Yes, yes and yes.
Your feel is shared with lots and lots of people. Capitalism suck, but communism, which capitalist medias say is the only alternative and is worst, is asumed to be totalitarism.
A communist government is an oxymoron. Communism is (etymologically speaking) the belief in community. Communism is (pollitically speaking) collective responsability. Communism is (materially speaking) collective ownership and the abolition of private property.
As you say, the problem is not with Microsoft, but with maximisation of profits being the goal and mesure of sucess. In other words, capitalism.
What is to prevent us from building alternatives? Nothing.
Free software is a good example of this. Inovation has existed for far longer than money. Why would we need money to incitate people to inovate?
That is the most honest definition of property I've read from someone who supports it. Disturbing to see your still supporting it, though.
Property is taking something and saying, "this is MINE and no one else then I will use it".
Therefore, property is theft. It is steeling everyone else, "excluding" them from their right to use the so-called property.
Call me a stealer as much as you like.
You are the thieves.
And both of your posts insults people who are victims of property (theft), especially (including, but no limited to) those who can't eat because people declared food as their property.
And saying law is reality is plain ignorance. How's that for a definition of Law:
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
Woa, you not offended me at all, but seem offended;-)
The speed of light is obvious, but I, as a very large portion of the net and probably slashdot crowd don't the size of some dead king's foot.
The point of my post is that the metric system is simple, international and, most importantly, logical, that's all.
"The Open Group will strive to be the global certification authority for interoperability" - Open Group
So... You people consider that's a good thing ?!?
Who is this "Open" Group to tell us "respect my authoritah"? The only answer they provide is:
"We are proud to have some of the world's largest IT buyers and vendors as active members representing both government and commercial enterprises. Our buy-side members have combined annual IT budgets of over US$50 Billion.
All right, I know it's more and more that corrupted scum that lead the world, but how people can consider it a good thing to willing obey them is a mystery to me.
"As owner of the UNIX® Trademark we continue to strive for greater value from its use, and to address the relationship to Open Source."
In other words, they want more money from the "UNIX® Trademark" and take advantage of the Open Source popularity. I have to admit, it's working really well...
By saying Gnu is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX are us, the question that comes to mind is "Who IS Unix then?"
Why did they keep AT&T's name? Unix(tm) is not a state of mind, but a company's trademark... Oh, right, them Billions DollarS Mans (BDSM) the Open Group are the shareholders of AT&T, duh!
That's what I meant, that it comes from the same source...
Morphine is also highly addictive.
And pot is a cure for some things. Glocome for example, is a pressure on the optic nerve, which builds with time and can cut it completely, making you blind. Mari reduces this pressure and prevents this.
But that's a non-issue: most legal drugs only treat the symptoms and not the disease itself anyway.
I know some people who brew alcohol, but it's really not as easy as growing mari. And cost/trouble isn't worth it so much, so most people won't do it. Most mari smokers would grow it if it were legal.
The thing that inevitably leads the extinction is that way of thinking. Imperialism, capitalism, no matter the name you give it. Infinite expansion in a finite world.
Life is about evolution and recycling and re-using resources. Capitalism is about consuming the most resources possible and exponentially growing. It can only result in self-destruction. And sooner than you think.
But this is not how life is made. This is not the natural way of things, as they try to make believe. Humans are not "dominant" because of their "competitively". This is ridiculous. We are a part of life, a way which evolution tried, a test of a particular form of intelligence maybe.
We used to be in harmony with nature and can go back. And this doesn't mean abandoning technology. The worst nightmare of geeks and why you can be convinced of killing yourselves? I'm tired and don't have all answers, but think a little. It's all in us. The desire to survive and the ability to adapt and create. Not the programmed self-destruction when the limits are reached because people are blinded by "economic reality", the worst abstraction of all.
An intelligent specie will not knowingly destroy itself. Thus, humans aren't showing many signs of intelligence right now.
At least more and more are. Capitalists and governments won't understand, blinded by power as they are. Being a part of the solution or part of the problem is up to you.
