Reality is what we observe, not what what we would like it to be.
Libertarianism (classical liberalism) does not trust ANY government because it recognizes that the tendency of humans to control and dominate one another. All human society will consolidate over time, the U.S. was designed originally (Constitution) to set competing groups against one another (3 branches checking each other, States against each other, States against Federal Authority).
At the same time you must have some government to ensure the basic negative natural rights of the people which came from those philosophers of the enlightenment that deduced are inherent to human existence.
The best you can do is attempt to slow down consolidation, and that means distributing institutionalized power as far as you can without opening yourself up to conquest by another country.
The tea party movement is not about "taxes", or "small government". Those are ends that might occur as a result of below...
Which is Liberty and Freedom, and THAT is what the Tea Party is about.
That they did not spend a crazy amount of money on what ended up in the U.S. as a net negative to what we COULD of had. The shuttle had some success and worked but it was way more expensive than it was sold to be and ended up tethering the U.S. to low earth orbit for decades instead of moving on like we should have to a permanent moon settlement and Mars.
Agreed. The natural course of aggregation of power is something that can't be stopped. It can be slowed. The best way is to distribute institutionalized government power which is why Federalism is a good thing (The U.S. has jettisoned most of that check).
Problem is, most people I know have no fear of what the next person they DON'T support might do as a result of aggregated power accumulated for their guy that they just voted in.
Maybe it's the developer tools available? The overall windows ecosystem availability?
Whatever it is, the IDEA of using windows for mission critical control systems is insane from a security perspective (along with other reasons). Given that windows was never designed for embedded use, is probably not updated for security patches with systems that are not networked (on a regular basis) and is the target of the worlds computer security issues it seems a no-brainer to stay AWAY from it. I suppose money had something to do with it and not actual real thought to the dangers of using windows for these systems.
You may think they have no moral right to complain if they did not vote, but unfortunately they don't agree with you and will continue to do so despite your proclamation.
Which means your complaint about their complaining is absolutely worthless.
In a very real sense, when somebody says "the world does not revolve around YOU"...from your perspective you can claim it actually DOES.:) Probably will not win you any brownie points though.
Exactly how does one propose to fix the "center" of the universe when space and time are relative to the position of the observer? Technically you could say that everywhere and nowhere is the center of the universe.
The fact of the matter is that corporations helped write the bills that allowed them to take their stuff overseas. The politicians were right there along with them.
The idea that the same government that let corporations write the laws will reign in those same corporations is lunacy. I'm sure the megacorps are just salivating at the idea of more regulation that they can help write....
Oh yes....now the pirates in the far east will REALLY be trembling. I'm sure this extra protection will make people think twice about copying their software....
Freenet could be a piratebay replacement distribution method. A browser plugin to allow it would be ideal. The speed issue is not NEARLY as bad as it used to be. Freenet has made slow but steady progress over the years. Is it as fast as typical web browsing? Of course not, but speeds around a megabit or more are not uncommon. If it was a big turn off before because of speed I'd recommend trying it again. Content is still sparse, but the system DOES work.
I was going to listen, but the dude yakking in the background totally oblivious (well..not totally oblivious as he questioned himself as to why he can hear himself talking) to the fact that his mic is broadcasting right over the speaker. Dumb.
Math is not reality. Math is based on axioms which themselves are based on self-evident truths. Math (and words) is nothing more than what we use to describe a seemingly shared reality.
You take on faith that the world you see outside of your eyeballs is real but you have no independent evidence that it is. Your brain could be floating in a vat somewhere with electrodes sticking out of it and how would you know? You don't, but you accept without question that what you see is in fact real.
You can put a label on something...tree, chair, rock and in so much as it seems to be a single entity at the scale you can experience directly that it is, it's true to you. Problem is, we can't ever confirm this beyond our direct experience of it and even that is taken on faith (my first example).
Science can only be used with what we experience and how we explain it. It can't say anything beyond that. The question of is there anything beyond human existence is a non-sequitur. It can't even be logically expressed without contradiction.
the word infinity or god can't even begin to describe the two concepts (or one...Infinity is..Infinity). The symbol of Infinity is not infinity, it's the symbol and can't adequately be equivalent.
Language which uses words to define concepts can't be used to describe that which is undefined. Undefined is like lack of evidence. Undefined...is...Undefined and nothing more. Lack of evidence is not evidence of absence, it's just lack of evidence. Nothing can be said other than that. '
But you can no more prove a set is finite by empirical test then you can prove that pie will not at some point start repeating numbers after calculating it out to a some point. It's good for engineering at the scales people exist but does math have any hope of describing the fundamental nature beyond what we can empirically prove by experiment. Probably not.
Besides, Science is about the Natural world. Not the Supernatural one (God). Confusing the two ends up making people mad.
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Parts of it are, as much as you can define the "Tea Party" which is in itself not an official organized movement with recognized official leaders.
You can't get to where you want to go with more government. Corporations run the government and write the laws to get competitive advantage.
Big business is enabled by big government. One hand shakes the other.
Reality is what we observe, not what what we would like it to be.
Libertarianism (classical liberalism) does not trust ANY government because it recognizes that the tendency of humans to control and dominate one another. All human society will consolidate over time, the U.S. was designed originally (Constitution) to set competing groups against one another (3 branches checking each other, States against each other, States against Federal Authority).
