What's good for artists is a red herring. Who cares what's good for artists? They signed a legally binding contract without a gun pointed to their head. If they don't get paid, tough shit.
Incorporation is not a lock. If there is a serious suit that could end with the loss of the questioner's house, any plaintiff's attorney worth their salt will quickly begin tearing down the distinction between corporation and owner. In a single owner (or married couple owned) business, this is far more trivial than you can imagine. In addition, any funding via loans will require personal guarantees that obviate the usefullness of the corporate shield.
Thus did the US government became the architect of its own demise.:)
T. Jefferson felt that a revolution every 10-20 years was a healthy thing for any country. By that measure, the US is about 120 years overdue. (Although some would call the 60's revolutionary, I'm not prepared to raise it to the level of the US Civil War.)
I think the US couldn't imagine how ubiquitous telephones and computers would be when it funded Internet and communications satellites. If they had, I bet they would have kept a tighter reign on things.
My problems with Marx stem from the fact that he seems to ignore greed and other human motivations to produce 'more than one needs'.
What is an ideal place where one can incubate a communist nation (even though one of the goals is to tear down the idea of 'nation')? Does it exist anywhere? Is it possible? Or is the 'science' of communism something that only works under laboratory conditions?
Develop your portfolio. Do some pages for your church, a favorite local charity, a group like the Lion's Club, or some club you are a member of. Do lots of them. Include links to your own company's page. Oh, and while you are at church/lion's club/etc., make sure that you say "Oh, and if I'm going to do this for the church, what can I do for you?" It's called networking.
Others suggested getting a corp right away. I actually would suggest that it's a bit premature at this stage. If you get into stuff with DB backends with client/customer data, then it makes sense. If you are doing puffery advertising type pages for local groups and businesses, hold off on the expense for a little while until you see if it is worth it.
What is preventing you from holding down your regular job as well as your new design jobs? Plenty of people who start new businesses wisely wind up working two full time jobs until the new business can support you. Or, segue into it. You work both, but your wife leaves her regular job to focus full time on the web work.
It's a rough environment to enter feet first these days. Anyone with a cracked copy of FrontPage fancies himself a web designer.
I'll agree with you that today's proles (particularly in first and second world countries) are fare more capable of forming a movement than those of 50, 100, or 200 years ago. Ironically, in large part due to communications systems built and designed for the US Military Complex:)
The level of state intererence in life of the individual in later Soviet Union is comparable with that in the US in certain periods. Does the name Joseph McCarthy ring a bell? Or do you think there is nothing totalitarian about the US today?
Joseph McCarthy was 50 years ago, so it is similar to using Joe Stalin to discredit communism. I never said there's nothing totalitarian about the US today. The difference being I'm still able to talk to my representative WRT the USA PATRIOT act being a steaming pile of dung.
Contrast that with the vast numbers of dissidents who can freely speak in N. Korea, Cuba, and PRC.
He then referred to three revolutions that were not carried out by peasants. No amount of hand wringing and revisionism can change the fact that changes in the status quo are no brought about because of 'the masses'. History changes because of one person or one group of people. They may enlist the masses. Hell, that person may even be one of the masses who has risen up. But the masses don't do anything. The masses have been following sheep since man crawled out of the primordial ooze.
I know advantages and disadvantages of communism, socialism and capitalism firsthand. I don't need to read some political harangue written by a long dead man.
Let's contrast with this statement:... it was absolutely vital to explain dialectic materialism to workers. Today nobody cares about advanced philosophy courses for the masses...
So, which is it? Is education and reading past works important or not? Or are they only important when they back up your opinion?
I'm not saying that the intelligentsia had anything to do with revolutions; it was money and power. Money and intelligence are not in any particularly useful way related. I also won't touch your reference to Lenin with a ten foot poll. What I was trying to do is point out to the original poster that the idea of a peasant revolution is a myth. The true task of the Bolsheviks (and the founding fathers of the US) was to convince the masses that things will be so much better if you let us run things instead of the czar/king.
Again, I didn't comment on what could be; I commented on what happened.
The poor unwashed masses in those three cases were doing the bidding of the middle and upper classes, who wanted to replace royalty with themselves. True peasant revolutions are rare. (I know there's one or two important historical examples, but I can't think of them right now).
