Not everywhere in Europe. In Finland, the bicyclist is the guilty party, even when you slip on the icy streets in the winter and a car behind your drives over you, not keeping enough distance. And yet they don't let you use the sidewalks, where bicycles would really belong, after cars have devoured all the streets. Bicycles are also discriminated against on multi-use paths; the motorists are supposed to let pedestrians to cross the road, but not bicyclists. In many ways, Finland is close to America than (central) Europe, being very sparsely populated. The car is the king here, everyone else beware.
> Copyrights restrict liberties, by creating distorted properties and by controlling information in a big way.
All extensive property "mights" (right is just another name for might after all) restrict liberty by allowing the fortunate few -- the capitalists -- to control the lives of the majority of mankind, by forbidding them to use the resources considered the capitalist's property unless they submit to the capitalists will, even when the capitalist itself can not occupy and fully utilise these resources himself, and thus indeed needs an extensive machinery of violence -- currently the "public state" that has a monopoly on violence, but which extreme right-"libertarians" ("anarcho"-oxymoron-capitalists) want to replace it with "private states" -- to uphold such unjust property. The capitalist workplace is nothing short of totalitarian, and the majority of mankind has no alternative but to sell their labour power to the capitalists and submit to their totalitarian rule. Thus such extensive property "rights" are unjust and can not exist in a truely free society, and such society is incompatible with capitalism. (Although not necessarily with free markets that can possibly exist outside capitalism -- although their desirability can be contested -- capitalism not being synonymous with them, but simply a condition of control of resources and a form of plutocracy.)
> Most phones come with at least 20 different ringtones, for the last 5 years. It can't be that hard.
But all of them suck. There's often none that would sound anything like a real telephone tone, modern or old. One actually has to pay to get a ringtone that doesn't suck and/or sounds like a telephone.
And, you know, almost any work can even be fun if it is not in an authoritarian, i.e. there are no bosses and the workplace is democratically organised. Also, wouldn't it be better if everyone worked just 4 hours a day (or every second week , or something like that) instead of some working 8 and some having no work to do at all, even if they wanted to work? I think most people actually want to do some useful work, but the problem is that they don't want to spend all their life cleaning doing the same shitty job... and in an authoritarian environment besides.
The goal of (libertarian) socialism should be to make such conditions that nobody has to work in whatever job the person can get -- this is called wage slavery -- and then suffer the authority of the bosses. Freedom and true democracy will then ensue. It seems necessary to abolish extensive capitalist private property "rights" (right is another name for might anyway) to create such conditions. That does not mean everything is necessarily "public" property of some kind of state (there is no state in libertarian socialism), but the concept of property could be based on "personal possession" or "occupancy and use".
The fact that you even dare point to wikipedia shows _your_ ignorance. A lot of wkipedia articles have been corrupted by the so-called "anarcho-capitalists" themselves, trying to adopt anarchism by using the over-simplified dictionary definition of the word and ignoring the historical nature of the anarchist movement. And yet, although the usual dictionary definition talks of absence of a vague "government" (which could mean a few things; the government of a state, and the act of governing) , the direct translation of the term an-anarchy, no-ruler, is inherently anti-capitalist. A capitalist is a ruler by the might of his extensive property.
For further discussion, see <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/faq/append1.html">An archism and Anarcho-capitalism</a> from An Anarchist FAQ.
And, BTW, Wikipedia's so-called NPOV doesn't work at all, and only results in edit-wars where the most persistent person eventually wins, or the article gets locked to some arbitrary state. MPOV where one could clearly see the supporter of what ideology wrote which piece would be much better. Something where the person initiating an article gets to moderate that piece, but everyone can attach new pieces that they get to moderate to the article would present all sides of the story much more fairly.
Oh, and "anarcho-capitalism" is an oxymoron. Capitalism is in direct opposition to what the anarchist or libertarian socialist (not an exact synonym, but almost; anarchism is a significant subset of the latter) philosophy stands for. True anarchy also has nothing to do with chaos&destruction image painted by the capitalist media.
Copyright is a state-proctected monopoly, like all so-called private property. Without an extensive machinery of violence (which currently the "public state" has a monopoly on, although the right-libertarians just want to replace this monopoly with "private states") extensive exploitative capitalist property could not exist. Now how is Microsoft's monopoly not backed by government?
