The only property that is worthy of the name is tangible property. Anything else, ideas, inventions, formulae, equations, drawings, pictures, etc... are up for grab. If you can't chain it or lock it up or put a fence around it, it does not belong to you. Like it or lump it.
People yearn to be free. Anytime somebody tries to control other people's liberty, they get burned. The French have a saying for this, "Chassez la nature, elle revient au galop" which, roughly translated means "Chase away nature, she'll charge back gallopping." Nobody can stop people from transferring and copying files unless Big Brother enacts an Orwellian form of government. And if that happens, we'll all rise up and kick his arse.
"Eyes melt. Heads explode. Everybody dies!"
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Whatever happended to that French designed compressed air bus that made it as a Slashdot story a few months ago? I remember reading something about it being manufactured in South Africa. Anybody knows?
the FBI gets to eavesdrop on the public, but not vice-versa
And you thought you lived in the land of the free? You've been a slave all along and did not know it. But don't feel bad, 99% the world is in slavery, slavery from communism on the left and capitalism on the right.
Intellectual property laws are the vestiges of a sick and dying system. They infringe on individual liberty and set human beings against one another. The only law that should exist regarding original creation is a law against plagiarism. But then again, such a law would amount to "don't lie" and does not even need to be a law in its own right. Maybe there should only one law in the world: Do the right thing.
Now, what we need is for some the slashdot karma geeks to get off their arses and write an open source dataminer for slashdot articles amd posts. Of course it must have a NL front end and be able to answer questions like "how many dumb stories have Commander Taco posted?" or "how many/. users are communists or libertarian, or into goat sex?" Just a thought.
I do enjoy Swords and Sorcery novels but only if the writing style is clear and the stories captivating. Also, I judge a style by the passion that the writer/artist brings to bear on an idea, especially if the idea has to do with a societal custom or an individual's single-mindedness. Leiber is definitely passionate in the excerpt you quoted and I think that's cool. I'll call my favorite used book store to see if they got the series. Thanks.
The free software ideal cannot hope to win in a capitalist system where a person's livelihood depends on his or her labor. Intellectual property owners (such as Microsoft and the music industry) will fight it with everything they've got. Right now they have two formidable weapons: IP laws and powerful police states to enforce them. But those who yearn to be free also have a formidable weapon, the internet.
The internet and other communication technologies (e.g., file sharing systems) are the first major kinks in the armor of a sick system. As technology progresses, the system will eventually die a horrible death. What will happen to a slave-based economy when robots and advanced artificial intelligences replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless?
And don't think for a minute this won't happen in your lifetime. The internet is the latest giant leap in human communication. Before that came mass telecommunication technologies and before that was the movable press. If history is any indication, we can expect a giant leap in technological progress and scientific knowledge. In fact, it is happening before our very eyes.
We should all demand a system where everybody is guaranteed income property, a piece of the pie. There is plenty for everybody.
Communism confiscates all property and enslaves everybody. Capitalism gives property to a few and enslaves the rest. It's sad. The land should not be divided for a price. It should be an inheritance for us and our children and their children. It's the only way to guarantee freedom in a world where human labor is about to go the way of the dinosaurs.
Intellectual property laws exist only because we have a slavery system. Our livelihood depends on working for others so we can pay our taxes. The reason that we have to work for others is that 99% of people have been deprived of an inheritance in the wealth of the land. Income property is owned by a few and the state. The others are slaves. Artists, programmers and inventors depend on their work to make a living. Can we blame them? We all depend on our labor because we are all slaves. So now we are swimming in a ocean of laws and rules that take away our remaining liberties, one by one.
Someone above mentioned retinotopic mapping, which is of course a big ol' issue. However, if all they do is detect the light and trigger a stimulus at a corresponding point on the retina (and if there are still ganglion cells left to pick up the current), they should be able to get the mapping "for free".
True. But that would be a hell of a registration job. The stimulus input lines would have to be at the precise positions over center ganglion cells and their surround cells. We're talking about microns. I would be mightily impressed by such a feat.
I think a more promising route to a cure for blindness is to use our knowledge of genes and our in-vitro tissue generation technologies to grow an entire eye ball and optic nerve using the patient's own DNA. Of course, that is probably decades in the future.