Not necessarily true. Verizon was (still is?) being fined some absurd daily amount for not playing nice with CLECs. They found it cheaper to pay the fine and keep the customers than to lose the customers and stop having to pay the fine.
"No. SCO has never planned to sue Linux companies."
It should say "SCO doesn't plan to sue any more Linux companies." They've already sued a Linux company. I'll give you a hint: the company's initials are IBM.
Start for free. Sure, it sounds odd, but you have to get your foot in two doors. First, the linux kernel proper. Second, a company or position that will pay you for the privilege.
If your code isn't accepted into Linus' kernel, why should they pay you? I'm sure there's a lkml faq that has answers for the first step. Finding an employer who will pay you... I understand Red Hat will have an opening, now that AC is taking a sabbatical:)
Make a photocopy of the receipt. Register the item (I hate the latter, as it's a pain, and can lead to junk mail, but that's easier to deal with than a recalcitrant repair shop).
I've purchased most home electronics at big box stores, like Circuit City and Best Buy. Say what you will, but there was one time I needed proof from Circuit City that I bought the item, so that I could get some warranty work (I would have let them take it, but was then living several hours away from a Circuit City). They printed out the receipt, and mailed me a new copy. I've heard tell of other people presenting a driver's license with an address matching the one in their computer, and getting a printout of the same thing.
See, complying with all of the stuff that gets michael and the YRO gang up in arms can have benefits.
To be 100% on point: I have no idea how to preserve that sorta thing. Store it in the freezer instead of a filing cabinet? Or put the cabinet in a sealed container of Nitrogen or CO2 or some other fairly inert gas?
'Hey Abbott, hey Abbott! I think the recession is over!'
'Why is that Lou?'
'I just heard an IT guy say he's not available for overtime.'
(Okay, to avoid downmodding, it was originally 'I think the war is over (wwii)' 'why' 'I just heard the woman next door talking back to her maid'. The idea was that if someone gave a maid a bunch of shit, she could go be a Rosy the Riveter. Sorry, google no help. Go find some old time radio mp3s. Or tapes. Or CDs.)
Thanks for both of the links. BTW, be really careful with the second link. Only creative addition yields 'most of our money comes from individuals'. If you add the federal, state, and local money and grants, the government gives most. I'd even throw in some of the university and CPB money into that.
I like PBS. I like much of the programming (I religiously watch news hour). But I don't like the duplicity and lies by ommision concerning their funding.
You may be right about free markets not producing perfect content - but where is there an economic theory claiming that a captive audience with no semblance of competition produces anything better?
Not sure about the parent, but with regards to the discussion in my JE, my feelings are that further abusing a broken market won't make it better. IOW, two wrongs don't make a right.
What commercials are you talking about? They have sponsor acknowledgements. The big difference between now and 20 years ago is that the sponsors produce some 10-15 second acknowlegements themselves. There are pretty strict rules on these as well. The only one that comes quickly to mind is that they must not contain mention of specific products.
The money still gets to PBS stations via the CPB. It lets 'public' stations be duplicitous by stating that they get no money from the government, it all comes from corporations and individuals. What they fail to mention is that most of the corporate money is CPB, which is funded totally by the fed.
I'll accept that he wasn't wealthy in a Steven King sorta way, but I wouldn't be surprised that he made a bit more than your average British factory worker. In any event, how did that lead to his premature death?
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Wow, only $400? Incredible, I can't even buy a computer for that price. Oh, wait, I can. Not the greatest machine, but a damned site faster than the netwinder.
I really wanted NC's to take off. A little more than a dumb terminal, a lot less (in terms of management headaches) than a PC. But the price point was always way the hell off. Now, at $400, I can buy an actual PC. With a minimum of effort, I can set up any of a dozen linux distros to be a terminal server. But, as it's a full fledged PC, I can offload some processor and/or bandwidth intensive programs directly to the terminal.
I see plenty of places where one of these can be useful. Sadly, at $400, they're still way too much.
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So you give out 150 CDs, and are only able to sell about 5.3 CD's per freebie? Hmm, maybe either your 'advertising model' sucks, or your music sucks.
What's good for artists is a red herring. Who cares what's good for artists? They signed a legally binding contract without a gun pointed to their head. If they don't get paid, tough shit.
