Earth has more than enough resources for 20 billion people if we were not squandering them on welfare for the non-working leaches who live off the hard work of others. Of course I am talking about the owning class of billionaire plutocrats.
Free food shelter birth control and entertainment would qualify as socialism, the rest is just the slow genocide of the human species through aggressive population control.
The simple fact of the matter is that the owning class are already living on welfare provided by their robots...employees. They are the takers, the leaches, the parasites who do no actual work and are yet rewarded with fantastic wealth in return.
Steve Jobs DID NOT invent the smartphone or tablet or touchscreen at all. that is all 1980's tech. All he did was pair a new high capacity battery with a bog standard low power microprocessor and a stylish case.
They are being retarded, but not because they are denying so many legitimate innovations, but because they are approving so many illegitimate non-innovations.
Once I buy something, it is mine. You have no natural right to control it afterwards. It removes rights that the OWNER of the media has to use his media as he sees fit, to make copies for personal use, to timeshift, to device shift, and to resell or give away.
DRM is an infringement of digital rights of the owner of the media, not a protection.
And not everyone is a soulless sycophant worshiping the almighty dollar. Artists produce art for the sake of art, to express themselves because of how it makes them feel, and to enrich society as a whole and more often than not to get laid. Slightly reducing the financial incentive will not end art, it will merely remove the posers who are producing garbage for a paycheck from the equation.
You want people to be ok with DRM? 1: make DRM that allows every act that falls under fair use. 2: make the duration of copyright much shorter, 7 years, 14 at the most. 3: make DRM that releases its media after that duration.
I have a hard time reconciling that you right wing nuts support the right to bear arms when everything else you believe in supports a theocratic plutocratic authoritarian police state where the ultra wealthy wield absolute power with impunity over the lesser serfs.
I am a radical liberal, a socialist even. And I support the right to bear arms, more now than ever to defend myself and my country from the conservatives who would enslave their fellow citizens and end the American dream of liberty and justice for all that the liberal founding fathers began and embodied in the constitution. There are more rights than the right to bear arms, and all of them must be respected.
There is a much stronger correlation between automobile ownership and idiocy. There are fewer automobiles than guns in the USA, and automobiles kill more people than guns even when you count the ~65% of gun fatalities that are intentional voluntary suicides.
Not good enough. If he had carried out his campaign promises? Absolutely. But they gave it to him untested. And then he barely tried at all to get things done and actively reversed his most popular liberal positions.
Obama was a closet conservative and we all got fooled.
When you place a bid to buy a stock, A HFT can see that bid, use canceled offers to find the maximum you will pay and and canceled offers to find the lowest the market offers, then buy up stock to fill your bid and sell it to you. All within a fraction of a second and never having to go through with any of those intermediate canceled bids. HFT is a gigantic siphon that removes value from the market by ensuring sellers get the lowest price possible and sellers get the highest price possible instead of finding common ground somewhere in the middle.
I remember when 3d modeling and animation software was close to $10k. At the time the majority of games were not in 3d, much less animation or digital effects.
Its worse than simply choosing not to think. Religions are semi-independent memetic entities in the same way that viruses are semi-independent genetic entities. As a virus infects a host it takes over and corrupts your biological machinery for the purpose of transmitting itself and expanding through the population to which the host belongs. A religion behaves in exactly the same manner. It infests its victims with something that takes over and corrupts the hosts ability to think for purposes of transmitting itself and expanding through the population to which the host belong. And it often does so without regard to the interest or the well being of any individual host as long as it furthers its saturation of the population.
you only need visual studio for developing windows desktop software. Which will be pointless once windows desktops die off.
Matlab is a niche tool for a specific technical field, not unlike heavy duty image/video processing or debugging enterprise software. And it is also available for linux, so even if you need more powerful hardware, you are not limited to windows PC's.
IE is the devil and a long time ago it should have been taken out behind the wood shed and shot, have its corpse desecrated, dismembered and fed to pigs, which should then be shot, desecrated, dismembered and fed to other pigs, etc.
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Earth has more than enough resources for 20 billion people if we were not squandering them on welfare for the non-working leaches who live off the hard work of others. Of course I am talking about the owning class of billionaire plutocrats.
Free food shelter birth control and entertainment would qualify as socialism, the rest is just the slow genocide of the human species through aggressive population control.
The simple fact of the matter is that the owning class are already living on welfare provided by their robots...employees. They are the takers, the leaches, the parasites who do no actual work and are yet rewarded with fantastic wealth in return.
So your solution to the starving masses is not to let them starve, but to just murder them instead. Awesome thanks.
