I read that article myself and I see nothing wrong with it. Society simply WOULD NOT WORK if everyone was an individualist, counter culture or unique. Sometimes folks only see the negatives and downsides of conformity but it has its bonuses as well.
Think of it this way, what if your cardiac cells decided they didn't want to conform anymore? Where would that leave the overall organism? Societies are organisms too. And we all have a job to do and a role to play in order to keep ours healthy.
These anti-spam lists were notorious for ruining the good names of ISP's who went thru the trouble of eliminating spammers from their ranks only to continue to be listed on these lists.
They couldn't run the damn things right, its probably disgruntled ISP's and not spammers who are DoS'ing them right now. And rightly so.
What you and he are forgetting is that with or without NAT most internet users still don't know what a port is. This is GEEK stuff. Not regular people stuff. If a regular person has something he/she wants to make available to the entire world then they can setup a home/web page. Thats "good enough" for 99% of their purposes.
This guy is making it sound like the internet is somehow changed for the worse simply because changing times have made his old software irrelevant.
The net is still free, you can still talk to whoever you want to talk to. No need for Chicken Little here. Heard of blogs? ICQ? Instant messaging? IRC?
Next thing you know he'll be complaining that the net is no longer free since no one uses gopher or AOL's TurboBrowser (from version 2.6) or Hotline anymore.
If you take away people's ability to pass on what they've earned to their children then you kill most people's dreams. Thus you also kill their motivation to work beyond what will keep them alive. You'll have a lot of apathetic depressed folks who are unwilling to put that extra effort forward because its result will be fleeting.
Why do poor people need to be able to buy a home in a wealthy area anyways? They aren't wealthy! Let them buy a home in a middle class or poor area, just because we're all human doesn't mean we need to share the same fates. You determine you own AND that of your family's.
And there are already cheap cars. Why does a poor person need a Lexus? Buy a damn Kia.
Say goodbye to family businesses. The reason why some folks should be entitled to a better start in life because of who their parents are is because some parents are morons and others aren't. The moronic parents who don't plan or know how to manage money, debt and investments doom their offspring to pretty much the same fate. Those who do know how to handle such matters flourish and pass on those skills AND THE WEALTH THEY'VE BUILT to their kids. There's nothing unfair about it. If the rich kids are morons they'll spend all their money on foolish things which would go to retailers who can hire more people with the increased sales.
No need for confiscatory taxes or a socialst system.
If the people underneath the founders are worth so much then let them go start their own companies. Just doing the grunt work isn't anything special. They're drones, cogs, and are easily replaced. Thats why they get less and less.
A Bill Gates or a Jeff Bezos is rare. The people who work for them are a dime a dozen however.
Millions of people out of work today still only amounts to 6.1% of the economy compared to 7-10% in the 70's and increasing amounts the further back in the past you go so why does it seem so bad to you this time around?
Before we begin I have to ask do you get dizzy from being so high up on your horse when looking down on others?
Ok how can you suggest a mini-cooper to somene who is possibly interested in a SUV? They're polar opposites. A Mini-Cooper is tiny and weak with the SUV being big and small. Subaru Outbacks look too much like station wagons. Not masculine enough.
Next I have no problem with SUV owners being taxed and insured at higher rates due to their higher usage of gas and rates of accidents. No problem, I'll still drive a SUV.
Now lets get onto the topic of NEED. We're in the United States of America. Its citizens are independent and free to own what they want. You don't need to have a reason for buying any type of vehicle. If I wanted to buy a 16 wheeler rig for suburban driving, I can do that. I suppose no one should buy or live in a 5000sqft home because they don't NEED that much space or not everyone should live in the suburbs because no one NEEDS to be so isolated from their neighbors or no one should be able to recieve cable television because no one NEEDS 300 channels and so on and so forth. There is nothing wrong with conspicious consumption. There is something wrong however with elitist attitudes which lead some to think they know whats best for everyone else.
Lastly where do you get your demographic assumptions from? First SUV's are for those with little dicks now their owners buy cheesy poofs and diet pepsis. I have don't eat that stuff and my dick isn't small. Then you go on to suggest a sports car which is the very height of hypocrisy considering that sports cars were the class of vehicle with the honor of having the distinction of being the car for men with little dicks, people going thru mid-life crises and those who wish to keep up with the joneses.