There are approximately one million fibers from the retina that make their way to the visual cortex via the thalamus. There is a one to one retinotopic mapping between the output of the retinal ganglion cells and cells in various layers of the visual cortex. Fibers that represent colors, for example, are processed in separate areas from fibers that are associated with motion. The latter are extremely sensitive to the direction of motion and must be arranged in a center-surround formation. Unless the NASA scientists at the University of Houston can maintain the proper retinotopic mapping and the center surround formations, the brain won't know what to make of those signals. The poor patient might just go insane.
"....There is no such thing as an empty space, i.e. a space without field. Space-time does not claim existence on its own, but only as a structural quality of the field." [pg.176--Relativity: The Special and the General Theory.--A. Einstein]
I agree with Mr. Einstein on his characterization of spacetime as a structural quality of something else (the field). This 'something else' is what researchers should be concentrating on. Spacetime should not be the target and source of mindless extrapolations. Spacetime itself is an abstract construct deduced from measurements that are the result of that something else. Unless we understand exactly what that something else is and what its physical constituents, processes and interactions are, all spacetime extrapolations (big bangs, black holes, wormholes, time travel, etc...) are just cheesy Star-Trek physics. Chicken feather voodoo physics is what I like to call it.
Thou shalt take care to monopolize the microprocessor market by committing abominable whoredoms with the company that has the operating system monopoly.
[This will insure that, even if Moore's law breaks down in the future, you can still clobber your competitors. And the other companies in the land will fear you. And you shall be the head and not the tail.]
A small probability in 10^22 may be big as far a the probability of the existence of E.T. but it's still amounts to a very small probability of finding E.T. among 10^22 star systems.
There is no need to parcel out the entire planet to everybody. A large percentage can be set aside for wild life conservation and a good portion should be reserved for population fluctuations and other unforeseen circumstances such as the ones you mentioned. There is no need to be anal about it all. The wealth of the world is hopelessly skewed in favor of a few right now and anything more equitable would be a major plus. Mineral resources should be for the benefit of all.
As far as a forcible halt to population growth is concerned, the only way to avoid that would be the development of thechnology that would make mass migration off the planet possible. But I agree with you that governmental control over marriage and sex is not about to happen any time soon. We are too far gone. Only major environmental and societal disasters (like world wars, disease and famine) would make that a viable route. And even then, this is not guaranteed. We would most likely be thrown back to the stone age and forced to restart all over again.
Maybe a powerful alien race might show up and have pity on us by imposing some sort of order.
I don't have all the details but the system can be set up so as to let the land and its resources (both agricultural and mineral) decide population control. The latter must by necessity involve societal control over marriage.
As far as moving from one place to another is concerned, there should be no laws preventing one from leasing one's property (for a limited time) or exchanging property in a fair exchange. One may be a city lover or one may want to form a cooperative or corporation with one's neighbors, etc... The important thing is that the children must always be guaranteed an inheritance so they to, can participate in a free market when their time comes.
City land, IMO, should be administered by the government or a consortium and leased at fair market value. Cities should be mostly a place for commerce and trade. I think that huge cities are extremely detrimental to the environment. Just a thought.
Well, reliability must be understood within the context of complexity. The tasks performed by human beings are many, many orders of magnitude more copmplex than tasks performed by computers. Even things as simple as walking or going up or down a flight of stairs are extremely complex. If the complexity of software systems could be scaled up to the level of brain complexity, their unreliability would make them completely unusable.
Good post. Well, if it's an inheritance for our children and their children, it cannot be sold, right? It must be passed on. That is what is meant by not dividing the land and its resources for a price. No more homeless and/or exploited people.
Interesting. jazman_777 gets modded up to 3: interesting while the post he is replying to gets modded down to oblivion during after a tug of war between 12 moderators. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
I am just as opposed to communism as I am to capitalism. Communism confiscates all property and enslaves everybody. Capitalism gives property to a few and enslaves the rest. It's sad. The land should not be divided for a price. It should be an inheritance for us and our children and their children.
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How many people around the world do you think paid for their copy of Windows vs. the number who did pay?
Thanks for the correction. I guess I need to see the movie again. It's been a while. Cool movie though.
Technology will prevent illegal copying of DVDs
The only property that is worthy of the name is tangible property. Anything else, ideas, inventions, formulae, equations, drawings, pictures, etc... are up for grab. If you can't chain it or lock it up or put a fence around it, it does not belong to you. Like it or lump it.