This is sad. One's only criteria is expansion and imperialism, the other's is pleasure, and both are insightful and no one counters what they say. Is this what life is for all of you?
Look at what single-issue politics, capitalism, mass media and corporate/state schooling (brainwashing) has done to you, the individual and us, the society.
There is no society without individuals and there is no individual without society. Interact with each other, find love, be passionate, get to know nature, Mother Earth.
Humans are social animals. As such, the only way one can achieve individual freedom is by developing equal-to-equal relationships. You cannot be free if you are subordinate to someone.
We are all brothers and sisters. We are not in competition. This is simply what the ruling class needs us to think so we don't unite and say we want freedom.
Do you really believe you are free right now? Do you really believe you are happy? Do you think you'll find happiness in money, luxury or "perfect nano-technology virtual worlds"?
Evolve. Revolt. Before it's too late. Because they are destroying our planet and the future of our children.
Form affinity groups, support each other, debate issues, form an ideology, ACT.
While hemp isn't marijuana, it does contain tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Hemp is the plant; marijuana is the dried flower of a variety of this plant (cannabis sativa L.)
Napster is (ok, was) about people freely exchanging music.
GPL is about people freely exchanging code.
Sony's music copyright is about making money with other people's work.
Sony's binary-only derivative of GPL code is about making money with other people's work.
I see no contradiction. I see no irony.
I see a different ideology.
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -Mohandas Ganghi
Oh, and by the way, only in capitalism will you be thrown to jail for taking food to survive because "it doesn't belong to you" but to that big corporation that keeps exending and cunsuming all of the earth's resources untill there is no more for posterity.
Communism is where you must share what you have produced, with a gun to your head. If you refuse, you are thrown into jail or killed.
Bullshit. Communism is the collective ownership of ressources and means of production, which are availiable to all. Transforming something that is free doesn't make it proprietary. So yes, you have to share what you produce, but not with a gun to your head. It's simply that you can't take what belongs to all and claim it solely yours. So it will be taken back if you try. But this doesn't prevent possession in all of it's meanings. For exemple, your clothing is yours to keep, the clothing manifacture is everyone's.
A communism system has never existed, yet. Not in Rusia, not in Cuba or anywhere else. And a communist government is an oxymoron.
Yes, OSS is what resembles the most to communism in this world. And that is a GOOD THING! It's why I like so much!
Yes, our bodies have evolved so we can eat meat. Take makes us 'omnivores' in a way. But the fact is, we can't survive on a meat diet and can survive without any problem or effort on a vegetarian diet (I and millions others are living proof). Under a food shortage, it is better for us to eat animals than both us and animals die of hunger. Which is why we have evolved to eat meat. But the fact is, we aren't under a food shortage. Breeding artificially makes the shortage. We are vegetarians at base, face it.
Capitalism or distribution problem? It's on and the same. The power of capitalists is holding the distribution chain. It is how they keep millions (more billions nowadays) starving. And there is real starvation in the U.S. One of the richest countries has a huge poverty problem. That tells a lot about the success of capitalism.
About charity. If capitalism was successful, there wouldn't be any need for it. Charity goes against capitalism. It is a mean to compensate for its flaws. And for charity to poor counties, for each dollar given to them, many (2 to 4, I'm not sure of the numbers but sure of the fact) are taken through interest on the Debt. So we can't say America is being charitable to the poors. It's a lie.
And who intercepts food in Africa? That's right, capitalist whites that instated dictatorships, backed up by western countries.
The Cancer Treatment Research Foundation's Parabon project is exactly that: distributed computing for cancer research. CTRF is a not for profit organisation. They say that commercial computing might be done for time to time, but that the profits will go to found cancer research. This seems like a good org, but I didn't see any mention on patenting the results. I don't have to do more research on them now, so please make your own, but it seems like worth considering. I really want to help, but not at any cost. In the worst event, maybe we could write our own program and compute for MSF or something. They're the ones fighting the AIDS medicine patents, so I doubt they would patent cures.