At the same time you must have some government to ensure the basic negative natural rights of the people which came from those philosophers of the enlightenment that deduced are inherent to human existence.
The best you can do is attempt to slow down consolidation, and that means distributing institutionalized power as far as you can without opening yourself up to conquest by another country.
The tea party movement is not about "taxes", or "small government". Those are ends that might occur as a result of below...
Which is Liberty and Freedom, and THAT is what the Tea Party is about.
Nothing against Columbia Md or the base there, but maybe....just maybe it's because the geeks and nerds they want would rather live someplace better?
Do you have an IBM business card or phone number they can call you at for a Sales pitch?
And yet Slashdot is STILL not routable over IPv6, but Netflix (ipv6.netflix.com)
Because it's in the public good, it's an issue of fairness..........[sarcasm]
But it's true, he submitted the story! I'm just saying that's why. Now why is that Troll like?
Because CmdrTaco says so..that's why
That they did not spend a crazy amount of money on what ended up in the U.S. as a net negative to what we COULD of had. The shuttle had some success and worked but it was way more expensive than it was sold to be and ended up tethering the U.S. to low earth orbit for decades instead of moving on like we should have to a permanent moon settlement and Mars.
Agreed. The natural course of aggregation of power is something that can't be stopped. It can be slowed. The best way is to distribute institutionalized government power which is why Federalism is a good thing (The U.S. has jettisoned most of that check).
Problem is, most people I know have no fear of what the next person they DON'T support might do as a result of aggregated power accumulated for their guy that they just voted in.
Maybe it's the developer tools available? The overall windows ecosystem availability?
Whatever it is, the IDEA of using windows for mission critical control systems is insane from a security perspective (along with other reasons). Given that windows was never designed for embedded use, is probably not updated for security patches with systems that are not networked (on a regular basis) and is the target of the worlds computer security issues it seems a no-brainer to stay AWAY from it. I suppose money had something to do with it and not actual real thought to the dangers of using windows for these systems.
And did they listen?
You may think they have no moral right to complain if they did not vote, but unfortunately they don't agree with you and will continue to do so despite your proclamation.
Which means your complaint about their complaining is absolutely worthless.
change "will never work in progress"
to
"will never work in progress for me"
Yea, who cares? So what if the church or other religious folk want to say "ah ha! told you so!". Big deal. if it makes them feel better let em.
In a very real sense, when somebody says "the world does not revolve around YOU"...from your perspective you can claim it actually DOES. :) Probably will not win you any brownie points though.
Exactly how does one propose to fix the "center" of the universe when space and time are relative to the position of the observer? Technically you could say that everywhere and nowhere is the center of the universe.
Will be making bumper profits as having the largest market share has nothing to do with being profitable.
The fact of the matter is that corporations helped write the bills that allowed them to take their stuff overseas. The politicians were right there along with them.
The idea that the same government that let corporations write the laws will reign in those same corporations is lunacy. I'm sure the megacorps are just salivating at the idea of more regulation that they can help write....
Oh yes....now the pirates in the far east will REALLY be trembling. I'm sure this extra protection will make people think twice about copying their software....
Freenet could be a piratebay replacement distribution method. A browser plugin to allow it would be ideal. The speed issue is not NEARLY as bad as it used to be. Freenet has made slow but steady progress over the years. Is it as fast as typical web browsing? Of course not, but speeds around a megabit or more are not uncommon. If it was a big turn off before because of speed I'd recommend trying it again. Content is still sparse, but the system DOES work.
I was going to listen, but the dude yakking in the background totally oblivious (well..not totally oblivious as he questioned himself as to why he can hear himself talking) to the fact that his mic is broadcasting right over the speaker. Dumb.
Given the amount of money flowing in and out of India that is a result of VPN's, skype and google I seriously doubt this will happen.
RIM is one thing. Skype and Google quite another. You might as well pass a law requiring that everybody in India stop using Windows. Not gunna happen.
Math is not reality. Math is based on axioms which themselves are based on self-evident truths. Math (and words) is nothing more than what we use to describe a seemingly shared reality.
You take on faith that the world you see outside of your eyeballs is real but you have no independent evidence that it is. Your brain could be floating in a vat somewhere with electrodes sticking out of it and how would you know? You don't, but you accept without question that what you see is in fact real.
You can put a label on something...tree, chair, rock and in so much as it seems to be a single entity at the scale you can experience directly that it is, it's true to you. Problem is, we can't ever confirm this beyond our direct experience of it and even that is taken on faith (my first example).
Science can only be used with what we experience and how we explain it. It can't say anything beyond that. The question of is there anything beyond human existence is a non-sequitur. It can't even be logically expressed without contradiction.
the word infinity or god can't even begin to describe the two concepts (or one...Infinity is..Infinity). The symbol of Infinity is not infinity, it's the symbol and can't adequately be equivalent.
Language which uses words to define concepts can't be used to describe that which is undefined. Undefined is like lack of evidence. Undefined...is...Undefined and nothing more. Lack of evidence is not evidence of absence, it's just lack of evidence. Nothing can be said other than that.
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Mathematically yes.
But you can no more prove a set is finite by empirical test then you can prove that pie will not at some point start repeating numbers after calculating it out to a some point. It's good for engineering at the scales people exist but does math have any hope of describing the fundamental nature beyond what we can empirically prove by experiment. Probably not.
Besides, Science is about the Natural world. Not the Supernatural one (God). Confusing the two ends up making people mad.