Lets be fair, using another dissimilar country for comparison is not a fair comparison
Lets be frank and you have no real intrest in fair comparisons.
Somolia's situation is complicated, and as the country has no real "government" as we know it, does not mean its "ungovernen", the capital is a warzone, but the rest of the country is a somewhat peaceful being ruled under tribal leaders. This is not Anarchism, or even capitalism, but simply old school tribalism, something much better suited to the locals than imposing a western style state.
We can also look at neighboring states, not doing much better *with* government.
your both wrong. Progressivism is a mid to late 19th century movement complaining about the disenfranchisement of the poor due to technological progress. It was a movement of intellectuals with concepts of a society managed by themselves for the betterment of mankind
first, there are no "proggresives" around today, At lest we can see a "neo-proggressive" movement which incorporates many liberal tendencies into proggresivism.
As far as proggresives, no sir, I do not want actual proggresives. While I admire their spirit of sticking up to capitalism, the real proggresives where slightly racist, and all of them rather classist in approach, have always been prone to cronyism and their fixes half measures and almost always self serving.
Most of the real success in anti-racism, and racial justice in this country has been done by capital S socialists, of which was a competing idea of proggresivism, which proggresivism stole a few planks of policy from.
What we need in the US are actual socialists, and none of this neo-reactionary noise.
this exactly. The chicken likely evolved from another animal, that laid eggs.
So unless you specify "chicken eggs", the egg in all probability came first.
I think we should make a big contrast between most of the traditional hacker scene and these "startup" goofballs. While there is some supposed overlap I am beginning to see less and less.
The bad old days of geeks vs suits might not return in full, and these might not be the suit and tie wierdos of yore, but its starting to get close.
At very least, keep these assholes out of the hacker scene.
I am pretty sure the NSA/Government/Mainstream concept of "degenerate" includes most wierdo geek types, slowly being kicked out of their own scene in favor of some dumb hipster broprogrammer shitheads.
If you were loudly perfoming a rap, in a crowded event, not assembled to hear you rap, you'd be interfering with someone elses free speech by shouting them down. Your right to free speech cannot be used to deny someone elses.
However, if your a rapper, and you sell out a crowded arena of people coming to here you rap, then its diffrent.
Also consider the use of metaphors, hyperbole, and figures of speech often used in the arts to express disgust
the united states government does a terrible job of defining Freedom, and always has. I hardly put the US government or even the US constitution as any sort of gold standard of Freedom, nor do any of them uphold many of the ideas they claim to. At best they indirrectly touch upon some revolutionary concepts.
the 1st amendment of the US Consitution does not guaruntee freedom of speech, never has, and never will. The US government never in history has tollerated free speech, and has ignored the constitution at its convience, since day one.
I'm not just talking about 9th amendment exceptions, as the much forgotten 9th amendment states the enumeration of any right cannot be used to disparage or deny any other rights.
The "freest country on earth" is pure hubris.
Its not "free speech" when it contradicts other rights. See 9th amendment.
The US of A, never was the gold standard in "freedom of speech", everything from tough "obscentiy" laws to sedition acts, to all merits of denying or disparaging "offensive speech", when merely either the majority or ruling parties objected to the social or political message.(censorship)
I am very skeptical, historically, this has been proven to not be the case. While its true, things like fines can bring in money, once they become dependant on than money, they depend on people violating the law in order to keep their budgets. This creates a very perverse effect, similar to the indian cobra effect
We see this throughout history, from the paid theif catchers of victorian england, to red light cameras, to ticket quotas, manditory sentancing, the war on drugs, etc...
Theif catchers saw well dressed criminals running "theif catching rings", bringing in very questionable arrests. Red Light Cameras saw towns make "short yellows", or shorten the amount of time a traffic ligh is yellow to encourage more people to accidently get caught running a red light, making intersections far more dangerous.
Ticket quotas resulted in uneven enforcement, mainly at the end of the month to meet quota. It also tended to make the officers do unsavory things like tailgate suspects with their lights on, and arrest people for marginal violations, all for the sake of making the town money.
Manditory sentancing gave a career criminal a chance to do anything else, merely made him get comfortable in prison, and often sent him back there.
