I'd rather give huge numbers of kids in developing countries a leg up to the first world and worry later about the environmental cost of disposing them. Anything that helps get millions of kids educated will only help the world in future generations (when they'll be more likely to have the money and ability to deal with it.
Besides, if we're going to worry about environmental issues, we should just be working on clean drinking water.
Libertarians who don't point out the negatives in any policy proposal are just as stupid as nanny-staters who do the same about their pet gov't projects.
Fortunately, libertarians such as those are even more rare than libertarians in general. In fact, you'll find that many libertarians publicly state that private organizations given the same powers as government ones are the worst of all possible solutions.
The fact that private organizations have the same bureaucratic garbage that drags down gov't ones is not a reasonable argument against privatization if you're being honest (on both sides of the argument).
I'm a little confused about how someone would be able to go about building a DMZ using IPv6 - just connect it through a different switch and don't allow traffic to go from it to your "internal" machines?
"Carefully". That's helpful. And when there is no information available online for the general public to get any kind of information about the costs of particular legislation, and an organization comes along to help provide those costs in an easy to use, transparent manner, that is somehow "oversimplification" in your eyes? Also helpful.
Case-by-base is a ridiculous answer given the sheer volume of legislation that comes along. There is no way a single person can possibly judge costs for every piece of legislation out there.
So really, what you're suggesting is useless at best, disingenuous at worst. Again, helpful.
Also, you're wrong about "ad hominem": You're attempting to dismiss the entire exercise based on the political philosophy of those putting it out there.
It occurs to me, as a relatively rabid libertarian, that your "informationless, quasi-inaccurate or misleading feel-good marketing BS" should be regarded as fraud, pure and simple.
The only question is how much labeling is enough/too much? How much risk must there be to trigger the warning label?
Sometimes an idea is just so stupid that people on both sides of the aisle can agree. Unfortunately, those socialists on the left only figure it out once in a while.:-D
MAN is this a spot-on response. Thanks! There's nothing worse than fucking IT guys who forget that they are a cost center - they are there to HELP THE REST OF THE COMPANY GET ITS WORK DONE. IT guys aren't the company. They aren't the ones making the money. They are effectively high-tech janitors - the HVAC guys are not there to make their day easy, they're there to make sure the office is a nice comfy 72 degrees (or whatever).
By "is isn't" you should qualify that by saying it's the telco's brand of "free enterprise" that isn't working, but far, far from "free enterprise" as anyone else might define it.
MS finds yet another way to make disaster recovery painful and your best response is that we should keep better backups? What are you, a programmer?:-D
It's not a reason to use backups, it's a reason to USE A DIFFERENT OS. Pick one.
How's that one-child-per-household bullshit going over there?
Anyone who'd rather live in China than the US needs to have their head examined, particularly if the only frigging reason is to have a standard cell phone charger. WTF.
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Methinks you might want to define "better".......
I'd rather give huge numbers of kids in developing countries a leg up to the first world and worry later about the environmental cost of disposing them. Anything that helps get millions of kids educated will only help the world in future generations (when they'll be more likely to have the money and ability to deal with it.
Besides, if we're going to worry about environmental issues, we should just be working on clean drinking water.
Libertarians who don't point out the negatives in any policy proposal are just as stupid as nanny-staters who do the same about their pet gov't projects.
Fortunately, libertarians such as those are even more rare than libertarians in general. In fact, you'll find that many libertarians publicly state that private organizations given the same powers as government ones are the worst of all possible solutions.
The fact that private organizations have the same bureaucratic garbage that drags down gov't ones is not a reasonable argument against privatization if you're being honest (on both sides of the argument).
I speak for all of us who aren't in the EU when I say, "HA HA!"
This was a really nice explanation. Thanks a lot.
I'm a little confused about how someone would be able to go about building a DMZ using IPv6 - just connect it through a different switch and don't allow traffic to go from it to your "internal" machines?
*snort.
"Carefully". That's helpful. And when there is no information available online for the general public to get any kind of information about the costs of particular legislation, and an organization comes along to help provide those costs in an easy to use, transparent manner, that is somehow "oversimplification" in your eyes? Also helpful.
Case-by-base is a ridiculous answer given the sheer volume of legislation that comes along. There is no way a single person can possibly judge costs for every piece of legislation out there.
So really, what you're suggesting is useless at best, disingenuous at worst. Again, helpful.
Also, you're wrong about "ad hominem": You're attempting to dismiss the entire exercise based on the political philosophy of those putting it out there.
This isn't insightful, it's a poor attempt at flinging an ad hominem attack at libertarians.
Tell us - how do YOU account for the costs of government then??
Nice reply. Keep up the good work.
No kidding. IBM has to be one of worst of the shitty "let's screw up and then up our budget needs next year" Federal leeches.
It occurs to me, as a relatively rabid libertarian, that your "informationless, quasi-inaccurate or misleading feel-good marketing BS" should be regarded as fraud, pure and simple.
The only question is how much labeling is enough/too much? How much risk must there be to trigger the warning label?
Okay, now that was funny. :)
Hmmm, funny, our office and network have been virus free for years, and we don't have to adopt shitty attitudes about it. What's your problem?
Sounds like a bunch of damn crybabies to me. Waaaa waaaaa, I'm hourly! Give me a break.
Sometimes an idea is just so stupid that people on both sides of the aisle can agree. Unfortunately, those socialists on the left only figure it out once in a while. :-D
Wait...... libertarians are trying to form a royal class?
Huh.
Conservatives I'll give you... but libertarians have to HAVE some power for that to happen, don't you think?
MAN is this a spot-on response. Thanks! There's nothing worse than fucking IT guys who forget that they are a cost center - they are there to HELP THE REST OF THE COMPANY GET ITS WORK DONE. IT guys aren't the company. They aren't the ones making the money. They are effectively high-tech janitors - the HVAC guys are not there to make their day easy, they're there to make sure the office is a nice comfy 72 degrees (or whatever).
"Rainforest" land can be very productive. Read 1491, it's pretty fascinating stuff.
Seriously, if it was easier to get a billion folks to just get up an hour earlier... don't you think we'd be doing that already?
By "is isn't" you should qualify that by saying it's the telco's brand of "free enterprise" that isn't working, but far, far from "free enterprise" as anyone else might define it.
I'd just like to issue a request for mod points, and I'd also like to add a "Who the fuck gives a turd about Second Life?" for myself.
Lame is right.
I wish there was a "Stupid" mod option.
:-D
MS finds yet another way to make disaster recovery painful and your best response is that we should keep better backups? What are you, a programmer?
It's not a reason to use backups, it's a reason to USE A DIFFERENT OS. Pick one.
Replacing greed with altruism is great - the other poster offered links to Wiki about it. Replacing gree with "altruism by force" is socialist. :)
Billionaires don't buy anything? Huh, who knew?
Lessig addressed the fact that it's not the same. Honestly, I'm way more inclined to believe what Lessig's selling over some dude on /. Sorry.
How's that one-child-per-household bullshit going over there?
Anyone who'd rather live in China than the US needs to have their head examined, particularly if the only frigging reason is to have a standard cell phone charger. WTF.