Obviously that's MUCH more efficient than actually learing about things like market failure
You implied I was ignorant of the failings of capitalism, that my position was easier than learning the "truth". That's an ad hominem if I ever saw one.
why this particular case of gov't intervention is bad
You want a list?
1. It's not effective, that's what this story is about. 2. It's so bad that we must use coercive laws to incarcerate young people in these government run youth prisons we call schools. 3. Deadweight loss 4. The barren and childless must subsidize the breeders. 5. This BS over vouchers is caused by the socialized nature of public education. You don't want your money going to teaching religion, and they don't want their money going to teaching real science. Easy solution, get the government out of it!
I should point out, I have a son, and he's in public school. My mother is a public school teacher. I stand to lose more than I gain if I were to get my way. That's fine by me. An unjust system is an unjust system, even if you stand to lose a lot because of its demise.
That's doubtful. I've never known anyone that doesn't turn their Windows install to "classic mode" UI after about 5 seconds of files opening themselves just because you highlighted them.
MS history shows a long string of failed UI experiments.
When you said "Classic" and 5150, I thought of this. I was wondering how you managed to hold that on your lap, considering the 70 pound weight, then I read the subject.:)
The fact that they had to include a fictional character, and Paris Hilton, shows you just how little women have ever accomplished in the realm of technology.
Obviously that's MUCH more efficient than actually learing about things like market failure and natural monopolies.
An ad hominem attack.
As a moderate libertarian I actually think that in the case of a natural monopoly, a public asset might represent a lesser coercion.
Education is not a natural monopoly.
The argument you're making could be made in favor of the elimination of ANY gov't service or even the government itself.
Indeed. Unless there is a compelling reason that the market can't provide a solution, the government should stay out of it. That is not the case with education, as there is plenty of demand for it, and it is not a natural monopoly.
If you have form autocomplete on, credit card numbers are stored in plaintext on your hard disk too. Bug's been open for.. what about 4 years now.
They refuse to fix it, they say it's not a bug.
I don't think it's vulnerable to this because it's not fully automatic, however, all someone has to do to get your credit card number is type the first digit and it'll fill in the rest.
It's amusing that the very people that would oppose such management of the environment have a large overlap with the people that support the government interference in free markets.
At least this proves they understand the idea of a self-regulating ecosystem. Bridging that gap might be difficult.
It's not just beliefs, the main problem was gender. It's not legal to say "Women only" or "Men only" in an ad for roommates. A lot of people don't know that. I think if more people knew it, the repeal of these "anti-descrimination" laws would be swift.
The platform (not game) did pretend to enforce resource control. I think that's one of the reasons there are so many pissed off peeople. They assumed by unchecking the "next owner modify" and "next owner copy" box, that would actually mean something airtight.
The permissions do mean something for scripts, since scripts run server-side and are never downloaded, but for prims and textures, those have to be downloaded to the client so protecting them is an intractable problem.
Until digital signatures are ubiquitous, fully secure, and viewable in a HUD implanted in our eyes, trademark law serves an important purpose in fraud prevention.
It's a pragmatic solution that enhances commerce, and there's no coercion involved, generally. SLAPP suits would be the glaring exception, but that's something the courts need to address, not a fundamental flaw in the idea of trademarks.
What bug? There's nothing to fix. The client has to download the prims and textures to display them, there's no way around that. There's nothing anyone can do about it. DRM is fundamentally flawed when you are talking about presentation output.
It's funny that, in rebuttal to a post that states open sourcing java might make it suck less, you don't use Sun Java, but rather, an open source java compiler.
I think you made my point.
Regardless:
I decided to replicate your experience, to show you what the average experience with Java is. I promise not to "play dumb" and make mistakes that I know better than to do, just to make a point.
vi hello.java paste your code in realize that gcj isn't part of my install by default apt-get install gcj 404 errors (my bad, I run debian unstable) apt-get update apt-get install gcj Fetching 23.1 *megs*! gcj hello.java --main=HelloWorld -o HelloWorld hello.java:1: error: Public class 'HelloWorld' must be defined in a file called 'HelloWorld.java'. public class HelloWorld Hmm, WTF mv hello.java HelloWorld.java gcj HelloWorld.java --main=HelloWorld -o HelloWorld./HelloWorld Hello World!