Incorporation is not a lock. If there is a serious suit that could end with the loss of the questioner's house, any plaintiff's attorney worth their salt will quickly begin tearing down the distinction between corporation and owner. In a single owner (or married couple owned) business, this is far more trivial than you can imagine. In addition, any funding via loans will require personal guarantees that obviate the usefullness of the corporate shield.
Thus did the US government became the architect of its own demise. :)
T. Jefferson felt that a revolution every 10-20 years was a healthy thing for any country. By that measure, the US is about 120 years overdue. (Although some would call the 60's revolutionary, I'm not prepared to raise it to the level of the US Civil War.)
I think the US couldn't imagine how ubiquitous telephones and computers would be when it funded Internet and communications satellites. If they had, I bet they would have kept a tighter reign on things.
My problems with Marx stem from the fact that he seems to ignore greed and other human motivations to produce 'more than one needs'.
What is an ideal place where one can incubate a communist nation (even though one of the goals is to tear down the idea of 'nation')? Does it exist anywhere? Is it possible? Or is the 'science' of communism something that only works under laboratory conditions?
Develop your portfolio. Do some pages for your church, a favorite local charity, a group like the Lion's Club, or some club you are a member of. Do lots of them. Include links to your own company's page. Oh, and while you are at church/lion's club/etc., make sure that you say "Oh, and if I'm going to do this for the church, what can I do for you?" It's called networking.
Others suggested getting a corp right away. I actually would suggest that it's a bit premature at this stage. If you get into stuff with DB backends with client/customer data, then it makes sense. If you are doing puffery advertising type pages for local groups and businesses, hold off on the expense for a little while until you see if it is worth it.
What is preventing you from holding down your regular job as well as your new design jobs? Plenty of people who start new businesses wisely wind up working two full time jobs until the new business can support you. Or, segue into it. You work both, but your wife leaves her regular job to focus full time on the web work.
It's a rough environment to enter feet first these days. Anyone with a cracked copy of FrontPage fancies himself a web designer.
I'll agree with you that today's proles (particularly in first and second world countries) are fare more capable of forming a movement than those of 50, 100, or 200 years ago. Ironically, in large part due to communications systems built and designed for the US Military Complex:)
The level of state intererence in life of the individual in later Soviet Union is comparable with that in the US in certain periods. Does the name Joseph McCarthy ring a bell? Or do you think there is nothing totalitarian about the US today?
Joseph McCarthy was 50 years ago, so it is similar to using Joe Stalin to discredit communism. I never said there's nothing totalitarian about the US today. The difference being I'm still able to talk to my representative WRT the USA PATRIOT act being a steaming pile of dung.
Contrast that with the vast numbers of dissidents who can freely speak in N. Korea, Cuba, and PRC.
Are you totally and completely bereft of reading comprehension skills? The original post said:
I'm thinking of the poor unwashed masses rising up and overthrowing the rich elite minority.
He then referred to three revolutions that were not carried out by peasants. No amount of hand wringing and revisionism can change the fact that changes in the status quo are no brought about because of 'the masses'. History changes because of one person or one group of people. They may enlist the masses. Hell, that person may even be one of the masses who has risen up. But the masses don't do anything. The masses have been following sheep since man crawled out of the primordial ooze.
I know advantages and disadvantages of communism, socialism and capitalism firsthand. I don't need to read some political harangue written by a long dead man.
... it was absolutely vital to explain dialectic materialism to workers. Today nobody cares about advanced philosophy courses for the masses...
Let's contrast with this statement:
So, which is it? Is education and reading past works important or not? Or are they only important when they back up your opinion?
True peasant revolutions are not rare. They are just rarely successfull enough to actually make any difference.
Distinction without a difference.
I'm not saying that the intelligentsia had anything to do with revolutions; it was money and power. Money and intelligence are not in any particularly useful way related. I also won't touch your reference to Lenin with a ten foot poll. What I was trying to do is point out to the original poster that the idea of a peasant revolution is a myth. The true task of the Bolsheviks (and the founding fathers of the US) was to convince the masses that things will be so much better if you let us run things instead of the czar/king.
Again, I didn't comment on what could be; I commented on what happened.
The poor unwashed masses in those three cases were doing the bidding of the middle and upper classes, who wanted to replace royalty with themselves. True peasant revolutions are rare. (I know there's one or two important historical examples, but I can't think of them right now).