When the U.S. Wins You Win(tm)... This is definitly some All American Bullshit(tm)
I couldn't belive you and went on their site... liked that one: "A link has been set up with Yahoo! to facilitate linkage to the Yahoo! web site". I would never have guessed that on my own.
One thing is for sure, they are Changing The Face of The World(tm), and it's not for the better.
Une bonne journée j'va y r'tourner avec mon bulldozer Pis l'MacDonald y va passer un mauvais quart d'heure!
Our teeth are not designed to eat meat. They've adapted to be able to eat the widest range of food. Carnivores have short intestines and strong stomach acids to ensure that meat (which putrefies rapidly) is digested and eliminated rapidly. Vegetarians have weaker acids and longer intestines to ensure that the highest amount of nutrients is absorbed. Humans' digestive system belongs to the later category.
Energy efficiency is the best reason, though. We grow enough food to feed 9 billion humans. Breeding is the principal reason for world hunger (along with capitalism which ensures only the wealthy will be able to eat).
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imagine a planet whose inhabitans
have only two sexes
she says
imagine a planet whose inhabitans
oppress themselves
it says
imagine a planet whose inhabitans
exploit the weak
they look at the stars and laugh
on this planet he says
imagine beings poisoning their oceans
she says
imagine these beings destroying their environment
it says
imagine these beings polluting their air
they shake their heads and think how funny
on this world he says
imagine a race who say
they're the most intelligent
she says
imagine this race annihilating
the other species
it says
imagine this race
annihilating themselves
such suicidal stupitity can only be fiction
they finally say
Your bosses are stupid, but couldn't you just take FreeBSD, rename it, change a few things and sell it to them for a few Ks? "Wow! It's even more expensive than win2k advanced server, this must be good!"
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, yes and yes. Your feel is shared with lots and lots of people. Capitalism suck, but communism, which capitalist medias say is the only alternative and is worst, is asumed to be totalitarism. A communist government is an oxymoron. Communism is (etymologically speaking) the belief in community. Communism is (pollitically speaking) collective responsability. Communism is (materially speaking) collective ownership and the abolition of private property. As you say, the problem is not with Microsoft, but with maximisation of profits being the goal and mesure of sucess. In other words, capitalism. What is to prevent us from building alternatives? Nothing. Free software is a good example of this. Inovation has existed for far longer than money. Why would we need money to incitate people to inovate?
"Remember, the copyright laws allow the GPL to exist just as much as they allow proprietary software to exist."
Nope. It tries to re-create how a copyright free world would function.
The GPL mostly says "You can do anything with GPL software, except preventing others from doing whatever they want with it."
And that, dear, is what communism is all about.
That is the most honest definition of property I've read from someone who supports it. Disturbing to see your still supporting it, though.
Property is taking something and saying, "this is MINE and no one else then I will use it".
Therefore, property is theft. It is steeling everyone else, "excluding" them from their right to use the so-called property.
Call me a stealer as much as you like.
You are the thieves.
And both of your posts insults people who are victims of property (theft), especially (including, but no limited to) those who can't eat because people declared food as their property.
And saying law is reality is plain ignorance. How's that for a definition of Law:
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
The better system? You got it, Anarcho-Communism.
Woa, you not offended me at all, but seem offended ;-)
The speed of light is obvious, but I, as a very large portion of the net and probably slashdot crowd don't the size of some dead king's foot.
The point of my post is that the metric system is simple, international and, most importantly, logical, that's all.
So... You people consider that's a good thing ?!?
Who is this "Open" Group to tell us "respect my authoritah"? The only answer they provide is :
"We are proud to have some of the world's largest IT buyers and vendors as active members representing both government and commercial enterprises.
Our buy-side members have combined annual IT budgets of over US$50 Billion.
All right, I know it's more and more that corrupted scum that lead the world, but how people can consider it a good thing to willing obey them is a mystery to me.
"As owner of the UNIX® Trademark we continue to strive for greater value from its use, and to address the relationship to Open Source."