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> Google caching is morally dubious.
Only by your stinking moral standards.
Morals is like an asshole; everybody has one and it stinks.
No, you're confused. All exploitative private property, or tools of production -- and that certainly includes patents -- requires violence or threat of violence (i.e. force) to defend. The state is the monopoly of violence on a certain area, and it uses violence against those who desire to violote the monopolies on property it has granted. If that threat of violence is suddenly removed, to violence is used, the threat of such is simply removed, and that is the road to freedom.
"The guys in the hot dog line are wearing white hats that are promotion hats from Finnish high-school, usually worn on May Day student celebrations. The hats have tufts that indicate they are polytechnics students,"
No, he didn't explain it correctly. Those two are not the same hats. UofTech students buy completely new hats with the tufts for "teekkarikaste" in the first spring. The tufts are not just added to high-school graduation hats (that students of normal unis continue to wear).
You know, there's a difference between "teekkarilakki" (hat worn by students of U:s of tech.) and "ylioppilaslakki" (hat worn by high school graduates). The people in SW were teekkaris and wearing the former bobbled one.
"Korkeakoulu" is not high-school in English. High-school is about the same as "lukio+yläaste" in american english (senior high-school is "lukio"). "teknillinen korkeakoulu" should be translated as "university of technology" (but "ammattikorkeakoulu" otoh not as any sort of university). Also note that only HUT is called a "korkeakoulu" in Finnish anymore, the rest are the direct translations of u:s of tech. in Finnish too these days; "teknillinen yliopisto", and those people are probably from TUT in the film...
In cooperatives every member has one vote, not vote per share like in stock companies. Power can't concentrate if one can never have more than one vote and everyone has the equal chance to communicate their message. Vote per head in no way clashes with freedom. It guarantees it, unlike vote per buck which concentrates power and thus removes freedom from those without many bucks.
You're wrong. North Korea has nothing do with communism. It's a state-capitalist (the state is the sole capitalist and exploiter of the working class) dictatorship run by a so-called "communist party". It's an example of what happens when markets become monopolistic.
autoconf is a quick and dirty hack that has put decent source and library package management back decades. There's nothing "proper" about it, it's just the most popular kid in town.
> I suspect it's design is an attempt to match what OS X users expect, since Firefox devs have this (IMHO) crazy notion that the product should look as identical as possible across OSes.
And not just look but feel too.. unfortunately. They keybindings are so windowzy (or gnomy, but that's almost the same thing) as to make the program totally unusable. And it isn't even easily configured. You have to hunt for the proverbial needle in the haystack to find the poorly documented function to call and then write some ugly javascript to do so, even with the keyconfig extension, to make the bindings tolerable.
The time it takes for init to run on my Linux system bootup is insignificant compared to the time it takes for BIOS to display all the EPA power saver loges and all the other shit.
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XML sucks for anything that humans might want to edit: configuration files and documents. It's only barely usable for protocol that, and for that it is rather bloated too. Configuration files should use a simple human-readable format. The.ini format, for example, is rather robust. Of couse, programs that support scripting probably should use the scripting language for configuration so there wont' be a zillion different ways to do things.
There's absolutely nothing inherently wrong about governmental inference, mostly since simple unregulated (laissez-faire) market economy is something almost no one likes or wants (it'd be actually pretty close to anarchy). Especially ones who understand the implications of such a system.
Anarchy is incompatible with all kinds of capitalism. Anarchy means no rulers, capitalism is plutoracy, rule of the wealthy.
Any programmer who can't figure out the ordering should not be programming.
Using exit in the middle of program is always wrong. One should always try to continue where possible or fail gracefully if not. Too many programs these days fail to handle memory allocation failures properly...
The whole point of AOP is arbitrary uncontrolled side effects: the standard logging examples etc. Composing a function with an "aspect" that only modifies the parameters or value is pointless and is not going to work with multiple "aspects".
At the monadic level, many uses of AOP are more controllably implemented with HOFs and monad transformers. This obviously doesn't allow arbitrary aspects, but that's the point of doing it this way.