Well, that wasn't too entirely bad. Still sucked compared to nearly any other language. At least that was further than I usually get trying to run a java program... I usually wind up with a bunch of.jar files, no documentation, and no apparently way to run it. If I do manage to get them unjared, I get some "classpath" error, whatever the fuck that means.
So it looks like the open source gcj is an improvement over the Sun one, but I don't know why Java has to be so overly complicated about everything.
I see. I do know what you are talking about, but I guess I take a more relativistic POV on it.
For example, I'd view corporate control of a natural monopoly as a larger coercion than public control. And I'd view the current situation of corporate ownership with forced competition (must-carry, ILEC v CLECs, etc) even more coercive.
I guess this is a fundamental thing that can go either way, since the answer to this would determine whether one supported unions (a monopoly on labor), and fundamentally boils down to whether one believes economic coercion can exist.
Spouting crap like he did is how urban legends get started and propagate. You shouldn't post lies about what you claimed to experience personally to prove a point.
So you admit that government provided health care is an unmitigated disaster, and yet you still advocate it? How can you possibly justify that position?
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Obviously that's MUCH more efficient than actually learing about things like market failure
You implied I was ignorant of the failings of capitalism, that my position was easier than learning the "truth". That's an ad hominem if I ever saw one.
why this particular case of gov't intervention is bad
You want a list?
1. It's not effective, that's what this story is about.
2. It's so bad that we must use coercive laws to incarcerate young people in these government run youth prisons we call schools.
3. Deadweight loss
4. The barren and childless must subsidize the breeders.
5. This BS over vouchers is caused by the socialized nature of public education. You don't want your money going to teaching religion, and they don't want their money going to teaching real science. Easy solution, get the government out of it!
I should point out, I have a son, and he's in public school. My mother is a public school teacher. I stand to lose more than I gain if I were to get my way. That's fine by me. An unjust system is an unjust system, even if you stand to lose a lot because of its demise.
Other browsers don't have any problem with it. No other browser steals your credit cards by default and stores them for a cracker to pick up later.
Gigs is my nickname in real life, and I went to Virginia Tech (though I wouldn't recommend going there).
That's doubtful. I've never known anyone that doesn't turn their Windows install to "classic mode" UI after about 5 seconds of files opening themselves just because you highlighted them.
MS history shows a long string of failed UI experiments.
What compels people that know nothing about technology to keep writing these "Google OS" articles? Do they even understand what an OS is?
MS bought into this "web OS" hype over 5 years ago. It was stupid then, and it's stupid now.
When you said "Classic" and 5150, I thought of this. I was wondering how you managed to hold that on your lap, considering the 70 pound weight, then I read the subject. :)
I think Scottie quit or something.
Didn't you hear? Slashdot was bought out by 12 year old girls.
Yes, they are indeed going to change the CSS to "OMG Ponies".
Peace prize isn't scientific. If we are being pedantic, that is. :)
The fact that they had to include a fictional character, and Paris Hilton, shows you just how little women have ever accomplished in the realm of technology.
Obviously that's MUCH more efficient than actually learing about things like market failure and natural monopolies.
An ad hominem attack.
As a moderate libertarian I actually think that in the case of a natural monopoly, a public asset might represent a lesser coercion.
Education is not a natural monopoly.
The argument you're making could be made in favor of the elimination of ANY gov't service or even the government itself.
Indeed. Unless there is a compelling reason that the market can't provide a solution, the government should stay out of it. That is not the case with education, as there is plenty of demand for it, and it is not a natural monopoly.
Good. Then support ending socialized education so that you have the freedom to choose the quality of your child's education.
