Everything does something else at the cost of something else. When you eat, you're necessarily depriving someone else of the same food. You're exploiting all kinds of resources to get food. People are just like corporations. For the most part, they do what they can to make a profit. Does that make most people 'bad'? No. That's just life. Without corporations, we'd be back in caves, bartering for our food. Companies provide vital services that make our lives better. Not all companies are good, but blanketing all companies as 'bad' doesn't really make any sense.
This is a big myth in this country. I buy my own health insurance. A lot of people do. It's not expensive at all. And for the bit that I pay, I can be guaranteed (thanks to healthy competition) that I get some of the best possible health care in the world. Even if I was very poor, I could still walk into an emergency room when I was sick, and get government-funded health care (Medicaid). I have no worries about health-care in the US. I DO worry, however, about health-care in other countries. From what I understand, Canada has government-provided healthcare, and there are often very, very long waiting periods to go to see doctors. I, on the other hand, can call up my local hospital, and generally see a very compentent physician in very little time.
Why are people "killing themselves to get in"? Laregly because the economies in their native lands have, over the past few centuries, been co-opted by imperialist western corps. Previously self-sufficient economies the world over have been tricked, forced, or manipulated into participating in Euro/Americentric mercantalist frameworks.
I was referring to Cubans, specifically. As far as I can tell Cuba has not been "co-opted by imperialistic western corps", which is precisely the reason WHY people from there are dying to get in here. Look at Cuba. Look at the USSR. Look at North Korea. All of these countries have not allowed major corporations in, or have not allowed major corporations to form within their own countries. Look at what happened there. I'm not saying that all corporations are great for the common good. I'm just saying that saying that all corporations are bad is a bit extreme.
Scandinavia also has some of the highest tax rates in the world. The US is not about paying 1/2 of your paycheck to the government so that it can take care of you. The US is about 'rugged individualism'. It's about fending for yourself, and doing the best with what you've got. Being pampered by a Scandinavian government is probably nice, but that's not what the US is all about. It's not about equality of stuff. It's about equality of a vast abundance of opportunity. It's a totally different mindset.
America didn't invent the corporation. But in the 19th century, America went further than any other country in perfecting this glorious instrument of money-extraction. Who else would have thought to give the status of natural personhood to corporations as our Supreme Court did? Who else would have turned the English language into the most imperial language on the earth today, not because of any military conquest (though the US does have plenty) but because of corporate conquest?
Look at your alternative to a country that allows large corporations. You have North Korea (tens of thousands of people starving to death every year), China (you can get killed for saying the wrong thing), or Cuba (one of the aforementioned places that people are dying to escape from). Call me nuts, but I'm pretty happy in the US.
America didn't invent the corporation. But in the 19th century, America went further than any other country in perfecting this glorious instrument of money-extraction. Who else would have thought to give the status of natural personhood to corporations as our Supreme Court did? Who else would have turned the English language into the most imperial language on the earth today, not because of any military conquest (though the US does have plenty) but because of corporate conquest?
You sure do go a long way in painting all corporations as being evil. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the US, with it's many large corporations also has one of the highest stardards of living on the planet. I don't know too many other countries where people are literally killing themselves to try to get into.
This article reminded me of the Matrix, in which the baddies used humans because they produced a net GAIN in energy, even after feeding them food, qater, and air. Hmm.
No, not really. Visual Source Safe/Visual C++/VB, etc. (Visual Studio) is Microsoft's equivalent CVS/Emacs. "Groupware" generally implies office users in general, not just developers. "Groupware" generally doesn't have anything to do with source code versioning or development at all, for that matter. Think Lotus Notes (but not so tough to use). "Groupware" generally refers to an app or a group of apps that bundles all typical office functions into one place (see my previous post).
You've obviously never used Outlook. Outlook isn't about email. Outlook, when used in combination with Exchange, is GROUPWARE. It integrates (pretty well, in my opinion), email, calendar/scheduling/meeting schedules, contacts, task lists, basisc notes, newgroups (both public and private) and jounaling. Outlook + Exchange, when used correctly, is an integration of what most offices currently kludge together: email clients, various contact lists, meeting room and meeting schedules, Rolodexes, newsgroup clients, random phone calls, and lots and lots of Post-it notes. Outlook isn't jsut a bloated email client. It's a front end to Exchange.
If this drive is supposed to last longer than other drives, does this mean that other drives are designed to last LESS THAN 5 years? Shouldn't we be warned about this when we buy drives, so that we can worry about replacing them after a few years, instead of losing all of our data?
Thanks for the info. Still, I think that if you're going to use a parable in an article title, it should be one that's a bit more well known that than one.
I've lost serveral hard drives. And each time, it was catastrophic (and at least a royal pain in the ass). Losing a few hard drives is the same as losing a "few" passenger jets a year. Any number greater than zero is unacceptable due to the massive consequences of even one going down.