The war on drugs speaks for itselves. Massive busts fuel the DEA's budget and allowed their reckless abandonment of any and all virtues this country has stood for, but seem to still take mabey %1 of total drug sales per year off the market. They've also been caught siding with one cartel against another, letting the system continue, so long as they got their portion of the pie, arrests, and with it, funding.
No sir, as long as their financial incentive, then there is an incentive for crime to continue. Especially in this day and age, when that incentive is making a "career" that pays better than anything else, and its union isn't subject for debate like other unions.
as soon as you stop having an RIAA. Basicly rock'n'roll doesn't make enough money in advertising and partnership, and the fans are a little too independant so they decided to kill it in the 1990s.
Embrace(early MTV), Expand(grunge scene, MTV, music videos, etc..), Extinguish(every generation sounds more like pop music, destroying and confusing labels like punk and metal into pop music, negative portrayal of rock musicians and their fans, newsmedia witch hunts, etc...).
so mabey as a worker under capitalism, he just supports the working class, and against exploitment from ownership.
His views seem pretty consistant without you mangling the debate by adding terms when it suits you.
its kinda funny, because the law works against their favor too, its almost as if the publishing company has all the power, and the invidual writers do not.
I think the term is "forced to sell their work for peanuts on what it will eventually make", to people who are themselves not really talented enough to write.
when every last bit of media and equipment to use and produce any media is "owned" by the RIAA/MPAA, in the sense where they have complete control over what gets published, and somehow get a percent of profit for any and all time any bit of media gets consumed by anyone, anywhere, at all times.
With that, complete control over the message, and with that, complete unwaiving control of what people believe in, as part of complete compliance to all advertising and messages espoused by partners, as sold to the highest bidder.
They forked Debian for the sole reason they are incompitant conspiracy wielding nutcases. Did you really expect them to have the slightest bit of competence.
systemd is great, and its not a new or experimental technology. The people who make it, are a loud buy noisy minority of people who have little if any real competence, and don't do anything but fucking complain.
Kudos for putting your money where you mouth is, but its going to last all around 6 months, because you being a loud mouth ignorant shithead doesn't automagically give you skills.
I think we need more remote charging stations. Tesla has a 120kW "super"-charger. For long trips we simply need supercharger stations like we have gas stations.
in the united states, the average commute can be long and tedious. 90 mile range is somewhat bullshit and limiting
Teslas have 300 mile ranges, and lets see what they can do with the model 3(300 mile range commuter car).
The other impressive thing they have is the super charger, of which they've opened all the patents up, so charging one of those cars takes 1/2 hour. Not great, but it does make charging stations that operate like gas stations feasible.
So basicly $2.4 billion dollars in "worth" not zero intrinsic worth(or close to that).
Value was artifically created and does not represent goods or services than can be consumed. So thats essentially $2.4 billion dollars worth of theft from people who own, make, or otherwise consume tangible goods and services.
This has actually been known for sometime that bitcoin is not anonymous. There are still many advantages to BTC.
1. It offers the same level of anonymitty as posting on a website. They can get your IP address. It solves the problem of paid services that get your full name, address, and a credit card number that can be repeated. So, its actually possible to charge money for a service that respects your privacy, instead of having to rely on free anonymous services, which will become unfeasiable at scale. Either they will include advertising to track you, or mine your data to get funding, either through advertising or clandestine services. funding with BTC, either paid service or donation is no less anonymous than using a website.
2. it offers money, outside the banking system. You can transfer money online without having to go through any third party, especially the banking system and affiliated companies such as paypal. The banking system cannot boycott things it does not like. Nor can anything else for that matter.
Also, masking your IP is not hard. As is concealing the source of transfering BTC. But, because bitcoins are considered monetary instruments, doing so just might be considered "money laundering" which is a pretty serious offense, and its not something I will discuss because
1. I am not offering anyone advice on how to commit such a serious offense
2. I am not willing to do the time for such myself
the press is going to stop talking about it when it really becomes a crisis because of panic.
The press generally overhypes a danger when there is exactly no fear of whatever they are hyping being a real problem.