Socialism.
Steve Jobs DID NOT invent the smartphone or tablet or touchscreen at all. that is all 1980's tech. All he did was pair a new high capacity battery with a bog standard low power microprocessor and a stylish case.
They are being retarded, but not because they are denying so many legitimate innovations, but because they are approving so many illegitimate non-innovations.
This stuff would prevent accidental explosions. Its hardly useless if this stuff is similarly effective and inexpensive as a fertilizer.
Once I buy something, it is mine. You have no natural right to control it afterwards. It removes rights that the OWNER of the media has to use his media as he sees fit, to make copies for personal use, to timeshift, to device shift, and to resell or give away.
DRM is an infringement of digital rights of the owner of the media, not a protection.
And not everyone is a soulless sycophant worshiping the almighty dollar. Artists produce art for the sake of art, to express themselves because of how it makes them feel, and to enrich society as a whole and more often than not to get laid. Slightly reducing the financial incentive will not end art, it will merely remove the posers who are producing garbage for a paycheck from the equation.
You want people to be ok with DRM?
1: make DRM that allows every act that falls under fair use.
2: make the duration of copyright much shorter, 7 years, 14 at the most.
3: make DRM that releases its media after that duration.
Have you forgotten than not all guns are single chamber automatics?
Then don't try to print a single chamber gun.
A pepperbox revolver in .22 is a lot more feasible.
Yea, well you are both wrong.
Your freedom to not call his husband by that title is not infringed by them having the right to get married.
And a lot of us "gun nuts" do believe in wider liberty. The conservative halfwits just make us all look bad by association.
Are you absolutely insane?
I have a hard time reconciling that you right wing nuts support the right to bear arms when everything else you believe in supports a theocratic plutocratic authoritarian police state where the ultra wealthy wield absolute power with impunity over the lesser serfs.
I am a radical liberal, a socialist even. And I support the right to bear arms, more now than ever to defend myself and my country from the conservatives who would enslave their fellow citizens and end the American dream of liberty and justice for all that the liberal founding fathers began and embodied in the constitution. There are more rights than the right to bear arms, and all of them must be respected.
Depends on the purpose.
A defense weapon needs to be reliable enough to shoot multiple times because one shot is often not enough to end a threat.
There is a much stronger correlation between automobile ownership and idiocy. There are fewer automobiles than guns in the USA, and automobiles kill more people than guns even when you count the ~65% of gun fatalities that are intentional voluntary suicides.
Not good enough. If he had carried out his campaign promises? Absolutely. But they gave it to him untested. And then he barely tried at all to get things done and actively reversed his most popular liberal positions.
Obama was a closet conservative and we all got fooled.
Distributing home made erotica of course!
The Gleemax debacle and the travesty of what happened to D20 Modern still get me angry to this day.
edit: that second "sellers" should have been buyers.
You should care about HFT.
When you place a bid to buy a stock, A HFT can see that bid, use canceled offers to find the maximum you will pay and and canceled offers to find the lowest the market offers, then buy up stock to fill your bid and sell it to you. All within a fraction of a second and never having to go through with any of those intermediate canceled bids. HFT is a gigantic siphon that removes value from the market by ensuring sellers get the lowest price possible and sellers get the highest price possible instead of finding common ground somewhere in the middle.
I remember when 3d modeling and animation software was close to $10k. At the time the majority of games were not in 3d, much less animation or digital effects.
Yea, its not like medical software errors ever killed anybody. Eh Therac-25?
The problem is that a lot of people who label themselves as pro-Constitution are actually nothing of the sort.
Its worse than simply choosing not to think. Religions are semi-independent memetic entities in the same way that viruses are semi-independent genetic entities. As a virus infects a host it takes over and corrupts your biological machinery for the purpose of transmitting itself and expanding through the population to which the host belongs. A religion behaves in exactly the same manner. It infests its victims with something that takes over and corrupts the hosts ability to think for purposes of transmitting itself and expanding through the population to which the host belong. And it often does so without regard to the interest or the well being of any individual host as long as it furthers its saturation of the population.
you only need visual studio for developing windows desktop software. Which will be pointless once windows desktops die off.
Matlab is a niche tool for a specific technical field, not unlike heavy duty image/video processing or debugging enterprise software. And it is also available for linux, so even if you need more powerful hardware, you are not limited to windows PC's.
IE is the devil and a long time ago it should have been taken out behind the wood shed and shot, have its corpse desecrated, dismembered and fed to pigs, which should then be shot, desecrated, dismembered and fed to other pigs, etc.
No its a transformer.