Why in the world would you check newsgroups? There are a ton of other products out there. Get your receipt, and return the damn thing. The company has NO IDEA that you're having trouble with it unless you call and bitch, or better yet, jsut return the damn thing. This isn't an open source product. You ARE entitled to real support!
DVD drives, CD drives, diskette drives, zip drives, and tape drives are generally not 'mission critial'. Besides, anybody using a Zip Drive for anyhting mission critical is a moron. I meant that servers, which generally don't rely on any of these input devices will have dramatically increased uptime.
"No moving parts" is the key. Hard drives are the last moving parts in computers, other than cooling fans. Once hard drives are solid state, not only will data stick around for much longer, but all computers will be much more reliable. Hard drive failures are the major reason for most system failures, and because it's the data, they're obviosuly the most catastrophic, too.
Brilliant. And have you ever considered how much productivity is GAINED by having VBScript embeeded in email? My bet is that it would outweigh these silly 'viruses'.
All the more reason to keep using books. Online material can be easily locked down (Napster, Magazine subscriptions, etc.). Books, on the other hand, never can be. Buy one, and it's yours. You can do what you want with it. Burn it, give it away, piss on it, loan it to other people, read it over a loudspeaker from the back of your van, whatever. Don't bother with electronic books. They're expensive, hard to use, and you never know if what you're getting is the real thing.
Slashdot is very closed. Yahoo has links to many outside sites, while still maintaining their own internal sites and keeping them consistent. Yahoo caters to many, many different kinds of people (just take a look at their clubs), and many different kinds of sites (look at their search engine, or Geocities). Yahoo links to everything on the web. Slashdot, on the other hand, is a proprietary, specialized, closed community.
This already exists. SprintPCS offers a ton of games via their system. They even have a great game where you play a hacker trying to get through other people's firewalls, systems, etc. They also have action games, role playing games, and sports games.
A Ford Ranger group? Are you serious? That's pretty sad. Porsche, I understand. Corvette, sure. Even Pokemon collectors makes sense. But, Ford Rangers? You've got to be kidding. That's pretty damn pathetic if you're serious.
Why not just use Yahoo Messenger? In my opinion, it's the best chat client out there. It's easy to use, and it has a ton of features, like all of the content, and the ability to talk to your cell phone.
No. So, what? You ever try to download Debian? It's next to impossible! You have to buy it! The same thing is going to happen to all of the distros, because there won't be any more than a few major ones.
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I actually have real health insurance. It costs less than $100/month.
Everything does something else at the cost of something else. When you eat, you're necessarily depriving someone else of the same food. You're exploiting all kinds of resources to get food. People are just like corporations. For the most part, they do what they can to make a profit. Does that make most people 'bad'? No. That's just life. Without corporations, we'd be back in caves, bartering for our food. Companies provide vital services that make our lives better. Not all companies are good, but blanketing all companies as 'bad' doesn't really make any sense.
This is a big myth in this country. I buy my own health insurance. A lot of people do. It's not expensive at all. And for the bit that I pay, I can be guaranteed (thanks to healthy competition) that I get some of the best possible health care in the world. Even if I was very poor, I could still walk into an emergency room when I was sick, and get government-funded health care (Medicaid). I have no worries about health-care in the US. I DO worry, however, about health-care in other countries. From what I understand, Canada has government-provided healthcare, and there are often very, very long waiting periods to go to see doctors. I, on the other hand, can call up my local hospital, and generally see a very compentent physician in very little time.
Why are people "killing themselves to get in"? Laregly because the economies in their native lands have, over the past few centuries, been co-opted by imperialist western corps. Previously self-sufficient economies the world over have been tricked, forced, or manipulated into participating in Euro/Americentric mercantalist frameworks.
I was referring to Cubans, specifically. As far as I can tell Cuba has not been "co-opted by imperialistic western corps", which is precisely the reason WHY people from there are dying to get in here. Look at Cuba. Look at the USSR. Look at North Korea. All of these countries have not allowed major corporations in, or have not allowed major corporations to form within their own countries. Look at what happened there. I'm not saying that all corporations are great for the common good. I'm just saying that saying that all corporations are bad is a bit extreme.
Scandinavia also has some of the highest tax rates in the world. The US is not about paying 1/2 of your paycheck to the government so that it can take care of you. The US is about 'rugged individualism'. It's about fending for yourself, and doing the best with what you've got. Being pampered by a Scandinavian government is probably nice, but that's not what the US is all about. It's not about equality of stuff. It's about equality of a vast abundance of opportunity. It's a totally different mindset.
America didn't invent the corporation. But in the 19th century, America went further than any other country in perfecting this glorious instrument of money-extraction. Who else would have thought to give the status of natural personhood to corporations as our Supreme Court did? Who else would have turned the English language into the most imperial language on the earth today, not because of any military conquest (though the US does have plenty) but because of corporate conquest?
Look at your alternative to a country that allows large corporations. You have North Korea (tens of thousands of people starving to death every year), China (you can get killed for saying the wrong thing), or Cuba (one of the aforementioned places that people are dying to escape from). Call me nuts, but I'm pretty happy in the US.