If you have form autocomplete on, credit card numbers are stored in plaintext on your hard disk too. Bug's been open for .. what about 4 years now.
They refuse to fix it, they say it's not a bug.
I don't think it's vulnerable to this because it's not fully automatic, however, all someone has to do to get your credit card number is type the first digit and it'll fill in the rest.
Their advice, "Don't use autocomplete".
It's amusing that the very people that would oppose such management of the environment have a large overlap with the people that support the government interference in free markets.
At least this proves they understand the idea of a self-regulating ecosystem. Bridging that gap might be difficult.
It's not just beliefs, the main problem was gender. It's not legal to say "Women only" or "Men only" in an ad for roommates. A lot of people don't know that. I think if more people knew it, the repeal of these "anti-descrimination" laws would be swift.
the women (who are actually qualified)
When I meet one, I'll let you know.
Doesn't that prove their point?
The platform (not game) did pretend to enforce resource control. I think that's one of the reasons there are so many pissed off peeople. They assumed by unchecking the "next owner modify" and "next owner copy" box, that would actually mean something airtight.
The permissions do mean something for scripts, since scripts run server-side and are never downloaded, but for prims and textures, those have to be downloaded to the client so protecting them is an intractable problem.
Until digital signatures are ubiquitous, fully secure, and viewable in a HUD implanted in our eyes, trademark law serves an important purpose in fraud prevention.
It's a pragmatic solution that enhances commerce, and there's no coercion involved, generally. SLAPP suits would be the glaring exception, but that's something the courts need to address, not a fundamental flaw in the idea of trademarks.
Most people that rail against patents and even those that want to water down copyright, have no opposition to enforcement of trademark law.
Trademark law is a valid protection for the company and the consumer. It is effectively not even "IP", it's more like an extension of anti-fraud laws.
What bug? There's nothing to fix. The client has to download the prims and textures to display them, there's no way around that. There's nothing anyone can do about it. DRM is fundamentally flawed when you are talking about presentation output.
It's funny that, in rebuttal to a post that states open sourcing java might make it suck less, you don't use Sun Java, but rather, an open source java compiler.
./HelloWorld
.jar files, no documentation, and no apparently way to run it. If I do manage to get them unjared, I get some "classpath" error, whatever the fuck that means.
I think you made my point.
Regardless:
I decided to replicate your experience, to show you what the average experience with Java is. I promise not to "play dumb" and make mistakes that I know better than to do, just to make a point.
vi hello.java
paste your code in
realize that gcj isn't part of my install by default
apt-get install gcj
404 errors (my bad, I run debian unstable)
apt-get update
apt-get install gcj
Fetching 23.1 *megs*!
gcj hello.java --main=HelloWorld -o HelloWorld
hello.java:1: error: Public class 'HelloWorld' must be defined in a file called 'HelloWorld.java'.
public class HelloWorld
Hmm, WTF
mv hello.java HelloWorld.java
gcj HelloWorld.java --main=HelloWorld -o HelloWorld
Hello World!
Well, that wasn't too entirely bad. Still sucked compared to nearly any other language. At least that was further than I usually get trying to run a java program... I usually wind up with a bunch of
So it looks like the open source gcj is an improvement over the Sun one, but I don't know why Java has to be so overly complicated about everything.
I see. I do know what you are talking about, but I guess I take a more relativistic POV on it.
For example, I'd view corporate control of a natural monopoly as a larger coercion than public control. And I'd view the current situation of corporate ownership with forced competition (must-carry, ILEC v CLECs, etc) even more coercive.
I guess this is a fundamental thing that can go either way, since the answer to this would determine whether one supported unions (a monopoly on labor), and fundamentally boils down to whether one believes economic coercion can exist.
Spouting crap like he did is how urban legends get started and propagate. You shouldn't post lies about what you claimed to experience personally to prove a point.
So you admit that government provided health care is an unmitigated disaster, and yet you still advocate it? How can you possibly justify that position?