They fucked up. $400 is way too expensive for a poor indian person to afford.
"Well, it's not a cheap computer.
Its proponents have since discarded the buzzword -- 'cheap computer' -- that brought the Simputer into the limelight.
"We are not making a cheap computer. We are making a sophisticated device that will make computing possible for everyone," declares Professor Manohar."
What a crock of bull. How is computing possible for "everyone" when "most" Indians can't afford to spend $400 on a PDA?
I hear what you are saying but Slashdot or OSDN isn't overflowing with money. Everything they do has to make financial sense. The money from these shirts will probably help make Slashdot self-sufficient without needing to be subsidized by the rest of the OSDN. It would be hard to garuntee that revenue if someone else could make the shirts.
Whats more important, Slashdot surviving or adhering to a saying that isn't even true? Information isn't alive, it can't "want" anything.
That the dot.com boom and bust has come and gone, you still need REAL MONEY to pay for things geeks like such as computers and internet access and that in order to make money you need a better business plan then "Lets just give away the fruits of our labor and hope our product sucks badly enough that our customers will need to hire a lot of support services from us!"
Yay mature individuals who realize money doesn't grow on trees!
Ford's core competency is building cars, not computer systems. Seeing how they're not even good at their core competency they need to concentrate on it as much as possible.
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Hmm. Seems some folks haven't learned the lessons of Dot Com Bust Past. I estimate he'll be out of business in 2.5 years.
I read that article myself and I see nothing wrong with it. Society simply WOULD NOT WORK if everyone was an individualist, counter culture or unique. Sometimes folks only see the negatives and downsides of conformity but it has its bonuses as well.
Think of it this way, what if your cardiac cells decided they didn't want to conform anymore? Where would that leave the overall organism? Societies are organisms too. And we all have a job to do and a role to play in order to keep ours healthy.
These anti-spam lists were notorious for ruining the good names of ISP's who went thru the trouble of eliminating spammers from their ranks only to continue to be listed on these lists.
They couldn't run the damn things right, its probably disgruntled ISP's and not spammers who are DoS'ing them right now. And rightly so.
What you and he are forgetting is that with or without NAT most internet users still don't know what a port is. This is GEEK stuff. Not regular people stuff. If a regular person has something he/she wants to make available to the entire world then they can setup a home/web page. Thats "good enough" for 99% of their purposes.
This guy is making it sound like the internet is somehow changed for the worse simply because changing times have made his old software irrelevant.
The net is still free, you can still talk to whoever you want to talk to. No need for Chicken Little here. Heard of blogs? ICQ? Instant messaging? IRC?
Next thing you know he'll be complaining that the net is no longer free since no one uses gopher or AOL's TurboBrowser (from version 2.6) or Hotline anymore.
They're both lies to keep the rank and file distracted. Your job is going straight to India and it isn't ever coming back.
In the United States at least, the overwhelming majority of those who inherit wealth, continue to work.
The law only trumps a contract if the contract is breaking or violating the law.
Requiring that your employees come to work on time is NOT breaking the law.
Therefore firing them for being late, even a minute late, is perfectly legal and acceptable.
Get to work on fucking time and quit bitching or making up excuses. Or if you don't like it, leave.
Your job will be outsourced in 9 months anyway.
Keep coming in late.
I dare you.
If you take away people's ability to pass on what they've earned to their children then you kill most people's dreams. Thus you also kill their motivation to work beyond what will keep them alive. You'll have a lot of apathetic depressed folks who are unwilling to put that extra effort forward because its result will be fleeting.
Why do poor people need to be able to buy a home in a wealthy area anyways? They aren't wealthy! Let them buy a home in a middle class or poor area, just because we're all human doesn't mean we need to share the same fates. You determine you own AND that of your family's.
And there are already cheap cars. Why does a poor person need a Lexus? Buy a damn Kia.
Dumping products is wrong? You should charge a price for products or else its unfair? Ok.
Then when do we outlaw open source?