In other words, they want more money from the "UNIX® Trademark" and take advantage of the Open Source popularity. I have to admit, it's working really well...
By saying Gnu is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX are us, the question that comes to mind is "Who IS Unix then?"
Why did they keep AT&T's name? Unix(tm) is not a state of mind, but a company's trademark... Oh, right, them Billions DollarS Mans (BDSM) the Open Group are the shareholders of AT&T, duh!
Is the class sleeping again??
Mac OS != Mac 0$
No e... there is one in French, sorry.
That's what I meant, that it comes from the same source...
Morphine is also highly addictive.
And pot is a cure for some things. Glocome for example, is a pressure on the optic nerve, which builds with time and can cut it completely, making you blind. Mari reduces this pressure and prevents this.
But that's a non-issue: most legal drugs only treat the symptoms and not the disease itself anyway.
I know some people who brew alcohol, but it's really not as easy as growing mari. And cost/trouble isn't worth it so much, so most people won't do it. Most mari smokers would grow it if it were legal.
The thing that inevitably leads the extinction is that way of thinking. Imperialism, capitalism, no matter the name you give it. Infinite expansion in a finite world.
Life is about evolution and recycling and re-using resources. Capitalism is about consuming the most resources possible and exponentially growing. It can only result in self-destruction. And sooner than you think.
But this is not how life is made. This is not the natural way of things, as they try to make believe. Humans are not "dominant" because of their "competitively". This is ridiculous. We are a part of life, a way which evolution tried, a test of a particular form of intelligence maybe.
We used to be in harmony with nature and can go back. And this doesn't mean abandoning technology. The worst nightmare of geeks and why you can be convinced of killing yourselves? I'm tired and don't have all answers, but think a little. It's all in us. The desire to survive and the ability to adapt and create. Not the programmed self-destruction when the limits are reached because people are blinded by "economic reality", the worst abstraction of all.
An intelligent specie will not knowingly destroy itself. Thus, humans aren't showing many signs of intelligence right now.
At least more and more are. Capitalists and governments won't understand, blinded by power as they are. Being a part of the solution or part of the problem is up to you.
Ask yourself: are you a lemming or a human being?
A "pleasure-driven intelligence", uh?
This is sad. One's only criteria is expansion and imperialism, the other's is pleasure, and both are insightful and no one counters what they say. Is this what life is for all of you?
Conquering doesn't bring pleasure; pleasure doesn't bring happiness.
Look at what single-issue politics, capitalism, mass media and corporate/state schooling (brainwashing) has done to you, the individual and us, the society.
There is no society without individuals and there is no individual without society. Interact with each other, find love, be passionate, get to know nature, Mother Earth.
Humans are social animals. As such, the only way one can achieve individual freedom is by developing equal-to-equal relationships. You cannot be free if you are subordinate to someone.
We are all brothers and sisters. We are not in competition. This is simply what the ruling class needs us to think so we don't unite and say we want freedom.
Do you really believe you are free right now? Do you really believe you are happy? Do you think you'll find happiness in money, luxury or "perfect nano-technology virtual worlds"?
Evolve. Revolt. Before it's too late. Because they are destroying our planet and the future of our children.
Form affinity groups, support each other, debate issues, form an ideology, ACT.
www.nefac.org
When will you learn anything?
The speed of light is 300 000 km/sec.
Miles, foots, inches... interesting only if your studying ancient history!
This is not insightful: it's false! While most hemp varieties don't have enough THC to get you high, they all have some!
While hemp isn't marijuana, it does contain tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Hemp is the plant; marijuana is the dried flower of a variety of this plant (cannabis sativa L.)
Did YOU look it up?
Eugenicists should be shot.
"Does the car have to take a shit every few miles?"
Who the hell modded this as funny??
I MIGHT have found this funny when I was 6, but...
I doubt it would make YOU an ISP.
It might make your mail server an ISP...
Ballz, baalz and re-ballz.
Napster is (ok, was) about people freely exchanging music.