Not necessarily true. Verizon was (still is?) being fined some absurd daily amount for not playing nice with CLECs. They found it cheaper to pay the fine and keep the customers than to lose the customers and stop having to pay the fine.
At best, this is only a partial truth:
"No. SCO has never planned to sue Linux companies."
It should say "SCO doesn't plan to sue any more Linux companies." They've already sued a Linux company. I'll give you a hint: the company's initials are IBM.
Start for free. Sure, it sounds odd, but you have to get your foot in two doors. First, the linux kernel proper. Second, a company or position that will pay you for the privilege.
If your code isn't accepted into Linus' kernel, why should they pay you? I'm sure there's a lkml faq that has answers for the first step. Finding an employer who will pay you... I understand Red Hat will have an opening, now that AC is taking a sabbatical:)
Make a photocopy of the receipt. Register the item (I hate the latter, as it's a pain, and can lead to junk mail, but that's easier to deal with than a recalcitrant repair shop).
I've purchased most home electronics at big box stores, like Circuit City and Best Buy. Say what you will, but there was one time I needed proof from Circuit City that I bought the item, so that I could get some warranty work (I would have let them take it, but was then living several hours away from a Circuit City). They printed out the receipt, and mailed me a new copy. I've heard tell of other people presenting a driver's license with an address matching the one in their computer, and getting a printout of the same thing.
See, complying with all of the stuff that gets michael and the YRO gang up in arms can have benefits.
To be 100% on point: I have no idea how to preserve that sorta thing. Store it in the freezer instead of a filing cabinet? Or put the cabinet in a sealed container of Nitrogen or CO2 or some other fairly inert gas?
'Hey Abbott, hey Abbott! I think the recession is over!'
'Why is that Lou?'
'I just heard an IT guy say he's not available for overtime.'
(Okay, to avoid downmodding, it was originally 'I think the war is over (wwii)' 'why' 'I just heard the woman next door talking back to her maid'. The idea was that if someone gave a maid a bunch of shit, she could go be a Rosy the Riveter. Sorry, google no help. Go find some old time radio mp3s. Or tapes. Or CDs.)
Thanks for both of the links. BTW, be really careful with the second link. Only creative addition yields 'most of our money comes from individuals'. If you add the federal, state, and local money and grants, the government gives most. I'd even throw in some of the university and CPB money into that.
I like PBS. I like much of the programming (I religiously watch news hour). But I don't like the duplicity and lies by ommision concerning their funding.
First, you need a time machine. Set it for... 1998 or so. Shouldn't you people be working?
BTW, nice to take those HR enforced 'team building excercises' and turn it into a round of 'frag the phb'. That's thinking outside the box.
Don't be retarded when you screw it in next time. Hand tight. You don't need pliers to draw up on it. Also, try buying better quality bulbs.
You may be right about free markets not producing perfect content - but where is there an economic theory claiming that a captive audience with no semblance of competition produces anything better?
Not sure about the parent, but with regards to the discussion in my JE, my feelings are that further abusing a broken market won't make it better. IOW, two wrongs don't make a right.
What commercials are you talking about? They have sponsor acknowledgements. The big difference between now and 20 years ago is that the sponsors produce some 10-15 second acknowlegements themselves. There are pretty strict rules on these as well. The only one that comes quickly to mind is that they must not contain mention of specific products.
The money still gets to PBS stations via the CPB. It lets 'public' stations be duplicitous by stating that they get no money from the government, it all comes from corporations and individuals. What they fail to mention is that most of the corporate money is CPB, which is funded totally by the fed.
I'll accept that he wasn't wealthy in a Steven King sorta way, but I wouldn't be surprised that he made a bit more than your average British factory worker. In any event, how did that lead to his premature death?
Wow, only $400? Incredible, I can't even buy a computer for that price. Oh, wait, I can. Not the greatest machine, but a damned site faster than the netwinder.
I really wanted NC's to take off. A little more than a dumb terminal, a lot less (in terms of management headaches) than a PC. But the price point was always way the hell off. Now, at $400, I can buy an actual PC. With a minimum of effort, I can set up any of a dozen linux distros to be a terminal server. But, as it's a full fledged PC, I can offload some processor and/or bandwidth intensive programs directly to the terminal.
I see plenty of places where one of these can be useful. Sadly, at $400, they're still way too much.