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Not everywhere in Europe. In Finland, the bicyclist is the guilty party, even when you slip on the icy streets in the winter and a car behind your drives over you, not keeping enough distance. And yet they don't let you use the sidewalks, where bicycles would really belong, after cars have devoured all the streets. Bicycles are also discriminated against on multi-use paths; the motorists are supposed to let pedestrians to cross the road, but not bicyclists. In many ways, Finland is close to America than (central) Europe, being very sparsely populated. The car is the king here, everyone else beware.
> Copyrights restrict liberties, by creating distorted properties and by controlling information in a big way.
All extensive property "mights" (right is just another name for might after all) restrict liberty by allowing the fortunate few -- the capitalists -- to control the lives of the majority of mankind, by forbidding them to use the resources considered the capitalist's property unless they submit to the capitalists will, even when the capitalist itself can not occupy and fully utilise these resources himself, and thus indeed needs an extensive machinery of violence -- currently the "public state" that has a monopoly on violence, but which extreme right-"libertarians" ("anarcho"-oxymoron-capitalists) want to replace it with "private states" -- to uphold such unjust property. The capitalist workplace is nothing short of totalitarian, and the majority of mankind has no alternative but to sell their labour power to the capitalists and submit to their totalitarian rule. Thus such extensive property "rights" are unjust and can not exist in a truely free society, and such society is incompatible with capitalism. (Although not necessarily with free markets that can possibly exist outside capitalism -- although their desirability can be contested -- capitalism not being synonymous with them, but simply a condition of control of resources and a form of plutocracy.)
> Most phones come with at least 20 different ringtones, for the last 5 years. It can't be that hard.
But all of them suck. There's often none that would sound anything like a real telephone tone, modern or old. One actually has to pay to get a ringtone that doesn't suck and/or sounds like a telephone.
And, you know, almost any work can even be fun if it is not in an authoritarian, i.e. there are no bosses and the workplace is democratically organised. Also, wouldn't it be better if everyone worked just 4 hours a day (or every second week , or something like that) instead of some working 8 and some having no work to do at all, even if they wanted to work? I think most people actually want to do some useful work, but the problem is that they don't want to spend all their life cleaning doing the same shitty job... and in an authoritarian environment besides.
The goal of (libertarian) socialism should be to make such conditions that nobody has to work in whatever job the person can get -- this is called wage slavery -- and then suffer the authority of the bosses. Freedom and true democracy will then ensue. It seems necessary to abolish extensive capitalist private property "rights" (right is another name for might anyway) to create such conditions. That does not mean everything is necessarily "public" property of some kind of state (there is no state in libertarian socialism), but the concept of property could be based on "personal possession" or "occupancy and use".
The fact that you even dare point to wikipedia shows _your_ ignorance. A lot of wkipedia articles have been corrupted by the so-called "anarcho-capitalists" themselves, trying to adopt anarchism by using the over-simplified dictionary definition of the word and ignoring the
n archism and Anarcho-capitalism</a> from An Anarchist FAQ.
historical nature of the anarchist movement. And yet, although the usual dictionary definition talks of absence of a vague "government" (which could mean a few things; the government of a state, and the act of governing) , the direct translation of the term an-anarchy, no-ruler, is inherently anti-capitalist. A capitalist is a ruler by the might of his extensive property.
For further discussion, see <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/faq/append1.html">A
And, BTW, Wikipedia's so-called NPOV doesn't work at all, and only results in edit-wars where the most persistent person eventually wins, or the article gets locked to some arbitrary state. MPOV where one could clearly see the supporter of what ideology wrote which piece would be much better. Something where the person initiating an article gets to moderate that piece, but everyone can attach new pieces that they get to moderate to the article would present all sides of the story much more fairly.
Oh, and "anarcho-capitalism" is an oxymoron. Capitalism is in direct opposition to what the anarchist or libertarian socialist (not an exact synonym, but almost; anarchism is a significant subset of the latter) philosophy stands for. True anarchy also has nothing to do with chaos&destruction image painted by the capitalist media.
http://anarchistfaq.org/
Copyright is a state-proctected monopoly, like all so-called private property. Without an extensive machinery of violence (which currently the "public state" has a monopoly on, although the right-libertarians just want to replace this monopoly with "private states") extensive exploitative capitalist property could not exist. Now how is Microsoft's monopoly not backed by government?