People yearn to be free. Anytime somebody tries to control other people's liberty, they get burned. The French have a saying for this, "Chassez la nature, elle revient au galop" which, roughly translated means "Chase away nature, she'll charge back gallopping." Nobody can stop people from transferring and copying files unless Big Brother enacts an Orwellian form of government. And if that happens, we'll all rise up and kick his arse.
Memorable line from the cult movie, The Repo Man.
Whatever happended to that French designed compressed air bus that made it as a Slashdot story a few months ago? I remember reading something about it being manufactured in South Africa. Anybody knows?
the FBI gets to eavesdrop on the public, but not vice-versa
And you thought you lived in the land of the free? You've been a slave all along and did not know it. But don't feel bad, 99% the world is in slavery, slavery from communism on the left and capitalism on the right.
My only regret is that I lacked the testicular fortitude to load up on RMBS puts this morning. Easy money.
This is funny. You're right though. It takes macho huevos to play the options markets, especially puts? Not a good idea in a turn around market.
Intellectual property laws are the vestiges of a sick and dying system. They infringe on individual liberty and set human beings against one another. The only law that should exist regarding original creation is a law against plagiarism. But then again, such a law would amount to "don't lie" and does not even need to be a law in its own right. Maybe there should only one law in the world: Do the right thing.
Demand liberty! Always.
Now, what we need is for some the slashdot karma geeks to get off their arses and write an open source dataminer for slashdot articles amd posts. Of course it must have a NL front end and be able to answer questions like "how many dumb stories have Commander Taco posted?" or "how many /. users are communists or libertarian, or into goat sex?" Just a thought.
I do enjoy Swords and Sorcery novels but only if the writing style is clear and the stories captivating. Also, I judge a style by the passion that the writer/artist brings to bear on an idea, especially if the idea has to do with a societal custom or an individual's single-mindedness. Leiber is definitely passionate in the excerpt you quoted and I think that's cool. I'll call my favorite used book store to see if they got the series. Thanks.
Sword Against Death by Fritz Leiber. Nice. Thanks for the excerpt. I think I'll get the book.
The free software ideal cannot hope to win in a capitalist system where a person's livelihood depends on his or her labor. Intellectual property owners (such as Microsoft and the music industry) will fight it with everything they've got. Right now they have two formidable weapons: IP laws and powerful police states to enforce them. But those who yearn to be free also have a formidable weapon, the internet.
The internet and other communication technologies (e.g., file sharing systems) are the first major kinks in the armor of a sick system. As technology progresses, the system will eventually die a horrible death. What will happen to a slave-based economy when robots and advanced artificial intelligences replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless?
And don't think for a minute this won't happen in your lifetime. The internet is the latest giant leap in human communication. Before that came mass telecommunication technologies and before that was the movable press. If history is any indication, we can expect a giant leap in technological progress and scientific knowledge. In fact, it is happening before our very eyes.
We should all demand a system where everybody is guaranteed income property, a piece of the pie. There is plenty for everybody.
Communism confiscates all property and enslaves everybody. Capitalism gives property to a few and enslaves the rest. It's sad. The land should not be divided for a price. It should be an inheritance for us and our children and their children. It's the only way to guarantee freedom in a world where human labor is about to go the way of the dinosaurs.
Intellectual property laws exist only because we have a slavery system. Our livelihood depends on working for others so we can pay our taxes. The reason that we have to work for others is that 99% of people have been deprived of an inheritance in the wealth of the land. Income property is owned by a few and the state. The others are slaves. Artists, programmers and inventors depend on their work to make a living. Can we blame them? We all depend on our labor because we are all slaves. So now we are swimming in a ocean of laws and rules that take away our remaining liberties, one by one.
Demand liberty! Nothing less.
Someone above mentioned retinotopic mapping, which is of course a big ol' issue. However, if all they do is detect the light and trigger a stimulus at a corresponding point on the retina (and if there are still ganglion cells left to pick up the current), they should be able to get the mapping "for free".
True. But that would be a hell of a registration job. The stimulus input lines would have to be at the precise positions over center ganglion cells and their surround cells. We're talking about microns. I would be mightily impressed by such a feat.
I think a more promising route to a cure for blindness is to use our knowledge of genes and our in-vitro tissue generation technologies to grow an entire eye ball and optic nerve using the patient's own DNA. Of course, that is probably decades in the future.
