did you get your warranty from?
And extended warranties are rarely 'cheap' insurance, they are very lucrative insurance for sales assistants and insurance companies. As far as cost vs risk goes, extended warranties are rather expensive insurance.
This is NOT an RC vehicle. Nobody is controlling it.
then perhaps you can explain just why it has a little whip arial then??? I'd be far happier believing it was a true autonomous robot if there was no whip arial...
All my autonomous robots have aerials for telemetry and video. Most have RC gear on them at some stage too, if only to test the chassis. Check out this guy's nBot if you don't believe that it's autonomous. You can't balance on two wheels by remote control.
Your chances of being caught go up exponentially with the number of people aware of your crime. I wouldn't trust a bent gas station attendant with my liberty for a few thousand bucks.
Absolute freedom means anybody can do anything they like to anybody else. That would suck. What you are being sold as 'freedom' is nothing of the sort.
Like me, most recent college grads i know who got an mcse did so to help find a job or get a higher rate. i myself have an mcse and mcdba, but only use freebsd and debian on my own equipment. they are not like the a+ exams, you have to be competent to get your mcse.
I think employers would rather see correct grammar than an MCSE.
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I thought the headline meant Bill Gates would let the police read my email.
Why should the government restrict me from wandering the land as my ancestors did?
You can't live off the fat of the land, because somebody owns the land. You can't work only for yourself, because somebody owns the things you need to work.
If we, as a society, choose to have and enforce this model of individual property ownership why not also choose to ensure a more even distribution of it?
I don't mind working for a living. I don't mind working for the common good. I do mind being forced to work for the good of another individual (the owner of the means of production) in order to survive.
How close to the whole world being owned by a few will it take till you wake up and smell the roses? The richest 1% having greater combined wealth than the poorest 95% obviously isn't enough (that's for the USA by the way, the gap is far larger globally). Does ownership of the means of production by the few not force people to work for the owners in order to eat?
So, who's really making the money on building this house? The roofing contractor who got 6 months wages, or the person who got a $3m home built for $2.5m?
Only being able to use the resources you own sounds pretty damn inflexible to me.
Capitalism, survival of the fittest, is the antithesis of what separates us from (most of) the other animals. Cooperation is what made us a sucessful species and sociopaths like you are what makes this a shitty society.
Trickledown econonomics was discredited years ago. The money doesn't make it to the poor. Ever. It circulates among the middle and upper classes, driving up prices for the things they desire (property, say) and increasing the gap between rich and poor. Making the middle-class richer makes it harder for the poor to become middle-class; it makes it harder for them to move to a nice area, harder for them to get their kids into a good school, harder to get good health-care. Making the rich richer does not make the poor richer. Relativley, it makes them poorer. And they don't catch up.
If that's all you think there is to NTP then you definitely need a book.
If you can grok sendmail.cf then calculus is a walk in the park. Hell, if you can grok sendmail.cf you probably proved P!=NP in the shower this morning.
What do you mean you can't print them out? I just printed out a bit on lions from Wikibooks as a test. I pressed the "print" button in my browser and it came out of the printer.
The numerous and heavily armed instruments of the state give a damn. So will you when they arrive at your door.
I just fired up iTunes and tried swizzling my finger round below the screen. Nothing happened.
The interface on the iPod isn't just the software, it's the hardware too - the clickwheel, screen and buttons.
The parent is right, there are other sources of noise in PCs beyond fans and drives. Transformers can make the most annoying buzzing sounds - not just the ones in your PC either. Silence your PC and you may well notice your monitor hums. Turn that off and you might find the wall wart for your speakers hums too.
Unless you are compiling big stuff. Or playing games. Or editing digital photographs.
I practically never transcode video, but I am still looking at a dual Opteron box to speed my compiles and run simulations. OK, probably not what every user does, but lots of people do play games and edit digital photographs, both of which benefit from faster computers.
I'd be amused to see how Photoshop performs at developing a 1GB card full of Canon RAW files on your iMac DV. It's bad enough on my 1.25GHz iBook G4 with over a gig of RAM (though the HD is a factor). I would definately see a benefit if someone gave me a nice G5 tower (are you listening Steve?).
And extended warranties are rarely 'cheap' insurance, they are very lucrative insurance for sales assistants and insurance companies. As far as cost vs risk goes, extended warranties are rather expensive insurance.
Your chances of being caught go up exponentially with the number of people aware of your crime. I wouldn't trust a bent gas station attendant with my liberty for a few thousand bucks.
When will the US catch up and use the same sensible, consistent units as the rest of the world?
I've got a nice big donation for Connie. She was hot!
Absolute freedom means anybody can do anything they like to anybody else. That would suck. What you are being sold as 'freedom' is nothing of the sort.
When America realises America can do wrong America will have grown up.
I think employers would rather see correct grammar than an MCSE.
Spins like a rifle bullet, but a damn slight slower! Of the order of a few rpm.