America didn't invent the corporation. But in the 19th century, America went further than any other country in perfecting this glorious instrument of money-extraction. Who else would have thought to give the status of natural personhood to corporations as our Supreme Court did? Who else would have turned the English language into the most imperial language on the earth today, not because of any military conquest (though the US does have plenty) but because of corporate conquest?
You sure do go a long way in painting all corporations as being evil. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the US, with it's many large corporations also has one of the highest stardards of living on the planet. I don't know too many other countries where people are literally killing themselves to try to get into.
This article reminded me of the Matrix, in which the baddies used humans because they produced a net GAIN in energy, even after feeding them food, qater, and air. Hmm.
No, not really. Visual Source Safe/Visual C++/VB, etc. (Visual Studio) is Microsoft's equivalent CVS/Emacs. "Groupware" generally implies office users in general, not just developers. "Groupware" generally doesn't have anything to do with source code versioning or development at all, for that matter. Think Lotus Notes (but not so tough to use). "Groupware" generally refers to an app or a group of apps that bundles all typical office functions into one place (see my previous post).
You've obviously never used Outlook. Outlook isn't about email. Outlook, when used in combination with Exchange, is GROUPWARE. It integrates (pretty well, in my opinion), email, calendar/scheduling/meeting schedules, contacts, task lists, basisc notes, newgroups (both public and private) and jounaling. Outlook + Exchange, when used correctly, is an integration of what most offices currently kludge together: email clients, various contact lists, meeting room and meeting schedules, Rolodexes, newsgroup clients, random phone calls, and lots and lots of Post-it notes. Outlook isn't jsut a bloated email client. It's a front end to Exchange.
If this drive is supposed to last longer than other drives, does this mean that other drives are designed to last LESS THAN 5 years? Shouldn't we be warned about this when we buy drives, so that we can worry about replacing them after a few years, instead of losing all of our data?
Thanks for the info. Still, I think that if you're going to use a parable in an article title, it should be one that's a bit more well known that than one.
I've lost serveral hard drives. And each time, it was catastrophic (and at least a royal pain in the ass). Losing a few hard drives is the same as losing a "few" passenger jets a year. Any number greater than zero is unacceptable due to the massive consequences of even one going down.
Why in the world would you check newsgroups? There are a ton of other products out there. Get your receipt, and return the damn thing. The company has NO IDEA that you're having trouble with it unless you call and bitch, or better yet, jsut return the damn thing. This isn't an open source product. You ARE entitled to real support!
Does anybody want to explain to me what "stone soup" is...?
DVD drives, CD drives, diskette drives, zip drives, and tape drives are generally not 'mission critial'. Besides, anybody using a Zip Drive for anyhting mission critical is a moron. I meant that servers, which generally don't rely on any of these input devices will have dramatically increased uptime.
"No moving parts" is the key. Hard drives are the last moving parts in computers, other than cooling fans. Once hard drives are solid state, not only will data stick around for much longer, but all computers will be much more reliable. Hard drive failures are the major reason for most system failures, and because it's the data, they're obviosuly the most catastrophic, too.
Brilliant. And have you ever considered how much productivity is GAINED by having VBScript embeeded in email? My bet is that it would outweigh these silly 'viruses'.
All the more reason to keep using books. Online material can be easily locked down (Napster, Magazine subscriptions, etc.). Books, on the other hand, never can be. Buy one, and it's yours. You can do what you want with it. Burn it, give it away, piss on it, loan it to other people, read it over a loudspeaker from the back of your van, whatever. Don't bother with electronic books. They're expensive, hard to use, and you never know if what you're getting is the real thing.
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Slashdot is very closed. Yahoo has links to many outside sites, while still maintaining their own internal sites and keeping them consistent. Yahoo caters to many, many different kinds of people (just take a look at their clubs), and many different kinds of sites (look at their search engine, or Geocities). Yahoo links to everything on the web. Slashdot, on the other hand, is a proprietary, specialized, closed community.
This already exists. SprintPCS offers a ton of games via their system. They even have a great game where you play a hacker trying to get through other people's firewalls, systems, etc. They also have action games, role playing games, and sports games.
A Ford Ranger group? Are you serious? That's pretty sad. Porsche, I understand. Corvette, sure. Even Pokemon collectors makes sense. But, Ford Rangers? You've got to be kidding. That's pretty damn pathetic if you're serious.
Wow. No foreign keys. No transactions. No stored procedures. An Excel Spreadsheet has the EXACT same functionality as MySQL.
Why not just use Yahoo Messenger? In my opinion, it's the best chat client out there. It's easy to use, and it has a ton of features, like all of the content, and the ability to talk to your cell phone.
No. So, what? You ever try to download Debian? It's next to impossible! You have to buy it! The same thing is going to happen to all of the distros, because there won't be any more than a few major ones.