There are approximately one million fibers from the retina that make their way to the visual cortex via the thalamus. There is a one to one retinotopic mapping between the output of the retinal ganglion cells and cells in various layers of the visual cortex. Fibers that represent colors, for example, are processed in separate areas from fibers that are associated with motion. The latter are extremely sensitive to the direction of motion and must be arranged in a center-surround formation. Unless the NASA scientists at the University of Houston can maintain the proper retinotopic mapping and the center surround formations, the brain won't know what to make of those signals. The poor patient might just go insane.
"....There is no such thing as an empty space, i.e. a space without field. Space-time does not claim existence on its own, but only as a structural quality of the field." [pg.176--Relativity: The Special and the General Theory.--A. Einstein]
I agree with Mr. Einstein on his characterization of spacetime as a structural quality of something else (the field). This 'something else' is what researchers should be concentrating on. Spacetime should not be the target and source of mindless extrapolations. Spacetime itself is an abstract construct deduced from measurements that are the result of that something else. Unless we understand exactly what that something else is and what its physical constituents, processes and interactions are, all spacetime extrapolations (big bangs, black holes, wormholes, time travel, etc...) are just cheesy Star-Trek physics. Chicken feather voodoo physics is what I like to call it.
Thou shalt take care to monopolize the microprocessor market by committing abominable whoredoms with the company that has the operating system monopoly.
[This will insure that, even if Moore's law breaks down in the future, you can still clobber your competitors. And the other companies in the land will fear you. And you shall be the head and not the tail.]
A small probability in 10^22 may be big as far a the probability of the existence of E.T. but it's still amounts to a very small probability of finding E.T. among 10^22 star systems.
Mod me down because of my sig.
There is no need to parcel out the entire planet to everybody. A large percentage can be set aside for wild life conservation and a good portion should be reserved for population fluctuations and other unforeseen circumstances such as the ones you mentioned. There is no need to be anal about it all. The wealth of the world is hopelessly skewed in favor of a few right now and anything more equitable would be a major plus. Mineral resources should be for the benefit of all.
As far as a forcible halt to population growth is concerned, the only way to avoid that would be the development of thechnology that would make mass migration off the planet possible. But I agree with you that governmental control over marriage and sex is not about to happen any time soon. We are too far gone. Only major environmental and societal disasters (like world wars, disease and famine) would make that a viable route. And even then, this is not guaranteed. We would most likely be thrown back to the stone age and forced to restart all over again.
Maybe a powerful alien race might show up and have pity on us by imposing some sort of order.
I don't have all the details but the system can be set up so as to let the land and its resources (both agricultural and mineral) decide population control. The latter must by necessity involve societal control over marriage.
As far as moving from one place to another is concerned, there should be no laws preventing one from leasing one's property (for a limited time) or exchanging property in a fair exchange. One may be a city lover or one may want to form a cooperative or corporation with one's neighbors, etc... The important thing is that the children must always be guaranteed an inheritance so they to, can participate in a free market when their time comes.
City land, IMO, should be administered by the government or a consortium and leased at fair market value. Cities should be mostly a place for commerce and trade. I think that huge cities are extremely detrimental to the environment. Just a thought.
Well, reliability must be understood within the context of complexity. The tasks performed by human beings are many, many orders of magnitude more copmplex than tasks performed by computers. Even things as simple as walking or going up or down a flight of stairs are extremely complex. If the complexity of software systems could be scaled up to the level of brain complexity, their unreliability would make them completely unusable.
Moderators: mod me down because of my sig.
Good post. Well, if it's an inheritance for our children and their children, it cannot be sold, right? It must be passed on. That is what is meant by not dividing the land and its resources for a price. No more homeless and/or exploited people.
Mod me down because of my sig.
Ok. Mod the above post up.
Mode me down because of my sig.
Interesting. jazman_777 gets modded up to 3: interesting while the post he is replying to gets modded down to oblivion during after a tug of war between 12 moderators. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
Mod me down because of my sig.
Offtopic=4, Flamebait=1, Troll=1, Interesting=5, Total=11
:-) Thanks to the moderators who modded me up.
I see I've been modded way down because of my sig.
I am just as opposed to communism as I am to capitalism. Communism confiscates all property and enslaves everybody. Capitalism gives property to a few and enslaves the rest. It's sad. The land should not be divided for a price. It should be an inheritance for us and our children and their children.
Mod me down because of my sig.