> Google caching is morally dubious.
Only by your stinking moral standards.
Morals is like an asshole; everybody has one and it stinks.
No, you're confused. All exploitative private property, or tools of production -- and that certainly includes patents -- requires violence or threat of violence (i.e. force) to defend. The state is the monopoly of violence on a certain area, and it uses violence against those who desire to violote the monopolies on property it has granted. If that threat of violence is suddenly removed, to violence is used, the threat of such is simply removed, and that is the road to freedom.
"The guys in the hot dog line are wearing white hats that are promotion hats from Finnish high-school, usually worn on May Day student celebrations. The hats have tufts that indicate they are polytechnics students,"
No, he didn't explain it correctly. Those two are not the same hats. UofTech students buy completely new hats with the tufts for "teekkarikaste" in the first spring. The tufts are not just added to high-school graduation hats (that students of normal unis continue to wear).
You know, there's a difference between "teekkarilakki" (hat worn by students of U:s of tech.) and "ylioppilaslakki" (hat worn by high school graduates). The people in SW were teekkaris and wearing the former bobbled one.
"Korkeakoulu" is not high-school in English. High-school is about the same as "lukio+yläaste" in american english (senior high-school is "lukio"). "teknillinen korkeakoulu" should be translated as "university of technology" (but "ammattikorkeakoulu" otoh not as any sort of university). Also note that only HUT is called a "korkeakoulu" in Finnish anymore, the rest are the direct translations of u:s of tech. in Finnish too these days; "teknillinen yliopisto", and those people are probably from TUT in the film...
In cooperatives every member has one vote, not vote per share like in stock companies. Power can't concentrate if one can never have more than one vote and everyone has the equal chance to communicate their message. Vote per head in no way clashes with freedom. It guarantees it, unlike vote per buck which concentrates power and thus removes freedom from those without many bucks.
You're wrong. North Korea has nothing do with communism. It's a state-capitalist (the state is the sole capitalist and exploiter of the working class) dictatorship run by a so-called "communist party". It's an example of what happens when markets become monopolistic.
"proper build script based around configure"
autoconf is a quick and dirty hack that has put decent source and library package management back decades. There's nothing "proper" about it, it's just the most popular kid in town.
Solar energy is not viable here in the cold and cloudy northern europe with short days in winter time that's bound to get even colder...
> I suspect it's design is an attempt to match what OS X users expect, since Firefox devs have this (IMHO) crazy notion that the product should look as identical as possible across OSes.
And not just look but feel too.. unfortunately. They keybindings are so windowzy (or gnomy, but that's almost the same thing) as to make the program totally unusable. And it isn't even easily configured. You have to hunt for the proverbial needle in the haystack to find the poorly documented function to call and then write some ugly javascript to do so, even with the keyconfig extension, to make the bindings tolerable.
The time it takes for init to run on my Linux system bootup is insignificant compared to the time it takes for BIOS to display all the EPA power saver loges and all the other shit.
XML sucks for anything that humans might want to edit: configuration files and documents. It's only barely usable for protocol that, and for that it is rather bloated too. Configuration files should use a simple human-readable format. The .ini format, for example, is rather robust. Of couse, programs that support scripting probably should use the scripting language for configuration so there wont' be a zillion different ways to do things.
Anarchy is incompatible with all kinds of capitalism. Anarchy means no rulers, capitalism is plutoracy, rule of the wealthy.
Any programmer who can't figure out the ordering should not be programming.
Using exit in the middle of program is always wrong. One should always try to continue where possible or fail gracefully if not. Too many programs these days fail to handle memory allocation failures properly...
Get a life. Nowhere did I say that the words 'more' should match in the pseudo code.
Heavy in lines of code, not performance.
Code should be as short as possible while still readable.
The whole point of AOP is arbitrary uncontrolled side effects: the standard logging examples etc. Composing a function with an "aspect" that only modifies the parameters or value is pointless and is not going to work with multiple "aspects".
At the monadic level, many uses of AOP are more controllably implemented with HOFs and monad transformers. This obviously doesn't allow arbitrary aspects, but that's the point of doing it this way.
Yes, auto_ptr is exactly the kind of ugly C++ kludge I mentioned. *Yuck*.