Say goodbye to family businesses. The reason why some folks should be entitled to a better start in life because of who their parents are is because some parents are morons and others aren't. The moronic parents who don't plan or know how to manage money, debt and investments doom their offspring to pretty much the same fate. Those who do know how to handle such matters flourish and pass on those skills AND THE WEALTH THEY'VE BUILT to their kids. There's nothing unfair about it. If the rich kids are morons they'll spend all their money on foolish things which would go to retailers who can hire more people with the increased sales.
No need for confiscatory taxes or a socialst system.
If the people underneath the founders are worth so much then let them go start their own companies. Just doing the grunt work isn't anything special. They're drones, cogs, and are easily replaced. Thats why they get less and less.
A Bill Gates or a Jeff Bezos is rare. The people who work for them are a dime a dozen however.
Millions of people out of work today still only amounts to 6.1% of the economy compared to 7-10% in the 70's and increasing amounts the further back in the past you go so why does it seem so bad to you this time around?
So your job can't be outsourced to an Indian coder who will work for 1/6th the cost?
Before we begin I have to ask do you get dizzy from being so high up on your horse when looking down on others?
Ok how can you suggest a mini-cooper to somene who is possibly interested in a SUV? They're polar opposites. A Mini-Cooper is tiny and weak with the SUV being big and small. Subaru Outbacks look too much like station wagons. Not masculine enough.
Next I have no problem with SUV owners being taxed and insured at higher rates due to their higher usage of gas and rates of accidents. No problem, I'll still drive a SUV.
Now lets get onto the topic of NEED. We're in the United States of America. Its citizens are independent and free to own what they want. You don't need to have a reason for buying any type of vehicle. If I wanted to buy a 16 wheeler rig for suburban driving, I can do that. I suppose no one should buy or live in a 5000sqft home because they don't NEED that much space or not everyone should live in the suburbs because no one NEEDS to be so isolated from their neighbors or no one should be able to recieve cable television because no one NEEDS 300 channels and so on and so forth. There is nothing wrong with conspicious consumption. There is something wrong however with elitist attitudes which lead some to think they know whats best for everyone else.
Lastly where do you get your demographic assumptions from? First SUV's are for those with little dicks now their owners buy cheesy poofs and diet pepsis. I have don't eat that stuff and my dick isn't small. Then you go on to suggest a sports car which is the very height of hypocrisy considering that sports cars were the class of vehicle with the honor of having the distinction of being the car for men with little dicks, people going thru mid-life crises and those who wish to keep up with the joneses.
Why are bullbars called child killers?
What about when black men drive SUV's? In our case it can't possibly be to compensate for little dicks...
Also what about sportscars? Are they no longer little dick compensators?
Or could it be, that the self-righteous think they know whats best for the entire world can't stand it when anyone chooses to drive a non-average car?
They fucked up. $400 is way too expensive for a poor indian person to afford.
"Well, it's not a cheap computer.
Its proponents have since discarded the buzzword -- 'cheap computer' -- that brought the Simputer into the limelight.
"We are not making a cheap computer. We are making a sophisticated device that will make computing possible for everyone," declares Professor Manohar."
What a crock of bull. How is computing possible for "everyone" when "most" Indians can't afford to spend $400 on a PDA?
Why don't you just get a PalmOS based PDA? The battery life is much better and you can do the same things on one.
I hear what you are saying but Slashdot or OSDN isn't overflowing with money. Everything they do has to make financial sense. The money from these shirts will probably help make Slashdot self-sufficient without needing to be subsidized by the rest of the OSDN. It would be hard to garuntee that revenue if someone else could make the shirts.
Whats more important, Slashdot surviving or adhering to a saying that isn't even true? Information isn't alive, it can't "want" anything.
That the dot.com boom and bust has come and gone, you still need REAL MONEY to pay for things geeks like such as computers and internet access and that in order to make money you need a better business plan then "Lets just give away the fruits of our labor and hope our product sucks badly enough that our customers will need to hire a lot of support services from us!"
Yay mature individuals who realize money doesn't grow on trees!
The 15" Powerbook has a 1.25Ghz CPU, not 1Ghz.
Ford's core competency is building cars, not computer systems. Seeing how they're not even good at their core competency they need to concentrate on it as much as possible.
Do you always take such insignificant things so seriously?