I don't have any idea why anyone would support her. Is she supposed to be "good for tech" or something. More or less, being against the intrests of the programers and users, and for the intrests of stockholders and management.
But I for one, have had enough of business in politics.
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Lets be frank and you have no real intrest in fair comparisons.
Somolia's situation is complicated, and as the country has no real "government" as we know it, does not mean its "ungovernen", the capital is a warzone, but the rest of the country is a somewhat peaceful being ruled under tribal leaders. This is not Anarchism, or even capitalism, but simply old school tribalism, something much better suited to the locals than imposing a western style state.
We can also look at neighboring states, not doing much better *with* government.
your both wrong. Progressivism is a mid to late 19th century movement complaining about the disenfranchisement of the poor due to technological progress. It was a movement of intellectuals with concepts of a society managed by themselves for the betterment of mankind first, there are no "proggresives" around today, At lest we can see a "neo-proggressive" movement which incorporates many liberal tendencies into proggresivism. As far as proggresives, no sir, I do not want actual proggresives. While I admire their spirit of sticking up to capitalism, the real proggresives where slightly racist, and all of them rather classist in approach, have always been prone to cronyism and their fixes half measures and almost always self serving. Most of the real success in anti-racism, and racial justice in this country has been done by capital S socialists, of which was a competing idea of proggresivism, which proggresivism stole a few planks of policy from. What we need in the US are actual socialists, and none of this neo-reactionary noise.
this exactly. The chicken likely evolved from another animal, that laid eggs. So unless you specify "chicken eggs", the egg in all probability came first.
I think we should make a big contrast between most of the traditional hacker scene and these "startup" goofballs. While there is some supposed overlap I am beginning to see less and less. The bad old days of geeks vs suits might not return in full, and these might not be the suit and tie wierdos of yore, but its starting to get close. At very least, keep these assholes out of the hacker scene.
I am pretty sure the NSA/Government/Mainstream concept of "degenerate" includes most wierdo geek types, slowly being kicked out of their own scene in favor of some dumb hipster broprogrammer shitheads.
If you were loudly perfoming a rap, in a crowded event, not assembled to hear you rap, you'd be interfering with someone elses free speech by shouting them down. Your right to free speech cannot be used to deny someone elses.
However, if your a rapper, and you sell out a crowded arena of people coming to here you rap, then its diffrent.
Also consider the use of metaphors, hyperbole, and figures of speech often used in the arts to express disgust
the united states government does a terrible job of defining Freedom, and always has. I hardly put the US government or even the US constitution as any sort of gold standard of Freedom, nor do any of them uphold many of the ideas they claim to. At best they indirrectly touch upon some revolutionary concepts. the 1st amendment of the US Consitution does not guaruntee freedom of speech, never has, and never will. The US government never in history has tollerated free speech, and has ignored the constitution at its convience, since day one. I'm not just talking about 9th amendment exceptions, as the much forgotten 9th amendment states the enumeration of any right cannot be used to disparage or deny any other rights. The "freest country on earth" is pure hubris.
Its not "free speech" when it contradicts other rights. See 9th amendment. The US of A, never was the gold standard in "freedom of speech", everything from tough "obscentiy" laws to sedition acts, to all merits of denying or disparaging "offensive speech", when merely either the majority or ruling parties objected to the social or political message.(censorship)
We see this throughout history, from the paid theif catchers of victorian england, to red light cameras, to ticket quotas, manditory sentancing, the war on drugs, etc...
Theif catchers saw well dressed criminals running "theif catching rings", bringing in very questionable arrests. Red Light Cameras saw towns make "short yellows", or shorten the amount of time a traffic ligh is yellow to encourage more people to accidently get caught running a red light, making intersections far more dangerous.
Ticket quotas resulted in uneven enforcement, mainly at the end of the month to meet quota. It also tended to make the officers do unsavory things like tailgate suspects with their lights on, and arrest people for marginal violations, all for the sake of making the town money.
Manditory sentancing gave a career criminal a chance to do anything else, merely made him get comfortable in prison, and often sent him back there.