GPL is about people freely exchanging code.
Sony's music copyright is about making money with other people's work.
Sony's binary-only derivative of GPL code is about making money with other people's work.
I see no contradiction. I see no irony.
I see a different ideology.
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -Mohandas Ganghi
Copyright is life plus 70 years now. And you can be sure that in twenty years, it will be life plus 90 years...
Oh, and by the way, only in capitalism will you be thrown to jail for taking food to survive because "it doesn't belong to you" but to that big corporation that keeps exending and cunsuming all of the earth's resources untill there is no more for posterity.
Bullshit. Communism is the collective ownership of ressources and means of production, which are availiable to all. Transforming something that is free doesn't make it proprietary. So yes, you have to share what you produce, but not with a gun to your head. It's simply that you can't take what belongs to all and claim it solely yours. So it will be taken back if you try. But this doesn't prevent possession in all of it's meanings. For exemple, your clothing is yours to keep, the clothing manifacture is everyone's.
A communism system has never existed, yet. Not in Rusia, not in Cuba or anywhere else. And a communist government is an oxymoron.
Yes, OSS is what resembles the most to communism in this world. And that is a GOOD THING! It's why I like so much!
My country is under siege! Help us stop them !! It will affect you, as well.
Informative??!?!?!? Mod this down you fuckheads.
Capitalism or distribution problem? It's on and the same. The power of capitalists is holding the distribution chain. It is how they keep millions (more billions nowadays) starving. And there is real starvation in the U.S. One of the richest countries has a huge poverty problem. That tells a lot about the success of capitalism.
About charity. If capitalism was successful, there wouldn't be any need for it. Charity goes against capitalism. It is a mean to compensate for its flaws. And for charity to poor counties, for each dollar given to them, many (2 to 4, I'm not sure of the numbers but sure of the fact) are taken through interest on the Debt. So we can't say America is being charitable to the poors. It's a lie.
And who intercepts food in Africa? That's right, capitalist whites that instated dictatorships, backed up by western countries.
My country is under siege! Help us stop them !! It will affect you, as well.
My country is under siege! Help us stop them !! It will affect you, as well.
When the U.S. Wins You Win(tm)... This is definitly some All American Bullshit(tm)
I couldn't belive you and went on their site... liked that one: "A link has been set up with Yahoo! to facilitate linkage to the Yahoo! web site". I would never have guessed that on my own.
One thing is for sure, they are Changing The Face of The World(tm), and it's not for the better.
Une bonne journée j'va y r'tourner avec mon bulldozer
Pis l'MacDonald y va passer un mauvais quart d'heure!
Funny. In a democracy, legality is merely the tool people give themselves to ensure that their morals aren't violated.
Of course, there is no such thing as a democracy in this world so I guess I'm just offtopic here.
Our teeth are not designed to eat meat. They've adapted to be able to eat the widest range of food. Carnivores have short intestines and strong stomach acids to ensure that meat (which putrefies rapidly) is digested and eliminated rapidly. Vegetarians have weaker acids and longer intestines to ensure that the highest amount of nutrients is absorbed. Humans' digestive system belongs to the later category.
Energy efficiency is the best reason, though. We grow enough food to feed 9 billion humans. Breeding is the principal reason for world hunger (along with capitalism which ensures only the wealthy will be able to eat).
he says imagine a planet whose inhabitans have only two sexes she says imagine a planet whose inhabitans oppress themselves it says imagine a planet whose inhabitans exploit the weak they look at the stars and laugh on this planet he says imagine beings poisoning their oceans she says imagine these beings destroying their environment it says imagine these beings polluting their air they shake their heads and think how funny on this world he says imagine a race who say they're the most intelligent she says imagine this race annihilating the other species it says imagine this race annihilating themselves such suicidal stupitity can only be fiction they finally say
Your bosses are stupid, but couldn't you just take FreeBSD, rename it, change a few things and sell it to them for a few Ks? "Wow! It's even more expensive than win2k advanced server, this must be good!"