The war on drugs speaks for itselves. Massive busts fuel the DEA's budget and allowed their reckless abandonment of any and all virtues this country has stood for, but seem to still take mabey %1 of total drug sales per year off the market. They've also been caught siding with one cartel against another, letting the system continue, so long as they got their portion of the pie, arrests, and with it, funding.
No sir, as long as their financial incentive, then there is an incentive for crime to continue. Especially in this day and age, when that incentive is making a "career" that pays better than anything else, and its union isn't subject for debate like other unions.
pick one. Because thats how law enforcement works.
the leverage of the publisher vs the leverage of the author. I wonder why porter's five forces doesn't wind up in more political conversations
Embrace(early MTV), Expand(grunge scene, MTV, music videos, etc..), Extinguish(every generation sounds more like pop music, destroying and confusing labels like punk and metal into pop music, negative portrayal of rock musicians and their fans, newsmedia witch hunts, etc...).
sound familiar?
so mabey as a worker under capitalism, he just supports the working class, and against exploitment from ownership. His views seem pretty consistant without you mangling the debate by adding terms when it suits you.
its kinda funny, because the law works against their favor too, its almost as if the publishing company has all the power, and the invidual writers do not. I think the term is "forced to sell their work for peanuts on what it will eventually make", to people who are themselves not really talented enough to write.
With that, complete control over the message, and with that, complete unwaiving control of what people believe in, as part of complete compliance to all advertising and messages espoused by partners, as sold to the highest bidder.
They forked Debian for the sole reason they are incompitant conspiracy wielding nutcases. Did you really expect them to have the slightest bit of competence.
systemd is great, and its not a new or experimental technology. The people who make it, are a loud buy noisy minority of people who have little if any real competence, and don't do anything but fucking complain.
Kudos for putting your money where you mouth is, but its going to last all around 6 months, because you being a loud mouth ignorant shithead doesn't automagically give you skills.
Dustbin of history.
it was like someone puked out a whole bunch of words and cobbled them together. congradulations, your fucking dumb.
I think we need more remote charging stations. Tesla has a 120kW "super"-charger. For long trips we simply need supercharger stations like we have gas stations.
in the united states, the average commute can be long and tedious. 90 mile range is somewhat bullshit and limiting Teslas have 300 mile ranges, and lets see what they can do with the model 3(300 mile range commuter car). The other impressive thing they have is the super charger, of which they've opened all the patents up, so charging one of those cars takes 1/2 hour. Not great, but it does make charging stations that operate like gas stations feasible.
So basicly $2.4 billion dollars in "worth" not zero intrinsic worth(or close to that). Value was artifically created and does not represent goods or services than can be consumed. So thats essentially $2.4 billion dollars worth of theft from people who own, make, or otherwise consume tangible goods and services.
yes and no. Winston worked dirrectly for the government taking orders from the government.
This is the government approving the request of ordinary people to have their reputations unfucked.
Its what you can already do in the states if you have the money to spend on a PR firm
1. It offers the same level of anonymitty as posting on a website. They can get your IP address. It solves the problem of paid services that get your full name, address, and a credit card number that can be repeated. So, its actually possible to charge money for a service that respects your privacy, instead of having to rely on free anonymous services, which will become unfeasiable at scale. Either they will include advertising to track you, or mine your data to get funding, either through advertising or clandestine services. funding with BTC, either paid service or donation is no less anonymous than using a website.
2. it offers money, outside the banking system. You can transfer money online without having to go through any third party, especially the banking system and affiliated companies such as paypal. The banking system cannot boycott things it does not like. Nor can anything else for that matter.
Also, masking your IP is not hard. As is concealing the source of transfering BTC. But, because bitcoins are considered monetary instruments, doing so just might be considered "money laundering" which is a pretty serious offense, and its not something I will discuss because
1. I am not offering anyone advice on how to commit such a serious offense
2. I am not willing to do the time for such myself
the press is going to stop talking about it when it really becomes a crisis because of panic. The press generally overhypes a danger when there is exactly no fear of whatever they are hyping being a real problem.
fucking idiot
I don't have any idea why anyone would support her. Is she supposed to be "good for tech" or something. More or less, being against the intrests of the programers and users, and for the intrests of stockholders and management.
But I for one, have had enough of business in politics.